who had been detached from the army at Fred¬ 
ericksburg to assist Gen. Wise, was approaching 
Gloucester Court House, with a view, as was 
supposed, of attacking the batteries at Glouces¬ 
ter Point. Our troops were under arms, w'aiting 
for the attack. We had two gunboats in the 
not become the founders of States, which as the 
entrepots and depots of your own center and 
upper valleys may stand in the affluence of their 
resources without superior, and in the privileges 
of the people, without a peer among the nations 
of the earth. N. I 3 . Panics, Major General. 
A dispatch from Washington on the 28th uli, 
RayR that Maj.-Gen. Butler is on his way to Wash¬ 
ington. ho having been ordered there. Reports 
already assign him to an important command in 
the field. 
The relicls thinking they see a less vigorous 
commander under General Banks, appear in the 
streets in crowds. One of them sent General 
Butler a challenge. He put it in his pocket and 
sent the rebel word that if he wished an onset he 
would meet him in the street or anywhere else. 
The people of that section were surprised and 
frightened, and Itiridman, on the other side of the 
river, with his whole force, unable and unwilling 
to engage us. The pathway to Arkansas River 
has now been opened, and if the gunboats will 
open the lower end of it, the winter’s work of the 
Army of the Frontier is clearly marked out 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
The Sntunlnv Evening I’nst— Deacon k Peterson. 
The Examiner—Edward Bright. 
The Phrenological Journal—Fowler & Wells. 
Farm for Sale —Wm. F. Rififiej 
FWe Nurfei v nr Kipht I-uri|. W. I. Fish A Co. 
The Paws of 1.ih -M W Simmons A Co. 
Farm for Sale Km Willite ot S. A Underhill. 
life end ite Lifter* -Fowler A We IN 
The 0ranherr.V and its I'uitare Cfco. A. Bates. 
To the NurHhrv Trade -Robert Home. 
Ir np Naturni? 
A Farto for Sole at Auction Mrs. If. ,T. Latimer. 
The Little GitmtPowjr.ir Mnchine—T. S. Fuge. 
Finwer SeedR for 1863 -Janies Vick. 
The Science «-f the F^wTer & Welle. 
Itantam Men- Tom Thumb and Cnm. Nutt. 
A Junricr WanV «! - (*.< Hubhcll. 
A Rare (’hanre - )L Thornp*nn & Co. 
ITr. J>io Leirie—hie Portwit, £e. 
Cnm'lia and kfan, with Knrrwngr«—Fowler and Wella. 
Tiapnn Jones—hin I'hrcnoiopy. 
The Human Body—Fowler A Wells- 
Berkshire Pigs— W .1 Pettee. 
Aid hr.. 
Dewey’s Colored Fmit ITateg-D. M. Dewey 
Department of the Gulf. 
By the steam ere Roanoke and Columbia 
from New Orleans, we have advices to tbo 20th 
ulL, as follows: 
The North Star, with Gen. Banks and staff, ar¬ 
rived at New Orleans on the evening of the 14th. 
The news transpired the following day that Gen. 
Butler was superseded, and it occasioned the ut¬ 
most surprise among all classes, even the regis¬ 
tered enemies were sorry to part with an officer 
who at least brought, order and security to the 
city. On the 16th Butler aud Banks met at 
headC]narters. Butler welcomed Banks to the 
Department of the Gulf, and assured him he 
would find troops there who would yield ready 
obedience to every order. Banks responded that 
the only pleasure ho had in taking the command 
was in obeying the order of the Government of 
the United States. The meeting was most cor¬ 
dial, and the interchange of sentiment was that 
which characterizes the coming together of old 
friends. 
Gen. Butler’s parting address to his troops, 
bearing date on the 15th, alludes in eloquent 
terms to their successes in the field, in reference 
to the restoration of order and quiet to New Or¬ 
leans, to the feeding of starving wives and chil¬ 
dren of enemies : stating that his expedition had 
cost the government four-fifths lees than any 
other. Ho speaks the word farewell as the only 
sorrowful word he had, and commends them to 
their new commander as worthy of his love. 
On the 16th Gen. Banks issued his cuder, as¬ 
suming command of the Department of (.lie Gulf 
and the State of Texas, and naming his staff. 
An order is issued for all military and civil 
officers in the Department to report to him; and 
still another suspending all public sales of 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
Mil Seward has communicated to Congress 
the unpublished correspondence between the 
State Department and our Minister to Russia, 
relative to a telegraph line from Moscow coast¬ 
ward to Amoor river and the Asiatic coast and 
thence by a joint effort of Russia and the United 
States to San Francisco. Portions of the line in 
the Russian empire have already been com¬ 
pleted. Bayard Taylor writes that our agent is 
awaiting an answer of the Emperor to a propo¬ 
sition to extend the line eastward to the Amoor 
ri ver. 
The Committee on the Conduct of the War 
have concluded their investigation into the cir¬ 
cumstances of the Fredericksburg defeat, and 
have submitted to the Senate a short report and 
all the tesiimony taken. The testimony is very 
strong in proof of the splendid fighting of our 
army, which has nearly redeemed tho affair from 
the consequences ol' a defeat. 
A Washington letter states rumors of foreign 
interveniion arc quite common here at the pres¬ 
ent time, but they cannot lie traced to any au¬ 
thentic source. It Ik however claimed by many 
intelligent persons, that Mr. Seward confidently 
expects the intervention of the French Govern¬ 
ment iti our affairs, and he has shaped the diplo¬ 
matic correspondence of this country wholly in 
reference to such a danger. Hence, he accedes a 
qniesence in the trade going on between New 
York and the French in Mexico, and in Mr. Cor¬ 
win’s singular conduct in Mexico. The exact 
facts in the case are not likely to appear at pres¬ 
ent, unless they come to us as did the first propo¬ 
sal of mediation, through the English papers. 
The Senate has authorized the appointment of 
a select committee of seven, to whom shall be 
referred the subject of a railroad and telegraph 
line to the Pacific. The bill passed at the last 
session has Jieen found impracticable, and will 
require important amendments, which this com¬ 
mittee is expected to suggest. 
Raise aloft our starry Danner, 
Let her float in azure sky, 
Let the heavenly zephyrs fan her, 
Nerve our heart* to rlo, or die ? 
Gon, our shield, our battle brand, 
Will protect our native land ! 
This our union battle cry ! 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Tennessee. — Col. Carter, commanding a 
brigade, captured Knoxville on the 29th ult, and 
destroyed four bridges and a large portion of the 
railroad track near Knoxville aud Dandridge. 
Passengers iu the train from Louisville to Shep- 
ardsvilleou Lhe2'.ith, report that (hey beard heavy 
firing toward Lebanon Junction, and reports are 
current Lhut Col. Harlan’s brigade is iu the rear 
of Morgan, and may engage them. 
It is rumored that, a portion of Morgan’s forces 
are at Bardstown and have destroyed a portion 
of the track near Elizabethtown. Tbo rebels 
have been repulsed three miles from Muinfords- 
ville, and all is safe there. 
Rosecrons’ forces have driven the rebels into 
Murfreesboro. H is supposed Morgan is “ske¬ 
daddling” out of the State. 
A report reached Memphis that a heavy Fed¬ 
eral force had ascended (he river from New 
Orleans—the naval portion under Admiral Far- 
ragul^and Port Hudson had fallen into Federal 
hands; aud that the fleet reached 12 miles below 
Vicksburg, ’flic reported advance is confirmed 
by the Vicksburg Whig. 
A telegram from Louisville, Iiy., dated Dec. 
30, states that Col. Harlan attacked Morgau at 
Rolling Fork the day previous. Harlan killed 
and wounded a number of rebels, losing two 
killed and three wounded. Among the latter, 
Lieut Pall is, of South wick’s battery, since died. 
Tho rebels retreated towards Bardstown, having 
lost several killed and wounded, and a Captain 
and six privates captured. Gen. Morgan spent 
the night at Bardstown, and moved eastward. 
Messenger reported to I larlan, that our forces 
had an engagement at New Haven, and repulsed 
the rebels there. 
Rolling Fork bridges are safe. The trestle 
work on Muldrough’s Hill is so seriously dam¬ 
aged as to require a month for restoration. Two 
small bridges, easily restored, were burned by 
the rebels near Lebanon Junction. The above 
comprised all the damage done by the rebels to 
bridges on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad 
and its tributaries. 
Gen. Rosecraus captured several eannou on 
his approach to Murfreesboro, and reports from 
below indicate an engagement progressing there. 
Mississippi 
<tl)c Nctus £cntiicn0ct, 
— A company has been formed to bore for Salt at New 
Baltimore, Mich. 
— Tliere are in Erie, Pa., twenty oil refineries, turning 
8,000 gallons a day. 
The late World’s Exhibition, in London, was visited 
by 6,100,000 people. 
— The task of redeeming soiled postage stamps has 
commenced in New York. 
— The Great Exhibition building in London is to be 
turned into a railway station, 
— The U. S. Grand Jury of Cincinnati last week indicted 
forty-five persons for treason, 
— The steamer Grout Eastern has had her repairs com¬ 
pleted, and is ready to go home. 
— There were 8,000 eases put on the calendar at a Cir¬ 
cuit Court now sitting iti New York. 
— They pay $ 3.50 for mink skins at St. Paul, Minn., 
calling them the “ American Sable.” 
— Thirty thousand dollars have been raised in Albany, 
N. Y., to build an Academy of Music. 
— Strawberries picked in the open air at Newbern, N. 
C., have lately been received in Boston, 
— Hon. Philemon Dickerson, ex-Govcnior Of New Jer¬ 
sey, died at Patterson on Wednesday week. 
— The Chamber of Commerce of New York is now 
moving for a fund to aid the starving French. 
— A man from Conway, Mass., has asked for a license 
under the U. 8. laws for a traveling distillery. 
— The “ Allen Pear Tree,” in Salem, M 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY 3, 1863. 
The Army in Virginia. 
But little? Las transpired since our last issue. 
We give such intelligence as has been received: 
From the report of the Committee on the Con¬ 
duct of the War, it appears that Gen. Burnside’s 
original plan was to move suddenly to Freder¬ 
icksburg, cross there, open his base of supplies 
from Aquia Greek, and push rapidly on to Rich¬ 
mond. lie expected to get thirty or forty miles 
south before the rebels came up, and if they gave 
him battle, felt perfectly confident of his ability 
to crush them and drive them into their works at 
Richmond. lie was promised pontoons and 
supplies at Falmouth. Sumner reached there 
and found no bridges or supplies. This was the 
lata] omission which saved the rebel army and 
capital. It gave them a delay of ten days, in 
which the heights opposite were fortified. Jack- 
son and Hill arrived by forced marches, aud 
every available rebel soldier iu Las tern Virginia 
reached Burnside's front. 
At last our army was ready to move. Several 
plans were proposed. Burnside was to carry the 
first line of the rebel works by storm, and then 
follow them so rapidly that they could not make 
a stand behind the others, when they were to be 
driven by the reserves until decimated and forced 
to surender or disperse to the mountains. The 
plan watt approved liy all the leading Generals 
except Hooker, who dissented, but agreed to 
lend his energies to the attack. It. was endorsed 
by Hallock, who had previously issued orders 
that the rebels must Ik; attacked. 
The President issued the following Address to 
the Army: 
ExicetiTivic Mansion, Washington,} 
Deeembu 23, 1862. 5 
To the Array of the Pokmiw ,:—I have just read 
your commanding General’s preliminary report 
of the battle of Fredericksburg. Although you 
prop¬ 
erty on account of the United States, till further 
orders. 
Gen. Banks was pushing tilings with charac¬ 
teristic energy. Five thousand troops who ac¬ 
companied him, hail landed at Baton Rouge, and 
Mm remainder of the expedition will be sent for¬ 
ward us soon as they arrive. 
Gen. Banks, on taking the command, issued 
the following proclamation: 
Headquarters Def't OP the Gui.f, ) 
New Orleans, Dec. 16, 1862. ( 
In obedience to orders from the President, I 
have assumed the command of the Department 
of the Gulf, to which is added, by special order, 
the State ol' Texas. 
sas., which is 
224 years old, bore 18 lauhels of fruit last jear. 
— Van Burr-n, Webster, Benton, Calhonn sad Cass wer 
all born in 1782, of whom the Inst only survives. 
— The Viceroy of Egypt luu- ordered one quarter of the 
cultivated land of Exypt to he sown with cotton. 
— During the month of November 12,000 bales of rags 
were shipped from England for the United States. 
— The manufacture of portage stamps in England costs 
£27.000 a y ear, and the produce sells for £2,700,000. 
— A boy, only thirteen years of age, has been sentenced 
to the house of Reform, in Maine, for manslaughter. 
— At Port Koval there is a negro under Gov. Saxton’s 
tuition, 105 \ ears old, who lias just learned his letters. 
— By the statement "f Gov. Buckingham, it seems that 
the draft in Connecticut proved almost a total failure. 
— The sum of seven hundred and fifty millions of dol 
hire has been voted by Congress for army expenditures. 
— Between M ernphis aud Cairo the water In the chan¬ 
nel of the Mississippi is but little over five feet in depth. 
— Bayard Taylor state* that the President's cmaiicijm- 
tion proclamation was very favorably received in Russia. 
— Coal oils have declined fifty per cent, iu New York, 
from the highest poiut. Speculators liavc lost enormously. 
— Judge Foote, of the Supreme Court of Ohio, made a 
decision on the 18th ult, that greenbacks are u legal tender. 
— The Richmond Examiner of the 12th ult., says tliat 
seventy dollars per pair is charged for army boots in that 
city. 
— The superintendent of public printing reports to 
Congress tliat the expense of paper has increased 106 per 
cent, 
— A wall informed correspondent, writing from Havana 
uuder date 6th ult., says the crops of sugar are unusually 
large. 
— The dentists of Boston have determined to advance 
their prices 30 per cent, in consequence of tho premium 
on gold. 
— The Great Eastern is in debt $25,000 in this country, 
beside having swallowed up all the funds of the company 
at home. 
— The celebrated dramatist, James Sheridan Knowles, 
died at Torquay, France, on the 2&th of November, in his 
79th year. 
— New York Custom House returns show that nine 
hundred thousand dollars’ worth of guns were imported 
last week. 
— It is stated tliat the Messrs Torrence, of Montreal, 
have shipped two tons weight Of silver to Cliina to pur¬ 
chase tea*. 
— In the city of Boston the price of rags is going dowu. 
On Wednesday it fell two cents, and greater declines are 
threatened. 
— A tunnel is being made under the river Indus, to form 
a link in tliat gr eat chain of railroad between Calcutta and 
Peshawura. 
— 'llie Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided 
tliat promissory notes, payable at banks, are not liable, a* 
checks, to taxation. 
— A few of Gen. McClellan’s friends clubbed together, 
bought a fine house on Fifth Avenue, New York, and made 
him a present of it. 
— The draft in Massachusetts, which was to hare taken 
place on the 18th ult., has been, for the 5th time, post¬ 
poned to the 8th lust 
— The State of Ohio is miring by tax, about $500,000 
for the relief of the families of volunteers who are left in 
destitute circumstances. 
— Within the last two weeks 16.393 families, comprising 
38,479 persons, have been relieved from the Volunteers' 
Aid Fund in New York. 
— Soldiers in Virginia, along the Southern coast, and in 
tbo South-west are complaining tliat they hare not been 
paid a cent in five montlis. 
— In Boston, the residents of Ward six have returned 
to the assessors 120,000 ounces of taxable silver. Ward 
nine returns 30,000 onDces. 
— The supreme court of Indiana has decided that no 
act of the parent can make the enlistment of a minor un¬ 
der eighteen years of age valid. 
— The city of Providence contributed $2,500 toward a 
fund raised to furnish the soldiers in the hospitals at Wash¬ 
ington with a Christmas dinner. 
— A silver United States half-dollar was sold at auction 
the other day iu Charleston, 8. C.. for $1.45, and a gold 
ollar for $3.16, “paper currency.” 
case,” ilit* deceased, was a man of exemplary 
character. He was a leading member of the Old 
School Presbyterian Church, aud a man of the 
same type as Stonewall Jackson and Gem Iliil. 
A telegraphic CARLE has been laid across 
the Hudson River about three miles above West 
Point, to take the place of the masts across which 
the wires have been stretched heretofore at But¬ 
ter Hill. The cable is 2,800 feet long, and is a 
piece of the celebrated Atlantic Cable. 
According to the report of the Poet-master 
General, eight hundred and twenty-two letters 
were deposited in various offices of the Depart¬ 
ment during the year 1862, without any address 
whatever. 
The Milan (Italy) Gazette announces that, six 
schools are to be opened there for the purpose of 
teaching on Sundays young women, obliged to 
work during the week, the rudiments of arith¬ 
metic, geography, history, reading and writing, 
and needlework. 
The King of Dahomey, in Africa, captured, in 
March last, a neighboring town, and slew a third 
of the population, and made slaves of the rest. 
Among the captives were Thomas Doherty, a 
native catechist, and his little flock of native 
converts. Doherty has since suffered crucifixion, 
and his people were beheaded. 
The home for inebriates in Pan Francisco, 
which has been in operation a little over three 
years, has succeeded in doing a large amount of 
good. Twelve hundred persons have been ad¬ 
mitted and cured for, and it is thought 50 per 
cent have been reformed and become temperate. 
A building, with suitable grounds, was purchased 
during the past year, for the use of the home. 
A railroad and telegraph line lias been con¬ 
structed from Smyrna to Ephesus, and the open¬ 
ing was celebrated with banqueting and speeches 
on the part of the English proprietors, and mid¬ 
day prayers and solemn ceremonies on the part 
of the astonished Turks. 
Caftain Oldfield, of tho British steam 
sloop Ariel, who has been cruising off the west 
coast of Africa, has succeeded in capturing no 
less than twenty-six slave ships within the last 
twelve months. Several of these vessels had 
slaves on hoard—one fifty -four, one eighty-two, 
and two others one hundred each. 
A new ship, offered by Messrs. Griswold, in 
New York, for the gratuitous transportation of 
donations for tho suffering poor in England, is 
being loaded with flour and pork. Other ves¬ 
sels, or parts of thorn, have been offered for the 
same purpose without charge. 
One hundred and fifty-seven vessels have been 
engaged in the cod fishery from towns in the 
county of Barnstable, taking 107, 548 qtis. of fish, 
against 105,336 in 1861. The bounty to be paid 
by the United States is about the same as last 
year, $44,000. 
Tue following table shows the amount of 
American silver winch was taken from the Uni¬ 
ted States to Montreal, Canada, by the National 
Express Company, from the first of January to 
the last of November, 1862: 
January_!_$124,081 July..$139,039 
February. 26,000 August_ 433,044 
March .. 2,879 September.. 444,430 
April.. 109,100 October. 673,741 
May___ 4,516 Novomber_ 786,135 
Juuo.. 165,342 - 
The duty with which 1 urn 
charged, requires me to assist in the restoration 
of the Government of the United States, it is 
my desire to assure to the people of every class 
ail th<> privileges of possession and enjoyment 
which is consistent with the public safety, and 
which it is possible for a just government to 
confer. 
In the execution of the high trust with which I 
am charged, 1 rely on the co-operation and coun¬ 
sel of all loyal and well-disposed people, and 
the manifest interest of those dependent on the 
pursuits of peace, as well as upon the support of 
tho land and naval forces. My instructions re¬ 
quire me to treat as enemies those who are ene¬ 
mies, but I shall gladly regard those as friends 
who are friends. 
No restrictions will be placed on the freedom 
of individuals which are not demanded by the 
public safely, but while their claims will be lib¬ 
erally considered, it is due to them to state that 
all the rights of the government will he unflinch¬ 
ingly maintained. Respecttul consideration and 
prompt reparation will he accorded to all per¬ 
sons who are wronged in body or estate by those 
under my command. 
The government does not profit by tho pro¬ 
longation of civil contests—whether private or 
public sufferings attend it Its fruits are not 
equally distributed. In the disloyal States deso¬ 
lation has empire on sea and on land. In the 
North the war has its abiding sorrow, but not 
yet an abiding calamity, Its cities and towns are 
increasing in wealth, population and power. 
The people of this Department who are dis¬ 
posed to stake their fortunes and their lives upon 
resistance to the government, may wisely reflect 
upon the immutable conditions which surround 
them. The Valley of the Mississippi is the cho¬ 
sen seat of population, product and power. On 
this continent in a few years 20,000,000 of people, 
unsurpassed in material and resources and ca¬ 
pacity for war, will swarm upon its fertile rivers. 
Those who assume to set conditions upon their 
exodus to the Gulf, count upon a power not given 
to man. The country washed by the waters 
of the Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi, can never 
be permanently severed. D one generation Basel y 
The paroled prisoners taken at 
Holley Springs and arrived at Clair 
following: 
Thursday night a telegram was received at 
Jackson from Holley Springs, saying that the 
place was menaced by tho rebels, and asking for 
re-enforcements. Friday morning all the troops 
but about 800 wore sent Tho Commander of 
Holley Springs bring apprised of the rebels’ ap¬ 
proach, pickets were stationed three miles out on 
all the roads, hut the relicls came in between 
roads, as the pickets made no alarm. The first 
heard of the enemy they were in town firing at 
our sleeping men. Some resistance was made, 
but of course feeble. In a short time the Feder¬ 
ate were overpowered and compelled to surren¬ 
der. The attack was made at daybreak. Two 
hundred Federate were reported killed, 150 
wounded and 150 captured and afterwards pa¬ 
roled. The balance escaped. 
The rebels burned a large quantity of cotton, 
over 200 wagons, and a depot full of commissary 
stores, ammunition, Ac., valued at half a million. 
On the 20th the rebels attacked the Federate, 
250 in nuiqber, at Davies’ it ills, six miles south 
of Grand Junction. The enemy were repulsed, 
leaving 20 dead and 30 wounded on the field, and 
a number carried off. Federal loss was trifling. 
Arkansas. —A telegram from Fayetteville on 
the 29th ult., gives the following account of one 
of the most difficult and daring raids of the war, 
just accomplished by a part, of the Army of tho 
Frontier. 
Herron, with a portion of his command, started 
for tho other side of Boston Mountains. Blunt 
left Cane Hill at the same time by another road. 
Columns about 6,000 strong, went in light march¬ 
ing order with six day’s rooked rations, and 
marched 42 miles and no stops. Herron took 
two batteries without caissons. Artillery and 
baggage wagons drew across the. mountains with 
twelve horse teams. At daylight on the 28th, 
the commands joined at Lee’s Creek, three miles 
south of the mountains, where cavalry and artil¬ 
lery. numbering 2,000, started for Van Huron, 
leaving infantry to follow as fast as possible. 
The rebel cavalry regiments were met at Drip¬ 
ping Springs, and after sharp skirmishing pot to 
flight, leaving seven killed aud many wounded 
on the field. Our loss was two wounded.* We 
pursued to Van Buren—made a splendid charge, 
led by Herron and Blunt in person, resulting in 
a complete victory. The rebel cavalry escaped 
to the other side of the river. Two steamers, 
with over one hundred prisoners, among them 
several officers, and ULiudman’a express messen¬ 
gers, were captured. The third boat was run 
ashore, which, with those tliat took the rebels 
across, will be destroyed. A large quantity of 
corn, camp equipage. Ac., were also seized. The 
full extent of captures was unknown when the 
messenger loft. Infantry and artillery, about 
eight miles in the rear, were hastening forward 
lish your ancient prosperity and renown? Why as fast as the reads would allow. 
furnish tho 
Falmouth, Dec. 23, 1862. 5 
To Maj.-Gen, 11. IU. IlaUcck :—In my report 
to you on the Ifitb iust.. the number of the 
wounded was stated at about 9,000, and the num¬ 
ber receiving hospital treatment at 1,630. Both 
of these amounts arc wrong. On the authority 
of Dr. Letterman, the whole number of wounded 
is between 6,000 and 7,000, and about one-half of 
them arc receiving treatment in the hospitals. 
A. E. Burnside. 
The telegraph this (Tuesday) A. M.. gives us 
the following version of the last rebel raid in 
Virginia: 
A rebel cavalry force, with a battery of artil¬ 
lery, suddenly appeared at 8 A. M.„ in front of 
Dumfries, then held by tho 6th, 7th, and 6 (ith 
Ohio, with two pieces of McGill very’s battery. 
The rebels were at first estimated at 4,000. They 
cut the wires leading to Falmouth, attacked our 
troops—who had three men killed —and were 
driven off. In the meantime, information reached 
headquarters per telegraph before they cut the 
wires leading to Washington. Troops were iu- 
stantly moved, if possible, to cut off their retreat. 
Gen. Geary marched from Wolf Run imme¬ 
diately. After being worsted, before Geary’s 
arrival, they pushed directly lor Occoquan, 
where they hail a slight engagement with 1.500 
of our troops there under Col. Candy, resulting 
in no considerable loss on either side, our men 
maintaining their ground. They next proceeded 
Total 
