, 1862-03-20

Our renders who h1ye friends With G3nef3l
Curtis's army in Arkansas, recently engaged
with the rebels in the successful and brilliant
victory Of Pea Ridge, will be interested BY
paragraph from letter Of an attentive aud
excellent correspondent Of ours, written a
few days antccedent to the fight. It will go
far to relieve the anxiety Of friends as to the
comfort aud welfare Of our troops, in its little
neatly drawn picture Of tent life in climate
which in our March experiences ia this latitude
has IN inviting aspect. he writes: The
weather we are enjoying is superb. Pic
ture yourself sitting outside your door in the
shade on delcctable day in mid June, and
you have our weather here as write. I am
sitting III NY tent at 81 o'clock, evening,
with the tent door thrown open, my coat Of,
the Nsjor in the same dishabille at length on
a cot, and the Quartermaster sitting on stool
siying IN account Of his to-day's forage; black
jeff is blacking our boots, Ogden four super
1atiyc cook) is poking over some dried apples,
which seem the ghosts Of pies, (oh, how home
like,) and Theodore is eating apples not dried.
It is not hot, nor what you can call very warm
but comfortable We have had flies about
us for several days. ] paint this little scene
that you may sec how home-1ike our tents are
even in Arkansas. The country is better here
than in Missouri It looks better, richer,
healthier than Missouri did. Judge the peo-
pic have lived better, enjoyed life more, and
lost more by this war;
The Rebels at Cumberland Gap.
The correspondent Of the Cincinnati Com
n.trcia7, writing from Barboursville, where our
Federal troops are encamped on the road to
Cumberland Can says loyal Tennesseeans are
coming in By the ffties and hundreds,
and that the town and camps are lit
erally swa1ming with them. People who live
not far from the Gap say that the Secesh had
their horses hitched to their guns and wagons,
ready to retreat, the day We attacked them,
| and If We had kept on, and not stopped till We
! reached the Gap, ne would not have found {
soul to fight with. The enemy have since beer
reinforced by five or six thousand men. It i:
said that the Gap cannot be taken from thit
| side, and that it won't be ATTEMPTED
The Wooden Gnns Of CcnteryI11e.
The flooring behind the embrasures Of th,
rebel Notifications at Centervi1le, upon whic'
the wooden guns rested, was made Of incl
lem1ock boards, and of course could neyc
have sustained real guns This statement
made by the correspondent OF the Phi1adelphi
Inquirer, confirms the fact that no real gun
were ever mounted there. It is said that som
Of the en1brasures were SO constructed ths
! the light field pieces, Of which the rebels ha
some twenty or thirty at Centeryi1le, conl
have been used through them.
4 - Rev. John q. Lozier, Chaplain Of til
37th Indiana regiment, who wrote to the CT,
cinnati Commercial the account OF Col Ha:
zard's brutality, (which we copied at the time
has been court-martialed, and!suspended fro,
duty for six months. The court found that IL
+ Chaplain told the truth, and say that his Q
fence was simply the misconduct Of arraignin
/ superior officer before an improper and i,
, ! competent tribunal The finding thus bearsmo
, hardly upon Col. Hazard, (who has been r
r moved from his command than upon Re
t Mr. Iozicr, who first exposed him.