Winchester daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1863-1863, 1863-05-26
Various Items.

ANJuLhuG CludIL, VI OUS VI IHt .nlBS
issippi regiment, lived long enough to
certify that himself and brother Off.
Ger had been bayonetted after surren.
dcring their swords. Hence no pris.
oners were taken by Mississippi troops
when Fredericksburg was recaptur.
cd.
The captured Yankee officers at
Richmond seemed to have y high re
spect for our infantry. One Of them
remarked that the cayalryman were
not as well built nor as courageous as
their cavalry but the infantry were
too desperate for them. For" said
he, when the ragged infantry come
upon a battery it is no use to try 10
hold it, They arc going to have it,
and if NspOleou's men were behind it
they could not stop them. They are
crazy about batteriea."
A citizen Of Virginia, " no was cap.
tured at Fredericksburg and carried to
Washington after the battle, gives it
as his opinion that Hooker lost irst
and last, in killed, wounded prisoners,
and desertels, not less than seventy
five thousand men.
According to the Richmond Exami,
nor, the mother Of the Yankee Briga.
dicr Cor eraI Hays, who was captured
at Charlottesville, is said TO be living
in that city in poverty and destitu
ton.
Gov. Shorter, of Alabama, has de-
mandcd deli, cry to him of all citizens
or residents of Alabama captured with
Yankee raiders in any Southern State.
Let othor Governors follow tho exam
pie. 1t will ho worse than mockcry to
allow to Huch rccreants aud niscrcauts
the usual exchange.
There was q shooting affair at the
supper table Of the Confederate House
in Vicksburg, last week, in which no.
body was hurt except one Of the mig.
ger walters, who received the bullet in
the thigh, inhicting flesh wound.--
Gen. Prince Polignac, who was sitting
at another table, remarked, This is one
dangerous place"
The celebrated cavalry General
Stuart, who conducted the fight at
ChancoIo srille after the fall of Jack
son, has been assigned TO the command
nr III, UStnnowall C0rDs"
Gen. Lougstrcet has brought off
twenty miles Of splendid iron from the
track of the Soaboard and Roanoke
railroad near Suffolk, worth, at pres
cnt prices, more than half q million of
dollars. His army has fallen back
from Suffolk 20 the Blackwator.
The St Louis (Mo) Republican
says: Until recently, white mcn-men
of nerve and Sinew, and who hoped to
better their condition in tho world by
few years of toll were tho recipients
Of good wages, and were in comtorta.
bio circumstances. Now the influx
of runaway negroes, in defiance OF
tho law, IS unsettIlnS everything.
BY exhausting the means Of con.
structing fifty Alabamas in fitting out
old worthless vessels, the Times saya,
the mercantile marine Of the North
swims tho ocean as dcfenseless against
the two ships of the enemy as school
Of behring's chased by two shar.s. The
North might have been supplied with
ten times the number furnished the
Confede; atos
Governor Vance, Of n. G.. has ex-
tended his prohibition Of the shipment
of provisions out Of that State for thir.
! ty days longer. Tho articles prohl-
bited arc as follows bacon, lard, pork,
beef, corn, meal, -four, wheat, potatoes,
shoes, leather, hides, cotton cloth and
yarn and woolen cloth
No official statement has yet been
mado public Of the amount Of Confede-
rate Treasury Notes funded at the
sc ~ral repositories up TO the 22d of
April, nor have we seen the unofficial
returns but those that we havo seen