(Tribune’s Dispatch.)
WASHINGTON, March 10. – There was a fight at Sangster’s
Station yesterday between General Kearney’s brigade and an equal number of
rebel regiments. The latter were driven
back. Several were killed on each
side. Lieut. Worden, of the Lincoln
cavalry was killed. Thirteen rebels were
captured.
(Tribune’s Special.)
WASHINGTON, March 10. – The Senate War Committee to-day
authorized their Chairman to report back from the House Bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to purchase coin with Treasury notes or bonds,
striking the latter clause which leaves the purchase optional with the
Secretary. And also the section on
making the fifty million of Treasury notes of the old issue a legal
tender. Senator Fessenden will report
the bill as amended to-morrow.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will, on Wednesday, come to a
final conclusion on the case of Senator Powell.
There will be majority and minority reports. The minority, as in the Bright case, being
for expulsion.
Light cavalry have been sent in pursuit to harass and track
the rebel retreat. It is supposed to be
their design to fall back first upon Fredericksburg and then upon Richmond.
Our Troops occupied Centreville and Fairfax Court House
to-night.
Two companies under Maj. Hatfield were ordered yesterday
morning to go to Fairfax Court House, by Far’s Cross road. When within a mile of that place they met the
enemy who retreated before them. At 4 o’clock,
last evening, they entered the Court House, followed by a full regiment. The two companies under Major Hatfield were
then ordered back to Far’s Cross roads, where they met the body of the regiment
and bivouacked for the night. At twelve
o’clock, noon, to-day, Major Hatfield’s company were within sight of the
village, and found that it had been evacuated in the night, the enemy leaving
their tents and other property behind in great profusion.
Lieut. Alexander, of the Lincoln cavalry soon after arrived
with a detachment of men and passed on as far as Cubs’ Run, three miles above
Centreville, where he discovered a vast number of tents left standing.
(Post Special.)
WASHINGTON, March 11. – The President will probably sign the
bill establishing the article of war to-day, prohibiting officers of the army
and navy, returning fugitive slaves to their masters.
Lieut. Worden, the gallant commander of the Monitor, is here
and rapidly recovering from his wound.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4
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