Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-02-05

g.; Feen the Ia ter place and Kansas city
Thare were niue or ten passengers III the
st3ge at the time, who, with the driver,
re all carried off as prisoners. The
mail bags were cut open, their contents
scattered on the ground, and then the reb-
Ell. decamped with their booty and prison
ers. The next day Sunday the stage
from Lexington to Independence was IN
ike manner seized and the mail bags open
cd. and the letters and papers scattered
Col. Garfield has fallen back from Pres
tonsburgh to Paintsrille to meet his sup
plies, as it was impossible, on account OF
the state of the rods, to move wagons
forward. He has ordered several reconnois-
sauces in the direction of Piketon, but no
traces Of Humphrey Marshall or his runa-
way army could be found.
The bark Trinity has been chartered to
convey three hundred and eighty-six pris
oaers from Boston TO Fortress Monroe, to
be exchanged for an equal number of Fed
eral prisoners in the South.
Rebel CORES pondence found in Zolli-
Golfers camp after the rout of his forces,
demonstrate that the Union sentiment of
East Tennessee is ali but overwhelming,
and that it is suppressed only BY drum
head courts martial, summary executions,
and other atrocities. The orders Of the
rebel war department directing the SUM-
mary execution of the malcontents and the
f. barbarous exposure of their bodies after
death, are commended to the attention of
/ secezSiouists in Maryland, who think it
grea; hardship if the Government does not
allow them to burn bridges, OF execute
other disloyal acts without interference.
@A correspondent Of the New York
Tribune, writing from Kentucky, speaks Of
the late battle there as follows:
There is, indeed. retribution in history.
/ The Balls Bluff slaughter has been fully
avenged, as now asccrtzlned y counter
part to its saddest feature-thc drowning
of our retiring troops in the Potomac-has
been enacted by the retreating Rebels
| When they reached the bank OF the river,
after their precipitate fight from the battle
field, they rushed in crowds upon the fiat
boat that, with steamboat. formed their
means of crossing. So great was the rush
upon the former that many were pushed
overheard Others hung themselves in
such numbers in the water, holding on TO
the sides of the boat, that they threatened
to upset the boat, and compelled those
upon it to loosen their hold 10y force, \
large number rushed headlong into the riv-
er after the boats had stood of the bank,
aud tried to swim across. Over $50 are
thus supposed TO have found watery
grave The Rebel cavalry dismoanted On
the bank aud tried to swim their horses
over while crossing on the boats The an
iinals, however, all SWAN back to this side.
Four additional pieces of artillery have
been discovered, making the total number
captured twenty-one Nearly two hundred
prisoners, who had scattered through the
woods, were taken. Some scouting parties
sent out from the entertainments found the
bush on the left bank tui OF horses. and
brought in over two hundred of them Ou
saturday last two companies of the Tenth
Indiana crossed the river and pushed as far
s0nth as Monticello. They. also, al came
, back mounted on Rebel horses They re-
ported that the flying Rebels came through
that town on run OH Monday last, Crit
tenden at their head and informed the In
habitants that thirty thousand Yankees
we're at their heels So reduced were they
to starving condition that they rushed
: into corn fields and satisfied their hunger
with raw grain.