LITEST FROM THE MR.
Rebel Movements in Missouri. I
FROM WESTERN VIRGINIA.
Skiriubli Near Bailey's Cross Roails.
BATTLE AT CROSS LANES, VA.
Hatteras Inlet Fortifications Cap
tured by the Naval Fleet.
General Fremont's Proclamation.
Palmyra, Mo., Taken Possession of by
the Rebels.
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SHARP SKIRMISH NEAR BAILEY'S
CROSS ROADS.
WASHINGTON, August 30,18G1.
Geoeral McClellan received intelligence this
morning that a sharp skirmish took place this
uioiuing on the other side of the river,, near
Bailey's Cros3 Roads, between a body of
about two hundred rebels and the picket guard
of General Richardson's brigade. The evident
intention of the rebel skirmishers was to sur
prise the TTuiou pickets, and eh her take them
prisoners, kill them, or drive them in*; but our j
boys, although less in number, charged hand- |
somely upon the rebels, and killed some, took
some prisouers, and stampeded the rest. This ;
daring move on the part of the rebels is taken |
as evidence of a determination by them to j
bring on a general engagement. General j
AlcClellau is ready for them.
THE POSITION or THE HOSTILE AMIES.
The relative positions of the two armies re
mained up to-night the same as yesterday.—
The rebels are throwing up immense earth
works on both sides of Munsou's Hill, ou the
Leesburg turnpike, one mile from Bailey's
Cross Roads. The bili referred to is of cleared
land, and the enemy make no secret of their 1
movements. Tiieir cavalry, of which they !
have several.hundred i ear that locality, ma- j
nocuvre over the hills, and sometimes venture j
in small detachments to within half a mile or ;
so of the Union pickets. For this presumption j
several of them were shot to-day. The tem
porary rebel rifle cannon battery alluded to iu
my despatch of yesterday—located at the
south side of Munsoa's Hdl, and used tocover
their working parties—was kept in play at
intervals to-day. At one time, when one of
the Union pickets killed one of the rebeis who
had the temerity to expose himself on the
turnpike, the rebeis got terribly wroth, and
opened their battery with great vigor upon
the empty build,tigs at Bailey's Cross Roads,
in which they supposed our troops were shelter
ed
The rebels are throwing up works at a place •
about three miles from Bull's Crossing. The
extent of these works 1 am not able to state,
but it is suid the rebel soldiery are iu consid
erable force at that point.
During the entire day brisk skirmishing has |
been kept up between the pickets of the two j
armies, but with no definite result.
The Union officer captured by the rebels on
Sunday last, near Bailey's Cross Roads, was
Captain Fish, of the New York Thirty-second j
regiment, and not the Thirty-first regiment, as !
previously reported.
Private Lorenzo Cronk, of Company D, of I
the New York Thirty-eighth regiment, who
was reported as among the list of the captur
ed uear Bailey's Cross Roads on Tuesday last
returned to camp the following day, having
escaped rora his captors and concealed him
self m a tree until an opportunity offered for
him to return to his own camp.
Sergeant Fairfield and privates Van Dusen
and Tyler, of the sumo regiment, arc still iu
the hands of the enemy
. THE DESIGNS 07 THE REBELS.
Under the whip and spur of necessity to do
60i4ethio(f, the rebels are pushing forward,
erecting defensive works immediately in our
front, banging away with their artillery at all
the houses within our lines that are iu reach
of their missiles, merely for the purpose of dis
tracting atteutiou from the movement of a
heavy column towards the Upper Potomac,
with a view of crossing over into Maryland ut
some point just below the Point of Rocks
They expect to find fewer of our troops in
that direetiou than at any other locatiou, and
to be enabled to throw into Maryland a suffi
cieut force to form a nucleus for its secession
ists, aud inaugurate a civil war there.
It is estimated, by men entitled to know,
that there are seventy five thousand of the
rebel army between Harper's Ferry and
Edward's Ferry, awaiting an opportunity to
force a crossing into Marylaud, and willing to
tuke the chances there of an insurrection of
the malcontents, that will enable them to
transfer the conflict to that State, and 10 place
Washington betweeu two rebel armies.
BATTLE AT CROSS LANES.
CINCINNATI, August 28,18R1.
The following are all the particulars we can
learn of the battle which took pfiice at Cross
Laues, near Summerville, Ya., on Monday,the
2Gth instant :
- It appears to have been a bloody affair.
The Seveuth Ohio Regiment, commanded
by Colonel Tyler, was surrounded while at
breaktast, and attacked ou both flauks and in
front simultaneously.
Our men were immediately formed in line of
battle, aud fought bravely, while they saw
but little ebauce of success, the enemy proving
too powerful.
Colonel Tyler sent a messenger forward to
f 3 baggage train which was coming up, and
arned it back, when three miles from the
sceue of couflict, tow ards Guuley, which place
it reached iu safety.
Companies R, C, and I suffered most severe
ly. They particularly were in the hottest of
the light, aud finally fought their way through
tearful odds, aud making dreadful havoc in
the enemy's ranks.
The rebel force consisted of 3,000 infantry,
400 cavalry, and 10 guns.
The Federal forces were scattered after cut
ting their way through, but they scon formed
again and fired, but received no reply.
The enemy did not pursue.
Our loss has not yet been definitely ascer
tained.
Not over two hundred are missing out of
the who were engaged.
The rebel loss was fearful.
Lieutenant Colonel Creighton captured the
enemy's colors and two prisoners.
PALMYRA MO , TAKEN POSSESSION
OF BY THE REBELS
yciNtY, 111., August 29, 1 SO 1.
Lieutenant PinLley, of Captain liaison's
company, of the Sixteenth regiment of Volun
teers, came to this city last evening. He states
that a large body of rebels, variously cstima- '
ted at from two thousand live hundred to three
thousand, under the notorious Martin Green,
took possession of Palmyra, Mo., yesterday
morning. There were no United States troops
there to defend it, and ot course no resistance
was made. Some five hundred of the rebels
were in the town, and the balance encamped
on the outskirts.
A train of cars, containing a large quantity
of muskets for the troops at St. Joseph, which
left Hannibal yesterday, was fired into near
Palmyra and was forced to return. Nodamage
fortunately, was done.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL
LARS IN GOLD SEIZED BY THE
REBELS.
PAYETTE, Mo., August 29,1861.
Apprehensions being felt that the branch of
the State Bank at this place would berobbed,
the cashier yesterday sent the specie, amount
ing to about SIOO,OOO, to Allen depot, on the
North Missouri Railroad, for transportation
to St. Louis. On reaching Allen the money
was seized by a party of twenty rebels, led by
Captaju Poiudexter, and carried off. Whether
it will be recovered is not now kuowu—some
saying that Captain Poindexter has been in
duced to return it to the bank, while others
assert that he will attempt to cross the Mis
souri river and carry it to Geueral Price's
army in the northwest.
HATTERAS INLET FORTIFICATIONS
CAPTURED.
FORTRESS MONROE. Saturday, Aug. 31, IS6I.
The expedition which left Hampton Roads
for the coast of North Carolina on Monday
last has resulted iu one of the most splendid
achievements on record ascounected with the
navy in particular.
Some deiay attended the concentration of
ali the ships and steamers, but on Weduesday
morning the Minnesota, the Wabash, the
Cumberland, the Susquehanna, the Pawnee,
the Harriet Lane, the Mouticelio, beside a
number of tugs and the transport steamers
Adelaide and Peabody, had arrived of liat
teras Inlet.
The fleet was in command of Flag Officer
Stringbam, and the land forces were command
ed by Maj Gen. Butier.
Within the last three months the Rebels
have erected two forts to guard the mouth of
the Hatteras Inlet., and under the protection
which they afforded Pamlico, Albemarle Sounds
aud the connecting sounds had become the
rendezvous of privateers.
Through this direct connection with the
Chesapeake, Albemarle, Norfolk, and Yirgiuia
communicated with the sea.
The bombardment was commenced at a dis
tance of about two and a half miles by the
Minnesota ou Wednesday at 11 a. in, and
she was soon joined by the entire fleet.
The fire was incessant, the forts responded
but seldom, and it soon became evideut that
their guns could not reach the ships, though
the Rebels might long hold out, protected as
they were by their works.
When the bombardment opened, the land
ing of troops from the tranqiorts, by launches
aud small-boats, commenced, under cover of
the guns of the Harriet Lane aud Mouticelio
It was more than an hour before the first
boat reached the beach. By this time the
wind had come up so that the surf ran List),
and though tiie greatest efforts were made,
onlv about three hundred of the forces were
lauded.
Every boat was either broken up or beach
ed, and notwithstanding nearly one thousand
men had been placed on schooners, it was con
sidered too dangerous to attempt to land them,,
and they were returned to transports. Those
who reached the shore were thoroughly wet. j
Meanwhile the bombardment went on with ;
out cessation.
When this had continued about three hours,
the flag of Fort Clark came down, and the
rebels retreated to Fort liutterasja large work
below.
Soon after our forces on shore occupied the
abandoned fort and waved the Stars and
Stripes from the ramparts.
'i he Mouticelio had proceeded ahead of
the iuud force to protect them, and had reach
ed the Inlet, when a 1 irge fort, of an octagon
j shape, to the rear and right of the small bat
| tery, mounting ten 32s aud four 8 inch guns,
which had till then been silent, opened 011 her
with eight guns, at short range. At the same
■ instant she got aground and stuck fast, the
: enemy pouring in a fire, hot and heavy, which
; the Mouticelio replied to with shell sharply.—
For tilty minutes she held her own, aud final
ly getting off the ground she came out,having
been shot through and though by seven 8-inch
shells, one going below the water line. She
fired 05 shells in fifty minutes, and partially
silenced the battery. She withdrew at dusk
for repairs, with one or two men slightly
bruised, but none killed or wounded.
Ou Thursday morning the fleet took their
positions at about the same range, and at 8
o'clock the Susquehanna opeued the ball, and
, in a few minutes the entire fleet concentrated
its fire ou Fort Hatteras.
Our forces on shore were now in Fort Clark,
! spectators of the scene. Fort Hatteras did
not return the fire for nearly half an hour, aud
j its shots all fell short.
The bombardment was continued without
intermission, when, at half-past eleven, our
shells began to range on tho magazine—a
white flag was displayed on the fort—our men
at Fort Clark, with loud shouts, started on a
double quick, and were uiet ou the beach by
a flag of truce.
Capt. Nixou of the Coast Guard repaired to
the fort, aud was met by the commanding
officer, who proved to be Commodore Samuel
Barron, late of the navy. lie proposed to
capitulate by allowing the gurrisou to stack
arms and retire, and the officers to retain their
| sidearms. These terms General Butler, who
had entered the inlet on the steamer Fanny,
instantly rejected, and demanded an uncondi
tional surrender. These terms, after a Council
of War, were accepted.
. By the surrender we came in possession of
! one thousand stand of arms, thirty-five heavy
guns, ammunition for the same,a large amount
of hospital and other stores, two schooners—
one loaded with tobacco and the other with
provisions ; one brig loaded with cotton, two
light-boats, two surf-boats, Ac.
The enemy's loss they allow to he eight
killed and thirty live wounded. Eleven of the
' latter were left at the bospitaljat Annapolis
We took forty live officers prisoners, manv
of high rank, and several others, late army and
navy officers, and six hundred and sixty five
non commissioned officers and privates.
Not a inau was hurt on our sid9.
PROCLAMATION BY GEN FREMONT.
" HEADUCAKTLKS OF THE WESTERN DEPARTMENT, ) V
ST. LOUIS, AUG. 31, LSTIL. )
"Circumstances, iu my judgment of suffi
eient urgency,render it necessary that the Com
manding General of this Department should
assume the aduiistrative powers of the State.
Its-disorganized condition, the helplessness of
the civil authority, the total insecurity of life,
and the devastation of property by bands of
murderers and marauders who mfeet nearly
every county in the State and avail themselves
of the public misfortunes and the vicinity of a
hostile force to gratify private and neighbor
hood vengeance, and who find an enemy wher
ever they find plunder,finally demand the sever
est measures to repress the daily increasing
crimes arid outrages which are driving off the
inhabitants and ruiuing the Stat?. In this
condition the public safety and the success of
our arms require unity of purpo-e, without let
or hindrance, to the prompt administration of
affairs.
• "In order, therefore, to suppress disorders,
to maintain as far as now practicable the pub
lie peace, and to give security and protection
to the persons and property of loyal citizens, I
do hereby extend, and declare established,
martial law throughout the State of Missouri.
The lines.of tha army of occupation in this
State are for the present declared to extend 1
from Leavenworth byway of the posts of
Jefferson City, Kolla, and Iroiitou, to Cape
Girardeau on the Mississippi River.
" All persons who shall be taken with arms
Ui their hands within these lines shall be tried
by aourt-murtial, and, if found guilty, will be;
shot. The property, real and personal, pf all
persons in the State of Missouri who shall take!
up arms against the United States, and who '
shall be directly proven to have taken active
pert with their enemies in the field, is declared
to be confiscated to the public use ; and their
slaves, if auy they have, are hereby declared
free.
" All persons who shall be proven to have
destroyed, after the publication of this order, t
railroad tracks, bridges or telegraphs, shall i
suffer the extreme penalty of the law.
"All persons engaged in treasonable corre
spondence. iu giving or procuring aid to the
enemies of the United States, iu disturbing
the public tranquility, by creating and circu
lating false reports or incendiary documents,
are in their own interest warned that they are
exposing themselves.
" All persons who have been led away from ;
their allegiance are required to return to their
homes forthwith ; any such absence without
sufficient cause will bo held to be presumptive
evidence against them.
" The object of this declaration is to place
in the bauds of the military authorities the
power to give instantaneous effect to existing
laws, and to supply such deficiencies as the
gouditions of war demand. But it is not in
tended to suspend the ordinary tribunals of the
country where :he law will lie administered by
the civil officers in the usual manner, ami with
their customary authority while the same can
be peaceably exercised.
" The Commanding General will labor vigi
lantly for the public welfare, and in his efforts
for their safety, hopes to obtain not only the
acquiescence, but the active support of the peo
ple of the country. "J. C. FREMONT.
" Major-General Commanding."
HAUL OF COUNTERFEIT MONEY. —Sometime
within a month or two past, a horse was sto
len from a Mr. Van Deusen, keeper of a pub
lic house at Horseheads, by a man whose name
is supposed to be Brown. The horse was sold
to Joseph Phillips, of Potter Co., Pa, who
has a farm about four miles from Ulysstis vil
lage. Van Deusen advertised a reward for the
horse and thief, and the Sheriff of Potter Co.,
finding the horse in the possession of Phillips
took it away. Phillips meeting Brown some
time afterward demanded the return of the
money he had paid on the horse,w hich demand
Brown failing to comply with, Phillips took
him iu custody last week and proceeded with
him to Elrnira to claim the reward of £25 of
fered for his apprehension. At Elmira Brown
charged Phillips with having induced him to
steal the horse, and farther asserted that Phil
lips was a dealer in counterfeit money—that he
then hud bogus coin in his pocket, and had
several hundred dollars more hid iri a grnnery
upon his farm iu Potter Co. Phillips was
searched and two bogus $5 pieces found in bis
possession. Both men were then locked up to
await an investigation of the matter. The af
fair was placed in the hands ot Deputy Mar
shal ELMORE, of Elmira, who proceeded to
trace it out. He came to this place on Fri
day last, engaged the services of officer JOHN
I \\ OOLSEY, and tiie two started for the home of
' Phillips. Arrived there they found no one
upon the premises but Mrs. Phillips, a woman
apparently fifty years of age She evidently
knew nothing of the whereabouts of her hus
band, and was surprised when told that he had
'got into trouble" at Elmira. He had told
I her when leaving home that he was going to
Andover. The officers asked for Mr. Phillips'
money, which,they said they had been sent for,
but Mrs P. knew nothing about it. fche said
| her husband had lately sold a lot of young
• cattle but she had no knowledge of the dispo
i sition of the proceeds. On searching the grain
' ary officer WOOLSEY found a shot bag conceal
ed in a barrel of grain, which on examination
proved to contain $804,50 in counterfeit $5,
$2,50 and $1 pieces, including thirty five dol
lars in counterfeit bank notes. With this
booty the officers departed. Part of the coin
the $5 pieces is a very good imitation except
being too light ; it is new and might deceive
people who did not notice its weight. The
remainder of the coin was poor and had evi
dently been manufactured some time.
The Phillips farm consists of one hundred
, and sixty acres, clear of incumbrance, with
• good buildings, and well stocked witli horses
cattle, etc. If Mr. Phillips is guilty of this
grave charge, and appcarauces are against him
, there can no reason for snch a course except
innate dishonesty. It may be that he is more
I sinned against than sinning, but this point a
trial will alone determine.— Jlornellsville Jour
nal 2blh inst.
Igg"*' The Harrisburg Ttlegraph says that
among other Uuionists driven out of Texas, is
Gen. DAVID R. PORTER, formerly Governor
of Pennsylvania, who has returned to Harris
burg, and is probably dying from slow disease
and his sense of the couutry's condition.—
Tweuty years ago, few men swayed more in
fluence than Gov. Porter.
•^rabto|ifpork.
E. O. (JOQDRICU, EDITOR.
TOWANDA :
Thursday Morning, September 6, 1861.
Republican County Nominations I
FOK rRKSiDF.NT jrw.f,
ULYSSES MERCUR, OF TOWANDA Bono J
FOK ASSOCIATE
VOLNEY M. LONG, OF TROY BORO.
7
FOR KEFRSSEXYATIVKS,
HENRY W. TRACY, OF STANDING STONE, j
CHESTER T. BLISS, OF LEROY.
FOR TREASURER,
FRANCIS WATTS, OF NORTH TOWAXDA.
!
FOK COMMISSIONER,
ISAAC LYONS, OF ORWELL.
FOR A EDITOR,
ROBERT Y. MASON, of Atloru.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Republican County Convention held on
Monday evening last, was fully attended, and
the proceedings harmonious. The unanimity
with which the candidates uomiuated were se
lected, iu a great measure removes the feelings
of disappointment which are generally produced
by closer contests. The candidates, from first
to last, are good men, irreproachable char
acter and unquestioned capacity to properly
discharge the duties of the offices for which
they have been named by the partiality of their
fellow citizeus, and will of course be tiiuuiph- .
antly elected.
As the Secretaries of the Convention have
neglected to furnish us with the proceedings,
we are unal !e to lay them before our readers
this week. The candidates and Convention shall
have a hearing hereafter.
MT" We notice by a lute number of the
Sullivan Co. Lkmoerut, that the democracy
of that county held its Convention ut Laporte,
on the 27th ult , and placed in nomination
the following county ticket :—For Associate
Judges, JAMES DEEGAN, RICHARD BEDFOLD ;
Treasurer, W ALTER SPENCER ; Commissioner
HENRY WILLIAMS ; Auditor, LEWIS MARTIN.
'lhc Republican Standing Comayttee met
at Laporte, on the 24ih ult., and fixed upon
the 16th of September for the holding of their
Convention. A Committee of three was ap
pointed to confer with a ,-imilar Committee
from the Democratic party ( if such a Com
mittee should be appointed ) to ascertain
" whether it is practicable to form a ticket
which will receive the unanimous support of
the people of the county, at the coming elec
tion ; and that if such a Union ticket is form
it should be understood that neither party
,-urrcnders its distinctive principles or its or
ganization, but as a present arrungment. which
the times pecularly demand.''
This arranguient will not probably be af- I
fected, as we have been informed by a promi
nent member of the democratic party of that
county, the democracy would enter into no
alliance with the Republicans, and that their
party lines would be drawn tighter than ev
er, at the coming election. We have not
seen the resolutions adopted at their Conven
tion, consequently do not know the course
they have adopted, but persume they have
resolved to play " it alone," as they have
nominated a radical democratic ticket.
BsaF* The Atlantic Monthly, for September
is a remarkably good number, as will be seen
by the following table of coutents :
" The Shakespear Mystery," by Richard
Grant White ; " The Bath," a poem, by
Bayard Taylor ; " Taceharissa Melassys," by
Theodore Winthrop ; " My Odd Adventure
with Junius Brutus Booth," anonymous ;
" My Out-docr Study," by T. W. Higginson;
" A Sermon in a Stone," anonymous poem ;
The Tenth Chapter of Mrs. Stowe's " Agnes''
of Sorrento," '• The Acqurium," anonymous;
"The Young R'pealer," by Harriet Marli
neau ; " Bread and the Newspaper," by
Oliver Wendal Holmes ; " Under the Cloud
and Through the Sea," au anonymous poem ;
" Journal of a Privateersman," anonymous ;
" The Advantages of Defeat," by C. G
Nortor ; " Ode to Happiness," by James
Russell Lowell ; " Au Obituary to Elizabeth
Barrett Browning," anonymous ; and the
usual Reviews and Literary notices, including
articles upon Alexander Smith's new poem,
" Edwin of Deira," and Dickens' " Great
Expectations." During the last three months
this Magazines has published a series of the
most brilliant papers that have ever enriched
the pages of any periodical, British or Ame
rican. The ablest living writers are enrolled
iu its corps of contributors.
BaT" Ellis B. Sclinabel, notorious in this
his native and the other States of the north
and east, as a foul mouthed advocate of the
very foulest of northern dongh-faceism, has
been arrested by the United States Marshal of
Connecticut, and imprisoned at Fort Lafayette.
He was for a long time one of the pets of the
Buchanan administration, and was sustained
on a sinecure office by Buchanan, purposely to
abuse every man who differed with him, and
assist in hurrying forward the very trouble in
which we are uow involved. So far as his
arrest is concerned, that should have been
done long since, because if the charge of trea
son against him should prove false, he is guil
ty of sufficient other enormities to send him l<
the penitentiary for a fw years at least. *
j BY TELEGRAPH,
ver the Towauda Telegraph Line.
JEFF. DAVIS DEAD !
WASHINGTON, KEP. 2, ISOL.
A. Despatch received to-day from Richmond,
(via Louisville,) announces the death of JEFF. |
DAVIS. This accounts for the desplay of Flag*
i at half ma>t from the Rebel ramparts, to day.
This is reliable.
THE NEWS.
In another column will be found news rcla
ting to the successful operations on the North 1
j Carolina Coast, of the expedition which was ,
sent out from Fortress M nroe, on Monday
the 2wh nit. The result tan be stated in a
very few words, and it is not often in warfare
that so important an exploit has been soquick
ly and quietly accomplished ; by it we have
; come into possession of two forts, twenty-five
cannon, 1,000 stand of arms and more than
TOO prisoners, among whome are several ofll
| eers of note, and, as it is reported, one of
Jiff Davis's Cabinet officers, thought this point
is not fully confirmed. It appears from the j
j papers captured at tfie forts that the United
States Government had in its service, as Con
j sul t Rio Janero, a traitor of the blackest 1
i dye. His name is Robert G. Scott, jr., aj
Georgian by birth, and anointed from Vir
ginia. lie hud furnished to the Rebels a
complete list of vessels loaning in the port of Rio ,
Janeiro, and destined for Northern j
This information was turned by the Rebel pi
rater to good account, for the record of their j
ope at ions shows that that they have captured
several of the vessels thus made known to
them.
The advaueed posts of the army of the Po
tomac, under Gen. Richardson, had a brilliant
skirmish early Thursday morning with the
pickets of the enemy, near Bailey's Cross
Roads. The rebels were two hundred strong,
and the Union forces, though greatly infeiior
in numbers, completely defeated them, killing
i a large number and taking several prisoners j
I The impression prevails that ihe enemy in
tended there ami then to provoke a battle, but
ior this time, at least, the attempt failed
(though it was probably only a feint) as their
pickets were driven back gallantly by our
forces.
The rebels have erected a battery near
Munson's Hill, and are playing away with
rifled cannon on the buildings at Bailey's
Cross Iloaw's. It is thought, however, that
this great activity on the part of the enemy
is only a fciut to withdraw attention from a
movement of a large portion of their forces
towards the Upper Potomac, where they in
lend to make a crossing into Maryland, at
s une place near Point of Rocks, ami, tru-ting
to the insurrectionary spirit of (he State, make
a stand there, where provisions are plenty,
and thus place Washington between two rebel
armies. It appears evident that they cannot i
longer maintain themselves in their position
for want of supplies, ami it is confidently be
lieved in Washington that a great battle
must of necessity take place withiu a few
j days.
There is no doubt that the army of General
Roscucrane, in Western Virginia, is in a COB.
-
stant state of activity, it is said that he is
surrounded by a staff of excellent officers, an
element which, in addition to his own known
coolness, sagacity and military skill, renders
his position io the face of the armies of Gin
erals Lee,Floyd and W.se,secure from surprise
or defeat. A large body of the rebels, eight
thousand strong, under Gen. Lee, are report
j ed to be encamped within five or six miles of
| the encampment of Col. Reynolds, one of
Gen Rosencrans' ablest officers, who is in !
command of a large body of his army. The
action in which Col. Tyler was engaged at
| Crow- Lane, near Snmuiersville, appears to
have been but a skirmish, in which sixteen
of Col. Tyler's men were killed and forty
! wounded, but it was a brilliant and success
ful affair withal.
Despatches from Qnincy, 111., inform us of
the march of a body of rebels, numbering
some three thousand under General MUt tin
Green, upon the town of Palmyra, Missouri,
on Wednesday morning, and inasmuch as there
| were no Union troops stationed there, they
took quiet possession of the place. It appears
that a train of cars on the Hannibal and St. ,
Joseph railroad, carrying a quantity of rons
i kets for the troops statioued at St. Josephs,
while approaching Palmyra on the same day,
1 was fired into by the rebels, and immediately
: retored without damage to Hannibal.
ENGLAND AND JF.FF. DAVIS' REBELLION.—
Advices from our Minister in Loudon, indicate
a certain if not speedy recognition of the Con
federate States as independent Power by the
British Government. But there is nothing
iu this to surprise or discourage.
The tendencies of the British Government
have not heen a secret. The success or fail
! tire of Jeff Davis rebellion depends on its
power at home, and not on the favor with
which it may be regarded abroad.
A recognition by Great Britain would doubt
less give it a certain degree of moral support,
' but would neither feed nor clothe its armies.
Wait a little, and we may have news to send
? abroad that will neutralize the influences of
I j that one which the Br tish Ministry arc now
disposed to act. We expect no favor from
| ! Europe and have sought none.
1 l THE DEPARTMENT OF SAN FRANCISCO.— The
official news from the department of the Paci-
I fic received by the last mail, records the COII
j eentration in the city of Sati Francisco of
• i over 1,500 regulars. The forts in the harbor
; are strongly garrisoned, and there is quite a
olrong forofc at Beniiia barracks.
Daniel S. Dickenson, and theWar^
We &xl the following in the IW
Democrat, Mr. Dickenson's home
let. We ure for maintaining U,,.'"-
ment and the Union ami the
long us there is a loyal citizen Northo "s" 80
to battle with rebellion, or a dollar t,"r' ' nll>
| the sinews of war. ,ir uiih
2d. We are opposed to the war an.l , '
therefore crash, by the whole power or°o 4
! nation, its authors who commenced it by
bery and treason, and by coimouatlinJ
! Sumter. ° or *
3d. We are in favor of pen,,, an(J ffj
fore seek it in tlie only direction which w i
give honorable and enduring peace —i, T
ting down armed rebellion, so that'the P
loving citizens of the South can support
Constitution and the Union of their f a -i
without a revolver to their eurs or a boT*
kuite to their throats to drive them into "
bc-llion. r *
4th. We are opposed to taxation, and
would therefore, make the war as short
possible, by exerting the whole force of the
nation's energies, so as at the earliest an
ment to quell rebellion effectually, and L'-'
petual war aud perpetual taxation hereafter
sth. We are opposed to all paliatinn* a . f j
propositions of peace or compromise, until r' e
liellion is silenced, and its flag,steeped in thef
treason, piracy, arson, -rebellion and murder
is torn down and destroyed, and until the
stars ami stripes float over every Slate capital
and every fortress in the Union. %
tith. When the roar of the rebel artilierr
is silenced and the supremacy of the Con-tit J
tion is acknowledged, we are as we have a ;.
awys been, for guarding with sedulous care
every right which it guarantees to every sec
tiou of the Union, aud for strengthening the
ties of brotherhood,sundered by a set ofgrac*.
less political robbers, —acting against the will
of tlie masses of the Southern people.
The article in the Democrat concludes u
follows :
" We would suggest that mass meetings b
called to be held m every county in the State
and that all those that are in favor of the
principals and policy indicated by Mr. Crit
tenden in his resolution which passed the
House of Representatives with only two dis
senting votes be requested to assemble in their
respective counties and appoint the nsual num
ber of delegates to attend a Union Convention
to be held at the place to be designated."
HEARTRENDING OCCURRENCE, — The DARATG&
done by the great freshet of the 12thin.it
has also been attended by loss of life, this
house of Janes M-Curdy situated at th J
p'.inl where Rough Run empties into Buffi I
creek was car* • d off. The h >ue was near i: ?!
county line between Armstrong ami rbii 1
county. The family occupying rhe hw
cons,s|ob of six persons, the father and /or
children and the mother, who was an invalid.
The father found the water rising far
ing the night, and after placing his wife
and children in the upper story, he left thi
house to go for a-si tance to Winfi-H
Furnace, about a mile distant. In cro<slnj
the run he lost his footing, and was burnt
down the stream some distance to a fence on
which betook refuge. This was soon washed
away, and he was again at the mercy of the
current, lie had not been carried far before
he was lodged against a tree, to which he
clung with all the dt speration of a drowning
man. After a time his strength returned
as to admit of his climbing the tree, and there
he lemainvd until {daylight, when lie was ta
ken from Ins perilous position, only to tara
that his entire family had perished in ?!t I
flood. It is supjiosed that the house s' -ij
the rise of the water around it until an -.J
nii'inr current from some mill-dams a! uJ
which had been carried away, swept ngau.l
it and bore it on its crest. A mile below, tl
house was seen floating along with candles s
it, the children were heard caving, and errr
thing apparently in as perfect o-der as t l #
evening before when the inmates retired fo
bed. In going over Rvlston's datn, a snort
distance below where it was seen, the h>oe
went to pieces, and the inmates were drowned.
The bodies of the four children were recov.evd
and buried at the Clearfield church on i'hnrs
ilay. It- was a sickening sight— hurting foot
little coffins in one grave The bale <>f rlw
mother has not yet been recovered— BtUl:r
Ilerahl.
JEFFERSON DAVIS ON TREASON. — JEFF Havis,
m the summer of 184t>, in Faneuil Hall, tho<
pronounced an anathema upon traitors at:
treason in language to be remembered. He
was then hitching the abolitionists who -*orf
to maintain the Constitution, with just sacs
mental reservations as lie seems to have iwi
making when betook the oath in the Sennit
" Among culprits, there is none raoreodoti
to my mind than a public officer whotaketu
oath to support the Constitution—thecE(F ;
between the States binding each other fori*
common defense and general welfare of i*
other—yet retains to himself a mental resem
tion that he will war upon the priucipiw b
has sworn to maintain, and opon the proper?
rights, the protection of which are part of®
! compact of the Union. [Applause.]
" It is a crime too low to be named befo*
this assembly. It is one which no man *
self-respect would ever commit. To swear tit
he will support the Constitution—to take *
office which belongs iu many of its relntioa*-
all the States, and to u<e it as a means of ay
ring a portion of the Slates of which be'
thus the representative, is treason to tw r
tiling honorable in man. It is the base
cowardly attack of hint wlo gains the
dencc of another in order that he tuay -*■'•
him."
DRAFTING SOI.DIFRS —Some idle rumvrsU
gained currency in this city that the <" ir -[
was aoont resorting to drafting men to"
j army, and in order to check the story r ■
1 it reached the country, and scne some "
; dies in pantaloons into " conniption ti'*-
1 say at once there is no truth whatever 1 ]
J report. Pennsylvania to-dav is e-uninj
the work manfully, nnd those who
1 nessed the ontpooring of her sons du, u-
: last twenty-four hoars in this cii.v
' will agree with us that the day b'f ' r
is still distant. We could raise at
000 more without any such resorts.—
bu-rg Patriot and Union
m \
* SUPERVISION OF LETTERS n>ith. , j;
i ulation has been established by w,l '.i ' (Jl g
terssent from the rebel States n,l |' ! lK
( iued by an ageut appointed for ?l " J..,*.-
before they can be sent out of th'>t^
j With the stringent regulations noa -
I both scctious, written eommuni'-'* "
almost entirely cut oft'