, 1862-08-02
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
Gueli lila Work In the BOr.
der States.
THE C0NFEDERATES ADOPT
THE SYSTEM.
The Guerilla Defeat at hit. Sterling.


uESfEhA1B f1ddI, In IAALO"A4, AO. |
LFrom the Jefferson City Union Extra, a9th.1
On Saturday evening lust, Col. Guitar, COM
mandant of this post, with shout 500 men,
with two guns Of the Sd Indiana battery, set
out to look np band of guerlllas said to be
threatening Fulton. After leaving here we
lesrn. he was reinforced by Col shafer from
cosumbia, making the entire force under him
from 600 TO 800.
4 letter from Col. 6. brings the intelligence |
-of an engagement between his force and 900 |
guerillas under Cobb and Porter, which took
place yesterday at noon, about seven miles
from Fulton, at Moore's hill
The result Of this engagement as we get It, !
Is that Col Guitar Eas attacked by this gue- |
rilla force, and after q severe engagement, in |
which his loss was from thirty to tifiy IN killed
enemy with loss Of 200 OF 800 in killed and /
wounded The notorious Cobb, one of the
leaders Was killed by a shot from one Of the
guns of the battery. A large amount Of arms,
ammunition and baggage was captured, while
detachments were sent in pursuit Of the flying
rebels. Our officers and men acquitted them
selves vallantly, the gallant colonel setting
| the example.
| Ambnlances have been sent out to bring in
the wounded. Among Others We understand
t Rev. MeeEfe. HE6nRn and Mcdonald have
| accompanied thsn.
| As to who among our brave boys have
| fallen In this engagement we have not the
means Of knowing at this writing. Our atten-
| fion should be directed TO the relief Of the
wounded when they arrive; and any ana every
| assistance that can be afforded by our citizens
| Tor their relief should be given.
TIE SITUATION IN NORTH CAROLINA
tErom the Newbern. (N- c. Prog1ess.]
Things are fast settling down In this depart
ment, to mounted partisan warfare on the
the part of the rebels. They openly advertise
the plunder Of Union men, as an fDducement
to men to enlist 10 shoot, rob, murder, aud
| 5nsfroE all f1n3nn wAerHTET fnUnH. 'tfB
rebel lenders have heretofore claimed that
"beanty ard booty" were the watch words Of
the federal army. What must their dupes
now think when they aze thus openly apPealed
men, wherever found, between Goldsboro
and Norfolk, and In Eastern Carolina.
The property OF the law abiding Union
man, or Its yulue, is to be offered Us an in
ducement for such miscreants to enlist The
Eooner our men turn to and clean out these
burglars and cut-rhroats, the better it will be
for The country and for themselves. If they
Geek var ct this description, and thus throw
down the gauntlet for recriwination, they will
find the Yankees more than q match for them.
This Is ''southern chivalry'' with II ven ,eance,
Offering plunder-other peoples goods-as q
compensation for wholesale system Of rob
berry.
THE REBEL DEFEAT AT MT STERLING
from the Cincinnati Commercial, 35thl
. On Monday Of this week gaug 0: one nuu-
| 0Ieu 3DQ SEftutJ-u*G SAE1lllaS ossIl1p4EA a
, oxford, in srott county, Kentucky Tney
we're counted carefully, and their numbers
accurately ascertained. 1t was supposed a
Paris that they were aiming for thar point
But they avoided Paris, and passed through
> North Middleton, on the way to ut. Sterling
: intending TO make their way into Easter
Kentucky and join Humphrey Marshall, wht
: is trying to muster considerable force there
d As good luck would have it, there WAS
= fighting man and etaunch loyalist as Nortl
Middleton as the horde Of 6coundTels, re
crulhd in Boone, Scott, Oxen, and Gran
counties passed through. Tnis fighting ma
n n was Lieutenant Farrls, Of General Buyle'
o s1sf. He mastered the situation at
. g1ance, aid displayed courage ,aod 81
s5sR sn7 dReer saf T. the srs wea b. % usay
u patched trusty courier, who knew the com
~ Try, to take short cut to Mount Sterling, All
n warn the home gnard there that the rascal
il were coming, and to tell them to think c
10 nothing but lighting, and that he would be O.
20 hand with reinfosctlAents.s The Mount Stcr
ling home guard turned out only thirt
" strong, bu. all good men and true, and Lieu,
FaIrie, raisiug thirteen men at Middleton, fol
lowed. The Monnt Sterling guards post:
AZ themselves advantageously. and when the st
~ eesh crowd came up. received them with
a5 deadly volley. The ;tston!sh1ncns Of the rel
els at the reception they met in front wl
Is resr, conducted BY Far1is. So the It's butte
nuts were surrounded by torty-three Unio
men. and utterly ronted. They fed III th
p most di1eful confusion, some riding of {
al headlorg speed, and others leaping from taei
horses aud taking to the woods and corr
u flelcs. Lieutenant Farris Vas at Paris ye
h terday. When he left Mount Sterling tt
ns number Of rebels found dead MAS thirtee1
~ sud furty-one had been taken prisoners, 80
~ lodged III the Mount Sterling jail. Before
ne left Mount Sterling, Major Bracht, provo:
I'll narshal Of Lexington, bad arrived there wit
of 100 cayalry, AID bad ct,nnlencsd hunting .
= OFT CTS Of the secesh. Our inform INT, ke
-H lucky gentleman Of high character, tells I
he that several Of the Iiltcd and captured seces
a. were from Indiana! This was positively st
ted by nlcn in the fyhr, and there was I
doubt about it. This brilliant sktrmish "
do grt at deal Of good in the counties b
d1rirtx m ftn rivsr