, . .. ~ :VILLAGE- BE 4 . V ' P ' 'r 11 411 / . " .. r - '" -- ( -al iiii owl , ALlitaillatiliX3C3o.l6t(jP• . ..\ , i 440kity, 'April 18;118110:' Mieggeseesseeme ... . , - -.......:.....„, . - .............,-Ys. • .., 11 1 1 .1T1111111, , , • .......„ . ' N '.. ... ( , • , ter;e4.ll4it %beet Viltere!btemberrithe fee but falls before us, Viltb Preetiettiostison beneath con feet, • • And Itrefeacitn's banner streaming o'er net ecticm.See notice in another t ohttnn.-- _ 'Neu- Coods.--4t will be seen by reference to our advertising columns, that Messrs. a J. BENDER have received'a fine assortment of spring and summer goods for gelltielnell'S War. Our Gallons.--We uuderstand sumo of our reVorlitiouiluare—Tery—judiguant—ut=l' for publishing a Humber of delinquents un der a gallows in our last issue. It Appears they favor robbing but oppose hanging, Out this is nothing more than natural for Reviles who sympathise with the rebel thieves and murderers in arms against the govortunent which protects their worthless eavoasses. Advertese.—N ow that many business changes take place,lt is important merchants, dealers, mechanics, and all having anything to sell, should let the public know where they are and how they are prepared to ac commodate their customers, Those who have moved or made other changes ip their business, should, of course, Juake those changes known; while those who have not should lot their old customers know that the changes of April have brought no changes with them, and that their customers can still find them at the old Maud. That ildvertis ing always pays the advertiser.is a truth so well esta - blished - that no business man of com mon sagacity will pretend seriously for a mo 'Merit to doubt it, Breakive taar raTote.—Tho most infa mous net even of This atrocious rebellion, says an exchange, is the attempt ',of Jeff. Davis to induce oni prisoners of war, libera ted on parole, to violate-their - sole :ma obliga tion and engage in the coming fight. He knows, of course, that they justly forfeit their fives by' s° doing"; but whit does ke, a shameless repudiator of twenty yeane stand ing—care for that ? His pretense that our Government has been unfaithful in the mat ter of exchanges is an aggravation of his guilt, Irk the early step of this. struggle, our chiefs were accustomed to swear their rimers Tkot • • in to bear anus enlist the United States,.aud let them go. More than a thoosaad were thus liberated at Carrick's 'Ford alone. After the eaptakt- of Hatteras, solo worn liberated on taking the oath of al. Ind again at the taking of Roanoke Island. Yet the thousands there taken were paroled, Cars and all, With a clear understanding that they wore , to be speedily exchanged for our soldiers languishing in prison at Richmond; yet those soldiers, including Col. Corcoran, are withheld; and now all our unexchanged prisoners who have been sent home oti par e re to resume their arms and rush again into the conflict ! Jeff. has no 'more power to release them from parole than to forgive their sins ; but what cares he, so that be can but strengthen his wavering col umns! Ulu) does not catch us napping on the Tennessee—rand we trust be will not— the back of the rebellion must soon be broken itiiirThe .. Village Record, published at Waynesboro' Franklin county, has appeared in a new and beautiful dress. • We congratu late our friend Blair upon his ability to pnr etas° s new suit in these "hard times," and cannot imagine how he has succeeded in get ting-it, unless it is because the . Record is a ' • thorough Union Journal. It pitches into - the rebels in and around- Wa.tnesbore, in a manner that must, cause 5h em to tremble.— Continue to pitch iuto,fiem, Bro. Blair.-- They deserve all they get, and more too.— Those who ara,not for the Union must be AGAINST it. Success to the Map Record. --Nand& (Pa.,) Star. • iThe House of Representatives of the United States, on Friday laat, passed. the bill as it esme from the Senate for the Abe. lition of Slavery in the District of Columbia, by u vote of /2 for to 89 against. ; *fqY►The bill districting the State into gmagreosional districts paned the Legials - tare en A tMay. By the new arrangement arilitr* will b e so Yellows: Mime, .0100rWINatit* Bedford, and Somerset.— The 44.114-43haNif3 is, SoPereet instead of Jn. from Cot amp:* dated, Aprit2,-reports his good health 'but 'intense r anxiety for . 412 exchange. He keeps up thuuatiO'bru, 'wart, and eskos.:, sea theloireii had 'always A kleistilerit t VOrlionde ram-. itti 4billkti4ieAbo Gator ei this pa r por by a "liiuth Liar Votive terbatim. Alt Alois the - t Jeetmetinaleathict .of the kind received by we cheerfally give it a place in our (whim - rui for the benefit of Trei tore in-Wayneaboreand rioluitywho charge us with' being one-tided.. , Of -came they . I will endorse every line: Wrt,u,tateronT, MD., 1 i 11. 41 ) '1 , 11 .. th . , 6.1, .5 W. %Ant Sir, Ina recent issue of ;bat d lietable sheet over which you preside, and , itr*hteli; tit given in =a condensed ram; alt . the fowl \ slanders, and misrepresentations, that iniquity and blaekheartedness can cop coot; you scruple trot to wail with' all the vindietivness of your own depraved• heart; your felrow Man; who happens who happens to differ from you in sentiment, or oceupys a position in society, that "your degdtded character, dare not aspire to; writhing in your own shame, and asking to gratify your Etul dryad patrons; you h ye, for your grata-yea don, and ""their erasied immaggination's; giv en a place in your paper; from time to time, of all the insidents that come under your ob servation; if they happen to be of that dis gusting character, which will discredit them in the opinion of respectible people,and should not be aerehted by any one who pretcuds even to worship at the feet; of a crueifyed redeemer. aut you have even gone further, and dime the hordes of Lincoln followed by that appendage to the union , army whom) bus. LIM is to plunder in the wake of the army; has crossed into Va. and disgraced itsiielf in its course of plundering and rendering its self hateful in the eys of friends , and foe and some of it meeting the fate that awaits the whole at no distant day "you catch at the op portunity to and-make-it-a pretext;--ta-publish a fowl calumny upon the Ludys of winches ter. i care but little how you. got the infor mation that led to the article in cinestion, the man who pretends to edit a publick journal; and gives a place to such 'filthy efusions, casting opprobrium-upon Gods beat created gift, to missguided man causing to rankle hi the breast's of ths,gentler and weaker sex; the same bitter that unhapily pervades the sterner sex, of our unhappy country must be dead to every attribute of a womens vir tue a disgrace, and a nuicenee in decent so ciety, and deservinA of the contempt of all virtuous women. Nobly has Va. suffered; Nobly has her fairest sought her honour to sustain; And when the vilian her fair faine assails The recoil , finds him in his shame.--: Then in the future seek not in your viper ous hate; to injure those who once were. tile . , It - , ' 1 I kl I be. 3, _ "••• expect any of Va. sons, much less,hor daugh ters to respect those uho come to rob and dessolate there homes under the_pietext of of restoreing the union had Pa. never coun tenanced the mobs that murdered citizens of Md. seking their property within her limets and fostered'your Wilmot's your Steven's;your Hickman., and etwode's that union. would hare never have been d'ssolved. Its gone and gone fOrever.. SDTHER:I LADY. As the above letter is frotU the pen of a , ‘Suthern Lady"' of course the Day Book patriots hereabouts will not question her orthography, etc. One thing is evident how ever that Yankee school teachers are much needed in some localities. A Decided -Vistalee.—The fire eating se ceders believed, without dirubt, that the gen eral government was flowerless to put down the - rebellion. Through Floyd, Cobb, Thomp son and Touey,they had done all they could 'latent, and therfam - eie - d - thoy - It was under this mistake irates undertook more than i),achieve--the federal gov -erless. to ma e itun had succeeded' that the confedi they had power ernment was poi Had Mr. Lincoln boon less resolute than he was, their chances would have been bet ter. Had their revolutionary plot succeed ed in the assassination of Mr. Lincoln on his way to the capital, and the seizure of the treasury and archives of the government, their ..therished enterprise would have been half achieved on the 4th of March, 1861 If those in the North who had pledged their aid, had been as able as they are killing t redeem those pledges, , the rebellion might have attain — id — it least a temporary triumph. llow they regarded the ability of the fed• oral government, may be seen in the follow ing passage from the Charleston Mercury, a little more than a year ago. "The coercive power of the federal gov ernment, so long vaunted , as adequate to sup press the secession of a State, is rapidly rewiring itself to be—what it has long been supposed and said to be—a wretched humbug —a ware crow—it dirty bundle of red rags and old clothetr, ogi n .Gen. Grant's-official report of the battle at Pittsburg Laming has been received in Washington. General Grant .estimates our loss at 1,500 killed-and 3,500 wounded. The loss of the rebels, in killed and left on the field, was much greater than ours. We lost several pieces of - artillery, but the number is not stated., GeneralHa ll eck has arrived at Pittsburg l Landing, and taken command of the army. The Federal and rebel forces are only two miles apart, and a battle is im minent at any moment.' An expedition, which started. from . Pittsburg on • Saturday night hats destroyed two railroad bridges on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, thus cutting off the main portion 'of therebel army at ICorinth. from .countomication with Alabama and the seat of the Confederacy, except NA , ' . ;New: nipe.--Thett number of the 774- kge Record," published at Waynesboro' came to.ni in :an , entirely'new dress, ~the Publisher having pnrolissect new type, Wo Phisiad , to see this evidence or . pros. paiitron finijpartof our worthy sontempo rw and wish Ma the most sionnilant suo. pew Whoa, -.(list A* editor still IPathraft P*lva44o in his midst,' ~ _"*AielajwAtafinftkaili;thea • he- mar *OOO4l-isi• ovm- - ojllN"emu - out. NW a '° 4. 0 1 011r: 1 -PlaPit ver Bpecta bm •••• :'' • - - - out disc bole Alien 0* the ItiuOut, 4,1:100,11.40.410 , . K 4,;‘,• - ••,=••:• ie- . 4 ' 2,4 , - jJ' f l, - fx:•!?. - - • • . . - , , , , • - • ' , , _ ' : • , , _, . . , • - , . - • ..., .., ~, ..-, 1.•; • ~. . • - _.„_. ._ . ....... ._......__ ..._ .. 1- . A Orepapearel..k3outk 1 , : gle - 0441011.1. -,..- - Sot .- • • .ii .l o/1111124414/1116,di -.- ..- ' "-.- . it' . tiblOg Sat ' il. - -?..,. - , f ,,,,..„... ~,,,,,. fr,, ~,.....i.., ~ ..- , _ lc' , '4,'..^ a ..;.tr -.:4;'! , ' 4' , liii t ' '''..; i4",'“Deti V Vria?'.haves beta -.lll ,7 traCsays the,c - llama? . rgi. -.4; - .1. - e folleTilagAlettal - ~ , 44 , 44 r. 'lotto.= ' -',:; dAsetta.,k ,„ , , „„,„,,-_ 3 ,, , , ,,, „, ~ Telegraph, ei;eopy! , Ora luuld „hill ,Aleut letei?•llsem taken frons4tw.lnetut , ,st ;., . ~ 1- .! - - ..& , ' , -ettc , ' - r'+'4,:.--t4i.-, 4 . ' 'WV hy - olie.Ot oat' QuaiittaaitrEilligtir Wand; , : useneentent . ottedttptentent,Vett, - ,1, 1 ' ... .. -., ..e. g, ' '4'-i '-,..:5''.;t,,,,,' ~ ... . South Carolina , advertising :tim public sale 1 Elizabeth City, North . Carolina '. . ::- : ~ •••4 ~,.7: „, ~.,, ( . . Edenton, North Ctirolida: - , Ar „ 0. - ft prime .ot of hdinan itc.4h, 'lt the sto.nre I or '' Ohl who 'deo fel "%Vinton - North . Carolina: - - ,To the flag of , named - place, -The hiltreada as: follows: -,.- • - Boirlinifireeti;lCentilek -.- -•' ' ' . 4)i* ~ „' - ...lheleaptrAthaLk , . 4.. r . tIiTATE 334.. LE 't ,': ~, ',., : : Paititville; Kentucky. . • -"SLIE' ' - And strike.' at ( • • • Of - • - • -' ,•'-''''' •• ''• ." ..- ••''` - -- • -..-- - ' '•'11-ttalivillo; Tennisieei '' -"---. '' • -,:'''' '' ' •-•- '...1, —cat; Clenerah4 itooole.Pal , — E I . G i i. ! 1r : • ;', "° a °'E 8::; - •• 4 - Clarksville, Tennessee. _...edge., titedee, Bragg, . . ._ . . . . _ ... . . ,-. 'Dover, Tenneeeeei. , '.- • ' ..; • --- !. Inr tome D. aßeAcegurta ' . ,Columbia„, Tennessee, . ~ . , ' ' :' . * s•" 1 11 - 0 - 1 - t x• Tr,",:::;-,;13, ithl. erj°ll4644;•"id 'Thina.- '7 e the 'orbs ti - ' • ' - -, oolotalitt• tit° yebel r----• • - , Cht Monday,' - I.4th • PetOWary, .1e6.., - , at 10 taoaps--A halo o'clock A. - M., will be - sold at the reAidence Fayetteville ; A - AhtliiiiB,. - . -' ' , A halo OrthilatliVilliaii" ElelibtOok, Sr:,' • Egil-4'oil - - - 'Bmt?oTillo,Atkaiioas, -- - ..,..,, lake t Edisto Island, - , 1.•'• 3ai'titlsbtirgy Virginia. - . iiiii Froh• ilosnrisi, of .Green 'castle, will visit this place on Saturday or Friday of each week with Fresh Fish during the sesSon. Persons in the country wanting fish are requested to leave their orders with E. W. Washabaright• _ • • :Aft. Hope' &ore.—We invite apeoial atten-: find to the card of Mr. JOUN N. CooK, of Mt.,Hope, in another , column. Mr. C. has disposed of his old goods at auction and has just openedli 'new 004; " itiregt Rzeprrin.—.Col. ribilnegir 7 44." EOM% a Missouri Rebel, whom) brother is Uovornorof iraetucky,and who was courioaed of violation of hie Wale,- and sentenced to be shot, lee been respited by the President. A euusgsyeus old was ;smiled to a wotitan yaws old, to Newbutyport, the other (Ley. Theh Herald stye the MU Was apparently well 'plowed with. Ins new relation, and the wpwan -wcs.stotiekled as a child with kraitle.' Prime Gang of Eighty Negroes. • accustomed to the culture•of Ses Island tiot. ton, belonging to the estate .of the We Rob ert C. Seabrook, Esq., • - Tutus.—For the Negroes, one third Cask, - balance - in - one or two years, with interest from day of sale, secured by. bond, mortgage and personal security. l'Archnsers to pay for papers. • - The sale it seems did not take iliee ou the day indicated, in consequence of the previous occupation of thelskind by the 'U nited States troops and the .non attendanenH of the "chivalry" 'on the first appearance of • e At Union torcvs. The following is writon in ink at the bot tom of the bill: . "As the above proiiity has norbeen dis posed of, I bequeath it to Miler 3l'Cusker, Chaplain - .55th regiment, P. V. [Seal] MRS. SARAH' SEABROOK." Father 3l'Cosker was fornierly the pastor in charge of the Catholic Churches in this place and Elizabeth town,-Lancastertonnty, He is certainly to be congratulated upon his good luck, but-we-fear heAs_very_mueli_in the condition of the man who bought the el. ephant—he won't know what to do with them. he Glorious Victors at No. 10.--Comnio dore Foote and Gen. Pope having closed up their operations at bland No. 10, and sent 5000 prisoners to Indiana and Illinois, are now. ready to move on to Memphis, and have declared 'their intention of being there in the course of the present week. The spoils cap tured at Island No. 10, are ti's summed up. 1 Major-General, 3 Brig. Generals, 10 Colonels, • ti_bleut• Colonels, 50 Captains ? 5 Majors, 01 Lieu tenan ts: 84 2d Lioutenans, 5,000 privates, 10,000 stand of arms, •c, • tteamboats, 12,000 mules tON horses, 500 wagons, 24 field artillery, Ammunition unostanated, The regiments-of the rebel army captured at Island No. 10, are as follows: 4Uth Tennes see, 46th Tennessee, 55th TennesseP, 11 th Arkansas, 3rd Arkansas, 12th Arkansas, Ist Alabama, and the Pelican Guards of N. Or leans. The Rebels in Virginia.—All accounts from rebeldom show that the bulk of Gen. Johnston's army have withdrawn to the re gion of Richmond. A rear guard is left to destroy bridges, railroad tracks, rails, &c., to prevent any ad vanchig' Federal column fiom Teaching that city for a long period. The natural obsta cles ail attlng the route are far more serious than any artificial ones in the neighborhood of Yorktown. - While this" sort Of thing ob. streets the latter, it also prevents an early return thither by. the rebels. If they find the fortunes of war going them at York town, they'must fall back upon North Caro lina. 186.4dvices received at the State Depart ment from our representatives at the various Courts of Europe, show that public senti ment abroad is becoming unanimous in favor of our Government. This is being strength ; ened by our victories, which are carried over by every steamer, and which serve to elevate our national character and 'compel the res pect of thO people and rulers of Europe. Igif•The - Legislature has passed a bill le galizing the suspension of specie payments by, the Banke of Pennsylvania uptil the first Tuesday in February, 1863—with a provis ion that said Banks. Shall,' if necessary, pay id specie so much, according to their capital as the commonyiealth may tiled to pay the interest on a public debt. Sundag Battles.--The battle of Pittsburg Landing was brought on on Siinday morn ing by the Rebels, and they, the attacking party, were beaten. It is said that every battle fought on Sunday in this war has been lost by that side whose attack brought on the engagement of that day. ' • WirA resolution passed the Wisconsion Assembly on the . sth. instant, tendering to the President of the United' States an un qualified approval othis course from the day of his inauguration to the present time.— There was but one vote against it. tectutili; , Tiovintaville, Virginia, sinithfiald, . Voliyar, . Charlestown, Virginia. liarper'.o Ferry,. V irgiuia, Hnttonsyille, . Paris, Tennessee, • Cedar Keys, Wrung°, Alabama:. Springfield, Mo. liastport, Miss. • ;• • Columbus, Kontnek, Lees'iurg, Virginia. •• enneeee. - Fernandina, Florida. San Augustine, Florida., JacksonTille, Florida, Illiainissas, Virginia. Centreicille, Virginia ; St. Mary's, Georgia. Ilruidwick, Georgia,' Ilarryyille, Georgia ; Winchaster i Virginia ; Docoquan, Virginia, • Windsor, New Madrid, Missoark, Foint Pleasant, Missouri ; Ilicknian, Kentucky. "'Newborn, North Carolina, Beaufort, North Carolina, • Morehead City, North Carolina. The following Rebel forts and thmtiftea tions have also been captured since' the Ist of January: Fort Johnson., Va. Fort Beauregard, Va. Fort Evans, Va. Pig's Point Battery, Vas Shipping Point Battery, Va, Cockpit Point Battery, Va. , . Fort Clinch, Florida. Fort Henry, Tenuesse. Fort Douclson, Tennessee; Fort St. Mark, Florida, Fort l'arren F r'd Fort Macon, North Carolina, Columbus fortifications, Ky.' Bowling Green Ibrtifications. Mill Spring fortifications, Ky. Roanoke bland - Batteries. Elizabeth City Batteries, N. C, Fortifications at St. Simons, Ga, Fortifications at Manassass. Eateries at Acquia Creek s Va. Fort Pulaski, Ga. Besides a number of forts on the ' Nouse river. The Federal reverses have been in 3lesieo alone, where the Confederates' have occupied three or four evacuated military points and towns. • Proclamation of the President. By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. , It has' pleased Almighty God to vouchsafe signal rictories to the land and naval forces engaged in suppressing an internal rebellion; and at the. same time to avert from our coun try the dangers of foreign intervention and invasion. It is, therefore, recommen e to t e peo ple of the United States, that at their next weekly assemblages in their accustomed places,of public worship, which shall occur after the notice of is proclamation shall have been recoil, •c s : they especially acknowl edge and rendervN anks to Our Heavenly Father for these in • stimable blessings; that they then and there implore spiritual conso lations in behalf of all who have been brought into affliction by the casualties and calami ties of sedition and civil war, and that they reverently invoke the Divine .guidance for our National .;ouncils, so that they may speed ily result in the restoration of peace, haftno ny and unity throughout our borders, and hasten the establishment of fraternal relations among all the countries of tte earth. In-witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. [L. S.] Done at the city of. Washington, this, the 10th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-sixth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: - WILLIAM 11. SEWARD, Secretary of State The War in New Mexico. A Battle at l'igeon. Rancho. DENVER CITY, Apr. 7, via Julesburg,Apr. 9.—lnformation received from New Mex ico states that, on the 26th \ult., Colonel Hough, with 1,300 men, reached the Apache Pass. His advance, consisting of three com panies of cavalry, had an engagement some distance beyond this place with 250 rebel s cavalry, and took fifty-Boren prisoners. The Federal /983 was four killed and eleven wound ed. At Pigeon Manche, 15 miles from Santa ri; on the 28t1 , ,(11ol: _Hough met a force of 1,100 Texans, strongly posted at the mouth of a cannon. The fight. began about noon, Col. Bough engaging them in front with 7 companies, while Major Cherinkten, with 4 companies, attacked them in the rear. The latter, force succeeded in driving the rebel guard away fram the supply Amin which was captured and burned., Tbey also cap -tured 1 cannon and spiked it, , The 'fight continued desperately till 4 o'clock, when it ceased by mutual consent., Col. Rough withdrew his forces to a creek 4. miles "distant. The loss on, 4he United. States, aide - was 8 officers and '2O priVites killed, and from 40,- to 50 wounded, The rebel loss is not known. • Comninnication between Col. Trough and Gen. Canby is continually kept up. 1 4. .bouils 1 u twOmltal sad a of -Ilia nanaelfpook,,and e luta ,• ye an 4,40, raFrota ono basbol,. ighing Ota been - 1100,.over-a iarge portion o ,31taingwiinee the Let O f f Di:Comber, and it bids fair to last till May, 1,1 1‘ .7 4 ;1 40 4. 4, 'tiefi o o, o 4s:4 Atiril .eorrett pondence of the journai,siie'dtifo, says : Beaures4ol.vallad a - Council of war, of all the best- gerferahi tfieliattl6l ofTistsburg c - There were present, Generals "pillow; Froyd;ll*kinridge, Hardee, Bragg, •Cheatharn,".A. Sidney JOlntetort; and Bush -rod dehnsen;. 1110. 7ets4 Provisional Gover,i nor Oficentucky,, and a; few other Generals. The following Tolley .was fixed. on. If the-beat di;, theywonldibilitirlip'iltiiti 'vie* tory and arimus'North as far as possible,— llf they wore beaten, they' would - withdraw iheirforces from the Border States and =lke a desperate stand in the. Gulf States. Gen. yen Dora , did not reach Corinth till the fight was over. It is now believed, ,by , the latest arrivals from Pittsburg, that the rebel farce in the action numbered 05;000:- The Ninth Illinois Regiment could count but 200 :effectiveanen on Monday, morning, the Eleventh Illinois only 45, and the Twelfth Illinois-. Regiment only 17 meal A gentleman from Pittsburg says the wowidecl are well-provided few the trans forte and barntelza, - No battle is expected for some 'days yet. The heavy rains,have ma 0 the ! roac sable for artillery . and,army wagons. • ST. Lows, April •14.—=The steamer Janu ary arrived at our Nvharflast evening, with several hundred of our sick' and wounded from Pittsburg. Capt. Bartlett,% of the •Januctro, reports that the Afinchaha, laden with wounded, }ma gone tip to Ohio city, and the Memphis lun ged 1,000 of the wounded at Mound city. Captain Wilhelm Copp, of the Ninth Indi ana, who is among the wounded, says he has no doubt of the death of Cim;.. liragg, in Monday's fight. Also, that Johnson, the so-called Provisional Governor of Kentucky, is dead. He died WY*, lay within six feet of Captain 'Copp, on board of tho Hannibal. The whole rebel army. engaged in the bat tle numbered 123 regiments - , consisting of 75,000 men. These facts are obtained from a brigade quartermaster named Wintormuth, who was taken prisoner. Our total loss in killed and wounded is now estimated at 11,000. General Wallace, of Illinois, at last tie counts,"was still living, but there were only slight hopes of his recovery. The name of Colonel 'John IL McHenry, of the Seventeenth Kentucky Regiment, who was, wounded at Pittsburg, was erroneously printed in the first despatch as C. McKin- ne . The steamer Woodfcril arrived last night with about three hundred priapnera from PittAtrg, Prom Gen. MoClellan'S Army. The Bebers Busilgengaged at Erecting new . . Batteries BEFORE. YORKTOWN, April I.s.—Yester day morning about 2 o'clock., a section of ar tillery was posted within half a mile of the rebel works, near the Over, supported by sufficient infantry to prevent their being cap tured. Fifteen shots were fired into the rebel earthworks before they were able- to .bring their guns to bear, When ournion with drew without damage, A .finer view was yeterday obtained of the position of the rebels, both at Yorktown and Gloneestei, from ' Fairchild 1.1 . 011.90, at the 'mouth of Wonnlith's I creek. Twenty-four guns was, yeen in the water battery at York town and nine at Gloucester. At the latter place a large number of workmen were en gaged in erecting new works. -orktown r the-old-worka_usell da; the siege of 17$O were still yisibk, and read ily distinguished from those of recent con struction. Heavy guns were mounted on their walls, and the rebel flag was flying from the battlements. The principle wharf was covered with coimnisary stores, while the river was. dotted with sails. Every one ap peared to a busy, as though the coming struggle depended upon his - individual exer tions; Late in the afternoon, a schooner, a short distance above the wharf, wasjmrned. The flotilla was yesterday afternoon en gaged in shelling out a body of rebels who were eng,aged in constructing a short battery And four miles blcow Gloucester. The re sult of the firinn , was not known. _ On .Saturday Corporal Walter IL Bean, of Company 41, Berdan's Sharpshooters, was shot through the neck and back while on picket duty. Things were remarkably quiet last night. A slight shower occurred this morning, but the sun sten made its appeainnee. ADVANCE INTO ALABAMA. 2,000 of Vie Enemy Capfured-100 Miles of Railroad Possessed. WASHINGTV ' ApriI 14.—The following despatch has bee n received by the Secretary or War, dated Nashville to-day "On Sunday morning, two expeditions were started from Huntsville, Ala., in the captured cars. One u:.d_tr Col. Sill, -of the Thirty-third Ohio, went east to Stevens, the junction of the Chattanooga with the Mem phis and Charleston railrcad. , , at which point they seized 2,000 of the enemy, who were retreating; without a shot, and captured.five locomotives and a large amount- of rolling stock. "The other expedition, under Col. Tnrch -114. in, of the Nineteenth Nino'tg Regiment went west, and arrived at Decatur I me to save the Railroad bridge which was in ames. "Gen. Mitchell now holds a itundred miles of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad:" . A little boy bearing his father say, "there is a time for all things," climbed ue behind his mother's ehair,and whispering in her ear asked, "When was the time for hooking sn, gar out. of the sugar.-bowl?" ., Yankee skulls wore hawked about the town of Winchester, after the battle of gull Run, at $lO a piece. Spurs were made of jaw bones, and hundreds of laodies worn left headtess for such purposes. Snow la' still two, feet deep in :the i.gtle Champlain region, and, they arc • crossing the lake on the, ice., Enterprising eitiSena dt, free •States: are settling tarVirria as fast as ottr armies pm- The Home at, Washing . toti,' Weduos tily; pas:;ed the Tax Bill—yeas I•2er, nays 13. the orbai that bona Heaven are •ainffigi " - ludo. of.SkOit 11 , 4 1 4116:: • With Ws symbelof Freedom before ye; .Tbe *oleo oftdielitiree and, diffract, Ia SPisskihd fibrititildi,hrtheir,ebortioi„ Sritica Of dia-Mitii , • "mica didivs Tetaordittif taid ' lts hohli with patilati is blendini,' 'flat joy and prida„or the earth. Cameos—The joy.and the pride OS the earth, &c. When Treason's Tile Machiitatigno Had threatened the laiel'to defotm, The gag then of Freedoiee ealTstiolt a De4od the syrttl; of the stqm; With itoheantis of loan. heatts.#l4nognaing • 'he spot where it fl'lateio three I ilia to _ • . t r lr/tnra ' rirltouß fit;, up...lp4s- A song of iharno anti - despair., Cmanvs—A song of shame and despair, A 'song a shame and despair, A recittiein 40traikuo !Di r0,4141t45, A son of o alto 44141 - AMR 111C101Y FORT PVLASKI TAKEN 'Unconditional Surrender of Ai Garrison Tbr4l.llc noniltargiumnt. .13. : 1,141 MAR l E, April 14.--,Thp Savannah Repubiicaß, of the: 12th instant, received, here, announces the unconditional surrender -of Fort Pulaski on the previous day: Seven large breaches were 'tirade in the walls by our batteries of Parrot guns at King 'a Lawlipg, and all the barbette guns on that side, awl three of the casettike guns were dismounted., 'Arco Nklija erAtered magazine of the for 4. - Colonel Cdoptead, the. rebel eonnnander, signalled the day, provietts to the surrender, that onr,fire. TO 80, terrible that no human cold stand Apon, the parai)et for even FormEss 111,0mtiox,, App. ag o truce went up to Cratkey 'tlAis after, noon, and brought back tWo Xeitolk papers, They were taken:to beadquarters, and thouglk containing the important infennatio44 of the. unconditional surrender of Fort Pulaski, atk effort was made, in accordance with the poli- - cy that prevails here, to keep even good news, from the representatives of the 'press. I am . , however, enabled to give you the shbtance of the glorious news as published in the, Savannah Rinthlp'ean. .It . says substantially that it learns withdeep regret, that. after,a gallant. , defence a gainst guns mo- 1f superior, Ft. 'NI:Ai am-, rendered unconditionally at 24c10ck,P2M., yesterday, Ake 11th inst. Corporal Law, ail* Pulaski OkarclS,Who. did not leave Thund4rbolt until after the flag was hauled don, brim 'Us intelligence of the event. The stkrreeller is v.,r,4enditingpt. Seven, large breaches were Inoattilifinhe south wall by the Federal. battery' ofeight Parrot guns, at King's Landing. All the berhette gun's on. t at et e were istuc tun of the casemate guns, leaving but 'One gun bearing upon that point. Three balls'enter ed thelnagazine, and a clear breach was made in it. The balls used were corneal, and were propello with - such force: that they. went clear through flue walls at neat every fire. ' Cul. Olmstul, who V 14.1.1 irk command; tele-. graphed the preview evening that no fru, Mau being could stand upon. - 4R. ramparts 'for. even a single moment, and ilkat over one. thousand" large shells has exploded within, the fort. ° The Republican publishes the above as a postscript to a part Of its edition, and makes no comment nor gives any particulars as to, the number of men and officers in the fort at the time of its surrender. It says, how-. evea r that none of its defenders were killed, and but. four wounded. . • At Pittsburg Landing six or our batterie3, were taken and retaken skis , times. Have just returned' from the 'Eastern Cities with a full assortment of FALL GOOD, consisting ofi Hats. Caps. Ladies' Furs. - Buffalo Robes, Horse Blankets, bteigh Elankets, Gloves, Canes. • * Umbarellas, dcc., a'l of which. era ow ready and selling at the far LOW EST CASH rates at their , HAT STORE. • - Opposite Washington House. • Hagerstown, Md, - lar BUFFALO ROBES, Buffalo Robe! Of all the graileilinm Five to Forty Dolhos ase ' With. lilittrs, Cut& &c.; at Hat Store. to Washington Honse, • . Hagerstown. Nd: . , • rirLAtIESt-FURS I, LADIES' FURS G- -, A aplionlid lot of - Extra and No. 2 ROUES, .tz boned previous to the great' advance, and thrill. ha .1d at tuntol rates lin cash. at • 4 , ~ • • . VeDEGI;AFFS' lilt Stove. Opposite Washingtim House. r; Hageratown.lllJ. Fr GLOVES . A- good 'deck of Duck skin, Sheepskin, Fee, 'Wools Sell Wiiib.r Orem GLOVES. at - IirbGRAFFS' Het, titore.. - Opposite Wasiiitigien,lioyse Ilagerstoiett;44, 1:10W$ cOvEßst READy 70.A1)e. as the !sorest cash rates. at UI'UEURAIFS' Hat Store • - • • Opposite Washington tionse,, - . Hagerstown, Hsi: = irje.) 6:r4 #._Fjs Near Upton,- ea the 9th, itiet.;: daughter of 31r, 'John and Mary Jaae White, in. the 6th 'parer her age: Near G'roeneastle, e,ai' the lath lust., Mrs Robert IYileos spa sfkrutre. : the *Oil Sa .Hr 'ezirfi; -1! I 'lnOilith and '1 , 4 days. . .• . _ trfit,the 'Word, :06111 i 1 Whittramt - lihrt , irt am I,' ibis devotlaut thi tree add the [trivia, kit t e Ito p Mee lithiAr,W4l/1010000Ft Mad heaven shieting, oty it wean.: - . " of Orr of giaryii