iintta irikat. ALTOONA, PA JHDKSDAI, JUNE 5, 1862. People’s Union County Convention of Blair County. Tbepeople of Blair county in favor of sustain ing the present National and State Administra itgln their patriotic efforts to maintain the in the, Union and to crash out this unholy vtbeiuon, by every power of the Government, are rraneeted to select two Delegates from each Ward, Joorongh, or Township in the county, to meet in ififfWiftPhorendon, at Hollidaysbuig, on Tues of June, A. D. 1862, at 11 o'clock -MSW.’tif; J resen]Lat the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, and, like a ministering angel, attended to the wants of as many-of the wounded' and dying soldiers as she could,'thus winning the gratitude and esteem of the brave fellows by whom she was surrounded.— Gov. Yates, hearing of her heroic and paiseworthy conduct, presented her with a commission as Major in the atjny, the document conferring the well-mer ited honor being made out with Mi due formality and baring attached the great seal of the State.— Probably no lady in America will ever again have such a.distingnishod military honor conferred upon fieri |dn. Reynolds! s now in this city, and leaves to jolti‘ fcet raiment - It a day hr two. —Peoria Trmie»ipt, , ’ Important Document We publish below a very able and important document on the state of the country, and bespeak for it the attentive perusal of our readers. It was prepared by that able and unflinching friend of the Union, in Kentucky, Rev. R. J. Breckinridge, I). I). To his talents, influence, and efforts, per haps, more than to any .other man, was owing the stand taken by Kentucky for the Union and against rebellion. And because of his efforts in this lie half has he been so much.persecuted and greatly villified. Bat he has manfully braved all, and has the consolation of seeing his native and loved State standing by the stars and stripes for their defence. The paper was prepared by him, and presented for the adoption of the General Assembly of the Presbytcriap Church, (Old ’School.) of which he was a member, and in which he is on able minis ter and Theological Professor. That body held its annual meeting at Columbus, Ohio, during the last month, when and where this paper was pre sented, ably and fully discussed, and passed with out amendment by a vote of 206 to 20. Taking into view the ability of the paper, the character of the body, (acknowledged to be one of the most venerable, learned, and pious ecclesiasti cal bodies in the world,) and the large majority bv which the document was passed, it can not but have great weight with the public. History will doubtless record this paper os one, of the deliver ances of this eventful period, worthy of preserva tion : and be cited in coming ages us the evidence of the loyalty and high-toned patriotism of the Church which has passed it: The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, now in session at Columbus, in the State of Ohio—con sidering the unhappy condition of the country in the midst of a bloody civil War, and of the Church agitated everywhere, divided in sentiment in many places, and openly assailed by schism in a large section of it; considering niso’thc duty which this chief Tribunal, met in the name and bv the au thority of the glorified Saviour of sinners, who is also the Sovereign Ruler of all things, owes to him our Head and Lord, and to' his flock committed to our charge, and to the people whom we are com missioned to evangelize, and to the civil authorities who exist by his appointment, do hereby, in this Deliverance, give utterance to our solemn convic tions and our deliberate judgment, touching the matters herein set forth, tliat they serve for the guidance of all over whom the Lord Christ has given us any office of instruction, or anv power of Government; I. Peace is amongst the very highest temporal blessings of the Church, as well as of all mankind; and public order is one of the first necessities of the spiritual as. well as the Civil Commonwealth.— Peace has been wickedly snjiersedcd by war, in its worst form, throughout ’the whole land; and pub lic order, has been wickedly superseded bv rebellion, anarchy, and violence, in'tbo whole Southern por tion of the Lnion. Ail this has been brought to jjass in a disloyal and traitorous attempt to over throw the National Government by military force, and to diride the nation contrary to the wishes of the immense majority of the people of the nation, and without satisfactory evidence that the majority of the people in whom the local sovereignly resided, even in the States which revolted, ever authorized any such proceeding, or ever approved the fraud and violence by which this horrible treason has achieved whatever success it lias had. This whole treason, rebellion, anarchy, fraud, and violence, is utterly contrary to the dictates of natural religion and morality, and is plainly condemned bv the re vealed will of God. It is the clear and' solemn duty of the National Government to presene, at w hatever cost, the national Union and Constitution, to maintain the laws in their supremacy, to crush force by force, and to restore the reign of public order and peace to the entire nation, by whatever lawful means that are necessary thereunto. And it is the bounden duty* of all people who compose this great nation, each one in his several place and degree, to uphold the Federal Government, and every State Government, and all in au thority, whether civil or military, in all their law ful and proper acts, unto the enil herein before set forth. 11. The Church ot Christ has no authority from - him to make rcliellion, or to counsel treason, .or to ; favour anarchy in any case whatever. On tiro 1 contrary, every follower of Christ has the personal ■ liberty bestowed on him by Christ, to submit, for j the sake of Christ, according to his own couscieii- i tious sense of duty, to whatever government, how- | ever had, under which his lot may be east. But | while patient suffering for Christ’s sake can never I tie sinful, treason, rebellion, and anarchy may be i sinful—most generally, perhaps, are sinful; and j probably are always and necessarily sinful, in all 1 free countries where the power to change the gov- j emment by voting, in the place of force, which exists as a common right constitutionally secured i to the people, who are sovereign. If in'any case ] treason, rebellion, and anarchy can possibly be sin- j ful, they are so in the case now desolating large j portions of this nation, and laying waste great j numbers of Christian congregations, and fatally ; obstructing even- good word and work in those re- ! gions. To the Christian people, scattered through- , out those unfortunate regions, and who have been ■ left of God to have any band in bringing on those i terrible calamities, we earnestly address words of ; exhortation and rebuke as nnto'hrethren who have ! sinned exceedingly, and whom God calls to re- i pentance by fearful judgments. To those in like circumstances who are "but Chargeable with die i sins, which have brought siich calamities upon the : .land, but who have chosen; in the exercise of their. ' Christian liberty, to stand in their lot, and suffer, we address words of affectionate sympathy, pray ing God to bring them off conquerors. To those ; in like circumstances, who have token their lives . in their bonds, and risked : all for their country. ! and for conscience’ sake, we say we love such with | all onr heart, and bless God such witnesses were found in the time of thick darkness. We fear, and we record it with great grief, that the Church of God, and the Christian people, to a great extent and throughout all the revolted States, have done i many things that onght not to have been done, and have left undone much that onght to have been done, in this time of trial, rebuke, and blas phemy; but concerning the wide chism which is reported to have occurred in many Southern Syn- | ods, this Assembly will take no action at this time. ! It declares, however, its fixed purpose, under all possible circumstances, to labour for the extension and the permanent maintenance of the Church under its care, in every part of the United States. ! Schism, so fur as it may exist, we hope to sec j healed. If that cannot he, it will be disregarded. : 111. We record our gratitude to God for the prevailing unity of sentiment, and general internal ; peace, which have characterized the Church in the ; States that have mjl revolted, embracing a great majority of the ministers, congregations, and peo- i pie under our care. It may still be called, with emphasis, a loyal, orthodox, and pious Church; and all its acts and works indicate its right to a title so noble. Let it strive for divine grace to maintain that good report. In some respects the interests of the Church of God are very different from those of all civil institutions. Whatever may befall this, or any other nation, the Church of Christ mast abide on earth, triumphant even over the gates of hell. It is therefore of supreme im portance that the Church should guard itself from internal alienations and divisions, founded upon questions and interests that arc external as to her, and which ought not, hy their necessary workings, to cause her fate to depend on the fate of things less important'and less enduring than herself.— Disturbers of the Church ought not to he allowed —especiallydistnrhers ofJhe Church instates that never revolted, or that Imre been cleared of armed rebels—disturbers who, under many! false pretexts, may promote discontent, disloyalty, and general alienation, tending to the unsetting'of ministers, to local schisms, and to manifold trouble. Let a spirit of quietness, of mutual forbearance, and of 1 ready obedience to'authority, both civil ind eccles iastical, illustrate the loyalty, the orthodoxy, and the piety ofvthe Church. It is more especially to ministers of the gospel, and, amongst them, par ticularly to any whose first impressions hgd been, on any account, favorable to the terrible military revolution which has been attempted, and which God’s providence has hitherto so signally rebnked, that these decisive considerations ought to be ad dressed. And in the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus we earnestly exhort all who love God, or fear his wrath, to turn a deaf ear to all counsels and suggestions that tend towaids a reac tion favourable to disloyalty, schism, or disturbance either in the Church or in the country.; There is hardly anything more inexcusable connected with the frightful conspiracy against which we testify, than the conduct of those office hearers and mem bers of the Church who, although citizens of loyal States, and subject to the control of loyal Presby teries and Synods, have been faithless to all au thority, human and divine, to which they owed subjection. Nor should any to whom this Deliv erance may come fail to bear in mind that it is not only their outward conduct concerning which they ought to take heed, but it is also, and especially, their heart, their temper, and their motives in the sight of God, and towards the free and beneficent civil Government which he has blessed hs withal, and toward the spiritual commonwealth to which they are subject in the’Lord. In all these resjiects, we must all give account to God in the Great dav. And it is in view of our own dread responsibility to tlie Judge of quick and dead tliat we now make tins Deliverance. ' THE BATTLE OP SHILOH, Beauresjard’s Official Report IIEiDQLiEIEBS OF THE ARMY OF THE MISS., ) Oorisiu, Miss., April 11, IS6Z. ) General ;—On the 2d ultimo, having ascer tained conclusively, from the movements of the enemy on the Tennessee River, and from reliable sources of information, that his aim would he to cut off' my communication in West Tennessee with the Fastern and Southern States, by operating from the Tennessee River, between Crump’s Landing and liastport, as a base,' I determined to foil his designs bv concentrating all my available force at and around Corinth. Meanwhile, having called on the Governors of the States of Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana to turuish additional troops, some of them, chiefly regiments from Louisiana, soon reached this vicinity, and, with two divisions of General Folk’s command from Columbus, and a fine corps of troojis from Mobile and Pensacola, under Major General Bragg, constituted the armv of tlie Mississippi. At the same time, General Johnston being at Murfreesboro, on tlie march to form a junction of his forces with mine, wits called on to send at least a brigade hy railroad, so that we might fail on and crush the enemy, should he attempt to advance from under his gunboats. Tlie call on General Johnston was promptly complied with. His entire force was also hastened in this direction, and by the Ist of April, our united forces were concentrated along tlie Mobile and Ohio Railroad from Bethel*to Corinth, and on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad from Corinth to luka. It was then determined to assume the offensive and strike a sudden blow at the enemy in jiosition under General Grant, on tlie west hank of the Tennessee, at Pittsburgh and in the direction of Savannah, before lie was re-enforced bv the armv undef General Buell, theu known to be" advancing for that jmrjKisc hy rapid marches from Nashville, via Columbia. About the same time General Johnston was advised that such an operation .con formed to the exjieetations of the President. By a rapid and vigorous attack on Gen. Gram it was expected lie would be beaten hack into his transports and the river, or captured in time to en able ns to profit by the victory, and .remove to tlie rear all the stores' and munitions that would fall into our hands in such an event, before tlie arrival of Gen. Buell's army on the scene. It was never contemplated, however, to retain the position thus gained, and abandon Corinth, the stragetic jioint of the campaign. Want of proper officers, needful for the organi zation of divisions and brigades of an army brought thus suddenly together, and other difficulties in tlie way of an effective organization, delayed tlie movement until the night of the 2d inst., when it was heard from a trustworthy quarter tliat the junction of tlie enemies armies were near at hand: it was then, at a late hour, determined that the at tack should tie attempted at once, incomplete and imjierfect as were our preparations for such a grave and momentous adventure. Accordingly, that night, at I o'clock, the preliminary orders to com manders of corps were issued for the movement. On the following morning the detailed order for movement, a copy of which is herewith marked “ A." were issued, and the movement, after some delay, commenced—the troops lieing in admirable spirits. It was exjiected wc should be able to reach the enemy’s line in time to attack them early on the sth instant. The men, however, for the most part, were unused to marching—tlie roads narrow, and traversing a densely-wooded country, became almost impassible after a severe rain storm on the night of the 4th, which drenched the troops in bivouac; lienee our forces did not reach the intersection of the roads from Pittsburg and Hamburg, in the immediate vicinity of the enemy, until late Saturday afternoon. It was then decided that the attack should he made on the next morning, at the earliest hour practicable, in accordance with the order of move ment—that is, in three lines of battle: the first and second extending from Owl Creek on the left to Lick Creek on the right—a distance of about three miles—supported by the third and the reserve.— The first line, under Major General Hardee, was constituted of his corps, augmented on his right hy Gladden's Brigade, of Major General Bragg’s corps, deployed in line of battle, with their respec tive artillery, following immediately by the main road to Pittsburg, and the cavalry ’in" rear of the wings. The second line, composed of the other troops of Bragg's coq«, followed the first at a distance of 500 yards, in the same order as the first. The .army corps, tinder General Polk fol lowed the second line, at tlie distance of about 800 yards, in lines of brigades, deployed with their batteries in rear of‘each brigade, moving bv the Pittsburg road the left wing supported bv cavalry; the reserve, under Brigadier General Breckinridge, followed closely the third line, in the same order, its right wing supported by cavalry. These two corps constituted the reserve, and were to support the front lines of battle, by being deployed when required on the right and' left bf the Pittsburg road, or otherwise act according to the exigencies of the battle. At 8 A. M. on the 6th instant, a reconnoitcring ’ party of the enemy having became engaged with our advanced pickets, the commander of tlie forces gave orders to begin the movement, and attack as i determined upon, except that Trabue’s brigade, of! Breckinridge’s division, was detached and advanced j to support the left of Braggs’s corps and line of -i battle, when menaced by the enemv, and the other 1 two brigades were directed to advance bv the road i to Hamburg to sujiport Bragg's right, ind at the | same time lanceys regiment of Polk’s corps, was j advanced by the same road to re-enforce tire regi- : ment of cavalry and battery of four pieces, vilreadv ' thrown forward to watch and guard Grier’s Ban- 1 ners, and Borland’s Fords, on Lick Creek. Thirty-minutes after 5 o’clock A. M„ our lines and columns were in motion, all animated evi dently by a promising spirit. The front Unc was engaged at onec, but advanced steadily, followed in due order with equal resolution and" steadiness by the other lines, which were brought successively into aetiou with rare skill, judgment and gallantry ; by the several corjis, commanders as the enemy made a stand with ills masses rallied for the struggle for his encampments. Like an Alpine avalanche our troops moved forward, desi.ite.4he determined resistance of tlie enemv, until after 6 i.. M., when we were in jiosessioii of all the en- , campments between Owl and Lick Creeks bnt one. Neaily all his field artillcn,-, about thirty flags, colors, and standards, over 3,000 prisoners inclu- , ding a division commander (Gen. Prentiss) and ! several brigade commanders, thousands of small arms, an mmense supply of subsistence, forage, ■ and monitions of war, and a large amount of means of transportation—all the substantial fruits of a complete victwy-i-such, indeed, as rarely have followed the mdst successful battles; for never whs an army so well provided as that of onr enemy, i The remnant of his army had been driven lh utter disorder; to; the immediate vicinity of Pitts burgh, under the shelter of the heave guns of his* iron-clad gunboats, and we remained undisputed masters of his well-selected, admirably provideid ' cantonments, after over twelve hours of obstinate' conflict with his forces, who had been beaten from them and the contiguous covert, bntohly by a sus '■ mined onset of all the men we coaid bring into i action. : , Onr loss was heavy, as will appear from the ac '■ companying return, marked •• B." Onr comman der-in-Chief, Gem A. S. Johnson, fell mortally ! wounded, and died on the field at 2,20 P. M., after having shown the highest qualities of a comman der, and a personal intrepidity that inspired all j around him, and gave resistless impulsion to his column at critical moments! The chief command then devolved upon me, 1 though at the time I was greatly prostrated and j suffering from the prolonged sickness with which : I had been afflicted since early in February. The ! res])onsil)ility was one which, in my physical coii ; dition. I would have gladly avoided,. though cast upon me when onr forces were successfully push : iug the enemy back upon the Tennesce river, and, though supported on the immediate field by such .. I corps commanders as Maior-Gonerals Polk, Bragg,' and Hardee, and-Brigadier-General Breckenridge, commanding the reserve. , It was after 6 o’clock P. M., as before said when the enemy’s last position was carried, and his forces finally broke and sought refuge behind a command | iug eminence, covering the Pittsburgh Landing, not more than half a mile distant and under the guns of the gimlmats which opened on Onr eager columns a fierce and annoying fire with shot and shell of the heaviest description. Darkness was close at hand. Officers and men were exlmusted hy a combat of over twelve hours without food, and jaded by the march of the preceding dav, through mud and water, it was therefore impossl ! tile to collect the rich and opportune spoils of war ! scattered broadcast on the field left in our pbsses sion, and impracticable to make any effective dis positions for their removal to the rear. I accordingly established my headquarters at tile Church of Shiloh, in the enemy’s encampment, : with Major-General Bragg, and directed onr troops I to sleep on the|r anus, in such positions in advance ■ and rear as corps commanders should determine, ; hoiiing from news received by a special dispatch | tliat delays had been encountered hy Gen. Buell l in his march from Columbia, and that his.main i forces, therefore, could not teach the field of battle in ! time to save Gen. Grant’s shattered fugitive forces j from capture or destruction on the following day. During the night the rain -fell in torrents, aii | ding to the discomfort and harrassed condition of I the men; the efiemy, moreover, had broken their | rest hy a discharge, at measured intervals, of heavy j shell, thrown t'rftm the gunboats; therefore, on Jhe ; following morning, the troops under my command i were not in condition to cope with an equal force j of fresh troops, -armed and equipped like our ad j versary, in the immediate jiossession of his dejiols. i and sheltered by such an auxiliary as the enemy's gunboats. , ® About 6 o’clock on the morning of the 7th of April, however, a hot fire of musketry and artil lery opened from the enemy’s quarter on our ad vanced line, assured me of the junction of his forces, I and soon the battle raged with a fury which satis | tied me I was attacked by a largely superior force. I But from the onset our troops, notwithstanding ; their fatigue and Losses from the battle of the day ; before, exhibited the most cheering veteran-like j steadiness. On the right and center the enemy j was repulsed in ever)- attempt he made with his, I heavy column in that, quarter of the field; on the [ left, howeaer, and nearest to the point of arrival of 1 his reinforcements, he drove forward line after line j of his fresh troops, which were met with a resolii -1 non and courage of which our country may be I proudly hopeful. ■ ’ Again and again our troops were brought to the i charge, invariably to win the position at issue, ins '• variably to drive back the foe. But hour by hour j thus opposed to an enemy constantly re-infqrced. | our ranks were perceptibly thinned under the un ceasing, withering fire of the enemy, and bv twelve meridian eighteen hours hard fighting had sensibly exhausted a large number, my last reserves had j necessarily been disposed of, and the enemy was evidently receiving fresh re-iuforcements after each repulse: accordingly about 1 I‘. M„ I determined to withdraw from so unequal a conflict, securing such of tile results of the victory of the dav before as was then practicable. Officers of my staff were immediately dispatched with the necessary orders to make the best disposi ' tion for a deliberate, orderly withdrawal from the ; field, and to collect and post a reserve to meet the | enemy, should he attempt to' push after ns. In I tliis connection I will mention particularly my Ad ; jutant-Qcneral, Colonel Jordan, who was of much j assistance to me on tills occasion, as he had a|- : ready been on the field of battle on that and the j preceding day. - j About 2 o’clock P. M., the lines in advance, which had repulsed the enemy, in their last fierce i assault on otjr left and 'centre, received the orders | to retire; this was done with uncommon steadiness ; and the enemy made no attempt to follow. ; The line of troops established to cover this 1 movement had been disposed on a favorable ridge i commanding the ground at Shiloh Church; from | this position onr artillery played upon the woods | beyond for a while, but upon no visible enemy and ■ without reply; Spon satisfied that no serious pur i suit would be attempted, tills last line was with i drawn, and never did troops leave a battie-field in | better order; even the stragglers fell into the ranks and marched off with those who had stood more steadily by fheir .colors, A second position was taken up about a mile in the rear, where the ap i proach of the enemy was waited for nearly an hour j but no effort to follow was mode, and only a small | -detachment of horsemen could be seen at a dis i tance from .this last position, warilv observing otir j movements. " | Arranging, through my staff officers, for the ! completion of the movements thus begun, Briga i dier-Gen. Breckinridge was left with his command ! as a rear guard to hold the ground we had occ«- I pied the night preceding the first battle, just in ! front of the intersection of the Pittsburgh and j Hamburg Roads about four miles from the former , place, while the rest of the army passed to the rear j in excellent order. ! I On the following day Gen. Breckinridge fell ; back about three miles to Mickey’s which position ■we continued to hold, with onr cavalry thrown | considerably forward in immediate proximity to ■ the battle field. ' Unfortunately, toward night of the 7th instant ( 11 b^ an to rid" heavily; this continued through i night; the roads became almost impassable | in many places, and pinch hardship and suffering j now ensued before all the regiments reached their : encampments. But despite the heavy casualties ; of ‘he two eventful days of the 6th and 7th of i April, this army is more confident of ultimate suc j cess than before its encounter with the enemy. : , £>* ve ntoce detail the operations of tlie two l battles, resulting from the movement on Pittsburg i than now attempted, must have delayed this report for weeks, and interfered materially with the im jiortant duties of my position; but I* may be per mitted to say that nor only did the obstinate con flict for twelve hours on Sunday leave the Con federate array masters of the battle-field, and our adversary beaten, but we left that field on the y 011 ' “ ,ter c ‘ght hours’ incessant battle, wtth a sujienor army of fresh troops, whom we had repulsed on every attack on our lines, so re “nd.c,?l,f’led. indeed, as to leave it unable to , a ke the field for the campaign for which it was collect®! and equipped at such enormous expense, and with such profusion of all the appliances of w ar. 1 hesc successful events were not achieved, 1 however, as before said, without severe loSs—a losi not to be measured by the number of the slain or wounded, but by the high social and personal I ™ a number of those who were Killed or disabled, including the commander of the forces, whose high qualities will be greatly missed in the momentous campaign impending. I deeply regret to record, also, the death , Hon. Geo, M. Johnson, Provisional Gov" ** l!i ' Kentucky, who went into action with 5 tuckv tmp and continually inspired then*) 8 ' words and example. Having his horse s 'h ■■ ' under him on Sunday, he entered the m l Kentucky regiment on Monday, and fell 1,1 - wounded toward the close of the dav v ori^i: State alone, hot the whole Confederacy i tinned a great loss in the death of this kJ*.? right and able man. *'• : Another gallant soldier and Captain was i the service of the country when Brig. Gen ■[ don, commanding Ist Brigade, Withers’s D : 3d Army Corps, died from a severe wound nw 0 ' 1 ' on the sth first., after having been eonspim''* his whole corps and the artnv for eon»»> parity. ’ nJ ’' Major. Gen. Cheatham, commanding Fj r „ vision. First Corps, was slightly wounded and h tlitee horses shot under him. * ““ Brigadier-Gen. Clark, commanding First in sionyrf the First Corps, received a severe . ’ also, on the first day, which will deprive th. BC; of his valuable services for some time. Jn:: ’ ; Brigadier-Gen. Hindman, engaged inthe lof the battle, was conspicuous for cool >< j efficiently employed in leading his men ever^ | the thickest of the fray, until his horse wa, a j under him, and he was unfortunately so .* [ injured by the fall that the army was’ depnitd^ 1 | the following'day, of his chivalrous example ’ Brig.-Gens. B. R. Johnson and Bmreai m, meritorious officers, were also severely wounded* Uje first combat; but it is hoped will soon be al ” to return to duty with- their brigades. * t To mention the many field officers who did Were wounded while gidlantly leading their cc® inands into action, and the many brilliant instam of individual courage displayed by officers and nT during the twenty horns of'battle, is impossible* this time; but their Jkames will he dub known to their eonnttymen. f [Here follow the names of several officer, distinguished themselves.] 1 Fibm this agreeable duty I turn to one in il, highest degree unpleasant—one due, however ,[ the brave men under me, as a contrast to the V havior of most of the army who fought sober, rally- _ I allude to the fact that some officers, J commissioned officers and men, abandoned the colors early in the first dav to pillage the caum* encampments; others retired shamefully from i field on both days, while the thunder of eanne and the. roar and rattle of musketry told tb® that their brothers were being slaughtered bv it" fresh legions of the enemy. I have ordered tC names of the most conspicuous upon thi» roll,,; lagganls and cowants to be published in order ■ It remains to state tliat our loss in the two dn-. in the killed outright was 1,728, wounded B,dp, missing 958, making an aggregate of casualties 10,699. ; This sad list tells in simple language 0 f th- Stout fight made by our countrymen in front of th ( rode chapel at Shiloh, especially when it is knowi that on Monday, from exhaustion and other cauxs not twenty thousand men on our side coalj i* brought into action. I Of the losses of the enemy 1 have no cm knowledge. Tjieir newspapers' report it as ten heavy. Unquestionably it was greater, even fa proportion, than our own, on both davs. for it apparent to all that their dead left on'the field out numbered ours two to one. ' Their casualties, therefore, cannot have fiillt: many short of 20,000 in killed, wounded, and missing. Through information derived from many source, the newspapers of the enemv—we ea gaged on Sunday the Divisions of Gens. Vrenth-, Sherman, Huribut, McClemaml. and Smith, i f 3,000 men each, or at least 45,000 men. Thi forcc was reinforced on Sundav night bv the ilivh iousof Gens. Nelson, McCook, Crittenden, m 1 booms. of Major-Oen. Buell’s armv, some strong,-including all arms. Also, Gen. L. Wa! Itice s division of Gen Giant’s army, making lltast 33,000 fresh troops, which, added to remnant of Gen. Grant’s forces on Mondav mom ibg, amounting to over 20,000, made an aggrsptf force of some .>3,000 men at least, arruved us on that dav. . In connection with the results of the batik, i should state that tbemost of our men who luui ferior anus exchanged them for the improved am of the enemy. Also, that most of the projenv public, and personal, in the camp from which ii,r enemy was driven on Sunday, was rendered u* less or greatly damaged, except some of the touts I have the honor to be, General,-yonr ob't scrv'i, : CL T. BEAUREGARD, General Commanding. - To Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector- General, C. S. A., Richmond, Va. Liability of Persons Making Arrests. : Magistrates and police officers have often been uncertain of their authority to arrest a party on a mere suspicion, well-founded though it raavbc, 01 having committed a felony, without they had a warrant. This question was ablv argued tlii week, in the St. Louis Criminal Court, in the ow of Joseph Burns, who was tried for killing police officer Gilmore. Thecounsel for Bums contended that the officer had no right to arrest Burns, hav ing no legal authority to do so, or no information that he bad committed a burglary. On this point. Judge Clover, gave the following brief iiKiuv which define not only the liability’ of public oSktn bnt of any person who may have occasion to arrest a felon, and establish a principle of law not here tofore generally known. His Honor said that if a felony be committed, and the felon fly from jus tice, it is the duty' of every man to use his best en deavors to prevent an escape. And in such casa if pursuit bo made, and if hue and cry lie levied all who join in the pursuit are in the protection m the law, being authorized by law to pursue and ap prehend the malefactors, and this although there Were no warrant of a Justice of the Peace to rake hue and cry. And a Peace officer may justify a» arrest on charge of, felony’ on reasonable canse -- suspicion without a warrant, even if it should af terwards appear that no felony had been committed. Killing an officer who attempts to arrest a man will be murder, though the officer had no warrant and tbongh the man had done nothing for which he was liable to be arrestal, if the officer ha a charge against him for felony, and the man knows the individual to be an officer, though thr officer do not notify- him that he has such a charge; hut the officer has no right to arrest, without war rant, parties who may beat generally the reputa tion of being burglars. and thieves, without the Charge of the commission of some particular felony - An Elephant in a Fix. The monster .elephant Hannibal, belonging » Van Ambnrgh and Co.’s Menagerie, came neat losing his life a few days since while traveling fa? KeypQit to Freehold, in New Jersey. His Keeper had taken him off from the road, in order to Srow an unsafe bridge, when, in crossing a tract of swampy land, the ground gave way beneath him. and the enormous animal sank up to the middle d his sides in the yielding mud, where he flounder** for some time without being able to extricate hhn sedf; his Struggles, on the contrary, resulting rendering his situation, each moment, more s® jnore dangerous, until it was feaifed that it '«"r be impossible to save him. The heavy shackle with which he was fettered, preventing a lrf : movement of his limbs, made his position stin more critical until help arrived, when, by plan® timbers in front of and around him, he was e«a bled, after a time to extricate himself. At nol - was very much frightened, trumpeting lend*?; and struggling wildly, but after the timbers placed within his reach, he went to work wore systematically, and exhibited much intelligence ® his subsequent operations, depending principal . upon his tusks to raise himself. When exbaostw by his exertions, he would throw himself over np« one side, in order to gain all the buoyancy p*-' 1 ' ble until ho became somewhat rested, 'when 11 would assume aq. upright position, and go .’“’I 1 felly to work again. His efforts were b""; crowned with success, no less to his own sat*' 1 * tlqn than that of his owners, to whom bi> ap would have been irreparable, as he is nmeu “ largest elephant ever seen in this eonntiy. llrilm .PRINTED ON CaßpbeH’s $650 “Country Pi iOCAL ITEM Flowers. —What! —stealing fh tea- ’W ell > that ’ 3 a I®®" 1 snb i ect for a local but w c cant help it, although it does speak I tbe irKl ral» of some of our citisens. It is on os public journalists, to show up every sect tern of vie®. to ,he *>«st of our ability, in did our readers may be on their guard, and if it fetes, in any way, with the illegal and sh transactions of these floral thieves, or aft; get of Audacious villians, the best thing4h do is to turn their attention to some more h Me means of gratifying their desires. Tht of entering front yards and gardens purpose of stealing flowers, was commen rid* place last Fall, and it has been quite sivefy renewed this Spring. In foci, it is be. a serious evil, for even the Cemetery, that jestihg-plaee of our beloved dead, is not from the unhallowed depredations of these I daring, hell-deserving villians and ciUiam What! do females stoop to snch mcam Such, we are sorry to say, is the fact, as v been informed by one of our most respectal sens,; who, only a few nights ago,'disco couple of petticoats getting over his fen stylethat would have been creditable to a pantaloons in pursuit of a rabbit. Our Criend naturally wondered, “what’s up?" visiting his flower-bed, in the morning, he ered that his beautiful dahlias were “up’ roots.and had disappeared with the hrase heroines of the previous night! But this the only instance of this contemptible ft petticoat) larceny that has come to our kno Mutilated flower-beds and missing plants a ting jto be quite common; and, as we havt intimated, it is almost useless to plant rare in the Cemetery, where there is no living ! arrest these shameless, heartless wretches, noctumak incursions. Now, what is to he Powder and balls are too good for them; and no good cituen likes to take the law in his ow and turn executioner “ on his own hook,” a it miy bo done, if forbearance ceases to be tue. I But we have pointed out the evil, a; for the proper authorities to apply the reme Sad Accidbst. —On Saturday last, Heniry Wonderly, one of the Rail Rood Cot clerks in the yard at this place, was attem get on a freight train in motion, at the lot of the yard, forthe purpose of riding, to th end, where the duties of bis office_called bin time, when he slipped and fell with Ids leg the track, in front of the cars, which, 'sot passed directly over them, from the feet knees. Others say that thc nnfortnnate m juries were caused by the “ break,” whicli his legs and shoved them along upon the i Which of these stories is correct, we do no bur we do know that his legs, from the kne» werp most horribly crushed and manglei poor fellow was carded, on a board,; to tl dence of Mr. Lyon, on Annie street, a and; bis wife were boarding. A physician mediately called and the wounds of the dressed, as well as the braised and shatte dition of the limbs would admit. He then to rest easy, except whentobliged h|s body in any way, which caused seven. He lay in this condition until Monday nig it was determined to amputate the left le; liad sustained the most serious injury. IT atiou was accordingly performed, but the nafe' young man did not long survive it. the same night, and his remains were con thejr last resting r placc on Wednesday mo Another solemn warning to employee road, and also to persons crossing the yard thq shops, where engines and cars, arc aim tinually passing np and down. The 115th Regiment,. P. V.—This n commanded by Col. Patterson, is to be from Camden, N. J., to Camp Curtin, view of completing its organization by the of three companies. Capt. Jas. Murrey, 1 authorized, by Governor Curtin, to recrui these companies in Blair and Cambria con He has already a large number enrolled, a in a few days, send forward his men. Ca{ ray is recognized as a first class officer. I manded a company from Cambria county brja Guards,) in the Mexican war, and the r of that company who knew him well, speal in the most fluttering terms. Capt. Mur First Lieutenant of the “ Silver Grays.” There ate a nnmber of patriotic young in this town and vicinity who are anxious the volunteer service, and this new comj raiment presents to them a splendid opp By calling on Geo. Shank, who is autfa ■ receive recruits for Capt. Murray's compt will receive any information which thev sire. “.Roll in,” young men, for this is regiment that will be accepted from Pern for,the presept, and, perhaps during the v Keeping Fowls.—Every tody likes poultry; it is so nice to have a good fat ' [ tp kill when iyon get 'tired of pork and I L 11 •» also very handy to have frtsh eggs w I to dear your coffee; yet everybody in ti [ out keep fowls. Why? because they are I dcring nature and are not always incline I on tfaeir owu premises. They are very a [ sad hayoe With neighboring gardens, am I; not thrive so well when kept shut up. N [ however, are not so conscientious; they I fowls, no matter whose garden they fatten I , beajd of a man who got no good of hr I -vine* last ypar, and this spaing he .talks I * »nd at the expien I *eu*h®y hipieds who trespass upon his I tyifh the intention of “ scratching " for a I at his expense. “ Bully for him!” Goc I not allow anything belonging to the I pass upon or destroy their neighbor? pmo I had citizens don’t deserve to eat dude* I —gdin, shot-gun I v . H*woyAi, —Esquire Homes has rer < ® ce f° Are building adjoining Flack’ °tt Virginia street. He will attei ly to the writing of Deeds, Arridesiof A f* l Squire Homes is deserving < ?W*«n? of Altoona, and w g,T»S* business in that line