Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-04-16

large army, the banks of which were lined
with batteries of the enemy to oppose our pas
sage here pursued and captured all his for
ces and material of war and have not lost
man, nor met with an accident
JOHN POPE, Major General.
The Advance into Alabama.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE following des.
patch has been received by the Secretary Of
War. dated Nashville to day:
"On Saturday morning, two expeditions
were started from Huntsville, ala, in the cap
tured cars. One under Col. Sill, of the Thirty
third Ohio, went east to Stevens, the june
tionof the Chattanooga with the Memphis and
Charleston railroads, at which point they sci
zed 1000 of the enemy, who were retreatlng,
without firing shot, and captured five loco
motives, and large amount OF rolling stock.
The other expedition, under Col. Turch-
in, of the Nineteenth Illinois Regiment, went
west, and arrived at Decatur in time to save
the railroad bridge which was in flames.
Gen. Mitchell now holds hundred miles
of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad"
The great battle anticipated near Corlnth,
Mississippi, has taken place thirty miles this
side, near Pttsburg Landing, in Tennessee,
and has resulted in glorious, though bloody
victory to the Federal arms. 1t seems that
Beauregard essayed a movement against
Grants forces precisely like that attempted
by Zollicoffer at Somerset, Kentucky, SO dis
astrously, against the force of General Thorn
as, as will be remembered Learning through
his scouts and spies of the rapid approach of
BuelPs army to form junction with Grant
and dreading lest their combined strength
would soon and surely overwhelm him TT
Corinth, he left his entrenchments there, and
by forced march sought to reach and defeat
Grant at Pittsburg Landing, before Buell.
could get up to him. Buell., however, mana
ged to get two full divisions to Grants sup
port in due time. The battle lasted two en-
tire days, and there can be no doubt enter
tanned that at the close of the first day Gen.
Grant was defeated, with the loss of thirty
six cannon, and had been driven out of his
camp by overwhelming numbers. On being
reinforced by General Buell. during Sunday
night the lost guns were recaptured on Mon
day, along with number of those of the ene-
my. who was routed and fed, fter General
A. Sidney Johnson was killed. The Rebel
loss is roughly estimated at 1000 in killed,
wounded and prisoners 80 far taken by our
army, who are, by the latest accounts, in pur
suit; while the Federal loss is set down at
about seven thousand killed wounded and
prisoners. The result of this victory is re
garded as involving the entire destruction of
Beauregard's plan of the campaign in the
Southwest. With the overwhelming defeat
of the Rebels at Island No. 10, it must amount
to a serious disorganzation of the rebellion
in that quarter. If the other divisions of
Gen. Buell. come up in time to follow up the
blow at Corinth, it may result in the entire
dispersion of the great rebel army. The loss
Of Federal officers are also great, including
the gallant Gen. Wallace badly wounded. and
Gen Prentis wounded and prisoner.
The body of Gen. A. Sidney Johnson was
left on the field by the flying rebels. lie had
Just entered on his duties as Commander in
Chief of the whole rebel forces, under the
appointment Of JEFF. Davis. Gen. johnson
was undoubtedly the ablcst officer in the
whole rebel service.
4 despatch from Cairo of Saturday to
the Navy Department announced the de-
parture of Com Foote's fotila for Fort
Pillow, the next rebel defence on the Mis-
sissippi below New Madrid.
We have adyiccs from Gen Hunters
Department to Monday, the 7th inst, by
an arrival at New York. No movements
of Importance had taken place in the vi
cinity of Port Royal, but Gen. Hunter was
actively engaged in preparations for his
campaign. The bombardment of Fort
Pulaski has not yet commenced, the origi.
nal intention of commencing it on the 1st
inst having been given upon account,
probably, of the change of commanders.
1t was reported that messenger from Sa-
vannah had succeeded in reaching the fort,
Notwithstanding the blockade, and had CIV
en- assurances to the garrison that the first
gun fred upon the fort should be the sig
nal for the march of thirty thousand men
to their relief 1t was reported also that
another iron clad monster, similar to the
Merrimac, had been constructed at Savan-
nah, and had already made trial trip
down the river.
From Fortress Monroe, we have intelli-
gence that the rebel Steamers Merrimac,
jamestown and Yorktown, came out be-
tween Newport News and Sowall's Point,
on Friday, and captured three small Union
vessels, one empty and one loaded with
coal. The Stevens battery Naugatuck
fired four or five rounds at the Merrimac,
when she, with the others, returned to
Cramey Island.
LATEST NEWS.
The Savannah Republican of the 18th
inst, announces the unconditional surren-
der of Fort Pulaski upon the preceding
day