<h3>BRIGADIERS CHEAP--CHARGERS COSTLY.</h3>
<p>The news was transmitted to the Executive that a brigadier-general
and his escort of cavalry had been "gobbled up," the current and
expressive term, by rebel raiders, near Fairfax Court-house, close
enough to resound the echoes of the affray.</p>
<p>"I am sorry of the loss of the horses," deplored the President. "I
mean that I can make a brigadier-general any day--but those horses
cost the government a hundred and twenty-five to fifty dollars a
head!"
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