The New York Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1862, Page 1

i | etsive victory NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER UI, 1862. HOLE NO. 9524. IMPORTANT FROM KENTUCKY. Terrific Battle Between Buell and * Bragg’s Forces Near Perryville. he Result of the Two Days Fightin DECISIVE UNION VICTORY. General Buell in Pursuit of the Flying Rebels, eneral Gilbert's Corps im the Rear of the Retreating Enemy. eavy Loss of Union Field Giicers. t"< of Some of the Heroos of the Fight, : &o., &., &e. uJ ~ Civcinsan, Ver 10, 1803. | Vater intelligence from Bueu’s army 18 very encourag- “ing. Gevera! Buell’ forces drove Genera! Bragy’s nearly ten miles ov Thursday, witb gecat slaughter, ‘The " fowiug © Geers! Buel Das Dig forces well sp De rebels are retreating iu disorder ud vur forces are lowely i pursuit Louvain, Oct. 10, 1862. Geveral Huei fought a great battle with Bragg’s rebel army yesierd at Perryville, guivmg @ signal aud de Ryagy ws used up. The General Pre Loonies, Ky., Ont 10, 862 Despatches, There sre various remurs cireuliting rolative to the tight which took plive yesterday (thursday), which are said {0 be favorable Lo the Uniun side, but they van be traced fo no eutbentic source, aud headquarters, at eleven @clock (hiy (Friday) morning, bave received uv authentic | advices from (he battle fetd ater than Wednesday eyen- } | : tye. ~ Our force In that Aybt was about 16,000 infantry, a®- Misiod by eight buttories of artillery and 2,500 exvalry; but this force wus reinforeea towards the fight, ‘The revel force has vor been estimated. Atnong ho cayualtics at Perry vitie, ou Wetuerday, are the following — General Jackson, killed General Terrill, kitled, vlose of the Acting Brigadier General Webster, killed Acting Brigadier General Lytle, killed Licutenant Colonel Jewett, killed, Major Gunpheil, of the Kitteouth Rentecky carairy, Billed Colonel Pope, of the xame reginent, w wounded There 18 oo confrimation of the death of General Bberidan General Rouseau is reported slightly -vounded Cotovel Wooliond MW the Kirst Kentucky cavalry, a! making five cl , took two Kentocky batteries, and the enemy, aller very bard fighting, were driven Dace eight mies. ead “oem he juregnng relates to Wednesday's Ogtt No accounts have yet tween received of the losses on either vido, but ours Is supposed tu be targe, from the sortwlity among the He)a oft A large ambulance train iy cow feavmg Louisville to Dring the wounded vither. Loviswitng, Vet. 10--1 P.M. Farly yesterday morning Genoral Buoll attacked Bragg’s forces ut Chaplin creek, Iu the immediate vicinity ‘of Perryville, A short but terrific fight ousued, when the rebels broke and retreated rapidiy ever three diverging roade south ward, our forces in close pursuit 14 ts hoped that the lot will be bagged At the last necounis Gow ral Citvert’s forces were to the rear of the rebels an! come disiance below thern Military exigenetes require the suppression of details No further accounts of tosses vn either side have veeu Feovived | Im ieyile ts in great excitoment respecting the fate of our soldiers in the pouting bartle Gaptaiy Oldershaw, Ja keon's Adjutant, teen the way bither from Bardstown with the remains ot Generals Jackson and Terriil, and Col vel Webster of the Nint eighth Obj regiment SKETOUES OF KILLED AND WOUNDED OFFICERS A en General James 8, Jackson. Brigader General James S. Jackson, reported killed, was al one time ome of the toading spirits of Kentucky. He was abit forty years ot age, osteomed as an ox. serve! to Ue Mexican war, and jn the Kentucky cavalry, and while 4a that service fougit a duel wih the renowned the rebsliion broke out Jackson ri reginent of Kentucky he was promoted to a briga- + fud i the gow organization of the army @ (he Ohio was plaved (n oomeuand of the Ninth division of that bedy.in the cova darme: of Major General Me. Cork. He wae thus spoken of, waeo assurning his colonel. ey, by a Kentucky journalist: Jackson is a native of Kentucky, and fecle a deop pri le qu the past chivalry and present honor of the State, A lawyer, by profession, he began bis career at war at Greonupsvurg, the county scat of the extreme Ho eroinoRt County of the state, Not @uding (ho mountaineers of that region suifieiently quick aod arcent to suita temperament like bis, he em|, gratod to Christia county, Kontueky. ‘There he was ataly appreciated, and rowe rapidly, until his ambition eousuiuimated his purpore, ta au elevation, last August, to tbe folerd| congress, During the last two or throe years fhe, jn a -cordeace with the laws of the dueilo, has beon compelled to accede to the demands of an antagonist, and giay bin, Ir temperament ho ts ardont; in speech Guont and eloquent, full of powor to @eetaim, yet ronson? @die, solid and practical! No youug man is more thoroughly aoquainte. with (he tone and feeling of tho people of Southwestern Kentucky than he, Though Buck. mer's columa perry one half of his distriot, ho un daxntotiy pushes forward tho organization of a cavalry Togiment, the nucleus of which {8 already In camp at Louisville, in order to maintain he principlesand the Purposes of the constitutiva intact, upon the soil eonse- erated by the last resting place of Clay, avd by the living presence of Crittenden Sketch General Terrill. Brigadier Gonsral Wio, R. Torvill, reported Gillet, was | ‘8 native of Virgiuia, and was admitted asa cadet tp the Military Academy at West Point during the year 1649, ‘Be graduated on the 90th day of June, 1853, In the same lags with Major Genera! McPhersan, Brigadier Generals Schofield, Lowe, Sweitzer, Sill and others tn the Uoion army, and eeveral Southerners now 1p rebellion againat the government. On the Ist of July, 1853, be was bre- vetted a second lieutenant of the Third United States artillery, and in the following Nevember was transferred fo the Fourth artillery, with the full commission. Doring 1855 be acted as assistant professor of mathematics at the Military Academy at Wost Point. On the Sist of March, 1866, he was promoted to a Grst fieutevancy in the Vourth regiment of artillery. Among bis companion Nevtenants we find the names of Edward McK. Hudson, ‘Bow op General McClellan’s staff, and others. On the 14th of May, 1861, he was promoted to the captaincy of Com pany H, of the Fifth artillery, ravking No. 42 on the linea} roll of artillery captains. About tbe commence. met of the rebellion he was allowed teave of absence by the government to raise a regiment for, service io Ken- lucky, and visited (his city for that purpoeo. He was aficrwards sent to Kentucky, where he beld the com- mand of his baitery in the division of General McCook, then stationed at Camp Wood. He has doubtless been with that division throughout the campaign in Tennesses, &o. He bas sivee bad charge of a brigade in the grand army of General Buell, and in the battle at Perryville be received the injuries reported, Acting General Lytle. Colone! aud Acting Brigadier General Wiliam H. Lytle wag a native of Ohio, and entered the United States ser- View ip the Mexican war av a lientenaut of an indepen: ont company of foot soldiers, and gerved in Colonel Irving's regiment. The company was received into service op the Sth of October, 1847, and disbanded on the 25th Of July, 1848. On the 2ist of December, 1847, Lieutenant Lyte was promoted to the captaincy, iv cousequence of the death ‘of Captain Kivnoally, who died at Rio Frio on ‘tbat day. At the commencement of «he rebel] jon Lytle was elect- ed colonel of the Tenth regiment of three months yolun- teers (nicknamed the ‘Bloody Tenth’), and went into Western Virginia under Major General McClellan, in Gene- ral Sch'eigh’s brigade, Col. Lytle tock part ip the gailant Attack upon Rich Mountain ju July, 1861,his regiment form- ing a portion of the force ja front of the mountain, They next marched upon Beverly, ke. After tbe departure of McClellan for Washington, General Rosecrans reorganized the command, and the Tenth formicd part of tae Second brigade, under General Hill. At the end of the three months campaign the regiment substantially re-eulisted op the field. At the battle of Summerville, Western Vir- givia, up the 10: of September, 1861, Colonel LyUe w wounded, After Floyd was driven from bis position in the Kanawha Valley, the regiment, which had been in General Renhawn’s wie, was ordered into Kentucky. ‘This was about the Jatter end of November, 1861. 1t was stationed for some time at Camp Joerson, Paeon Creek, Kentucky, and wus attached to the Third brigade of Ge- neral 0. M. Mitchei’s diviswa General Dumont was com. monder 07 the brigade. In February, 1862, we find tho rogiment among the forces in possession of Bowling Green, Kentucky, but wider Licuteuw:t Colenel Burke. The sub ject of our sketch has doubtless been actively engaged in Tennessee, ui ler Bucli;fer we wow Bnd that he lost his Ife white commanding a brigade in the Army of the Obio. Acting Gencral Wester, Colonel and Acting Brigadier General George Webster wag the coloxel of the Nincty-eighth Chio Volnnteers, one of the rezimeuta thet took the eld under the last cail of the President. He was a residcut of Sieubenyilie, Ohio, and the regiment was organized at (hat place. ‘The com- mand bas net long been in Kentacky, but during the short interval bas been vr ganized into a portion of Buell’s grand arny. Colonc! Webster donbless became the brigade commander by virine of eeuiority of rank. General Martin. {From the Baltimore Sen} This Confederate off who ts reported vs killed at the Jate battle at Cormth, is probably Brigadier General Jas. G. Martin, a North Carolinian, who was # captain and brevet mayor in the Quartermarter’s Department of the United Sates Army when the war broke out, ile lost an arn in Mexico. Some years ago he was stationed at the United States Arseual in Philadelphia, NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. ations Before the Battle at Perry- 9 2 vigt [Correspondence of Lit Cnet Gazette.) Locust 7 The latest inteligenco from the fr nt is of ar varios davis h all possible speed, aud y before them. WHE ESR. 1 night, but mpiete, Shongl pede et upon the fortiteas! i uee’cse lor way cress upon it. ‘The guns mou’ vn up by the rebels around thee'ty wore all moved, oft the inbabjinns of the town generally plun- dered of overs thing the eliuis.y c*u'd nao, TN OF FRANKFORT LY NATIONAL TAoore. hbo definite information has yet been received our forees in Fran is no doubt 00% Altin of the avy that ere this they have counts, our advance 0 mand of Genera! si Yew inilte this side of Fran push on with that the old the capital of the State. FROM OUR RANT WiNG. Ab officer of the army, wh ieft Bardstown yesterday atten o'clock, weriving here last night, states ‘Uhat Ube advance of our forces ii that direction were ten at Manton, a small town on the road to Lebanon, ton A Bardatown, ond that it was General Buell's ‘The distauce from s ail y flag ouce more wa ing every herse and wagon in try fer nd for that pars About ndrad and fifty of tiwir sick and wounded fell tuto From Bardsivwa to Manton Ihe way was un- No rkiemislere evea bad been thrown out to ma which it may reasonably be 4 that their retreat was conducted with all posel- the ¢ ‘one | our bands. di juted. contest oor advance, fv jufer @at Bardstown and viemily were about thirty thousand. Hardee is one of Rragg 8 division cou mos and was the last to lew ‘The mor tality among the rebsi troops: wl is suid to have been » dogeus of day. Bards town Is ontirely’ stripped of eve: tole, aud th le Nothing has been beard from Me ok’s corps, on the ‘Taylorsville road, since my last, Tha @ train of cars, or rather a locomotive apd a single car, started out oa the Louisville and Kraak fuct road perintcadent Gill thinks be will be to go withia oight miles of Frankfort without experieucing ay difiiey Tae Cestraction of an important brid ge eo will proveat his fuetuer progress, Locisvites, Oot. 8, 1961. plot ih Kentucky thickoog: the crisis in the affel of the State seeme to be rapidly approaching. Ip the great game of chese now being plated by Buell and Bragg, the wos are well atvauced. and tho bishops have been Brought into play ; the knights are galloping over the checkered field, and the quaeus are ready th xt upon lese powerful pieces ; the Kings have been castied, aud any moment we way expect Wo hear the ominous ery of “ check!" 18 BRAGG ALRBADY OUTGRNRRALLRD? General Buell's admirers -ia Uns city Lf that he is working Out® grasd combination which will inevitably result iv the capture or destruction of all the rebel forces in Keotucky—that Bragg ts aircady ovtgeneralied and oan- not now possibly @scapo, And the Journal tells us that «in four weeks bis }) dame will be one of the most honored ia the world.”? This is & covsummation devoutly to be wishod,and T sincerely hope these predictions aud assertions may ali prove true. Buell is undoubtedly exhibiting a comment: able degree of energy just now, and [have great conil noe ti the ablity oF his magnifloent army to pertorm whatovar task may be assignod them. , OBJECT OF THR RENEE INVASION OF KENTUOKY—PRETARA- TiONA FOR AN EVACUATION, Of courge if the rebels make @ stand General Bucll's plan for thoir extermiuation will be carried ont acvording to the programme; but 1 have never bolieved they in tended to doo, nor dol now. It is not their poly to ive us battle so near our bases of supplies, and knowing, 48 they do, (hat they cannot bold Kentucky forever, they willendoavor to rowace their steps without risking a eral engagement, ‘They entere. tho State. on a forag- ing expedition, and having accomplished the object of their visit, they are now prepared to withdraw, Tam aware that General Bueli’® plan embraces the contingency wiemy's retreat, of winich, indeet, there is much more danger than of « tight, and that he is expected to compel them to fight or surrender. During the latter days of their bri in Frankfort and Lexington for both pia 4 you are deubtleos aware, have been evacuated—they broke open and pillaged stores ani! private houses, and seived all the horses and wagons in tho surrounding country to transport h thele si gotten ge Sveb conduct would not Bd likely to character'ye them if it bid been theirs purpose to Chiate the Kentiekens and remaia anerg them fngiwed 10 He baler that General Pracg awl Kirby THE NEW YORK HER INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA. The Dash of Stuart’s Cavalry Across the Potomac and Into Chambersburg. think of them as Colone! | said to me at Big Ail | unreliable people anyhow. They cry,‘Gool Lord, good devil’ inthe same breaib. When you are fa the’ stat. they will all. be for you, and when we come they will be Just as ananimous for us. ‘hey want to be peatral, and | i | | i | will be anything to save their niggers and mutes.” THY ADVANCE OP OUR ARMIES—EVACUATION OF LEXINGTON. 4 tho only intelligence of interest from during the last twenty-fonr hours, is the announce of the evecastion of Lexington by the rebels, ‘The mave- Mouday morning, and by night all the arch, save a rear guard of not more than a hundred men. It is not stated whether they took the road to Richwond or Nicholas- | ville, though the latter ts more probably their line of retreat. ‘They would not bo likely to return over tho road along which they advanced, for the reason that they have alroady skinved the country bordering it of most of | its supplies. Moreover, a concentration of their forces | - be attempted for fear they should be compelied to | nt. "GGierat sull's brigade took possession of Frankfort Monday afternoon, but not before throwing a few shells across the Kentucky river ot a company of Scoil’s caval- ry, left behind ag arear guard. General $i} promptly poshed on wward Lexington, and will probably reach: that place this even Danville was occupied by cur troops without opposi- tion, and General Rovasean was at Willisburg, fiitesn miles southesst of that place, Monday evening. It does look as hong) our lines were encircling the rebels; but, as before remarked, I have great confidence in their ability to escape fom the folés of Buell’s anaconda, which threatens to crush them in its powerful embrace. A CHANCE THAT THR ENEMY MAY BE OUT OFY. It is possible that, in their efforts to oacape, the enemy may bea d: nor and Frage were both it Frank/ort § y pate in the inauguration ce- remonies of “Governor? Hawes, From this it would seem that thoy were of the movement of our forces on ibe Bardstown i. and as there is neither railroad nor toleg town and Frankfort, the evacu must have been ordered by knowledge, Indeed, it is said that Bragg, on his retu to Bardstown from the State capital, was surprised to meet hie army in full retveat. There fs at leart in this a ray of hope. General McClellan in Philadelphia. Pur.aner ruta, Oct, 10, 1862. It is reported that Geucral MeClelian arrived in this city last evening on private business. General McClellan parsed the night at the Coutinents! Hotel, but returned to the fie! again this morning, leay ing here in the eleven o'clock train. Arrival of Paroled Prisoners at Harper's Ferry. OUR HARPER'S FERRY CORRESPONDENCE. Hanren’s Perey, Oct. 9, 1862. The Enemy Stwongly Intrenched at Wincheser—A Mov:ment Expected dc. Yes y twonty-three of our wen errived here on parole from Winchester. A private of Company H, Ninth Vermont, named James E. McElroy, was one of the party s captured as follows:—He had charge of | eight ladies on the 2d of September, and was conveying thom to the cars from the hotel in the village, when he found that oue of them,a Miss Scott, from Westchester county, N. ¥., was left behind, He weut back to the hotel aud walked into the parlor ia search of ber, when three men incitisens’ clothes stepped forward and comand” ed him t surrender himself quietly a prisoner or he would be jnstanfdy thol, at the same time presenting a cocked pistol to lis breast) He at once submitted, aud was kept con- fined in a room of the hotel, our cavalry at the same time riding along the street below. The Confederates soon after oconpiod the village, there beiug, at the time of his arrest, no leas Vian (went) thougaud of (ue enemy ou the outskifts, The rebels threaten our mea while walaing about the strests on their parole, and it is unsate for any to be abroat after dark. A number of their wounded were seut off to Staunton from Winchester a day or two | before he left. Their shoes were taken from them and given to thoze in the army, and they were Hage compels to start on a tramp of over ninety miles bare.oot. > The inhabitants of Winchester say that they wish the Union forces would drive out the rebels and in ocenpy Winchester, as they can buy ciothing, shoes and the necesraries of fi’e much more reasonab y than when the Confederates are thore. The enemy are strongly intrenched at that point, and it is believed that if our army attacks them there we sha meot with a ro- pulse, the rebels having their batteries and troops in 4id position. itis thought that if wecould cut of f supplies whith come frum Chambersburg aud Staun- ton the enemy would be compelled to evacuate. The feeling now exists generaily throughout the Southern army that if our forces attack them, either at Winchester or any other place in Virginia, they will drive their army before them, as they say Laat they are now on our own grotyd and know what they are doing, Around Harper's Ferry and uelgbborhood there is every indica tion of au early movement, and you must not be surprised if an advance js made this Coroner's Inquest. Tus Lars Howicton at tun Bowary Tasarre.—Coroner Naumann heid an inquest yesterday at the New York Hospital upon the boay of George A. Doberty, who was fatally stabbed at the old Bowery theatre, while in an ‘altercation with Jobn Crawford, a member of Duryee's Zouaves, on last Tuesday night. The evidence of several ‘witnesses was takou, and substantiated the report of the occurrence ajready made; but none of them coul? posi- tively identify Crawford as the party who jnfijcted the fatal wound. The jury, however, charged him with the crime, aad he was committed by the Coroner for trial. In his examination he stated that he did stab deceased, but was first assaulted by him, and acted only in self defence, He is but twenty-one years of age, was bora in this city and resides at No, 68 Adams street, Brooklyn. ‘The friends of the deceased have taken charge of his body, and it will be intarred in the New York Bay Cometery. ‘Several of the witnesses fa the case were sont to the House of Deton: tion to await Cho trial, Coroner Ranney held an inquest upon the body of Briiget Newnan, lato of No, 310 West Twenty sixth street, who died (rom burns received two weeks ago by her clothes catching fire from a can of burning fuid, with which she wis atte:npting to + old some wood Ina grate by pouring thestuid upon it. She was a native of Ireland, niveteen years*of age. Also upon the wey sixty-seven years Ol fall upon the iron railing of @ fence, received on the 224 Of August, at hor late residence; No. 169 West Fourtecnth street. Busan Sonda, a German woman, fifty yoars of age, was found dead yesterday in her bed, at No. 10 Eaeex street. Jolin Hilovan, an employe of the firm of Lewis & Brown at No, 42 rout’ sirect, yesterday fell down in a At, and died soon after al tho Now York Hospital. Win. Hanser, of Williainsburg, acetdentally fell through the hatehway of No. 103 Frankiin street posterday and was taken to tho New York Hospital dangerously wood Janes Lynch, of No. 12 Sixth aveo burwed by (he explseion of a ult lan, week. of Ellen Girman, a native of Ireland, age, who died from the effects of « 1, WAS scrious'y SWELSH RUN D s 8 THE POSTAG SANE aes f POWERSVLLE = BURG EY (BuRKITSYLULLES! oO = STAMP CURRENCY. Statement of the City Postmaster Wake. man in Reference to Defaced Postage Stamps. TO THE EDITOR OF THE WERALD, Post Orrice, New Yori, 10, 1842. Namerous letters, critical and advisory, frieudly and denunciatory, have recently been received at this office in regard to regulations of the Post Office Departinent re- | We look for the whole force in half an hour. specting postage stamps. Time wil! not permit me to reply to them in detail, I beg leave, therefore, to submit the foliowing statement, which it is believed, will explain the various points rsiged, «Postage stam) confounded with "portage eurreney.”? pe” have been and ore very generally This error bas boon the cange of misapprehensionsand di(Gculties. “Post. ge stanps” are iasuied by the Post Ofice Depart ment only, avd by law they can be used only for the pre- payiwent of postage. “Posiage currency’? is Seeued only by the Secretary of the Treasimy or bis Aseistante, parstant to the act of Cou grees approved July 17, 1862, and cannot be used for pie ota \ payment of for the purehase «Postage stamps” cannot be used as diverting them designod , aud partment. y which th postage \ ‘To use the their proper office, were hot designed or adapted. medium. 'y Department is expressly authorized to f | nish tho “postage and other stamps « Dut can and was intended t portage stamps”? and as curr from the purpose for w violating the orders Of the Pest Office De as guch is to wrest them from ad apply them to a purpose for On the con. currency” was expressiy designed for a By the act of Congress referred to, arreacy.”? Gese rally the public erronem~sly asstimed that this act legalized ag currency ‘postage stam; prepayment of 7 Depariinent, aud immediately commenced th gnch. "The depa: ti would re notice tit did currency, aud would only sell Lhemtto be ment of postage. made to restrict iT poses: postag use ais ¢ ‘Their unfitness to give, the dep: paper, 60 other, they scou t from this eo then jn use for postage, aud turnigbed by the Port uitice ut, foreseeing the evil consequences which e. gave immediate aud full not and could not faruish stataps cor 1 in prepay Pursuant to this notice efforts were the sale of rtamps t> the a but notwithstanding these effurts their renoy beeaine vere geueral. for this purpare soon gave, and cor beoame soiled, defaced aud torn, Evik ons, finding that Stamps could be use! as me uring felony, and is punishable by imprisonment for three yearf,aud bya fine of one thorsand dollars. Yet this Grime became 80 frequent, Uhat there was ressgn to be lieve that a jarge portion o! have been this id from ft havin, led. arrest t! department by de’ or washed stampa, would be sent fo the Desd Letter Office. Iu the execution of this order, and in accordance with 8 its epirit, oni covered by f fu mitted stamps this way they are so injnred that tv Ungutshed from these that have t further conseqnence, dangerous committed, to the great department. In view of Ubese facts, can it with fairness bo suid that because the departme covered with etamps so injured that they canuot be dis tinguished trom reputiation? Ts i honid fall upon alidity, But itis said these frauds complained of a: the result of imperfect cancellation, ment is io fauit in not ‘To thie it is answere stamps for curtencs ink wae sufficient. witof using “postage stampa”? ag money re practice was entered w change the mode has beeu dovised, and is now ja use in this om which, 80 soon as it can bo generally adopted tbe caticeliation comp out the department, embracing 27,000 differant oMoes neceesiriiy involves @ very large expense, and mu be a work of time, ain, age stainp ‘To this it shoul out the slightest consultation with the Post Office Depart. meut, and its execution is in terms devolved upou the y of the Treasury. Although, apparen curred in Its execution, yot it should ered that there ar possessing necessary machinery to execute tl work in large qu could be made available havo been applied, day, to supply the country with demand notes, logal tonder bills and postage currency. lieved that iu a fow days the supply of the latter will be amplo. It is further public unless the are redoomed, [ masier General nas under consider: it Is believed, 90 Fency shall be furnished, persons holding will be afforded an opportunity for their redemption At this office since the publication of the order so much maby cages (i: ‘that letters covered dor washed as to render it impossivie to determine whether (hey are valid or not. ame, have rendered it impossible to dotermine their ‘tobe used as currency it should have pro- vided*the necessary supply of ‘‘poetage currency,’’ pur- suant ty the act of July he siaraps used ws carrency fraudulently put is ion. Wt he le to determine the worn ie ©. on them stamps that hav: iy ‘he false could not, however, in mort ished from the gen i by voted, ich levers are’ withheld as are clearly inleut stampa, or those £0 suiied or de that thi are sold is not unreasonable the yeannot bed cancelled; and as a extensive frauds are aud embarrassment ot the declines to forward letters the frauduient that it is guilty of it Bot just and fair thst the loss, if any those who, by improper Use ol the: prev iding a inore perfect method. that previous to the vse of 1 the cancellation with indelible he frauds complained of are outy Lie Since’ this it has been impowsibie to Ofcanceilation. Althoug) a new metioa , and to change the metho t ti .if the departinent didnot vist last. id be Said that thie act was passed with- delay ut fow ‘edmpani ju this country ntities, and that all the me ich wi night and It is confidently be- urged that great loss will acerue to the stamps that have been thus circulated take pleasure in stating that the Post. ion & plap by which soon As a proper supply of postage eur complained of, comparatively few letters havo been de- ited covered by ieved.that tho effect of the order us unde: stoo. ecuted, has been it was both wise and effective. anil it be ox salutary, and that time will prove that Contain it is, it wea not ‘soiled or invalid stamps designed to Cvuse needless joss or injury, but rether to shield and protect both the people and the govornme t. Orr mae Care FoR Evnore. which left New York on Wednesday afters off Cape Race this afternoon, en ro mercial deepateh betore eleven A. board. ABRAM WAKEMAN The fteamehip Scotia, » will arvive for Liverpyol 0s left at Stoker's oitice, 145 Ut M, today, will be dn cowson t Com: \way, Be j ut ov ASTONISUING NEWS. Invasion ef Penpsylveanta by the Rebels ( Stuart's Cavalry Dash Into Chambersburg. Governor Curtin Hurrying Rroeps Up the Valley. WHO I8 STUART? | &e., &., * Se Hanrisncna, Oct 10-730 PM His Governor Curtin bag just received the following de spatch from Colonel MeGhure, at Chambersburg. — | «sercersbirg was oecupiod by Stuart's rebel bersburg. avalry today, and they are now advaneing on Chan ‘Thoy took horses and all other” property they wanted at rebel serip fer it, They did no in- wt Tho rebels are certainly Morcersburg, of force 18 is that I have heard of, jury to indivi estimated at turee thonsand, | advanciug upon Chambersburg. | ford wire, They are reported as acar as St about seven miles trom here. There is no doubt what ever of their being iu Mereersbarg. Thoy will certainly give usa cali to-night, We had the rumor at four o'clock ' but tt was not credited, We carmake no resistance, as it would only exasperate, and cause the wanton destruc tion of property and life.” Thoy have cut tho Bed. ‘Yhomas, Cuastmenseur, Oct. 10—8 P. M. About fifteon men, on horseback, are in town with car. They want to see the principal Lincs and a flag of truce. men of the town. They have from town, who will enter in an hour, Colone! McClure and Provost Marshal Kimmel have just gone two miles from the town to meet the rebel commander, Nothing can bo done except surrender, a lar ‘oree about one mile They crossed the Potomac at Hancock, and came over the country to the Pittsburg pike. 9; The deposits of tho Chambersburg Bank have not’ been returned from New York since the late raid. Harnisucra, Oct. 10-19 P.M. Despatches just received from Sbipponsburg coufiims the news of the cecupation of Chambersburg, The advance rebel force consists of 1,000 cavalry and six pieces of artillery Hanwsoers, Oct 19-8 P.M. Governor Curtin is now pushing troops up the valley. Who fs Stuart? General J. E. B. Stuart is the sen of the jate Archibald Stuart, for soverat years a member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the di which then embraced tho county of Patrick, in Virg where, we believe, he was born. At a very early age lve gave token of & quick and active mind. His atber died ten or twelve years ago, His mother yet lives. james E. B, Stuart entered the Military Academy West Polut in the gyear 1860, Among his co- temporaries at that Institution were Ambvuse P. Hill, Henry Heth, Coorge Me Ste "- Be Holmes, Beverly H. Robertson and George Evans, Seth M. Barton, Alfred Cumming and Thomas 8. } Rhett, of the rebel army Cogswell aud otuers army. Among his Im | John Pegram, Gor pigue, wow well knows Grebie of the Unions batile the} s Lee ant Je ia the rebel service, ‘al Sumner was colonel enw k. Johnston, of the rebel ted for its ofticer and Major Gener: army, Heatenant ©! There are doubtless on Mile in the pigeou-uvlos of the War Department, at Washington, officiat reports of many eucounters with the savage, recording inacurt, dry, cold manner enterprises which, in the glowing narrative ofa Walier Scott or an Alexandre Duras, would vie by jnterest with the stories of chivalry. One of tise ou ly, jn whieh Ligutenant Stuart bore a part, his beon record ed in our newspapers, bat the accouut is as short and tx factory as possible, On the 20th Joly, 1 timd when we were absorbad with the Atlantic telagrayh ntered a force of turee hey trongly posted upou Sulu. , after a sharp strug Tn this combat Colonel Sumner exeow braves of the Cheyenue trit mon’s Fork of the Kansas river, am gle, put thom to fight ia groat disorder. Lieutenant Stuart was severely wounaed. At the outbreak of the present war Liewteaant Stuart resigned his commission, and offered his sword to the cause of the South to bis ex. ploits since that time. They have been laid befr pablic. With his rapid rise from @ colonelcy vt mand of a brigade and soou after tw the rank of @ major ral of cavalry, our readers are familiar. Perhaps the moet strikiag aud successful of ali Lis expeditions were the Vamunkey raid through seCl lives, ia which the revei Captain Latane was lost, and the recent descent upon Catlett's Station, where be gathered up the oficial correspondeucs and full dress uniform coat of General Pope. Az acavalry officer, General Stuart eombines with his regular West Port trainiag much of the ean of Joha Morgan and Turner Ashby. Ready for any enterprise, his wilitary motto seems to be that of the French levler— «6 De Vaudace, encore de Vandace, tanjovrs de Candace’ ~ and bis raid yesterday into Pounsylyauia seoms to have surpassed his previous acts of audacity, Inthe old army Stuart was univers: knowa under the nickname of “Beauty Stuart,” as reflectiag "pou his peraoaal appearance, The lower part of nis face is: Over- flowed by a torrent of reddish browa beard; but, accord: jug to rebel authority, his eye is bright and mobile, bis movements are full of grace, his address is pleasing, his port lofty and bis horsemanship perfect Genoral Stuart married a daughter of Philip St. George Cooke, Colonel of the Seeoud dragoons Inthe United States Army, Tuis officer, @ Virgialan’by birch and education, is tho brother of tha Iate John R. Cooke, of Richmond. Tt was anid that one of Stuart's objects Ia the Pamunkey expedition was to take his father-in-law prisoner. Sketch of Chambersburg. Cahmberaburg 18 @ flourishing borough of Franklin county, Pa., of whieh county it is also the eapit: It ts pleasaatly situated on the Conecochogus creek, at the junction of the Carmberland Valley Railroad with the Franklin Railroad, It is Corty-Ave miles, in aa air tine, aouthwest of Harrisburg, and one hundred and fifty miles weat of Philadelphia, It is connected by good turnpike camp (where there isa unilitary station, and act Carlisi, alaon niilitar fe pout forty feo Harrisburg, Mil by rallcoad. It ts also miles of less ffom Fiancock by te turnpike real, The dwettings in this pir westiy built of appearance it hasa fi ext and the town ite a general comfort ont atarge wendy Bye newspnper PRICE TWO CENTS. viens eoantry forming part of the great Imesione stich extend? along ihe southeast base of the Hine Mountgins, Vhe highest points of whe Page in Frankho county are estimated ab about Aftecn euitivated and husdred feet abov ihe wadey 1 bos manufuctures ot Coon, woo, Boor, paper and irca tke pe pabation is about Ave thousand = The comity, w on Ma ry and, bas aa ares of seven handed y square es. or aearty four hundred and seventy ‘our tho sand In ts ed by the Conetoye inet, antrerani, ora and Core hogue creeks The th Mowntan 2 ite boun tary on the est, and Tus arora or Cove anon thé porthwest Parcels Kaob.a high and Pleroresque peak im ihe northers part af the county. the so ahwestery (ermination of th The uighort ponte of Cove Mountaus are eats adout dita. Dundred feet above the vatley of the got! ig nueaspassed fm 1950 this sunny y $27 062 Durhels of wheat, the greatest quanuty prod pany couuty of the tae, except Larcaster WM was or Ranized wm 1784, and the pr thoueana, THE BA The Pursutt of the Cp—Rien Gen on Ww Ivor 1 pe pal y WTLE AT CORINTH Ma Kept i Ocewpird by Oar Troopim Ogiesby Yot Killed, we. fame Oet 9, 1382 We bave chosed Price as far as Rfpiey, ant go far as ean be asce:taived the chase 8 etal! Kept up Our troops occupy The report of tr Cajon occupation ef Grand Junction ig not coniirmed, ‘The reported death of Gen, Oglesby, trom won ceived at Corinth, is Nowspa [Correspondence o4 Deinoerat a, Oct. o, 1802 were auacked worthy ‘ ve emer’ be red WON Us, a WO ¢ bickeward, tilting depos ¥ is pushed forwaed with a hold every foot of vontaze fores eight and ty wd we wore ther tl prevent complished, ‘The one br atm sbing us baukward | Sarre when ¢: putan end wth that day? bub that of var loug ho. amed by constant exertion hortally wounded wilied by the taiense ane Hincktoman vent al Oglesby wos Watt of the {and Opeued Hr re, Ted, an y cannes 2 cine two y ufler quarters oo a mile 19 Ine 0 battle, wctvanciing rajywlly Apor the town. Lin ty y line; the saiet , returning the fire oF sm down hike g Dnt with wn unp raltelod a. npotnonsly torw: ely, br ti Mntry, and ecap ti the battory’of the Biv lost and a tenporary panic 2 mMere inarched jut of Corharh under the dir od, thon felt b e more It hured dosten the day was saved avd the fon int my wn fait comparatively sinall daring this fewreud thet of the enemy fally twenty to Atong the rebeis kiied, feft on the a 10°, of Ne ¥ General Johnie omy and Villip) swelled his to: 0 THE ARGLO-REBEL FLEET, Mr, Mason’s P hases in Great Britain, nts ish eam for the South. ie bos lied the Iona, a river bout 1 htwen to nivetoen miles an hour. Though used for river pacposes only, she is quite ML for a voyage. 1b he has his eve on three orhers, They ave at present engag nHeK aad Livwrpned and Greenock and Dublin trade y woukd aaswor admirably for dospaich boats, ‘all having & ginmodacioas Gor The Brig Rain ber Ss abort ¢ teerv Oreto Supposed to be in the Gait. Cuptal: danse #, reports th avout filty miles ni stenwor, bark rigged, still. He says:—- Tt was. obey being about six aud nade for us. Flor’ as Oreto, Just as wo wore losing sight of each other she fret a gun to stop ns; but we alterod our Course, and she kept 0 looking for us till cleven IP. ML, when she yrve tho ehuso ays We got clear by dodging and altering our course. We coud see her littic sinal! light pat up like a sasting #hiy | #0 that the wowary might fall fato ber trap. 1 thik ee had not on board to diive full apoed, OF we could not have escaped. of the brig Rainbow, from New Or- on thy September, white Woof Cuba, ia Jon. $3, be made a ler funnel, parted white, tyieg AS goon Us she saw ue—we 6 foun Nere-she altered her coarse, We concluded ib was the privateer The Steamcr Leop sed at Nassaa from Charlcston—The Rebel Trader Mero tn Danger. Nasway papers a nee the arrival om the 2d ult, of the steamer Leopard, (rom Charlestoa, $, C., with a cargo of cotton, rice, &e., to tho secesh firm of Adderly & Co. "The Leona rts goon after leaving Charieston tire ing way bear, which is sappored ty lave been direetod towards tho steamship Hove, az this vessel was expected to lovve about the same time. Her fae is not yet known, The Contest at anktin, Virginia. OCR NORFOLK CORRES ON DENCE. “Nonronk, Va., Oct. 9, 1862, Adiitional Deails of Ut Affair a! Lianilin—Less of the Bwemy, &e., de. Since the brilliant aMair of Colonel Spear's at Fronktio on Friday last, the rebels on tho line of tho Buck water have remained very quiet, and there appears to be, for the present at least, a lull ta the threatened demonstra. tions against Suffolk from that qnarter, ‘The result of the engngomelt x tonne arms, (he enemy bayiv jects of Uke pro, aticfuctory. ‘The loss of di in kilied and wo: our side were but two kille 4 mi Tip engigemout takibg place Led FevOUNINSANICY sotuy ts es nated w the onsualties: five wounded and three toss the river, missing diy prisoners. The coudit.on of SofToiR cai ot riectiy. wats wtory, and the wtmort Gone. L toon felt io vuf ability jiutain Ue position againes dence is the enemy can bring against as. much greater t al tet un . Intelligences Berson nt Tncer Pablishes alist of Bug. sLirem them, who botd iva Holy Roman The He High sabje OF re ON NN Arnong thé names Fonpiire f gloraco at. 8 (a count of ec dute of patgnt 1786, On this the =J tn Count de ba Feld, ” er that tithe, lee recently arrived in Liver ¢ of Feunessce, 19 America, in which State a hich position as a iawyer aud wjudgo. tiborty Ne was centeat to drop lis title relatotd. Count Detak ie 48 is Jished sebolar riya itis appearance. Wo rather ainese in England has rete. 1) Of the pdependenge of Tie onan Fpl remark: of hugh hers an epwet tht |