a i ———. @he Tatchman, =e A ON IC So)” f : > Ch Thursday Morning, June, 5, 1862. Democratic State Convention, in aceordance with a resolution of the Democratic State Executive Committee, mire Dexocracy will meet in STATE CONVEN- TION, at HARRISBURG, on Fripay, the 4th day of July, 1862, at 10 o'clock, a, M, to nominate candidates fer AUDITOR GENERAL and SURVEYOR GENERAL, and to adopt such measures as may be deemed necessary for the welfare of the Democratic party and the country. WILLIAM H. WELSL, Chaiiman of the Democratic State Ex. Com. - te ED ——— The Logic of the Press Editor. Last weck we published the Proclamation of the cditor of the Press, Mayor of Belle- fonte. in which he threatens our citizens that he 1s going to enforce the borough or dinances against all offenders, without any exception, in favor of gentlemen of color. — We also took occasion to call the Mayur's attention to the fact, that only the week be- fore, he had counseled, through his paper, the *‘knocging down" of citizens who might utter disloyal sentiments, which would tend to a breach of the peace. We did this, be cause we could not understand how a man, whose sworn duty it is to enforce the laws and preserve the peace, could reconcile his conscience to his sworn duty while counsel- ing the people in such a way that if they followed his advice they would become vio lators of the law and breakers of the peace. We also took occasion to say, that the “Mayor” would likely reply to us, and call us 4 Breckinmdge Democrat. We ere right in our prediction, as the following ex tract of an article, copied verbatim et liter atin, will show. We copy it in paragraphs, commenting as we go, upon each, in order to show in full force the profound wisdom and the magnificent logic of our town **May or’); “Better men, probably, (says the Mayor) ¢ than all the Chief Burgesses this Borough ** ever had, and who now stand in the ranks ** of the army of the Union, are not only be «ing knocked but deliberately shot down “ and murdered with the bayonet by these ‘very Breckiridgers who commenced the ‘* war to overthrow the government,” Better men than our present and dearly beloved Mayor being shot down, &c! Why, we declare this is an astonishing bit of news, and if true, it is really too bad. But this we think is assuming entirely foo much, as better men than our Mayor are in fact very scarce, at least he seems to think so himself, as he couples with his declaration the word “‘probably.”” There are probably better men being shot, &. There is evs dently some doubt in his mind whether, awong all that army of brave spirits Lat. tling to preserve the government, there be a &ngle one of more importance than his hon- or, the **Mayor.” But next comes the rub, just as we predicted : ** The Watchman editor is unquestionably ** a Breckinridge Democrat—he is in reality “nothing more, nothing less.” See now hew he proves this : «If it were otherwise, his cons'ant cen- “sure of Mr. Lincoln’ every effort to save the country would, instead, be a laudable, ‘* patriotic support of the government.” If it were otherwise than what ? Why, the language of the two sentences makes it plain that if the editor of the Watchman were anything else than a De:nocrat—Breck- iuridge or Douglas —there being no differ. ence now, he might say about” the adminis- ¢ration just what he pleased, and all the censure he could heap upon Mr. Lincoln would be a laudable and patriotic support of the government, 0, yes, being a Democrat is our great sin, and if we were only an ab. olitionist we could say just what we pleased. We could then slander General McClellan, sow dissatisfaction among his army ; we could spit upen the Constitution, call it a covenant with hell, say that we would rath- er dissolve the Union into as many con- tending fragments as there are States, than that slavery should not perish 1 this strug~ gle, and, just like the Press editor, call ey- erybody a traitor that would not say amen to it all. We thank “‘the Mayor’ for his candor for once, in making this statesment, as it gives the reason 80 long concealed from the pub. lic why some pesple can talk treason every day of their lives, slander our generals, our private soldiers and civilians with the insin- uation that, because they were Breckinridge Democrats, they are therefore traitors. — Their sin of commission is, that they were Breckinridge Democrats, and their sin of omission is, that they are not followers of an Abolition God. This craven cry of Breckinridge Demo. erat ig the most shameless effort to boister up the fast decaying form of the Republican party, and to bully the people into silence while the Constitution of our country is ben ing torn to atoms, and the people’s money fast disappearing from Uncle Sam’s coffers into the pockets of a few hungry Cormor- ants, that vulture like, hover around the treasury department that ever was witness. ed by any people, But they are fast begin- ning to understand that is only the ery of stop thief, 0 The following article which contains a favorable notice of our fellow towsman, Wm. F. Reynolds, we copy fiom the Clin ton Democrat of last week. It affords us pleasure to record the compliment it cone tains, to Major Reynolds, as itis well de. served, and we are glad to see that his mer- it is appreciated wherever it 1s known. It is time. toe, that the people were be. coming aroused to the necessity of displac- ing the present fanatical Congress by con- Servative men, who will have a higher ob- ject in view than the mere advancement of the negro at the expense of the laboring white man. Wm. F. Reynolds is in truth the man fo the times and we are pleased to;jsee that the people of Clinton county seem to know it.— Whether he wants an office or not, is not, and should not be the question in a crisis like this. The office now must hunt the man, and not the man the offie, and if the people of Centre and her sister counties choose the man and that choice should doom the Major to one term in Congress, he must go, will- ingly or rot : Lamar, May 21, 1862. Editor Clinton Democrat—Sir :—The time is fast approaching when the people of the Counties composing this Congressional District will be required to select some sui- table man as their candidate for Congress. In times like these it behoves them to con- sult tozether, andlaying aside all preferences for individuals on account of personal friend ship, select a man from among the people, whose known ability, personal integrity and loyalty to this, the best government in the world, cannot be disputed. The unseemly sight that has been witnessed in the present session of Congress, of unprincipled dema.- gogues and political tricksters, old political backs, in the midst of our country’s greatest peril, working solely for the aggrandizment of self, at the expense of the tax-paying peo- ple, and the utmost peril to constitutional liberty —placing their own advancement and the negro far above the Constitution and the Union —should arouse the lovers of Republican institutions toa sense of the awful precipice upon which we, as a nation have been forced by the negro nabobs of the present Congress. Let us then, fellow citizens of Clinten county, irrespective of local right, or local issues, select a ‘man to represent us in the next Congress who loves his country abve all things else, and who will lebor to preserve our government in its pris. tine purity and integrity. Thecitizens of this portion of this county, (and I have consul- ted with not only a few,) seem to think that WM. F. REYNOLDS, of Bellefonte, Centre county, is our best and most availa. ble man. His personal integrity and known abilities as a busmess man are unsurpassed and for his ability as a statesman none can be btter. He has never sought an office, and we do not know that he will accept the Congressional nomination, if tendered him ; but this we do know that if he does, we will have in Congress a representative of whom we need not be ashamed and who will, if any human keg can re-cement, by his consery- ative influence, the dismembered fragments of this now unhappy Union. We would suggest his name for the consideration of the people, A JEFFERSONTAN DEMOCRAT. ———————— [T= We give, to-day, in another column, the particulars of therecent great fight at Fair Oaks, near the city of Richmond, which we were only enabled to mention last week. It was a terrible conflict, and our loss in killed, wounded and missirg, according to a recent dispatch from Gen. McClellan, foots up toover 5,000 men. The loss of the ene my was still much greater, and they suffer- ed a most disastrous defeat. The move- ments of Gen. McClellan have thus far been most brilliant, and in a few days or weeks at furthest, we may expect to hear of the fall of Richmond. From Gen. Halleck's department we have intelligence ot the capture of Memphis and Fort Pillow and Chattanooga, in Tennessee, one of the most important stragetic points in the whole South, it being the place at which converge several of the most import- ant railroads in the Confederacy. This gives the Union army the control of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad throughout its whole length of about two hundred and eighty miles, which is of inestimable value to us. We presume it will also give us control of at least a portion of the Western & Atlantic road, which runs from Chattanooga, through Dalton and Marietta to Atlanta, Georgia, thus opening up the way of the Union army to the Northern portion of that State, and to the Eastern portion of Tennesses. Alto- gether, the news is certainly very cheering to us, however depressing it may be to the confederates. [== It may be a fair question whether a slight knocking: down would not materially Improve the: low-ebbed patriotism of the Watchman ?—Central Press. i Our devil wonders whether the Press edit- or thinks himself man enough to do that.— “Come on, Macduff, and d—d”’—if we don’t set Frank on you. ett meres TREATMENT OF Union PRISONERS AT WiN-~ CHESTER. —We take the following from the Harper's Ferry correspondence of the New York Times :—Major Wilder Dwight, of the Second Massachusetts, who wag taken pris~ oner in Bank’s retreat, was held in Win- chester a short time, then released on parole and given the liberty of the town. He says he was well treated, and with great respect even by officers and men, and 80, he says, were all the other Union prisoners that he saw or heard of. He says the enemy re. leased all the Union Surgeons immediately —on the sole condition that they should re. port at Washington and use their influence to have al! Surgeons on both sides regarded as neutral. One of their officers was very indignant when told what atrocities were laid to their charge and asked, Do they think we are barbarians 2” Colonel Kenly of the Maryland regiment was confined at Mr. Barton's house, and was treated by Barton with exceeding kindness aud care. GALLATIN, Tenn., May 20, 1862. Mg. PreNTICE—Dear Sir: When your quotation from, and comment on my “last letter reached me, I had just closed another, -and a very lengthy one to you, in which I abused you to my heart’s content. The vo- cabulary of acrimonious words was come pleteiy exhausted, and I was satisfied with - out sending it to you. I have avenged my- self upon you, Mr. Prentice, by abusing you and the sweetness of revenge, to my wo- man’s nature briigs its own reward. Real- ly, after all there is said, I can scarcely be- lieve you are so bad as my preconceived opinions had made you out, though you are bad enough still. If you would cease to abuse rebel ladies, their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sweet- hearts, we might all think so well of you ; for surely you are Righly possessed of “ the vision and the faculty divine.’ Genus, talent, and superior attainments are certain. ly yours in an eminent degree ; but you em- ploy them oftimes unworthily ; you permit the rankest weeds to luxuriate in the flow- ery walks of Eden ; you devote the highest attributes of divinity to ignoble purposes. I know that woman should not soil the delicate and refined sentinents of her nature in the foul pool of politics, but to some ex. tent she is excusable in times like thess, when our social and domestic as well as po- litical relations are seriously involved in the tide of revolution, which seems to threaten with its boisterous waves, every institution of which an American might justly boast. I might discuss these questions with you ad infinitum without either losing or gaining ‘a point,’ since you are confirmed in * the error of your way ” and I in the rectitude of mine. So in the future, I shall act upon the hypothesis that something good ”’ can ‘‘ come out of Nazareth" even, and shall at- tribute the error of your course toa misguid- ed judgment more than to the wilful promp- tings of an evil heart. If you knew the * fiery ordeal ”’ through which the heart of many a woman has pass- ed since the commencement of this bitter and relentless strife, douotless you would ! be a little more tolerant of ¢ she~devil ’ rebeldom. In conclusion I have a proposition to sub- mit: If you will agree in future to with~ hold your abuse of the Southern ladies, I will myself renew the proposition for a per- sonal interview, and will, furthermore, be happy to welcome you to the hospitalities of the *fierce little rebel’s mansion.” In token of ** a covenant of peace ”” which I am willing to ‘ establish” for the future, I send you herewith a white rose bud, as bright and beautiful as sver grew in the garden of the Hesperides, which shall con- tinue as a token of peace between «t thee | and me,” at least so long as you withhold in future your bitter epithets of rebel ladies. In as much as I was the aggressor in the first instance, I deem it my duty to ask for the first armistice, as well as to propose the first treaty of peace, MINNIE MINDEN. Dear, dearer, dearest Minnie, we are very glad that you did not send us the letter 1n which you abused us to your ‘‘hearts con. tent,” for we are sure that such a heart as yours, whether in anger or in love is not eagily contented. Minnie, you venture to think that we» though * bad enough,’ are not quite so bad | as you have supposed us to be. Ah well, we wish we were better, but, it you knew | how often ard how earnestly we have labor~ ed, not all unsuccessfully, in behalf of the unhappy and as we think guilty captives | from the South, and especially if you were to read our earnest remounstrances against the adoption of any harsh governmental pol icy toward the people of that beautiful sec- tion, you would think far more kindiy of us than you do now. We love the South, bug are for the prosecution of this war on the part of the United States because withcut war the Union cannot be rescored, and bes cause with the death of the Union the last hope of freedom on earth must perish. We are now fighting a mighty battle in behalf of mankind not only of this generation but of all time. It is because we want perman ent peace and freedom, instead of perpetual wars and a remorseless despotism, in this lately happy and giorious land, that we are willing to fight against the terrible crime of dividing into two miserable sections the country which our grey old fathers bequeath- ed to us in unity and strength. You cowplain, Minnie, that we have call - ed rebel women ¢ she- devils.” We have ap- plied that term only to those females, who, by insulting words and unwomanly deeds, have grossly outraged the feelings of Union officers and soldiers We Lave too lofty a regard for your sex to call such beings women, and we seriously doubt whether Sa- tan will not undertake to hold us personally responsible for calling them devils. ever we will fight the old rebel if he likes; | indeed we have been doing this all our li ves. You are so kind to say in reference to us that vou think ¢ something good may come out of Nazareth even.” Well, well, as great a good as Jesus Christ came out of Nazareth of old, and so we shall not quar rel with you for styling us a Zazareth, but trust that our soul may be the birth place of some thoughts and feelings partaking of the spirit of the divinity. You promise, dear Minnie, to welcome us to the hospitalities of your mansion if we will not abuse rebel ladies hereafter. We could not abuse ladies, rebel or loyal, withs out doing violence to our nature. Oh that all ladies were as just and true to themselves as we are to them. Finally, Minnie Minden we thankfully accept your rose-bud as a token of peace between us. Its perfume is PEN, PASTE & SCISSORS, I= The best arrival of late is the splen- did rain we had last week. 37" Who first introduced salt provision into He navy ? Noah, for he had Ham in e ark. 077 You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all.— But let all you tell be the truth. 177 Colt’s armory at Hartford is to be doubled in size and capacity, making it the largest establishment of the kind in the world. 077A son of Sim Houston of Texas, was wounded at the battle of Pittsburg, and is now a prisoner at St. Louis. Pierre Soule’s son is also & prisoner. 07 Captain Silk! What a name for a | soldier “The finest name in the world for | & captain,’ said a lady, ‘for silk will never be worsted.’ IZ=7The Philadelphia Press gives an elas borate article to prove that the negro, when ! freed will perish off. Emancipation will | then be the ruin of the negroe race. | OC” The principal difference between the | original British lion and the Canadian vari- ety of the animal, is that the latter wants Maine, 07 When the Federals arrived at Nash. ville, alady remarked with much accerbity, «There goes the Northern circus.” Yes,” exclaimed an aristocratic mule driver, ‘and our last performance was at Fort Donel. son,” IZ=A young man, on being asked by his sweetheart what phonography was. took his pencil and wrote the following, telling her it was phonography : ‘URABU 1, IL, N (you are a beauty Ellen ! [~The Democrats of Maine have called a State Convention to make the usual nomina- tions, to be held at Bangor on the 26th of June. 0Z71t is estimated that the Pension bill, recently passed by the House, will draw | from the Treasury not less than 40,000,000 annually. JA printer whose talents were but in ferior, turned physician. He said, in prin- ting, all faults are exposed to the eye, but in physic they are buried with the patient, and one gets off more easily. . IZ7If words could kill, Magruder would have slaughtered half the rebel army before | their retreat from Yorktown. If he had | persevered, perhaps he would have succeed- ed ; for we remember to have read that once | upon a time a great multitude was slain by | the jawbone of an ass. i J7~When the Federal tax gatherer comes around, you won't hear quite so much talk among the philanthropists about paying for { the niggers. When we pay for the war, | that is all the money we will have to waste | this generation. IZ7 Gen. Banks has not yet made a full report of his loss at Front Royal. A far as | known, he lost 37 killed, 145 wounded and 868 prisoners, This however does not in- clude all. The Confederates claim to have taken about 2500 prisoners. [7A free negro man in Washington is | the husband of a slave woman, and the fath- | er of six or seven children who follow the | condition of their mother, and are slaves also. So the father has put in his claim | for compensation, valuing his niggers at | $300 each, IZ7 A man who had been sick away from home, wrote back thus; “I am so changed that my oldest creditors would hardly know me.” [= An intelligent farmer being asked if his horses was well matched, replied, ‘Yes, they are matched first rate ; one of them is willing to do all the work, and the other js willing he shoald.” yg T77The commissioners appointed to ex- amine the cases of the political prisoners have released Mr. Malcolm Tves, imprisoned in Fort McHenry by order of Secretary Stanton, saying they could find no charges against him. CHIPS FROM PRENTICE. 77"There are no salt sellers in the South now. 077=We guess, that, after the next naval | battle near Fort Wright, the rebel flotilla | will float “illy,” | [=~ Beauregard has issued quite enough | proclamations. Ie had better die without further issue. 0Z7In regard to Abolitionism and Seces- sionism. it is difficult it not impossible to | decide which is the father and which the son, 0C71t is seriously feared that the horrors | of war are to be aggravated by the extension | of the Congressional session through the | summer. | -0=The people of the United States are | multiplying the production of flax. King | Cotton bids fair to be *‘flaxed out.” | T>=Upon the ocean Iron is King; but | whether in the shape of iron plates or can. non balls—that’s the question. 0A she rebel writes to us that the sight | of our paper caused her dog to fall down in lafit. It does seem to have that effect upon | a good many dogs—of both sexes. | 177The editor of the Richmond Whig | confesses that, whenever he sees it announ- ced that the whole Federal army has | been annihilated, he feels very sure of hear- {ing of a great Confederate defeat the next | day. | 0T7A telegraphic despatch published yes- ! terday says that Gen. Halleck’s forces have *‘got a strong position right in the enemy's teeth.” We hope they havn't got a position right between his teeth. 07=1f Gen. Floyd shall be hung, the | sheriff and clergyman on the scaffold had better look out for their pocket books. | 0Z=The Cincinnati Enquirer says that | “*Cemmodore Porter does not let the grass | grow under his feet.” People who work on | the water seldom do. | O7If Jeff Davis and his gang be not hung | our good mother earth will probably refuse as sweet as the incense that goes up from | in disgust ever to bring forth another crop of the flowers of Eden, and when your pretty | "¢TP. fingers plucked it from its stalk, it must | rebel government is raising fresh soldiers in [7=The Memphis Appeal boasts that the have been as white and beautiful as if born, | the South. One might suppose that all the Dike Beauty's Goddess, from the foam of the soldiers in that section would be fresh, it sea. We send you our blessing, Minnie, and it “will do you no harm.” We would send you a spirit-kiss, but spirit-kisses are too cold and unsubstantial —only a sort of ghost- kisses. Wait. In the meantime, you can find a letter at your post office. GEN. OAseY,—General Silas Casey, who commanded one of the divisions in the bat- tle near Richmond, 15 a West Point gradu ate of the class of 1822. He served with credit in the Florida war, and also under General Worth in the Mexican war. He was severely wounded n the battle of Chur. ubusco and Contreras, while leading a gal- has been so long since they have had any salt. [Jeff Davis says that the brave men composing his armies expect that their blood will run freely. We think it most likely that their whole bodies will run—blood, flesh bones, and gristle. JA despatch from Corinth to Richmond stated that John 0. Breckinridge had all his clothes shot away. We think it far more likely that he was scared out of them. (IZ=Somie of the officers of the army hate Gen. M’Clelian because he ranks higher than they in military positicn. He can say with Hamlet, though in a different sense, *¢ Oh my offence is rank.” lant attack of the stormers on the enemy’s works. For his services 1n Mexico he was breveted Lieutenant Colonel. last General Cagey was made a General of volunteers. In August! Brigadier | He is a native of Bhode Island, 17One Col. Stone lately published an ad- | dress to the Confederate troops is New Or leans to *‘stand their ground against the in- vaders.” “Wo guess that at the advnce of the gunboats he proved himself: the fastest kind of a stepping stone. Infamous Lies. Before the war broke out, and during a long series of years, the most infamous ly- ing had been practised by Northern Aboli- tionists agaist Southern people. Since the war broke out this mean practice of lying has been improved upon and intensified by a set of Abolition scribblers who follow in the wake of the army as newspaper corre- spondents. At nearly every battle the Con- federate soldiers have been represented as murdering our sick and wounded. These lies have always been exposed some time after, but we fear too late to remove false impressions. Again, a lying correspondent from Gen. Banks’ column, says: *¢ Chapin says with his own eyes he saw the wounded and sick shot down like dogs while attempting to escape. Also that the hospital steward and two lady nurses from Ohio were murdered in cold blood. He spent the morning in carrying in the wound- ed from the field, aided by others, and while engaged thus two shells “were thrown into the house, which probably set it on fire, and when he left the building was in flames, and all who attempted to escape were deliber- ately butchered. He only escaped by giv~ ing them leg bail, going out through the back yard and across the fields. The Un. ton Hotel, also used for a hospital, was also burned with the sick and wounded yet ia their beds. * * * * Surely such a people deserve the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.” The following, which appears reasonable, entirely refutes the above lies : BALTIMORE, June 2.— A respectable citi- zen of Baltimore has just arrived from Win- chester, having escaped from there on last Thursday. He states that Col. Kenley and a large portion of his command were prison. ers thers, and that the many rumors that we have received with regard to the brutal treatment of this regiment are altogether unfounded. The stories of burning the hos- pitals, with all in them, is altogether un- true, neither of the buildings having been injured.” Another correspondent says : » ‘“ All the prisoners are well treated. The sick, wounded and disabled, as well as the surgeons and hospital stewards and nurses, were paroled. Only a small portion of the prisoners were taken along with the rebel army. They claim to have taken 2000 pris- oners.”’ These infamous lies are gotten up by these Abolitionists for the purpose of exeit- ing the passions and prejudices of the North- ern against the Southern people. It 1s an Abolition scheme to prepare the Northern people through prejudice to sustain every unlawful measure the Administration may propose to inaugurate. The object seems to be to exterminate the whole Southern peo~ ple, and no measure or means are too re- volting.—Selinsgrove Times. Northern Conservatism. The Richmond Whug, which was opposed to secession until the State ot Virginia join- ed the Southern Confederacy, thus discours- es on Northern censervatism : * The people of tke Northare divided into two parties, in the present war, as in the peace that preceded it—the conservatives and destiuctives. The latter are our old enewmies, the Abolitionists, who are crazy people—honest, perhaps in their fanaticism, but fit only for a straight j~cket. The for. mer are our old friends, who used to declare that they loved us better than themselves, and that, before an army of invasion should march against the South, it should march over their dead bodies. It seems to be sup- posed that they Lave changed their charac~ ters, and been merged by war into one seeth- ing cauldron of Abolitionism. This. how-~ ever, is a great mistake. The war has not changed their character, but only discovered it to the world. It has shown them to be the falsest, the most treacherous, and the most hypocritical of mankind. But for con- servative men and conservative money, it could not be carried on a single day. Con servative cities have provided the cash and the soldiers ; conservative generals have led their armies ; conservatism has, in fine, proved the most formidable of our enemies. We are not aware of a single Abolitionist general who occupies a ccnspicuous position in the Federal hosts. McClellan, Rosecrans and others are somewhat ultra in their con- servatism ; and M’Cook, who said that if he had an Abolitionist in his army he would cut off his ears, is the same who proclaims ‘the South must be subdued or exterminat- ed.” The conservatism of these men is still, however, conservatism, only it does not mean, as we formerly supposed, the preser. vation of the Constitution and the rights of the States, but the conservatism of Northern commerce and manufactures, at any cost whatever to the South—at the cost of every life and hearthstone in its limits—at the cost of converting its whole territory into one vast scene of blood and tears. That is what Northern conservatism means, and nothing else. Itis, ina word the most detestable avarice—a love of money so passionate and absorbing that it would murder a whole people to fill its pockets. That is Northern conservatism ! In what 1s it better than Abolitionism 2” eto Speciar Notice * To THE DEMOCRACY. —If you observe thatany one advertises in both of the Republican papers in this place, and not in the Gazette, be very sure that it is for one or two reasons. Either, 1st : Be. cause he wishes to proscribe your party, and stifle its utterance through 'a free press; or 2d : Because he dees not desire your cus- tom. Don’t patronize him, therefore, to the amount of a cent. If you do, you are want- ing in self respect. If you have a road notice, an attachment or administrator’s notice, see to it that it is published in your own paper, for no Repub- lican ever allows a notice which he can con- trol to appear anywhere but in an abolition sheet. If you have an estate to partition, or if it be necessary to publish a notice to parties in any case in which you are interested, see to it that the advertising is given to your own paper. This is due alike to yourselves and to us. — Logan Gazette. ’ Our friends of the Gazette deal out whole- some advice, something that every Democrat should consider. —_— een 85 The motion of Mr. Porter, of Indiana to reconsider the vote by which the negro emancipation bill was defeated in the House of Representatives, was considered on Wed nesday last, yeas 84, nays 64—a number of Republicans who voted against the bill changing their votes, It was then commit. ted to the select committee, with instructions to report a substitute declaring free the slaves of those who shall hereafier hold of- fice of profit or honor in any of the rebellion States, and also providing for the acquisitios of lands on which to colonize such emanci- pated slaves. ———— el em een [I= When you are whistling in a printing office, and they say “louder,” don't you do it. The Great Fight Near Richmond. DETAILS OF THE SECOND AND THIRD DAY’S FIGHT. The correspondent of the New York Her ald furnishes the following defails of the second and third day's fight of the great bat- tle near Richmond ; SUNDAY—THE SECOND DAY, On Sunday our men stood to their arms before daylight, As the enemy chooses Sunday for his battle days we expected him; but we knew that if he did not advance there would be no battle, as Sunday 1s never chosen for a movement on our part, and would not be, apparently, ¢ven to win back our camp. So, fiom very early on Sunday it began to look like what it proved to be— an affair of three days. Our men, at dawn on Sunday, were dis- posed as follows : On the left, stretched across the Richmond road, the Sickles brigade was in the face of the enemy, at scarcely two hundred yards distance, posted on a slope so that the rise of tke ground toward the enemy served as a complete cover. To the right of Sickles, in a thick swamp, was Patterson’s New Jersey brigade. Both of these brigades faced toward Richmond, and this was the point at which our men had been pushed the hardest and farthest. To the right of Patterson, was Richard- son’s brigade, the line of which was drawn at right angles with the line of Sickles and Patterson. Richardson faced towarl the flank of the force, in front of those two bri gades. Sedgwick joined on to Richardson, and part of his division assisted to strength- en Couch’s line in the wood from which the rebels had been driven on Monday after- noon. Our first anticipation had scarcely settled into the conviction that the enemy intended to give Sunday to care for the dying and dead, chan we heard the pickets at it. It was in front of Richardson’s division. Rich- ardson’s line ran, as we have intimated par- allel with the railroad, and was on the north- ern side of it. IL he enemy was in our camps on the southern side of it. and in a strong | position covered by a swamp. Force was immediately sent forward to support the | pickets, and became engaged in its turn.— The enemy formed his men in line, and was disposed to feel us again. Our men had arisen from sleep in the anticipation of bat- tle, and their minds were ready for it.— | They were not green troops either, and the | day gave promise of hard work. | Soon the fire became general, and spread | along the lines of the Irish brigade, Frerch’s | brigade and the brigade of the gallant How. | ard. This day also, the enemy’s fire was | well directed and severe. Bul it was re | turned with certainly equal effect. and our | men pushed forward across the railroad and | down into the swamp, and now the enemy in his turn gave way. It was very difficult ground, and the men could not at all times keep the line, and were often up to their waists in water in the advances through the swamp. Yet still they kept on. Sometimes too, there may have been a wei kness under the fire, but the gallantry of the officers