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[jail & LANDELJ4 keep the very ...1:41 baw)* Plain Black Dress Bilks• Beayybordered Stout Black Bilks. "Widow's Bilks, without gloss. Bich Plain Silks, for city trade. :32.5 0 BALMORAL SKIRTS, fail size. • . talmorals Wholesale. • Balmoral., Beira laB EYRE & LANDELL. HOLIDAY PRESENTS. Detainee, at 18.11 cents; Calicoes,l2,if cents. Black and fancy Silk Handkerchiefs. Neck-Ties, Gloves, Gents' Shawls. , Wee& and Ladies' Shawls in Valet". Rine assortment of Dress Goods. Balmoral Skirts la great variety, at J. If.•BTORSB', 702 A 808 Street. ' N. B.—On hand, Jack-straws and Solitaire* made by 'and sold far as invalid. They are nice games as well pp r ents, and any one would o?nfer a favor by parilma. 11101fitt ' • OLOAKINGS. jkl.: Brown and Black Sealskin, 750 to 81.50. Moan heavy Coatings and Cloaking♦ /rineßlack Clotho and Bestren. good stock Cush:acres at old priors. • COOPER & (KINARD, B. It cot. 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There is so much delicate fancy and eloquent expres sion in his serious poems, which contrast so strangely 'with the ;wit and humor of his lively effusions, that ho might be considered, a lite rary nondescript. In him the elements were gently blended, and his three different styles would make one suspect that they were exe cuted by as many different minds. There was the unmitigated fun, quiet sarcasm, and sue cessihl play upon words, which was his earliest manner, and made him so long taken, or mis taken, fora mere jester, a mere humorist. There was his classic manner, in which were written "The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies," "Hero and Leander," (certainly after the manner of Shakspeare's " Venus and Adonis," Ugt withoht the sensuous feeling of that fine and little read poem,) and there were his thoughtful, tender lyrics of humanity, of which "The Song of the Shirt," "The Lay of the Laborer," and "The Bridge of Sighs" are examples. Hero is a little poemlet of his, written, thirty years ago, for the Englishman's kagazine, in fire minutes, we once heard him say, which has sank deep into many, a heart, and yet is always read with mournful admi ration. TIIE DEATII•DED We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our power To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied— We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed—she had Another morn than ours. We defy any one to alter, transpose, or omit one word in this without making a flaw in the gem,—for c; a gem of purest ray se } v rene" it questionless is; a pure and perfect chrysolite. Hood's son and daughter, who lately pub lished Memorials" of him, promised a com plete edition of his works—including all that he wrote in prose and verse. It will be cult to• make such a collection, for much of what he wrote was anonymous—for , example his reviews of new books, first for tho Literary Gazette, edited by Jordan, and subsequently for the Athetueum, under the elder C. W. Dilke.• Id the preface to the revised edition of «The Old Curiosity Shop," Charles Dick ens acknowledges that one of the earliest and most appreciative notices of that story, which encouraged him to develope the character of Little Nell, was written anonymously by Thomas Hood—a fact which Dickens did not learn for some time. In New York, the well-known publisher, G. P. Putnam has commenced the issue of what he designates the Aldine Edition of the Works of Thomas Hood—the Poetry in six volumes, to be followed by a similar collection of his prose writings. Besides vignettes on I steel, there will be numerous woodcuts from Hood's own designs, and with tinted paper and beautiful binding, it will be a superb edi tion, issi*d monthly, as Irvinces and Cooper's works woke, and'at the same-price. Mr. Epes Sargent is very competent to the editorship: but it is to be regretted that, in the first vo lume; aff that has yet appeared, he has not ar ranged the poems, as far as practicable or as certainable, in the chronological order of their composition. Thus one could discern the ad vance of his mind, and Trace the unfolding of that power Which bath grown ampler, grander every boar. To us, very familiar with Hood's writings, there appears a sort of incongruity (as in this first volume) in putting "The Song of the Shirt," cc The Lay of the Laborer," and that Gray-like and most impressive "Haunted House" (all written when the Azrael, the death-angel, was already at his side), in the same division with rr The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies," and other of his earliest poems. Hood's first avowed book, published in 1826, was " Whims and Oddi ties," chiefly consisting of his contributions to the London Magazine, of which he had be come sub-editor, five years before, on the death of John Scott, the editor, in a duel arising out of a foolish literary squabble. This was his first avowed book, but his " Odes and Addresses to Great People" had previous ly appeared, and was affiliated on Charles Lamb by S. T. Coleridge. At the time of Hood's commencing bookmaking, the Literary Gazette, conducted by William Jerdan, with great geniality and surprising tenderness to young authors, was a power in the land. It 'extended a helping hand to many a young writer, giving large extracts, and gentle criti cisms. 01 course, most of these, thus patted on the back, were charmed at being re ceived as unpaid contributors, which gave sub stantial aid to the Gazelle, by very frequently enriching it with much better articles than, un der the pressure of editorial labor, Jordan could himself produce. For years, Miss Lan don wrote poetry and prose, sketches and criticisms for the L. G., which in troduced her to the public acting as sub-editor, in fact and never received payment for _her pains. Hood soon was enlisted In Jerdan's noble army of martyrs, and wrote a great deal for him. On one occa sion, (in June, 1827, we belleve,) when Scott's "Lifeof Napoleon," Moore's " Epicurean," and other important works were simultaneous ly published, Jerdan issued a double number of his Gazette, giving reviews into which %Vero introduced 'Very extensive quotations. To make this double number still more attractive, be seduced Hood into allowing him to publish "The Demon Ship" in it—one of the most impressive, though finally grotesque, ballads be over wrote. Epes Sargent reproduces it iu his first Aldine volume. The hero of this ballad, who tells his own sad story,•is caught, in a small boat, by a storm as he is sailing off the Wash, a stretch of waters, forming a bay between the counties of Lincoln and Norfolk, on the east of England. Ho' describes the coming of tho storm with great power ; Lord ! what a roaring hurricane bent the straining sail ! What furious sleet, with level drift, and tierce as saults of hail! What darksome caverns yawn'd before! what jagged steeps behind ! Like battle•steeds, with foamy manes, wild tossing in the wind. Each after each sank down astern, exhausted in the obese, But where it sank another rose and gallop'd in its place; As black as night—they turit'd to white, and oast against the aloud A snowy sheet, as if each surge upturn'd a sailor's . shroud. The fatal billow rises—ten billows heaped in one—and rushes down an avalanche of brine. The waters close over the victim, who shrieks below the foam, and tosses on the waste, as senseless as a weed. He awakes, butin a situa tion: so strange that he doubts whether he lives or dreams. He is on shipboard, and over powered by the sight of a cf Grimly ono who stood . beside the mast." What followed, let Hood tell in his own words : Ills cheek was black—his brow was blank—hls eyes and hair as dark His band was black, and whore it tonah'd it left a sable mark ; The throat Was black, his vest the same, and when I looked beneath Hie breast was black—all, all was black, except hie grinning teeth. The sooty crew were like in line, as black as Afric • slaves'. Oh, horror e'en the ship was black that plough`d the inky waves! ti Alas!" I cried, "for Jove of truth end blessed mercy's; sake, Where ern I? in what dreadful ship ? upon what dreadful lake? What shape Is that, so very grim, and blank as any eoal? Is it Mahound, the Evil Ono? and he has gained my soul ! Oh, mother dear ! my tender nurse ! dear meadows that beguird My happy days when I was yet a little sinless child— My mother dent—my native fields, I never more shall see : I'm sailing in the Devil's ship, upon the Devil's Bea Loud laugh'd that SABLE NE.AniNEn, and loudly in return His sooty crew sent forth a laugh that rang from stem to stern— A dozen pair of grimly cheeks were crumbled on the nonce— - As many seta of grinning teeth came shining out at ' once: A dozen gloomy shapes at once enjoy'd the merry fit, With shriek and yell, and oaths as Intl, like de- mons of the Pit. They crow'd their fill, and then the Chief made an swer for the whole : "Our skins," said he, "are black, ye see, because we carry coal You'll find your mbther, sure enough, and see your native. fields— For this hero ship has pick'd you up—the Mary Ann, of Shields!" In very truth, he has been picked up by a copier! But, what power is there in this poem, and how completely sudden, until it dashes on you like one of the great waves he speaks of, is the ludicrous, the unromantic, conclusion of the seeming tale of mystery and horror. The Aldine edition of Hood will contain, it is to be hoped, all of the writings ascertained to be his. In the Gem for 1829, illustrating an engraving from a beautiful painting by the Into C. 11. Leslie, is a prose sketch, "The Widow," to whiCh the name of Charles Lamb is affixed. It appears from Lamb's biography that Hood wrote the sketch, in imitation of the "Ella" style. Lamb had promised to illustrate the engraving, but was not in the vein, and suggested that flood should write in his manner and in his name, which was done. It is an excellent imitation, and the two friends had many a hearty laugh, we know, at the innocent deceit which deceived all the critics. Hr. Sargent must put 't The Widow" into the Aldine collection. Much more important than this is a drama by Hood, which he entiCed as Lamle. : A Ro mance." It is founded on the Greek legend, upon which, in 1818, poor John Keats wrote his " Lamia," of an enchantress, by nature a serpent, who won the heart of Lycius, pupil to Apollonius, the philosopher of Tyana, who is said, among other miracles, to have an nounced the death of Domitian at the very moment when it happened—the event occur ring at Rome, when Apollonius was in Gteeee. That Hood had written such a drama was known to his friends ; it was also known that it remained in Mr. Jordan's hands, he having purchased it, with other things, for publica tion in the Literary Gazette, in which it did not appear, from its length. In April, 1852, William Jordan, who had been connected with the Literary Gazette for nearly forty years, commenced the publication of his Autobi ography, in Cour volumes, small Bvo. The book is carelessly executed, but contains much that is pleasant and instructive, nearly crushed up by a great deal that is purely personal and uninteresting, in Jordan's literary, political, and social reminiscences and correspondence during half a century. The completed work is defective, also, as it has no index. Hood's (( Lanna ; a Romance," appeared in the appendix to the first volume of Jordan's Autobiography, and consists of eight dramatic scenes, occupying forty-six pages t--about 1,200 lines in all. Of the genuine character of this poem there is no doubt. Jordan has published it as Hood's, without challenge from his son and daughter, (T. Hood, jun., and Mrs. Bro derip,) who wrote his life and are collecting his works for an uniform edition, and we, who pen this article, and know Hood's handwriting as well as Michael Hart knows our own, have seen the manuscript of (iLIIIllia," AMA, recog nized it as wholly in Hood's peculiar and neat autograph. The subject is treated much as it was by Keats, but more characters are introduced, and Hood left his romance a fragment. He was right not to call it a drama ; for, although it has dramatis personae and is wholly in dia logue, it is unactable, and can only rank as a dramatic poem. We have no room, now, for extracts—and it is doubtful whether we shall ever publish any. But we commend the in formation thus and here given to the attention of Messrs. Epes Sargent and G. P. Putnam, that they may use it to snake snore complete their Aldine edition of Hood. Romantic Fiction.t Two works of fiction aro before us, and it would be instructive, did space and time permit, to con trast them. One is American, the other is English. Ticknor & Fields publish " John Brent," by the late Theodore Winthrop, the Now Englander who fell in battle some months ago. Harper ,b Brothers publish " The Pilgrims of Fashion," by Rinehart Cornwallis, en Old Englander, who some what proudly dates from such aristocratic head quarters as "Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York." Theodore Winthrop was a man of genius: Kinn ban Cornwallis is simply a man of talent, "John Brent" carries the reader rapidly on, but " The Pilgrims of Fashion" will not leave an impression, except that the writer has put a variety of adven ture into a single volume, and has yet to learn how to work up his abundant material, Richard Wade, self•drawn as a college-bred young man who when the tale opens has a fourth shore in ari unproductive gold mine in Califor nia, relates the story of "John Brent." We aro not going to spoil the novel-reader's interest in the tale by even hinting at its particulars, but may say that, without crowding, numerous characters, all distinctly individualized, aro introduced and de veloped. Among these we have Wade himself, a certain "Poke" named Gerrian ; John Brent and his friend and rival Biddulph, a gentleman and baronet; Jack Shamberlain and Sizzum, the Mor mon Elder, described as "a Chadband of the plains;" Ellen Clitheroe and her father ; the brutes, Maker and Larrap, horse• steaters,gamblers, cheats, and murderers; Doctor Pathie and Captain Ruby; Armstrong, the avenger of blood, and, last, as well as least, dwarfed George Padiham, the artisan. These era the dramatis persona—together with two horses, young and old : Fulano, the American steed, black as jet, swift as an arrow, almost as sensible as a man, md the tall, gaunt white horse of Armstrong, ever pressing forward, as if knowing the errand of the death-avenging pioneer whom he carried. The crone opens in California and closes in London, but most of its action takes place near Salt Lake City. A book of wonderful and exciting interest it is. Alas for Winthrop! "Ile should have died here after," Mr. Cornwallis opens with a Preface to the Ameri can edition of "The Pilgrims of Fashion." Is this, then, a reprint, or has he two editions—one for Eurtipo and one for America? The fact that, in one part of the book, a marriage, like Major Yol verton's, is introduced, and that, in another, (chap. 48,) he gives a full account of the Battle of Bull Run, would lend to the belief that a portion of the book, at least, had been very recently written. The Preface, reading very like a leader in the N. Y. Herald, is smart and satirical, with some talk about "snobs," and frequent denunciation of "the shod dy aristooracy"—whatever that may be. The story commences in the year 1779, and closes at the and of 1801. There is a succession of heroes, all in the same family. Henry Percival, the grand father ; Arthur Coke, his sondn•law ; Joseph Ebe nezer Coke, Iris son, and Sir Edward Coko, the fourth in blood. There are several marriages—a shipwreck—and, above all, the battle of Bull Ilun. Materials, indeed, for several stories. Mr. Cornwallis, however, allows himself a very careless author—some critics might use a harsher epithet. For example, he speaks (p. 40) of cabs in 1780— half a century before cabs came in. At that time, hacknercoadhes were the chief moans of paid locomotion in London. Neither, (same page,) in 1780, was there an "Aberdeen Packet Office in Leadenhall street," seeing that there were no Aberdeen packets, a few clumsy smacks doing all the required service. Neither, In or out of Ire land, (p. 09,) could any give or take half a BOVE,- reign" in 1780. Half•guineas wore current then, and sovereigns were first issued on the fifth of July, 1817. Neither, in 1801, (aa we learn in p. 133,) were Wall street and Pearl street " a little way out of town" in New York. By the way, one of the heroes, (p. 134,) who lives at Bremen, goes hence via Bourdeaux for Dublin— which would bo like going from New York to Philadelphia via Boston. In p. 163, we are told of £lO,OOO being settled on a lady at her marriage, which figures as £20,000 in page 178. But the greatest error of-all occurs early in the book. * Jelin Brent. By Theodore Winthrop, author of "Cecil Dreemo." Itimo, pp. 359. Boston: Ticknor & Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Pilgrims of Fashion: A norel. By Kinallan Corn wal/19. Prno, pp. 5.17. New York: Borper & Bro thers. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott et: Co., and T. B. Peterson & Brothers. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1862. Alfred and Madeline Coke embark, we are told, (p. 21,) on one of the packets sailing from London to Aberdeen, but (p. 20 this packet is represented as being wrecked on the coast of Wicklow, in Ire land. To bring the weasel into this locality, either it must have sailed away from Scotland, through the British Channel and up the Irish Sea, or, going direct for Aberdeen, have , slipped beyond, all around the North of Scotland, around the Orkneys, Shetlands, Hebrides, through — part of the Atlantic, down through the North Channel between the Northeast of Ireland and the Southwest of Scot land, past Dublin, through the Irish Sea, and so on to the 'Wicklow Coast. We recommend Mr. Corn wallis, who has a good deal of unpolished talent, to be more perfect in geography next time. There is tho wreck of a schooner in the Gulf Scream, (pp. 114, 129,) powerfully and graphically written, which shows what be can do, when ho pleases. ' Of the two books before us "Sohn Brent" pleases us most—because it pleases us entirely. Literature has sustained a heavy loss in Theodore Winthrop's death. He was eminently gifted, and possessed genius far beyond the shard generally al lotted to those fortunate beings on whom Nature most liberally bestows her choicest gifts. THE REBELLION. THE VICTORY AT SOMERSET, KY. FURTHER PARTICULARS. 12 CANNON CAPTURED BY OUR MOON; THE RETREAT OF TILE REBELS SUPPOSED TO BE CUT OFF. BRAVERY OF THE EAST TENNESSEE UNION TROOPS. Description of the Rebel Fortifications at Bowling Green WREN THE MISSISSIPPI EXPEDITION MAY BE EXPECTED TO MOVE. SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE MOVEMENTS OF PRICE, Full Particulars about the Burning of Rebel Stores in Westeru Virginia. A MEMPHIS PAPER DENOUNCES JUP DAVIS AND MS CABINET. NO INTELLIGENCE FROM THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION, TUE REBEL GEN. JACKSON, WITH 17,000 TROOPS, NEAR ROMNEY, &C., &C., &C. FROM GEN. BUELL'S DEPARTMENT. The Great Victory at Somerset Cill'omNevi, Jan. 29.--The Louisville Journal says that twelve cannon were captured at Somersot. The correspondent thinks that the rebel army cannot escape, as front seven to ton Federal regi ments wore thrown across the Cumberland same days previous to intercept their retreat. listless the rebels divide into squads and find their tray into Tennessee by unfrequented paths, they must all be entrapped. A letter to the Cowin/ere/04 dated Somerset, Jan. 19th, says that Zollicoffer is said to have boon killed by Colonel Fry, of the Second Kentucky regiment. Wo have taken many prisoners. The loyal Tennesseans fought like tigers, and have suffered much. They took ono of the batte ries at the point of the bayonet. The Ninth Ohio regiment has been badly cut up. CIIscINNATI, Jan. 23..—A private despatoh from Somerset says Colonel McCook, of the Ninth Ohio Regiment, was wounded in the recent battle. Three balls struck his horse, a fourth passed through his overcoat, and the fifth hit him. Rio wound is painful, butnaat dergerous. An Excitement on Green River The Munfordsville correspondent of the Cincin nati Times, writing from Elizabethtown under date of January IS, says : By this morning's early train from Green river, I received a note from my substitute, in forming me of an exciting scene which took place there yesterday afternoon. It seems that during the day General McCook sent a large infantry force over the river for the purpose of endeavoring to capture the mounted rebels who have been com mitting depredations below Bainlett's station. The were divided into two bodies, leaving the river in different directions, with the design of re uniting in the vicinity of Horse Lane. In ease one division was attached the other was to hasten to its rescue. They had proceeded some distance beyond our pickets when a squad of rebel cavalry, seeming to understand the movement, fired• off their pieces and got out of the way. Each division supposed the other was attacked, and both hastened to the spot. They crossed at double-quick, just in sight of our advanced pickets, and they, unablelo distinguish the colons, supposed a large rebel force was advancing. They immedi ately fell back upon the grand guard, at the same time notifying the people of the supposed approach of the enemy. The people, both white and black, immediately fled from their homes, toward Men fordsville. By the time they reached the river there was a largo crowd of them, and, infuriated with fright, they deshed across the pontoon bridges, men, women, and children screaming that the rebels veers, coming iv force. This stampede was the first alarm given the camp, and immediately the long roll was beaten, sad, with cheers, the men flew to arms. Instructions had been given that, in case of a contest over the river, certain regiments should repair to the south bank. While the alarm was still sounding, IVII - gallant regiment was formed and on its way, the, men shouting the Marmilluise as they splashed through the mud. night at their heels the splendid Forty-ninth Ohio, Col. Gibson, flew over the ground, the mon shouting and booming. Other regiments followed immediately, and, in a surprising short space of time, the south bank of the river bristled with bayonets. Cotter's Ohio and Stone's Kentucky batteries, planted on the bank of the river, were instantly ready for the word "fire," and each brigade rapidly formed and impatient for marching orders. By the time the troops had arrived, however, the true nature of affairs was understood, and the disappointed troops were ordered back to camp. It was a long time, however, before the affrighted people could realize that their panio was causeless. The negroes, especially, have a great terror of the rebels, and the life was nearly soared out of them. 'When the train loft this morning, all was again quiet on Green river, By way of variety, we had a heavy thunder storm last night, and the rain is still pouring down, and all the streams rising very rapidly. The Rebel Defences at Bowling Green. The Alutsfordsville (Ky.) correspondent of the New York Herald, writing under the date of January 15th, says Beginning at the splendid bridge at Munfords viße, the rebels have gradually destroyed the en tire Nashville and Louisville Railroad to Glasgow Junction. A single pier of Green river bridge was blown up shortly after the entrance of the rebels into this State. This has only been lately recon atruoted, and, being in the hands of the Union troops, may be considered safe. Entrenchments are being built at the southern terminus of the bridge to protect it in the future. For throe miles south to Rowlett's station the railroad is perfect; but at that point the rebels again began their work of destruction, burning the'oross-ties and removing the rails. The turnpike, running nearly parallel with the railroad, is also obstructed. Near Glasgow Junction a splendid tunnel, three hunared foot in length, has been blown up and is a complete ruin, forming an almost insurmountable obstruction to the rebuilding of the road. From this point to Bowling Green the road is in perfect running order, but will doubtless bo destroyed en the advance of our troops. The advance pickets of the rebels extend so far north as to be within view from Rowlett's Station, but the first considerable body of rebels are those composing General Hindman's brigade, stationed, es shown, at Cave City, ten miles south of Alan ferdsvillo. This brigade la about 4,000 to 5,000 strong, 'with but little artillery, an arm in which the rebels in Kentucky are very deficient. General H indman's brigade is engaged in plundering the country in every direction, and they often advance to within shot of our pickets. They fired on the Union pickets on the night of the 11th instant, but injured no one. This was the brigade a large por tion of which was engaged in the fight with Colonel Willich's Thirty-second Indiana Regiment a short time since. At Dripping Springs, on the turnpike road, and three miles east of the railroad, aro the headquar ters of Brigadier General Brackinridge. [lie force, equal to idindman's in point of numbers, is scat tered along the line of the turnpike, as far north as the Three Forks, with the purpose of aoting as a reserve for General Hindman. Into information describes General Floyd as being at Pageville, on Slugg's creek. The force at Glasgow is inconsi derable. The main forces of General Johnston aro at Bowling Green, encamped south of that city. With the late reinforcement by Ployd, the whole force in tended for the defence of Bowling Green will num. her about thirty thousand, certainly not more. The reports of the great numbers at Bowling Green are undeniably exaggerated. The rebels have sought to defend Bowling Green from an attack from the north by two series of de. fences, the first being composed of a few heavy and a largo number of light guns in position on oortain ranges of hills, as shown on themap, and command ing the country to the north and northwest, parti cularly at the point of the crossing of the turnpike and railroad. Bunning south to Bowling Green, the railroad and turnpike intersect each other at a point about ten miles north of the city named, and thence divide, the railroad running to the east and the turnpike to the west of a short range of hills, as shown, and again converging four miles north of Bowling Green. To the wool of the turnpike, and a mile distant, is another range, while to the east of the railroad lies another similar in construotion, and which, with occasional interruption, runs in range northwest td Cave City. ' Their field works are not represented to bo of the formidable character generally imputed to them by the rebel editors, who'vaunt the position as ano ther Manassas stronghold, The more eastern of these hills bas mounted upon it only about twelve guns, two only of•whioh are siege guns. The centre and western are ,likewise deficient in heavy guns. The intention appears to have been simply to com mand the approach•to and from the crossing of the rail and turnpike roads. The second series, or the immediate defences of Bowling Green, censist of more important and ex tended works near the City, and commanding the second crossing or converging point of the rail and turnpike rondo ; Grider's oast of the town, is en abrupt eminence, rising to the height of about three hundred feet. On this. admirable position, but much too near the citadel, a large number, of guns have been mounted, and, with the aid of ska rar defences on Underwood 11111, command the country north and northwest to the foot of the hills on which are based the outer defences of the rebels. Them hills are the only ones on the southern side of the river which are fortified, and are , the only flank defences on the Soottville and the Glasgow roads. West of the city, and on the northern side of the river, is a prominent knob, which, from the foot that Judge Underwood's residence Woo situated there, is known as Judge Underwood's. This has also been fortified, and commands the western and northern approaches. In all, there are only about fifty, gene in position on these hills, and nearly all 1,...r0 bearing north ward. The weak outposts at Glasgow and Cave City driven ha, the line of defence btoken at Colombia, and Zollieoffat cg 2 off:froni iceeiving or giving aid to or at Bowling Ureen, and it"will be seen that this point is left the flank position orthe line of defence extending to Coinmbus, and is, moreover, without flank defences. With its right and roar unprotected, save by aforce infrrior to that attacking, and sepa rated from-aid frem any quarter, it is evident that it will.be an extremely difficult task for the rebels to hold it. (The part of the'last paragraph riforring to Co lumbia and Zollieffer's poiltion has been accom plished. The defence has boon broken at Columbia, and Zollicoffer has been out off forever from either giving or receiving aid. The flank defences are gone, and Bowling G reen, impregnable as it is (?), must fall.—E,l. Herald.' GENERAL HALLECK'S DIVISION. Affairs at Cairo The eorzespondont of the Cincinnati Gazette, writing under date of January 17, says : What is the truth about the great expedition from Cairo? Nothing, my inquiring friend, nothing. The great expedition is still only great expectations. And, meanwhile, we are having a little expedi tion, of which wo have very little expectations in deed. Let us hope tee shall be disappointed in the latter, as we have been thus far, in the former. At this late date, readers scarcely need to be told of what la not true about the movements hero. It is not true that a "rand column, 60,000 or 70,000 strong, is concentrating here," as the voracious de spatches had it. It it not true that "this solemn Is to move, within the next six days, to Paducah, thence to Nashville, frOm which point the entire army is to proceed toNew Orleans." It is not true that "reinforcements to tho number of 20,000," as some bad it, or "40,000," as others, "are now on their way from St.leuis to this point " It is not true that "the gun boatrare to proceed immediately up the Tennessee rirer, to 00-operate with the land forces of the expedition." It is not true that the heavy fogs have beau delaying the expedition," or that any fogs have beau giving trouble, excepting those on the brains 31 the correspondents and tele graphers, who set the nation agog to hear of the great Mississippi expedition. And, in brief, it is not true that any movement down the Mississippi is at all likely to occur for a fortnight or three weeks to come. I take it for panted that the movement down the Mississippi—lf it is really intended that there shall be such a movement—will not begin till the greater part of the gunboat fleet is ready, and till we shall have a co-operating land force at least equal to that now ooncentrated at Columbus. As to the fleet, a high naval officer made tho sig nificant remark, the other night, that they Amid go into an engagement, with the most of the vas. eels, by the last of this week, but they would not he really ready for at least two weeks more; "and," added ha, "wo shall probably bo ready, then, before the army is." Few of the boats have all the carpenter-work done yet. Their guns are aboard, and mounted, but thesammunition is not yet all on. The flag.ship Benton, tho largest and most re• lied on of the whole Beet, fails to perform satis factorily, and three weeks may bo spent in certain changes that are talked of. Nothing whatever has been dons with tho mortar Boats, and the guns for them are still lying at the foundries in Pittsburg. Clearly, the fleet isn't "ready" yet. And besides, these gunboats are looked upon by the naval au thorities fs only an experiment. There will bo a good =My trial trips, like that of the Benton tho other day, before some of them will ho taken Wider the FFweital batteries at Columbus.. Ono thing more : Crewe are essential 'for u cruise, oven on the Mississippi. There are hardly men enough en listed yet for half the gunbents,'and recruits COMO In slowly. It may be that the deficiency is to be supplied itiam the seaboard, but the supply has not yet become apparent. As to the land force, we have horenow only troops enough to hold Cairo, and the corresponding points opposite on the Kentucky and Missouri shores, Port Bolt, and Bird's Point. The three regiments started from St. Louis some time iv stuck fast in the ice somewhere up thoMississipm. One of them got book and came over by rail last night, and another is expected to-day. The foroos now piecing toward Mayfield, under Gon. Grant, com prise the troops lately here and those under Gene rals Smith and Wallace at Paducah. It is enough to say, first. that the column is not large enough to attack Columbus and second, that it is gottingout of the region for that purpose any way. General Grant's Expedition. 'What the object of General Grant's movement may be remains as yet unknown. Unusual efforts have certainly been made to mystify the rebels at Columbus, and the whole Northern people as well, concerning it. The correspondents hero may have been a trills) credulous and romantic, but they de claro roundly that the recent astonishing despatches from this point were not only suggested, bat Mist>. lutely dictated, by the military authorities. The people will be apt to expect something important from an expedition which required so much false hood to get it under weigh. General Grant's object may ho either to fight, secure an eligible position, or "demonstrate." On the general principles of this war, the latter is the more probable. The enormously exaggerated tele graphic reports, viewed as a piece of strategy, in crease its probability. The rebels at Columbus wore to be first frightened to death by tremendous stories of the immense expedition about to be pre cipitated against them, and then the delusion was to be confirmed by lively " demonstrations" through the country above. It is easy enough to see how such means aethese may be expected to keep troops ham leaving Columbus to reinforce Bowling Green ; and if Buell were only advancing, the diversion, if successful, would be timely. On the other hand, if General Grant has been sent out for a fight, it is difficult to see where ho is going to get it. Ile is reported to be marching in the direction of Mayfield. A rebel brigade or two bas been stationed at "Camp Beauregard," in that - vicinity, but recent Memphis papers announce they have gone to Bowling Green, and other ad vices confirm the statement. How a fight is to be had, therefore, unless the rebels should come out of Columbus and undertake to gobble our inferior force up, it is hard to see. But it will be observed that Mayfield is a trifle south of Columbus, and commands the railroad con nection from Paducah with the Memphis and Co lumbus line. The position, therefore, enables us either to flank Columbus and so co-operate with the gunboats in the attack that some time or other is likely to be made, or to get in the rear of the rebels and out off their communications by rail with Memphis. Diay not Geri. Grant, therefore, be "de monstrating" to keep the rebels from reinforcing Bowling Green befOre Buoll's advance, and at the same time be securing the starting point for the land forces of the Mississippi expedition that is to be ? For the rest, it is understood that the plans of the movement originated entirely with Gen. Halleck. It may be supposed, therefore, that it is to co•ope rate with other movements in his department. [The expedition of Gen. Grant returned to Cairo on Monday. A telkgraphic despatch from that place, published in our edition of yesterday, states that the movements of Gen. Grant wore for the purpose of reconnoitring and taking surveys of the country around Columbus.—En. PRESS I The Prisoners of We at St. Louis. We hear that Gen. Hamilton yesterday visited the apartments of the prisoners in confinement at McDowell College, and found them in a filthy and not very healthy condition. He made a thorough examination, and gave peremptory orders for their cleansing and purification from top to bottom, with out a moment's delay. If the rooms have beoomo filthy, It is as much the fault of the prisoners as of any one else. Itis required of them to keep every thing in good order, and if there is proper system about the matter this can be done. Yesterday some twenty-odd prisoners were dis charged from the College, and a smaller number the day previous. Others, it is said, will bo re leased to-day. The prisoners thus set at liberty aro mainly from Johnson county, and are under stood not, at any • time, to have taken up arms against the Government. The oath of allegiance, we presume, was admicristered to each of them. It is comtaunioated to us that the State building, formerly used as a penitentiary, at Alton, is to be fitted up for the reception of prisoners. Ito use has been made of it for a year or two. It can be fitted up so as to make a comfortable and healthy place for a thousand or fifteen hundred men. The work shops will ho transformed into sleeping apartments, and this is being done as rapidly on possible. Tho buildings once occupied by the warden may bo used for officers' quarters, and for the infirm and sick, and, altogether, not a man need suffer from the confinement. But what is better still, there are Beveral acres of vacant ground, where the prisoners may et joy the pure air and amuse themselves as they see proper. In making this arrangement, the Government manifests a proper regard for the health, comfort, and safety of its guests for the time being. It will be ready for occupancy in a couple of weeks.--,St. Louis Republim n, of Satur day. Artillery Review at St. Lome. The artillery review of Saturday was the most extensive one ever witnessed in this department, and was probably never excelled, if indeed equalled, by anything seen on the banks of the Potomac or elsewhere in this country. Fourth street, from the court- house to Washington avenue, was orowdod to see so imposing a demonstration, as the public had been led to anticipate, to some extent, by para graphs in the morning papers. At several places along the route the national emblem waved from windows and balconies, while spontaneous hurrahs for the Union wore frequent and hearty. Those participating in the parade were as follows: Capt. Biohardson s, Capt. Walker's, and Capt. Murphy's batteries, of the First Missouri Light Artillery, fol lowed by Capt. Maun'e Missouri Artillery, under Lieut. Schuster ; Capt. Riemann's Company A, Second Missouri Artillery, and Second and Third Michigan batteriee, all fatly equipped and prepared for service in the field. The battalion was commanded by Major Coven der, of the First Missouri, with whom we noticed Adjutant, Green, Quartermaster Wood, Lieutenant Barnes, and the Assistant Burgeon of Col. Blair's regiment. The cavalcade passed the headquarters of the army and was bristly reviewed in passing by Major General lielleek, and Lieut. Colonel James :Totten, chief of artillery, who expresso their entire approval of the appearance of the vari one batteries. We expect to hear good report from this artillery When it opens fire upon the ene my.—lllissourz Republican. Health of Federal Troops at Sedalia, Mo A Cincinnati paper says: We regret to learn the there is mush sickness prevailing among the troop at Sedalia,-Mo., so much so that the post Inispitat are inadequate to the accommodation of the pa tients. The prevalent disease is a cough, induce by exposure in that bleak locality, that often ear rtes off its victims after a brief illness. Sedalia i situated in a bleak prairie, and the sweeping wind make the cold doubly severe. Affairs at Rolla. The Dona correspondent of the St. Louis pnblitan, under date of January 17, 1862, says : Yesterdayove had another arrival from Spring field, a gentleman with whom I conversed, but whose name I have forgotten. Doubtless your readers are tired of reading the details given by " reliable gentlemen" from Springfield, and I shall, therefore, on this occasion, omit much that is re ported by the gentleman alluded to. In the main, these details are about the slime as heretofore pub. lished on the authority of individuals of known re spectability. According to this late arrival, Gen. Price is'still at Springfield with his whole command, and thus it - is we learn definitely that the report of his having sent ont o portion of his troops in the di rection of this place is wholly Without foundation. 'From my present' informant I learn that General Price, confident of the strength of his posi tion and of his army, is disposed. once more to risk a battle.; having for that purpose already se lected his battle ground some ten miles this side of Springfield, on a level piece of ground well covered with small timber and underbrush. (This sounds decidedly g.ammonish, but as I received it, so I give it.) This, he says, ho will do, provided too large en army is not sent against him, say not exceeding 10,000 men. Funny talk, ain't it, for a general who now claims to have forty pious of cannon and near ly twenty thousand men? Two against one, with his own men thoroughly covered by timber and brush, end his enemy attacking from an exposed position ! Surely, the general is very liberal in the terms of his challenge for battle. Nevertheless, I hope it will be accepted, and that our generals will not send out men in such numbers as to scare tho doughty rebels into a hasty retreat. My informant thinks that General Price's real fighting force is about 15,000 men. If this be so, he ' must have largely recruited his army within the last ton days or two weeks ; and such, in fact, is the statement of my informant, who says further, that the rebel army is in good condition for fighting, r being well armed and clothed. I know nothing of the character of the gentleman from whom I obtain these statements, but judging from appearances, ho would be considered a reliable men. With this remark the reader must take these statements concerning General Price's army and find their weight by his own scales. For myself, Ido not belief General Price has 15,000 effective fighting men. Ido not believe ho has that many men all told, end surely raw recruits cannot be regarded effective fighting material. From the opinion I have thus expressed, it may well be inferred. I have but little confidence of a battle being fought in the Southwest at all. I have not. In my opinion, Price will 'not risk a battle, - but will steadily re treat before the approach of our army, should it in- I deed be sent after him. Touching tho movement of the several regiments recently sent out from this place, little or nothing is known among outsiders, beyond the fact they took the road towards Waynesville and Lebanon. Colonel Carr was still at the latter place when last heard from. . . The insubordination in the First and Second Regiments United States Reserve Corps, but too frequently alluded to in former letters, is oonfined to the men, there not being, so far as I can loam, a solitary officer in either regiment engaged in' it. On the contrary, the officers, especially the colonels, hare discharged their duties in the premises in a way entirely satisfactory. It is rumored, and I think there is scarcely a doubt of the fact, that all the troops here will my forward soon. Tomorrow several regiments leav for the 'West, and the balance will speedily follow. GEN. ROSECRANS' DEPARTMENT. The Destruction of Rebel Stores at Run- M=l=Eg=l The correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial gives the following account of the dispersion of the rebels and the destroying of their stores at Sun tersville, Western Virginia, by a detachment of Federal troops from General Milroy's command: iIiADQUAItiEItS 25T11 OHIO REMENT, ILUTTONSTILLE, Va., Jan. 7, 1802. The Huntersville expedition, of which I tele graphed you yesterday, was so successful in its re sult, and so damaging to the rebel army in these parts, that it merits a more extended notice, and, having recovered somewhat from the fatigue of a hundred miles' march, I will try to give some of the chief incidents of the winter marsh through the mountains, and the extensive conflagration of the famous city of Ifuntersville, which, after the fashion of Virginia towns, is decidedly an eight-by ten institution. And first, in order that the reader may know what and where Iluntorsville is, I will premise by saying that it is the county seat of Pocahontas county, near fifty-two miles from this point, and forty-odd from Staunton, and it derives its chief importance from the fact that it has been employed as the central depot for supplies for the robot . army of Western Virginia. Being the nearest point to the Staunton railroad, supplies were wagoned there, and thence distributed to the rebels at what ever points they needed them. Gon. Imo's army, during its inglorious career in these parts, drew its supplies from this source. Having authentic in formation that largo supplies of provisions, etc., were still stored there under guard of several hun dred cavalry and infantry, and conceiving that it would boa good thing to destroy the provisions, and, if possible, capture some troops or whip theta out, Gon. Milroy determined to send a sufficient force to do it. The force detailed for this service was composed of four hundred of the Twenty-fifth Ohio, three hundred of the Second Virginia, and a detachment of thirty-eight from Bracken's Indiana Cavalry, under .hieut Dalzell—the whole forms being un der command of Major Webster, Twenty-fifth Ohio. Major Owens. Smell Virginia, had the immediate command of the Virginians, CaptS. AskeW, Hams, Washburn°, Johnson. Green, and Crowell, and Lieuta Biggins, Houghton, Jones, Ball, Der blue, and Dlaraly, Twenty-fifth Ohio, commanded the Ohio boys but Ido not know the company officers of the Virginians. Tuesday afternoon—the last day of the waning old year,lBlll—we loft camp and turned our faces towards the interior of the Old Dominion, and a beautiful day it was—and beautiful scenery, even in mid-winter, greeted us. Precious little rest did any of us get Now Year's night. It was freezing cold, and seemed as though all the mountain storms had concentrated in one terrific gale of wind, which poured through the open valley in which we camped with mighty, re sistless energy, the entire night. We had big fires, but they seemed to do little good, and I assure you, that there were very few happy or good-natured soldiers that night, and we were thankful when morning came, as that wo could leave, At the blast of the bugle, wo again took up our line of march, and proceeded twelve miles, and again camped for the night, at the foot of Elk Mountain, in a most beautiful pine grove, the rich, green tops of which wore so thickly crowded together as to obsoure the lurid glare of our fires, while beneath this natural covering of pines, the moat animating scene, fit for an elegant picture, presented itself, Nord we were compelled to leave our ambulances and wagons, un der guard, in consequence of an impassable block ade of the road by the n Seeesh." They had fallen heavy timbers across the road for a mile and a half up the mountain side, and neither man nor beast could get through. So, getting ready Friday morning, we sot out for Huntsville, fourteen miles' distant, followed a mountain-trail around the blockade, until, on the top of Elk Mountain, we again struok the main road, Tho boys were in excellent con dition, and were 'entertaining themselves with speculations about the probable events of the day, as Major Webster intended to attack the place that afternoon. Seven or eight miles this side of the town, we came across some suspicious-looking men, whom the major took along with him. All along the road, it was amusing to observe the look of surprise which the residents gave our column as it passed by. The visual organs, especially of the female population, were considerably protruded, as they would suddenly discover the long line of blue overcoats winding along the road, a sight they had never before seen in that section, being accustomed to the gray COMB of &amnia. At last, about 1 o'clock, we neared the bridge which spans Greenbrier river, six miles this side of Huntersville, where, our scouts had reported, we would first encounter the rebels. We halted, to let the cavalry pass, who wore sent forward to attempt to cut off the rebel pickets at the bridge, and then moving forward Soon struok the river about a half mile from the bridge. The cavalry moved forward quickly and crossed the river con siderably above the bridge. At this point the val ley is pretty wide, composed of meadow land, and as our cavalry, under 'Lieut. Dalzell, dashed up the bank and hastily formed for a charge down through the field to out off the rebels from retreat ing to Huntersville, the rebels diacofered them and ran; the greater part being infantry, could net escape our cavalry on the Huntersville side, so they took the Lewisburg road and made fast time up the mountain side. The rebel cavalry, how ever, retreated to Huntersville, and the race across the bottom, between our cavalry and theirs, was decidedly exciting—the rebels flying at full speed, and our men, in good order, were charging in line of battle down the valley at the ton of their horses' speed. The rebels, however, - had the shortest road, and made good their es cape. Leaving Captain Williams, Company C. Twenty-fifth Ohio, with eighty or a hun dred mon, to hold the bridges, Major Webster moved forward on Huntersville, then distant six miles, and we marched rapidly. fThe road leaves the Greenbrier river at the bridge, and strikes book through the mountains. When within two miles of the town, owe were moving along a mountain-side, our advance . guard was fired on by some rebel cavalry, who immediately retreated as fast as their steeds could carry them. Moving forward cau tiously, wo soon struck a valley which opened before us, and in which Huntersville is situated, being in a sort of square formed by two of these valleys croon ing each other, As we went forward, through a field, we discovered a number of the rebels at a sharp bend in the rood, and they immediately got in 'position behind a bank and opened a brisk fire on our column. They were dismounted cavalrymen, and used Sharp's carbines, the balls of which come whizzing past us, making quite lively Music. I thought, then, that they intended to make a struggle to maintain their ground, TWO CENTS. and, knowing that their -force was equal to, if not larger than ,ours, I thought the prospect Was good for a respectable fight. Major Web ster threw , out a line of skirmishers, and , our boys replied pretty - effectively to their fire, and they retreated, 19e had net advanced far until we discovered a large force of cavalry, drawn up in a field, in our front and across a stream of water. i Companies A and B, of the Twenty-fifth were de- ' ployed to the right, and opened fire with their Ea- fields, whereupon the cavalry turned tail end re- I treated again, but halted and - formed again on a c level plain, to roach which, they had` to ascend a eloping piece of ground. Here we supposed they ' would Macs a desperate - stand, as the ground was • well adapted to the movements of cavalry; and as the space between the opposing forces was good for a charge, I imagined that, as our line advanced, . they would come thundering down Upon us in true . Murat style . And, indeed, with the number of ' cavalry drawn up in line before us, if they had made an energetic charge they could have done us considerable demage. Our boys were crazy for the order to forward. Ever since the first fire they had been wild with excitement, and had made the - mountain ring with their cheers as the re bels retreated. Major Webster directed Ma jor Owens, pf the Second Virginia, ,to go to the left. with the Virginia boys, tarn the eno- , my's right, and attack them in the rear. As the Virginians filed past the 25th to its position, the boys of each regiment cheered etch other vocife rously, and pledged themselves to conquer or die. Then the word was given to forward., and with cheer upon cheer, away we went on double quick, and away also, before our impetuous charge, but with greater spend, went the chivalric) Southern cavalry back to •Huntersville, which was now re vealed to us for the first time. Pausing a moment at the top of the ascent to let the mon take breath, We could see several companies of infantry drawn up in the town, about a half-mile distant. Again We moved forward, and the picture was quite lively to see; to our left across the fields, the Virginians advancing on double quick towards the town; while our own regiment was moving forward on a charge, and the cavalry occupying the space be tween the two divisions, and all cheering lustily and full of determination. to clean out the town. ,We went flying into town ; the Major on horse back at the head • of _the men, swinging-his cap and cheering, and everybody else seeming to exert himself to create as much noise as possible. But the rebels had fled before we reached the - town, the !cavalry flying out the road towards Staunton, and the infantry scattering through the woods in a very promisouons and unmilitary Style. With loud cheers we rushed through the street, and, as we gained the oppositeadde of town, the boys sew a few badly-seared rebel infantry, and began blazing away at them as they ran np the hill side. In the midst of the • firing a young-woman (and a handsome oneat that) suddenly sprang from behind a log, and ran across the field towards her home, frightened almost to death, and leaping like a deer, (or dear, if you please). So soon as she was discovered the firing ceased, and there ended the fighting part of the programme. We had killed one rebel and wounded seven, among the latter a cap tain, and bad one of our boys, a member of Com pany E, Twenty-fifth Ohio, elicit in the wrist. Thus we had achieved an almost bloodless victory, driven the rebels back from three different points where they bad taken their stand, and now have posses. sion of their depot of supplies. And now we set about seeing what we had gained by the triumph. It did not take long, for Hunters ville was not the most extensive city in America, nor the most beautiful. In fast, it was a very con temptible place, both in size , and appearance, and in Ohio would be sneered at Hit , should aspire to the dignity of a county seat. It has one Meath. ' a jell, and court house—not remarkable for its _ architectural beauty ; a dozen or fifteen dwellings, and three hotels, the latter being the best buildings in the town. It has been used chiefly for the - quartering of troops, the citizens having nearly all deserted it fOlllO time ago One or two families were still kill there, and from them we learned that there were about four hundred cavalry, and two companies of infantry stationed there to guard the rebel supplies. One cavalry company was from Memphis,Tennessee, and was finely equipped. All of them were armed with Sharps' carbines and sabres. They were apprised of our corning the night before, scouts having seen us as we took din ner on Thursday, seventeen miles back. Capt. Alex ander, of Tennessee, who commanded the post, at once sent a messenger to the rebel Camp Baldwin, on the Allegheny mountains, and also despatched couriers through the country to collect and bring in the militia, who met them to the number of two or . three hundred, swelling the rebel force to seven or eight hundred. We had not more than five hun dred men, when we got to Huntersville, having only seven hundred originally, and at least two hundreds of these bad been left to guard various points in our rear. Capt. Alexander madebisboast that be could whip us, but the result showed dif ferently. The militia, or, as the boys say, the "flat-footed militia of Pocahontas county," wouldn't stand fire, as they scattered like sheer. at the first sound of a gun. We would have pursued, and might havettecured afow infantry prisoners, but Ma jor Webster wisely determined that we had better burn their supplies, and return before the rebels •had time to throw a superior force from Camp Baldwin in our rear, and thus cut off our return. There were two roads leading from that camp to the road by which we had to return, one striking it ten miles this side of Huntersville, and the other coming into it at HZ Springs. The major found five or six of the largest - bUlldings filled with ample quantities of provisions, and at first he determined to take them from the buildings in order to MVO the latter, but finding it imputed° able, he caused them to be se on fire, and seeing them far enough enveloped in flames to make their destruction certain, we set out on our return. As Hunteraville receded from our view, the flames were leaping heavenward, and dense volumes of smoke rolling above, from this hole of Secessionism, a just vengeance for its crimes, and from tits top of the court home, the stars and stripes—the "flag of beauty and of glory" were floating gaily in the air, tolling the criminal traitors who infested the place, that the power of the American Republic was yet in ex istence. • We left Huntersville about fire o'clock in the evening, and marched back ten and a half miles that night, making nearly thirty miles we had marched that day, besides the exhaustion conse quent upon the excitement and labor of our .ekir wishing and charging about Iluntersvillo; and to make it harder, a cold, chilling rain and sleet be gan to fall about dark, and, when we halted for the night, the boys' guns were covered with a thick coating of ice. So you can imagine that we needed rest, and we got it in barns that night. The nest day wo marched to Big Springs, where we mot another force of our men and Second Virginians, under Lieutenant Colonel Richardson, of the Twen ty-fifth Ohio, who had come out to hold that point and protect our return. Sunday night we got to Elkwater, and Monday at noon we reached here, when the boys gave three hearty cheers for Major Webster, who, in a brief speech, thanked tho offi cers and men of the Twenty-fifth Ohio and Second Virginia for their gallant conduct, and (hen ef4 net about getting rested, The exieditioln Was successful in every partial.- lan and to show that we did " secesh" considerable injury, lot me state that, according to inventories of the stores on hand at Huntersville, made out a few days before, wbioh Major Webster has in his possession, we destroyed three hundred and fifty barrels of flour ; 30,000 pounds salt, a precious ar ticle with the rebels; about 150,000 pounds salted beef, they having just finished killing and salting three hundred cattle; 2,000 pounds coffee; large quratities of sugar, rice, bacon, soap, candles, for age, dc., the value of which may be fairly stated at from $25,000 to $30,000. Besides this, we se cured a large number of • Sharps' carbines and sabres, two or three rebel flags, and a vast number of other articles. I regretted that we could not get our wagons clear through. so that we could have brought away nt least a portion of the pro visions. The officers and men of the entire force reflected great credit on themselves, by their bearing throughout. The .Warch was excessively severe. We were gone just six days, and marched one hun dred and four miles—" Virginia miles"—which every soldier will testify are twice as long as any civilized miles, and this, too, in the depth of win ter, over miserable roads. Major Webster endeared himself to all by his manly, soldierly bearing, and reflected great credit on himself by the SUMS? which crowned his plans. No better officer can be found in the service. He is a true gentlemen, pos sessing those qualities which tit him for command, and also those which draw the affections of his men to him and make them feel that he is their friend, and for such a man they will fight to the death. NEWS FROM THE REBEL STATES. Now and then we have indications of tho terri ble straits to which the Southern States are put, and the impatience with which the people submit to the burdens imposed on them by the leaders of the rebellion. A gentleman from Memphis has furnished the Evansville (Ind.) Journal with a copy of the Memphis Argus of the sth, which contains an article that occasioned considerable ex citement at the "Bluff City," and induced thevi gilance committee to wait upon the editor. As it goes to show that everything in the South does not " go as merry as a marriage bell," we copy it in full : Injuring the Cause. (From the Argos of the sth.] " A knowledge of the disease is half the cure." This truism is as applicable to political as to physi cal disease, and a knowledge of how the fracture came is the best key the surgeon can have to ob tain him a mental view of the shattered bones. We measure the value of a household servitor by the efficiency displayed by him in the past; and so should we that of a public and paid official. ECM is the household? means what kind of a housekeeper. Where order and happiness reign, there we say rules the good steward; where con fusion and needless want exists we censure the steward ; and so it should be with the rulers of na tions. We have yet to learn that this Confederacy is the private property of Jefferson Davis, or thejoint domain of his Cabinet, and we find it still harder to comprehend how either the President or his Cabinet come to be considered the autocrat dispensers of weal and woo to this people, untrammelled by any responsibility to the same. We, for one, were and are far from considering that in voting for the secession of Tennessee from the despotism of Lincoln. we were merely making a choice between two irresponsible sultans, propped by duplicating . divans. never meant in aban doning the Union to abandon with it the rights of speech and of the press. and as long as we can wag a tongue or wield a pen we shall do both in the as sertion of truth, however palatable or unpalatable to Presidents, Cabinets, minorities, or majorities. Our assertion, last Tuesday, of the true state or our affairs, bee caused quite a flutter among a few home soldiers, irresponsible and illegal wielders of authority, etc., men who, bolding their positions from the higher servitors of the people, think it sacrilege, and ( 1 weakening of the cause," to fault any of their acts or no acts; and who, unable to deny our statements, would cover the sins of their superiors by asserting that a statement of the re sults arising from said sins is encouragement and comfort to the enemy. We seldom anathematize, but in such connection we can scarce help saying— THE WAR PRESS: Tau Wks Passe Natio eabsclibese by MOS (per KMIII2IIII advance) M. ,SA* Ares °opine " al.Ol live u u u 15.0111 Ton u u v 19.00 Larger - Olaf wlll be charged at the mine rate, than t 00 caplet will cost 1524 60 colee will coot 880; ea* 106 cage' WM. For a Mob of Twenty-one or over, we will eeteo Mt llztro Copy to the getter-up of the Club. & Postmortem are requested to sot es Avila ktt TiE Walt Puce. Adrertiseerents inserted at the usual rates.. Six lines constitute a square. something of the enemy. We spoke and speak of the state of this Confederacy, which,judging from the policy of both Cabinets, is already better known to the Federal Cabinet than it is to our own. We simke and speak of the ill-conducting of this war, which has now taken from our homes seine three or four hundred thousand of our beat and bravest; which has paralyzed all business, save that which puts the money we can so illy spare into the pockets of the creatures of said President and Cabi net Of this war we spoke, when we said so much -might have been done in it that has been felt un done. Those at the head of affairs were leaders to the war. - We ask how are they leading atrougia. it? . We have been made to stand still, and take each cuffs and kicks as the Northerner chooses to give, when he pleased and where be pleased. We have heard our generals blamed for not doing whit et ap pears they were not permitted to do. The smother ed report of Beauregard has made that troth clear enough. We have for months and months been told that Brigland would do our fighting for us on the seas. We harehaen told everything, save this one thing : that in the cities of the North lie the keys of our blockaded ports, and the peace we seek and need. We see access to that peace rendered more and more distant by the wondrously accumulating power of the Federal armies and navy. Wo - , see the advance that was easy six months ago difficult to-day, and likely to be impossible to-morrow. We see that from a shoe latohet to a steam engine we lack everything, and that the families of our obe dient soldiers are suffering from the seeming fabu lous prices they have to pay for everything of do /nestle , use. We look to the future, and - , seeing nothing but war, ask ourselves, ask our readers, ask our rulers, why all looks darker and darker, ea day follows day; and our vast armies prepare to rot in their camps, while mothers and - sisters sraer - from their absence at home. . ' Three times since the inception of this we, has the'road been opened onto us ado the very heart of the North. In July, after Manassas; whoa Fre mont resigned ; when Johnson moved to Bowling Green. We blame notlleauregard, Price, or John ston ; but we ask why, they were not permitted to do what they wished to do, and could then have done—secured our.pmee and our liberty? Whom do we blame? 'The men at Richmond. Not oars the place to ask whys and wherefores. We say oar people are" iO - eitueted. -We say the loaders to the war have been the leaders through, it; and We simply state the results. One year's reticent suffering is enough ; and as we never were, and never intend to be, 6 pursbeet for Jefferson Davis, or any other statesman or poli tician, in or out of place or pawer, we speak the more plainly. - We believe less adulation, real and hollow, of our public men, why have yet done nothing, would have been attended with more beneficent results ; and dare also believe that the sooner our press ceases this slavish adulation; and confusion of the cause with any set of men, the sooner is the cause likely to prosper. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. No Intelligence from the Burnside Ex pedition. BALTDWEE, Jan. 22.—The Old Point boat boa arrived, but brings no news of importance. A gag of truce bad arrived in the Roads, bnt no intelligence could be obtained in relation to the Burnside Expedition. This may be considered a sign that its progress is favorable to the Federal cause, as the rebel papers are prohibited from pub lishing anything but rebel victories. From General Banks' Column Fnermnrc, Md., Jan. 20.—The' latest intelli gence from Western Virginia is to - theAffoit that the rebel Jackson is near . Romney, and partially occupies the town. General Lander has fallen back a few =Bei; towards Cumberland. There liak been no action. General Williams' (migrate remains at Hancock. Refugees from Martinsburg bring intelligence that there arc but seventy militia men in that town, under Nadenbush, and that they are anxious to throei down their arms and join the Union forces. - This seems to be the general sentiment throughout that region. Jackson's force near Romney is said to be 17,000 men, and a few rebels, principally mounted militia, were at Duffield's Station, Bloomer's Furnace, and Kearneysville Cross Roads. At Winchester there were but 200 militia. The Martinsburg Republican of the lith ap pealed to the Governor to arm the negroes. It says that at the late battle, near Bath, the Confede rate forces were met by seven hundred negroes on the Anion side, who killed three of the rebel offtoerst 'and two privates, and wounded fay others, belong ing to a Southern German regiment. An officer of the 'twelfth Indiana has received a letter from Capt. Williams, recently captured op posite Dam No. 4. Be is now in prison at Bich mond and writes for assistance. lie says the prisonors have but little to eat and are literally eaten up with vermin. A man named Wright, formerly of Baltimore, has been detected in endeavoring to procure the transportation of several sacks of salt into Virginia at Dam No. 4, on speculation. lie is now-in cus tody. A National Currency Resolved on. The Washington correspondent of tho New York Tivies says : The Ways and Means Committee adhere to their own treasury note bill, authorizing $100,000,000 demand notes in addition to the $50,000,000 under the act of July 17. They will add the following section to provide for the funded stoats into which the treasury notes and all other demands upon the overnment may be converted: " To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to fund the treasury .notes and floating debt of the United States, he is hereby further authorized to issue, on the credit of the United States, coupon bonds or regis tered bonds to an amount not exceeding $500,000,000, in sums of $lOO, $2OO, $3OO, $l,OOO, $5,000, $lO,OOO, and $20,000, and in such proportions of each as the exigencies of the public service may require, bear ing interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly. irredeemable for twenty years, and after that period redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, which bonds the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to deliver, at their par value,-to any creditor or creditors having de• mends due against the United States, in payment thereof, and to deliver the same to officers, em ployes, and individuals, in payment for services rendered, for supplies ' subsistence, and material; furnished to the United States; and he may also exchange such bonds, at any time, for lawful money of the United States, or for any of the treasury notes that have been, or may hereafter be. knued under any former act of Congress, or that may be issued under the provisions of this net." It is also possible that a provision will be incorpo• rated in the above section for the repurchase of the stocks by the United States at any time after five years. The legal tender of the detnand currency utll certainly leadhered to and passed by Con gress. Secretary Chase will accept and cordially support this measure, not as an embodiment of the policy desirable during peace, but as the most avail able means for meeting the pending financial crisis. The House committee have conferred freely with him on the subject, and the prospect of his co-ope ration in what they deem indispensable is highly gratifying. The tall will be reported to-morrow if an opportunity oil. The Summer Again Heard From Capt. Barstow, of the ship Highland Chief, which arrived at New Fork, from Liverpool, on Friday last, reports that on the 21st of December, lat. 481, long. 20, between S and 9 o'clock ILI the evening, ho saw a large steamer bearing down upon him, which showed lights fore and aft, and when nearly alongside fired a shot, from a large gun forward, across the bow of the Highland Chief, and immediately after gave orders for her to heave to. Tho steamer was then nearing the High land Chief every moment, when the latter vessel suddenly rounded, in order to prevent a collision. It was blowing fresh from the eastward, which made it necessary for her to take in all her light sails, to save her masts from going overboard. The steamer then ranged ahead, on the port side of the High land Chief, which kept off on her course, and after a while tacked in another direction, to clear the steamer, when the latter vessel went round and stopped close to her on the starboard quarter. The Highland Chief again kept off on her course, the steamer following a short distance. Suddenly the lights of the steamer disappeared, but she continued to follow in the wake of the Highland Chief for about three hours, and then disappeared altogether. Captain Barstow is quite confident that the steamer alluded to was the privateer Sumpter, and the intelligence recently received from Europe, to the effect that the Sumpter had arrived at Cadiz. would seem to sustain this opinion. Additional Particulars of the Indian The Leavenworth (Kansas) Conservartve of Ja nuary 17, says : From Dr. G. A. Cutler, Indian agent at Leroy, Coffey county, we learn fuller particulars in regard to the recent defeats of the Union Indians. The rebel Indians were commanded by Albert Pike and Mclntosh. The last fight was on the border of the Cherokee Country; our men were badly whipped and a number of women and children were killed. The enemy had artillery, we bad none, and our de feat was chiefly attributable to this tact. There are now about 400 Union Indians at Fall river and in a deplorable condition ; hundreds more are daily expected there. Taylor is the chief at Fall river. They have no previsions and are poor ly clothed. The guns used by them are of the poorest kind, and they had very little ammunition. Opotholoyerbo believes that John Ross betrayed him. The Union men were twice attacked when on the camping ground selected by Ross • the third time it was determined not to take his advice, and they were not attacked. The rebels burned all the wagons and grain of our men, and shot the cattle before their eyes. Seminoles, Cherokees, Creeks and Chickasaws wore engaged in the fights on the Union side. The settlers are now giving the refugees food to keep them alive. They were fourteen days coming up from the nation. Dr. Cutler says there will be Much suffering unless immediate assistance is given. The European Powers and the Trent • Affair. The Washington correspondent of the New York Trines says : There is the best reason to believe that the de spatches of Austria and Prussia with regard to the Trent affair were not entirely the spontaneous ex pressions of the views of those Governments, but that their international wisdom was doled out to us at the bidding of England. Advices from Paris, received by members of the diplomatic corps here, make it almost certain that Russia alone refused to be " whipped in" to a manifestation against us by England. It was stated yesterday by one of your cotemporaries that Russia bad presented a note to our Government on the matter, similar in tone to those of Austria and Prussia. I have the bed as for stating that this is untrue. Russia has presented no note on the subject, and the likelihood thin; eho will present none.
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