Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-01-16
THE LATEST WAR NEWS ,

The quiet Of the lines along the army of the
Potomac was on Friday slightly disturbed by
skirmiSh with the enemy near Pohick church.
1t appears that the Fifth Michigan Volunteers
were on picket duty in front of General Heiut
zleman's division, when Company II went out
from the main body on a scouting expidtion.
On reaching the bank near Pohick run the
detachment was fired on by small force of
rebel infantry concealed in the woods The
fire was instantly returned with effect. The
rebels finding they were being worSted retreat
ed rapidly.
A skirmish has taken place at Oath, Va,
between the advance guard of Gen. Jackson's
rebels, 8 900 strong, and q small brigade of
General Kelly's troops, under Captain Russell
The Q Union infantry was placed in q dense wood,
as skirmishers, when the Union cavalry decoyed
the rebels into ambush. The maneuVere is
pronounced at Washington as being one of
great brliancy, and Captain Russell has
been praised therefore on that account.
The news from Cairo and Chicago is to the
effect that the advance of the great expedition
had commenced southwark movement, and
the main body of the troops had embarked
preparatory to leaving. The various brgades
were to be placed under the command of Gen
eral Pain, MClernand, Smith and Wallace
General Palmer, in Missouri, reports, from
| OttervIe, to General Haleck that an engage
ment took place on Silver Creek, between a
battalion of Union troops aud the rebels IN
der Poindexter numbering about thirteen hun
dred men. The rebels were totally routed,
with great loss iu woG2ded and prisoners and
seven killed. The Union loss was four. The
rebel camp was destroyed and d large num-
ber of horses and teams secured.
BY the Oriental from Pcrt Royal, full de
tails of the engagement at Port Roya! Ferry
with drawings of the line of march SC, have
been received 1t had been asserted by dis
patch from Charleston, circulated through the
rebel States, that on the third instant the
Union Soldiers were driven at the point Of the
bayouet from their position by the rebel troops
The Oriental left on the sixth, and no such
repulse had taken place, General Stevens be-
ing able to hold his own.
From Boston intelligence has been received
that the troops of General Buffers division
that embarked on the Constitution have been
again ordered on shore, but no reason for the
movement has been assigned 1t is, however,
positively asserted that the expidition has not
been abandoned.
The mails by the Canada betoken far diff.
ferent feeling in Great Britain than has here,
to:ore been manifested since the receipt by
them of the news of the seizure of the rebel
emssaries The hot blood rush to arms has
cooled down, and the dread of the horrors OF
war and danger to commerce are making them
selves manifest, while some are considering
the chance of \" no war at all" and begin to
count the cost of of their hostile demonstra.
tion. 1t is asserted that the money expended
would have reIaid the Atlantic cable, by which
means so vas! waste of cash would have
been saved Deputation from several relig
ious bodies, peace societies and other corpo
ratons have waited on the Premier and me-
MORALS have been presented to induce him, if
possible, TO refrain from war, and arbitration, il
not recommended, is broadly limited at. Eng.
land is very anxiously awaiting the arrival of
the answer from this country relative to Ma
son and Slidell to relieve them of an intolera,
BILE suspense, and decide the question of either
peace or war between England and America