President Tyler,
deceased.

John Mitchel is now editor of the _Examiner_, and challenged _Mr. Foote
yesterday_--the note was borne by Mr. Swan, of Tennessee, Mr. Foote's
colleague. Mr. Foote would not receive it; and Mr. S. took offense and
assaulted Mr. F. in his own house, when Mrs. F. interposed and beat Mr.
S. away.

Gen. Winder has been appointed, by _Gen. Cooper_, commander of all
prisons east of the Mississippi.

Gen. Winder has been made Commissary-General of all prisons and
prisoners of war. The Bureau of Conscription is yet sustained in power.
All this is done by Gen. Cooper,--unwise, probably _fatal_ measures!

NOVEMBER 24TH.--Clear and frosty. Ice half an inch thick this morning.
All quiet below.

Col. St. John, Niter and Mining Bureau, required 13,000 men to furnish
ammunition, etc.

Col. Northrop, Commissary-General, reports only 15 days' bread rations
in Richmond for 100,000 men, and that we must rely upon supplies
hereafter from the Carolinas and Virginia alone. The difficulty is want
of adequate transportation, of course. The speculators and railroad
companies being in partnership, very naturally exclude the government
from the track. The only remedy, the only salvation, in my opinion, is
for the government to take exclusive control of the railroads, abate
speculation, and change most of the quartermasters and commissaries.

Hon. J. B. Clarke proposed a resolution of inquiry in the House of
Representatives, which was adopted, calling for the number and name of
employees in the departments, and the State they were appointed from.
Virginia has more than half of them.

Gen. Cooper, the Adjutant-General, Northern by birth, turned out twenty
of his eighty clerks yesterday, to replace them with ladies.

It is said and believed that Sherman's cavalry has reached
Milledgeville, and destroyed the public buildings, etc.

We have nothing from Wheeler since the 18th inst.

NOVEMBER 25TH.--Bright and frosty.

A report from the Bureau of Conscription shows after all that only some
3000 men have been sent to the army during the last two months, under
General Order 77, revoking details, etc. I don't wonder, for there has
been the natural confusion consequent upon a conflict of authority
between Gen. Kemper and the Bureau of Conscription. About as many
details have been made by the one authority as have been enrolled by the
other.

NOVEMBER 26TH.--Clear and frosty.

The following dispatch was received