True Democrat., 1863-05-06
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chnrge of Maj. Howard; who WIS taken prisoner
 - The Indiano!a is complete wreck and en- tirYIy submerged.
 - 4 blll has been intrqduced in the.Georsia legislature to punish persons wio refuse to take Confederate money.
 - Hunter has r 900 negroes in his depart meCt.
 The burning of the Bath paper mill, near Augusta, Ga. is a serious loss. It was the largest establishment of the kind in the Contederacy- The Charleston Courier intinates that the papers of Charleston, Augusta, Savannah and other cities will have to suspend and many others reduce their proportions still further.
 - When tho ships sent by the Yankees laden with breadstuiIs arrived in England, a grand de- monstration was gotten up. A meeting ot the famished operatives was called and fifty barrels ol four cooked up into loaves were distributed The workmen threw the bread n the* streets and tram pied upon it, Not a loaf was eaten. At Richmond, lately, a number of women, headed by a market woman, welt through the streets accompauied by unlber ot rowdles, and went into several stores, presenting pistols and knives and helping themselves to goods. They pretended to want food but stole calico, cloth and everything but breadstufa. Several such scenes have occurred in other southern cites and there is good reason to believe 1t is part of a system or ganized at the North, and carried into effect through Lincoln emissaries in Dixie The nor thern papers make great buster over this, and point to it as an evidence of our desperate condi ton-
 - Jenkins, in Western Virginia, is doing good service About once fortnight he drives the Yankees back, sometimes across the Ohio, and keeps them in hot water continually.
 - The Copperheads" at the North, have accepted the title and adopted badge They take a cooper cent and cut out the head of liberty it., and mount it as breast pn
 - The bill to send papers to soldiers in the army, free of postage, was defeated ln'the House. "A government store at Branchville, 5, C. was recently destroyed by ire It had ill 1t large quantity of flour and sugar, 5O,OOO rations of ba- con and 800 hogs.
 - On the 22d ult., the federal commander at Nashville issued an order that all citizens should take the oath, or go South within ten days. This policy is adopted by the federals everywhere. How long before we have chance to retaliate!
 - Gen. Davidson reached Pilot Knob on the 24th ult, to take command of the federal forces there, to resist the army led, as the St. Louis papers say, by Gen. Price.
 -- The monthly report of the provost mar shal of Memphis accounts for $60O0O worth ot goods he seized, about to be smuggled from the city, besides what he did not report.
 R. W. Moseby, of company F. 10th Texas, died of typhoid fever in the hospital at St. Louis, on the 23d of March. Joel F. Caviness, of 24th Texas was sent to the small pox hospital. On the 25th of March there were 893 prisoners in the Ora tiot street prison and I84 in the Myrtle street ps on, and about 500 sick Confederates in the hospi- tals The following were transferred from the hospital to prison Benj. M. Clapton, 10th Texas; Price Cantre, 25th Texas; Geo. R. Ganties, 18th Texas aud Captain Robert l.. Duncan, 18th Ark
 - Bishop Otey, of. the Episcopal church, died at Memphis, on the 23d of April, aged 63 years
 "A fellow named James B. Bingham, now engineers the Memphis Bulletin under permit from Hurlburt, the apostate, to publish only such news as may be permitted by the general com handing.
 - A jayhawker, who escaped from the mili- tary prison here some two or three weeks since came to his death in an honorable way. His name was Patrick Hestole fine horse from Dr. Meni fee. on the Cadron, and was pushing for the fede ral lines On Piney, in Johnson county, he was found at house where he stopped all night, and started off to outrun his pursuers, on foot. man named Reeves pursued and overlook him. when the two clenched and commenced fight ing. Reeves was too much for Patrick, and wher the party came up they found that Reeves had pu him to death in the natural way having literally pummelled him to death.
 "A friend in northwestern Arkansas writes to us the particulars of some of the atrocious acts committed by the federals there. Two of them seized two young girls and outraged them, After wards, two negroes, after severe struggling com mtted rapes on two respectable ladies, while theil white comrades in arms stood by laughing at the shreks and prayers of the poor women. May Goo nerve the arm of Gen. Cabell, and give strength to the brave men under him, to avenge the foul