| « 4 : if ~ ng ge alll, HEAD QUARTERS. Left Bank of the Mississippi, five miles be Jow N. Oricans, 13th Jau. 1815. g SIR, 1 have the honor to make foliowiag report of the killed, wounded and prisoners, taken at the battle of Mac Pra. dies plantation, on the left bank of the viis- aissippi, on the morning of the 8th of J .nu- ary, 1815,and 5 miles from the City of N. Orieans. : Killed, Wo nded, Prisoners taken, | Maj. 4 Captains, 11 700 1400 Lieutenants, 1 Ensign, 483 Camp officers and privates, making a Grand Total of 2600. + I have the honor to be, sir, very respect. fully; your obedicut servant. & H. HAYNE, Inspecior Generals ; Major General Jackson, 3 7: Extract of a letter, dated N. Orleans, January 8 The enemy -made a most desperate charge----they came in solid columns, one in the centre, and the other on the right of = our battery=-cdch man bad a bundle of brush or sugar cine on his shoulder, for the purpose of filling up the ditch they were so warmly met as to be thrown into ~ confusion; and retreated and formed, and returned a third time to the charge 3 th cy succeeded in getting possession of the bas- ~~ tion with three pieces of cannon in it- -bu’ * they were soon dislodged and the most o ; tom taken pris ne s, “So intent were they in getting overthe “work, that they pulled off their shoes for ; “the purpose. of climbing it. ‘There were a it pumbtr of officers of distinction killed, and it has been ascertaifed that the command- ing General was mortally wounded. In a wy pocket of one of the officers thiy was killed, “was found a journal, in which is mentioned that on the night of the 23d, lost 225 killed rand an firiones pumber w ounded : and on the 28th they lost 15 officers killed. The estimate of yesterday’s battle from Head quarters, 800 killed and 600 prisoners, in- cluding wounded, which is the largest nume- * ber, and one hundred wounded, carried off by them. Thesight wasa terrible one to “see a ficld covered with dead and wounded Iywig in heaps, the ficid was completely red Thicy have retreated this side the river, a The British fcrce on their first arrival is ascertained to have been 11,000, include ing sailors and marines. Their loss is es- timated at 4500. The American force in the neighborhood of N. Orleans, at the dif ferent posts is computed at 15,000, well ar- med. TO BE RENTED, (And possession given the Ist of April next ) THE Grist and Saw Mills adjoining the Town of Mijesburg, together with the land attached thereto. For particulars en- auire of JOSEPH MILES, [ Bellefonte, Lee, 81, 1814. J pie AERIAL on a nT FOR SALE. 111 FE subscriber informs the pubic that “