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Threatened Raid ia the Northern Neck Of
Virginia.

From the fredericksburg Herald, October ISL
Information has been received which goes
strongly to confirm the opinion that one OF the
recent Outtitted squadrons, at New York. was
intended for the counties along the Rappahau-
mock river, both sides up, as far as It might be
deemed safe for the invaders 10 risk their car
cases.
This intelligence has Of course produced a
good deal Of excitement in the northern Neck,
a. well as those lying Immediately south Of the
RaPpahannOck, near the Chesapeake.
The principal squadron cannot be intended
for the legitimate purposes Of an open and hon
Orable warfare, but most likely for the purpose
Of stealing negroes, destroying wheat stacks,
burning barns, destroying homesteads, and IN
sulting old men, women and children.
Il cannot be intended as a base line Of opera
tons for the "On to Richmond" march, but il
promises well for the thieving, burglarous in
stincts of a New York cruise. where the main
chance Of piIage is kept in view they think, rs
any engagement Of the day opens up.
The country lying below has expended vast
sums of money for guano in times past, but
with a regiment or two of sharpshO0iers they
may Obviate any such unnecessary outlay for
the next generation.
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TENNEssEE LRGIsLArrnR-

On Wednesday the Senate judiciary Commit
tee reported back bills as follows To repeal an
act entitled an act to abate suits of aliens, to
amend the laws and prevent swindling and op-
preston, to make slaves real property. The
Currency Committee reported a bill to amend
the act regulating banking, and the Military
Committee a bill to establish an Ordnance Blu,
reau, with amendments.
The first readings were a bill to give the PEG.
pie of the State the right to regulate the sale o.
spirituOus liquors, and a resolution to instruct
our Representatives and Senators in Congress:
to vote for the establishment Of a n%ationa
bank.
The bill to make slaves real property, for tax.
alton purposes, was lost on its second reading
The Senate transacted no business in the
afternoon.
The House resumed the consideration of the
unfinished House bill No. 80, to protect and
secure the growth of wool, TO which various
amendments had been offered. After a good
deal Of discussion of points of order, the bill
and amendments were laid upon the table.
Mr.. McCallam introduced a bill to more effec
tually defend the State. 1t provides for calling
into service 5000 volunteers for twelve months,
to be called the army Of Tennessee, and to be
employed in defending the borders of the State
Mr.. Kennedy introduced a bill to repeal 81
much Of the patrol law as allows compensa.
ton to patrols. Mr.. Estes, a bill to authorize
guardians to invest the profits Of their wards
estates in Confederate bonds.
The following Senate bills were read the third
time and passed:
No. TO repeal the penalties against soldiers
for carrying bO~wie-knives.
No. l4-Prescribing the oath to be taken by
attorneys and others.
Senate bill on second reading, No. 23-TC
give further time to perfect land titles. Passed
Senate bill on third reading, No. 6-To amend
section 6l2 of the Code. Passed.
House bills on second reading, No. 4-TC
change the time of holding the County COur
Of Knox county for the trial of misdemeanors
Passed.
No. $50 authorize tax collectors and othe
revenue officers to receive treasury notes o
the Confederate States in paymeat of taxes
Passed.
No, 42-To incorporate the Tennessee Leath
er and Leather Goods Manufacturing Company
Rejected.
No. 4i-To amend the act Incorporating tn
GsyOso and Chattanooga Savings Institutions
Mr.. Randolph offered an amendment requiring
the institutions to mortgage to the State res
estate double the amount in value of the note
they propose to issue.
On motion Of Mr.. LOckhart, the bill an,
amendment were laid on the table. Ayes b
nays 3.
No. 41-To amend the charter Of Chickasav
City. Passed.
No. 500 construe section IA of an &C
passed May 6, 1861. Passed.
No. $50 make it a capital offense for
slave to burn a barn or other clubhouse. Passed
No. $50 increase the Jurisdiction Of tn
quorum courts. Passed.
No. $50 amend the criminal laws of thi
State and prevent extortion. The bill reporte,
in lieu by the CoTHmittee on the Judiciary wa
adopted and then passed.
No. 6O-TO abolish the chaucery courts an
save the expense to the State.
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A New ENTERPRIsE.-We are in receipt Of
the first number of the Daily Confederate NetCsI
a handsome little sheet just issued at Columbus,
Ky. Being published at the headquarters of the
army OF the Mississippi valley, it should and
doubtless will be filled with items of general in
terest which its location will enable it to obtain.
1t is published by Bullock, Walker & Islen, aad
edited by E. j. Bullock.
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Exchange Of PrisOucrs---COrrespOndencC
Between Gems. Grnnt and Polk.

The Cairo correspondent Of the 81. Louis Re.
publican, writing on the I4th inst, says the fol-
lowing note was delivered to Gen. Grant under a
flag Of truce:
HEADQUARTERS,
lST DIy1sIoS WESTERN DEPARTMENT
To Commanding Officer at Cairo and Birds Point:
4 have in my camp a number of prisoners Of
the Federal army, and am informed there are
prisoners belonging TO The Missouri State
troops in yours. l propose an exchange OF
these prisoners, and for that purpose send Capt.
Polk, Ofthe artillery, and Lieut.. Smith, of the in
fantry, both OftheC Confederate States army, with
a flag of truce, to deliver to you this cOmmuni-
cation, and to know your pleasure in regard to
my proposal
The principal recognized in the exchange Of
prisoners effected on the Sd September, between
Brig. Gen. Pillow, of the Confederate army,
and Col. Wallace, of the United States army, are
those l propose as a basis of that now cOntem-
plated. Respectfully, your ob'dt serv't,
L. Polk, Gen. Commanding.
The following was Gen. Grants reply:
HEApQURTERs DISTRICT SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, }
CAIRO, October IA, 1851.
GENERAL: Yours of this date is Just received.
In regard to the exchange proposed, can Of my
own accord make none. / recognize no South
ern COnfedeTacy myself, but will confer with
higher authority for their views.
Should / not be sustained, Twill End means OF
communicating with you.
Respectfully, your Obedient servant,
q. 6. GRANT,
Brigadier-Gen Commanding.
To Msj-Gen. Polk, Columbus, KY
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From Harper's Ferry Brutality OF the
Federal Troops.

From the Richmond Enquirer. Oct ed
The young ladies' belonging to Harper's Fer
~, Miss Sallie Baker and Miss Annie Clasky.
arrived in this city by the Central cars on Sun
day. They are both refugees from their homes,
and are seeking a temporary abode among their
friends in North Carolina. They have been in
strumental, for some time past, in giving aid TO
such Of our friends as have faIlenint the hands
Of the Hessians.
On Wednesday week they assisted in the es-
cape Of one Of HendersOu's troopers, who had
been captured by the enemy. Their completely
in the affair was discovered by Gen. Banks. who
ordered Miss Becker to be taken into custody.
She managed, however, TO escape on Sunday
week, and, with her friend, walked 10 HaIltown
where conveyance was procured to the railroad
From this source we have the following partic-
ulars:
The Federal troops around Harpers Ferry
are committing the most iieudish brutalities and
are spreading terror wherever they push their
marauding expeditions. The common practice
among the privates seems 70 be 10 sell their ia
tions for whisky, under the influence of which
they enter the houses Of private citizens, Union
men meeting with no more favor than Seces-
siOnists, and committing every species Of deDre-
datiOn. The furniture in the house Of one gentle
man, a physician, was completely destroyed.
because he refused to furnish dinner for a party
of drunken soldiers
On Thursday, October 10th, a daughter Of Mr..
Hunter, (whO runs the ferry between L0udoun
and Harpers FeHy,) a little girl only nine years
Of age, was killed by the enemy. She was play
ing beside the river, when a Yankee soldier. on
the opposite side, deliberately shot her through
the head. The body hOated about on the river
until recovered, some hours after.
The children, while going and returning from
school, are frequently shot at by the Federal
pickets.
All who can get away from Harper's Ferry.
without too great sacrifices, are doing 50, and
escaping to the South.
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gHon. Ben. H. Hill, of Georgia, publishes
a card in the LaGrange Reporter, in which he
declines to become a candidate for the first Con
federate Congress under the permanent COnsti-
tuition. He intimates that a seat in the Senate
of the same Congress, for which his name has
been suggested in different portions Of the State,
will not be unacceptable.
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WTTHDRAwN.-Gen. c. Robinson Of the 9th
Alabama district has withdrawn from the CON
greSsiOnal canvass. This action, the Tuskegee
States says, leaves the field entirely open to the
Hon. W.P. Chiffon. Mr.. Chiffon was a mem
Der of the Provisional Congress-and deserves
and merits a continuance Of the confidence of
the people of his district.
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exchange viii doubtless be effected, but had not
been made at the time of closing this letter.
A Parrot gun belonging to Bankhead's artil-
leTy exploded yesterday afternoon, while the
company were practicing, breaking the arm and
otherwise slightly injuring a private Of the com
pany, whose name l have been unable to pro-
cure. The arm is broken near the elbow, and it
is feared that ~amputation will be found neces-
Sary. YERTTAS.
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- A communication III the Pamela Star
states that the patriotic labors OF the ladies Of
Sardis, on the 18th, resulted in securing a fund
of $50 for the benefit of the volunteers from
that neighborhOod. Let the good work be pro
secuted. The boys" will remember the labors
of their fair friends with gratitude. q
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ANOTHER GEORGIA REGIMENT.-On the Dist
instant, another regiment of Georgians, under
command of Col. David J. Bailey, of Butts, was
organized and mustered into the Confederate
service for twelve months, at Fairbun, and will
soon leave that place for active service,
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MILITARY APPOLNTMENTs.-We have intel,
Hgonce from Bowling Green that Gen Hardee
has been commissioned as m~ajor-general in the
Provisional army Of the Confederate service.
We are also advised that Col. J. T. McCOwn.
late chief of artillery in the Provisional army Of
Tennessee, has been appointed brgadier-genera
in the same branch of the service.
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z The Cincinnati Enquirer, Of the 10th inst,
saws the Democracy have made in the recent
elections In some thirteen counties 10 Peunsyl
vania. a gain Of 1900 votes upon their strength
last year. If the remaining counties do as well
the Democracy will have q majority.
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INDIANA correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, writing frOp Indianapolis rsays that In
Llama is turning out volunteers faster than gov
eminent can arm them-that the adjutant gen
erals books show that Indiana has $1,000 vol
upteers in the field.
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RELIEF AsKED.-The Star states that a petit
ton to the Legislature is being circulated in Pa
nOls county, praying that body to pass a law for
the purchase of the cotton crop of the State, and
that payment in whole or in part be made by
treasury notes; that the cotton be pledged for
the redemption of the notes. The petitioners
further ask, that if this cannot be done for the
State at large that it be done for the county Of
pouola
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"a The St. Louis Democrat says Capt. Wade,
Major Lewis Clark, and Fergus McRea are as
csnding White river with twenty-five rihed can
non, intended for Gen. Prices army. They
were to be landed at Forsyth, in fancy county,
about forty miles from Springfield, No.
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E The Greensboro Beacon says that the cot
ton crop Of that section, especially on the sandy
lands, is rather better than wH expected some
weeks ago. The present impression is that it
willnOt vary much from that of last year.
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AcCIDENT.-The Columbus NeDs states that
on the 23d q soldier named Corrigan, of cOmPa-
ny G, in Col. PickeFs regiment, was dangerous
ly injured from being run over by It horse.
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CHANGE OF THE ELECTORAL
TFruXET


From the following it viii be seen hat change
has been althoritatively made in the electoral
ticket, and we nave accordingly made the proper
correction. The objections of the southern
rights men of East Tennessee induced a change
in the first district the reason for the change in
the third is explained Voters should be
sure to have tickets corresponding with that in
cur columns:
NASHVILLE, October %, 1861.
To the Editor ofhs Union sHd american .
In compliance with the wishes expressed in
the letters given below, as well as from the fact
that the time is too short for the adoption Of any
other mode, l DO not hesitate to substitute +. NJ.
Fulkerson in the place Of Sam'l Milligan, in the
First district, and w. L. Akin in the place Of A.
S. COlyar, in the Third district.
Viii YOU be good enough to make the necessa-
~ changes in the electoral ticket at the head of
your paperl Very respectfully,
WASHINGTON BARROW, Chairman, etc.
NASHVILLE SENATE CHAMBER, !
October %, 1861.
CeH. ". BarroE, Chairman, ETC.;
DEAR SRA necessity arises for a change in
the electoral ticket adopted by the convention,
Or advisory meeting, Of the members of the
Leglature.
You will therefore please direc! the change of
eiector for the first district. Instead of Sam.
Milligan, of Greene, substitute the name of F.
NJ. Fulkerson, Of Hawkins. Yours respectfully,
ROB'T BARTON,
WM. HENRY MAXWELL,
A. NJ. WILLARD.
Con Barron, Chairman, &c:
DEAR SR-We, the Representatives of the
counties composing the Third congressional dis
met OF the State Of Tennessee, are in possess
SION OF Col Colyar'S letter declining to serve as
hector Tor said district, in consequence Of his
Dglhg a candidate for the Confederate Congress.
We therefore unanimously nominate and recon-
menu the name of W L. Akin, Of the county Of
1Ii oH a9 q suitable man to fill the vacancy on
tne electoral ueket. Respectfully,
J.T LANE.
VIM K. RANKIN,
AS. JARNAGIN,
ISAAC c. G~ARRETsoN,
b T. MARTIN,
II. I. CARR,
J, c. WARNER,
10. WALKER.
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We have cool weather again.
Nothing more to say.
DIXIE

A YANKEE WAIF. "A Federal lieutenant
named Hale, said to be a relation to Senator
Hale, of New Hampshire, and to Gideon Welles,
the Federal Secretary of War, was captured
of Pig Point battery, before day, on the morning
of the 2Ist. When arrested he claimed to be a
d~eserter from the Federal service, but from cir
cumstances connected with the affair, it is be-
ieved he was aiming to land at Newport News,
but was blown off and landed at Pig Point,
through a mistake. He is in bad luck.
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THE ARMY AT BOWLTSG GREEN-It has
been cur pleasure to spend one day Of this week
ia Bowling Green, Kentucky. During our STAY
we were most favorably impressed with the
manner in which the Confederate troops stationed
there conduct themselves. Their department is
uniformly that Of gentlemen acting from a lofty.
patriotic sense Of duty to their country, and the
sacred cause now staked upon the success Of
their arms. No country ever furnished s0ldierv
more distinguished for the best traits of human
character. The stars and bars, now the only
true emblem on the continent Of American Con
sttuu0nal freedom, can never trail the dust
whilst borne by men of such sterling qualities
as are daily illustrated among the brave forces Of
Gen. Buckner, who is. himself. the very embod-
ment of chivary and military excellence.
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~ Gen. Bragg arrived at Mobile on We'd
nesday morning last.
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E~ The Yankee prisoners captured at Pensa
cola are confined st Montgomery, Alabama.
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Professor Long, of Dartmouth College, died
at Boston on the 10th.
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~ The Alabama Legislature will meet in
extra session at Montgomery on Monday next.
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- Gen. Van Dom has been made the reel
pient of a superb war-steed, magni6centIy ca
parisoned, as an evidence of the admiration and
gratitude Of the people of Texas.
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a

HAVE removed nv PUN SHOP from Adams
Il street, (Eyersou's old stand) TO Avery street four
doors soUth OF Vance street, where I an prepared 20 ia
al trdtrs in my line Of business.
Al repairs done on shortest notice BIZ experienced
wOTkuen-
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Patent Wire Gates,
RECEIVER,S III

Thankful for past fsvors solicit a Continuance, pT0n
iHing satisfaction. WI UNDERWOOD.
P ST. have on hand a lot OF Chain Pumps.
oc2f ON " T.
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Eirginin Rnccs.

course, near Richmond, both heats were won by
DoswelPs Ninnette. Time, 3:514, 3:48. The
track was very heavy and there was a large at
tendance.
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rFuthcr from Leesbura.

A private dispatch has been received by Col.
Coleman to the following effect:
GRAND JUNCTION, October 25-Dispatches
from Leesburg report seven hundred priso-
ners taken by the Confederates.
A son of Gov. Pettus, Of Miss, was among
our killed. Capt. Burt, of the 18th Mississippi,
was badly wounded. No officers were killed in
the 18th (Featherston's) Miss. regiment. Our
loss is less than was first reported.
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and well selected stock Of
Furniture, Carpets, Etc,

CoT sisting In part Of one Rosewood chamber Set. one
ParlUT Set, one large Mantle Mirror, sew n Velvet and
Brussels Carpets, three Rings, twO Oil Cloth Carpets.
Cooking St0ysand Cooking utensils, etc. e.s.
Sale to commence 80 10 O'Clock A. ~, when due IT.
tention will be given by JAMES Il SMITH
oc9b-tds Ra-afvar
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9Th Day of November. 1881.

A s RECEIVER, aPpoiut-d by the in &c Of the law
~ side Of the Common Law aud Chaucery Couu OF
Memphis, Tenn, in the case Of II NJ. Grasvenor. J. A.
Cameron, - freeman & Co, and against Mary F.
Sthlmau, / will, on the
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Opinion on scquestrafiOn.

AUGUSTA, October 25.-In the Confederate
States court, now in session at Charleston
Judge Magrath yesterday delivered his opinion
in favor of the coustitutionality of the sequeS-
tration act, thus refusing to sustain the demur-
rers Of Messrs. Pettigrew, Mitchell aud WhaIey.
Later from the Potomac.
RICHMOND, October 25.-Passengers by the
Central train report that Leesburg is still occu-
pied by the Confederates.
Everything was quiet at Manassas.
Nothing further has been heard of the engage
ment by a portion of Gen. McLaw's command
in the Peninsula, near Young's Mil. 1t is be
lieved that the announcement some days since
was made on erroneous information received by
Gen. Magruder.
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HEADQUARTERS lST Corps, }
ARMY or POTOMAC. )

PRESIDENT DAVIS: In addition, concerning
Evans victory, I have to report the capture Of
nearly six hundred prisoners and 1900 stand Of
arms. The killed and wounded Of the enemy
are between 1000 and 1900. The rout was total
1t was an infantry fight. The Sth Virginia and
the 18th and 18th Mississippi regiments were
engaged. The 18th Mississippi was held as
reserve. No artillery was fired by US.
THOS- JORDAN, A. \. G..
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
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MEMPHIS, Oet0j-r %. 1861
LFREIGHT will not b. received at The De- OF Of this
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LATER sTILL. 40 RETrER srILLL

dispatch was received here. 1t will send a
thrill Of joy over the country, and places the
LeesbrTg victory in the very foremost rank of
the brilliant achievements Of the present war
A thousand thanks and a thousand hOnors to the
gallant army and lis brave commanders:
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RICHMOND, October 23.-Au intelligent gen
t!eman just from Washington, says that Lin
coins forces in Maryland, Virginia and the
District of Columbia, number fully two nun
bred thousand. They are well equipped, with
the exception OF the cavalry, which are much
inhn,inr 70 the Hnnfa1era4a narnlrr
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Lovejoy's Resolution.

The vote of the Representatives from
Michigan on the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Law, was equally divided. Mr..
Beamcn Of the I'd district, and Mr.. Trow-
bridge of the 4th, voted with Loveioy.-
Mr.. Granger of the lst district, and Mr..
Kellogg Of the Sd, voted 10 lay it on the
table. All honor to Granger and Kellogg,
says every true lover of the constitution
and its guarantees. They have shown
themselves, so far, free of fanatical lead
ing strings. Read what a constituent
from Mr.. Beamen's district writes TO the
Adrian Watchtower, and VIC venture a
majority Of the republicans in this district
would address Mr.. Kellogg in similar
terms, hed he so disgraccd himself and
their sentiments. Again we say, well
done, Hon. Francis w. Kellogg, M. G.
from Sd Congressional district, Michigan