The New York Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1862, Page 1

6 THE ee ‘WHOLE NO. 9573. — NEWS FROM BURNSIDE’ ARMY. STATE OF AFFAIRS AT AQUIA CREEK. What the Union Troops Have Accomplished. The Raitroad to Falmouth Completed. The Romherdmentot Prederichs- burg Pestpened, Ree Phe \\cpovts from the Army Headquar- ters. ‘Heanguanrans, ARMY op Ts PoToMA0, } - Nay. 28, 1862. ‘Pho railroad from Aquia creck was completed yester- diy, and a'locomotive came down this morning. Supplies ‘will be -eeetved by rail heuceforward. i \be enomy are industriously eagaged in extending and 4trv: xchening their earthworks in the rear, to the right axtlecvor Fredericksburg. Their operations are dis- unccy visible through glasses from onr signal stations. Xo movements of importauce have taken place for se verai days, but a reconnoissance is said to be in progress eked poomires important resalte. * The Reports from Aquia Creek. Aquia Catan, Nov. 24, 1862. fe week ago to-day Lientenant Colonel Pettes, of the svoed: New York (engineer brigade), landed at thie o velrcm « barge, with one hundred and twenty men of ©. ccromand, W repair the railroad, rebuild the wharf, «ke ‘Ge the previous day a small body of revel partisan tovalry hat paid @ flying visit, striking terror to the ‘bcc: of a number of gontrabands who had concentrated +oo> | obtain transportation, to # land of freedond. Oelonel Pettes found ‘the denolate and dreary, soot g only the vestiges of the recent conflagration, knowwwg how near or im what force the rebels 1 be, Colonel Pettes posted his pickets and placed the ‘vot of Bis men inside the ruined walls of the engine ase fo Prevent a might attack. On Tuesday he seat out reconvoitering parties, and ® uo the day wae visited by a detachment of New ys Ree Ree as to I Washinxton Colonel Pettos had des- peoled a ponten trate via Alexandria aad Occoquan for ae oo the Ruppehannoek. boy tbe Aras areived at the latter place, the roads ps.Oe tpracticable from the rains and the mud: sod the ‘ses were there transferred from aod} weler, aed (akon dhovee to Bell Plain, the nearest ood bousvos Ming )oint t # redericksburg. Svesday Mis Harlot and a corps ef mechanics ar- wed, and, ogsisiel by the emcncer corps ander Colonel Svilos, mmodiately commenced whardug, bridging and oalring the ratinoad. 7 vk and the Dridge near Brooks’ Station were »apleted, end the telegraph corps, under Mr, McCand- Slextended thew wires to this point, connecting varlers of Mayor General Busnside vision comman lors ‘he uecutine thousands of tons of army supplies were Innded ia barges and Coats, umder Captain Hall, As- sank Quartermester, Untied statam Army, and forwarded aepGe (0 different points. Faleneive frame warohouses are now bog erected, and AMogmotive a train of platform cars, was lauded SNF AWRY, ahd race a trip down the road thie evening, thexe operations ware protected by the presence of Aveo gunbouls and « mortar schooner. O seven days’ time this piace, recently so deso. wie, te cow os dousely populated aud presents as active --eranee as (le fiver side of @ populous commercial pontoon, aus aney. The bridge over the Potomac ereek i aow the only ob- ere fo stow communication wilb the "headquarters of Se army Opposite Fredericksburg. ad thigywill be re- aren whim rhe next forty-eigit hours, Pe elenest mpasewhie state of the reads from Aquia Merk aad Deli Pt renders this copnecthon imyeratively ewe eury for the (rasportation of army suppites. Alnwst every farmhouse for m‘ies around has been A by ite cocupants, who evidently fled southward approach of Major General Buruside’s army, leay to most cases their flocks end berds belund, which, arally {all to the tender mercies of our soldiery. Lamb, mutton, beef, veal, pork and poultry consequentiy @+ abundant and clieap, and form stapie dishes on the rad. lables of the camp, kapeciant ears have been anxiously awaiting the boom, tc 01 heavy rdnanes i the direohion of Fredericksburg; but) to this thine uo firiug bas been heard the bombardment of Fredericksburg has heen post- Piero wot and sot pt reasons Aria Crowk, Va,, Now, 28, 1862. Tee britge mac creek is fined, aud @ sup, Py (aun was ran over it to Falmouth this morning, The tin rLance of this addition (© the transportation facilities: of (he army cannot be overestimated, m the present hor. foie condiGien of the roads, which are im some pinces al wk’ iMpase ble for loaded wagons, Tiere is no tmportant news from the army to day. Ding @ met at the (reat,and matters there are ally unchanged De increased faciiivies for the forwirding of supplies ato dod by the opening of railroad communication will Probably onable General Burnside t advance to the south aule of the Rappatiannock, Tue enemy gemain in force oa the opposie -ide, aod are evidently puzzied at the @eiwy in attacking them r The Reports from Pper's Ferry. Hanrxn's Frray, Va., Nov, 28, 1862. ‘No tidings from the enemy's lines to-day. Quietude pervades ure. A rebel soout rode into our lines in Loudon county this morning, and oonddentty protended tv have business with Geseial Kane. He isa prisoner of wer. Our Army Correspondence, Coe Orvosite Prepenicksicee, Va. Nov. 28, 1862. 4 Cavalry Reconn Asanc—The Slirmth at Brage—A Point Who Held the Bridge—he Fire of the Bebo's, te. Wo are still oppesite Frederickeburg,and the activity ‘Avinoed on alt Ailes proves that we aro:to make an imme, duste and bold movemest to obtaia possession of that {oLo 168 SeCONstOW Nest, Yosterday ap inspection cf severad brigades took place, the troops appearwg ib flee order, Today au inspection of another \arge pertion oF the army t ordered, A large number of our cavalry force passed this morn. due down the river to raconnoitre, and were followed by a Yenasylvania battery and the Twenty-fift" and Thirty se. aad New York, These movements, together with the @ notont aotivlty of General Burnaite and staff, indicate ShAL 0 ore B08 to Opes the ball by coume grand move’ miout, The trooye ave ad) eager for the ndvance and desirous of prosecuting @ winter campaign fnto Rebeliom, In faeg 62/19 te Searcely an ofcor in the army who ts desirous of g2.0y toto winter quarters, diy etteption fies been called toa ecoriously dacorrect aqcomont of a Corieepondent of the New York fridune, who writes “Near Warrenton Jonotion, Nov, 16,1862, fol @ tom yit to doseribe the eevere skirmish with the Tools Whiok Lok place at Lao bridge aevosw the wannoek, gear Warreuton Spring#,ou the 16th instant, Like many Of the seomud rate hangers on of that vufortubal) jourual, he was, «8 many have been before onnily ta the mide! of the engagement.” White wa do oot do jute ko hus , they do greats taj tics to the email force ad the Kapeanorno k bridge ead maved deiarge portion OF OWF WeRON trait ter deetrection, The feal fac! wid, Aroong obber things, show the Merataric ability of Ge i Hearmetd® are os follawn m On He attornoon of the Deck itstont tbe rebel plclage ware iriver Hit inilos south of 1h4 “apeahannork, t Mane ob the Harel river, whe (he Snub Church, were detailed to hold the bridge, asniso the bills to the eouth of it. Thee movements fed ihe enemy to ‘suppose that {t was the intention of had press forward with his whole army towards Gordonsville; ee cettely she movement ‘ebich as pluced as now nm Fredericksburg was inangurated withdrawal of a ‘our forces from the southern side of the Ab seven o'clock on the morning of the 16th, the Sixth New Hampahire was called im, together with all but f'ty wen of Company Cof the Seventh Rhode }, WhO, waar mand of Captain Church, were left to hold tho ‘ord and bridge at all hazards. ‘ lcek ovr eavalry skirmishers came in etions (aot a solid square, as stated by the Tribune correspondent), hotly eontesting the ground with the enemy's pickets, who appeated immediately upon the surrounding heights, Our cavalry crossed the bridge and Wok port as akirimishers, abont five hundred yards to the rear of the bridge, Meanwhile the exien- sive wagon train of stores and ammunition belonging to General .Sturgic’ division wor passing near the bridge und Qurtying onward towards Fayetteville. Suddenly, on the heights fouth uf the bridge, the rebels opened from a batsery, throwing spherical cave shot and shell upon tho little foree that he!d the bridge, designing to sbetl it out, and, under cover of the fire, to out off the traih of supplies by a cavalry dash. Afier romaining under the hot fire of the rebel battery ant! another gun, throv ing railway iron, was brought to bear upon the flank of hie command, Captain Church with- drew, with the greater part of his force, to @ point near by, which afforded Setter protection. The vebelr, th they had shelled out the iege, then made a dash with about one hundred an¢ fiiiy'envalry, with a view to complete their design but hore they were suddenly disappointed by the reapp%rance of the little band guafding the diidze, which quick!y gaired the distance separating them froia it, and, beldly meeting the enemy by « well directed fire, which emptied six saddles, drove them from the field, Ti is gallant act probably prevented the destruction of a large portion of valuable army stores, Feo would have greatly deterred tho advance of eur forces. While the above mentioned action was taking place our batteries on the Jeft had opened upon the rebe! gous, and an artillery duel thon took place, which lasted abort two | ours. The celebrated battery of Captain Benjamin then Sok Dost on the right, and, with 8 few wal sepciet shots from )wen' - pounders drove re} ter! from the eld. ; Tho Thirty-ffth Massachusetts ent, reported by the Fribune correspondent as havi nuded the bridge, did not arrive on the ground until the skirmish was en- tirely concluded and the rebel batteries silenced; eves then they only remained on the ground half an hour, being relieved by the One Hundredth Pennsylvania, which algo relieved the force detailed under Captain Church from the Seventh Rhode Island. In Camp, Naar Fataouts, Va., Nov. 24, 1862. Progras, de. Lieutenant Leib, of General Butterfield’s staff, arrested ‘@ man to-day who is suspected of being a spy. He was found trying to make his way outside our picket Iines. He made several contradictory statements regarding himself; at one time pretending te bo a sutler of the Nineteenth Indiana regiment, at another that he wasa sutler’s clerk, and, lastly, that he came from Bradford county, Pa., in quest of a son inourarmy. The fact of his looking and talking like a Virginian of the old setuler stamp, and his not being able to tell the name of the ovlonel of the regiment he pretended wo be the gutler of, or the name of a single town in the county he clarmed to ‘bail from, leaves but little doubt of bis being a rebel spy. Ho was sont to army juarters, Now that the mien of this corps are comfortably settled im their vew camps, the activities of drilling have been resumed. ‘his keeps the men employed, besides making them better @i:ed for fighting service in the future. Our Pince of cucamspment w® pioturesquely undulating, with a winding creek traversing it in two or three . The scoue at night, when the camp fires are ail lighted, is very beautiful. One blessing, the men have pieuty of wood, Work on the railroad Jeadtng to Aquia creek is progress- ing rapidly. Tho road passes alongside our camp ground, It is said that the cars will be running in a day or two, after which time the labor of getting smpplics here will be greatly diminished. No news of importance reaches us from the front to- day. The bombardment of Fredericksburg bas been postpened, but not indefinitely, it is to be presumed. Our my i tna position now requiring cautions move. ment great goneralship. Jt is believed that Genera) Burnside will prove equal to the emergency. Meantime ieesties has to be kopt up both in front and rear, which jhrows extra labor and hardships on the soldiers. Hranquarrers, Nuwrn Anmy Corps, Oprosrrs Farprmicnesurs, Va., Nov. 26, 1862. Quid—A Storm in the Horison—The Reb-la Erecting More Barthworks— Promotions, dc. Within the past few days littie has occurred i6 this vicinity to disturb the quiet into which the army bas gradually subsided since the consecutive marches from Berlin and Warrenton. But, like the calm which precedes the storm, our delay here js but precursory of the rapid and eventful movements which a short time will call forth. Weare Dut gathering strength for a terrible, and it ia to be hoped a final, blow at the rebellion. Ali is quiet along the river, and the pickets of either aide remain without attempting to molest each other. ‘The rebels are gathering a large force beyond the city, ‘and are continually erectimg earth and breast works. ‘They exhibited considerable energy im this particular yesterday, and all day long we could perceive them (with our glasses) busily engaged in throwing up earthworks across the various roads leading outof the city. Owe of these works is conjectured, from its appoar- ance, to be # ten gun battery. We bad expected that our runs would have opened the ball yesterday by mterfer- with the Gunstruction of these works; but we were domed to disappointment, though before sunset to-day our ears may be saluted with the music of tie bombard- ment. From present appearances it would seem as though General Hurnside intended to give the rebels battle in this vicinity, provided they are willing to tak it. Fredericksburg 18 sufficiently ear our base of sup plies to be an advautageous point at which to commence, and the delay uecessary for concentrating hore large quantities of supplies, instead of being ‘aken sign of hesitation to strike, should be regacded as the prudence and caution of a general anxious \) render his position one from which he may deai a coinplete and elective stroke at the ez Captian shithnglaw, of the Seventy-ninth New York (Highlanders), has beeu recently promoted to the rank of did-de-camp Ou Gen. Willcox’s staff. Captain S., it will be remembered, shared the privations of Southe:u im- prisoument with the General. The bridge across Potomac run is approaching com- pletion, aud we expect regular railroad communica- tich with Aquia creck in afew days, ‘The folowing order, promulgated last week, will speak for itselt :— GENERAL ORDBRB—NO. 13, Haapquarters, Ninta ARMY Corre, Oprosrre Fravxaicuxune, Va., Nov. 22, 1802. ‘The Brigadier General commanding congratulates ‘the troops of the Ninth corps on the cheerful aud soldierlike manner in which duty has been performed and hard ships endured during the tast month, Night marches, short rations, exposure to stormy November weather, ‘with its rains and soows while moving in tbe advance, or with the euemy on our flanks (or several weeks, all have deen borne nobly. While animated A such a spirit troops are equal 0 any emergency, and it is with confl- deuce that we (aoe tue dangers and trials of the future. In view of the peratious, the Brigadier Geueral com direots the atveation of the officers particu. larly to a few poluts of military importance, 1, Outpost auty requires all the intelligence and skill ‘we can command, in order tw secure the rest and quiet of the camp and to prevent boy agreed The army ha tlons on this sabject should be studied from paragraph 002 \ 642, and pickets be powted in such a manuer a8 to sustain eveh other in vase of attack, and, supported by the grand the enemy in ‘check guards, @nough or the corps to 1orm for batue. Divisien, brigade tal commanders will es both to Abe instruction of officers and te performance of ty. 2. Company and ‘at ee Officers will see that their men bave always two or three days’ rations about their persons, that their cartridge boxes contain forty rounds of ammunition, avd that their arms are always clean and | fh good fring coudition. The men themselves will not wait for their officers to prounpt them to these necessary cupditions for Usur commort and saiety. New troops are joned against overloading their knapsacks. 8. On gowg intv.action let ali remeuver the necessity of Keeping covl, closing up well on the en. my and taking aim. Cavalry charges ure always to be met, nut Fandom tiring, but -by @ well directed volley, which w inevitably scacer the hurees. Artillery ‘fire is more frighuui m sound ang appewrance thau reaity, aod the qui men move over tbe grouad w the frout the small- @r will be che logs. Ammunition should not be wasted. One well aimed bullet des more execution than ten that @re vot aimed, #0 vdut four good shots are worth more ‘than forty rounds fired at rando: Many batties are lost ‘ocause ammunition gives out just at the critica! moment. ven rapid Oring can be best conducted covlly aud with ular aim. "Sraty, veliow soldiors, (ot us ail remember the entbu- siagm and patriotism which Blied our brews on Orer tdk- iy up arms for the good o the coumtry; that we are figh¢ing for We pouce and weiare of our fami hes, dwitnes abd Urenides, aba thes by a heroie effort ou ‘this eumpaigo may terminate oho 4 Brigadier General WiLLCOX. Root. A. Hutamxs, Captain aud Aget, Adjutant General. Our Aqats Creek Correspo: Lavr Wino, ARMY OP 1m& Potomac, Uneors’ Sration Aqoia Crwek Ratmoan, Nov. 26, 1962 Why ihe Operations of the Army are Delayed— Phe Stra‘gic Tenporianes of While the public bay expected to hear of tho eurrying into efect of the porjoxo Bhouneed by the military authorities opposite Fredy, Picks tning, provided that ai he evpitatlun of tue epoaifed une that ohy should vot weve been sured red, Ao. it fe Tat proper ty alate that (he delay in careymg owt the 00198 6 General Durnaie bag oven cooanioned by (he | the uverie fe. end gerbape culpable, tal sing 1a eberge the raneNCtiAtior re of tho ) he. Jor the past three days, hourly \ OF tho poms} @hartor election By #s NEW YORK HERALD. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1862. toon bridces, which should bave beon at tho Rapp®- hannock reveral days since, T understand that General Burnside has ordered the ar- Test of the parties at fault m this matter, who, if not able to satisfactorily explain the delay, will be summarily dealt with. In this the new Commander-in-Chief has dis- played a degree of promptness and determination which ne doubt will characterize his career throughout. Is will ‘at Jeast develop the fact that the sudden, unexplained cesealion of agtive moyemenis at this port is not the result of imbectity, or, in fact, any circumstance which ® reasonable degree of forethought oeuld have prevented Had the bridges been at hand when our troops first reach: ed the river, on Thureday last, a crossimg would have Deen effected, ond a suilicient foree would have taker | possession of the city, which, with the artillery plante upon the northgrn bak of the river, eould baye held » aginst any force the rebels mightbring against it. ‘ibe rebel foroe in the neighborhood df the oity on Thursdiy was very amall, Since that time General Lee's ent army bas arrived. and new occupies favorable strategic Tooations back of the town, That the rebels fully comprehend the importance of this route to their capital as weil as does Gen, Burnside we have the sirongest evidence. tt was the occasion of much surprive and comment last summer among the gecessionisin of Fredericksburg that so little attention was paid to the advantages of the route nx a line of ap- proach to Richmond by our military authorities. Thay 80 far regarded the necessity of retaining posses- pion of the hills opposite the city as to keep two of their gunboats in the vieinity, until the notorious St. Nicholas and her consort, which performed the duty, decame engaged in depredating, and were eventually destroyed } by fire. ‘ A commumeation from Jefferson Davie to the rebel Military Governor of Fredericksburg, dated in May Mst,, expresed, in explicit terms, the necessity of holding that oity “at al) hazarde. Aquia, which is within three honrs? gail of Washington. and ie the terminus of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and ‘Aquia Creek Railroad, is less than geventy;five miles from the rebel capital, and within twelve miles of Frede- ricksburg. A® a base of supplies it is important, though ithas its superior in the landing at Belle Plain, a few miles below. ‘At the latter place the advantages for landing are gnpe- rior owing to the depth of water whieh enables yeskels of heavy draught to discharge their cargoes at the wharves. lo Plain is but seven miles from Fredericke- burg by a turnpike roaa which, when improved by cor- duroying, will aiford an important thoroughfase for the nse of army trains. Should it become necessary to croes the Rappahannock at a point below the city, re- enforcements can be landed at Helle Plain which, at the Rarrowest point is but five miles from, that river, 1thipk I may pafely predict that such portion of the public ag entertain the idea that the storms of winter ‘and “impassable roads” are to delay the advance upon the rebel capital until another season, will find that the argument will not altogether apply at this time as carry- fg conviction with it. if Napoleon, by dint of will, sueceeded in scaling the Alps, hitherto’ regarded as an impassadie barrier to his operations, why, by a fair degree of enterprise aud deter- mination, cannot the commander ef the Army of the Po- tomac defeat the calculations of the rebels, who think to impede his approach by agreat flourish of trumpets, until, as they Uhink, it will be impossible for this army to advance because of quagmires and storms. By this route, with # direct line of railway, the north- ern terminus of which is accessible by transports from every point, from whence troops and supplies are re- ceived, large bodies of troops may be pushed to the front, as re enforcements, in the event of battle, while, by the addition of brauches divorging from the main track, which can easily be constructed (or temporary use. the maia body of advance can avoid much of the otherwise necessary travel by wagon roads. As dewonstrating the enterprise of the ‘construction corps’? of the army, which, by the way, in the case at hand is composed of the York regiment, under Major Livingston, it may be re- marked that, owing to their impassable condition, it be- came neoossary to corduroy the roads from Stafford Court House to this point, with the exception of such parte as could bo avoided by passage through the fields and woous. Several miles of new road were cut through pine forests , ‘and the entire route finished in three days. No small degree of suifering bas resulied from this pro- tracted deday in the payment of the troops by the govern- ment. From three to seven’ months has now elapsed since the payment of the greater portion of the army at this point. ‘The grievance is reaching a point which actu- ally portends a crisis of greiit suffering among both officers and men. The former {eel deprivation sorely’, from the fact that their resources of subsistence are exhausted, every conceivable means of obtaining advances have been resorted to, and with many bave m turn become exha. st- ed. Aside'from thit, the suitering of the families of the troops at home must certainly be great. * This atated that dhe present demund of the paymaster of she army amounts io sixty millious of dollars iD excers: Of the resources of the hodemars This great evil will, no doubt, disappear with the opene ing of the ensuing sersion of Cougresx, when umple pro vision will be made, and the depleted Treasury once more open its coffers to the deserving supporters of the go vornment in the field. IMPORTANT FROM WESTBRN VIRGINIA. Successful Expedition of the Second Vir- gimia Cavalry—Defeat of the Rebel: near F:rankfort—Capture of Prisoners, Horses and Arme—The Enemy’s Camp and Stores Destroyed, &c. Citanixston, Va., Nov. 27, 1862. I have just learned additional particulars of the suc- cessful scout made by ‘the Second Virginia cavalry, under Colonel J. C. Paxton, in. the vicinity of Lewis- burg. : The troops left Camp Piatt, ten miles from here, on Monday last, 24th instant. From that time they march. ed two bundred and ten miles in seventy hours, passing over in the route four spurs of the Gauley Mountains—the Geuley, Cranberry, Cherry and Cold Knob. Part of the match was through a pelting snow storm. Colonel Paxton came upou the enemy in the vicinity of | Frankfort, attacked him with vigor, and after a short fight defeated him, capturing two commissioned officers, one hundred and eight non-commissioned officers avd privates, and one hundred horees, beyween twoand three hundred stand of arms, burned bis camp and ail bis equipage, all his stores and four wagons, Colonel Paxton did not lose ® man. Major Powell particularly distinguished himself. Captain Tracy, of the Fourteenth Virginia cavalry, was in command of the rebel camp. The rebel prisoners belonged to Jenkins’, Aehby’s and Jackson’s cavalry. IMPORTANT FROM NASHVILLE. | Skirmish with © Enemy—Bleven | Wounded Oar Side—Ihe Rebel Loss Severe—Captare of Prisoners and Arms— | Indications ef a Battie Th Side of Marfreeshoro, d&e., de. Nasuvurx, Tenn,, Nov. 27, 1862. ‘Things are getting lively in front Gen Sill directed Col Kirk, commanding Fitth brigade to recunvoiter to wards Lavergne to-day. His command consisted of that portion of bis brigade out on picket duty, with two oom- panies of the Third Indiana cavairy, They came upon rebel cavairy outposts less thane mile beyond scroggs- ville, and after a few shots they fell back. ‘The other rebel cavalry outposts fell back and concen- trated a mile in the rear, whore they fred severai rounds on our dyance, and wounded Lieut. Col, Hurd, of the ‘Thirtieth Indiana, who was bravely leading bis men, tis | right, under Col. Dodge, drove’ back the enemy to their Battery om @ bill, but misunderstanding an orver w charge and take the battery, they got two far to the left, | and the enemy Oved a dozen shots and retreated. They were pursued a wile beyond Lavergue, Nono of our men were kilied, but eivven were wounded, including Lieutenant Colonei Hurd, three men of the cavalry, one man ¢f the artillery, two of the Twenty-ninth indiana, one in the Seventy ninth iilinvis, three in she Thirtiet Indiava, and one in the Thirty-tuursh ilinois, The revel loss was supposed 10 lave been the severest, from the sanguinary indioations. bul they carried oif their killed aud wounded, ‘heir Genorai, Wheeler, was wounded, and we got three prisouers, ‘Their forces contisied of cavalry gnd artillery, Stowart's brigade was five mies Debind Lavergue. Wheeler commands six regiments: ‘The Oring was quite beavy un both sides, ‘There was also heavy tirlug iu front of Sheridan's divi Sion on the the Nolunevilie pike, aniounting Wo nolming, Colowel Roberts, of the Morty-second Liinois also captured & revel captain, conte von And gune,and secre gorre. spondence, on Chas intie ke, ‘The evemy evinces a di ponition to Mght this video Murtressboro, but bave oot eB (orth ying, ‘The beet Nuurmmetion places their forgen Ab U0U YD. Nant uz, Tonw., Now. 28, 1402, Some Texoe Rangers fired yn General Shurilan 6 plekety rdny, wht © raugers wore routes, bang out i 4 badly wourdod. 10M Col. Robarts, of the Foru-aees: pt guarilis Capt. Porter and gevera: The woop are in'fine eundition, Vho weather 4 Cokt ond dry od the Misction im New faven New Havew, Novy Welay have carried thet tokotar o erage The domoce majorly troops of the Seventy-sixth New . sateen na ee NEWS FROM POBT ROYAL, 8. C. Arrival of the United States Transport Delaware. DISAPPEARANCE OF THE YELLOW FEVER Expedition of Armed Contrabands Up Doboy River, Georgia. Galant Conduct of the Negro Soldiers ia Action. INTERESTING REPORTS FROM CHARLESTON, The City Pronounced Indefensible by Reaure- gard and the Citizens Moving Away, &e. &., &e. ‘The United States traneport Delaware, Captatn J, 3, Cannon, arrived at this port last night from Port Royal, which place she left on the 26th inet., with fifty three cabin and 106 steerage passengers, also the United States mail. ‘The epidemic prevailing for some time at Port Royal had entircly, ceased. The health of the troops was im- proving fast, and the physical condition of the army was very fine. ‘Yhe arrival of reinforcements was most anxiously looked for ,as all are eager for an advance, General Brannan js stil! in command of all the forces. Geveral Saxton is raising a negro brigade with consider- able success, A grand fede was to be held at Fort Pulaski on Thanks- giving Day, 27th inet. Private Lunt, of the Ninth Maine Volunteers, le to shot Pecember 1 for desertion. A private belonging to tho Sixth Conneotiout Volun_ teers was drummed eut of the service and hig head #haved for cowardice at the battle of Pocotaligo, A diecharged goldier belonging to the Eighth Maine Volunteore, Charles Myrick, died on the passage howe, and was buried at sea with appropriate services; "The following are the passengers by the Delaware:— Col, KE. W. Serrell, Col. Jobn L. Chatfeld, Liewt. Col, @. D, Brewerton, Surgeons thos. G. Catlin, J Fastman, W. H. Smart, Chaplains U. Ie. Wayland, ©. 8. Woouruil, 4 C. Emerson; Captrins pel H. £. Bobnier, J. M Clough, H. Brown, C. H. Campbell, Wm. Lynch, P yneh, Lieutenants lariel R. Sexiey, Kobert Calderwood, J, Porte woing, G. H. BE Bardick, L. B. Bigelow. W. Gleason, J. M- Boneli; Mre. Gor neliood, F. Degrnu, J. Vin Brunt, W. J. Adier, My. Hall, W. B. Coggsweil, D. Cogswell, D. Bryant, W! A. Werm leo, D. Connell, &. 8. Riddell. N. L. English. G. P. Courei, KE. ©. Kimball, Henry tresler, Paul Bellict, Joho | ratt, Wm. Brown, Wm, Campbell, W. Neu, . ©. Parker. }. 3. Curtis, J, W. Browning—and one hundred and five in the steerage. We are indebted to Captain Cannon aud Purser Birdsail, of the steamer Delaware, for favors. Gur Beaufort Correspondence. Buavront, 8. C., Nov. 24, Lv6z. ‘The “Intelligent Contraband”? Expedition of dirs to Dovey Sound—Lariie Haul of Lume, e.—A Persuasive Argumen!'—Secesh Pill o-reus Hang. ing—A Chance for Field Marshal Grevley. e. ‘The +*intelligent contraband” has hitherv» been o nett red more numerous than interesting. Ho ‘a soldier, and, as recent events would seein to fidie te. & brave one at that. Our African hoiher exulis and is Jubilant accordingly, His stock is \ising; the problem is solved, Lot Massa Greeley puck hin clothes and propare his weapons of war scoordingly. His bieoling couaty needs him—not to engineer, at Bull Row luseel) tighting distance, the advance) on Tuchivond, but to hed ‘he red legged fighting black brigade, So we ail! look tor Horace by (he next steamer, And vow that we have lad our little joke (we charge extra for jokes), io! rious and write you up in all sober carnesties bh tory of the recent expedition by a detschiment of South Carolina Volunteers (colored) to Deboy su On the 13th inst. the morning sun sine Hie siatly ‘on the ugly, ungainly old Darlington, as xhe puted oot of the harbor-with her decks literally bivck with res jegued | and sooty tinted contrabands (the devil's mourving, as the ladies profanely term it), athe, bow fectly satisfied to tuke their chy my shot at by secesh. This expedition, commanied by 4 brave and | gallant Brooklynite, Lieut. Col. Oliver f. Head, Porty- | eighth regiment New York Volunteer sted of the transport steamer alrealy referred (@ (atich Col, Beard | made bis tagship), the transport steamer Gen Deford aud the United States guiboat Madgie. Actiic Yaster Morrim commanding. ‘The ioree cousisted the First South Carolina Vorotoer Captains Tr wbe » Han ob mi de and forty contrabands in ail, eig tity ov tered on the Pen De ord aud the feos de Hngion. Of these (wo be ndred Lever 0. in their hands, the wther furs < be 90, nis First ed per tae seoest servitude Mi Lhe dant es tedin a military some two weeks a pedition, They sere im: 5 way, and, cousidering Lie uid, hay weil for the first crop fron oniy a Avter more delays thai woudl tience of good oki Job, a lar.e more foreible than pins, ud panty tape which would do credit te the ci amuoution ofiee The Darlingtn @d Miage © sound, ia | Geergin—ihe Ben Peerd being MEER YL | weather, Un Tursday fuiivw Still absent, Color et wig tously up | gunboat, one = Crendel summarily relieve! 1H arrest, and put who behated weil Tailroad iron was seen on the swore. Tokina a iiet fem Olonel B wwpred Aud proCeeied ty tru te 0 ap ir vend, without reverence to the Savy | Department, and alter a2 incue of bis own, which | mse Woop On their «ay uy Ub he will place at or, Secreary Welles’ servile oe | wet thing, 1 sequied so te uO. alter the Giluuw: xcgoeede! im bagging (ett ome O who i our reoupd 4 tle moved for wir ttie wit up hum’ (to obtain whiel expedition) loca et ai ike bo Col wok the lumbermen helped himself tow pte which wah ic wud tour bundred th wsand vet of A No. 1 Georgia pine wiigares aS | Sumier, « Tone could warm my bends atwuch w | | blag with a goed © cecenoe. It seerms certain that for | gard is mot th goed inthe aime ty just now. | retreated in good order, exchanging sl ta with Recesh as, they went, antil they renched the heul of the causeway where they made a stand, and he'd ft antil night, when, the Darhngton having completed her lrading. they re-em. barked, The fire of the enemy was pot sitenced, how ever, until the Dartington and Madgie gpened with shell upon’ their cover, the Darlington using a ten-pound Par TOU and six-pound brass howitzers, and the Madwie firing at longer range, with twenty and thirty pound rifled Par- routs. the bow gun of the Darlington (Perrott) was hands somely served by W. H. Hyatt, Quartermaster’s | lerk, who accompanied the expedition ax a volunteer— York fireman like—for the fun of getting into a flent The force opnesed to us on thie and the former oceasion (the Sapello river raid, of which | furnished an ac. count), us ascertained froma counecf Union men brovght off, were twe companies of the Fighth Goo gia Monnt ot Ritles, commanded by Captains Hopkins and Batis ford. " These men are woll armed with pistolr and Minie ‘They say the red legged negro dey ils feht Mire alt poszesved, and, to use the words of one of oor captrins, they think it just he meonest thing the Yankees havo to oblige tiem to shoot their own property, and thus auifor a lose 1 thousend a head—for every @ key they kill in dofending themselves. While chis fight was going on the negroes not in it were loading their plunder, whieh they continued to do without any attention to tho balls that eccastonally whistled over them, Upon the following day the Ben, Detord hove in sight Bottig an ncoun steamer, drawing nine fect light, it became @rerius question ap | how she was to be got ap the river without grounding ut Coonel Keard is a man of action and fertile in oxy dieot, Calling up the secosh pilot, just captured, he desired him to bring her ay ‘The pilot was diffident, ind suddenly forgot all he ever knew. “Look thore,” sid the Colonel; do you see tha arm? Hy all that’s good, I'l swing you there i" you bring her up; 0 work or hang; and mind you. Colonel, “if she even touches by the way I’ anyhow)” It was an argument not to be re squinted at the yardarm and then looked at the ¢ butthe yard and tackte, with its block ready wearet lo ked dreadfully practical and the Colonel wonderfully in ear neat, So he conclided to make a virtue of necest y, and do a stroke of work for Uncle Sam, Tho Ben. Deford cane up in first rate style under his pilotage, and he gets ho- norable mentior our hands accordingly. On the ollowing morning the Ben. Deford waa loaded to ber utinest capecity with lumber, mill saws, michinery, belting, dc., together with miscellaneous matters, to the ——SSaee PRICE TWO CENTS. ' | IMPORTANT FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Aitack of the Rebels on Newbern—Re- pulse of the Enemy, ko, te. C., via Fortress Monroe, Nov. 27, 1892. On Tuesday some 4,000 robels, under command of Frid gadier General Martin, atgempted to drive in our pickew® and take the city. They advanced on the Trent road from Pottocksyille and succeeded in driving, after @ brie ekirmisb, our Pickets fora short distance, : About eiyhy hundred rebels then marched through the miles to eapture two companies | the Wass sachusetts Twenty-seventh and @ company of tho Mascae chugetis Twenty-fourit, stationed at Batchelor’s creele on tho rairvad. The rebels mot with a het reception and wore deleated, falling bock*in disorder and retreating om the double quick, ‘The rebels thought to tke our forces uniwares, but Col. John Kurtz, of the Massichnastts Twenty third, the Provost Marshal in oommind of the post, was prepared a@l all points. Deserters from the rebel army are quite numeroum Fifteen came in on the 1th inst, THE SOUTH AND SCUTHWEST. woods sev! The Rebels Evacuating Holly Sprt value of some thousands of dollars, all of which wit, as Mra. Toodles expresses it, ‘come handy” in thiv derart- ment. So you see Providence sends us through the ¢ ha nel of secesh just what we are moat In: ced 0 Captain (rowDridge, First South Carolina regiment usual, its special notice, and we doubt not the others did well Goneral Saxton, by whose untiring energy and porseve- rance this expedition was jlanned and carried out,eannot but be gratified at the result, and will receive, we dapbt not, that credit which every mar ought to get who dof a good jeb of work with whit at tirst glance would seem a somewhat indifferent,box of toole—so iar, at loast, us the contrabind matertafis concerned. ‘The Georgians are, we undersiaud, terribly stirred up for salt at $37 a bushel (the last quotation), Yankee raids, Jeit. bavis, the devil and other dve opments of tho leaders of secession. The ‘crackers’? find the Southern.lor. dan a tlerably rongh road to travel Just now. 1 evclose the following ue the dry abstraction—the most unpoetical thing under the gun, perhays—an official reyort :— COLONEL BRARD’S OFFICIAL REPORT. Heaurorr, 8, ( I have the honor to report that, as directed GRNMRAL °- toamer Darlin ton, with ene hundred and sixty of the First South Carolina Volunteers (colored rexigent), i quert of Inmber andother wrtictes needed for th ment. The steamer Hen Peford, ordered by you to report to mo at Doboy Sound, ‘id nt owl g lo heavy oge and adverse winds, reneh that potut untii the 1th inst Un the 18th, accompame:l by the United States untoat Mad gie, 1 proceeded to the mills located on Deboy river, Ga, On Preaching the mill f found it necessary to reconnoitye the and adcvent thereto. Ty do this it was nesiful to cross a nirrow owuseway leading frem the mili thr:ghaswomp to the main high land—. «distance ot abo t four hundred and fifty yords. This high lovd was heattiy wooded, except on the summit, which clesred aod occupied with houses. My men—(hirty four in pumber- had no eooner passed across the couseway and through the woods they were fired ov by th 4 the thieket in trent ” man was danger ebay vanic served Use men, bat it was only mowestev they speedily a'Hed and evened # brisk fre 6) (ie ph oes cupid by. the conesaied enemy, ‘this tire they xe) t with great recuberity and cociives wnt ordered by me vo retire to be end 0; the owuseway. They retired, hrimy ox they went with a slowaeks aud deliberate that could pot have been surpassed by yetwran ors. Cree others wore ® verely wounded while they were retiring. my men reseved she uni of tie causeway, Tac the bow a the Derlington directed on the wouls, after whieh ‘« Whe fire of te enemy cooted, thoogh numbers of them were seen during the days snd michts we ts loading the stesurere Ven. aod planks, bemides se: oiber saws, bh which | was di your denartroent. When it is femembered thet these men vever hed frm an ‘heir hands uti: (our days before they started for ihe oxpadit on, 1 think you cunn t fail to give them great pene for standing ® galliog fee from a concealed chemy y, tor Molding the Cxmmewaye referred to duro sand wighiw reqelied Gr loading two other to obtuin for the ryverty, ure ol large stearmore WiLL valieble vroperty im the tree n: aa Lik wy men worked day mud night with » though short af) provisions, A texpodition the 4c 2 barr icaien this tine they have proved will Habt tu ihe ope fe: Captain Crande bite jest. ue 4 could not have obiined e Uw le den ter rervant, 0 Be vail very cosprotinliy orivek PT. BEARD, Foriy-eighth New York State Vols. ft os ad ates Volan- ut o; the south. mT, S.C, Now. 2, 1862 Chovledon ~ Neauregard in hundeyrwing on Varkepet Waie—the Bid! v be Shot ave ame news fom (huteston, Ia there ever aword to stir our bile like that Cha py LT would, Hite rother walk 16 streeta—io the most aruiocrati, Hut we get Lows 06 rom there. All th Hell gouts"’ recently come in agcee that Neaneegard the serne of our recent com lict (what he onully Chay sa't aa they oe took open the wegro rege a“ ne the Mictary Governor of Rorth Cal ae old satan b meelf—the recent contra band expeditions bayiig tied thon witb emotions weich Aids vont in lapgunge which beats Heechor ta (wee and old General H— in procuity, Tt ix @epponed that ebels ii wo khould mie. che Ut the toreu im Charloaton will be burned hy te com ia toy nH tet her burn, We ore qoig lo have @ youd time generally in our part | accord «noe with the wro- ‘ations, it to be kept | pb hioltay by every Boliever in turkey and pun. But Port | alaski wil cele all others. Wo learns fom ( hariesion that the vebes have @ boge boards, While the grester portion or the aegiows we loading up the . arlington | elonel BW. took thi (ydtour mea Of (he Hegre Feximen—And, wh Was just porsible Bat muciniaiena | eat | ne aawnduat | ih Jeugth, | « bis gleaners might be mlercu of their baFVast—oroceeled by axa! c fo do this 1) War weCgerary some tour hondeed ant ity y hich they enone Aik, Uangied obstacles they ety rising towards th the eres! of (his wi oe | opened upon Col, Board vod bis party except thet by which they liad ov pute ensued: hal the wegroes st od tha Tun ® ine (wenty yeris, Bul Col ¢ end, what i mere, has a pers pinch, tnakes others rermurkaviy ¢ The evntre bands rotted, nad stter che teat cbiver fought tike | trunpr: atanding shovider w «boulder, they poured lose Chad St1@ B veLeys into the + dod that she lores | AuOMY 4 Fill@tnen Wore Ho Ou t 0 feet, tet Tatbor th on Og KoeR A Minio all Uhre shattered 46 bis Bue: whtul should have carr oun every avis, Mu two oF ord bs a figb ify ve why, whieh, al a vider Wil Hever 6 wised agein, “Take dat 4 the poor fellow, banding It tw wb) | Sand saeot dat at geewsl for me. Aauther ball tinue todo in & AuAn'® arm aod poUMtT AN®, pase ara king tour wounds. He & ordered to Ure whore Dr, Hawes, acting amr tant @urgeon “tetas Army (whe id bis duty oder ire hike a m altentling te the soldiers Mest ded Kut the is @ lighting fo! ting from oe 4 on * crack ot the foo. That oluay the Ueder a the Mick | Fogle. He watrump, i be te cast in ebony, i | ing the Docter the (plowing Canversation eusnen \ i 00, Doctor, Pee woun ied.’ ; +}. “Well, leant attend to you it now, you see flaw | | voay.? , } Merry well, Doewor: dat man te worse wounded dan t | » “tend to Him ; siother caudtdnve for (be Baek Kagle that Vwoothors were wounded one baying m batrghote | geet Pen MiMte CAE tlPougt Bis MEK, ard Dio other © a ite thy thet bore pwanaine india, the enensy ae var END OF€OFad fie nwo Be re ol al! back a lite Merrimac w 4 gue moobted on Scmter-—an Engiial peo which they Gannot wet the they beve boen tinkering | siny tapon it for haps it is net posible that tue Yankees cay show them how. d The sccesh tains, as uscal, ere rampant; b t face mech deven lence upen their deste ctive powers down here, Still it be watehful, of we may get News from Fortress Monroe. BXPEDITION TO MUBJAGK BAY. GAPCURE OF BROKE PICKBIS, UTC. Fournee Mosroe, Nov 27,0802, | Ou Satardey Inet ay oxvediicion eft Yorkiown, com. by you, 1 procooded on the 13th nat. ,on the (Cnited Statos | ; | ee was | boat | Midgic’ rev tered me valusblo assistance. Le anol tore | bear ts make hovorable mention of Captain Hallet, oc the sieauer i mit OF leas norve bo capoeny 1 w timed to bike $9 large 4 to be Genera, | Tue Charbeion Big Guna | e Jour ior—whistie - Yankee D> ‘vehiet ing a stick, aad galt Keows’ (cows), (han hove an iuterest in | «gold mune, or a clerkelip to «swindling shoddy mane Misw—All the Navigable Streams Georgia to be Obstiucted—sece Speech by Sam Houston in Texae— Coune!l of the Episcopal Church, &e. | Caio, Ill., Nov. 27, 1862. Advices from Holly Springs to Saturday last state thas nearly the entire population of that place have emigrated south, All the stores and most of the private residences are closed. A rinall rebel force remains, but i not quar. tered permanently . ‘The Unionisix occupy Hudsonville, which i north of Holly Springa, The Galveston News of the 7th instant says that Sama ven mile® lately ‘The Georgia Legislature passed a law reeently for bs structing ali the navigable streams in the State, appro- priatiug Gve hundred thousand dollara for that purpose. vhe fist General Conneit of the Episcopal church ef tue | Confederate states was to meet at Augusta, Ga., on the | 19th instant. upts Made to Hurn the City of Mem= Hhis—A iiebei Cavatry Raid, dec. Camo, IL, Now. 28, 1962. The incendiaries have been trying to barn the city of Mempbia Ou Sunday there were ten different attempt made to set the city on fire, and on Mouday fourteen, | ehowiny conclusively that there is a concerted movemen® | for the destruction of the city. Great alarm exists im oonaeg oy ‘ | u TuedMay morning 250 rebel cavalry took the towm of Hiendereoa, on the Monile and Ohio Railcood, burning | the etotion bense and other property. They also tools ue company of federa\ Kolijers pritouers Important Order from General Boyle in | Regard to Slaves=Thankegiving Day tm Loulsville, de. | Louvnae, Ky., Now. 27,1802, | Ap important order has just beem issued by General Boyle, which gives mach aatia‘uction to couservatives im this Kection, ‘The provs compliment him very highly for the order, which i in substance as follows: — Hrapguanrens, Dwraicr or Warreny K wrt oh} 5 | Lovisiuum, Ky., Nov. 27, 1862, All commanding officers serving in thie district are ordered aot to permit apy negroes or slaves (o enter the cainys, ond all officers «nd privater are forbidien to im tor ore of fntormeddle with the slaves in wiy way, Vhe kagiving Day was generally obrerved here today. The stores wore clesea and business pended. The chusches were open aud all were wail atteuded ub mts of the Gucrilla Mor | Locrvnar, Ky., Nov usez, Mtwrumored that the guertila John Meran, with » four thousand men, is at Glasgow This ws uo? | After rgunizing the court adjourned antil to-day, ‘The proceedings will be private. Gemeral Buell will oo | be in attendar RAILROAD . DISASTERS. | Catastrophe om the Kentucky Centra) Kultroad, Lexineton, Ky., Now 2% l#6u A serious sccident occurred on the Kentuck im 4, near Kaizer’s Station, about eikht o'etek uw ig. A wood train ren into and disabied afpassenges Joo, Simpson, of Knox county, Ind, aud B. i. Crow, of Fayette country, Ohio, were instantly killed Mrs. Soaephine Hixea, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, war vo | jared, and died # few hours later, Private Johnson, of the Iwouty-secomd Michigan ‘a fantry, was ~eriourly injured. A nomber of passongers were seriously injured. The wugiveer of the wood train was asleep or cr an'| failed to se0 Ube signal to stop. The military vows i unimportant. Important move meuts of the Second divisiwa of the Army of Keatucks will be developed in a few days, Railroad Disaster Near Nashvitic, eno Nasavitur, Tenn., Nov. 27, is62 ‘Tho paseouger Gare attuched to a Wain from [ovisyiile ran off the track at the switeh two miles from thie city thie afternoon, and were precipitated down au embenk ment forty feet & damaged, One offer had his \eg | broken and ten others wore slightly injured. * hore were nine pissengor, Ar ALLAChOd to the brain Tho locomotive and oayyage car pasned the #witeh watery. 7, tour hundred passeagers were 0 board ie yards. verking and the -railroud trick was torn np fer fey ent wos caueed bY A Dot spreading of the switch Traius will comme All the Political Prisoners . ren Released. to run again to morrow merpiig By orders fron Woahington, ali wore released from Fort Warren yestertay, Many ot left for their homes last night, inelud og Mershal Kone, of Batimore, the following are the memes of the prisoners — WH, Winder, of Philadespiia, 8. T. Waltace, of Peston, Chas, Howard (Poliee Commissioner), sisting af threo guvbguta wud giz hundred of | the Pevsoth Maiwe regiment, They sturned yesterday | after bawing scvuted (ou ‘niles beyond Mubjaek bay, where they destroyed extensive aad val rebel ait works. } Last Tuceday our pickets. naar Witisiatarg, eaptoreg Cignt rebols who wor a fing of treee leavee here oar row morning for City Porat bring dowd Union privouers iu sarge of | Capt. Muitord, ‘ News Mom San Fr 0% daw Pusan . 28, 189a The markets are quiet, wits 4 #light disjeeition to | Spoculate in goss deroriptton ge ds, oF whieh dotatie ere withield, Salen, 209 vipea pure apirtt at dO gouts por galiva fue ship e Lord has boon chartered to go to Hong Kong and re br thie port The Merrimse ® wmding with breadswile (or Liver i Yeoatemay was observed throughent Cwifornia, Ore gon, Wartington and Nevada esa day of thuckayiving ‘The churches of San Frapeae: were crowded to Jintao to germone suited fo 6RO COuMmIOR, the trading lowe of att Holng that Calter uta Ree been spoon ily red, Aartig Cimos OF general UIMORLOF LO the Dalaboe of Lae | mit, The Sate is very quiet sad barcen of nue Bore OF the inberior citier «re er meriorably @xohiod @uceraing Ua locaton of & ite Hauroad which cannot be made ’ Such euiouay is OXGIIed, giving Wm weve t | sions, W. YU. Gatchell (Police Commissioner). Frank Howard (Editor). W.G. Harris (Member of Legisisture). Geo. W. Brown (Mayor). Henry WM. Warteld (Momber of Legislature). T. Parkin Scott (Member of Legisiatare). T W. Hall (Paiter). Robert Hull (Baltimore merchant) dos K. Fane. De. Mentill, of Hagerstown, Lamson Cotter, Chariestown, Mase. Taso. -fourtecn ti wawere al let off unconeitionalty Fire Soule i cow let loose from Fort Lafayette, Mr- Soole ty at the New York Hovel, Mr. Maropenu, twte Sheri of New Orleans, te out oo parole (o report at Boston, Senwel Lye, ot Mellewue, wasexchanged for Captang Sobley, of Fretteuiels. . Fort Warren 18 oew Glear of Btate pr leo ora of oy kins “ Pogo, Nov, §*—Feear Lo pew geld that obly twalee political primers » + eused from Port Warren yoeterday, Winder. 6: hil. de ohsw and Kevpe, of Uaithnore, Wore asaong Lew 0d dou bate gone hose, 7 | Houston made @ secoseion speech in Brenham, Texasg i 4 4 é t