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The military?
--a Northern view.
The Baltimore Gazette, of the 6th inst., in its summary of news, has the following:
Since the battle of Gettysburg, and the capture of Port Hudson and Vicksburg, the Federal forces under Meade, and Grant, and Rosecrans, and Banks, respectively, appear to have subsided into comparative inaction.
The Army of the Potomac rests some where in the vicinity of the Rappahannock, worn out by long marches, and greatly weakened by its loses at Winchester and in Pennsylvania, by the return home of the Pennsylvania militia, of the New York troops, hurried forward by Gov. Seymour, and of the many regiments whose term of service had expired.
Gen. Meade seems to be in no condition to take the offensive, and will probably content himself, if he is permitted to do so, with watching the movements of the enemy until adequate reinforcements shall reach him. His position is said to be naturally a strong one, and to strengthen it still further, he has made a li
Col. Alfred H. Jackson, Colonel of the 34d Virginia, and a counts of Jackson, died on the 4th inst.
Rev. James Hapking, paster of the Went worth street Baptist Church, at Charleston, &C. died at the 6th inst. of
Yankee rule in Maryland.
The blockade runners often bring through from Baltimore such extraordinary stories of Yankee tyranny in Maryland that their improbability has in many cases caused their rejection by the public as untrue.
Their narratives of petty cruelty, however, are excelled by those we find in the local columns of the city newspapers.
In the city department of the Baltimore Sun of the 6th inst., we find that eighteen persons were arrested on the day before "for attending the funeral of Capt. Wm. D. Brown, of the Confederate army, at Greenmount Cemetery." Five of them, including the father of the deceased, were released, and the remainder were notified to appear before the Provost Marshal.
At the appointed time all were present, and Mr. John H. Weaver, the undertaker, was called to be questioned as to a new Confederate uniform reported to have been put on the body previous to burial.
The testimony of Mr. W., was to the effect that except a piece of gray cloth laid