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VOL. 5.-NO. 168.
Cije V 1155.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1862.
Buiwer's new Romance.
It is a question whether Bulwer or Dickens
be the more popular author. Both are sure of
being read, of being admired, but we suspect
that Dickens iS Vs.oBt remembered. People get
acquainted, as it were, with the characters of
his creation and remember them, ever after, as
if they were actual men and women. In each
of his stories, from Pickwick to Great Expec
tations, two or three persons stand out with
such marked individuality that we never can
forget them. Such are the famous Pick
wickian quartette, travelling for adventures,
who pick up on their way Jingle and Job
Trotter, Sam Weller and his father, Stigglns
and the Fat Boy ; and so, in his last work, we
have Magwitch, the convict, and Trabbs's boy,
Pumblechook, and Mrs. Joe Gargery, that
illustrious female who had a fancy for going
( 4 on the rampage." On the other • hand, we do
not read Bulwer's fictions for the sake of meet
ing characters whom we never can shake off.
His poetic feeling, his ingenuity in inventing
incidents of adventure terminating in results
wholly unexpected, his high constructive pow
er, his graphic descriptions, his great imagi
nation, his wondrous eloquence, his develop
ment of the springs of human action—all these
unite to make his stories so greatly attractive
that every one must read them. Still, save in
The Caxtons, My Novel, and What will He
Do with It, Bulwer has produced few person
ages who are borne in men's living memory.
In these, indeed, he has been eminently suc
cessful. In The Caxtons, who can forget the
two brothers, so well contrasted—the scholar
and the soldier ; or young Herbert, who so
well redeemed his lost character ; or Trova
nion, the statesman ; or Sedley Beaudescrt,
the man of the world, with a heart in his
bosom? So, illy Novel, we have that fine
Italian, Doctor Riccabocca, the hearty Squire,
that too crafty Randal Leslie, 'cute Dick Avi
nel, his poetic nephew, Lord L'Estrange
and Audley Egerton, Baron Levy, Count
Peschiera and his sister, and that charming
incarnation of grace and goodnedS, beautiful
Violante. Lastly, in What will He Do with
It, there is a whole gallery of persons whom
we knew—nearly 44 well as we do the leading
characters created by Dickens. There is old
Waife himself, with that erudite dog, Sir
Isaac, and that darling grandchild, Sophy ;
there are Jasper Loxley and that gray woman,
Arabella Crane, who is his Fate ; and, actors
in the very romance of love, Guy Darrell and
Caroline Morton. These grew into the mind
as realities, and show what Bulwer might have
done, had it pleased him.
Ills new romance, properly called A Strange
Story, which we glanced at, in a brief notice
yesterday, is unlike any qf his former tales,
though the reader, ere he has got through
half a dozen chapters, will remember that in
a former work, (Zenon', published twenty
years ago,) Bulwer had already attempted to
illustrate external life by symbolical philoso
phy. Critically speaking, we do not think
A Strange Story equal to Zanoni. In the
former, the incidents which border on the
Supernatural are tee OM to our til3lo
_to be
believed, whereas, in Zenon', they are blended
with the tragedy of the Reign of Terror in
the first French Revolution, and "cc distance
lends enchantment to the view." Besides,
there is more realism, amid all its wondrous
invention, in A Strange Story,—more poetry
of action and thought in Zanoni. There is
much cleverness in the sketch of Margrave,
but it is too fanciful and also too theatrical.
A Cagliostro, of our own days, even in Bul
lover% hands, is a failure. Zanoni and Mar
grave are scarcely of the same species. Mar
grave is represented as a selfish man, with a
criminal art criminally obtained, but Zanoni's
magic is a mastery over tale lawful secrets of
nature, attained by dauntless will, by self-con
quest, by the subordination of flesh to spirit.
Some of the minor characters aro ably de
lineated—especially Mrs. Colonel Poyntz and
that fine vigorous hater Mr. Vigor*. The old
physician, Faber, talks so much, so prosily, and
so metaphysically as to be an infliction. We
feel, too, that something more ought to have
been expected from Amy. Beautiful Lilian,
also, with her caprices of liking and disliking„
is unsatisfactory. The finale winds
u pp like
the conjuration scene in Der Freischutz, and
reminds one of a mclo-drama. Above all, the
mysteries are left too mysterious. Who killed
Sir Philip Duval? What was the secret of
Margrave's influence over Lilian? What
were the relations of Ayesha with Margravel
Was Margrave identical with Louis Grayle ?
In short, there are too many points left unre
vealed.
The book, improbable as it is, is written
with great power, and will be read by thou
sands. We cannot but feel the author's ge
nius, though, at times, we wish he had applied
it otherwise. Out of some twenty-two sepa
rate works of fiction written by Bulwer, none
will excite more discussion among critics and
readers than A Strange Story.
The germ of A 'Strange Story must have
long been in Buiwer's mind. We hare now
before us a letter from Bulwer, relative to an
Art Novel, which the writer of these remarks
published early in 1843. It contains this sen
tence The introduction of [Cornelius]
Agrippa is much to my own taste—for I have
wasted, some years ago, considerable time and
thought upon the works of the old Alchemists
and Theurgists, of whom Agrippa was one of
the greatest." When writing this, Bulwer
had given Zanoni to the world. Zenon', one
of the loftiest creations of fiction, glorioda in
his immortality, is the moral antipode of Mar
grave, who is essentially «of the earth,
earthy." So considered, Margrave is drawn
with remarkable ability. But the supernatural
in our day—even though Spiritualism, Table
moving, Rapping, Clairvoyance, and similar
humbuga, have found credulous patrons—is
too heavy a draft upon the common-sense of
most readers.
Fashions for February.
[Tram the Illustrated London News.]
Much trouble is being taken by the rarisiert me
diates to invent new combinationa of trimmings and
ornaments for dresses, which appear, fortunately,
to be endless. They are the luxury of the day,
and in reality the most modest material composes a
charming robe when it is tastefully ornamented
with pasaamenterie, braid, ruching, ribbon, or other
trimming. The talent of the dressmaker consists
in well arranging these ornaments; but the chief
merit lies in the novelty, and every exception
worthy of approval is pretty.
Through the exercise of this constant research,
however, fashions become soon old ; so that, if we
wish to keep pace with the progress of discovery,
no time is to be lost in adopting its more or less
Omaha novelties., It is under the itfluenee or
this last observation that we mention to our readers
the trimming a la Grecque, of which we have given
two specimens in our present illustrations. This
trimming is very general just now ; and, beyond
the skirts of dresses, is applied occasionally to
under-jupes, to corsages, to bonnets, and even to
apartment drapery.
The predominant material': for ladies' dresses for
full toilet are moires antiques, sand-colored, violet,
dark green, chestnut shot with white, white shot
with black, and black with white; fawn-colored,
and magenta silks embroidered with white flowers ;
and, for very grand occasions, white, light blue,
light pink, and steel-gray satins. Of course, the
stuffs here mentioned do not include those fre
quently chosen for dresses for halls and soirees, for
which the lightest gauzes, tulle, embroidered tarla
tans, and especially the gaze de Chamber', still
continue in high favor.
Apropos of chapeaux for the present month, there
is something in the way of improvement to men
tion. The interior crowns, which had become
much too exalted, have reassumed the proportions
that good taste and refinement can approve. Should
the ornamentation consist but of a single flower, it
is no longer worn over the middle of the forehead,
but 'a little on one side, which is preferable. Or
naments on the outside are still frequently adopted
—a mixture of feathers is fort a la mode, as also a
single flower accompanied with lace or with little
bows.
; BALL Dness.—White luteatring robe, having on
the skirt above the hem a very deep Grecque in
ruched ribbon. The intervals of the ereec t ee are
decorated alternately with puffs of white cripe
lime and white silk button also covered with the
same description of ;
crêpe. As a variation, a deep
ruching of crêpe lime may replace the fluted rib
bon.
WALIMUI Dnuss.—This elegant walking dress is
of green moire antique. The bottom of the skirt is
ornamented with a narrow fluted flounce, above
which is a wide band of green velvet, and e dged .
with: a fluting , of the same material as the robe."
The corsage is round-waisted, and the sleeves are
furnished with a trimming similar in arrangement
to that on the shirt, Bonnet of white tulle, with
feathers en toadfes ; white bavolet covered with
black lave. '
THE REBELLION.
ANOTHER GLORIOUS VICTORY !
FORT DONELSON CAPTURED !
TES STABS AND STRIPES WAVING OVER IT
FIFTEEN THOUSAND PRI
SONERS TAKEN.
GENS. JOHNSTON. BUCKNER, AND
PILLOW AMONG THE NUMBER.
DESPERATE FIGHTING ON
BOTII SIDES.
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
GENERAL FLOYD STEALS OUT OF THE FORT
DORM THE NIGHT.
The Rebels Denounce Rim as a Black
hearted Traitor and Coward.
Important Army Movements in
Kentucky.
THE =EL FORTIFICATIONS AROUND
BOWLING GREEN BEFORE ITS
EVACUATION.
INTIRIETINg nom THE REBEL ETHEL
AFFAIRS IN RICHMOND
LATER FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
The Attack on Savannah Com
menced by our Forces.
&c., &c., &c.
GEN. HALLECK'S DEPARTMENT.
The Surrender of Fort Donelson--Rebel
Account of the Surrender.
FORTRESS MONROE, Feb.lo, via Baltimore, Feb.
17.—8 y a flag of trim to-day, we hear that Fort
Donelson surrendered to Gen. Grant yesterday
(Saturday).
Gens. Pillow, Floyd, Johnston, and Buckner
were taken, together with 15,000 other prisoners.
We are also informed that fighting has been going
on near Savannah, and that that city has probably
been captured.
Federal Accounts from Fort Donelson.
CINCINNATI, February 17.—Fort Donelson was
captured yesterday. Generals Buckner and John
ston with 15,000 rebels are prisoners.
-The Official Announcement.
Sr. Louis, February 17.—Despatches received
from General Grant to General Italica announce
the surrender of Fort Donelson with fifteen thou
sand prisoners, including Generals Johnston, Buck
uer, and Pillow.
General McClellan's Despatches._
WASHINGTO', February ineGlellan
has received a despatch fully confirming the news
of the capture of Fort Donelson.
Later Official Advices
Sr. Lours, Feb. 17.—Further official adrices
from Fort Donelson say that-General Floyd made
his escape during the night, and the rebels in the
fort denounce him as a blaok.hearted traitor aid
coward.
The enemy were known to have had 30,000 troops
15,000 of whom are our prisoners, 5,000 °soaped,
and the rest are reported to be killed or otherwise
disabled.
Our loss is not stated, but the slaughter in our
ranks is mentioned as being terribly severe.
Casualties on the Gunboats.
Sr. Louts, Fab. 17.—The following are the
casualties on the gunbo ate during the bombardment
of Friday. On the S. Louis, three killed, in
cluding P. R. Ripley, of Cincinnati, and two
wounded, among them Lieut. Kendall, slightly.
On the Louisville, five sailors killed, four slight
ly wounded, and two severely—each having both
arms shot away.
On the Caronde/et, four killed, six badly
wounded, inoluding Wm. Hinton, pilot, and two
severely.
On the Pittsburg, two wounded.
The force en route for Fort Donelson had mostly
come up and , were located on the left. General
Lewis Walker, with the Eighth Missouri and
Eleventh Indiana, arrived on Friday.
Reception of the News.
BOSTON, Feb. 17.—The news of the rapture of
Fort Donelson creates an immense patriotic and
jubilative furore in this city. There has not been
so mush joy manifested in Boston sines 'the days of
the old Revolution.
NEW Yona, Feb. 17.—Tbe city is jubilant. Flags
are everywhere displayed, and there is every de
monstration of joy.
Desenption of Fort Donelson.
Fort Doubloon in a fortification made of earth,
and was constructed about the same time last sum
mer as Fort Henry. Situated at Dover, on 'the
west bank of the Cumberland, where that river
washes an obtuse angle, it is twelve miles south
east of the latter fort, and, at the last reports re•
ceived, was said to mount about ten 24 and 32-
pounders. Some seven or eight post roads inter
sect at this point, and the Memphis and Clarksville
Railroad passes but four miles south of it. The po
sition is important as controlling the river as far up
as Clarkaville, and, in conjunction with Fort
Henry and Tennessee bridge, as breaking off from
the rebels some twenty miles of railroad commu
nication.
At one time reports stated there were but eight
thousand men in the rebel garrison at this point.
Other reports have since reached us that there were
over fifteen thousand men engaged in thedefenee
of the fort. Generals Buckner, Floyd, and Pil
low were said to have gone for Ward from Bowling
Green to reinforce the works. Up to the 20th of
January it was only occupied by a feWeempanies,
but has, as before stated, been largely reinforced
since that time. Possibly the bulk of General
Tilghman's command retreated there instead of to
Paris, as is . generally supposed. Or fresh troops
may have been thrown into it from Clarksville and
Russellville. Clarksville, where the railroad
.
crosses the Cumberland, is about thirty miles from
Dover. Extensive and formidable rebel works have
been in construction here for two or three months,
and a large number of heavy guns shipped thither,
it is said, for the protection of the bridge and the
communication with Nashville.
Sketches of the Union Generals.
GENBRAL GRANT.
Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant was born at
Point Pleasant, Clairmont eounty, Ohio, April 27,
1822, and entered West Point Military Academy
from Ohio in 1839, where he graduated with honors
in 1843, and was attached as brevet second lieu
tenant, to the Fourth Infantry. He was promoted
second lieutenant at Corpus Christi in September,
1845, and served as such through Mexice, under
General Taylor at Palo Alto, Rama de is Palma,
and Monterey, and under General Scott from Vera
Crux to the city of Mexico, and was, twice pro.
meted for his bravery. He was regimental quar
termaster from April 1, 1847, and when he resigned
the service on the 31st of July, 1854, he was a full
captain in the Fourth Infantry of Regulars. After
his resignation be settled in St. Louis county, Mis
enuri, and moved from there to Galena, Illinois, in
1860. Upon the breaking outof the present war he
offered his services to Governor Yates, and was
appointed colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment of
Illinois - volunteers, and served with his regiment
until promoted a brigadier general, with commission
and rank from the 17th of May, 1861. lie was en
gaged as colonel, and acted as brigadier general, in
several of the contests in Southeastern Missouri;
and his course as commander of the southeast dis
trict of Missouri has been thoroughly scrutinized,
and among his most praiseworthy acts was theoceu
pation of Paducah and stoppage of communication
and supplies to the rebels via the Termenwe and
Cumberland riven. The manner in which he con
ducted the battle of Belmont is still fresh in our
readers' minds. The rest of his course, as com
mander there, is toe well known to be repeated
here, and certain it is that his action, in every in
stance, has been applauded both by his superior
officers and the people. After the capture of Fort
Henry a new district was created, under the de
nernination of the District of West Tennessee, and
General Grant was assigned by General Halleok to
the command of it.
GENERAL M'CLERNAND.
Brigadier General Jobn A. MoClernand had not,
previone to the present war, been particularly noted
os a military man ; but as a strong supporter of the
Union he has shone forth on more than one 000a
eion. He is a man of about forty-threp or forty
four years of age, and is rather tall in stiture. Ho
has always been noted as a Domooratio politician,
and took an active part in leading the Douglas fao
i ion in opposition to the Leeompton Constitutlois of
l'Cansam. Be was an active leader of the Douglas
party in the House of Representatives of 1860, and
also in the Charleston and Baltimore Democratic
Ocuiventions. Be was always strongly opposed to
Breckinridge and his party, and as a Douglas man
he -was elected to Congress. Be left his seat to
take up arms in defence of that Government which
ho so strongly supported by his speeches in Con
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1862.
gress. Be wits made brigadier general of volun
teers and assigned to the command of Cairo, but
was subsequently superseded by Gen. Grant.
Gen. Chas. Ferguson Smith, corn mender of the
Second division, is a native of Pennsylvania, and
son of the celebrated Dr.. Samuel B. Smith. lie
entered the Military Academy as a cadet in 1821,
and graduated in 1825. standing No. 10 in his ChM.
On the Ist of July of that year he was made a
second lieutenant of the Second Artillery. In 1829
be was appointed the assistant instructor in infantry
tactics at the Military Academy. which position ho
retained until September, 1831, when he was pro
moted to the adjutancy, retaining the same Offi.le
fill April, 1838. During that interval (viz, May.
1832) he was made a first lieutenant. On the Ist
of April, 1838, he was appointed instructor in in
fantry tactics, and commandant of cadets at West
Point, which position he filled until September 1,
1842, in the meantime being promoted to the cap-'
taincy, viz : in July 7, 1838. In April, 1847,
he was brevetted major for gallant conduct in
the battles of Palo Alto and Rosen de la Palm%
in Tdans, bits brevet dating from May 9, 1840. In
May, 1848, he received another brevet, being that
of lieutenant colonel, for gallant conduct in several
conflicts at Monterey, Mexico. on the 21st, 22d, and
23d of September, 1847, his brevet bearing the last
mentioned date. During the following August he
received *further brevet (colonel) for gallant and
Meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and
Cburnbusco. This brevet dates from August 20,
1847. 11e was appointed Acting Inspector General
in Mexico during June, 1848 On the 25th of No
vember, 1854. be was promoted to the majority of
the First Artillery, and on the 3d of March, 1855,
was further promoted to the lieutenant coloneley of
the Tenth Infantry. On the 31st of August, 1861,
be was made a brigadier generel of yelunceers, and
took charge under General MAMA of the troops at
Paducah.
General Lewis Wallace was formerly the colonel
of the Eleventh regiment of Indiana three•months
volunteers, better known as the Indiana 7,oriaves.
It will be remembered that this regiment was sta
tioned in June last at and near Cumberland, Mary
land, and that on the eleventh of that month, the
Zousves, headed by the colonel, made a dash upon
Romney and routed the rebels at that place. The
regiment was noted for its reckless mode of fighting
and the degree of " dash" with which they always
moved. When the regiment returned to Indiana
to be reorganized for the war, Gem Wallace re
mained
. quiet for a few days, when the troubles in
Missouri roused his energies, and he issued the re
markable call upon his troops which created such
an amount of enthusiasm at the time. The Indiani
ans flocked to his standard, and the regiment was
reorganized and sent to the department of the Mitt
'mutt. Some little time elapsed and the regiment
was neat sent to Paducah, after which the colonel
was promoted to the generalship of a brigade in the
division of Gen. C. F. Smith. Some little difficulty.
occurred between these two generals, and General
Wallace w transferred at his ownregnest to a now
command M Smithland.
The Rebel General's,
ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON•
Albert Sidney Johnston was born in Kentucky,
and appointed a cadet at West Point in 1822. He
was brevetted second lieutenant in the Second In
fantry in July. 1826, and transferred to the Sixth
Infantry in 1827. Ba was an ailjatant from 1828
to Ma and was appointed aid•de•citnip to Brigadier
General Atkinson in May. 1832, and during that
year he acted as Assistant Adjutant General of Illi
nois Volunteers in the Black Hawk war, and re
signed in 1834. He then went to Texas, where he
was made successively Adjutant General of the
army, senior Brigadier General, and Secretary of
War of the Republic. In 1846 he was made colonel
of the First Texan Rifle Regiment, and after its
discharge be was appointed acting Inspector Gene
ral to Major General Butler. and served in the
battle of Monterey. In 1849 he was appointed
paymaster in the regular army, with the rank of
major, and was subsequently appointed colonel of
the &mond Cavalry. IHe commanded the Utah Ex
pedition, and was made a brigadier general for the
ability he displayed in the affair. At the breaking
out of the rebellion be had charge of the depart
ment of the Pacific, but he and several of his officers
basely deserted their posts, and made their way
through Texas to the rebel army. When he era
rived at Richmond Jeff Davis made him a major
general, and assigned hint to the department of the
Mississippi. He ranks next to Adjutant General
Cooper, and is denominated by the rebel chiefs as
the ablest commander in their army.
GEN. S. P. BITCHNER
Simon Bolivar Buckner is a brigadier general in
the, rebel army. lie is a' Kentuckian, and gra
duated at West Point in 1844, his age being about
38. Ile - served with distinction as an infantry oil
ear in the war with Mexico, and was wounded at
Churubusco. In 1847 he was transferred to the
Quartermaster's Department, and in 1852 to the
subsistence Department. In 1055 he resigned, hi,e
commission.
Buekner then became somewhat of a speculator,
and acquired large property in the free States,
chiefly in Chicago Last spring he had command
of the Kentucky militia, and pretended to be lAN
to the Union. But he proveda traitor, and was
rewarded by the commission of a brigadier general
from Jeff Davis. It was reported at one time that
he bad resigned in consequence of other men who
were not as deep•dyed traitors as himself being apL
pointed over him.
Gideon J. Pillow was berm hi Williamson county,
Tennessee, in 1806. At an early age he was ad
mitted to the bar, and for some time he was the
law partner of President Polk. In July, 1846, he
was appointed by Polk a brigadier general of volun
teers, and became a major general in 1847. He
commanded a division through the campaign of
Gels. Scott in Mexico, and was wounded at Cerro
Gordo and Chepultepee. He made many blunders
during the campaign, and, for a time, he was the
laughing stock of the soldiers.
The Accident to the Gunboat Essex
A private letter dated Cairo, February 10, from
an officer of the gunboat flotilla, gives the following
description of the acoident to the Essex, Captain
Porter's gunboat, at Fort Henry, and its horrible
consequences:
t. It was a 32 pounder that did the business, pass
ing through the edge of a bow port, through a
strong bulkhead, and plump iato the boiler. He
only had about 69 . . pounds of steam on, just enough
to stem the current, or there would not have been
one man left to tell the tale. As it was, 21 were
killed and wounded. Porter was standing near the
gun, and in the act of giving an order to a bright
young lad named Brittain, the son of a clergyman
in New York, when the ball came through, carry
ing off Brittain's head, before going into the boiler.
The pilot-house was directly over the boiler, and
the only communisation to it was from below. The
two pilots had no way of escape, and were literally
boiled to death. They thrust their heads out of the
little air ports, which was all they could do.
lc Some of the crew rushed out into the open air
on the platform in front with their clothes andskin
banging in threads from their bodies, and with
their last breath shouted : • llurra for the Union.'
Another poor fellow, while dying, being told that
the fort bad surrendered said I die content.' An
other with blistered hands pulled the string , to fire
another shot, but the steam , had dampened the
pruning. Seldoni has greater heroism been dis
played. several poor fellows jumped overboard to
escape the steam and were drowned. Altogether it
was an awful scene, the contending ships and the
fort, the roar of battle and the hissing steam send
ing its deadly breath into every pore of the devoted
crew."
GENERAL BUELL'S DEPARTMENT,
CINCINNATI, Feb. moraing'o Coroner.
cial has the following :
On learning that the rebels were evacuating
Bowliog green, GOticral Buell ordered a forced
march to be made by Gezi. itNtohelt, to erre, if pee.
Bible, the railroad and turnpike bridgal on the Big
Barren river. They had, however, been deiPreyed
when General Mitchell reached the beaks of the
river. -
The brigades of Generals Breekinridge and Hind
man were, until Thursday evening, at Woodland
Station. The rebels left nothing at Bowling Green
except a few old wagons. Part of the town was
reported to have been burnt.
It is believed now that ne rebel fovea are in Ken
tucky east of the direct road from Bowling Green
via Franklin and Nashville.
Gen. Crittenden is: - •trying to organize another
army at Carthage, on the, south bank of the Cum
berland. This is the only rebel force on the line
from Bowling Green to Nashville.
Generals Breokinridge and Hindman's brigades
have fallen back.= Russellville, where Buckner's
and Floyd's brigades have been stationed for some
time.
Hardee and Johnston were also believed to be at
that pnitit on Friday, It is presamad that, with
the exception of the above brigades, the whole re
bel army has been moved to Fort Doneleon and
Clarksville.
What movement may bate been made by the
rebels since Thursday can only be conjectured ; but
the probabilities are that they have concentrated
their whole force on the . Cumberland river, If,
however, they have not done so, the divisions of
Generale Nelson and Mitchell will be ample to cope
with all theyr may have between Bowling Green
rand Ileahville.
It is believed that the divisions of Generals Mc-
Cook and Thomas embarked at the mouth of Salt
river, on steamers for Cuinberland, on Baturdpy
night and yesterday. The troops that have been'
in the camps of instruction at Bardstown were at
Louisville yesterday, embarking, for the Cum.
berlend.
Three Indiana regiments and a battery of artil.
lery leave New Albany to-day; The aggregate of
these reinforcements is perhaps 40,000 men.
Gen. Buell goes with Gen. McCook's division, to
take command in person, on the Cumberland; where
our forces will by to-morrow night number 80,000.
While he presses the enemy on the Cumberland
with this ponderous force, their flank and rear are
pressed by the heavy divisions under Generals
Mitchell and Nelson.
Since writing the above wo town that ten rogi•
manta, now in Ohio, are otdered aG onoe to the
Cumberland.
The Rebel Force et Bowling Green be-
fore' its Evacuation.
The folloiring letter from the Louisville' corres
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial gives a de
scription of the rebel fortifications around Bowling
Green before they were evacuated by their forces.
The Correspondent says :
In my letter published on the 10th , I quoted
the Richmond Dispatch of January 25, and the
titatements made - here by a gentleman direct from
Bowling Green, to prove a movement on the part
of Floyd. We have other and later arrivals—one
person having left Bowling Green on Thursday a
week ago, and two others, formerly brakesmen on
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, as late as last
Sunday. These were men captured in September
last by Buckner, when capturing the trains. They
confirm the statements I have previously quoted,
and also the stihstanee of raj letter of the 12th inst.,
in regard to this subject. I then attempted to show
that Bowling Green was virtually abandoned. The
information latest received sets aside all doubt, and
establishes the faet,pf the total and absolute eva
cuation on Sunday, the 9th of February. Memo
randums and papers picked up by ono of in in
formants in the confusion of the hasty departure Of
the rebels show that at the time of the defeat of
Zollicoffer the rebel army at Bowling Green was,
in part, organized as below :
REBEL DEPARTMENT OR CENTRAL KENTUCKY,
MAJOR GENERAL WM. J. HARDEE COMMANDING.
Firat Brigade—Brigadier General Simon B.
Buckner : Third Kentucky Regiment, infantry,
Colonel Thomas R. Runt ; Fourth Kentucky Regt
ibfuntry, Colonel Robert Biggs; Fifth Ken
tucky Regiment, infantry, Colonel Roger B. Han
son ; and two Pdlissiasippi regiments, officers not
known.
Second Brigade—(Formerly Hardee's command:)
Tennessee Regiment, Colonel Matt. Martin;
Tennessee Regiment, Colonel J. V. Wright ; First
Arkansas Regiment, cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel
J. B. Bradford ; and four Arkansas regiments.
Third Brigade—Colonel S. A. M. Wood com
manding Seventh Alabama Regiment, infantry,
rAsnel Wood ; Sixth Arkansas Regiment, infantry,
Colonel it. Lyon ; neventh Arkansas Regiment,
infantry, Colonel ; Eighth Arkansas Regi
ment, infantry, Colonel —; Ninth Arkansas Regi
ment, infantry, Colonel —; Forty-first Tennessee
Bogiteent, infantry, Colonel —; and another nn.
armed Tennessee regiment.
Fourth Brigade—Brigadier General John C.
Breokinridge, commanding, consisting of five Ken
tucky and Tennessee regiments.
Fifth Brigade—Brigadier General Hindman, com
manding : Arkansas regiment, infantry, Colonel
Frliteriton ; Arkansan regiment, infantry, late Colo.
nel Hindman; Arkansas regiment, infantry, Colonel
Claiborne ; Tennessee regiment, infantry, Colonel
Win. Allison ; Texas Rangers, cavalry, late Colonel
Win. Terry, and two other rkansas regiments of
infantry.
Sixth Brigade—Brigadier General jcho D, Floyd,
commanding; klfth Virginia, Fifty-eighth Vir
ginia, and five other regiments.
This statement of the six brigades is not com
plete, and does not give the force at Bowling Green
at the time named. Only one of the brigades (Col.
Wood's) is reported in full, and my informant
thinks there were twenty regiments more, of which
he Maimed no minutes. The above statement, re
capitulated, give a force of thirty-six regiments of
infantry and two squadrons of cavalry, aggregating
alorce of about twenty-five thousand men. The
force of cavalry is not even approximated in this
statement. The Texan Rangers now number only
three hundred men. Since the death of Terry they
have become completely demoralized. Many of
these infantry regiments are filled up with sixty
4345 , & men, who have not been organized into sepa
rate regiments; but have been employed in filling
up incomplete regiments of older troops.
The force which left Bowling Green under the
command of Gen. Floyd, was composed of the Third,
Fourth and Sixth Brigades, of Wood, Breckinridge
and Floyd. This force departed on the nth of
January, and went by rail to Naehville and East
Tennessee. Certain forces at the Gap, under com
mend of Col. Robert Hatton, will swell this army
of Floyd's to about 15,000 men. Floyd ha sp the
benefit of naturally strong defensive positions.'
The brigade of Gen. Buckner, about the same
time, departed from Bowling Green, in the dirco
tion of Hopkinsville. He had been manoeuvring
near that place, and in front of Gen. Crittenden,
until the latter's sudden retreat upon Calhoun, when
Buckner is reported to have fallen bank and Com
bined forces with those at Fort Donelson. In the
meantime, Gen. Buell has combined Crittenden's
force with that of Gen. Grant, in a demonstration
against Fort Donelson, and Crittenden hats gone up
the Cumberland.
Thus it is shown that a virtual abandonment of
Bowling Green took place as early as January 25th.
The force remaining consisted of the Second and
Fifth brigades of Hardee and Hindman—the latter
at Cave City. This form of twelve regiments of in
fantry—only about B,ooo—were totally inadequate'
to defend the position against the forces of Nelson,
MeCook, and Mitchel. As early as the first of the
month indications of a retreat were given by Gen.
Hindman: The work of destruction was begun,
and Hindman fell back to the fortifications, gradu
ally relieving the country of his presence, but at a
fearful cost All that could in any way inure to
our benefit, or .be made applicable to our purposes,
was destroyed. Hindman was within the works at
Bowling Green but a few days before the guns were
dismounted, and the place abandoned.
The fortifications at Bowling Green are ruatlnish
'ed„ They were planned and begun upon a large
and Inalri r fieellt We, Indeed, the Sall was not
out according to the cloth. The works were in
tended for heavy guns, which they did not have, to
mount. Anticipafing,;an \ attack on Columbus, the
demand was main by that place for the heavy guns
at Bowling Green, and supplied. I timid obtained
an idea of these works which I will give as briefly
as possible without the aid of an aecompanying
sketch. ' •
" -
the streets of Bowlin g Gren run southwest from
the river about a mile, and at right angles for the
distance of about three-fourths of a mile, being
interrupted on the southeast by a range of premi
tent bile, familiarly known fly the citizens as
College Hills. Upon the most northern one. of
this range, which runs in the form of a oresoent,
northeast and -southwest, the foundation of an
extensive building was found standing by
Buckner and taken advantage of for military
purposes. On the northeastern boundary of the city
is another prominent peak, known as "Mount
Airy," the residence of Warner L. Underwood,
Esg., a member of the Kentucky Legislature. This
point is east of the river. To the north of the town,
and beyond Barren river, is " Baker's Hilt," a knob
encircled by the horse-shoe bend in the river, and
around which the turnpike on one side and the rail
road on the other, wind, and thence run north, in
tersecting three miles from the city and two miles
from " Baker Hilt." Two small hills west of
" Baker Hill" have also been fortified. They are
known as " Frie's" and " Webb's Hills." Beyond
the river, and directly west of the city is Judge
" Underwood'a Hill." To the southeast there
are no knobs—and it is upon this side that the
weakness of the position is found. Upon the
"College" range of hills to the southeast of the
city, two lunette or creacent-ehaped embankments
and a bastion fort, the latter for ten guns. The
old building mentioned befoise has been made the
basis of this work. The earth has been thrown up
against the heavy stone walls of the old foundation
and strongly sodded. The bastion,s have been made
as follows, and in some instances are what are called
double bastions 2 Strong . and heavy woodwork has
been laid—the logs at right-angles, and bound by
shrub and brushwood, and filled with earth and
atones. The whole bastion is then covered with
earth, and sodded. The gorge is wide and deep;
the hill steep and rugged, and the position naturally
very strong. The guns mainly looked to the east
and southeast,' Two heavy ones were intended to
bear upon the southwestern approaches. The lu
nette works on two of the other hills of this range
mounted nine guns, mostly S and 12-pounders.
On "Mount Airy," a lunette fort was embrasured
for six guns, bearing north ; " Baker's Hill," on
the north r five gunis in a lunette fort ; and " Price's
TIM," northeast-of the city, with a crescent-shaped
embankment of three guns, were also erected to
command the northern approach by rail and turn
pike; "Welch Bill" was crowned by a lunette
breastwork, from which three guns frowned upon a
broad valley to the northwest. On " Judge Under
wood's Hill," west of the oity, a bastion fort for
thirteen guns formed the only defences of the west
arid southwest. All these works were incomplete,
nor were there • any but guns of small calibre
mounted upon them.
It was while holding this position, With about
10,000 men, that, on the night of the 7th of this
month, Gen. Hardee received the information of
the attack on Fort Haney, and the movement of
Gen. Crittenden up the Cumberland. Ho held the
position until Sunday, when the fall of the fort was
confirmed, and the dismantling of the forts at Bowl
ing Green was begun. The artillery at fowling
Green was sent south by rail, whether to Clarks
ville or. Nashville, my informant, who took occa•
lion to escape in the Confusion, cannot state. Ile
states, poaitively, that the cannon were removed,
and the troops retreated. He also left for the North
in company with a fornier fellow-prisoner, and has
not seen or heard of a rebel since. He is positive
in the foregoing statements, which are considered
by others titan, myself to be reliable. It is upon
the statements of these gentlemen and another who
escaped upon Friday last, that General Buell deter
mined to advance.
NEWS FROM THE REBEL STATES.
An Advance Expected
We have information which justifies the belief
that the enemy contemplate an early advance
movement on our lines at Centreville and Lees
burg, and if this weather should last many days,
the roads may soon be in a condition to justify the
movement. Are our forces in condition and num
bers to resist the fierce onset that will be made?
We trust that the Government is active. To be
overpowered—for that is the only contingency we
fear—at Manassas, would be to us a terrible event;
almost irreparable in its consequences. Let the
Government look well to this point and be on the
alert.—Lynchburg Virginian.
Gone Westward
.Captain F. B. Shaffer, formerly commanding
. a
company from Washington oity, in the First Virgi
nia Regiment, left Richmond on Thursday to take
command of an artillery company in Arkansas, and
attached to a reglitiont under command of Col. Al
bert Pike.
Received Marching Orders.
The Fourteenth North - Carolina 'Regiment, Cot.
Clarke, which has for some weeks past been en
_ ouipcd 414 the Mdtg Farm, near this city, received
marching orders yesterday morning, and left town
in the afternoon. The regiment numbers about
800 men, a good. many of whom, however, aro on
the sick fist, or absent on furloughs. They were in
fine spirits, and departed on their journey with
prolonged cheers. During the presence of this re
giment near us they have given no trouble, but
have behaved as gentlemen always should do.—Fe
tersburg Express.
Influx of Soldiers.
Every train that arrives in the city from Rich
mond or Mammas is crowded with soldiers who
have re•enlisted and are on their return home to
visit their friends.--Lynchburg Republican.
Conininmeatieg with the Emmet.
Wm. Fallop t a Virginian, and captain of a small
sloop, with which be has several times succeeded in
running the blockade of one of our rivers, was yes
terday brought to this city in custody, upon a
charge of treasonably communicating with , the
enemy. The accused has heretofore been regarded
as a loyal Southern man, and has near relatives in
this State.;--Rsdim,ond Enquarer.
General Wise.
The Norfolk Day Book says
Oen. 'Witte sent down a Rag of truoo yesterday to
Roanoke Island. He is now near Currituak Court
House. He Is something better, and bears his son's
misfortune with fortitude, and says he has more
Sons left to sacrifice in defence of the `douthern,Cort.
federacy and her noble cause ; that he himself yet
lives " to fight on and fight ever."
One of Gen. Henningsen's mon called at a house
near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and asked for
a drink of water, when the man of the house called
him "a d—d rebel," and fired at him, the shot
striking him in the forehead_ flonningsen , s men
Opened fire on him, killing him in his hauler, and
then burnt the house and him in
Affairs at Richmond.
A Baltimore correspondent, writing under date
of the 15th, says :
By an arrival yesterday from NorfOlk I have
boon put in possession of details of news from
Richmond up to February 12. It is of the most
important nature, as will readily be seen. It fur
nishes abundant confirmation of the follosfing facts
First, that the rebellion is on the point of perish
ing ; second, that the recent Union victories at
Somerset, at Fort Henry, and at Roanoke Island
were entirely unexpected in the south ; third, that
the effeets of these i4eteries will be to dispel the
illusion under which the people of the South have
been laboring until now; fourth, that they are now
convinced that it will become a military neces
sity to abandon both Columbus and Bowling
Green, and to give up all hopes of entrapping
Kentucky into the Southern Confederacy; fifth,
that the muoh-vaunted defensive policy of the
South, on which they depended to preserve all the
territory south of the Ohio river from invasion,
cannot be relied on, and that they are unable to
assume the offensive; sixth, that they no longer
depend upon the active intervention of foreign na
tions in their behalf, seeing that the conditions on
which that intervention had been promised no
longer exist,. seventh, that owing to the expiration
of the terms of the enlistment or moat of the rebel
regiments now in service, and the impossibility - of
either Inducing them to re-enlist, or of filling their
places with new recruits, there will be no armies
worthy of the name in the field after next May;
eighth, that the leaders of the rebellion no longer
indulge the hope of being able to make the Ohio
and the Potouuto rivers the northern boundaries of
their Confederacy, but admit the necessity of re
tiring to a more southern line, less susceptible of
defence than either of these rivers.
It was confidently expected by the military au
thorities at Richmond that General Beauregard
would have been able not only to have hold Fort
Henry, hut also to hold the whole of the defensive
line between Bowling Green and Columbus The
fact that be has failed to do so has excited the
greatest surprise. It was known that he had at his
command troops enough, and that he did not make
such dispositions of them as to prevent the capture
of Fort Henry has greatly shaken the public esti
mation as to his abilities as a general, General
Albert B. Johnson and General Polk are also greatly
blamed at Richmond for,the loss of Fort Henry.
No attempt is made at Richmond to make light
of the consequences which must result from the loss
of Fort Henry. It is acknowledged that it breaks
the connection between Columbus and Bowling
Green, and that, although it neither isolates them
nor cuts them off irons succor, yet it renders them
both far Mote alirieult to hold. Besides this, it is
said that it opens to the forays of the Unionists the
whole valley of the Tennessee river, with all its
long pent-up treasures of tobacco and cotton.
Extraordinary exertions, however,
will be made
to hold both Columbus and Bowling Green, and to
caPillte or drive from Kentucky the Union army
now operating before Fort Done!son. To effect
these ends, large reinforcements of troops have been
sent to all those three points.
There was no idea whatever, at Richmond, be
fore last Sunday, that any attack on Roanoke Island
could be successful. The strength of the fortifica
tions, and the spirit of the thoope by whom they
were defended, seemed to preclude the idea that
the former could be reduced by Burnside's ten
thousand tempest tossed troops. When, therefore,
it became known in Richmond, on Sunday and
Monday last, that Roanoke Island had fallen, it oc
casioned universal gloom and depression.
The gentleman from whom this information is
derived has long been in public life,' and is a good
judge of the character and disposition of the people
of the South, having lived among them all his life.
Ile has seen and conversed with, at Richmond, du
ring the last month, influential men from all parts
of the South, and is prepared to say, on their au
thority, that there is at this moment a vast majority
of the people of the South (probably fire-eighths of
the population, but he puts it as high as six-eighths)
who would this moment return to their allegiance
if they were sure that the old Union mid be
restored on its original basis, and that their
property could be protected under it. If
the Southern people ,could be assured that
such would be the ease they would lay down
their arms in en instant, and joyfully return to
their allegiance under the Constitution. It is only
their fears that the Abolitionist faction in Congress
will gain the ascendency, and will control such
legislation as will take away their equal rights as
members of the Union, that now prevents them from
returning to their allegiance. Should the war be
prosecuted for the avowed purpose of emancipating
or arming their slaves, or should the Republican or
Abolition pail," in Congress attempt to impose upon
them any unjust or unequal conditions as the price
of their readmission to the Unfelt, the whole South,
as one man, will fight till they are exterminated
before they will yield, On this point there is no
differenie of opinion from Norfolk to the Rio
Grande.
The efforts that had been made by General John
ston, General Buchner, and General Polk, to per
suade the soldiers to re-enlist bad been seconded
by Jeff Davis and General Beauregard, and had
been attended with partial success. The followinr,
regiments are announced as having re-enlisted to
serve to the end of the war : The Ninth Missis
sippi regiment, the Second and Thirteenth Arkansas
regiments, the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Twen
ty-first and Thirty-fifth Georgia regiments, and
the Georgia Legion; the Tenth Regiment Loui
siana Volunteers, the First, Second, and Third
regiments Maryland Volunteers; the First (or
Nineteenth) North Carolina Regiment, and the
First Regiment South Carolina Artillery.
Other regiments have positively refused to re-enlist
unless they could first have a long furlough, in
which to go home and see their families, which
war, of course, inadmissible. It is understood at
Richmond that drafting will have to be resorted to
in order to fill up the ranks of the army.
It was expected at Richmond that orders would
be iintnediately sent to the commanders of the
troops at Manassas and Centreville to abandon the
line of the Potomac, and retire to Fredericksburg,
with a view of concentrating the Confederate army
of the Potomac for the immediate defence of Rich-
Soond. It was believed that the next movement of
Gen. Burnside's army would render this necessary.
The orders, however, had not yet been-sent.
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
From Fortress Monroe.
Forannss Mounoz, Feb. H. The propeller
Planet arrived this afternoon, from Baltimoro,
having on board the submarine cable to be laid
across the bay from this point to Cape Charles.
The line bee already been completed from Wil
mington, Delaware, to Cape Charles, and also from
the headquarters of General Wool, about a mile
and-a-half up the beach, to the plaee selected for
the crossing.
The cable will be sunk in a few days, and as soon
as the necessary arrangements can be made this de
partment will be connected directly by telegraph
with Washington and New York, and the Govern
ment and the public will become informed of the
important news transmitted hence from twelve to
twenty hours earlier than at present.
The line will be under the management of Mr.
W. H. Heise, of the United States Military Tele
graph, and will be of the greatest value to the Go
vernment.
The .Fernandina sailed this afternoon. Wind
nortbeaat Glom
In anticipation of a visit from the Secretary of
War, tilt Tenth New York Regiment was ordered
to parade at seven o'clock this morning, and the
secretary must be received by a salute and other
honors.
From 6en. Minter's Army.
The Leavenworth correspondent of the Chicago
Post, writing under date 61! February 10, says :
Everything in this deprement is moving along
at a slow pace; there has but four regiments ar
rived here from the egret—three Wisconsin regi
ments, the Ninth, Twelfth, and Thirteenth. These
are as line regiments of volunteers as I have seen
during the war, and well appeared also the Second
Ohio Cavalry Regiment, which is quartered at
Platte City, ten miles from the fort. The army of
tins department consists at present of eight Kansas
regiments, making in all ten thousand troops.
There are fifteen or twenty thousand more expect.
ed very soon. Col. Huitzer, of the First Kansas, is
at present acting brigadier general. Be was in the
'Springfield fight, and behaved with great gallantry.
The expedition will not make a forward move
ment, in my opinion, before the first of May, and I
have some doubt about its being able tobe prepaxed
to move then.
The expedition is going to be a very expensive
one, if it be practicable at all. I am decidedly of
the opinion that the whole thing is impracticable,
simply because I am not able to discern how an army
of thirty thousand are to be subsisted in an Indian
country, where there is neither aubsistenee for man
or beast. If it is possible to sustain an army of that
magnitude through this unsettled cousstry, it will
cost an immense amount of money to carry it out,
without any practical results therefrom.
At the present time there is not transportation
enough in the department to move live thousand
man, and I have been unable thus far to discover
that there has been any move made to obtain it,
therefore I have come to the conelusion that there
will not be any expedition through the Indian ter
ritory to the Gulf of Kailas.
General Hunter yesterday issued a general order
proclaiming martial law in Kansas. It is a bad state
of things when a general commanding is forced to
proclaim martial law in a free State, and one that
is not affected with the disease of Secessia, for the
reason that there are civil authorities in the State
to punish outlaws, robbers, and thieves, which in
fest this State General Hunter is harassed very
much by applications for troops to be sent in all
parts of the atate, to protect the lives and property
of honest citizens from the jayhawking bands that
exist in this State. Several leaders of bands have
already beeri captured by United States troops, and
held prisoners at the fort, and will be tried by mi.
litary authority. What the sentence will be lam
unable to conjecture.
The Crossing of Green River by the Fede.
rat Forces.
The army correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial thus describes the scene at Green river
when General Mitchell's division had received
orders t. take up its march for Bowling Green :
Late in the evening General Iditeheit returned
from Louisville. Commanders of regiment/ were
immediately summoned to his tent. Important
news was laid before them. They were soon dis
missed. Colonel Burke reached his command first.
He aunounoed the new., and though your cor
respondent was a gale away, he heard, the bop ex
press tbemselven on the subject. The Thirty-se
cond caught it next; it then rolled soma the val
TWO CENTa
by, n 4 the Thirty-seventh indlttn, ]igbteoblW
Ohio, Nineteenth and Twenty-foto:1h Illinois, timit
up the oong. It then took another hien, and away
up the muddy betake of Bacon creel; the wild Wis-
conein Tenth made the welkin ring. Ate at that
moment Lieutenant Colonel Kell menaced camp;
" Boys," said he, " we leave in the morning for
beyond Cireen river." Such a shout we an set up;
you never heard a Baer- Cape were Olive% up,
and maay hadicroie exhibitions of joy exhibited.
Even the sick were made whole, rheumatin: limbs
received new strength.
No sleep that night; must leave at seven di:leek
A. M.
The Seeend Ohio led the advance, Colonel Mr
via was absent at Flizabethtows on important burli
ness, yet hie absence is always well supplied by
either Kell or MeCook. At precisely seven o'oloclii
the Second Ohio was on the line of march, followed
by Kennett's Fourth Ohio Cavalry, who, according
to previous orders, passed them about a mile on the
way.
Each regiment was followed by its baggage train
of thirteen wagons. The column was several miles
in length. The division is composed of the follow
ing regiments and batteries :
second Ohio, under Colonel Harris; Thirty-third
Ohio, under Colonel Sill ; Tenth Ohio, under Colonel
Burke; Thirteenth Ohio, under Colonel Smith;
Nineteenth Illinois, under Colonel Turchin; Eigh
teenth Ohio, under Colonel Stanley ; Twenty-first
Ohio, under Colonel Norton; Thirty•seventh'
ans, under Major Hull ; Tenth Wisconsin a forget
the colonel's name);. Fifteenth Kentucky (I forget the
colonel's name) ; Third, under Colonel Beattie;
Fourth Ohio Cavalry, under Colonel Kennett;. Lea
mill battery, Edgerton battery, and Simonton bat
tery. Many of these regiment& have been under
fire, and will enter the field with great confidenen:.
so will alt the othertl. OPC9 before in the history
of the war it has been my pleasure to witness a
great army move. That was the onward move- tee
Richmond, and—the backward on Washington.
The onward move glorioue and encouraging;.the
backward distressing. To-day I witnessed a seoond
time a great army move, with feelings of a differ
ent nature- Thep jt Seelned to• me that we were
on a three months' pie nig; and. knew net what
war was. Now I see stretched out as far as , the
eye can reach along the road, a moving column of
disciplined soldiers. At the head of the column ,
rides a general who realizes his great responsibility.
Ho has left no point untouched. essential to the-
Peking of good soldiers. He is brave, but notrashi.
severe in regard to the carrying out of all militery
rules; yet not arbitrary. During the time that
he has had command of this division Itave wit
nessed more bard drills and military exercises than
in all the three-months service combined. At Hi
o'clock the head of the column reached Green
river, -while the rear was yet at Camp Jefferson.
The pontoon bridge had been taken up. but General
McCook had floored the railroad bridge, so as to
make it passable for the troops, wagons; and artil
lery. The bridge rises above Green river 115 feet.
Over this the division crossed. The sight was sub
lime ; for hours the bridge walooveredlijwith bold,.
loyal men, on their way to meet and conquer the
foes of freedom. The bright sun-light heightened
the beauty of the WWI. Each soldier waarrayed
in all his accoutrements ; the gleaming of the guns,
the flashing forth of gay military apparel, the sur
rounding bills, covered with freedom's soldiers, the
blowing of bugles, melody of several fine bands,
made up a scene long to be remembered. The en
tire division crossed without an accident of any
kind ; and by'the time night had throwe has 88.1516
curtains o'er this part of earth, camps had , been se
lected, tents pitched, guards stationed, and for
miles around the watch-fires of the defenders of
constitutional liberty could be seen. Thus ; the fa
mous Green river was crossed by troops, intending
to return no more until the old Commonwealth
cleared of traitors.
The Indomitable Energy of Colonel Gar
field—How he Piloted a Steamer and
Saved his Men from Starvation.
The Cincinnati Times says : •
We would like to be informed of some honorable
work that Colonel Garfield can mat do. Ho has
been a canaller, a lawyer, a preacher, a teaoher, a
senator, and a colonel—in the front rank of them,
too—and now we see by the following letter, pub
lished in the Salem Republican, that not all the
raging waters of the Ohio . flood could stop him when
be 'rented to carry supplies to his needy soldiers.
„lifter the victory at- Prastonburg, our vibtorioui
soldiers were reduced to extremities for food—the
impassable roads preventingsupplies from following
as fast as it was needful for them to press on-in
order to meet and overwhelm the enemy. Then
the difficulties of supplies were augmentnd and
rendered almost insuperable by the late terrible
flood in the Obi* and the Sandy.
While the brave Colonel Garfield, forgetful of
everything but the comfort of his men and the
success of the cause, was as cool, as wise, and as
plucky on the flood as on the battle-field. The
writer says :
c , When our little boat, the Sandy Valley, on
Sandy, came down from Palntsville to Louisa, the
captain was asked to drop down , to our store-boat
end land. Said he, can't go ' You can try,'
was the reply. be d—d if any boat oan go,'
was his rejoinder. Then,' said Captain Heaton,
leave the boat, and I will put some one on board
of her that will take her up, or try, at least.' 'lf
you lose the boat, yea will have to pay for hor.'
'Ytry well ; ono poor starving soldier i s worth a
thousand such boats.' "
. Captain H. put a new crew on board, and loaded
her. By that time the water was twenty-five feet,
and was up in the tree tops. The heart of the new
captain failed him. Then we tried another little
boat, called the Screw Propeller, or Sallie, colo
nel Garfield told him that "we are going in his
boat, and that she must go up to headquarters, as
our brave boys could not starve, after having
escaped the . perils of the battle." Re said, "It
was utterly impossible ! No boat could stein such
a torrent I She will be dashed into a thousand
pieces against the rooks and shoals I" Colonel Gar
field replied, with all the enthusiasm of hie noble
nature, " Then we shall be dashed with her, for I
am going to pilot her myself, and Captain Heaton
will command her. You will obey his orders!"
We loaded her and started upon the most turbu
lent waters ever witnessed in any stream. The
little boat trembled in all her timbers; but Col.
Garfield being an old boatman, hold her true to the
stream, making about three miles an hour againet
the current. Night overtook us, and the capain
(Moore) and his four men entreated us to "tie up" to
some tree until morning. "No," said Col. Garfield,
"every man stand to hsspostt Those boys must have
something to eat. At last it got so dark we oould
not see our bands before us, and in one of those
crooked bends in the river, making an exact elbow,
the boat struck the beach with bee sharp bow, and
the earth being a sort of blue quicksand, she ran
six or seven feet into the bank, and knocked us alt
down. Here we were without a lantern, dark as
Egypt. We reversed the wheel and tried to back
out, but it was no go.
We then went into the country, got mattocks and
shoTels, end dug around her bow. Tried again,
but with no better success. Then Col. Garfield or
dered the skiff lowered, and run over the river to
pull her back by the capstan and line. The sailor
said "You can't reach the shore in safety." The
waters rushed much like those below the Falls of
Niagara. Then Col. Garfield leaped into the beat,
and made the sailor get in with him, and rowed
over to the opposite side, but they were carried
half a mile down the stream before they reached
the opposite shore; they then came back, but could
not take the rope over, the current was too swift.
We then tied one end of the rope to a tree, and
the other to the bow of the boat, and made what is
called a French windlass, with two rails; after
working her for two hours, we got her afloat again.
The current was so strong, rushing out of mountain
gorges, that we had to stop every half hour to get
up an extra head of steam to stem the current. Af
ter working all night, "neither giving sleep to our
eyes, nor slumber to our eyelids," we arrived at the
camp at l'aintville, on Monday morning at nine
u' clock.
You cannot imagine nortaan I desoribe, the joyful
eountenances of the boys, when they heard na
oomhlg. They ran down the river, shouting veal
on peal, and leaped into the air, frantio witl joy,
with tears of gratitude. God bless you," was
shouted /r9nl 4 tbooMtiii TOOL We had to guard
the boat to keep it from being literally eaten up T.
Colonel Garfield le immensely popular with the
troops—all vie with each. other " to do him honor."
The Movement of the Rebels in New
Mexico
The Leavenworth correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, writing under date of February 9, says :
The Hon. James H. Holmes, Secretary of New
Mexico, arrived in this city to-night, en route for
Washington from Santa Fe, having left that place
on the 29th of January, two days after the mail
coach, overtaking it at Fort Union. He has thus
been only . eleven" days and a half coming through
to this point, and he would have made the quickest
trip to Washington that has yet been made butfor a
snow storm on the prairie daring the past week.
Mr. Holmes leaves for Washington in the morn
ing. lie brings important despatches and infor
mation relative to the present condition of affairs
in that region. Brigadier General H. H. Sibley,
of the rebel army, has advanced to within thirty
miles of Fort Craig, on the Rio Grande, two hun
dred miles south of Santa Fe. He has with him
three regiments of Texans, numbering about 2,500
men, with two 32-pound siege suns. Ho has issued
a grandiloquent proclamation in English and Span
ish. The effect of the document on the Mexican
population was small, as they dread the Texans
too much to be affected by windy pronunoiamien
toe.
Colonel Canby was concentrating at Fort Craig . a
force of 4,500 men, 1,500 regulars, two companies
of the Colorado First Cavalry, and the remainder
Moxiean volunteers. This foxes would all he at
the fort.before the Texans reached it. Every mea
sure bad been taken to fortify the post, and to give
battle to the enemy. Colonel Canby had six 24-
pounders. Hehad not any doubted' his, ability to
make a successful resistance.
There was a force of two or three hundred regu
lars and about a theureind volunteers stationed at .
Fort Union, on the Rio Paces, and at other posts on
the Territory. It was expected that a considerable
force of Texans was advancing up the Rio Patios,
againitt Fort Union.
This, it is expected, will make a successful re
sistance.
An express was sent from Santa Fe on the night
of the 25th to Denver for reinforcements which will
probably be sent. Four companies of the First
Colorado, under Lieutenant Colonel S. F. Tappan,
a well-known Kansan, are stationed at Fort Wise
in Colorado, three hundred miles from Santa Fe.
The boys are of course quite anxious to get into the
field. Colonel Canby has informat,ion showing that
if the present rebel movement is successful, another
will speedily be • made with a view to out off his
eastern communication. In view of this, he urges
General Hunter to push forward at least 2,000 men
to keep open the lines of communication and rein
force his Department, if necessary.
Martial law prot , ails. Epory able-bodied man
in the Territory, without regard to profession, has
been drafted for service in the militia. All the
ammunition in the hands of the merchants has been
taken possession of by the Government. The In
dians are very troublesome.
Portions of two Mexican volunteer companies
mutinied on account of not receiving their pay, or
having to work on entrenchments. At Fort Craig
one company demanded to be mustered, by the
management of Lieut. Col. Paine was overawed by
the regulars, who surrounded them, compelled them
to give up their arms, go down on their knees and
cheer for the deg, afterwards Marinading the corn
peal! and compelling the men to join the regular
service for three yeara.
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Tbv ?fit Affair at Pensacola.
A reporter at Ship Island furnishes the following•
items of intelligence concerning the last engage-
Mont icieftween Fort Pickens and the rebel batteries,
gathered from naval officers who witnessed the
affair :
Oh the 7th of January, a party of refugees,
rrldtes - and blacks, 'solo and female, numboriog
ammo .lurtoon Forman, Ina& tizoir escape to Santa
Ronsitorri Winnow's.
If the statement* sigma people are to be credit
cd—ned. there is:na reason to doubt them—Gun.
Bragg warnet present at the bombardment, having
gone tahlbbite en official business. When the firing
common:a he was telegraphed to return, sad er•
friVed at .111.e'post about threw o'clock the DIM moor•
tog, at wLich'tilue tho retradecumed
General Orugg- ib represeelett as beieg greatly ex
asperated at the offeer who was left in commend of
the Confederate' forees, for lring upon Pickens,
when Generals 1340wn fired , at the steamer at the
navy yard, titers best. per Sot understanding
between the tws generals-that no-Teasels of Hoy kind
were allowed tavieit thenavy yawl, or the Winer at
Part Pickees, and that whenever they did so, they
were expeoted to be driveneff, without incurring se
general engagement.
The steamer wh*li'visited the navy yard' on the
day of the bombardment wele . not in the Confede
rate service, but contained a party of tipsy young
fellows on an excorsion, When fired . upon they
steamed away, wavin-g StrArebiun bags and uttering
derisive shouts and laughter,
The refugees report that the fast shot 110112. Port
Pickens lodged in the battery near the . light
house, dismounting ono. gun, killing sis men, be
sides wounding a large number of others: They
also stated that several wagon loadirof dead , robots
were castled out of the :#atteriee etnFbariod, but
this needs confirmation.
There octane to be a great deal of trouble and!
dissatisfaction among the regular soldiers of the
Confederate army. While the volunteers are fOll .
of fight, and ready at all rates for a brush, the•
regular troops are showing signs• of discontent.
The people are also represented as Using dissatis.
Bed with the condition of things, aad• 4wrioira to.
get out of the eerape into which their own folly has.
led them.
A short time before the bombardment, Bragg,
made a speech to his soldiers, telling them that the
Yankees were going to liberate the slaves, and:that
rather than the negroes should fall into their bands•
be vemild shoot them all,
The building in the navy yard which was- de
strayed contained all the naval stores and•eeppliea
for Sitting out vessels, and its destructioni together
with its contents, will put a atop, for a•time at
least, to all naval operations at Warringtoni—Bns.
ton Tournal.
Ilestitate Indians,
From information received at the Union bureau,
we learn that the Indians, 4,327 in number, en
camped on the Verdigris, aro in the moat destitute ,
oondition ; one-half of them barefoot, many more
nearly so, and a very large number not sufficiently
clothed to cover their nak.edness much less to pro
tect them from the inclemency of the winter. The
official statement of the chlefg gad head men ,of
these Indians give the number of the different
tribes, as follows :
Number et Seminoles 753
Number of negro slaves.
Number of free negroee
Number of. Creels
NllrisbtY of atoa 1.111;roki..
Number of free negroee
Number of Chickasaws..
Number of Quarawe....
Number of Cherokees,—
Total.
There are near 1,000 Indians on Walnut creek
and about sixty miles from that encampment, and
it is reported that they are in a more deplorable
condit on than those now at that encampment.
The French Nary,
The report laid before the Legislative Body
gives the following details revealing the strength
of the Frenoh navy
The work of transformation of the naval materiel
continues to progress at the rate provided for by
credits regularly allotted every . year for the Fur
pose7 according to the plats atlopted in 1857, As
was made known last year, a greater number of
our building slips up to the end of 1880 were taloa
supied than had been the ease for a long time past. .
The Government was awaiting the results of the
trial of the first iron cased frigate which was ever
built, and the bold " initiative" of which belongs
to France.
After the geietegi which has b oo n o btai n & t•
doubt was no longer permitted ; the art of ship
building had made an immense stride ; it was-our
duty, therefore, to resume the course of those la
bors which can alone keep up the naval power of
the Empire to the level it must preserve if w.
would not see it decline.
We have done so alike 24140 pregipitation and
without hesitation; the goal fixed beforehand in..
1857, and which it was then proposed to attain In
fourteen years, we are approaching with firm and.
steady strides, as befits a great country whose loyal
ty stands ten high, and whose independence and!
might are tee unquestionable to permit of any. in
decorous berry or Amitosis in the fulfilment of its.
most legitimate designs. At the present day the
number of our men-of-war is 101, as appearstrom,
the following tabular statement:
Old asilink ships
New transformed into
sbips. auxiliary screws. TtOd.
Line-of-battle shitm 12 22 efp.
Iron-plated frigates 2 2
Ordinary frigates
Corvettes
Avloos (1. a., gunboats)... 36
72 29 101
which would alkow, for the year, au increase of 11i
new ships; but, on the ether head, five ships EMT*
been lost at sea, and 11 have been ordered UM*
broken up as too old and unfit for service. Lastly,
we have afloat, and in course of completion, one
line•of-battle ship, four iron-cased frigates, three
ordinary frigates, six gunboats, and ewe floating
batteries.
The inscription maritime, on the let of July Wt.
numbered 170,496 rumen, viz
On board men-of-var.
Shipped for long voyages, on board merchant-
Engaged in the coasting trade....
Engaged in the coast fisheries....
In privato dockyards
In their quarters
The experiments for the impruvattiant of naval
artillery are being carefully carried on. Satisfac
tory results have been obtained, and we have rea
son to believe that in the construction of our mai
rie/ we shall have realized improvements at least
equal to those of other nations.
The supply' of timber, by, means of contracts
taken without any Intorno:4We agents, by the Add•
ministration of woods and forests, is proceeding
satisfactorily, as well as the supply of our harbors
with French coal, which, henceforth secure, will
be very soon further facilitated by the completion
of the railways in Brittany, and enable us to dis
pense with foreign supplies.
The hydtfitillo waits iiidisp6iiaado to meet the
growing requirements of the fleet are being carried
on with all the activity that the sums allowed for
the purpose will admit. Six dry-docks were com
pleted in 1861 at Cherbourg, l'ilkient and Rochfort ;
others have been commenced at Brest and Toulon_
The submarine foundation of Fort Clutragnao is pro•
grassing at the entrance of Cherbourg roadstead
the foundation of sea forts, at Caatlgneau, is being
laid ; the quays of the harbor are now completed ;
the Vauban dock has been deepened ; and a new
one, that of Missiessy, has been commenced.
Lastly, 135 electric signal posts, connecting every
point of the seaboard of the empire with each
other, *lll be ht la early period provided with
their apparatus, and will thus soon be able to ren
der all those services which the defence of our
coasts and humanity may require.
GENERAL NEWS.
A PRETTY SWAT may be witnessed in the vit
iae of Bethel Bill, Me. An aged couple, who are
quietly spending the evening of their days by them
selves, are daily visited by a flock of anow•birde.
Several years since, the kind lady seeing some of
thme wanderers from the North perched on the win
dow sill of her sitting-room, placed some food there
for them. They came regularly every day during
the winter for their food, and the next winter re
peated their visits, which. they have kept up till the
present winter, so that they now form quite a large
flock.
A DESPERATE LEAP AND NARROW ESWIPS.
—As Air. George Gaylord, an old citizen of Look
port, was crossing the high bridge at Fraction Run,
in a cutter, on his way home from the city, on last
Wednesday, his horse became unmanageable, and
took a flying leap into the chasm beneath, a distance
of forty feet, taking with him the cutter, which,
however, lodged in the lirenehes of a. tree, and_waa
little injured. The infuriated horse landed on the
rooks below, and was instantly killed. Mr. G. and
a friend accompanying him were fortunate enough
to alight upon the bridge, thus escaping certain
death.—Jeliet (Ill.) Signal, Fel. 11.
Ida. 0. D.Aascoaa, of biarahfield, Me, an the
Ist dissevered in the weeds, abeitt thivo aiyd
a half miles from his house, a den containing three
bears—two cubs and their dam. With a rope he
made a noose, and passed it over the bead of the
dam, and pulled her to the mouth of the oave,
where she was despatched with an axe. The 'rubs
were served OW
.A Yotrxo sex who was detected in ChM,
near Rochester, on Sunday last. in a criminal inti
macy with his neighbor's wife, the mother of three
children, wee taken to an out-house, stripped, and
tarred and feathered.
A LAWSUIT FOP TWENTY CENTS.—A ease itt
now on trial before the Supreme Judicial Court at
Manchester, N. H., in which the plaintiff claims
$7 20, and the defendant tenders $7. This lawsuit
about twenty cents shows a terrible want of sense.
TILE great Southern Planters' Convention
was to have assembled, yesterday, in Memphis,
Tern. .Amere the delegates from Virginia, we see
the names of R. K. Meade, Wm. L. (loggia, Chas.
J. Faulkner, Andrew 11. 11. Stuart, and Fayette
McMullen.
AT THE ALBANY IRON WORKS, Troy, Now
York, last Saturday, a scrap furnace, in which bib"
of iron were being melted, e.ttploded, wounding two
men. No one can divine the cause.
Running° NEDROES.—A resolution, started
in the Illinois State Convention, to banish all ne
groes from the State, was voted down by a vote of
21 yeas to 46 nays. •
TUE Legislature of Rhode Island have
unanimously voted to present General Burnside
with a sword.
MILES GREENWOOD & CO., of Cincinnati,
received an order on Tuesday, from the Govern
ment, for fifty 12-pound cannon.
Tun wife of General Lloyd Tilghman:Oro
commanded Fort Henry and wee taken prisoner,
was the daughter of Joseph C. Boyd, Esq., of Port
laud. •
IT Is said that Governor Sprague, of Rhode
Island, is soon to marry Mrs. VDlotto, thelovely and
aeoomplirbed daughter of secretary Smith.
Am, the troops in Illinois have been ordered.
to Cairo as fast as possible by the request of gm.
Halleok.
3,163 ger
- 3,251
30,713
31,04 T
. ... 33,158
32,048
6,588
25,926