thousand dollars taken from his room, and the cigar stand in the public hall was robbed of the same amonntThe money belonging to the hotel was not touched, owing doubtless to the well-known principles of the proprietor.

The Gayoso Hospital was attacked by a force of one hundred and fifty rebels, who fired upon and wounded one of the guards, and afterward poured several heavy volleys into the windows, when they were ordered to cease firing. Proceeding to the rear of the building, they captured eight or ten convalsecents, one of whom being unable to travel, was shot and severely wounded.

New items of barbarism committed by the rebels on Sunday are hourly coming to light. Besides the convalescent taken from the Gayoso Hospital, and shot because he could not walk fast enough to keep up on the retreat, three men in the hospital of the Thirty-seventh Illinois, who were too sick to get off their cots, were shot as they lay and then bayoneted. Two privates of the Seventh Wisconsin Battery, who were captured while they were asleep, were approached and shot without a moment's notice, as they were being taken to the rear. One of them was fifty years old.

The rebels captured about two hundred and fifty prisoners, mostly hundred days men. Many of these subsequently escaped, but others were murdered.

They fired on the patients in hospitals, shot several of the sick soldiers, and captured others.

The prisoners they took, who were unable to keep up with their cavalry, were killed.*

* New York Daily Tribune.

ATTACK UPON BRANDENBURG, KENTUCKY.

Ar daylight on the morning of August 10th, 1864, the town of Brandenburg, Kentucky, was attacked by a body of rebels under one Capt. Dupaster. After entering the town and committing some depredations, they were driven from the town by the Home Guards, and after firing a few shots, they sent in the following insignificant demand for the surrender of the town:

HEADQUARTERS OF THE SEVENTH KENTUCKY CAVALRY.

HOME GUARDS: We demand an immediate surrender of the town, and if there is a shot fired at us from any person in the town, we will burn the place, and shoot every citizen who is caught bearing arms.

By order of

Captain DUPASTER and Captain BRYANT,
Commanding the Confederate forces,
in Meade County, Kentucky.

Of course the Home Guards refused to surrender the town, and after a slight skirmish the rebels were soundly thrashed and driven from the town. Next morning they were seen passing through Meade, and a body of Union troops pursuing them. (This article is authenticated by a man of high standing, whose name is withheld for fear of personal violence.)

GENERAL HUNTER'S CIRCULAR.

THE depredations of the guerrillas became so numerous in the Valley of Virginia, murders and robberies so

frequent, and by the aid of the Secessionists the perpetrators so uniformly escaped justice, that General Hunter was compelled to issue the following circular :

HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF WEST VIRGINIA,

In the Field, Valley of the Shenandoah, May 24, 1864. Sir: Your name has been reported to me with evidence that you are one of the leading Secessionist sympathizers in this valley, and that you countenance and abet the bushwhackers and guerrillas who infest the woods and mountains of this region, swooping out on the roads to plunder and outrage loyal residents, falling upon and firing into defenceless wagon-trains, and assassinating soldiers of this command, who may chance to be placed. in exposed positions. These practices are not recognised by the laws of war of any civilized nation, nor are the persons engaged therein entitled to any other treatment than that due by the universal code of justice to pirates, murderers, and other outlaws.

But from the difficulties of the country, the secret aid and information given to these bushwhackers by persons of your class, and the more important occupation of the troops under my command, it is impossible to chase, arrest, and punish these common marauders as they deserve. Without the countenance and help given to them by the rebel residents of the valley, they could not support themselves for a week. You are spies upon our movements, abusing the clemency which has protected your persons and property, while loyal citizens of the United States, residing within the rebel lines, are invariably plundered of all they may possess, imprisoned, and in some cases put to death. It is from you, and your families and neighbors, that these bandits receive food, clothing, ammunition, and information, and it is from their secret hiding-places, in your houses, barns, and

woods, that they issue on their missions of pillage and murder.

You are therefore hereby notified, that for every train fired upon, or soldier of the Union wounded or assassinated by bushwhackers in any neighborhood within the reach of my cavalry, the houses and other property of every Secession sympathizer, residing within a circuit. of five miles from the place of the outrage, shall be destroyed by fire, and that for all public property jayhawked or destroyed by these marauders, an assessment of five times the value of such property will be made upon the Secession sympathizers residing within the circuit of ten miles around the point at which the offence was committed. The payment of this assessment will be enforced by the troops of the department, who will seize and hold in close military custody the persons assessed, until such payment shall have been made. This provision will also be applied to make good, from the Secessionists in every neighborhood, five times the amount of any loss suffered by loyal citizens of the United States, from the action of the bushwhackers whom you may encourage.

If you desire to avoid the consequences herein set forth, you will notify your guerrilla and bushwhacking friends to withdraw from that portion of the valley within my lines, and to join, if they desire to fight for the rebellion, the regular forces of the Secession army in my front, or elsewhere. You will have none but yourselves to blame for the consequences that will certainly ensue if these evils are permitted to continue. This circular is not sent to you for the reason that you have been singled out as peculiarly obnoxious, but because you are believed to furnish the readiest means of communication with the prominent Secession sympathizers of your neigh

borhood. It will be for their benefit that you communicate to them the tenor of this circular.

D. HUNTER, Major-General commanding.

Official copy.-P. G. BIER, A. A. G.

This circular had its desired effect, for the next day after it was distributed the Secession sympathizers of the valley immediately gathered together, and waited upon the general, and offered their assistance and co-operation in detecting and catching these guerrillas and bushwhackers. It would be well to state here that the guerrillas and bushwhackers are considered by the rebel government as part of their army, which is thereby responsible for their actions. It is a noted fact, when any of them are caught by the Federal army, they always claim to be a portion of the Confederate army, and they persist in being considered as prisoners of war. Their robberies, murders, and fiendish atrocities are all sanctioned by their government, and most probably ordered by them.

APPROVAL OF THE BLACK FLAG.

FROM a Richmond correspondent of the Petersburg (Va.) Express:

The spring of hope must now, with the Yankees, die upon the winter winds. Already has the black flag been hoisted upon the soil of South Carolina, and war to the knife, and the knife to the hilt, and thence to the shoulder, been proclaimed by her noble sons as the only booty which Yankee hireling invaders shall receive at their hands. This is right-it is the only way to conquer a