Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-12-11
News Items.

The enterprise is due to NoWlin & Murriii.
/ S. II De Vaughan, formerly Provost
Marshall at Lynchhurg has gone to Yam
keedom. and taken the OATH Of allegiance to
! Abe's government.
A private despatch from Summit, Miss,
to the Mobile Tribune, says Weitziel has
been defeated by Gen. Taylor, and several
of bis transports stranded and captured
It is stated that Miss slide!l, daughter of
the rebel ambassador. is to be married to
j N. Erliager, the Confederate loan eoatrac-
] tor.
A considerable number Of Texas planters
have agreed to furnish corn at fifty cents
per bushel to all persons in the army and
to soldiers families.
LAID ON THE TABLE.-In the North Car
olina House Of Commons, a few days since,
Mr.. Averd introduced series of Peace res
olutions. Mr. Allison moved that they be
laid on the table, which prevailed, only
two voting in the negative
! THR SUMTER. A letter from Bermuda
announces the arrival of the celebrated
steamer Sumter from Wilmington 1t is
said she is bound to Liverpool to receive
her outfit and return to her old trade Of
''pirating' =
Readers, and others, who suffer from
cold feet, says the Charleston Courier. will
be astonished on trying slip or double
slip Of common newspaper or other paper,
as an inner sole, to find the favorable effect.
The result will in most cases. be equal to a
good extra cork sole, and far more couven-
lent in tight fitting shoe or boot.
SLAUGHTER OF YANKEES Col Field, Of
the First Tennessee, who was wounded
while fighting on the right of our lines at
Missionary Ridge, with Sherman's force,
and now in hospital at Marietta, says that
nc cover saw anything to equal the slaugh-
ter Of the enemy He thinks that sher
man retreated with less than aslf the forcc
| he advanced with.
| Without exception, says the Atlanta Coz.
fcaeracy, the troops from every Southern
State engaged in the battle of Missionary
ridge calamity did their duty. And where
the line gave way 1t was by force Of over
whelming numbers, hurled successfully up
on their position, until they were literally
exhausted in strength as well as ammunl-
ton.
A LOVING HUSBAND The Sheriff at St.
Paul. Minnesota, received the following
| telegram the other day, da ted at Winona:
"Sher5fs 1uI}is -Mine wife she ruus off
Il ant you to kesoh her by telegraph =
| She has Que baby Her eyes are black,
but Won eye is out and that is black, too.
If her don't come back, I vip her like hi"
The difficulty in procuring iron in the
Southern Confederacy to be used in cas- ting
shells and round shot, gave the officers in
! the Ordinance Department vast deal Of
trouble till Gen Beauregard came to tn cir
relief He has contracted with Gilmore
and Dalgren, Of the Yankee army and ma
w, for severel tons Of metal per day, and
those contractors'are delivering at Fort Sum
ter free Of charge, and without the slightest
Injury 10 the aid fort or its DEMONS
/ A RAID on A QUARTERMAsTER. The
Tuscaloosa (Ala } Observer states that some
4 blood thirsty thief entered the lot of Capt.
| W. A. Jemison, of that place. and deliher-
ately slaughtered one of his finest hogs
weighing 200 pounds skinned and quartered
: it-took his horse to carry away the meat,
which he did successfully-returned the
horse, and, left to the share of the Captain,
[as he was Government officer we sup
pose, a 1.-THE of the said 200 lb hog, con
sisting Of the head and tail.
| OLD DICK. We learn from the Danyille
! appeal, that the old negro man Dick Slate,
well known as the drummer of the 9Th Va.
regiment, was sold on last Friday for $3.50
He was purchased by the corporation Of
/ Danville Dick entered the army at the
beginning of the war, aud served about tive
years, in which time he gained considerable
notoriety both as drummer and fighter -
He was faVorabIy mentioned by Russell.
the correspondent of the London fines, for
his fighting qualities
| The ARLINGTON ESTATE TO BE Sold
} The Alexandria Gazette Of Monday says
The Arlington estate, IN this county, lately
occupied by Gen. Robert Z. Lee, and the
Custis Mill property. adjoining. are adver-
tlStu W ouHu IIaWAHufsb, " II. DOIeIN20 J.,
and g. ". Watson, Commissioners, to be
sold for unpaid taxes etc. under recent acts
Of the geess of the United States The
tax due Gu the Arlington estate is $50, LOT !;
penalty, e. Ca CT the Mill property 80,
! IS.
! FEoM JoHSsoN's ISLAND We have con-
versed, says the Atlauta Confcderscy. with
a Surgeon lately returned from residence
Of six months upon Johnson's Island A
nj ng other Items Of Interest. he tells US
that there are imprisoned as t!ist point sew
eral hundred resigned Confederate officers,
who, after they retired from the service,
sought their homes within the Federal lines
where they were arrested aaa hurried eff 10
the North. These men the Yank IS arc
endeavoring TO exchange according 70 sheir
former rank Our informant states that
most OF them desire to return into service,
and be exchanged as priyateS rather tilan
remain captiyes until the war is oter.
GETTING 4 FtMIly A German n,med
! lleofiieh, RESTING five miles west Of la Cres-
cent. was married in Portage, III Noytn.t, r
1860, TO healthy tserman girl. The
week after they married they moved 10
Minnesota, on tae farm they COW occupy -
In August, 1861, Mss. lleoilch gave Itsh
to three boys. two OF HON lived In June,
1862. she gave birth to three boys aud a
girl, two of the boys ana the girl living. =
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