An official dispatch has been received from 
Gen. Peck, dated Saturday evening, 8 o’clock, 
saying that. Gen. Getty, in conjunction with the 
gunboats, has just stormed the heavy battery at 
the west branch and captured six guns and two 
hundred of the 4th Alabama regiment They 
crossed in boats. The 8 !Hh New York and the 
8 th Connecticut were the storming party. 
Three detachments from three regiments of 
infantry, with a small force of cavalry and artil- 
[ lery, went out on the Edenton road on the 17th 
at daylight, and attacked the rebels in tbeirposi¬ 
tion. Our people met at first a Virginia regi¬ 
ment und drove it back, when it was re-enforced 
by a brigade. The brigade, after some heavy 
skirmishing, fell back nearly two miles, when 
our people followed them up. Finding that the 
rebels did not make a movement to again ad¬ 
vance, we retired to the intrenebments to avoid 
being cut off or drawn into a trap. 
On the 13th the expedition under Gen. Stone- 
man, consisting of cavalry, infantry and artillery, 
left their old encampment 
with unflagging Bpirit On the 9th, another ves¬ 
sel ran the blockade, with ammunition, and on 
the 10 th the rebels again opened a fire upon the 
fort, and kept it up for half an hour. Two shells 
struck inside the fort; two shots went through 
the flag of the fort; quite a number of shots 
struck the entrenchments, but no one was injured 
on our side. A day or two subsequently the 
garrison were relieved, and are now safe against 
any force the enemy may bring against them. 
The gunboat Washington ran aground on the 
8 th inst, in Broad river, near Port Royal ferry. 
The E. B. Hall went to her assistance, but to no 
purpose. The rebels brought down a light bat¬ 
tery and fired on her. A chance shot struck her 
magazine, causing the destruction of the gun¬ 
boat Two men were killed, two mortally 
wounded, and eight slightly—all of the 3d Rhode 
Island artillery. 
The sloop Ranger, of Clay’s Landing, Sawnee 
river, was captured off Chrystal 
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The splendid shiver of brave blood 
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And »lic who in old tiroes withstood 
The tyrant, lifts again her brow 
God’s precious charge we sternly keep 
Unto the final victory,- 
With freedom we will live, or sleep 
With oar great dead who wt us free, 
God forget us when we forget 
To keep the old flag flying yet. 
tans, 'juiuii, oi i enn., in view ol the exigency 
of llm public service, suggested to the President 
a plan of garrisoning the defences of Washington 
with militia, that the veteran soldiers now in that 
department might be spared for more important 
und pressing duties in the field. To this end he 
offered to forward here 20.000 militia, and that 
about 1,000 volunteers who have bad the neces¬ 
sary experience, be distributed among the militia, 
to render the latter force equivalent, for all prac¬ 
ticable purposes, to the same number of volun¬ 
teers sent to the field. It is not known whether 
this patriotic offer has been accepted. 
Gen. Jerry T. Boyle, of Kentucky, was ordered 
here by the Sec. of War, with whom he had a 
conference in reference to the condillon of affairs 
in Kentucky. He returned immediately to his 
command under Gen. Burnsido. It is understood 
that the 20,000 soldiers offered by Kentucky are 
accepted, und orders for them will be issued 
without delay. 
The case of the Anglo-rebel steamer Peterhoff, 
continues to engage attemion in the administra¬ 
tion, as well as In diplomatic circles It is un¬ 
derstood that Lord Lyons has reuuested that tho 
$l)e Nclds tfLonticnser 
nver. Her 
cargo consisted of salt, dry goodH, gunpowder, 
Ac. Also the schooner Anna, of Nassau, was 
captured while endeavoring to evade the block¬ 
ade off the month of the Sawnee river. She had 
an assorted cargo. 
On the 11 th the steamer Stonewall Jackson, 
formerly the Leopard, while attempting to run 
into Charleston, was hotly chased by half a dozen 
blockadcrs, which fired at her, and she received 
several idiots through her hull. Captain Black, 
finding it impossible to escape, ran the steamer 
on the beach and burned her. The crew and 
passengers took to the boats and escaped. Very 
little was saved, except the mails and the pas¬ 
sengers’ effect*. The steamer was burned to the 
water's edge. Her cargo consisted of several 
pieces of field artillery, 200 bbls. of saltpeter, 
40,000 pairs of army shoes, Ac. 
One portion of cav¬ 
alry alone, proceeded to Bristerburg and there 
encamped. Another, likewise of cavalry, bivou¬ 
acked at Elk Run. Another portion of cavalry 
with a battery encamped at Morrisville, and a 
fourth, accompanied by a brigade of infantry and 
two batteries of artillery, remained for the night 
The French in Mexico are getting on badly. 
The Massachusetts colored regiment is about half 
Gerrit Smith has donated $1,000 to the Irish Relief 
Fund. 
— Cassius M. Clay sailed on Thursday week aa Minister 
to Russia. 
— There are twenty five hospitals in the city of Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn. 
The water was let into the Pennsylvania canals Sat¬ 
urday week. 
— Government has recently sent $30,000,000 to the army 
of the South west. 
— Hundreds of contrabands are arriving at Nashville 
daily from the Sontb. 
— An Arab woman named Sooltana Medioni has just 
died at Onm, aged 120 years. 
The troops around New Orleans are rejoicing over 
the advent of the pay masters, * 
— Four boys in sy raouse were poisoned on Tuesday by 
eating ciebta, or wild parsnip roots. 
— The city treasury of New Orleans is quite afflicted 
with photographed counterfeit notes. 
— The navigation of Cayuga Lake is open and the 
steamboats have commenced running. 
— Robert Small, the negro pilot, directed the move¬ 
ment of the fleet In Charleston Harbor. 
— Adjutant Gen. Thomas has organized eight regiments 
of negroes at Helena, and seven at Cairo. 
— IJcnj. Welch, Jr., Commissary-General of the State 
of New York, died in New Vork last week. 
— The rate of taxation 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 25, 1863. 
at Grove Church. 
Before daylight that portion encamped at liris- 
lerburg, sent out two squadrons, the 8 th Illinois 
and 9th N. Y., under Capt. Farnsworth, with in¬ 
structions to proceed to Warren ton, thence to 
Sulphur Springs, and there await orders. The 
remainder of this force were ordered to proceed 
to Liberty. The squadron sent towards Warren- 
ton caino upon several detached bodies of parti¬ 
san cavalry, to each of which they gave chase, 
and captured some and wounded others. Upon 
reaching the Springs they forded the river, and 
proceeded down the opposite banks as far as 
Freeman’s Landing, when the roads becoming 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Kentucky. — The Richmond Dispatch of 
the 10th inst. admits a bad defeat of Gen. Pe- 
gram in Kentucky, and says the rebel loss was 
heavy, and that after a severe hand-to-hand fight 
of several hours, thp Confederates gave* up the 
unequal contest and fell back, the enemy not 
pursuing. 
The Dispatch also says Gen. Rosecrans has 
sent five regiments of infantry to Kentucky, and 
has ordered all the cavalry from that State to 
his cavalry at Mnrft-eesboro, and is moving his 
troops on his left to Lis right, doubtless to pre¬ 
vent any movement on our part, iu that State. 
Tennessee. —The rebels in the vicinity of 
Fort Donaldson have been gathering all the 
horses fit for service. 
Seventy men, on the 17tb, met about the same 
number of rebel cavalry in a skirmish, in which 
twenty of the latter were taken prisoners, 
among whom were Major Bland in and two Cap- 
pieces of artillery. Our forces at once replied 
to their fire and drove them back. Our skirmish¬ 
ers on South Quay road drove the enemy back 
some miles from our lines. 
Sergeant Hall, captured by the rebels a few 
days since while coming down the Nansemond, 
has returned. He says the enemy have nine 
bridges constructed on the Blackwater, and that 
they are sending large bodies of troops, night and 
day, to the South-west All the way from peters- 
burgh to Richmond every few miles are earth¬ 
works of all kinds, on which guns have been 
mounted. The rebel soldiers, however, admit 
that these puns have lately been taken away. 
Lieut. Commanding Cushing sends to the Navy 
Department the following dispatch; 
U 8 Stkawoi CoMMonoBi: Bawky, > 
Naum-in raid River, Ajirii 17,—7:30 I*. M j 
This morning the vessels from above came 
down, the Mt Washington disabled. About 
11:30 A. M., the enemy opened an us with some 
pieces of artillery, giving us a cross tiro. At 
once we got under way and went into action, 
silencing the enemy in itu hour. At about one 
I. M. the rebels took up a position within 7(Mi 
yards of the Mt. Washington, which was ground¬ 
ed, and opened on ns with artillery and sharp- 
Rhooiera J kept close to the disabled Mt. Wash- 
II) ton ami foil hi Mm uiuwiy till httrh aler* 
when I ordered * ho Stopping'Stone to take the 
Ml, \\ rahington in tow. This was done under a 
heavy fire at 5 P. M. 1 had tier satisfaction of 
silencing Die enemy’s battery. My loss foots up 
Illr’ilJt L'll I 1 1/1 mill I .. .1 *» * . « ^ 
in Baltimore for the present 
year is ninety cents on one hundred dollars. 
— Brigham Young, Jr., wo* In London, Eng, on the 
21st of March, looking up recruits for Salt Iaikc. 
— A new military prison has been built at St. Louis 
large enough to contain fifteen hundred prisoners 
— The number of person* buried In Greenwood Ceme¬ 
tery equals the population of New York city in 1810. 
— Gen. Burnside arrived at Lexington, Ky , on Thurs 
day week, and was warmly welcomed by the people. 
— The Brooklyn Navy Yard Paymaster’s office was rob¬ 
bed of $140,000 some time duriug Sunday night week. 
— The Indian prisoner* in Minnesota arc to be taken to 
the Upper Missouri, arid tliert put to agricultural work. 
— A train loaded with 700 rebel prisoners bound South 
for exchange passed through Elinira on Saturday week. 
— Fourteen regiments of militia have been ordered to 
be raised by the Governor of Missouri for State defence. 
— The soldier’s mail to and from Murfreesboro, Tenn., 
carries from ten thousand to fifteen thousand letters daily. 
— The Pennsylvania Colonization 8ociety expects to 
send a colony of emigrants to Liberia about tho first of 
May, 
The Buffalo Doctors have determined to advance 
their charges from one dollar to o*he dollar and a half a 
visit. 
and preveut Its spoiliation. All has been done 
agreeable to directions. They now hold one side 
of Kelly’N Ford, und are strong enough iu posi¬ 
tion at the bridge to prevent its destruction. 
The remaining division on leaving (heir en¬ 
campment at Grove Church traveled on to the 
junction at Eastham's and Hodgeman’s Creek, 
and from thence to Liberty, where they now are 
These, too, met with trifling opposition, and 
have sent, in some 10 or 12 prisoners. 
The. telegraph this (Tuesday) A. M., gives the 
following report from (hat portion of the army 
sent out under Geu. Stoners an: 
An officer that left the army of the Potomac 
on Saturday, says that Gen. Stoneman was heard 
from Saturday afternoon. He had reached Cul¬ 
pepper Court House, where 3,000 rebels were 
surprised and captured. A member of Harris' 
light cavalry was killed in a previous skirmish. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
Department of the South. 
A dibpatcu from Gen. Palmer to Gen. Dix, 
received on the 16th, states that Gen. Foster has 
been relieved . A river steamer, wi th a regimen t 
and supplies of provisions and ammunition, suc¬ 
ceeded in running the batteries on Tar river, 
and reached the wharf at Warst on the 11 th. 
Letters to the N. Y. Herald, received on the 
18tb, from Morehead City, announce lhat Gen. 
Foster has succeeded in passing the rebel block¬ 
ade in the steamer Escort, with tho loss of the 
pilot killed and several wounded. The Escort 
was riddled by at least forty shots. Gen. Foster 
arrived at Newborn on the night of the 16th. 
He was joyfully received. 
f Buffaloes have been lately shot within sixty 
i miles of St. Paul, Minn. The Indian massacres 
have rendered the region so uninhabited that 
t Wsons, wolves, Ac., roam freely where they have 
not before been seen for years. 
The Navy Department has received informa- 
: lion ol the capture ol five more blockade runneiB 
—the British steamer Surprise, by the Huntsville, 
from St. Marks, Fla., bound to Havana; the rebel 
schooner Five Brothers, and the English schoon¬ 
er John Williams, by tho Octorara, and the En¬ 
glish schooners Florence Nightingale and 
Brothers, by the Tioga. 
It is said the order directing the attack on 
Charleston was countermanded from Washington; 
but the countermand did not reach Admiral 
Dupont until it was too late to preveut the 
assault. 
At the General Term of the Supreme Court of 
this District, held in this city, it was decided that 
the U. S. legal tender notes were constitutional 
and valid as to debts contracted before the pass¬ 
age of the law making such notes a legal tender. 
All the four Judges concurred. 
A California paper say's that commander 
Biesell, of the United States sloop of war Cyane, 
has brought into that State, from Peru, a male 
lama, a male alpaca, and a male and female 
vicuna, which be intends to domesticate. 
The new naval register just issued shows that 
in addition to sixty-nine persons employed in 
the naval department and its bureaus, there are 
as follows in the service: 
On the 
Retired List. 
Rear Admirals in all..__ _ J 2 g 
Commodores. 34 ]0 
Captains.63 26 
Commanders___ gg 7 
I.t. Commanders__J 44 0 
Lieutenants .."J’’”’ .121 7 
Ensigns . . IV.'.IV. 30 0 
Midshipmen.. 9 g 
Surgeons anil Assistant Surgeon.-. . 198 28 
Paj masters and Assistant Has 111 a ters_106 9 
Chaplain* and Prof’re of Mailieniaui* . 27 7 
Engineers... 329 0 
Masters. ]o 6 
Midshipmen and Naval Academy L!! I 382 0 
Boatswains,. 63 0 
Gunners.,.84 0 
Carpenters,.. 65 q 
8 ailroakcra._.,.. 45 0 
These take up the first one hundred pages of 
the register, while the Marine Corps and the vol¬ 
unteer officers of the navy occupy the remain¬ 
ing one hundred and forty-eight pages of the 
blue book. 
Special Notices 
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month in the 
To which the leading writers of America are regular 
Gen. Nagle and 
Gen. Hickman will immediately go from New¬ 
born with the 23d Massachusetts and New Jer¬ 
sey 9th. 
A letter from an officer of the Forty-fourth 
Massachusetts regiment gives a connected ac¬ 
count ot‘ affairs at. Washington, North Carolina, 
up to the 10th inst. The first intimation of an 
intended rebel attack was received March 30tli 
wlien a negro, who had been into the interior’ 
reported that he had seen seven thousand rebels, 
with forty pieces of artillery, marching upon the 
place, and that other forces were coming by dif¬ 
ferent routes. Reeonnoissances were at once sent 
out, and the rebels discovered at various points. 
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AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. 
Those who are in possession of all there is 
known on the subject of our relations with Great 
Britain, feel that they have reason to be more 
hopeful of a pacific solution of pending questions 
than they were a few days ago. They think that 
England is beginning (0 see the error of her 
I ways, and that she will, either through the agen¬ 
cy of her courts or by some other means, stop the 
fleet now being fitted out in her ports from going 
to sea. All the evidence, of late, points in this 
direction. 
The Monitors hereafter to be built, and, so far 
as practicable, those now building, will be re¬ 
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terms of an additional specification, drawn for 
the purpose of obviating certain defects of a 
comparatively unimportant character, brought 
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The action ot the Nicaraugna government in 
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