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The Capture or Roger A. Pryor.


or mo CONSEQUENCES WHATEVER"
[From the Richmond Ex smioer, Nov. 80
We regret 10 know that the rumor OF this gen
capture Is true For some time past tact convention
bel the armies has sanct loned daily exchange OF
papers certain portions e the lnes between single
soldiers from each SIDE. On Monday morning General
rryor left bis horse and ard went out into the mid
die OF the between the picket lines for this
waving, a usual the papers 10 be exchanged. He
recognized by some YANKEE officers, and they sent
lowed little distance The first grsppied with
Pryor and the others rushed him and dragged him into
thcr lines Here is illustration of what soldiers
may expect Whenever they rely upon the honor OF
Yankees
No doubt the captors thought they had obtained .
IN treated FOR there are few against whom the Yaree
nation sntertalns mean spite and malice. We stye
MIN General Pryor by courtesy for u s well known that
s and has for years becn private and regularly
enlisted soldier serving in the ranks OF the Confederate
cavalry rs such haring no public ps or1nce, no ahors
w. conssqunc, privilege than any other regularly
listed Confederate soldier In the first days Of the
he raised Hne regiment, OF which he was elected
colonel. Later the Confederate government com.
missicned him 10 be . brisadicr general, and or.
dered him 10 duty In command OF q brigade, left
without general, We believe, because It's commanding
officer wounded In this command General Pryor
otsn distinguished himself by his galsntry and judicous
conduct He lost his command by the return OF the ON
whose place he occupied temporarily. On applying
for other duty a the War Department nc got nothing but
vague promises His high spirit would not brook the
position OF brgadier general without brigade he
threw up hts commission and enlisted as common
der 10 the cavalry where he has since been serving
Having been good occr he made excellent trooper
pr,ved Of one good but the enemy VIII pay dearly
for t for the dshonorabc empl yed In this affair
will ebtter skirmishers and pckets much that
hundreds OF Yankees will lose ther lives In consequences
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R,r Mur IN Bosros Tho Boston 1rsvsler publishes
Ilst Of one hundred asd three parsons in that city
whose annual incomes are above 325 900, retained
under the special income tar. Ten taxpayers Nv tba
Fourth district assssssd upon incomes Of sbsn
Sle0ooo esch AFTER ths Aeduetions allowed By Law ~ere
%sS: one M rsss ..o. ssyss
psescns IN ths same 4sssist Who ~ tAxsA ~ ncsnss
keoJooo I'd uhAOr D1oASoe
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CALEB CusHING's PosrTIoN.-A Washington
paper announces the discovery that for two
years past the Hon. Caleb Gushing has 'beartily
co.operated with the friends of the Unionr
This is important news, perhaps, for Mr.. Cush
ing; but where was he during the first two
years of the war? Would he like to be Attorney
General of the United States. What says the
Chevalier Forueys
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NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY, DECEMBER o. 1854

vances that have 50 many times frightened
Richmond from its propriety. Meade will push
on the south side, the navy will thunder
In Dutch Gap, and Sheridan will strike ct
probably . weaker place than any. Porter,
also, will be heard from, and Farragut, and
Dahlgren, and Foster. Sherman will then do
more than demonstrate, and Thomas, having
given Hood one more such repulse as he has
just given him at Franklin, will press forward
to annihilate the shattered rebel Army of the
Tennessee.
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voters Of the city can do 20. Let the best mon
be selected for oil important posts regardless
of politics, and We may hope to see the metro.
polls Of the nation redeemed from tho thraldom
OF corrupt party managers, and . reign Of
honesty, retrenchment and . wholesome regard
for the rights Of taxpayers be inaugurated.
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Arrsxpr 10 Destroy RAILWAY TRAM.-Yesserday a.
tornoon wicked attempt made 10 destroy passen.
ger tram the Saugus Branch Rairoad As the ua %
which this city for Lynn st too minutes 70 SIX
O'Clock was between South Maiden and Maiden number
or heavy mbcrs we're found upon The track they bav
ing been placed there with The evident design OF throwing
ths train on the track The vigilance OF the engineer
and fireman OF the train probably prevented serious
affair, they discovered the tmoors W the light of
thar Isn,erns At distance ahead sufficient N enable
them 10 reverse the engine and apply the brakes The
only damage done the breaking OF the engine
pan the cars and passengers uninuret The train
consisssd OF three cars flied with passengers Boslo,
Txavskl~v. Dec I.
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>YH
A CALL FOR The CHICAGO C0NvsNTIoN-RATHER
LATE IN THE DAY. We see i stated in the
newspapers that the Hon. Cylu. H. Mccormick,
ofMcCormick's reaper, proprietor Of the copper
bead Chicago Times, and late copperhead csn-
didate for Congress in that district ia out in a
letter urging the reassembling Of the Chicago
Shent-per -Shent Convention. What an absurd
idea! That convention, though declared per-
manent body, is defunct. The resolution con-
tinuing it was intended by the Chicago copper
head managers to meet an anticipated rupture
OF the party before the late Presidential elcc-
tion, or some hitch in the results upon which q
constitutional quibble could be turned to mis-
chief. Before the election, in order to get rid
of the Chicago copperhead platform and Mr..
George Ii. Pendleton, we repeatedly urged
upon Mr.. Belmont the necessity Of reassembling
his Stent-per-Shent Convention; but he was
deaf to our good advice. The election has gone
by default and there is no hitch in the results
upon which the most ingenious of copperheads
eau raise constitutional qubble. The voca-
ton of this Aforesaid convention, therefore, is
ended, and the best thing that Mr.. Belmont can
do is to consider it dead and buried. For the
sake Of charity he may, il he chooses, call his
national committee together and hold "a wake"
over the Chicago platform; but beyond some
thing of that sort it is probable that for some
time. to come Mr.. Belmont will have nothing in
the way of Presidential politics to interfere
with his financial engagements ia behalf OF
Macmillan, of Mexico. As for Mccormick, let
him return to his reaper.
The New York herald., 1864-12-03

The MEETING OF CONGREss.-The two houses
of Congress reassemble at Washington on Mon
day next. 1t Is the second and the short Sos
sion CLOSING on the 4th Of March by constitu.
tional limitation) Of the thirty-eighth Congress.
As the two houses are already organized. we
presume that ON Monday the Presidents Mes
sage will he read to them and simultaneously
furnished to the press of this and other cities
for publication.
We expect in the Message an Interesting
review of the doings of the government and
the events of the war during the past year,
and An encouraging exhibit Of the condition
and prospects of the national Treasury. We
hope, too, that the President will not neglect
in his recommendations tho reinforcement of
teering and bounty system, and that be will
not worry himself this time with any new
tangled theories of emancipation or reconstruc-
ton. The work laid out before him and before
Congress is very simple, and needs no elabo-
rate Executive explanation. 1t comprises the
suppression Of the rebellion by force Of arms,
the restoration Of the rebellious States on the
basis of the constitution and the abolition OF
slavery through an amendment Of the coDstitu-
ton itself. The business OF the war, however,
will suffice for the present session, and the con-
stitutional amendment indicated, ha wing failed
in the present House, will 60 over to the next,
where it will be sure Of success.
Beyond the appropriation bills required, we
cannot, from this short session, expect much in
the way of legislation. We may, perhaps,
obtain some notifications of our taxations laws;
but whether they will increase or Tighten our
present burdens will depend very much upon
the drift of the war. In short, the approaching
session, from the necessities of the case will be
devoted rather to routine business than to any
new measures of great public Importance. In
this view we may now admonish to some pur-
pose perhaps, the working majority of both
houses to 60 to their work at once upon the
estimates Of the several executive departments
so that no corrupt jobs or swiDdling tricks may
creep into the appropriation bills under cover
of the usual confusion and hurry scurry of the
last rollicking night of the session.
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From tho Richmond Examiner,

From the Richmond Examiner, Nov. 30
Monday morning negro piokes we're placed IN front 0
General Pickett's division. our men, takiug az Al
insu g. Yesterday nred upon them causing stampede
among ,hem. Their places have been suIpied with
quiet
Two negroes captured By General Hunter IN the valley
aat summer snd forced tho Yankee army desertsd
yesterday and came General Pickss lines aud we're
brought ever " this cay.
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rns Reason the street Names are Nos en-
the Lamps.

TO rms RDIroR or THs HERALD.
BRoogLyS, Dec q 1854
Ia your issue of November 30 correspondent ssss.-
wby don1 the city or Brooklyn have the names Of IL
streets put 10 tbs street lamps the same 10 New Ysrtr
Tns oaly plausible reason give him 10 that Ne
stree, isnpa Bsocklyn seldom lighted, ths city
authorities thinking the oity afford 70 nght he
street iamia that oertainiy sot worth while 70 nave
ths names nj the streets put 10 them; besides wous
and esA With thair ges IN, BN0OALxNIA
The New York herald., 1864-12-03
REBEL ACCOUNTS.

Gunboas Fight On the James-Enga0s-
ment between the Monit.rs and the
Rebel Battery NJ Eowietts.
[From toe Richmond Examiner, Nov. 80.
The fci owing onlcsl despatch received By The
War De psrtmeut isst night rom General Leo
HEAp.uARTsRs, Army Non1Hsts VIRGINIA,
Nov. 20, 1sB4
General Pickett reports that three Monitors and lind
batteries ~ tho enemy engaged tho battery at Hswets
tb, morning One OF the Monitors struck several
tmos by our guns. Two have Withdrawn. No casual
ties ON our side r. l.. LIE.
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wALLAcK's THEATRE, Broadway-To MAsRr or
Nor TO MARRS-RURAL FELIcITY.
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WINTER GARDEN, Broadway
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OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway-sr GroRcr Ann ysR
DRACooSs-MIKr WAITE -
The New York herald., 1864-12-03

THE CRY ELECTION On Tuesday next Che
citizens Of New York will be called upon to
exercise the privilege Of choosing an import
ant portion Of their municipal rulers. A
Board Of Aldermen and Board Of Council.
men, az well as Board Of School Commission
ers, are to be elected; and II behooves every
oae who has the interests Of the city at heart
to see that proper men are selected for these
responsible positions Especially should this
be the case with regard to the School Commits
sioners, who should In all cases be selected for
their moral worth and intelligence. Our NUM-
cipal officers should, a. far as possible, be
selected outside Of party lines II is party
that has tainted every department Of the city
vernment-excepting possibly the Croton
Bsard-wIth corruption and impaired dis
trustful feeling among property hsldsrs. Our
local government requires cleansing and puri-
fylaa. AAd ~. time ~ arriveA wAea ~
The New York herald., 1864-12-03

SIBLos GARDEN. Broaaway.-oonsicAs BsorurRs.
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NEW BowERY TaEATRs, Bowery w A,rIsc ron
1HA NkRpicr-JAcKs rms LtD-KARFA-YousG AsxRIoA.
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movemcnt OF the Tpansports fram ror-
MD

From tho Richmond kxsmirer Nov 80
The OF the fleet lately assembled Fortress
Monroe sailed souinwsrds some days sinoe whe The
IRON clsds came up the James.
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BARNUMs MUSEUM. Broadwav.-TaHvE MAMMOTH
FAY 0fRLs-InRFS GiANts-Teo DwARss-INp,ASs-
FRENCH AUrosAroSs DRAMATIC PERFoRsAscEs-Day aud
EyeIlng
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BowFRY THEATRE Bowery-THs Win BoY-PkrKR
BkLI-sHASpr MacuiRE-WlLFuL kuEprR.
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BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway-Poos GRsr1s
MAN-PeoPLk's LAwYKa
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.
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CAMPBELLs NISsTRELs. lea ara 2ci Bowerv -
VARIED bNp ExcirsG hrLAssz or ETHIOPIAN oppirIls-
Goosr OANpER
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BRYANTS' MTNsTRELS. Mechanics Hall, 472 Broad.
wE-ErHiorIAN soNGs, DANCES, BuRLEseuEs, dc.-LiGHI
BRIGADE
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VAN AMBURGH 4 CO.'S MAMMOTH MFNAGFRIE
$50 and 54l Broadway.-open rom D A. NJ 10 10 r. NJ
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APPROPRIATIONS. Fourteenth s,reet-DoG AND MoS
Ssr AcroRs-EeuRsrRiAs GyasssyIc AND AcsoBArIc EN-.
yE
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] WOODS MINSTREL HALL 5h observation-disclosures
DnALKRs-ErareriAS soSGs DANCES dc.
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sALLE DIABoLIQUE. SIS Broadway. .-Roasgr HsLLEs
HOPE CHAPEL. ~ 5rnatwav W oopRorrE's Boua.
xAS TROUPE GLASS BlowFRs
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-17
A Carnival of Blood.

Fighting south of the Rapidan for the
last few days has been almost complete
carnival of blood. Enormous masses OF
men have been hurled against each other
and struggled till compelled to cease by
sheer exhaustion. Nor did one day suffice
for the combat; a nights rest, and the next
day at dawn the same columns faced each
other on the same ground and without ad-
vancing or retreating an appreciable dis
lance, they stood and poured volleys into
each others bosoms, until night mercifully
dropped her shadows over the contestants.
Even darkness at times seemed insufficient
to qusnch the thirst for carnage, for once
at midnight, heavy columns met in front of
the Wilderness and slaughtered each other
by thousands, without either gaining de-
cisive dozen feet of territory.
Such sanguinary contests reminds one of
the battles of the earlier ages, when vast
bodies Of athletic barbarians came i'm con-
| tact, and, foot to foot, an intermingled
writhing mass of struggling bloodthirsty
men, butchered and killed, and killed and
butchered, until one party or the other be-
came so weak that its small remnant finally
fled to avoid complete determination.
So on the Rapidan. There for days and
nights Federal and rebel hosts clung to each
other in deadly embrace, and only loosened
their grasp when exhaustion compelled, and
among the thousands.
In palliation of Grant, so far as these
enormous wholesale butcheries, this stolid
giving and receiving of deadly blows, are
concerned, it may be said that he was fore
ed to it by the tactics of Lee. Before his
lines were formed-before his columns had
reached their designated positions-the reb-
el hordes were upon them like ponderous
Rvalanches. Grant had no room for strate-
gy, no room for man9uvering-he could
bnly hurry up his divisions as fast as posi-
ble, and to do his best to preserve his army
from being split to fragments under the
tremendous blows of his concentrated hnd
powerful antagonist. When the rebel
trength had spent itself somewhat in DASH
ing against the iron front of the Federals, |
hen came the first moment in which Grant |
ould avail himself of strategy without |
ubjecting himself 10 annihilation. Send
ng Burnside around the lett to threaten |
Lees rear, he forced that commander to |
'hange his position, and thus, for time, |
was able to intermit the sickening routine |
of slaughter. .'.-i
1t is only in this country and under |
American generalship that immense armies |
meet and struggle for days on restricted |
,pace, and then separate with no other re-
;ults than limitless lists Of wounded and |
Head.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-17
Railway Mntfern.

The A. & G. w. Railway Is ''irrepressible.' y
Not content with building the finest road
In the world and running the best rolling
stock, and getting possession of every road
west of here which it can use to advantage,
we learn that the stockholders are determine
ed to extend their road east of its present
terminus at Salamanca, and surveys are now
being made eastward from that point par
-allel with the N. Y. & Err. as far as Olean,
where it bears due east, intersecting the
Erie again at Addison or Corning. The
surveyors Office for the company is located
In Olean, and the papers of that place sry
that everything looks like business. twill
not be long before the A. & G. w. will be
running cars from New York to San Fran
cisco, without change, If they continue in
the way they have during the past two years.
-JGaestotcn Journal.
The Timetable of the A. & G. w. Rail-
way appears in this mornings STATESMAN,
which our numerous readers on the line of
the road will be gratified to see.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-17

cannonade is now being made for the pur-
pose on the enemy's position. Though vic
tory now appears highly probable, you must
not be surprised If the final result Is not
achieved to-day. The rebels will fight to
the last, and have already, in the wonderful
eight days Battle of the Wilderness-of
which this is but northumberland good
all the boasts ever made of their prowess.
They will really die In the last ditch, and
only then. They are, however, now out of
supplies, their rations having, according to
the statements of prisoners, been exhausted
last night, and il Sherldan's destruction of
their communications has been as complete
as is believed at headquarters, they will be
able to get no more. Quite q number OF de-
serters have come In from all the corps, and
they say If there is chance many more
may be expected tonight.
OF our losses thus far during this days
severe battle it is impossible to form any
thing like an accurate estimate; but they
must be extremely heavy. The losses of
officers is also very great, but L forbear to
mention names until the facts are placed
beyond dispute. Gen. Wright, command
ing the Sixth Corps, was this morning
wounded in the soft part of theleg, but still
continued to command.
Six p. M.--The four hours that have passed
since the date of my last dispatch have been
occupied with vigorous hammer-and-tongs
work that does not appear to have greatly
advanced the upshOt of the contest, save in
the destruction of life to the enemy that
may have been accomplished. The resist
ance of the rebels Is most stubborn, and it
seems from present appearances that we
shall be thrown over till tomorrow,
when we shall have continuation of the
same, unless indeed the enemy be so harassed
In his communications as to compel him to
retreat.
But whatever may be the determination
of the enemy, there will be no change nor
let up in the resolve Of this army, of its
commander and of the head of all the ar
mics of the United States. That resolve is
to put the matter through, cost tchdt 1 may. In
doing this we shall add to the already ap-
palling list of losses we have experienced in
this unparalleled battle of eight days dura-
ton, but we shall end by crushing the enc
my to powder.
While writing, firing has ceased along
the whole line, and 1t is probable the con-
test is concluded for the day. The rebel
Gen johnson, captured this morning, gives
the following explanation of how the rebel
right flank came to be turned this morning:
That flank was held by the division of
johnson, who had very strong position.-
Yesterday, however, battery which had
been planted on this position was taken
away by his superiOrs in command. john
son, at o'clock this morning, sent word
requesting the return of the battery and
any other artillery there might be to spare,
and expressing his conviction that the enc
my (we) would make an attempt on the
right at daybreak. The battery was return
ed to him, but too late, and he was Just get
ting it into position when Hancock made
his attack.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-17
From Gen. sIgeI's Command.
From the Wheeling Intelligencer, l4J


We received yesterday letter from Cap
tain John Carlin, formerly Of the Wheeling
Battery, but now Chief Of Ordnance in the
Department of West Virginia, dated, "In
the field near Strasburg, May 10TH" This
was Tuesday last, and at that time General
Sigers army was there, and of course that
fact renders the dispatch published yester-
day about Sigel's having cut the Lynchburg
road altogether impossible.
Gen. Sigel at Strasburg was at least sew
enty-five miles from Gen. Grant, and about
one hundred and twenty miles from any
point on the direct line of rail between
Richmond and Lynchburg. So that the
dispatch about his having struck blow at
any vital point Is piece of poor guess
work.
We presume that it was not in the pro-
gramme of General Grants combinations
that General Sigel should vacate the Valley
until his grand encounter with Lee should
make IL certain that the old trick Of creating
diversion in that direction was not longer
possible. If we are correct In our suppOsi-
tion, IL is not likely that General Sigel will
join Grant much, If any, this side Of Rich
mond.
1t may be that the force sent out from the
Kanawha under Crooks and Averill has been
heard from. That command has had abun-
dant time to reach Lynchburg, being, when
last heard from, about eighty miles from
there. Still, Lynchburg is not the desirable
and vital point to strike at, important as the
destruction of the Virginia and Tennessee
road at that point would be In local point
of view. The mortal spot TO hit would be
Burksville Junction--the point where the
Virginia and Tennessee road crosses the
Richmond and Danville line, which is about
sixty miles southwest Of Richmond and
about forty-five west of Petersburg.
This point being once destroyed, allow
ing the Petersburg and Richmond road to
have been really and effectually disabled
by Butler, and the rebels would be cut of
entirely and completely from the South.
We presume that Generals Crooks and
Averill will soon be heard from In the di-
rection we have suggested. In the mean
time, It is impossible that Gen. Sigel's COM
mand should be anywhere In that vicinity,
taking the date Of Captain Carlin's letter as
our data.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-17

Two weeks ago this [Tuesday) evening,
General GRANT at the head of his powerful
army crossed the Rapidan, since which
time struggle has been going on the like
of which for length OF duration, TERRIBLE
ness Of vlgor, and bl6odiness or effect, his
tory records no parallel. If war consists,
as great General once said, .in
hard pounding" GRANT is showing him
self master Of his art. Our army has
driven the enemy from one strong
ly fortified position to find him
hidden behind another of still greater
strength; and each recurring battle is still
more horribly bloody than its immediate
predecessor. But we have all faith in the
strangely imperturbable man who sits calm
and silent under the pine tree, directing his
battles as If he were playing quiet game
of cards in the shadow. Tenacity, power
that multiplies with the resistance it meets,
will, that grows more and more intense as
difficulties thicken--these are the qualities
Of our leader, and it is with these that the
Army of the Potomac is now inspired and
held to its stern work. We do not believe
that LEE, brilliant and able as he is, is able
to stand against this awful, hydraulic-like
stress that now for two weeks has been
bearing upon him. 1t was such mind as
this of GRANTS that WELLINGTON brought
upon hundred fields, and to its unweary-
Ing pressure even NAPoLEoN at last sue
cumbed. o