The TWatchman, =e
The daily attacks of the Tribune upon
Gen. McClellan for compelling the rebels by
Strategy to evacuate Manussas, shows con
vincingly that the abolitionists are a faztion
of blood. For this they thirst and pray and
their cry—the cry of which they never
weary —is blood, blood, blood ! more blood !
If four or five thousond or more lives had
been lost in driving the rebels from Manas-
sas, the Tribune, as the guiding light of
these bloodthirsty fanatics, would have re.
joiced, and the cruel hearts of the fastionists
would have been gladdened, like to those of
the brutal King of Dahomey and his satel-
ites, ut the sight of a multitude of slain and
a torrent of human blood—the diabolical
work of their own evil passions. The abo
litionists thirst, like that sable monarch. the
color of whose skin they worship, for human
slaughter—for human blood. The sacrifice
of life is what they burn for, yearn for, cry
for. They would like to see the whole
South une vast hetacomb, and where there
is no bloodshed there is for them no glory.
They ignore the teachings of civilization and
[From the New Yotk Herald.|
Abolition iA) of Bloud, Blood,
Blood ! More Blood !
C. T. ALEXANDER, :
JOE W. FUREY, | Witors.
BELLEFONTE, April 34, 1862.
A meeting of the Democratic Standing
Committee of Centre county will be held m
the Court House, in Bellefonte, on Tuesday
evening, of the April Court, to select Dele-
gates to attend the State Convention, at
Harrisburg, on the 4th day of July next.
S. T. SHUGERT,
Chairman.
COMMITTRE :
S. T Shugert, Bellefonte. [Ienry Noll,
Spring. Alex. Sample, Eerguson.” John
Poorman, Boggs. Joseph Roller, Benner.
Joseph McCloskey, Curtin. R. M. Foster,
Miles. D. 0. Cower, Haines, Dr. J. M.
Bush, Patton. John Divens, Walker. Jared
B. Fisher, Gregg. Geo. L. Peters, Union.—-
W. W. White, Harris. John Garbrich,
Marion. John Copenhaven, Taylor. Eb- humanity, and they have no law but the
enezer Records. Huston, Daniel Fleisher, | fulfillment of their own dark purposes.
Petter. Jacob Pottsgrove, Halfmoon I.| In aiming at the gratification of their own
Buffington, Milesburg. John Smith, Penn.
Wm. Holt, Snowshoe. C. Munson Rush.—
John M. Holt, Burnside. S. B. Leathers,
Howard.
desires they overlook the immense import~
ance of strategy in a military commander,
and have no regard whatever for economy of
human life. They are willfully blind te the
fact that a victory gamed without bloodshed
is a double victory—a moral as well as a
physical one— and especially in civil war, —
If this had been a struggle with a foreign
foe, instead of what it is, Gen. McClellan
might possibly have acted differently, but
then only under certain conditions which
may have been wanting at Manassas, But
General McClellan knew that in this case
strategy was particularly important, and
therefore he laid kis plans for forcing the
rebel retreat and insaring for the Union ar..
my a bloodless victory. The more we can
accomplish in the same manner the sooner
this war will be brought to a termination,
and the more speedily will a general 1evul-
sion in Southern feeling in favor of the Ua.
10n take place. The greater the slaughter
the deeper the hatred and the wilder the ex-
asperation of the people, whose return to
the Union is likely tp be as much accelerated
by a change of sentiment on their part as by
great naval and military achievements on
ours. But the abolitionists cannot see this.
Nothing will satisfy them but blood.
If, however, General McClellan was, as
they say, at fault in allowing the peaceful
evacuation of Manassas, what have they to
say to General Hallack for driving the rebels
from Columbus with ut striking a blow, or
to General Buell for allowing Bowling Green
to be evacuated 1n the same peaceful man.
ner, or to General Pope for not giving them
a little more blond at New madrid, or to
Commodore Foote and General Grant for
permitting the rebel garrison, all but sixty
men, in Fort Henry to escape; and last,
but not least, to General Burnside for enter-
ing triumphantly into possession of Beaufort
and suffering Fort Macon to be blown up
without a drop of bloodshed * How atro-
cious all these must be if General McClellan
was so bad. What a pity there was not a
little more bloodshed to gratify these bloody
abolitionists. The blood of ten or fifteen
thousand wen would have filled these thirsty
leeches with satisfaction. As it is, they are
left to reflect that these victories, like Me-
Clellan’s, have been gained without contrib.
uting to slake their own evil thirst for blood,
blood ! more blood ! but considerably tore
store the recreant South to the Union. which
in its folly it forsook, and which they, in
their fanatical zeal, have never ceafed to un-
dermine.
IZ” The next session of the
Pine Grove
Academy will corumence on the 23d inst.
See advertisement. ©
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7 We call the attention of our readers
to the edvertisement of A. Sternberg & Co.,
in another column, They have a «plendid
stock of clothing on hand,
re -
Brown, Esq., late County
Treasurer of this County, was arrested
last week, as defaulter to the State in the
sum of 8000 dollars, and is now in jail at this
place. We may have more to say upon this
subject next week. Tt gives us no pleasure
to chronicle the fact, but our duty as a pub-
lic journahst demands it.
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177 We have been so much engaged this
wedk, that we have not had time to get our
paper up as well as we should like to have
done. Qur local has been crowded out by
the Treasurer's Land sales, as likewise the
Pen & Scissor column. This being moving
week, we havenot had time to write editorials.
ard consequently we hope our readers will
excuse us, There are several things we
wished to speak about this week, but are
unavoidably compelled to postpore them
until our next issue.
iN. WN,
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and the assumption of its editorial duties by
ourselves. As the greal majority of our
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their subscription, of course, they now stand
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cording to our published terms. We have
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The Philadelphia Press thinks that 1t is
unjust to speak of Wendell Phillips as a Re-
publican or a friend of the Republican party.
Perhaps so. It may be that he has no friend.
ship for the Republican party, but when the
Republican members of the Senate of Penn-
sylvania offer him the use of the Senate
Chamber to deliver an Abolition lecture, it
is not strange that the public should infer
that the Republican party is a friend of
Wendell Phillips. That this friendship is
not reciprocal is no fault of the Republican
party. Its representatives, both at Harris
burg and at Washington, have done their
best to coneiliate the great orator and cham-
pion of Abolition disunionism. Did not Mr.
Vice President Hamlin come down from his
exalted seat in the Senate Chamber at Wash-
ington that he might enjoy the privilege of
doing conspicuous honor to Wendell Phillips?
Did not Mr. Grow, of Pennsylvania, speak-
er of the House, entertain him at dinner in
company with a sclect circle of congenial
spirits 7 Did not Mr. Sumner walk arm-in
arm with him into the Senate 2 If after all
will at
lars and Fifty cents! We give this notice
for the beucfit of all those who may be dis
posed to take advantage ofit; and those
who are wise will give it their attention, and
thereby save fifty cents. The present num
ber is the thirteenth. In three weeks more
the ycar will be up, and all those who ne-
gleet to pay within that time, will be held
responsible for the two dollars and fifty
cents. We mean what we say. Our terms
arc published in the paper, where every man
can read them for himself as follows: §1,50
if paid in advance, $2 00 1f paid within the
50 if not paid until after the
These are our
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There-
fore, all ye delinquents, Pay
up friends and when this year is up we hope
yeu will pay your subscription in advance,
for another year, and we will then promise
you both a larger and a better paper.
terms and we mean to enforce them.
wake notice. remains an enemy to the Republican party.
he 1s even a more ungrateful man than we
take him to be. After making the first ad~
vances themselves, the Republicans should
be the last to try to shake him oft.— Patriot
and Union.
A Vile Fabrication.
A silly story has been going the rounds of
the Republican papers, that at a Cabinet
meeting held in the White House, in Febru.
ary, 1861, the question of Major Anderson's
removal from Fort Moultrle to Fort Sumter
was discussed, and that then and there Sec:
retary Floyd threatened to resign unless the
Major was ordered back with his command
to Fort Moultrie. The statement is also
made that President Buchanan favored the
demand of ¥loyd. and was only prevented
from doing so by the threats of Attorney
General Stanton and Secretaries Black, Dix,
and Holt, to withdraw from the Cabinct if
1t was done. This story is given on the au-
thority of Thurlow Weed, of New York,
now 1n Europe —so it is said.
Now, see, how readily the whole story can
be made out a barefaced fabrication. ~ The
Cabinet meeting should have occurred in
Feliruary, and it conld not have taken place
much sooner, for all the gentlemen above
named were not in the Cabinet much before
that time ; but the change made by Major
Anderson from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sum-
ter occurred on the night of the 25th of De~
cember, 1860 —nearly two months before,
and Floyd resigned within four days there~
after! This fact, of itself. is sufficient to
stamp the story with falsehood, and we deem
it unnecessary to say anything more by way
of refutation. Nohody but a knave or an
2diot would pblish such an improbable sto-
ry. ?
—— eee er
Tle Central Press feels alarmed at what
Madawe Rumor says about ex: sheriff Mus
ser having prepared a rope to hang the first
Abolitionist that would enter his bar room.
We have no doubt our jelly friend, the Sher
iff, has no sueh serious intentions, much as
our leading abolitionists—the cause of our
troubles-—deserve the halter. But should
such be the fact, no Republican ought to
complain, as it would only be playing ‘tit
for tat,”’ or “*what is sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander.” The Press will dis-
tinctly remember that not one year ago.
Democrats generally were threatened with
tar and feath-rs, hanging, mobbing, burn.
ing of property, and all such jacobinical van-
dalism ; and if any loudmouthed Abolition-
ist should happen one day to find himsif
dangling between heaven and earth—much
as we deprecate violence and mob law —who
could help saying ‘‘served you right. it 1s
the result of your own teachings.” — Aarons -
burg Reporter. 3
Burnside Gives McClellan Credit.
In recording his successful efforts, General
Burnside, with honor to himself, attributes
the plan of operations to the mind of Gen.
McClellan. This is what he says.
«+ J beg to say to the General commanding
that I have endeavored to carry out the very
minute instructions given me by him before |
leaving Annapolis, and thus far events have -
been singularly coincident with his anticipa-| (57 Gen. Halleck has assigued General
tions, I only hope that we may in future be | Buell to the command of that portion ot Ohio
able to carry out in detail the remaining plan included in the present department of the
of the campaign. The only thing I have to Mississippi, and. General Denver to the
regret is tho delay caused by the efements.’’ | command of the district of Kansas,
CAE
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CONTEMPLATED DESTRUGTION OF COTTON AND
ToBACCO. AND DETERMINATION To PLANT NO
More. —The Cincinnati Enquirer remarks
that the determination of Southern planters
to plant no cotton or tobacco this year, be.
yond what is barely sufficient for family
consumption, and the military order that
has been issued to destroy all those articles
now on hand on the routeof the Federal troops
cannot but produce in both France and En-
gland, the utmost consternation. Nothing
could be devised better calculated to com-
pel interference in our affairs by those pow-
ers than this desperate resolve of the Con-
federates in reference to cotton and tobacco,
But the general impression is that the inter-
ference which such acts are likely to pro-
duce will be to compel the South. to submit
to the Federal Government. If the peace of
the world is so dependent upon a reasonable
supply of these great agricultural staples,
any act contemplated to be committed which
if accomplished, would render that supply
impossible, may well incite interference to
prevent it.
[t is insisted therefore, that, as the peace
of the world is so deeply interested in the
preservation of the crops of cotton and to-
bacco now on hand, England and France will
demand of the Confederate Government that
their wanton destruction will not be permits
ted. The difficulty will be to intervene in
time. The Congress of the Confederate
States has passed a law for the destruction
of all cotton and tobacco on the line of the
approach of the Federal army, and military
orders have been issued in accordance with
the Jaw. Tne following 1s a copy of one of
them lateiy published in a North Carolina
paper :
By direction of the Secretary of War all
cotton, tobacco and naval stores within this
Department must be removed west of the
Wilmington and Weldon railroad ; or, if dis-
tant from any railroad or navigable stream,
put in such a place ofsecurity that they can not
be reached by the enemy. Such of the above
mentioned products as are in exposed posi~
tions must be removed at once, and those
less exposed, removed or secured by the 25th
mst, otherwise they will be destroyed by
the military authorities,
Much of the mischief may be done before
England and France conld take steps to pre-
vent it.— Patriot & Union.
———— eases
The New Tax Bill —Its Effects on News
papers,
We have published an abstract of the Tax
Bill which has been agreed upon by the
Committe to whom the subject was referred
in the House of Representatives. Ifall the
taxes are as heavy as those upon the printing
and publishing business, an income of five
hundred millions would be obtained. The
New York Tribune well says:
¢* Should this bill pass, there need be no
further skepticism as to the payme~t of the
interest of our public debt, be it ever solarge.
Take our own case for example: We are
required by this bill, in addition to taxes
which we must pay in common with all
property holders, and consumers, to pay three
mills per cent on the value of the newspa
pers we 1ssue, and a percentage on the ad
vertiscments we insert and the telegraphic
dispatches we receive, amounting in all to
about $25 000 per annum! It strikes us
that this is more than our fair quota- -that
theft can be no necessity for bearing so
heavily (we think disproportionately) on the
business of printing and issuing newspapers
— that our fair quota of the one hundred mil
lions that ought to be raised by excise “du -
ties is considerably less than this—We be-
lieve one mill per pound on paper and one
per cent on the cash value of all wanufac.
tures would be araple, and that tax bill con
sistently conformed to these bases would
yield a revenue ample for all neers, provided
the war is to be pressed to a speedy and cri-
umphant close.”
Horace Greely should be the last man to
growl against any tax, for he, more than
any other man was instrumental in bringing
on this war. He is the same man who de
clared that he peferred to sacrifice fif ty Un-
ions before he would sacrifice ane Chicago
platform:
Wendell Phillips Mobbed at Cinciznati,
He announces himself an Abolitionist and
a Disunionist— Eggs mm abundance—
Threats of tar and feathers—Great excite
ment.
Wendell Phillips attempted to lecture at
Pike's Opera House, in Cincinnati, on the
evening of the 24th inst. He commenced by
avowing himself an Abolitionist and a dis
unionist. Persons in the galleries then hiss
ed’ yelled and threw eggs and stone at him.
The hissing was kept up for some time.—
Finally Phillips made himself heard, and he
proceeded until something again objection-
able was said, when the storm of eggs was
these evidences of aft.ction. Wendell "perp e, The aim, mm many eases was good.
Still Phillips persevered, and a third time was
egrred and stoned.
‘The crowd from the galleries then moved
down stairs, crying * put him out, tar and
feather him! with groans for the nigger
Wendell Phillips. While proceeding down
the middle aisle towards the stage, they were
met by the friends of Phillips, and a fight
ensued.
A scene of indiscribable confusion occu-
red. The ladies in the audience were scream-
ing, crying, jumping over chairs and falling
in all directions during tha skirmish.
Fina lly Phillips was taken oft the stage
by his friends, and the audience moved
out.
At this hour (10 o'clock, P. M.) the streets
in the vicinity of the Opera House are crow-
ed with excited people, who are searching
for. but unable to find Phillips.
No one has been seriously hurt, as far as
can be learned.
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A FRAUD ON GOVERNOR SPRAGUE. —A gross
fraud has been perpetrated by some ot the
anti-slavery party on the patriotic and Dem-
ocratic Governor of Rhode Island. A pam-
phlet has been published, entitled Governor
Sprague’s Pamphlet, containing a large
amount of Abolitionism. This has been
widely copied by the radical papers, and
extracts are afloat headed Governor Spra-
que’s anti-slavery views, or with similar ti.
tles.
We are authorized to state that the pam.
phlet is a fraud on the Governor: that he
not only has never written anything of the
sort, but that his views are distinctly opposed
to those contained in this fraudulent docu-
ment.
The radical papers will probably continue
the publication of a forgery, and it should be
corrected by conservative papers wherever
it is found. —Journal of Commerce.
{IZ One of the New York regiments con~
ming thirty schoolmasters. [tought to be
able to lick the southern boys.
ABOLITIONISM.—The great mass of the
Republican party in 1860 denied any affinity
or sympathy with abolitionism. This was
peculiarly the case in Pennsylvania, where,
to avoid the charge the opposition to the
Democratic party rallied under the name of
the *‘People’s Party.”” With all the acts of
tha party leaders staring them in the face,
there are still followers of the fallen fortunes
of the Republican party who deny that it has
become thoroughly abolitionized. At our
late charter election considerable bitter feel-
ing was aroused by Democrats charging the
opposition with being the abolition party,
and we have heard a number declare that
the result of the election was mainly owing
to bringing this false charge against the Un-
ion Republican People’s party.
As an evidence of the platform now occu-
pied by the Republicans being clearly and
distinctly the same as that of Wendell Phil-
lips, we give the following measures for the
benefit of the negro, introduced into Con-
gress :
1. Recognition of the negro Empire of
Hayti.
2. Abolishment of negro slavery mthe
District of Columbia,
Prohibiting our army officers from re-
turning fugitive slaves.
4. Establishing a plantation to free ne-
groes in South Carolina, and taxing the peo-
ple of the North to support it.
5. Proposes to aid the States to abolish
negro slavery. by taxing northern people to
pay for the slaves.
6. To repeal the fugitive slave law.
7. To repeal the law which forbids ne-
groes from being stage drivers or carrying
the United States mail. *
8. To prohibit, slave holders from taking
their slaves into Arizona Territory.
In order however, to bring the charge
nearer home, we may cite the passage of a
resolution in the Pennsylvania Senate, for
which every Republican Senator, with a sin-
gle exception voted, instructing our mems
bers of Congress and Senators to vote for the
abolition of slayery in the District of Col-
umbia. We may also ote the significant
tact of every Republican Senator voting to
grant the use of the Senate Chamber to
that arch disunionist and traitor Wendell
Phillips
With these facts before us, wili any man
have the assurance to say that the Republi-
party ?
Beauregard on the Mississippi
_ General Beauregard has issued the follow-
ing :
GENERAL ORDER.
oo Quarters, Army of the Mississippi,
Jatkson, Tenn., March 5, 1862 —Soldiers +
—I assume this day the command of the
army of the Mississippi, for the defence of
our homesteads and liberties, and to resist
the supjugation, spoliation and dishonor of
our people. Our mothers and wives. our sis
ters and children. expect us to do our duty
even to the sacrifice of our lives,
Our losses since the commencement of the
present war, in killed, wounded and prison
ers, are now about the sume as those of the
enemy.
He must be made to atone for those rever-
ses we have lately expreienced. Those re
verses far from disheartening, must nerve
us to new deeds of valor ani patriotism,
and should inspire us with an unconquera
ble detern.ination to drive back the inva-
ders.
Should any one in this army be unequal
to the task before us. let him transfer his
arms and equipments at once to braver, firm~
er hands, and return home,
Our cause is as just and sacred as ever an-
imated men to take up arms; and if weare
true to it and to ourselves. with the contin
,uec protection of the Almighty, we must
and shall triumph.
G. T. BEAUREGARD,
General Commanding
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The Victory Near Winohester.
Full Account of the Battle—Glorious Con-
duct of the Pennsylvania Men.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Herald.)
WiNcHESTER, Mar:h 25.—The ball of the
campaign on the Potomac was at length
brilliantly opened at Winchester on Sunday
last. and the rebels have suffered a dreadful
reverse in the first encountre of the season
in this department,
The ohject of the reconnoissance made by
General Shields to Strasburg may now be
stated. It was to throw the enemy into the
trap which has so fatally sprang upon the
rebellion. Discovering the number a 1d po-
sition of the rebels, Gen. Shields retired has
tily. posted his men about two miles north
of Winchester, in a few tents, as thoug'i the
force was unable to attempt pursuing Jack-
son’s forces. and there, after the withdrawal
of Gen. Williams’ Division. awaited
the effect of his movement upon the
enemy. The result showed that the scheme
entirely succeeded. As soon as the rebel
Gen. Jackson heard that the division of Gen.
Williams had moved towards Centreville, he
immediately took up his march to Winches
ter. In the meantime he had received remn-
forcements and Generals Longstreet and
Swith, of the rebel army, had their com
mands united to that of boasted Stone Wall
Jackson. So prompt and unexpected was
the attack of the enemy, that it took our
Generals entirely by sarprise, buteverything
was ready for the emergency.
Oh Saturday afternoon, at about a quarter
past two o'clock our advanced pickets on
the Strasburg road discovered the rebel cay-
alry under the madeap Ashby, about a half
mile beyond them, reconnoitering the woods |
on both sides of the turnpike, and steadily |
advancing. Our pickets consisted of a few |
men of the Fourteenth Indiana Infantry at
that point, and they fell back half a mile to
the hamlet of Kerstown four miles from
Winchester. The rebets, observing our
pickets fall back, were confirmed in the bev
lief 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 hell.” Steadily did the troop-
ers advance as our men wheeled to aim and
fire. That fire sent many of them reeling
from their saddles. and threw the rest 1ato
such confusion that before they could again
be rallied for a charge our gallant little band
of infantry was beyond the reach of their
power, without having lost a man killed or
wounded. Meanwhile skirmishing progress.
ed on other points along our advanced line,
and our pickets were everywhere rallying
on our reserves. Gen. Shields hearing of the
advance of the rebel cavalry, supposed it to
be a mancuvre of Ashny alone, for the pur-
pose of watching our movements. As they
were approaching so boldly and so closely,
however, he ordered four advanced compan
can party has not become an ultra abolition [*
ies of infantry engaged in protedting 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, one from
the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania, and one from
the Twenty~eighth New York. Their regi
ments had already marched under Gen.
Williams,
A battery of artillery was also ordered
forward, and Gen Shields after erdering out
the division, rode to the front, accompani
by his staft. While engaged directing the
fire of the artillery and the defence general-
ly, 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 al ove the elbow, fract-
uring the bone and creating a painful wound.
His Adjutant General, Major Armstrong,
who was standing near him, remarked,
‘ General you are wounded in the arm.’
“Yes,” replied the gallant Shields, * but
say nothing about it.” He then gave a
fresh order to the artillery, and continued on
the field till he satisfied himself that all was
right. A man belonging to Captain Robin-
son’s company of Ohio artillery, and a horse
were killed on this day by the enemy’s
guns ; but these were all the casualities
that occurred on our side till the skirmish
of the first day was ended.
Gen. Shields caused a pang throughout the |
entire division, and it is remarkable that he
should have been the first man struck on
our side. 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 army lay
between them and the town. It was gen
erally believed that a general engagement
would take place on the next; day. (Sun.
day,) and the expectants were not disappoin-
ted. That night was one of terrible suspense
on both sides. No one knew what the reb-
els delayed their advance for, while it was
our policy to postpone a battle, in view of
the preponderating force of the enemy, in
order to allow reinforcements to arrive from
the division of Gen. Williams, the rear guard
of which had already advanced ten miles
towards the Shenandoah.
Morning explained the reason of the ene-~
my’s halt. About ten o'clock reinforce-
ments of five regiments of infantry and two
batteries of artillery were announced arrived
from Strashurg, under (en Garnett, by the
vociferous and prolonged cheers which™ pro-
ceeded from their lines. The attack was
not now long delayed. The enemy advanc-
ed his army, which now consisted of sixteen
regiments of infantry, numbering 11,000
men ; five batteries of artillery, with a total
of twenty-eight field pieces, and three bat
talions of horse, undsr Ashby and Stewart. --
His line of battle extended about a mile on
the right of the village of Kernstown, and a
mile and three quarters on the left of it, and
the village lay on the road between the rebs
el right and centre. © ‘I here is a mud road
brauching trom the turnpike a wile or so
from Winchester to the right of the road as |
you go to Strasburg. This road passed
through the left of the enemy’s centre, an
was oue 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 summit about brest high. This
was the rebel line of offence and defence on
the right of our line. Our most advanced
regiment was the Eighth Oh, of General
Tylers brigade, and on it the rebels made a
furious onslanght about half past ten o’clock
A. M., on Thursday, with the intention of
turning our right flank. The Ohio Eighth
met them gallantly, withering them like
autumn leaves befo e the breath of winter
by their deadly fire of, ritles. Five several
times did the enemy emerge from the woods
and from behind their stone parapet with
vastly superior numbers and try vainly to
accomplish their object.
Our left wing cosisting of the Thirteenth
Indiana, Seventh Ohio and a battery of the
Fourth Regular Artillery, under Capt. Jenks.
had a feint made on it while the real attack
of the enemy was being directedaagainst our
right wing. The feint on the left was a
heavy fire of artillery posted on both sides
of the village and the turnpike, which how-
ever, did rifling damage: Our battery re-
plied, silencing those of the enemy, though
the firing was well maintained for a long
time on both sides. Our centre consisted of
the Fourteenth Indiana, the Eight and
Sixty-seventh Ohio and the Eighty fourth
Pensylvauia, and two artillery batteries be
longing to the First Ohio artiilery, and the
cavalry, consisting of the First Michigan
and First Ohio, were drawn up in the rear.
The whole of our cavalry amounted to no
more than eight hundred men, and this arm
played a very unimportant part in the action
on cither side. Our right wing was made up
of the Fifth and cight Ohio regiments, and a
battery of the First Virginia regiment. The
reserves consisted of the Twelfth Indiana.
the Thirty ninth Illinois and a sqadron of
the Michigan cavalry. General Shields was
unable to appear on the field in person, and
the command in the field devolved upon Ac-
ting Brigadier Kimble. who led our centre ;
and our right was commanded by Acting
Brigadier General Tyler, while Colonel Sul.
livan directed the operations on our left.—
The battle raged along our whole line with
great fury from 11 A. M. till half past 2 p.x.,
when Gen. Snields, who received accounts of
the progress of the fight on his couch, order-
ed the right, where the contest raged the
hottest, to charge upon the evemy: This
was an awful charge, The left of the ene-
my prepared desperately to repel our gal-
lant troops, but their rush was as irre-
sistible as the tide in the bay of Fund{.—
Previous to this time our line of battle had
been somewhat changed. The Eighty Fourth
Pennsylvania reinforced our right, and also
a battery of artillery. Our whole force now
engaged was about 6,000 men, while that of
the en my was, at the lowest estimate eight
thousand. The rebels had also changed
their line, and extending both their wings,
presented a concave front to our army.—
They had also reinforced their left wing, and
| the charge to be made by our right was all
important in its consequences. Qa it, at 3
c’clock, depended the fate of the battle, The
gallant Tyler led the charge, sword in hand,
at the head of the line. The rebels fired
from woods with artillery and small arms,
while our men advanced against their mur-
derous showers of lead and iron, returning
few shots and reserving their fire.
Up to this time the armies had not been
much nearer to each other than three hun
dred yards. unless in some few instances. —
The wood was soon cleared at the point of
the bayonet, our men discharging their pie-
ces at twenty and even five yards distance
from the rebels, and then dashing at them
with bayonet. The rebels fought well how-
x They contested the ground foot by
g . =
| foot, and marked every yardofit wi
! Retiring * behind eid jd be.
| ridge. our men jumped over after them, and
i drove them along in the greatest confusion
{ and with fearful slaughter yu their centre
The panic communicated: Kimble ordered
[a charge along the whole lie, and for a
i short time the fighting was most desperate.
| The roar of the cannon was no longer heard,
| unless in oceasional bursts of fitful explo-
| sions, and the rattle of muketry was more
| boisterous than ever, and sounded like the
I noise made by a very close thunder clap ex-
cept that it was sharper and continous. The
rout of the rebels had fairly commenced.
however, and two of their guns and four
caisons were now ours, and though many ¢
them turned and fired again sh ay
| oar pursuing host, many more threw away
| muskets and bayonets without hesitation,—
| Derknes and the extreme fatigue of our
| troops, however, saved the enemy for the
| time, and we retired about two miles and
bivouacked till yesterbay morning. At day-
break Gen. Shields ordered the rebel] Posi-
tion to be attacked, and the enemy after re-
plying by a few shots from his artillery,
| continued his retreat. Meantime Gey. Banks
who had been at Harpers Ferry, arrived, and
taking command of the troops in person, is
{now continuing the pursuit with about ten
and at the latest accounts
| had pressed the rebels beyond Middleburg,
| cutting off many straslers and pressing the
enemy very sorely. The object 1s to capture
his whole force if possible. "It wag not till
yesterday morning that any of the force of
Gen. Williams arrived on the field, and then
they were too late to participate in the ac-
tion. They joived in the chase. The loss
of the enemy in kitled- ang wounded will
foot up about 900 men, of which 225 were
killed. The number of prisoners taken is
236. These figures are independent of what
they have lost and will lose in the pursuit.
The regiment which lost most on theside of
the rebels was the Fifth Virginia.
Our loss in killed, so far as ascertained is
less than 100, and about 300 of our men
are wounded. Though the enemy had a much
larger force, four pieces of Cannon mere than
our ariny, the selection of fighting ground
and every advantage, yet all the trophies of
the occasion belong to the Union Army.
There were many deeds of heroism pet-
formed on the battle field. While the Fifth
Ohio was charging against the enemy, the
color bearer was five times shot down, yet
another instantly replaced him at the risk of
his life. The last color bearer of the five
was a private named T, B. Isdell. The flag
staff was broken, yet the glorions banner
never ceased to float in triumph over this
gallant regiment.
The rebels hadan Irish battalion of one
hundred and fifty men, of whom forty were
killed on the field and nearly all the rest
wounded.
The loss on our side was heviest in the
Eighty Fourth Pensylvania regiment. Of the
Jive companies of three hundred men, inall
engaged they lost Col. Murray. as dashing
and brave an officer as ever drewa sword »
one captain. one lieulenant, twenty three
privates and non eommissioned officers kil-
led and siaty three wounded. The loss in the
Eighth and Fifth Ohio regimentsis about
seventy five and sixty, respectively, killed
and wounded. ¥
Lieutenant Colonel Thoburn, of the Third
Virginia is among the wounded on our side.
These are the only field officers killed or
wounded on our side. :
The rebels carried no knapsacks with them
inte action, and all the gations in their have
ersacks was a small cake of bread to each
eman, They ccunted to a certainty on cap~
turing Winchester. The only wagons they
brought with them were provision Waguns.~
This explains how it was that they did not
lose much besides arms in their retreat.
The battle field after the struggle was a
sight to be seen and remembered, The night
was dark and cold. After the battle the ambu-
lauces were busily engaged removing the
wounded. The enemy carried oft most of
their wounded and some of the dead. Fhe
wounded were intermingled with the dead,
and their sufferings before they were remo-
ved to the hospitals were very poignant.—
Yesterday was spent in burying the dead. —
The ghastly aspect of the field yesterday,
after the wounded were removed and before
the dead were interred, was appalling.
Some with ‘their faces off, some man-
gled by the round shot and shell, and others
simply but quite as effectully killed by bul~
lets wounds. It 1s singular that most of
the eneiny killed by bullet wounds were
shot through the head or heart, showing the
remarkeble accuracy with which our wes-
tern troops use the rifle. The enemy's
wouads were not near so fatal to us as ours
were to them, and their weapons were gen-
erally, decidely inferior to those used in our
army. About the stone wall the enemy
were strewn almost on top of each other in
heaps of dead. At this point many of our
brave fellows bit the dust.
Capt. Jones who commanded the Tish
battalion 1n the rebel army, isa prisoner
in our hands, with both his eyes shot out
by one bullet. :
The calm which has succeeded the mighty
tempest of the past few days here 1s some-
thing exceedingly solemn. Everthing around
Winchester now is quieter and gloomier than
ever. .
Wigfall's Last.
A letter from Richmond to the New Or-
leans Crescent shows that Mr. Wigfall still
maintains his old character of court jest
er.—
‘I passed Gen. Wigfall on my return
from dinner, and asked hiu. 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 five minutes.”
The same correspondsnt also pays a tri-
bate to Yankee persistency, iu noticing
Halleck’s declaration that the Union flag
never will be removed from Tennessee :
* This is brag, but the Yankees have, up
to this time, stuck like leec! wherever
they kave effected a landing. They entrench
themselvs, and at the first spade full of earth
thrown up by them, our Generals | ive right
up and say all is lost.” ’
7 The rebels compare the Monitor to an
enormous cheese box on a plank. We don't
think they will care to nibble much more
around it.- - Prentice. .
17 The rebels are everwhere fleecing in a
panic. The devil take the hindmost —and thd
foremost. — Prentice.
mantis SE AL
15 Ben. Wood 1s said to be ahout to re-
| sume the publication of tlic New York Daily
| News suppressed some months ago by order
of the government.
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