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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1862-10-27
FIGHT AT MANASSAS JUNCTION.

dated on Saturday nlgnt, states tnaC Clleie "e@5
= small Confederate force at Aide on Thurs
day.
A reconnaissance to Gainesville, New Balti-
more, Haymarket and Thoroughfare Gap, un-
der command Of Major Stedman, Of the Sixth
Ohio cavalry, returned to Fairfax Court House
on Saturday morning, and reports Contede-
rate force Of about 100 men at New Baltimore
The accommodating party passed through the
Gan, and upon their return were fired upol by
guerillas. Two of the Federals were severely
wounded by the enemy s fire
Major Stedman reports the Manassas Gap
railroad in good running order to Front Royal
Another reconnaissance, sent out on Thurs
dav from Centreville, under command OF Capt
Conger, of the Third Virginia cavalry, by way
Of Davis's Ford to Dumfies, Stafford Springs
and Warrenton Junction, with orders to return
bv way of Catletts and Bristoe stations and
Manassas Junction, to which point detach
ment of the First Virginia cavalry, under COM
mand of Capt Flint, had been sent for Capt.
Conger's support At the same time, de-
tachment Of the First Maryland cavalry was
sent to Bristoe station, which place they left at
2 O clock, p NJ, on Friday. Immediately upon
their arrival at NJ anassas j JUNCTION, they were
attacked by a large force of Confederate cava-
nv. and driven back with loss Of two officers
(Lieuts Patterson and Dorsey and Is men
At 4 o'c clock p. M, Capt. Congers detach-
ment, while on it's way from Catletts station
to Manassas Junction, was attacked, about two
miles south of Bristoe station, by force Of
Confederate cavalry, l25 strong. Capt. Con
GERS force numbered only forty men, with
which he resisted the Confederates for some
time, finally retiring towards Manassas, at
which place his force arrived on Saturdaymorn-
inc. Capt Conger's horse becoming disabled,
he was taken prisoner, along with his brother,
First Lieut. Conger, and one man. The Fede-
rails killed twelve Of the enemy, and captured
two prisoners and three horses
The ConfederateS, on Saturday morning, adj
yanced upon Manassas with strong force to
reconnoitre the advanced outposts. They made
their appearance at Manassas junction with
$50 men, and at Bristoe station with 25 men.
After satisfying themselves, the whole force
returned, evidently to Warrenton Junction.
From refugees and other reliable sources 1t
is ascertained that there is a Confederate force
of two thousand cavalry at Warrenton consist
inc Of the Second North Carolina and Seventh
and Twelfth regiments, with some artillery and
force Of infantry, variousy estimated at from
one company to two regiments.
The Confederates have no force, except strong
picket guards, at Wangnt9n JUNCTION Kappa pa
hammock station and Fredericksburg, and no
reinforcements have lately been sent to War
renton from Winchester:
The Confederates during the past week, ran
only two trains to Warrenton Junction and
Warrenton.
The Washington Star declared that in the
reneued cry Of the Northern press Of sOn to
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1862-10-27

patch from w aSnluSCO1 dHuOuuooo Ulloo e'ooiSo
military operations are to be at once resumed,
and that the administration is determined
that further injurious delays shall no longer be
subject Of general complaint. >
It was rumored in Washington on Saturday
night that desperate battle had been fought
on that day in the vicinity Of Charlestown, but
the result was not known. A large number OF
ambulances we're ordered off in the direction of
Harper's Ferry We have received nothing
through the press agency concerning such an
engagement. According to dispatch to a n.
York paper, orders were issued on Thursday
night last to the various commands to be ready
for an advance on Friday morning, and Gems.
Porter, Morell and Griffin returned from Wash
ington, and resumed their respective positions.
It is reported that the main body of General
Lees army has fallen back, withdrawing their
pickets along the line.
It is stated that, on Wednesday last, the only
Confederate troops between Gen. Slgels lines
and Gordonsville were two regiments, having
their headquarters at Warrenton. Culpeper
Court House has ceased to be the terminus of
railway communication with Gen. Lees army.
Supplies are taken to Staunton by rail, and
conveyed to Winchester in wagons A large
force is reported to be at Leesburg, Middle
burg and Waterford.
There have been several Reconnaissance du-
ring the past week on the south side Of the
Potomac. Gainesville, New Baltimore, Thor
oughfare Gap, Dumfries, Stafford Springs,
Warrenton Junction, Manassas Junction, Hay
market, and other places were within their field
of observation The Federal troops had oc-
casional skirmishes, and both sides lost few
men in killed. wounded and prisoners. A
scouting party, returned to Sigel's headquar-
ters, report that Gen. Murnford, with force
of 800, was at Purcellyille; about II miles
west of Leesburg on the road to Smokers
Gap.
The BATTLE OF PERRYvILLE.-ALou Louisville
correspondent of the New York Tribune
writes as follows
"Oficial returns from allthe divisions engaged
at Perryville shows an aggregate loss of $50,
killed, 2, 5S5 wounded and nearly 500 missing
and prisoners. The enemy captured II guns
during the battle. The Confederates abandon
ed them in disabled condition upon their
retreat On Thursday Il orning, excepting two
Napoleon guns in place Of which they left
two smooth bore 6-pounders
A government transport loaded with hay
whilst lying at anchor off New York on Wed
nesday, caught fire, and was burned up. -Four
persons on board Of her, perishedin the flames
On Friday Colonel Moroan's forces at Mor
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1862-10-27

The Washington Star declared that in the
renewed cry Of the Northern press Of ''On to
Richmond, . it can see no more wisdom than
in that which superinduced the original Bull
Run disaster; nor does itperceive anything dis
heartening in the current situation. 1t prefers
to wait for the complete organization OF the
six hundred thousand men called tor last
summer, and the cooperation OF the IRON clad
gunboats now getting ready.
Henry Winter Davis, Of Baltimore, it is
said, is about to take the stump in New Jersey,
in favor Of the Republican party.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1862-10-27

A government transport loaded with hay
whilst lying at anchor off New York on Wed
nesday, caught fire. and was burned up. Four
persons on board Of her, perishedin the flames.
On Friday Colonel Morgan forces at Nor
gantown, KY, were at tacked by detachment
Of Federal troops, and sixteen Of them cap
tured. Twenty seven Of another band of Nor
gan's men were captured near Henderson.
THERE'S nofurther intelligence from the main
bodies Of the Federal or Confederate armies.
Gems. Buel and Rosseau arrived at Louisville
on Friday.
The Commissioners Of Charles county, Md,
have designated Wednesday, the goth inst, as
the time for the draft, unless otherwise in
structed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1862-10-27

s. FOR RENT.-The two two-story Bk 49,:
H;aa HOUSES, on Union street, between D. haIe
and Prince Streets at present occupied py ,so ~.
ard Phillips and Robert Marks. For terms ap'
81 - = '4 +b;sp otf f;l,e oct 13-tt
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-02

A recent decision of a court in Massachu-
setts deprives Methodist minister oflegal
means of collecting his salary. A Method
ist preacher, in Ware, sued his church for
an unpaid portion of the little stipend they
were to give him, and was met by the de-
fense that, under the economy of Method
ism, nothing ives legally due him. that the
minister was sent to the society from his
conference, not called by the society that
all payments, under such circumstances,
were voluntary and not the result of legal
agreement binding both sides; and that if
the stewards of the society did not collect
the full amount of the salary, there was no
legal means of collecting the balance. The
court decided that the grounds of the defense
were correct, and that the clergyman could
not recover.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-02


Yesterday afternoon, smart-looking lad,
wearing a military cap and overcoat ap-
piled at the recruiting Office of Captain
Benjamin, in the Arcade, to be enrolled as
drummer boy. He stated that he was
seventeen years of age, and had served as
drummer boy in the army on the Potomac
several months. An officer took him into
private room, where q very brief inspec-
ton revealed the fact that the pretended
boy was q womanl She was handed over
to the custody of the police, and accommo-
dated with lodgings in cell. Apparel
more becoming her sex was supplied her,
and she will appear before the magistrate
suitably clothed if not exactly right in her
mind. She is the same woman that was ar
rested at Albion last winter. She tended
bar at the Clinton House, in that village,
two weeks, going by the name of Charley
Miller. Being detected by officer Foster,
che was taken before Justice BrGley, who
discharged her on her promise to leave
town. ..
She says now that she enlisted last spring
in the Eighteenth New York Volunteers,
Colonel Jackson, as a drummer and served
in that capacity for two months. She was
then transferred to the Forty-sixth Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers, Colonel Knipes, and acted
as servant to one of the officers. She was
then discharged-whether upon discovery
of her sex or not, she did not inform us. She
returned home to her mother, to Cayuga
County, and to whom she gave the money
she had received as wages; but being en-
amored with the life Of soldier, she deter
mined to enlist again, and came to Rochester
for that purpose. In the eighteenth regi-
Oh N
but the name she prefers is Charley Miller
Her real name we do not think proper to
mention, as she disclosed it under the prom
Use that it should not be published
We are informed that this woman is more
than thirty years old, but she gave her age
to us as twenty-one. In crinoline she ap-
peared to be twenty-five or six; in panta-
looms seventeen or eighteen. A person who
processes to have known her twelve or four
teen years, says at that time she was driv-
ing hackney coach for Mr.. Benjamin Nc
Farland. Subsequently she was engaged
in the same business in Buffalo. Almost
from childhood she has chosen.to unsex her
self and lead masquerading life in male
garb. For some two years she Travelled
with a circus. She was here last summer
with a concern of that sort in the employ of
a man who sold whips from wagon. So
long has she followed an adventurous career,
passing herself off as a boy, that she scarcely
retains any feminine characteristics. When
she is in her favorite attire there is nothing
in her ganeral appearance or in her voice,
TO indicate that she is other than she seems
A slight popularity in her walk is alone
likely to betray her.
What disposition will be made of her we
can not say. 1t is scarcely probable that
the magistrate will deem her deserving of
any severe punishment, as no crime or Of
fense is charged against her except her dis
guise.-Rochester Democrat Dec. 18.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-02
A secesh statement.

The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore NesOS Sheet writes as follows.
The NssOs-Shsst processes to be a Union
paper, but is not SO generally regarded by
those who are acquainted with its course;
"Whatever may be the result of the Mason
and Slidell difficulty, it can add bat little TO
the complication Of affairs here. Members
of the. Cabinet are exceedingly disappointed
at the failure of the Port Royal expedition
for failure it Island also at the inability,
open the route to Richmond. The Increasing
war expenses begin TO weigh most heavily.
II is the opinion OF men who ought to know,
that President Lincoln and Secretary Chase
would be glad to give the South pen and
paper, and let them dictate their own terms
20 preserve tie UaiOn.l With all OF the Cab
lJinet the war-teVer 10 over. 5gt
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-02

DEsPoNDENoY OF REBEL PAPERs.-The cor
respondent of the New York Tribune, writ
ing from Fortress Monroe, under date of
December 27, says:
The Richmond Inquirer of the Gath is de-
cidedly sorrowful over the rebel prospects,
and especially over the probability that the
question with England will be settled with
out war, in view OF all of which the red
mouthed rebel editor frankly tells his read
ers that there is nothing in the Confederate
prospects on which to congratulate them, at
q season when congratulations are in order.
The Richmond Dispatch OF the same date,
which send herewith, in the same gloomy
strain, utters warning ITO our cOuntFymen,
our legislators, both State and Confederate
against being iulled into "dream of security
that England will be drawn into this war on
our side" Private Rdvices (for there are
such) confirm what is apparent from the tone
of the rebel press, that the rebels have,
within the last week, become depressed in
proportion TO their elation the week previous
over the prospect that "England would be
drawn into this war" on the rebel side. That
prospect was the sole prop of the rebellion,
and as that "hope dies out like a. .eandle,'
even the Richmond Inquirer can notrrepress
or disguise what amounts to the confession
that all is lost. 'taeq oah .-eas. .oH0I
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-02
South Carolina Cop,rabapds.

The Port Royal correspondent of the New
York Express writes as follows, giving an
account of the burning of bis cotton houses
by Mr.. Hugh Wilson, and the escape to our
soldiers of a portion of his slaves:
They asserted that they had long been ex-
pecting and praying for our coming, and
they had determined whenever we should
arrive to make their way instantly to us.
Captain Ammen offered them permission to
return, but though they said they had left
their wives and children, "Masss would kill
If we go back, and they preferred to remain.
When asked why they left their master, they
replied-as at least a Thousand negroes have
said within my hearing within the last six
weeks--that they we're badly treated, got
only peck of corn a week, and no other
food; no bacon, no salt; had shoes only every
other year; had had no clothes given them
for long time, but had been worked hard.
The negroes, indeed, of this whole region
persist in saying that they have been miser-
ably fed and clad; not an exception
to this has fallen beneath my notice
Those of Mr.. Wilson's say that they
had been obliged to boil down sea-
water for salt, and many Others had told me
this story; they also said, however, that the
| only salt on the planters tables was pro.
cured in the same way; they had seen no
gold nor silver in long while; they had
scraps OF Confederate paper money with
them. They gave us the first information
we had received OF the great fire at Charles.
ton, and the next day all that they told us
in this matter was confirmed by the papers
found at Rockville. These blacks were ex-
amined separately, and told the same tale,
which l could see no reason to disbelieye
Within an hour or two of their arrival. the
other three who bad been set to watching
Msssa's children also came aboard, and they
had left the children in the caIriage-hou
The meeting between those who first ar
rived and this second party was full of
warmth and cordially. The late comers
we're more intelligent than their predeces-
so1s, but reasserted the same story.
| have been particular in giving these
details, because | have seen it stated in a
number of Southern papers that the slaves
are still faithful to their masters, and in
Northern journals that tue reports about the
fugitives are exaggerated But every thing
/ have seen or heard confirms me in the
opinion that the whole slave population of
South Carolina will desert its masters az the
earliest opportunity. Two of these negroes
declared that they had come from Charleston
within two days. and that the blacks there
waited apxiously for US, and would instantly
join us if we approached. They were all
given the rations of common sailors, and
declared they had never Jared 80 well be.
fore. Their actions corroborated their
words. They manifested the greatest ca
gerness to inform us Of the whereabouts of
rebel troops told of pickets aud small par.
ties stationed at different houses along the
river, and especially that there were four or
five hundred "in tents" near Rockville.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-02
Secession ONCE Holders In washins stOu

Secession Ohlce Holders In Washington.
A correspondent Of the WinOna (Minn)
Republican writing from Washington says:
There is not Department nor Bureau
in which they are not to be found. Since it
became publicly known that Potter's Com.
mittee was looking after them, they became
more discreet in their manifestations; not.
withstanding which, it is well.known that
numbers of them are still retained. The
Senate was the very hot-bed of treason in
the spring; and of the sixty to eighty en-
pLoy Is there, probably nota dozen of themwere
loyal. 0fthe clerks, scarcely one was at heart
with the Government, though several of
them were not only retained, but two at least
of them were, in addition TO their offices
there, appointed to military commands here,
both of whom had relatives in the rebel
command in Virginia, with whom they were
known to be in constant communication. By
their loyal neighbors, both were openly de-
nounced as SecessiOnists; and another, who
held his position there until the lst of Octo-
Der, was, up to within three weeks of the
extra session, represented by his neighbors
as an opeu aud aVowed Secessionist. Among
the lower Employee there were several of the
most notorious of the National Volunteer
Association who mobbed the Wide Awakes'
Hall here, just after Lincoln's election, and
the most of whom left here at an early day,
and Joined the rebels at Alexandria-a por-
tion remaining here nearly all summer, for
the purpose of obtaining aud conveying in
formation to the rebels. Under the admins
tration of Col. Forney, all who are known
to openly sympathize with the rebels, have
been removed, though ii is believed by those
who know the men, that it is far from clear
vet
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-02

The following is an extract of private
letter from large manufacturer in Eng
land, received by the last steamer:
II again repeat, we want no cotton for at
least six months. Our mills ara many OF
them closed, and all others are on about halt
time, but nobody appears to want the pro-
duce of the mills. We have stocks of yarn
and cloth, but find no customers. believe
il we did not have loom at work during
1862, We should not consume half the stock
now IN the warehouses;" ...,v
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-02
The Presidents Colonization Scheme.

The President having other fish in the Ma
tional frying pan, which require close watch
ing, can not look after his colonization
scheme with the care which it needs. For il
wants great care and assiduous nursing.
ever to attain the rank of public question,
and, although now thought to be bat slum-
beriDg through the holidays, it is really ap-
preaching that final sleep which knows no
waking.
And it ought to do so. The scheme takes
away the breath to figure at it, and the back.
bone of all Europe would surely be strained
to accomplish it. Our war is heavy load,
but if ten wars were rolled into one, aud the
result presented, we should then begin to
appreciate the burden and expense of trans
porting nation from one soil to another.
To transport the contrabands who have
already approached our lines, aud estab ish
them in another country, would cost US
about ten millions of dollars. The time
taken, to judge by the Florida war, would be
no LEES than one year. To transport and To-
cate the four millions of slaves now at the
South, would require an expenditure of six
thousand millions OF dollars, and take no less
than six years to accomplish. Add to this
cost the price which ought to be paid for
the slaves, and we have an expense OF twelve
thousand millions of dollars, the interest of
which debt would entail upon us an expense
of nearly one thousand millions of dollars
per year.
The results derived would be the incubus
of the above financial load; the deprivation
to our land of four millions of honest labor
ers, with that decrease in our population,
and the severance of the ties of home and
country, to millions of fellow. creatures
probably as much attached to the soil as
ourselves
In view of these difficulties we propose
that WE move out of the United States, aud
let Sambo and the Abolitionists remain.
Our people can move away, and get a fair
start elsewhere, cheaper than our Govern.
ment can remove our load of negroes. Lst
Congress dismiss the present scheme, and
bring up a bill for our nation to emigrate.
Neao York Sun, Republican,.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-02

The largest bird show ever known in Eng
land has just been held in Southampton.
Every British bird, except the cuckoo, was
exhibited. Upward of two thousand living
birdewere shown. Stuffed specimens of the
prairie hen, by brid fowls, and hybrid duck
and turkey, were also in the exhibition.