26, 1875 Death of a Gallant Confederate -- A telegram was received here yesterday morning from Staunton, saying that GEO. E. KING, an employee on the chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, was killed at Staunton on Thursday. The deceased was a son of Mr. E. King, of this city, formerly of Richmond, and was formerly a drummer-boy in the Richmond Howitzers. He was the youngest soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia at "Bull Run" and first Manassas, after which colonel Garland, of the 11th Virginia, presented him with a cadetship in the Alabama Military Institute. After one year at Tuscaloose, he returned to the 11th Virginia, and served gallantly as a sergeant till the close of the war. For the past five years he followed the sea, and returned home las Christmas, having been shipwrecked. The deceased had passed through many hot battles and been thrice shipwrecked, and had only been a few days employed as a railroad hand when death overtook him. He was 38 years of age and a master Mason of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. He leaves a wife and two children in Washington.