Peter G. Evans, of the 63d N. C. cavalry regiment, died in Washington city about ten days ago of a wound received at Middleburg.
At the benefit of Miss Bridges in Savannah, Ga., the other night, a bouquet was thrown on the stage containing a $100 bill.
During the first seven months of the present there were 49 arrivals of steamers with cargoes from foreign ports at Wilmington and 48 at Charleston.
's cavalry.
A dispatch from Washington, dated the 24th, says that Sheridan's cavalry is off on a grand raid, the object of which cannot yet be stated.
It also says:
The scouting party, consisting of detachments of the Eighth, Thirteenth and Seventeenth Illinois cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Clendinin, which started out from Fairfax on Tuesday, immediately moved to White Plains, where they divided into three separate columns, one moving toward Salem, another to Middleburg, and the other to Rectortown.
A party of twenty-five of Mosby's men passed through Hopewell gap an hour in advance of Clendinin, not knowing, however, that a command of cavalry was after them.
Captain Corbet, of the Eighth Illinois cavalry, pushed rapidly forward with his detachment, and came upon the enemy, wounding one officer, Lieutenant Cogan, severely, and capturing two prisoners.--The Lieutenant's leg being broken, he could not be brought in, but he was paroled and left in a h
