HJtowta Mm®*. ALTOONA, PA. THURSDAY, APRIL S, 1862. notice. We this week address a copy of our pa jw to a number of good men in this coun ty, whose names, we would be pleased to to our list of regular subscribers. We intend to make the Tribune equal to any published in the interior of the State. We shall pay particular attention to the local department, thereby making it acceptable as a home paper. ' We have ev •ty feeility for obtaining late and impor tant information, and in the news line will strive to keep up with the times. Wegive as much, if not more, reading matter than any paper in the interior of the State, and we claim that our paper is unsurpassed in brightness of print and neatness of typog raphy. ■ Of this the reader can judge by comparison. Our power-press enables as to execute work more rapidly and better than it can be done on a hand-press. We have ; now one of the best offices outside of the cities, and we intend to make our paper equal to our facilities. Those who receive the Tribune this week and, after having perused it, do not wish to become subscribers, will please re tum this copy immediately. If the paper is hot returned, we will consider the per son holding it as desiring to subscribe, and place his name on our list. We hope all will give usa trial to the amount of $1.30. A Silly Falsehood. “It is said that the Railroad Company has a huge account against the National Government for carrying troops, munitions, &c., during the past year—that the charges for these services are so exhoihitant, that thg departments have refused to pass them —-that now the Company intend, at a proper season, when the complexion of that bodv suits them, to make application to Congress for F*3™ e 9 ta ’ < He above we take from a recent issue of the JMstr County Whig, and only allude to it for the purpose of showing the truthfulness of the pious editor of that delectable sheet. For weeks he has been abusing the Pennsylvania Bail Road Com pany, culminating lately in the charge that the Company were anxious to have Mr. Hall go to Congress for the above purpose. - The truth is, the Pennsylvania Rail Bead Com pany have never presented any bill to the proper department at Washington, that there has been the slightest trouble about, or objection to. The rates have invariably been fixed by the Govern ment itself, and those rates are far below the ordi nary charges. At this the Company never com plained ; and the Government has always had the fUD and free use of the road for the transhipment «f troops and freight. Don’t this muddled-brain fellow know this? or does he suppose that because he was fee months engaged in fleecing Uncle Sam, that everybody else must be ? This is a bad time for him to attempt to make capital out of this Company, the whole policy of which has been so liberal ahd fair in these trying times. He should wirnyiher that while he, and others of like kidney, were engaged in their plunder at Washington, it vaaby means of this great Pennsylvania entciv prise that our brave sons were quickly thrown there, and the National Capitol saved. We do not know whether Mr. Hall is a candi date for Congress or not—bat we do know that be oonld toke no better plan to accomplish his pur pose, if <qch is his desire, than to hare the contin uod opposition o t the Blair County Whig, with its present editor at its head. Who, that knows ‘‘•l. B.” won’t folly agree with us in every word af'thk?; The people understand Mr. “Hard .(fab.’’ They have often told him so. It aint .fagcd to read his motives. England and the Blockade. The long expected debate in the British Parlia ment, on the .subject of the Southern blockade, earns off some rime since, resulting in a number of ranting, buncombe speeches on the part of those who are the allies of the rebels, and of cool and jtprfn rejoinder from those who are disposed to do ji#ce toy foreign nations and keep the British jpifeniinent out of difficulty. It was shown du- the debate that instead of three hundred ves sels having run the blockade, only nineteen had escaped,: and these bad ran out on dark and Stormy nights. Mr. Milnes deprecated any inter ference, andthe Solicitor-General also stoutly op posed it, contending that the blockade had been as effectual as any other blockade in former times. Thoee in favor of interfering with the blockade madeacall for the correspondence between Sec retary Seward mid Lend Palmerston on the subject, but it was negatived without a division. This shows a majority in favor of letting the blokade alone. One member, in referring to an efficient blockade, remarked that in order to make a block- H(ie sufficiently effectual to be recognized by other nariooi,lt was not necessary to make it such as to prevent the possibility of the escape of the lightest dnught vessels. This was an impossibility. But nMpefcadawas effectual when vessels could not entitchadaylight through regular channels, and wat ahnya recognized as each by foreign nations. has no intention or desire to interfere witt ow Bavy at present, and, in our view of the statfer, it will be well for her to have nothing to' ffoivMi'ir hereafter. —Con are now running regularly from Alex igdria )o JfjiinmTj and the road is open four The Gallant Eighty-Fourth The gallant 300 of the Eighty-fourth Pennsvl yaaia Begiment, (in reality there was only 256) achieved honors in the battle at Winchester as im perishable as did the gallant 600 at the battle of Balaklava. Tennison immortalized the latter in 1 verse, and we doubt not that the former will be equally immortalized. Who will do it ? That we feel particularly honored by the noble actions of the men who compose the Eighty-fourth and feel anxious to have their ’memories revered throughout all coming time, may be accounted for on the ground that they are mostly from this county. The number engaged in the battle is put down by those who know best at 255. Of this number ninety-two, or nearly one-half, was either killed or wounded, thus showing the hot position they occupied. But their ranks are invincible.— ;All day they stood at their posts, in the centre of the line, and repelled every attack of the enemy. The last order given by Col. Murray, ere he fell, was, “ charge boys—charge!” and heroically they obeyed him. Maddened to desperation by the slaughter of their Colonel and many of their com rades, they rushed forward with-a yell, determined to avenge their deaths or die in the attempt. The enemy could not stand the fury of that onslaught. It came like a whirlwind, breaking their centre and scattering them in all directions. The.ponic in the centre proved contagious, spreading along the Whole line of the enemy, and soon they were in full retreat, sorely pressed by their victorious pur suers. We have been told that commanding offi cers who were present admit that the charge ofthe Eighty-fourth, to which we have referred, was the turning point in the battle. Upon that charge de pended the success or defeat of the Union army. Too much honor can not be awarded the gallant SOO. In onr last we promised that we would this week record some of the deeds of noble daring performed by the boys of the 84th in this battle. We find them recorded in the Standard of this week and transfer them to our columns:— Lieut. O’Neill (Capt. Crissman’s Company,) took twenty-two men into battle, and brought out four. Wm. Hileman, who was seriously wounded, managed, with great pain, to get upon his side, mid fired seven rounds at the enemy, resting his rifle upon a rail, and each ball found its rebel vic- tim. Charles Curry, of the same company, also <fid the same thing. Severely wounded and una ble to stand, he lay upon the ground and fired twenty-five rounds at the foe, with what success we have not, heard. Sergt. Goldsborough also behaved with great gallantry. The flag had been shot down by the bearer losing his right hand.—— He then caught it np with his left hand, but in a few moments it was also shot 1 awav, when voung Goldsborough seized the colors, rushed out in front of nis company some fifteen or twenty paces, and raising it over his head, amidst a shower of balls, he called to his comrades to come on. He was not touched. i Young Goldsborough is from this place, and will be remembered by many of our citizens as the re cruiting officer stationed here, last fall, to re cruit for Col. Murray’s regiment. We might mention the names of manymore who signally distinguished themselves in the battle, but n?e do not wish to make invidious distinctions, since all most have done their whole duty. Their names, or their deeds, will live in history, and fur nish one of the brightest pages of their country’s afinals. May their future achievements be as glo rious as the past. Our Carpet Bag. ; The Whig man, it seems, lost his carpet bag lately, and our friend of the Standard gave an ac count of its contents a week or so ago. Mr. 8., iti his last paper, is much riled at this,’and, charges the District Attorney*with having written the Standard article. See here, old boss, this won’t dp. Yon change editors too often. But ain't it queer that no person charges him with getting other people to write his editorials ? No, air.— John's marks plainly appear. Sing song, singsong, week in and week out, the same thing. “Great corporation ” —“big company”—“ iny tenants won’t pay their rents”—“people’s money”—“my taxes too high’’—“your taxes too low”—“splendid farms to sell in the ‘Kettle,’ half cash and half in ring-boned, spavined and blind horses”—“Con gress ” —“ last year I was for repeal of tonnage taxi but this year lam against it ” —“ the poor man's friend ” —“horse contracts all done, I must now have either a seat in Congress or be appointed paymaster in the army ” —“ Hall ” — “Register ” “ Standard ” —“ State officers not doing right, or National officers doing all wrong.” A 7 o one can cjiaige seriously that either the huge mass of flesh afid stupidity of the Whig, or some one else, equally bright, don’t write his editorials. • A man of influence he is —decidedly so. By the way, John’s late attempt to fool people out here are brighter than usual. We predict a great comet this year, or some other wonderful phenomenon. How are you gettipgj along with that suit against the Borough, John ni Give us a history of it. Tremkkdous Explosion and Loss of Life. —-On Saturday last the gun-cartridge manufactory of Prof. Samuel Jackson, at Philadelphia, was blown up, resulting in the instant - death of some fifteen persons, and burning and otherwise inju ring of some forty more. Previous to the war the building was used by the owner for the manu facture of pyrotechnics. This business' haring behn destroyed by the war he turned it into a Min nie ball cartridge manufactory, and! had a contract from the government. He had some seventy-four men, girls and boys employed, nearly all of whom were killed or injured. The building took lire immediately after the explosion and those who had escaped injury from the powder, or fall of the build ing, were more or less burned. Only one of those killed could be recognized, so horribly were they mutilated and blackened by the powder. So vio lent was the explosion that portions of the build ing, together with; heads, legs and arms of the la borers, were found'hundreds of feet from where the budding stood. The sufferers were removed to the Pennsylvania Hospital, where every medical attention is given them. The explosion appears to have been the result,of a too careless use of j powder, allowing it to be spilled upon the floor and I work .benches. •af Wendell Phillip* was mobbed at Cincinnati, j a abort time since, while delivering a leotorein ; which he is said to have avowed himself an Abo- 1 Utidnist and disunionist. Some of the Cincinnati paiicta say that he did not make use of the lan- ■ gnage attributed to him, and that the attack of the ! mob was a preconcerted affair, Wendell ts a dan-: gerinu man, and* the dissemination at his princi* j jdea do no good, nevertheless we are not in favor ofnlob law for the purpose of suppressing him.— : There are other and inore effectual remedies. Past Recollections. That veritable pink Of honesty and patriotism, | the editor of the Whig, is determined that the people shall see something in him worthy of their I notice, and he devotes a column arid a half of his ' last issue to show that the “ people do not want I leaders whose pest lives have been one continued j scene of corruption and trickery.” .list so, Mr. “ J. B." and for the reason that your whole past life has been “one continued scene” of the smal lest and boldest attempts at corruption—only pre vented on account of your own stupidity, not suc cessful on account of your muddled brain—and of the meanest attempts at trickery of the lowest sort, the people have never and will never trust you with any office—high or low. That’s so, John—the honest truth. We beg to remind you of the vote you ran for Sheriff once, to convince yon of the love of the sovereigns for you. When the county, at that time old Huntingdon, used to give her old fashioned Whig majority of near 2,000, although you ran on that ticket, you were badly beaten.— From “them” days, the “good old days of Whig gery” yon talk so much about, and which we would suppose you would-be ashamed to refer to, down to this time, we submit to you, your acts and whole course of life have been such as to not endear you to the people any more than then. If you desire ev idences of a recent date, just say so, and we will give them, not forgetting the Congressional cam paign of 1858, the nefarious plans yon entered into and the way yon undertook to reap revenge on the party that didn’t see your merits and give { you the nomination. None of your bints and in sinuations. We treat upon facts, and will make plain statements. And yet this is the man who prates of his honor and honesty , This is the man who says be is a fit “leader” of the people. This is the man who says it is.one thing to be right in “theory” and another to be right in “ practice." — Jlst so, sir, and your whole past career is the best exemplification of this (as given by all your old neighbors) that we could possibly refer to. What say you to this John, guilty or not guilt}- ? We know you are not good at answering questions, as week after week yon have been charged by the Standard with favoring the repeal of the tonnage tax bill last winter and with cheating the govern ment in these war times, and you so far dodge the answers. But consider this well, and give ns one truthful answer. Do John. Then we will tell the later story of how yon came to get the Whiff, and how you are going to raise the “hard cash.” Come bub. Larger Guns Wanted.— .-There is undoubtedly more inventive genius in this country- than in all other countries combined, as well in designing de structive munitions of war and effective defences, as in the arts and sciences of civil life. No sooner have we the information that some genius has invented a gun or ball that will knock all fortifications into a “cocked hat,” than some one gets up a boat that will resist an assault of all the guns of all the men-of-war afloat. The present rebellion has been productive of more advancement in the sci ence of war, than all the previous wars known in history. It has been demonstrated that land forti fications on large rivers, or in harbors, are scarcely able to stand an assault of mortar-boats, and that as against iron-clad vessels, such as the Monitor, they are useless; and also, that a wooden navy, or even iron-clad ships, are worse than useless in an engagement with gunboats such as the Moni tor and Merrinmc. From souvenirs now in pos session of the Secretary of War, together with evidences of their penetrating and destructive qualities, he says it is useless to make any more guns of the calibre now used, but that some fifteen inch columbiads, that will smash through anything that floats, must be provided for naval warfare.— Strange as it may appear, with all these modern appliances for the destruction of life, on land and water, the mortality is less than in olden times when battles were fought with spears, clubs and stones, and in open boats. The improvements in means of defence keep pace with the improvements in missiles of destruction. VV igfall’s Last.- —A letter from Kichmond to the New Orleans Orescent shows that Mr. Wig fall still maintains his old character of court jes ter;— “I passed Gen. Wigfall on my return from din ner, and asked him if there was any news. “ No, ” said he, “I don’t believe we have been whipped since dinner; I expect, though, to hear of another defeat in the next five minutes.” The same correspondent also pays a tribute to Yankee persistency, In noticing Halleck’s declara tion that the Union flag will never again be re moved from Tennessee:— “This is brag, but the Yankees have, up to this time, stuck like leeches wherever they have effect ed a landing. They intrench themselves, and at the first spade-full of earth thrown up by them, our Generals give right up and say all is lost.” Beauregard their Favorite.— Beauregard seins to have been a great favorite with the rebel soldiery on the potomac. Many anecdotes are told of his kindness to the men under his com mand, distributing comforts among them from his own, private stores, and caring for the sick as though they were his brothers. “Joe Johnston,” on the contrary, succeeded emminently in acquir ing the hearty hatred and detestation of the whole army. Caricatures of him abound in the fly-leaves of books found in camp; his name, coupled with opprobrious epithets, is written over the walls of the huts. This sentence, “Gen. Joe Johnston is no gentleman, and incapable of appreciating the feelings of one,” is written on the blank side of an army order, and signed by several members of an Alabama regiment. Bull Bun and Ball’s Bluff,—Gen. Cadwala dor, of Pliilodelplda, has added his page to the testimony in the Bull Bun affair, and it is said that the commit tee will make a report, in a short time, of it and the Ball’s Bluff aflair. Gen. Stone, it is understood, will be held responsible for the Ball’s Bluff affair, great measure, and will be charged with treason. Gens. Scott and McDowelf are vindicated of mismanagement at Bull Bun. That disinter was, in our opinion, providentially directed, intended to build up the Union army, and to this end was jar better than a dosen victories. —The body of Col. Cameron, who fell on the Bull Bun battle-field, has been disinterred and brought home and deposited in the family vault at Stjnbnry, Though short his military career, his name will live in history, and be repaired among the martyrs to the cause of civil and reli gions liberty. All honor to the gallant hero. Full Particulars of the Winchester Battle. That a victory so complete and overwhelming as that at Winchester, should have been achieved with comparatively so little loss of life on our side, may seem a matter of surprise, when we consider the vastly greater numerical strength of the rebels, and the nijlsral advantages of their position. We should be less surprised than gratified,, however, to reflect that its attainment was due to the the watch ful skill of such an officer as Shields, and the in- trepidity of soldiers enlisted in the cause of the Union. In proof of which we give the following details: EECOKKOIBSAXCE TO BTBABBUBO ITS OBJECT. The object of the reconnoissance made by Gen. Shields to Strasbnrg may now be stated. It was to throw the enemy into the trap which has so fa tally sprung upon the rebellion. Discovering the number and position of the rebels,'General Shields retired hastily, posted his men about two miles north of Winchester, in a few tents, as though the force was unable to attempt pursuing Jackson's forces, and there, after the withdrawal of General Williams’ division, awaited the effect of his move ment upon the enemy. The result showed that the scheme entirely succeeded. As soon as the rebel General Jackson heard that the division of General Williams had moved towards Centreville, he immediately took up his march to Winchester. In the meantime he had received reinforcements, and Generals Lonstreet and Smith, of the rebel army, hod their commands united to that of the boasted Stone Wall Jackson. So prompt and un expected was the attack of the enemy, that it took our Generals by surprise, but everything was ready for the emergency. SATURDAY’S SKIRMISH. i. On Saturday afternoon, at about a quarter past two o'clock, our advanced pickets on the Strasburg road discovered the rebel cavalry, under the mad cap Ashby, about half a mile beyond them, recon noitring the woods on both sides of the turnpike, and steadily advancing. Our pickets fell back half a mile to the hamlet of Kernstown, four miles from Winchester. The rebels were thus confirmed in the belief that our forces here did not exceed five thousand men. They then gave chase. Coming up with our men, Ashby cried at the top of his voice, “There they are, boys, now give them h—.” Steadily did the trooper, advance as our men wheeled to aim and fire. That fire sent many of them reeling frojn their saddles, and threw the rtjst into such confusion that before they could again be rallied our gallant little band of infantry was beyond the reach of their power, without haring lost a man killed or wounded. Meanwhile skirmishing progressed on other points along our advanced line, and our pickets were everywhere rallying on our reserves. General Shields, hearing of the advance of the rebel cav alry, supposed it to be a manoeuvre of Ashbv alone for the purpose of watching our movements. As they were approaching so boldly and so closelv, however, he ordered four advanced companies of infantry, engaged in protecting the supply train, to rally to the support of the more advanced pickets, and try to hold the rebels in check till he could move down the division. -These four companies were made up of one from the Maryland First, one from the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania, and one from the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania, and one from the Twenty-eighth New York. Their Regiments had already marched under Gen. Williams. GENERAL SHIELDS WOUNDED. A battery of artillery was also ordered forward, and Gen. Shields, after ordering out the division, rode to the front, accompanied by his staff. While engaged directing the fire of the artillery, and the defence generally, a shell from the rebel battery of four guns, which now began to play on us, burst near him, and a splinter from it struck him in the left arm, just above the elbow, fracturing the bone and creating a painful wound. His adjutant gen eral, Major Armstrong, who was standing near, remarked, “ General, you are wounded in the arm.” “Yes,” replied the gallant Shields, “but say noth ing about it.” He then gave a fresh order to the artillery, and continued on the field till he satis fied himself that all was right. HALT AND BIVOUACK OF THE REBELS. Our division began to arrive in force on the field towards dark, and the rebels perceiving this did not push their advance, but halted about three miles from Winchester for the night, lighted their camp-fires and bivouacked, while our array lav between them and the town. It was generallV be lieved that a general engagement would take place on the pext day (Sunday), and the expectants were not disappointed. The Sunday Battle. About ten o’clock, reinforcements of five regi ments of infantry and two batteries of artillery were announced, arrived from Strasburg, under General Garnett, by the vociferous and prolonged cheers which proceeded from their lines. The at tack was not now long delayed. The enemy ad vanced his army, which now consisted of sixteen regiments of infantry, numbering 11,000 men. five batteries of artillery, with a total of twenty-eight pieces, and three battailions of horse, under Ashbv and Stewart. His line of battle extended about a mile on the right of the village of Kemstown, and a mile and three quarters on the left of it, and the village lay on the road between the rebel right and centre. There is a mud road branching from the turnpike, a mile or so from Winchester, to the right of the road as you go to Strasburg. This road passed through the left of the tfnemy’s centre, and was one of their points of defence. Beyond that there is a grove of trees, and farther a ridge of hills, with a stone wall running along its sum mit about breast high. This was the rebel line of offence and defence on the right of our line. ONSLAUGHT OF THE REBELS. Our most advanced regiment was the Eighth Ohio, of General Taylor’s brigade, and on it the rebels made a furious onslaught about half past ten o’clock A. M., with the intention of turning our right flank. The Ohio Eighth met them gallantly, withering them like autumn leaves before the breath of winter by their deadly fire of rifles. Five several times did the enemy emerge from the woods, and from behind their stone< parapet, with vastly superior numbers, and try vainly to accom plish their object. Our left wing, consisting of the Thirteenth Indiana, Seventh Ohio, and a battery of the Fourth regular artillery, under Capt. Jeiiks, had a feint made on it while the real attack of the enemy was being directed against our right tying. The feint on the left was a heavy fire of artillery posted on both sides of the tillage and the turn pike, which, however, did trifling damage Our battery replied, silencing those of the enemv though the firing was well maintained, for a long time, on both sides. oub centre and right wing. ~ O "°? n s ro consisted of the Fourteenth Indiana, the Eighth and Sixty-seventh Ohio, and the Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania, and two artillery bat teries belonging to the First Ohio artillen- and flie cavalry, consisting of the First Michigan and Tirst Ohio, were drawn up in the rear Tlie whole of onr cavalry amounted to no more than eight hundred men, and this arm played a verv mumportant part in the action on hither side Fi^K g nt™ ng - wasmade u P of *be Fifth and Eighth Ohio regiments and a battery of the First H*, 1 * 111 ®'. Tb® reserves consisted of the Twelfth Indiana, the Thirty-ninth Illinois, and a squadron of the Michigan cavalry. General Shields was unable to appear on the field in per son, and the command in the field devolved from Acting Bngadler Kimble, wbo led our centre, tod our nght was commanded by Acting Brigadier General Tyler, while Colonel SnlHvan directed the operations on our left. OUB right wjso charge the eseky. »ged Skwg the whole hoe with great (ary from eleven A. M. till half past two P M when General Shields, who received account* of ri4r&° f i? efightoa S ,he - where *e contest raged the hottest, to npOTi tire euany. That was an awful charge. The left qf the enemy prepared desper- ately to repel onr gallant troops, but the rash was I harried back to bring np the One I as irreesdble as the tide in the bay of Fnndy.— tenth Pennsylvania, and Sixteenth India ** Previous to this time par line of battle hod been right oblique movement through the *7 ! ? i somewhat changed. The Eighty-fourth Pennsyl- the enemy receiving all the combined '"V vania reinforced onr right, andalso a battery of fire retired, and left ns in possession of Stlol '' i artillery. Onr whole force now engaged was bought gun and caissons. °’ lr about six thousand men, while that of the enemy United, ofiward we pressed again ; was, at the lowest estimate, eight thousand.' The two bttiss pieces and musketry pouring inV 1 * 15 ' : rebels had also changed their line, and>«xtending 1 Three companies of the Eighth Ohio J- . both their wings presented a concave front to our us, we gained our brass piece and its i army. They had also reinforced their left wing, ; compelled the enemv to fall back. Wu ’ l> U; | and the charge to be made by onr right was all This was at 7P.M. I moved to the riot, > important in its consequences. On it, at three and caused the cannon to go forward with I, • o’clock, depended the fate of the entire battle.— fast retreating, enemy, when I met tvitK et,! ' ; The gallant Tyler led tin? charge, sword in hand, Ashby’s cavalry, who shot down mv o nl >is 1 jat the head of the line. The rebels fired from the killed his horse, one of the bullets piemin ! woods with artillery and small arms, while our I was compelled to use my sword to kMl 0 ' i men advanced agonist their murderous showers of them. ; j lead and iron, returning few shots, and reserving ' The cavalry captured two hundred a l 1 their fire. Up to this time the armies had not prisoners, and’ met only with little rcsista 1 " 1 j been much nearer to each other than three hnn- • the enemy’s cavalry. Uce H j died yards, unless in some few instances. The : At BP. M. the musketry ceased, a t wood was soon cleared at the point of the bayonet, ’ cannon shots from their extreme left Wtp* IB:t ’ ■onr men discharging their pieces at twenty, and -fired so as to withdraw onr attention even five yards’ distance from the rebels, and then treating foe, and all was over. Onr men * dashing at them with the bayonet. The rebels on the field of battle, picking up the fought well, however. They contested the ground i slept upon their arms to awake for the ™ ** foot by foot, and marked every yard of it with j the enemv on the morning of the ‘'-Itli 1 blood. Betiring behind their stone wall, on the j rapidly hick beyond Newton, when.lt ndge, our men jumped after them, and drove them 1 the morning of that dav, Major OetiM.iuV along in the greatest confusion, and with fearful I took command, and I reported back to m t slaughter upon their centre. Genera], I have the honor to be ever l. ' THE REBELS betreat in confusion. 881,6 in 80 glorious a body of soldiers under' “ The panic communicated. Kimble ordered a able leading ’ Yoar m «« obedient, humble *’ charge along the whole line, and for a short time Vant ’ _ K. C. SHKILER,' the fighting was most desperate. The rear of the Tl lB following we take from the Pres, « y cannon was no longer beard, unless in occasional dav last. It is claimed to be a correct Ik. j-'* bursts of fitful explosions, and the rattle of mns- killed and wounded in the Penn«vlv, n - ketty was more boisterous than ever, and sounded . . , " ou “ ded m “ e Pennsvhanuiregm^ like the noise made by a very close thunder clap, but Bndent, y the n*™ BB are not all spdled w except that it was sharper and continuous. ’ The rally, rout of the rebels had fairly commenced, however, and two of their guns and four caissons were now ours, and though many of them turned and fired again and again at our pursuing host, many more threw away muskets and bayonets without hesita tion. Darkness and the extreme fatigue of onr troops, however, saved the enemy for the time, and we retired about two miles and bivouacked till Monday morning. ARRIVAL of BANKS AND WILLIAMS —FDBBOIT. At daybreak General Shields ordered the rebel position to be attacked, and'the enemy, after re plying by a few shots from his artillery, continued Ids retreat. Meantime, General Banks, who had been at Harper’s Feny, arrived, and, taking com mand of the troops in person, is now continuing the pursuit with about ten thousand men, and at the latest accounts had pressed the rebels beyond Middle burg, cutting off many stragglers and pres sing the enemy very sorely. The object is to cap ture his whole force, if possible. It was not till yesterday morning that any of the force of General* \\ iliiams arrived on the field, and then thev were too late to participate in the action. They’joined in the chase TIIE LOSS ON BOTH SIDES. The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded will foot up about 900 men, of which 225 were killed. The number of prisoners taken from them is 236. These figures are independent of What they have lost, and will lose in the pursuit. The regiment which lost most on the side of the rebels was the fifth Virginia. y'-S) Our loss in killed so far as ascmSinedfs—less than 100,-and about 300 of our men are wounded. Though the enemy had a much larger force,'four pieces of cannon more than our army, the selec tion of fighting ground and every other advantage yet all the trophies of the occasion belong to the Union armv. The loss on our side was heaviest in the Eighty fourth Pennsylvania regiment. Of the five com panies of three hundred men, in all engaged, they lost Col. Murray, as dashing and brave an officer as ever drew a sword; one captain, one lieutenant, twenty-three privates and. non-commissioned offi cers killed, arid sixty-three wounded. The loss in the Eighth and Fifth Ohio regiments is about sev enty-five and sixty, respectively, killed and wound ed. ' Lieut. Col. Thobum, of the Third Virginia, is among the wounded on our side. These are the only field officers killed or wounded in the Union forces. THE IRISH BATTALION. The rebels had an Irish battalion of one hundred and fifty men, of whom forty were killed on tiie field and nearly all the rest’ wounded. Captain Jones, who commanded the Irish battalion in the rebel army, is a prisoner in our hands, jvith both his eyes shot out by one bullet - OFFICIAL REPORTS, Since placing the above in type we have re ceived the official reports of Gen. Shields and Capt. Shriler, and we give the closing portions of each. The first part of their reports detail little more than we have given above’ Gen. Shields concludes as follows: Our killed in this engagement cannot exceed onehondred men, wounded two hundred and thirty tnree. The enemy's killed and wounded exceed one thousand,’ The inhabitants of the adjacent villages carried them to their houses as thev were removed from field of battle. Houses between the and Strasburg, and even far beyond, have since been found filled with the dead and dying of the enemy. Graves have been discov ered fer removed from the road, where the inhab itants of the country buried them as they died.— Gen. Banks, m his pursuit of the enemy bevbnd Strasbuig, afterwards, found houses on'the'road twenty-two miles from the battle-field filled in this manner, and presenting the most ghastly spectacle. The havoc mqde m the ranks of the rebels has t Jj? s w^°* e region of country with terror,- Such a blow had never fallen on them before, and it is more crushing because wholly unexpected!— Jackson, and his stone-wall brigade, andall the other brigades accompanying him, will never meet this division again in battle. During the night they managed to carry off their artillery inthe darkness. We opened upon them by early light next morning, and they commenced to retreat. Gen. Banks returned from Harper’s Ferry between mne and ten o’clock A. M. and placed himself, at fmnwhe*Komv* t J? e , J 6 ® 1 of the cotmuan( l. ten miles from the battle-field, pursuing the enemy. Eein forcements, which we had ordered back from Wil hams division, and which I had ordered forward Dlght ’ n Came I >ollrin g in and with all these we continued tire pursuit, pressing them, with vigor and with repeated and destructive at tacks as far as Woodstock, where he halted from mere _ exhaustion. The enemy’s sufferings have nnd snc b as they have nowhere rise endured since the commencement of this war: and yet such wm; their gallantry and high smto of thatat no time during the baffle or pm smt did they give way to panic. They fledto Mount Jackson, and are by this time, no doubt, in communication, with the main bodv of the rebel anny. I hope to be able in a few days to ride in “ ’f.fr £ lace m - v l elfat the bead of my com ’ b i t . l h , ave , neither sufficient force nor sufii cient rank to do that service to thqgmnntry that! bette aDd 1 ““ ca f“^ e of- No man could be I Iff*® I mu by Gen. Banks, and vet if ho and his command had been here on the 23d. yon would have heard nothing of a fight, because our wily enemy would not have been entrapped, tt W i efficient cava lty regiment—t(io Third United States; cavaliy, for instance—ami addi n-now J B©e the Sec retar) of War. for instance, in relation to this matter, I can do the country service if they give me a chance, JAMES SHIELDS, Capt. Shriler closes his report as follows : t w he .u ifth ? hio atld Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania threw themsdves once more, with fixed bayonets, ( ,the foimer iosing foarflmesin a few min- WA e fi. Bta “ dard - bea cw- Capt. Whitcomb at Jast took the colors up again, and, cheering on bis nmn, fell also. So, too, Colonel Murray, whilst gallmitly leading on his Eighty-fourth regiment.— in met, that ground was stream with dead add wqnded. Gmi Tyier lost there his aidTuieut Williamson, of the Twenty-ninth Ohio, IN THE KIHUTY-FOURTH REGUIEXT. Killed—Col. William G. Murray, Cast. p, Hl i Gallaher, Second Lieut. Chas. Reem; pi McLang, Job Miller, John Gilmore, James W f 1 Leo Keech, Wm. B. Fowler, John Kelly, || Gates, Thos. Haneoff, Simon Kreisber, Jos. y. K Clanan, Jacob Wainwright, James Graham.!),. K iel E. Smith. | f| Wounded—Capt. Penrose Chadwick, Fusil*., I J B. M. Moncon, First Lieut. Samuel Bryan fc, I J geants C. W. Cnnay, Silas White, Horn Fmk [ 1 Hugh Smith, Philip Smith, Franklin Houslor f ‘ o I Moore, Corporals Peter Jones, Jackson H,|L r | back, John Snadden, Wm. C. Hileman, j M » | Price, James W. Murray, L. C. Fowler, Ehimk’ 1 j Brubaker, Joseph Ledger, Alex. Taylor, J<m (u/ J !- l«her, Privates Wm. H. Davis, Thomas Ru™ Hi hill, Daniel McLane, John Brooks, Michael Fir if! rell» Fell* MeUin, Samuel Burk, Adam Frank James Burr, Michael Forney, Bcuben Rillim 11 Jas. Kurts, Alfred Crague, Joseph Pinkerton, Ck. > I Parker, F. S. Simmons, Mark Saxton, Alex \y~' 1 | Henry Grimes, Martin Young, Torrence Kinncv - I Isaac Johnson, Robt. Taylor, Abram Hentrer J, * I cob Spidle, John Jennings, C.D. Bowers MicvJ 1 FUzharris, Wm. Prosser, S. C. Lccter, Guv Ho' i comb, J. dresser; Wm. Gallagher, P. p i Thos. Goripan, Wm. McCarty, Jno. Tolbert \ r , iM i man Stiyker, Robt L. Bam, Dan! Ritter, &nW M j Johnson, Wm. E. Stead, Hemy Strickler, DwistL- I® Roberts, Robt. Johnson, William Cassidy Marth Pal Conigau, Christopher Smith, John Lncrce! Joh 11 It. Carr, Wm. Luzier. ■■ a Total killed I, ;. 'S Total wounded |‘ J Aggregate killed and wounded 92, olniuf f. J engaged. ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH REGIMENT. ' |j ,v Privates J. D. Davidson, J. Fereus™ i/1 1 i Co ? 1 ?* “ Lcibrich, Samuel Er erly, John Murphy, John Darn. $| Wounded—Sergeants W. Cunningham. Wm H Roberts, S. McCune, Corporals Charles Wbeatlcv pi J. Murphy, Privates John Nipple, C. H. Horn, J li Horseman, Jas. Wallace, W. I*. Ramsev, J. Min- H hn, David Price, Wm. A. Callahan, Anthony Kim- lJecdore Rockcy, D-C. Baker, S, timh. H T. Mcllwame, D. Gardiner, J. B. Albert, T. Gki H ter W. Cowrage, M. Sacock, S. S. Anthony, John H Borfen, J. H. Happer, D. Brown, G. Sloan, Join H C. Foreman, John Dougherty, James French, Ji K cob Swartz, John Dawson, W. H. Slutt. ■ Twenty-Eight Pennsylvania.—Wounded ■ Pti- El rate W. Williams. ||| Letter from Savannah, Tenn. || [Through the kindness of Col. Elias Baker, of Allegheny furnace, we are permitted to take the following interesting extracts fiom a letter lately received by him from a Captain in the 4th Ulinob Cavalry, who was in the siege of Fort Donelson, The letter is dated at Savannah, Tenn., Marti •iith.— Eds.] Ibis cold, bleak morning, away down here in Tennessee, 1 seat myself to drop you a line and inform yon of my doings and whereabouts. If ' th ‘ s 13 caUed the “ Sunny South,” so be it. Sureli it is only so in name, for the sun has foiled to shine since I left Illinois, which is now about seven week and during that time it has been cold and net. Savannah is situated on the Tenesseo river, IS miles from the Alabama line. Its inhabits®! (when at home,) number about 800, but it is wB known that many of its yonng men are mm- in the rebel army, although we have reason to be lieve, from late evidence, that they would willinilv desert and return to their allegiance if the? Wl an opportunity. I base the above assertion up* the tact that within the past five days our annt has enlisted 800 Tennesseeans at this place alone, who are now willing subjects to our glorious con stellated banner. A few days after the Fort Donelson battle,! was taken quite sick, the result of four days and night exposure (during the siege) to wet and cold, with nothing to eat but hard bread and nothing to cover us at night but onr overcoats. I assure yoa it was the greatest privation I ever endured. The battle itseil made but a feeble contrast to the fierce wind, min and snow. Many times the shellsfrom the rebel ordnance would burst around us withont causing the least apprehension. Twice we wen ordered by Gen. McClemand to dismount, leave our horses in the rear and confront the rebel breast works to within 600 yards. Onr carbines ate breech-loading and self-capping, and shoot accu rately sue times a minute. After the garrison sun rendered several officers informed ns that our ear bines slaughtered them hugely, as they were the strongest shooting weapons used. Indeed, the enemy were led to believe that they were anal! indefinite proportions. Col. Bilge’s Rifle Sharpshooters did more exe cution than any other regiment engaged. His men would he around in squads of from throe to five, and creep up to within 600 yards of the enemy'* breastworks, where their ordnance was planted, ana every time a brave man would attempt to load his cannon, our sharpshooters would pick Mm off- In that way they kept nine batteries of the eflemy silenced all the time, and on the morning of the surrender there could hb seen from 20 to 30 dead rebels King around the batteries, and in some dead of both sides lay as thick as stones. I doubt not you well know the extensive earth works the rebels had thrown up at the fort and around it. They stretched out at least three miles in length. In fact, their line of defence was so peat that it took w whole armv of 40,000 men to enclose them one regiment deep. Several of our best regiments lost heavily.- - They went into the fight with 800 men and came out with 300 or 400—the rest being either killed, wounded, or missing. _ I am now almost well, and will be ready, is a few days, to pitch into the rebels at Corinth, Miss which is about 70 miles from here. At that point the rebels are concentrating from all quarters, and will make a strong and determined-stand. It not on any river, as they say our gunboats batter mem out of all river fortifications. I had almost forgotten to sav that thev areforti- W oajhis stream, about 30* miles up," just side of Florence, Ala., but their force there is sntnll. We will be ready to operate against that pciftt soon. _ I was in Xl*hsu\s on last Friday and oatnrday, along with onr advance guides, and round many as good Union people as ever existed North of Mjson and Dixon’s Line. , |UtOOM : ini local, ite FusKftAi, Obsbqcibs op Col. W«, —We noticed last week that Col. Wm of Hollidaysburg, in command of the 1 Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer! at the bittde at Winchester, while ga ing a charge, at the head of his mediately on receipt of the ini fall, preparations were made to have I to Hollidaysburg and interred by the wife. Accordingly on Wednesday fan was brought to Harrisburg, where bis asters reside, where it was kept until Friday momingfollowing, when it wi board the Mail Train, and brought t and transferred to the Branch Train, companied by the mother, sister, and relatives; of the deceased ; the Joint Committee, consisting of Messrs. R and Kinsey, of die Senate, and Me Barron and Blanchard, of the Hou Bahai), Ideate. sO'Neal, Bnrtin and N geant Barney and two privates, all regiment, together with a delegatiot from Harrisburg, intimate personal f deceased) As the (rain passed the Eagle Ire the upper etui of Hatrisbnig, all the that, establishment, headed -by Win. Esq., the proprietor, ranged thenwelv on the edge of the pavement, with the covered, as a mark of respect to the mains of the gallant dead. All along the road crowds were coi the depots, anxious to obtain a sigh ceased, hut they had to content' then a sight of die coffin. *< Previous to tho arrival of the train (ion, a great crowd of people bad col depot, uqder die belief that they would with a sight of the remains erf the nu reflected iso much honor upon his com county of bis adoption, whose death tb lamented; and whose memory they will But in tins they were disappointed. A respect to the deceased, in fact all < were able to pay, in consequence of tin his remains were hr our midst, the displayed; at half-mast, and nil the c and the slfbp bell on the Company's j toiled from the time die Mail Train town until the Branch Train passed on On the arrival of the train at Duma coffin was taken out of the car and { hearse. Carriages were also provided f lives and escort. The procession was t by Marshals Col. John Piper and J. as follows: Vanities Comet Band, Se bearing.'American flag draped in raoun with privates from 84th regiment on with muskets reversed, officers of reg riages wilh relatives and Legislative zens in carriages, citizens on foot. T 1 the preoetsion moved into Hollidaysbui playing appropriate music, ami march to the residence of the fathor-m-luw ceased, John Dougherty, Esq., where was removed from the heap: to the opened in order to affonl the children censed an opportunity to gaze upon the their departed, sire! This was truly a and impressive interview, and brought eye* of every spectator. , After the relatives and immediate fri family hafl obtained a sight of the corps of the residence were thrown open to curiosity of the public with a similar for nearly two horns there was almost line pf people entering the house for tl All the flags we noticed in the towi played at half-mast and most of tin craped. :On the front of one building ] in frame pnd craped, an excellent like deceased,! taken by Proctor. AH busi were closod as the cortege entered town, thing went to show how ranch the de respected by those who knew him best. We take the following account of th Col. Murray from the Standard of this ( “At test o’clock on Saturday morning containing the corpse, covered with the flag, was carried on a bier to St. Mary It was preceded by the band, military, & cisely the same order as the day beta Mass, and a most touching and cloquen bang delivered, over the dead body by Walsh, the procession returned in the s to tho Catholic Cemetery. The day p on whichthe remains arrived here, was pleasant and beautiful, but ou the cere the church being concluded, a furious s was raging from the east, but it did nc in the leabt the feelings and interest of ands who| thronged the streets and folio l Pfpcesatoi). His remains were deposit side of bib wife, whom bo hod followed a few short months before. When the fuU of earth had been placed upon his last voljey of soldiery fired, and the la thorofenin dead march and the tramj J*®B * n •Le distance, “Hfring snows had whitened I P®* ““d fleecy robe had t seemed as one—m ot that reunion above, where there are i row ® nor partings, and the weaty are at Rdmains of Capt. GhiLahsx—tbs Rather unexpectedly and entirely unk onr citizens except those who chanced tc depot, the remains of Capt. Gallaher, < rc ®? lei ß» who fell at Winchester, were Train on Saturday mb his wil|aeeonnt for any seeming want tbepnrt of onr citizens, as compare! Mm^* ? * aed tbe the "5“ remains being a '^ ag telegraphed to HoUtdaysbnrg, tod n?«i of the Smndb Train at that plao y? a c<MnmitWe from Port ‘*■ °f which he was a member. had collected who 00 ®** lo h and followed the remains ti James Moorehonse, father-in-law cca *ed, where his widow ami relatives i "rival of the body, funeral of Capt. Gaßaher tool “"“day afternoon at half-past two o’cloc own to whibh,jiiaee hfr remain ®“ by Ids Masonic brethren, is otde 7 s nnB »oroa» friends to take their last »e convenience of the large crow 10 m thnSrlaat tribute of im services wemim*«med by Be> m Schtpdler, after whicfa the mosbi
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