The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
"""rT.S AT HAGERSTOWN
MOVING TOWARDS PENNSYLVANIA.
RumOrS Of Movements.

HARRISBURG, Sept. 8th.-The latest in>
formation from the border, received at six
O'Clock this evening, says the rebel pickets
were within twelve miles of Hanover, York
County.
The rumor in circulating in Baltimore
that the rebels were at Emmettsburg and
Gettysburg is unfounded.
Those who have seen McDowell's letter
to the President, asking for court of in.
quiry, speak of it as frank, manly and
honest document. He refers to the remark
alledged to have been made by Col. Brod.
head, of Michigan, when at the point of
death, that he died victim to the i'm
becility OF Pope and the treachery of Nc
Dowell.
| Gen. Banks is in command of the de.
fences of Washington during Gen, McClel.
lan's absence.
An officer who left Rockville this P. M.
reports all quiet in front. Nobody knew
anything positive about the force of rebels
at Poolsville.
OAKLAND, Nd, Sept. 8th.-A special
dispatch to the New York Tribune SAYS
there is no communication with Baltimore
from here direct.
The latest news brought by engine from
Harper's Ferry to Cumberland, and thence
westward by accommodation train this A.
NJ: A cavalry skirmish occurred yesterday
afternoon near Martinsburg, with what is
supposed to have been q rebel reconnoiter.
ing force from Winchester. The rebels are
said to have been driven back to Winches.
ter with loss of forty men killed and cap
tured.
Our force at Martinsburg is reported eff.
fective, mostly from the west. This is by
trustworthy passengers.
NEW YORK, September 9.-The Wash.
ington correspondent of morning journal
says, under date of yesterday, that an officer
who has ridden along the line from Chain
Bridge to Fairfax today, expresses the be-
lief that small bodies of mounted rebels are
continually prowling about our front.
An Intelligent surgeon, just arrived from
Centreville ncharge of wounded soldiers,
says that one regiment of rebel cavalry
from North Carolina, commanded by Col.
Flannerty, is visible at Centrevile. Its
scouts and pickets occupy the country to
the eastern slope of Fairfax.
1t was reported there, and believed, that
Bull Run was held by rebel artillery and
Infantry in some force.
All the hospital stores left at Centre
vile, on Tuesday morning, for the benefit
of our wounded, were taken by the rebels
on their occupancy, and distributed largely
to their own hungry troops. Herce much
OF the suffering, on the battlefield, by our
famished wounded.
The surgeon in charge states that, had be
not been informed by General Pope that no
evacuation of that point was intended, he
should have devoted the ample supplies to
their original purpose, by starting them un-
der flag of truce to the battle field.
All reports agree that the rebel officers,
! as rule, treated our wounded humanely,
and our prisoners according to the laws
of war.
CHAMBERsBURa, Sept. 8, 10 A. None
of our scouts left Hagerstown last night,
having left Middletown, eighteen miles
southeast of that place, at five o'clock A. NJ.
He reports that the rebels were at Ha.
| gerstown inscOnsiderable force.
All the rolling stock on the railroad has
been removed from Hagerstown, and the
telegraph Office there evacuated.
A telegraph Office has been opened at
Greencastle, from which place our scouts
and messengers will be sent.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9.-The special
correspondent of the Press, OF this city, re
turning from Sykesville, Maryland, says
that he had just left Monrovia, Nd, on &C.
count of the approaching of the rebels. A
party of their cavalry entered that place on
Sunday morning.
Speculations are rife relative to the moves
ments, and intentions and purposes of
Stonewall jackson. Some say be is on his
way, with large army, to Gettysburg, Pa,
so as to be within striking distance of
Chambersburg or York, and that he is al
ready near Hanover, while others assert
that be has marched to Westminster, and
will move on Baltimore in that direction.
Others assert that this latter movement is
merely feint to cover his entrance into
Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. AT midnight
a through freight train for Baltimore. when
short distance below GravIs Ferry Bridge
became separated ami INSTRUCTED the road.
In consequence of heavy fog, troop
train came in collision with freight train.
Fortunately no person was seriously hurt
At $50 this morning, special train hav.
ing squad of 100 cavalry on board, by
some unaccountable carelessness or misun.
Outstanding ran into both of these trains.
The collision was very severe, and the con-
sequences most disastrous, the cars were
broken to pieces, ID killed and number
seriously wounded.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Lieut. Colonel
Kane of the Bucktail Rifles, has been ap-
pointed Brigadier General 1t is said
rebel pickets yesterday entered Maryland
Ia miles from Frederick towards Hagers-
ton. 1t cannot be ascertained that the
rebels have advanced in any force below
Frederick Junction. Their future move
ments are matters of conjecture.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 9.--On the 3rd the
Steamer W. B. Terry with two dahlgren
howitzers, while aground in Tennessee
river at Duck river shoals, 12O miles above
the mouth, was captured by guerillas. The
enemy was in position in an adjacent bill
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