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ndered valuable service. The prisoners, horses, arms and equipments have been sent to General Mansfield. Yours, respectfully, Charles H. Tompkins. From Western Virginia. The Wheeling Intelligencer states that everything is quiet at Grafton, and that people are returning to their homes. A Secessionist named Neeson had been arrested by the Union men at Pruntytown, but was soon rescued by a company of Virginia cavalry. A young man named Matthews, charged with being concerned in burning the railroad bridges, has been imprisoned at Camp Cartile, where his father is also in custody. All the troops, except two companies, have left Benwood and Bellaire for Grafton. Billy Wilson's cut-tergats. Wilson's Zouaves were to leave New York, via Jersey City, on Wednesday. Their destination, it is stated, has been altered, and, instead of going to Fortress Monroe, as was originally intended, they will proceed to Washington. Rev. Mr. Nash, of St. John's College, at Fordham,
From Harper's Ferry.prospects for a fight — Accidents — seizure of U. S. Flag--Mrs. Johnsen, of Maryland.[special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Harpers' Ferry, Va., June 5, 1861. Judging from the display of soldiery in the Western part of this State, made up of Northern trash, we are not very far off from a fight, if Lincoln really means to repossess the property of the United States. The taking of Grafton by the United States troops, will become about as notorious probably as the celebrated capture of Greytown, by the U. S. forces, in which engagement one life was lost; but it turned out to be a monkey. So with Grafton. Northern journals make great boasts of taking the village, when there was none to dispute their entrance. The announced flight of Virginia forces is all gas, for there were none there to fly. Several hundred had been there, but had left several days before Northern troops came — as per the order of the General who sent them on a special mission. So m<
on. Brigadier General Thomas is spoken of as having been fixed upon to command the advance brigade. He is a skillful officer, and was lately Colonel of the Cavalry regiment now at Chambersburg. This latter force is expected to be increased by additions from Fort Leavenworth, from the companies which have seen service there on the great plains, so that the Cavalry will be not only numerous but exceedingly effective. Gen. McClellan, it is thought, will do most service by crossing from Grafton to Winchester, and cutting off the retreat of the Confederates down the Valley. To do this position he must also take up a position at Strasburg, so as to prevent Lee's force east of the mountains from a quick transit by railroad to his rear. Holding these two positions, and Gen. Patterson's corps moving in force upon Harper's Ferry, not only would the latter be cut off, but the Confederates at Manassas Junction and elsewhere assailed or threatened simultaneously from Arlington, would
m county, Va., Brown of Preston, Major Gen. McLeland, of Ohio, and the crawling sympathizers with Seward and Lincoln on the other, in one lunar month; rest assured of this. Our young men who went from this county (Augusta) are noble youths; but, my dear Editors, they are raw, undrilled, and want a leader. None of your pink-ribbon, young American leaders will do for Northwestern Virginia. You know Henry A. Wise; you know his general character, (who does not?) Wise is the identical man for Grafton, Phillippi, Pruntytown, Fairmont and Clarksburg. Most kindly and sincerely do I wish that you would give to the suggestions herein made a calm consideration, and if you agree with the writer, try and get Gen. Wise over this way in a hurry. He can now rally around him more noble spirits in Western Virginia than any other living man. Please tell Gen. Wise as coming from the writer, that it is understood here that poor unoffending women of the better sort in Western Virginia, with their help
The Heroine. --The two loyal women who, at the peril of their lives from hired enemies and home tractors, escaped from the Black Republicans at Grafton, and like the man in Roleby, "Cared not for brake, stopped not for stone, Swam the broad Eske where ford there was none," to cry to our troops at Phillippi, "To your arms, C Israel the enemy are upon you!" are now at the Virginia Hotel, in Staunton, refugees from their homes. Had the commanders at Phillippi been made off such stuff as these fair once are, the surprise and stampede which took place, and which nothing but fighting to the death on the part of the retreating troops can alone for, never would have happened.--Staunton Vindicator.
t at Cumberland, Md., will march upon Romney, Va., (22 miles distant,) to disperse 400 disunion troops now there. Gen. Morris is expected to send a regiment from Grafton to co-operate with them. the Advancing troops. We learn that the troops which started from this city since Saturday night, left the vicinity of Tenallyreinforced. Cannon had arrived from Harper's Ferry, and they were preparing entrenchments. Capt. Miller, of the 15th Ohio regiment, made a forced march from Grafton to St. George's, in Tucker county, and took half a dozen prisoners and seized important correspondence and two secession flags. He also prevented the mustering o to join Col. Porterfield's command. The 18th Ohio regiment has arrived at Clarksburg, Va., on the Parkersburg road. --The 19th regiment is also en route for Grafton. The Federal army in Western Virginia is assuming a formidable character. Gen. Patterson had not reached Cumberland. Affairs at Alexandria. Al
"Affair at Phillippi," may be an incorrect one in some particulars, that if the Court of Inquiry which he has "solicited" shall do its duty, it will find the following facts: 1st. That the reason that induced Col. Porterfield to evacuate Grafton applied with equal force to the town of Phillippi, the geographical formation of the two places being similar. 2d. That both on June the first and June the second, he had information of the force and presence of the enemy at Grafton; the sGrafton; the said enemy having reconstructed the inconsiderable bridges at Flemington and Mannington which Col. P. had destroyed, and that the enemy, with the use of the trains of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and with the local employees of that road affiliated with him, and in his employ, was able to pour in with rapidity the troops under his command from Bel Air; that the enemy had artillery: Col. Porterfield none. 3d. That on Sunday evening, June second, all activity was visible in Col. Porterfi
over New Creek, twenty-three miles West of Cumberland, early this morning, and marched to Piedmont, five miles further West, which place they now hold. The telegraph wires East of Piedmont were cut by them. Their number is variously estimated at from two to four thousand. Notice was given of their approach to the town, and the citizens were preparing to leave when our informant left. All the engines belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company were fired up and sent West to Grafton. The greatest excitement prevailed. A company of citizen soldiers who were guarding the bridges are reported to have been fired upon and killed. On the approach of the Secessionists the Piedmont operator closed the telegraph office and fled, and we have no means of ascertaining what damage is being done. Communication by railroad between this place and Cumberland is now cut off. Reinforcement of the Confederate troops in Western Virginia. Grafton, June 14. --Informa
. He has under his command a fine body of brave soldiers, who are anxious to take some active steps to drive from the soil of Virginia a mercenary foreign enemy, and bring to a proper appreciation of their position the few deluded citizens in that section who have taken up arms against the State. We have the most abiding confidence in the ability and wisdom of Gen. Garnett, and predict for him a brilliant and successful campaign. We are well convinced that a reaction in favor of the State is going on in that section. It only requires a vigorous policy to bring back the Northwest to a loyal adherence to the destiny of Virginia and the South. At latest accounts the Yankees were leaving Phillippi and returning to Grafton, or some other point more distant from our troops than that now occupied. We must march to Wheeling and give the loyal citizens all through the West the tangible assurance of the protection of the Government of the Confederate States.--Staunton Vindicator.
Palmer A. German, one of the wounded of the Vienna repuise, is very low, and is not expected to recover. He is still lying in camp, it being regarded as dangerous to remove him to the hospital. Ohio troops for Western Virginia, etc. Cincinnati, June 22. --The Third and Fourth Ohio Regiments, Colonels Morrow and Anderson, fully armed and equipped, left Camp Dennison yesterday afternoon for Virginia. General McClellan and staff were at Parkersburg yesterday, en route for Grafton. The First and Second Regiments of Kentucky Volunteers marched into this city to-day, and were presented with colors by the ladies of Cincinnati and Newport. They made a fine appearance and were enthusiastically received. Captain Howe's battery left for Virginia this afternoon. Troops for Fortress Monroe. Boston, June 23. --The Massachusetts 9th Regiment, Col. Cass, will leave on Sunday for Fortress Monroe, by steamer direct. The 7th Regiment, Col. Couch, and the 11