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(■APE ISLAND N. -1. lb 1 Thnreday. Jan. 15,(1863 -* ON K DOUi.AU FEB A% NtJMI j TUX TICTOST AT KDmUMU, ll We Trave pwbibhid quite foil account* . r of the late battle, or series ol battle*, at j * Morfreetboro, Tennessee, in this and ^nr lett Issues. And from all these ac- 1 * cuwntt the nation has decided that we " hare fained a decided and ipleuded victory. Upon this point there cap be no 1 doubt. ' K<« tho labels admit it. • Ft iti | true that' (be rebel fcton. Bragg, »ho era* in command of the rebet army, rery ' brijfly telegraphed that he fonnd that be we* nnable to dislodge the enemy, ! and fo retired. _ Bat. notwithstanding . 1 this, we do not exaggerate when we call It a decided and splendid victory for the 1 Union army ; aud a victory of no small 1 magnitude. Large force* were engaged ' en both sides, 1u>d the contest was a long continued ene. It was one of the most, if dot the most terrtfee battles of the war. It 1* sometimes stated thaf it continued five days, fyit the main fighting erems to have been on two days — Wea- : needay and Friday. The first two days , — Monday and Toseday— were spent ! principally in preparations, with some skirmishing ; and the bettie reeily com■Miced 00 Wednesday, Dec. 31st ; and a terrible day It was. Indeed, correspondents, who srqre eye witnesses, set 1 It down on tbet day that we were whip- j ped ; and really we were, according to ! the common usages of war. The right .

of oar army was driven back tome lour v miles from the position they had pre- 1 tiouslv occupied, and dismay seemed to ! fill many hearts ; and it was hardly sup- ! posed that we could escape utter de- 1 destruction, on the renewal of the fight. 1 There was, fcowArr, but little hard fighting ou the next day and the early pirt of ! Friday, but in the latter part of Friday, j the content again become; general, and most sanguinary ; nod this turned the j tide, and decided the contest in our favor: ' «o that, art 8aturdav, the enemy were I compelled to give up the contest, and re ffre from the field, completely whipped. j From a view ot this whole^alWr we I learu one important lesson. As we i have stated above, c 11 the first day of1 the geuerni engagement we were badly whipped, and mauy officers would have j concluded thai there was no use in protracting the contest, and consequently would have reireeted, leaehig the rebel: ; to follow up their vietory, and full upon them ou their retreat, and probably almost annihilate the army ; and thus « march on and enptnre Nashville, which 1 was undoubtedly their design. But .l^onecvaat sad his generals seemed to; have no idea of doing this, and coaae J qurnlly stood Ihcirground, renewed the { conflict day after day, with the most stubborn determination and courage, though even on the neeond dhy no decided advantage was gained. The lesson we iearo from this is, that while the Southern army fight witiv al- i moat demonlatal ferosity and impetuosity inUeonant. their fighting is not tharaeterised with that •udu-«« - which J characterim the >f«r.hern «-*; and j our chance for success lies in :*<!: stub | Born endoraaoe sod continuance. Our army does not fight with such impetnosr jty at Isst, but on the long fight can i «ut- winch them. If the rebels una, at tba first, by their heated impetaosiiy, everpawer as, they an victorious ; bm if we ea» hsui stale ear ground euBsieuttv to aubsequeutly renew the battle with- - tain of aaeoes*. If a regular pitched battle. The impetuosity of character mt the aouthurn soldier overwork* and lohauatn itself, jast as the northern light TWs principle has been frequent I j demonstrated during the continuance of j fha present war. Itwaaaeeaat Pittsperched upon ear btnram. At Fort

Doaudsoa too, the rebels at ink drov j back our troops with terrible skagb let ; bat, In the end, by the endaranec of-thc | northern amy, we were snccessfal. The j I was same true at the first battle of Pea , r -Rjdge, Arkansas, and at Fair Oaks ; j ( ami even in the whole terrible fighting 1 1 before Richmond, when oar army retreo- 1 ted, McClsllan persisted, that, with ( reasonable reinforcements, lie could ( soon capture Richmond ; and it is the ; j belief of very msny that Kkhmood , ( would have been in onr bands months ; ( 1 ago. If reinforcements bsd then been : furnished him ; tnd we would not think ( it strange if this were a just conclusion, • upon the very principle which we have | been arguing above, even though our i : arniy had Neea passing tbroogh such a fiery ordeal, for so many successive Jays. BurnAde was also of the opin- | ion, that had he conlioued the buttle at i ' Fredrricksburg tbe next oay, the rebel ' army would have fallen an easy prey to : northern cooluess, bravery and continued | determination ; and he wonld have done j ' it, but for his generals. But whether I I these two supposed cases be correct or 1 not, the actual cases prove the position ; . and from it we think our northern gen- ! crals and uroiy must learn a useful les- ' I (OU — a lesson which the history of war- 1 fare throghout tbe world teaches— that, ; *s a gmeral thing, 'cool, deliberate cour- 1 j rageous and continued lighting will so- j | ' complisb better results, than that fervid impetuosity, which so soon exhausts its ' I I energies. BZ3IL* CAKUU GALTKZIO*, TEXAS. • Advices have been received at Mew . ■ York, from New Orleans, stating tliat ' ' on the 1st instant four or'lh* rebel 1 rem*, protected by doable rows of wet i

J bales of cotton, with a large fofce of j men, armed with' rifles and muskets, made an attack on our force df about : . 300 men on shore at Galveston, and our , ; war vssscis in the harbor. They ran ! alongside ibe Harriet Laoe, shot duwu the gunners, and ib«n hoarded her, . when a f'ght on board ensued, in which i nearly all the officers end crew of the ! II. base were killed, end the rest cap- | tared with the vessel. Com. Renshsw | blew op the fisg ship Westfieid to pre 1 vent her from falling into rebel hands, ■nd not succeeding in getting away in < time with hiB small boat, hhqjglfjLieut. I Zimmerman and the boat's crew Wore 1 1 killed by the explosion. ' - A ivhel force landed and attacked tbe . little garrison on the wharf, when a de* 1 perate fight ensued, in which our, men ' were all killed or captured. A Union ! force was on their way there, bnt bsrfT 1 f not arrived, or, at least, iiad not disetuI barked, and eooid not take pert In ibe ! fight. The fleet was returniog to New I I Orleans. Our foes is said to be about 1 j 150 or 160 killed, sad about SOO pris1 ! oners. The killed were moetly from the '.vessel Only IS or 15 of screw of 130 escaped death. The rebel fores Ik tad1 : mated at 5000 ; and their Iota is said to : be mora than ours, as oar guns were continually pouring grape and canister : into their midst Our men repulsed two ' charges of tbe rebels before they surrand>rMl' fifr* We are requeued to say to pernor ■ ' ! writing to their friends in the Army or tbe ' j l*otom*c, that they should direct letters as ' 1 , d. reeled in the Wave some tlmo ago. For { 1 instance, to those in the '25th c — • . I Co. — , ! , 1 25th Begt. N. A V, j j Washington, D. C„ , * and to all other regiments the soma, only ' • changing the number of. the regiment — ; Anything more is an injury rather than a 1 . benefit. | All Iks troops and transports have been ' ! withdrawn from the Yaaoo river, and the ! aasaalt upon V icksbarg is obsadoned, for. ' SU presettt. ij— t — • — The rebels h«v« twen repulsed at Spring- 1 field, Mo, after hard fighting, in which 17 ' j of our men were killed. 35 dead rebel* ; i wore baried. Our Uoopi ere la pursuit. rj The rebria hove a report, brought by . i a eowtrabuud, that Gen. Butler h in , j Bsmmeud at Msrwbeni. > Tbe wbrie tree : ■ uttaek upon ^ Wilutiug J i t— and Oehfcburo'. Their pope** report I • ! a h»aupA»rqpab#itwbeni. -•

WAR AND OtEER ITEW3. « i A paragraph in tin St. Louis ttepab- * | liean indicates tbeTsct which we hate u , not aeen stotod elsewhere, that a part of | i Gen. Hereon '* command had crossed^ a I the Arkansas vivAr tome time slnoe. | (i A dispatch from St. Louis says that : a force or six thousand rebels advanced upon Springfield, Mo , and. withont giv- ( ! notice, open? ou the town with j sbqt sad shell. The troops there will' make o-viguroua naistonce. ; t The rebel loss at Morfreesboro is said c { to 1*« 15,000. Tkey are very much de- i ^ moralized. Breckouridge was wounded in.ttte car. Pri vate letter* from the blockading ( : fleet off Mobile, dated Dec SSd, S*y ' that many dcaer'srt to the United Slates [ , i frtm the rebel fdHa and neigblrorbood, i I ! state tbn' " a G-fflcrai Hardship torn- ' , ruBods in Mobile; bvel only- once Si' I I week ; oy*ter*_oiiiy at all other times ; 1 , j no sugar, no tea, no ooffec." ' 1 The pirate Ovleta is still in harbor. ; " Our fleet expects her to stay there — ! , Nothing has bc?n entering or leaving • the harbor >ince Cnolaiu Preble' j Ap- ' • parturc, sere cue sloop wiln cotton, ■ ' which ou getting pot woi captured by . ! oar cruisers, and a cotton- ladao »ohoon- • l er, which itetiiug~out under cover of a ' - steamer, " found her heart failing her." 1 aud, endeavoring to ran berback again, ' ; lost'iier footing and went on to the hreako.*s, too nearly under tbe guns of j Fort Morgau to enable our squadron to r indulge in any sequestration, but, by ■ t ! way of making everything sure, she set i I berself on tire, aud was utterly cuusum- , ] «L i ,f Everything is dead aud dLuul in Mo- j

! bile, tbe place having become hardly 1 worth taking. ~ "" ' :< , Senator Feurndcn'has introduced a ( finance bill, in amendment to a former , House bill, which authorizes the Ivor- . , I rowing of two hundred million of dollars : | j — one hundred millions upon coupon | I bonds, at an interest not exceeding six , - per crtuuin. "l'"r millions to he i* I' ;; sued in ireaanry notes payable in two , years, and bearing interest at four per ' centum, and fifty millions more in legu 'ii tender notes without interest. Tbe bill also autlinrizes the issne ol i . fractional bills less lbs n one dollar, in j kvdition to the postal currency, ex- : changeable in scms of three dotlers, for j ; note* or rumps, or for . other public I j dues. — Mwsfr-eebore is 'entirely deserted. — ; I tren. Ros-er.mi' headquarter* were ten j miles beyond that j-lkcj On Friday | last n gun coat bad arrived at Nashville, , bringing a large smount o.' provisions ' Irom Clarksvillc, whh:h we prcsame | were mostly those captured from tbe re. 1 ' bels at that place recently. The cargo ' consisted of 30<K> barrels of flour, IOOO0 ( barrels of bac-vw, 90fr sacks of oau, and 200® bashelh of shelled corn. Among , her passengers were two rebel captains ( captured there, wide thefr horses nod mules. | At last aiMcea from Sfewbera, the j election was going on fbr members of J Congress The Unionists voted lor \ | Mr. Foour, the freo labor eandidnto, r j but is the oath of allegiance was not required, tbe poo slavery candidate of j Gov. 8ua|y win probably be elected It is said thai the loval men of North ' Carolina will demand tbe immediate re : moral of Got. Bunly. A board to examiue into the fiuesa I I of commiwiooid aed nan -commissioned medical officers ait Fortress Monroe and ' its neighborhood bos bean appointed. m wifrgsnntG battles. ' . Lass weak vswWave brief notice of Ue ' aecoustt of the tMttlea at Vicksbarg, Miss : : Bcl<>« w» give lJur dtopwtcbes, u thejr , j have bean received, giving no aecoant of •! theseign:. . Hcums. das 2, via Cotno. dan. 7.- The ' . battle h still raging at Tickabarg. with. an j : deeitiv* (OMlU. Oar fibre* ■ took the main hettory and riI A- pit* of the enemy ou Monday, hut ware ; . 1 alterwasde ropahod. » j1 1 Five caasca were token nod 'cpiktd. bat'

they fifes* afterwards loot. L Gen. Morgan and Col. J. B. Wymna •„ killed. Cols Morgan and Smith, and t Captain tiwin were woanded, bat not mor. tolly. Both ar.jios reeled on Monday night, ; * after ehard-fonght day. Oar troops are . • still confident of (access. Generals Prico i and Vao Dorn commaud the rebels. It is lumored that Gen. Slibrman was , , being largely reinforced by the arrival of , of Gen Grant's wavoiry. ; , The gooboals were not doing much. i ; j Our army is well posted, and protected in , , ' the tUrk and rear, and will not yield the j I contest till victory is io their possession. | | Our loss iu killed and woanded so far is ' ( estimated at 3000. j j ('At so, Ii.t... Jan. — Wo have one day's i > | later intelligence from Yicksburg of a ! highly interesting uad exciting character. 1 i The rebels hare cooeeotreUd all their ' i fot^g.from Jackson and Grenada, and t| along the line of rood, amounting . to 65. 1 000 men at Yicksburg. ThU overwhclthinj ' force alUclcud Gen. Sherman, on Monday < j causing him to fall back to bis fireS'line of defoi.ee. The rebel entrenchment* aud , fortiiicatioas extend back Jrom the city six t I miUs t Gun. Sherman's force hod fought i fee if 1 to wimin two mile* of the city, wheo he | was attacked by the superior fore* of the i rebuts Th* fighliug on Sunday is repro- ; ' sented as having been desperate io tbe ex- : trcme. Batteries and fortificall.ms were j taken and retaken. Whole regiments and • t-veo brigades fought band to baud over ! ; their guns for tbe possession of their de fences. Tbe 4tb Iowa regiment lost 600 men, '! killed, wounded and raissiug. lien. Hovey, ! , with 1500 men su Mint to execute a spe- | cial order, but sinco tbeu had not beeu 1 j heard from. Fears are entertained fbr his ! ' safely. Nothing has yet been heard from ; the Federal forces below ; nor can we learn that our gunboau have lakon any part in

| the action. ' It is reported that rebel steamer* are ! | crossing from the Louisiana shore to Yirks * bur*, and are supposed to be carrying n-in- ' < fnrcemonu to the rebels. The last, a;- 'i i count* staled that the rebel Gen. Holmes j | marehinp in the direction of Vicks- ' and it w as not improbable that ho . I bad already arrived there. Gen. L. M J Smith, ol tbe United .Stare* artny, bus been | I i wounded iu the breast. < I i There was soma fighting on i'nesdny i morning after Sherman had falleu back, i ' but it was thoagh*. th-vt he could maintain 1 1 | his position. The report that Sherman j i | was reinforced by Grant ia iocorrvc.. It is | i reported 'hat (Jen. Gorman it evacunliug | Helens, Arkansas, with the .intention of I ' occupying Napoleon. Geo. Sherman-* loss i 1 is estimated al from 4000 to /iOOO. Trains | are running on tha Memphis Bailroad to I Legrange. I Caibo, Jan R.— The staamer from Memj phis brings nothing later from Yicksburg. The passengers state that the rebels bare batteries at Gypret* Bend, thus preventiog steamers from passing up from Vfekabsrg. Onr gunboats will easily remove tbem when ■i oa saury. By way of Graaada, reports reached Memphis tfrst there bad beta no fightiug since the 2fidi nil. tf Later Advices rep res* at that General Sherman wsa eompfetefy reprised, mod that kit troops, partaeti f . the rebel advauce, had ra-emtou'kwd. The rebolt came within reog* of the gwboata. »t»d (ere driven back with slaughter. Oaf lees ia 600 killed. 1500 wounded mod 1000 misting. TBS BCKVXXXSXOSA) BATTLE. On oar first pe^l are the official despatches of Gea. Ho sec ran*, aod some others, iu- regard lo lhe let* terrible battle at Muvfraaeboro, Teoo.; aod below « e give farther particular* r Cixcixxati. Jan. ".—A special despatch to tfta Commercial, from Mcrfreesboro, dated 6th ioat.. gives so additional eoefirmatioa of tbe demoralisation of tbe rebel 1 army. Breckinridge's division- was terribly punished ou Friday. Breckinridge was. wounded iu tbe ear, aud his Adjutant General was killed. Wounded rebel officers estt mate their lost at from 13,000 to 15.000,— CoL Mulligan, of Tennessee, wot mortally wounded, aud is la Ike hospital at Marf rate bo re. The body of General Hanson wee aeot •oath to-dug. Gen. Bains' body ha bean j seat to Nashville. Tha eoemy i rear guard i was encountered at leu o'clock on Holiday Di'.-bt, by atoaley's cavalry. They retreated j with a loaa of thirty men. A negro from { Bragg'* headquarters, wh* left tha rabe1 ' army wi tbiu five miles of M at chest c r, heard j O en. Bngg ray that ho WvoM go to Chat- |

gp- Below we give toe Tery brief oad tame raport of tbe rebel Gen. Bragg, with tome remark* <*r the rebel papers at Richmond. Io ibe early part of tbe eeige Bragg 1 very confident -of success 5 bat it would seem that b>; frith had tapered down considerably, when ha dictated the following : Tci.i.auoua, Jan. 6.— Unable to dislodge the enemy from hie entrenchments, and bearing of reinforcements coming to him. I [ withdrew from hit front tbe night before [ He has not followed. My "cavalry 1 are clow 00 hi* front. (Signed) Bkaztok linoac. I The Richmond Despatch characterises V the M jrfreesboro fight as a mysterious af. and cannot reconcile Gen. Bragg'* firvV j with his last dispitch. The eznmiuor says it was or disappoint1 moot, but not a disaster, and finds rohtolotiou ip tbe fact that the Union army jras — » ■ horribly crippled. "* L-~ ~ — ; OCR ARMY CORRESPORDDCCI Caitr ot-roetTE FasDKaicgsscBc. Ya.,) Headquarter* 25th lteg. N. J. V . » Wednesday, Jan 7. 1663. j ! Dear lliirc- The "»tb" has participated in several reviews, but tho grandest of all, of which it bos formed a part, came off yesterday. It a review of the entire •- 9th Army Corps,' -by Geth Born»ide, . Commander in-Chief of the Amy of tho | l'otomuc. ThSVe are between twenty and thirty thousand troops in the Corps, and to the oy « of 000 who verer witnessed a display of tho kind it would bavo been ah inipo»ing scene. This corps is the one winch Huruside leal in bis North Caroline campaign, and brought from there , . into V i.ginia. The old regiments ore tn the corps, sod many new regiments bavo burn added to it. On a large plain, be1 tween our encampment and the Rappehan- . | nock, tbo several regiments wore drawn np_ 1 j (in close column at half distance ou th« 1 third division.) Io th* rear af the infaotty -iili.i <11, 1, iu,,.; in in,' in, i,t in* tuiauiii

1 rusted the artillery etlachetl to oar corps. the lines were formed rain began to shower npon ns, and the wenthur being chilly, our boy* expressed themselves anx- ' ions tn have Gen. ltnrnside mako his apund pet through with his review. : Before our patieuce oozed oat, however, . «e beard the bands on the right strike up 1 the Genu mi's salute. Shortly wo espied 11 of mounted officer*, und in a moment > tho great couimauder, at the head of bis staff and bo3y-gt>ard rode by u». "t'nisenl srms," ww ordered ; Iturnside uncovered I bald head, and ever)rs-ya was directed pa I at him until ho had passed. Feeling for | our comfort and heelfb, be did not keep us standing uii hour or so longer, ae many I would, but permitted qe so retire from the scene. Upoa the left of the vaet column cheers wore rending the air in boiler of tbe t chieftain. Wishing to pay our respect* to him in such a way, wa marched to a poial where he would pas* on hi* way off" the field. The cortege Beared on, aed our gallant colonel called out—" Twenty-Fifth New Jersey, -three cheers for Genera' Burasldo." Than U woe that such a cheer went up us lb* Tweoty- Fifth had never before given veut Io. Th# General tipped bis hat, smiled upon us. and galloped off, sod «c changod direction for oar camp, where we were dismissed. All were pleased with Burnsldo's appearance. Tbsre was r.oae of tbo pompous show/ and gaud* splendor about bis dress Ihrf marks most of oar generals. There wak uet ah aid with him but was clad in finsr ahfetrel. Most of hi* photograph* that I have area in the North resemble him mora than any other I have seen of general*. He hoe tbe look of a good general, aud I ratksr thiol he ia. Bat I have not time to speak of'thia longer. We olill remain Iu- our old camp, and marching orders do oot disturb as, althcnili we anticipate a mwvumenl soon, Everything looks toward this. I think irwilt be 1 a flank movement npon tha* right'/ What success will follow such a move is the im- . po riant item. I trust that we shall advance I aud gain more advantage than op the oen-l-e. Lee, I fear, however, has mad* prepa- . rations to receive ns at all points, and « ill . give as a warm reception if we gel oa tha | ether side cf tbe Rhppebannock again The news from tbe Weal pleaaes ue. Rfe. . tecrau has fought nobly. Thure is so r do obi but that ho had some portion of the . rebel l'rede rickebnrg army to oeotend V against. T he mesa* which the enemy be* L cf conveyiug his troope to all points iu the - , South ie what gives them so advantage | over us. It is late in tha evening, and I r am writing1 iu tho Adjutant * tool, and j must bid you good night, hoping to write 1 mors lo-uiortow, and now will mrif this. ri 1 j. Grarvillz Leacb. i ■- -rTba New Iromidai bet gcae iot^S'seqth j-ftcmTewW Marov.