Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-01-29
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From the Burnside Expedition.

From the Burnside Expedltlon'
| The most important intelligence since
our last, is the receipt Of some news
from the Burnside expedition, which met
with several disasters in the storms of the
pas: TIVE weeks. One account makes out
the loss of several vessels, but the official
| dispatches do not confirm the news. We
annex the latest:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-A special
messenger, with dispatches from General
Burnside, reached Washington this morn
ing.
They are dated Head Quarters Depart
ment North Carolina, Hatteras Inlet, Jan.
26th."
The messenger left Hatteras on Sunday.
General Burnsides states:
We left our anchorage at Annapolis on
Thursday the 9th, and after protracted
passage, owing to dense fogs, arrived at
Fortress Monroe.
Saturday, Jan. 10-morning.-We pro-
ceeded at once to sea, but owing to fogs on
Sunday and Sunday night o4T progress was
very slow
Monday, Jan. 13th.-Weather cleared
with heavy wind aud rough sea, which caus-
ed our vessels to labor very heavily, and
some were obliged to cut loose from the
vessels they were towing. Most Of them,
however passed over the bar and anchored
inside the IIArbor about noon, on 18th
just in time to escape the severe gale OF
Msnday night and TGcsdEg. The Propel-
Ter City OF New York, ran on to tka oar al
the entrance to the hsrbor, ali Qging to
the severe weather and want Of small boats,
We could render her no assistance She
was laden with stores and was lost
The General also says he had been LED
to suppose that he would find experienced
pilots at uztteras, but had great difficulty
in accomplishing his wish for want prop
er accommodation.
He adds, he would commence that day
to build wharf for landing supplies The
men were cheerful and patient, and he
would proceed with confidence. An acc;-
dent occurred in an effort to relieve the
steamer New York by which boat was
swamped, and the lives Of Col. Allen, 9th
New jersey, his surgeon and the mate Of
the boat were also lost.
After the arrival Of the expedition at
Hatteras the enemy made their appearance
in one or two vessels on a reconnoitring ex-
pedition. Our boats gave chase and drove
them back.
The transports and vessels grounded will
be got of by aid of the tugboats Only
one, the New York, was lost, and no lives,
the three above referred to excepted.
Our latest advices frUm the South shuw
that the rebel organs are now compelled to
admit that they met with a terrible disaster
at Mill Spring, and they acknowledge they
are in danger of having their communications
with the southeast cut of by Gen. Burnside
and their communications with the south
west cut of by our forces in Kentucky.
Dispatches from Kansas City state that
body of Texans marched on Fort Craig On the
4sh, but on reaching within thirty miles of
that post, retreated without making an at
tack. The scouts from the fort had been cal
led in, and serious battle was anticipated.
Governor Connolly had called out the whole
niliEs force. Colonel Candy, who commands
at the fort, has 1000 regulars and l 500 vol
unteers and militia under him. Great excite
ment prevails at Santa Fe, and martial law
had been proclaimed in the district.
The Quincy (FIorida) Dispatch of the 9th
inst. says the British steamer Gladiator, which
recently ran the Federal blockade, is safely
moored in Florida port. Her cargo of arms
is valued at two millions of dollars.
The Pensacola Observer of the 9th says
that about one dozen slaves recently escaped
to Fort Pickens.
The Marshall (Texasl Republican of the
l4th inst learns of large mortality among the
Texas troops on the Potomac.
Two companies of cavalry made recon
noissancs from Lexington, Missouri, on the
10th inst, and succeeded in capturing sever
al notorious Rebel desperadOes, together with
q large lot of horses, mules, wagons, and COM
nisssry stores, which had been taken from