... consider themselves virtuous in comparison. my readers will remember there was an election at Barnstaple little while ago and the Whigs triumphed. Loyd getting in against Bambridge by a small majority. The latter swears that he will strip the coat from his back ...

... regards the seizure of the Confederate rams as the most unfriendly act yet committed by England towards the South. The Richmond Whig denounces it an act of hostility, not neutrality. President Davis has reviewed the troops at Mobile on the 24th inst. Immense ...