Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-11-06
Battle Of Balls Bluff.

"''"ue'P"'" TeSS OF The 2sth.
Our VICTORY AT LREsDuRa. The victorv
OF Colonel. snow General Evans, at Lees.
burg, on Monday, was even more coms
P'ete ana giorious than we yesterday re-
ported H. ln addition to the dispatches
we 'Ieh pubished, one was received by
'ne PRESIDENT, Tuesday night, from the
Gh!ei oil General Beauregard's staff. Col.
Jordan, IN Which he says.
have 10 report the CAPTURE of GOO
prisoners and 1900 stand of arms. Their
Killed and wounded amount to betwean
LOCO or 200. The rout was total Tho
neht was an infantry engagement exclu.
SWely, Inc forces engaged were the
Eghth virginia and the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Mississippi regiments-,he
Thirteenth Mississippi being held in re,
serve: No artillery was fred by US.
These great results, be it remem 5ered.
were achieved by $500 men, lighting
against 10000, with five batteries OF ar
tiIIsry on their side, and none in use On
ours. One man to four, with strong ar.
t!iiery force helping the four History
SHOWS lew ieats OF arms SO spl9ndd.-
uenceiorlh the name of General Evans
Will take Its place on the roll of heroes,
and his nnconquerable troops have chev.
ed deed that Sill make their memories
glorious Tor generations to come. To
nave been with Evans at Leesburg, will
! be Tor each one of them, hereafter, an in,
disputable proof OF dauntess yolor, and
will constitute for each title and passs
port to the gratitude of his ooun .rymen.
with forces cruaIIy disproportioueJ, they
have stricken the prCsumptuous invaders
Olo" that has sent them staggering and
shrieklng back from the soil their foot
steps polluted, and that must make the
gioHt usurpaIion at Washington shudder
through all Its frame.
"Ne are, as yet, without the names Of
any OF the brave men who have fallen on
our slde, martyrs in the sacred struggle
for impeliled liberty and beleaguered
iand. We sympo.ule in the anxious so
llcltude OF those whose friends met the
fortunes OF this memorable fight, and
some OF whom now sleep beneath the soil
their seli>devoton has consecralcd. They
Lave fallen nobiy, as true men. and the
country mourns with those who are he.
rett. Let this be their consolation"
HEssIANs EXPECTED. --Orllers vera YES,
the Yankee prisoners to prepare for the
reception of six hundred more of Old
Abe's mercenaTies. The capacious To,
bacco warehouse Of Robert A. Mayo, on
Twenty, fifth between Main and Cary
streets, was thereupon engaged for their
reception. They will be here about 9
o'clock ibis morning. All the inconve.
nience and trouble they may be put to
while here or elsewhere will no doubt be
taken OUT in leit-handed prayers for
their master, "Old Abe - Examiner
The COAST OF NoRTu CARoLINA,-We
are glad to learn that Bri .adier General
llill Is putting everything in motion in
his department Oh our coast. He is erect
Ing new batteries, and putting everything
in order for the reception OF the enemy.
We learn that our sounds will be covered
with armed vessels to meet the foe at ev-
cry point. We observe that Gen. Hill
makes a requi6iton upon the people of
Craven for one fourth Of their slave force
!or two weeks TO aid IN the construction
OF the batteries. lie also proposes 10 ac>
cept regiment or bats lion Of volunteers
for Local dQieEce," from the counties Of
Hyde, Beaufort, Craven, Carteret, Jones,
Onslow, and lenoir to serve in tha coun.
ties where they belong, except in an .
- Wig.
SoFTsSING. The Memphis Appeal learns
that Parson Brownlow, of the Knoxville
Wing, has become SO s0ltened to the Con.
iederate States, that lie even whispers Of
raising a regiment for the var IJii.
A Washington letter is the authority
for the following story:
The wisdon OF General Mcclellan, in
ordering Sen. Banks and Gen. Stones
columns from Virginia back to their ori
gnal positions in Maryland on tuesday
ast, will be recognized and fully appre.
,iated, when the fact is known that jeff
Davis and Cabinet at Richmond were de
lighted at the idea of capturing the Fed
slal forces on the upper Potomac; and {
when it was heard that Gen. Banks di.
'ision was crossing over to Virginia, to =,
support Gen. Stone. ex. Senator Benia- !
nine, who was in the Wa. Office in Rich g
nCnd, snapped hi, fingers anI exclaimed
we have got the Yankees now" The |
rider was Immediately issued TO send up '
from Manass IS TO General
Evans, at Leesburg, to the number of for s
y thousand men, SO that at the present U
ime there is at least fifty thousand men ;
II the vicinity of LeeSburg.
nel. The Nashua, n. Ii. Manufacturing fl