An acquisition.
Among the numerous distinguished military gentlemen at present in Richmond, is Capt. Mansfield Lovell, who has recently arrived from the North. He resigned his position in the U. S. Army some years ago, and accepted the command of one of the crack companies of New York, the City Guard, but retired from it in consequence of some of Gen. Sanford's high-handed proceedings at the commencement of the war. Capt. Lovell was, we believe, a classmate of McClellan at West Point, but of this we are not positive. He henceforth drops the title of Captain and assumes a higher one having been appointed a Brigadier-General in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, and assigned to the coast defences of New Orleans.
