Named Entity Results, Huntsville (Alabama, United States)

adi had been burned by incendiary fires. Miscellaneous. A fire occurred at Gloucester, Mass., on the 18th inst., destroying about seventy-five buildings. A dispatch, dated at 10 A. M., says "the fire is still raging with unabated violence. The engines are all frozen up, and it is next to impossible to work them." Twenty-six of the officers who escaped from the Libby prison have arrived at Washington. Col. Streight's name is not appended to their "card of thanks" to Beast Butler. The steamer Oriental was recently sunk at Dog Tooth Bend, on the Mississippi: 23 lives lost. The boat was laden with Government stores. The steamer Constitution, which left San Francisco on the 13th, had $1,500,000 in gold on board for the United States Government. Gen. Logan had penetrated the State of Alabama to Sand Mountain, 40 miles from Huntsville. The proceedings of Congress on the 18th were unimportant. Gold in New York on the 17th was dull, closing at 160½.

Greenbacks and Gold North. --An exile, who recently came out from Huntsville, has a long and interesting letter in the Atlanta Appeal, from which we extract the following: Greenbacks are 2½ for one in gold in Huntsville, and though the money quotations in the Northern papers place them 159 to 160, the truth is, two monHuntsville, and though the money quotations in the Northern papers place them 159 to 160, the truth is, two months ago, in New York, Wall street, no "operation" could be performed at less rate than two for one. The Yankee troops in Huntsville, whose term of service has expired, are converting their greenbacks into Confederate currency to take home. I state this for an incontrovertible fact, not in one instance only, but I witnessed severrk, Wall street, no "operation" could be performed at less rate than two for one. The Yankee troops in Huntsville, whose term of service has expired, are converting their greenbacks into Confederate currency to take home. I state this for an incontrovertible fact, not in one instance only, but I witnessed several of the same.