Terrible Slaughter on both Sides

The Federals Defeated!!

Special Dispatch to the Western Democrat.

We are indebted to Mr J A Selby, of the Columbia Carolinian, for transmitting to us by telegraph the following:

Columbia, Monday, July 22.

Fighting has been going on near Manassas Junction for the last two days, (Saturday and Sunday).

Yesterday (Sunday) the battle raged from 4 in the morning till 7 o’clock in the evening.

The slaughter was terrible on both sides, but the Federals were compelled to retreat.

Gen. Garnett, in Command of the Confederates, Killed

CINCINNATI, July 14.—General Garnett, Commander of the Confederate forces, was killed be an Indiana soldier in a regular battle fought yesterday, eight miles from St. George. This is reliable. Particulars of the battle soon.

Confirmation of the Death of Gen. Garnett—His Body Brought to Grafton—Reverses of the Confederate Army

CINCINNATI, July 15 —A train arrived at Grafton at ten o’clock this morning, bringing the body of General Garnett, late Commander of the Confederate forces at Laurel Hill, where it was received with military honors, and many encomiums are expressed on the bravery he exhibited in battle.

General Garnett was killed whilst endeavoring to rally his retreating and panic stricken forces at Carrack’s Ford, near St. George.

Louisville, July 13. -The fight at Rich Mountain, the occurrence of which has been previously reported, comes to us to-day in a different tone. The latest dispatch regarding the affair…

The Misses Scott, whose rebel witchery spirited away Captain Kellogg—not Goodman—of the Connecticut Volunteers, some weeks ago, and who were arrested yesterday by Lieutenant Upton, as detailed in my despatch…

The news from the seat of war this week, is more than usually interesting, from the fact that the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment, under Col. Jarrett, and the 1st Wisconsin Regiment,…

At latest accounts, Gen. Patterson’s entire force was well entrenched in and around Martinsburg, Va., where Doubleday's battery and some other detachments had joined it The six regiments sent from…

A skirmish took place near Romney, Va., on Wednesday last, between a small detachment of Col. Ashby’s Cavalry and a party of 67 of Lincoln’s Cavalry. Deluded by a professed deserter, they were led into an ambush and surrounded by Lincoln’s troops. Capt. Dick Ashby first encountered them with only 11 men. The Hessians demanded their surrender, to which Capt A. and his men replied with a discharge from their guns. The fight was severe, but Col. Ashby coming up with a squad decided the contest. The enemy ran, leaving 18 men dead and a number wounded. Col. Ashby lost two men, several wounded, among them himself and Capt. Ashby severely.

The Washington Star amuses us with a story, probably not only “founded on fact” but all fact, of how Captain “Kellogg,” of Connecticut, lately came up among the missing – another case of “mysterious disappearance of a nice young man and two beautiful young ladies,” as the Cincinnati locals would call it: