lately been made.
The 7,000 under Taylor, Hill and Cobb, are, or were, scattered through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, part of them constituting the present garrison of Mobile.
of Hood's army the following is a correct numerical statement:
Entered Tennessee47,000
Came out17,500
Net loss of the campaign29,500
In East Tennessee and West Virginia there were, in February, but four thousand five hundred men altogether, and the greater part of them were transferred on March 1st, and thereabouts, to Lynchburg.
General Lee's testimony.
A committee of the rebel Senate was engaged, early in the present year, in an inquiry into the condition of the Confederacy.
Among the witnesses summoned before them was General Lee, and the following are extracts from his testimony on the 24th of January, 1865:
Question by Senator Hunter.--What is your opinion as to evacuating Richmond and withdrawing the army to North Carolina?
Answer.--In my opinion, it woul
Maryland and Delaware railroad.
--Chief Engineer Tilghman passed the first train over his road on the 9th instant.
It consisted of a house car and twelve flat cars, loaded with iron, chains and spikes.
The road is expected to be completed to Greensborough, Caroline county, Md., by the 1st of March, and to Easton by March next.
ight and robbed of one thousand dollars.
It is said that nine-tenths of the national banks are in favor of removing the Currency Bureau to New York.
The rebels are said to have fired stones from their cannon in one of the battles of the war. They were load-stones, of course.--Prentice.
Such people as Wilson and Sumner and Thad. Stevens are flies in the Union cream-pot.
Prentice.
The Indiana Republican Convention will be held on the 22d, and the Democratic Convention on March 1st.
Some Americans have recently constructed a telegraph across the Andes, to connect various cities of Columbia, South America.
The Dominican Republic is in a sad condition.
Completely desolated by the recent Spanish invasion, the people are almost destitute.
The Mississippi Senate has adopted a resolution for the erection of a monument at Jackson in memory of the rebel dead.
The Mississippi river levees are soon to be rebuilt by military authority.
A marble statue o
