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YONLIKROA4II 11. •fogaro, Tobaooo, lifliZ ° , l ll4ll,47,Mi,; ra • b arlibV l 12.71 . 4» sa.y tal.f.te injteis 01111 1 . . 41 011401 Pk 7. ICLIZALNIN'S Armory flare, Loam 16 Columbia, Pa. CILANDERRIES • ' NIEW Oroamoo en MUNN. New aiirene m RAmmrs of t„ g. SARDIN Ellp vy PINI*IIIOIIfII/ eaa.a na tined qoppk t tkp l jest re flowed end Ott saw huy cravat oe, •Ie Met I AO . CRANDKilitltil. J i r r ?Haile tßake los nt amberlois awl Now 1:411711 / 1 I ra • 6. 14.161 l'7 l o. nexaxacus, gatctituto. A Genial Humorist The North, British Beriezo has an .appre ciative criticism of Dr. John Brown's gossip ing book, Home Subsecivce, the second series of which has just been published in Edin burgh. The Review says: Di] TITE DOCTOR'S PECULIARITIES The preface to the first series of the Hone Subsecivm contains a very unnecessary apology for what the author describes as "the tendency in him of the merely ludicrous to intrude, and to insist on being attended to and expressed." This is a very inade quate account of a rich and penetrating hu mor, not unworthy of so enthusiastic an ad mirer of Charles Lamb. lie has not indeed —who ever had?—the wild yet tender im aginative wit of Elia, so subtle and wonder ful that even Scotehmen adore him when he is "bleating libels against their native land." But he has the genuine humor, which, in his own words, is "the very flavor of the spirit, its rich and fragrant ozmazome, hav ing in its aroma something of everything in the man, his expressed juice." Dr. Brown's humor illustrates admirably the definition of a thoughtful writer, whose own wit, by the way was rather leathery—Archdeacon Hare —who explains humor as a "sense of tha ridiculous, softened and meliorated by hu man feeling." This is a true but hardly an adequate de finition! fur it fails to express how thoroughly the humor and the feeling interpenetrates each other. The two elements cannot lie separated by the most searching analysis.— Nor is the result though always humiliating so invariably gentle as one might suppose. Dean Swift, at least, is an illustrious exam ple to show that some slight infusion of gall is by no means inconsistent with true hu mor; and it might not be impossible to name another instance almost as striking among EIEI our great .living authors. But wo have quoted Archdeacon Hare ehiefly to show how broad a distinction there is between such humor as Dr. Brown's and the mere tendency to be always choking, with which he seems modestly afraid- that it may be oanfounded. There is a great deal of fun in Dr. Brown; his gravely comic power is in imitable; but is hardly ever, as it seams to us, the purely ludicrous, which gives occa sion for its exercise. The incongruity which moves him is that of ideas, and not of words. TITE DOCTOR ON DIGS His description, or rathercharaeter of dogs for example, are really like nothing so much either in the result or in the mode of treat ment, as the Ellistons and the Captain Jack sons of Elia. We do not put Tuhy on a par with Captain Jackson; but the peculiarities of his mental organization are made known to us in much the same way. The most im palpable niceties of the character are seized with the same firm and delicate touch, and brought out, oae after another, with the same gradual .art, till the picture is com plete. And we know nothing anywhere, except in Charles Lamb, which in the least degree resembles the grave fun with which the whole dog is then presented to us. A STORY Or A DlO There are two characteristic anecdotes which wo cannot resist. Our readers must understand that Dr. Drown, when a boy, had brought a shepherd's dog from Tweed side to Edinburgh: "She came, and was at once taken to nil our hearts—even grandmother liked her; and though she was often pensive as if think ing of her master and her work on the hills she made herself at home and behaved in all respects like a lady. When out with me, if she saw sheep in the streets or road, she got quite excited, and helped the work, and was curiously useful, the being so making her wonderfully happy. And so her little life went on, never doing wrong—always blithe, and kind, and beautiful. But some months after she same there was a mystery about her. Every Tuesday evening she disap peared. We tried to watch her but in vain. She RAS al ways off by nine P. al., and was away all night, coining back next day wear ied, and all over mud, as If she had traveled far. She slept all next day. This wont on for some months, and we could make noth lag of it. Poor, dear creature, she looked at us wistfully when we came in, as If she would have told us If she could, and wait es poolally fund though tired, Well, one day I was walking across the Orasamarkot, with Wylie at my heals, when two shepherds started, and, looking at her, ono said.— 'That's her, that's the wonderfu'.wce bitch that nobody kens.' I asked him what ho meant, and ho told me that fur months past she had made her appearance by the first daylight at the 'buahte," or sheep pens, In the cattle market, and worked ineessantly, and to azoollont purpose, in helping the shepherds to get their sheep and lambs la. The men said, with a sort of transpori, 'She's a parrot mooraclo—flees about like a 'meth and never gangs wrong—wears but never grups, an' beats a' our dons. She's a per feet miracle, and as soople as a mawkin. Then ho related how they all knew her and said, !There's that woe fell yin; we'll get them la noo.' They tried to coax her to stop and be uaught, but no; she was gentle but off; and fur many a day that 'wee fell yin' was spoken of by these rough fellows. She oontlaued this amateur work till she died, which she did In peace." a mitts mt. Wo ¬ .hood to quo% pore &boot "NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLIMII3IA, PENNSYLVANIA, S,A.TURIJ dogs; bet is there not something at once very absurd and very touching about this: "Puck had to the end of life a simplicity which was quite touching.' One summer day, a dog day, when all dogs found stray ing were hauled nivaY to the police office and killed off in twenties with strychnine, I met Puck trotting along Princes street, with a policeman, a rope round his neck, be look ing up to the fatal, official, but kindly coun tenance, in the most artful and cheerful manner, wagging his tail and trotting along. In ten minutes he would hare been in the next world; fur I am one of these who be lieve dogs have a next world—and why not! Puck ended his days as the best dog iu Rozburgshire. Placide guiescas." A SCOTTISH PASTOR, ''UNCE . ,F, EBENEZER." Perhops we could find nowhere a more queit and graceful picture, without any ex aggeration or straining fur effect, than the touching and beautiful character of "Uncle Ebenezer," the well-known pastor at Inver keithing. It is little to say that such things as this give a truer insight into the life and nature of a certain class of Scotch divines than any amount of lives and church his tories. "Uncle Ebenezer flowed per sallum; he was always good and saintly, but he was great once a week. Six days he brooded over his tnessage, was silent, withdrawn, self involved. On the Sabbath, that downcast, almost timid man, who shunned inen, the instant ho was in the pulpit stood up a son of thunder. Such a voice! such a piercing eye! such an inevitable forefinger, hold out trembling with the terrors of the Lord! such a power of asking questions, and letting them fall deep into the hearts of his hearers, and then answering thorn himself with an 'Ah sirs!' that thrilled and quivered from him to them. * * * Nothing was more beautiful than my father,s admiration and emotion when listening to his uncle's rapt passages, or his childlike faith in my father's exegetical prowess. lie used to have haven list of difficult passages ready for 'my nephew;' and the moment the oracle gave decision, the old man asked him to repent it, and then took a permanent note of it, and would assuredly preach it some day with his own proper unction and power. One story of him I must give, * * 'Uncle Ebenezer, with all his mildness and complaisance, was, like most of the Brown, Maar propositi, firm to obstinacy. He had, established a week day sermon at the North Ferry, abort two miles from his own town, Inrerkeithing. It was, I think, on the Tuesdays. It was winter, and a wild, drifting and dangerous day: his dan4lt ter— Ids wife was dead—besought him not to go; he smiled saguely, but cohtirmed getting into his big coat. Nothing would stay him, and away he and the pony stumbled through the dumb and blinding snow. fle was half way on his journey, and had got out the sermon he was going to preach, and was ut terly insensible to the outward storm; his feet balled, staggered about, and at last up set the master and himself into the ditch at the roadside. The feeble, heedless, rapt old man might have perished there, had not some carters, bringing up whisky casks from the ferry, seen the catastrophe and rushed up. Raising him and dishing him with much commisseration and blunt speech: 'Puir auld man, what brach ye here in sic a day?' There they were, a rough crew, surrounding the saintly man, some putting tno his hat, sorting and cheering him, and others knocking the halls off' the pony's feet and stuffing them with grease. He was most pulite and grateful; and one of these cordial ruffians having pierced a cask, brought him a horn of whisky, and said, "Take that, it'll hearten yo." lle took the born, and bowing to them, said, 'Sirs, let us give thanks;" and there, by the roadside, in drift and storm, with those wild fellows, he asked a blessing on it, and for hie kind deliverers, nt.d took a tasting of the horn, The mon cried like ehild:en.— They lifted him on his pony, one going with him; and when the rest arrived in Inver keitbing they repeated the story to every body, and broke down in tears whenever they came to the blessing. 'And to think o' a blessin on a toss o' whisky.' °Nora presbytery day, After the ordinary buslnoss was ovor, he rose up—ho soldom spoke—and golds 'Moderator, I have romp• thing personal to mysolf to-day. I have often said that real kindness belongs only to true Christians, but'—and then ho told the story of those mon—•'but more true kind nose I have novor oxporienced than from these lads. They may have had the grace of and—l don't know; but I never moan again to bo so positive in speaking of this motor.'" VIA LAST aim' nowt/. llugh Miller, the geuluglet, journalist, and man of genius, was sitting in his newspaper Aloe late one dreary winter night. The clerks had all left, and he was preparing to go, when a quick rap earns to the door. Ile saki "Come io," and looking towards the entrance, saw a little ragged girl, all wet with sleet. "Aro yo Ilugh Mines?" "Yes." "Mary Duff wants ye." "What does she want?" "She's deolo." Some misty rem'. leaden of the name made him at once set out, and with his well known plaid and stick, he was soon striding after the child, who trotted through the now deserted High street, into the Ottacrogate. By the time he got to the Old Playhouse close. Hugh bad reviod his memory of Mary Duff, a lively girl who had been bred up beside him in Cromartyr. The last time he bid seen bee was sr • brother mason's marriage, where Mary was "best maid," and he "best man." He seem ed still to see her bright, young, careless face, her tidy shortgowa, and her dark eyes, arid to hear her bantering, merry tongue. Down the close went the ragged little woman, and up an outside stair, Hugh keep ing near her with difficulty; in the passage she held out her hand and touched him; taking it in his great palm, he felt that she wanted a thumb. Finding her way like a oat through the darkness, she opened a door, and saying. "That's her!" vanished. By the light of a dying fire he saw lying in the corner of the large empty room something like a woman's clothes, and on drawing near er became aware of a thin pale face and two dark eyes looking keenly but helplessly up to him. The eyes were plainly Mary Duff's, though ho could recogize no other feature.. She wept silently, gazing steadily at him.— "Are you Mary Duff?" "It's a' that's o' me, Hugh.". She then 'Fried to speak to him, something plainly of great urgency, but she couldn't, and seeing that she was very ill, and was making herself worse, ho put half a crown into her feverish hand, and said he would call again in the morning. Ho could get no information from the neighbors; they were surly or asleep. When he returned next morning, the lit tle girl met him at the stair head, and said: 'She died." Ile went in, and found that it was true; there she lay, the fire out, her face placid, and the likeness to her maiden, self restored. Hugh thought he would have known her now, even with those black eyes closed as they were in alernin. Seeking out a neighbor, he said he would like to bury Mary Duff, and arranged fur the funeral with an undertaker in the close. Little seemed to be known of the poor out , cast, except that she was a "Hat," or, as Solomon would have said, a "strange woman." "Did she drink?" "Whiles." On the day of the funeral one or two resi dents in the close accompanied him to the Cannongate churchyard. Ile observed a cocoa looking little old woman watching them, and following at a distance, though the day was wet and bitter. After the grave was filled, and he bad taken off his hat, as the men finished their business by putting on and slapping the sod, he saw this old woman remaining. She came up, and cuurtesying, said, "Ye wad ken that lass, sir?" "Yes; I knew her when she was young." The woman then burst into tears, and told thigh that she "keepit a bit khop at the Closemooth, and Mary dealt wi' me, and aye paid regular, and I was feared she was dead, for she had been a month awin' me half a crown;" and then with a look and voice of awe, she told me how on the night he was sent for, and immediately after he had left, she had been awakened by some one in her room; and by her bright fire— for she was a bein, well-to-do body—she had seen the wasted dying creature, who came forward and said "Wasn't it half a crown?" "Yes." "There it is," and putting it under the bolster, vanished. Alas for Mary Duff! her career had been a sad ono since the day when she had stood side by side with Hugh at the wedding of their friends. tier father died not long aster, and her mother supplanted her in the affec tions of the man to whom she had given her heart. The shock was overwhelming, and made home intolerable. Mary fled from it blighted and embittered, and after a life of shame and sorrow, crept into the corner of her wretched garret, to die deserted and alone; giving evidence in her latest act that honesty had survived amid the wreck of nearly every other virtue. "My thoughts aro not your thoughts, neither are your ways, saith the Lord. For ad the hesvons are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." PRVENCS DP 311:4D. Robbie Watson. whom I now see walking mildly about the street—having taking to coml.—was driver of the Dumfries coach by Biggar. One day ho had changed horses and was starting down a steep hill, with an acute turn at the foot, when ho found his wheaten', two new horses, utterly ignorant of booking. They got furious, and we out side got alarmed. Robbie made an attempt to pull up, and then with an odd smile took his whip, gathered up his reins, and lashed the entire four Into a gallop. If we had not seen his face, we would have thought him a maniac; ho kept them well together, and shot down like an arrow, as far as we could see, to certain destruction. Bight in front at the turn was a stout gate into a field, shut; be drove them straight at that, and through we went, the gate broken Into shiv ers, and we findingitsursolvss safe, and tbo very horses enjoying the joke. I remember we emptied our pockets into Robbie's hat, which he bad taken of to wipe his head.-- Now, to a few seconds all this must have passed through his head--7" That horse is not a wheeler, nor that one either; we'll come to mischief; there's that gate; yes, I'll do it." And ho did it; but then be had to do It with his might; he had to make it impos sible fur hie four horses to do anything but toss the gate before them. One more instance of nearness of the Noes.--A lady was in front of her laws with the children. when a mad dog made his ap pearance, pursued by the peasants. What did she do? What would you have? Shut your eyes, and think. She went straight to the dog. received its bead in her thick stuff gown between her knees. and mufiling it: up, held it with'aU bar might till the men woe 1Y MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1861 up. Nu ono was hurt. Of course she faint ed after it was all right. =I Mr. Carruthers, of Inverness, told mo new story of these wise sheep dogs. A butch er from Inverness had purchased some sheep at Dingwall, and giving them in charge to his dog, left the road. The dog drove them on till, coming to a toll, the toll wife stood before the drove demanding her dues. The dog looked at her, and, jumping on her back, crossed his forelegs over her arms.— The sheep passed through, and the dog took his place behind them and went on his way. [From .the .Yew York World 3 THE GREAT BATTLE. A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION. THE HEAT OF THE CONTEST. It was noon, and now the battle com menced in the fierceness of its most extend ed fury. The batteries on the distant hill began to play anon our own, and upon our advancing troops, with hot and thunderous effect. Car answered fur us and Sher man for Hunter's Division, while the great 32-pounder addressed itself resistlessly to the alternate defences of the foe. The noise of the cannonading was deafening and con ' tinuous. Conversely to tl'e circumstance of the former engagement, itcompletely drown ed, at this period, the volleys of the mus ketry and riflemen. It blanched the cheeks of the villagers at Centreville, to the main street of which place some of the enemy's rifle shell were thrown. It was heard at Fairfax, at Alexandria, at Washington itself. Five or six heavy b ttteries were in opera tion at once, and to their clamor was added the lesser roll of twenty thousand small arms. What could we civilians see of the fight at this time?, Little; yet perhaps Inure than any who were engaged in it. Clow anxiously we strained our eyes to catch the various movements, thoughtless of every thing but the spectacle, and the successes or reverses of the Federal army. Oar infant ry were engaged in woods and meadows be yrnd our view. We knew not the nature or position of the force they were fighting.-- But now and then there would be a fierce rush into the open prospect, a gallant charge on one side and a retreat on the other, and we saw plainly that our columns were gain ing ground, and steadily pursuing their ad vantage by their gradual inurement, which continued toward the distance and the enemy's centre. We indeed heard eontinnous tidings of heroism and victory, and those in the tree., above us told no of moro than we could dis cover with our Bold-,;lasses from below. We heard that Hunter had fairly rounded the enemy's flank, and then we listened for our selves to the sound of his charges in the northern woods, and saw for ourselves the air gathering up smoke from their branches. and the wavering column of the Mississippi ans as they fied from their first battery and were forced into; the open field. Then we saw our own Sixty-ninth and Seventy-ninth corps animated by a chivalrous notional rivalry, press on to the support of the more distant column. We could catch glimpses of' the continual advances and retreats; could hear occasionally the guns of a battery before undiscovered; could guess how terri bly all this accumulation of death upon death must tell upon those undaunted men, but could also see—and our cheers continu ally followed the knowledge—that our forces were gradually driving the right of the en emy around the soc - ind quarter of n circle, until by ten o'clock the main battle was rag ing at a point almost directly opposite one standing place—the road at edge of the woods—where it bad commenced six hours before. There was a hill nt the distance of a mile and a half to which I have hitherto alluded From its height overlooking the whole plain , a few shell had reached as early in the day. and ns it was nearer the"Man..ssas road than almost any other portion of the field, more of tilt. enemy's reinforcements gathered about its ridge than to the aid of the beaten Reb els in the woods and valleys. Here there was an open battery and long lines of in fantry in support, ready, far a wonder, to let our wearied fellows see the fresh forces they bad to conquer. As the Sisty.nlnth and Seventy-ninth wound round the meadows to the north of this hill, and began 40 cross the road appa rently with the intention of sealing It, we saw a column coming down from the fur thest prospective, and for a moment believed it to bo a portion of hunter's Division. and that it had succeeded la completely turning the enemy's rear. A wild shout ruse from us all. But soon the look-cuts saw that Its ensigns bore Secession banners, and we saw that Johnson eremite othernebel Gen eral was loading a horde of fresh troops against our united right centre. It was time for more regiments to be sent forward and Keyes was ordered to saunas with the First Tyler Brigade. The three Connecticut regiments and the Fourth Maine came on with a will, the First Connecticut was posted in reserve, and the other three corps swept up the field, by the ford on the right, to aid the struggling advance. All eyes were directed to the distant bill top, now the centre of the fight. All could see the enemy's Infantry ranging darkly against the sky beyond. and the first lines of our men moving with fate determination up the steep slope. The canonading upon our advance, the mimeo upon the bill-top, $1,50 PER YEAR INADVACE; $2.00. IF NOT IN ADVANCE" the interchange of position between the con testants, were watched by us, and as new forces rushed in upon the enemy's side the scene was repented over and orzr again.— It must hare been here, I think, that the Sixty-ninth took and lost a ba,tery eight times in succession, and finally were com pelled, totally exhausted, to resign the com pletion of their work to the Connecticut regiments which had just come up. The Third Connecticut finally card , d that sum mit, unfurled the Stare and Stripes above it, and pained from the fight to cheer for tho Union cause. Then the battle began to work down the returning hell of the circle, which the enemy described during the day, driven before the desperate charges of our troops, until they reached the very point where Tyler's ad vance commenced the action. Down the hill, and into the valley thickets on the left, the Zonaves, the Connecticut and New York Regiments, with the unconquerable Rhode Islanders, drove the continually enlarging but always vanquished centrals of th ,, ene my. It was only to meet more batteries, earthwork sm . :cocain , ' cart h w ,, r k. am b usca d e after ambuscade. Our fellows were hot and weary; most had drank no writer during hours of dust, and smoke, and insUfferalde heat. No one kn two what choking the hat the atmosphere produces in a few moments, until he has per-onally experienced it. An il s r the conflict lulled for a little while, It was the middle of a blazing afternoon. Our regiments held the positions they had won, hut the enemy kept receiving additions, and continued a flank movement toward our left —a dangerous movement for us, a move ment which those in the rear perceived, and vainly ealenvored to induce some general officer to guard against. Here was the grand blander or misfor n of the batik. A 'ld-fortune, that we had no troops in re-erve after the Ohio regiments were again sent 4 'orward, this time to assist in building a bridge across the run on the Warrenton road, by the side of the stone bridge known to be mined. A blunder, in that the last reserve was sent forward at all. It should have been retained to guard the rear of tl.e left, and every other regiment on the field should have been promptly recalled over the rout by which it had advanced, or dered only to maintain such positions as rested tin a supported, continuous line. Gen Scott says, to-day, that our troops bad n 1 ready accomplished throe days' work, rind should have rested long before. But Me- Dowell tried to vanquish the South in a sin gle struggle, and the sa.l re-ult is before us As it was, Captain Alexander, with his 6,1 1 ,- pers and Miners. Wes ordered to cu t through the abattis by the side of the no;ned , bridge, in the valley directly before us, and lay pontoons across the stream. Carlisle's Ar tillery wits •retailed to protect the work, and the Ohio and Wisconsin reserve to supp .rt the artillery. Meanwhile, in the lon f have mentioned, the thou-and heroic de tails of Federal valor and the shaniele-,ne , s of Rebel treachery begun to reach our cams, We learned the loss of the bravo Cameron, the wounding of Ileintzelman and Hunter, the fall of Hagerty and Slocum and Wilcox. We heard of the dash of the Irishmen and their decimation, and of the havoc made and sustained by the Rhode Islanders, the High landers, the Ztuaves, and the Connecticut Third; then of the intreFidity of Burnside and Sprague—how the devoted and daring young governor led the regiments lie had so munificently equipped again and again to victorious charges and at last spiked, with his own hands, the guns he could not carry away. The victory seemed ours. It was an hour sublime in unselfish neon, and appa• rently glorious in its results. At this time, near 4 o'clock, I rode for ward through the open plain to the creek where the abattis was being assailed by our engineers. The Ohio, Connecticut, end Minnesota regiments were variously posted thereabout; others were in distant portions of the field; all were completely exhausted and partly dissevered; no General of divis ion, &Inept Tyler, could be found. Where were our officers? Where was the foe? Who knew whether we had won or lost? Tho question was quickly to be decided fa. us. A sudden swoop and a body of cav alry rushed down upon our columns near the bridge. They came from the woods on the left, and infantry poured out behind them. Tyler and his staff, with the reserve, were apparently cut off by the quick manoeu• vre. I succeeded In gaining the position I had just left, there witnessed the capture of Carlisle's battery in the plain, and saw another force of cavalry and infantry pour log into the road at the very spot where the battle commenced, and neorwhich the South Carolinians, who manned the battery silenc ed In the morning, bad doubtless all day been lying concealed. The ambulances nod wagons had gradually advanced to this spot, and of course an instantaneous confusion and dismay resulted. Our own infantry brats ranks in the field, plunged into the woods to avoid the road, and got up the bill as best they could, without leaders, every man saving himself In his own way. By the time I reached the top of the hill the retreat, the patio, thebeedless headlong confusion were now beyond a hope. I was near the rear of the movement, with the brave Alexander. who endeavored by the most gallant but unavailable exertions to cheek the onward tumult. It was diflioult to believe in the reality of our sudden re verse. "What doss it all mean?" I eked Alexander. "It means defeat," was his re• [WHOLE NUMBER 1,615. ply. "We are beaten; it is shameful, a cowardly retreat! Hold up, men," he shout ed, "don't be such infernal cowards!" aid he rode backwards and forwards,' placing his horse across the road and vainly trying to rally the running troops. The teams and wagons confused and dismembered' efery corp. We were now cut off from the advance body by the enemy's infantry, who had ru-hed on the slot ejust left by us, surrounded the guns and sutler's wagons, and were appa rently pressing up against us. "It's no use Alexander," I said. "you must leave with the ilu." "I'll be if I will," was his sullen reply, and tho splendid follow rode hack to make his way as heft he cluld.— Meantime I 511.C4 officers with leaves and eagles on their shoulder.straps, majors and colonels, who llitd deserted their comrades, pass me galloping as if for dear life. No enemy pursued just then; but I suppose all were afraid that his guns would be traine.l down the long. narrow avenue, and mow the retreating thousands, and batter to pieces army wagons and everything; else which crowded it. Only one field offi.:or, et far ay my observation extended, seemed to have temetal.ered his duty. Lieutenant Colonel Speidel, a foreigner attached to a Connecticut regiment, strove against the current for a lea; ; ne.. I posi tively declaco that with the two exceptions mentioned all efforts to cheek the panic be tore Centreville was reached, were confined to civilians. I saw a man in citizen's dross who had thrown off his coat, seized a musket and was trying to rally the soldiers who came by at the point of the bayonet. In reply to a question for his name, be said .it was Washburn°, and I learned that ho was the member by that name from Illinois.— The Hon. Mr. Kellogg made a similar effort. Both these Congressmen bravely stood their ground till the last moment, and were ser viceable at Centreville in a , sisting the halt there ultimately made. And other civilians did what they could. But what a scene! and how terrific the onset of that tumultuous retreat. For three miles hosts of Federal.troops—all detached from their regiments, all mingled in one dis orderly route—were fleeing along the road but mostly through the lots on either side. Army wagons, stitler's teams ar.d private carriages choked the passage, tumbling tigailist each other, nmi•i clouds of dust, anri , irkening sights a. d sounds. Hacks, con taining unlucky spectators of the late afray, were smashed like glass, and the occupants wore lost sight of in the debris. Horses, flying wildly from the battle-field, many of of them in death agony, galloped nt random forward, joining in the stampede. Those on foot who could catch them rode bare back, as much to save themselves from be ing run over, as to entice quicker time. Wounded men, lying al. ng the banks— he few either left on the field • uor taken to the captured hospitals, appealed with raised hands to those who rode horses, begging to be lifted behind, but few regarded such pe titions. Then the artillery, such as tuns saved, came thundering along, smashing and overpowering everything. The regular cavalry,..f record it to their same, joined in the melee, adding to its terrors, for they rode down footmen without mercy. One of the great guns was overturned, and lay amid the ruins of a caisson, as C passed it. I sow an artilleryman running between the ponderous tore and after-wheels of his gun carriage, hanging on with both hands, and vainly striving to jump upon the ordnance. The drivers were spurring the horses; he could nut cling much longer, and a more ag onized expression never fixed the features of a frowning man. The carriage bounded from the roughness of a steep hili leading to a creek, he lust his hold, fell, and in an in stant the great wheels had crushed the life out of hint. ‘Vho ever saw such a flight? Could the retreat at Baru:lino have exceeded it in cm fusion and tumult? I think not. It did nut slack in the 11334 t until Centreville wog reached. There the sight of the reserve— !Cies' Brigade—formed in order on the hill seemed suatovvhat to reassure the van. But still the teams and foot soldiers pushed on, passing their own comp and heading swiftly to the distant Potomac, until for ten miles the rand over which the grand army had sn lately passed southward. gay with unstained banners, and flushed with surety of strength, was covered with the fragments of iteretreat lag forces, shattered and panic stricken in in a single day. F rom the branch route, the train attached to Hunter's Division had naught the contagion of the flight, and poured into its already swollen current another turbid freshet of oonfusion and dismay. Who aver sew a more shameful abandon mint of munitions gathered at each vast expense? The teamsters, many of them, cut the traces of their horses, and galloped front the wagons. Others threw out their loads to accelerate their flight, and grain, picks, and shovels, and provisions of *my kind lay trampled in the dust for league& Thou sands of muskets strewed the route; when some of us succeeded in rallying & body of fugitives, and forming them in e line aerate the road, hardly one but bad thrown away his arms. If the enemy had brought ap his artillery and served upon the retrebting train, or had intaroepted our progress with Eve hundred of his cavalry, be might bars captured enough supplies for a weeks feast of thanksgiving. As it was enough was left behind to all *history of the putio.-.
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