soldiers which is the most horrible we have read during the war. It says:
The deponents are Caswell Woods and Elisabeth, his wife of the county of Craven. Mr. Woods is certified to by Gen. Evans as being "a respectable citizen, and loyal to our cause, which, with his being a poor man, seem to be the only causes of the fiendir, and then rode into the house.
The other, who was addressed by the "Captain" sometimes as "Charlie." sometimes as "George," and "Lieutenant, " walked in.
Mr. Woods had retired to bed. We copy from his deposition:
"I came down stairs in a hurry, in my night-clothes, and the one on the horse said to me, You d — d old gra had the inexpressible agony of listening for the rest of the night to the screams and doleful lamentations of his wife and daughter.
The statement made by Mrs. Woods in her deposition of what passed inside is truly heartrending The unparalleled villains made the poor helpless women not merely the victim of their brutal lust,
ission Ridge, either concentrating on the right to overwhelm Sherman on marching for the railroad and raising the siege.
They had evacuated the valley of Chattanooga-- would they abandon that of Chickamauga?
The 20-pounders and 4½ rifles, of Woods's redoubt, opened on Mission Ridge.
Orchard Knob sent its compliments to the Ridge, which, with rifled Parrotts, answered; and the cannonade, thus commenced, continued all day. Shot and shell screamed from Orchard Knob to Mission Ridge, and from Mission Ridge to Orchard Knob; and from Woods's redoubt over the heads of Generals Grant and Thomas, and their staffs, who were with us on this favorable position, where the whole battle could be seen as in an amphitheater.
The headquarters were under fire all day long.
Cannonading and musketry were heard from General Sherman, and Gen. Howard marched the Eleventh corps to join him.
Gen. Thomas sent out skirmishers, who drove in the rebel pickets and chased them into their entrenchments,
rged with abusing, cursing, and attempting to assault with a brick Mary Ann Valentine, was committed for want of security to keep the peace.
Bridget Galthers was charged with using abusive and threatening language towards Catherine Woods.
Mrs Woods alleged that the accused had been intensely vulgar and profane towards her, and so annoying was her conduct generally that living in the same neighborhood rendered life a burden.
Per contra, a witness was introduced for the defence, who testified that the facts in the case were entirely the reverse; that it was Mrs Woods who indulged in repeated tirades of abuse towards her neighbors, instead of any of them interrupting her.--Upon hearing the testimony the Mayor dismissed the matter, and warned the parties to keep their difficulties to themselves here after, or he would hold the whole of them culpable and require security for their good behavior.
John Tate, a youth, was charged with stealing a diamond ring, valued at $1500, the
at body.
It is reported that they will take strong ground in favor of negro suffrage.
Comptroller Clark, of the Currency Bureau, has decided that ladies cannot act as directors of National Banks, as the laws do not recognize them as citizens.
Clever executed counterfeit coin of the nickel three-cent denomination are noticed in circulation.
It is made of some kind of an alloyed metal, which is much softer and lighter than the genuine coin.
In consequence of the refusal of General Woods, commanding in Alabama, to obey a writ of habeas corpus, Judge Busteed has indignantly adjourned the United States Court for the Middle District.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph has good authority for saying that Provisional Governor Johnson has received instructions from Washington not to vacate the chair of State until further advised.
The freight agent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad announces that the restrictions on shipments of freight to Atlanta and the South have bee
