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0 * greater extent than he has done. Hp isaw, though irf a conntrjr comparatively friendly, far from his base of supplies, and having suffered heavy losses and gained noadvantages, is confronted at Nashville by an army superior in numbers, and equal in valor and discipline, to his own, commanded by a General who is his master in the art of war. The situation in Middle Tennessee, though upon superficialobservation, it may soem portentous of evil, isreally promising the most important and favorable results.It is a pleasure to record that a number ofour prominent officers distinguished themselves by personal gallantry in Wednesday'sfight. *General Stinuit, who was badly wounded, receives particular mention. Generals Woonand Vox of Ohio, handsomely sustained well-earned reputations. Waoxkr and Kimball,of Indiana, were in tho thick of the fight. .The report, which was circulated immediately after the battle, that the famous rebel General Pat. Clkbubnb was killed, Is said to be confirmed. This is quite important, if *rue. l i.Kijt'KNK was the best officer of hisrani,Rood’s arm?.Mherman Going Through. .The reticence of the Richmond journals is over. They held their news from Georg’s, in a great measure, for a few days. But they break silence. And what is it? Have they cooped HhkrmXn up, and are they engaged in starving him in their swamps or among their Snd hills? Have his troops tailed to find pigs, sweet potatoes and corn, and are they anxious to surrender, and accept the hospitalities oY tho Confederacy, at Andersonville ? Not much. The Richmond Examiner admits thatSnxriMAK will reach the sea-eoast in safe-Phyur was familiar with the ground where he was captured. It was the Petersburg dis-; iPl ffett fbrmt*rijr repre^onivd its: thoCongress of the United States. He was oneof the assemblage of hot-headed young men of Virginia, who surrotjnded the State Convention in the spring of 1861, with the purpose lt;# intimidating that body into theadoption of an ordinanco of secession. Theprocess of intimidation not going ou as rapidly as desired, Pryor proceeded to Charleston as a missionary, and in a speech at the Charleston Hotel, a few nights before the bombardment of Fort Sumter, announced his mission.It was to urge South Curolina to “strike a blow,” in order that Virginia might be forced by an act of war, to follow the lead of South Carolina. Pryor accompanied Wigfall to Fort Sumter, and there distinguished himself by drinking a glass of liquor that he supposed to be whisky, but which was highly offensive; and lie had the pleasure, for a time, of thinking himself poisoned. He served as Brigadier General in Longstrket’s corps, for a time, and in that capacity, was in the seven days fight before Richmond, and the battle of Antictara. He was not cash-from theiered and discharged from the servicein disgrace, as some of the papers gay, but there were charges of cowardice or incapacity, or both, preferred against him, and he was involved in a quarrel *with superior officers,which he terminated by resigning his commission as a General, and entering the army as a private. When captured he had advanced to the rank of Captain, and was in command of a company of cavalry scouts.ty. He has, on his march, done the enemy great damage, and they do not pretend that ihoy have been able Vo hurt him. 7'lw Richmond Examiner of November 28, says:They have corrugated iron houses in New York. The material U3td is a thin plate of iron, corrugated by the rapid action of a machine, and two of these separated by intervening joints and filled in solid with cement or concrete, from a single wall of any desired thickness. Think of living in an iron-clad house 1“If Hh#*rman could destroy Macon and Augustabe ha* done Canton, he might have additionalnot# ofuu*oMiHrlik# barbarian* to boast of; but ifho does not succeed in damaging or capturingneither—and we believe the tune has gone by when he had a eh mice to touch them—he haa nothing before turn but a m e to the aoa-coMt. This he SMy be expected to commence ao doon a* he ha* made a trial on either of those towns and failed, or M soon hh he diNcovers by the eareftU rocotmoin-MftMi'f hlt;« is n m innkmtr tfifiU hi util foil if tie ut-Thk Dayton Empire announces itself Opposed to war on general principles and has not been converted to peace by the simple fact that the Republicans have the management and responsibility of the war against treason? The editor of the Empire is said tohave taken to drab breeches, a shad-bellied
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 03, 1864
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