Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-12-18
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Dispatches received at Cincinnati report
that spirited fight occurred at Alleghany
Camp, Cheat Mountain, on Friday 1t is
characterized as the hardest and best fought
tight of the campaign. 1t is not stated
but we presume the fight commenced by an
attack on the Union position. The battle
lasted from daylight to three in the after
noon. The rebels were finally driven off
losing two hundred, including Major,
other officers and about thirty prisoners.
The rebels set fire to their tents and re-
treated to Staunton. Their commander,
Gen. Johnson, of Georgia, was seriously
but not mortally injured. Our troops were
commanded by Gen. Milroy, who is we be-
lleve native of Mifflin county.
Twelve mortar boats attached to the Mis-
sissippi Union squadron left st. Louis for
Cairo on the morning of the 10th. There
are in all thirty eight of these boats to be
attached to the fo,illa As a necessary
measure Of precaution the commerce of the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers has been
placed, by order of Gen. Halleck, under
military control. Another order issued,
quarters the Union families who have been
driven from their homes by the rebels upon
those who sympathize with the secession
movement, with sufficient pains and penal
ties in case of resistance The latest news
from Price still leaves him at Osecola with
fr9ni ten to fifteen thousand men.
The news from Missouri, though not ex-
citing, is of much Importance A few
days since Major Marshall routed band
of rebels under JGe Shelby, and captured
four captains, two adjutants, enc lieutenant
and forty men, with arms, horses, wagons,
a mortar, and other articles Gen Pope,
who is in command Of the district between
the Missousi and Usage rivers, is acting
very efficiently against the small marauding
parties Of rebels scattered through the
The steamer Constitution arrived at Old
Point on Sunday from Ship Island, Missis-
sippi Sound, where she had landed two
regiments Of Gen. Buffers brigade. The
troops were all landed in four hours, by
the aid of some small steamers captured
from the rebels The Constitution will
probably take on board three more regi-
ments and return Immediately to the South.
Ship Island is about seventy five miles from
New Orleans
The Raleigh, North Carolina, Standard
that Federal regiment had ia
ken possession of Portsmouth, at Ocracoke
Inlet, and that ten of our gunboats were in
Pamlico Sound.
Parson BrQwnlow, the Louisville Cour-
ier, printed at Bowling Green, says has
been arrested for treason at Knoxville,
Tennessee, and committed to Jail.
The Secretary of War has declined to
furnish to Congress certain information
asked for in relation to the Balls Bluff dis
aster, Gen. Mcclellan believing it would be
injurious to the public service to do so.
The official report received from Col
Brown of the late battle at Pensacola makes
it evident that no very effective demonstra-
lion can be made in that quarter before
arge reinforcements are sent there, and
attack made by our fleet, Fort
Pic.ens, >. strong land force.
The Charleston Courier of Friday has
'eport from Beaufort stating that the
Yankees advanced their positions to near
Port Boyal ferry on Tuesday, and crossed the
erry under cover of artillery to the mainland
md destroyed several confederate rife pits.
The Goverenment has fairly commenced the
Exchange Ct prisoners. Two hundred and
orty four of those taken at Hatteras have
,een released from Fort Warren and have
on board a vessel for Fortress
donroe, where they will await an equal num-