-• ' " ;. . . . • • C - Si r. • SAMUEL wiaGrir, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME XXXIII, NUMBER 39.] trettg. For the Columbia Spy Strike for the Union. Strike for the Union! do It now; • Crush vile treason at one strongblew; Strike kir our homier! Mir it high; P . O Bright Stare that noontide , sun defy! Strike for the Union! Strike as the waves ttrike: where it etood, '•Drown discord in a :whine. flood; Strike a 4 the liehtning: quick and fast; Scorch the serpent with a hot bia 4 t; • Strike hr the Union! Strike but to conquer: knew no fear; Who's not brave in a corm no dear? Slrike though we perish! - Heaven will bless The widows and the fatherless. Strike for the Union: Strike for our memories; glorious thought!— Maio home, with Wood, our sires once Nought; Strike (or our birth-right! he's the heir, Who fights for freedom every whew! • Strike for the Union! 'Strike for the present! who shall say There is small value in one day! Strike for ilia lath rel - hope nwalts With her grand roll of uohorn States-- Strike low the Union! R. M. JIMMON. CIIXITER, PA Changed. I can not tell what change has come to you, Since when, amid the pine trees` murmurous stir, You Prelate. to me of love most deep and true: I only know you are not as you were. It is not that you fail in tender speech; You speak to me as kindly as of end; flat yet there is a depth I do not teach, A doubt that snakes my heart grow sick and cold Trim, there has been no anger and no strife; 1 on tyleel, with dreary discontent, That something bright has vanished Intnt my life; know not what it is. nor where it went. You chide my grief, and wipe my frequent tear g _Hat AO my pain what urt can minister? 40111: I would give all lire's ammairtrag yeara If you would be again as once yea were: Ao, dipped in fabled fountains far away, All tiring things are hardened into stone, So strange and frozen oeems your lore to-day, It's sweet, spontaneous growth and life are gene And it is changed Into n marble gltott, Driving away all happmess and rest; In . whose chill arms I shiver taint and lost. Draining my heart against its rocky breast. Nay, no regrets, no vows: it is too late; Too late for you to , p.ak or me to hear: We cannot mend torn rose: we ,nu•t wait Fur the new blossoms of anotner veer. getettiono. A Duel on the Tight Rope. The taste for rope-dancing which the cel ebrated Madame Violante brought into fashion in the early part of the last century, flourished nowhere so much and so long as in Dublin where the agile lady established herself, and opened a theatre, the attrac tions of which for a time superseded every other place of public amusement. Madame Violaute was the Biondi,: of her day, but snore of an artist and less of na acrobat.— She treated the public to scenic effects they had never witnessed before; she trained some notable actresses—among whom was Peg Woffington—and carried rope-dancing to so high a pitch, that the beau monde of Dublin talked of and attended to nothing else for some years. Long after the day of her management had gone by, and her the atre passed into other hands and uses (it is said to have become a Methodist chapel), the relish for this species or performance was strong enough to the public mind to produce a kind of civil war regarding the merits of two rival rope-dancers, who hod established themselves and their ropes at opposite ends of the city. One astonished the natives of the then fashionable Liber ties; the other amazed the dwellers of the New Town, who bad not then extended to Merrion Square. • They arrived , in Dublin on the same day , set up : their rfolideamps, and sent forth their manifestoes neat morn ing; and henceforth there was nothing but contention at dinner-table ant ies•pay, ty. in tavern, coffee house, .and bi I i iard-rrs,m, con cerning. the moral, social and acrobatic worth of Signor Sarfuico and Monsieur Pe rote. . • As their names- end titles' indicate, the one was an Italian and the other a_French man.' Si:Alice was .young, muscular, and tall a geotlemen•whose business had to be condacted„ on the tight . .rope.. Pei:cote* ago i cuuld. Out he ascertained; his adverse rieseaserted, that the blackness of his thin hair was owing to die;., he was small, slen der;.and Wind -dried. professed to have been brought. up on the rOpS, and considered it the grandest and must elevating, of human pan** ,Signor Sarfuieu was grave. silent, and even dignified. On the hemp he danced the latest minuet, carried e.batoper of glass on hie back; sod balancell,s-aword on hi,- ehin,,Witli a taciturn 'statelin'ess *officio:aloe * *stain:lst in full 'canonicals. Ms Gallic antagonist talked with:iunenatt,volubility thronghotit, hil c performatroe, generally - in Lis awn praise and stmo of his awn aCienee. • as he plesied th"ciir it-, experi • • ences, is opinion, on-. men wad' manners, and exelutaged reita.rteas 'with hie' Du blip' a dience: "Signor Serrate° *anted the public that he was, last *tip* of A Baas Florentine family. Monsieur Penne boasted • his descent from a line nfropedaneers, and took special Pride in, one of, his, ancestors who "Peifenlin ed iniFOre Henri cilastre. .Mach gentleman -professed to Iron* loathing:of 'the other. buttheii Minna!' , to, " 01 1 4 . " 4!tataf ordiaary-sisHalsrLihroughtbeir respeoskv s .astegitest•a3 orteimper)l!bl! l ;kli , !bat diii-4010gettbm for years on the continent—that their quar rels had latterly been such as to call for po lice interference—and that they had separ ated with vows of vengeance on each other; some intention of that kind was supposed to influence the Frenchman's movements in particular, for wherever the Italian went there he followed him, and set up his oppo sing camp. They were both excellent in, or rather on, their peculiar lines. As ropes were walked or danced in those days, Dublin had not seen their equals, and they divided the town between them. Dowagers fought their bat tbs over the cards; young mon quarrelled in coffee-houses, and next morning in the Phoenix Park about them; family contro versies arose—social circles split and fell away—people altered their wills—old friends passed each other without speaking—and engagements were broken off, on account o Signor Sarfuico and Monsieur Perote. They got mixed up with polities, as what in Dub lin did notl The popular or Irish party were the chief supporters of Perote; he bowed to the carmen, and wanted justice for Ireland. The high Tories . ttnd friends of government, on the other hand, lent their strength to Sedition; be was a reduced gen tleman, and no doubt of sound principles. The Irish party being the most numerous, gave Perote a considerable majority, and what was still more in the Frenchman's fa vor, the ladies threw their weight into the scale. In spite of the better looks and higher pretensions of his rival, Monsieur Perote's abundant compliments and general devotion to the fair sex carried the day; the ladies, young and old, espoused his cause as ladies only can; and their influence, great as it is and has been in all times and places, bad a power on the banks of the Liffey in those days sufficient to swamp any opposition.— Monsieur Perote's fame and cash-box went up at a rate which threatened extinction to his rival, till the Italian's ingenuity found out a mode of making things more than even. Sarfuico raised his rope. The eleva tion was full twenty feet alcove anything Perote had ever attempted. The bare ad vertisement drew a considerable house on the first evening of exhibition, and when it went abroad how he carried the sack, bal anced the sword, and drank a glass of wine to the health of the lord-lieutenant, Perote's popularity fell to the freezing point. In vain his most astonishing feats were put in requisition—he stood on one leg to no pur pose, danced the minuet De le Cour with no effect; notwithstanding the bows, the car men ran to see and shout for his daring an tagonist; and though his compliments rose if possible to a higher key, the ladies de serted him and his rope. ( Conti:ten:at Monthly At this epooh it became public by their joint advertisement that Sarfuico and Perote had made friends. Why and bow their most confidential advisers could not declare, but it is generally believed that, as became his position, Perote had made the first over tures and Sarfuico, remembering former days, and not willing to rule over his en emy. agreed to let by-gooey be by-gones, and receive him into his service. They were henceforth to act togettT, and the surmises, speculations, reports that west through Dublin, when thatannouncement was issued, were unexampled. Would the Italian bring down his rope? Would the Frenchman ele vate his? Would the stage admit of two ropes? Would there be aoything more than the old tricks? [Leavy bets were taken on those imp ,rtint,questions, and a full house before its doors were .opened,„korowd that mighVbaimfilted a building twice the size, bad collected in front. of Sarfitico's theatre. .• - The getting in and getting places was a con siderable business; and whenho more seats souls be"found - for'tbe ladies, and no more standing-room fur .the gentlemen, the cur tain rose. Then what a surprise for the eager faces—what a disappointment of shrewd conjectures—what a losing of heavy bets appeared; for there was Sarfuico's rope alone, at its highest elevation, and there were the rivals both upon it. The Italian looked more than usually 'grave and grand; the Frenchman determined and unflinching, as if his courage had beed screwed up for some desperate purpose. The one bowed solemnly toltbe boxes, the other to the whole houie,' but it Was carelessly done, and Pe rote's hand was not even laid on his heart when he turned to the ladies. 'As soon as the house recovered from its amazement, it made the roof ring, and the rope tremble, not to speak -of,those who stood on it. with thunders of applause.— Sarfuico's theatre, it muithe premised, had been an ancient windinill of more than cow mon height, which allowed room far his present elevatian; and there he and his tor- 1 leer rival stood some fUrty feet above the I stage. Mcst people expected the French man to fall. tut he 'did not. The :Italian had evidently' no notion of the like; t4:re, mired the ovation as his due; - "aid the mile dark' who acted as his eiieri 7 hy:the lie called him" Manifesto—came for ward. and' announced that the ladies and gentlemen were that evening to witness Performance never before exhibited on any stags;- it Was called the dance of . frienchhhip; invented by Monsieur Perote, and:im mensely improved by Signor The two on the rope immediately began to pat tbereselvev in 'dancing position; ihey Were b4;in'the'full i ldress of the period. wiihiewp : Andlea; bag .wigas lend swords.l— arbeleletteit.iiike - Sxed'on - l Af at O r q ls •i io46 : l4l4 ;S*F 4 o ' 4 4 ' 4 1 0: 4 114i4404 0 45hip t pe •• • •—• •'NO ENTERTAINMENTIS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1862 seemed to have some difficulty with his feet. Perote had perceived this, and made some remark, which nobody else could hear; but it aroused the Italian's anger. Ile raised his hand as if to strike him; the same in stant, Perote's rapier was drawn, and be fore the audience could comprehend that they had actually quarrelled, Sarfuico's banger was out also, and they thrusting at each other on the tight rope. A pin might have been heard falling in the crowded house, where everybody sat still in his place, gazing up at the two fighting in the air. flow they kept their footing, the genius of mis chief only knows. The consentrated hatred and malice of their feces was fearful to see up there in the flickering lamplight. Pass after pass, lunge after lunge, they made at each other with the rapidity of lightning.— Both were good swords-men, but Perote was the best of the two; he warded off the Ital ian's thrusts with his small rapier, and pos itively seemed more certain of his footing than before the quarrel began; till Sarfuico, making one desperate lunge, received a back stroke which threw him off' his balance, and at the same moment attempted to grapple with his enemy. Down he went and down Perote. A cry of horror rose from the spec tators; but some power had interfered in their behalf, for there was the Itallian hang ing to the rope by his.feet, and the French man bolding on to it with both hands.— "Look, ladies and gentlemen," he cried, with a face of triumph su ffi cient for having saved Christendom; "behold how I have porriled my life, and still more, my fame, to unmask deoeit and vindicate science! Look at the straps attached to his shoe-soles, and passed over the rope; there is how he made himself safe, and dared to surpass me, whose life was spent on the rope, whose great-grand-father performed before Henri Quatre. I guessed it—l knew it, through the inspiration of my science; and I die happy, since the villain is unmasked." 3lnneieur Perote did not die happy or otherwise on that occasion. Before his par ting speech was done, the spectators had re covered their senses sufficiently to give the alarm, and rush to the rescue with ladders, fire-escapes, and feather-beds to be fallen upon. Ile got merely down; so with Sarfuico, though it proved a more difficult business, and the doctors never could understand why he did not die of apoplexy. From that even ing.however, his glory had departed—a fact of which the last scion of the noble Floren tine family was an sensible, that he departed also without sound of trumpet, and to the geeat regret of several tradesmen. His now successful rival made a longer stay and it wind deal of noise about the untnaskinz; hut the whole scene cured the DouLlin world of fashion of its fancy for such performances. One knows not what Blondin may effect, but the like have never been popular among the playgoers of the royal city since they happened to witness a duel on the tight rope. Romance of an Old Couple The following remarkable narrative is re lated by a Western lady, now nu a visit to this city from Mariposa. She is herself a character. She has crossed the plains twice —first in 1849, during which her husband perished—and is the first American lady who returned to the East by the way of the Isthmus of Panama. She is a genuine hero ine—a fine specimen of 9 tout-11...irteil •We.r ern womanhood—and her adventures .n the wilds of the unpeopled West have been nu merons and exciting. If the good folks of Mariposa have missed a lady from their neighborhood, they are hereby apprised that she is comfortably located at the boarding house of Mrs. Nesbit, on the corner of Mont gomery and Setter streets, and will not re turn to the mountains, till Holmes..of the Gazette, ceases to harrow the hearts of Mar iposa mothers by calling their little babes "brats." Well, while the train of which this lady was a member was encamped at a point on the Humboldt, where the Lessen trail inter sects the Carson track of travel, she visited the tent of a family, consisting of an elderly couple and one chili—a daughter of fourteen or fifteen years. The old lady was sitting on a pile of blankets, under the canvass, encouraging a most determined attack of the "sulks," while the masculine head of affairs had'planted, himself on his wooden tongue. and was sucking his pipe as leisurely as though he expected to remain there forever. A single glance developed the fact that there was a ditliculty in that little train of one wagon and three persons, and that it bad attained a, point of quiet desperation beyond the reach of peaceful adjustment. Three days before they had pitched their tent at the forks of the road, and as they disagreed upon the route by which to enter Caliturnia there they bad remained. The husband ex pressed a preference fur the Carson r oad— the wife for the Lessen—and neither would yield. The wife declared she would remain there all winter; The husband said be should be pleased to lengthen the sojourn throngh the summer following. On the morning of the fourth day, the wife broke a sullen silence :of thirty-six "hours hy proposing a division of she pr.per ty, which cons sted two yoke Of cattle, one wagon, camp furniture, a small quantity of provisions and $l2 in The prig:areal was 110CPPUM. an d ralhavith'the - pie's:fee t was divided. fairing the wagon to :the `Old min and the daughter inthe another. The latter essinsagity with a naigl , th'iving train the Wick belonging to her iorci pony Auld 444 411411ssidsulitialiotaniisr , • portion of the divided spoil upon the animal she resolutely started across the desert by the Lessen trail, while the old man silently yoked the cattle and took the other route, Singular as this may seem; it is nevertheless true. It is among the many occurrences of life stranger than fiction. Of course both par ties reached California in safety. We say •ol course," fur it is scarcely possible that any obstacle, death, included, could have seriously interfered with the progress of stubbornness so sublime. Arriving at Sac ramento with her daughter, the old lady readily found employment—for women were less plenty than now—and subse quently oriented a boarding house, and in a few years amassed a handsome fortune.— Two years ago she went to San Francisco, and the daughter, whose education had not been neglected, married to one of the most substantial citizens. And what became of the old man? The wife had not seen or heard of him since they parted on the Humboldt. They had lived happily together as man and wife for years, uud she sometimes reproached herself for the wilfulness that separated them after so long a pilgrimage together through this rough life. But he was not dead. We cannot trace his course in California, however. All that we know of him is, that fortune had not smiled upan him, and for years he had toiled without hope. Finally, feeling scarcely able to longer wield the pick and shovel, he vis ited San Francisco, in the hope of obtaining employment better adapted to his wasted strength. For three months be remained idle after arriving here, and then for want of occupa tion, became the humble retailer of pea-nuts and oranges, with his entire traffic in a bas ket upon his arm. This was about six months ago. A few weeks since, in pass ing the open door of a cottage in tho south ern part of the city, he observed a lady in the hull and stopped to oiler his mamba's ilize. As ho stepped upon the threshhold the lady approached, and the old man raised his eyes and dropped the basket. And no wonder either, for she was his wife, his "old woman!" She recognized him, and throwing up her arras in amazement, exclaimed, "Great God, John! is that you?" "All that is left of me," replied the old =EI With extended arms they approached:— Suddenly the old lady's countenance changed, and she stepped back. "John," said she, with a look which might have been construed into earnestness, -'h.Jtv did you find the Carson road?" "Miserable, Suky—miserable," replied the old man, "full of sand and alkali!" "Then I was right, John?" she continued, inquiringly. "You were, Suky," he replied. '•That's enough!" said she, throwing her arms around the old man's neck, "that's enough, John;" and the old couple, so strangely sundered, were again united. Both are living with their daughter, on Second street.—San Francisco Mirror. The "Horse Hair." In Professor Agnssies interesting papers on "Methods of Study in Natural History," the second of the series in the Atlantic Month ly, we find this anecdote of an animal known to almost all country boys: A gentleman from Detroit had the kind ness to send me one of those long thread like worms( Gordius) found in brooks, and called horse hairs by the common people.— When I first received it, it was coiled up in a close roll at the bottom of the bottle, filled with fresh water that contained it, and look ed more like a little tangle of tolack sewing silk than anything else. Wishing to unwind it that I might examine itr entire length, I placed it in a largo china basin filled with water, and proceeded eery gently to disen tangle its coils, when I perceived a bundle of is eggs, holding them fast in a close em brace. In the process of unwinding, the eggs dropped away and floated to a little distance. • Having finally stretched it out to its full length, perhaps half a yard, I sat watching to see if this singular being that looked like a long black thread in the water, would give any signs of life. Almost im mediately it moved towards the bundle of eggs, end having reached it, began to sew itself through and, through the little white mass, passing one end of its body through it, and then returning to take another stitch, as it were, till the eggs were completely en tangled again in an intricate net-work of coils. It seemed to me almost impossible this care of offspring could be the result of any instinct of affection of a creature of so low an organization,' and I again separated it from the eggs, and placed them eta great er distance, when the . same action was ie potted. On trying the experiment the third time; the bundle of eggs had become loosened. and a few of them dropped off singly into the water. The efforts which the 'animal then male to recover the missing ones, Winding itself round and round_ them c but failing to bring them into the ;fold with the reit, becaure they, were too small, and evaded all efforts. to 'secure theta, when ones pouted from the first little compact mass. enuvinced me that there was a definite porpoise in its attempts, and that even a being so low in the seals, of animal existanoe hafs min& IS 1I I ocolooOmoosso of a mission to its tiliveins. I afterwards unwound also the mats of eggs, which, when coiled up as I first saw it, made a roll of white substance about the size of a coffee-bean, and found that it consisted of a string of eggs, measuring more than twelve feet in length, the eggs being held together by some gelatinous substance that cemented them and prevented them from falling apart. Cutting this string across, and placing a a small section under the microscope, I counted on one surface of such a cut, tzom seventy to seventy five eggs; and estimating the entire number of eggs according to the number contained on such a surface, I found that there were not less than eight millions of eggs in the whole string. WAR NEWS! FROM YORKTOWN. Rebels Attempt to Strengthen a Battery— Theyare Prevenledby a Brisk Canonnading, Kept up An Night—Several of Their Guns Dismounted—Skirmishing near James River—Gallants?, of Our Troops. CAMP NEAR YORKTOWN, April 17. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: During Tuesday and Wednesday our gun boats amused themselves by shelling the woods below Gloucester; One of them ap proached within two miles of Yorktown yesterday morning, when the Rebels opened from a new battery concealed in the woods. The gunboat, having thus obtained the po sition of the enemy's guns, returned to her position without receiving any damage. The firing to-day was renewed at long intervals. The Rebels yesterday morning, with a force of thousand men, commenced to strengthen a battery located about three miles to the left of Yorktown, when a bat tery was brought to bear, causing them to beat a hasty retreat. The Rebels opened with their heavy guns, when a seoond bat tery was brought forward. A brisk fire was now kept up for almost four hours, during which three of the enemy's guns were dis mounted, when both sides ceased for a while, but the fire was resumed on our part late in the afternoon and continued till day-light this morning, effectually preventing the Rebels from repairing the damage they had sustained. The loss of the enemy must have been considerable as the firing of our artillery I was very accurate. Our loss was Sergeant Baker, of the Second Michigan Regiment, killed, and F. Page, Company K." Third Michigan Regiment, both feet shot off.— Four horses were also killed yesterday. Richard Painter, of Berdan's Sharpshoot ers, was probably fatally shot while on pick- et duty. Other engagements took place yesterday further to the left, and near James river, in which our troops showed very great gal- lantry. The results have not yet been fully ascertained. LATER. The Rebels make an Attack on Gen. Smith's Division—They are Repulsed with Loss— Gen. Smith silences the Enemy's Guns. WASIIINGTUN. April 18.—The following despatches were reoeived to-day at the War Department from Gen. McClellan: HEADQUARTERS ARMY POTOMAC, April 18, A. M. "At about half an hour after midnight the enemy attacked General Smith's posi tion, and attempted to carry his guns, but Smith repulsed them handsomely and took some prisoners. I have no details yet—but will forward as soon as my aids return.— The firing was very heavy. All is now quiet." [SECOND DESCATCQ•] "%Iy position occupied yesterday by Gen eral Smith's Division was entrenched last night, so that we have been able to prevent the enemy from working to-day, and have kept his guns silent. "The same is the result at the batteries at Ilyno's Mills. "The enemy's batteries at Yorktown shelled the gunboats and some of our barges to-day'without effect. There is a good deal of firing from the Yorktown land butteries." FURTHER FROM YORKTOWN. Particulars of an Engagement on Wednes• day between the Vermont Third and the Rebels fa an effort to Capture a Eatery. WARITINOTON, April 18.—The following despatch was received here this evening IitADQUARTERII ARMY POTOMAC, 1 April 18. An official report has been received at Headquarters giving a list of the killed and wounded in the engagement between the Third Vermont Regiment and the enemy on Wednesday, a brief allusion to which was made in my despatch of yesterday. The information as far as received, puts the loss thus: killed. 32, wounded, 90, ten of whom will probably prove fatal. • The conduct of the Vermont troops on this -occasion is spoken of in the highest terms, earning for the Green Mountain Boys laurels only•to be worn by the brave. They drove fearlessly a superior number of the enemy from their fortified position, but were forced to relinqush it on the rebels Lasing reinforced. The loss of the enemy in this engagement must have been heavy, as the well 'directed fire of our artillery mowed through acres of them. ' - Yesterday while Lieut. Orlando IL Wag ner; ,or the Topographical Engineers, in °emptier with* squad of men, was making 'a survey of2tbe :enemy's works; i shell Wolk sbt•table on wish* lay the papers. $1,50 PER YEAR I ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN HDVANCE and instantly, on exploding. the left arm of the Lieutenant was shattered and subse quently was amputated, Ile is comforta ble this morning, and nu fears are enter tained as to his recovery. Jos. Luther, jr., of Bristol, belonging to the Second Rhode Island Regiment, was probably fatally injured. Daniel Painter, of Berdan's Sharpshooters, mentioned yesterday as wounded, is dead. PARTICULARS OF TUE SORT/E OF THURSDAY NIGHT. About 1 o'clock this morning the enemy in force attempted to cross the dam in front of our lines, evidently with the view of cap taring a battery of our artillery which had given them considerable trouble during the last few days. On the rebels making their appearance they were opened upon by a well directed fire from a body of infantry, acting as a reserve to the pickets, forcing them to beat a retreat, leaving their dead and wounded in the dam, which they suc ceeded in recovering before daylight. Both parties opened with artillery, which was continued at intervals up to the present time. None of our men were killed. Department of Shenandoah. Advance of Gen. Banks' Column—Mount Jackson Occupied—Bnemy in Force al Rude's Hill. Wunrwavow, April 17.—The following has been received at the War Department: MOUNT JACKSON, April 17, 9 A. M. Our troops occupied Mount Jackson at seven o'clock this morning, and are now in front of Rude's Hill, where the enemy ap pears to be in force. The people report that they intend to give battle there. They resisted our advance in order to gain time for the burning of bri.iges and railway cars, engines, etc., which lied accumulated at the terminus of the rond.— But our movement was so sudden and the retreat of the Rebels so precipitate that we were enabled to save the bridges, two loco. motives and some cars. All these had been prepared with combustible material for an instant conflagration. Many prisoners have been taken and ear ere., fine horses captured from the enemy. The troops have acted admirably. They were in motion at one o'clock A. M. Colo nel Carroll'e Brigade, of General Shields' Division, led the advance on the back road to the rear of Mount Jackson, and General Kimball on the turnpike, General Williams, with his fine division, bringing up the re serve column_ We shall occupy New Market to-night. General Shields has so far recovered as to command his division in person. [New Market is some ten miles beyond Mount Jackson, on Lae turnpike road to Staunton.] Srassnuan. April 17.—1 t is reported here by reliable officers that Generals Williams' and Shields' commands passed Stoney Creek last night, nod advanced towards Mount Jackson. They surprised yestei day in their advance from fifty to sixty of Ashby's Cavalry, in a church, including in the number three Lieutenants; the horses of the company were also captured. So se cure did they feel that they neglected to post pickets. The prisoners now here in charge of Colo nel Candy, of the Sixty-sixth Ohio, the Corn mender of the post, are to bo forwarded to Baltimore. Colonel Candy in person keeps up active scouting through the mountain haunts of the Rebel cavalry between the two forks of -the Shenandoah, and has brought in several prisoners who aided in the attack on his pickets. Ile reports the inhabitants almost destitute of the necessa ries of life and ignorant of our presence in force, but requesting protection against Rebel depredations. Having never taken part in the war, it is thought they are gen erally decidedly in favor of a restoration of the Union. [ISECOND DESPATCII.I STRASBURG, April 17, P. M.—Despatches from General Banks, dated Mount Jackson this A. M., state that be bad seized two locomotives and several cars, and saved the bridges there. Also, that be took many prisoners there. His advance wee so sud den that the enemy had not time to destroy the property there, although every prepara tion had been made to do so. LATER. General Banks still Adoancing—Occupation of : New Market— Slight Skirmishing—Mang Thmners 2hken. Wesntscros, April 18.—The following was received at the War Department to• night: BEADQVAItTEtteDKPARTMTNT SUEXANDOLII, I April 18-9 P. M. Son. E. At Stanton, Secretary of War: Oar troops occupy New Market to.night. There has been d01:130 artillery skirmishing, but no loss on our side has occurred. We have many prisoners. (Signed) N. P. BASKS, Major General Commanding. [SECOND DESPATCH.] WOODSTOCK. April 18.—Our army proba bly reached New blarket last night. Officers who have returned hither state that when they left our advance was five miles beyond Mount Jackson. The enemy attempted to make a stand on biz retreat, but our guns spurred them' on. Lieut. O'Brien, of Ash by'. Cavalry, was captured , at a betteecn the road. r • ' The cavalry rtapanytakisi yesterday was ecanaiisided bj Cip3sia fl(!rpec... &besot. Ms times tieiziebaots were taken. [WHOLE NUMBER 1,653. Some of - oar officers believe it possible that an action Will take place to-day. General Shields was in command of his forces, and gave directions for the right flank movement which caused the enemy's retreat. The lc comotives and cars, and every destructible appliance of war not transportable .were burned by the enemy. VIE VERY LATEST At half-past ten o'clock last night Generdl Banks had reached New Market, and wakin hot pursuit of the enemy. The enemy made a feint of resistance at Rudd's 11111, a very strong position beyond Mount Jackson, but on a demonstration by our forces they fled. PARTICULARS OF TEE AI:MANCE GEN. BANKS' ARMY. MONNT JACKSON, April 17.---This place was occupied this morning,' as previmisly• announced by Gen. Banks' despitoh, the rebels showing but feeble resistance, burn ing bridges as they retreated. The advance was made by the turnpike and side road, General - Shields takii3g " one and* General Williams the other. The cavalrywere sent out last night at l. o'clock to cut off the retreat of the rebels, but were detained, and arrived in a abort time before the advance on the turnpike.— The Vermont Cavalry dashed through Mount Jackson to prevent the burning of the bridge across the. Creek beyond the town, and cap- , tured several rebels in the act of firing the bridge. A Lieutenant of Colonel Ashby's Cavalry, who was riding with the Colonel himself, was captured, and - Colonel . Ashby only escaped from wearing the inifoim of the Federal Cavalry. • The bridge across the Shenandoah was fortunately saved by our pursuing "forces; who are in New Market to-night."' Major Copeland and twelve of the escort of 'lain oral Banks charged-through the town on the rear of the enemy. Cul. Ashby and his men are outside oT the town. Jackson, with his infantry, have fallen back towards Staunton. - Surrender of Fort:Masa The Garrison Surrenders after a Ronsbard went of Thirty Hours—The Ilyrt Occupied by Padova Troops and the Old Pletß:Re stored to its Own Again—TErrible -Effect the Union Guns—The Fort Brovehni— AlllVearly Four Hundred Prisoners Talon— Pody-seven Cannon, 7;000 Shit and See; 40,000 Pounds Powder, 360 'Prisoners. large quantities of Provisions. and Small Taken. . . NEW YORE, April 18.—The - steamer Mo- Clonal!) has arrived from Port Royal„ which place ebe left on the afternoon : of the 14th. She brings fall particulars of the bombard meat and captuto of Fort Pulaski, .already announced by the Southern papers.; • , On the morning of the 10th inst.,Peperat Gilmer sent a flag of truce to Fort. Palaelti, demanding its . unconditional stairender. to which Colonel Olmstead, the rebel Com, mandant, boastfully replied, that he tear placed there to defend, not to surrender, the Fort, whereupon our batteries immediately opened fire on Pulaski. A few rounds shot away their flag, but it was replaced and the firing kept up tall sag set. General Gilmor then placed a battery at Goat Point. only 1,600 yardi from the fort, to breach the walls, and commenced - 6ring at midnight for that' purpose with his Pail rott and James' guns. On the morning of the Ilth' two breiChiss were discovered on the soutb-east fabe 'or the fort, which at noon had assumed tinge proportions, and about two o'clock the rebel rag was hauled down and a white flag dis played, and the fort unconditionally surren dered, Col. Olmstead stating that it was im possible to hold out loner, our rifled cannon 'hotel reaching the magazine, and most of his guns being disabled. The garrison having surrendered the Sev enth Connecticut Regiment took possession the same night, the glorious Stars . -and Stripes having with great enthusiasm, been again restored to its place above the battle ments of Fort Pulaski. • The Union loss in the engagement was only ono killed and one slightly wounded. The rebel lose is three badly wounded and 385 prisoners. One hundred and five of the prisoners come hither on board of the McClellan in charge of Col. Mena; Aid to Gan. Ranter. Among the passengers by the McClellan are Lieut. Bodeen, Aid to General Hunter, bearer of despatches; Capt. Ceeley, of the Twenty-eighth Massachusetts; a guard of, twelve soldiers of a Rhode Island regiment. Also seven discharged soldiers . and me chanics. The McClellan also briar the news of the safe arrival of the fnate Vermont at Port Royal. She was being towed into Port Royal as she McClellan sailed. Jacksonville, Fla, had been evacuated by the Federal troops, who bad arrived at Hil ton Read on the steamer Cosmopolitan on the 14th. • Name Hunter's Medal Report. Pour Borst, S. C.. (via Sunday Hook, N. 1..) • ,April I 7„ Hon. Edwin M. Shrotoit. Secretor , yof Nan, We opened our batteries on Fort Pulaski . on the morning of the 10th. After thirty hours' continuous tiring a praoticable breath • was nude, and preparations fbr lstorrolug, were about to cocontenak.whett the .rebel Bag was struck. We have captured -seven guns. seven thousand allot •or 'shall. "feny-thousand" poundkof powder. three hundred:mad:sixty' prisoners, with th eir small arum apet.tuoon-,, moments. and good sa_pploos., Ontrdf 04i` fain irs* MS — ** bee. wounded. PATIO licarzr, Maier General. &es*
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