iseiniateelik Oink. Wit. LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor A. TYHURST, Associate Editor. Tic RMS.—. THE Guinn is published twice a week at $1.60 a year-75 cents for eta months-40 cents for three mortthe—in admire. • 'HUNTINGDON, PA. Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 28, 1882, Our Flag Forever. . .{ 4 OOVPO NOTICE. We have not the time nor the incli nation, to dun personally, a large num ber of persons who have unsettled ac counts upon our books of several years standing. We shall, therefore, from day to day, without respect to persons, place into the hands of a Sustice for collection, all accounts of over two years standing. All those who wish to save expense, will do well to give us a call immediately. § § NEW TERMS An Orphans' Court printing, including Adininlitrator'e And Executor's Notices, all Auditor's Notices, occasional advertisements, &c., must hereafter be paid for in advance. Executors and Administrators owing us at present, will please come forward And settle. , The Trent Affair. The Philadelphia Press says that by the steamer City of New York, which left Queenstown on the 9th inst., we learn that news of the surrender of Mason and Slidell reached London on the preceding day, and so immediately re-established confidence, .that , Consols at once advanced from one tom - ' and a quarter per cent. In England, there fore, "the long agony is over." The joint preparations for the worst, made by Lords Palmerston and Russell, on their own responsibility, without con sulting the pleasure of Parliament, have been thrown away. It is esti plated that a s much expense as $5,000,- fOOO was thus most needlessly incurred ?by no means a desirable outlay, at a moment when the Financial Minister will have to announce to Parliament a deficit of nearly $20,000,000 on the year's revenue. In all probability there will be a change of Ministry In England before the end of March—if not earlier.. The' adjustment of the Trent difficulty will clear the way for :the displacement of Palmerston and Russell. No ADVANCE MOVEMENT.—The Wash ington correspondent of the New York Express, in a letter dated January 22, says : "Your readers may set their ;minds at rest about any advance move ment of the army of the Potomac.— 'Officers and their regiments and divi sions may receive orders to be in read iness to move at a moment's notice. Gen. McClellan's twenty-four baggage wagons, including arrangements for eating and sleeping, with weli•matched bright bays, may be in good running trim, but an advance movement of the army of the Potomac at present, and for ninety days to come, is out of the ques tion. The winter of this region has just commenced, and the roads are frightful. A piece of hard ground upon which to manceuvre an army of 25,000 men can scarcely be found be tween this and Richmond. This state of affairs, it is feared, may prevail at" the West, where . tho grand army has so auspiciously commenced active oper ations." 'TELE Van Wyck Investigating Com snittee aro doing good work, and aro drawing the defrauding contractors over the coals in a manner not at all pleasing or agreeable to them. We Trope every coutractdr, sub-contractor, :and every other person who has had a band in swindling the Government may 'be exposed, and forever held in the .contempt they so richly deserve. No body but a traitor would suck the heart's blood of his Government in a time like this, and those who have done so, should be rewarded with the traitor's fate. Some of the home deal ers in this vicinity aro not a little frightened about their prospects of an examination before the Investigating Committee. Murder will out and so will dishonest dealings. Now that the Trout affair is settled, we can once more regard ourselves as safe from all foreign invasion, for the present, at toast, and can now attend to the rebels with a ten-fold vigor, and before the ides of next October, we hope to hear of the glorious old Stars and Stripes floating proudly and un molested, over every inch of American soil, respected, loved, honored and feared by. the whole world, We do pot wish to be considered spiteful, but .we hope we shall have revenge for the fuss made by England, in the Mason _and Slidell difficulty. "Day is dawn ing." Blue sky can bo seen - through the dark vapor which has enshrouded us for the past year, and men whose hearts are good and true, rejoice at the flattering prospects before us. WM THINK. it - will not be disputed that the present House of Represents- 1 tives at Harrisburg is a great improve r ment over previous sessions for some years. There is a larger number of men there this winter who have the confidence of the people to lose—fair characters to damage,—and, therefore we may expect good results from the labors of the present House. True, there is a number of men occupying seats who wore elected solely because they were prominent and noisy poli ticians—men whose chief claim to the position was of a party character— they, of course, will watch closely the ups and downs of party, and servo party first and all the time, on every question or measure proposed for con sideration. But such men arc in the 'minority in numbers, ability, and it is to be hoped, in influence, -and can do but little, if any, mischief. How NAPOLEON PUNISHED SWIND LING IN HIS ARMY.—Just before the groat battle of Wagram, while the army was encamped on the Island of Lobau, near Vienna, Napoleon walked one day with one of his Marshal's on the shore, passed a company of grena diers seated at their dinner. " Well, my friends," said he, " I hope you find the wine good ?" "It will not make us drunk," replied one, " there is our cellar," pointing to the river Danube. The Emperor, wile had ordered a bot tle of wine to each . man, was surprised, and made an immediate inquiry. Ho found that forty thousand bottles sent by him a few dayabefore, for the army, had been purloined and were UMW counted for by the Commissaries. They wery immediately brought to trial and condemned to be shot, which sentence was speedily carried into ex ecution. Here was a venal offense, in significant, indeed,when compared with the frauds upon the urgent wants and necessities of our soldiers, recently brought to light, but it received a se vere and merited punishment. A few such examples in our army would do a world of good. br.3 - The manufacture of tobacco has just been started on an'extensive scale in Pittsburg, Penna. The Dispatch says : " Six firms in Pittsburg and ono in Alloghany, are now engaged in manufacturing chewing tobacco. Since the business has been fairly entered into, it has proved so successful that there is now no doubt of its becoming permanent and of being carried on after the causes which led to its com mencement have ceased to exist.— Richmond will no longer be the Mecca of tobacco worshippers, since the source of supply will be found so much nearer home. The tobacco which reaches this city in huge hogsheads, containing from one to two thousand pounds, is, we believe, obtained from the great tobacco market of the North THE BROAD Top ItoAn.—We learn that additional steam power is being put upon this road, to enable shippers of coal to supply the demand. Tho road has been doing a heaCy business for months—trains are most con stantly arriving.at and departing from this point. The gold mines of Broad Top are distributing wealth to many and comfort to thousands. Ono build er informs us that he has already con tracted to put up fifty new dwellings on Broad Top next Season. RVs WANT . OIIC new subscriber, a loy al man, to take the place of a fire-eat ing locofoco who has discontinued * the Globe. We must have the new sub scriber or the Globe will.g9 to smash. A few would-be Democrats in this county, who sympathize with the reb els, are becoming desperate now that they have become convinced that Jeff. Davis' army cannot take Washington. Poor devils! , A CURIOSITY.—Wo were shown last week, by Mr. Win. March, of Coffee Tun, an egg within an egg. The out side egg-measured 7 by 9 inches in circumference. The egg within the largest was the size of a largo sized chicken egg, and was perfect in every respect. Besides the smaller egg, the larger one contained only the white of an egg. The shells of both eggs were hard and perfect. SHORT Loom.s.—lt gives us pleasure to announce the gratifying intelligence that all the ladies of this place are still strenuously in favor of Union to a man. —The party on last Thursday eve ning was a tip top affair; and was de cidedly, the party of the season.— Glazier Nash, of Company C, Fifth Penna. R. C., was home on a visit to his family last week.—Rev. John D. Stewart, of Tyrone City, preached in the Methodist Church on Sunday:— The citizens ofJohnstown are urgently memorializing Congress to have the proposed National Foundry located at that place.—About two inches of snow fell in this vicinity on Friday night last, and on Saturday the tintin abulations of the merry sleigh bells could be heard almost constantly.— The Penna. Railroad Company changed their schedule on Monday. See table in another column.—Wharton and Crawford of the Senate, and Scott, of the House,. have our thanks for pub. does.---The Congressional nomina tion is already beginning to be agita ted by some of the politicians.—A young man named Alexander, of Ju niata township, a member of Capt. J. D. Campbell's company, died in camp last week; and his remains were brought home to this county by his parents, on Saturday, to bo buried,- Acknowledgments. List of articles received by the ladies of the Soldiers' Aid of Huntingdon, up to Dec. 28, 1861, at which time two boxes were forwarded to Palmyra, Mo., and one to the " Ladies' Aid" of Philadelphia. Mrs. Hamer, material for slippers', canton flannel and calico. Miss Ada Wise, woolen stockings and 1 pr. mittens. Mrs. Ann Eliza Wise, soaks. Miss Mary Jane Wise, do. Master Anderson Given, (three yrs. old,) - one blanket. - Mr. A. B. Cunningham, 6 yards can ton flannel and thread. Mrs. A. S. Harrison, tomatoes, cat su and hair pillows. Mrs. Dr. Griffith, apple butter, grape jelly, blackberry , jam - and dried apples. Miss Maria Steel, feather pillows, cases, herbs and tracts. Miss Betsey Steel, herbs and dried raspberries. Miss Patty Steel, feather pillowS. " Kato Bupp, pocket handker chiefs and catsup. Mrs. A. W. Benedict, jar currant jelly. ' Miss D. Mosser, 2 feather pillows, 4 pillow eases; comfortable and quilt. Miss Jane Orr, 4 pocket bandk'fs. " Christina Low, pocket hand kerekiofs, corn starch, drugget and canton flannel. Mrs. Jno. Williamson, 2 prs. drawers. " • Dunn, Portstown, sheet, towel, handlirChiefs; blackberries and dried apples.'Mrs. David §na.re, dried apples, to matoes and wiping for guns.. Miss C. Hirst, pocket handkerchiefs. Mrs. John Hildebrand. tomatoes, feather pillow and case, shirt, hand kerchiefs and dried apples. Mrs. Robert King, material for slip pers. Ilirs,•A. , A. Jaeobs, , eataup, tomato jelly and beef. Mrs. Rhoda Fisher, tomatoes. " C. Decker, tordatoes. Miss Critic Speedy, note paper, en velopes, pins and canton flannel. Mrs. C. King, tomatoes, catsup and elderberry wine. Mrs. Mary Decker, tomatoes, hand kerchiefs and flannel. Mrs. Dennis, muslin, &e. Charley Willoughby, 1 pr. mittens Minnie Mellurtrie, (8 years of age, 2 needle books. Prom juvenile Soldiers' Aid, 38 pin cushions. 2 needle books, 14 handker chiefs, 15 housewives filled with but tons, thread, From ladies of Shade Gap througl Mrs. Amanda C. Blair. , Mrs. Amanda C. Blair, 2 blankets, 3 quilts, 9 pillows, 3 pairs slippers, six towels, compresses, bandages, &c. Mrs. S. Wiestling, 4 pairs stocking; 3 doz. pin cushions and muslin. Mrs. S. S. hunt, 1 quilt, yeast cakes, newspapers, &c. Mrs. Martha Hudson, 2 pr. stockings. " Mary Hudson, 1 pr. do. The Misses Sipes,•4 pai'rs stockings and stationery. Mrs. A. I. Taylor, 2 piss. stockings. Miss C. R. Weistling, 1 pr. stockings books and pin cushions. Miss Collie A. Blair, I pr. stockings 2 handkerchiefs and 1 doz. pin cushions J. Chalmers Blair, two woolen com forts, combs, buttons, &c. Donations in money as follows: Nov. 17, Episco. Church, Hunt., $2 73. Nov. 17, Episco. S. School, " 60. " 25, Pres. Church,. " 12 24. " 25, Pres. S. SelidOl. " 3 82. " 29, M. E. Church, " 8 41. " 29, M. E. S. School, " 2 06. The money received'from the Sab bath Schools was invested in books and sent to Louisville, Ky., to the hospital in charge of ' Dr.' Knight, viz.: 40 sol diers' Pocket diaries, 20 soldiers' tract series, 100 Hymn Cards, 40 Cromwell Bibles. The sum of 89 79 was received front sundry persons, viz.: Mrs. J. P. An derson, 83 00, Mrs. Jauo Glasgow, 25 cts., Lizzie McMurtrie: 25 cts., Minnie McMurtrie, (8 years) 10 cents, Maggie McMurtrio, (5 years) 5 cents, and the residue from members of the society. A largo 'number of contributions hare been received from members of the society and others which have been omitted. OUR CORRESPONDENCE. The Old Country Chap. (DLSIONED FOR TAE AZIDING OP lIUMITCO DO ZI1511119.) A : good joke was related. to us a few evenings since by an " Old country chap," the purport of which I hero give. At the trial of Jno. M. Davis, be fore the court of Huntingdon ast week, he being eharged,with homicide, one by name was taken as witness. When called upon by the court for his evidence, he took his po sition and told them all he knew; after ho had finished, a lawyer in front arose and proceeded to cross:examine him, when another came up on his left, an other on his right, and' a fourth ad vanced in the rear, and they began questioning him on all sides; but th e "old country chap" not being accus tomed to such critical examlnings, be came somewhat embarrassed, and he began to issue forth in Welch a torrent of answers to the multitudinous ques tions of his four examiners, when the ono in front became astounded and shrank back into the , Seat, he had for merly occupied, and then the second, third and fourth fell back on a " double quick" but as' noiselessly as though their life was suspended upon the qui etude of the moment. Not a word was uttered for many seconds, and the questioning lawyers looked all amazed and terrified, their hair standing straight on end and their mouths gap ing wide open as though they wore prepared to swallow some alligators or anacondas. The silence was at length broken by one of the questioners, who asked of another in an undertone, " What lan guage does ho speak ? it is not Latin, nor Greek, nor French, nor German, nor is it anything else that I know of, &e. Suoh remarks were general among the assembly, and as no ono ap peared to understand his language the examiner, who stood in front while questioning, but was now resting on his chair, rose cautiously from his seat, and tremblingly asked what lan guage he spoke, if language it was at all. Tbe'"Old country chap" prompt ly answered—Veloh—sir - : at this an nouncement the pleader for justice was more amazed than before and fell back again on his cbair,exclaiming W-e-l-c-h, W-e-1- - e-h,' who ever heard of such a language,T and it occasioned a great commotion among the mem bers of the.bar,. ; tis none of them had ever before heard there was such a tribe; again our amiable lawyer took courage t and rising to his feet nervous ly inquired here the people lived that used thra:pecnliar language ; in Wales, quickly replied the " old coun try chap." I . 4AWn goes the examiner again, and it .mighty uproar followed, each one trYliig,to find out whether there was such a place on this globe, or whether he had come from the moon or had risen from the dead, when a sprightly you - 1)g lawyer sprung upon the floor and cried out in a loud tone, " I'll tell you who this people ant that talk Whales, they must be the descend : ants of Jonah who was swallerod by ono of them • varmints." "Stop," chimed in the 'old country cltp,"' I didn't say whales, I said Wales; it's a country attachotto England and sub ject to queen " "Oh! yes! yes!" cried the gratified assembly of law yers, quite glad to receive this infor mation, which, likely, . they will not soon forget. "Ali !" said one, " this old country chap' is too long over for us," and finding the language he used to be a puzzle to them, the wit ness was dismissed, the lawyers right glad to' get through with this cross examination, by which they had inten ded to use up the " old country chap," but had been used up most by it, them selves. Our " old 'country chap " here is the same that fell down the stairs of the Broad Top Howie, and on waking up to his senses found himself in the cel lar among the - whisky barrels with a sore shin and bruised head; he now occupies his • old quarters on Broad Top, quite satisfied not to visit "ye ancient borough" soon again. B. W. C. Coaltnont, Jan. 22, 1862. Our Army Correspondence. CA:ur CALIFORNIA, VA., Jan. 23, '62. Ma. EDlTORS:—Thinking that your numerous readers of the Globe would be interested in some news from the 53d Reg. P. V., I shall endeavor to write a feiv line's for your paper. Our Regiment left Camp Curtin some time in November and Caine to Washington. We first encamped about ten miles_ from the city on the Maryland side of the river, and called the place Camp Brooke (after our Colonel), and re mained there two or three weeks, when ono waning no less than thirty-four army wagons came to move us across the river. You may well suppose the boys were all in a glee then. Tho idea of moving into the Old Dominion, or treading on the "sacred soil of Vir ginia," made us all feel highly delight ed. Virginia is considered by the sol dier, before he enters it, as a land of battles and victories. It appears to have a charm for the soldier, like the plains of Italy had for Northern Bar barians in t e j,le time of the Romans.— Bright and early next morning we left Camp Brooke, crossed the river, and came to the place whore wo are now encamped, which is about three miles southwest otrilexandria„ and about tea miles from Washington City. We had a fine camp until the wet weather set in, but now it is exceedingly mud dy. The weather for the last week, has been such that ono could scarcely venture out for fear he would remain sticking in the mire. Still, with all this inclement weather, the men aro comfortable in their tents, having good camp stoves in them. On our right is encamped the 69th New York Regi ment, which proved so destructive to the rebels at Bull Run, and on our left, is the Ist Illinois Cavalry Regiment. Gen. French commands our Brigade, consisting of the 53d Penna. and the 52d, 61st, and 66th New' York Regi ments, upon the. whole quite a fine brigade. The brigade is iu Gen. Sum mers' division. Col. Brooks of the 53d P. V., is a gentleman and a soldier in every respect, being kind and lenient, still, when the case requires it, he shows the men that forbearance is not al ways a virtue, and duo justice is dealt out to them. He is greatly beloved by all the men. Indeed, too much praise cannot be bestowed upon all the officers in the regiment, and rest as sured whenever the opportunity pre sents itself, the 53d will do good work for the maintenance of our glorious Union; Last Monday our Regiment was'paid off. It did not cause an ex traordinary degree of excitement, ex cept in some instances where old Bac chus showed himself rather freely.— But these instances were few, from the fact that the men generally, are tem perate. Company C, (Captain Win trode,) sent nearly a thousand dollars !Wine to their wives and parents. This certainly speaks. far better of them than if they had kept it with them and spent it in camp. Moro anon. CLOSE QUARTERS. -A &cosh journal thinks that the best way to whip the Yankees, is to use the bayonet—and gives as a proof of the value of the re cipe, that in the last Italian campaign a regiment of ehasseurs a'pied routed the Austrians without firing a gun.— " Long range guns may do for the skirmishers (says this carpet knight) but for close quarters—with Yankees —the bayonet is the weapon." Now, this is just what the Federal troops have all along desired—the " chivalry" have beer. boasting (though not quite so loudly of late) that ono Southern man was in battle equal to four or five Northerners—but they have taken very special care not to come up to the scratch unless they knew their force was in the inverse ratio to their boasting, and they have depended upon their successes by their security from behind their fortifications, and their masked batteries are opened upon our unsuspecting troops. Zolticoffer, how ever, it appears, finding that ho was getting into rather a tight place, de termined to come out from his fortifi cations and give a chance for a fair fight, and the result •Is before the world—his army was beaten back to their entrenchments and behind their batteries—but it was but a ,momentary respite to them—the brave Indiana boys and loyal Tennesseeans, as soon as the morning light burst upon them, after the previous day's defeat of the rebels, boldly marched up to their bat teries with their bayonets presented, and placed the glorious stars and stripes over their ramparts, whilst the traitors bad fled with all speed across the river leaving everything behind. Pennsylvania Legislature, On Wednesday last on motion of ISIr: Wharton, the Senate proceeded to the consideration of bill entitled , 4 An Act to revive the warrants of Andrew S. Harrison, a collector of taxes in the borough of Huntingdon, county of Huntingdon." Mr. M'Clure called for an. explana tion of the bill. Mr. Wharton. It has been the prac tice of this body to pass bills of an - ex: actly similar nature. I recollect the passage of several of those bills at the last session. The present bill has re ceived the sanction of the Judiciary Committee, and, after being fully dis cussed by them, reported affirmatively. The circumstances are these :—A. S. Harrison wasa collector of the several taxes—military, state, county, &c.—for the borough of Huntingdon. The time of his warrant having expired, and there remaining an outstanding tax, for which his bail are partially respon sible, he desires the warrants to be re vived, for the purpose of enabling his bail and himself to collect the amount so•due. Ido not think that the pas sage of the bill would affect any gen eral principle, as the proposition is merely to apply to the revived war rant, to persons upon Whom the origi nal warrant was intended to operate ; no new parties can be affected in the matter, in any way. The subject is entirely local in its operations, and I hope the Senate will acquiesce in its passage. The bill then passed finally. RousE—ln the House on the same day, Mr. Rex of Montgomery, offered the following resolution : Resolved, That a select committee of five be appointed to examine into and investigate the contracts made by cer tain parties with the agents appointed by the Governor, for the furnishing of clothing, equipments and supplies to the Commissary Department for the use of the three months volunteers, called into service in compliance . with the requisition of the President, and ascertain, if possible, if any frauds have been committed upon the State, and if so, to report to this Rouse the nature and extent of such frauds, and to as certain, if possible, the name or names of the parties implicated. The com mittee shall also and into such other contracts and expenditures, made by the bead of the different depart ments of their agents; as they, in their judgment, may deem proper, and shall have power to send for persons and papers. This resolution was discussed at length by several members. Mr. Scott made the following remarks:— " While I have been a silent, I have not been an uninterested listener to this debate; and I am glad, sir, that it has• assumed the tone and character which' it has within the last few min utes. I rise, sir, not for the purpose of prolonging the debate nor to repeat what has boon, perhaps, so well said on both sides of the chamber, but I rise lost the tone and character of the debate within the last few minutes may give a mistaken direction to this investigation, which is now evident we shall have. The debate ; sir, within the last few minutes has seemed to assume that this resolution is aimed only at the in tegrity of the Governor. Now, sir, I hope—yes, I ardently hope that this investigation may show the record of the Governor to be pure and stainless; I hope the result will be such that no man who has voted upon this floor for the investigation can be charged in doing so, with an effort to embarrass the State or National administration. While it may bo one of the purposes of this inquiry to ascertain whether the Executive himself has boon guilty of any improper conduct, I trust it will not be lost sight of that these resolu tions are to go further. I trust, sir, we shall not forgot, as the gentleman from Chester, (Mr. Smith,)' has well said, that there have been traitors at home as well as traitors in the field; and while gallant mon aro bearing our standard afloat on the field of battle, shooting down armed traitors, let us attend to the traitors who aro stealing the sinews of war at home. If the in vestigation should even developo the fact that the Governor has been im posed upon in the hurry of the exigen cy which presied upon him in sending our troops into the field—if it develope the fact that mon have taken advan tage of his position for the very pur pose of putting their hands into the treasury and stealing away the life bleod of the government—if it devel ope that, let it not be lost sight of in any clamor about the Governor, or about it being either a Democratic or a Republican investigation. But, sir, the time has come, and it is upon us, when we must trample under our foot these apparitions of old dead parties, and rise up to vindicate the integrity of the country, let its administration be in whatever hands it may, and to punish corruption, let it be in what party it may. I go, sir, to the full es tent that the gentleman from Chester has gone, and I say, let us give the last dollar, let us 'give the last man in full integrity for the support, both of 6;3 State and the National administrations; but wheneverwe find a thief, stealing the dollars, shoot. him down, if it were pOssible, as you would shoot the trai tor who is on the field of battle in arms against us. If there be any difference in looking at the two classes,, the man who has the manliness to wine out openly and boldly and assails our gov ernment has at least the merit of cour age on his side, while the other man is a skulking thief, coming up behind the very ramparts of the government that defends him, and seeking to under mine it, PILUM And now, sir, I rise to say,.let tharo be no mis-reading on this subject.— Let it be understood that this is not an investigation aimed simply at the Gov ernor of the Commonwealth, I, sir, for one will give that officer all honor for every patriotic act ho has done, for every deed of self-sacrifice, fbr every exertion that put forth in that Execu tive department in raising, arming, equipping and sustaining our troops. I will give him credit for everything he has done; and I hope ibis investi gation may only serve to show that the clamor which has been raised is unfounded. Let us approach this question not merely as partisans, not with any prejudice before our eyes, not looking with distorted vision either at this man's act or at that man's act; but let us approach it, sir, as patriots, who look only at the one subject of the country : and look upon the integri ty both' of its officers and its people as the great means of preserving it. If this committee be raised, as I have no doubt it will be, then let its members approach the investsgation, with the desire to clear the Governor if he be innocent—to spread before the com munity the truth if he be otherwise.—_ Let the investigation be approached, not with a desire .to screen anybody, but to bring the-guilty of all shades; complexions, and parties -before, the public gaze and award them the pun ishment which their guilt deserves." WAR NEWS. THE ,WAR IN MISSOURI:, SEDALIA, Mo., Jan. 23.—Two com panies of cavalry, under Major L. Hal derman, of thb First Kansas regiment; left Lexington on' a reconnoitring 'ex pedition on the night of the nth, which resulted in the arrest of Captain Whiting, Joe' Shelby, and several other notorious rebel desperadoes, arid' the capture of a. large lot of horses, mules,,. wagons, commissary stores, ac., taken from Col. Mulligan's command, and a considerable quantity of boots 'arid shoes and'other articles taken from: the simmer Sunshine by the rebels, oine time since, all of which wererne,d over to the Union troops at Lexiffi"gton. Colonel Deitzler, of the Kansas First Regiment, in command at Lexingteli; announces, by a general order, 'that sits rebel ,assassins lurk in anibush and fire upon soldiers, he has therefore or dered to be arrested a large number of wealthy and influential Secessionists who give aid and comfort to Price'S army, whom be will hold responsible for the good behavior of their hirelings, and the assassination of one man of his command in thiS manner, will be followed by the shooting or hanging of five of these wealthy rebels. The Victory- in _Kentucky. Further Particulars of the Battle at Mill. Spring. CmciNNATi,Jan. 24.—Thismoi•ning's papers contain full accounts of the bat tle at Mill Spring. It was a fair open battle. The rebels 'fought well and were overcome only by superior fight ing on our side. According to the rebel accounts their forces consisted of ten inflintry , regi meats, three batteries and some cav alry, altogether about 10,000 mon. They fought in the bush whacking style, from ravines, and behind trees, and bushes and rocks. The brunt of the battle devolved on the Fourth Kentucky, Second Min nesota, Ninth Ohio and Tenth Indiana. For nearly two hours the roar of mus ketry kept up. Shortly after 11-o'clock, Col. Has kins succeeded in flanking the enemy on the extreme right, when tho 9th Ohio and 3d Minnesota charged with the bayonet, with triumphant yells, which broke the rebel ranks and the route began. They fled poll melt to their camp, strewing the road with muskets, blankets, overcoats and knap sacks, and abandoned two guns and caisons. Gen. Zollicoffer was shot through the heart, at the head of his staff, by Col. Fry, of the 4th Kentucky regiment. It appears. that Zollicoffer lost his way in the bushes, and suddenly emerged before Col. Fry, who was accompanied by some staff officers. The two par ties mistook each other for friends, and approached within a few yardS be each other, when finding their mistake both halted, and prepared for a hand to hand conflict. One of Zollicoffer's aids shot at Col. Fry, but only brought his horse down. The federal colonel immedi ately drew his six shooter and brought Zollicoffer from his saddle at the first fire. The rebel ' staff deserted their chiefs body, which was taken to Som erset the day after the battle. ,„ An East Tennessoen writing to the Commercial says all the gredit andion or of this battle is dub to the Tenth Indiana, Ninth Ohio, Fourth.Kentue ky, and Second Minnesota regiments, for they did all the fighting single handed with the exception that What support they received from the Artil lery. They all fought nobly, and nev er wavered from their fixed determi nation to gain victory. The comba tants were so. near each other at one time, that the powder burned their faces on the discharge of each other's pieces. M i~`4~ai ;i~i~~i~`tHaiZO~S+~`n~`i=f l~l;~ ~ ST. Louts, Jan. 24.—Several of the Secessionists of this city, who wore re cently assessed fir the benefit of the southwestern fugitives, by order of Gen. Ha!leek ' having failed to pay the assessments, their property has been seized within a day or two past under execution to satisfy the assessment, with 25 per cent, additional, according to general order, No. 24. ' Yesterday, Samuel Engler, a promi nent merchant, and ono of the assessed Secessionist; bad a writ of replevin served upon the Provost Mgrshal General, for property seized from him, whereupon he and his attorney,. Na thaniel Cox, were arrested and lodged in the military prison. - To-day, Gen. lialleck issued a special order directing the Provost Marshal General to send Engler boyond- the limits of this Departmet, and to notify him not to return without the permis sion of the Commanding General, un der tbe.penulty according to the laws of war. Gen. Halleck also adds that; martial law having been declared in this city, by the authority of the President of the United States, all the civil author ities, of whatever name or office, are hereby notified that any attempt on their part to interfere with the execu tion of any order issued from these Headquarters, or impede, molest or trouble any officer duly appointed to carry snob order into effect, will be re garded as a military offence and pun ished accordingly. et The Provost Marshal General will arrest each and exery person, of what, ever rank or offiee, who attempts in any way to prevent or interfere with the execution of any order issued from those Headquarters. Ho will call up on the Commanding officer of the De partment of St. Louis for the military assistance ho may require. FROM FLORIDA. p.vaiNonE w ho, ga, = - Tho 'Norfolk Buy Book has an, article from the Charleitmi - Mereur:o, headed "Iraperz tent from Florida," 'giving the partic ulars, of the capture of,Cedar Keys. There were three schOoneri and five fishing ,smacks - loading - there at the time theirankees took the place." The' schdoriers were - loaded with lumber and turpentine. - - . • Tbe Mercury's informant thinks - that they were - destroyed by the owners on Thursday night, as- soon. as it was as certained that the- Yankees intended to attack-the place.-- , The president or the railroad corn** wentdowifwith.. two companies of infantry to protect the property, and a message was - sent to Gen. Trapier for assistance. During- "Thursday firing was heard 'in the di rection of Cedar Keys, mid 'the Fed- - eralteet has no doubt takeni the place:. THE WAR IN MISSOURI. CAPTURE OF EIGHTYNEBBLS OP JEFF THOMPSON'S GANG. • •' Sr. Louis, Jan. 26.—Official dispatch es from Cape Girardeau state - that the expedition which left that place a few days since,' for Bentim and 13looni fields, has returned, having captured Lieut.- Col. _Varner ; eleven' other officers; and sixty-eight -privates,. of 'Jeff Ththup son's 'command.- Also, quite '2: , larger. number of arms, horses, saddles, ac. Official Anncrancement of the Victoiy.- ---The President' Hastens to do Honor to the Brave. ' " The follomirg general cirdi •in re spect to s ,the battlOof Mill Spring, (neat: Somerset, ICy.,) has just been issued: " GENERAL ORDER IN RESPECT TO TILE BATTLE AT AllLL.srnmo • "Wfin DEV.i;Jan. 22; 1862.• "The-President, Comniander-in-chief of the' army and navy,'has received information . of.. a brilliant Victory achieved by the United States , foreei over a largo body of armed 'traitors and rebels, at Mill 'Spring, in. the State of Kentucky. ' "Ho returns thanks to the gallant officers and - soldiers. Who won that victory, and when the 'official reports shall be received, the:"military skill and personal valor 'displayed' in the battle will be acknowledged , and i'e: warded in a fitting manner: - I ••' "The courage that encountered and vanquished the greatly'superior num; hers of the rebel force; pursued and at tacked them in their entrenchments, and paused not 'until the enemy was, completely routed, merits-and receives commendation. The purpose of thiS war is to attack, pursue and destroya • rebellious enemy, and to 'deliverl•lthe.- country from tho'dariger'menaced , bkx` traitors. Alacrity ; daring,- ceuragoona ,;•- spirit, and patriotic zeal, on ociciA sions and under every circurnstance;c are expected from the army of the United States. In the - prompt and spirited movements and daring battle_, of Mill Spring, the nation will rentlici,. its hopes, and the people; of the Uhited.l States will rejoice to honor every sol, dier and officer who proves his courage • by charging• with the bayonet midi storming entrenchments or in the blaze of the enemy's fire. _ " By order of the President, ' "EDWIN M. STAIATON, "Secretary of Wan"' The following Official order has been_ issued by the Secretary of War: "Ordered, That the "War Depart— ment will be closed, Tuesdays, Wednee— days, Thursdays and Fridays Ugainst, all other business but that - which .re lates to active military operations in', the field. " Saturdays wit bo devoted ti trio business of Senators• and ReprosOnta tivos. - " Mondays to the business of the pub "EDWIN M..SrANTON, ' " Secretary of War." Official Account of the Vibtory The following clesiMteh Sias received, at headipiarters to-night:. ' Loutsviro,..Tan.'22, 1861: To - Maj. Gcn,. McClellan, Commanding. the United Stateo Army:. The following has just been received, from Gen. Thomas : • Thereat of the cnotny was complete:. After succeeding in.getting two pieces of artillery across the •river,, and ups:. wards of- fifty wagons, he, abandoned the rest with all ; the ammunition iii the depot at Mill Spring: ..They.theii, throw away - their arms, , and.disßersedi through the mountain • ky-ways.in the. direction of Monticello,,but are so com pletely demoralized that I do not be lieve.they will make a stand short of Tennessee. ' : " The property captured on this , Bider of the river is .of great value, amount ing to eight six-pounders and two Par rot gun; with caissons.filled with am munition; about one hundredfour-borso wagons, and upwards of twelve huncirel horses and mules; several: boxes. of arms. which have never he' ell W 1 1.4 and from five hutuir6d t4nrke,thatWlTA muskets, (mostly: flint, locks, hat in good order;) submstence:stores enough to serve the entire, command fOr three days, and' a large amount Of .hpspital stores. • ' - ' -!•• "As soon as I receive the report, of the' brigade commanders, , I will. fur nish a detailed report of , the: Our lois, was thirty-nine JOU,: and One hundred and twentpseven. wonn-, ded. Among the, wounded were, .Col, McCook, of the, Ninth Obi% command-; ing a brigade, and his ald; Tdicntenant, Bart, of the 18th ; T.t,S. Infantry.,, The, loss of the rebels wait: •Zollieoffer and, ono hundred ,and feurteen, others id 11134 arid buried, one hundred, and sixteml wounded; and forty-five,.taken priSol acre, (not wounded,), five of whom are surgeotts,andincludingLientemint Carter, of the 17th Tennessee regiment ; ", General Tribm4s.!' ,D. C. Buzr.t. comma'g). • VARIETY ENvEtorEs.-7.—Colernan Bt do's 'splendid Variety Envelopes aro for sale at Lewis' Book Store. Thek make a very handsome- present for all ages. 'The jewelry is Or a better