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

Philadelphia Press Of the 2Rth.
OrR VIcroRY AT LrEsBuRo.-Theyisto
Of Colonel, now Ggnsrqi) Evans, at Lees.
burg, on Monday, was even more COM
plete and glorious than we Yesterday re-
ported 1t, In addition to the dispatches
we then published, one was received by
the President, Tuesday night, from the
chief Of General Beauregard's staff Col
Jordan, in which he saws:
~ have to report the capture Of 600
prisonersand !, 200 stand of arms. Their
Killed and wounded amount TO between
lOUO or LOO. The rout was total. The
fight was an infantry engagement exclu-
siyely. The forces engaged were the
Eighth Virginia and the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Mississippi regiments-the
Thirteenth Mississippi being held in re,
serve. No artillery was fired by US.
These great results, be it remem 5cred,
we're achieved by $500 men, fighting
against 10000, with five batteries Of ar,
tlIIely on their side, and none in use on
ours. OHe man to tour, with strong ar
tillery force helping the four History
shows lew ieats OF arms SO spandid.-
Henceiorlh the name of General Evans
viii take its place on the rol. Of heroes
and hls unConquerabe troops have chiev-
ed deed that Gill make their memories
glorious for generations TO come. 70
have been with Evans at Leesburg, will
be for each one Of them, hereafter, an in.
disputabo proof of dguntess yolcr, and
will constitute for each title and pass
port to the gratitude Of his ooun!rymen.
With forces crually disproportioned they
have stricken the prc,unlptuOus invaders
a blow that has sent thcn staggering and
ohrickiug back from the soil their foot
steps polluted, and that must make the
giont usurpation at Washington shudler
through all its frame.
"We IRE, rs yet, without the names Of
any Of the brave men who have fallen on
our side, martyrs in the sacred struggle
for impeIilled liberty and beleagEercd
land, We sympathIze in the anxious 50 e.
lICitude Of those whose friends met the
fortunes of this memorable fight, and
some oiwhom now sleep beneath the soil
their scli>devotion has COnsecrated. They
lave fallen nobly, Is true men. and the
country mourns with those who are be.
reit. Let this be their consolation"
HEssIANs EXPECTED. Orders vera yes
terday given to the officers in charge of
the Yankee prisoners to prepare for the
reception Of six hundred more Of Old
Abe's mercenaries The capucious to-
blcco warehouse of Robert A. Mayo, on
Twenty, fifth between Main and Cary
streets, WAS thercupon engaged for their
reception. They will be hero about Q
o'clock IBIS morning. All the inconye.
n'ence and trouble they may be put to
while here or elsewhere will no doubt be
taken OUT in left-handcd prayers for
their master, "Old Abe. ."-Erlmjncr
rug CoAsT OF NoRTH CAROLINA. We
are glad to learn that Bri.adicr General
Hill is putting everything in motion in
his department on our coast. He is erect
ing new batteries, and putting everything
in order for the reception Of the enemy.
We earn that our sounds will be covered
with armed vessels to meet the foe at ev-
cry point. We observe that Gen. Hill
makes Iequisllion upon the people of
Craven for one fourth of their slave force
Cor lwo weeks to aid IN tho construction
Of the batteries. lie also proposes 10 nc,
cept regiment or baltsljon of volunteers
for "local deieEce," from the counties Of
Hyde, Beaufort, Craven, Caltcret, Jones,
Onslow, and Lcnoir, to serve in the coun.
ties where they belong, except in an
emergency. 49, Wing.
SoFTENING. The Memphis appeal learns
that Pdrson BgywU.Dw, Of the Knoxville
Wig has become so soltenod to the Con.
tedelate States, that he even whispers Of
raising a regiment for the var IJR
A Washington letter is the authority
for the following story:
The wisdoM OF General Mcclellan, in
ordering zen. Banks and Gen. Stones
columns from Virginia back to their ori
ginal positions in Maryland, on "uesday
last, will be recognized and fully appre.
ciated, when the fact is known that Jeii
Davis aud Cabinet at Richmond were de,
lighted at tue idea of capturing the Fed
et al forces on the upper Potomac; and
when it was heard that Gen. Banks Ill
vision was cross ng over TO Virginia, to
support Gen. Stone. eX. Senator Benja-
mine, who was in the Wa, Office in Rich
mCud snapped his fingers and exclaimed.
I'VE have got the Yankees now" The
order was Immediately issued to send up
reinforcemenls from Manassas to General
Evans, at Leesburg, to the number OF for
ty thousand men, SC that at the present
time there is at least fifty thousand men
in the vicinity Of Lcesburg.
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