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Death of 20 Brave Man.

We mentioned in yesterdays Express,
that Lieut. Gambrill, of Mississippi. Con-
federate scout. was killed on Sunday last,
about ten miles from the Blackwater river,
by the enemy's vfdettcs. A gentleman
from Isle of Wright county. gives us the
particulars Of Lieut Gambrlll's death.
They stamp him one Of the bravest met
this war has produced. Lieut. G was over-
hauled near Barham's Cross Roads, Isle Of
Wight county, by p Of the enemy, who
ilnmediately demanded surrender. He
instantly replied, Il never have surrender.
ed, and never intend to-" at the same time
drawing his revolvers and emptying the
barrels of each, before lie fell. Seven of
the enemy were killed and two wounded in
the brief space of four minutes, when the
Lieutenant fell MORALLY wounded. The
survivors then repaired to the house of Mrs
Ely, in the immediate vicinity. and told her
that particular friend of hers was lying
dead in the road short distance of. Up
on asking his name. and being told that it
was Lieut.. Gambril. Mrs Ely replied ''that
she would bury him if it cost her her life"-
"You ought to- rejoined the Yankee ''for
drawer man never lived" and they then
related to Mrs. Ely the particulars of his
death, and how desperately he defended
himself. A Lieutenant who com mshded the
gang said to Mrs. e. tina. he thought at one
time Gambriit world have killed him, but
added. that had be done SO; It would have
consoled his friends to Know that he met
death at the hands Of as brave man as ever
/, breathed
True to her pledge. Mrs. Ely procured a
cart, and calling upon a couple Of ladies in
the neighborhood, secured the body. washed
it and tn her own hands. assisted by her
lady friends. gave the body Of Lieutenant
Gambrll serulture. IA En-
| pncss, 18th
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EFTbe Knoxville Glenn Rcgi

EFTbe Knoxville (Eenn } Register.
upon information furnished by returned
prisoner, who. after his capture, was taken
to Murfreesboro' Nashville. Louisville. and
thence by way Of Baltimore to City Point,
states 49,
That the people of the Northwest are all
resolved to resist the CONSUMPTION act Of the
Fedora. Congress. even to blood. And
that many Of them assert positively they
will not pay the three hundred dollars in
lieu of service.
All are very DESTROYS Of peace, and a
very large majority condemn the object for
which Lincoln and his Administration are
now continuing the war-the abolition Of
slavery.
Some Of our returned prisoners inform
us that they have understood that there are
at least one hundred and sixty thousand
men in the Northwest enrolled to resist the
CONSUMPTION act. and Of these some fifty
thousand are well armed and determined to
resist any attempt to enforce the conscrip-
tiou law OF he Eedssal Congress.
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A Coon THtke FROM BRAod.-A CORES.
pondent writesA

A GOOD Thing FROM DRAGQ.-A corfe6>
pondent writesa
A soldier who had been favored by for
tune With the extraordinary good luck OF
having obtained leave of absence to- visit
North Carolina, recently telegrarhed Gen.
Bragg, commanding the Army Of Tennss-
see. that he had been married week and
desired an extension of bis furlough. His
wish was seconded by friends Of the Gener-
al. with but little hope. it is true, of sue
ceeding in the darling wish Of the darling
husband In the course Of the day. the
loving swain was delighted with the follow
ing electric response:
"Your leave is extended for thirty days.
refer you to Deuteronomy, 10th chapter
and 18th verse, and Oath chapter and 9th
verse
The Bible was instantly called into fe-
QUESTION, and upon reference the following
quotations were developed
And what man is there that bath be.
trothed wife and hath rot taken her? let
him 90 and return unto his house, lest be
die IN The battle and another man take hsr."
Deut 10Th chapter and 7,h verse.
The sect nd reference disclosed:
when man hath taken new mtfG he
shall not go out to rar, neither shall he bu
charged with any business. bu. he shall be-
free at home one year. and shall cheer up
bis wife which he has taken" -Deut. Oath
and 5th.
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POETRY.
tfStom the Advertiser and Register.l
j A c. SON


Not midst the lightning OF the stormy fght.
Not in the rush upon the yandal foe,
Did kingly Death, with his resstless might,
Lay the Great Leader low.
Els warrior soul It's earthly stackels broke
In the full sunshine OF peaceful town
When all the storm was hush'd she trhsty oak
That proppd our cause went down.
Though his alone the blood that focks the ground
Recalling all his grand, heroic deeds,
Freedom herself is writhing with the would,
And all the country bleeds.
He enter'd not the nations Promised Land
At the red belching Of the lannon's mouth
But broke the Honse Of Bondage with his hand
The Nose Of the South
o gracious God not gainless is the lossl---
A glorious sunbeam gilds thy sternest frown:
And while his Country staggers with the Cross,
He rises With the Crown!
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EPISCOPAL Diocesan CoUNc1L.-The
Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church
for the Diocese of Virginia, as already an
nounced, assembled at ST. Paups Church
on Wednesday. Bishop Johns presiding.
The organization was completed by the
election of the Rev. T. G.. Dashicll Secre-
tary. The Committee on the state of the
Church was appointed, as follows: Rev.
DR.. Minnegerode, Rev. r. X. Meade.
Rev. John Grammer, Rev. William 81.
Platt, Judge T. S. Gholson. Mr.. N. H.
Massie, Mr.. j. L. Bacon. and DR.. P. H.
Foster. Other standing committees, u,u,l
in such bodies, we're likewise appointed.
Rev. Mr. Latane, Rev. G. Walker. Rev
j. P. Mcclure, and Mr. N Ii. Massie
were appointed a committe to examine SO
much Of the report of the Diocesan Mis-
sionary Society as refers to the publication
of tracts, and report if anything eau be
done to enlarge It's sphere of usefulness or
otherwise, to favor the cause Of publishing.
Rev. MIR. Grammer presented the report
of the Managers of the Widows and Orr
phan's Fund, showing the income of the
Society for the past year to be So. 555. So,
and the expenses $500. Total assets $4Q.-
900.
Some other business was transacted but
nothing of very important character. The
attendance upon the Council, considering
all circumstances, Is very good. There are
forty eight of the clergy and thirtytwo Of
the laity present, besides number of ref
ugee clergymen, chaplains. sc.
At the opening Of the Council yesterday
morning. Bishop Johns presented his am
nual report, giving a review of church OPP
erations for the past year. 1t contains
some interesting a1usions to- the military
camps, and an appropriate notice Of the
death Of jackson, the Christian warrior.
The report will doubtless be Published at
an early day.
Mev. MIR. Dashiell offered the following
resolution, which lies over until the next
annual meeting of the Council:
Resolved, That the constitution be
amended by the addition Of the following
article: mo clergyman or layman shall
be entitled to d vote id the Council unless
he has been resident within the limits Of
the Diocese for six calendar months"
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ADJurANT GENERALS Orr1cE. Va !
May lst, 1868.
MAJ Gen. +. II. smith,
Superintendent V NJ Institute.

uldy AOV- LOW.
Maj Gen. F. II. SMITH,
Superintendent V NJ Institute.
SIN: By command Of the Governor, I
have this day to perform the most painful
duty Of my official life, in announcing to
Won, and through you. to the Faculty and
Cadets Of he Vi1giaia Military Institute,
th.. daasi, Of the great and good the Hero
IL and l,astriaas Lieutenant General +. J
.'AU4goN, ats mlaates past o'clock yes
terday afternoon
This heavy vemant, over which ev
ery Irue heart within the bounds OF the
Confederacy lnourns with lrrepressible sor-
ROW ust fall, if possible, with heavier
force upon that noble State Institution, to
which he came from the ttle-hc!as of
Mexico, and where he gave to his native
State the first years service OF bis modest
and unobtrusive but public spirited and
useful life. It would be senseless waste
of words to attempt an eulogy upon this
great among the greatest Of the sous who
have immortalized Virginia To the Corps
of Cadets of the Virginia Military Institute.
what legacy he has left, what an exam
pie Of all that is good and great aud true IN
the character Of Christlan soldier
The Governor directs that the highest
funeral nopofs be paia 20 dis memory, that
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THn L.sr .joKr op pxrs,ntNr I,tce

TIE LAST JOKE or PKEsrDfNr L1kcotN-
During tho past week . gentleman called
upon the President and solicited pass for
Richmond. Well, SAID the President. II
would be very happy tor obhgs you. If my
pasaea were respected, bat the fact 10, sirs
I have. within the past two years. given
passes to two hundred apd FIFTY thousand
men 10 60 to Richmond, and no one has
got there yet" The applicant quietly aud
very>respec,fally wisiaraw % his Up toes.
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Foreman ssStaunton Vindicator."
April 10, 1858.
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the customary outward badges Of mourning
be worn by all the Officers and Cadets OF
the Institution.
By command.
(Signed)
VIM. II. RICHARDSON, A. G.
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"ANTED,
nNE or two hundred cords of CHESTNUT OAK
u BARK. delivered at my Tannery in Staunton,
for which the highest cash price will be paid
JAMES MAYES.
Stanton. March o. I863.-2m*
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Excess Of receipts over expen-

Excess Of receipts over expen-
diturcs $40, $40 IS
This is, indeed, most gratifying result,
compared with the heavy excess Of expcn-
ditures of last year, and one that the coun-
try will contemplate with pleasure.
In connection with the foregoing state.
ment, we may mention that the Postofice
Department has succeeded In procuring the
in this city, of very hand.
some twenty cent stamp This stamp pre-
sents very excellent likeness Of General
Washington, and is in all respects credit
to the engrayers. The Department is now
filing orders for stamps of this denomina-
ton which will increase the convenience OF
paying postage on double letters aud pack
ages, and will be found useful In the absence
ofspecie and small notes, as change. -iSen-
tinel.
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All advertising for less term th"n three months,
will be charged for at the usual rates.
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or private character, or intended or calculated 70
promote any private enterprise interest, will be
charged for as advertisements.
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accompanied by the money.
asg- Office on Beverly Street, two doors East OF
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9"1LI.
PERSONS warting swill for their Hogs, can be
L aaYples ct 81 per barrel at the Sta unton Dis
.lgeyy. MASON HARMAN.
AsfI.a, lsts7-ts
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Improved Condition of Our Pose
tai Revenues.

The expenditures of the Postofice De.
partmout tor the year which ended 3Utt
June, 1862, were S2.92i, 200 4S
The receipts for the same pc
riod We're 1911, 189 06
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NEW AUCTION CONCERN.

FssEf undersigned having taken out AUCTION
= LICENSE, offer their services in the sale of
and, Negroes, Horses, Wares, and Merchandise,
either in town country. Auction Rooms at
Bickle's old Stand. Consignments of all kinds of
goods solicited. A. NJ. BRUCE,
II. H. PECK.
Stasnto Feb. 20, ls63.-yl
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Excess Of expenditure otcr
receipts $lOlS, lO1 ~
The law regulating postage to uniform
rate Of ten cents letter went INFO operation
GU the LIST July. 1862 The expenditures
for the pext succeeding quarter. ending Sep
ten,ber 3Oth, 1862. we're S7S9,571 II
Receipts for same quarter III. l91 80
Excess Of expenditure over
receipts $71,3s0 II
The receipt, for the next suc-
ceeding quarter, ending De-
cemb 81, 1862, were STATIC 81
Expenditures for sa,ne guar
ter 657, 746 As
Excess Of receipts for this
quarter OYER the expenditure $l15, 900 ~
The total receipts for the first
six months of the present
hscal year $1,4ss. 967 81
Total expenditures for same
period LAT, 817 %
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To provide for voting BY persons in the military
service, and persons absent FROM their respective
counties and corporations, account of the
presence of the public enemy, in election for menu
Governor and Attorney General, and for mem
bers of the General Assembly, and to amend and
re-enact the third section Of chapter eight of the
Code Of Virginia edition OF 1860.
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$71,3s0 II
STATIC 81
657.745 As
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-30
INC IIypeerl,s. .lInna.lses.


The loud profession Of friendship for the
soldier made BY the Abolition Republican
leaders, has recently been put toa practical
test In Congress, and, like most of their
other professions, II has been found unmean-
ing aud hypocritieaL A correspondent OF
the Harrisburg (Pa.l Potriot and Union tells
how. He writes: -g,r
WASHINGTON CIry, Dec. II, 1868.
DEAR PArRIor: Mr.. Denison (Democrat),
of PENNSYLVANIA, offered a resolution to-day,
ldirecting the committee on Military Affairs
| to bring In q bill TO increase the pay OF all
| the private soldiers In the service of the
United States to thirty dollars month, one
half thereof 20 be paid 10 the families OF
such of them as have families.
Although this would be but simple justice
TO our soldiers, and is no more than ispaid to
common laboring hand at home, yet you
will be surprised TO learn that the Republi-
leans, opposed it in solid body notwith-
standing their boasted professions of friend
ship for the soldiers during the election
campaign last fall. AS the form in which
the resolution was offered by Mr.. Denison
would compel the committee to bring in
bill, in accordance with its directions, Mr..
Washburne. (Republican) of Illinois, in or
der to enable the committee, which is COM
posed Of majority of Republicans, to
dodge the responsibility of opposing the
interests of the soldiers, very cunningly, as
he thought, tried to get Mr.. Denison to
change the phraseology of the resolution so
as to have the committee merely inquire
into the erpe1icncyof increasing the soldiers
pay, ETC., but Mr.. Denison, although new
member, saw his object, and refused TO ac-
cept the mo LITIGATION SO insidiously suggest
ed, which caused a great fluttering among
the Republicans. They say that If the reso-
would amount to peremptory order to the
committee to bring in bill allowing the
soldiers the full thirty dollars. which they
feared would so deplete the Treasury that
there might not be enough of green
backs left for their shoddy friends,
gun contractors, etc. Hence they were
driven to the necessity of showing their
hands by moving an amendment to the res
olution, so as to make 1t merely an inquiry
into the expediency of giving the increased
pay to the soldiers, and on the votes being
taken, the Democrats voted directly in favor
of compelling the committee to give IL, and
the Republicans voted against it. The Re-
publicans having the majority, the amend
ment was carried rand thus we find the poor
soldiers have been deserted by their hypo-
critical Republican friends in the hour OF
their greatest need. a..,. t....
Mr.. Washburne (Rep.), who was so eager
to defeat this resolution, afterward offered o
resolution TO give batch of Abolition COM
mittee clerks, who have little or nothing to
do but direct Abolition speeches, 81 day,
amounting to about $l20 month, while
81 day, or $50 month to our gallant SOL
diers, who are liable to all the privations,
hardships and perils of the camp and battle
field.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-30
The New York World.

We refer our readers to the prospectus OF
the World newspaper, in our Daily of yes
terday and our Weekly Of to-day. The
World is one of the best and most ably con-
Quoted newspapers in the United States. II
has deserved and achieved success, and may
now be considered as established on a per-
manent basis with constantly increasing
circulation and patronage.
Its editorials are generally well and ably
written, and sound in the political princi-
pies they inculcate. For general informa-
ton no paper exceeds the World. For til
merchant and business man it is equally
well adapted. To such as desire a good and
valuable eastern paper we heartily COM
mend the New York World. slL.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-30
senator sherman ON our National
Finances.

In the course of the discussion in the Y
s. Senate, on Tuesday, Dec. u on thu
House. joint resolution appropriating twenty
million dollars for the payment of bounties
advance pay and premiums for volunteers
Senator SHERMAN, of Ohio, objected to the
passage. of the resolution, because OF the
inability of the Government to raise the
money. He said the Secretary of the Treas
ury has no authority to issue any more
greenbacks, as they are called-that anthori-
T ty being limited to the four hundred mil
lions now outstanding. "Indeed," said
Mr.. SHERMAN, ''if the Secretary had the arl-
thority, it would not be wise to exercise 1t,
for the simple reason that large imitation
Of our currency would .end to raise prices
and increases the expenses ofthe war. The
experience of the rebels and the experience
of all nations show that it is unwise to in
crease the national circulation, or INCREASE
the national debt in the form of circulation"
Mr.. SHERMAN said that the only way to
raise the money was by borrowing, by SELL
ing bonds in the market. But experience
had shown that only certain amount OF
those bonds could be sold. He instanced
the fiye-twenty loan than which, he said,
no security could be better; and yet that
loan, the most favorable the Government
could possibly issue, is only absorbed in the
ordinary operations of the Treasury De-
partment at the rate Of about six millions
per week. That, then, was the extent to
which money could be borrowed, probably.
''How else" demanded Mr.. SHERMAN,
"would you borrow money? Would you
throw your bonds in the market and force
loans? In that" said he, 'you would de-
preciate the sale of your bonds and destroy
your national credit. There is limit, ;" he
continued, ''beyond which neither nation
nor an individual can 60 in the expenditure
of money"
These remarks from strong Abolition
Senator and a staunch supporter of the Ad-
ministration in all its war measures, show
tie apprehensions that are entertained Of a
coming financial storm, destined at no very
distant day to sweep over and dprostrate the
entire country.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-30
A Centennarian.


The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Union
of recent date, mentions the death of 8
Centennarian:
Mrs. Christian Grain, widow of BENJAMIN
Grain, died in Carlisle on Monday evening
last, at, the advanced age of almost one hun
dred and one years. She would have com
pleted her one hundred and first year on
Christmas day, and was, most probably, the
oldest resident of Cumberland county. She
was born in the reign Of George H., when
lr State was but an appendage to the Brit
ish crown, and at the outbreak of the Amer
lean Revolution she was quite young wo-
man. She was also living to hear Of the
terrible scenes of the French Revolution,
and in the war of 1912 she was sedate
matron.
During her long life Mrs. Grain enjoyed
excellent health. Although she had but
one child, her descendants, in the third
fourth and fifth generations, are very
numerous, numbering eighty-one, as fol-
lows: One daughter, ten grand children,
fifty-one great grand children. OF these
sixtv-three are yet living and eighteen are
dead. .r7 1s b sfsssk
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-30
Judge Eastman Declines.

Hon. IRA A. EASTMAN, who owas the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of New
Hampshire at Che last election in that State
has written letter to Judge MNoT, Chair
man of the Democratic State Committee
declining denomination at the approach
ing Eighth of January Convention in Con-
cord. He concludes his letter with the fol-
lowing paragraph:
That my motives may not be misconstrued, nor my
whoever shall be nominated on the sth of January
will receive my cordial support; and will add that
if the Democratic and Conservative voters will come
the Administration shall not interfere with the elec-
ton in an unwarrantable manner il is my firm be-
lief that the candidate Of the 9Th Of January will be
elected.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-12-30
,rsale of the Linden Hotel.

This new hotel at st. Louis has been sold
at Trustees sale to HENRY AMOS & Co., for
one hundred and fifty-three thousand dol
lars, their purchase being subject to the
first mortgage bonds (ten per cent. bonds)
of two hundred thousand dollars, and an
accumulation of rear interest thereon of
twenty thousand dollars. The sale was also
subject to the lease of Messrs. SPARKS &
PARKS for term of fifteen years. The
property cost more than three quarters of a
million of dollars.