The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1862-02-08

| nesday morning twin uit'l lhey are rs FOL
lows On Tuesday night, at shutdown, Gen
IIeintzelman sent out squad Of men under
Ii. Col, Banks, TO capture some rebels a, Oc
coquon Bridge, They marched ten or lively,
miles. and reached the place about two o.
clock in the morning dance wa. going
on in the house in which the rebels were quar-
tered, who seemed entirely unconscious d
their danger, The house was Of frame, GOV,
cred with clap. boards. A gun was fired and
they were ordered to surrender, This they
refused to do and opened fire on our men
, through the windows, and also made port
holes through the sides, hoping that their fire
would be heard by their comrades, who would
come 10 their relief After some random fir
ing, Il whole platoon advanced and fired
through the weather boards, when few mo
men,s after voice cried out tina, they had
surrendered. On entering the house they
! found the bodies Of nine privatcS, and one
major Of the Texas Rangers and one civilian,
eleven in ALL The man Of the house, Porter,
about seventy year, old, wa. taken up stains
with Il mus.et in his hand. The one who
surrendered was civilian, and said he had
been Kidding for Il stag'dance; that he was u
union man did not fire gun, but wished to
surrender at first Our loss was one man
killed and four wounded. Our soldiers had
the advantage of darkness to conceal them
and their position could only be indicated
by the flash Of our guns, while the enemy did
not put cut their lights. Thus not a rebel es-
capped to tell the tale of that brici but bloody
midnight meeting, Shot down in the midst
Of their jUIhty, that house OF mirth was sud.
denly converted into terrible slaughter
How many wild sklrmish, sudden Gu.
counter, desperate hand to hand conflict will
this war witness.
There are some limitations afiOat that there
will be strong reconnaissance made by Cen
Ilcintzelman in the direction Of the Occoquan
in IA few days.
Last night the week lecture of the course,
at the Smithsonian, was delivered by Ralph
Waldo. Emerson, the essayi-t. the subject
civilization" In person as in mind Emer.
son i marked by singuarity. lie is man
OF about fifty years. | should judge, with ii
frame loosely hung together, and arms dis
proportonally long, low receding forehead
and cone shaped head, a nose large, sharp and
prominent " mouth large and lips over which
he seems to have lOat the muscular control.
His lecture was similar in style to his writ
iugs-those who enjoy the latter were doubt
less delighted with it, For myself ! never
protes-ci to be his admirer
Gen. Fremont is still in the citv--he live,
quite retired Public interest in him seem
pretty much to have died out The charge
against him and the requests that he b,
court.marshalel have MOI yet besn acted on
50 far as can be a>"ertaucd, nor is it known
what course the government will pursue il
his case.
The following notice Of the Academia
death Of Il soldier, formerly from Rock l.
land, was found in one of the Washington
papers. | know not whether it has reache,
the .irgus:
FATAL AcCIpE>r.--Gcorge Wright. mem
Der OF the lst Michigan regiment, was acct
, IDENTIFY shot by Il comrale at Laurel, ON tn
Washington branch railroad, on Monday lns,
The two soldiers were pructing the bayoue
exercise by way Of amusement, when one q
their muskets were accdently discharged, an
the hall pu.-pi ,I,r,u,,I, tl,.. t,,lv 81 "