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$25 reward. --Ranaway from the residence of Dr. F. W. Hancock, a tall, young, and likely mulatto woman, named Rose, about 22 years old. She was hired a part of last year to Col. Weston. I will give the above reward for her apprehension and delivery to me in Richmond, or put in some jail so I can get her. my 9--6t Wm. S. Phillips.
For hire A No. 1 Man Cook; also, a first-rate Dining-Room Servant. Inquire of J.A. Weston, Shockoe Slip, ja 3--2t*Opposite Columbian Hotel.
Weston, Lieutenant Government Carolina, on the 25th ult. at S. C., of consumption, contracted while serving as Captain of a company in General army during the campaign.
aves, named Jim and Ellen. Jim is nearly black, 22 years of age, of medium height and spare, is smart and brisk in his movement, and polite, having been accustomed to officers in the army and management of horses, is also a good hand on a farm. Ellen is 24 or 25 years of age, of bright brown color, well formed, but in stature, full head of hair, good set of teeth, and has been accustomed to washing and and waiting on ladies. These slaves were by me from Mr. John Taliaferro, near Va, where they were raised, and may be attempting to get back in that direction, or are trying to make their escape to the lines of the Yankees some other direction. I will give the above reward of $500 for both, or $250 for either of them, if confined in any jail in the State, so that I get them, or delivered in this city to Lee & Bowman, or to Jos. P. Winston, near Liberty, in Bedford county, Va., where the above reward will be paid by Mr. Weston, or if here by me. Wm. Winston Jones. ap 25--6t*
not, as yet, been carried into execution. Grant is said to be reinforcing his left, and for this purpose he keeps his trains continually in motion. In doing this, he is, in our opinion, but illustrating the formerly adage of "robbing Peter to pay paul." From "West Virginia." Official dispatches received at the War office yesterday announce the gratifying news that Lieutenant Colonel Witchel has returned from an expedition to West Virginia," (Yankee) He visited Bulltown, Jacksonville, Westover, Buck Walkerville and Weston. He reports that he destroyed a million dollars' worth of stores, captured three hundred prisoners, with their horses and equipments, and brought out five hundred horses and two hundred beef cattle. He sustained no loss. From North Georgia. The Georgia papers received yesterday bring us very little news beyond the fact that the army is in good spirits and have resumed the state of discipline that characterized it before the fall of Atlanta.
ortly to chew his mother lip in disgrace. Wither's raid. The Abingdon Virginian gives the following interesting particulars of Colonel Witcher's Northwestern raid: "Colonel Witcher has just returned to Greenbrier county from a very successful expedition into Northwestern Virginia, the result of which, as we have it from authority that many be depended upon, is to follows. He brought out four hundred horses and over two hundred fine cattle. He captured Hulltown, Jacksonville, Weston, Buchanan and Walkersville. At Westover, he destroyed a large amount of all kinds of stores. At Buchanan, he captured Major Long, of the Third (Yankee) Virginia cavalry, of Averill's brigade, with one hundred men and horses and equipments complete, besides the quartermaster buildings, containing one Thousand bushels of shelled cats and at least $1,000,000 worth of quartermaster, commissary and medical stores, one thousand stand of small arms and equipments. He also destroyed the telegrap