dying were around us. day could hardly sum up our losses. And then there came up the grand refrain of Whittier's—written after Manaseas, I believe, but on that night appar ently far more applicable to this greater than Mane'sue—fader the Cloud and Through the Sea Son? of the -a int.* who faced their Jordan flood. In fierce Atlantic's u a retreating wave— Who by the Red Sea of their glorious blood Reached to the Freedom that your blood shall save! 0 countrymen' Good's day is not yet done! He leaveth not his people utterly! C'oun' it a covenant, that iie leads lis on Beneath the cloud and through the crimson sea! TIIE BATTLE ON MONDAY. OCR MUSTEK ROLL. I have given the line of haul" agreed up n for our forces on Monday: Right wing. Major General Lew Wallace; left wing. Bris:ul : er General Ncls-m. Be •ween these beginning lit.the left. Brigadier Gen erals Tom. Crittenden. A. McD. McCook. Huriburt, McClernand and Sherman. In the divisions of the buter three were to be include 1 also the remains of Premiss and Win. H. L. Wallace's commands—shat tered, disorganized, and left without commanders, through the capture of one, and the probably mortal wound of the other. Buell's three divisions were not full when the battle opened Mon (lav morning, but the lacking regiments ware gradually brought into the rear. To save further delay I give here a list of his troops and >f Wallace's engaged. lIKIAMEt GENERAL NELSON'S DIVISION. Firtt Br-qad* —Col. Aimnon. 24th Ohio, command ing; 3Cth inu ana, Col. Cross: e t h Ohio. Lieut. Col. An derson : 24:h Ohio, Lieut. Coi. Frederick C. Jones. Second Brigade —Saunders D. Bruce. 20th Kentucky, commanding: Ist Kentucky, Col. Envart: 2d Ken tucky. Lol. Sedgwick; 2oth Kentucky, Lieut.Col. , commanding. Third Brigade —Col. H.izen. 41st Ohio, command ing: t!-' Ohio, 6th Kentucky and 9th Indiana. BRIGADIER GENERAL TOM. CRITTENDEN'S DIVISION. Firs* Brigade —Gen. B vie: 19th Ohio. Col. Beaty; 59tii Ohm. Col. Pl'ytte; lath Kentucky, Col. liobson: 9th Kentucky, Col. Grider. Second Begad:— Col. Wm. S. Smith, 13th Ohio, com- , man.' og; 13th Ohio, Lieut. Col. Hawkins; 26th Ken ■ cj;y. L.eur. Col Maxwell; Uth Kentucky. Co!. P. P. j with Mendenhall's regular and Bartlett's Otiio Batteries. BRIGADIER GEN". M'TOOK'S DIVISION. First Brigade —Brig. Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau; Ist Ohio, Col. Edward A. Parrott: 6th Indiana, Col. Crit tenden; 3d Kentucky (Louisville Legion); battalion litn, 16th. and 19th regulars. Second Brigade —Bi ig. Gen. Johnston; 32d Indiana, Col. Willieh; 39th Indiana. Col. Harrison; 49th Ohio, Col. Gibson. Third lit iijade —Col. Kirk. 34ih Illinois,commanding; 34th Illinois Lieut. Col. Badsworth; '29 th Indiana, Lt. < ol Drum; 13th Indiana, Col. Buss;77th Pennsylvania, Col. Stamliaugh. M.U. GEN. LEW WALLACE'S DIVISION —RIGHT OF ARMY. First Brig-tot —Coi. Morgan L. Smith, commanding; Silt Missouri, Col. Morgan L. Smith. Lieut. Col. James Peckhum. commanding; 11th Indiana, Col. George F. McGiiiiiis: 24th Indiana. Col. Alvin P. Hovey; Thur ber's Missouri Battery. Second Brigade —Col. Thayer (Ist Nebraska,) com manding: Ist .Nebraska, Lieut. Col. MeCork.command ing; 23.1 Indiana, Coi. Sanderson: 58th Ohio, Col. j Bansenwein; Cstli Ohio, Col. Steadman: Thompson's ! Indiana Battel v. Third Brigade —Col. Chas. Whittlesey ("20 th Ohio.) j commanding; 2oth Ohio. Lieut. Col. .command- i ing: 50th Ohio. Col. Pete Kinney; 76th Ohio, Col. Chas. j R. Woods; 7Sth Ohio. Col. Lcggett. THE WORK OE SUNDAY NIGHT. With the exception of the gunboat bombardment, the night seemed to have passed ia entire quiet. A heavy thunderstorm came up about midnight, and though all were shivering over the ducking, the Sur geons assured us that a better thing could not have happened. The ground, they said, was covered with wounded not yet found, or whom we were unable to bring from the field. Tho moisture would to some extent cool tiie burning, parch.ng tiiirst. which isonc of the chief terrors of lying wounded and helpless on tiie battle field, ami the falling water was the best dressing for the wounds. The regiments of Buell's Divisions were still dis embarking at the lauding. Many had taken their pla ces; the rest hurried out as fast a? they landed, and fell into the rear of their brigade lines" for reserves. I stood for a few moment? at the landing, curious to see how those fine fellows would march out to tiie field where they knew reverses had crowded so thickly upon us the day before, ami where many of them "must lie down to" sleep his last sleep ere the sun, then rising, should sink again. There was little of that vulgar vanity of valor which was so conspic uous in all the movements of our rawer troops eight or nine months ago. There was no noisy or sense less yelling, no shouting or boasts, no calling on look ers on to -show u- where the cowardly seeesh is, and we'll clean 'em out double quick." These men understood the work hef v >re them. They went at it an brave men should—determinedly, hopefully, calm ly- It soon becime evident that the gunboat bombard- j ment through the night had not been without a most ; important effect in changing the very conditions un der which w renewed tiie struggle. The sun had gone down with the enetny'slines clasping us tight on the centre and left, pushing us to the river, and leav ing us little over half a mile out into all the broad space we had held in the morning. The gunboats had cut the coil and loosened the constriction. As we soon learned, their shells had made the old position of our extreme left, which the rebels had tieeii pleas antly occupying, utterly untenable. Instead of being | able to slip up on us through the night as they had probably intended, they were compelled to fall back I from point to point; each time as they had found pla- | oes they thought out of range, a shell would come i dropping in; now here within range could they lie.but t the troublesome visitors would find them out, and to j end the matter they fell back beyond our inner camps, j aau tous lost more than half the ground they had | gained by our lour o'clock retreat the afternoon be fore. Leas easily accounted for was a movement of theirs on our right. They had held a steep bluff', covered with underbrush, as their advanced line. Through ihe night they abandoned this, which gave them trie best possible position for opposing Lew. Wallace, and had fallen back across some fields to the scrub oak woods beyond. The advantage of compelling our advance over unprotected openings, while they main tained a sheltered position, was obvious, but certain ly not so great as that of holding a height which ar tillery and infantry would make as ...tficuit to take as many a fort. Nevertheless, they fell back. WANT OF SYSTEM ON OL'R SIDE. The reader who is patient enough to wade through the narration will scarcely fail to observe that thus far I have said little or nothing of any plan of attack or defence among our commanders. It lias been, simply, because I have failed to see any evidence of such a plan. To mc it seemed on Sunday as if every Division General at least—not to say, in many cases, every individual soldier—intimated the good old Is- : roahtisii plan of action, by which every man did what i seemed good in his own eyes. There might have j boon an infinite amount of generalship displayed in j superintending our various defeats, and reformations ! and retro.,; , but to me it Scorned of that microscopic j el: .-to.or ihat required the magnifying powers of a j ♦necial penui, for exclusive newspaper telegraphing " "" at hues to discover. vote tdit there was. as has been said, a council j intn M a j"r General commanding devol- j j u .ins there beyond the simple arrange- j It Übno of battle, I am very certain that , '"vision commanders didn't find it out. | parent, U1 lone delayed our losses on Sunday; j that ' the W ,n v Silve 'J >'•-? when we bad reach- , . . winch came the child's 'jumuna i hvery VirtOborn fighting, with such general nrnetioe or irislol commanders displayed, re- ; practice, et v | IHI we had |, l>t before. and hap' '' u'• ' ores were taken, at any rale, to prevent the miscellaneous thronging back out of harm's way. They stood up to their work and did their duty manfully. lt soon became evident that, whether fro me change of commanders or some other cause, the Rebels were pursuing a different policy in massing their forces.— Pn Sunday the heavier fighting had been done on the left. I his morning they seemed to make less deter mined resistance here, while toward the centre and right the groynd was more obstinately contested, and the struggle longer prolonged. 1 V . , a ," I'*"* ten o'clock Nelson advanced slowlv nut steadily, sweeping hjs long lines over the ground of our sore defeat on Sunday morning, forward over scores or dead Rebels, resistiassiy pressing beck the laded and wearied enemy. The Rebels had received but few reinforcements during the night, their men were exhausted with their desperate contest of the "fnjteai'y dispirited by the evident fact that, notwithstanding their well la-id plaus of des trucUOn in detail, they were fighting Grant and Buell .combined. Gradually, a- Nelsoli pushed forward hislmos under her.rv musketry the enemy fell oack. tili about half past "ten. when." under cover of the heavy timber and , a furious cannonading, ti.ey maJe a genera! rally.— Our forces, flushed with their easy victory, were .scarce ly prep.o'eu for the sudden onset when retreat had been a!! they Lad been seeing before. Suddenly the Rebel masses were lruried against our lines with tre mendous force. Our men halted, wavered and fell back. At this critical juncture Captain Terry's regu lar battery came dashing up. Scarcely taking time ' to uulimber he was loading and sighting his pieces before the caissons had turned, and in an instant was tossing in shell from twenty four pound howitzers ,o the compact and advancing rebel ranks. Here was the turning point of the battle on the left. The rebels were onlv cheeked, not halted. On the; ' caine. Hors,- after horse from the batteries was pick ed off Every private at one of the howitzers fell, and the grin wo- worked by Captain Terry himself i ad a corporal The rebels seemed advancing. A regiment dashed up from our line, and saved the disabled piece. I Then for two hoar? artillery ..tiri musketry at close rane. At last they began to waver. Our men press ed on- pouring in 'deadly volleys. Just then Buell, irko a: -iirned the general direction of his troops in the field, came up. At a glance he saw the chance.— Forward at double quiieed to ex- able to move. For a quarter i of a mile the rebels fell back. Faster and faster they ' ran: less and less resistance was made to the advance. At iast the front camps on the left were reached, and by half past two that point was cleared. The rebels lord 1M II st, adily .-wept back over the ground they had won, wiih lie'avy 1 is.-. as they fell into confusion. We had retaken all our own guns lost here the day before, and one or two from the rebels were left as 'rophies to toll in after days how bravely that great j victory over treason in Tennessee was won. ADVANCE OF CRITTENDEN'S DIVISION. 1 have sketched the advance of Nelson. Next to j him came Crittenden. He too swept forward over his I ground to the front some distance before finding the j toe. Between eight and nine o'clock, however, while ' keeping Smith's Brigade up even with Nelson's flank, ; and joining Boyle's Brigade to McCook on the right, | in the grand advance, they came upon the cnernv ! with a battery in position,and. well supported, Smith ! dashed his brigade forward; there was sharp, close : work with mnsketry, and tiie rebels fled. We had | three pieces—a twelve-pound howitzer and two brass j .-ix-pounders. But they coat the gallant Thirteenth Ohio dear. Major Ben*. I'lalt Runkle fell, mortally wounded. Sofiiv may he sleep, and green grow the laurels over his honored grave! None worthier wear ihem living. For half an hour, perhaps, tiie storm raged around these captured guns. Then came the reflex rebel wave that had hurled Nelson back. Crittenden, too, caught its full force. The rebels swept up to the bat teries—around them.and on down after our retreating column. But the two brigades, like those of Nelson [ to their left, took a fresh position, faced the foe. anil hehi their ground. Mendenhall's and Bartlett's bat teries now began shelling the infantry that alone op posed them. Before abandoning the guns so briefly held they had spiked (liein with mud. and the novel expedient was perfectly successful. From that time till after one o'clock, while the fight raged back and forth over the same ground, the rebels did not suc ceed in firing a shot from their mud-spiked artillery. At last our brigades began to gain the advantage j again. Crittenden pushed them steadily forward. — i Mendenhall. with his accomplished First Lieutenant i Parsons, one of our Western Reserve West Pointers, ! and Bartlctt, poured in their shell. A rush for the j contested battery and it is ours again. The rebels re i treated towards the left. Smith and Boyleholding the i infantry well in hand. Mendenhall again got their range and poured in shell on the new position. The fortunes of the day was against them, as against their : comrades to Nelson's front, and they were soon in full retreat. Just then Brigadier General Thomas J. Wood's ad vance brigade from his approaching division eameup. It was too late for the tight, but it relieved Critten den's weary fellows, and pushed on after the rebel? until they were found to have left our most advanced c-anips. MCCOOK'S ADVANCE. Thus the left was saved. Meanwhile McCook. with as magnificent regiments as ever came from the Army of tiie Potomac, or from any army of volunteers in the world, was doing equally well towards the centre. His division was handled*iu such away as to save I great effusion of blood, while equally important re sult.- were attained, 'fails the reserves were kept as much as possible from under tire, while those to the front were engaged. Tim? the lists of killed and ' wounded will show that while as heavy fighting was j done here as anywhere on the right or centre, the ! casualties are fewer than could have been expected. j It would scarcely be interesting to prolong details ' where tiie course of one division so nearly resembled that of the others. But let me sketch the close. An Illinois battery, serving in the division, was in immi- I nent danger. The Sixth Indiana was ordered to its relief. A rapid rusti. close musketry firing—no need of bayonet? here—the battery is safe. The enemy ! are to"the front and right. Advancing and firingright i oblique the Sixth pushes on. The rebel coiors fall.— j Another volley : tney fill again. Another volley: yet i once more the fated colors drop. There is fatality in j it; so the rebel- seem to think at least, as they wheel j and di?app ar. And then Itosscau's Brigade is drawn off. in splen- j did style, as if coming in from parade, conscious of, some grand master of reviews watching their move ments. So tin re was—the rebel General. As he saw the brigade filing back he pushed his forces forward • again. Kirk's Brigade advanced to meet them, com- j ing out of the woods into an open field to do so. They I were met by a tremendous fire which threw a batta!- i ion of regulars in front of them (under Major Oliver, I j think.) into some confusion. They retire to re-form, ; and meanwhile down drops the brigade Hat on the i ground. Then, as the front is clear, they spring up, j charge across the open field—never mind the falling —straight on. on to the woods, under cover, with the enemy driven back by the impetuous advance. And now he rallies. Fierce musketry firing sweeps the woods. They advance thirty rods, perhaps, when the \ Twenty-ninth ludianagct- into a marsh and falls par tially to the rear. Heavier comes the leaden hail.— , Twenty-ninth and Thirteenth both fall back fifteen or ; twenty rods: they rally and advance; again they are , burled back; again they start forward, and this time they come in on the vulnerable points. The enemy flees. Col. Wagoner's 15th Indiana cotnes up to the support, the enemy disappear, fresh troops take their j places, and for them the fight is ended. I might de- ' scr-oc similar deeds of WilTich's and Harrison's regi- j ments, but, "from one learn all." MCCLERNAND AND HCRLBL'RT. Further to the right McClernand and Hurl hurt wore j gallantly coming on with their jaded men. The sol- j diers would fight—that was the great lesson of the bat- , tie. If surprised and driven off in consequence of ; suprise, that can hardly be wholly charged on them- ! Four times McClernand regained and lost again the j "round to the front of his division. Similar were llurlburt's fortunes. But I must abandon these details. Beginning at the > left we have followed the wave of success that swept | us forward a'ain, from spot to spot, over the hard lost I fields of Sunday, our pteons of victory—the wild cheers ; of our successful soldiers—sounding the requiem .f the fallen Rebel?, who have atoned for their treason ' by the brave man's death. Nelson. Crittenden. Mc- i Cook. Huriburt, McClellan have borne their divisions ! through the fray. It lasted longer on the right, and : was as rarely interesting as the cness game of a mast- | er. Let us trace it through. LEW. WALLACE'S MOVEMENTS. In speaking of the opening of Monday's battle, I ; mentioned Major General Lew. Wallace's opening the i bail at i <> clock, by shelling with enfilading fires a reb- i el battery. A few shots demonstrated to the rebels j that their position was untenable. The instant Sher- f man came in to protect bis left, Wallace advanced his infantry. 'J he rebel battery a t once limbered np and ; got out of the way. The advance had withdrawn the | division front Sherman, making a loft wheel, to get I back into the neighborhood of our line; they advanced ! some two hundred yards, which brought them to a j little elevation, with a broad open stretch to the front, 1 As the division halted on the crest of the swell, there passed before them a rare vision. Away to the front were woods. Through the edge of the timber, skirt ing the fields, the head of a rebel column appeared, marching past in splendid style on the double quick. Banner after banner appeared; the • Stars and Bars" formed a long line, stretching parallel with Wallace's i line of battle. Regiment after regiment appeared, the j line lengthened, and doubled, and trebled, the head ! of the column was out of sight and still they came.— j Twenty regiments were counted passing through the i woods. The design was plain. The rebels had aban doned their way through our left, and now the mani fest attempt was to turn our right. Batteries were now ordered up—Thompson's and j 1 lumber's—and tlie whole column was shelled as it ! passed. The rebels rapidly threw their artillery into position, and a brisk cannonading began. After a time, while the tight still rested with the artillery, the rebels opened a new and destructive battery on the right, which our men soon learned to know as " Wat son s Louisiana Battery," from the marks on the am munition boxes they forced it from time to time to leave behind. ,i series, with a brigade of supporting infantry, were now removed forward over open fields, under heavy ir,', 1 oonu \ n(intst i !j" pf l ®' For an hour and a vision was sid\ deb 3 wlul * the of the di- j o'clock Shermandi double quick and gamed the woods The I i„io i Battery was turned; Marsh's position left it subteet to fire in flank and tront, and then fled. The other .U el batteries at one did tiie same, and Wallah's D v,t 1 ion, up in an instant, now that a master move bad ! swept the board, pushed forward. Before them were broad fallow fields, then a woody little ravine then i corn fields, then woods. The left brigade was sent forward. It crossed the I fallow fields, under ordinary lire, men gained the ra vine, and was rushing across the corn fields when the I same Louisiana steel rifled guns opened on them. j Bushing forward they reached a little ground swell, j behind which they dropped like dead men; while skirmisher? were sent forward to silence the trouble- • some battery. The skirmishers crawled forward till they gained a little knoll, not more than seventy-five yards from the battery. Of course the battery opeu ! Ed on them. They replied if not so noisy more to the purpose. In a few moments the battery was driven c-S" with artillerists killed. horses shot down, and oad- 5 V .rippled in every way. But the affair cost us a brave man—Lieut Colonel Garbei—who conjd not -on iru! hi- enthusiasm at the conduct ofthe skirmishers, ami iti his excitement ince atiously exposed himself. A! this while rebel regiments were pouring up to at tack the audacious brigade that was supporting the skirmishers, and fresh regiments from Wallaces Di vision came up to checkmate the game. ! But the battery was silenced. •• Forward" was the division order. "Rushing across cornfields under iieavv fire, they now met the rebels face to lace in the woods. The contest was quick, decisive. Close, sharp, continuous musketry for a few minutes and the rebels fell back. Here unfortunately Sherman's right gave way. Wal lace's flank was opposed. He instantly formed Col. Wood's (Seventy-ninth Ohio) in a new line of battle, in right angles with the real one. and with orders to protect the flank. The Eleventh Indiana like wise here engaged in a sharp engagement with the enemy attempting to flank, and for a time the contest waxed fierce. But Sherman soon filled the place of his broken regiments, again Wallace's Division pour ed forward, and again the enemy gave way. By two o'clock the Division was "in the woods again, and*for three-quarters of a mile they advanced under a continuous storm of shot. Then another contest or two wiiii batteries, always met with skirmishers and sharp shooting—then, by four o'clock, two hours la ter than on the right, a"general rebel retreat —then pursuit, recall, and encampment on the old grounds of Sherman's Division, in the verv tents from which those regiments were driven that hapless Sunday morning. The camps were regained: the rebels were repuls ed; their attack had failed; we stood where we began; rebel eavairv were within a mile of us; the retreating columns were within striking distance. But we had regained our camps. And so ended the battle of Pittsburg. THE KILLED AMD WOUNDED. I do not pretend to give more than an estimate, but I have made the estimate with some care, going to the Adjutants of different regiments that had been in as heavy fighting as any, getting statements of their losses —sure to be very nearly, if not quite, ac curate —and approximating the loss of a dozen regi ments to the probable loss of all. 1 have ridden over the grounds, too, have seen the dead and wounded lying over the field, have noted the number in the hospitals and on the boats. As the result of it ail, I do not believe our loss in killed and wounded wili number over thirty-five hundred to four thousand. — The question of prisoners is another matter. Reports that certain regiments only have half the men answering roll call indicates nothing. The regi ments'are all more or less disorganized and the sol diers scattered everywhere. Many go home with the sick, many are nurses in the hospitals, many keep out of sight, seeing all they can . The Guihrie Gray Regiment lost very slightly. No commissioned officer received any woiniu even, ex cept Lieut. Col. Anderson, and nis is only from a spent ball. In the 4Ssth Ohio. Col.Sullivnn was slightly wounded: Capt. Warner, killed; Lieut, i'lyley. severely wound ed; Capt. Bond, severely; Lieut. Lindsay, slightly; Lieut. Pusegate. slightly". These are all the causal tics among the commissioned officers of the regi ment. THE NUMBERS ENGAGED. The best opinions of the strength with which the Rebels attacked us place their numbers at sixty thou sand. They may have been reinforced five to ten thousand on Sunday night. Grant had scarcely forty thousand effective men on Sunday. Of these half a dozen regiments were utter ly raw"—had scarcely had tiieii guns long euough to know how to handle 'them. Some were supplied with weapons on their way up. Hue!! passed three divisions that took part in the action —Nelson's, Crittenden's and MeCook's. Tlicy numbered say twenty thousand —a liberal estimate. — Lew. Wallace came up on Monday with say seven thousand more. That gives us, counting the Sunday men as all effective again, sixty-seven thousand on Monday, on our side, against sixty to seventy thousand Rebels It was not numbers that gained us the day. it was fighting. All honor to ourN'orthern soldiers for it. The Capture of Fort Pulaski. An official despatch from Major Gener al David Hunter, in command of the Un ion forces in South Carolina and Georgia, confirms the intelligence we had from Southern sources of the surrender of Fort Pulaski, at the mouth of the Savannah river, and thus opening the city of Savan nah to the approach of the national forces. Gen. Hunter's despatch was brief and in the following words : PORT ROYAL, SOUTH CAROLINA, ) via Sandy Hook, X. J, Apt. 16, 1862. j Hon. Edward M. Stanton, Secretary of War. " We opened our batteries on Fort Pulaski on the morning of ttie lOtii. After thirty hours continuous firing a practicable breach was made, and preparations for storming were about to commence, when tlie rebel flag was struck. " We have captured forty-seven guns, sev en thousand shot or shell, forty thousand pounds of powder, three hundred and sixty prisoners, with their small arms and aeeou tremcnts, and a good supply of provisions. '•One of our men was kilied, not one wounded. "DAVID HUNTER, Major General. AC." General Benhanfs report to Gen. Hun ter describes the terrible effect of our tire as follows: " At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 11th the fire opened wirh great vigor and ac- i curacy, the certainty as to direction and dis tance being greatly beyond that of the pre vious day, especially on the part of the ene- j my —there heing scarcely any exposure of i our force that did not draw a close shot, j wh'le the embrasures arid parapets of our i batteries were most accurately reached. " At about ten to eleven A. M. f I visited ; the batteries, finding each of them most ef i tually served, especially the shell and mortar ' batteries nearest the fort, the batteries just referred to, iu charge of the na7y and Capt. Turner, aria the columbiad batteries under Capt. Pelouse. I found that an embras ure at the breached point, which was much enlarged on the previous day, and now open ed to fully the size of the recess arch, or sprite eight or ten feet square, and the adja cent embrasures were rapidly being brought to a similar condition. At about noon the j whole mask and parapet wall of the casemate ! first injured fell into the ditch, raising a ramp j quite visible to us, and soou after the corres- j ponding parts of the adjacent casemates be j gan to fall, the Parrott and James shot pass j ing quite through, as we could see the heavy ' timber blindage in the rear of the casemates, I to the rear of the magazine, on the opposite j (northwest) angle of the fort. " In this state of things I felt sure that we would soon be called to peel off the whole i scrap wall from the front of the casemates of j the southwest front, making a breach greatly j larger than the small garrison could de- | fend, with probably another smaller breach on the opposite side; and I at once determin ed that, if resistance was continued, it would j be best, and entirely practicable, to storm j the fort successfully within thirty or forty hours. And I bad given directions to Gen. j Giiloiore to have suitable scaling ladders j re , pared for the purpose, and was arranging for j the proper forces, boats, Ac., when, at about 2 P. M., we discovered a white flag thrown j up, and the rebel flag, after telling out to the wind for a few minutes at half mast, came slowly to the ground." Capture of a party of Ashby's Cavalry. WOODSTOCK, Va., April ID. Sixty oneof Ashby's Cavalry, includingthree officers, were captured this morning and brought into Woodstock. They were at their breakfast, just at daybreak, in a church, when they were surrounded by a body o f Ringgold's Oaval-y, and four companies of infantry of the Forty sixth Pennsylvania volunteers, of Gen. \\ illiams' division. They surrendered witoout a show of resistance. This affair oc curred several miles beyond Columbia Furn ace, and within seven miles of Mount Jackson. The Fleet at Fort Wright. CHICAGO, April -2. The news from the fleet at Fort Wright is unimportant. The bombardment still contin ues. The rebels have cut the letee on the Arkansas shore opposite the fort, and the fine farming lands there are now covered with a lake of water for miles around. The residents are greatly exasperated at this outrage. Most encouraging news continues to te re ceived from Halleck's army. Despatch from General Fremont. HEADQUARTERS, WHEELING, VA , 1 April 20, 1862. j 7b the Hon. Edwin .V Stanton, Secretary of War. Intelligence has just been received from Gen. Miirov, stating that the enemy number ing about 3,500 men, with two batteries, in eluding two rifled guns, are constructing for tifications on the crest of the Shenandoah. , Reliefs of five hundred men are constantly 'at work day and night. The rebel encamp ment is on the eastern slope of the mountain, extending down five miles from the summit. A notorious guerilla, named Frederick W. Chewing, has been captured by eavalry com pany, under Gen. Milroy. J. C. FREMONT, Major General. From Gen Banks' Comm-.nd. IN CAMI\ NEAR SPARTA, J VIRGINIA, April 20. ) Everything was quiet on our front yester day. Cavalry reconnoissance have penetra ted the valley for several miles towards Harris onburg, and report finding large quantities of forage and fresh provisions there. Deserters report Jackson's advance at McGaugheystown east of Harrisonburg, and still in retreat.— Ashby's command continues to form the rear guard, and the signal officers report that the enemy's cavalry were in sight yesterday af ternoon. Some of the deserters believe that Jackson intends to cross the Blue Ridge, and reach Gordonsville, while ofhers think he in tends to make a detour nrrth in the valley on the south fork of the Shenandoah, to attack our left flank. A northeast storm is prevail ing in the valley. Another of Ashby's lieu tenants was brought in yesterday. A despatch from Gen. Banks to Secreta ry Stanton states that the Federal forces have occupied New Market, capturing ma ny prisoners. New Market is a post village of Shenandoah county, Virginia, one hun dred and fifty miles northwest of Richmond. It is delightfully situated in the great val ley between Massenutten and North Moun tains, and iron ore abounds in it. The vil lage contains three or four churches and public buildings, also several large factor ies. Advance to Fredericksburg, on the Rappahannock The army under McDowell which march ed southward byway of Manassas, has crossed the river Shenandoah, lie made a dashing and successful advance, with a por tion of his army, from Warrenton Junc tion upon Fredericksburg, on Thursday, ac complishing a march of twenty miles by 7 o'clock on Friday morning. The rebels, consisting of a regiment of infantry, one of cavalry, and a battery, intercepted their route, but were driveu across the Rappa hannock, and our troops occupied the sub urbs of Fredericksburg, having pushed for ward in spite of the successful efforts of the enemy to destroy the bridges, which retarded though it did not prevent the pur suit of our troops. The advance was under Col. llayard, of the Ist Pennsylvania eav alry. and when attacked had a hot skirmish, in which we lost five men and fifteen horses killed, ar.d sixteen men wounded, but one of whom, Lieut. Leaf, belonged to the Ist Pennsylvania, the remainder to the Ira Harris (New York) regiment. Gen. McOlellaa telegraphs to the War Department that the rebels attacked Gen. Smith's division on Thursday evening, with t'tc purpose of capturing his guns, but they were handsomely repulsed, and a number of prisoners taken. The 3d Vermont reg iment had au engagement with the rebels on Wednesday, in which they lost thirty tvro killed and ninety wounded. A Despatch from Tennessee gives the text of the despatch from General Beaure gard to Jeff. Davis intercepted by General Mitchell on seizing Decatur. In it Beau regard says that he has but thirty-five thou sand effective men, that he is threatened by a much superior force, and calls earnest ly for reinforcements. lie expects that j Van Dorn will reach him with fifteen thou- j sand men, but does not consider this suffi cient. The accounts represent Beaure gard's forces as badly disorganized. A correspondent of the New York Her ald announces that the city of Apalachicola has been successfully occupied by our troops, thus giving us another important i point in Florida. The capture was effected by the gunboats Mercedita and Sagamore, but witb little opposition, on the 3d inst. Gov. Harvey, of Wisconsin, Drowned- MADISON, Wis., April 21.—The Executive Department received this morning the start ling announcement of the death of Governor Louis P. Harvey, who was drowned at Savan nah, Tenn., on Saturday night, while step ping from one boat to another. The body had not been recovered when the despatches left. The State offices have been closed for the day, and the flag placed at half mast. Gov. llarvey was a native of Connecticut, and for ty two years of age. lie was a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the state, and for several years a leading member of the State Senate. At the time of his death he was engaged in the humane ob ject of ministering to the wounded at Pitts burg Lauding, having taken with him an im mense amount of hospital stores, donated at hit suggestion, by the cities of Milwaukee, MadisoD, aod Janesville. His successor is Lieutenant Governor Edward Solamon, of Milwaukee. We give to-day a long but highly inter esting accouut of the great battle in Tenn essee—by far the best wc have yet seen. | THE GAZETTE. LEWISTOWN, FA. Wednesday, April 23, 1862. $1 per annum in advanre—sl.§o at rnd of six monlhs—Si at fnd of year. Paper* sent out of the County must be paid for in advance. yy-Tbe subscription of those out of this county to whom this paragraph comes marfce-d, Las expired, and unless re tewed wlii be discontinued. We have also set a Umlt iu Muffin county, beyond which wc Intend no man In future shall owe us for subscription. Those receiving the paper with this paragraph marked, *ii; therefore know that they Lav* come uuder our rule, .nd If payment Is not made within one month thereafter ■o shall discontinue alt such. Flag of the free heart's only home. By angel hands to valor given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome And all thv hues were born in heaven: Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us With freedom's soil beneath our feet. And freedom's banner streaming o'er us. Notices of New Advertisements. J. B. Selheimer, who has removed oue door east of his former location, invitea at tention to his stock of Tin Ware. Seed Potatoes for sale by F. G. Francis- • cus —Administration Notice. have no news of special interest this morning. Gen. McGlellan is evident- ; ly preparing siege works on a large scale j for the reduction of Fork town, and with j his large army can hardly fail in succee- j ding. Gen. McDowell's advance on Fred- ! • • • erieksburg may lrave an important bearing on McClellan's movements, especially if; Gen. Banks should also throw his forces in | the direction of Richmond. The iron gunboat Galena was at New j York last week receiving her armanent, and by this time we hope is on her way to ; the seat of war. The People's Party. The patent democratic prints have gen erally paraded the nauie of W. \Y . Brown, j late Treasurer of Centre county, as a re- * publican defaulter, but few have stated the • fact that he has been arrested for bis de- | falcation to the State —a contrast so strong : when compared with patent democratic usage in such cases, that it affords ample food for reflection to taxpayers. 1 nderso- i called democratic officers defaulters were not only suffered to run at large in all parts of the State, but some were even con;inu- , ei or appointed toother offices. Suits were seldom broughor, if brought, suffered to lie dormant until the transaction was al most forgotten, or recalled to mind by the j annual publication of the list of defaulters ; in the Legislative Record. Now, however, 1 all this is changed. The officers elected by the People's Party, and especially our able and efficient Auditor General, Hon. Thos. E. Cochran, keep a vigilant eye on public accounts, and whenever a wrong is perpe trated, the guilty one brought to punish ment. There is no shielding of partisans as in the days of democratic canaldom, when j robbery run riot over the railroads and ca nals from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, but instead we have the real democratic doc trine applied. Is he honest? Such men deserve well at the hands of the taxpayers, and the longer they are retained in office the better. Legislature Adjourned- Our State Legislature adjourned at uoon j on Friday a week after a session of ninety-five days. The shortest session for many years. The Lancaster Examiner says—the most important legislation acted on was the bill for the relief of the Banks, fhe division of the State into Congressional Districts, a supplement to the School Law, a bill pro viding for paying claims of Officers and Soldier- Besides which there were sever al laws of a general nature, though not con sidered of the same consequence to the general reader. Of private and special leg islation there was less than at any previous j session for many years. The revision of the tax laws of the State, it was expected would engage much of the attention of the Legislature, but the Commissioners ap pointed by the Governor failed to make any report, and the subject will have to be referred to the next Legislature. The de lay of the commissioners was owing to their desiring to waituutil Congress should pass i a national tax bill. But the delay of Con gress and the belief that the finances of the state would not suffer materially by the delay, the subject was allowed to go over. The propriety of the National and State laws for raising revenue, being so framed as not to be oppressive upon any given ar ticle of taxation, is evident to every one. The hill for the repeal of the act of last session for the " Commutation of tonnage duties" was passed uy the House, but was j so amended in the Senate, as to impose a ; tax on ail tonnage passing over all Canals 1 and Railroads in the State. To this amend ment the House refused to concur or ap point a committee of conference upon the same and the bill fell. Butler, who will be best re membered as the owner of 400 slaves who were sold some years ago to pay his debts, brought a suit against Gen. Cameron, late Secretary of War, and had him arrested at Philadelphia, for having confined said But ler in Fort Lafayette. This is now under stood to be the plan of the Breckinridge tories to embarrass the government; but as the arrest by a State court is clearly illegal, wc hope Gov. Curtin will attend to all con- cerned in it. The official acts of a Secre tary, are the acts of the President, who is alone amenable for them. B®The select committee ol the Senate, appointed in July last, to inquire into the circumstances attending the surrender of the navy yard at Pensacola, the de struction of the property of the United States at Norfolk navy yard, and the ar mory at Harper's Ferry, and the abandon ing of the same by the Federal forces, have made a report, in which they visit censure upon every one who can iu any way be proved responsible for these disgraceful and ill advised movements. The Buchanan Administration receives a special rap on the knuckles. ftsT'From a pamphlet issued in Kentucky, exposing a traitorous society, it appears that the cry of abolitionism is made the pretext for leading men into treason and rebellion. After the lesson taught northern editors a year ago, one would suppose our patent democratic papers ought to be careful how they follow the catchwords of the Breckin ridges, Floyds, and other traitors, but it seems experience has not yet taught them wisdom. Crawford, who professed to rep resent this Senatorial district during the past three years, retires with the endorse ment of the Harrisburg Patriot and Union as a "faithful Senator" —a pretty sure in dication that the people have cause for re joicing. Like most "faithful Senators," we hear lie has aspirations lor another term. JBiar*The large tannery in Clay township, Huntingdon county, owned by Leas A Mc- Yitty, was destroyed by Ore on Monday a week. Ihe warehouse of the Broad Top Railroad at Huntingdon was also burnt on the 10th. fioUTwo or three of the "inexpediency" gentlemen of the East Baltimore Confer ence stationed in this State, have got them selves into lot water. Kepler it is said has published a fhuracterisstic defence of his course, a copy of which we should like to have. Cannot the Bedford Inquirer fur nish it ? flST'The rebel papers are glorifying I no. C. Breckinridge for his participation in the fight at Pittsburg Landing. To become a cutthroat is the natural result of being a perjured traitor. the IVuioerat will read (lon. Shields' letter published in the Gazette af ter the battle of Winchester, it can learn where Gen. Banks was at the time. WILLIAM LIND, lias now open A NEW STOCK OF Cloths, Cassimeres AND VESTI NCS, which will be made up to order in the neat est and most fashionable styles. apl9 ffi It SS W Hi Uj s TIN WARE! ("10UN1RY MERCHANTS in want of Tin J Ware will find it to their advantage to purchase of J. li. Selheimer, who will sell them a better article, and as cheap if not cheaper than they can purchase it in any of the eastern cities. Call and see his new stock. Lewistown, April 23, 1862-ly. UN WARE. ajdS-T r>,-nu , THE largest and best assortment of Tin Ware ever kept in central Pennsylvania, at reduced prices. Persons in want of such ware will find it to their advantage to call on J. B. Selheimer, as he uses none but the very best stock, and has experienced workmen em ployed to manufacture it. Spouting, jobbing and repairing done at all times. Old copper, brass, pewter and lead taken in exchange for ware. Lewistown, April 23, 1862-ly. BUSHELS Prince A.oert, Buckeye, t/U and Davis Seedling Potatoes. These are new and choice varieties of seed potatoes, for sale at 40 cents per bushel, by ap23 F. G. FRANCISCUS. Estate of Eenagy. deceaseds ~VJ"OTICE is hereby given that letters ofad ministration on the estate of SARAH KENAGY, late of Brown twp., Mifflin eo., dee'd, have been granted to the undersigned, residing in Union township. All persons in debted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims to preseßt them duly authenticated for settle ment. SOLOMON D. BYLER, ap23-6t* Administrator. C CHEESE—a superior article, at J febl2 HOFFMAN'S