The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-02-27
New York, Friday, February ~, 1868.
THE SITUATION.

New York, Friday, February ~, 1868.
THE SITUATION.
Inc rebels appear TO be actively engaged in
making raids on this side of the Rappahannock.
1t is stated by a Washington journal that on the
night before last picket guard Of Union cavalry.
on the chantilly roads, out from Centrevile, was
ponnced upon, and all but one man captured, by a
force of hundred rebels, after firing two rounds.
1t IS aiso ascertained that number Of the enemy
crossed the river the same night at Kelly's Ford
few miles from Rappahannock Station, threaten.
ing Stafford Court House: that quite large body
Of them occupy Warrenton, and that Stonewall
Jackson is pushing up the valley towards Stras.
burg.
BY an arrival from Port Royal we are put in pos
session OF further information concerning the dife
renee between Generals Hunter and Foster, the
leading facts of which we before published. &C.
neral Hunter has peremptorily ordered the staff of
General Foster to leave his department and pro.
coed North by the first steamer; and he has also
put General Stevenson of General Fosters corps,
under arrest at Hilton Head for stating in CONVEX.
sation with his brother officers that he objected to
the employment Of negro troops in the govern
mcnt service. and that he would as soon be beaten
as employ them soldiers. However as General
Poster has since gone to Washington for instruc.
tions and again returned to Port Royal it is pro-
bablc that the difficulty as to the commands will
be oil settled, and everything will be soon right
again.
The news from the West ID important From
Kentucky we learn that the enemy were retreat
ing from the State By way OF Mount Sterling and
Hazel Green, and that Colonel Kunkle. with O
force Of eighteen hundred men, was pursuing
them. On the other hand, dispatches from Gin
cinnat tell various stories Of the progress Of the
inridge is advancing on Lexington with twenty
thousand rebels, and that our troops were falling
back upon that point. The Union transport
Hetty Gilman, with forage and provisions, was
captured by band of Morgan's guerillas at q
point five miles from Woodbury., on Barren river,
and fears were entertained that the steamer D. B.
Campbell, bound for Bowling Green, would share
the same fate.
The rebels were overtakcn yesterday near Mt.
Sterling, and were completely beaten, after brisk
fight.
The capture of the ram Queen Of the West is con.
frmed by an arrival at Cairo. The destruction of
arebe steamer by the Indianola near Port Hud
son is reported. A full and highly interesting de-
scription of her daring run through the blockade
Mt yc'Ssburg is given to-day in our correspondence
from the headquarters of General Grants army.
Much suffering is said to exist at vicksburg. and
arrives the rebels will be compelled to evacuate
the place.
cowardy attack was made on Wednesday by
a rebel band upon train Of cars, filed with peo.
pie, going from Louisville to Nashville, at a place
named WOODBURY., twelve miles below Bowling
Green. The cars were burned, and the locomotive
was sent ahead in the hope that ii would come into
collision with an up passenger train; but owing to
the state OF the roads the plan failed.
The schooner VIM. Stairs, which arrived at Hall
fax yesterday from Trinidad, reports that on Feb.
ruary 10, in latitude q, longitude g. she ex-
changed signals with the Alabama. She first
showed the federal and then the Confederate flag.
A despatch from Charleston to the Savannah
Republican, dated the 18th, says that three steam.
ers (the Ruby. Leopard and wagncr) from Nassau
on the 9th, arrived there that morning with yaua.
bic cargocs; and that the steamer Douglass ran
out successfully last night and took Hon. James
B. Clay, Of kentucky, for Liverpool II continues
to say that the blockade is virtually raised, as not
arun was fred at any Of these vessels.
Liverpool letter Of February Q, in the Man.
chester Examiner. noticing the arrival Of the
American food ship George Griswold a, Liverpool,
mentions, as showing the way in which some peo.
pie rcctprocatc the sympathy Of our transatlantic
brethren the fact that as the George Gri,voa - a.
coming into port with succor FOR our Distressed
operatives, the steamer Dolphin was sailing m,
with a cargo OF munitions Of war, &c, on route
via Nassau, for Confederate port.
The Paris Moniteur contains DEGREES confrmin,
two nominations to the rank OF Knight In the lie
gion OF Honor. made by the commander. chic
Of the expedition in Mexico. General VOL ha
also been promoted to tho rank Of commander d
tho sane 0rdsA