True Democrat., 1863-06-24
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 - From the best information we have it ap- pears that the armies of Bragg and Rosecrans are widening the distance between them, and both are falling back.
 - Maysvlile, Ky, captured on the l4th of June, by about 250 Contederates who destroyed an immense quantity of arms, stores and munitions.
 - In order to get his 100, 900 militia to meet Lee in Pennsylvania, Lincoln calls them for six months, and promises to give the States that fur nish the men credit for them in the general draft.
 - The convention of Missouri reassembled on the 18th Gamble sent in message and at the end of 1t tells them he will resign at the close of the sitting of the convention. So they will have to make another bogus governor. There are very few federal troops in that State, Heron having gone to Vicksburg.
 - On the 18th inst, the office of the enroller of conscrpts i'll Fulton county, Indiana, was taken possession of by mob, and the rolls destroyed. Burnside sent force to arrest the rioters and storm was brewing.
 - The consus of England and Austria were at Fortress Monroe having, as the telegraph says, been ordered from Richmond by the Contederates. This may be go, but we think 1t will turn out that they were recalled by the English and Austrian ministers at Washington. 1t seems they held official intercourse directly with our government, and as they hold their offices through Lincoln, he has withdrawn his consent, and the respective ministers have ordered them to report at Washing ton.
 - Old Fuss and Feathers filed a protest against paying the income tax. This is the first formal resistance to the northern tax bill and from man whose salary is the largest in Lincon's government.
 - There are thousands of Irish coming over. recruited in Ireland, for Lncoln's army. On the other hand, Meagher and Corcoran say that they cannot get recruits for their Irish brigades The Yankees put them where the hardest fighting is to be done, and in their occupation of country, de- stroy all the Catholic churches, and cemeteries This dissusts the Ifishmen. It was understood that if the Irish would help Lincoln rvet one Union on us, he would help repeal the Union of England with Ireland. but they begin to find out that Lincoln cannot do the one and dare not do the other.
 - Adjutant Stuart, of one of the MississipDi regiments, taken prisoner at Fredericksburg, ana after suTendering his sword, he and his brother officers were bayoneted. He was supposed to be found alive, though dying. He lived long enough to tell this, and after that the Mississppans took no more prisoners.
 TIT The federals making raids into South Carolina In they destroyed million dollars worth of property, stole 1000 negroes, and as many mules: horses, etc.
 - A son of F. P. Blair, was taken prisoner
 
 glance to the Confederate government. Watch hlm the breed and blood is that of traitors.
 - The Yankees are rapidly solving the prob- lem of |" what to do with the negroes?'' In Banks order for the formation of negro brgades, he says that in order to insure complete drill, the regiments for the present, will consist of the minimum al lowed by law, not exceeding 800 men. They put the negro regiments in front of every battle and in their own accounts of the assault on Port Hud- ha they say hat ono ant lost 400 killed and wounded. The fact is the regiment was annhilated. They drove negroes into the intrenchments killing those who refused to advance and kept them there to stop bullets.
 - Not only do the federals near Vicksburg "Keep their spirits up
 By pouring spirits down.
 but Grant resorts to the most outrageous lying to inspirit his men, One day high sounding order was read to all his troops declaring that Richmond was taken, and with the fall of Vicksburg the re- bellion was ended. The next day he gave out he had intercepted message from Pemberton to Johnston, in which the former said he had only ten rounds of ammunition left and weeks pro- visions. All this is done to induce the soldiers to walk into the slaughter pens. | - Col. Zarvona shas been exchanged at last. has arrived at Richmond and has reported for duty l - The manufactory at Columbus, Ga turns out 9 revolving pistols day. - w hen the ankees evacuated Jackson and set fire to the city, the peoyle began tumble their property inlo the streets. A writer says it was astonishing to see bales of domestic, bolts of calico sacks of coffee and other things, brought out from garrets cellars and hiding places, where specula- tors had hid them.
 - Stonewall Jackson was born in 1895. He was only thirty eight years old at the time of his death.
 - The treasurer of California collected the Lincoln tax in gold and paid it over in greenbacks.
 - Major Clarence Prentice, son of Geo. D., went into the federal lines and arrested. He was tried as spy, acquitted and exchanged | -'The federals treat prisoners with great in- humanity. We parole thosew take who go home and make heroes and martyrs of themselves, by telling lies. These stories are cirrhlAted among their troops to keep them from surrenderfng, which half of them would do if they had chance. When they take Confederate, if they do not kill him, they rob him of everything, thrust him in filthy prisons and try to tortuye him to death. They stole the shirts from the backs of the prison CTS taken at the Post. First, their captors stole