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Missing. --The beautiful flag of the Washington Artillery, of New Orleans, which was lost or stolen on the cars somewhere between Columbia, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina, has not yet been recovered. The South Carolinian is authorized to offer a reward of one thousand dollars for the flag, if returned alone; and five thousand dollars, if returned with its embellishments, consisting of a silver cross-cannon and other devices.
"By the Governor." --The following notice appears in a Columbia, South Carolina, journal: "Married, February 4, 1865, at the residence of the bride's father, by His Excellency Governor Magrath, Dr. J. F. Houstes, of Mobile, to Rachel, eldest daughter of J. C. Lyons, of Columbia."
ast of Hood's army, twelve thousand strong, passed through Augusta last Sunday, the 10th, on the way to Beauregard. Georgetown has been evacuated by the enemy, and is now in our possession. Deserters are coming in constantly.--We have over four hundred already. Q. A. Gillmore,Major-General commanding. The Herald has the following telegram: Off Charleston, South Carolina, February 26, 1865. We have just received the official intelligence of the burning of Columbia, South Carolina, on the 24th instant. After the town had been taken possession of by Slocum's corps, some of our troops were fired on from the houses and some seventeen men killed, on account of which General Sherman ordered the town to be burned, which order was carried out to the letter. Deserters are constantly arriving in Charleston. About two hundred and seventy arrived within the last day or two, who confirm the report of the evacuation of Augusta, Georgia, and its occupation by ou
Southern Items. Colonel Forrest, the new commander in the North Mississippi, has closed the lines between the Cold Water country and Memphis, so that there is little blockade-running. Colonel Cofer, provost marshal general of Hood's army, says that from the 27th of November, 1864, to the 20th of January, 1865, the number of desertions, as shown by official reports from Hood's army, was only two hundred and eighty-three in the infantry and artillery. A citizen of Columbia, South Carolina, attempted, the other day, to separate two dogs who were fighting in the street. He received, in return for his pains, a bite in the arm, in consequence of which he has gone mad. Colonel Thomas B. Cooper, of Cherokee, member of the House of Representatives in the last Alabama Legislature, has been elected to the Confederate Congress in the place of W. R. W. Cobb, expelled for disloyalty, and dead from the accidental discharge from his own pistol. A correspondent of the Mobile
Inspection of Southern military cemeteries. Harrisburg, Pa., December 18. --Major Gregg, Chief of Transportation, left here at noon to-day on a tour of inspection through the military cemeteries located near Richmond, Danville, Salisbury, and Columbia, South Carolina. Colonel Chamberlain, State Agent at Nashville, has orders to leave that place to-day on a similar tour to Andersonville and other military cemeteries in that district. The object of these movements is to gather information concerning the possibility of friends and relatives procuring the remains of Pennsylvania soldiers buried in those localities.
ition yesterday, at the residence of Mr. Wetmore, the Ohio military State agent. [A press telegram, received last night, announces his death.] The Southern people, in the midst of the desolation which exists throughout their beautiful country, are exciting much public sympathy here even amongst their enemies, and some efforts are being made to render them some assistance. Some subscriptions are on the round, and a concert is advertised for the benefit of the Ursuline Nuns, of Columbia, South Carolina, whose noble institution was destroyed when Sherman's army entered that city. It is to be hoped that the entertainment may meet with a brilliant success, as its object deserves. The speeches of Senators Sumner and Fessenden, and Representative Raymond, in eulogy of the late Senator Collamer, were published yesterday morning. They are represented to have been "uniformly able and brilliant." Of course they were ! Much uneasiness prevails with regard to the health of the ci