Later Northern news.
The New York Herald, of the 14th, contains the following:
News from Washington.
General Banks has telegraphed that information has been received from Gen. Jackson's camp that Gen. Beauregard was dead. This rumor is not credited here.
The Committee on the Conduct of the War have completed their examination of witness on regard to the alleged atrocities of the rebels at Bull Run, and will this week make a personal inspection at that place, and soon thereafter present their report. Members of the committee say it is true, according to the testimony of Gov. Sprague and many others, that in some cases the graves which contained the bodies of our soldiers were opened and the bones of the dead carried off to be used as trinkets and trophies for succession ladies to append to their guard chains, &c, while skulls were used for drinking gourds.--Those of our dead interred by them were placed with their faces downward, and, in repeated instances, buried one on another.--The barbarities in respect to our dead are not, it is further said by the same authority, exceeded by anything the history of the last four thousand years affords, the details being savage practices.
The committee, under the resolution of inquiry, are receiving testimony from Pea Ridge, showing incontestably that our dead were not only scalped by the rebel's Indian allies, but another respects outraged. the brains of the wounded, too, being beaten out by clubs, thus confirming the previous newspaper reports.
The rebellious ladies Greenhow, Morris and Bantey have not yet packed their trunks for the South, as they are required to do under the decision of the Commissioners and the order of the Military Governor. They are allowed to remain until their preparations are completed. Meanwhile they chafe against the restraints put upon them by the Government as uneasily as ever. Mrs. Greenhow is quite oracular in reverence to the campaign. She predicts that Gen. McClellan will not be able to strike a blow at Yorktown for many days, and when he does he will be defeated by the rebel army which will be one hundred and twenty-five thousand strong. She avers that the political enemies of McClellan here are intriguing to have him defeated so that he can be put out of their way, and intimates that the rebels being aware of this, shape their plans accordingly.
Washington Va., April 18
The following dispatch have been received at the War Department:
Krattleboro, Vr, April 18
To Hen. Edvin M. Staston Secretary of war
If events happen at Yorktown calling for more surgical aid than our troops have at command. I will send several of our most eminent surgeons for temporary service, at no expense to the Government, save their transportation to and from. Brigade Surgeon Phelps, of the Vermont brigade will inform you if he needs any, and how much.
Federico Holeoons
Governor of Vermont,
