The New York herald., 1862-03-17
THE SITUATION.


The Address of General Mcclellan has been
received with the greatest delight and enthusiasm
by the whole army, and by the people in Washing.
ton generally.
1t appears that everything which the rebels
could destroy in their retreat was consumed. The
storehouses at Manassas, with a large quantity of
Hour, were burned, and the Warrenton station
together with the hotel and five or six dwellings,.
north of Warrenton, was burned down, and
freight train of ffty-two cars, loaded
with commissary stores worth $40 O00 was set on
fire at Thoroughfare station, twelve miles from
Manassas, on the road to Winchester, but were
rescued from destruction by our troops before
they were consumed.
The rebels are said to be STRENGTHENING the for.
tifcations at Fredericksburg with the utmost
speed. All the negroes in the vicinity are being
driven in to assist in the work. and the white resi-
tents are being impressed as soldiers.
We learn from Fortress Monroe that the rebels
re evidently intimdated by the presence of the
-onitor; and the constant passing to and fro of
.Aeir steamers from Sewall's Point to Norfolk, for
the last few days indicates the fact that they re.
gard the former place as untenable while the Moni
tor lies in Hampton Roads, and that they are re-
moving the troops and munitions of war to some
point on the Nansemond river. The frigate Cum
berand, which was sunk by the terrible attack of
the rebel monster Merrimac, still keeps her mas.s
above water, and the Stars and Stripes are yet
flying at the masthead of the lost frgate.
Our correspondence from the Lower Potomac
to-day contains some highly interesting details of
the late evacuation of the rebel batteries in that
neighborhood and the operations of our vessels at
Aqua creek. We give in another column a fac
s'n'ae plan of the batteries on the Lower Potomac.
picked up by some of our troops in the rebel
camp.
We give some further particulars Of the battle
at Pea Ridge, Arkansas. The rebels, it IL said,
had thirty-fve thousand men in the field, among
whom were twenty-five hundred Indians under
Albert Pike. The rebels acknowledge loss of
wounded. Our loss was six hundred killed and
from eight hundred to one thousand wounded. We
took sixteen hundred prisoners and thirteen
pieces OF cannon. In reply to o cores
pondence from the rebel General Van Dorm
to General Curtis, asking permission to bury
the dead at the battle Of Pea Ridge, the latter
states that, although he grants the permission re-
quired, he regrets to find that many of the Union
soldiers who !s1 In that battle were tomakawked,
scalped and otherwise shamefully mangled, con-
trary to the rules of civilized warfare, and cx.
presses tho hope that the present struggle may
not degenerate into savage warfare. The In
dams of Mr.. Pixies command are doubtless re.
sponsible for the hideous tomahawking and scalp
ing business.
by way of st. Louis, last night we learn that the
forces Of Generals Smith, McClernand, Sherman.
Wallace and Hurbut had arrived at Savannah.
Tennessee. The force of the rebels in the vicinity
was varousy stated at from 30 900 to 100 900 men
The division of General Lewis Wallace advanced
on Saturday to Purdy, in McNary county, and
burned the bridge and tore up the track of the
railroad leading from Humboldt to Cornth Missis.
sipp cutting of a train laden with rebel troops.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
by the arrival Of the steamer Ariel we have in.
teresting news from the Isthmus of Panama The
Intelligence from the United States of Columbia is
very important. Mosquera, with large force, was
advancing upon Antoquia, and great excitement
prevailed. Large bodies of gucrillas had entered
Sogota and devastated the city sezing the patri.
ptc crown OF Bolivar among other things A de.
cree giving fuli protection to foreign property had
peen promulgated by Mosquera. Canals entire
army had oeen Gu, in pieces. Three other vene.
suelaH provinces, besides Maracaibo had deo,aso,
their independence and given their adhesion % o..
Columbian Union. An attack on Caracas -.
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