MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS OE AMERICAN NEWS.
General Slaughter is the ominous name of one of the Confederate Generals.
A telegram from Washington of March 20th, says the Navy Department has received information of the capture and destruction of tho tebel schooner Annie Dale, by an expedition from the United States gunboat Panola, on the 18th March, in Pass Cavalio, Texas. Refugees who arrived from Richmond about the close of March, stated that Davis, Lee, and the other leaders had lost all hope, and already have eyes on Mexico as an asylum. A Boston despatch dated March 20th, saysCaptain Pettigrew, of the British barque Sea Gem, at this port, states that the rebel pirate Tallahassee was at Bermuda, March llth, under another name.
A New Orleans telegram of March 13tb, states a Picayune extra says that on Saturday last an attack was made on the two batteries defending Mobile by monitors. Two of them silenced the batteries, driving the men from their guns. Death of a Confederate General while Fleeing for Mexico.—The New Orleans Picayune, now a Federal paper, states it is reported that the rebel General Hindman, while en route to Mexico, was shot by some persons unknown, butsupposed to be Confederates, between Oak Hall and the Rio Grande. He had a number of waggons and ambulances, and it is supposed, in addition, considerable plate and coin. When killed he was in advance of the train.
The Richmond Sentinel of March 20th, says that 20,000 dollars, in Confederate money, and several watches, and other trinkets, were found on the body of one of Sheridan's officers, killed near Ashland.
A New Yohk despatch of March 19th, says a heavy explosion took place on Thursday, which fhook the boats on the James and Appomattox rivets. It appeared to be in the direction of Petersburg. It was reported at City Point that it was an attempt of the rebels to blow up Fort Hill, which had been previously evacuated by our troops, knowing that the rebels had mined it.
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Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 799, 23 June 1865, Page 3
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