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;mtr YOL. III.—NO. 35. I The Denthof Jnmes W. Jackson. The Richmond Examiner says : From Alexandria we hare an authentic statement I of the facts relative to Mr. Jackson’s death. I His flag was visible from the White Home, I and Lincoln had expressed himself indignant at it. Ellsworth doelnrcd that he would bring It back to Lincoln's feet, Jackson had long determined to fight for his flag. JIu had arranged a swivel to sweep tho stairs, and had a volcanic rifie that would flro thir ty times. If he had been aware of their ap proach, lie would hare killed mnny ; unfor tunately ho was asleep when Ellsworth I broke in with his villains. Awakened by I the noise. Jackson seized a gun and rush ed up stairs. The shooting took place at the top of his house. Ellsworth had got tho Hag and had It in his arms. When ho met Jackson, he exclaimed, " This is my trophy !" Jackson cried, “ And here is mine 1" nnd throwing up his gun shot him through tho heart. Tho flag was covered with blood. Jackson was shot through the head by a soldlur posted down stairs. Ho died with out pain. Thu soldiers mangled his dead I body only. A Mas asd his Wife both Volunteers. I A Mercer county correspondent of tho IUch- | mond Dispatch writes: This is not a very populous county, but I we havo a little military spirit. Asa strik ing instanco of tills assertion, I will slato that a man in this county stepped iuto tho only tailor-shop we have, tho other day, and inquired if lie could get two uniforms made. The tailor naked him what he wanted with two 1 Ho replied that he and his wife hoth I intended to volunteer; that she had uo chil dren, had cut her hair oil*, and both Intomlcd to fight; and he would have the uniforms if h« had to go to Lynchburg for them. A Tunics Rectified Lie.—A New Fork 1 despatch, professing to give accounts brought from Old Point by the Keystone j State, says: “ They report a fearful state of things in J Portsmouth, that, city held in complete nub- I jection by a inob of Georgia soldiers. Wo* 1 men dared not walk the streets after sun- I down, nnd were ofter insulted in the gross- I est mannor by the soldiers w hile sitting on 1 their own door-stops." Georgia soldiers insulting respectable wb- I men! All tho world knows this is a wicked, | slanderous, abominable and unmitigated Re. Savannah Republican. Geoboia Tnoors nr the Field.—Gov. I Drown informed us yesterday that Georgia Inow had nine thousand men armed, equip"- I fl.ia ■ »"‘l" l, '“ I to camp, at Smyrna, on the 11th ult., on I half pay, for drill for two months—subject I to the order of tho President at any moment; yhat two other regiments were being organ ized now, and that lie should respond to all llcmands made by tho President without re gard to tho quota properly due from Geor gia.—Atlanta Confederacy. Mrs. President Davis and family, accom panied by Adjutant General Cooper and Commodore Ingraham, passed through our bity last ovonlng on their way to Richmond. Thcro was quite a rush nt tho Carolina de pot to see Mrs. Davis, but few were favored Iwith the sight. Gen. Davis’ gray war horse and bis military saddle, with a compass set ■in the pommel, also a pair of bis carriage ■horses, passed through on the train. Augusta Dispatch. Vexrnam.K Drum.—Tho drum now in lu.se by Capt. Hannah's company of* Tolk I county, Tonn.,says the Cleveland Banner,\n a Irelic of tho Revolutionary war, it was beat at lllic charge on Yorktown. By good luck it ■ lias been preserved through a period of lelghty years, and tho I’olk boys say it shall I bo beat again at llio charge on Washington. 1 Victory again, say we, to the drum and the I gallant fellows who may follow* it in its in- |cond mission for Independence. Br.Kcni*.n IIcso in Effigy.—Yesterday I morning a figure was seen strung up across I Hudson Avenue, near John street, attached I to which was a card, and on it written, I" Henry Ward Beecher, tlic man who has I done most to cause our present troubles." 1 In one hand the figure held n copy of the I Tribune. The police quietly cut tho cfligy I down and burnt it.—Brooklyn AWr. A Goon Hit.—Tho New York Tribunt Ibnasts that Northern soldiers will “ fight lljlco devils." The Charleston Courier re- (jjlioH that it has no doubt of it, for " these nllcn spirits, according to the Bible, are nil Inwards; for St. James says, Rcsiet the dtr- [ and he \cilljlcc from you." Sam Houston All Knurr.—"Old 8an lacinto " made a sjiecch at Independence, I'cxam, on the 10th instant, in which he
