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Oi fi.ee s.
Dresidsnt Judy*,
Hon. S. S. Woods, Lowistown.
Associate Judges,
Hou. Elijah Morrison, Wayne township.
James Turner. Lewistowu.
Sheriff,
C'. C. Stanbarger, Esq.
Deputy Sheriff,
D. D. Mutthersbough, Esq.
Drothonotary. Clerk of Common I'lmis, etc.
Htiiry J. Waiters. Esq.
Jisjuisr ami Recorder and Clerk of Orphans' Court,
Samuel llarr, Esq.
Treasurer,
Robert W. Fatten. Esq.
Commissioners,
tticheaon Bratton. Esq.. Bratton township.
•Samuel Brewer, Esq.. Decatur township.
John McDowell, Jr.. Esq.. Armagh township.
Commissioner's Clerk —George Frvs;n ,r er.
Deputy Surccyor,
George H. Swigart. of Oliver township.
Coroner,
George Miller. Esq., LewUtowu.
Mercantile Appraiser,
John L. Porter, Lewistown.
Auditors,
Henry Snyder, of Granville township.
A brat u Garver, of Oliver "
11. C. Vanzant, of Decatur "
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Trains leave Lewistown station as follows:
WESTWARD. EASTWARD.
Through Express, 0 Id h. in. 11 1 p.m.
Fast Line, - 5 45 p. 111. 3 24m. ni.
Mail. 330 p. tu. 10 41 a. 111.
Local Freight, 5 50 a.m. 5 10 p.m.
Fast Freight. 11 1 p. 111. 2 28 a. ni.
Through Freight, 0 30 p. 111. y 50 p. 111.
Kxpre - Freight, In 25 .1. in. 2 55 p.m.
Coai Train, 12 40 p.m. 7 10 a.m.
D. E. ROBESOX, Agent.
#J~Gulbraith's Omnibuses convey pa—engers to
and from all the trains, taking up or setting thorn
down at all points within the borough limits.
-j'fli 'Must mwk
A IS the action ol the Belief Board does mt
TjL seem to he fuliy comprehended, frequent
applications for relief being made in person
or by letter to the undersigned, he deems it
proper to state that payments will be teno
porarily renewed to those formerly on the
list on presentation of certificate signed by
net less than three known taxpayers, stating
ing that the applicant has not received suffi
cient from her husband or other support, to
enable her, together with her own industry,
to make a living for herself and family, and
giving reasons for such inability. This is
intended for the benefit of all realty in need,
and for no others.
The orders issued under this regulation
are continued only until the troops are again
paid off.
blank certificates can be procured from
those who have heretofore distributed orders.
GEORGE FRYSINGEK,
Secretary of Relief Board.
Lewistown, June 18, 18G2.
GEO. W. ELSER,
Attorney at Law,
Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at
tend to huiness in MilHin, Centre and Hunting
don eounties. my 26
Kishacoquillas Seminary,
AND
NORMAL INSTITUTE.
rpIIE third Session of this Institution wit
i commence April 24, 1862.
Encouraged by the liberal patronage receiv
ed during the previous Session, the proprietor
has been induced to refit the buildings and
grounds to render them most comfortable and
convenient for students.
He has also secured the assistance of Rev
S. McDonald, formerly tutor of Princeton
University, and well known in this part of
the country as an able scholar and devoted
Christian. A competent music teacher has
also been engaged.
mh26 S. Z. SHARP, Principal.
Jaoob C. Blymyer & Co,,
Produce and Commission Mer
chants,
LEWISTOWN, PA.
and Grain of all kinds pur
chased at market rates, or received on storage
and shipped at usual freight rates, having
storehouses and boats of their own, with care
ful captains and hands.
Stove Coal, Limeburners Coal, Plaster, Fish
and Salt always on hand.
Grain can be insured at a small advance on
cost of storage. n022
CLOTHS FOR GENTS' SUITS.
SPRING Style Cassimeres,
Fashionable Vestings,
Tweeds and Cassitperes for boys,
Fine Black Cloths for Coats,
Doeskins, Finest Blacks,
Linen and other Shirt Bosoms,
m well as a complete assortment of READY
MADE CLOTHING for men and boys, at
ap3o GEO. BLYMYER'S.
BMMMIOBS,
IHKEL HU.NDKEI) THOUSAND MORE
We recomia*Father Abraham, three hundred thous-
Fro " l Snd^to. n ' ,i " g StrCaW auU
U e k utui WOTk shops, our wives and
Wlt! 'tear7 S f ' l " f " r utterance '' w 'th but a silept
w! 'V,*-T, "" t look us - l,ut steadfastly before—
hundred
Ifyo "r l n°sky! , ' I ' 0S '' the tf,at meet the uorth-
LoUg '""' s ofr 'mg lnst your vision may
A '" l a<idJ f ' 0 W ' nd- a " tears the cloudy veil
our spangled ting in glory and in
An,i 'Tnu "r N ..!'!-ii e sun ''S k 'c learrl , and bands brave
w * '£Hii "kjf"
if you look ail up our vail.-vs. where the growing bar-
Vcsty slime, &
1 on may see our .-tardy fanner boys fast forming in
t<. nnc •
And eliildreu front their mother's knees are nulliti** 1
at the weeds, * °
And learning how to reap and sow. against their
country's neeils:
And a farewell group stands weeping at every eottage
door—
We are coining. Father Abraham—three hundred
thousand more!
on have called us, and we're coming, by Richmond's
bloody tide
lo lay us down for freedom's sake, our brothers'
bones beside;
Or from ton! treason s savage grasp to wrench the
murderous blade.
And in the face of foreign foes its fragments to pa
rade.
.Six hundred thousand loyal men and true have gone
before—
We are coming. Father Abraham—three hundred
thousand more!
a recent war meeting at NVnsh
ington ]'resident Lincoln made the follow
ing remarks :
Ft flow Citizen.< —l believe there is no
precedent lor my appearing before yon on
this occasion, but it is also true that there
is no precedent for your being here your
selves, and I offer in justification of myself
and of you that upon an examination I
have found nothing in the Constitution
against it.
I however have an impression there are
younger gentlemen who will entertain you
better [Voices —'No, no! None can do
better than yourself-—go on'], and better
address your understanding than I will or
could, and therefore propose but to detain
you a moment longer. lam very little in
clined on any occasion to say anything un
less I hope to produce some good by it.—
The only thing L think of just now not
likely to be better said by some one else is
a matter in which we have heard some j
other person blamed for what 1 did myself
There has been a very wide spread at- ;
tempt to have a quarrel between General
McClellan and the Secretary of War.—
Now, I occupy a posit ion that enables me !
to believe, at least, that these two gentle- !
men are not nearly so deep in the quarrel :
as some presuming to be their friends.— I
General MoCiellan's attitude is such that,
in the very selfishness of his nature, he !
cannot but wish to be successful, and I j
hope he will—and the Secretary of War is j
precisely in the same situation.
If the military commanders in the field •
cannot be successful, not only the Secretary !
of War, hut myself, for the time being the i
master of them both, cannot but be fail
ures. I know that General McClellan !
wishes to be successful, and I know that
he does not wish it any more than the Sec
retary of War does for him, and both of
them together no more than I wish it.
Sometimes we hear a dispute as to how
many men General McClellan has had, and
those who would disparage him say he has
had a very large number, and those who
would disparage the Secretary of War insist
that General McClellan has had a very
small number. The basis for this is there
is always a very wide difference, and on
this occasion, perhaps a wider one between
the grand total on MoCiellan's rolls and the
men actually fit for duty, and those who
disparage him talk of grand totals on pa
per; and those who would disparage the
Secretary of War talk of those at present
fit for duty.
General McClellan ha 3 sometimes asked
for things that the Secretary of War did
not give him. McClellan is not to blame
for asking for what he wanted and needed,
and the Secretary of War is not to blame
for not giving when he had none to give.
And I say here, so far as I know, the Sec
retary of War has withheld no one thing
at any time within my power to give him.
[Wild applause, and a voice, ' Give him
enough now.']
The President continued —I have no ac
cusation against General McClellan. I be
lieve he is a brave and able xnan, and I
stand here as justice requires me to do —
to take upom myself what has been charged
upon the Secretary of War as withholding
from him. I have talked longer than I
expected to do—ami now I avail myself of
my privilege of saying no more.
The Enlistment of Men not Able-Bodied.
—A Massachusetts Surgeon, writing from
Beaufort, North Carolina, says : 'Having
been long in the Hospitals, I see the fruits
of the negligence of surgeons in passing
recruits entirely unfit for the service. I
have seen hundreds whom I should never
have passed, though I know well the im
portunities of captains desirous of filling a
company. There is less of this poor mate
rial in the Massachusetts regiments; but in
the New York and Pennsylvania regiments
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
it is astonishingly great, flooding the hos
pitals with cripples Vroin age, previous dis
ease, and bad habits.'
Extraordinary Developments in Indiana.
Ihe report ol the Grand Jury of the
District Court ot the I nited States, in the
State of Indiana, tor the May term, makes
the most fearful and startling disclosures,
all proving that the traitorous association
known as the Knights of the Golden Cir
cle, extends through the Western States,
and no doubt into this. AN e extract a por
tion of this report, to show our readers the
danger of the operations of this order :
"The Knights of the Golden Circle have
signals by which they can communicate with
each other in the day or the night time, and
above all, they had a signal or sign which
may be recognized at a great distance from
the person giving it. This last signal, we
regret to say, was invented for the use of such
members us should, by means of the draft or
otherwise, be compelled to serve in the ranks of
the army. In such case, members of the or
der serving in opposing armies receiving the
sign, are reminded of their obligation not to
injure the member giving it. This signal is
given in every instance upon the intimation
of a new member, and its observance is strict
ly enjoined upon every individual belonging
to the order. By the teachings of the organ
ization, it is the duty of its members engaged
in the present war, although arrayed on op
posite sides, upon the signal being given, if
they shoot at all, "to shoot over each other,"
Many members of the order examined before
us admit the binding force of the obligation
and pretend to justify it as correct in princi
ple."
What freeman will not start with horror
at such a disclosure, and what man will
wonder any longer at some of the extraor
dinary reverses which have overtaken our
armies, when it is confidently known that
there are those in high commands and low
positions, now in the federal armies, strong
ly suspected of being attached to this or
der. Here is another extract, pregnant
with meaning and danger :
Not only are the loyal soldiers in the army
to be treacherously betrayed in the bloody
hour of battle, by the signals before referred
to, but said Grand Jury have abundant evi
dence of the membership binding themselves
to resist the payment of the Federal tax and
prevent enlistments in tiie armies of the United
States.
The idea of resisting the payment of
taxes has been put forth in this state, by
more than one man suspected of belonging
to this order of traitors, and the fact of en
listments is too fresh in the minds of the
public to need any present reference at our
hands.
When such developments are made, it i>
time that loyal men were 011 the alert, and
that the smallest evidence of disloyalty he
at once seized and crushed out Our ene
mies are untiring and unscrupulous. Let
us be vigilant and unwearied, and by every
honorable and manly means, seek to frus
trate their dark machinations.
Breathe through the Nose
George Catlin, the lauious painter and
investigator of the habits and customs of
Indian tribes, has recently published a
pamphlet, entitled 'The Breath of Life,' in
which he undertakes to demonstrate that
the common practice of breathing through
the mouth is very detrimental to health.
He says that it is not a natural habit, for
when God created man 'He breathed the
breath of life into man's nostrils,' and why
should he not continue to live by breathing
it in the same manner? The mouth was
made for the reception and mastication of
food for the stomach and other purposes ;
but the nostrils, with their delicate and fi
brous linings for purifying and warming the
air in its passages, have been mysteriously
constructed, and designed to stand guard
over the lungs—to measure the air and
equalize its draft during the hours of repose.
The atmosphere is nowhere pure enough
for man's breathing until it has passed this
refining process, and therefore the impru
dence and danger of admitting it in an
unnatural way, in double quantities upon
the lungs, and charged with the surround
ing epidemic or contagious infections of the
moment. The impurities of the air which
arc arrested by the intricate organization
and mucus in the nose arc thrown out again
from its interior barriers by the returning
breath. The air which enters the lungs ia
as different from that which enters the nos
trils as distilled water is different from the
water in an ordinary cistern or frog-pond.
lie argues that the habit cf sleeping
with the open mouth is particularly hurt
ful; points out a number of diseases which
are traceable to this cause, and among the
rest ascribes the early decay of the teeth
to it. — The Moravian.
Music hath Charms.- —A lady music
tpacher in Newburyport refuses to receive
any male pupils over eighteen during the
tear! Young ladies elsewhere might give
their gentlemen visitors a hint by refusing
their calls unless they enlist.
flfcgKThere are people who think that to
be grim is to be good, and that a thought,
to be really wholesome, must necessarily be
shaped like a coffin.
20, 1862.
WAR HEWS,
The Battle of Cedar
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.— The editor of
the Star, who was on a visit to his family
at Culpeper Court House at the time of the
battle ot Saturday last, gives the following
account of it, containing items of interest
not mentioned in other aceouuts:
At noon on Friday Gens. Pope and Mc-
Dowell received intelligence from the val
iant Bayard who, with two regiments of
his cavalry command, doing duty immedi
ately under him, a new Jersey and a Penn
sylvania regiment, had been in the saddle
ail night and day guarding the linpidau
for a week, from the Raccoon ford down to
a point fourteen miles below and south of
the railroad—that the enemy at daybreak
had crossed fhe river, with two regiments
of Louisiana infantry, two pieecs of light
artillery, and three small regiments of cav
and driven in his pickets. Bayard
retired slowly before them, his force of
eight hundred tired out cavalry only, not
being suiiieient to hold the ground in front
of suijh a force. He, however, disputed it
inch by inch witli the enemy, and succeed
ed in capturing about thirty rebel prisoners,
including a major, a captain, and two lieu
tenants, on his retreat. His own loss was
not over three men. We hear that lie was
publicly complimented by his superior offi
cer on the field on the nest day (Saturday)
for the admirable uianuer in which he ef
fected his movement. He retired to the
north and east side of Robinson river, about
eight miles from Culpeper Court House,
and there awaited a supporting force to ar
rive from the immediate vicinity of that
point.
At noon of the same day, Gen. Pope, on
learning these facts, instantly ordered Gen.
Crawford to march his brigade to that end.
In half an hour after receiving this order
Crawford was or, the march. As his bri
gade, the 28th New York, 10th Maine,
40th Pennsylvania, and stli Connecticut,
and ten pieces of artillery, filed rapidly
through the village of Culpeper Court
House to the gay music of its tour splen
did bauds, its appearance was the theme of
admiration of the many experienced offi
cers of the staffs of Gens. Pope and Mc-
Dowell, who went over from their encamp
ments near by to sec it start out. Crawford
proceeded rapidly to the front, and occupi
ed a position about seven miles from Cul
peper Court House, immediately in rear of '
the line of Bayard's cavalry. Shortly af
ter ordering Crawford, Gen. Pope also or
dered the rest of Banks' corps to move
rapidly from Hazel river bridge, nearGrif
finsturg, nine miles from Culpeper Court
House, wheie it had arrived the night be
fore, to the scene of expected conflict.
By S o'clock p. m. the head of Gen.
Banks' column was descried marching
around the village to its destination, which
it reached before midnight. That point
was immediately in the rear of Crawford.
Major General Sigel was, also, at the same
time ordered up from Sperryville, and, by
a forced march of twenty miles, his advance
reached the village by daylight.
Throughout Friday night and Saturday
forenoon, Bayard continued skirmishing
with the enemy's advance, until the latter,
at two o'clock p. m., had progressed to
within long range of Crawford's artillery.
At four p. m. the enemy developed a heavy
increase of artillery, when a portion of that
of Gen. Banks came up, and went into the
action, there not being room enough in the
position occupied by our forces for bringing
the whole of it into play. The contending
forces, at the opening of the battle, were
apparently about a mile or more apart, the
rebels showing their front upon Slaughter's
Mountain, a sugar-loaf eminence situated
two miles to the west of the Orange and
Alexandria railroad at Mitchell's Station.
Our front was on much lower ground, with
Cedar run in our rear and a small wooded
ridge behind that.
Gradually, from 4 to six p. m., the rebels
opened new batteries from the woods sur
rounding the basin or plain lying between
the fronts of the two contending forees,
each succeeding one being nearer to our
position than the former. Thus they play
ed a cross fire from both sides, as well as a
direct front one on our troops, including the
most cf Gen. Banks' infantry, that had
been put in line for the conflict. So an
noying was this fire, that attempts were
made to take the batteries nearest at hand
by charges. Thus Bayard's Cavalry in a
gallant charge, is said to have succeeded in
taking two of the rebel guns with no loss
to speak of. Subsequently, at 6p. m., in
pursuance of orders, portions of Augur's
and Williams' divisions of infantry, inclu
ding Crawford's and Gordon's brigades,
made three most desperate bayonet charges
upon the rebel artillery. They were, how
ever, each time received by a very heavy
infantry fire, slaughtering them fearfully.
That they should have persevered, to make
three successive charges, in the face of such
a deadly fire from so superior numbers, con
cealed in woods, is really the wonder of the
war. These charges developed the fact
that the enemy actually engaged greatly
outnumbered our forces, about seven thous
l and in action.
Being thus informed of the location of
the main body of the rebel intantry, our
artillerj pliyed sad havoc i them, driv
ing decimated regiment after regiment back
into the shelter ot the dense forest, to have
their places instantly occupied by fresh
regiments to be decimated in the same
way. Among others, this fire killed the
rebel Generals Winder and Trimble. The
arm ot the former was torn off by a shell,
an<2 he died very shortly afterwards from
the flow of blood, and Trimble was knock
ed dead from his horse by the explosion of
a shell, ilavirg put the forces of McDow
ell and Sigel in rapid motion for the field
of action, Gen. Pope, with his staff, accom
panied by Gen. McDowell and staff, imme
diately proceeded together from their head
quarters fo the front. As they passed
ivickett s division, and the head of Sigel's
army corps, that lined the road for"the
whole six miles, each regiment halted for
the instant, wheeled into line, and gave
Gen Pope three cheers and a tiger, and
then wheeling again into marching column,
pushed forward with signal eagerness for
the fray. °
At 7 o clock p. m., Gens. Pope .and Mc-
Dowell reached the thickest of the fight,
and the advance guard of Rickctta', coming
up at the same time, took position immedi
ately in the rear ot that occupied by Gen.
Ranks corps. There being no room on
the field for deploying more troops of ours
than were under Ranks, those of Rickett's
could not get into actual action before night
came on, which for some hours prevented
further fighting. . In the course of the en
gagement, our forces engaged had retired
perhaps a mile from the position in which
they commenced the battle at 4 o'clock p.
m., the rebels advancing slowly as we re
ceded before them. This movement on the
part of Gen. Ranks, notwithstanding his
heavy loss, and the overwhelming force op
posed to him, was as regularly conducted
as though he was executing an evolution of
a dress parade. Not a man of his corps,
or indeed of any other, showed the white
feather, nor did a man even straggle to the
rear to the distance of more than half a
mile, where stood a provost guard of Rick
etts' corps, bayonet in hand, to check any,
if there should be, disposed to skulk off the
field.
NV e left the field at eight o'clock for the
night, in course of which, at midnight, a
discharge from one of our batteries brought
on a renewal of the engagement for two
hours, in the course of which each side is
believed to have lost two or three hundred
more in killed and wounded. Ry a cavalry
charge, after midnight, of the enemy, Gens.
Pope and McDowell and their respective
staffs, were within an inch of being killed
or ridden down. They had dismounted in
the front to rest a few minutes from the
saddle, when the enemy's cavalry made so
sudden a dash upon them that they had
barely time to mount and get quickly out
of the way. In so doing they were mista
ken by a company of their own men for
charging rebels, and received their fire,
killing a few of their horses, only we be
lieve.
Our loss of regimental and company offi
cers was very heavy. Among those killed
were Col. Crane, of the 3d Wisconsin; Maj.
Savage, and Captains Abbott, Kussell, and
Goodling, and Lieut. Browning of the 2d
Massachusetts. Col. Donnelly, of the 28th
New York, was, we fear, mortally wound
ed. Col. Creighton, and Adjutant Moly
neau, of the 7th Ohio, are also very badly
wounded. Capt. Robert W. Clarke, of the
first District regiment, received a wound in
the foot. Gen. Augur received a Minnie
ball in his back, as he was in front of his
division turning in his saddle to cheer it
on. Gen. Geary is wounded in the arm, so
that he will likely use it, and Gen. Prince
is slightly wounded On Saturday evening
as Geu. Augur was being carried past us
back to the hospital, it was thought his
wound was mortal; but on surgical exami
nation it was found to be a severe but not
a dangerous wound.
At G p. m. yesterday seven hundred and
fifty of our wounded had reached Culpeper
Court House by ambulance. Every church
and other suitable building in the village,
including private houses, was filled with
them. The citizens, male and female—
those of secession proclivities even throw
ing them aside for the time being—were
very geuerally vieing with each other in
rendering them every accommodation and
assistance in their power.
Both sides made some hundreds of pris
oners in the course of the engagement, and
it was from prisoners that it is made cer
tain that the rebel loss is equal to ours, if
not greater. We estimate our killed and
wounded at one thousand five hundred, af
ter striving to inform ourselves as correctly
as possible on the subject. At 6 o'clock
in the evening, as before remarked, seven
hundred and fifty had been brought to Cul
peper Court House, and there were at least
two hundred remaining in the two or three
; houses, in the rear of the field, occupied ie
j hospitals. Yesterday morning, on the ret
! ormation of the lines of Geu. Banks' corps
| in the rear of the reinforcements that had
come up, as explained above, it was found
| that his loss had been by no means as great
as was thought at dark on the previous day.
At daybreak, yesterday morning, the
sharpshooters of the enemy were found
: precisely where their front was at the close
of Saturday's battle, and skirmishing with
j ours immediately commenced. Their for-
New Series—Vol, XVI, No, 42,
cos had, however, disappeared from sight.
At sunrise a rebel brigade supported by ar
tillery. emerged from the woods in the
front, and just as they got into line of bat
tle Gen. Milroy opened to sweep off an en
tire company or two, the rest instantly
taking to their heels for the cover of the
woods. Shortly afterwards Gen. Bayard,
who continued, as before, in the extreme
front, scouting to the right and left with
his cavalry, reported them filing in force
in both those directions, as though aiming
to flank us on both sides.
(ieneral Pope immediately despatched
Tower's division, of McDowell's corps, to
follow, watch, and confront them on tho
right, and a division of Sigel's corps d' ar
mor. —whose we did not learn—to do tho
same for those moving on the left. Gener
al Bayard, with two regiments of his caval
ry brigade, from New Jersey and Pennsyl
vania, was thrown in advance of Tower,
and the gallant and efficient Colonel Duffie,
of Bayard's command, with his own Rhode
Island and the Ist Maine Cavalry was
thrown in advance of our divison of obser
vation on the left.
At 11 A. M. it was definitely ascertain
ed from reports from these forces that the
purpose of the enemy could hardly be flank
movements. Ere 2 p. m. the impression
became general at General Pope's head
quarters on the field, instead of seeking
thus to rcuew the engagement, the rebels
were either seeking a new position in the
rear or skedaddling.
Since we reached Washington General
Pope has telegraphed here that the engage
ment was not renewed yesterday afternoon ;
that the enemy had retired to a position
two miles back, and that he advanced bis
own army this morning to that lately held
by the enemy.
We omit to state above that the prison
ers say that the rebels commenced the
fight with ten thousand men, Gen. Ewcft
in command, who were reinforced by Jack
son with five thousand men before 6 o'cock
p. in , the balance of Jackson's army get
ting up early in the night. They claim
their combined force to be from fifty tc
sixty thousand strong.
By a break in the telegraph the recep
tion of General Pope's order to General
King to join him with his admirable divis
ion was delayed twenty four hours. He,
however, started his advance from the vi
cinity of Fredericksburg at four o'clock
yesterday morning and had reached Elk Rur.
ford, so he is doubtless up with the main
army by this hour. From our own know
ledge of the situation vc fee! sure that the
reception of this important addition to his
fine army has already been taken advan
tage of by Major General Pope, and that
he is again in motion towards Gordonsville.
His men all believe him irresistible, and
feel certain that signal victory will attend
his movements at their head, as on all pre
vious occasions when at the head of his
Western army.
We lost a single piece of artillery, one
of Best's. It upset in a ditch, and as it
could not be righted b} 7 those in charge of
it, was abandoned.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
[From Uio New York Times.)
On the Field, Cedar Run,
Eijht Miles South of Culpepper,
Saturday, Aug. 0, 1862.
This has been an eventful day with the
army of Virginia. It bad been known
since yesterday morning that the rebels
were in force immediately in our front.—
They had been driving back General Bay
ard's cavalry for several hours before the
force under General Crawford was sent
forward fo give them battle, and no sooner
had we arrived here than our outposts were
fired upon by their pickets. Skirmishing
was kept up all the afternoon, and the ene
my held completely in check; but it was
not until 3 o'clock p. m. that the fight as
sumed the dignity of a battle. At that
hour, the rebels opened their artillery upon
Genera! Crawford from the wood, to th 6
right of the road about one mile. This
was done to ascertain the position of our
batteries, and if possible bring out our
force. Genera! Crawford ordered Knapp's
Pennsylvania Battery to reply, and, at the
second shell, the enemy's guns were silen
ced. Their long line of cavalry had moved
around a high hill on our left, towards tho
Rapidan Ford. At once a strong force of
cavalry was thrown in that direction, and
soon after, the enemy, finding he could do
nothing, couutermarched his cavalry tc our
right. Thus matters stood, the large force
of the enemy having been held in check
by Gen. Crawford's single brigade of infan
try, artillery, aud cavalry. The cannon
| ading continued on both sides until 4 p.
i m., when Gen Banks appeared upon the
field with Gen. Augur's division and the
remainder of Gen. Williams' division.—
Gen. Crawford's force, consisting of the
j 28th New York, Col. Donnelly; 46th
| Pennsylvania, Col. Knipe; 10th Maine,
| Col. Beal, and sth Connecticut, Col. Chap
j man, with a battery of the 4th United
States Artillery, under Lieut. Muhlen
burgh ; Roomer's New York Battery and
Knapp' Pennsylvania Battery, were now
thrown to the right, with the exception
of the artillery, for the purpose of making
a movement on the enemy's flank —the
I ffiost important movement of the day.—
: The 10th Maine was then moved forward
i to the support of the centre, and the re-