"The battle of Gloutta was fought on the twentyseventh of March, by eleven hundred Texans under Colonel Scurry, and over two thousand Federals, under Colonel Slough, of the Pike's Peak volunteers. We whipped and utterly routed them after six hours' hard fighting. They left five hundred and seventeen dead and wounded on the field. Their loss, however, is now learned to be over seven hundred. Victory was gained by the loss of the brave Majors Roguet and Buckholts, of the Fourth, and Major Shropshire of the Fifth; our loss in killed and wounded being sixty-seven.-Texas State Gazette, April 28.

[This is a rebel account of the battle of Apache Pass.-ED. R. R.]

NORTHERN WOMEN AND THE WAR.-The sufferings of our sick and wounded soldiers have drawn forth freely all the noble and benevolent characteristics of the women of the North, hundreds of whom have flocked to the hospitals east and west, and are cheerfully acting as angels of mercy to the poor fellows who are suffering there with wounds and disease. Conspicuous among these philanthropic women is Mrs. Henry Baylis, the wife of a merchant of New-York, who, as chief directress of the Women's Relief Hospital, has left a home of affluence and ease, and is now devoting her whole time and energies to the relief of our sick and wounded soldiers at Yorktown. She has not only volunteered to endure the privations and discharge the disagreeable duties of hospital life, but she has studied the profession of surgeon and nurse, so that she can care for a wounded limb equal to any of the surgeons of the army. The memory of such a woman should be cherished by the whole nation, and she is richly entitled to a fame equal to that which Florence Nightingale has so justly earned.-New-York Atlas.

CURTIS HORSE SURPRISE.-W. D. Gleason of Wy oming, Jones County, a member of the Curtis Horse, and who was in Major Schaeffer's command when surprised by the rebels, relates the following incidents in a letter published in the Anamosa Eureka:

from one of them. My sabre was then gone and my revolver was my only weapon. I turned, and levelling it at his breast, fired, and enjoyed the pleasure of seeing him fall from his horse. I then ran a distance of face until they passed me, and then took my way about four rods into the woods, and lay flat upon my through the woods to a farm-house, about one muile distant. Fortune favored me, and I found the farmer

a whole-souled Union man.

loss, as he was a noble, whole-souled man, and a good Major Schaeffer was killed. We deeply mourn his

officer.

but effected his escape by throwing his captor's head "Lieut. Wheeler is with us. He was taken prisoner, over a fence and holding his throat across a rail until life was extinct."

REBEL OFFICERS IN BATTLE.-The following is a rebel official circular, and accounts for the fact that the National loss in officers in battle is oftentimes so much greater than that of the enemy:

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT AND Inspector-General'S) OFFICE, RICHMOND, June 3, 1862. ( Officers of the field are permitted to wear a fatigue dress, consisting of the regulation frock-coat, without embroidery on the collar, or a gray jacket, with the designation of rank upon the collar. Only caps such as are worn by the privates of their respective commands may be worn by officers of the line.

Mounted officers are ordered to dismount in time of action, whenever they can do so without interference with the proper discharge of their duties.

Officers of all grades are reminded that unnecessary exposure in time of battle, on the part of commissioned officers, is not only unsoldierlike, but productive of great injury to the army and infinite peril to the country. They are recommended to follow, in this particu lar, to a reasonable extent, the excellent example set them by the enemy.

By command of the Secretary of War.

S. COOPER Adjutant and Inspector-General. Official-GEO. P. FOOTE, A. A. General.

THE KEEPER OF THE RICHMOND BASTILE.-Capt. T. of the confederate States military prison, known as the D. Jeffress, C.S.A., has been assigned to the command

Libby," corner of Twentieth and Cary streets. Capt. Jeffress was attached to the Fifty-sixth Virginia regiment, and was with Gen. John B. Floyd in Western the battles of Gaines's Mills and Frazier's Dam, around Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and also served in Richmond, where for gallant and meritorious service he received honorable mention in the brigade report.

"Just before sundown the alarm was given, and we were ordered to saddle as quickly as possible. We did so, but were hardly in time. I saddled my horse as quickly as possible, but when trying to bridle him,-Richmond Examiner, October 3. he stubbornly refused to open his mouth. I finally forced the bits into his mouth, untied him, and mounted. The enemy were then close upon us, and when I reached the road, they were within two and a half rods of me, and yelling like fiends. They called upon me to surrender, and as I gave no heed to their cries, fired; but luckily for me, their aim was poor, and I escaped without a wound, although one shot went through my blouse. After reaching the road I put spurs to my horse and flew like lightning along the road.

"I ran about a mile and a half, when my horse jumped into a mud-hole and fell, unhorsing me and plunging me into the mud. He then jumped up and ran away. As I rose and brushed the mud from my face and eyes, I received a blow with the butt of a gun

JOE PARSONS, A MARYLAND BRAVE.-A correspondent of the Boston Transcript, writing from the hospitals of Alexandria, Va., relates the following anecdote: Joe enlisted in the First Maryland regiment, and was plainly a "rough" originally. As we passed along the hall we first saw him crouched near an open window, lustily singing, "I'm a bold soldier boy," and observ ing the broad bandage over his eyes, I said: "What's your name, my good fellow?" "Joe, sir," be answered, "Joe Parsons." "And what is the matter with you?" "Blind, sir, blind as a bat." "In battle?" "Yes, at Antietam; both eyes shot out at one clip." Poor Joe was in the front, at Antietam Creek, and a Minié ball had passed directly through his eyes,

From home, home we will be, &c.

The rebels from their homes are compelled to go,
And stay in the woods where the bushes are thick and
low;

For if they do go home and there attempt to stay,
The Feds will come and force them away.

CHORUS.

Away, away they will be,

Away from their homes in their own country.
Away from their sweethearts they have to be,
And lay in the woods by night and by day,
And for fear of Alton penitentiary,
Still from their homes they have to be.

For if by the Feds they should captured be,
They will be carried to the penitentiary,
And there be confined in cells dark and low,
Away from his home in his own country.

But for the sake of still remaining free

CHORUS.

Then away, away I will be,

Away from my home and away from thee.

When the war is over I will return to thee,
We will get married if we can agree,
And when we are joined in wedlock's happy band,
Then we never more will take the parting hand.

But if by you I should rejected be,
Then my happiness can never completely be,
But if my bride you do consent to be,
Then we'll live together in love and harmony.

Captain Z y K has eighteen in command
The Feds do fear him whenever he makes a stand
For they do make such a gallant charg

The Federals always thinks therr force is large.

CHORUS.

Then away the Feds will be, &c.

General Guitar if a fight you do crave

Attack co. Z y K & they will send you to your grave
For their men are brave and true & all you have to do
Is to bring on your force and they will put you through.

The girls of Terrapin encourage us to fight,

They say by driving the Feds away we'll surely do
right,

Come out you new militia we'd like to get a whack
We will make you run and shoot you in the back.

NEW-ORLEANS, Oct. 10.-A case of some interest to the "cullered population" was decided, yesterday, by Judge Kinsman. It appears that a free colored man named John Montamat was married to a slave woman, by whom he had two children, one of which died; the other, a little girl about eleven years of age, a bright mulatto, quite fair to look upon, still survives, and was the subject of the present legal proceedings. Montamat, at the time of his marriage, determined to purchase the freedom of his wife from her owner, and, in furtherance of that object, had paid six hundred dollars. In order to secure the freedom of his surviving child, he sent her to Cincinnati, where she was baptized into the Catholic Church. Montamat, the father, subsequently became involved in debt in this city, and mortgaged his daughter as a slave to secure his creditors. The mortgage was foreclosed in February, 1862, and the child of this father was sold to a Mr. Slavoie, at sheriff's sale. In the present case, Montamat applied for the freedom of his child under the circumstances above detailed. Able counsel had been re

They had rather sleep neath some wide spreading tree tained by both parties-Christian Roselius for the de

Than to be carried to some distant shore
There to be confined till the war will be o'er.

CHORUS.

Then home, home we will return
Home, dearest home, for which we did yearn, &c.

When the war is over he'll return home
The bloom of health from his cheeks will be gone
But when he is released and set at liberty
He will return to the land of the free.

Now my song is almost ended, and since it is so,
Away to the wars with all speed I must go,
With my gun in my hand, my jacket all so blue-
Farewell, my friends, I must bid you adieu.

fendant, and Colonel A. P. Field for Montamat. The Court decided that the girl was entitled to her freedom, and so ordered.-N. O. Delta, October 10.

REBEL CONSCRIPT LAW.-By a general order, dated the second of October, issued from the army headquarters in Richmond, "the execution of the act approved April sixteenth, 1862, commonly called the conscription act, and of all the amendments thereto, is suspended by direction of the President in the States of Kentucky and Missouri. Troops from those States will, until further orders, be received into the confederate service under the act passed by the confederate Congress prior to the act above referred to, and the execution of which is suspended."

The Varieties Theatre to-night gives a benefit for the sufferers of Wilmington, N. C.-Richmond Examiner, October 17.

STONEWALL JACKSON ADMINISTERS THE SACRAMENT.

In the Mayor's Court at Richmond, October sixteenth, infernal policy. We had hoped that this war would James Simpson was charged with buying one hundred be conducted upon principles recognized by civilized and seventy dollars worth of bacon, butter, and eggs, nations. But you have seen fit to ignore all the rules to sell at his store; the facts being established, the of civilized warfare, and resort to means which ought butter and eggs were confiscated. In the same Court, to and would make half-civilized nations blush. If J. Cropper had twenty-two dozen eggs confiscated, you attempt to carry out your threat against the proand E. J. Talliafero was fined ten dollars for riding a perty of citizens, we will make you rue the day you horse in the street faster than six miles an hour. issued your dastardly proclamation. If we can't act upon the principle of lex talionis in regard to private property, we will visit summary vengeance upon your men. You call us guerrillas, which you know is false. We are recognized by our government, and it was us who attacked your wagon-train at Morning Sun. We -On the morning of a recent battle near Har- have twenty-three men of yours, and as soon as you per's Ferry, after a sermon by one of his chaplains, carry out your threat against the citizens of the vicinStonewall Jackson, who, by the way, is an elder inity of Morning Sun, your Hessians shall pay for it. You shall conduct this war upon proper principles. the Presbyterian Church, administered the sacrament to the church members in his army. He invited all make this a war of extermination you will please inWe intend to force you to do it. If you intend to Christians to participate in this ceremony. A Baptist, the straitest of his sect, thoroughly imbued with the form us of it at the earliest convenience. We are idea of close communion, was seen to hesitate; but ready and more than willing to raise the "black flag." the occasion, and the man who presided, overcame his There are two thousand partisans who have sworn to retaliate. If you do not retract your proclamation, scruples, and thus it has happened that the prospect of a fight and the eloquence of Jackson made a Baptist you may expect to have scenes of the most bloody forget that baptism is the door into the church. In character. We all remember the manner in which your vandal soldiers put to death Mr. Owens, of Misall Jackson's army an oath is rarely uttered. ligious enthusiasm pervades it, which makes every and blood for property. souri. Henceforth our motto shall be, blood for blood man a hero. Conscious of the justice of our cause, God, to hang on the outskirts of your rabble like We intend, by the help of and imbued with the strongest convictions of patriot-lightning around the edge of a cloud. We don't inism, his men are irresistible. In this incident we have an explanation of General Jackson's invincibility, and we are thus enabled to understand why his men are all heroes, and why they endure without a murmur the severest hardships to which any troops have been subjected during the war. When peace is restored it will be honor enough for any man to say: "I belonged to the army of Stonewall Jackson."Knoxville Register, September 30.

A re

tend this as a threat, but simply a warning of what we nefarious policy towards our citizens, as marked out in intend to do in case you pursue your disgraceful and your threat of recent date. Respectfully,

GEO. R. MERRITT,

PROMOTIONS IN THE REBEL ARMY.-Brigadier-Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, to be major-general of cavalry; Col. Fitz-Hugh Lee, of the First Virginia cavalry, to be bri

Louisiana regiment, to be brigadier-general; Brig.General Wade Hampton has been assigned to the brigade of cavalry.-Richmond Examiner, July 28.

AN INCIDENT OF SOUTH-MOUNTAIN. At the bat-gadier-general of cavalry; Col. Hays, of the Eleventh tle of South-Mountain, Richard Garrabrant, of the Ninty-fifth New-York regiment, was wounded in the shoulders. After dark, missing his regiment, he became lost in the woods and went in the direction of the rebels. He saw a party of men ahead, and called out: "What regiment do you belong to ?" They answered: "The Third South-Carolina. What do you belong to ?" "The Tenth Virginia," answered Garrabrant, and made off in the opposite direction, when he soon met some Federal soldiers. He is now lying in a hospital at Baltimore.

NEW REBEL SEAL.-The rebel Congress could not settle a seal for the confederacy. The two houses could not agree upon a device, and a committee of conference failed to settle the matter. The following was the Senate's design:

An armed youth in classic costume, standing beneath, a woman is clinging. The whole is surrounded by a margin of rice, cotton, tobacco, and sugar-cane. Motto, "Pro Aris et Focis."

GENERAL GRANT received the following communication from a rebel. The letter was written on three leaves out of a memorandum book, about four by three inches in size :

SINATOBIA, July 16, 1862. U. S. GRANT: SIR: We have seen your infamous and fiendish proclamation. It is characteristic of your

GENERAL SUMNER had a son, a captain on his staff, who is but twenty-one years of age. During the battle of Antietam, when the bullets were whistling around the General's ears, he found it necessary to send the young man upon a mission of duty to a certain portion of the field. After giving him the requisite instructions, Gen. Sumner embraced him and said: "Goodand the captain rode forth upon his mission. by, Sammy." "Good-by, father," was the response, On his return, the fond father grasped his hand, with the simple remark of "How d'ye do, Sammy ?" The spec

tators of this filial scene were much affected.

SALT IN VIRGINIA.-The first instalment of salt for

the citizens of Henrico County has arrived, and will be distributed to-day, (Oct. 3,) by Mr. M. C. Eggleston, at the county court-house. Persons before applying must procure a certificate from a justice of the peace in his district. Each person in charge of a family is entitled to one and a half pounds for each member of the family, at five cents per pound.

Carry the right change in order to prevent confusion and delay. Ten days is only allowed to deliver the above instalment. ELIJAH BAKER.

BISHOP ROSECRANS.-As Bishop Rosecrans (brother of the General) was at dinner recently, the conversation reverted to the war.

"It would seem to me, Bishop, that you and your brother, the General, are engaged in very different callings," remarked a gentleman.

"Yes, it appears so," returned the Bishop. "And yet," he continued, "we are both fighting men. While the General is wielding the sword of the flesh, I trust that I am using the sword of the Spirit. He is fighting the rebels, and I am fighting the spirits of darkness. There is this difference in the terms of our service he is fighting with Price, while I am fighting without price.-New-York Evening Post, October 8.

IN Bethel, Vt., on the twenty-second of September, Mr. David Owen was ridden upon a rail, because he declined to cheer the Stars and Stripes, and persisted in refusing to comply with the requests of a party who waited upon him at his residence, with the express intention of making him a Union man.-New-York Commercial, October 8.

it will have become should the Yankees succeed in

their scheme of subjugation. As for the rules of civilized war, we have this to say: A people who, for no justifiable cause whatever, have come to place a yoke of iron on our necks, are not entitled to their benefit. Moreover, those rules, as well as the ordinary obligations of humanity, have been entirely disregarded by the Yankees wherever they have succeeded in obtaining control. Witness their inhuman conduct at Nashville, Huntsville, New-Orleans, and elsewhere. Witness their attack with shell and shot upon Chattanooga, without a warning for the removal of the women and children.

In addition to pitched battles upon the open field, let us try partisan ranging bushwhacking-and henceforward, until the close of this war, let our sign be, The Black Flag and no Quarter!-Jackson Mississip pian, June 10.

REBEL CRUELTY.-A lady in Ulster County, N. Y., writes: "We have just received the horrid news of poor James Webster's death. He owned a farm in Virginia, was a Methodist minister, and a quiet Union man. The rebels took him while threshing in his barn, without allowing him even a change of clothing, drove him three days without eating, so that he died. He was my nephew."-New-York Tribune, June 11.

BUSHWHACKING AND THE BLACK FLAG.-Now is the time for bushwhacking and the black flag. Now is the time to punish, with the full measure of retributive justice, the Vandals who have dared to desecrate our soil for purposes of rapine, murder, and every manner of cruelty and outrage which illustrates the depravity and wickedness of human nature in its most degenerate form. It is not improbable that, by means of iron-clad boats, they will succeed, occasionally, in effecting landings upon the Mississippi River, with a view to predatory incursions into the interior. Nothing better could be desired. It will give each man, of whatever age, calling, or occupation, an opportunity to become at once an efficient soldier. He can take his gun, ascertain the places most likely to be frequented by the Yankee thieves, conceal himself in ravine, thicket, or undergrowth, and pick them off by the wholesale. This will be fine sport better, indeed, than hunting wild game. And those engaged in it will have the satisfaction of knowing that whenever they bring one of these prowling beasts to the dust, the number of our remorseless enemies will be that much less. We know of one quiet but shrewd and i resolute citizen in a certain region infested with these plunderers from Yankee land, who has bagged about a dozen of them. His example is commended especially to the people of the river counties; but not to them alone. Where the base hoof of a Yankee leaves its impress, there let his carcass be made to enrich the soil which he has come to plunder. Nor must their coming be awaited. Every part of our territory should alike be held sacred from such a loathsome presence. The Yankee generals, dreading the guerrilla and bushwhacking system of war, have indicated their purpose to retaliate, by seizing non-combatants and destroying property indiscriminately. It is not for our people to be deterred by this expedient. We must remember DERBY, Sept. 23. that our condition cannot possibly be made worse than-New-York World, October 10.

WEST-POINTERS IN THE TWO ARMIES.-From a list before us of the West-Point graduates, who are officers in the armies of the United States and confederate States, it appears that there are in the United States army seventeen major-generals and twenty-four brigadier-generals; in the confederate States army, five generals (beside A. S. Johnson, killed at Shiloh,) eighteen major-generals, forty-one brigadier-generals. From this list, which ends with 1848, it appears that we have sixty-four generals from West-Point in our army, while the United States have but forty-one. It was no idle or unmeaning boast of President Davis that he had pick and choice of the officers of the old army. Notwithstanding the frequent flings at WestPointers, we may yet find it a cause of congratulation that we had at the head of our government one who was educated at West-Point himself, but who, by his service in the army and in the War Department, was so thoroughly acquainted with the military talent of all the United States officers.-Mobile Evening News, September 22.

A GALLANT DASH.-Capt. Frank Findlay, with his little company of Partisan Rangers, from Washington County, Va., nearly all of whom are youths under eighteen years of age, and attached to the State line service, made a dash into Wyoming County a few days Union company, and ten of his men. They brought ago, and captured Capt. Godfrey, a noted leader of a them into camp at Abb's Valley, where they are in limbo for the present.-Richmond Whig, September 6.

ANOTHER PROCLAMATION WANTED.

To the Editor of the World: My husband is an officer in the rebel army, and will never lay down his arms while Mr. Lincoln is President. There are many ladies in this State also who have husbands fighting against the North. As there is a proclamation to free the slaves of disloyal citizens, why can't we have a proclamation to free wives from disloyal husbands? EUNICE