SPEECH OF MR. GEO. H. STUART. AT THE ANNIVERSARY OF TIIE BRIT. MK AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. [From the London Record.) Mr. G. H. Stuart, of Philadelphia, then came forward and addressed the meetinc , as the representative of the American Bible Society. He said:—My Lord, it affords me g reat. pleasure to have the honor of seconding the resolution which has just been moved and so eloquently supported by any Christian brother who last addressed you. I appear before you to-day as a most unworthy representative, if not of the oldest member of your family, 'certainly one of the largest of your 'children. (Loud cheers.) I regret that such a child of yours, which has grown to such proportions in its adopted country, is not better represented upon this occasion. I owe the position which I oc cupy to-day doubtless to the relation which, under God, I was called. upon to sustain to the army which went forth to subdue the slaveholders' rebellion. The American Bible Society wap born in the year 1816, and next week it will attain its fiftieth year. During that period it has l i d a special work assigned to it, but to that special work I will not now refer. The American Bible Society during the past year issued from its depositories 951,945 volumes, and during the fifty years of its existence it has issued 21,660,679 volumes of the Word of God. It received last year $641,645. These receipts are the more ex traordinary, inasmuch is, since the termi nation of the war, every religious body has been called upon to make renewed efforts for the preaching of the Gospel to the black man as well as to the white man, and un usual sums have been raised for that pur pose. (Loud cheers.) The capacity of the Bible Society was taxed to the utmost during the war, and such was the demand for the Word of God during that period, that the printing presses of the Society were unable to meet it, although they never failed during the whole period to issue twelve copies per minute of the nine working hours of each day When the war commenced we had an army of 16,000 men, scattered from Maine to Cali fornia; but in the course of a very short time there were called into the field 2.000,000 of men—young men from schools and seminaries—young men unused to the hardships of the battle-field; and' the Christian people of the land felt that we ought not only to follow these young men with our prayers, but that we ought, above all, to furnish them with the bread of life, through the GOspel of Jesus Christ. Dur ing the four years of the struggle, there were distributed among the army and navy alone over 2,000,000 copies of the Bible. / (Loud cheers.) The principal' agency for tbat distribution was the United States Christian Commission, which distributed 1,466,748 copies, all which were received' gratuitously from the American Bible SO': ciety, with the exception of 15,000 copies forwarded to us from your own depository; and I am here to-day to return you our grateful thanks for that contribution. It was one of a most welcome description, and there was hardly an officer commanding a corps, division, or a brigade in the whole army, who was not supplied with one of your elegantly-bowl volumes. A copy was thus supplied to one of the General Havelocks of our army—for we had many of them—to General Howard, and I can myself bear testimony to the Christian spirit displayed by that gallant officer on the bloody field of Gettysburg and in several other of the great engagements of the war. We not only received from this Society 15,000 copies of God's Word, but we also, received an assurance that, if we drew at sight, our drafts would be honored. We felt grateful for that noble offer; but, thanks be to God, our own Society had means placed in its treasury which enabled it to meet every want. Let me now allude to one of the many incidents in the American war. I don't know what "the Old Lady in Threadneedle street," as the Bank of England is called, would say if she were asked to give £5 for a copy of a note which I hold in my hand; but she would probably say " We don't do business in that way." This is a copy of a note sent by a poor woman in, England, during the war, to buy Bibles for, the sol diers of the North. Fifty or a hundred guineas would not buy the original, for it has brought in more than half a million dollars to our treasury; and if you"have any difficulty, my Lord, with regard to_ your building fund, it might perhaps be well if yon were to borrow it. The original of that note is as follows : " Dear President :—I hope you will par don me for troubling you. ' Ohio is my native 'State, and I so much wish to send a trifle in the shape of a £5 Bank of England note to buy Bibles for the poor wounded soldiers of the North, which I hope they may read. "Yours very respectfully, "MARY TALBOT SORBY. "Fir-Cliff, Derbydale ) Derbyshire Eng land." (Loud cheers.) Let me now say a word or twnabout our United States Christian Commission, which I exerted itself so much among our soldiers during the war. That Commission was simply the Church of Christ in all her branches in an organised form, going forth in time of war, as our blessed Master went' through the streets of Jerusalem and along the shores of Galilee. Some might ask whence did these men get their commission to go forth to the army, carrying bread for the .body in one hand and the Bread, of Life in the other. I believe that they got it from the example of our Saviour himself. We sent forth the Bible and other books by the hands of live men, not mere perfunc tory agents. There were Ministers who came to us, and offered themselves for the work; but we said, "No; you have not succeeded at home, and you are not.likely I to succeed in the army." (Laughter and applause.) We wanted only live men to undertake the work—men who were willing, to put off the black hat and the white cra vat, and who would put on the army shirt and the army pants, and, if need be, would un dertake to make with their own hands gruel for the soldiers. I will tell you what hap pened on one occasion. A reverend doc tor of divinity was engaged !taking gruel for the soldiers, and was putting into the gruel something that would make it more palatable. Some of the .soldiers were busily engaged watching his movements, and one of them exclaimed, " Go it,_ Doe- tor, put some more of that stuff in, and, it will be the real Calvinistic gruel," (Groat laughter and applause.) In another case, a man saw a reverend doctor engaged in washing bloody shirts in a brook; and he called out to him, Doctor; what are• you doing ?" The docitor replied, . 4 ‘ The - shitts . supplied to the army- are exhausted, and also those of our .own -Commission. The Wounded are.suffering from .their stiffened) and clotted , shirts and I thought • I might undertake to ,wash a few •of them in the broek. ° These men have not only ministered, to the liodily wants of the soldiers, but to their moral, and -chiefly to their spiritual necessities. They circulated' upwards of eight millions of copies of knapsack books, including such works as Newman Hall's " Come to Jesus," Mr. Reid's " Blood of the Cross." (Applause.) The history of these books will never be written. They came back to .the families of the soldiers in . America, many of them stained with their former owners' blood. They became heir looms of those families, and they will never be parted with. (Applause.) Besides these, there were eighteen million copies of our best religious newspapers issued to the army fresh as they appeared from the press. The total receipts of the Commission were six and a quarter million of dollars.' The, books, etc., were distributed by 5000 unpaid agents. How did we get these agents ? , They, got nothing for their la bors. We would not employ any agents who wanted pay for their work, except a few permanent men to superinidna the work. But you will say, "The laborer is worthy of his hire." Yes, that is very true; but in our case our agents were paid by their own congregations. We have gone to wardens of a church and said, " We want your pastor to labor for us for a few. months." We have gone to the minister himself in his pulpit, and, at our request, he has closed his sermon and taken with him a few necessaries and gone forth to his work. And these men did get pay—Pay far richer than was ever coined in any mint —it was the " God bless you." of the dying soldier. (Great applause.) That excellent and holy man, Bishop M'llvaine, (applause) who is so well known in this country, as he was once going through a field of con flict, asked who that man was with his coat off and his shirt sleeves , tucked up, who was carrying in one hand a pail of lemon ade, and in the other a pail of farina, while under one arm' was a roll of shirts, and under the other was a' roll of drawers,and ' his knapsack filled with reading matter. "Oh," said I, "that is the Rev. Mr. So-and-so." The good Bishop stopped,- tears filled his eyes, and he exclaimed, never-saw a: minister walk. so closely in the steps of his Divine .Master beforp. (Ap plause.) . But I must hastmon. It may .be said in this work of, distributing the: Bible, " Was there no; aste?" lam bold to say there was not. I have myself distributed many thousand .copies of the Bible,"ina never met with a refusal but one, and that was from a German infidel. No* I belong to that portion of young Amelia.% which was born in Ireland—excuse me for that, (laughter,) and I do not know what it is to give in. • (Laughter and applause.) So I thought I would endeavor to take the Ger man infidel by a flank movement. I called his attention to the beauty of the book; it was very handsomely got up. I told him it was what is 'called Cromwell's Bible, and I told hie; how Cromwell's soldiers read this book, and how it enabled them to fight so vigorously; but still I gained nothing by my 'flank movement. I was about to leave him, when I thought I Would make another attempt. I asked him where he was from ? "From Philadelphia ?" "Phila delphia ! why, that is .my own city." He brightened up at this, and asked the street where I lived. I told him in such and such a street, and I said I am going back there, and I expect to tell the result of my labors in the largest Protestant Episcopal church in that city on Sabbath evening next. Don't be alarmed, Episcopalians, at the fact of a layman like Myself being allowed to speak there. (Laughter.) " Well," he said, " and what will you Say ?" " I shall tell them that I have been engaged for so long a time in distributing Bibles among our soldiers, , that I never met with but one refusal, and that he was a soldier from our own city. " Well, and what more will y,o,u say ?" " Why,,l, shall tell them, that I began to distribute Bibles, this morning, and that I began at the White Housi—a place somewhat like your Buckingham Palace, only not so fine and who was the first man to whom I offered' a copy ? why, it was to President Abraham Lincoln. (Applause.) When I went to see the Pre sident,. he was writing ; and when I handed him a copy of Cromwell's Bible he stood up--and you know he was.a very tall man and took along time to straighten: (Laugh ter.) He received the Bible and made me a low, bow and thanked me, and now all have to go back-and tell him that IN of his soldiers who was fighting his battles re, fused to take the book which he bad ac: cepted so gladly." ' The German softened at once. He said, "Did the President take the Book? Well, then, l guess I may take one, too." (Great applause.) . I musty say I don't think that in distributing-5000. 1 copies there were more ,than two or three refusals, and these were Roman Catholics; while I am glad to say that many of these gladly and thankfully received the Word of God. (Applause.) But was thsre any waste of the boobs so received ? No, sir,; a soldier would part with anything-rather than his New Testa ment; and, said a little fellow, a soldier from Pittsburg, to his comrade, when the Union army was repulsed from-the heights of Fredericksburg, when the rebels were pouring in shot and shell upon our retreat ing columns : "Joe," said he, "if it were not that the Testament, given me by my mother is in the knapsack, I would throw it away, but 1 can't do it." (Ipplause.) Wilful waste is, I believe, entirely un known. I have been in' correspondence, with thoriiiirids . "of agents who have been engagi'd' in thii work of distribution, aint' have dilly heard ofone-cririe where's 'soldiewilfully r. threif away= his -Bible. .1 hatve , :the copy with 'me lete-to-diy.; and as ulythe, THE AfiltiiialtilititlMlWTPAlWManDMDMW s►ingt6. loved brother L liaptiit Noel said,: that the Word of God would , never be returned to Him' „ , .void, so I am here to say; hat, thong!' this soldier, with . a wicked and a diabolical :heart, threw away his Testament ,in the streets of Memphis, that Testament: was picked up by another soldier,- himself also "careless and wicked, but who was led;from 'the reading of it, to'the foot' of the, cross, where he found peace and joy. (App lause-) sent that copy to the-American Bible Society, who treasure it as a relic, dr.rather •as a memento, of the war. (Heat., hear.). - The Bible was not lonly instrumental in 'saving the might ; there:are•:hundreds ,of cases where it was ~also ..'instrumental in saving the livea of the soldiers. , Here is a copy (holding it up) which was pUblished in England by 'Messra. Eyre SD, SpOttis woode. That Testament has a history which, if it could speak, I might as well remain silent. It ran the blockade, (laugh ter) ; it found its way to 'a soldier of. the' Southern army, who placed it in his bosom, and here is the hole which was made by a bullet from one, of the Union ,soldiers, which, entering at the last chapter of the Revelatidn ' penetrated through to the first chapter of Matthew, and grazing the outer cover, saved the man's life. , ' (Applause.) There were hundreds of such copies pre served in numerous:families throughout `America, and money could not purchase 'them. (Hear, hear.) u The, desire to receive copies .of the Word of God is not to be described. I stood on the top of an omnibus in the midst of 3000 soldiers on a bill in Virginia, and they all clamored round ine for books to read. A delegate of the Society went trii to the First Tennessee Cavalry, and he wrote me aletter, the substance of which was, "Dear' Brother Stuart :—I never bought a pack of cards but once, and I want.to tell you the circum stances under which I bought them. I came to a spot where .I ~found tour young men, mere boys they were, and might be the sons of pious mothers, and they were playing at cards. I said,' Boys, I should like to make an exchange with you. I will give you copies of this beautiful 'edition of the New Testament in exchange : for this pack of , cards! They exclaimed, That 'is just what we want. We are.playing with these cards because time hangs so' heavy on our hands in this dull, camp-life. We have nothing to read. We are glad of anything to pass the time. I handed to each of them..a copy of the New Testament, ',Now, won't you be kind enough to write , , your, name in it?' they said, that we may , know to whom we are indebted for these books.' I wrote my name accordingly; and then. I said, Now, won't you be kind enough ' to write your names on these cards, that:lMay' know from whom I have received them?'` But there was not one of them who would acknowledge the cards." (Great laughter and applause.) But I must passe on. Let me only say hat all that has been written or said, as to the effect of the. Word of God in the army is, true, and far_more. _,Let .me give you one or two instances of the powex of, the Word of God among the dying on the battle -field. At the bloody field of Wil= liamsburg, a soldier in the Union army was Mortally wounded. His sufferings were indescribable; he .could not restrain his rattans and groans. 'A comradelound his way over to ohnerhim, and . to 'encourage him to hold up... " 0, William !" he said, "I had hoped, to die surrounded by my family and the friends of my youth; but here I must pass away. : If you, should survive the war, I wish to send a message home to my family. I have a dear wife at home, two sweet Children, and' an aged mother, who loved me, and whom I 'dearly loved." He then took from his breast• a packet, in which was his wife's portrait "Open that," he. said; , and, 'handing his companion , a letter, said, "Read this, her last letter to me, and then I shall think I see and hear her again: My dear mother, when I parted. from her, followed me to the door.. She could not speak,, but I knew what she meant; and, as her parting gift, she put a Bible into my hands. Take this Intek to her. Tell her that the read- . ing of it led me to pray, to give my heart to Jesus. It has kept me froni the evils of the army and the vices of camp life. 'lt has brought me, though on this cold, damp earth, to die a happy, a peaceful, and, trust, a triumphant death." (Applause.) He. looked up to heaven ,with a sweet smile,, and said : " Good-bye, my dear wife and children ; farewell, my beloved mother; we shall meet again in Heaven." And then, with along farewell to weary march es, the dying soldier passed away attended by angels to . gtory as much as if he had been at borne. (Ariplauie)',So at the bloody.-.conflict of the Stone' River," a lull (if ~.t het fight, the cries of a wounded soldier were heard asking for assistance; tint soon his cries were drowned in the re niwed. roar;, of the artillery. When , the conflict was. over, then came the• ghastly work of sorting the dead from the living. When the men WhO were detached for this service reached the spot from whence these cries proceeded, they found a lad of nine teen dead, and leaning, againsttbe stump of l a tree. His eyes were open, though fixed in death ; a celestial smile was on his'coun tenance; his well-worn Bible was open, with his finger, coldiand stiff, in death, pointing to that. passage which. has cheered the heart of many a dying Qhristian, ",Though I walk through ,the.valley9f the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they, comfort me."' (Great applause.) 0, mother, wife, sister, if 'that had' been your son, hus band, or brother who had died under such circumstances, what would you nbt give'for the possession of this blessed copy of the Word of God ? (Loud applause.) And what has been the effect of the dis tribution of Bibles in, the army ? I want it to be proclaimed , over the whole of this country, that in five months General Grant, the.noble hero of our war, sent over 800,000 soldiers back to their homes and places of . business. And it may be asked, What had been the conduct of these since their re turn ? I have seen the returns that were made in answer to these inquiries, and, with a. few extieptions, they 'have returned home better men than when,they left; they have gone back to their work ; they have saved money arein Cases the bet: ter for their, eervice in ~the army- And, am be r i bear to this land.glad tidings, from the of—my adoption, ' hat.our, Churches, Wherefer ',le faithfully` p r e r ;e a i e v h i e n d g ; wh arlbeing f b i ti s V i ed iti, a s tid ot ' e are e is searcely i room in some places to , receive them. One or our own churches.lately re-, ceived - 128 - new members, upwards of HO , of them from - the world. Another church received an accession of 155 inenatietsi nearly all of them, 'froin the world.' 'A General in, the Unionarmy wrote to, me , few daysnbefoTe I left:rfalericaito the lowing effedt :=" I have ,lately, had little or . . nothing to - do With the army, - . but inotifith.:, standing;' Ty hands are' frilli - for aggling fibout ajgbigbg inialifeA of the 'Gospel; to* preset tlie - Word.7 (Hear heir) Ourkaer is, that those showers of blessings w hich are. now, falling upon us may reach not only to the British Islands; but be extended all over the earth. Oh, my Mena, I Wish I had time to tell'you how much I love this Sliciety. But it is time I should bring my address to a °lase. E n glandand America speak the'same guage, they worship the same God, Father, Son and Holy,Ghost, they are the two great Protestant nations of the earth, and woe to the hand that ever causes blood to flow be tween theiri. (Great Applause.) " Eng land and America—there may have occa sionally risen up difference of opinion ,be tweet!. them, but I say here what I wrote short time since to a member of the Wash ington Cabinet.. - Lsaid to him—Sir, I be lieve all through this terrible conflict there are no such instruments which God has used to' pAserve peace hetween the two countries', as the instrumentality of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the American Bible Society. (Great Applause.) I say, God bless the British and Foreign Bible Society, God bless its honored Presi dent, (applause,) may he be long spared to carry on his works of usefulness. God bless the AineriCan Bible Society. (Ap plause.) God bless its honored President. (Renewed applause.) God bless the Queen of England, long may she reign-over a prosperous and a free country. God bless the President of the United States. (Re newed applause.) And now, my friends, my work is done, pardon the imperfections my speeCh. If I have stammered in what I have said, I can only say that I spoke out of the ful ness of my heart. 'I long for the coming of that day when all wars &all cease,' and when Jesus •Christ rule over ar lan4s " We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful-time, In an age . , on:ages To be living is sublime. Hark I the waking nri of'nations, - Gog and Magog to the fray, Hark,! what sonndeth—is creation Groaning for its latter'day." With this blessed volame-in our .hands, tbe. Spirit of God will subdue. all his ene mies, and all shall come and bring their .trophies to the gross of Christ. (The lion gentleman "resumed his seat amidst hind and proloniedipPlause.) The'President here rose f and,'amid the general applause of the meeting, `said that rith.. - his whole heart he ,reiterated' the prayer ofthe last - speaker,—God bless the President of America LI God bless the Queen of England ! And may peace ever reign between the two countries ! Vii gatsitiptts. PRESBYTERIAN. Revivals and Accessions.—At the June communion, thirty-eight were united by pro fession to the Presbyterian Church , in Water ford, N. Y.; more than half of whom are members of the Sabbath-school. There has been a considerable accession- from the world, `to the church in Gettysburg, Pa. Att, the last communion at the Central Presbyterian ChUrth Philadelphia, (Rev. Dr. Alexander Reed's,') thirty-eight persons were added to the,conmunion of the church, making sixty five, ,m all of whom have been,gathered into that fold in the last few months. Thirty-five have \ just been adiled,. by:profession, to the Church in Seettsville, Forty-four persons, mostly by profession, were added to 'the church in Chambersburg, Pa., on Sab bath, the 10th The. Exodus of the Maloontents.—A despathh. dated Louisville, Ky., June 27th, says:—" . A very large meeting was held in the Second Presbyterian Church; and the congregation sustained the Rev. Stuart Rob inson, their pastor, by an overwhelming majority. New elders were elected, and a strong minute adopted endorsing the Louis ville Presbytery against the General Assem blY-'' Installation.—On the 19th-ultimo, Mr. T. M. Dawson, graduate of the Auburn. Semi nary; was installed pastor of the Old Sullool Church in - I,ewisburg, in this St,ate., The in stalling Presbytery, (Northumberland,) paid the Seminary the compliment of inviting Prof.. Condit to ,preach the sermon a duty which ,he performed to the great satisfaction of the hearers. Southern.—At a recent meeting of the. Presbytery of Flint River, Lewis Love, a colored man, was liCeriaed to preach the Gos pel till the next meeting of that Presbytery. The probationer was directed to pursue his literary ,and theclical studies.. under the direction of Dr. Wilson,—At the recent meeting of the PresbyterY of Tuscalolita, Ala., Mr. William B. Bingham, who was a rebel soldier, and prosecuted his. theological Studies carefully , while a prisoner on John son's Island, was licensed to preach. German piesbyterians in the Northwest. —There are a few . German churches, strictly Presbyteriab, and having their 'Conneetion with the Old School, scattered over Wiscon sin, lowa, and Illinois. A convention com posed of their ministers and elders, designed tor spiritual edification, was` held on the list week in May; in - Platteville, Wisconsin. Various questions were considered, some theological, but mainly practical, and having reference to, but. German work. These brethren, widely scattered as tbey are, hin dered by the birrier of language from enjoy ing fully the' sympathy of their American brethren, and exposed to peculiar trials amid the general unbelief, formalism , and heresy of their countrymen, need such refreshment a s these reunions afford, and have doubtless returned to their fields strengthened. Before separating, they made an appointment for a similar convention, to be held next• spring at Dubuque. • BALLAItD'S Tunes NATIONAL -BMA STOM i; : •.> 3 ONE ',TRICE: ReitH;" D = Gurley.;—The session Of the 'Nevi ;York :Menne ,Churelr, W as hi ng t ga City, kas i PP•rd fikyi,es of relqutions, one 'memberdiaientng,.in which the position of', .the pastor.' - Dr. i thirley, 'Oil the last General` -Asannibly,ls flint elidotsediandluetained i and the action, proposed/o),phi" and adopted by the . Assembly, gomiliendpi as wise and pro per.=Ores'nbytei-tart.. • The Trisbyteri `of Louisvi le.-This Presbytery niet 'Week' before 'tontritry to the ,, ordera of the General Assembly, the signers ,of ,the IDeclaration- and Testimony, werepresent, nild sat as members of the ',Presbytery,: Ai `Whereupon' a Plidiiirtailr; 144 . to the - sably anitidiedient to order`' Was t'britanited. The ; Western , Presbyterittw ..!It.,was,,organized by the election of the Rev. W. C. - Matthews, D.D., Moderator Rev. R. Valentine, Stated Clerk, H. Dinsthora i Temporary Clerk; the sjgners of the Declaration and Testimony being ex cluded by the injunction of the Asiembly. Memberii present—Ministers---W. C. Mat thews, D.D., J. L MeKee, R. Valentine, J. H. Dinsmore, J. P. McMillan, and J. C. Young. Ruling Elders—J. G. ,Barrett, J: B. Kinkead, W. H. Robison, S. Brent, B. F. Avery, S. McWilliams, and R. Cooper, all the 'churches in the city being represented ex6ept the First." The Cincinnati. Gazette says that " The beolaration and Testimony wing, of the Pres bytery adjourned until July 24th. "Before ad it adopted a report prepared by, ltev. Stuart Robinson,- WhichconTrins and approves the action_ of the Louisville Commis sioners. It disclaims any futher connection with the General Assenibly, and calls on the people of Kentucky, irrespective of religion, to stand by the Presbytery and = prevent its property from falling into the hands of the faction which excluded them from represen tation in the. St. Louis Assembly, and further states the Presbytery considers itself absolved from obedience to the Genral'Agaembly, Until some other General Assembly annul the action of the Assembly of 1865 and 1866, as was done by the Assembly of 1837 toward the action of the General Assembly of 1801. Death in the Ninietry.--The Rev. Jas. L. Merrick, a member of the Presbytery of Connecticut, died recently at South Amherst, Massachusetts. Mr. Merrick was formerly a missionary of the American Board in Persia. • - NOTES ON THE BATTLE OF GETTYS- -BURG. VEE'S .RASH: DECISION- To ASSAULT. By theiollowing morning—Thursday,iJuly 2d—the whole of Lee's army had reached, the ground, with the exception of Pickett di vision of Longstreet's corps. which had been left behind' tithChambersburg to convoy the trains. All the Union corps were concentra ted at. Gettysburg, saving Sedgwick's Sitxth corps, which , was distant but a few hours'. march. Then came. upon Lee the momen tous • question, Should he deliver battle-? Probably, no one could have known better., than the Confederate commander the-danger , of attacking an army in such..a position as that held by Meade, for he had .been Jargely indebted:for his own successes to the Advan tages he had commonly. enjoyed OE holding a defensive attitude. Indeed, so. strongly were the Confederates impressed with the value of this, that General Lee, in. entering upon the campaign, distinctly promised his corps com n3anders (to one of whom I owe thisrevela . tion, ) that he would not assume -tactical offensive ; but would so manoeuver as to com pel the Union, army to attack him. 'When the morning sun.,..that 2d of July, revealed the mighty array of•the army of the Potomac, drawn:up on the rocky bulwark of Gettys- . burg; that promise must have recurred fercibly to his mind ; for against a light posi tion held by himlat Fredericksburgh, he had 'seen the armyof the Potomac dash itself to pieces in high but impotent valor.- What then might he have done? In the dispositions of the _Confederate ar my; Longstreet had his right flank thrust so well forward;that he held the Emmitiburgh rout-and was therefore between Meade,• and Washington. It would have been very easy forLee,by maneuvering Longstreet's corps toward Frederick, to have compelled Meade to have abandoned the position at Gettys burgh. This measure Longstreet, who feared the worst from an attack l and was desirous of holding his chief to his original promise, strongly urged upon Lee. But, contrary to that promise, in - opposition-to the _solicita tions of his lieutenants, and in violation of hia own established method of Ft, Lee had re solved upon a tactical offensive. •The expla nation of this is a piece of secret history. "The Confederate commander, in his official. relport, makes the following statement : "It had not been intended to deliver a general battle so far from-our base unless attacked ; but coming unexpectedly on the whole Fed eral army., to withdraw through the.monn tains with <our extensive, trains, would have been difficult and dangerous. At.the same time we were unable to await ani attack, as the country was unfavorable .for collecting supplies in lhe presence of the enemy, who could restrain our foraging parties by holding the mountain passes with local and other troops. A battle had therefore become in a.. measure unavoidable, and:the success already, gained gave hope of a:favorable issue.". But the former part of this statement is not ingenuous. There:was ito. obstruction in his withdrawing his trains through the mono-, tains, over which he ultim ly retreated after a damaging defeat. The real motive to at tack is hinted • at in the latter part, -where Lee States that "the.success already gained gave hope of a favorable , issue;'.' or, as one of his lieutenants pungently put it in conver sation to the writer : "'Lee got a • taste of blood in the first day's fight, and .he then lost his head." THE GRAND FINAL CHARGE. The story of Pickett's charge` has fre quently been told ; but'always with a false and exaggerated bokiring. It was not made,- as is commonly represented, at a , run,, or at the double : quick, but steadily, with the com mon step . and entire deliberation. The steadiness with` which' the advance of the hos tile line was•condueted was` remarked by all who saw it'as its characteristic feature: But it was a hopeless task. The „ground ,to f overpassed was a perfectly open plain,, of above a mile in width, and as. it' sloped kin* up to the crest on which the Union: battle ar ray was drawn, it formed a natural and gave a free field for the fire of artillery and musketry. Almost,' from the start, the assaulting lines came under fire of,the Union batteries ; but it was observed that this did not cause them to halt—it only made them double in a little toward their left. This brotight the;brunt of their attack upon the two reduced and incomplete divisions of Han cock's corps. The men of the second corps, showed a determined calm, as the menacing lines advanced. There was no meaningless fusilade or waste of ammunition ; ; but the troops evinced a striking disposition to with hold their fire until it could be delivered' with deadly effect. BALLARD'S 37 NORTH ,EIGHTH STIWT, PrPgATb,:. - ON.R.PRIOE.L" 4 03 The assaulting mass hadnot advaiiiied over ',half the width Aif. tlie,plain beforelit bbgan to lose its momentum, and when it came within range of the fatal volley of musketry, Heth's 'division wavered and broke. Moreover, Wil- COX' . B brigade, which was to cover the right flank of'Pickett's division, did not advance at all, so that Piokett'a division remained alone a solid lance-head of Virginia troops, well-tempered and fire nietal. But even they could not huffet the`deadly hail, and though a fewof the mostadventurous and high-spirited -penetrated within Hancock's line, breaking .through the front held by Webb's brigade, (posted behind a low Iton6 wall,) yet the ma jonty,"galled by the &bin front, and finding themselves assailed in flank by a force abr ffilly directed by General Hancock, fell upon their faces and held up their hands in token of their faces The captures included four thousand . five hundred men and seventeen standards. ' This was the last, offensive sally attempted by Lee. ife was himself thoroughly con vinced of the hopelessness of the undertak ing, and the fire of his troops was quenched in blood. "The severe loss sustained by the army," says - he ",and the reduction of its ammunition, rendered another attempt to dislodge the enemy inadvisable, and it was therefore determined to withdraw." Baum LOSSES. The interesting question of the loss of the Confederates at Gettysburgh is one that has nbt yet been determined, and probably never will be with precision. "It is not," says Gen. Lee, "in my power to give a correct statement of our casualties, which were se vere." It -is -certain, however, that 13,621 were.taken prisoners. A sufficiently accurate approximate estimate may be made by com paring the official returns previous to and sUbsequent to the battle. On the 31st of May, X 1863, the official rolls of Lee's army showed an aggregate present of 88,753. On July 31st, after the return of the army to Virginia, the aggregate present was 53,611. The .difference, 35,143, will ye* , fairly repre sent the casualties of the Pennsylvania cam- Paign. FLEE, AT WILLIAMSPORT. . ' Whether Meade should have attacked or refrained from'attacking Lee at Williams port, is one of those pastions on which every American considers his right and privilege to pronounce an ex-cathedra opinion. It is probable that.the popular verdict will always condemn him for his hesitation to assume the offensive. Yet it is certain that Lee wished to be attacked at Williamsport, and if it be a cardinal imaxim of war never to do what the enemies desires you to do, it may appear that there are at least two sides to the question. The experiment of the Pennsylvania cam paign gave a complete and final quietus to the scheme , of Southern invasion of the loyal Stites, and the enterprise was never again attempted. Nor indeed was the army of Ncirthern Virginia ever again in condition to undertake such a inovement. This was not .alone due to its material losses, the portent ous suin of which' exceeded the aggregate of its' casualties in' the whole series • of blows which General Grant delivered from the Rapidan to the James River: but its morale received a shook from which it never re covered.-- Wm. Swinton in Hours at Home. grid aditts. 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