True Democrat., 1863-02-04
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 - Shortly after midnight on the morning of the 3lst ult., the warehouse of Greenwood Gray, in Columbus; Geo., was set on fire by an incendiary and six thousand bales of cotton were burnt.
 - We wish city readers would read tho following paragraph in tho hearing of one of our city aldermen and see if he would blush. If he can, he will be apt to, when he hears this:
 "The poor of Columbia. 5. C.. are furnished with pine wood iron, the city st one dollar per cord"
 Smith, Lincoln's secretary of the interior, has resigned. It is said that Judge Upshur will be his successor.
 - Sheridan Knowles, the English drAmatist, and Uland shs German poet, are dead.
 - Certain Baltimoreane, recently released from Fort Lafayette. have instituted suits for false imprisonment against c en. w osl and Simon Came ron.
 - Among tho list of iaternents at Vicksburg, ws find the following names: Doc. 3d. J. A. Ty. son. Go. E, 5th Texas Vol. Dec. 24, Daniel Bare field, Co., D, 2d Ark. Doc. 27, J. Parkes, Co. E, - Ark. Dec. af, A. G. Hambrick, Co., D, 18th Ark.
 - The St Louis Republican estimates the
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 - The following Named Confederate soldiers died in the hospital at Harrodsburg, and were bu ried there: M V. Daugh, 2d Ark; F. Clines, Co. F, 5th Ark N. N. Harden Co. E, 5th Ark 4. M. Kirk, Co., I. 5th Ark; II. Hester, Go. B, 18th Ark: J. L. Stuart, Co. B, 18th Ark; Evans, It. Col. Texas Rangers. At tLouisville-Henry L. Smith, Co., B, lst Ark; R. H. Olesworth, Co. A, Doth Texas cavalry; K. F. Walker, 9th Ark; Hamilton Bunfeld, lst Ark. - Gen. Cheatham was not taken prisoner at
 Murfrcesboro, as reported. - Gen. Price has been quite sick at Grenada, but at last accounts, had recovered his health. - About the first of Jan'y. forty British vss- ses were at sea, ready to break the blockade of southern ports.
 - Lincoln's Congress has appropriated ten million of dollars for smancipating the slaves in Maryland.
 "A disease, resembling the deathly black plague has broke out in Indiana. The description of it's ravages are terrible.
 - Gov. Seymour, of New York, whose first official act to institute proceedings against the police commissioner CTS of New York city. for making
 illegal arrests, hns postponed action until the lst of April. HAS he got weak in the knees! - The small 70. was rife in Memphis during the middle of the month. Will our authorities per nit smugglers and smuggled goods to continue to come from there? - Among the slain at Murfree.boro, was Capt. B. C. Yancey, son of Hon. w. l.. Yancey. - The federal General Grant, by order dated at Oxford, Dec l7, expelled all the Jews from hi, army.
 - The following are the words of Lincoln's | proclam.tion designating the States in which the negroes are to be freed It will be seen that Mis- | souri, Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland are not l included:
 l "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, except the par iahes of St. Bernard, Plaque,nne, Jefferson, St. 1 Johrs, Sako., St. James, Ascension, Assumption. 1 Terre Bonne, LaFourche, St. Mary's, St. Martins 1 and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans; l Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, George, South | Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, except the forty eight counties designated as Western Virginia | and also the six counties of Berkey, Accomac, 1 Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princes Anne and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and
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 - OeH hOScT IlNuSOH, hllicu at 4NuihcCo- boro was gallant man and fine officer. His death 1 is great loss His brigade was opposed by seven Kentucky federal regiments. - Butler, the monster, is making speeches at the North, justfy'ng his murders and cruelties- | Tine N. Y. Herald intimates that he may be re- | turned to New Orleans - About hundred Yankee prisoners in Rich mond took the oath of allegiance, and were set to 1 work in tho gov srnment founderies. - large number of women and children ar- rived at Richmond by the flag of truce boat. on l the ll.h. Among them were the wife and children of John Ros. the Indian chief What does it mean2
 - Among the list of names of soldiers killed | by an accident oa the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, we find the names of Wm. Buchanan, Co. F., and corporal Tolles, Go. K., lst Ark - In South Carolina there is trouble among l the feds. A negro officer challenged Col. Weeks | of a New York regiment. A white officer carried l the challenge, which Weeks refused to accept. 1 - The federal gunboat Passaio was lowed ir
 to Beaufort harbor, without her turret or guns, and ] leakiDg badly.
 1 - Gen. s. D. Lee in charge of the defenses at Vicksburg, i. South Carolnan, and was made a brigadier about three months since. - Secretary Chase is about to marry the wid- ow of Stephen A. Douglas. - In Indiana at public me etings, the people have resolved that they would not buy or use arti' | cles manufactured or sold by New Englanders. - The fedora, accounts of the taking of the | Post of Arkansas. claim that they took 4oOO pris oners but of these, 400 were sick. So it appears that Churchill had only little over 5000 effective men.
 - When the aboitionists retreated across the
 -iver at Fredericksburg, they so disposed of the
 lead bodies, taken from the field, as to represent
 kirmishers in their trenches near the river, and
 ropp d up others so to pass for sentries on du.
 y, and by this trek, succeeded, for some time, in
 eceiving our pickets - Capt. Henry L. King, son of T. Butler King, of Georgia, was killed at Fredericksburg. - The new Confederate notes of the denomin-
 ton of one dollar, are printed on pink paper from
 teel plates and are very handsome.
 -Pearce, of Maryland, Senator in tho '. 8. Congress, is dead. - Charles Dickens, Bulxer Lytton, and An
 lony Trolope, leach have new novel on the stocks When peace comes we will have the satisfaction of
 eading solid English novels instead of the northern
 rash of Sylvanus Cobb and Edward Everett. - Grant has rescinded hls order expelling