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SYNOPSIS OF REDUCTIONS.
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From e 23 to 520—Prom $U to str.
FROSTSD RIAYEII CLOAKS,
From $lB to Sit—From $lO to $7.50.
OR BARRI VLORE CLOAK%
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'TINE BLAOK BUYER CLOAKS, •
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BENZ BLACK SY►P■R CLOAKS,
rwto 825 to $10.60--From $2O to VI&
FIRS BLAOS DIAPER CLOVES.
IrrOn $lB to 612—From $l2 to 49
FANOT BEVER CLOAKS,/
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, Which replete with every desirable style and desCriP
WM will be open to Inspection at prices corresponding
, tto the genarai reduction; particutartcation, among such
ea lailkity at qualities, being, if not impossible, at all
event% nniatlaractorY. deal-lm
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?UMBER DAYS LONGER, REFOLIE TAKING
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_ rishracid Oar Long Shawls.
Dark Visas ,Goods, Poplins, &c.
Plaid E Slue, and Drown.
, Ladies', 54.411, ndUced 30 par cent.
One lot of at 16c.
Two loth do, at2sc., a bargain.
One lot of Linen Diaper at 81.25 a piece.
.HoopBkirtr7O, 87%, $l, and $1.12.
Nice riasnitthent of Gingham,.
Ladle.' Merino 'Vesta, all elm.
aliases' Merino Vests, Cu altos.
Worth and flosthry of nil kinds.
Gordo' Silk liandlterckiefe s splendid assortment at
J. H. STOKES',
• 1124,ti - ARON Street,
FAMILY DRY GOODS STORE."
- Ems & LANDELL, FOIIIITN and ARCH,
lute in Mara a fine stock of
GOODS FOR FAMILY CUSTOM.
- Semi plain colored Silks.
- Ifashkmahle figured Silks.
Dnrahlo black Silks. plain and figured.
- LlDOfr Shillings and Linen Shootings.
Destmakes Long Cloth Shh tins tannins.
Table Linens and Asznask To wellags.
Blankets; fins quality and large also. •
Marseilles Quilts of all sizes.
• - Clutha and Casifinieres for peen and boss.
White geode, a Tory full stock.
Black goods eirety descriptlon: ie23
B A.EGAIIIB IN BLACK SILKS AT
B. BTEEL BOWS,
No. 713 North TENTH Street, above Mates.
I lot Black Silks at 70 cents.
' 1 lot Mack Silas at 75 and 81 cents.
1 lot Black Silks at 87,90, aid $l,
1 lot Black Silks at $1.12)f and 81 25.
I lot Black &Ike at gut; $1.37X, and 51.50.
lot Mach Silks, yard aide.
BARGAINS IN FANGY SILKS.
We era closing out our stock of
Fancy Silks at a great sacrifice,
jsreaaritnry to taking stock.
„Iftworßilka at 50, 68,'623‘, 75, 8 7 , and Si
Superior nisalitles of 'FUMY BIAS 01.12 X to 8 2 ..
. :AU% PM entire stock of -
DRESS GOODS,
ift 2 ll at less than cost prices.
AiuBLOB! NUBIANS! MUSLINS!
MUSLISIS BY THE PIEON-MINLINS BY
THE EKLE.—Now to the time for housekeepers to buy
their Meetings and Bhirtings, at all_ kinds of domestic
goats aee rapidly rising, and there can be no possible
dimk,utk,n of prices. We still bare a few boxes of
• Vaansulta. Williamsville, Black Bock, and oth pOpular
mikes. Good MueMna at 8, 9,10,11 cents. The best 12-
sent Malin in the city. Oar Pillow-Case Mullins, and
our 10-411-4, and 12-4 Shooting, purcbaeod rents time
- &nee, kist from thiee'to four cents cheaper than can be
found eUewhere COWPEETHWAIT Jr CO., '
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pion CURTAINS AND CURTAIN
41NIEBIALS.Tho subscribers offer, at the
s4erwesdneicea, a large assortment of Bich Ourtnln Goode,
, `lllll4ll4ce lad Muslin Embroidered C urtains; also, overt
-variety cg Plain 'end Gold Bordered Shades, Gilt Oor.
%data, Gultain Fixtures, and Trimmings. Also, Tapes
,trlei, Sept; Domelike, Set-de-Lainee, Plashes, Broca.
tells, ea, for cabinetmakers, and en extensive variety of
goads for !twee covere;Mr Naiads, Figured Linens,
Stench
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Atpeon Inner than bore offtavd
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RUSSIA ClIASff,
In medium and tine auantiet.
Scotch Crash and Towelling.
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CIIIICSTNIIT and VOUCH Streets.
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f4O to 76-cent Union Casstrustee, Satinets, dtp.
• St Citainterest beet in the market.
*LW Cassimeree •, beet in the market.
ittgb Ca0103301.61i beet ever eold for the money,
• - Black Clothe kr Ladies' Wear.
Black Broadclottut for afen'e Wear.
Bocce Bargains in oar Cloth Stock.
• Tailor.' attention fs nvited.
- 000PES & CONABD,
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inLOAHS AND SHAWLS
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Goal Stook of Cloaks.
Blanket Long fibawle Cheep.
Mask Thibet Skevrte•Cheep.
. Black Blanket Swore Shawls for $l.
1.., Noche Snawlm et half price.
COOPER & CONAED,
fte B S. E. corner NINTH and MARKET St&
VIBE & LANDELL, FOURTH and
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Widow's Bilks, without gloss.
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41r)t I,lllrtss+
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1862
Irish Actors—Olthe Past
[FOURTH AItTICLE.I
Several actresses have obtained rank by
marriage. It would be difficult to give a com
plete list, but we may be allowed to mention
some instances. The Earl of Peterborough,
whose military services in Spain, in the reign
of Queen Anne, showed that British chivalry
Was not wholly extinct, was one of the most
noted men of his time: lie was a diplomatist
as; well as a soldier—fiery, impracticable,
and restless in each capacity. In 1710 he was
employed by the British Government in em
bassies to Vienna and some of the smaller
Italian Courts, and while thus occupied, tra
velled with such rapidity that the British mi
nisters used to say they wrote at rather than to
him. From the number of his missions and
the rapidity of his movements, it was said that
ho bad seen the-faces of more princes and the
backs of more postilions than any other man
in Europe. His first wife died in 1720, and
he next married the celebrated and beautiful
Anastasia Robinson, whom ho had previously,
but unsuccessfully, attempted to seduce.
Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, Knight
of the Garter, ex-Governor of Minorca, ex-
Generalissimo of Spain, and an Earl in the
British peerage, ho was ashamed to have it
publicly known that he had married a lady,
however excellent, from the' stage, and de
clined or delayed acknowledging Mrs. Robin
son as Countess of Peterborough. She had
as much spirit as himself, and declined resid
ing tinder his roof. She did not resume her
profession, however, but received Lord Peter
borough, as her most esteemed friend, on pla
tonic, terms, in her own house. Thus many yeflis
passed. At last, when he was fast approaching
the , e threescore years and ten," which the
Psalmist assigned as the natural limit of hu
man life, Lord Peterborough had Jo undergo
a painful and dangerous Ithotomicat opera
tion. Then, his wife hastened to his side, and
tended on him with such great kindness that,
his pride vanquished by her tenderness, he
avowed his marriage, and introduced her to
his relatives as Countess of Peterborough.
When John Gay, the poet, was rejected by
the Court, oh whose patronage he had relied
for permanently advancing his fortunes, he
'wrote .‘ The Beggar's Opera," in ridicule of
the musical Italian drama, then a novelty in
England, and at all times an absurd mode of
representing passion or character. This piece
was rejected at Drury Lane Theatre, and ac
cepted by Rich, manager of Lincoln's Inn
Fields Theatre. lts success Was so great that,
the wits said, it made Gay rich and Rich gay.
It was first performed on January 29, 17274.
Pope, in the notes to the Doodad, records
that it was played sixty-three nights in suc
cession in London, and renewed with equal
success next season; and In provincial thea
tres from thirty to seventy times. Its fame
was not confined to the author only. The
ladies carried about with them its favorite
songs engraved on fans, and dwelling-houses
were furnished with them on screens. The
person who acted Polly, till then obscure, be
came all at once the favorite of the public ;
her - pictures were engraved and sold in great
numbers; her ,life written, !books of letters
(uld verses to her published, and pamphlets
made even of her sayings and jests, The
original Polly was the lovely' Lavinia Fenton,
at that time only twenty years old, and the
puke of Bolton was so charmed with her that
he took her off the stage, (lived with her
twenty-three years, until his wife died,) and
finally married her. Lavinia, Duchess of Bol
ton, died at Lee , in Kent, in 1760, aged fifty
two.
Miss Ferret', (of whom we shall presently
have to say a good deal, as - she was an Irish
actress) married the Earl of Derby in 1797.
Lord Thurlow, nephew and successor of the
gruff Lord Chancellor, married Miss Mary
Catherine Bolton, „, . actres_,s whose first ap
peaftine-was its 1806, also as PcJlty ; her grand.;
son is the present Lord Thurlow, and she died
in 1830. Miss Louisa Brunton, daughter of a
provincial manager, and herself a distinguish..
ed comedienne, was married, in 1807, to the
Earl of Craven. Her eldest son now enjoys
the title. Tho Countess of Craven long was
one of the most charming as well as most ami
able of the British peeresses.
Our list is not yet complete. We must not
omit Harriet Mellon, who figured for many
years at the head of the second-rate actresses
of London, and sometimes did great justice to
first-rate characters. In 1815, being then
"fat, fair, and forty,” she retired from the
stage, to wed Mr. Coutts, the wealthy London
banker, at whose death, in 1822, she succeeded
to all hie fortune—a trifle of about $10,000,000.
A lady with so many sterling charms was sure
to have suitors—among the rest, the Duke of
ork, uncle to Queen Victoria, was consider
ed likely to win her plump hand, filled with so
ranch treasure. The lady, however, wore
weeds for five years, and then, in 1827, be
stowed herself, in marriage, upon the ninth
Duke of St. Albans—her, age then being 52,
while her Benedick was not 27. Incongruous
as this union appeared—though the Duke
was the lineal descendant of Nell Gywnne,
an actress, and the only faithful mistress
of Charles 11—it Was not unhappy. The
relations of husband and wife were strict
ly platonic, from first to last, it is said. Tho
lady wanted rank, and became a Duchess.
The gentleman wanted money, and the purse
of a she-millionaire was at his command. At
her death, in 1837, she left him well provided
for, but bequeathed the bulk of Mr. Coutt's
immense fortune to his relative, the eldest
daughter of 'Sir Francis Burdett, who, by
change of surname, is now Miss Angela Bur
dett Contta, also happening to be the wealthl-
I est woman in England.
Less fortunate than any of the marriages we
have enumerated was that between Lord Wil
liam Lennox, uncle of the present Duke of
Richmond, and Mary Ann Paton, the well
known vocalist. It finally terminated by di
vorce, and the lady then married Mr. Joseph
Wood, with whom she lives in England, in a
competence acquired by their joint " profes
sional exertions as vocalists. The bulk of
their property was earned in this country,
where they. wore very popular, in English
opera, nearly quarter of a century ago.
The celebrated Mrs. Jordan cannot figure in
this list—though the mother of the late Earl of
Monster and a long line of "Lords" and
"Ladies ". Eitzclaranee, . who wore enno
bled by patent, by their father, William the
Fourth, soon after he became King.
The beautiful Maria Foote, new Dowager-
Countess of Harrington, born in 1794, made
her first London appearance at the age of
twenty, and Immediately took a foremost
place among theatrical favorites. Her best
part was Maria Darlington. In April, 1830,
aftes; a variety, of misadventures—in which
she was more sinned against than sinning
Foote married the Earl of Harring
ton, and two children were the issue of this
union. The eldest, Lord Petersham, died at
the age of fifteen ; the other, Lady Blanche
Stanhope, is married to the Earl of Mount
Charles. The Earl of Harrington died in 1851.
The Countess, in married life, conducted her
self with exemplary prudence. At the Coro
nation of William IV. and Adelaide, in 1831,
she was admitted to surpass all the rest of the
peeresses in personal attractions. We shall
have to notice, in another article, how Miss
O'Neill, the Irish tragedienne, retired from the
stage, in the meridian of her fame, to marry
Sir William Wrixon Becher, in 1819. Lady
'tether is still living.
The late Earl of Essex, who died in 1839, at
the 'advanced age of eighty-two, married
, Catharine Stephens, the vocalist, in 1838. At
that time the ardent Adonis was aged eighty
one ; his bride was forty-four. His Lordship
was devoted to theatricals, and is creditably
remembered by his early and kind patronage
of .the; elder Kean. His attachment to Miss
Stepienawas publicly known, and it was un
derstood for many years before the marriage
that it would take placciwhenever the Countess
of Essex, then living, would have the COM
plaisance:to create a vaettney,by dying. She de
ferred this till January, 1838, and the octogena
rian Earl married Kitty Stephens within three
months—surviving this bold venture exactly
a year. He bequeathed her all his property
not legally settled on the successor to his
title. The lady continues Countess-Dowager
of Essex. She was scarcely well looking, but
with a good-humored expression, and was
considered the best singer of ballads England
ever produced. There was a story of the
late Dicke of Devonshire—" the Bachelor
Duke," who could not marry—having once
sent her a carte blanche, on which, when ho re
ceived it back, he found she bad written
Duchess of Devonshire. These were her terms.
Many of our readers, no doubt, remember
that wonderful English singer, pudgy John
Brabant, who visited this country in 1840, and,
though his first appearance on the stage was
forty-three years antecedent, astonished all
who heard him with the remains of his won
derful voice. In 1840, Miss Frances Braham,
his eldest daughter, married the seventh Earl
of Waldegrave, she then being the widow of
his illegitimate cousin, who possessed nearly all
the wealth of the family, which he bequeathed
to her. The Earl of Waldegrave died in
1846, and, In that same year, the ci-devant
Miss Brabam, then Dowager-Countess, con
tracted her third marriage. the fortunate
gentleman, who died last month, Father of the
House of Commons,. (as having sat in it longer
than any other man,) was Mr. George Gran
ville Harcourt, eldest son of the late Arch
bishop of York,
.and M. P. for Oxfordshire,
since 1831.
It turfy was our intention to have given a
sketch of Miss Perron (Countess of Derby) in
this article, but the record of noble marriages
from the stage bas stretched out longer than
we expected. However, we shall continue
these sketches—working steadily down,through
the Past into the Present—down from the deadto
the chief living Irish actors—down to Knowles
"and Hudson, John Brougham and Barney
Williams, John Collins and John Drew. Before
ire reach these, however, wo shall have to
treat, particularly, of Jack Johnstone and Ty
rone Power. Place aux dames, however, and
we shall positively introduce Miss Farron to
our readers, with the least possible delay.
New Publications
Part V. of the National Portrait Gallery of Emi
nent Americans, from original paintings by Alonzo
Chappol, with biographies by E. A. Duyokinok,
bas reached us. The literary portion of this number
contains the conclusion of a life of Washington,
ably condensed, yet anecdotal, and the beginning
of General Warren's biography. Of Washington,
whose first endeavor, like McClellan's, was to orga
nize the army be was appointed to command, Mr.
Duoykinck says, with equal force and eloquence:
"Every day it is felt that ho belongs moro and
more to the world. He enjoys that apotheosis of
fame awarded to the groat spirits of the earth who
have been chosen by Providence to grand national
duties; but, more than most of thorn, his memory
is the reward of a life of piety and purity, of sim
ple faith and justice, of unrelaxing duty ; groat in
its acts, greater in the heart-inspiring virtues
which dictated them." The portraits, which will
all bo full-length in this publication, aro those of
General Harrison—to whose untimely death, a month
after be was inaugurated the elected Chief of the
republic, we owe the accidental Prosidenoy of tho
late John Tyler—and of Daniel Boone, " back
woodsman of Kentucky," whose natural Character
and simple life Be much excited the admiration of
Byron, the spoiled child of fame and society, that ho
gaup the seven stanzas of half-envying eulogy in the
eighth canto of Don Juan. Mr. Choppers portraits
are cleverly and carefully composed from the best
ascertained sources.
A new and neat volume of poetical soleotionS
published by Crosby and Nichols, end edited by
James IL Head, author of "Homo Pastimes, or,
Tableaux Thome," has a quartette of fanciful titles
--it is called Jewels from the quarry of the mind;
Pearls gathered from the shores of Life; Buds and
Blossoms that make glad the garden of the heart;
Chimes that ring out sweet melodies, and find an
echo in the ChambersOf the Boni. Hoonsists of over
two hundred pieces, selected with no small tasto
fee m the best American and English poets. In page
244, the concluding nine linos of Bryant's "Thane
topis" are bare siren, under the title "How to
Live," and carelessly published as anonymous.
The bobk is
_handsomely printed, ilburtratua, , toct
bound. Received 'from T. B. Peterson and. Bro
thers.
' larper and Brothers have republished, with neat
engravings, a boy's own book on a boy's own sub
ject, written by henry Mayhew, and entitled
" Young Benjamin Franklin ; or, the Right Road
to Life." Tho avowed purpose of this somewhat
fanciful but instruotivo and fascinating biography is
to chow how a printer's boy learned the prinoiplee
which raised biro to the first diplomatic office, of the
American Republic.
Ticknor and Fields have recently published the
"Tragedy of Errors," a strange negro-drama, not
without considerable poetical power, by the author
of " Record of an Obscure Man." A second part of
this drama is promised. We also bavo to notico,
more fully than our apace now permits, a beautiful
volume, edited by James T. Fields, pool and pub-
Usher, containing the choicest writings of Sir
Thomas Browne—viz., his Roligio Medici, Chris.
Lien Morals, Urn Burial, Vulgar Errors, Jco. It is
dedicated, very appropriately, to Dr. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, author of "The Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table," and Dr. John Brown, of Edin
burgh, author of "Rah and his Friends," and other
, finely , terapered compositions, recently collected
into ono volume, called "Spare Hours."
[Original Poetry.]
Maud.
The Fairies all eatmot be dead !
Nor have their tiny maidens fled;
For I myself have seen
Titania's little love, and heard
Her sing, as never yet sang bird
Up in the forest green.
What name the fairies may have taught her,
reannot toll, but MAUD we say
When we would call the darling, daughter,
Awl kiss her in her happy play.
Maud the blue•eyed, and rosy is she-•
A ()harmer awake or at rest—
Singing in glee on her father's knee,"
Or asleep on her mother's breast.
This little throe•year fairy child:
To her bath Nature given
The grace and loveliness of earth,
The innocenoo of heaven.
The joy that thrills the opening rose,
Tho love no words ODD measure,
Pure trustfulness in all Ito knows,
And nover.endbg pleasuro—
All these delights aro hors and man;
Her very tears that fall meanwhilos
Are but as dew-drops on bright flowers,
That melt away in smiles.
The legend of the little child
- Who, in the garden, 'mid the flowers,
(As beautiful and undefiled
As they, but born for purer, hours,)
Played with the poisonous anake,—to me
Is but an emblem, Maud, of thee.
The cruel serpent, Life, may charm thee,
But bath no sting nor tooth to harm thee,
The Lion-World that tears the strong
Is gentle to the trustful grace
That playeth with his mighty mane,
And emileth in his scowling face.
All day she plays in Paradise ;
And when her sweet blue eyes in sleep,
Like dewy stars in clouded skies,
Are closed in darkness pure and deep ;
Then in her dreams she roams away,
And breathes the sunlight of a brighter day;
Oh ! doubt not, that within her slumber,
Her sister angels, none can number,
At midnight some, and with her stay
In many a glad celestial play.
Hut when the dawn grows gold and red,
Where, Tillie, have the angels fled ?
Above the sun they sport in mirth—
lint one dear angel stays on earth.
fibs dwells in childhood's innocence ;
She bath not left its happy shore,
To daro the storm and vlolonoo
Of seas that foam and roar.
To all who know her, oho must bring
Sweet memories of life's early spring,
When skies were fresh, and bright and blue,
And all one melody of bliss.
Our lost illusions we renew,
In loving such a child as this—
Eio gentle and eo good ! 'Twere strange,
An sad, if any future hour
Should bring to MAUD less sweet a change
Than that Aloh makes the bud a flower.
Philada., January 17,1812. J. H. B.
4— ExEcurioN.--John Omer was exoeuted at
Newton, N. J., on Thursday, for the murder of
Altar Skellinger. The affair grew out of a quarrel
between the two respeoting a sister-in-law, whom
Culver tried to get to leave the house of Skellinger
and come to his own. While Skellinger was com
ityg toward Gruver be shot him with a gun which
he bad brought to defend himself, as he alleged.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1862.
THE REBELLION.
The Battle at Mill Springs ! Ky.
FULL PARTICULARS
Bravery of the Federal Troops.
Scones and Incidents Before and After the Battle.
Gen. BuelPs Column ➢caking Active Pre
parations for a Forward Movement.
MORE IMPORTANT ORDERS ISSUED BY OEN.
EALLEOK
Another Expedition to Start from
Rolla against Price.
A Canadian Paper on the Present Position and
Hopes of the South,
THE VICTORY IN KENTUCKY.
Letters from an Etna Tennessean—Before
the Battle—The Preliminary Movements.
(Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.)
ZOLLICOFFER'S (LATE) ENCAMPMENT,
January 20,4802.'
On Friday, the 17th instant, the two Tennessee
and Twelfth Kentucky Regimentii loft Somerset
about JD o'clock in the morning, taking the Colum
bia road, with the intention of joining General
Thomas' division. We went as far as Fishing crook,
acme five miles, whore, I em happy to state, all was
quiet. Then a halt was oalled, and several pieces
of artillery—Stennard'e whole battery was along—
wore pooled on the bluff inside the fortifloations
formerly thrown up by the Seventeenth Ohio.
Bob was a dead stand from 1 o'olook until just
after dark, ithen an order came in for us to advance
across the creek to Thomas' encampment, EOM
four or five miles distant; not so far, however, but
that we heard the drums boating distinctly at ouneet
Of source, it was not exkoted by us Tonneaseaus—
who know how much praitical ability some of
our leaders have, and how much forethought
they have for the comfort of the poor soldier—that
any nrrengemont.would be made for our crossing
Fishing creek. Wo were not disappointed in our
expectations; on we plunged, sometimes through
the mud knee-deep towards the creek; it was so
dark that sloughs and muolholos could not be soon
to be avoided. Into the crook the men were
obliged to wade—half thigh deep—for there was
no other chance to cross it. The creek is about
fifty or sixty yards wide, and very rapid. Rad
there been any necessity for our wading it not a
man would bare grumbled ) but thoro was no no.
°crafty for it, for while we all lay idle from one
o'clock till dark, a footbridge could easily have
been constructed upon which all the force could
have crossed the water, end kept dry. Bute soldier
is only a machine and must do as ordered, so seine
officers seem to think. Not so much confusion was
created as might have been expee tad by the wading
.of tho creek. A line was soon formed and forward
we started ; then it began to rain, just to add to
the cheerfulness of the occasion. We went on
to the top of the bluff, whore a halt was called
to wait until the artillery could get up the
hill. The rain still continued, sometimes pour.
ing down, and sometimes slackening up into
a drizzle, which some folks call a Scotch
mist, and which is almost a sure indication
of continuous wet weather. Some of the Moll
-lay down on the cold, wet ground tO rest; some,
less weary, established guards moms the road to
try and keep up a little excitement; but this soon
wore out, and it was a cold, weary, wet, ugly, sul
len sot of men that were grouped along the road—
and, orders to tho contrary notwithstanding, fires
began to be started Again an order came from the
colonel of the Second Regiment for no fires to be
made, and for those already started to be put out.
But no attention was paid to the order—the men
were cold and wet, and it was not bearable longer
without fire, and, as for danger, we wore rather
more willing to be shot by the enemy than to freeze.
So cheerily blazed the fire, and our awful condition
was materially bettered. We waited for over three
hours before the artillery wee all up the hill and
ready to go on, and then it eves almost with feelings
of regret that we departed from the warming infiu •
once of nearly halt a mile of burning rail fence.
We reached the epot whore Kinney's battery and
the Tenth Indiana, the advance of Thomas' divi
sion, were encamped. A lino was formed in the
'modeand we were told to take dare of oureelvel
as beet. e could in the rain—no shelter, half the
men without blankets or overcoats. Being well
acquainted in Kinney's battery, I thought to spend
a pleasant night, and toads towards their camp ac
cordingly. After waking up come of the boys, and
talking old times over, and getting from them all
the particulars of their march from Lebanon, I was
about to turn in for a sneeze, it being then about
two o'clock in the morning, when crook! oraok !
wont the guns from the pickets of the Tenth Indiana,
immediately folloWed by the long roll. Away I
went an .the dead simile get with. any company.
All bands and the cook got roused from their un
comfortable positions, and formed into a line; but
only a half a dozen shots were fired, and no more,
as it was only a picket skirmish, and all hands lay
down again to worry out the balanceof the nieht
as beet they might. The alarm turned out, by WO
account of the moms, teenave arisen from seven or
eight of the enemy creeping upon them and firing
at them. The fire was, of Coarse, returned by our
side, when the sneaking villains retired on double
quick, leaving two blankets and ono overcoat on
the field ; no ono was hurt on either side.
Rain! rain! will it ever stop? All day on the
18th it was ono continued pour. No shelter from
the weather for the Tennesseans, and oar one
day's rations were all gone. A despatoh was sent
back te,Sousersot to bring up provisions for us; the
wagon came up about 2 o'clock P. M., with hard
breed anti bacon. So we had the satisfaction of
filling our bellies, if our skin was wet. An order
was also sent to bring our toots up from Sornoreet,
but by the time the wagons got to the creek it was
so swollen by the rain that it was not fordable by
teams. All day the rain unceasingly poured down,
and there was a dreary prospect for any rest or
sleep for men who bad already passed two shelter
less and nearly sleepless nights. What manage
ment! What practical management was here dis
played ! Just such management displ .pod a few
times will ruin the hardiest and best men in the
world.
To add to the general contentment already reign
ing among our mon, it was rumored about that no
forward move was to be made from this position
for the present, as our army was not strong enough
to attack Bolliooffer behind his entrenchments, on
the Cumberland. If there over was is time when a
Christian could bo excused from swearing, wasn't
this the occasion among tho Tennesseans? No
move to be made, no shelter to protect us from the
inclement weather, no chance of our baggage oom
ing to us, and no prospect for provisions Fe rose.
The Battle—A Detailed Account—The
Loyal East Tennessee Troops—Results
of the Conflict.
ZOLLICOTTER'S (LATE) ENCAMPMENT, I
January 20, 1862.
Here I sit, in a cedar log cabin, inside the
entrenchment, of the wonderful position of old
"'Lolly," to write you a letter, on contraband pa.
per, with a contraband pen, and contraband ink.
Where shell I begin—wbatsball I write first? There
are incidents enough, if all reoounted, to fill a
yolumo; things that took place in this, the most
complete viotory, and most overwhelming, total
overthrow the Secession army has yet mot with in
this rebellion. To begin at the beginning, and tell
the story straight:
Just at daybreak on Sunday morning, the 19th
of January, sharp firing commenced with the pick.
eta in the same spot where the firing was taut Friday
night; thelong roll beat in the Indiana Tenth, and
they formed instantly and marched to the support
of their pluketa. The Tenth and Kinnoy's battery
were close together, and half a mile in advance
of everything. The battery got ready for action
on the instant, and awaited .orders. By the way,
stannard's battery and Wetmore's four-gun bat.
tery were both in park, ono on each aide of Kin
ney's battery. The First Tennessee was about a
quarter of a mile in the rear of those hatterice, in
the woods. The Fourth Kentucky, Col. Fry, was the
next on the road, half a mile in the rear of the
batteries; it was forming as I ran past, getting to my
own regiment, (for I slept in Kinney's battery) ; the
Second Tennessee another quarter of a mile in the
rear of the Fourth Kentucky. By this time the caval
ry wore running their horses all over the country in
every direction—except towards the firing, which
still continued at intervals. Tho Second was just
getting breakfast,and supposingit to be only a picket
fight, kept on cooking and eating, though very few,
had eaten anything when the column of our force
appeared coming on in our roar. Lieut. Colonel
Trewbit promptly got US into lino and double.
quickened ue into the reed ahead of the advancing
column; the Fourth Kentucky had gone when we
reached their encampment. The firing still con
tinued, and very briskly ; wo kept on at double
quick, all hoping anti believing that wo would
have a ohanoo to smell burnt powder. But when
opposite the encampment of the Tenth Indiana, up
rode the Colonel, and halted us for further orders;
we all thought—if we didn't say it—don further
orders.
The Tenth Indiana went into the weeds about a
quarter of a mile in advance of their tents to tho
support of their pickets; and bravely did they
support them, too, for over half an hour, against the
whole force kd against them; and never retreated
a step, nor gave an inch of ground, until nearly
surrounded by overwhelming numbers ; then to
save themselves from being entirely eurreiuded,
they unwillingly gave way. Hero was a arias;
and yell on yell wont up from the lantern-jawed
Secessionists; they thought the day was all their
own. But, happily, any disastrous consequence
WAS prevented by the arrival of the Fourth Ken
tucky and Ninth Ohio to the support of the gallant
Tenth. Again our men made a stand ; now there
was fighting In good earnest, and the Second Min
nesota mined in with the Tenth and tho Fourth and
the Ninth Ohio. Volley after volley rattled in quick
imeeetsion, and sometimes it seemed as though there
was only ono continuous volley, Interrupted now
and then by the growling of the "yellow pups,"
which bad boon brought to boar on the enemy ;
and when they once commenced, they distributed
their Tesoro freely in alt directions, in the shape
f shot and shell; and, gentlemen, excuse me
from being the recipient of any such favors. There
were only two or three shots from cannon food by
the enemy, and they were either badly aimed or
the pieces were out of range, for the shot did not
disturb anybody. Once they threw a shell into the
air, which burst when some four or five hundred
feet high. No damage was done by it, and their
artillery seemed to be of no use to them whatever,
while, on the cent:erg, ours seemed to be of im
mense use to us; and it was most ably and of
(actively handled. After a little more than two
hours of hard fightine, a most tremendous volley of
musketry, followed by a ringing shout from our
side, seemed to have decided the battle in our favor,
for from that time, although firing was kept up at
ntetrals, the Seeeaslordsts, whipped and cowed,
began their retreat, whioh, in about twenty minutes
more, became a total rout; and from thO indica
tions along the road, which we afterwards, passed
over, the night appeared to have boon a regular
race from that point back to their entrenchments,
to see who could got there first, and the devil take
the hindmost.
All the credit and honor of this battle is due to
the 10th Indiana, the oth Ohio, the 4th Kentucky,
and 2d Minnesota, for they did all the fighting,
as it were, single-haned, with the exception of
what support they received from thp artillery. They
all fought nobly, and judging from the sound of the
musketry, they never wavered from a fixed deter.
urination to gain the victory. The combatants were
so near to each other nt one time, that the powder
burned their faces in the discharge of their pieces ;
but the underbrush was so thick that bayonets were
of but little use, and as charge could hardly have
been made,
The most important event of the day was the
death of Zollicoffer. Col. Fry, of the 4th Kentucky,
charged up a bill by himself upon a group of
mounted officers, and fired at the one he conceived
to he the chief among them; he fired two shots;
both of them took effect, and Zollicoffer, one of the
master spirits of the rebellion, fell off his horse dead.
Col. Fry was, luckily, unhurt, but hit horse was
shot through the body, the bullet entering only a
low inches behind the Colonel's leg. This must
have been a deadener to all the hopes the Seces
sionists had for victory, as from this moment began
the retreat; and so closely did our forces push upon
them that they were obliged to leave their illus
trious leader whore he fell, by the side of the road,
What were the Eget Tennesseans doing, during
all this engagement. with their boasted bravery ?
The First Ite,giment I know but little about, except
that it marched towards.the edge of the woods in
which the firing was goien, and disappeared from
sight. As a regiment they did not fire a gun; but
Lieutenant Colonel Spears, who is a whole , 'Pealll
and.a hone to let, some way got in ahead of his
men, and whore the fighting was; he shot a few
times with his revolver, and turned toned to see
whore his men were, when lie perceived an olllcer
in between Lim and where his regiment oughtto be,
evidently 07,ing to out him off But the efficor,
who turned out to he Lieutenant Colonel Carter,
waked up the wrong passenger when he got after
Spears, and the tables were turned ; for instead of
cutting Colonel Spears off, the colonel took him
prisoner and brbught him back into the regiment.
The Seeond lenneFsee went through various and
sundry evolutions ; they wore marohed and counter
marched, right-oElloml and lefonb/hred, , right
faced and loft-faced, and brought up all-standing
in a briar•pateh.
Well, finally we were formed in a line of battle,
out of all harm's way, and remained so until the
firing was nearly all over, when we were double
quicked to the edge of the woods, and halted again
until the ding receded and died away entirely.
It is needless to comment upon the conduct of
the Tennesseans; to say what they could have
done, or would have done, under other circum
stances. More is the fact what they did' do, and
that was simply nothing. As to the rest, the future
will decide.
Our course was now steadily forward to the main
road that lad to Zollicoffor's encampment on tho
Cumberland. I shallnot attempt to describe the
battlefield, the•deiul or the dying. Of course, in
all battles, somebody must be killed, and somebody
must be wounded ; this was no exception to the
'general rule. I shall mention only one of the
dead—that one Zollicoffor. Ile lay by the side of
the road along Which we all passed, anti all had a
fair slew of what was once Zolliooffer. •
The moroh was now steadily but cautiously for
ward. Two pieces of artillery were taken; one
was crippled on the woods near the battle ground,
and tbo other was found stuck in the mud about a
mile in the rear; also two wagons with ammuni
tion. No incident worth mentioning occurred on
the march, which was deliberately but steadily for
ward, with the artillery well up, until. a final halt
was made, about half-past four, within a mile of
the breastworks of the famous fortifications on the
Cumberland, which have been reported impregna
ble. here the artillery was again planted, and set
to work eholling the wonderful fortifications; and
a continuous fire was kept up for nearly an hour.
.Every shell that was thrown wo could bear burst
distinctly. There was only one cannon that answer
ed us from the breastworks, and that ono sounded
more liko a potato pop•gun than anything else I
ean liken it to, and did us no damage, as the shot
never reached uss. This ono piece was only fired
four times. Night eland in and the firing ceased.
"We all laid down on the wet ground, In perfect
security, to rest our weary limbs, the distance wo
load come being over ten miles on the direst road,
let alone the bushes and undorbrush wo wont
through, to say nothing about two or three dross
parades of the 2d for somebody's amusement, but
not our own, I can memo you. And then the roads
and fields were awfully out up, and mud was
plenty, as it bad rained a good part of the fore
noon. Our men kid down to rest without a mouth
ful to eat, many of whom had eaten no breakfast;
but as Captain Cross said, " the man who could not
fast two days over Zollicoffer's scalp, was no man at
al" and there was no grumbling, as there was
imeeesity for it. fiewover, the teams Alamo up in
tie night with crackers and bacon. ,
Now here is the summary, eo far as I know, up
to Sunday night : are within a mile of-Zollicof
fer's encampment ; Zollioeffer is killed and his forces
have been whipped—some two hundred of them
being killed and a groat many wounded ; ono of
Crittenden's aids, a lieutenant colonel, and three
surgeons, are taken prisoners, but hew many more
I know not ; two pieces of artillery and three wa
rhns were loft. and the rood wasstret ad with guns,
lanicets, coats, havermeks, and eVeryttoing else
at impeded flight; on onr side from 2,1 co 30 are
killed, and from 20 teloo wounded, having no pri.-
Boners taken that we know of.
. . .
On the morning of the 20th, soon niter deyli ht,
+ha rffie , rnmita were moved forward M.
ward the bresstwirits, sea e. 4fairslnk WI or two
fired over into them ;Int no answer was made, nil
wee quiet. The regiments moved steadily on and
into their fortifications, it being ascertained that
there was no one to oppose them. The enemy
having crossed the river during the night, or early
in the morning, the rout was complete. It seems
as though there was a polled pante among them,
their tents having been left standing. and their
blankets, clothes, cooking utensils, letters, papeys,
etc., all left behind.
The position is a pretty strong one, but not near
ao much so as we had been led t - • suppose. Huts
were built, nicely ohlocked wits mud, many of
them having windows in them for ootnfortablo win
ter quarters. How much work the devils have dons
bore, and how little it bus profited thorn ! I have
been wandering around all day, and seeing and
hearing what I could. Tho Cumberland makes ono
side of the encampment safe, by an abrupt bank
250 foot high. I wont down to the river bottom, to
which there is a road on our side. Hero were all
or nearly all of their wagons, some twelve or fifteen
hundred borsea and mules, harness, saddles, sabres,
guns; in fact, everything. It wits a complete
stampede, and by far the most disastrous defeat the
Southern Confederacy has yet mot with. Ton pieces
of cannon, with caissons, are also here. To all ap
pearances, they seem to have completely lost their
senses, having only one object in view, and that was
to run somewhere and hide themselves.
Now, to account for the battle taking place as it
did. 'chore were eleven rebel regiments hero, two
being unarmed; and Zotlicoffer, who was the pro
dding devil, although Crittenden had token the
command, thought the Tenth Indiana and Kinney's
battery were just two regiments by themselves,
and did not know that they were supported by the
balance of the division, which was out of sight be
hind on account of the timber; and ho conceived
the happy idea of rushing upon and oopturing
these two regiments to got their arms to supply his
own unarmed mon. So be took all the available
force ho had—some 8,000 or 0,000 men—and made
the attack—with what result has already boon
shown. Now this only goes to prove.that, in order
to put this rebellion down, we must (Al something.
In this fight four of our regiments whipped and
completely routed the great army that was under
Zolheoffer, killed the old devil himself, and may
be Crittenden too, for ho has not been heard of
since the battle. The prisoners WO have taken esti
mate our force at 20,000 ; bsh ! we elan take them
any time, and any place, and giving them the odds
three to one, whip them every time. Their cause
is a bad one; they know it; and the only way their
mon can be induced to fight at all, is by their lead
ers getting in the very front rank with them.
The Second Minnesota captured a banner from
the Mississippi regiment, which had on it the
,4 3iissiesippi Butchers." They may be good butch
ore, at home, but they make a mighty awkward
fist at butchering Yankees. They had bettor go
home and tend to their business. Nearly every
man has a trophy of this victory; there are plenty
to get, certain ; and I sit writing this, now, with a
Louisiana &nave head-dross and tassel on my head.
I give you a copy of two or three of the docu
ments found in the camp. The following was found
on a table, in ono of the cabins :
" COLONEL SPEARS: Wo fought you bravely
and despot ately, but misguidedly. We leave hero
under pressing eircunistanoes, but do not feel that
we are whipped. We will yet succeed, and"—
Dm the eiroumetanoss became Repressing that
the writer did not wait to finish tho epistle. Col.
Spears supposes the writer to be Major John W.
Bridgman, of the Tennessee cavalry.
The • following woe written on a piece of brown
paper, with a pencil:
Jan 19,1862. - Flantrzu CREEK,
The great battle at Fishing Creek took plane.
Oar 10£18 was groat. Supposed to be eight hundred
killed and wounded, and a groat many taken pri
soners. We will try them again at our breastworks
if they come to us.
At the bottom of tho paper, upside down, is a
name I cannot make out, and then Polasky."
"Here is another paper, which is evidently the re
sult a oouncil of war, held before this force came
across the north aide of the Cumberland:
44 The result of your crossing the river now will
bo that you will be repulsed and lose all the artil
lery taken over.
"Dec. 4, '6l, ESTILL. "
" Another Wild Cat' disaster is all we can look
forward to. FuLTERRSON."
"Vie will cross over and find that the enemy has
retired to a place that we will not deem advisable
to attack, and then wo will
- return to this encamp.
mont. Lonuca."
Instill is a colonel from Middle Tennessee. Fulker.
son is a major, and one of the big heads of the Se.
cession party in Tennessee. It seems that there
was oppostion in the camp to the move on to this
side of the river, but old Zollicoifer, the head devil
of the army, ruled the roast and did come over.
Some of these predictions proved to be strictly true ;
it did turn out to be a"Wild Cat " disaster, only
worse, and they did lose all their artillery; and,
more than all, the old he-devil Zolliooffer lost his
life. The rout has been complete and total. Ills
whole force is entirely scattered, and if the victory
is followed up across the river, they will never rally
together again.
It is cow nearly three o'clock in the morning
while I write, and, with a few reflections, this
already long letter—perhaps too long—shall be
*closed.
What a lucky thing that Zollicoifor was bold
enough to attack our force; bad he not-done 80,
no battle would have been fought hero for a long
time.. And this victory cannot be credited to tro
skill of a brigadier general. The battle was en
tirely accidental ; the position was entirely a chance
position, and the mon themselves, led by their
colonels, fought the battle and won it. The Tenth
Indiana got into the fight supporting their plokets,
the Fourth Kentucky and Ninth Ohio rushed in,
without orders, to support the Tenth. Whether
the Etcond Minttesota had Won Who Ist or not,
Ido not know. And those four regiments did all
the fighting
eight regimente Zollicoffer had in the
engagement.
The Ninth Ohio, which some way I came very
near omitting, deserves especial praise. Colonel
McCook rushed his men up just about the time
the Tenth Indiana was giving ground. And the
Indiana boys say the Ninth fought like tigers, and
are just such backers as they would always like to
have. Fenix.
Further Particulars
Col. Green Clay, aid to Gen. Behooptl, reached
our city last evening, having left the scone of the
late victory on Monday, and from him we gather
some additional particulars which give us a better
insight into the fight. Prisoners report that Gen.
Gee. B. Crittenden had been appointed to the coin
mend of the rebel forces, but he had not arrived in
camp. Gen. Zollicoffer Was killed at very close
quarters; he had ridden tip to Cal. Fry and told
him net to shoot at his own mon, when Col. Try
replied that he was not doing so. Soon after this
the encounter commenoott which proved fatal.
The regiments engaged in the fight were the Tenth
Indiana, Fourth Kentucky, Second Aftunoseta, and
Ninth Ohio, with a portion of Woolford's cavalry
and two batteries. The Tenth Indiana was in the
advance, and contested the ground nobly. but a
bayonet charge being , ordered, the Ninth Ohio ad
vanced with the cold steel and soon broke the rebel
ranks, when a panic flight ensued, the retreating
columns being followed by shells, which did terri
ble execution, and vollies of musketry wore poured
in upon them. An order was found in the en
trenchments after the final flight, signed by Col.
Cummings, from which it is evident that he suc
ceeded to the command after Zolliceffer's fall, and
gave the order to disperse.
From accounts furnished by records found in
camp and by prisoners, the rebel force consisted of
abant ten thousand infantry, eighteen hundred ca
valry, and sixteen pieties of artillery. Two of the
latter have not been discovered, and wore probably
concealed. Zolliooffer was In strong position; and
his entrenchments could have beendefendod. against .
thirty thousand men. It had winter quarters of log:
huts for fifteen thousand mon, and everything was
very comfortable. So precipitate was the evacua
tion, that trunks were left in the hula, as if the
owners bad gone out to a dross parade; shaving.
materials were left behind, private correspondence,.
miniatures, extra clothing, &c. The rebels seem to
i
have been well clothed n jeans, but they wore
without overcoats. Their discarded knapsacks
contained two or three days' rations. They were ,
well supplied with blankets, and had plenty of old.
army regulation ones, white and black stripedi.
which wore %labeled.
The rout of the rebels was pressed until our
men reached elevated positions which partially
commanded the camp. Our regiments were thrown
across the country from White Oak -creek to the
Cumberland river, while Col. liarlan's regiment
was advanced same distance on the top of a hilt to
prevent the enemy from occupying it during the
bight. Zollicoffer was evidently under the impres
sion that Gen. Thomas had but two regiments with ,
him, and that' the reserves could not come up on•
account of the swollen streams. lie therefore left
his entrenchment and marched eight miles in the
hope to cut him off. lie was correct in a measure,
for lion. Sobeepff on Friday sent three regiments,
the Twelfth Kentucky and First and Second Ten
nessee, and a battery, to Oen. Thomas, but they
did not arrive in time to participate, and on Sun--
day he sent the Thirty.ftrat, Thirty.kfth, and Thir
ty-eight Ohio from Somerset, and they were obliged
to cross Fishing creek by means of an overstretched ,
cable, to which they clung, advanoing hand over
hand, stringing along the rope, such was the swift
ness of the current and the depth of the water.
When Zollicoffer discovered his mistake, his men
fought well, but they could not resist the bayonet
charge. Oar men shot with great precision; the
forest trees through which the enemy retreated
were riddled with balls.
It is uncertain whether the steamboat was tired
by our shells or destroyed by the rebels. The Con
flagration waQ watched from the hills by our men,
while "bombs bursting In air" lent a terrible
reality to the scene. The body of Gen. &Moeller
was placed in a tent under a guard of honor, await
ing a flag of truce from the rebels for its delivery,
but his men are so demoralized and scattered that
it is hardly possible the requisitien will be made,
unless it comes from Bowling Green. The rebel
general bad but one wound, the fatal one in his
breast, and his features, after he had been washed,
were calm and life-like. Colonel Hoskins was or
dered to go a few miles above Somerset and obtain
twenty coal barges, and it is probable that with
these Gen. Thomas crossed the river.—Louisville
fourkal.
Incidents Before and After the Battle.
The Somerset correspondent of tho Cincinnati
Gazette writes as follows :
LISTEMEG, AT SCROBITY'S CANA', TO TUE F. 01..%
=BIM
Sunday morning mime, dark and rainy—a fit day
for a Sabbath battle. At sir minutes before eight
o'clock wo beard the first boom of eannon. Wo
bad frequently heard what we imagined to be artil
lery firing before, but always found out that it was
distant thunder, or something similar in sound; but
there was no doubt as to this. The imagination
may mistake other sounds for cannon, but there is
little danger of over mistaking the heavy boom
of artillery for anything else. The battle was
evidently raging somewhere near General Thomas'
camp. Yet it was so me:Toted to us that we
could scarcely believe the evidence of our own ears.
That the enemy should leave his entrenchments to
attack ns in the open field, seemed almost
Major Coffee, of " Wolford's Cavalry," was
the only one who could offer any solution of the
inytnery. Ho knows Major. General Crittenden
personally, and remarked "George is drunk, ee
naval, and come out for a fight."
The came onsding oon tinned, with but brief pauses,
re. two hem, and then ceased. Wo waited in sus
pense for two hours more, but no nom- -
eat rumors began to circulate: The rebels had
completely surrounded Thomas, and taken his whole
force prisoners • they were about to cross Fishing
creek to complete the day's work by demolishing
us. The general impression seemed. to be that some
thing bad gone wrong.
Schoepff Receives News of the Rebel At
tack and Repulse.
About noon Lieutenant Colonel Moore and I wont
over to headquarters to see if wo couldn't got some
information. We found Lieutenant Munoz, ono of
the general's aids, busily engaged in examining the
bottom of a well. Ile was the only officer vistblo,
and we approached him. "No news," was his an
swer to our question, and still ho peered with anxr
tons oyes down the well. It is still a wonder to mo
what our good friend the lieutenant was looking
down there for, though in the dismal condition of
external nature, and the general uncertainty which.
prevailed, it was about a good a thing as a man
could do. Probably he was trying to see whether
he couldn't get out some of that truth vs/doh they
say lies bidden in a well, and which is so raro as
article in Southern Kentucky.
Just then we saw owning over a hill opposite, at
full speed, Major Lawrence, Captain liewit, and a
third person with the inevitable Wolford's cavalry
hlunderbus slung over his shoulder. Ho and his
horse looked like an incarnation of the demon who
may be presumed to preside over mud. If there
was ono square inch on their several bodies visible
through the surrounding crust of earth and water,
my oyes failed to perceive it, But his first words
were decidedly those of a man of like passions
to other mortals. "Hurrah, Zolly's dead !" lie
sought the General, while the Major stopped to tell
us that the rebels were routed and our mon were in
fell pursuit of thorn towards the river. Inn moment
out rushed General Sehoopff, bare-headed and jubi
lant. "Alarm, go and toll the Seventeenth,
Thirty-oighth, and Thirty,first
Regiments to prepare to march instantly."
"Instantly," ho repeated in his quick, decisive
way. We hurried bank to camp. The boys had
not eaten their.dinners yet. They were tired with
Saturday's march. They had no moat for break
fast. There were no oraokers, only cornmeal
to snake bread of, and no time to prepare it. But
it made no difference. The only anxiety was lest
Thomas should drive the enemy over the river be
fore wo could got down. Boys sick in the hospitals
hurried out to got their muskets. Onr regiment,
which could not have brought out three hundred
men for dress parade, marched five hundred strong
to battle, and ono company gone to repair the road
to Stanford. It was the same with all the rest of
the brigade. Cols. Bradley and Vandovler left
their rooms whore they had been lying dangerously
ill for weeks, to head their regiments. I did not
see the latter, but Col. B. looked as the Old Gam
ponder must have done when the Spaniards placed
his corps at their head to lead them once more to
victory.
March of SelioeplT's Brigade.
We reached Fishing creek in an hour and a half.
It was running breast high, and the current very
swift. Thoro was no timo to bridge it. A rope
was stretched across. The menstrapped their cart
ridge•boxcs upon their shoulders, and, with one
hand holding their gunlocks out of the water, and
with the other clinging to the rope to keep them
selves from being swept down the stream, they
pressed across. Ali the horses and mules that could
be found were put in requisition for ferriage. But
it was night before the last man was over. Four
miles march brought us to General Thomas' camp.
All along the road we had board the report of Gen.
Zolliconer's death. Tho country people who have
suffered from his lawless soldiery, or feared their
ravages, wore wild with delight. One old woman
on the road oxolaimod, "I've got two children in
the tight, but I don't trouble myself about them.
I'm so glad that Zollicoffer is dead." We had die.
believed the reports, knowing how such rumors
spread after a battle, but on arriving at the camp
we made inquiry, and found that there was no
doubt of the fact.
Appearance of Zollicoffer's Corpse
Colonel Connell, who had known Gen. Zolliooffer
in Washington, asked to bo permitted to see the
corpse, and I went with him. lle lay in a tent,
wrapped in an army blanket, his chest and left arm
and sideexposed. A tall, rather slender man, with
thin, brown hair, high forehead, somewhat bald,
Roman nose, firm, wide mouth, and Olean-shaved
face. A pistol ball had struck him in the breast, a
little above the heart, killing him instantly. Ins
fees bore no expression, such as is usually found on
those who fall in battle; no malice, no reckless
hate, not even a shadow of physical pain. It was
calm, placid, noble. But rhave never looked on
a countenances° marked with sadness. A deep de
jection bad settled on it. "The low cares of tho
mouth " were distinct in the droop at its corners,
and the thin cheeks showed the wasting which
comes through disappointment and trouble.
"Where, Oh! Where" 1.2 George B. Crit-
tenden 1
One mystery is still unravelled. Whore is Major
General George B. Crittenden? Nothing was seen
of him after the battle turned against him. It ap.
pears that he did not get back to his camp, for the
order of retreat was signed by " Col. Cummings,
acting brigadier general, in command of the troops."
Did he put on a "hat, a kerchief, and a muffler,
and so escape?" I think that any woman's gown
might Bt him, since this battle of Cliff meek, with.
out hunting for that of " my aunt, the fat woman of
Brantford."
There is a strange rumor Boating through the
country and in our camps that be was out off from
tho main body of his army, and, with two regi.
nients, is still hiding somewhere in the woods this
side of the river. Nobody can toll the exact spot,
but the forests are wide and wild, abounding in
squirrels and woodchucks, and there are still some
chiekons left onto titatteP4 %Vas. I don't be•
TWO CENTS.
'hove any one will ever be able to find the mythical
r'obels, but I have no doubt that the children in the
woutern 'part of Palaiki county will, for a long
time r be afraid to go out alone at night, or into the
woods' in daytime, and that they will grow up with
the Said idea, which they will in turn transmit to
their descendent, that eomewhere upon the hills,
on the Cumberland, or among the wild cliffs of
Fishing creek, wanderers fiat major general, with a
eword ten feet long and oyes like balls of fire, and
with him two thousand gigantic Tennesseans who
live on babies and' arl.ple-jtiolt, drink lefi Davie'
health from gourds full of blood, and sing" Dixie"
in the tree tops all night long in the toll of the
moon. F.
Kentucky Speculatton .. atentV is'Whut
If now Generals Thomas' and - Gshoeptf, with
Colonel Munson's brigade, will' Mom the'Cumber
land, at the earliest ponsibter moment, and push
down into Tennessee vl Albany, they can take
possession of the East Tennessee and. Virghis
road, and out off all communication between the
forces in Virginia and in West, Tennessee, while
those now at Columbus and 'Bowling Green will
have all to do they can possilsly want to keep their
entrenchments. If Boyle's brigadnhonld join the'
others, they might, after takits-thervailroad, move
West upon Nashville and take at wlthforee enough'
to bold it against any attaok.—.Noutsvills Detne
(rat.
A Forward Movement of General Nuell,tr
Column Anticipatml:
The correspondent of the Cinobnati Gazttte;
writing from Green. river under date of January ,
20, Bays :
Three cheers, "Hurrah, hurrah, htirrah,"
"tiger." You must certainly pardon this outburst,
as It could nob possibly be prevented, andoram con
fident, if you were here, you would join me. The
following order bas just been issued, via:
"Commandants of divisions, brigades, regiments
and detachments,. will draw and prepare three
days' rations immediatitr." Now, who is there
woad not get onthusiastio over such an order,
when we all know so well what is to follow, and'
BD order we have been wa g pationtlpor weeks':
liveryibing is now excitement, fresh, campfires
brightening up in every. direction, and the rations
are fast being prepared.
To-morrow morning, I presume, we will be on
our way, toward Buckner, and perhaps, before yea
get this we will have had some exciting times.
GEN. HALLECIM DEPARTMENT.•
Intoresting from. Missouri.
Sr. Louts, Jan. 24o—Eleveral of the SecesSionists
of this city, who were recently assessed for the
benefit of the southwestern fugitives; bY . order of
Gen. Halleck, having failed to pay the assess
ments, their property has-been:wised within a dap
or two past under execution. to- satisfy the assess
ment, with 25 per cent. additional, according to
General Order No. 24.
Yesterday, Samuel Engler, o prominent mer
chant, and one of the assessed Secessionists, had a
writ of replevin served upon the Provost Marshal
General, for property seized from him, whereupon
ho and his attorney, Nathaniel' Ceu, were arrested
.and lodged in the military prison.
To-day, Gen. Hellcat issued a special order
directing the Provost Marshal General to send
Engler beyond the limits of this department, and
to notify him not to return without the permission
of the commanding general, under the penalty
according to the laws of war.
General Halle& also adds that, martial law
having been declared in this city - , by the authority
of the President of the United States, all the civil
authorities, of whatever name or oMco, are hereby
notified that any attempt on their part to interfere
with the execution of any order Wiled from these
headquarters, or to impede, molest, or trouble, any
officer, duly appointed to carry each order into
effect, will be regarded as a military offence, and
punished accordingly.
The Provost Marshal General will arrest each
and every person, of whateverrank or offee, who
attempts, in any way, to prevent or interfere With
the execution of any order issued from these head
quarters. He will call upon the commanding offi
cer of the Department of St. Louie for any military
assistance ho may require.
Allairs an St. Louis.
A despatch to the Change Tribune, dated St.
Louis, January 23, says : Joseph C. Moßibben, ex-
Congressman from California, has just arrived here
from that State,
and been appointed judge advo
cate on General Halleck's staff, with the rank of
colonel.
Particulars of the death of Major Marshall, of
Merritt's horse, show it to have been an atrooious
murder. Marshall, with a squad of men, was out
scouting from Sedalia, and heardy at a house on the
road, that some women had been mgraged- by a
party of rebels not far ahead. They started in,
pursuit. and came in sight of the gang, when a rase
ensued. Marshall and a surgeon wore in advance;
but the rebels rode so rapidly as to escape—all but
two—one of whom fell from Us bores, acd, as Mar-
Shall rode up, threw up his hands and exclaimed to
Marshall, "I surrender." Marshall turned around ,
to beckon up his comrades, then several hundred
yards Wind, As he did so the rebel, whose life
had been sparai, drew his weapon and shot Mar
shall in the. left side. The surgeon fired five shots
at the fellows as he ran for a corn-field, and missed
him; but, as be was climbing over a fence, a sixth
shot struck him in the head, and killed him in
gently.
Dr. Neidlett, formerly a well-known physician of
this city, recently &treated in 11. natal-nal:no in north
Missouri, has been released on his parole
Acting Governor Hell has appointed M. V. N.
Bay Judge of tho Supreme Court. Mr. Bay is a
Republican.
A letter from Fulton, Mo., dated Monday, says :
On Saturday Major Caldwell, with fifty men of the
Third lowa Cavalry, went out on a spouting expe
dition eighteen miles from Fulton. They found two
notorious bridge•burners, Ira Watkins and Jim Sny
der. Hearing there was a camp near Steinfield's.
store, in Calloway county, they started in search of
it. One of the lowa boys, separated from the rest,
suddenly came upon twelve of the rebels, when.
they fired at him several buck-shot, wounding him
severely. The rebels vaMosed, and our boys found
quite a large amount of spoils.
Renard d; Son, carpet and wall paper dealers, on
Fourth street, wore visited by the military police
this morning, and carpetaand rugs to the amount of
5800 seized. These goods, with candles seized from.
Engles, will be sold at public auction.
hilt" , soldiers wore arrested by the provost guard
last night in bar rooms and elsewhere.
Missouri Troops in the Field.
The report of Adjutant General Chester Hard
ing, of Missouri, haa been made to Gov. Gamble.
He states that on the 22d of April, two thousand ,
men were mustered into service in Missouri, in
response to the proclamation of President Lincoln.
Within two weeks, four regiments of infantry, and
en artillery battalion, numbering in all upwards of
four thousand five hundred men, had been raised,
and the fifth regiment of infantry was about half
formed.
On the 7th, Bth, and 11th of May, five regiments
of reserve corps, numbering four thousand seven
hundred and seventy-four, rank and file, were
mustered for service in St. Louis. On the first of
Juno, there were ten thousand seven hundred and.
thirty men in the service of the Government in the
State, under command of General Lyon. In this,
force were included five regiments of reserve corps.
This entire force was raised in St. Louis, and four
fifths of it wore Germans. Pursuant to orderafrOm
the General Government, ten thousand stand of
arms were delivered to the loyal inhabitants of Mis
souri, to enable them to proteot themselves. They
have been of great service to the State and to the
Union cause, and have exhibited mush gallantry
when brought in contact with the enemy.
Besides these armed by the United States, there
were probably enough more in the Home Guard or
ganization who furnished their own arms to make
the whole number in the State upwards of fifteen
thousand. There was a class of Home Guards,
however, which should properly be considered a part
of the volunteer force of Missouri. These troops
were raised wader the following circumstances :
For a long time Missouri was not permitted to
place in the field all the mon who desired to serve
as volunteers for the war. Until late in the summer
the State was limited es to the number of regiments
that would be accepted, and there was no autho
rity to accept cavalry or artillery.
Brigadier ,General Lyon, then in charge of this
department, desiring to make his entire volunteer
force avaiable, enrolled some battalions and com
panies of Homo Guards for three months' service,
and placed them in charge of a part of the Federal
lines of communication. These troops were ordered
upon duty as soon es organized, and were kept in
active service constantly until their time of enlist
ment expired.
The estimated number of these mon is two thou
sand two hundred and nine. The recapitulation
shows that of Missouri volunteers serving for three
years or the war, there are twenty.four thousand
nine hundred and eight infantry, three thousand
and fifty-five artillery, and five thousand nine hun
dred and nineteen cavalry, making an aggregate of
thirty-three thousand eight hundred and. eighty
two.
Another Expedition from Bolin
Tho St. Louis correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times, writing under date of January 21st, Bays:
From tato arrivals from Rolla I learn that a
largo expedition is to sot out from that place in a
day or two to engage Starling Price and his army
of rebels at Springfield ; the expedition that 're
cently returned having found itself too weak to at
tack the Secession horde with any hope of suocess.
The Union force will be some fifteen or sixteen
thousand, with a largo proportion of cavalry and
artillery—some forty or fifty pieces, I understand—
under the direction of Gon. Curtiss; Sigel com
mending the main column. Gen. Wyman will also
accompany the expedition, and it is thought the
Thirteenth Illinois regiment, of which he has been
the colonel, will make good the reputation they
have enjoyed as excellent soldiers.
I have no idea that Price will meet our army, as
he never incurs any particular risk. Ile will, no
doubt, continue his policy of always being on the
safe side, and repeat the programme he adopted
during the Fremont campaign. Until some large
force is sent to Price's rear, to cut off his retreat,
there is little hope of extracting a battle from him
on aught like equal terms.
Withdrawal of SlgePs Resignatxon.
General Sigel has withdrawn his resignation, at
the urgent solicitation of the President and General
Idalleok, and with the understanding that he will,
at least, be treated fairly in the future. I expect,
in the next engagement, tohear of Sigel distinguish
ing himself, if an opportunity offers, in something
more than a retrograde movement, He feels keenly
the unjust accusations and aspersions that have been
made and oast upon his military capaeity, and will
bo apt to prove, at the proper time, how ill he de
serves them.
General rfalleek'a Programme.
Great curiosity is felt here, as indeed throughout
tho country, to know General Ealleck's plan for
overcoming tho rebels in Western Rentuoky and
along the Ailfaisalppl. and whoa be iyill movein this
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well on piper, and that, if it can be carried out, as
I urn assure d it can, it will prove a blow to rebel
lion that it cannot avert, and from which it will ha
nimble to recovslr.
lam reliably informed that lialleeit dototext
thing within the nest forty days that will astonish
the roblile, and that he la laboring like et Trojan to
perfect his plane, and rendes them next toinsponsibio
of failure.
it Canadian Pairoa Ibe Sou - Mem lie-.
-- • •
The iliontreal Witnrso, speaking of thapresent
positiom and hopes of rho Routh, stays :
Thero is some Torten an ides that thostropter
support the North in the American , straggle hold ,
the doctrine that the Northerners are fighting
against slavery. We eould wish- that they bad' ore'
this made emancipation a part of their polity • exaS
there is some reason tcritope that they will thiao - at
no distant day. Sty long, however, as the Pied
dent's inaugural declaration remains the rule of
notion, the extirpation of slavery cannot be Min
a:Tiered' as a point aimed at by hie Government
That GOvernment is; however; fighting - against the'
slave power whose aggressiens originated' the strug
gle, and we have no desire to see that power vie
toriews ; bat rather that, having resorted' t,:c the'
sword, It should perish by the sword:
The Routh wished the ego:Wen of slavery that it
might . rule the land; and, asa general thing s got
more from every demand than it could' have err
pected. The election oft Lincoln' was eVidentit an'
end to this- mode of cation, so the discontented'
arath declared its independence. Si soon became
evident, however, that it was - necessary to bring
forward, fortho satisfaction of other nations, other
reasons for their' action than their dislike for IMP
entPslavery President; and other reasons- weiw
soon found' that' suited the purpose admirably.
Now', • had them reasons been laid , fairly and'
honorably before' a—Consetetional Cenral:Rio",
separation role% lona Wen aceeptek:and,4entea
and bbundaries pc/meaty Intel upon. lied'
the Muth' biem enamomusf it would LODE
baie•
c a use for plungini' mw --. '~irieto war. 4 -4
steed of , tailing this- . legitimafe teem, - however,
Lardanult hii - fellowerstlisputedthe clarinet*
the establiebed oOutretnilgtkiazdanaltdioteaPPeol
to armilieed they Wei; derefore t ali the bloon that
beaten apilfiinalkfirireeft•billear. - When rebels
take up arms-Ilk nos for getteleameetste
missions al& tmreituregrof±pirei; bail* te.queLL
the rebilliOur ant thicr any.
prudent Thle goo outary-wipesigow
trervenreent hes been, that Woodrow',
for inatealelit lemma iliatrfaidat - IMF
ory is made' losAka.frisarda , orthe 'atniluallaor e
who Dave batth thai: , iltb camas ailkaalifr
tainers of tbi - vrai.: -
Whatever Twiddle thieve. Etetee - me - lterdifeif
hold, whether rodepintdent or to ,the:old ,
tinion, their • eoldiden, at Zeast , fdr many fears te•
come; mast' be deplorabbi •hi the extivore,..
Government, under any etronmetaneasoonldbartgir
bo a strong- one, and would, therefore, have grad'
dillloulty restraining-the more lawless portion if
a people never • wigidly rig,hkens, and now; mew
than ever, dornoTarmed by a lengthened oampaiga„
in which the best vigor of the luta been•unet
vated by a life •is the midet et Mix and tramp*
/11110131
The number of Wing' inen lost—the number of
husbands, fathers,-aud blogatiwthat will no 'mom
do the thinking and 'the working r wiff of itself bsia
unfficient ' calamity to put 'a nation in mourning.
Those who do return to their hourea will noltdowa ,
withatronger constitutions and more lovelyeltagao
- than when they fait put on their nallbriast.
Great as these direetevils 'of the war willbeita the
North, they will come with ton times-more weiglat
upon the South, in proptirticm to the tumatimatt
with , which that people tookeho field:
The destruotion to commerce will llisilmakamig
addition to the unpropitious -peeped's' eff - thise
States which hate :ate long fattened •by - Minty:
Their Atlantic port have been much lismard r ilf
not destroyed: 'be many years Wine Pert
Royal can take the place of-Charleston. , Theli
cotton trade and their slave trade, depending anti
are thoroughly crippled: ne London rime: ,th•
best friend of the Southern interestin Ramps ,
dares that " there seems, ery little likalibtarL of
any speedy or effectual re• establishment of the trade
of thelfienth, and the suspension of this monepotrati
be equivalent to its decay. EbYcirothe pianteaazio
recover themselves the other supplies of the market
will be found diffioult to dislodge, and, though there
will be ample, room for , compe tition, there will'be
little further chance for monopoly." lit ref-err:lac
to this, the European Testier adds: "These view',
considering the quarter .erode whieh they cease,
afford but small consolation to the Sonthern_plant
ors. Ruin is here pretty plainly indiaated for the
South, whether she succeeds in the struggle or
fails."
The Pion of Operations of the - Bu rn side
Expedition:
. The Near York - Worid's:Washington corresposid 4
ent says :
Considerable diesatiefaotion is expressed amass
prominent military mon with the risks to which rt
is alleged the Burnside expedition is and will be
subjected. These prognostications of danger are
based in part upon the ineompletenem of the equip"
meet and mobile facilities of the sixteen thousand:
troops concerned, but principally on the exposed
points of debarkation and attack selected for their
operations.
An officer of high rank-and connections has thial
-morning expressed to me his anxiety on this sub—
jest. He says (and this, owing to the lateness at
the present date, - without any --violation of officiii
reticence) that the orders under winch • the Bum._
side expedition loft Fortress Monroe embrace the
following commands—the first peremptory, the
second depending on the judgment of the leader
The entire fleet was to pass -through one o(
the inlets below Cape Hatteras, tandem:gm ist
Ith - tim - -NOuseriTer,.and-attaek
nod possess the city of Newborn, on - the i'forthilare ,
Ilea coast.
IL If matters should progress favorably, and •
dash inland seem feasible, General Burnside was t>
make a forced march with his army to Goldsboro--
sixty miles from Newborn.. (Goldsboro is at thy
junction of the 'Wilmington and Weldon Railroad:
With the road from Raleigh, and thus a main, point
on the great through line from Richmorat to
Charleston, Savannah, and the Gulf. Its occupa
tion would not, however, completely sever the rebel
railway connections, inasmuoti as they have a.
roundabout track from Ridgeway to Raleigh, and.
the, "North Carolina Railroad.") But if-the mania
to the interior should seem too perilous, the lead
ers of the expedition wore authorized to re-embark
their forces, make a two days'. sail for Cape Fear
river, and occupy the important and. strongly-de
fended sesport town of Wilmington.
The latter city is also a main point on the grand
route from Richmond to Charleston.
But now, as I have said, that we have fairly
shipped off the gallant Burnside and his brave little
array an this business, so vital to the success of
El en. McClellan's eztemive plans; now that ships,
men, and leader have boon gone ten days, and we
have yet no distinct tidings of their fortunes—now
we begin to realize the grave nature of the enter
prise, its possible successes and reverses, and to
listen eagerly for every breath of intelligence as to
the actual result. it is believed that Burnside.
after Ilewbern should be taken, would suffer the
dangers attendant upon an inland marsh to weigh
very lightly upon his determined nature, and
would dash forward as rapidly as the roads, the
enemy, and his moans of transportation would per
mit.
Now, although we sincerely believe the eastern
portion of North Carolina to be largely loyal at
heart, this expedition has not been planned in any
reliance upon such sentiment. It is felt, therefore,
that fifteen or sixteen thousand men are, after all,
a very small force to isolate in an enemy's country,
sixty miles from the coast, and to attack a punt
where the enemy's railroads intersect and afford
him every means of ommentrating large bodies o:
troops at the shortest notice.
Lot me, however, add that much of the anxiety
in question is allayed by the confident avowal La
high quarters of the rebels' inability to spare. any
force for the defence of Goldaborough and °the
North Carolina towns. General McClellan says
they cannot do so without badly exposing Norfolk,
Richmond, and Charleston, one or all. In fact, be
tween dread of our position at Beaufort, panto ore
Schoepirs success at Mill Spring, solicitude for
the safety of Norfolk, and necessity for maintain
ing the entire present forte at Manassas, they cal
hardly End heart or hands to resist Burnaide's max:
exposed movements.
Three Thousand Slaves Freed by Kansas
Soldiers.
The Chicago Tribune makes the following state
ments, vouching for their accuracy :
"The number of slaves freed by the agency of
the Kansas soldiers, np to this date,
cannot be lass
than three thousand, while several hundred others
have crossed the river and border from Missouri,
o f their own volition. General Lane's brigade,
since August, has brought out at least two thousand ;
Colonel Jennison has relieved the rebels of not
less than seven hundred or eight hundred, while
jayhawking parties and smaller d etached commands
have brought, in as many more. A great many men
are employed by officers, and as cooks in the
messes of the soldiers. These all received pay, more
or less liberal, varying from eight dollars to twenty
dollars per month, with clothes and rations. Be
aide this a large number are employed as teamsters.
The wagon master of the Kansas brigade is a black
man known as Buck. Ile is quite a well-known
character on the border. The total thus employed
must approximate to five hundred persons. It
would be desirable if some kind of discipline and
drill could be given them, both because they gene
rally show themselves courageous, and because it
would be beneficial in forming and fostering habite
of self-respect.
"The principal portion of the contraband popu
lation live in the border counties and totem. Lea.
venworth, Lawrence; Ossawatomie, Atchison, and
Mound City, have the larger population of theta.
Leavenworth probably has a population of over a
thousand in the city and immediate vicinity. There
has been for a long time an active and well organ
ized under-ground railroad at that point, the super
intendent of which is a colored man. The know.
ledge of this depot is wide-spread among the slaves
in the contiguous portions of Missouri, and they are
constantly availing themselves thereof. Lawrence
has a population, in and around the town, about
the same as Leavenworth. Atchison has two or
three hundred; Ossawatomio and neighboring
township, three or four hundred; Mound City,
Linn and Bourbon county must have over a thou
sand, as this section is where they were brought by
Lane. At Topeka and other points there are a
number.
"In the fall it was indeed a serious question what
these people would do during the winter. Bat
this, like the rest of questions, meets it Solution in
practical results. The best authorities say that
among all the contrabands now in and coming to
Kansas, there will not be over five per cent. who
Will in any way become chargeable to the publlet
purse. Nor will this five per cent. 104 remain in
a condition of pauperism. At all their meetings
for education and other self.improvement projects,
amorg them, they have unmistakably shown their
desire to do without aid from white people."
ARRESTED ON A BENCE WARRANT.—James
Boughton Was arrested: on Saturday, on a bend"
warrant, by Datectlvaaevy and Somers. The no.
owed bad been held to answer a obarge of borearTa
and dad Rata his ball. Lb was gent below.