Jluai §Uw-§0tkt. 
DEPARTMENT. 
M Op nil the flags that float aloft, 
O'er Neptune’s gallant tars, 
That wave on high, in victory, 
Almve the sons of Mars, 
Give us the flag—Columbians flag— 
The emblem of the free, 
Whose flashing stars blazed through our Wars 
For Truth and Liberty. 
Then dip it, lads, in Ocean’s brine, 
And give it three times three, 
And fling it out. ’mid song and shout, 
The Banner of the Sea.” 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 12, 1862. 
THE WAR’S PROGRESS. 
FACTS, SCENES, INCIDENTS, ETC. 
Army Movements in the South-West. 
There ia now every indication that a grand 
battle is to be fought in the South-West, and that 
shortly. •!ndging from such data as are given to the 
press, the Federal anil rebel forces are concentrating 
lor a fearful and sanguinary struggle; and that our 
readers may fully comprehend the “siIllation/’ we 
give such correspondence as can be found in those 
journals which possess excellent facilities for obtain¬ 
ing intormulion. 
The special correspondent of the Cincinnati 
Gazette, at Savannah, Tennessee, under date of 
March 27th„ writes thus: 
REBEL M ovem f.nts. —Everyday’s advices confirm 
the views I advanced the other day, of the rebel plan 
of operations. They are concentrating the forces of 
their “ Army of the Mississippi ” at the point on the 
Memphis and Charleston Railroad nearest to our 
positions on the river, and are preparing to move 
rapidly to the defense of the road, at any point we 
may threaten it. That, railroad constitutes the base 
of their new lino of defenses. 
Reforts from ^coittS. — No less than three of 
our scouts came in this morning, each reporting that 
he had been miles inside the rebel lines. They con¬ 
cur in estimating the rebel force al Corinth and 
vicinity at over seventy-five thousand, end reporting 
the daily arrival ot more troops from all the Gulf 
Slates. Impressment is going vigorously forward; 
the Purdy Court House is full of Union men; the 
advanced posts are gathering them up throughout 
the country, and willing, or unwilling, they are 
hurried into the ranks at, Corinth. Deserters say 
the army is full of such men, and that they only 
remain in the service through the difficulty of get¬ 
ting away. 
Beauukuahp Fortifying.— Meantime Beaure¬ 
gard is pushiug forward every preparation for a 
formidable resistance. Outposts are established at 
Purdy, Inca, and elsewhere along the railroad, at 
and above Chickasaw, on the river, and six miles in 
front of Corinth, directly toward our advance from 
Pittsburgh landing. Fortifications are being erec ted 
at, Corinth, and the raw levies are being put into as 
efficient a state as possible. Fortunately there is no 
occasion lor being uneasy about the Corinth fortifi¬ 
cations. They are like the pot-handle—it is no 
further around than over them. 
There is no need to disguise the fact that we have 
serious work ahead of us. The rebels are not well 
posted, but they have the most skillful engineers 
from the old United Slates army. They are not 
inspired by successes, but limy have their pel Gene¬ 
ral at their head, and desperation must nerve them 
for a last terrible struggle. Not only dues Memphis 
fall with Corinlh, but defeat here opens lo an army 
larger than that of the Potomac the whole territory 
of the Gulf States, and the.rebels are not ignorant 
of the extremity of their peril. 
Secession Despondency. — Through the entire 
region of country adjacent to our extended lines, the 
secessionists talk despond ingly. Many active rebels 
do noi hesitate to admit their failure, and are only 
anxious that their leaders, while arms still make 
them formidable, even in defeat, should use their 
power to secure favorable terms from the victorious 
enemy. At Purdy, in spile of a rebel garrison of 
nearly three regiments, the resident rebels are 
utterly refusing the Conlederate bonds in any form, 
or at any rate of discount. 
It is a mistake to suppose that the people are not 
informed of their disasters. J have found none, in 
the course of conversations with scores of them at 
different points outside our lines, who were ignorant 
of the retreat from Columbus and Manassas, the 
magnitude of the Henry and Donelson defeats, the 
occupation ot Nashville, the capture of Roanoke 
island, Winchester, and even New .Madrid, of which 
last they hod Information about as soon us wo had. 
it has been supposed that the common people have 
been kepi in ignorance of these disasters, but 1 luivo 
always found them fully alive to their magnitude. 
The Union Freeing. —Accounts of South Ten¬ 
nessee U monism have been highly rose-colored,from 
those of tne first exploring gunboats on down. There 
are warm Union men here, and in far greater pro¬ 
portionate numbers than at Nashville, but the great 
mass of the people, and all the leaders are, as they 
have been, secessionists. Savannah itself is Union; 
I do not think the same can be said of the county, 
and 1 am confident, after careful observation and 
inquiry, that it can at any rate lie said of none of the 
adjacent counties. The better classes here, except 
perhaps in Savannah, are all secessionists. Where 
you find one intelligent, educated man on .our side, 
you will find fifty against us. 1 know no reason for 
blinking such facts, or for exciting delusive hopes, 
by exaggerating the Union sentiment. Continued 
successes, 1 make no doubt, will develop abundance 
ol new-born loyalty, 
Mi8si8.sn'Ft Prisoners.—P risoners are brought 
in occasionally from the rebel pickets. The well- 
known Indiana scout, Horace Bell, and a couple of 
our 5th Ohio cavalrymen, made a dash on a rebel 
picket yesterday, and brought away a couple of 
Mississippians, They wore well dressed in gray 
uniforms, and appeared intelligent. General Wal¬ 
lace asked if they were disposed to tell anything i 
about the position or numbers of their army. “ No, 
sir,” promptly responded the elder of the two. “ I 
do not think it would be honorable, and I won’t tell < 
anything about it.” They were armed with a short, 
rifled, muzzle-loading carbine, very much like the 
old-fashioned yager, and bearing the stamp of a 
New Orleans manufacturer. 
Prospects. — A messenger started across the 
country four days ago, with dispatches lor General 
Buell. * * * At last accounts Buell’s forces 
were crossing Puck River. Capt.. Leland, Commis¬ 
sary on Gen. Grant’s Staff, has orders to have 
rations prepared for double the number of men now 
here. And, meanwhile, the fortifications go on at 
Corinth, and our men lie quietly along the river lines. 
The Louisville Journal publishes the following 
letter, stating that it was written by a finely educated 
Northern citizen who was temporarily connected 
with the United States army, and is uow sojourning 
in Nashville. The Journal further says, wo caiiuot. 
doubt that a battle is about to take place, and that, 
both in its character and consequences, it will be 
one of the most tremendous conflicts'of modern times: 
NasitvIM.b, Mart'll 24, 1862. 
Gentlemen:—N o close observer of the move¬ 
ments and counter-movements of the armies of the 
two belligerents for the past few weeks can doubt 
that a bade is soon to be fought, which, in magni¬ 
tude and destruction of life, has as yet had no paral¬ 
lel in the whole course of this sanguinary strife. 
The Confederates are marshalling their hosts from 
the Potomac to the Indian Territory, and from 
Island No. 10 to the Southern Gulf Braxton Bragg 
comes from his lonesome prison at Pensacola and 
Mobile Bay, bringing his well-drilled if no! well- 
disciplined army of artillerist* to the number of 
thirty thousand. Evans the Georgian, comes from 
Manassas with the flower of that army who fought us 
last July, in numbers about, forty thousand. John¬ 
son, the renowned Albert Sidney, ol Mormon and 
Bowling Green notoriety, with his army, which a 
short month since fled in such a panic through this 
quiet city, has restored order to his command, and 
now conies to wipe out the dishonor of that flight 
with about twenty thousand men. Then come* 
Rev. Gen. Polk, marshalling his hell■ hounds from 
Columbus and the river batteries, in all about thirty 
thousand. 
Then they have numerous other Generals with 
numerous other hosts from the various States of the 
South-West, till Hie rebels have concentrated a 
force whose right wing rests at Decatur. Alabama, 
and left at Island No. 10 in the Mississippi river, the 
whole forming a semi-circle of about two hundred 
thousand men, under the best, rebel General, Pierre 
Toutant Beau regard. Their forces are well arranged 
to take advantage of a victory, which they expect 
will surely crown their endeavors; and indeed they 
have an army more formidable in all respect* than 
any we have yet encountered. Beauregard, since 
he came West, has been very laboriously and suc¬ 
cessfully engaged in bring order out of disorder and 
courage out of dismay, and generally re-organizing 
the whole army Gy displacing the old and cowardly, 
and those who hod been tiled and found wanting. 
Pillow and Floyd are entirely without, commands, 
and Breckinridge, the child of flattery, has only a 
small brigade. Gen. Volk, too, has been almost, 
stripped of his command, and many others of the 
like stump I might mention. He has arranged all 
his numerous cavalry, SO that he avails himself of 
their utmost capacities, where generally so worse 
than useless. Fume of thorn, as Morgan (of whom I 
cun find adventures enough to write a full letrer) 
and Forrest, keep constantly harrassing our pickets 
and getting iu our rear and acting us spies, ami such 
guerilla style us that, while the main force lie has 
near Fort Pillow drilling continually, that they may 
be expert in following up our retreating forces, and 
he confidently thinks to use them in that manner. 
Then he has a large fleet which has recently been 
brought up from New Orleans, with which he hopes 
to overcome Commodore Foote. Such is the dispo¬ 
sition of our foes. Truly a formidable host. 
Tlie War on the ,IIiN«bsip]i!. 
Tiik Island No. JO correspondent of the Chicago 
Times writes as follows: 
THE UK DELS ILLUMINATE TUB RIVER. 
The anxiety to get a boat down to New Madrid 
seems to be understood Gy the secessionists, and 
they, being fearful of some ol the tugs attempting a 
passage in the dark, have built at night enormous 
fires at the head of the Island, and assisted the illu¬ 
mination with a revolving reflector that at intervals 
throws its rays entirely across the river, making the 
Kentucky shore distinctly visible. It ia a scene for 
a painter. Above, some two miles, are the low, 
black hulls of our gun-boats, surrounded with their 
transports. So strong is the light that occasionally 
the dim outline of a soldier can be seen going 
around the tire. The island itself is almost sub¬ 
merged, and, being covered near the banks with a 
thick growth of bushes, it seems the covert at once 
ol secrecy and danger. 
IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE ENEMY 1 * SCHEMES. 
The tenacity with which they hold on here proves 
how valuable time is to them, and when driven from 
here it will doubtless be seen that while fighting at 
Island No. 10 they have been busy as beavers 
erecting stronger aud more formidable fortifications 
at points lower down. Where these points are we 
will only know when we get to them, and, perhaps, 
as iu this instance, shall bo surprised that such nat¬ 
ural facilities for defense should be overlooked. The 
1,800 miles of river from St. Louis to the Gulf are 
very imperfectly known to our generals, and we are 
dealing with an enemy'perfectly acquainted with 
every winding, cape and headland. 
A NEW BATTERY ERECTED RV GEN. POPE. 
A well-founded rumor is current here that Gen. 
Pope had orected*another battery two miles below 
Riddle's Point or Tiptouville. If so, it will com¬ 
mand the river down to the overflowed lauds on the 
Tennessee shore, and thus prevent the enemy's pas¬ 
sage between Island No. 10 and the Kentucky shore 
fortifications, and with Tiptouville and other points 
further South. 
The Nevis expresses the opinion, with a show of 
plausibility, that there is a co-operative relation 
between Gen. Grant’s expedition on the Tennessee 
river arid Commodore Foote’s flotilla at Island No. 
It), and Gen. Pope’s army at New Madrid, and that 
the operations of one have an intimate connection 
with the other. It may be developed, also, iu a day 
or two, that when it is time to take Island No. It), 
Commodore Foote will take it. In the mean time, 
we may direct our eyes to the Tennessee river in 
the expectation of witnessing most, important aud 
decisive events in that quarter. 
REPORT OF GEN. FOPE. 
General Pope's official report of the capture of 
New Madrid, Missouri, dated March 14, is too long 
for publication, but the following extracts are inter¬ 
esting: 
“A brief examination disclosed how hasty and 
precipitate had been the flight of the enemy. Their 
dead were found unburied, (heir suppers untouched 
standing on the tables, candles burning in the tents, 
and every other evidence of a disgraceful panic. 
Private baggage of officers and knapsacks of men 
were left behind. Neither provision nor ammuni¬ 
tion were carried oik Some attempt was made to 
carry ammunition, as boxes without number were 
found on the bunk of the river where the steamers 
ha<l been landed. 
“It is almost impossible to give any exact account 
of the immense quantities of property and supplies 
left in our hands. All their artillery, field batteries 
and siege guns, amounting to thirty-three pieces; 
magazines full of fixed ammunition of the lies! 
character; several thousand stands of Inferior small 
arms, with hundreds of boxes of musket cartridges, 
tents for an army of ten thousand men, horses, 
mules, wagons, entrenching tools, Ac., are among 
the spoils.' Nothing except, the men escaped, and 
they only with what, they wore. They landed on 
th« Opposite side of the river, and are scattered in 
terville, and the trees will be used to obstruct the That Black Flag.—T he rebels say they did not *1 
roads, and for the construction of abattig. have a black flag waving over Donelson, but that 
Gen. Johnston’s army is now encamped along a what was mistaken for such a menace was a Mis- r 
lino a hundred miles in extent — that is to say, on sissippi standard that had boon discolored by smoke 
the semi-circle formed by the Rappahannock, from so much as to be mistaken lor black. This may be , 
Gordonsville to Rappahannock. They are distributed true; at all events, It is a plausible explanation of ■ 
iu army corps, the same as they wore on the Poto- what was, if really made, a very foolish threat, 
mac, at the points where they are most, likely to be Louu Calls for SuiistitOteb.—T he staple of 
attacked. These points are—five miles north of the the advertising columns of the Richmond papers of 
town ol Orange; at the bridge where the road from tne latest dates ia the call for substitutes for the 
Culpepper to Louisa crosses the Rapldan to Ger- arm y. The lamentation* of the rebel organs over the 
mania; whore the road from Warrenton to Bowling slackness Of their soldiers’zeal acem to be well found- 
Green crosses the same stream; at Fredericksburg; U(b Instead of re-enlisting,anxipussoldier* publish 
and at Port Royal. advertisements for substitutes, and'the business has 
It, seems to he the impression among the rebels ven existence to a large class of brokers. Wo 
that Gen. McClellan will march down the old road, twt , no t,j ces from the advertising columns of 
near to the Potomac, taking Oecoquan and Dumfries the Dispatch ■ 
on his route, and will seek to occupy Fredericksburg. « Wanted- Subslitu<o§-$300 to $600. Ten sub- 
Johustou s let I, wing had been turned by General B t,Rates for a good artillery company. For good 
McClellan when, three weeks ago, the commander- m(m who are troe from military control, I will pay 
in-chief crossed the Potomac at Harpe.’s Ferry, and a bonu8 offtom $30() to $ 000 caah . Call this morn- 
setin motion the column of Gen. Banks. If Johnston - ftt No . 3 Tontb at .reet. Taos. B. Rees.” 
had remained at Centerville, his left flank would , Uy 10 O . c]ock to -riay, twenty able- 
have been turned by be entire tight wing of Gen. ^ ^ m 8ubf , tituteB for w hom a liberal 
McClellan, who would have attacked him simult*- bonim wil| bc glv(in . ri is neces sary that those 
neously in front and on both flanks. By retreating applyi h1iou1(1 bti n0 n-resident* of the State of 
when he did, he saves his entire army, all his artil- Virginia. Apply to Allred L. Holladay, Cary 
lery and baggage, and falls back to a position Htr00t) two tkml . s ftbove Tw , mb .” 
equally as susceptible of fortification and defence The loweHt . prlc( , ()fforod for a Hubs titutc is $50, 
as Manassas was._ an d the highest $600. 
The Manufacture of Ordnance. T " K SOKPTKR Broken,-“W e have tested the 
„ power of King Cotton and found him tube wanting,” 
Since the commencement of the war the three ,, „ ... , 
r c ,i ,, , . said Mr. Senimes. a Louisiana member of the Rebel 
foundries at West Point, South Boston, and Pitts- ,, . P , . . .. , 
,, . , Congress, in tuo course ot a debate which occurred 
burg, Penn., have together manufactured for the . .. , ’ . v ... ,, 
, ( ’ ° m that body on the 12th inRt, Nor was this all. 
ovuTiinen . jj r> Senimea admitted that the boasted power of 
EfovI^u cotton bad i ,roml to lie a and a snore, but 
Ten-Inch. io he acknowledged the improbability of interference 
Eight-hicH 07 from England, and declared that that nation, rather 
Seven-inch. i than make war with the United States, “would con- 
Tn'olvr'i'' m itid'/i-H".1 . 2 oo vert, her Government into an eleemosynary institu- 
Suventtienqioumlurs. 24 tiem for the maintenance of her hordes of starving 
Thirty q>oiin!l'i'I 1 ™ U...]’.i 4 i operatives.” Similar admissions were made by 
Fifty-pounders.. 36 other members of the so-called Congress. These 
ol^'lfundic^-pioundVrarillir^IIIIllII”!"!”" *5 are significant, indications. The lingering hope of 
One hundred and fifty-pounders. 9 foreign recognition—confessed by Yancey in his 
Guns of small caliber. 28 Now Orleans speech, to be utterly dead—was the 
, . , —— last straw at which the rebels grasped. The scepter 
Total number of cannon.1046 ... . ,, ... 
ol their great King is broken and Ins power gone. 
Of mortars and howitzers they have made— TI ,, . 
Heroic Chaplains.—W e proudly gather several 
Ten-inX'mortore 44 ”. 61 reported instances of heroic devotion on the part of 
Eight-inch morturs . 26 chaplains. They are not exceptional instances. 
Eight-inch howitzers... .JO \y 0 doubt no £ tbat a W eekly record longer than this, 
l’otut mortars and howitzers. lfil and as conspicuous, eon 1<1 be presented, if we only 
They have also turned out the following number could know the facts of the life of our chaplains, 
of shot and shell: At the battle of Roanoke Island, the Rev. Mr. 
Thirteen inch shells. 6,000 J amos, of Worcester, Mass., when the officers were 
Eleven inch shells.. . . 2.829 shot down around a gun, sprang forward, oncour- 
Nine hici^siil'iu. T 200 aged the men, and worked in the midst of them as 
Shot and slieU of smaller caliber.151,727 a gunner. 
Total number of shot and shell.173,220 The Rev. John L. Lenhart, the chaplain of the 
- Cumberland, remained at his post with the surgeons 
Anns Purchased by the United States. among the wounded, anil went down with his ship, 
Tub Swcrotary ol' War lm s submitted to Con- noWy dying at tbo post of duty. Brother Unhart 
groaa a vgU.mll.oi. document containing » state- *?“ “ '«« minister nml had been m lie navy 
, ... since 1847. lie was greatly beloved by the officers 
merit, of all the purchases of and contracts tor arms J 
lo/ ., and crew oi tho Cumberland. 
made by the Government since April 12, 1861, with _ , _ . . „ , , , . . 
, ,, . , , . The Rev. Orlando N. Benton, chaplain oi the New 
the particular* of such purchases, and the prices 
paid. It gives the dates and mime* of parlici pur- ' al »<’ tdl 16 ^ 
chased from and contracted with. The reeapitnla- bom ’ was a 1 resbytenau pastor at Apalachin, 
tion shows there were purchased and contracted for J ‘°g a county, New oik. ... examiner. 
the following muskets and rifles: Furchased, 280,- The Casualties of the War. — The Boston 
156; contracted for, 1,908,800. Cash, $40,495,715. Journal has compiled a taGle showing the casualties 
Carbines purchased, 11,880; contracted for, 72,440. of the most important battles of the rebellion, 
Cash, $2,205,278. Pistols piirehased, 19,422; eon- including that near Winchester. We should judge 
traded for, 75,500. Cash, $2,105,892. Sabres uml that it, is as correct as it is possible to make it. The 
swords purchased, 03,718; contracted for, 142,500- following is a recapitulation: 
me up nos no sme oi me rm-i, mw an- < < anacKCd, These points are—five miles north of the 
aa urssa ^ - «■ *** .•>«* —<*,„ 
the enemy turned upon the river, which they com- Culpeppei to Louisa crosses the Rapldan to Gor- 
pletely commanded. mania; whore the road from Warrenton to Bowling 
“ The flight, of the enemy was so hasty that they Green crosses the same stream; at Fredericksburg; 
abandoned their pickets, and gave no intimation to and a ( p 0I q Royal. 
the forces at Island No. 10. The consequence ia „ ,, , , 
that one gunboat and ten large steamers, which It. seems to be the impression among the rebels 
were there, are cut off from below, and must either • 
lie destroyed or fall into our hauus. Island No. 10 i 
must necessarily lie evacuated, as it can neither be ( 
re-enforced nor supplied from below.” 
The following correspondence shows how General 
Pope met a cool request from the enemy: j 
“ IlKATiqUARTKICS, MADRID Hk.ND, ) j 
March 17,1862. S’ 
“General: I have many sick. Humanity de- 
mands that they should lie placed where they can 
receive treatment away from the conflict of arms. 
Dr. Yandall, Medical Director, is commissioned to 
propose measures for their relief. 
“ Your obedient servant, 
“ J. P. McCown, 
“Maj.-Gen. Commanding Confederate Forces. 
“ To the General Commanding Federal Forces at 
New Madrid, Mo.” 
“ 11kabquARters U.mtkii Status Forces, ) 
Nkw Madrid, March 17, 1862. f 
“Sin: Tour note of this date, sent through Dr. 
Yandall, is before me. It is proposed to me that the 
sick of your command bo permitted to pass down 
the river to some place of safety. 
“Tins seems to me a singular request, under the 
circumstances. Alter u successful reduction of this 
place tor the simple purpose of blockading the river, 
1 am asked to suspend the blockade, in order that, 
you may disembarrass yourself of the sick and dis¬ 
abled of your command during an attack which you 
must have anticipated foug enough to remove them 
in advance. 
“ 1 do not feel justified in acceding to your request, 
as I do not propose to suspend the blockade f under 
any circumstances, until the operations above me 
are concluded. 
“ I am, Sir. respectfully, 
“ Your obedient, servant, 
“John Pope, 
“Brig.-Gen. Commanding. 
“Major-General J. P. McCown, Commanding C. S. 
A., &c__ 
The Mountain Department. 
BklOV we publish two orders of Major-General 
Fremont, as they appear in the Wheeling (Ya.) 
Press, of the 31st, ult, setting forth that he has 
assumed command of the “Mountain Department,” 
and assigning Gen. Kelley to the command of the 
Railroad Division, tho limits of which are therein 
prescribed. 
Annexed, we also give the 'arcwell order ofBrig- 
adier-GOneral W. S. Rosecrans, who lias for eight 
months past been in command of the Department of 
Western Virginia, having been, prior to that time, in 
command of a brigade under Gen. McClellan in the 
same Department for one month. During the dis¬ 
charge of his arduous duties, both in the field and at 
headquarters, he has endeared himself to his entire 
command, and secured the highest approval of his 
superiors. 
Headqi; mitkrs Dki'autmicNt or Tnp. M.ovxtaiSS. ) 
WtTKKMNO, Va, Man'll 20. 1862. j 
General Order, No. I Broilin' Officers and 
Boldin's :—Department Order No. IV published the 
President’s War Order No. 3, announcing the 
change in the limits and styles of this Department, 
and the assignment of an officer of superior rank to 
its command. Major-General John C. Fremont, 
II. S. A., having arrived at Wheeling in assume the 
command, I now take leave of yon in the only man¬ 
ner in which circumstances permit, viz: in General 
Order. 
Companions in Arms: In this vast Department 
oi Mountains and Forests, in ilm rains of summer, 
the cold and storms of winter, for nine mouth* I have 
witnessed your uncomplaining patience, zeal, and 
activity—your watchings, your marchings, and your 
com bats. Under God, to your bravery and good 
conduct it is due that, not, a single reverse has 
attended our arms in all the vast, regions. 
Wherever I go, I shall bear with me the remem¬ 
brance ot men who, leaving home and all its endear¬ 
ments, against the force of all former tastes and 
habits, have uudertnken to inure themselves to the 
toils, privations, hardships, and danger* of military 
life, and have succeeded. 
But, comrades, proud as 1 am of the manly energy 
you have thus displayed, I cm prouder still to bear 
testimony to the pure and lofty patriotism which has 
called it. forth. No mean and sectional spirit, no Low 
truckling to reckless leadership, no blind and igno¬ 
rant fanaticism, has animated y ou. By your intelli¬ 
gence, .your magnanimity and forbearance toward 
those wnom the rebellion has misled, you have 
shown that you entered info the conflict with a con¬ 
viction that the interests of free government and 
even of human freedom itself, opposed by arbitrary 
and despotic will, by rebellion in favor of despot¬ 
ism. lay in tho issue, and that you fought for the 
liberties of all, both North and South. Such men 
deserve to be aud will be free themselves, or, dying, 
will bequeath liberty and a glorious name to their 
posterity. 
That it may bo VO lit happy lot. in the Union 
under the Constitution and Laws, to be free and 
happy yourselves, and to bequeath freedom, happi¬ 
ness, "aud a glorious name to your children, Is my 
cherished wish and hope. W. S. Rosecrans, 
Brigadier-General, if. S. A. 
By the annexed official orders, just issued, it will 
be seen that Major-General Fremont has assumed 
command of this Department: 
ITbadquartkus Mountain Dki*artmkxt, ? 
NVliekli.no, Va., March 29, 1862. ( 
General Orders, No. 5. —1. In pursuance of 
the President’s War Order No. 8, of March II, the 
undersigned hereby assumes command ol this De¬ 
partment. 
2. The Chiefs of the several Departments of the 
Staff will remain in the performance of their duties 
until further orders. .1. C. Fremont, 
Major-General Commanding. 
Headquarters, Mountain Department.) 
Wio.ku.v. March 29. 1802. J 
General Orders, No. 6,—All of Western Vir¬ 
ginia. north and east of the counties of Jackson, 
Roane. Calhoun, Braxton, Lewis, Barbour, ana 
Tucker, inclusive, and west of the Alleganies. Ma¬ 
ryland, and Pennsylvania, will, until further orders, 
constitute the Railroad District. Brigadier-General 
B. F. Kelley, Volunteers, is assigned the command. 
By order of Major-General Fremont. 
Henry Thrall, Assistant Adj.-General. 
The Rebel Force* in Knstern Virginia, 
The Washington correspondent of the Phila¬ 
delphia Inquirer says: 
There is a remarkable similarity between Gordons¬ 
ville Junction and Manassas Junction as defensive 
positions. In front of the latter is Bull Run; in 
front of the former is the Rapldan river. The 
banks of the former are of the same formation as 
those of Bull Bun, but the stream itself is wider 
and deeper. Between the Rupidun river and Gor¬ 
donsville, the surface of the country is hilly,—the 
hills being quite as available for fortifications as 
those in front of Manassas. It is covered with 
dense forests, too, in many places, which will 
impede military operations to a large extent. These 
will no doubt be cut down as they were near Uon- 
lt seems to be the impression among the rebels 
that Gen. McClellan will march down the old road, 
near to the Potomac, taking Oecoquan and Dumfries 
on his route, and will seek to occupy Fredericksburg. 
Johnston's left wing had been turned by General 
McClellan when, three weeks ago, the Commander- 
in-chief crossed the Potomac at Harpai’a Ferry, and 
setin motion the column of Gen. Banks. If Johnston 
had remained at Centerville, his left flunk would 
have been turned by the entire right wing of Gen, 
McClellan, who would have attacked him simulta¬ 
neously in front and on both flanks. By retreating 
when he did, he saves his entire army, all his artil- ! 
lery and baggage, and falls hack to a position 
equally as susceptible of fortification and defence 
as Manassas was. 
The Manufacture of Ordnance. 
Since the commencement of the war the three 
foundries at West Point, South Boston, and Pitts¬ 
burg, l’eiin., have together manufactured for tho 
Government: 
Twelve-inch rifled cannon__ 1 
Eleven inch__ 11 
Ten-Inch.._ 10 
Nine inch.. 72 
Eight-inch__ 67 
Seven-inch_ 1 
Ten-pounders. 219 
Twelve-poundera. 236 
Seventeen pounders___ 24 
Twenty-pounders__ 158 
Thirty-pounders... 141 
Fifty-pounders _ . 36 
Eighty-pounders.. 19 
One hundred-pounder*__ 5 
One hundred and fifty-pounders.. 9 
Rifled siege guns. 20 
Guns of small caliber. 28 
Total number of cannon....1046 
Of mortars and howitzers they have made— 
Thirteen-inch mortars.. 54 
Ten-inch mortars. 61 
Eight-inch mortars _ 26 
Eight-inch howitzers. .10 
Total mortars and howitzers. 151 
They have also turned out the following number 
of shot and shell: 
Thirteen-inch shells__ 6,000 
Eleven inch shells..__ 2,829 
Ten-inch shells_ 2,050 
Nine-inch shells 3,200 
Shot and shell of smaller caliber. 151,727 
Total number of shot anil shell. 173,226 
Anns Purchased by tho United States. 
The Secretary of War has submitted to Con¬ 
gress a voluminous document containing a state¬ 
ment, of all the purchases of and contracts tor arms 
made by the Government since April 12, 1861, with 
the particulars of such purchases, and the prices 
paid. It gives the dates and names of parlies pur¬ 
chased from and contracted with. Tho recapitula¬ 
tion shows there were purchased and contracted for 
the following muskets and rifles: Purchased, 236,- 
156; contracted for, 1,903,800. Cash, $40,495,715. 
Carbines purchased, 14.380; contracted for, 72,440. 
Cash. $2,205,378. Pistols piirehased, 19,422; con¬ 
tracted for, 75,500. Cash, $2,105,892. Sabres and 
swords purchased, 63,718; contracted for, 142,500. 
Cash, $1,337,770. Total purchased, 333,677; con¬ 
tracted tor, 2,197.240. Cash, $46,144,665. 
The time for the delivery of some of the arms, 
under the contracts, runs until December 31, 1863. 
In addition to this statement, oilier arms have been 
purchased to a limited extent under the authority 
given by the Secretary of War to Governors, or 
other officers, to provide arms for volunteer's, the 
accounts for which have not yet been rendered. 
lit'iii* and Incidents. 
A Doubtful State of Affairs. — The Memphis 
Appeal's Richmond correspondent, writing on the 
the 27th ult., says-■ You recollect how the Moni- 
teur spoke of the landing of Napoleon on his return 
from Elba, and how it greeted his arrival iu the 
Capital: —“The Corsican monsier has escaped;” 
“The usurper has landed in France;” “Gen. Bona¬ 
parte is at Grenoble;’' “Napoleon is at Lyons;” 
“ The Emperor is at Paris;” “ Vive l' Pm per our." 
Such would be the tone, 1 tear, of too many of the 
inhabitants of Richmond toward McClellan.” 
The Hero McKrea.—F or a modern instance of 
genuine, old-time Spartan bravery, commend us to 
the conduct of Capt. McKrea, at the battle of Fort 
Craig, as given in the telegraph dispatches of last 
Rural. We have nothing to add to that account. 
Tho telegraph is as eloquent us Demosthenes. 
“ With his artillerymen cut down, and with his sup¬ 
port reported killed, wounded, or flying from the 
field, Captain McKrea sat down calmly and quietly 
on oue of his guns, and with revolver in hand, refus¬ 
ing to fly or desert hi* post, he fought to the last, and 
gloriously died like a hero, the last matt at his gun.” 
God bless him! One such deed as that, in its moral 
effect ou an army, is stronger Ilian u regiment of 
dragoon*. The name of this prince ot heroes is 
given incorrectly in the dispatches. It should be 
Capt. Alexander McKrea, He was a native of 
North Carolina, graduated at West Point Iu 1851, 
and, at the time of his death, was Captain in tho 
Third Regiment U. y. Cavalry. 
A Little Hero.— A Wisconsin hoy was wounded 
at Fort Donelson and taken within the rebel lines a 
prisoner, where Doctor Voorliies, of' Mississippi, 
attended him. The little fellow, without moving a 
muscle, talked with firmness during the operation of 
sawing the hone, when a ball went plunging 
close by them. Tho doctor remarked that it was 
getting too hot for him, and picked the boy up in his 
arms and carried him into one of the bomb-proofs, 
where the operation was completed. The lad was 
perfectly cool all the while, and remarked when the 
doctor changed his position, “if you think it too hot 
already, you will find it a good deal too hot by-and- 
by.” Voorliies declares the lad was the noblest fel¬ 
low he ever saw. 
Veracity of Jefferson D.—The rebel Presi¬ 
dent not only can’t tell the truth, but doesn’t know 
how to be consistent in his falsehoods. While he 
says in his inaugural that the blockade of the south¬ 
ern ports is nothing but. a pretended blockade, he 
alleges that, in consequence of it, the people of the 
South are becoming independent and self-supporting 
from the existing necessity for the development ot 
manufacturing industry. I 
UNION. 
Killed and wounded__ 8,246 
Prisoners___1,140 
Generals Killed_ 1 
Losses—33 cannon, 4 ships, 1,000 muskets. 
REBELS. 
Killed and wounded___12,429 
Prisoners_...._____18,708 
Generals killed_____ 8 
Losses—220 cannon; no account ot' skips and steamers. 
Yankee Girls to Western Soldiers.— We 
have in our office, says the St Louis Democrat, a 
contribution to the Sanitary Commission’s relief 
stores, which is a curiosity worth inspecting. It 
was sent here with other article* by ladies of Massa¬ 
chusetts, though from what particular Yankee town 
or village of the Bay Slate we do not know. First, 
a pair of soft wool half hose, in the top of each of 
which is knit the flag of ihc Union, with its thirteen 
stripes, the blue field, and the stars, and the flag¬ 
staff extending down nearly to the ankle. 
Attached to the hose is a slip inscribed thus: 
“ AVlu'u hearts arc true and lingers warm. 
Who can resist our Yankee boys? 
Not nay base and rebel swain 
That Freedom’s noble work destroys. 
When women knit and Yankees fight, 
W ho doubts the triumph of the right?” 
The other, a flannel shirt, eagle gray, of fine, soft, 
but substantial fabric, on tho body of which is 
wrought with the needle the following stanzas: 
“ Soldiers brave, will it brighten the day, 
And shorten the march on the weary way, 
To know ttiat at home the loving and true 
Are knitting, and hoping, and praying for you? 
“ Soft are their voices when speaking your name, 
Proud arc their glories when hearing your fame; 
And the gladdest hour in their lives will be 
When they greet you after the victory.—C. E. M 
The workmanship is neat, but the address, “ For 
the Bravest .” might be, if such a thing could occa¬ 
sion contention among men who are not only brave 
but generous, a source of strife for I lie title ol it, like 
Ike mytbologic apple of discord. 
Brief Sketches of Federal Olllcern. 
Major-General Samuel R. Curtis, who 
comes so prominently before the public in connec¬ 
tion with the battle and victory ot' Pea Ridge, is a 
native of Ohio, aud is 54. years of age. lie was 
a resident of Now York, when, us a Cadet., he, in 
in 1827, entered West Point; lie was brevetted Se- 
coud Lieutenant Seventh Infantry, 1831, and next 
year resigned from the army. He devoted himself 
to the law and to civil engineering, and in 1837-9 
was Chief Engineer of the Muskingum River Im¬ 
provement. He was for year* an Engineer of the 
Ohio Board of Public Works, and in 1846 he was 
appointed Adjutant-General of that State. In J une 
of that year, having prepared the military outfit of 
the Ohio volunteers, for tho Mexican war, he took 
the field himself as Culouel of the Third Ohio. At 
the close of hi* year’s service he acted as Assistant 
Adjutant-General to General Wool. He was subse¬ 
quently Civil and Military Governor of Saltillo; 
also, iu 1847, of Matamoras, Camargo, and Monterey. 
When he returned to the United States, he prac¬ 
ticed law for a time; but when the State of Iowa 
entered on tho project of removing the obstructions 
