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Bates of 4.4srertising. quare[6: inesjone week, three weeks, 410 38 73 eaehtubsequientinserAion, 10 ; pltinesjonoweek. 30 three weeks, 100 esolt•ittbsenutininsertion. 23 ,Lareo reevertisemen min proportion. A iinerallisconnindlibe made to quartetly,lelf eirto otionrlY ss. ttfteriisers,ottio are striett}confined darn' busine gsintigno. Cum die Saturday Review. Fashions. The feeblest of the. world, we are told, passeth away. Times change, empires fall, .dresses are altered. The first beginning of -all reflective philosophy is to dwell on the mutability and worthlessness of earthly, things. In oar day, the reflection has be. .come hackneyed. We have played and sported with the thought that England may .some day bee waste and London in ruit,s, Audi change no longer seems holemn and ,imposing. It is only in a general way that we accept as a truth that the things that are will not be. Partly this is because, if we ~Ake the mutability of things in its widest sense, atoms not to concern us much. If the universe is perishable, that is only in-' teresting as a philosophic truth or a philo sophic guess. We could scarcely, in our most hopeful mood, expect to survive the general frame of things. But there is another reason that we do not feel as much impressed with change as might be looked for. We cannot tell exactly what things are likely to change, or when, or how. Many things that are supposed likely to last soon fade off, and others that appear the crea tures of the hour last on and on. Some of those who have worked hardest and longest for fame, .And were thought most likely to eeeure it, are now forgotten or passing rap- I idly out of memory, while a happy chance has given others a pages in tette honors of ! posterity, although they were held by their eetemporaries to have done very little to de serve it. soutbay, who used the life of a deberions hermit among the books that were do be the basis of his fame, is an almost un knowu author to modern England, while Goldsmith is still a favorite. There are many little things as to wiiieb we cannot be sure that what seems the fashion of an hour will soon die off. We cannot always console ourselves with thinking that Ay/aryl ) , bore - has its day. A. fashion we may-ha-in. dined to dielike. or, despise may , appeal strongly to some set of feelings or interests, and may be preserved long after it has been thought doomed. There are many matters as to which it is not at all safe to guess that ttitelohange,that looks _so obvious -add, near is likely to show itself soon. Take, for instance, crinoline. If ever a fashion ought to have died out under laugh ter and mockery of all sorts, it is the custom of making dresses stick out by artificial means. .Punch his lived on it in the dull season for years. The shops are full of prints portraying all •the difficulties in which Ate weerets-of _crinoline and ,hoops are placed. ft is wonderful what class of per sons find the prints worth purchasing; bet ,ps they are produced in abundance some body must buy them. Probably it the pame set of people who bay tobacco jars shaped ,like ,a lady, and so contrived that the lady lifts up, and tier petticoats are found to be full of bird's-eye. Then there have been plenty of excellent moral reasons urged against crinolires. Moralists always hope that tli festal. wind atilt cease to be rain if the right thing is One or left:undone. The fashion has also been-subjected to the severest of all trials—that of being vulgar. ized. There is a story of the, Spaufsh minister who-wished-to stop the practice of wearing large slouched hats - in-Madrid.-- 8e thought that a smaller and 'more open article would be more convenient to the po lice. 'Ali edict was issued that the slouched hats should. be discontinued. Madrid was in arms, and the attachment to these shady coverings was declared to bannalterable.— The cunning; Minister was not to be beaten. Re ordered t6e hangmen and other villain ens officials to-walk up add down bo prim sapid streets, westritig . 016 4 !attest and' mist conspicatturtif. all possible aletiched:hats.r. This was successful, and rather than dress as Isangnieti didissedidecent -people wore a different sort - of' hat. 'tiiis' sing ee periment has been tried - -iteEoglitad with miaoline. It has displayed - in the most corylua' tns-proportionss. : eut t d„ the most numasi,,l4 - 41itriS:w — eniiiiilrbo .i are to virtuosi's felates,v;hathanstaset sire to I:e.. electable grocer. and bittehers. Ent in England itluattlawayery r diffarattAftom what happened at Madrid. TAs'approprietion of oriaglineltas.rather immeasedibetz ditain ished the fury of . lTYpticfrisy,,,a vice flat has alettost-diaeat o waisishi-AY Socialostaiald-tti; jiqe paid to virtue. Imititiort the tribite that virtue paftt erinoline has ahrhatoodwrgene agurour:teste-forv ikthss _ _ 421 4iar4•3•140 MrifidlVlT. Welt' WV , " tiki tiiro) A!: flfr their maids. It certainly is a wonderful, sight to see a slatternly girl strip .herself in order to do a door-step, and then resume. her iron cage when the boor that may bring . the butcher-boy has arrived. Why is it that crinoline has survived_ all these, dangers, and that, although its proportions are not quite so outrageous, it is still the fashion, and likely to keep so? Simply because—if, at least, we speak of crinoline proper, and not of the cage and hoop abominations—it is really becoming. The female form is much more . gracefpl whemitdoes not appear to go shear dowmdike *lre. Noah in a cheap Ark. Crinoline is vexatious and expensive, and occasionally aboard.; bqb it does ef fect something that is wanted.. .of.course, the fashion will be altered in a hundred ways, and the mechanical ingenuity of the human mind will bit (MA vast aeries of provemente in the apparatus. But to the end of time women must either dress sheer, down or stick out. The degree of projection is smatter of detail, but in principle they must do one or the other. There is no more reason why, tharing once learnt to stick out, they should return to dressing sheer down, than why we should all return to our ancestors' practice of painting the body with woad. 'Photography, again, is a fashion that per haps may last longer than all the nuisances it entails might lead one to expect. It cer tainly brings nuisances with it that may , make the moat ‘patient man wish the sun had never been put to this horrible purpose. Sitting to a photographer is not quite so bad as going to a dentist, but it is something near it. in the first place, the leading pbo tographers make appointments or grant a sitting as if they were high Government offi cials giving away clerks' places to trouble some but deserving people, Then the pho tographer himself 'is a trial. Probably he finds his sitters bores, and he would make a much less lucrative thing of it if be al lowed the sitter and the sitter's friends to interfere. Still it is a nuisance for a lady to be carried ofi' from her husband or other male person in charge and be treated by a smirking fifth-rate artist for half an hour as something between a convict and a baby.— In the case, more especially, of young girls, we must add that the system of separate sittings is something much worse than a nuisance, and ought to ho resolutely put down._ Then the eminent photographer who thinks himself sure of his business is the most audacious of men. There is nothing he will not say to put down criticism and inquiry. A lady went lately to be taken with a little girl. The money was paid, and in about a week the thing was pronounced to be ready. The lady was all very well, and so eras the upper part at the little girl's figure, but below the petticoat she shaded off into two faint wavy cloumns like the re- 1 faction of trees in water. Remonstrance was made, and the eminent photographer had the assurance to say that artists had now given up putting in legs. Then a quiet unoffendiuz man is sometimes overwhelmed with what memo to him the joke and mock ery of the attitude in which, under the em inent photographer's directions, he is offered to his friends. A gentleman of a solemn humdrum appearance, with only that sort of romance about him which women cannot detect; wasirecently..persuaded to: sit .:rite sat, and the eminent photographer did his best. But it was a failure, and two or three more sittings came off in vain.• At last the eminent photographer expressed himself much pleased. By the judicious introduc tion of a back-ground, and a few objects be ing placed to break the stiffness, success had been achieved; and this was what the pho tograph presented. The unfortunate man was standing with his back to the ?.ago di Garda. lie was placed on the top of a grand marble staircase, near a splendid bal ustrade. In one band he held a very new borrowed silk umbrella, and he was sup ported on the 'other side bye friend's hat. It is bad enough to be depicted in this way, but the mere being depicted is a very small portion of the whole business. After the photographs are sent home comes the worry for them. There is some sort of' pleasure in giving them to very near relatives and very dear friends. We all Skate fancy that there aro o chosen few who really care to have a likeness Gf us, although it does rep resent us bareheaded, and surveying a new hat on the banks of nu Italian lake. But the'demaad for photographs is not limited to relations or friends. It is seer/rely limit ed to acquaintances. Any one who bas over seen you, or has seen anybody who has ever sees you; or knows any one that says he has seen a person who thbught he has seen you, considers himself entitled to ask you forlourphotograph, and 'to make you pay eighteen:pent:win order to comply with the demand. There is no compliment in it.— The illeituant does not care about you or your likeness in the least. But he or she has goys photograph book, and, as it must be filled, you sr:lnvited to act as a padding for that volume, and 411 the vacant space between, Minot) Max, .of ) ,llesse,Dartastadt and the amiable owmar's third brother, be appearsie the comic costume of a navvie.— It is not even grown-up people only who ask you in this preposterous way for photo 11i4lisliildrettaud babies have got their PfiolOcaph books, and pay , that they really wt*have,yostelikeet Cos, They protest they 'wit 401 ltriow , to doWith theiimiser -,abi°3:9°V--VM-2°lllBSlu.i°Prilt to, pad thieigiteett-geque Serihetst l aud, ligorein their k ialfeition: 'TM; .is terri¢le. •People Fit3l f-tr - "NO ENTERTAINMENTIS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SAITURDAY MORNING. MAY 10,„ 1862. who are not accustomed to them do not gen erally much care for infants in arms, but' those precious darlings will rise in estima tion now. They may have an awkward' habit of bending suddenly in the back, as if they were made of soft leather, but at any rate they cannot possibly ask you for your photograph. 1 We do not for a moment dream that the fashion of photograph collecting will die out. in the first place, the gain of having cheap portraits of friends is so great that there iW a solid advantage in photographs which would counterbalance a great many nui sances of a very serious sort. And then the collections when made are very useful.— a'hey supply a fund of talk to people who' have nothing to say. Every one can find something to remark about a collection of I photographs. Either they do not know the people represented in it, or they know them, or they wonder whether they know them.— Then, if they know them, they can say they are like or unlike; or they can pay adroit compliments and make acceptable remarks on the photographs -most cherished by the .collection; or they can gratify a little quiet malice, and say that they never could have believed so very unfavorable a likeness is a true one, sad yet every one knows the sun mutat be right. It is this fund ofmasy small talk which will be the real foundation of . the permanent success of photography as a : fashion. It might easily have happened i that photograph books would have shared' theihte of albums. Thirty years ago, young, ladies used to keep albums, and people used! to be decoyed or frightened into writing in them. Authors of all sixes and degrees of reputation were entreated to add their mite.' Charles Lamb's letters, fur example, are full of the references to the albums he bad bean writing in. But the weak point of albums was that, where they were not occu pied by magnificent water-color representa tions of perfectly round roses in the fullest bloom, they were too intellectual. People in the ordinary drawing-room think there is a sort of plot to find them out irony demand is made on their intellect, and to write verses, or even to copy correctly a piece of poetry out of a standard author, is danger ous and embarrassing. It is true that wri ters in albums were occasionally allowed to get or by writing out in their best band one of the very poorest and best-known riddles they could recollect, such As "Why is Athens like the wick of a candler but even this is precarious, for the answer has to be remem bered and understood. In photographs all is plain sailing. All that has to be done is to make gossipping remarks about other people, and,this is a duty to which even the most timid intellects feel competent. 1 photographs are, then, a fashion; but it is possible they muy be what, considering the mutability of human things, deserves to be called a permanent fashion, because they tend to supply a want that will always be felt. It is the same with ladies' novels and other records of the inner life and lan guage of young women. This species of composition is a fashion of the day. Balt a century ago either the dear creatures had no self-inquiring dreamy life-shadowinge, or else they kept them locked up. Now prin ters can hardly print fast enough to keep pace with all the out-pouring of lady novel ists. The supply is like that of an Artesian well—it is perennial and ever-flowing. We venture to say that if any one offered a small prize for a tale of woman's feelings, there would be at least five thousand competitors. It is a fashion that we do not take much in terest in; but we admit that it gives some thing that is wanted. Most women have a latent gush in them; and if the gush does not flow out in marriage, it gladly Inds a vest in print. As long as there are single women with unrequited feelings, or married women who can make this sort of prodoe- Lion pay, and ns long as printing is cheap, so long will the lady's novel last. Perhaps it will improve, but anyhow it will go on.— There are other fashions, as to which it ie more difficult to guess whether they will last or not. Morning calls, for example, seemed a deep-rooted habit of English society, and yet they .are almost a thing of the past.— Will sermons go too? IVe do not mean the discourses of a Christian minister, who has something to say, and says it as and when he thinks it ought to be said. Such dis couraes will, we are sure, go on till the tongue of man ceases to be beard on earth. But will the ordinary half-hour, cut and dry discourse, in which neither the preacher nor the congregation pretend to take the slight est interest, go on in England? Very likely it may; for it wren some objects, though not very high abs. And if it is objected that we cannot believe our posterity will always stand what does not please or profit them, the answer is, that we stand the sermon, and we stand being submerged under confluent waves of arinolioe at dinner. and we stand audacious children squeezing out oar photographs from ns. And if we can stand all this, why should not others? There must be some burdens that are always borne; and some fashions that do not two away. PERTINCST .QUIISTIONS AND LWAWF,IIB.-- The solos system has a large fatally, bat only one sea. Wby iv a field of grass older than your self?. BOesuse. it.is,past yo rage. Who is thabygest man 2 The lover; be is s filllow of tremendous sighs. Oct Most liberal man The grocer; hesirssilmost story tiling a weigh,. . HIGHLY IMPORTANT! FLIGHT OF •THE REBELS F.ROM YORKTOWN. The Enemy's Entire Line of Defences with all His Cans, Ammunition, Camp Equipage in our Possession. Gloucester Alen Occupied by . Union Troops. Gen. ItlcClellan with all his Caval ry and Artillery, in hot Parsnit., VIE FEDERAL GUNBOATS GONE ur YORK EWER WAR DEPARTSEENT, WASRINGTTS,} May 4, .12:30 P. M. The following highly important announce ment is just received from Fortress Monroe: "Yorktown was evacuated last night.— Our troops now occupy the enemy's works. "The enemy left a large amount of camp equipage and guns, which they could not destroy for fear of being seen." [SECOND DESPATCH.] HEADQUARTERS ARMS' OF POTOMAC, I May 4th, 9 A. M. .Son. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: "We have the ramparts of the enemy— we have his guns, ammunition, camp equip- age, etc., and hold the entire line of hie works, which the engineers report as being very strong. Laze thrown all trey cavalry and horse artillery in purinit, supported by infantry. "I move Franklin and as much more as I caa 'transport by water up to West Point to day. No thneahall be lost. "The gunboats have gone up York river. "I omitted to state that Gloucester is in our possession. "1 shall push the enemy to the wall. "(Signed) G, B. McCcam.aw, "Major General:" I Particulars of the Retreat of the Enemy— The Rebel Army Demoralized and Dis-' heartened—The Pursuit—An Engagement with the Rear Guard Anticipated—The Union Gunboats Advancing up York River Shelling the Lines. lIEADQVARTEES ARltlr OF VIE rtiTOMAC, May 4th, 10 A. M. This morning at 5 o'clock your correspon dent had the pleasure of entering the enemy's works at Yorktown, which the rear of their I army deserted four hours before. Everything was found to be in utter con tusion as though they left in great haste.— Between forty and fifty pieces of heavy artil lery have been left in their works after being spiked, together with a large amount of am munition, medical stores, camp equipage, teams and private property of their officers. A negro who was left in the town states that the Rebels threw a large amount of ord- nonce stores into the river to prevent its falling into our hands. Several deserters have succeeded in run ning into our lines. One of them a very intelligent man from New York, who had been connected with the Ordnance Depart ment ever since the works at Yorktown were constructed, states that the Rebels evacuated the pllire owing to the near approach of our parallel covering the immense seige works of our men. That they feared the success of the Union gunboatsin the York river , and ,lames river, by means of which. their com munication with the outer world would be ent off. The order was given to evacuate by General Johnson on Thursday, to commence the following morning, which was accord ingly done, General Magruder is said to have most strenuously opposed the measure, stating that if they could not whip the Federals here, there was no other place in Virginia where the could. Re swore in the presence of his men that this was so and they vociferously cheered him. Re became much excited, and completely lost control of himself. General Robert E. Lee, Commander-in- Chief, arrived at Yorktown on Wednesday and minutely examined the works of MeClel lan, when he is supposed to have recom mended the abandonment of the works deem ing them untenable. The deserters all agree in stating that t heir troops were very much demoralized and became disheartened when the order to retreat was made known, as they all antici pated having an engagement at this point. The deserters also agree in saying that the Rebels had a force of 100,030 men on the Peninsula, together with some 400 pieces (1) of field artillery. From the best information received they have fallen back to Chiokabominy Creek beyond Williamsburg, where it is expected to make a stand. Immediately on the fact of the flight of the enemy becoming known, the troops were ordered under arms, and are now in motion from the right and left Wag of the army.— A large force under General Stoneman, con sisting of cavalry, artillery and infantry, are in the advance and will probably come up with the rear of the enemy before night if they should remain near Williamsburg. Oar gunboats bare passed above York town and are.now shelling the shore on their way. up. Following the gunboats is a large steamer and other transports. loaded with troops, who will effect a landing above. It is said that Magruder swore that he was not afraid of McClellan. if Lee was. and that it he oonld not suowtoornitY fight hint here he Gould do it nowhere. Oaly ono man was loft itt Yorktown, stud he was a, negro. ==l WAR NEWS! [OFFICIAL taISPATCIIIS.) General Jameson and Colonel Samuel Black were the first to enter the enemy's main works. The only -casualty•that occurred was the killing of two men and the wounding of three, by the explosion of a concealed shell within the enemy's works. They belong to Company A, Fortieth New Kork. Their names are atafellows: Killed, George McFar land and Michael McDermott; wounded, Sergeant James Smith, Frederick Steick and Laurence Burns. The wells are very extensive, and show that they were designed by scientific engin eers, LATER. An official report, just made to headquar ters, shows that the enemy left seventy-one guns in the works at Gloucester Point. The ordnance stores were also left. Another deserter has just come in and re ports that Jefferson Davie came with Gen. Lee on Wednesday last, and after a consul tation with the most prominent officers, all were agreed to the evacuation .except Gen. Magruder. THE LATEST FROM YORKTOWN. OUR TROOPS OVERTAKE THE EKEMY NEAR WILLIAMSBURG. BRISK FIGHT GOING ON AT LAST ACCOUNTS. CONFIDENCE OF GEN. M'CLELLAN IN THE RESULT. WAssiscrox, May s.—The following dis patch has been received a the War Depart meat: HEADQUARTERS, ARMY GT THE POTOMAC, } hlay 4, P. M. To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: Our cavalry and horse artillery came up with the enemy's rear guards in their en trenchments, about two miles this side of Williamsburg. A brisk fight ensued, and just as my Aid loft, General Smith's Divis ion of infantry arrived on the ground, and I presume carried the enemy's works, though I have not yet heard. ' rheoestetny's rear is .strong, but I have force enough up there to insure all purposes. We base thus .far captured seventy-one heavy guns and a large amount of tents, ammunition, etc. All along the lines their works prove to have been most formidable, and I am now fully satisfied of the earrect ness of the course I have pursued. The suc cess is brilliant, and you may rest assumed that its effects will be of the greatest im portance. There shall be no delay in fol lowing up the Rebels. The Rebels have been guilty of the most murderous and barbarous conduct in placing torpedoes within the advanced works, near the wells and springs, near flagstaffs, maga zines and telegraph offices, is carpet bags, barrels of flour, etc. Fortunately, we have not lost many men in this manner—some four or five killed and perhaps a dozen wounded. I shall make the prisoners re move them at their own peril. (Signed) G. B. McCtattsx, Major General. The Pursuit of the Rebels from Yorktown— Our Cavalry and Artillery have a Sharp S7cirmisli with Me Enemy near Williams- 1 burg and Capture some prisoners. /lEADQularEas NIAR WILLIAMSBURG, I May 4, P. M. The advance of the forces under command of General Stoneman, with the view of as certaining the position of the enemy, reached this place, two and a half miles from Wil liamsburg, about two o'clock this afternoon. On the road from Yorktown the country, in most instances, was laid desolate, and but few of the houses were occupied. On emerging from a cover of woods we came in view of Williamsburg and the en emy's earthworks at the same time. No guns were visible on the works, but a regi ment of cavalry could be seen approaching, about one mile off, in line of battle. Captain Gibbons' reserve battery was then ordered in front to open on the enemy's ap proaching cavalry, while a portion of the Sixth Cavalry were deployed as skirmishers to the right and left. The fire from the battery was very effective on the enemy's cavalry, but they never changed their course About two hundred yards to the right of Gibbons' battery was an earthwork which had all the appearance of being deserted, but suddenly our troops wore opened upon by a deadly fire from artillery posted be hind the works. At the same time the rebel cavalry continued advancing, until they were checked by a charge made by a portion of the First *tad Sixth Cavalry, which was performed in a most admirable manner.— In more instances than one it was a hand to hand encounter with the enemy. Strange to say none of our men were taken prison er's, while we captured about twenty-five of the enemy, among whom is Captain Frank Lee, of the Third Florida Infantry. Captain Gibbon. bad fourteen borzoi killed. Lieutenant De Wolf was mortally wounded. Oae of oar guns was lost by sticking fut in the mad. Lieutenant Benton of the First Cavalry. and tea men of the same regimenk were wounded. Lieatenant McClellan, of the Sixth Cavalry; was slightly wounded, as were also twelve others. Lieutenant Colonel Kris*, of the First Cavalry, had his• horse shot noder him while engaged in,a hand to hand .enoounter with two of the enemy.— He escaped with a few slight bruises. Pri vate Noblefrisb, of filtsjor Barker's McClel lan Dragoons, had Isis horse killed and was 81,50-PER YEAR Mir ADVANCE; 82,00 IF NOT. IN EWA= severely wounded in the leg by the explosion (iron torpedo while passing _through York town. The Rebel cavalry was forced by our men ta evacuate their position, but the want of infantry at the time prevented our troops from advancing on the enemy's works and it being evident that it was useless to at tempt furtheroperations the troops fell back about 200 yards to await the arrival of in fantry. General Ilancock's Brigade soon after waived, bat it was deemed advisable to defer further operations until to-morrow. We have information that the enemy are still on the retreat beyond Williamsburg.— The rear of the enemy is very strong, as was shown to-day. , LAVER. YORKTOWN, Monday Morning, May 5. It commenced raining here about two o'clock this morning, and has continued heavily up to this time. There is no news from Williamsburg, as it is yet loco easy in the morning to bear. We will occupy - Williamsburg early Ibis morning. Frou there our course will depend upon that taken by the enemy. WASOINGTON, May sth, 11 P. 51.---No further news bad been received at the War Department from Fortress Monroe or York town up Ao shis hour. The boat from Cher rystone had probably been delayed by the storm which prevailed in that region. Very little information bad atzived by telegraleh .from any quarter, and nothing of an unfa vorable character. WHAT THE REIIST.I LEFT 118111WD AT TORCZOWIA.: HEADQUA-SYRR3 ARMY Pin'OMAC, t May 4, 11:20 A. M. Eon. E. M. Stanton. Secretary of War: An inspection just made shows that the Rebels abandoned in their works at York town; two 3-inch rifle cannon, two q inch rifle cannon, sixteen 32-pounders, six 42- pounders, nineteen 8-inch. eolumbiads, four 9-inch Dab!grans, one 10-inch mortar, one 8-inch siege howitzer, with carriages and implements complete, and each piece sup plied with seventy-six rounds of ammuni tion. Oa the ramparts there are also four magazines, which have not yet been exam ined. This does not include the guns left at Gloucester Point and their other works to our left. (Signed) G. B. McCLELLAN, Major General IMPORTANT FROM NORFOLK. I.4rrivat of Refugees from Norfolk.—The Merrimac Deserted by Her Oirscere.— Ordered as Rom age illockade.—Commodore Tatnall Resigns. FoRTREss MONRoIt, May 2, 3 P. M.--three refugees from Norfolk, whe left there feet night is a row-boat, arrived here at 7 o'clock this morning. Commodore Tatnall, it appears, received• sealed orders on Monday and sailed with the Merrimac, but on opening them in Eliza beth river found that he was ordered to run the blockade and proceed to York rived— He thereupon returned to Norfolk and im ! mediate!) , resigned his commission, together with his chief officers. There was a general expectation at Nor folk that the Merrimac would come out for at least three or four days put. The refugees say that there are several hundred Union men in Norfolk, known to be such, and many others who keep quiet, including many of the soldiers. Then are six or seven hundred troops, under General Ungar, between Pig Point and Norfolk. Three companies of soldiers in Portsmouth rebelled and stacked their arms a few days since. It is also reported that a part of Gem Magruder's forces bad mutinied at Willson burg. A torpedo has bean constructed at Nor folk—whether recently or not is not stated— calculated to be managed under water by one man, and to be propelled by him under the vessel to be destrOyed. It is said to be five or six feet long. . The flag of truce sent out to-day has not yet returned. The Fienob aleamerGassendi arrivod-from Washington to-day. ~ ~f! I ,(i.lii J11_I4;1~,li k . Official Account of the Fight at Blizalhd City.—Tie Enemy Ibtally Routed. FORTRESS MONROIE, M 4 2, 3 P. 31.—8 y the steamer JuliCiferren, - . from= Newborn, N. C., we have UnionTeemmats of the tight above Elisabeth City; as previously reported. Gen. Reno was dispatched by Gen. Burnside on the 17th, with five regiments and four pieces of artillery, as previously stated, to Elisabeth City Stenos to more in the direc tion of Norfolk.. The special correspondent of the Tribune gives the following patticaLuss General Reno landed stAlisabeth City and sent Colonel ilawkittuby a circuitous route to get in front of the enemy, .and Wicked with a pert• of the remaining forces. After marching twenty miles thienemy was found entrenched, with batteries in position, is the edge of a wood which commanded the sp• sunielses over open debts. • Col. Howard', of theldaripe Artillery, in the advance, . 8 .Fed.•1P*5 1 0 1 ,• 4 4 2 e11y , ign !k4 l° piesesbeing patio portitinn.sus artillefy : doel for acme thrita-gonre., witt„.bept up. COL ! Hawkins' foretsgutaiiray 4112&:.41111:A . A116. 4 4* 1 44e_. 01 W°g 4 ii. • Ren o ' s .rff- Reno ant his regime n ts An:the,” rlglifand out4sok.thihiaipsy,..4mori:iiiit ,[WHOLE NUMBER 1,655. 'being finely executed anti with a prospect of bagging the whole rebel force. When Ifasekins came up Gen. Reno ordered him to the right, but coming into the op 4, field he charged on the enemy with the bayonet successfully in the clearing and receivedthe fire of both batteries and all the Rebel in '(entry. Colonel hawking was wounded in the arm and Adjudant Gadsden was•killed. charge was then made by the other regi ments on the flanks of the enemy, and they were put temente and retreated to the canal locks anti thence to Norfolk. Gen." - Rerio pronounces this one of the most - brilliant &Giro he over saw. Our loss .in •eommis eioned officers was: killed 1; wounded nnoit commissioned °Seers: killed 2; wounded LI; privates: killed 6, wounded 40. Gen. Uarnside positively ordered Gen.Ttent, not to advance any further toward Norfolk, the object being merely to•feel the Strength of the enemy in the rear, po after remaining six hours on the field of battle be returned to Elizabeth City. Having not !enongh wagons, and the men being Iskhansted by their severe march, seventeen of our wound ed wore left on the field in charge of a sur geon with a flag of truce. These have, is has already been published, reachedEortreas Monroe from Norfolk. The enemy's loss was larger than ours Official Itspoit of the Capture of Fort ' • Macon. Pour Hundred Prisoners Taken.—Loss on Oar Side Only One Idled and Ekren Wounded. FORTRESS Mowson, May Non. Edwin M. Stanton,"Secreiary Of Wan Sr—Captain Worden, of the•navi, - -With despatches from Gen. Burnside; has' juit arrived. lie reports Fort Maiontaken after eleven - hours boinbardnient.. Four bundreit prisoners taken. Col. Weight, late of the Ordnance Department, 'commanded reit Macon. Loss on our side, one killed and eleven wounded. Jong E: Wooz, Major The Official Accounts of the OaptureOf,FOit Macon. FORTRESS Moslems, May 3, 8 P. M.o l — . The steamer Julia Ferran arrived ,here.from Newborn this morning, having left that place on Tuesday. She brings the mails and official despatches from General , Burn side. All the previously reported particu lars of the capture of Fort Macon . Ere 00a. firmed. The Fort surrendered-on Friday evening, and all the stores and ammuultion; the latter in large quantity, were captured. The Fort was garrisoned immediately by the Union troops. Everything - was , quiet when the Julia Ferrets left, and therq was ne other news in that vicinity . Wly, one man was reported killed °wonr side, during the bombardment. Tho enemy lost ,severi. Mach of Ibri Maros. , Fort Macon. which guarded and protected the town of Beaufort, is situated on a bluff on Rogue's Rank, one mile. and three quarters front the tort. it commands the entrance to the harbor, haring sr feR aweep of fire over the main channel. Opposite the fort, at the entrance of the harbor, isatch leford Back, one mile and.. a. half across.— The fortification is of a hexagonal: fora, has two tiers of guns—one in cassmated bomb-proof, not the other en. barbeye t: Its armament consisted of: twenty, thirty4we pounders, thirty twenty-four pounder", two eighteen pounders, .three, field pieces_ for flanking defence, twelve flank howitzers, eight eight-inch howitzers. (heavy), eight eight4noh howitzers ,(light)„ one thirteen inch mortar, three ten-inch mortars, and two Ooehorn mortars—making atotalef eighty nine guns. The war garrison of the fort was three hundred men. For heating.sliot there were large . furnaces- in the fork and at the time of the seizure-there was a lirge quanity of powder id the inagatieei-u:The reasoner, and iron work were ansith .tint - Of repair when the' fort was seised thu Rebels which was donelyarthntotOtrienor Rills on the 2d-of 2 Jamiszy,-18fill ,Biuch.,of the woodwork; dr-;•finislitattin.litestrite'ef decay. The. piarit'of the.tapes structure wera szundrantor order,:hai Itis reported •that the -Airting-AlotrertiorZ bed placed all the forts of the Stall Twit most efficient state of preparation for defence and resistance._ • - • r Governer frickens,-or . Soath'elimiina; mediate), after .the ashore tor .T.irten and Camel/. sent; for; Elsolirdsfeacep souse dozen° ten-loch oalarabiadii; -.which; w .j are. videdneeording to,the Moodie* Ittrangth and necessaries 4of.esel.-. It - la:host in the hands of the Unionfoneecand , the details of its capture will soonlyisaadepitliTic.• The Rebel garrison of Fort *soon -con stated of +dont 3.50.1neni with theibllowing laid And stat‘olSeenc,. Colonel- MmorJ. White, Misi QosrtermMta•—Caps: J.F. Divine. Dalt. Acting Aisistant R. E:' Walker. Ikkonmisearv-enph: War. C; King. r-r•-: Sergeant Major;-3analliclioole v • Chaplin-IW. Dr. likatin: Colonel White , is'asid to 'be. a'nepbre or Jeff. Davie. Be Igradnated -1* - WastPoint in 1858, and, seSenondAtienteleant lathe United Suttee Cordnanoecorpaterve4 in ~New at Ilatite , :loonge whal;t°l4s4.3!!l:-lir°449 sad 411'1.440.1k ..54 1 %**A4g 1 1 . ., 4 0 1 ! #iCc.t f i t iitio/ 9,1#0.9",ff; was A.,za.a.T › .; s tTiniunown. E. 4 goods M they' = or .>.a4. , T.a left II ~ , r ) IMI MEW MI r;.. - :a
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