St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-08-28
War and other News.

War and ether Nrws.
Gen. IIallrcl:, having "ffcctually dis
posed of the Newspaper correspondents.
and the Government termin. it impoliic
to allow the TRANSMISSION If army news.
especially fir IN Virginia. oyer the trle-
graphic wires, the public are altogether
without any definite and reliable lntorma-
ton Of the operations of the contending
forces under Pope and Jackson. BY
some sort of lrg ,r,lcmain. however, it h.,
leaked ont th,t Cen Pope has been COM
PEELED to fall back from his advanced posi-
tion on the RariIan and to look out for
another base # operations" At latest
accounts, he had found it on the -N"fh
bauk of the iinrpahannock, where he is
supposed 20 lave formed junction with
Burnside and, perhaps. Mcclellan. the
movement across the Rappahannock was
made on Wcdn esday morning of last
week. the advance of his force having left
Culpcppcr on the previous Monday after
noon. Only fw weeks ago, Gen. P"i
proclaimed with the utmost confidence and
with Il great lca! of os.entation. that there
were to be no backward steps BY lis COM
mand We regarded this as boa<tful
and imprndcnt declaration at the time,
but We were not at all prepared to see our
expectations OF rctrogra'lc movement on
his part so carl y realized We feel con
fidcnt that he has fallen back from no idle
apprehension, but nndcr the pressure of
some stern necessity Which lie or the
Government find greatly to the public in
tcrcst to keep secret from the country
Certain it is. the loss which it lis believed
in Washington" the Federal force has su>-
tanned In the fighting which has taken
place along the river since "Wednesday
last furnishes 70 satisfactory solution
for the retreat of l Captain So cntcrpri>ing
and determined as Pope has m"icstly
advertised himself to be. The l,Ss W
are tolJ, will moi quite reach two hundred
and fifty 1t is admitted that at Catlrtt' :
Station the Confederate cavalry captured
forty or fifty prisoners. destroyed Il mum
! Der of Wagons, and carried off some
two hundred horses. One Federal Gen
! cral Bnhlcn-i> admitted to have been
killed. The Confederate loss, we need
not state, is SUPPOSED to he unusually
| heavy" If there is nothing. except
wha, has been stated. behind Ill this, We
are seriously afraid that the country will
begin TO regard Gen. Pope as a decided
failure He either never ought to have
committed himself SO arrogantly agains
retreats or he never ought to have retreat
ed. except under the pressure of some
overwh, lining necessity. This necessity
is certainly not evident from the record
but We should remember, in justice t,
Gen Pope. that the record has not ye
. been fully made out. When it is ''com
patiblc with the public interest," to do so
We shall be able, perhaps, to put differ
ent and a happier construction upol
his recent retreat than we eau afford t
do at present.
The accounts from the West. though o
an exciting character, Indicate no Yer,
decisive results. Since the fight at Baton
. Rouge, thcrs has been no con>idc.abl
, engagement between the regular free
: If the two arlnirs The Conftdcrat
guerrilla bard>, however, appear, eve
from Federal sources Of information. TO /
sweeping every thing before them, sur
, pri>ing aud capturing towns and CARR
sons III Tennessee aud Kentucky whcl
ever they march. \ fight is reported ;
, Big Hill. Madison county. Ky, on Sat
: ur!ay last, which resulted in The with
drawal of the Federal force from the feel
t 81 battle to the town of Richmond
Hopkinsviile, which has population {
5 four tsihu>arl. vas captured on Frda
by a Confederate force of four huudre