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Heavy Loss on Both Sides—Another Fight—Kit Carson in it—Result not Known.
Denver City, March 8.—By Military Express the following news was received here today :
A desperate and terrible battle, lasting all day, took place at Valverde, ten miles south of Fort Craig, on the 21st ult., between a force of rebels and Federals. Loss great on both sides. Both parties claim the victory. A regiment of New Mexicans ran away.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Hilton Head, S. C., Feb. 23d, 1862.
To-day we hear good news; a vessel has arrived with late papers, and we have learned something of the movement of our forces in different quarters. It is really cheering to us, and the cheers that go up from the different regiments here are almost deafening. At last the “ball is opened,” and our prayer is, that the tune may be lively, and the steps short and quick. I have not much that is new to write from here; our folks once in a while take a rebel gunboat, or a battery, and then enter up on some island heretofore occupied by “secesh,” and take possession with very little loss.
The order requiring the surrender of all private arms in the rural districts, must have been issued without due consideration by the authorities. In a slaveholding community, every family should be permitted to retain at least one fire-arm, either a pistol or a shot-gun. A sense of security, if not safety, demands that much. The reason is too obvious to require words.
ROME —In spite of Fascist censorship, news of internal troubles leaks out of Italy and indicates that Dictator Mussolini looks into a dark future and prepares for it.
The Italian lira continues to lose in the race against the British pound and the American dollar. Unemployment is on the increase at an alarming rate, and nothing is being done to take care of the jobless.
The Italian middle class, after trusting to Mussolini’s loud prophecies of victory in “the battle of the lira,” is beginning to understand that Mussolini’s victory means a loss of its own savings. And no Fascist button on the lapel of the middle class coat can reconcile the loser.
“Fascism in Action”, the first full-length analysis of fascism written by a government agency, has sold 36,790 copies at 40 cents each. Rep. Wright Patman (D., Texas) told the congress February 21. Declaring that the “tyranny of the Right can be as dangerous as the tyranny of the Left,” Patman has introduced a resolution to allow free distribution of 100,000 copies of the booklet. More than 600,000 copies of another booklet, “Communism in Action” have been distributed without charge at a cost to the government of nearly $35,000, he said.
In a speech urging the congress to approve his resolution, Patman declared that while he was “opposed to communism in any form” and believed it “should be fought with every means at our command,” he also believed that the dangers of fascism should not be overlooked.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26 (AP) — The old saw that no man is a hero to his valet might be transposed to say that no man or woman either is entirely a mystery to his or her dry cleaner, if one accepts the views of Miss Elizabeth Santry, reciever at a local dry cleaning establishment.
Miss Santry sums up her reactions severely as follows: “The men are unfaithful and careless. The women are stupid and indifferent.” She explains that men are prone to leave love letters in their clothes, and that women make a habit sending garments with jewelry adhering.
This steamer, commanded by Capt. Forbes, coming from Havana to this port with a valuable “assorted” cargo, attempting to pass into Barataria Bay, on Friday night got aground, within about a mile of Fort Livingston.