BEDFORD INQUIRED
BEDFORD, Pa.
Friday Horulng, Jan- 31, I82.
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the County, and all oflicral and orphans' court ad
vertising, is published by aet of assembly, in both
papers. The rates for advertising and job work,
are as high as in any part of the State. 1 here are
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STATE TREASURER.
Oa Monday week, the Hon. HenTy D. Moore
was re-elected State Treasurer. Henry D.
Moore was the Republican candidate; Wm. V.
McGrath was the Democratic candidate; and
Jonas 11. MeCliDtock was voted for by the
Uoion Democrats Oa the third ballot, the
• ollowing Union Democrats voted for Mr.
loore, thereby electiug him, viz: Messrs. Bus
y, Chatham, Ross, (Luzerne) Scott, aod Smith
Hester.) The ballots stood as follows :
FIRST DAI.LOT.
Henry D. Moore. 66
Jooas R. McClintoek. 10
Wm. V. McGrath. 56
SECOND BALLOT.
Henry D. Moore 66
Jooas M. McClintoek. 22
Wm V. McGra I 44
THIRD BALLOT.
Henry D. Moore. 71
Jonas R. McClintoek. 5
Wm. V. McGrath. 56
Mr. Moore has been a faithful officer, and
as the confidence cf all who know bim, and
we oongralulate tha'people cf Pennsylvania in
continuing in office so honest and pure a pub
lic servant.
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Minister to Russia.
The U. S. Senate has confirmed the appoint
ment ot HOD. SIMOM CAMERON, as Minister to
Russia, by a vote of 28 to 14. He takes the
plaoe of Hon. OASSIUS M. CLAY, who desirag
to return and take part in the war. It will
please all,true-hearted Pennsylvanians that Gen,
Cameron has been confirmed, and it shows the
the good opinion of the President, and bis
confidence in Gen. Cameron, in naming him
for that important mission. Gen. Cameron
was Secretary of War in the most trying era
of our history, and nobly did be do bia part.
No man in the country could have dona more
than he did to orgmizing the present grand
army. He will occupy a high nick injthe hiss
tory of the country, and the future historian
will do bim jastiee.
DEATH OF ANOTHER OLD CITIZEN.
Mr. Geo. Funk, died in this place on Mon
day morning last. He was in his 83d year,
and the oldest citizen of our town. He died
in the same house he was born. Tho Funk
family is among the oldest io the county, their
father having settled here, probably, over one
hundred years ago. Only one child of the
old settler, still living in Bedford, and a grand
child in the West, are all that remain of the
family. The thought is saddening, as one by
one, the links connecting tho present with the
past, drop off the'chain. With how many ioe
cidects of our early history was he acquainted,
and in some of whioh he formed apart! Peace,
peace, old friend, to your ashes! May they
remain in their narrow home, undisturbed, till
the time when the grave shall givo up its dead,
and tho angel with one foot on the land, and
the other upon the sea, shall proclaim, Time
is, time was, but time shall be no longer!
BEDFORD RAIL ROAD.
That portion of the Bedford Rail Road, be -
tween Hopewell and Bloody Run, it is confi
dently expected, will bo oompleted by the Ist
of June, next. The workmen are getting along
rapidly. Tho balance of the road, some eight
miles from Bloody Run to Bedford, will bo
put under contract as soon as possible. We
have no doubt the people of Bedford County
will he gratified at this news.
COMER J'.
Tbero will be a Concert held in the Court
Honse, on Friday (this) evening—Saorod Mu
sic—by JOHN P. PECK. A public collection
will be held to defray the expenses of the en.
tertainment. Let their be a good turn out.
The President has appointed Noah A. Swain
of Ohio, Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court to fill the vacaney occasioned by the
death of Judge McLean. The appointment
has been confirmed by the U. S. Senate.
NOT TRUB—TBH the rebels had evacuated
Man asses.
The Senate, in Executive Session, on tie
24tb, confirmed Major Lewis G. Arnold, Ist
Artillery, as a Brigadier-General. Ha will
assume command at Fort Pickens upon the de
parture of Col. Harvey Brown, enforced bj
ilium
The Burnside ha 9 arriv ed at
Hatteras. Tbe'recent storms wore ÜBueoally
severe, and delayed and crippled the expedi
tion. Some three or four of the vessels were
wrecked.
News from the Bouth say Beauregard, is
to be transferred to the command io Kentucky,
and Gustavus W. Smith is to command on
the Potoroa c.
Mr. Cessna Las a bill before the Honse
separating Bedford and Somerset. We hope
it will not pass the Senate.
Report in a Contested Election
Case.
The committee appointed in the contested
election ease from the Bedford and Somerset
district, presented their report yesterday, and
JOHN CESSNA was duly qualified as a member
in the place of GEORGE W. HOUSEHOLDER,
who had been elected from the district by a
clear majority of TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY
NINE votes. The report is based on the pre
snmptioD that Bedford county is entitled to a
separate representation, and that JOHN CESSNA,
having received a majority in Bedford couuty,
is therefore entitled to the seat. The question
ia a very important one and will present itself
again to the next Legislature, when the de
feated party will no doubt again contest the
seat, and if he is fortunate enough to obtaiu
a committee guided and controlled by the
strongest party predictions, the contestant
may obtaiu a similar adaiiss ion to a seal in the
House. The report of the present committee may
be ail correct but it seems to us that questions of
such importance ought to have been submitted
to the legal minds of the state, and it would
certainly have been better for the interest of
the people, if the Supreme Court had been mu
tually called upon to t decide the question at issue
Here we have a committee selected on the part
of the parties, who are mostly composed of
business men and have never bben called upon
to decide constitutional questions, and this
committee has undertakcufto decide such an
important question within three days after
hearing the arguments of counsel in the case.
The supreme Court would certainly not have
considered the question in such extraordinary
baste and their docision would have settled
the issue finally. The minority committee
will make a report as soon as sufficient time
has elapsed to oxamine the subject thorobghly.
Harris burgh Telegraph.
A BRITISH HATER Mr. LOVEJOT, of Illi
nois, is a good hater. In a speech in the House
of Representatives, last week, he denoqDced
the proposition to sand commissioners to the
World's Fair in London, because we have been
"dishonored by Great Britain" in the affair of
the Trent. He said:
"I am made to renew the horrors which I
suffered when the newa of the surrender of
Mason and Slidell reached us. I acknowledge
it, I literally wept tears of vexation, i bate
it, I hate the British Government. I here now
publicly avow and reoord that hate, and declare
that it shall bo unextinguishable. 1 mean to
oberish it while 1 live, and to bequeath it to my
children when I die, and if I am alivo when
the war with Eogland comes, and if 1 can car/*
ry a musket in that war, 1 will carry it. I
have three sons, and i mean to charge thsm,
and do now charge tham, that, if they have at
that time reached the years of manhood anil
strength, they shall enter into that war. * * *
I trust in God that the time is not far distant
when we shall hare suppressed the rebellion,
and be prepared to avenge and wipe out this
insult that we have received. We will then
stir up Ireland; we will appeal to the Chartists
of Eogland, we wll go to the old French
habi/ans of Canada, we will join hands with
France and Russia to tako away the eastern
possessions of that proud empire, and will take
away the crown from the Government before
we cease."
GEN. GEO. H. THOMAS, the senior Union
General engaged in the late battle, at Somerset,
Ky., is a native of Virginia, and is one of those
loyal officers in the regular army from se
ceded States who resisted the machinations of
the rebels. He graduated at West Point in
IS3G, with the rank of brevet second lieufen
ant of infantry, and on the first of July, 1840,
he was appointed second lieutenant third artil
lery, and subsequently.brevetted first lieuten
ant, for "gallant and meritorious conduct in
the war against the Florida Indians." In
April, 1841, be was promoted to the first lieu
tenancy. For "gallant and meritorious con
duct in the several conflicts at Monterey" he
was breretted oaptain, and subsequently bre
vetted major for the gallant part he took in
the battle of Baena Vista, lu 1850 be was
appointed instructor of artillery and cavalry,
wbich position he held at the breaking out of
the present rebellion, when be was appointed
brigadier general of volunteers, and plaeed in
charge of a division in Geu. Patterson's com
mand in the army of tho upper Potomac.—
When the rebels first invaded Kentucky, he,
with Generals Sherman and Soboepff, was sent
to that State to take charge of the Federal
troops, and repel the invaders. In tho regu
lar army he holds the position of oolonel of the
Fifth Cavalry, and ho is reported to be one
of the most skillful officers in the service.
Geo. Schoepff, bis associate brigadier, is a
Hungarian by birth, who came to this oountry
to escape the persecutions inflicted on his coun
trymen. At the commencement of the pres
ent rebellion be held a position in the Patent
Office,* hot, being known to possoss military
qualities of a high order, he was, on the rec
commendatien of Hon. Joseph Holt, appoint,
ed to a brigadier generalship, and assigsed to
dnty io Kentucky.- -Phila. Press.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 24. —The remains of G-en.;
Zoiieoffer and Bailie Peyton, Jr., are undergo
ing the process of embalming, at Somerset, so
as to be delivered to their relatives.
Affairs below are reported as quiet.
BEDFORD INQUIRER.
LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS.
•
HILTON HEAD, PORT ROYAL, S. C. 1
Jan. 14,1862. ]
MB. DAVID OVER— Dear Sir : —Having a
good many friends and relatives that will be
glad to bear from me, I take this method of
communicating with them. It goes very hard
for me to write under present circumstances,
as wo have to drill about from five to six hours
in a day and consequently it leaves hut a
short time for writing. We are now in Fort
Wells, at Port Royal, S. C. We came here
on the 7th inst. WheD we first arrived in this
part of the county we landed at a place oalled
Sea brook island, where we encamped for about
three weeks. We then packed np our thiDge
and moved across Soull creek toJPinkney is
land, and remained there only about two days.
There were some of onr boys sent out on pick
et duty, on the island next to the main land.
They oould see the Rebel pickets and oould
talk across to one another. Tboy invited our
boys over to take breakfast with them. They
fired several shots at our boys, but the river
wan a little too wide for them. Their balls
would strike the water about fifteen paces from
them. Our boys returned tbe fire, but with
out effeot, although they could ahoot clear
across the water. Our sick boys that we left
in tbe bopital at Fortress Monroe, have arrived.
They came into camp yesterday, and they all
look pretty well. Our first Lieut., J. A. Liv
iogston, arrived with them. He looks well. —
Oar boys that first landed here all look well,
and feel full of fight. Tbe weather has been
very wet and cold for several days, bat we
have not seen any snow this winter, with the
exception of a littlo at Camp Hamilton. There
are about twenty-four thousand soldiers hero
at this Camp, and about the Fort, and still
more coming in. I have no news in regard to
the war in particular. We do not get to bear
much of the news, and most of what wo do get,
comes from the north, so that you have it be
fore we get it.
Notbiog more at present.
Yours, very Itesp'y,
EFH. W. DAVIS,
Company H, 55th Reg't, P. V.
CUMBERLAND, MD. ;
Jan. 26, 1862. J
MR. EDITOR:—I herewith send you the
roll of our company whioh you will please pub
lish and oblige many of the members. Tho
boys are in full glee to day, having received
our pay for four months yesterday. The boys
are in flourishing condition and pretty well
over tbeir forced march from Hanoock to Cum
berland. Your correspondent, signed "J. W.
S. Jr.," in his communication in|last week's
cumber of the ''lnquiriF' eonoeruing the Ha
gerstowu fight, blames our "Irish friends" for
ttio mutiny which occurred in our Regiment.
I would say to him, give tbe devil his due, and
remind him of the fact that it was not the
"Irish" hut some otoers that had too muoh
"eye opener and caused the whole muss.
T. C. 11. S.
ROLL OF COMPANY C. 110 TH REG'T
PA. VOL., FROM WOODBERBY,NOW
NEAR CUMBERLAND, MD.
Capt. E. D. Brisbln,
Ist. Lieut. Geo. Burley,
2od. Lieut. H. H. C. Kay,
Orderly Sergeant, William Roberts,
Ist. Sergeant, William Ralston,
2nd. Sergeant, Martin Maxwell,
3rd. Sergoant, Alex. Croft,
4th Sergeant, S. 11. C. Tobias,
Ist. Corporal, James Bell;
2nd. " " Joseph Gates,
3rd " " Philip P. Croft,
4th " " Jonn Moore,
s:h " " Geo. L. liartman,
6th " "A. K. Taylor,
7th " " A.M. Bulger,Colar Guard.
Bth " " James Aicswortb,
Musicians, Sam'J Tyson, Chas. Shrouder.
Audrews, W. A. Householder, Moses
Andrews, Chas, Garwood, Richard
Ailen, Wm. Holaioger, Josiah
Border, Andrew Irvin, James
Bulger, Levi Kelly, David
Blake, Sam'l Lamisoof Thomas
Border, J. S. Livingston, Thus.
BowrniD, Dan'l Lamison, Geo.
Blake, Thomas Leightner, Jno.
Bowman, Geo. Lane, David
Biake, Simon Mollnay, Jas.
Border, Jno. Maxwell, Geo.
Castner, Jno. Morgan, Dennis
Cramer, Jacob Miller, Andrew
College Jas. Miller, John
College, David Pearson, Francis
College, Wra. Price, David
Carpenter, David Plurner, John"
Davis, John Powley, Henry
Davis, P. R. Ralston, David
Davis, Martin Smith, David
Dangherty, Jas. Smith, Jno. W. Jr.
Everheart, David Sbimer, W. H. H.
Fishel, Geo. Shoemaker, Benj.
Ferguson/Jno. Shoemaker, Austin
Fluok, Oliver Schwartz, Samuel
Gates, Martin Stooerook, Simon
Gates, Sam'l Straiey, Jamcs
Gates, Win. Seabrook, Geo.
Greenland, Thos. Tetwiler, Jacob
Garret, Jno. Tetroiler, Wm.
Hartman, J. P. Thompson, David
Hays, Alex. Tasker, Geo.
Heltzel, Jonathan Young Edwin
Young, George
The following are the members from Bed
ford Couoty, in Kuhn's Cumberland County
Company, now somewhere in tbe U. S. service.
Ist. Lieut. Adam Weaverling,
William Riley, John Manspeaker,
Isaac Barubart, Benja. Riley,
Wilson McFeatora, Henry H. Hixon,.
Geo. Manspeaker, Francis Pee,
David Weaverling, Cornelias Mellot,
John Mello'tt, John Veacb,
Reuben Bralier, David Mors,
Wm. Wilkios, Joaephus Wilkins,
Henry Frazey, Frederick Frazey,
Georgo Grimes, John Mehoney, •
John Strait, Stephen Seigle,
Adam Weaverling, Abram Swartx,
E. A. Funk, Wm. Carncll,
Joseph Armstrong, Rafc Seigle,
The following are the members from Bed
ford County, in Capt. R. L. Horrell's Blair 00.
Company, 84th Reg't, Pa. Vol. now near
Cumberland, Md.
Wm. B. Lvnbrifbt, Nathan Davis,
Benj. B. Walker, David Benton,
Samuel C. Burk, Anthony Oori,
W. A. Davis, Miobael Fry,
Josiah Fetter, Tbos. Garretson,
Wm. Harbaugh, Jason Harbaugh,
Joseph lokes, Jesse T. James,
John A. Knipple, Josiah D. Mock.
Wm. H. Miller, Daniel McDonald,
W. A. Peterson, Fred. Reinioger,
John B. Smith. .las. Weyaot,
John H. Walter, Morris Walker,
Asahel Walker, John 11. Weieel,
The following are the names of the members
from Bedford Cotmty in Capr. A. J. Crisa
man's Blair Co. Oetnp—Co. C. 84tb Reg't
Pa. Vol .now near Cumberland.
John Grimes, Peter Morningitar,
Nathaniel Sboup, Henry Grimes,
Felix Ricks, Jacob Grimes,
L. S. Reed, Jacob Rinard,
Silas White, Wm. R. Wiiner,
In Capt. [Wishart'd Company from Fulton
Co., in Kentncky, there are quite a number of
Bedford County men. If we bad tbeir names
we would publish them.
GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN ON THE TRENT
AFFAIR.
We have occasionally given extracts from
Mr. Train's Union speeches and lectures io
England, iu which he has battled nobly and
successfully for the right cause, despite of op
position, or lack of sympathy. In a speech
made in London, on the 231 of Deo. upon trie
Trent affair (of course long before soy indica
tion of Secretary Seward's rep ly bad reached
England,) Mr. Train made oertain predictions,
or rather expressed certain opinious regard
ing the eourso which our Government ought,
aDd he thought, would take in the matter. —
The coorso takca by the Government has been
so almost word for word, as mentioned in this
speech, as to render the prediction remarkable
aud the receipt of the news from the Uoited
States, will almost excite the belief that Mr.
Train must have had a spiritual telegraphic
communition with bis eouutryrsen so exactly
have his hopes been fullfilled, Mr. Train
said:
"Young men seen and not heard,'
says the proverb, but the same sage wrote
"that gravity was a mysterious carriage of tho
body to cover up tba defects of the mind."—
In former speeches I have touched upon the
Trent affair, but I have since modified my views.
Wise men change their minds, fools never do.
(Langhter.l Not professing to be very wise, or
to claim unusual stupidity, I beg to whirl on
the Trent question, at first, patriotism over
shadowed judgment, and 1 said give up the
men at the point of the cannon. I now 6ay
io any case, give up the mer.l [Cheers.] On
comparing notes all the analogies have fallen
to the ground. Everett ao<2 Sumner have
been handsomely floored io the Liurooa case
[yes, and hear] —and Bonaparte, MeMsnns,
and the Carolina seizures are not analogous to
the Trent. [Bear, hear.] The water runs
through them all. Lord Stowall, Wheaton,
Pbillroore, Kent, Parson, Pratt, Vattoll, Puf
feodorf, and oven old Grotias, decline to give
tbeir assistance. It seems the Mason and
Slidell capture is entirely original with Wilkes.
International law has not provided for it. My
opinion begau to waver some'days sinoe, aDd
when the author of the "Maratime Law of
Natioos." gave Lord Palmerstou his special
decision, If was convinced that the Ameri
cans had not got a ieg to stand upon.—
[Cheers.]
"My countrymen do Dot doubt my loyalty,
[No and applause] and I would not take this
course did I not tbink it more mauly to ac
knowledge an error than to persist io the wrong
at the risk of the war. Hear and loud cheers.]
Napoleon has already decided the question—
so why speak of arbitration? His circular is
oodorsed by all the Courts iu Europe. As usu
al, he has stepped in ahead of the world, and
absorbed all the credit. [Laughter.] He did
the eatne at Pekio, and at the Crimea carried
off the glory —and once more he enters the
field of dipiomooy just in time to take away
all the thunder? [Applause and laughter.]
In conclusion, I again say give up the. men!
I hope that Seward will do it graciously, that
he will send them over in a war ship—[cheers]
—that he will meet with a manly spirit the
haughty demand of this proad nation. Nay,
more, 1 hope that some one will have tho fore
eight to do an act of humanity to some brave
soldiers who may freeze io the snow bank, or
perish iu the icebed if they attempt that cold
winter journey of six hundred miles—an aot
of courtesy to England even though just now
she does not deserve it. A little thing of
itself, but something that will be reoorded to
our credit. 1 mean and hope that the Cabinet
of Washington wilt not only give up the men,
but will send a despatch to Halifax, offering
a free pass through Portland, to the bold win
ter army ! —[applause]—at the expense of the
American people —[oheers] —on their way to
Canada. [Loud applause.] America is proud
and sensitive, but it is the pride of honor, and
she can do this gracious aot with dignity to
herself, and gain the good will of the civilized
world. [Applause and cheers.] The honor
able gentlemen says it was an outrage. Admit
it, but is that a cause for war? [Yes.] You
are right sir, but don't forget that America re
fused to go to war iu 1812, till England had
captured some fourteen hundred of our citi
zens— [hear, bear,] —and if England showed
the same forbearance, she would not go to war
until we bad committed thirteen hundred and
ninety eight more outrages of a similar nature.
[Loud laughter and cheers."]
THE RELEASE OF SLIDELL AND MAJSON.—
Prentice, in bis Louisville Journal , remarks
that—
"Mason and Slidell have been invaluable to
the United States. We gave them in exchange
for the neutral freedom of the seas, to secure
whioh has been the object of our earnest en
deavor sinoe we were first a nation. Tho rebel
commissioners are the debased coin whioh we
have paid out and thus secured to the paeifie
commerce of the world perpetual exemption
from seizure and search by beligerent powers!
This is putting Mason and Slidell to a better
use tban detaining them in Fort Warren, or
even hanging them. Who would Dot bo de
deiighted to see tbe must atrocious murderer
pardoned under tbe gibbet, if, by bis pardon,
tbe world could evermore bo exempted from
tbo crime of murder?"
THE FOLLOWING particulars of the lato bat
tle between Colonel Garfield and General
Humphrey Marshall, at Preatonsburg, Ken
tucky, we tako from tbo Louisville Journal of
the 18th:
Mount Sterling, Jan, 15. Last Friday
Col. Garfield's forces, on the Big Sandy, over
took Gen. Marshall, on bis retreat, three miles
from Preston eburg, up Middle Creek. T&e
latter, being eorely pressed by '9OO of Gar*
field's men, prepared for battle by placing his
'cannon so as to sweep the approach up th 6
valley of the creek, and bis infantry on the
sides of the high bills adjtoenc to the valley.—
Indeed the hills are high and abrupt enough to
be called mountains. Tbejforoe seems to have
been very properly placed, but Col. Garfield
concluded that be bad no use for the creek
valley, and ordered bis forces along the brow
of the bill, and thus he bad only Marshall's
iufantry to contend with, the cannon answering
no purpose.
About ten o'elook p, m., Garfield's advance
of 900 men compelled Marshall to. face about
and defend hiuiaclf. After fighting a couple
of hour 6, a reinforcement reached the scene of
action, and with the 900 already engaged were
too muoh for the fat General. However be
kept bis men k togetber, defending ithcmseltes
till dark, and in the darkness he retreated all
night. Garfield's men were exhausted by their
forced march to overtake the rebel army, and
laid on their arms till morning, when they in
tended to move in pursuit. Marshall's force
it was understood, was about 3,000, and rumor
says Marshall lost 150 in killed. A gentle
man from this county who was an amateur vol
unteer, (there were several 6ucb,) says be
counted tweDtjetwo of Marshall's killed on a
small piece of ground. The Union loss of
killed and mortally wounded was only about
six, but about thirty others were wounded.—
Marshall's men were not all armed, it ia be
lieved, or else they shot badly.
The road up middle creek, and tneuco up
llcaver creek, which heads near the head of
Kentuoky river, is about as direct to the
Pound Gap, as that np SaDdy by Hikoville,
and the river is avoided by the former route. —
The mouth of Jenny's creek, where the skir
mish was on Wednoeday, is three miles rrom
Paintsville, and about fourteen miles from Prea
lonsburg. The battle on Friday was three
miles beyond Prestonsburg, up Middle creek,
so that it will be seen that Marshall was re
treating with all possible haste. On Wednes
day he burnt his baggage-wagons and contents
so as not to be incommoded iu his flight, yet
it seems that a portion of Garfield's men Could
pursue a little faster than Marshall could re.
treat, as they overtook him in a race of about
reventeen miles, he having about four miles
the start. GeD. Marshall is too bulky to run
fast and Garfield was so ungallaut as not to
allow him time to blow.
Three of Marshall's men returned to this
oounty after the Jenny's Greek skirmish.—
They say they have found their tights, and
now they hope to be let alone. Marshall's
wgon mister, who is an old man from Morgan
county, also returned to hie home, having
nothing to do in the army after the wagODs
were burnt up.
A Story of Hie War ia Kentueky.
A Campbellsvilie (Ky.) correspondent of the
Louisville Democrat , tells us the following
story :
"I have now before me a letter to a friend
from a private in Colonel Haggard'sjoavalry
regiment stationed at Columbia. The writer
was formerly a justice of the peace, is a rough
specimen of mountain character, is fondjof his
grog and a good joke, and always ready for a
fight whenever it may suit the conveoieice of
his country's enemies. His name is Andrew
Jackson Garmon, (ratbor significant of the
pugnacious propensity.) It seems that 'Squire
Garmon took a very active part in favor of the
Union cause in Cumbealand, (bis OWQ oouotv,)
Monroe and Metcalf counties, last summer and
fall, captured souie twenty bead of contraband
mules and several bors3s, and bad a hand in
bringing to a boat on the Cumberland river, :
engaged in the contraband buiincst—in a ;
word, 'Squire Garmon was a terror to the Se- (
cesb generally in that locality, rendering him. :
self obnoxious to their blood-thirsty proclivu j
ties.
"Some ten or fifteen days since, 'Squire |
Garmon learned that his family were ail down '
siok with the measles, and determined to visit j
them, cost what it might. So he obtained a j
furlough from his gallant Colonel under pro- i
test that ho (Garmon) would never return to (
bis regiment. The first or seoond night after
his arrival home, the Socesh, his old neighbors j
and relatives, twenty-eight sirCbg, armed ctp - j
a-pie, visited his house and rapped at bis door !
The 'Squire hailed tbeai; no answer. Ho j'
sprang out of bed, gathered up his irons, and .
lighted a candle, when he discovered three j
men in his dining room, and firtsd ut them.—
they all scampered out of the house, one falling j
dead at the door. The captain theu ordered j
him to coino out, which ho refused to do, and ;
in turu invited them to come iu and exchange i
bullets there. This they -declined o do, anJ •
immediately opened are on his house through t
the doors and windows, the 'Squire returned j
the fire as fast as be ooald. This was kept up, ;
the 'Squire thinks about one hour, when his j
assailants left, leaving three dead in the yard ■
and carrying off five mortally wounded (since
dead.) The 'Squire then lighted up the house,
and his sick family came out from tbeir hiding
plaoes. Not a whole paue of glass remained
in seven windows. Three balls had entered
the posts and rails of his daughter's bed, she
being too unwell to get up; twenty-five balls !
were found io his wife's bed-tick, and the fur
niture of his bouse was literally riddled.
"The 'Squire's personal casualties were as
follows :—One ball severed a finger, another
bled him in the temple, a third crossed bis
breast severing his shirt bosom, a fourth pass
ed through bis hat, and a fifth unbuttoned his j
shirt-sleeve. He thinks they must have fired
some two hundred rouude at htm; but none the
worse for wear, he is ready to repeat the ope
ration whenever they a*e.
"The cool and deliberate mannor in whioh
tbo Squire details the reoountre to bis friends,
aside from his reputation for veraeity, gives
the highest assurance of its entire truthful.
DOM."
QJF*" Reader have you seen Prof. Wood's ad
vertisement in our paper. Read it; it will ir. -
terest you.
Later frofii Europe.
HALIFAX, Jan. 26.—The steamship Europa
arrived here last night, with dates to the 11 tb
from Liverpool, and to the 12th by telegraph
via Queonstown.
(JREJT BRIT JIX.
Notwithstanding the pacific solution of the
American question, warlike preparations were
continued at Woolwich.
Mr. Seward's despatch was considered in
Cabinet Council on the 9tb. The Times un
derstands that an answer will be returned, ex
pressing gratification at the disavowal of Com
modore Wilkes' aot, accepting the satisfaction'
rendered, and assuming that the precedent in
the Trtnt esse will role the case of the Eugen•
ta Smith.
As to the genera] discussion of the law of
neutrals, the Government will decline any an
swer until tbey have had the oportunity of
submitting the whole question to the law offi
cers. There are propositions in this note
which are not at all admissible, and after the
delivery of the prisoners these points may bw
properly discussed.
The Londro Past announced that a thorough
understanding had been arrived at with the
American Government. Not only had they
given the required reparation, but in tfting so
Mr. Seward will have succeeded in impressing
on the English Government the notion that
tbey have uot only obtained the present in
demnity, but no small pledge of rnture se
curity.
The Daily J\/ews eulogizes the coarse of the
Washington Government and denounces the
course of the Times and Post.
The Timet denounces the stone blockade as
a most atrocious crime.
The United States gun-boat Tuscarora and
tho pira'e A'as'-m l: are at Southampton. Th*
Tuscarora is at her anchorage, a mile frous the
dock, with fires banked up, and ready to slip,
anchors and start at a moment's notice.
She only required eoals, water and provis*
ions, which were being supplied to her. Capt..
Craven, ou his arrival, asked permission to fire
twenty-one minute guns in respect to Prinee-
Albert, but the Qieen having requested that
no guns should be fired in the vicinity of Os*
borne, the eourteey, though fully appreciated,
could not he accepted. The con
tinued at her dock.
The Government have observed the strictest
neutrality towards ber. Nothing was permit*
ted to be done except what was necessary to
make her sea worthy. Neither powder, guna
nor munitions have been put on board.
Puring the night of tie 9th inst. three arm*
ed men from tho Tuscarora were discovered re
connoiteriog the Ntis Aville, and were ordered
off by the Dock Superitcndent.
No official notice was given at Portsmouth
respecting any discbarge of hired mechanics
or laborers, but it is understood that the re
duction takes place in April.
The Loudon Times saya that rumor fixes
England's expenses, owing to the late difficul
ty, at but ibe Times expects
that when all the bills are io it will be double
that sum, and that the money has not been
thrown away.
The Times tinccrly bopos that Englishmen
will not give these fellows—Mason and Siidell
—anything ic the shape of an ovation. The
civility due to a foe in distress is all that they
can claim. England has returned them good
for evil; and even now their only effort will boi
to entangle her into war with the North. Eog*
land would have done ju9t as much to rescue
two negroes.
The Morning Herald is surprised that the
Government has not given orders to the au
thorities at Southampton to warn the Tuscaro
ra that she must either quit the port at once,,
or wait until twenty-four hours have elapsed
after the departure of the . Yashville. We.
should not, says the Herald , have allowed the
.Yashville to lie iu wait within tho mouth of
the Mersey for American packets and mer
ebaut-men; therefore we cannot, withont a
gross violation of our duty as neutrals, allow
the Tuscarora a license we should have refused
• her enemy.
The Herald holds out that the course of tho
I French authorities at. Martinique between the
! Iroquois and Sumter as an example to follow.
Mr. Ilu9sell, in his correspondence to the
Times, predicts that the fate of the American
Government will be sealed if January passes
without some great victory.
FRAJ\ CE. ,
There is said to be much satisfaction ic offi*
cial circles at the settlement of the Trent
affair, which caused a rise of 1 per cent, on
Bonree.
The Moniteur denounces the stone blockade.
A telegram from Cadiz says that the Ameri
can Consul bad received orders to protest
against the admission of the Sumter. It is
said that Spain will protect the prisoners
brought by the Sumter.
RUSSIA.
The Journal of St. Petersburg publishes anr
I artiole congratulating Mr. Seward on the upi
i Tightness and intelligence of his policy, and
demanding that the Trent affair may become
; the starting point of negotiations by the Pow
| era of the common principles upon the question
| of neutral fligs.
The artiole also expects that England will
■ give to tho world solemn guarantees for the fu
ture by signiog a convention which, by ensur
i tug universal respoct for the rights of neutrals;
would contribute to the maintenance of peacu
, and mark the progress of oivilisatiou.
THE BITTLE MMILL SPRING.
FURTHER PARTICULARS
CINOINNATI, Jan. 24. —This morning's pa
pers contain full aooouats of the battle at
Mill Spring. It was a fair, open battle. —
The Rebels fougbt well, and wore overcome
only by superior fighting ou our aide. Ac*
coidiog to the Rebel accounts, their forces
consisted of tea infantry regiments, three bat
teries and some cavalry—altogether about ten
thousand men. They fought in the bushwhack
ing style—from ravines and behind tree x
bushes and rocks.
The brunt of the battlo devolved on the
Fourth Kentueky, Second Minnesota, Ninth
Ohio aud Teeth Indiana. For nearly two
hours the roar of Msuketry was kept up.—
L Sboitly after eleven o'clock Col. kiaskios eue.
i ceodvd in clanking the enemy ou toe CXireoio