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DRY-GOODS JOBBERS.
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for the examination of Candidates lor admission into the
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Navy. ' mhd-thstudt
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C| t
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1862.
News of Literature.
Wilkie Collins has commenced a new story
in Dickens 9 weekly journal, and it appears
simultaneously in Harper's Weekly , with
original illustrations by John McLenan. In
London, it is noi illustrated. The now novei
is called “Ko Name. 9 * Judging from the
portion already given to tho world, in the last
two numbers of Harper, this story promises
to equal any of its author 3 ** previous and
popular works in interest and merit. It
opens in Somersetshire, in a country-house—
the principal inhabitants being Air. and Mrs.
Vanstoue, their two daughters, and Miss
Garth, a jewel of a governess, who rules the
family. The mystery commences at once*
at breakfast, after the girls and their father
have been to a concert, thirty-five miles off
by rail and road. Thus does Pater-famitlas
speak of concerts:
“ ‘lf I am to be allowed my choice of amusements
next time,’ aaiil the worthy gentleman, < I think a
play will suit me better than & concert. The girls
enjoyed thomeelves amazingly, my dear, 7 he con
tinued, addressing his wife. 4 More than I did, I
must say. It was altogether above my mark.
They played one piece of music which lasted forty
minutes. It stopped three times by the way; and
we all thought it was done each time, and clapped
our bands, rejoiced to he rid of it, But on it went
again, to our great surprise and mortification, till
we gave it up in despair, and all wished ourselves
at Jericho. Norah, my dear, when we had Crash*
Bang for forty minutes, with three stoppages by
the way, what did they call it? 1
“ < A Symphony, papa.* replied Norah.
“ * Yes. you darling old Goth, a Symphony by
the great Beethoven V added Magdalen. ‘ How
can you say you were not amused ? Have you for
gotten the yellow-looking foreign woman, with the
unpronounceable name ? Don’t you remember the
faces she made when she sang ? ami the way she
conrtesied and conrtesied, till she cheated the
foolish people into crying encore ? Look here,
maiuma —look here, Miss Garth ! ’
“ She snatched up an empty plate from the table
to represent a sheet of music, held it before her in
the established concert-room position, and produced
an imitation of the unfortunate singer’s grimaoas
and courtesyings so accurately and quaintly true to
the original, that her father roared with laughter ;
and even the footman (who.came in at that moment
with tie post-bag), rushed out of the room again,
and committed the uidecorum of echoing his mas
ter audibly on the other eide of the door.”
For tho information of those who desire to
have personal particulars relating to an author
who pleases them, we mention that William
W ilkie Collins, horn in 1824, is son of William
Collins, a well-known English painter of fa
bleaux de genre —of which “ Happy as a King,” '
“ The Shrimpers,” “ Sale of the Pet Lamb,”
have been re-engraved, and arc well known in
this country. Collins < [pere ) died in 1847, and
the son commenced authorship in 1848, with
his “ Life of William Collins, R. A.,” in two
volumes Bvo, written so Well that their author
immediately was hailed, by the press and the
public, as one who had won his spurs in the
first attempt. Two years after, he wrote a
historical romance, entitled “Antonina, or
The Fall of Rome.” Next came “Rambles
beyond Railways,” (describing a tour in the
remoter parts of Cornwall,) and “ Basil,” an
intense romance of overy-day life, which was
very successful. Numerous other works of
fiction have since extended liis reputation,
especially “ The Dead Secret,” one of the
most thoroughly sensation novels of modern
times, and “The Woman in White,” more
popular as well as more ambitious. Wilkie
Collins, it has been truly remarked, is a great
master of mystery, and can so hide a secret in
a wrappage of cirenmstance that, before it is
discovered, the whole tissue must he unrolled.
He builds up his plots with great ingenuity,
avoiding all digressions, and steadily pursuing
his denouement irom the first page to the last.
"Wilkie Collins was educated for the bar, hut"'
is wholly a man of letters. He is now in hto
thirty-eighth year, and the adage that “the
best goods are made up in small parcels” stands
good in his case, for he is slight in figure and
IOW in stature.
From London we hear that Alfred Tenny
son, Poet Laureate, has in hand an Ode to be
produced at the opening of the Great Exhibi
tion this year, and in which he will com
memorate tlie public virtues of the late Prince
Albert, in terms quite in harmony with his
poem so lately published as a preface to the
new edition of the “Idylls of the King,” and
embodying several of those lines (
Our Civil 'War, now drawing to a close, will
have a variety of historians. W e have to no
tice the announcement of a Pictorial History
of the Great Rebellion, by Benson J. Lossing.
It will he very much on the plan of his well
known Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolu
tion, with the addition of twenty steel plates,
each representing an accurate portrait or some
appropriate historical scene. The issue will
he in. twenty Parts, each of 48 pages, at 25
cents a Fart, making, ivlien complete, an en
tire volume of about 1,000 pages. Mr. Los
sing’s intention is to digest and narrate facts
rather than give opinions, and, in the hope of pro
ducing a standard work on the present episode
in ottr national history, he will go to every
place of interest not already visited by him,
make sketches, confer with civil and military
officers and people, note facts, and avail him
self of the fruits of the pen and pencil of
others, so far as he may be permitted,
Mr. Everett has decisively given his opinion
“that such a work, prepared by Mr. Lossing,
will he of great value. Mr. Lossing’s dili
gence in exploring the localities whichlhe de
scribes, his fidelity and accuracy as an histo
rian, and the spirit of his illustrations, are too
well known, from his volumes which are al
ready before the public, to need any recom
mendation.”
The work will be issued by George W.
Childs, (late Childs & Peterson,) who has re
cently commenced business on his own ac
count, as publisher, at 628 and 630 Chestnut
street, where, no doubt, his enterprise and ex
perience will be successful.
TYc notice, by the way, that Mr. Childs is
agent in the United States for “ The Book
seller,” a handbook of British and Foreign
Literature, with which, some four years ago,
was incorporated “Bent’s Literary Adver
tiser,” established in 1802. It is published in
London at five shillings a year, in monthly
numbers of 112 pages Bvo. The contents are
the Gazette announcement of bankruptcies,
dissolution of partnerships, assignments, &c. ?
in the publishing trade—literary gossip, in
ventions of the month, German Bookselling,
Liverpool Booksellers, personal and anecdotal
—ten pages of fair criticisms on new books,
advertisements, and announcements front
about 130 publishers, and full alphabetical
list, with sizes, prices, and publishers’ names,
of the principal English publications in Ja
nuary, 1862. Such a low-priced and satis
factory literary publication as “The Book
seller” will he almost invaluable te ‘those
who purchase books for public libraries or
private collections.
The second and closing volume of Allibone’a
Critical Dictionary of British and American
Authors is announced as nearly completed;
also, in 2 vols. Bvo., with original illustrations
on steel and wood, a revised and enlarged
edition of General Fremont’s Explorations.
Reading through the new volume (the 14th)
of Appleton’s “New American Cyclopaedia,”
in a desultory manner—that is,'looking out to
see what it told of pet-subjects—we came to a
biographical and critical notice of William
Shakspeare. The article is unusually long, oc
cupying over ten pages, large octavo, bat no
one can deem it lengthy. This is the most
thorough biography of the great dramatist wo
have yet seen. The authenticated facts
relative to Shakspeare, derived from
tradition, contemporary -notices, and pub.
lie records, are few and brief. Within
the last thirty years the information about
Shakspeare has been doubled by patient re
search, but still less is known about him than
about any other eminent writer of bis age.
There does not remain the manuscript of one
of his plays—not even a letter of his has been
preserved. Of all that he wrote, there are
known to exist only his three signatures to his
will and two to legal documents concerning
the purchase and mortgage of a house in Lon
don. It is probable that many Shakspeare
papers might be found, if carefully looked for,
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1862,
in the muniment chests of-old families in Eng
land.
The memoir in the Cyclopaedia gives every
ascertained fact, and states, with critical ex
amination, the various traditions relative to
the poet. We are inclined to accept this bio
graphy as, for its extent, the most aocurate
and complete yet published. It distinguishes,
very fairly, between fact, tradition, and con.
jecture—is generally critical on the poet’s
works—and supplies a very complete list of
the various editions of Shakspearc. We havo
ascertained that Mr. Richard Grant White,
whose own edition is surpassed by none, wrote
the Shakspearc article in tho Cyclopaedia, and
it confirms our opinion, repeatedly expressed
in theso columns, that tho promised Life of
Shakspcare, soon to appear, will give a hotter
view of the poet’s career than any yet pub
lished. Mr. White lias not only ability and
knowledge, but also industry and judgment.
OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
LETTER FROM ITALY.
[Correspondence of The Press.}
Fliumsce, February 13, 1882.
The time is not jet come when a positive compa
rison between Italy as governed by tho Austrians
and Italy as governed by herself can be fairly
established. All is yet too young and too now.
The people, are contented and happy,
more especially as the Government has provided
work for the mechanical trades by improvements
ia the city. Many of the streets that were, in fact,
nothing but lanes, have been demolished, new
streets have been pierced] and new houses built.
Night schools have been opened for-the poorer
classes, clubs and associations for mutual instruction
and relief have been formed, and tho National
Guard has boon most suooessfully organized. All
theso are great improvements.
Whilßt, however, the masses of the people have
gained wonderfully by the change of government,
the class that the Austrian system made so nume
rous (that of Government employes) is utterly
thrown out of all employment. The centralisation
of Government and State affairs at Turin leaves no
public offices to be filled in Florenoe, and until the
spirit of industry and commerce shall have made
its way amongst a class accustomed only to a gen
tle routine of occupation and to pleasure, this class,
a great portion of the middle class, will remain
idle and in distress.
In Florence, it is not thought that the Kingdom
of Italy is completely organized. As long as Ve
nice and Home remain out of the combination the
desire for war will not be extinguished among
the Italians. Tbey feet that their work is incom
plete, and wait impatiently for the coming spring
to march on to Rome and Venice. More than the
affairs of Venice, however, do the affairs of Rome
end the Fop© agitate the public mind. Italy has
ceased to believe in the Pope.
The utmost freedom of the Press prevails here—
too much freedom, perhaps, but time will soon cor-'
reot this evil. Every political opinion is openly
expressed without asy censure or check from the
Government. You have no doubt read Cardinal
Antonelli’s reply to the Emperor of France, but
probably what you do not know is that all our pa
pers protested loudly against it. Whatever we may
do with the Pope as head of the Church, we will no
longer Buffer bis rule as a temporal sovereign.
Rome must not belong to him. Rome must be the
capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
On the 11th of January, an immense mass meet
ing was assembled in the Piazza dell 7 Indipendenza ]
the place in'which the people, in 1659, decreed the
banishment of the Princes of Loraine, brought to
gether to protest against the interference of France.
They formed themselves into a formidable proces
sion with banners and music, and proceeded to the
house of the French Consul, now residing in the
Palazzo MacDonald- Having first serenaded him,
their lenders approached the consul courteously,
bearing the message of the people. li Long live
the Emperor and the French, 71 said they as long
as they stay at home. We want Rome, we will
have Rome, but we can take it ourselves, and
without the help of the French or any foreign
powers. The demonstration was a most solemn
one, and Heaven seemed to smile on it, sending a
bright sunny day, after whole wcoks of most un
usually dark and oold weather. The cause of the
Pope is lost—utterly logt—in Italy. *
Tho utmost sympathy is felt here for the Federal
ists in America. It would not be difficult to raise
for the North an Italian legioa, to fight for what
we deem the cause of liberty.
Publications Received.
From S. C. Upham, 403 Chestnut street,- the
March number of Temple Bar and the Cornhill
Magazine. As also happened last month, the
former is rather the better. Of Mr. Sala’s new story,
“Captain Dangerous,” only a single chapter is
given, but there are three chapters continuing
“Aurora Floyd,” a sensation tale of great interest,
and the commencement of another story of the same
character, entitled “ Lady Letitia’s Lillipnt Hand.”
From Alexander Smith, the poet, who avows his
belief in Macphereon’s pseudo-translations of Os
man, is a fresh and racy account of his “Rambling
about the Hebrides.” Other artioles of various
merit make np an attractive number.-
In the Cornhill Magazine Thackeray so far
advances the “ Adventures of Philip” that the hero
marries Charlotte Baynes—on somewhat like §2,500
a year—which is not Buch a small income to start
on. Mr. TroUope, we are delighted to say, has
nearly wound up “ The Struggles of Brown, Jones,
and Robinson,” the most stupid story he ever wrote.
Of Covent Garden Market a very lively and accu
rate account is given, with sundry oapital illustra
tions. Life and Labor in tho Coal Fields and Recent
Discoveries in Australia come under the category of
thrice-told tales, for all they relate has been said,
over and over again, in the newspapers. Of Mrs.
Stowe’s story “Agnes of Sorrento,” wehave thefour
chapters,which we read, three weeks ago, in the At
lantic Monthly—useful chapters, too, if they give
assurance to Mrs. Stowe, as theyhave done to the
world, that she has utterly failed in thia her first
attempt to write an Italian romanoe. Because
Hawthorne’s ” Marble Faun” was deservedly suc
cessful, she (endeavored to rival him, bat in vain.
She ought content herself with Uncle Tom. Rich
ard Doyle’s illustration, entitled “ After Dinner,” is
less crowded than usual, and every face and figure
tell. In his letter-press he sensibly repudiates Uw
idea of having an evening party after a fine dinner.
The new-oomers cannot cealesce with those who
have just risen from the table.
From W. B. Zieber, agent for the American re
publication of the four British Quarterlies and
Blackwood, —a scries so good and low-priced that
every one whose inoomo is above $5OO a year should
take it in, —we have the new number of the North
British Review, commencing a new volume. With
a single exception, its contents are good, dismissing
John Ruthin, the Honse of Savoy, Gruzot and the
Fapaoy, Photography, Theodore Marlin's Catullus,
Old Maidisjn, Sif WiUiatu Lockhart of Lee, Lord
Herbert and the British Army, and Peasants an 3
Poets Of Austria and Scotland. The exception, en
titled “ The American Republic: Resurrection
through Dissolution,” takes for its text thereoent
Anti-Union publication in England, written by
James Spence, areereant Philadelphian now located
in Liverpool. We give some acoount of this article
in another column.
In the Journal of the Franklin Institute tot
March will be found, among other valuable ar
ticles, the Report of the Naval Board on the Ste
vens Battery, giving the reasons why they recom
mended it should not be completed upon the plans
proposed, and Professor Henry’s minority report
stating his opinion “ that, although the vessel may
not be a convenient or ssfe ship for long voyages,
she might be made of sufficientstrength to withstand
the exposure f from the waves of the seaj to which
she would be subjected, and to efficiently perform
the service required.” The Report, dated Decem
ber 34,1861, is of singular interest at this moment,
when an iron-clad steamer has done such good ser
vice in Hampton Roads, and that branch of naval
warfare will certainly be greatly extended.
Mr. Horace Binney’s pamphlet on the suspension
of the Writ of Habeas Corpus has elicited a number of
replies. We have reoeived four of these from Mr.
John Campbell, bookseller, 419 Chestnut street,
three being published by himself. The replies are
respectively affiliated on Mr. Tallow Johnson, on
“ A Member of the Philadelphia Bar,” on Mr.
Montgomery, andfon Mr. James F. Johnstone. We
shall take an early opportunity of more particularly
noticing these pamphlets.
Tun following named oitios and towns have been
taken from the enemy since the commencement ef
the present year :
Elizabeth City, N. C. Huttoasrille, Va.
Edciiton, N. O. Boumey, Va.
Vinton, N. C. Florence, Ala.
Bowling Green. Ky. Cedar Kere, Fla.
Faiutville, Ky. Springfield. No.
Nashville. Tenn. Eastport, Miss.
Clarksville, Tenn. Columbus, Ky.
Dover, Tenn. Leesburg, Va.
¥ a> etteville, Ark. Springfield, Mo.
BnitouTille, Ark, Brunswick, Ga.
Martinaburg. Y». Fenmndina, Fla.
Ltetown, Va. Manassar, Va.
I.ovfttfivlHe, Va. Contreville, Va.
Snuthfielri. Va. St. Marys, Ga.
Bolivar, Va. BerrjTllle, Va.
Charlestown, Va. Contravillfl, Va.
Harper’s Ferry, Va. Occoquan, Va.
Bis Itetheli Va. Winder, Va.
Paris, Teon. New Madrid, Mo.
The following rebel forts and fortifications have
also been captured siace the Ist of January :
Fort Johnson, Va. Columbus Fortifications,Ky
Fort Beauregard, Va. Bowling Green do. Ky.
Fort-Rvaur, Va. Mill dpriog do.- Ky.
Pig’s Point Battery, Va. Roanoke Island Batteries.
Shipping PofQt Battery, Va. Elizabeth City d<?, N,C,
rbekpit Point Battery»Va. Fortifications at Dt. Simon's,
Fort Clinch, Fla. Ga.
Fort Hvtiry, Tenn. Fortifications at Manassas.
Fort DoaetoOD* Tcjia. Batterfqt at Qra4c,Y*
THE ONWARD MOVEMENT.
LETTERS FROM THE ARMY.
Our Special Correspondence.
HnxTnn’s Mini., Mareh 13.
The quiet attitude of our army beyond the Po
tomac is fretful to the novice at military reporting.
Having dealt with matters no greater than the
breaking of an individual leg, or at most the break
ing of an individual neck, by hanging or otherwise,
the novitiate takes the field, ardent for a sanguinary
campaign. He would ride at a mounting from
Winchester to Cockpit Point) and write an ootavo
the same evening full of bloody incident. In this
way your correspondent remembers to have said on
Tuesday, that he would eat his breakfast in Rich
mond on the ensuing Sunday, and provide his
naders on Monday with graphic pictures of the
headquarters of Jeff Davis, and the hindquarters of
some of his soldiers, as seen in dim and distant re
treat.' He is, therefore, somewhat ill at ease to find
that a competitor has forestalled him at Mananas,
and that, banished to a remote division, he is still
zealous, but a little incensed, and a trifle loss re
signed, at Hunter’s Mills, on Difficult Creek, and
on tho line of the Loudoun and Hampshire railroad,
fifteen miles from Washington. Fifteen miles by
railroad is equivalent to twenty-seven by Virginia
carriage roads, and on a Virginia horse your corres
pondent rode between the hours of two and nine
Pj M-* arriving at the camp of the Twelfth Regiment
scaroely less abused than his animal, which, with
the inherent spirit of tho chivalry of this dominion,
would.not work in harness and had to be coerced.
A'prompt supply of good Government forage will
probably bring both of them to terms. After pass
fofrChain Bridge, under the protection of two clay
ftr&j crowned with grimed and grim cannon,
that frowned at us over a sharp and taDgled abattia,
vVge commenced to ascend a turnpike cut up by com-
teems, that wound .over a series of sterile
hills, dotted with deserted farm houses—halfhovel,
hrifVmskery. Not a panel offence lined the way; the
coin had been stripped in the green ear or had rot
ted in the fields; the dumpy covered wagons, with
the jaded mules, stretched monotonously away, and
here and there a gay riding party splashed by,
with Yromen’s garments flaunting in the winri; and
bright countenances that Bhone by contrast, like
beautiful faces in prison. At Langley’s—a cross
road and a tavern—wo passed the huts formerly oc
cupied by tho Pennsylvania Reserve division. An
other command occupied their tenements, and the
way was lined with groups of soldiers, Cavalry
battalions were drilling in tho road, and field pieoos
wero located on the high grounds to tho right and
left. Companies of light infantry were practicing
as skirmishers, and idlers of every conceivablo rank
and regiment were lolling prone and listless
the scrub cedars and wild bushes. Thenceforward
we followed the track of the Reserve on its histo
ric march to Dranosville. Wo galloped past
Rush’s Regiment of Lanoera, a mile beyond
Langiey's, and saluted many pleasant ac
quaintances in their ranks. A mile further
on we reached the line, until recently oc
cupied by Secession pickets. Henceforward tho
way was lonesome, and as we rattled across Diffi
cult creek bridge, in the depth of a gorge, the la3t
r&ys of sunlight dUd away. The stars were shining
as we turned into a by-road or bridle-path, hither
to used merely by ox-teams, and entered a terra
incognita, to Federal troops at least. The pickets
were now frequent and decisive, but the night was
so clear that one could see them in the deepest
woods, and thus anticipate the almost ghostly chal
lenger. At an old house, three miles from thu
turnpike, we mot the first mounted picket, and
were led into the presence of a lieutenant, who
paid'little attention to the Provost Marshal’s pass,
but ‘asked some questions and seemed satisfied.
nine o’clook wo travelled by the light Of the
Reserve camp fires, and reined up before General
Ord’s headquarters as {the last tattoo was beating.
Spending a night under the hospitable awning of
Colonel John Taggart—with whom, of old, we bad
gene itemizing some hundred? of te?9—we break
fasted in the morning on the aweeteeirof pork and
the hottest of ooffee, and so reported, at 9 A. M.,
on Thursday, to General McCall, whose tent lay
back of an old field, in an alcove of scrub pine
trees. Permission was given to tarry and be hap
py, but to forbear meandering into restricted
topics, and to submit all copy to the eye of the
censor. All courtesies were proffered by Quarter
master Rinawalfc, of Downington, with whom we
■ abide at this writing, and the rest of the day w&4
Repent after a fashion, in reconnoitring and asking
questions. General Meade is an old
white farm-house, across the road from General
McCall’s, and General Reynold’s brigade occupies
/the two miles or so to the southward, and west
of Difficult crock.
The Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad, extending
thirty-six miles in the direction of the Potomac,
between Leesburg and Alexandria, is now repaired
and in running order from Vienna southward, a
distanoe of fifteen miles. The bridge at Difficult
Creek, near our encampment, is «d be restored
to-morrow, when this division of the army will be
enabled to receive its supplies pnnctually, and so
avoid the weary and precarious jonrneys of tho
teams. Heretofore, it has taken a whole day to
haul a loaded wagon out from Washington, The
bridges at Broad, Goose, and Tusaarora creeks,
above, have been destroyed by the retreating
rebels, and so, for the fourth time, railroad commu
nication will be opened with General Banks’ divi
sion. Parts of the track also require replacement,
hut we expect, by Monday, to travel by rail from
Leesburg to Washington.
A few nights’ occupation, by an army, changes
the whole appearanoe of a country. The quarter
masters here, for instance, have already opened up
new roads and parts of roads to avoid quagmires
or steep hills; the timber is out away for acres;
huts and structures of brush dot the bleak summits
and slopes; the untenanted houses are being de
spoiled for purposes of fuel, and all the fences are
tom up, Hunter’s old mill, a venerable, dusty
structure, is being refitted, the millstones having
been scraped and the machinery put in order.
Such astonishing changes surprise the Virginians
around the camps, who are mostly a sleepy, prime
val people. They woke up on a morning and be
held regiment frfter regiment, on horse and foot,
passing their doors. The house-dogs were too
much awed to bark defiance, but kept up a howl
all night, as they saw the blaze of the watohfires
and flitting figures, and beard the ring of hoofs:
By another morning, there was an array of tents
crowning three miles of ridge and hollow, and all
the pigs and chickens had mysteriously disappeared
from the barnyards. To ride np and down the tine
of camps is to catoh the strains of mingled mnsio
end behold all that is picturesque and animated
The mountain air is so clear that voices ring through
it like bells, and the streams are cold and tumbling.
Being far from home, the soldiers are companiona
ble, and reject conventionalities. To talk with a
soldier' five minutes is to reoeive an invitation to
fare and sleep with him. Those who were moody
at home must, in camp, be either
sooiabie or solitary, and a charming abandonne
prevails of making friends at will. 4 condition of
affairs so happy extends to the Civilians.
One may drop into any farmhouse hereabouts,
converse With males and females indiscrimi
nately, 1 and depart unquestioned as to his
name and position. But withal, the ruinous
effects of war are all too plain. Promising farms
are almost valueless; money and luxuries are
equally soarce; the men say they are discouraged
and poor; tfi? women haye faded, jaded faces, in
dicative of husbands and brothers expatriated.. The
few females are both poor and tempted. Chastity,
indeed, in anenemy’soountryis in inverse ratio to
the disoTepanoy between bluecoats and pettiooats.
When we say that fifteen thousand men aTe en
camped upon fifteen farms, the inference will be
plain. But in their best aspects, the countrywo
men of Virginia are homely and uninteresting.
They are. negligent in dress, impassive in speech,
and lacking in animation both of mind or counte
nacc*.
On Saturday last the hills wA toir CCCupy w6?A
in possession of tho Tebel scouts and piokets. The
inhabitants report that they were seen to look down
from the adjacent ridge a short time before our
advance appeared. Some, have returned,
either by accident or design, and were either de
tained or compelled to take the oath. The latter
remain under cloee surveillance. Contrabands ar
rive hourly, and our farthest piokets extend in a
direct line about eight miles from the Potomac.
The Loudoun and Hampshire road, in faot, may be
considered our extreme position towards rebeldom,
Dd it seems doubtful that we will move far
ther, for some days, at any rate. Wc aro situated,
therefore, about nine miles from Centreville, and
waiting for the slow coming of events. G. A. T.
A Midnight March.
Washington, March i 5,1362.
On Friday morning, at 8 o’olock, a rumor pre
vaded the camp of the Pennsylvania Reserve divi
sion, that sooret orders of an important character had
been received. During the day a mysterious aeti-
vity prevaded the quartermaster’s and commissary's
departments, but the soldiers and officers, in the
main, were silent and unsuspecting. Midday pas
sed, as usual, and hot coffee and savory meat were
prepared and devoured at supper. In the evening
jour correspondent rode toward the. extreme
picket, when, at six o’olock, a body of Cavalry
dashed headlong by him, and in a moment wild
screams, ob of exultation, were heard issuing from
tbe camps of Ord’s brigade. Directly the outer
picket galloped toward headquarters, and follow
ing rapidly, we found that the Third brigade had
broken up their enoampment and harnessed their
mules to their teams. Prooeediog still farther
in the direction of Hunter's Mill, we
heard the roll being beaten on every hill
top, and long lines of men were gathered, knap
sacked and equipped, beside their huta of bush
and turf. Directly, upon taming an angle in the
road, we encountered General McCall, his adjutant
and staff, mounted and trotting composedly toward
us, to take their place at the head of the line in
the general march to Alexandria. Taggart's re
g:ment was cheering uproariously; the Seventh and
the Eleventh came bloeking up the way, in dense
long lines, advanoing over a steep hili. Mules
and teamsters were fuming and fretting in the
fields; the signal corps, with their white flags strap
ped behind them, went nervously after the general,
nod from a dozen directions, and simultaneously,
as many regiments came tramping and shouting,
keeping time to familiar tunes, and wild with the
adventurous enthusiasm of volunteers. The dark
ness was coming on and a thick mist falling, but
the camp fires flickered against the sky. showing
the outlines of stunted pines and confused figures
moving and blending the imperfect light. By and
by great batteries of brass and iron, with caissons
and magazine wagons, Jand squadrons of cavalry
thundered down the slopes, and we could faintly
hear the screams of tho il Bucktails,” as they wait
ed in line a the order to move.
In fifteen minutes from the receipt of the order,
every foot soldier, horseman, and artillerist, was on
the march; a fair pioneers were left to fire tho
huts and guard the forage, and the great commis
sary wagons closed in behind the last battalions of
General Reynolds, that filed over the fields to the
music of “Bully for you.” Then the teuts were
lighted with torches Of pitch pine, and, in a few
minutes, three miles of men, compactly formed,
and moving at quickstep, were marching by a blaze
that made the sky lurid and warmed the noses aud
toes that were chilly and clammy in the slime and
rain. Rare individualities were exemplified on the
night march. In one place, we encountered a
group of men industriously playing cards by a dim
camp-fire, oblivious of the passing teams, and yet
so engulfed in gloom that they could scarcely see
tho faces of tho pasteboards. A few lay down to
sleep upon the wet ground, and, turning their faces
to the rain, looked like corpses rather than living
men. Thus we passed all manner of depths and
steep ascents that Eorely tried the mettle of the
In places, a single wagon would clog or
stand in the roadway, and the whole of the suc
ceeding train would thus be brought to a halt. The
hours passed wearily, the rain drizzling all the
while, and we turned into the turnpike road to
Alexandria about half past ten o’clock. At twelve,
we reached Powell’s Ford, or » Republican mill/'
on the verge of Difficult creek. The men at once
tore up all the fences, and fires we're mado in every
direction. We slept, in common with the division)
upon the cold, moist earth and rose in the morning
at five o’clock, retraced our steps, and, taking the
Leesburg turnpike, came slowly into,Georgetown,
at two o’clock on Saturday. The destination of
the division is imperfectly known, although there
are shrewd surmises afloat that we withhold for the
present. Enough is known to enable us to state to
the friends of the Reserve division they may ex*
pect to hear no more of them for some days, per
haps some weeks. G. A. T.
FROM FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE.
Marching Orders—The Condition of the Roads
—Rambling Through the Woods—Headquar
ters at a Rebel Surgeon's House—From the
Advance Guard—Quaker Guns—Centreville—
Occupation of Manassas—General McClel
lan and Staff—Secession-Scrip—Waudering
Jaws—A Scene at tho Station—The Crops,
etc*
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Fairfax Court House, )
Wednesday, March 13, 1862. J
The long-expeoted and wished-for movement
has at last commenced, and many hearts have been
made glad thereby.
The order was received in our division, Gen.
Fitzjohn Porter’s, at a late hour on Sunday
evening, and at six the next morning every man
was ready. The men were in good spirits and
eager for the fray—to that extent that the hospi
tals Were nearly emptied, the sick, halt, and disa
bled all seizing the opportunity for a sudden re
covery. The morning opened with a cold, dense
rain, piercing the heaviest coats, and, as regiment
after regiment filed pass, each man steaming with
moisture and plunging through the mad, one
could realize the energy with wbieh this movement
is made. If it had not been for the driving rain,
the roads would have,been in a passable condition;
but, na it was, the march was mads under groat
disadvantages. To favor the men as much as pos
sible, in many Instances, they were allowed to
break ranks, and find their own way through the
woods. The sight was exceedingly picturesque;
the various uniforms set off against the dark back
ground of the foTest, the artillery trains scrambling
through the main road, and long lines of military
wagons plodding on with a gravity befitting the
importance of the quartermaster’s department. In
many instances halts mere made on the road, and
the astonished F. F. Y.’s who remained were de
lighted with the strains of the " Star Spangled Ban
ner” and “ Yankee Doodle.”
The General and staff of this division arrived at
Fairfax Court-House about 1 P. M., and immedi
ately occupied the commodious house of Dr. Gun
nell, a surgeon in the rebel army, whose rosidenoa
is delightfully located some distance back from the
main road, to which extends a fine avenne of trees,
now made sweet with the song of the robins. On
our arrival here, news was received from the ad
vance guard of this division. This guard, com
prised of two regiments of cavalry under Colonel
Averill, and one regiment of infantry (the Forty
fourth New York) under Colonel Stryker, pushed
forward and occupied Centreville Sunday night.
The place was found- vacated, the batteries frown
ing with Quaker guns, and one solitary guard
marohing up and down the breastworks. This
party had disappeared on the oavalry mounting
the bill; therefore, we oannot relate his history.
Centreville was found very strongly fortified in
deed, the entrenchments extending for miles ; but
it had been completely cleaned out, the balanoe of
the subsistence and forage stores being destroyed
by fire.
From Centreville, our advance pushed on to far
famed Manassas, whioh surrendered without a blow
to a sergeant and three men of Averill’s Cavalry.
They were at once followed up by the entire com
mand, who remained there on Monday night. Gen.
McClellan and staff arrived at Fairfax Court
House on Monday, and are quartered near ns, in a
very nice house, owned by a violent Secessionist,
and formerly oooupied as the headquarters of Gon.
Beauregard. Generals MeClellan and Porter, ac
companied by their respective staffs, rode out to
Manassas on Tuesday, and made a careful examina
tion of the battle-field at Bull Bun. Their inves
tigations were materially assisted by the explana
tions made by General MoDowell, who was also in
attendance.
Large stores of grain, etc., were discovered at
Manassas, mostly destroyed by fire. Tents, uni
forms, arms, equipments, etc., eto., were tq be
found in every direction, and wwo eagerly seised
upon by oqr men, who might be seen bringing in
trophies of all kinds. Sooesh money is at a great
discount, 930 notes idling at $2 50 each, and small
er amounts in proportion. Tuesday and 'to day
have been fair specimens of Junc weatßcf ie Phila
delphia ; in front of my window the crocuses and
anemones are struggling through the trodden-do wn
leaves and earth, and the little crisp blades of light
green grass are just appearing in every direction
across the fields. The view from this house is
charming, the eye extending for many miles over
an undulating surface of bill and dale, over which
are spread in groups' 1 the tents l’Abri, and the rub
ber tents of the different regiments, while the flag
of the Union floats in every direotion. The old
town of Fairfax is in a state of great excitement,
the inhabitants generally looking on with ah air of
grumness, which, however, appears to be mollified
upon the offer of a suitable sum in silver. The
wandering Jews are flocking in in large numbers,
and have already occupied many of tbe deserted
houses, so that the town appears quite livoly. The
provost marshals have issued striot orders as to de
predations on property, and the citizens are fur
nished with special guards whenever it is judged
necessary. A depot for quartermaster and com
missary stores has been opened at Fairfax Station,
and a steady train of army wagons is constantly
ascending and descending the hills in the vicinity.
The eoene at tbe Station defies description. A looo
motive, followed by a long train of ears loaded with
hay, oats, cattle, bread, and all olasses of supplies,
oomes screaming and whizzing into the crowd.
Then the rush of quartermasters, oommissaries,
ordnance sergeants, eto., is almost alarming. Fo
rage for tho Third brigade, shouts one. This train
is secured for MoDowell’s division, ones another.
Franklin’s division will take that bay, exolaimß a
third, while a fourth is quietly unloading the forage
or rations into his wagons without saying anything.
Capt. Bell, who is in charge at the Station, runs every
chance of being made insane. Thore are many
curious incidents connected with the movements of
large armies, whioh time will not permit me to
enlarge upon. The various auxiliary oorps added
to an army by the improvements of modern war
fare are many and novel. Within Bight of our
quarters, and to the right, some six men are busily
at work waving white and blaok flags; an officer is
engaged scrutinizing, through a spy-glass, the re
sults, as exemplified some seven miles off. This is tbe
“ Signal Corps.” At the left, a body of men are at
work upon some objeot whioh will soon bo of ser
vice. This is the “Balloon Corps.” Another party
are busy with shovels, picks, poles, and wires.
This is the “ Telegraph Corps.” And, in advance,
the “ Engineer Corpa” are exerting themselves to
elesr the way by levelling roads and making
bridges. We are In hourly expectation of orders to
move, and I trust to data my next from Manassas.
Ben Hakbt.
TWO CENTS.
LETTER FROM NEWPORT NEWS*
The Enemy Paralyzed—H«W they were Mil.
taken—Arrival of a TraJtift Farty—Visit
from the Descrip
tionof the Battle frflW thisFMwf--t>l, Har
lan's Cavalry.
[Correspondence of The Press.'];
Camp Bctlbr, NEi\T*OKt s 3si5 | tf3‘ l Va, >
March 1862. £
The James river, once the Powhatftft~*and would
it etill bore the Indian in as
bright a morning as ever smiled enpoor, distracted l
Virginia. In fact, since Friday lO
Mowed and snowed in true spl emtio have'
bad as fine weather as couid be wished, marred'
only with a short interlude of rain on Mondays
summoned, doubtless, by the tremendouscannonade'
of Sunday and Saturday. It was upon as*
smooth as glass that the JMerrimac made her'ad l '
vent—and had not the weather propitiated that'
event, no Cumberland would be lying at the hot.
tom yonder, with her hundred odd corses—noble
martyrs—still looked in fond embraoe; jqo Congress
WQuld hayo lit up the pals BjiQre and TIYCf fit ffijd*
night, with blazing sparj or yielding up the ghost
with sudden throe and burst, have lined the beach.
“ With helm and shroud ana pennant fair.”
But a paralysis has struck the enemy— the sudden
stretch of energy has tasked in a few short hours
the resources of the foe beyond their capability,
and a reaction has rendered them prone and help
less. Their momentary intoxication over the suc
cess which uiparalellcd advantage yielded them,
has died away in nervous, fearful, agonizing debi
lity. have ail miscarried or been frus
trated ; their wolfUhly-ferooious victory over the
sail vessels here—perfectly defenceless in collision
with an immense iron-clad steam ram, has been ut
terly fruitless—fruitless so far as beneficial results
to thorn or substantial injury to us are regarded, but
not fruitless in evil to their cause, as the disabled
condition of the Merrimac checks their operations,
and if ever activity should characterize a people
at war, it should now characterize the deluded and
fanatic Secessionists.
So blinded and deceived in their excited joyful
neES over the events of Saturday were the inhabi
tants of the other shore, that they became im
pressed with the conviction, on beholding tho Cum
berland sink, and the rebel fleet shelling the post,
that it was taken, and on Monday a party came
aoross with goods and notions they are as
sharp in pursuit of mercenary interests, these
Southerners, as white people should be —to settle
commence the sutler business. Of course they
were hugely astonished when they found that the
valiant Magruder, who was to have attacked us iu
the rear, was not in possession, but their comfort was,
that hundreds of others would be in the same fix
soon, as all the people about Southfield and
around were coming.” But the rest were better
advised and did not venture.
Tbo Monitor, Captain Ericsson’s steam battery,
visited us yesterday evening. The shore was blaok
with soldiery, and every available inch on the rig
ging of the small craft lying at the quays wag oc
cupied. The cheers whioh greeted the victor of
Sunday were boisterous and long-continued. It
was rumored that the brave Lieutenant Morris, who
commanded the Cumberland in the bloody, fiery
fray of Saturday, was in charge, If so— bravo !
Yours, Ac.,
V. S. All the reports thus far published of the
artillery battle here, hail from the fort, whioh is
not in sight of this post. Although no stigma was
intended, from the general sense of the rumors
published an idea may arise that without aid
from there this position would have fallen, and
that a panic during the bombardment of the camp
was imminent. Instead of this being the faot, if
an advance had been made by the forces brought
down lrom Yorktownfor that purpose, it would un
doubtedly have been repelled. We were resolved
to give them battle in tho open field, raked as it
was by shot and shell; and for this purpose, once,
when it was reported that the foe was proceeding
upon the assault, several regiments advanoed to re
oeive them, amongst them the First New York,
commanded by the gallant Col. Dyekman, whose
brilliant antecedents in Mexico, the Southerner
may consider his bond for the fulfilment of as muoh
upon them, if it overfalls in his way. This regi
ment oooupies the left wing of Camp Butler, in
front of whioh laid (and still lSyg, for She did hot
desert her post) the Cumberland, and when she
was sinking, it was the soldiers of the same who
went to the rescue of their dauntless sailor friends,
in open beats, in the midst of the cannonade, seiz
ing and employing everything floatable along tbs
entire shore. If Camp Butler ever should be taken
by the Secession horde, and if it should, the enemy
must come bomb and bullet-proof—otherwise he
dare not—the First will remember tho example of
the gallant old sloop, and •will never desert the
left, but perish at its post.
A fine body of cavalry (Pennsylvania), command*
ed by Col. Harlan, a Philadelphian, was here the
other day. This is the regiment which the New
Kent Light Horse Brigade, (Secession,) Brigadier
General Walter R . Salley, was “spoiling” to fight,
as they wrote in the Builder’s Account Book, at
Big Bethel Chnroh, but which, charging upon the
church, their headquarters, scattered them like
panic-stricken sheep, and burnt the sanctuary
which they bad transformed to a shelter for trea
son. X.
LETTER FROM LOUISVILLEi
[Correspondence of The Frees.]
LouisyiiiLE, March 7,1882.
Is there anything new under the sun ? We know
there is not, if Solomon, after he ceased to be a fast
young man, or Byron, when he became blase, can
be considered authority; but is there anything new
to this day and generation—or in this part of the
world—or of this part—or concerning the part of
the world which enjoys the effulgence of “ Forney’s
Philadelphia Press?” The newspapers are be
hind the times, or the times are behind themselves,
for everything seems to be nothing, and all things
seem to be in eclipse. For more than a week, our
eyes have been straining eastward, for there were
decided premonitory symptoms of an advance upon
the Potomac, and announcements that Manassas was
to be turned, and Jeff Bavis’ neck twisted ; but no
information has yet reached us of either the turn or
tho twist, and we have almost concluded to win one
or twa more battles, and capture three or four more
armies, by way of passing away the time, while you
get ready to announce the great eyents tyhigh mqs{
ere long take pLaoe.
Three weeks ago, this city (which, pefhaps, you
are aware, is one of the most beautiful in the coun
try) was as crowded as .Washington has been for
the past Bix months. The hotels were all full, and
the streets also, but tbe stirring times on the Cum
berland and Tennessee rivers have drawn nearly
all the military in those directions, and now there
are few strangers in town, beyond the energetio
representatives of the quartermaster, the pay, and
hospital departments. Our wharves are crowded
with steamers, loading (and departing as fast as they
load) with munitions and stores for our brave
armies. It is determined that the rebels shall have
no rest until they abandon their rebellion and sig
nify, practically, their willingness to repose in
peace upon Abraham’s bosom. “Sinners, turn,
why will you die?” is a question which is re
peatedly and earnestly suggested to their serious
consideration, and they ore seriously considering
it, while very many arc turning, in order to avoid
the death whioh would otherwise be inevitable.
Floyd and Pillow would also like to turn, bat the
ggtes of mercy age closed against them. Floyd's
punishment should be confinement for life, in an
iron cage, in tbe grounds of the National Capitol;
whilo tho ditoh-digger.could not be more severely
treated than by condemnation to solitary confine
ment and perpetual silence.
The reports in the nowspapers lead us to suppose*
that Senator Johnson, of Tennesseo, is about to as
sume the milimry Governorship of that State.
There is but one sentiment here on the subject, and
that sentiment is satisfaction. No man has been
more aggrieved bj tbe rebels than he has ; yet no
man has more wisdom, coolness, courage, and mode
ration. He knows the strength of treason, and the
resources of loyalty in that State, and he will be a
host in crushing the first, and in developing and di
recting the latter. There will be historic, as well
as poetic justice, in the faot that the man tho trai
tors would havo destroyed is the one to control the
destinies of those traitors. We are expecting to
see the Senator at the Gulf House, in a day or two,
and to have the pleasure of taking him by the hand
and wishing him “ God speed ” in the good work
before him.
This letter should furnish you with some items
concerning George D. Prentice, but as It is known
you receive, and read the Louisville Journal, they
might be superfluous; therefore, it is only neoessary
now to add that the next will contain some notos of
Fort Doneison and Nashville, derived from experi
ence in those parts. Union.
High Price «f Paper in the South.
Speaking of the scarcity, inferiority, and high
prioe of paper in the rebel States, the Maoon (Ga.)
Telegraph says:
In the demands upon us for the materials to print
this paper, wo Bay that if it grows a year henoe at
the rate it has been growing for three months past,
not ten dollars a year from eaoh subscriber wilt en
able us to print the Telegraph We received yes
terday a bill of nineteen dollars and eighty oents
for three reams of coarse wrapping paper. One
year ago we could have filled the town of Maoon
with that paper, or a bettor article, at two dollars
nnd twenty-five cents per ream. On the sixth of
December last, it wbs three dollars and ei&bty-two
cents, and now fix dollars and sixty cents. Look,
then, at the bilie for these throe periods, for the
same amount of envelope paper, to wit: JSS.7S ;
5i1.46; $l5 80. . .
One year ago the paper upon which we now print
tbe Telegraph-, if it could Save been sold at all,
would have been dear at $2.75; but the truth is
that no manufacturer would at that time have
made or sold the stuff that is now printed into
newspapers. On the first of October it was $3.22;
December, $3 65; January, $3.75; February 1,
$4.13; February 11, $5 —paper steadily sinking in
quality, Nc», in a single week’s expense, this
difference on printing paper alone amounts to
$95.501a5t October against $l5O this February;
and what it will be in the course of the year, Hea
ven alone can tell.
At the rate of advance since the first of January,
printing paper in Deeember next will bo worth
more than tea dollars a ream, and the subscriber
who now psya us six dollars a year will then cost
us eight dollars for the blank paper upon which his
Telegraph is printed.
THE WAR PRESS.
In Waa Pans will be mat to subscribers by
mall (per annum in advance) at 98. M
Three Copies “ •• 0.0-
Ten « **
Larger Clubs will be charged at the same rate, thns
at copies will cost >24; to copies will cost >6O; and 1M
copies 8120.
Tor a Club of Twenty-one or over, wa wiu aand aw
Irtra Oopy to the gottor.np or the Olnb,
ty Postmasters are reuuested to act as Agents lop
Tea Warn Pause.
S9~ Advertisements Inserted at the usual ratal. Mg
line, constitute a sunara.
THE EVACUATION OF NEW MADRID.
Oik SUCCESS COMPLETE-
THE SPOILS IMMENSE
OfIBftANCE, AMMUNITION, AND SUPPLIES
S' 4 T , J*f>cr3, March Hi —The Following is a copy of tbs
Oflici si dr.-patch to ibe Secretory of Wan
*♦ A.'Jftr several days’ ekirmtohiog, and a number of at
tempts of the enemy'* gun boa's to ritalodgo General
Pope's batteries at Point Pleasant, the enemy baa evacu
ated Ida and entrenchment* at .New Madrid* Leaving
all bis ar- Mllsryr Arid batteries, tents, wagons, mules, Ac.,
and an im weiifco quantity of military stare*.
“Brigaa Ur Gent rid Hamilton' hoe occupied the place.
“This w. the last stronghold of tho entmy in this
State, and noV Bbe * * ,a B BOW to Miwewi. 1 '
St. Lours, l*hrohls;—General Pbpe, to a dbsprateli to
tSflDfirftl liftliecJ'fFWS •
“Our success New Madrid 1 lifts' bdfefr evengtffehUtf
fc'dan reported.
“Twenty-five hear? artillery, (twonty.four
po-Jadera and rifled r )'tWrty-two batteries of
an immense quantity vt fixed ammunition, BorcTaltbou
aand mail arms* of hoxrcrof musket ca7tridgwp
thr-** hundred mulea,. and tents for an army of twelve
thousand men, and be. 1 immense queotlty of other pro
pertyy of not leea value million l dollars,' have fallen
into rax hands.
“TJ)?ffioA9nlye(Kw?6? The timr.fe whole force ir
demoralized, and dispersed the awamptm the opposite
Bide of tfte river.
“ The enemy abandoned iVir works scrhurrledly as to
leave alPthe baggage of their offiters, and 1 the knapsaek* l
of their men.. Their dead wire unbnried. Their sup
pers werton the table*! and tbr candle* burning in tha
tents.
•* A furious thornier-storm, which raged ai) night, ena
bled them to get across the river'wrthout'bcing discover
ed. Onr heavy battery woe established during the night'
of tho 12th within eight hundred yards of tho enomy**
V.'6rlis, and ft-pentd ut daylight on tlio- lCtb, just thirty,
four hours after the guns were delirered to us at Cairo/
** During the whole day yesterday our lines were drawn l
closer around their works under a furious' fire of sixty
pieces of artillery. The fear of an assault on their works
at daylight induced them to flee Droirinitatoly duping tha
night.
“Many prisoners have been taken and tho colors of
several Arkausas regiments.
“ Our loss to about fifty killed and wounded.<
“Hollins was in command of tho fleet, and
McCunn, Stewart, Gimtt, of tbo l&5fl Iws«i Tb*-
gunboats went down the river."
General Pope has twenty.five heavy guns, with two
works of tho enemy, which command evory part of tha
river.
Occupation of New Madrid—The Rebels*
Next Stronghold.
But few details of the occupation of New Madrid are
given. It appears, however, that the enemy evaouftted
the place on Thursday night, leaving behind them •a<
quantity of guns And storos. During Thursday sums
fighting took place between their gunboats and Gen.
Pope’s siege batteries* in which thore wag slight lossoa>
both sides.
A few days since it was announced that Gen. Pope had'
invested New Madrid. It was then supposed that ho
would hold the rebels in check until the expedition
came down tho river from Cairo, when, by a combined
attack, they would bo entrapped- It now appears that
the rebels, to the numbei of about six thousand, had
entrenched themselves as woll as they were able at New-
Madrid and Island No. 10. The latter is situated in tho
corner of that bend of the Mississippi river which
touches the borchr of Tennessee) a few miles farther up
thfc PlVit tb&h NfeW M&lfid, although neii-lf southwest
of that point.
The Rebels Outgeneralled.
General Pope has been in the vicinity of New Madrid
since the sth inst. On the Bth he made a movement
which outflanked the enemy. He sent a brigade, which
took possession of Point Pleasant, a small settlement on.
the Mississippi river! about ten miles below New Madrid.
General Pope's position at the latter place was not very
good for offensive operations. The country to the west
of New Madrid is quite low and swampy, which com
pelled him to make his stand as near the river as possi
ble, and consequently brought him within long range of
the enemy. It appears, however, that he erected his
fortifications, and bo entrenched himself that he could
not, with his superior force, be driven off. The brigada
of Union troops at Point Pleasant, tea miles beUw»
threatened to cut off all communication with
aud therefore the only safety for tho enemy waa evacua
tion.
was supposed that the enemy at Island No. Iff
were entrenching themselves strongly, and that Flog
Officer Foote wouti meet with a determined resistance*
wben be mored down the river to attack it, The strata,
gic movement of Gen. Pope, however, compelled them-to
keep fiat boats at the lower end of the island, ready to
retreat whenever the occasion required.
The last Hope.
Columbus. Island No. 10. New Madrid, and Randolph
ww? the fvnr wints iwn whi-h the rebels depended
to prevent tbe approach of the Union gunboats to Mem
phis. They have evacuated throe, and will possibly light
at the last one.
Fort Randolph
Randolph, to which the enemy lias doubtless retired*
is sixty-five miles above Memphis. Here tbe rebel*
bate erected a strong forlifleatitm upon Chlek&s&fe hlafl* r
over fifty feet above the level of the river. Immediately'
north if this fort is Island No. 34, the lower part of
which commands the three months of tbe Hatchie river*
a stream that empties into the Mississippi just above tha
town of liandolph k at tbe upper edge of the bluffs. Thee*
blufla form natural parapets for batteries, and command,
a view of tbe Hisstsmppi riTer fur six miles each way*
iiiW-LHg6ijd6 frobi & &»6Ulhera source, partially con
firmed from oilier quarters, is that Bragg, with 10,00 ff
men, bad gone to tkedeteuce of Memphis and Fort Ran
dolph from Pensacola, It is doubtful if he hod 1 hat num
ber of men,but not impossible; Polk and Beauregard
are both supposed to be either at Memphis or Fort Ran
dolph. A refugee, who escaped to Oolmnbus from New
Orleans, before the evacuation of the former by tha
rtbvle, gays Randolph is a much stronger position
than Golummis ever was. The fortifications were con
structed under the best military guidance. They com
mand all the bluffß, which are very high, and so arranged
that each fortification would have to be reduced by siega
or storming, aud all would: have to be taken befora
the position could be successfully held. The country in
the rear is broken and precipitous, with narrow ravine*
leading towards the main worhu. All ttas* gu&yd&d
by the best possible defences
The cannon which were mounted iu these fortifications
wc-rorvmovedfromColunihus. Mines, similar to those con
structed at Columbus, have been laid on the laud side*
and every contrivance possible made to destroy attacking
columns
Fort Billow.
Fort Pillow, a shout distance belowthisfort, is a strong
earthwork, with baitions, walls, and trenches, mounting
thirty guns en barbette.
Movements now being made on the part of the Union
forces will send us cheering new* of success from thin
quaiter speedily When Mtmphis falls, as it must, should
the entmy at Forts Randolph and Pillow be overthrown,
tiie comparatively uninterrupted navigfttlou or the M!s«
sissippi river will be open to New Orleans.
Faison Browniow at Nashville—How tbe
Rebels Treated Him.
Nashville. March 15.—Parson Browniow and his son.
arrived here to-day i He lays he was imprisoned in tka
common jail at Knoxville on December 6th, iu violation
of an agreement with the rebel Government, and confioad
in a small damp room. He was then attacked by typhoid
fever, when he was removed to his residence and laid up
for six weeks under a strict guard.
Having partly recovered, he got a pass from tha ra
bid GovsMmiafit, aud l&ft Ka&stJlU tso We&£ &|?, bwfc
he was detained, by order of General Hardee, at Shel
by vilte, for ten days. He reached the Federal lines thi*
merniDg.
Mr. Browniow declines starting a paper here on acootw
of his ill health, lie will proceed Forth to publish tho
story of his martyrdom. Ho is nc t affected by consampo
tiou, as reported.
Movements of the Retreating Rebel Army-
Washington*, March 15.— 1 t has been definitely ascer
tained that the number of rebel troops still remalnlna on
tbe Lower Fotomac, does not exceed ten thousand men.
These are already crossing, and probably have at
crossed, tie Rappahannock at Fredericksburg, where
tbey may moke a stand.
Our reconnoitring forces on the Lower Fotomac have
found vast quantities of commissary stores in the aban
doned rebel works.
Arrival of .the Steamer Ariel—s677,ooo
in Gold.
New Tons, March 16.—The steamer Ar\tl y from Ai
pinwall, has arrived with datos to the 7th instant, an 4
$677,000 in treasure from California.
Captains Bcbenck and Smith, and Lieutenants Hall an 6
Bobio, of tht> iavy, are ammig the passengers*
The V»U«4 frig»W fSVflmw remained
numa.
Advices from Carthagena report that the Conservativ**
have taken tho town of JSare, on the lUrer Magdalena,
and seized a new steamer with 6,000 muskets and General
Motguera’s correspondence.
f rom Calilonnn.
Ban Francisco, March i2i—arrived, ships Ringdove
from New York; Aurora from Boston; and Ohargers
from New York.
New Article of War.
Washington, March 16.—The President on Thnrsdar
approved the additional Article of War, which goes intis
immediate operation, namely i
*» All officers or persons in tbe military or naval service
of the United State* are prohibited from employing any
of the force under their respective commands, for tha
purpose of returning fugitives from sorvico or labor, who
may have escaped from any pentons to whom su ih aervio*
or labor is claimed to be due; and any officer who shall
be found guilty, by a court-martial, of violating thin ac_
tide, sb»ll he tiiMßUsed from the service,"
The Loyalty of the Episcopal Church of
Maryland,
Baltimore, March 15.—Bishop Whittingham, of tho
Protestant Npibcopal Church of Maryland and the Dis
trict of Columbia, has transmitted to all the clergymen
of that church, in parochial charge In the district, for
use on nil occasions of public worship within eight days
following the Sunday after tho receipt of his lottor* a
prayer ot thanksgiving for tho lAto victories of the na
tional arms.
Reconnoissance to Jtrentaville.
Washington, March 16. —Our cavalry this morning
made a reconnoissance as far Bouth sb DrentsviUe, about
thirty miles from Managua* Junction, and learned that a
rebel picket was stationed iu tho vicinity, more for tha
iimtMCi it is nri'Mmiiili of giving uhinn to tho ronr
guard ot tho robels in case of an advance of the Onion
troops than for making defence.
Recovery of the Remains of Col. Came-
ron at Bull Kun.
Wasiungton, March 16.—The grave or Cot. Corner**
havibg, it its sold, Wen found llu‘l Kith, the bod}
been brought to Georgetown, and i* awaiting the order
of hi* brother, Gem-ral Cameron.
The largest-sized apple on record is said to
have grownlast year near Vancouver, Clark county*
Washington Territory. It tp?“ure(i 19 j inches ;■
its largest oirenmforenoo, and weighed 2 pound*
13J ounoee.
Tiik Claims against Costa Rica. —The joint
commission, oomposed of Benjamin F. Rexford, on
the part of the United States, and Mr. Molina, tha
minister from Costa Rica, for tho adjustment ot
claims against that Government, under tho conven
tion of July, 1860, have met in Washington tad
organized.
Assistant Secretary or the Interior
We understand that the President has appointed
John P. Ushur, Esq., of Indiana, to the office of
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Department,
created by a reoent aot of Congrees, Ur, Uabur ii
said to possess excellent qualifications for the posi
tion.
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