Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-04-08
NORTHERN and EUROPEAN NEWS.

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We continue this morning cur quotations
from Northern papers, bearing dates as late as
the I'd inst.
FROM GENERA AZ CUaTas, c9EUHS.
TIE RErRoGADE FROM PEA RIDGE.
THE Arm7 Aftsr Tho Battle.
Correspondence Of the chicago T.lbuse,l
ADQs. SOUTH WESTERN DlsrRlcr, Mo-,
Caup near Keiisviils, Mo, March2l.
The days have been so bright and beautiful,
the weather 40 fair, together With the sweet
MARBLE OF birds and tho opening OF early spring
flowers. IS to load msto behave | Was at length
In the Sunny South" where the wiuaa and
storms Of winter wsre unknown. But to.drY The
Old Storm King is around, just TO pay his re.
spacts before leaving for his d?oar dominions
among tho glaciers OF the North; and Inc dark,
lowering clouds and SNOW h~urrying through
tho air Interrupts al my pleasant r~crer;s6 ot
spring. A succession of cold March storms
has prevailed Tor several days, rrGL.fiDg tia
roads almost impossible Tia sun nhow "a his
face bnt seldom, aud at no time since tho ex-
petition SGT out has there been 80 uang diff
culties to contend against.
We have beea lod to believe that la7gs rein.
toTcements were on tho why, and lay in camp
expecting that each day would bring the much
needed aid. Day before yesterday the Ihir
teenth Illinois arrived, and though they ara n
noble set Of fellows, yet they are not sufficient
to make up our recent losses. Mono others
have as yet mHIlo their appearance, though I'll
mors of q large force on the way are a~lating
through the camp. The question asked ten
thousand times each day is ''Where is Hun>
ter s'
We have sent Price skedadding to warmer
Chimes than Missouri. We have subsistod Tor
weeks in the c~ountry-sye, the very camps
where McCulloch and Price Tor nearly a year
have maintained their nruise; AM waan tho
whels banded hosts Of Secesb, Of every shade,
color and degrse OF civiliSaticn-from tho wild
aud painted Indian, tho ssllow halt-hreed, the
gressy negro, and the naughty Southernsr-
under ;aIch leaders us Van Dorm, Price, Nc.
Ouiloch, Mcintosh, slsek, Pike and others, no
less notorious, came in locuGt .swarns to sweep
US with the bosom Of destruction, We bave
hurled them back in tho widest confusior,
leaving no vestige of an army bchind bat the
dead which strewed tho ground. Let not
Southern Ch!Talry talk moro Of their courage
and Northern cowardico. Tho thing does not
exist.
After exhaus:ing tho forage in tbs whole
country, our armY has fell back fifteen miles
to keitspille, in Missouri. However much b
backward movo n.y be regretted, yet, With
out the means for a perlsnent adv.nae. it is
better to get within the reach of forage ard
supplies than to Temain'in an exposed situation
with no means Of subsistence within reach.
Gfr lncoac of thn ror.ok r at, Sp l.;lol
wounded and missing, amount TO near | 500,
Very many Of this number are onlG slightly
injured, and are ready for duty. | visited
some Of our wounded at Kslts7illc yesterday.
They are all doing we'll, and with SIX .liful
treatment and nursing ~il! te abba &c return
to their homes CT their duty. Vlsy many
have already gone home Oae poor fellow was
shot near the temple, the ball passing entirely
through his head and coming oct near thr
other temple. One eye was slot cut and tic
other turned inside CUT II was no! expected
he would live; but strange az i: mag appear,
he is yet GliVe. and with prospects, OF re-
covering. Il will bo necessary to estrac: his
other eva Better nave died Upon tie
field than thus To suiter in the dark ness
oil .his days. A. large nulbsr Of Indians
wi;a killed, and l au not aware il they
are buried. Their Secrsh brethren Gould
solicit their aid-could associate With them
in the field, and perhsps join them Ia tie
dance around the goIy scalp; Of our s1;dieri.
get they could not bury them ~heu they csml
to bury their dead, and they were thus left &c
moulder where they Eel. Seventy were laying
in one pile more than q Took after the baltic.
Our OWL uen, as they louk UPON the mouldcr'
ing nsss, ask "wLeru was morc7 wien our
brethren fell benesth your ri6e and tolnaha~k,
and in savage glee you ti:a lhsiT bleeding
scalps from their heads" Far It's fact thai
very many Of our d:s: Ture found seslaed
npon the field. Lieutenant Goloneis herro1,
of the Ninth loSa, and Chandler, o. The
Thirty>Gfth Illinois, WHO wero wounded h5d
taken prisoners, came in yesterday under a fay
Of truce, aid were exchanged fora Colonel anC
Major in our banda. l lenrr, from them ths'
tie rebels at Pea Ridge amounted to so. Q0C
man, and their loss from killed wounded Ent
missing amounta 10 several thousand. THIS 10
cludes those who distEnde:i ard returned dis,
hear.sned 10 their hor1es. TtlaiT leaders cra dir
| couraged at thsiT shSsrC ~Ispu!s-, aud il; is
doubtful if Gnothsr stand vii! hs In2io. Eric:
ia reported 70 he at Fort Smith entrenctinr
| himself, and hiss received considerable rein
forccnents from the surrounding country
and from Texas. Mssntirne his guerilla par
ties sometimes afprosch oaF lines to cus os
and harass our foraging parties. 4 party o
rebels wsre bagged on Big Sugar Oreek, about
twenty-five miles fron the camp, and eightae7
brought in as prisoners. Oar brsgsra pro7ed
too many for them. Among the prisoners ars
three Captains.
|. Several hundred Rebel hreErns were iouni
secreled under q rock in tho !orast, about I'll
teen miles from the battle-ground. It is re
ported they belonged to Pixies Brigade of hal
breeds, ind that they left their ards here anc
| disbanded. The number Of arms picked ny
BY as must amount 20 several thousand
Colonel HERON confirms tle death Of Nc
| Uulloch, Mcintosh, Dla,ksen and Slack, anc
many other otbo.ra Of rank
lUctsespOLatncs or u, o1noln.AU C.IJneIcliil
SPRINGFIELD, Nc, March 2l.-Through E-c.
tribuation and atmost botto!Ilass mud l ha7t
| made tdis point on MY way % the ARMY G.