Alexandria Gazette

Incidents of the War.

The Army Correspondent of the N. Y. Times, writing from the headquarters of the army of the Potomac says:

Fredericksburg presented a most desolate appearance. Nothing has been done to repair the serious injuries inflicted upon the place during the engagement of last December. Nearly every prominent building is more or less pock marked with shot, shell and Minie balls. The tall, costly spire of the Episcopal Church is perforated by seventeen shot-holes. Ruins of once elegant residences are seen on every hand. The Bernard House, a little below the city, used by our forces for a hospital during the battle of December, has since been burned accidentally. The owner of this estate was a wealthy Secessionist bachelor. Not long after Gen. Franklin's force had crossed he was detected endeavoring to come into our lines and believing that he had been conveying information to the enemy, Gen. Franklin ordered him into durance vile, where he has remained ever since. His lordly mansion, built after the English style of architecture, was furnished with everything which wealth could furnish. Damask curtains, Brussels carpets, marble center tables, elegant mirrors and chandeliers adorned the various apartments. There were rare paintings from the Italian masters suspended on the wall, and numerous libraries found in different parts of the buildings. This home and all these ornaments are now gone and their owner a prisoner in our hands. But he will learn should his eye fall on this communication of yet another misfortune. While a party of the 43d New York, Col. Baker, stationed on picket last Friday afternoon near by, were delving among the ruins, they discovered, buried beneath them, in a chest, $100,000 of Confederate currency placed there, doubtless, by the owner, for safe keeping. There has been no lack of Confederate currency in that regiment since.