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Imported and for sale low by CANTWELL & KEFFEII. south enst corner GERMANTOWN Avenue and MASTER Street. • " f7IMMERMAR’S DRY CATAWBA Ml WlNE.—Tliis approved brand of Cincinnati wine* the r beet article out for « cobblers, n for sale pure, hot tied and in cases, by CANTWELL & KEFFEB, «>uth rast comer GEBHANTOWN Avenue and MASTER Street sc24-6m_ HOLLAND GlN.—Double Pine Ap ple Gin, in pipes and three-uuarter pipes, for sale from bonded warehouse, by JAUBETCHS A CABSTAHtS, «eU>lm 202 and SOi South FBONT Street. Jims, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2ft, 1861 The New Flay at Arch-street Theatre. On Monday evening, a new piny, translated and adapted from the French, waa brought out at Mrs. John Drew's Theatre, with the advantage of novel ty, inasmuch as it had never before been performed on any American stage. TYo do not know the name either of author or adapter, but the play is full of well-sustained interest. It hears the name of “Jeannette; or, Io Cretin do In Montagnc”- Jeannette being the hero and Claude Marie, the idiot, (le cretin,) the hero. These parts were per sonated by Miss Charlotte Thompson and fl{r. Mor timer, who—but ere we tell how they played, let ns try and tell the Btory of what they played. Truth to say; wo hare only an indistinct idea of that portion of the plot developed in the earlier portion of the first act, having had the misfortune to arrive precisely fifteen minutes after the play com. menced. We took it for granted that the curtain would rise, as usual, at a quarter before 8, whereas that operation look place at half-past seven. When a change of this sort takes place, it should be loudly announced, and a theatrical advertisement which does not mention when the theatre opens and when the curtain rises, is radicollydefectire. Thus we lost some of the play—without any fault of ours, and this notice of change of time may prevent others suffering from a like cause. Now for the plot. Jeannette Prijol (Miss Thompson) is a young, virtuous, and pretty girl, daughter of Pierre Pri jol, postmaster and inn-keeper in a rural district in France, not far from Tarbes, the capital of the de partment of the Hautes-Pryenees. She loves, and is beloved by Paul Canssade (Mr. Ringgold), a young military officer, who, for some cause unex plained and inexplicable, wears suspended over his left breast, a star about the size of a juvenile cheese-plate, which would be of immense value, wero its brilliants real, and which, we presume, de notes that the amatory warrior has obtained leave to-wear the insignia of some order of Knighthood— not generally bestowed upon youthful soldiers- Ho is son of Jacques Canssade, ownerof a foundry, mid—let us make a clean breast Of it at onoe— the villain of the piece. Mr. Wallis, who played this part, adhering with remarkable tenaoity, all through the drama, to a favorite coat with a large cape, had the disadvantage of looking scarcely a day older than his sou, and, (wo prosumo from de fective “ make up” of his face,) appeared with a sardonic smile in the most Berious parts. Other wise he played very well —as he generally does. The opening scene ie before Prijol’s auberge in a mountainous district, and among the characters who figure in it are Prijol and Jeannette , Au doche, then waiter (Mr. Frank Drew), one Father Simon, a miser (Mr. Scallan), Roussel, pedler, smuggler, and rogue (Mr. Shewell), sundry Gens d'Armes, eertain work people in Canssade's foun dry, among whom is Mariette, pretty and saucy (plavcd by Mrs. C. Henri), the elder Canssade, and Claude Marie, the idiot, who, poor hey, is in love with Jeannette. In mood half mirthful, she promises him that whenever he can read and count figures she will marry him. Canssade Pire has had some dealings with Simon , the miser, in for mer days, about the changing of a child at nurse as far as we could make out the Cretin was changed for young Canssade—and Simon has a letter from him (Canssade) detailing the cheat. At all events, it is the elder Canssade’s desire to get Simon out of the way. When leaving the auberge, Canssade purchases a Ready Reckoner from Roussel, the pedler, and, after the peasants and foundry folks have retired, oreeps back and steals away, under his cloak, a gun belonging to Pierre Prijol. It happens that the latter, owing money to Simon, has recefred notice that be will be sold out unless ho pays it, and, lute though it is, goes up the moun tains to see Simon, and beg a little time. The scene here, representing mountain scenery, is beau tiful indeed, and the effect of sunset—flushing it .n concession of hues, from golden to purple— was most magnincent. In tb. following scene, showing a place called the Devil's Peak, the effect caused by the uplifting of the night-mists and the lightening dawn of day, was equally superb, in another way. The Devil’s Peak is the place amid the hills where the poor Cretin sleeps, in the hollow of a rock. Simon, homeward hound, meet* the Cretin i- -ranry to him, an d suddenly fail, and workmen, and then dies. The Cretin picks up and conceals the wadding which had been used. The gun is found, warm from the recent discharge, is known to belong to Prijol, who is apprehended as the putative assassin, and this concludes Act I. The scene changes to Tarbes, opposite the Court of Justice, in which Prijol is then being tried for murder, with circumstances strong against him. Jacques Canssade, the real murderer, is on the jury, and yielding to Jeannette’s prayers, consents to acquit her father, provided she will promise to abandon all idea of ever marrying his son—the military young gentleman who wears the monstrous star. Her father is acquitted—by a majority of one vote. His quondam friends and acquaintances refuse to accept this as a proof of his innocence and shun him—all but Mariette and Audoche. Even Placide, the brigadier (sergeant?) of the gens d’armes, who has previously declared Prijol\ ac cused by “ the people’s vice,” a Pyreneian way of pronouncing voice, we presume ?—is against him. Toung Canssade, who believes Prijol innocent, still wants Jeannette to marry him, but reminded by his SS® of her promise to give him up, she refuses to accept him, and thencefotwai'4 devotes herself to the vindication of her father’s honor, by endeavoring to discover who really hod murdered Simon. Act 111 takes place in a sort of saloon, opening ■ upon tho gardens of the Chateau do Flarignoul, in habited by Madame Flavigneul and Naomi, her ] niece. Mrs. Stone all, who is an actress, played the : old lady extremely well, bat Miss Emma Taylor, and 1 not Miss Elizabeth Price, ought to hare personated the niece—simply because Emma Taylor can act, and Elizabeth Price cannot. It appears that the ; younger Canssade is about marrying Naomi, but, ; on mentioning to that young lady that he would much ; rather, she kindly lets him off, with a nonchalance j which is met only on the stage. Roussel, the ped- j ler, finding the elder Caussade here, frightens ' him by proffering to sell him a letter of Simon’s, j for 20,000 francs, and gets him to promise that he ! would visit his ( Roussel’s ) hut in the mountain at ten that night. Jeannette, who appears faded and : worn, in tom habiliments, still intent on discovering the murderer, overhears this assignation, and re. ; solves to be there.' Haunting her steps ever, cheer* : ing, sustaining her, is the faithful Cretin. j In the fourth Act, the interest is on the increase. : In a mean disguise, the elder Cause cede goes to the hut of Roussel, where he sees what he believes to ; be his own letter to Simon, in which is related the r history of the changing of the children. This he ) destroys—but uselessly) for the original is in the i hands of a lawyer at Tarbes, who is instructed to ; place it in the hands of justice, in the event of i Roussel’s death. Therefore, Caussade bargains i to buy it for 40,000 francs, money to be paid and j document surrendered in the market-place at | Tarbes, next day. Jeannette, who has not dis- | covered Canssade in his disguise, enters the Eat, j and, at risk of life and character, partakes supper j with Roussel, in the hope of coaxing out of him . the secret which, she feels eertain, involves the i restoration of her father’s honor. Some traces of it j she does get hold of—sufficient to know that the ; probable murderer was some one at Caussade’s : foundry. Some of the workmen, “ much bemused j with wine,” vainly endeavor to enter the hut for a further debauch, but, looking through the key-hole, recognize poor Jeannette. At the moment when Roussel, with his brutal passions aggravated by drink, is endeavoring to dishonor Jeannette, the door is burst in by the Cretin, who fells the ruffian to the ground, and rescues the poor girl. The fifth Act takes place in Caussade’s foundry, where pretty and lively Mariette (Mrs. C. Henri) has just been wedded to the brigadier, he who spoke of ” the people’s vice” in a former scene. A new apprentice appears— Audoche (Mr. Frank. Drew) being the person, {[is chief purpose in. this capa city seems to be to sing a duet with Mariette , * with chorus and anvil accompaniment. This was encored. Then Jeannette, half-starved, comes in, ' begs employment from Caussade, and obtains ; Mariette's late position of book-kcopor. The Cre tin, who still follows her, produces the Beady Reckoner which, in the first scene, Caussade had bought from the pedler. Jeannette discovers that a leaf is wanting, answering to the very leaf which had served as wadding to the bnll which killed Simon. She writes a letter to the president of the court of Tarbes, enclosing the book, succeeds iu making the Cretin sensible of the importance of its j being rightly delivered, and sends him off. Cans ■ sade , when all is still, stealthily enters her cham ber to destroy her—sure that she has gained his guilty secret. His own ion, her lover, rushes in to her rescue and discovers—his father. At the same time, the Cretin, caught going over the wall, bound to Tarbes on his importantmission, is brought in, and Jeannette’s letter is taken charge of by the brigadier. Next day, in the next and final act, the dramatis persona assemble in the market-place at Tarbes. Roussel receives his 40,000 francs from Caussade, ' and hands over Simon’s letter, which is seized by the Cretin . The letter Is read, and discovers the former change of children, (this part seemed to us ill brought out,) and the Cretin, with a sudden gleam of reason, recognizee Caussade. It turn PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY! SEPTEMBER 25, 1861. out that the younger Canssade is really the long lost son of Madame Flavigneul. He marries Jeannette, and the bad Canssade, to use Mr. Mantilini’s memorable words, straightway “goes to tho demnition bow-wows.” The curtain falls on the poor Cretin kneeling, how vainly! at the feet of Jeannette, whom he has so well loved in his way. The piece, which occupied over three hours and a half in the representation—partly owing to the necessary delay in setting the scenery, and partly from the needless length of the dialogue—will he all the better of a little curtailment. It was well played, all round, if we may so speak. The scenic and other effects are wonderfully good; we bars never seen a play so perfect, in these points, as this, since we commenced noticing theatricals in this city. There are numerous changes of scene, and amid them all we recognize only one old ac quaintance. At the end of every act there is a fine tableau. There was “a call” at the close of Acts 11., V., and VI., but, instead of tho curtain rising on the effective tableau which was applaud ed, Miss Thempson was led before the curtain by Mr. Mortimer. Any appropriation, by one or two performers, of a general compliment, seems to us hot quite oorreot. The play was well performed—but, of course, some characters stood out in sharper relief than the rest. Mr. Mortimer fairly divided the interest with Miss Thompson. His' performance of the Cretin was thoroughly individualized, and, of it self, would stamp him as a fine actor. It was in tensely interesting in many places—powerful in all. Miss Thompson had a great deal to do and say, and was fully equal to the exigencies of the various sit uations in Wbich She bore part. The only remark, in the least not laudatory, which we have to make is that, sometimes, when she desired to be earnest and emphatic, she shewed a tendency to rant, and then we had the conventional ma for my, heavon, pronounced a-heaven, and a few such defects of pronunciation. Whenever she did not make any very powerful demonstrations, she was natural, of festive, and pleasing. Mr. Shewell, as the pedler-emnggler, made all that could be made of the character. It was well sustained throughout; rough and racy, at times, hut acted with the ease and ability of aftnaster in the art. As usual, Mr. Shewell was well cos tumed. NEWS OP THE WAR* LATER FROM MISSOURI. TIIE SURRENDER OF MULLIGAN. FURTHER PARTICULARS. THE GALLANT DEFENCE OF LEXINGTON MORE BAD NEWS. FEARS FOR GEN. THE REBELS MARCHING ON ST. JOSEPH. GEN. FREMONT’S POSITION. THE - WAR IN KENTUCKY. ADVANCE OF GEN. BUCKNER, SKIRMISHING NEAR COLUMBUS. Inhumanity- of the Rebels. AFFAIRS ON THE NASHVILLE RAILROAD, PROCEEDINGS OP THE LEGISLATURE. 1 CONDITION OF WESTERN VIRGINIA. THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST. INTERESTING FROM GEN. RANKS’ COLUMN. The Surrender or Lexington.' The intelligence of the surrender of Cohmtfl Mulligan’s command has been, so futW that the fact ear, large portion of his men either escaped or were at once released .(idtoi promising, wc presume, that they would not again engage in the war unless exchanged,) aitd per mitted to return to Illinois. The commissioned officers ore bold as prisoners; PART OP MULLIGAN S KEN AT QUINCT. A part of Colonel Mulligan’s command arrived here this evening. The balance, amounting to nearly 2,000, are expected to-morrow. Those who have arrived say that the force at Lexington is only about 2,500, including several compaties of Home Guards, who are accused of having ihown cowardice. ' - . The surrender of Lexington was made at five o’clock on Friday afternoon. Tho flag was htulod down by the Home Guard. Colonel Mulligan is spoken of in the hipest terms. He displayed great bravery during the action, and, when asked to surrender, he refused. His sword was taken away hy force. i Colonel Mulligan and all the commissioned oil - cers axe held prisoners by the rebels. THE NUMBER OP MULLIGAN’S MEN, St. Louis, Monday, Sopt. 23. A correct report from Jefferson City says, instead of 200 men en route for Quincy, 2,000 of Mulligans command were sent over by the rebels, released oi parole, and are en route for Quincy. Claib Jackson is at Lexington with the rebel forces. No commissioned officers were released. The news to-day from Tuscumbia reports that Col. MeClury, of the national troops, was attaokel on Friday, by a party of rebels under Parsons ani Johnson, but he repulsed them with slight loss oi our side. Our forces, which were sent up the river la.l night, are now at Booneville. I will move forward to Lexington to-morrow, General Davis leavei hero to-morrow to take command, and lead them on Other troops will go forward immediately. Particulars of the Defence and Surren der of Lexington. Hudson, Mo,, Sept. 23. —The following accoun' of the siege of Lexington is furnished to the St, Louis Republican by Henry Bradburn, one of Col. Mulligan’s Eoldiers, who loft Lexington on Saturday morning. The fort was surrendered on Friday afternoon. The men fought for fifty-nine hours without water, and had only three barrels of vinegar to quench, their thirst during all that time. There were no springs or wells of water in the camp ground. As has been statod, the supply was only from the river, and this supply was cutoff, after a desperate fight, on Wednesday, The camp ground consisted of about ten acres, and was located a short distance from the river. There were breastworks entirely around it with the exception of the portion next to the river. It was here the hardest fighting took place. Tho rebels.procured a large number of hemp bales, rolled them in advance, and under their cover gradually succeeded in securing a position in the rear. They then cut off the supply of water, and bad the fort completely surrounded. They made but few charges upon the breast works, and during the entire Biege their object seemed to be to surround the fort and out off the supply of water. Having succeeded in this, they waited until Col. Mulligan was compelled to yield to a foe more terrible than the twenty-seven thou sand rebels that surrounded him. Previous to his surrender, he offered to take a position on a level spot of ground, and give Gene ral Price tho odds of four to one in a fair and open fight, but no attention was paid to it. After the surrender, the rebels mounted the breastworks and seemed mad with joy. As soon as the surrender took place a party took down the flag and trailed it in the dust. An immense amount of gold, supposed to be about a quarter of a million, fell into the hands of the rebels. It was taken from the banks and buried by Colonel Mulligan on the camp ground, some time ago, but the rebels speedily unearthed it. Colonel Mulligan wept like a child when he found himself compelled to surrender. On the morning after the surrender, the men were all re leased on parole and ferried across tho river j fc the officers were retained. Tbo loss of the rebels Is 'not known, but it is thought to be sot less than a thousand hilled and wounded. Their first attack proved more disas trous to them than the long siege whieh followed. For a day or two previous to the lost attack, they were engaged in burying their dead. The following description of tho fortifications of the town, which w© find in the St. Louis Devnocrat of the 2lst, will probably prove interesting, air though it was published before Colonel Mulligan was obliged to surrender: ■■ The Two Towns and the Position of Col. ; Mulligan's Fortifications. There is muoh confusion in the public mind in regard to the position of the oity of Lexington, and the opposing forces of Col. Mulligan and General Price. It is from this confusion and ignoranoe of locality that we hear so many contradictions in re ference to the actual possession of the oity of Lex ington, some persons contending that the rebels oc cupy the place, others denying it; Borne believing that the city itself is the point of Mulligan’s de fence, and very few understanding the true posi tion of.the exposing fercea. The following diagram PRENTISS! Quincy, 111., Monday, Sept. 23. will belpio remove the confusion, and plaoe the situation itelllgibly before the publie : ■ nX* * : Lexitttim. ; *—rf—* Multrin’s Foiffita t(ns ! ! *—i-f— * j •“’ill""; ; Lexlnjon. : • * > •• • 7 *,» * **& 3 •M-St p: .jZM. g*W direction of the Missouri river at the from , weBt ‘o east, as is marked, the citi Ing on the south bank. Old Lexineton Settlem s nt J i ? tnttte d back on the liU by New Lexington, further mt thgiter, where the steamboat landing now is. New llfagtoii u the main city. There are scat teriDgM/ses along the blnff between the two, and both if iow united under the one name ef Lex ington] _ < ColMlligan’s fortifications are between toe t»u locatus consisting of heavy earthworks, ten feet in hehl with a ditch of eight feet in width. These fortimlbas surround a college building, which has been fa as quarters for the soldiers, and has also been/regthened to resist an artillery attack. The lines’the fortifications are extensive, and, we assured, are capable of containing a force of ldOimen. t rials body of the army of General Price is loctd atfJJd Lexington, from which point the at taches Kjemmnde, though the fort has been as- - sail onall sides. The oooupants of the fort had a stmih,. on Thursday of last week, with a party of bw. Hot, however, under Price at the time, whJwitared themselves behind the houses in Old i_,e:gton. ,To deprive them of this advantage, tbidjowrrwas afterwards shelled and burnt, by or/. Gdlcnel Mulligan. New Lexington, or Lfignji proper, is in possession of the rebels, but tb.ity » riot, nor has it been the theatre of the c/Wt.. colonel Mulligan could, easily gholl and droy tt, but this, of course, he will not do, un b under some contingency which is not now ap tiri line of the fortifications runs down to the yet duff, and from the bluff to the water’s edge ter i a wide, shelving beach. The boats reported i bt aptnred laid at the water’s edge, within the iret ons of the lines of the fort, and on this beach I Wi re a severe straggle ensued, on Tuesday, for he Msession of the boats. rhy,Reinforcements Destined for Col. / Mulligan. Tie charaeter of the reinforcements which were ieshntd for Col. Mulligan, but which, by one of hose unfortunate derangements which are only too ommon, never reached him, is thus described in Democrat. Wa ate glad that a hope is enter* ,'ained that they may still have a victorious en counter with Gen. Price, notwithstanding their failure to relieve Col. Mulligan: Tto Thirty-ninth Ohio, Col. Groesbeck; the o . lowa, Col. Scott; the Sixteenth Illinois, Col. Smith, with a force of Missouri State Militia and lowa State troops, under Cols. Craynor and Ed wards ; aboat 300 irregular and regular cavalry, and fix pieces or «rtjllery, left St. Joseph and ChU- Ucothe, m two division. „„i y on gnmfey morning, the 15th, and according advices, arrived on I the banks of the river opposite £- :„ gton on V«d- I Jeeday or Thursday evening. The of the \ hree boats by the rebels, of course pW? l ™® \ Jem from at once crossing the river, and it they gsW , 'Sd. Mulligan any assistance at ail on Thursday, r. was from their artillery, the river at that point loing only half a mile in width. The charaoter of that artillery, we learn, does not include any mor- Erf or howitzers with which shell might be thrown over the bluff, into the midst of Price’s forces. Sf this be true, the only service that 'could have been rendered, was the com mand of the beach on the over side of ' the fortifications, and the destruction of the three boats in the hands of the rebels should they have attempted to hold or use them. Wo learned yes terday, from high BOuroes, that these reinforce ments should be augmented en Thursday, Or Thurs day night, by another division under General Stur iriS] who had been lying at Hudson City, and that Hie whole force on the north side of the river oppo site Lexington would, on yesterday, number about six thousand men. Beyond the mere gratification at the sight of friends, Colonel Mulligan had, up to yesterday, derived no benefit from their near* ness, except that it stirred his heart, stiffened up the sinews of his galrant little band, and encour* acted them to hope and hold fast. _ Our readers will remember that late Jefferson City advices noted the departure from that place, on Wednesday last, of three steamers for Lexington, baring on board the Eighteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-fourty JffiS passed up in company with them, making trie tom\ fortp under way to reinforce Mulligan, by river, about 6,000 men. The boats left Jeffereon City, we learn, at 1 o’clock P. M. on Wednesday. They pro bably reached the vicinity of Lexington on Thurs day night or Friday morning. They would not, of course, attempt to land the troops at Lexington; nor would they be likely to disembark below, and give battle to the largely-preponderating forces of Price. In the absence of all information, we are only left to conjecture their movements; and the probabilities seem to be that they will not give Gen. Price battle until they shall have communicated with Gen. Sturgis, trans ported his command to the south side of the river, and, with a conjoined force of at least twelve thousand men., marched to the relief of Col. Mul ligan. These troops are fresh, vigorous, and en thusiastic, and wo have no doubt that, in an en counter under Gen. Sturgis with the rebel forces, at the odds of even three to one, will prove gal lantly and gloriously victorious. In this connection, we purposely omit mention of the four or fire thousand troops approaching from the West under Gen. Lane, because we are not re liably informed of their movements. Whether these conjoined forces save the gallant Col. Mulli gan or not, we think they are bound to victorious encounter with Gen. Price. Let our friends keep a good heart. Fears for the Safety of Gen. Prentiss, Chicago, Sept. 24.—A special despatch to the Tribune says: Quincy, HI., Sept. 24—2.39 P. M.—Gen. Prentiss has assumed command of the Northern Missouri de partment, and started West yesterday. He is now west of Brookfield, and cut off by the rebels—sup posed to bo a part of Gen. Price’s forces. Great fears are entertained that he will bo cap tured. Beports are rife that a body of 3,000 or 4,000 rebels are marching on St. Joseph, and an attack is expected to-morrow. The Black River Fight—Capture of Camp Talbot—Official Report, Camp Fremont, Irontos, Mo., September 19,1861. Col. J. Thayer, Commanding Post: In obe dience to an order from Col. Bland, received on the 15th day of September, and subsequently one from yourself of the same tenor, received on the 16th, I proceeded from Ironton at 10 o’clock on the 16th, with my command of four companies of Indiana cavalry (Captains Brown, Highman, deadening, and Barter), for the purpose of meeting and defeating our enemies in general, but especially a notorious rebel captain by the name of Ben jamin Talbot, who, by his acts of violence and disregard of all moral and civil laws, has created a reign of terror throughout all Southeast ern Missouri. Our first day’s march was character ized by nothing worthy of your notice. We travelled until 12 o’clock at night, and encamped at a point twenty-five miles south of this place. Early on the morning of the 17th, we moved still southward to Big Black river, some fifteen miles. Here we learned that we were in the vicinity of Talbot’s camp, and, after ascertaining the locality from a prisoner whom we had taken, we hastened on our way. It was my first intention to divide my command, so as to attack the camp both in front and rear, but a nearer approach rendered this im possible, as the camp was situated in a valley, much above the ground on which we had been marching, and which was accessible only by a bridle-path, which wound around the foot of the hill. This compelled our whole command to enter the valley at one inlet, leaving the other unguarded, and compelled me to make the attack on one side only. As soon as the troops had all reached the valley, I gave the command to charge, which my men did withgrcat alacrity, driving back the pickets of Talbot’s camp, who gave way without firing. I pushed my command forward into the centre of their camp, and much to the consternation and sur prise of the rebels, who after a short space of time, attempted to rally, when I gave the command to fire, after which, there was one continuous firing for ten minutes, when the rebels gave way and re treated precipitately into the recesses of the moun tain which stood in their rear, and where we lost : them, owing to their superior knowledge of the country. The killed and wounded on their side must have been considerable. Two dead bodies were found upon their campground, white upon our side we escaped with one norse shot. The rout of the rebels was complete. We took five prisoners, among them the son of the eaplain of the company, and a first lieutenant. We captured 31 horses and 61 stand of arms. After pursuing the scattered force of rebels as far as 1 deemed it prudent, I returned to their camp, gathered their plunder together, (among it the captain’s clothing and papers—a commission in the Southern army, and various other thing too numerous to mention,) I started for Camp Fremont, where 1 arrived without any opposition, save that of a number of rebels, who had stationed themselves some fifteen miles from this place. As we marohed through the valley below, they fired upon us. As they were in a position where I could not charge them, I was compelled to march my men under their fire. All are here nowin camp, and, while tho country is infested with rebels, we arc subject to your orders. My officers and men all behaved "wim. groat gal lantry, and are entitled to much credit, this Ming their first engagement. _ • ■ Trusting that my action in this matter will. meet your approbation, I have the honor to remain yours, respectfully, John S. Gavett, Maj. Com. Battalions Ind. Mounted Vols. General Fremont’s Position. A St. Loufa correspondent of the New York World, in describing General Fremont s position, gays, there are few men but would fail in suou a position. It is a difficult tiling to bold a wildoat in each hand and attack a panther in front of you; and when, In addition, your own friends begin a brisk and magnanimous fire in the rear, suooess becomes at least conjectural. Yet, this is nearly Fremont’s position to-day. As fast as he concen trates his forces the enemy oooupy the towns thus vacated, and the outraged Unttuiste beiiego the General for succor. If he scatters his troops ear rison-wise among the towns, the country olamora against inaction, and reproachfully points to New Madrid and Columbus. While every noire is strained for public use, the ill-timed criticisms of 335*35. fei! «*"«*«■ efficiency?"and n ! 1UI ® . an °y of Illinoisans, he pre ?rde?edfo seSi n e r ,ththe "hole Southwest, he is »dMIESiSE* * “* «-~i can bring against it, without calling for help from fnm her atbern pwirie” benC^ir h,Ch “.n 81 br «“‘ ‘he storm of re “Pthe va,le y “f the Mississippi— lot W Bt on , ce > tbst o«r children may leave and fll»ht n fnn 0 ' ,r old , ra r jyat B Secretaries. Captain Howard, ( By order of Major General Fremont. 3 Cuauncey McKeever, Assistant Adjutant General * * # * ** Sturgis* S 2 Reinforce* ** stents. ** #* * * * * THE REBELLION IN KENTUCKY. It is reported from below that a small detachment of Gen. Rosecrans’ force has advancod fifteen miles southward of Elizabethtown, and that Gen. •DUOKner re advancing northward from Bowling ?,CWrtoTf6lhWi. *——estimated at from The Evening Bulletin says that Look No. 3 on the Green River was blown np, on Tuesday, by order of Gen. Buckner, and publishes a letter, pur porting to be from him, directing the destruction of Lock No. I, on the same river. The Union tnen, on learning of this, attempted, but unsuccessfully, to guard the locks, but they were destroyed. Captain Gibson and the four missing pickets have returned to the camp at Salt Biver. The city Council has passed a resolution approv ing General Anderson’s appointment of a provost marshal, and another requesting the citizens to close their business hours at 4 o'clock every after noon, to allow time for people to drill. General Nelson, who founded Camp Dick Robin son, has gone to Marysville, to start a new camp for volunteers. The same paper says that a lieutenant of Duck ner’s army was arrested at Oldham, on Sunday, as a spy. Skirmishing Near Colnmhns, C-uno, Monday, Sept. 23. The pickets of the lowa Seventh, at Ellicott’s Mills, Ky., eight miles above Columbus, were ap proached on Sunday evening by a body of rebel in fantry, numbering fifty or sixty. The lowa boys fired on them, bringing down three or four. The rebels returned the fire without doing any damage, Another skirmish with the rebels took place near Hunter, Mo., four miles below Norfolk, last even ing. Three of our men and horses are missing. The rebel loss is not ascertained. Reports from below say that the rebels at Colum bus are crossing to Belmont; also, that they are in possession of Bladensvttla, Ky., eighteen miles southeast of this place. Gen. Buckner is stated to have taken possession of Owensboro’, Ky., on the Ohio river, seventy miles above Paducah. The Kentncky Legislature. FsansFOKT, Monday, Sept, 33. The House bill passed, by a vote of 62 to 15, au thorizing the Military Board to borrow $1,000,000 in addition to a million authorized May 24, on the Elate bonds, payable in ten years, and establishing a tax of five per cent, on a hundred dollars, to pay the bonds and interest, the Baid sum to be appro priated for the defence of the State. The bill reorganizes the Military Board, making it to consist of-Peter Dudley, Samuel Gill, George j VTood, E. H. Taylor, and John B. Temple. a. resolution was offered, and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, asking Governor Magoffin whether The invasion of Kentucky by General Buckner has been made upon any consul tation, advice, or recommendation of any person connected with the Executive Department of the State. The Senate resolution was adopted, that a com mittee of two from the Seriate and one from the House be appointed to inquire by what authority and under what charges members of the General Assembly have been, as reported, arrested at Har risburg. Magoffin’s Secretary of State a Rebel. A despatch from Frankfort to the Cincinnati Commercial, dated the 19th. says that the Secre tary of State, T. B. Monroe, Jr., will leave shortly for the South, and that be is the boldest Secession ist among them all. Inhumanity of the Rebels. Th® Louisville Journal says: Ws are informed that a bitter Secessionist, who resides on Grayson street, between Seventh and Eighth streets, was heard to declare that he had a plan by which he could do great damage to the soldiers under Gen. Sherman’s command. His plan was to smuggle his daughter into the society oflhose patriotic ladies at Mozart Hall who are engagra in the preparation of lint and bandages for our soldiers, in order that she might find an opportunity to saturate the fabric employed with some poisonous subsumes, which, when applied to the wounded soldier, would pro duce certain death. It is difficult to bring one’s mind to contemplate the idea that a being in human form could conceive a design of so fiendish a na ture Prentice says, “It may be that Bishop Polk is ont of his head. As he resided at Memphis, he may actually have supposed that Teuuessee was 33„ypt, hlmSelf Motes, his Confederate congregation the Children of Israel, and Kentucky the Promised Land. Ah, Brigadier General Bishop Polk, Ken tucky isn’t the land we promise yon.’ r The Persons Arrested in Kentucky. Tho Louisville j Democrat, in speaking of the persons arrested in Kentucky hy authority of our Government, says: Every man of them teas known to be in direct correspondence with the enemy, and has been each, according to his influence, giving aid and comfort to the best of his ability. When these men were taken, it was supposed that there was a large Con federate force ready to march at a moment’s no tice from Tennessee; the bridges had been burned by traitors within thirty miles of Louisville; Elisa bethtown had been placed under martial law by Gen. Bead, under instructions from Gen. Buckner; tbo lives and fortunes of 70,000 people in Louis ville alone, and 90,000 more in the neighborhood, were involved. An invading army, weuequipped, aided hy Secessionists, was expected every moment in our city. These menhad not onlyfavored, but had been in correspondence with the men who led this movement from the first. There is not a Secession ist in the city who donbts it. It is a fact as ■ noto rious as the rising and the setting of the sun. It was and still is life and death with us. Either we will be assassinated, through the instrumentality of those about us, or we must adopt prompt mea surestoprevent.the evil. . . K . It war indeed time that some rtep shottld be taken.' The hold action of the CftnfoderatM in seizing Mr, Bollnger and oonvevmß him to the tion federate oamp ofMajor General Bishop Polk, ought to have met with some prompt response, and, while we regret that any friend of »u» ahwtld have been Vandalism of the Rebels. Louisville, Monday, Sept. 23. Prentice on Bishop Polk. TWO CENTS. Affairs on the Nashville Railroad. Camp at Lebanon Junction ) n, September 20, A. M.‘’f Editors of the Louisville Journal ■ Th ,® “itustion of affairs here indicate. * warm mod- shortly * The adwrecr. eansbilngof G™™ 8 fl ng^ d ? and , the county Home Guards ,0 ‘heir support on the hill, are to be reinforced, this moraine, by five eompanies of Home Guards under Colonef Richard W. Johnson, ! >«’ A’’ is to be the Lieutenant Colonel of Colonel JaCkSOn’S Cavalry Regiment These of tho Marion Rifles and National Guards, and have each been supplied with I viSn™ r d , 8 *° f ” nmuni « on - oud ordered to take pro r two <*“ So- Communication with the ad- < oftheHnmPa'®^'! 1,I,nd 80,110 s«y this advance order ?' <}uard , s j s morfil y to t«k« an important fact* 1 S w'a Sherman. But this is not the Pro b *b l« that the enemy is in a from JV /■ E n“?^ et^ to ttnt, and are advane l”foied This V ' h 'A has not de- i ,h& T £#ziz ‘zissr&'z [ camps, who have advanced with the intention ; £om a f l ™ S 7/ be f n e - re / n f orcemf nts can arrive : pom Louisville. It is important that reinforce ments should be sent forward immediately. The TTnm’lfn tTO °P? w j U b .® needed, and that BOOnf Every SfK“ Lo . u,!V , 1 ! i ° “ hero, In the S’" 8 ! Ofthomoramgthe main part of the Homo Guard will jom the bngade near Muldrauzh’s Hill vt hen I will again despatch you. * ’ The North Carolina Coast. THE EXPEDITION TO OCRACOKE INLET—DESTRUC TION or FOBT on BOON AND rro OIINS—VISIT TO PORTSMOUTH, W, C. A correspondent of the Baltimore American, writing from the United States ship Pawnee, Hat teras Inlet, Sept. 20,1861, says.: The only thing that has happened here lately to relieve this rather dull life was an expedition to Ocracoke. Capt. Rowan received information that the Secessionists were removing the guns from the fort on Beacon Island, (which thev had deserted after we took Fort Hatieras,) and taking them up to Newbern; so an expedition was gotten up from the Pawnee, under the command of lieu tenants Maxwell and Eastman, on last Monday, and started in the steamer Famiv and our launch. They went inside, up the Sound, the distance that way being about twenty-five miles, but outside the distance is only fourteen. After getting aground very often, they finally reached the fort. Which they found deserted. The guns, eighteen is num ber, were spiked; a great many of them were new. The fort was a very fine fortification, greatly surpassing Fort Hatteras. It contained a fine maga zine, (but empty at the time,) and a splendid bomb proof, one hundred feet square, defying either shot or shell to penetrate it. Our men went to work, broke and blew all the trunnions off the guns, gath ered all the lumber and placed it inside the bomb proof, and set it on fire. We could see thelightfrom the Pawnee on Tuesday night, and when they left it was nothing but a mass of smouldering ruins, A part of the men went to Portsmouth, a small village two miles across; there they found four guns, which they destroyed in the same manner. The people told them there was a great deal of sickness m the fort before the soldiers left It. The reason given for their leaving is that they were de pendent on Newborn and Portsmouth for their sup plies of water and provisions, and they were afraid we weald cat them off. It would have been almost impossible fhr us to take it any other way, for ships could not get nearer than four miles; an attack would have to be made by boats, and their guns bad a fnll sweep of the island. The expedition returned on Wednesday morning all right. A few people that were in Portsmouth were very much alarmed when our men landed there; they thought they were coming to bum their town down. After getting in conversation' with the crew they told them that Bcreral men had been going through the country making speeches, tell ing them the Yankees were plundering and mur dering men, women, and children in every place they took. Our men told them they were lies, and when they saw how the men behaved themselves they wanted them to come and take dinner with them. They were more surprised when some of the men purchased some articles and palled out the money to pay for them. They said they had poul- I~g ml inquired if they could sell some to the isdS^ B told 7 ® B ’ and said they for Oicgon Intel, --.^ non t 0 leave to-morrow Union Feeling j»reat deal stronger. A correspondent of the New »■ r ’ aro ij na> accompanied tho expedition to Oct-.. w says: The Union feeling was quite strong at Newberh, but smothered. The Unionists grow more bold and defiant daily, and a decrease of Secession violence ■was evident. The revolution is going on rapidly throsghont the State, and if the Government will only afford tho Unionists protection for a time, they will soon, bring back North Carolina to her old moonugs, Union meetings bed been held iu Hyde end other coun ties, in which many of the most' influential and wealthy men of the country had participated, preeirtitff'tflisce.Passed with groat unanimity, ex approach, to offer noresisianceWbllf fSSfßftig? kftd to furnish us with whatever they could in the way of provisions, Ac. These facts are well authenticated. To confirm the people in their good intentions, Colonel Haw kins issued the following proclamation last Monday, which has bßen extensively circulated on the main land, and the good effects are already apparent : A PROCLAMATION. Headquarters, Fort Clare, ) Hatteras Inlet, N. C., Sept. 16,1861. j TO THE PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA. The colonel commanding the Federal forces now in North Carolina, having heard of the erroneous impression which exists among the inhabitants as to the object and purposes of said forces, would that it is no part of the object of u’l'Cos to pil lage or plunder. We coma not to destroy, but to se cure peace and uphold the laws of the United States. Tho lights of property and persons will be respected and protected, and any Federal soldier infringing upon either will be most severely punished. It is no part of our intention to war against women and children. On the contrary, they shall be protect ed with all the power under our control. Loyal citi zens can enjoy their homes and property without fear of molestation. No law will be abrogated or interfered with, unless it comes in conflict with some law of the United States, or the Constitution. All others will he obeyed and respected. It is with traitors and rebels in arms, who are destroying peace and order, and hunting rebellion, that the Federal forces are to deal. We come to give you back law, order, the Constitution, your rights un der it, and to restore peace. We call upon traitors and rebels in arms to lay thorn down, and upon good citizens, who respect the law, to aid ns in our undertaking. Rush C. Hawkins, Colonel Ninth N. Y. Vols., commanding post. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. From General Banks’ Column. Dabkstowk, September 23.—A tragical occur rence was witnessed near this village yesterday in the Pennsylvania Forty-sixth, Colonel Knipe, on their way to join General Banks' column. In the regiment is a company composed principally of Irishmen, who have given the commander muoh trouble. When near Muddy Bun, two of the men got engaged in a fight, and one of them, named La nahan, of Company I, a very bad character, was, hy order of Major Arnold C. Lewis, tied to the rear of a baggage wagon. After proceeding about a mile it was reported to Major Lewis that Lana- ! ban was at large with a loaded gun in his hand. The major, accompanied by Assistant Surgeon W- j Charles Begets, rode towards Lanahan and ordered him to give up the gun. Lanahan refused, and while the major was in the act of getting off his horse to enforce his order, Lanahan retreated a few steps, took deliberate aim, and shotthe major in the back with a ball and three buckshot. The latter fell and expired in three [minutes, without uttering ft word. Lanahan was secured, and the body of the unfortunate officer was placed in a wagon and guarded to the oamp. Laaahan is now in the hands of the provost marshal, and will be tried by a drum-head court, probably to-day. The murderer is a resident of Scranton, Pennsyl vania. Major Lewis was thirty-two years of age, was married about a year ago, and leaves a widow, but no children. He served in the Mexioan war, and on the breaking out of the present rebellion was editing the Catasaqua (Lehigh county) Herald, which occupation he resigned to enter the army. He was dearly beloved by the whole regiment, and his death hangs like a pall upon the spirits of his Yesterday morning, Col. Le Due, of the New York Thirty-fourth, keeping guard on the Potomac, discovered a body of rebel cavalry on the opposite side, partially concealed by trees and ravines. From various movements it was supposed that they were in considerable force, and that they meditated con structing eome offensive worksthere. About noonno commenced throwing shells from a point too far dis tant to produce much effect. Changing the posi tion, he threw several shells into their midst, scat tering them in every direction. This occurred at the mouth of the Seneca river. The Massachusetts Twelfth, Colonel Webster, has recently taken a position whioh relieves the New York Thirty-fourth of a portion of the ardu ous duty of guarding nine miles of the river line. During the shelling to-day one of the rebels, by the aid of glasses, was discovered to have on a uni form of the Thirty-fourth, belonging, it is supposed, to one of the killed or oaptured scouts, who ven tured across the river last week. Winter blankets and new tents are being issued to several of the regiments, in view of the approach ing cold weather. Saturday night was very ooid, and the farmers predict early frost 3 in this region. The Army—Examination of Volunteer or- The following special order has been made, in accordance with the act of Congress providing for an examination of the qualifications of commission ed officers of volunteers: SPECIAL onnßn, NO 72. Headquarters Army_of the Potomac, j Washington, Sept. 20, lobl. j Under the authority of section tenth, of an act of Congress approved July 22, 1861; a Military Board to consist of officers herein named, will as semblaat Arlington, Virginia, at ten o’clook A. M., on Monday, the 23d inst., to examine into the capa city qualifications, propriety of conduct and effi ciency of aU commissioned officers of volunteers who may be ordered before it. , Detail for the Board*.—First, Brigadier General Louis Blenker, volunteer service; second, Brigadier General John H. Martindale, volunteer semoe; third, Brigadier General John Sedgwick, volunteer service: fourth, Col. J. McLeod Murphy, Fifteenth New York regiment; fifti, Pol. JullM Stall, Eighth New York regiment. The junior member will woori the WrooeedingS. Bv conunKsd of Major UoCleiiL&h. sfffu.uAHSi Asst. A4jt. ctea. THE WEEKLY PRESS. ™ Wwitr P«KSB will be Mot to aobacrlljen tv ““•l (per nnnnm In advance,) at go M Three Ooplea, u « «« « « «. Ten « ~ „ Twenty « u u Twenty (to one addreaa) 90.0« OrOTW ’ (to addreaa of Tor a oinb 0 f I *®* •xtr. rw. «. f * on ' « ow. wewtilaendaa «*tra Cop, to the getter-n, * the ctnb. Postmasters are reauested to act Tim Wmxlt Puss. bf The Board commenced Its labors to-dwv A rtoM examination Is to be Instituted, in order loIiSSa army ete,l