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N Of übieripiton received torn ICISS time than SIX months; UllOllO paper will be diieontinued until all srrearagerarepnid,unlessat the optiono the pub- _ . 113-Moneynalrbe•emittedbymoil au hcpublisb. er Rates of Advertising. 0 1 a r([o inee]one week, #O5B three weeka, 75 eaeh 4 ulNequeaoagertion, 10 [1.2 inee]oneweek, three weeks, 1 00 eacllial.sequeitansertion. 25 1 0 ,rgertaverticernentii Proportion. Atibentl lieeoun twilibe made to quarterly,ltal( email et retrlyadvertieers,who are strietl)confined o their buAiness. *dry. For the Columba,. Spy Grieve Not for the Dead. BY PROF. T. R. VICKROY, A. B Grieve not for the dead! whom ye ardently cheris:mil, Though silent his voice in the circle at home; Though with him earth's hoe and fond longings have .perished, Ile's gone with tht blood-washed in Heaven to roam. Grieve not for the dead: Ile is sleeping, serenely, Where friendship has woven an evergreen wreath, Where flowers and herbage are apring'ng so greenly O'er the ncble young form wbo is slumbering beneath, Grieve not for the dead: Though he died not in battle, Where the proud Stars and Stripen no triumphantly wave; 'Mid the cannon's dread roar and the ma- fret ry's rattle, To roirgle his blood with the blood of the brave. Grieve not for the dead! Though be died among strangers, But strangers whose love his ingenuousness woni— He's escaped from life's woes—froth its sorrows 1/./11.1 dangers; His course, lie hes finished; his race, he has run. Grieve not for the lend. For with zeal unaboting lie was pressing to sieze the bright gent he'd descried; But Death poised his shaft while h s lips were trans. luting: the reign of Ti eri u the Lord Jesus died.. " Grieve not for the dead: !leaven's court's he's now trending; Ills mind is unclogged by its shackles of clay: hasks where Vlrtne her ractiance me sltedling-- Where the presence of God make.s perpetual day. Grieve not 101 the dead: Per ye, too, sorra shall meet him, \Were sorrow ar.. sighing shall be at an er.d. 'Mid choirs of angels and saints may ye greet him— Farewell for awhile, my dear comrade and friend. hhttcu 20th 1062. •Tlte young men referred to in this poem erns sud denly taken ill While translating the words: •"'Piberlo repianle, Quixote Inortuus est." lie died UM3ng straw gem utter 7J hours 11111054, Feb. lilt Exodus Mar ye not how, from all high palate of Time, peak to peak 'Blown the mighty chain That link the ages,—echoing sublime A Voice Almighty,—leaps one grand refrain, 'Wakening the generations with a shout, And trumpet call of thunder,—Come ye out! Out hem old forms end deed idolatries; from fading myths and superstitious dream•; Mom Chart/sate titimls :121li lies And all the limliage of the life thrt*.aeemst 031,—0n the pilgrim path, of heroes trot, Ursr earth's wastes, to reach forth after God! The Lord im:h bowed his Heaven, and come down: ,tipor, in 11114 latter century of lime, .Once more Ws tent is patched on Sinai's crown: Once more it rico& must Faith to meet Iliac climb: Puce more Ills thunder crashes on our doubt Anal fear and sin,—•'4lyiteople come ye outs nPront false ambitions and base luxuries; From puny aims and indoletst self-ends; From cant of faith, and shams of li be rties, And mist of ill that Truth'• pureidaY-beam bends Out, from all darkness of the Egypt-land, Joao my sun-blaze on the desert sand: `Leave ye your Besh•pots; tarn from .filthy greed Of gain doth the thirst mg spirit mock; And Heaven shall drop sweet manna for your need s And rein clear rivers from the unhewn rock! Thus sank the Lord!" And Moses—meek, unshod— Within the cloud stands hearkening to his God! Show us our Aaron, with his rod in flower! Oarllliriam, with her timbrel-soul in tune! And call some Joshua, in the Spirit's power, To poise our Mill of strength at point o f noon: God of our father,! over sand and sea, Still keep our struggling footsteps close to Thee! [At/antic Stfontlay TIIE BATTLE AT PEA RIDGE HOW THE VICTORY WAS GAINED. BRILLIANT BIPLOITS OP GENERAL SIGEL. BAYONETS VERSUS CAVALRY 1 14m,-moo-sarix) comrxisim. Heroic Action of an Artilleryman. ATROCITIES OF TELE INDIANS. (Special Correvpondenee of :be New York World.] BATTLE FIELD ON SUGAR. CREEE, BENTON COUNTY, Ark., March 9. Since the. date of my last letter we have experienced one of the most desperate con flict* ever witnessed on 4mericart soil. I cannot attempt to do justice to the great vic tory which otrr little band of heroes has so gallantly won over the combined legions-of the enemy. Even now while I attempt to collect my blurred and disconnected thoughts the sound of booming cannon and crack of the rifle rings in my ease, while yisiops of carnage and the flames of battle hover before ray eight. Three days of constant watching, without food or sleep, and the excitements of the struggle have quite unstrung my nerves. The Batik-Field. To enable you to understand better the situation of the battle-ground I append a brief'description of its location and vicinity. Fayetteville; thimost southerly point reached by Our advance, is twentylVe miles distant from Trott's store, or, as I have uniformly called it, Sugar creek. At a point one mile below Sugar creek the Rebels had a large camp during the spring, two regiments of Arkansians occupying it. At Cress Hollows, twelve miles further down, the Rebels had constructed about five hundred barracks of rough plank, furnished by a mill not far distant, and brick chimneys had been built from a brick-kiln about two miles below the creek. When our cavalry, under Col. Carr, approached Cross [follows they discovered the huts in flames and much of their sup plies deserted. Had it not been for this capture of forage and provisions from the enemy we should have suffered greatly.— At Bentonville, ten iuiles west of our main camp, there had been a camp of three thous and Louisiana troops for several weeks. Gen. Sigel, who commanded the right, had penetrated as far as Bentonville, and thence to Occage Spring , . On the order of Gen. Curtis be returned to Bentonville, and it was there on Sunday last that he heard of the advance of McCulloch in his direction. Gen. Curtis sent t.) Col. Carr to fall back to the main body from Cross Hollows, and also to Gen. Sigel to fall back from Bentonville. On Wednesday, the scouts of Gen. Sigel brought in the reports that large forces of the enemy's cavalry were on the Pineville road at Osage Springs, and on Thursday be commenced moving back, his pickets being driven in before he could get his wagon train in tnoti.m. Ills route lay a few miles to the north when he struck the bed of Sugar creek, along which he traveled for six miles. It was here that the attack was commenced, and on the hills skirting this road the enemy incessantly harrassod him until within three miles of the Fayetteville road.. The Enemy Commences the Attack—E.: Is Repulsed by Sigel. There can be no doubt that the retiring movement of our troops on both roads, was construed by the Rebel officers into en in tention to retreat, and in order to take ad vantage of our disposition they resolutely pushed on to attack. In plain fact it should ho said that there were some of ostr officers who could not but look upon our shtittered little army and the swelling columns of the enemy with some misgivings that we were about to renew an unequal struggle, not un like Springfield. The enemy's force as is nearly always the case, was vastly magnified and it was acceded on all hands that we should accept battle at the first offer. The cutting off of a detachment from the main body presented a favorable opportunity for them to inaugurate the victory they con fidently expected to gain. To their grief they discovered they had the very worst man to deal with they could have selected. Gen. Sigel with two hattallions of Missouri infan try and a squadron of cavalry, formed the rear guard of his division, and were delayed by the train, which moved slowly along the rough roads. lie was determined not to de eert a single wagon to the enemy, although by so doing he could have easily reached the main body. The enemy made his ap pearance with about four thousand cavalry, at about ton in the morning, a few miles out of Bentonville, and immediately commenced the attack by a desperate charge. Sigel had with him near a thousand men. Two hundred infantry he sent forward to prevent being cut off, and with the remainder he received the whole of tho vast army.— Sigel's experience at Carthage had taught him how to bear himself under such desper ate circumstances, and he ordered his men to stand firm and take good aim. The teams were put upon good pace, and the enemy came bounding along in several lines. •The horsemen on the flanks, and the infantry in thd rear, awaited their approach until within about two hundred yards, when they de- , livered a terrible volley of Minnie balls into their ranks, which had the effect of throwing them into temporary confusion. In a few minutes the loaders, by dint of much shouting and gesticulation, succeeded in getting them into something like order.— , This time they came up to close quarters.— The same volley, succeeded by a second and a third, greeted them. The enemy came on in crowds, hooting and cheering, as if in glee at what they accounted an easy capture. The enemy's cavalry closed all round the little band, notwithstanding that horses and riders were falling thick and fa , mbefowlsr steady are. General Sigel rode undisizt4d along the whole line, inspiriting his men.— Some of the cavalry on the flank had suc ceeded in getting across the road so as to cut the train in two, and it was hare that the enemy set up a shout of triumph. It was short-lived. In a minute more the bayonets of our men had done their work, leaving the enemy hundreds of dead and wounded. The enemy was driven off, broken and dismayed. It is lamentable that at this point one of our teams, containing three of the wounded men who had been placed in it, was left behind. The mules had been shot, and nothing could be done in f i le emergency to regain it. Galled end maddened at the repulse. the enemy could be seen re-forming to renew the attack. The column was yet seven miles from the encampment. A despatch had been sent forward to Gen. Curtis explaining the position and asking for oxsistanee. It was hardly posilible that the messenger Could have been captured. The enemy was ad vancing along the road and along the ridges enclosing the stream; At about 2 o'clock the second attack yes made and despqrately carried forward. The Rebel horsemen spurred their horses right on to lbs ineViSV "NO ENTERTAININIENTIS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1862. able bayonets, delivering their load of buck shot from the miscellaneous guns, and then brandishing their huge knives which every one of them carried in place of sabres. They surrounded the rear guard a second time, and for a few minutes friend could hardly be distinguished from foe. The dense smoke enveloped the whole of the combat ants so that for some time it was doubtful - ' whether any of our little band survived.— The Rebels made the air ring with lusty cheers and oaths. The faithful Germans, like a league of brethren, never faltered for a moment. Their gallant leader struck down a dozen of the savages who clamored for his life, and hewed his way through a line of them to rejoin his command. The bayonets proved the invincibility of our troops against horsemen. The foe retired a second time, and fur an hour they could not be induced to return by the most frantic ef forts of their leaders. By this time the ad vance, which had been constantly skirmish ing with the Rebel cavalry, announced that reinforcements were ;n sight, and the little cheer went up, which was re-echoed by the troops from the camp. A third and last at tempt was made to capture the train. It also failed, and the enemy withdrew about half-past three. General Sigel reached camp at half-past four to receive the congratulations of the I entire camp. His loss, in the entire march, I it was estimated, would reach sixty killed and two hundred wounded. Many of the wounded fell into the hands of the enemy, it being impossible to bring them off. We lost three wagons. Numerous stories of heroism on the part of both men and officers were related by the eye-witnesses of the fight, and almost every survivor had a soar or mark of a bullet through his clothing. Some of them had the narrowest escapes. One man had the bridge of his nose carried off, anoth er was shot through the ear, a third with a ball still lodged in his breast pocket. Most of ,the wounds were-slight, and our force of surgeons immediately proceeded to dress the heroic sufferers. All speak in the highest terms of the bearing of Gen. Sigel, Col. Ilas sendenbel, and the other officers in command who were perfectly self-possessed in the midst of the greatest danger. No one was snore hearty in his admiration than Gen. Curtis himself. Pea Ridge Thursday night passed in a state of sus pense. The houses in the valley had been appropriated as hospitals, and a strong force posted on the hill on the south bank of the creek under Colonel Carr, with General Sigel occupying the ridge on the north side, while Colonel Davis occupied the centre near the crossing. The enemy, it was supposed, would naturally make the attack from the ' Fayetteville road, and the bitggage trains and hospitals had been placed to the rear of the lines. During the night the manifesta tions showed conclusively that ho was ap proaching in great strength by the road leading from Bentonville to Keetsville, thus getting to our flank and rear. This road lies after crossing Sugar creek, over a high table land called Pea Ridge by the inhabit ants, from an early tradition, now exploded, that nothing but peas could be grown on it. It extends from the stage road westwardly some eight miles along the right bank of Sugar creek. The ridge is covered with a growth of stunted oaks, with a sprinkling of larger growth, called here post oaks. Three or four farms aro located upon the ridge, two miles west of the road, to which the name of Leestown, has been given. It was near these farms that the principle part of the fighting took place. The enemy having had a heavy experience of the disadvantage of a hostile force in his rear at Wilson's creek, it would .seem bad determined to move nearly his entire force to the northward of our camp. Thursday night was clear and cold; the reflection of the enemy's camp fires could be seen stretch ing along for miles to the right. On the Fayetteville road our pickets reported noth ing unusual. Several of our field pieces had been placed in position sweeping that road. Our mon slept on their arms, that is, each man laid on tbo ground in line of battle with his musket by him, ready for action at a moment's warning. A strong picket guard was extended for a quarter of a mile beyond the lines, and our soldiers awaited the breaking of day with premonitions that to morrow's sun would be the last which should rise to many of them. _ An Adventurous Scout A very interesting story is told of a well known Missouri scout who was employed to discover the whereabouts of the enemy dur ing the night. Be was furnished with a horse, citizen's saddle, a complete suit of butternut clothing. taken from some of their prisoners, and a despatch purporting to be written by Gen. Van Dorn to Gen. McCul loch, and was started out on the Fayetteville road and made a circuit round to the Ben tonville road. Ile relates that when near Bentonville he descried a courier dashing along on horseback, when he reined up on the side of the road and cried out, "Halt! who comes there?" The usual reply of "a friend" was given when the courier ad vanced and whispered the countersign, "Lex ington." "All right," said the scout, and was soon on his way with the magical word which was to pais him through the camp of McCulloch. lie rode along the entire line, being asked several questions, all of which he answered ache bust could, and lathe gray of the zooming ho returned to oar camp with accurate information of the po sition and strength of the enemy. McCul loch, Mclntosh and Pike, it appears, were along the Keetsville road, with Price on the left resting on Sugar creek. Van Dorn was at Price's headquarters. Friday—Change of Position. The evidences were very clear in the morning that a strong force had been posted on the Fayetteville road, thus standing di rectly between us and our next lino at Cass ville, completely cutting off our communica tion with the outer world. The line of bat tle was changed. Col. Carr was sent back along the Fayetteville road two miles, with his right resting on Cross Timber Hollows, at the head of Beaver creek, a tributary of big Sugar creek, immediately facing the rebel batteries situated on this side of Elk horn tavern. Gen. Davis with the central division was posted on the top of Pea Ridge, leaving Sigel to cover the camp with his left wing resting on Sugar creek. In this position things stood when the rebels open ed the fight with artillery on the extreme right from a very advantageous position at the distance of a mile. Our batteries soon replied; the rebels tire , l a few solid shot, then a shell, and then solid shot again. The fikht raged quite lively in front of Colonel Carr's position from ten until eleven o'clock, when another battery was ordered up to the support of Colonel Carr, who seemed to ho hotly pressed, from the amount of firing which took place in his direction. The left as yet had not been menaced. General Sigel felt confident that the enemy might be expected to make a de scent upon us from the south side, and it was deemed indispensable to keep the re servoiready for action in that direction. Sortie on the Left. Colonel Oiterhaus was sent with his brigade in the morning along the high land, in the direction of Leestown, for the pur pose of intercepting the reinforcements of the enemy, and to discover his strength along the lino of Sugar creek. This was one of the most spirited and successful at tacks of the battle, and resulted in a com plete diversion of the enemy from tho over powered forces of Colonel Carr, on the Fay etteville road. Our cavalry penetrated along the main ridge beyond the road by which the enemy had come, and wore on the point of seizing some of the enemy's wagons when a brigade of rebel cavalry and infantry attacked them. Then followed one of the most sanguinary contests that has ever been scan between cavalry. Most of the fighting was done at close quarters. Pistols and carbines having been exhausted, our sabres were brought into requisition. The rattle of steel against steel, our sabres against their muskets and cutlasses was terrific. Nothing like it has boon heard before. The rebels were Texan Rangers and fought like demons. The slaughter was awful, our Missouri cavalry cleaving right and. left, leaving in front of their horses winnows of dead and wounded. The enemy fell back in dismay, and our forces pursued them along the road for about a mile, when they opened a battery upon the mass of friend and foe, plowing through them with solid shot and shell.— Colonel Osterhaus had succeeded in his at tempt, and retired, bringing off his dead and wounded in safety. lowa Battery Captured and Retaken. Meantime the fight was raging furiously in the extreme right on both sides of the Fayetteville road. The First and Second lowa Batteries, planted on an eminence overlooking the declivity in the road, were kept busy plying shrapnel and canister into the ranks of the enemy, who appeared in immense numbers on all sides, as if to sur round the right of our line, and thus com pletely environ us. In order to defeat this object a severe struggle took place for the occupancy of a rising knoll on the east side of the road. The enemy gained upon us, and it was not until our men were half stricken down that they yielded the point. Word had been passed back to Gen. Curtis that the enemy was pressing hardly on the right flank, and that our forces were sent back. A section of one of our batteries had been left on the hill, and the enemy were now turning it upon us. Colonel Carr, fear ing that no reinforcements would arrive, collected his strength and mustered his en tire force for a last desperate charge, re solved to retake the position or perish in the attempt. A heavy firing on our centre and a cheer from the advancing division of Gen eral Davis favored the effort, and our troops marched up to the battery amid a storm of shot from their own guns, and, after a des perate hand-to-band struggle, finally drove the enemy down the ravine, in hopeless confusion. Colonel Carr received a wound in the arm, but remained on the field. The great leader of the rebels—the übi quioua Ben McCulloch—was among the slain. lie who had contemptuously spoken of the Southerners as the "natural masters" of Northern men, lay a victim to his pre sumption, his life fast ebbing by the hands of those whom he styled "a nation of cra ven-hearted cowards." The loss on both sides of this conflict was severe. Oar lose in killed and wounded could not have been less than three hundred; that of the enemy must have been double. Lieut. David, who commanded the battery, was the last to leave his pieces and among the first to regain them. Ile bears a woad in the arm, and several marks of the hostile ballets. Many of our officers were wounded, hut, fortu nately, nee seriously. Lieut. Cu!.. Merron, of the Ninth lowa, was wounded in the foot, and while in the hands of the surgeon was taken prisoner by the advancing enemy.— Col. Herron fought with great spirit, and was the most conspicuous figure in the re pulse. The command then devolved ou Ma jor Coyle, who gallantly led the regiment on the advance, receiving a severe wound in the shotildcr. Devotion of an Artilleryman Ono of the must signal instances of super human bravery is connected with the less of these guns. One of the cannoneers, who has been long noted for his wonderful pluck, remained at his post to the last. Placing himself in front of the piece, ho disdained to save himself, but with navy revolver, stood calmly awaiting- the howling crowds of rebels. He emptied every barrel of his pistol, and then, with his short sword, de fended his place until be was struck down by the rebels. Ibis body was afterwards found near the piece, pierced with seven teen balls and his head cloven open with a tomahawk. Friday Night—Xi) Ground Lost or Gained. A sharp fire of artillery from Kauffman's battery had been kept up on the left, and from two Missouri batteries on the centre. under Cols Patterson and vials. The ene my bud made frequent attempts to gain n position nearer our lines, and frequently succeeded in getting up so near that the balls from their guns would strike in the vicinity of our tents and baggage wagons. Toward night the enemy made an effort to break our centre, but the timely support of a brigade of General Sigel and a section of artillery promptly repulsed it. The night closed with skirmishing and sharpshooting. Our men, weary and, fam ished, were glad when the fire of the enemy ceased. The fire had been heavy, and the loss great on both sides. Search was made with lamps. as far out as was safe, for the wounded, and all that could be found brought in, whether friend or foe. Our surgeons met in the night parties sent out by the rebels, and on being informed that we had several of their wounded which they would be at liberty to attend, two of them remained with us. From them we learned that the enemy's losses had been very severe, both on that and the previous day. Not less than five hundred had been killed and wounded in the encounter with Sigel on Thursday, and their loss oa Friday would probably reach fifteen hundred. There was a temporary lack of surgical implements and medicines. Our men bnffered greatly fur want of necessary stimulants. The night passed off without attack.— I Occasionally the report of a musket could be heard, then a second, and an interval of silence. No one seemed to apprehend any fear, generally attributing it to the shooting of pickets, or nceidental discharges. Men looked into each other's oyes wistfully, but with the stamp of determination settled on each brow. The feelings with which we looked forward to the coming morrow may be better imagined than described. We had suffered desperately. Wo bad gained no advantage over him, but had simply sue ceeded in repelling his attacks. Our com munication with Springfield was cut off and our messengers falling into his hands. The country to the right of us was wild and broken; that on the south was even worse. The left and front were held by the enemy. We could not retreat. We could only fight, and nothing but hard fighting would relieve us. The enemy was confident. rash, and im petuous, and every opposition was to be ex pected in the morning. Ono hope there was—the enemy had been firing excessively; his ammunition must be getting low. Many of our men had fired away their last car tridge, but we had a reserve which was dis tributed through the regiments which had been most engaged, and we awaited the dawn of day, conscious that our fate was to be sealed ere its close. The enemy must be crushed or we must perish. Hasty saluta tions were exchanged, and not a few eyes were moistened at last solemn injunctions given by some of the men and officers to their comrades. Several times I heard such remarks as these: "Wilson, if I should fall take care of my wife;" or, "George, if you should ever return to tell my loved one that with my latest gasp I thought of her." Saturday—Figking Resumed. Before 6 o'clock yesterday morning the fight commenced by a salute from our bat teries on the extreme right. Gen. Asboth, with a regiment of infantry and battalion of cavalry, had been sent to the support of Col. Carr, while Gen. Sigel was moving up to a fresh position on the ridge near Lees town. The enemy was unprepared for so sudden and vigorous an assault, and fled after a short and spiritless resistance.— Price, it appears, commanded, and was un able to make his troaps stand the fire of the valorous Sigel. They ran, leaving four pieces of artillery behind them, a fifth was afterwards taken in the pursuit. The enemy was therefore being turned by the left flank, Gem Sigel pushing boldly after him. An hour or more was spent in contesting the possession of a spot on Mr. Cox's farm, when the enemy fell back to the hollow. A pause ensued, when the right, under Gen. Davis, moved along, and after a sharp fight of half an hour, in which the Rebel General Mcln tosh was tilled, the enemy, beat a retreat to Cross Timber follow. The whole line was then ordered forward. The Rebels attempt ed to make a stand on the next hill. but our artillery played open them with disastrous $1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IP NOT IN ADVANCE effect. The enemy on the road near the tavern refused to be moved. General Asbotb, with a large column of cavalry, was sent round to outflank them, when another desperate conflict ensued be tween our cavalry end the Texas and Lou isiana troops. The Indians also took part in it, but beyond their shrieks snd yells their influence was not felt. General Asboth received a wound in the arm while at the head of his moo. The batteries of the enemy fired chains, spikes, pieces of bar iron and solid shot. It was evident that his canister and shell were exhausted. And now our batteries on the right were ordered to the front. Taking a position within five hun dred yards, they poured in nn incessant shower of grape, canister and shell for twenty minutes. A general bayonet charge was then ordered, and our whole line rushed down the valley and ascended the opposite hill. A cheer went up from our men as they delivered volley after volley into the enemy's ranks. Tho Rebels cheered also, and it was evident that they were twice our DlM her from the noise they made. The Enemy's right Centre Broken—The PPM General Sigel was carrying everything before him on the extreme left. It was clear that the foe was running, and our men catching the inspiration of the moment, rushed on in pursuit, and before one o'clock the rout was complete. To the westward of Pea Ridge there was a wide strip of timber which had been blown down by a tremen dous hurricane the previous summer.— Across this swarth of uprooted trees, which were larger and denser in the low lands, the enemy's cavalry and artillery attempted to retreat, and were mercilessly peltel with shell. Their panic was overwhelming, and their defeat decided. They had r risked everything in the attempt to destroy us, and lost everything in the failure. Muskets, clothing and shot-guns were strewn along the woods. Horses roamed about in droves. The cries of the cavalry men and the yells of the Indians, with the groans of wounded, surpassed all description. C 111980328 over turned, wagons broken down, and horses dying and dead, strewed the whole road.— Thirteen cannon, six and twelve-pounders, were taken in all, besides thousands of shot guns and loads of provisions. The Defeat Total—Captures Gen. Price, with a detachment of his army, had, in his attempt to make a stand on the Keetsvillo road, caught the contagion of his fleeing comrades and betook himself to the northward. Cul. Carr and General Asboth keeping closely after him. Gen. Price was wounded in the band, but escaped, and when last heard from had taken an easterly di. reccion from Keetaville. This will lead bim to the White river, and it is expected he will make for the.wild country intervening between that stream and Clarksville. 'Major-General Van Dorn, with a largo portion of Prico's army and the Louisiana troops, succeeded in gaining the Pineville road and are understood to be making their way to the mountains south of here. A large force of cavalry has been sent after him. Killed and I-rounded We have taken nearly 1,500 prisoners, among the rest Acting Brigadier Col. Ileb ern, of Louisiana Volunteers; Col. Mitchell, of Arkansas; Major Townsend, Arkansas; Adjutant General Stone, Col. Wm. D. Rice, Missouri, sometimes called "Wild Bill Rice," besides- about fifty Captains and Lieutenants. The Rebel Generals McCul loch and Mclntosh are known to be killed and their bodies carried ofl. Colonel Reeves, Missouri Rebels, is also killed. Brigadier General Frost, of Camp Jack son notoriety, is also reported dead. Acting Brigadier Marshall and Col. Rector, of Arkansas forces, are said to be mortally wounded. From several sources I gather that the enemy's loss in killed and wounded cannot fall far short of twenty-five hundred, and may rise as high as three thousand. Their wounds are serious, many of them fatal.— Our surgeons have, so far as they could, paid the Rebel wounded every attention.— Full lists of the wounded will be given in a few days. Our officers and men have carried them selves most nobly throughout the entire bat tle, with scarcely an exception. Thu priva tions they have endured are borne cheerfully, and forgotten in the victory which they have just gained. It is not known here whether we shall remain at this post or keep on to Fort Smith. Large reinforcements are un derstood to be on the way; when they arrive it is probable that wo shall push on to the Arkansas river. The prisoners we have taken ate mostly Missourians and .etrkansians. They are the roughest of the rough, ill-clad and ill-armed. They express a desire to take the oath and return home. Many of them say they were arced into the Southern army, and were un willing to fight against the old flag. Gan. Price, they say, has recently shown symp toms or insanity. Indian Atrocities. You will of course have heard of the fact that the Rebels had some three 'thousand Indians under command of Albert Pike.— Also, that some twenty of our men who fell in the engagement under Colonel Osterhaus on Friday and under Geo. Davie on Satur day, and bad the misfortune to be left on the field, were fouly and fiendishly scalped, murdered, and robbed by these red-skinned wretches. So far as the fighting was con- [WHOLE NUMBER 1,649. cerned the Indians were not to be taken into account. Notwithstanding the frantic ex citement of Pike and others they could not be made to stanchhe fire of oar men fur more than a single round. Our artillery sent them howling back as quickly as they made their appearance in a body. It is related, and with some groundo, tha t these savages seized upon• a quantity of whiskey belonging to the Confederates on Friday, and becoming furiously drunk be gan to fight among themselves. The Ar kansans were called upon to quell the riot, when a promiscuous and bloody battle en sued among the Indians and ArkanEnns, in which several hundred must have been killed and wounded. The Indians, who have thus been so wickedly pressed in the service of insurrection, became a scourge to their masters and a punishment to themselves. Nature of the Conflict. It only remains for me to notice the char acter of the struggle out of which we have just come with victory. Probably there ' never was such a motley assemblage of warrior's collected together under one head as met under this traitor Van DJrn. 'l7leys represented the scum of the whole South= west, from the filibusters of Now Orleans to ' the rude savages of the Indian nation.- i Texan Rangers, whose boast it has be n that they would rather fight than eat, d whose life has been one long predatory r fare of plunder and cruelty. Uncouth and brutal Arkansans, who have grown up amid murders and homicides. Ignorant and in fatuated Missourians, led on by designing and intriguing politicians. These were the the men which formed the staple of the ' Southern army, and these are the men who prate of high-toned chivalry, who talk con temptuously of the Northern madsills.— Men who are crying like blind maniacs for "their rights." Take the whole Rebel army as we saw it, and it was one vast congrega tion of reckless, vicious, ignorant and ow bruted devils. Opposed to them are the gallant sons of lowa, descended mainly from the Puritan fathers. Immortal Iowa! what a page in the volume of American history is reserved for thee! Long, long will a nation remem ber how her champions of freedom, Tike their sires of the Revolution, ragged and barefooted, remained after the expiration of their term of service to lay their lives a sac rifice upon the altar of their country at Wilson's creek; and how they left their mark upon the foe at Belmont, how they sealed the heights of Donelson, and last, but not least, how they crushed, with the might of Spartans, the advancing hordes at Sugar creek in the wilds of Arkansas. There, too, stood the patient, courageons sons of Germany, face to face with an insolent and unprincipled foe, contending for those Principles of liberty and justice for which they have until now striven in vain. llonor to these men and their great leader for the part they have sustained in this mo mentous day. Illinois, Indiana and Ohio were represented there, and nobly will they bear the wreaths of triumph. For the first time the loyal Missourians have given as unequivocal and decided test of their ability to cope with the braggart traitors under the banner of General Price. They have deserv ed well of their country. The Rebels Slaughtered by their Savage Allies. It is said that the Indians in the engage ment on Friday became so excited by the alcohol they had drank and the scenes that they had witnessed, that they tamed their weapons upon their own allies, and butcher ed and scalpel the Rebels and Federalists with the most charming indifference. An, instance of this is given by one of the prison ers, a member of one of the companies that suffered from what the Southerners believed to be the treachery.of the savages. Four companies of the Arkansas troops belonging to Ben. McCulloch's division were marching up one of the ridges north of Sugar creek on Saturday morning to strengthen the enemy, who were hardly pressed by Gen. Sigel. They soon came in sight of about three hundred Creeks and Choctaws who stood on the brow of an adja cent bill. When within about a hundred and fifty yards of the savages, the latter opened fire on them. The Rebel Major, who commanded the battalion, cried out to them that they were killing their Mends, but the Indians did not heed what they said, and again discharged their pieces. "The d—c) rascals have turned traitors." cried the Major. "Upon them, Arkansans, and give them no quarters." The Southerners needed no second order. They attacked them with great energy, nod for nearly an hour a desperate battle was waged on the Ridge; the Indians fighting with blind fury. and scalping all who fell into their hands, whether living, wounded or dead. This is described as one of the severest actions of the entire battle, and the Indians, who were finally routed, are said to have lost a hundred and twenty-five killed and wounded. Dial Miss 'Betsy Pearl is "fair, fat and forty," and unmarried. She manages to obtain an honest and comfortable living by keeping a small shop of "notions" in the lowor part of the city. She is a spruce old dame, and among other articles vends spruce beer, One evening a 3ustomer called kir a glass of the beverage, inquiring at the same if it was new-made beer. "No," exelaiese& a waggish bystanderjust as the worthy dame was about to reply in the affirmative. "I can assure you it is old maid bele" The wag was seen soddenly to loaves the lady's premises, with a glass eying 'Ow ban.
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