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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.
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.
Chicago, Feb. 19. —The Tribune correspondent, in giving a description of the battle at Fort Donelson, says, that when Col. Crafts’ brigade, which had been ordered to reinforce Gen. McClernand, came up in the rear of the thirtieth, thirty first, and twenty-fifth Kentucky, these regiments were lying down and firing over the crest of a hill. They rose, and not knowing whether the force in their rear was friend or foe, the twenty-fifth Kentucky, supposing them to be rebels, poured in a raking volley on them, which did terrible execution, and was sufficient to throw the entire brigade into disorder at once, which was almost a panic. Some threw down their guns and equipments, and fled immediately. The woods were filled with stragglers. Some even fled to fort Henry.