The national Republican., 1861-06-10
SrcrssIox,srs CAuGHr.-Early on Saturday

SEcessIoNIsrs CAuGHr.-Early on Saturday
morning, little corps Of secessionists was
brought into Camp Cochrane by a troop Of the
69th "boys.' The circumstances Of their cap
ture are briefly these Some Of the men in the
"early gray Of dawn" chauced to be out after
stray cattle, when they sped party of the enc.
my not far distant, apparently recommending.
They Immediately returned to camp and re.
ported. With his usual promptness Colonel
Cochrane dispatched q company Of the 69th,
who were not long in coming upon, sur.
rounding aud arresting the party indica
ted. They appeared much cbagrined pro-
fessed great loyalty, and objected decidedly to
a berth in the Ruard.house. One Of them is
said to be a brother to jackson, the murderer
| of Colonel Ellsworth.
| A picket guard from the Michigan regiment
captured, on Sunday morning, two men who
had fred on them, and brought them into their
camp. One of them is Lieutenant F. M. Elem.
ing, of the Goochland Light Guard, Captain g.
F. Harrison, and the other is Private Samuel
F. Green, OF the Governors Guard, Captain
Grafton Caball. These men we're spendidly
mounted and equipped, and fred at the pick.
cts several times before they we're captured.
Two prisoners were taken by the pickets on
Saturday night, near Alexandria, uniformed
and armed, and were confined at the Marshall
House. The United States pickets went be-
yond their posts, and hearing mounted men
coming, they concealed themselves in the grass.
The Corfederates came on, quite conhdiugly,
inside the lines, and were caught. Our men
are learning the game Of crawling upon an en-.
emy, and in another month, having to deal with
treachery of this kind will be FIRST class In.
dian fighters. Reports say that these prison.
ers are Major W. D. Mutt, formerly Of the Uni.
ted States Tressurer's Office, and George C.Jack.
son, late q messenger in the Second Comptrol.
ler's Office.
Como INTO CAMp.-The third Maine regi.
ment marched out to Meridian Hill on Satur.
day afternoon, where they went into an en-.
campment with the other Maine regiments.
The German Rifles, (eighth New York vol,
! unteersO Col. Benkert, marched out to spot
, near Columbian encampment, where they went
{ into camp.
PRESENTATION OF HAvELocKs-Mrs. Fran
els Mohun aud Mrs. Valentine Blanchard, on
Friday, presented Company E, National Guard
battalion, with ITO 6ne havelocks.
The ladies of the Ninth street Methodist Prot
estant Church have also been very busy, for
some time past, in making up these useful ar.
ticles for the soldiers.
AccIDENr.-About eight o'clock on Friday
evening, Mr. James F. Waugh received Sc
we're injury near the Virginia end of the Long
Bridge, under the following circumstances: 1t
appears that the Constitutional Guards, Of which
company Mr.. Waugh is a sergeant, had been
stationed there for twenty four hours, and, to
relieve the monotony, were playing a sham bat.
tie, the company having been divided into the
loyal and rebel squads. During the engage.
ment, Mr.. W. was taken prisoner, and his side
made rally to retake him. Those in whose
hands he was, took hold of him to keep him
from being rescued, and he jerked violentl,
away from them, falling and striking the rail
road track, breaking several Of his ribs. DR.
Blagrove, a member Of the company, was on
the ground, and rendered all the assistance h,
he to the city, and is now doing as well as ooult
~ be expected,
r. HEAVY SroRM-A violent storm OF wind ant
rain passed over this city about six o'clock OF
Saturday evening, which had the effect to blow
U. down quite number Of trees and do consider
or able other damage. The sewer at the corne
y. of Pennsylvania avenue and Thirteenth stree
Dr. burst, and flooded all the streets adjacent there
IN, to, the water in some places being fully thre
e feet in depth. number of cellars in the lowe
part Of the city we're Alled with water, and muc
OK property damaged thereby.
I'm In such profusion did the rain come down
Sc that Pennsylvania avenue not the cutters, bu
ng the entire street, was covered at times witt
cit water four to six inches deep. driving win
accompanied the rain.
c The third Maine regiment was the only on
w that we learn was on their march during tn
SO rain. They had not reached their enoampmer
'on (Meridian Hill) when it broke out, and in COZ
,ue oS sequence were thoroughly soaked. The groun
%s on which they were to pitch their tents for th
,oD3 night was in the same condition.
'ee Many of the tents in the various encaml
'm ments were blown down. At the encampmer
'a cor Of the first Maine regiment, a gentleman col
eo nected with the Navy Department land ofcours
~ " addicted to aquatic exercises) found himsel
Da Due when the storm broke out in the tent Of tt
LOS 10. adjutant of that regiment. He had brougl
ar, thither five hundred iranked envelopes two
oy three hundred letters written by the soldiers
aug the regiment were lying about, also the pape
me. r ~ ron;uan, o,sn ,So od;rtont,s o.ddla n,
n" s equipments. In almost the first gust the tel
.su @ was swept away, leaving our friend seated on
I' .a' trunk, like Robinson Crusoe the tenant OF q
''' out doors. Finding that he was in for the wa
he hived the documents under the saddle seatt
'hal himself upon 1t, aud though the pitiless heave
.he had for the time converted themselves into
tue sea upside down, he held his ground, and,
the Charleston Mercury said of the spirit
Jackson, "rode on the storm" He saved Il
tne papers but he will seek in vain to realize fl
u,s per cent. on the cost Of the once elegant ha
ton, ''A ""' '' wy SD --''' ''e"o
iced HABE4s CoRRus' CAsE.-0n Saturday, a ca
the of this kind was heard before Judge Merric
'ged sitting in chambers. James E. Norris, Es
ons, appeared for the prisoner, Eli J. Savage, ms
zine, OF the schooner Yorktown, of New York, a
ssed bound to Alexandria, who has been confined
ans the Jail here since the 29th of April, on char
med of assault and battery, alleged to have be
tn a committed while the vessel was on the hi
cook sens. The point raised by Mr. Norris was, Il
the the statute required that before he should
hold ananahla at this cnnrt the crime comm