its 1111 , 1 1 4 4 Muir Wedissday, Senator Cowan an Dian* pation. This gentleman has pursued a conserv sl*S sad patriotic course in the United States Senate to the manifest disappoint- Lae" oPthe radio al .Itepuhlicans who ex pected that he would prove a servile echo of Mr. WILMOT. During the present session he has given ample evidence that he entertains 120 sort of sympathy with the Abolitionists, and that he is a man of decision and firmness of character. On the 4th inst., Mr. Cowan addressed the Senate against the confiscation or emancipation bill. His speech is too long for publication in our columns, but the following extract will give some idea of its character and spirit. It will be seen that like the great sthtesman who adorned the Senate a few years since—Webster, Clay, Wright and Benton—he takes the Constitution, which he has sworn to sup port, for his guide, and eloquently pleads for ite observance. Our Western Pennsyl vania Senator stands like a rock, against whose flinty ribs the waves of fanaticism lash themselves into foam, witheit moving it from its solid base and centre. Mr. McDougal baring concluded his speeob, Mr. Cowan said: I agree with the Senator from Califor nia in considering this one of the most important bills before Congress, and as one upon which the fate of the American Republic may depend. We are now stand ing squarely face to face with questions which are most pregnant with results for the future. Snail we stand or fall by the Constitution, or leaving it, enter for the future upon the wide field of revolution? Shall we attempt to go back to those doc trines which marked the middle ages, and introduce now into this country tends like those which intervening centuries have sot sufficed to remover These are the great questions which are in this bill— every one of them. This bill proposes to go forward and strip the whole population of the South of their property, and reduce them to poverty—and while yet 400,000 of them have arms in their hands. If there is anything calculated to make that entire people our enemies always, it will be the promulgation of such an act as this. Will they yield to us sooner in view of such a destruction ? What would we ourselves do under any such circum stances? I need hardly ask that question of men who have descended from sires who refused to pay a petty tax on tea, and from grandsires who raised a revolution anther than pay twenty shillings ship money—that I think was the amount de manded from Ilampclen—a revolution which wilt King Charles his head. No such sweeping measure as this has ever been enacted. Even in the days of Wil liam the Conquerer, the proud Norman and his barons were content with the fiefs and castles of the Saxon leaders. They did pot dare to. strip the people of their property, nor even much increase their burdens. They knew that, victorious as they were, they would have involved thOlaelves in a far more dangerous strug gle, in which ev e ry peasant would have Wen a principal combatant. The English is their contest with, and bills of attain- Or against, the Irish never attempted to touch the possessions of the common peo ple, but only the property of the nobles.— This bill goes further, and attempts to con fiscate another species of property, which cannot be put into the coffers of the con querer. I mean the property in slaves.— I don't intend to stop to discuss the ques tion of property of this kind. It is enough for me to say that all the people of the South seem to agree as to this kind of property with wonderful unanimity, and to resent any interference with it. This bill proposes to liberate 3,000,000 of slaves —truly the most stupendous stroke for uni versal emancipation ever attempted in the world. Indeed, I think it virtually liber ates the whole 4,000,000. What is to be the effect of this upon the war? Shall we be stronger, or shall we find that we have only doubled the number of those in arms against us? They have now no cause for rebellion. Will not this bill fur nish them one? Let the loyal men of that section, who know them, answer this question, I will abide their answer. I submit again that no deliberate assembly in the world ever before sat in judgment on so stupendous an issne. Yet, as if to blind us still more, this bill has a proposi tion of still greater magnitude, and, if possible, of still greater difficulty ; that is, to take these millions and to transfer them to some tropical clime, and to protect them there with all the rights and guaran 'llifes a freemen. And this is all provided thcin a single section and in a single sen-i tepee of nine lines. Truly we must have ~say transported ourselves from the pinictical domain of facts, and set down in the romantic regions of Eastern fiction.— Do the advocates of this measure propose to confer upon the President the gold making touch of Midas ? Nothing short of the ring and lamp of Alladin, with their attendant genii, would insure the success of such a scheme, unless it is be lieved the Treasury Note possesses the magic power. And even under that sup position, I think that the owners of those Southern climes, and the Transportation Companies, ought to be consulted in regard to the legal tender clause. I presume it is not supposed that this modern exodus I will be supported on the way by quails , and manna; and yet I am free to say that 1 it will require some such miraculous inter position as that which favored the Israel ites in their journey out of Egypt. But, Me, is it not strange that this scheme should be so coolly presented for our con- aideastioe, and urged to its final consum mation with * kind of surprise that any one ehoußi oppose it? It is certainly due Y to ourselves, and due to the country, that ! we should not make haste to engage in such ' gienatic schemes. Then, again, there is I 0 *Ow consideration involved in this hal, and one of greater moment, which is that it is in direct conflict with the Cotisti- j Amiss of the United States, requiring of , oe, if we pass it, to set aside and ignore that instrument in its most valuable and agsamseibial provisions, those which guar ds/oa** life and property of the citizen, sad those which define the limits and hosadaries of the several Departments of im Gpeteantent. Pass this bill and all of the Constitution is not worth niOurk Certainly not worth this terrible whit* we we now waging for it—for Wit -oosotradterad that this weir is waged opiglilbril . blfrPraill"6ll6 of the C r :at l. 414' is. I.ama INIPOre that souse thin she easellita. ties ill a rosifaiat upon the lialagftiaajet Ora nation in „the conduct of We war, wide% the i ~me 0001 b e . °a ' eigt - wfilherat ft. 1 rimil eat a reit ,____,„,_, liivrabo hogissigaili - ‘' or Wolk* Nirmerliiis• 110616 1 thaothoweahr. *Aim* veopte. Ma ilikild i lit will mama SS I asallasioa that they I have not carefully teamined the full scope oramori. - -. T , 0, tea . * lig 1 , , , at he nee, I , i i f . • nl u 'kW*, T areaoldilhe ifel . brea ,-1 - 4111156 ev onOrsaf seerA - he sun* Sias, whi it bemuse they sill the Wilutri dangeoles ass hidden; therefore, I am opposed to this bill, and I will give my reasons, and shoat' if I can, why I think that in all its main provisions it is unnecessary, impoli tic, inexpedient, unconstitutional, and, I may add, utterly and totally useless ; and I think I can show that the Government has all the power under the Constitution which is necessary to put down this rebel lion and punish the Rebels, and that there is not in reality any necessity for straining any of its provisions in any way. I shall address myself to this first proposition, which is that Congress can forfeit the property of the rebels for a term longer than their lives by any enactment either direct or indirect. All persons now in re bellion, having levied war against the United States, are guilty of treason within the exact definition of that crime in the Constitution. But the second section of that same clause provides that no attain der of treason shall work corruption of blood, forfeiture, etc., except during the life of the person attained. Therefore, any law made for the guidance of the Courts must conform to this provision, and no greater penalty can be imposed than it will warrant. The power assumed in this bill is also obnoxious to the pro visions of the Constitution. If it be as sumed that Congress can make any for feiture of the property of rebels without allowing the means of defence in the Courts, people will * do well to remember that our Government is not an absolute power. The powers of the Government are limited and defined, and expressly delegated, and Congress has no power to punish any person except for contempt.— If we had half a dozen of the most trai torous rebels here to-day, we could not punish them ; we could not bid the Ser geant-at-Arms take them out and hang them. Nay, more, the President himself and all his army could not lead them away from these halls—for here they would be within the domain of the law, and within its provisions, and the only way would be to deliver them over to the proper Judges, and each one might require to have a separate Judge. And I may say further, that it is in this limitation of the powers of the Government that its great merit consists ; on this account we love, cherish, and revere it, and we are now at war to defend and preserve it. Again, the Constitution says "that no bill of at tainder—ex post falco—law shall be passed:" Bills of attainder were resorted to in England to punish persons who were out of reach of the Courts in many cases, even, after they were dead. They con demned the accused to death, if not dead, forfeited the estates and corrupted the blood of the children and heirs. Bills, however, like the one under circumstances, which did not inflict capital punishment, were called act of pains and penalties, which, though perhaps they do not come within the ex press letter of the Constitution, still are contrary to its spirit, as they seek to re move the persons from the power of the courts ; and by passing a number of bills of pains and penalties you produce the same eflect as a bill of attainder. No war rant can be found for any Legislature to undertake to pass any such bills. But I now propose to go further and argue that the exercise of such a power, even if it had been granted, would be both mischievous and impolitic, and our fathers did• wisely and well in refusing it. Their great prin ciple was to punish the guilty alone, and not to involvo a whole family, because in many cases the family would be innocent. Suppose the measure passes, and these people are to be overthrown. It does seem to me you give them every possible motive for revenge and hate. Their women and children will hate you, and their chil dren's children down to the latest genera tion will curse you. And if they should rebel again, have you not sown the seeds of many rebellions by this one measure ? All this might make no difference if these were alien enemies, and we were engaged in a war for conquest. But it is not so.— We have here in Congress made a solemn declaration that it is not a war of conquest or subjugation, but for the preservation of the Constitution and the Union, and I am for standincr b by that declaration. We have been told and believe that many of these men now serving in the rebel army are there by force. Are they to be hung on the same scaffold as the willing traitor? This bill makes no difference. The vic tim of force in the beginning would end ny being the victim of wrong and injus tice. Again, thousands of these people have been duped into rebellion by being told that we are all Abolitionists. Shall there be no provision for those men who have thus believed this because it was as serted by Southern demagogues, and as they thought proved by Northern knaves? This bill distinguishes not the house of the planter from the negro hovel of the slave, and makes no difference between the broad acres of the one, and the little gar den of the other. But even if your bill is carried into operation, who will buy your confiscated estates? What kind of neigh borhood will exist between the former owners and your purchasers? The tradi tion of wrong will sit at the hearthstone of the family for ages, like a hideous spec ter ever inciting to revenge and rebellion. You might as well try to attract purcha sers by promising them a good title to an Irish feud, or a Corsican vendetta. Such titles have never been good. You might as well expect capital to seek the margin l of a volcano, where the lava had not ceased to flow. That which is taken by 1 war must be held be war. . From No. 10. A correspondent of the Chicago Times whose letter is dated March 28th, says : The progress of our plans for sur rounding and hemming in the enemy, with which you are already acquaint ed, is satisfactoty, and we expect a speedy denoument. When it comes there will be desperate fighting, for the rebels rightly regard the place a stronghold of immense importance and, besides all that, they have had a lesson in the Fort Donelson affair, which shows very plainly what the disposition of the Confederate au thorities is towards surrendering of ficers. The disgrace of Pillow and Floyd will be a talisman of warning ro rebel officers, and, if Ijudge the consequence aright, we shall have but few bloodless victories hereafter Burnside Reinforced. Km YORK, April 2nd.—The steam : era Ericesson, Fulton and Star of the South, had landed a strong reinforce ment for General Burnside. The BthConnecticut and 9th Rhode Island Regiments were within four miles of Bessibrt. The town Cioldshorough hod been strongly *relied : It is reprreented 'that Fort Yawn will soon lie stormed. J.itom \ifilt • _ _ Aar the Viruplltiumuk, Meech 30.—Only a few of the 'detafs6d regintoßSal re ports have been as yet received.— Owing to the distance and watered position of the regiments, three or four days will elapse before a full list of names can be had. Dr. Kerney, Medical Inspector of the Army, has been engaged looking into the condition of the wounded here, in connection with the Medical Director, Wm. S. King, of the fifth army corps. Notwithstanding the great scar city at first of tin, crockery, and hardware for hospital purposes, the deficiency has been in a great meas ure supplied. The wounded are now contained in two hospitals and at'e under the immediate charge of Dr. H. Bryant, Medical Director of Gen. Shield's division. About two liiindred and thirty sick and wounded have been sent to Frederick, and sixty rebel wounded have been taken from the hospital and placed in the houses of their friends, on parole, to report on their recovery to the nearest commanding officer. Our wounded are generally reported as doing well. Thy num ber about 300. The statement that Major Per kins, of General Banks' staff, was mainly instrumental in planning the recent battle, is contradicted, al though his presence and advice were of great service to Col. Kimball, who commanded in the field, under the direction of Major Gen. Shields. Medical director King, of the corps, and Surgeon Jackson, of the 29th Pennsylvania, were present as volun teers, and rendered efficient service in cleaning the field of the wounded. Gustav Arnheim, of the Zouaves D'Afrique, who acted as aid to Col. Baum, Chief of Gen. Shield's artillery, was severely wounded in the leg.— Col. Annis'ansel, of the Ist Virginia cavalry, rendered great aid to Col. Kimball, and was in the hottest of the fight. He has just been inform ed of his acquital on the charge of cowardice instituted by the late Gen. Lander. Our cavalry to-day brought in two guerillas from Hampshire, one of whom belonged to Sheets' mount ed militia. The Oapture of Rebel Batteries oh Skida way Island, PHILADELPHIA, April 2d.—The fol lowing extracts from a letter received in this city gives some interesting particulars of the capture of the rebel batteries on Skidaway Island : U. S. STEAMER SEMINOLE, Warsaw Sound, Georgia, March 25.—T0-day at half past 12, m., signal was made for the squadron in Warsaw Inlet to get under way and follow the Semi nole. We proceeded in line of battle up Wilmington River very slowly, not knowing the channel very well. Capt. Gilles being on board the Nor wich, which drew the least water, when the Norwich fired a rifled shell in among a party of horseman near it, The round seemed to stagger them, for the horsemen curvetted about in confusion and fled. Proceeding up a little further, the Norwich let the rebels have another shell in an encampment that was near the battery, when the whole party fled, leaving the battery and the whole place deserted. Giving them several more doses, right in the earthworks, we cleared them Out en tirely, and the manned the boats, went on shore and took formal pos session. Captain Gilles planted the old flag upon the highest rampart himself, and Acting Master Steel ran up with a picket guard of eight or ten men, and plan ed the old gridiron —the glorious stars and stripes— on the rebel headquarters, amid sal vos of musketry, at the same time carrying away the miserable, worn out, secession dish-cloth that was fly ing there. The rebels left little be hind them worth having,. but their dinners, which were still cooking over a wood fire. Capt. Gilles then ordered that the whole work should be destroyed, as we did not wish to hold it, having no soldiers with us. The batteries were then fired in the interior, and soon burst into a fine blaze, carrying everything before it. Skidaway Fort, is now among the thirigs that were. The rebel houses and private property were humanely spared, but were afterward destroyed by the rebel soldiery. The works on Skidaway were very well built, and had the enemy re mained and fought they could have given us some trouble. It is evident that the Port Royal fight is still ringing in their ears, or else they would not be put to such an ignomin ious flight, every time they see a Federal gunboat. The success of the achievement is great, and Skidaway, as well as the channel of the Wil mington river, this side of Thunder bolt, is now in our hands. Our glo rious cause is still blessed, and our arms victorious. After all the works were complete ly destroyed, the squadron, con sisting of the Seminole, Wyandotte and Norwieh, steamed back to its anchorage in Warsaw Sound. We have a rebel prisoner an board, who says they are in a bad way at Savannah for food. Gov. Brown has stopped the distilling of whiskey, as they want the grain for bread, which will be entirely out in July. Fort Pulaski, has not yet surren dered, but must do so before long, asePthe batteries intended for its bombardment are nearly completed. A Gallant Deed. General Milroy writes of a gallant act of thirty-five scouts of the Third Virginia Regiment, who were out on a reconnoissance to HuntersviLle, and were surrotmded by two Imuldred sad fifty rebels, and met lhoft *off Me l )(Honig one Ikea. . - .• Pis Mid histia--->a . Tashi lighlim sill Les 4 Lih. likammis DOINIMAIPIII4II ill A a ir t r id spe F ac t or y u p " 15 , i n toa-41... 4, 4... 14. 41161dphig.—We copy iron the Foar*ar ' ' 441-4 Plldlliela - ' % the foaming U. S. painaii ' I*: Lehi) r . 0 the,. of the pyro this aftlionona, b nil POrt abytd Wham works o Prititf. Jackson, eor • • 4 dates tertakarday t. "get Pulaski ner of Tenth and Reed streets Phila- Sell had Wen thoroughly invested for delphia : thirty ilayts and was momentarily The building was a one story expected to surrender. It was said frame, located on a lot about one that about five hundred rebels were hundred feet square. The edifice in Fort Pulaski, and that they had itself was about fifty feet square. A offered tog() out with the honors of i portion of it occupied as an office war, but. General Sherman demanded was substantially built of brick, and their unconditional surrender, and most of the walls are still standing. would on the first of April open on Prof. Jackson was engaged in filling the fort if they still refused. a heavy order for cartridges for the The rebels had withdrawn all their United States Government, and he forces from the coast of Georgia, and had about fifty girls and about twen had abondoned their works at Thun- ty-four men working for him. derbolt, taking all their guns to Sa- The cause of the explosion is yet vannah. The gunboat Seminole unexplained. Its effects were terri landed and destroyed the Thunder- ble. The edifice was scattered in bolt fort, which is within five miles ruins; at least four or five of the of Savannah, over a good shell road. work people were killed instantly, A refugee from Savannah says and two or three of them were that the friends of the rebel troops to minute fragments. The adjacent in Fort Palaski had offered $30,000 property also suffered. Nearly every to any one who would rescue thorn. window pane for a square around A refugee from Charleston repre- were broken, fences were demolished sents that a great panic had existed and fragments of human flesh were there since the capture of Newbern. flung on tops of high reOfs and smear- The Women and children were leav- ed over the walls. A head, probably ing the city for safety, and there that of a man, was blown nearly a was a general expectation that a square up town, landing in Ellsworth terrible blow was about to fall on street. A policeman gathered near that section. ly a barrel full of arms, entrails, legs From Florida the intelligence is and other pieces of bodies, just after most gratifying ; the Union senti- the explosion. One or two females went was being strongly developed. were blown into Tenth street, with A dispatch from Norfolk in this their clothes all in a blaze. The po morning's Richmond papers men- licemen and citizens immediately ren tions the arrival of Vice President dered all the aid possible, and the Hamlin and a large party of ladies ruins were examined at once. The and gentlemen here, and the salutes dead and wounded were carried out on the occasion; and in the same and placed in various neighboring paragraph says there has been no I dwellings, drug stores, &c., while communication by flag of truce for I some of the injured were taken to several days past. There appears , the Pennsylvania Hospital. We saw to be little doubt that all the move- ( a policemen lift from the roof of a merits here are faithfully reported three story house in Tenth street, a to the rebel authorities. The pa- I horrible mass of flesh and blood, pers also state that nearly a hundred i which had been blown to that eleva transport steam and other vessels in ! tion. Other sights as horrible we Hampton Roads, and that a large ' forbear to speak of in detail number of Federal troops have land ed here The Richmond Dispatch of this morning, says the Grand Army of the Federals seem to have been transferred them from the neighbor hood of Washington to the Peninsu la, which they have probably conclu ded is a shorter and easier road to Richmond than via Manassas, which we have courteously placed at their disposal. The Dispatch adds that the roads here are as bad as those on the Potomac, and refers to Gem Magru der as a man not likely to be caught napping. There was a rumor in Richmond yesterday that a severe fight had taken place on the Peninsula. This was probably caused by the fact that a strong reconnoissance to wards Yorktown was made on Sat urday. A dispatch from Augusta, Ga., dated the 31st of March, says the Charleston papers of that day con tained a dispatch dated New Or leans; the 24th, stating that two Federal gunboats on the 28th com menced an attack on Fort Jackson at the mouth of the Mississippi, but up to that time nobody had been hurt. The New Orleans papers of the 27th, report the loss of the rebel steamer Vanderbilt. The captain, crew, and 8 passengers are safe on the Florida coast. A boat contain ing seventeen men had not been heard from. The rebel Ordnance Bureau has issued an order calling for all the bells that min be obtained, to be re-cast into light artillery. Troops are gathering in large numbers at Jacksonport and Poca hontas. Gen. Van Dorn and Jeff. Thompson were preparing for an early movement on some point on the Mississippi river with this force. It was considered by the rebels that the Mississippi Valley is safe from the enemy. The Memphis Avalanche of the 29th says: The forces of the enemy in attempting to take Island Number Ten, have been throwing shot and shell for two hundred and forty hours, without doing any damage to our works and guns. Up to this time only one Confederate soldier has been killed. Important Rebel Movements in Virginia, WASHINGTON, April 2.—lnformation has just been received from the New York Times' correspondent on the Lower Potomac, that contra bands from Fredericksburgh report that town now occupied by thirty regiments of the enemy, the main part of whin have arrived there within the past three days They report that the steamer St. Nicholas, and one other, which formerly plied to different points on the Rappahan nock, as being held in readiness to transport rebel troops down the Rappahannock to some point. Oth er rebel troops are reported as hav ing gone down the York river to re inforce the enemy's position at the mouth, where the rebel batteries are small. Detachments of rebel cavalry still occupy Acquia Creek, and as far at Dumfries. Another magazine has been found at Shipping Point containing a large quantity of shells. Fight in leasouri, &a: ST. Louis, March 31.—Despatches received at headquarters says that on the night of the 26th, between five and eight hundred rebels attack ed four Companies of the State Mi litia at Humansville, Polk county, and after a sharp fight were defeated, with a loss of fifteen killed and a large number wounded. The Feder als had several wounded, but none killed. • There is nothing important from the Tennessee river. It is not ex- . pected that active operations will estitoweee wail sii• arDesist flew ./Wri adios as llowies t===l Putting New Guns in Position. A dispatch from Cairo, dated March 29, says : After a lull, the bombardment of Island No. 10 was renewed vigorously yesterday. The rebels appear to have recieevd and put in position new guns of longer range. The army correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing un der date of Cairo, 29th, says the fi ring on Friday at Island No. 10 was quite heavy, the rebels opening from a new battery, mounted, it is suppo sed, with one hundred and twenty eight•pounders. The enemy could be seen cutting away trees and rapid ly pushing forward other means of defence. They seem to have no idea of evacuating at present, and are daily getting more cannon in position. Word reached the fleet last night that four- rebel gunboats, partly clad with railroad iron, ap peared below Point Pleasant, but as Gen. Pope's batteries extend almost in a continuous line fifteen miles, it is not believed they can force a pass ago. Banks' Division Skirmishing en Route. WOODSTOCK. (Court House Of She nandoah county,) Va., Aprial I. Gen. ,Banks advanced from Strasburg this morning towards this point.— When approaching the town Col. Ashby with his cavalry, supported by a force of infantry and a battery disputed the passage of the United States forces, but we passed onward through the town, the rebels fre quently stopping and throwing shells to which we responded with effect.— Gem Banks pursued the rebels to Edinburg, five miles south of Wood stock. Ashby's men in their retreat burned two turnpike and one railroad bridge. All the railroad bridges be tween here and Strasburg had been previously burned. The only casulty that occurred on our side in this movement was the killed of a private of the 29th Pennsylvania regiment. A private of the 2d Massachusetts regiment re ceived a rifle ball on his belt plate, but it was harmless. Serious Railroad Aooident--Soldiers Killed. CHICAGO, March 27.—An accident occurred to the midnight special train from Janesville, with the 3d Wisconsin Cavalry, five miles from this city, on the Northwestern road The accident was caused by the breaking of an axle on the sixth car. In the wreck, caused by the cars be hind this one running into it, ten sol diers were killed, three seriously wounded, and a number slightly.— The names of the killed are Walter Snell, Wm. Case, E. M. Burns, of Co. G, Charles Briggs, Lucien M. Rose man, Jas. F. Palmer, Charles D. Hatch, Casper Stone and Wm. Davis, of Co. A; also Hospital Steward Sharp, of Wolworth county. Ser iously wounded : S. J. Edwards, of Co. G, ribs broken, Byron Wilcox, Co. L, both legs broken and internal injuries in the left side. Col. Barstow says that about 100 are more or less injured, but are able to continue with the regiment. Skirmishing in Missouri. ST. Louis, March 31.—Information has been received at headquarters that a detachment of the first lowa Cavalry, under Capt. Thompson, overtook the guerilla band of Col. Parker, on the night of the 29th inst., about ten miles west of Warrensburg. There were fifteen rebels killed and twenty-five taken prisoners, among the latter were Col. Parker And Cap tain Walton. Our loss was two killed and several wounded. miirit, was stated in our paper a day or two since that Judge Taney was eighty years of age on Monday. This is a mistake. The venerable chisfjustioe is eighty-five years of *wad ia tip aga eM etyma re. goat Matte Ibr a *ea et bib rat alga biamitim too ammo Bads Plaid-- t between Three Rebel Itegimote. An Aker of our army, just return ed from Manassas, called last even ing and gave ns an interesting ac count of his visit to Manassas, and the battle-field of Bull Run. A farm er, residing near Centreville, told him that in January last a num ber of regiments were quartered near his house, one from Kentucky, at the expiration of their time of en listment unanimously resolved to return home, and so accordingly stacked their arms and were prepar ing for a start, when their further progress was arrested by the appear ance of an Alabama and a Tennessee regiment, who were ordered to re duce the Kentuckians to submission, and compel them to remain. The Kentuckians seized their arms and a desperate fight ensued, in which many were slain on both sides, and their bodies were buried where they fell, the graves being yet visible. From this spot the mutineers re treated a short distance, they threw down their arms, and each drew his bowie knife, made a desperate charge upon the two regiments; the fight was terrific, in weal more than a hundred were killed, and they too were buried upon the field of slaugh ter. .At last the bravo Kentuckians were subdued. The battle field was shown to our informant by the farm er who witnessed the fearful con test. In traversing the field he dis covered a large bowie knife, which dougtless, bad been used in this fear ful fray. Van Dorn and Price Retreating. A telegram from Rolla, Missouri, states that reliable persons just from our army in the South west say that the rebels. some 3,500, under Van Dorn and Price, have entirely re treated across Boston Mountains, and are now at Van Buren and Fort Smith, receiving supplies from Mem phis and Little Rock via Arkansas river, which is high. The Texas troops are much disheartened at the death of McCulloch, and Arkansas felt the loss of Gen. Mclntosh very severely. The rebels are badly off for clothing and shoes. Pike's Indi ans have returned to the Indian Na tion. They were not formidable in battle, being panic stricken at the ef fect of our artillery. • Price received a Major General's commission in the Confederate service on the 16th.— One regiment of Texas troops reached Van Burcu on the 15th to re inforce Van Dorn, and more are ex pected from Lousiana. The whole rebel reinforcements will not exceed 5,000 in the next six weeks. Lieut. Col. Herron, of the Ninth lowa, who was taken prisoner, was in the hands of the rebels two weeks. They were badly frightened and re treated very rapidly, and for the three first days of their flight had nothing to eat. Their cannon and baggage train might have been easi ly captured. Gen. Curtis' army fell back to Keitsvillo to secure forage.— Arkansas, North of Fayetteville, is entirely eaten out. Our forces are now encamped at the head of Cross Timber Hollow, where water and forage are plenty. Our pickets ex tend into Arkansas and the rebel pickets come north to the top of Bos ton Mountains. Fayettsville is unoc cupied. Very little Union sentiment has been developed in Arkansas. Moving Towards Corinth. A special dispatch to the Cincin nati Commercial from Indianapolis, dated March 30th, says that Gen. Buell has assumed command of 'our forces, and at the latest advices was within fifteen miles of Corinth.— Late accounts state that the army under Gen. Smith was part at Sa vanah and part at Purdy, Tennessee. The last named place is about forty miles Northeast from Corinth. We shall probably bear shortly that Gen. Smith has made a movement with his forces, so that the great battle at Corinth, which will decide the fate of the rebellion in the Lower Mississip pi Valley, nannot be long delayed.— The latest received advices from there place the force of the enemy at seventy thousand, and they were making great efforts to fortify the town. Should they be able to com plete all their arrangements before the arrival of the Federal forces, the battle at Corinth will doubtless be one of the hardest fought and bloodi est of the war. Ladies Taken Prisoners. The Washington Republica n says : On Saturday afternoon a detachment of Steuart's Virginia Cavalry made a dash at the residence of a Union lady named Tennant, who lives about a mile and a half from Difficult creek, and about six miles from the Chain bridge. While engaged in ransacking and pillaging the resi dence of Mrs. Tennant, they were discovered by a portion of Col. Bay ard's Pennsylvania Cavalry, who at once charged down upon them, when quite a smart engagement ensued, which resulted i n the hasty flight of the rebel cavalry, but not before they had secured Mrs. Tennant and her daughter, whom they con veyed way in Mr. Tennant's buggy, into which they had previously har nessed the horses for that purpose. The only casualty to Col. Bayard's Cavalry in the skirmish was the wounding of one soldier, who was conveyed to this city the same night. The loss of the rebels could not be as certained, although it is supposed some of them must have been hit.— Mrs. Tennant has lost a husband and sou, who died fighting fur our flag, and now herself and daugter will have to suffer the horrors of Rich mond's loathsome prisons and the insults of rebel soldiers, while their remaining property is exposed to all the devastations of war. ; CM= ilk MI - 4111041117 of The Texan Rebels in New Maximo Ad mo A correspondent o f the St. Louie Republican, writing from Bent's Old Fort id New Mexico under date of March 6, confirms the report that the Texan rebela are advancing towards Fort Union. He says : "Colonel Canby was not deemed strong enough to attack the enemy out of the fort, and it is supposed that the rebels will march directly upon Santa Fe and Fort Union; and it would seem that the only chance we have now is to defend the depot at Fort Union, where they are con centrating all the valuable property of the Department, this being et strong fort. Eight or ten hundred men can hold it against any force the Texans can bring against it, and as there will be several milllions dol lars of public property there will be maintained at any cost for this pur pose Captain Garrison, of the gen eral staff of Col. Canby, arrived here yesterday by express for the purpose of rallying and forwarding all the disposable force in this region to the rescue of Fort Union depot. Latest from Fortress Monroe—Reconnois sance, and Dispersion of Rebels -- No Signs of the Merrimac, &o• FORTRESS MONROE, April. 2d.—The weather to-day is clear and pleasant, and everything is progressing in the most satisfactory manner. The reb els fired several shots from Sewall's Point last night on the transports in the harbor, some of the shells falling within fifty feet of a vessel loaded with horses. A reconnoissance was made from Newport News yesterday to Watt's creek, a distance of nine miles. The enemy appeared three thousand strong, and opened with cannon on our forces, but the balls passed en tirely over them. Our batteries were immediately got in position, and opened on them, when the entire rebel force broke and fled, fording the, creek in great confusion and keeping out of range. The object of reoonnoisance being accomplished, the troops returned. The whole country through which they passed,formerly the garden spot of Virginia, has been devasted, and but one house left standing. The houses, feaces and trees have been burned by the retreating rebels. There are no signs of the approach of the Merrimac yet, and from the long delay the opinion i s gaining ground that she will not come again. She has a fine field to opperate in if she should triump over the Moni tor, and if she waits to come now, it is thought she is afraid to run the risk. An officer of the Seminole says that he read a Savanah paper of the 23d ult., which acknowledged a ter rible rebel defeat at Pea Ridge, and admitted there was no use to conceal the fact. The English steamer Racer arrived here this morning, and saluted the flag, which was responded to by the Fort, and the same compliment passed between the French vessel and the Racer, occasioning quite a cannonade. A second reconnoissance was also made yesterday to Big Bethel, when the enemy was found to have return ed and occupied the earthworks in force. On seeing our scouts, the rebels threw shells into the woods occupied by our troops on the pre vious advance., but as they were un occupied, no damage was done. It not being the purpose of the advance to engage the enemy, no response was made to the guns. A flag of truce to-day brought down the officers of the French steamer from Norfolk. The steamer conveying troops to Newport News are repeatedly fired into from the Sewall's Point battery and a rebel gunboat. No damage has been done as far as we could learn. Casualties to Fayette County Soldiers . A squad of eight Union soldiers, were recently out reconnoitering near Gauley Bridge in Western Vir ginia, when they were suddenly sur rounded by about sixty rebel cavalry, under the notorious Jenkins, and or dered to surrender. This they re fused to do, but ut once commenced to fight their way out without re gard to dispairity of numbers.— Three only escaped uninjured, among whom was Harvey Grove, of Mason town, in this County, and who, in company with one or two others, sometime after the skirmish, returned to the scene of conflict, to look for one of his missing companions, Ham ilton Biller, whom he found dead upon the field, and succeeded in re moving his body to the camp, and thence, to his friends, near Mason town, by way of the boat to Geneva, at which latter place Mr. Grove ar rived with his charge, on Monday morning last, having under his care, also, John Mallory of Geneva, anoth er of the gallant eight, who was bad ly wounded in the shoulder, in the same skirmish in which Bixler fell.— Brownsville Clipper. PITTSBUROH MARKETS. SATURDAY, April 5, 1862. o tra—The market continues all and depressed, with limited re ceipts and a light demand. We quote Extra at $01,6001,70, and Fam ily $5 to ss,2s—the latter rate for choice. BAOON-18 dull, and prices have slightly declined; sale of 5,000 ths at 4tc for Shoulders and 6c for Plain Hams; 2,000 do Shoulders at 41c ; and 1,000 lbs at 41c for Shoulders and 61c for Plain Hams. DRIED FRUIT—Sales of 25 bushels Apples, (common) at $1,25. Peaohes dull, with small sales at from $2,25 to $2,75, as to quality. Our—Sale of 50 bbls Lubricating, from Mecca Wells at 20c per gall. Cumrsz—Sales in lots of 35 boxes W. It. at 8c; and 16 do Goithen at 10e, 14111W-Sele of 2 bbls Louisville at 11,21$ pert bbl. .
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