Washington telegraph., 1863-11-18

Helena, formed readily, poured a mur defoiis
fire into til eadvancing horde, and then calmly
ned to the rear, where another fresh line
waited to cover and protect them. In this
way the retreat and pursuit was kept up TO
Wayer!J, in Lafayette county, where Colonel
Shelby det ermined to abandon his five ordance
wagons and fall back to Arkansas. Twelve
thousand men were now after him, and this
number daiiy increasing; besides, the ammu-
nlti IN was nearly exhausted; one cannon dis
abled and left; no recruits coming in; the men
exhausted from constant fighting and march
ing; and the whole State alarmed and up in
arms. 1t was now question of physical en-
durance and hardihood. The Fe derals kept
up the pursuit vigorously. Now on the 1anks,
now in front. now in the rear, they harra ssed
and annoyed him; but he, the man of iron,
grim as Messena, impetuous as Murat, tena-
eious as Soult, fought and marched, and
marched and fought, bivouacing in be saddle,
and sleeping as he rode along Thus for
weary miles and miles they foowe d him, the
pursuit only ending after he had crossed the
Arkansas river at Clarksville.
brief recapitulation of this sxtrao rdinary
| raid, the most extraordinary, perhaps, the
world ever saw, will not, in all probability,
prove uninteresting. Col. Shelby, from first
10 last. captured the towns of Ozark, Hunts
Vile, Bentonyille, Pineville Neosho, Bowers
e..
ola, Quincy, Warsaw, Cole Camp, Florence,
Upton, Syracuse, OtterviIle, Boonv Vile. Arrow
Rock, Waverly, Johnstown and CARTHAGE. he
sou ght and gained fifteen battles; killed and
wound d ed five hundred Federals; CAPTURED and
parolcd six hundred more; burnt ten forts !;
destroyed railroad property to the amount of
three millions of dollars; captured one thou
sand guns and five hundred revolvers one
piece CT artillery; six thousand lorses and
mules; five hundred government wagons; one
hundred thousand dollars worth of ordnance
stores; fortv stands of coors thre. million dol
lars worth of Federal supplies; and gained
about one thousand recruits for the Coufede
rate army; and all this was done. too, with the
| loss of only five wagons, which were sunk in
the Missouri river two pieces of artillery, and
one hundred and fifty mcn. lie has marched
fifteen hundred miles in forty-onc days, or an
average of over thirty-six miles per day, spread
terror and dismay in the very heart of the
Federal lines; kept from reinforcin z Rosecranz
teu thousand men, and lit the beacon fires Of
retaliation all over Missouri, never to be
quenched until the free flag of the South wave.
all that paradise, now reeking with the
blood of her best and oravest.
When history lifts the veil from the terrible
drama Of this war; when the white pinions of
peace float over our distracted country. soft as
angel footballs on some velvet floor; when the
red banners OF strife and carnage have 81 amed
o er the last foughten fell, and the universal
anthem of land redeemed comes swelling up
from valley and glen, whose eternal chorus
wa. born in heaven, this raid of gray jackets
over the border into the valley and shadow OF
death. with no light but opposing cannon, aud
no friends but ruddy steel and trusty rifles,
this raid will stand out grand, glorious. sn-
blim "A monument of d ,ring-an example Of
dash and recklcssness never surpassed.
And for our glorious leader we only ask a
wide field and plenty of harvest, and the uni
rersal song shall go up:
All. solder, to your honored rest,
Your truth and valor bearing;
The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring.
MISSOURIAN.