BEDFORD INQUIRER. BEDFORD, Fa. Friday Morning. Aug. 2, 1861. "FEARLESS AND FREE." D- OVER—Editor and Proprietor. DELEGATE ELECTIONS. ANT> [COUNT! CONTENTION. Thk Republicans of Bedford County art requested to meet at the usual places of hold ing olcciioDP in the several Boroughs and Townships, on Saturday the 10th day of Angus' next, to elect two delegates for each Bor ough and Township, to represent tbero in a County Convention to be beld at the Court House iu Bedford on Tuesday the 13tb day of August, next, at 10 o'clock P. M. to nominate a County Ticket and a candidate for the Leg islature, and to appoint Conferees to meet sim ilar Cooferera from the other counties cf the 16th Judicial District, to nominate a candidate for President Judge of said District, and to appoint a County Committee for the ensuing year. Said delegate elections will he held be tween the hours of one and five o'clock Ft M. iu the Townships and between the houra of five and seven o'clock, P. M. in the Boroughs. By order of the County Committee. S.'L. RUSSELL. Chairman. ' July 19th 1861. A PLAIN QUESTION. The Bedford Inquirer makes it a point to censure and denounce every man who does not subscribe to ail the doctrines set forth in President Lincoln's Message, or who is unwilling to endotse tle Presi dent's undisguised and undisputed infraction of the Constitution Now, we would ask the Inquirer man a single plain question, to wbicb we demand . direct, unequivocal and straight-forward answer.— Should Congress, or the Administration, introduce into the programme of this unfortunate scar, the feature of Abolitionism, or should the war lake the shape of a context for the abolition of slavery in the Slate Slates, are you n favor of continuing the sti-uggle 7 Let ns have an answer to this—a fair, unevasive answer, and no dodging.— Gazette • We will give "a fair, frark, unevasive answer, and no dodging," to the above "plain question." We are in favor of the following Resolution, offered by Hon. Jobn J. Crittenden, iu tbe House of Representa tives, ou tbe 22d ult., and passed with only two dissenting votes, and these two were not members of the Republican party, but disou ionists of (lie type of the editor of tbe Bedford Gazette. Every Republican in the House vo ted for tbo Resolution. It is "a direet, une uuivocal and straight-forward answer" to the Gaz.ltc-'s "plain question," in every particular, and we aud the Rc-puliiean party arc in favor of it: Resolved, That the present civil war has been forced on us by tbe DisunionisU of tbe Southern States now in rebellion against the Government cf the United States ; that in this National emergency, Congress, banishing all feelings of passion and sentiment, will recollect only their duty to their couutiy : that the war is not waged for conquest or subjugation, or interfering with the rights or es tablished institutions of these States, but to main, tain and defend the supremacy of tbe Constitution with the rights and equality under it unimpaired that as soon as these objects shall be accomplished the war ought to cease. tVilham Wirt, in bis life of Patrick Henry, gives us en account of a suit brought by a man named John Hook against a Mr. Venable. The defendant was a Commissary io tbo army of the Revolution, and had taken two of Hook's steers for li e use of the troops. Hook brought Lis notion to recover damages and Venable employed Henry to defend bim. Tbe biogra pher, speaking of the address of Virginia's great orator tc tic jury, says: lie painted the distresses of the American army, reposed almost naked to the rigour of a winter's sky, and marking the froaen ground over which they marched, with the Mood of their unshod feet; ! where was the man, he said, who had an American heart in bis bosom, who would not have thrown opcr : his fields, his barns, bis cellars, tbe doors of hie house, the portals o< his breast, to bave received with open arms, the meanest soldier in tnat little b-.ud of famished patriots T Where is the man f There he stands—but whether tbe heart ot an American beats in his bosom, you, gentlemen, are to He then carried the jury, by the pow ers cf bis imagination, to the plains around York, the surrender of Which bad followed shortly after the act complained of; be depicated the surrender in tbe most glowing und noble colors of his elo quence—the and . rce saw before their eyes the humiliation and dejection of the British, as they marched out of thc.r trr-cchcs—they saw the tri umph which lighted up every patriot face, and heard the rhouts of victory, and the cry of Wash ington ai'd liberty, as it rung and echoed through the American ranks, anu was r c riberated from the hills and shores of the neighboring river "but liark. what note* of discord arc thci>e which dis turb the general Joy, and silence the acclamations of victory—they are the notes of John /look. hoarsely bawl' g Urrcugh the American camp, beef I beef! htrf ! ' During the war now going ou for the Union and the preservation of that government wbioh our Revolutionary patriot! established, tbe discordant note which we bear iu this re gion is not tLc cry of "beef," but tie bawling of "Beef Meyers," inquiring "who is to pay tbo pipei? ' We neglected to notice last week thit the Tenth Regiment of the Reserve Corps, Col. BleCalmont, commscding, Was Ilia side of Hopewell on its way to Cumberland, but that tbe order was countermanded. They left io the ears for Hageretowu. Tbe Somerset In fantry, company A, was in this Regiment, 3ies*rs. 0. H. Giither and Edwin Koonta, lately of Bedford belong to it. The first and fifth Regiments of the Penn* { sylvinia Reserve Corps of Volunteers, Cols. Biddle and Simmons, pissed through ottr place from New Creek and Piedmont, on their way to Harper's Ferry via Hopewell. The first j quartered in the Court House and other pub- i public buildings, ou Sunday afternoon, and ; left oa Monday morning. This is the celebra ted "Buck Tall" regiment, and the men are all fine looking, the officers are efficient, and no doubt the regiment will fully sustaio the hon or of the eld Keystone when they meet the enemies of their country on tbe field of oom bat. The fifth regiment enoatuped five miles South of Bedford oo Moodsy evening, aud Tuesday morning they marobed through our towo, presenting tbe fioest appearance; the men are well drilled, march well, and Col. I SimmoDs appears to havo them under complete subordination. Col. Simmons, Lieut. Col. PI, and Major Dare, tbe field officers, are among the best io the service, and the Captaios, Lieutenants and other officers as woll as tbe privates, are cxselloot men, and we expeet to bear a good icport from tbetn on the field of b&itlr. Success always attend tbe gallant fiist ana fifth. "WHAT DOES THE BOOBY WANT?" "The above beaotifnlly conceived and ele gantly worded interrogatory" we find in the last issue of Captain Meyers of the black hearted cavalry. He calls us a ? 'booby" which hurts our " pheiink #" very much. Ac cording to Webster, booby means buffoon, and the Captain, when he used it, must bave had ir. his mind "Boabdil," who wrote the commu nication for the Gasotte, headed "How to set tle the war." But what do we want? John Quincy Adams wrote— "Man wants but little here below, Nor wasts that little long, With ns 'tis not exactly so But 'lis so in the song." We unfortunately want a great many things, but there is one thing we do not want. We dou't want an affidavit. Don't swear, Meyers, but just tell as who is guilty of that lie. The last Bedford Gitette contains what pur-1 ports to be a "Letter from Western Virginia," in whiob ooonrs the following: "By the way, I saw a leading Secessionist have a well-worn oopy of the 'Bedford Inquirer,' a few days ago, from which he read to a few listeners the statement that there were a considerable num* ber Secessionists in Bedford County. He { chuckled over it considerably." In the first place, we do not believe the letter was written in Western Virginia; in the next, we are sorry that tbe people outaido of Bedford County should know Chat we have secessionists hero but they wr.uld find out this faet whether we publish it or not; aud in the next, tbe Gazette should stop its treasonable coarse, and support the "Union, tbe Constitution and the enforce ment of tbe laws," and then we will publish tbe fact to the world, and give that paper the proper credit. Tn* PENNSYLVANIA RiCSERV Tbil is tbe title of A paper, the second number of which is before us, published by the typos of the stb Reserve regiment, Pa. Volunteers, whilst tbey lay at Piedmont, Va. B. R. Hall, Company E, and Frs. Kilburn, Company K, editors, and G. C. Wilson, Coa-p. J, and R. W. Smith and R. J. Fry, Comp. K., typos. It was printed in the office of A. B. Trowbridge, a union nitn who was oompelled by the secessionists to leave Piedmont. Mr. Trowbridge is now printing a good union paper in Wheeling, and gave bis permission to the gallant typos of tbe sib to print the Rtstrvt. Tbe Reserve was neat, well conducted, and reflects honor on tbe boys. The loss of the rebels at Mannassas is put down by some at 3000 killed and 6000 wound ed, tbe lowest reports are 3000 killed and wounded, whilst that of our forces will not reach 1000 killed and wonnded. It is asoer tained also that at tbe time of tbe panic, tbe rebels were retreating. The rebels acted like the Sepoys, in bayocetting and shooting our wounded. The anniversary of tbe Bedford Bible Society, will be held In the Presbyterian Oburcb, at 7\ P. M., on Sunday or Monday evening neat. Definite notice will be given from tbe Pulpits on Sabbath morning. Gentlemen from abroad and also from the town are expected to address the meeting. The firing at tbe battle of Manaases on Sun day, week, was diatiuctly beard iu all parts of Bedford County. From Bedford to Ma nassas, in an air line, is about 100 miles. Mr. Henry Werti, the candidate of thr se cession Iraotle, for Poor Direotor, declines tbe nomination. Don't Mr. Wert* like the j company in which he was placed ? The Bedford Taylor Guards are expected borne to-day, (Thursday.) Our citisens should give them a hearty welcome home. (■en. Scott. We print in another place an interesting ar. tide from The Times , vindicating Gen. Soott, so far as he chooses to be vindicated, from complicity in the disaster at Bull Run. Oo the points presonted, that vindication, if any were needed, is complete. There are seme additional considerations that might be submitted at another time, which would be uttorly out of place now. Gen. Seott is now tbe ebeet-anehor of tbe Republic, and everything that streugtbenc him strengthens the Nation. There eas be no remaining doubt tbat be was right in tbe premise* in choosing to post pone an advance, and tbat we who differed trom him were deplorable wrong. Let every thought of distrust be banished, while we rally around tbe glorious old Chief awd save the Union,— JVVW York Tritmrn. BEDFORD ENQUIRER. THE BATTLE AT BULL RUN. WASHINGTON, Friday, July 26, 1861. As will be seen by the retaro of the killed, wonnded end missing of tbe Seeond Regiment Scott Life Guards, 38th New York Volunteers, their* loss was at least as large as that of any regiment engaged at Bull Run, in the aggre* gate two hundred and one. The 38th waa under fire nearly one half hour earlier than the Fire Zouaves, aud at least an hour before the 69tb, in praise of whom so much justly b s been said and writ en Repeatedly repulsed, the 38th alwaya ral lied—three times under severe fire. Tboy res cued and took from the enemy Griffin's battery, which wag afterward again lost, and repulsed with great slaughter the Rebel* in their re newed attempt to recapture the battery. Their Colonel, J. H. Qobart Ward, who served during tbe war with Mexico, .and waa breveted for his good conduct on the field, throughout tbe late battle was collected,(cour ageous and eucrgetic. Wherever bis men faltered there he was to rally aod encourage them, and where danger appeared be confront ed it. Lieut.-CoI. Farnswortb, of the same regi ment, who bad been upon the siek list for a week previous to the battle, aod unable to mount his horse, was brought to tbe field in an ambulance. Notwithstanding his disability, be took bis place with his regiment, conducting himself throughout *tho battle, and during the disastrous retreat, wi ; h distinguished gallant ry The hero of the noble instance of magnan imous aelf-sacrifioa on tbe part of a Surgeon of one of the city regiments, heretofore men* tioued, who nobly surrendered himself to the enemy rather than dcseit his wounded com rades, was Dr. Stephen Griswold, Assistant- Surgeon of the Thirty-eighth. Though this regiment was as long in the ao lion as any upon the field, though officers and men bore themselves bravely, and suffered largely, they seem hitherto to have escaped nctioe. Honor to whom honor is due. A correspondent of The Baltimore Sun, writiug from Leesburg, estimates the rebel loaa io Sunday's battle at 2.000 io killed and wounded, aaya that 1,142 prisoners were taken among them tbe Hon. Alfred Ely of New York. Fortjatwo pieces of cannon, 15,000 small-arms, and over 100 wagons were cap tured. If the number of prisoners be as exaggera ted as that of arras, 30 or 40 per eenl at least must he deducted. According to the same authority, the South Carolina troops, especially Wade Hampton's aristocratic legion of cavalry, suffered most terribly. From a private letter from Leeahnrg, re ceived here, we learu that in addition to Gens. Bee of South Carolina, aDd Barlow of Geor gia, Gen Eppa 11 unto a of Virginia was killed. The rebel loss is estimated at 1,000 or 1,500. Col. Corcoran is reported to be slightly wonnded, aod at Manassas Junction. The Ist Rhode island Regiment went home unexpectedly last night. Tho three mouths men are acDt away as fast as possible. The Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey Regi ments, the 69th, 71st, and Bth New York have gone. The Senate Committee have reported Mr. Simmons's Tariff bill altored so as to pnt five cents npon molasses, instead of four; fifteen cents instead of ten, upon tea; and upon cof fee four cents, inste d of five. Four Pennsylvania Regiments Lavs arrived, alo two regiments of tie Sickles Brigade. Postal eommnoicatien hence to Harper's Ferry is now established. Major llenry J. Hunt bas been appointed Chief of Artillery for the Army of the Polo* msc. Major Hunt was breveted some years ago for meritorious conduct. Gen. Bleoker's brigade cross into Virginia to-day. There ar* seven or eight regiments at or near Arlingten Bouse. Col. Porter is io immadiate command. Col. Lander lays rhat be would rather fiabt another battlo with the troops who fell back at Bull Run, than with the new levies. He values the experience of one suob battle hiab- Ij- We understrnd that Gen. MeCiellan is in the habit of seeing to everything himself, and making sure that all is right, and that bis officers are doing thoir duty and exeooting his orders. A rcoonnoissanoe in foros would not be likely to be made, unless be were near enough to be oonsulted. He is a rigid discip linarian, because he knows how to "organize victory." His arrival will be equivalent to 10,000 men. It will be seen by tbe subjoined genersl or der that Gen. MeClellan's oommand will in clude Gen. Mansfield's as well as Gen. McDow ell's department, and two oouoties in Maryv land as well. Geueral Orders No. 47.J WAB DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S • OFFICE, Washington July 25, 1861. first f There will bo added to the Depart ment of the Shanandoah, the counties of Washington and Allegany, io Maryland, in its operations. And there will be added to ; the Department of Washington tbe counties of Prince George, Montgomery and Frederick. The remainder of Maryland, and all Pennsyl vania and Delaware, will constitute the De partment of Pennsylvania, headquarters Bal timore. The Department of Washington and the Department of North-eastern Virginia will constitute a geograpbioal division under Major Gen. MoClellan, U. 8. A., headquarters, Washington Second : All officers of volunteer regiments will be subject to examination by a Military Board, to be appointed by this Department with the concurrence of tbe General in Chief ae to their fitness for the position assigned them. Those officers found to be incompetent will be rejected, and the vacancies thus occaa •toned will be filled by the appointment of such persons as may have passed the examination before the Board. Fourth: Captain Robert Garland and First Lieutenant Edward J. Brooks, Seventh Infant ry, haviug given evideuoe of disloyalty, are dropped from tho rolls of the arrnv, to date from May 23d, 1861, and May 16tb, 1861, respectively. First Lieutenant James Lcsbler, Tenth Infantry, having overstayed his leave of absence, and failed to report to the Com manding Officer of tbe Department of tbe Weat, is dropped from tb rolls of the army, to date from July 18th,1861. By order L. THOMAS, Adjutant Geo. 1; je believed by officers who prophesied de- feat at Bull Ran, that tbe oext battle will give us victory. Evidence of the barbarity of tbe Rebels Is constantly coming in. Bi. Barnes, surgeou of tbe New York £Btb Begimenr, left 30 wounded men, to whom be had been attending, under a tree, while be went to assist Col. Slo cum. Several had suffered amputation, and one brave fellow, who had lost his leg, was leaning against a tree. When Dr. Barnes retnrned most of the wounded men were fonnd dead, having been bayonetted, among them, those upon whom he had operated. Dr. Barnes has given his testimony to the Salu tary Commission, and it will doubtless appear in an official form, io oounectiou with a Urge amount of other evidenoe of a similer charac ter.. Brig. Gen. i'hilip Kearney has been ordered to report here for duty. Commodore StriDgham reports to the Navy Department a very considerable capture made in Baok River. Three manned and equipped launches from the Minnesota, two from tbe Roanoke, with four hosts from Fort Monroe, about noon on Wcdoesday went up Baok Riv cr, returning at two aclock on Thursday morning. They report having burned ten vessels, schooners, snd sloops, and have brought lack a schooner heavily laden with corn aud provisions. They saw no batteries and no Rebels, except a few scouts. Toe Dawn arrived st Hampton Roads yesterday with a heavily laden aioop in tow, captured on her way from Cherrystone, to get up York River. The Captain and a little boy escaped in a small boat to the shore. Eight pas-en gera were found on board, who are detained OD I tbe Minnesota. The Navy Department has information of the recapture of the schooner Eoobantress, from tbe pritc crew pot aboard her by the Jeff. Davis. One of the blockading squadron nibbed her as she was creeping along tbe coast toward Charleston. In all tbe accounts that have been published of tbe battle on Sunday not a word has been said of Colonel Dvies and his brigade, which a part of Col. Miles'* division, bat was left by bim to the orders of its immediate commander. Upon Col. Dsvies, indeed, dovolved the com. uiand of the whole division during most of the day, in consequence of Col. Miles's unfortu nate condition. We are enabled to send you the following interesting aooount of tbe operations of tbe left vriag, furnished us by a gentlemen who accompanied the Brigade under Col. Danes, from whioh it appears that to the left is due tbe credit of saviog tbe army from a real, as well as an imaginary defeat. The left wing was composed of Blenker's, Duvies's sod Richardson's Brigades, and Green's and Hunt's Light Batteries, and was under tbe command of Col. Miles. Blenker's Brigade formed tbe reserve, and did not go in to action. By order of Col. Davies, who, it the request of Col. Miles, took command of tbe division, Hunt's two 20-pound guns were stationd, and commenced firing rspiJly nearly fifteen rods Oist of tbe road from Centrevilleto Bull Ruo. nd ebout three quarters of a mile from the batteries of tbe enemy at Blackburn's Ford. The 18tb New York Regiment was drawn up in line of battle in the open field, to pro teot tbe battery, and tbe 32d Regiment in tbe road, as reserve. About a mile east of the battery was a road, raising in a southerly di reotion, whioh could be entered from another road loading easterly from tbe Centreville road. By older of Col. Davie9, at about ten o'clock, tbe 16tb and 31st New York Regiments took position on tbe latter road, to prevent tbe ap* proacb of tbe enemy upon our rear from that direction. Two guns of Hunt's Bttery were also placed at its junction with the road to Centreville. Tbe ammunition of tbe 20 pounders was now nearly exhausted, and they, for a time, ceased firing, having done great execution up on the enemy, and having accomplished their object. About an hour later, by order of Col. Miles, tbe regiments and battery which had be*n stationed to protect tbe rear, returned, and all the guns were plioed in tbe open field near tbe 20-pouoders, no J commenced firing. The 16 b and 31st were plaoed so as to sup port tbe guns, and tbe 18th and 32d were sta tioned on tbe road to Centrevilld as a reserve —the lattor noarly a mile from tbe field. Col onel Miles now retired, and the command again devolved upon Colonel Davies, who sent tbe pioneers to fell trees to obstruct tbe roads be fore teferred to, io order to prevent the ap proaoh of the enemy. The good effects of this movement were ex perienced not long afterward, when a large body of tbe enemy were seen returning from a vain attempt to pass over the road, and they were scattered by a shower of shot from the batteries. IQ tbe mean time it bad become evident that tbe enemy wer6 forming in great numbers upon our left, and accordingly about 4 o'clock two oompanies of skirmishers were sent into tbe wooda at our rear, supported by tho 32d Regiment. Soon about two thousand cavalry and three thousand rifles of the ene my were seen at our left, filiug through an opening in tbe woods, and coming into a valley about a quarter of a mile distant. They were permitted to advance until the rear ot their column bad entered tbe valley, when our forces were ordered to change front so as to faoe them, and a oompany of infantry was plaoed between every two cannon. Tbe 16th regiment was then stationed on the right, ! and the 31st on the left of tbe guns. There a well, direoted shot from the 24 pounder fell among the Rebels, who brought up tbe rear, with such forea as to send a borse and bis rider into tbe air, to kill several, and cause tbe remainder to ruah io oloee oonfnaion into tbe lowest part of tbe valley. Then our batteries poured forth so deadly a deluge of grape and oauister, that tbe bowl and groans of the wounded smote or.: C2:e even through the roar of artillery. Yet tic riflos of the enemy were not siieucod, and for twenty minutes round after rouod did they fire, their shot flying harmless over our men, who were on the opposite slope of tbe bill lying on their faces in safety. During this time, some of the Rebels retreated to a barn near by, but these who survived a few shot scut through its aides, fled i bet haata, through tbe wooda. Evety effort was made by tbe foe to provoke 'our infantry to return their fire, but to no pure pose; our artillery alone replied, end they were obliged to retreat with greatly diminished num bers in great oonfosion. Too mueh praise esunot be given to Col. Davies for forbidding the infantry to discharge tbeir pieces, sod to the soldiers for their suif-control io obeying while exposed to so hot * fire, Had they dis obeyed, the cavalry would have made a charge before the muskets could be reloaded, aod, destroyiog our left, weuld have swept with fury upon the astonished centre. During the whole day the betteries under Col. Bevies, directing their fire wherever a cloud of dust betokened the presence of the enemy, rapidly scattered them. One abot was sent into a bouse occupied by one of the Reb el Generals as headquarters. When the cen ter bud commenced its retreat, by order of Col Miles, the victorious left wing fell back to Ceotrcvillc in perfect order, while their or ders were given to retire to Fairfax Court House, Gsn. Blenker's Brigade bringiug op tbe rear. Tbo second Brigade continued its march to Alexandria, and arrived there io as good condition as when they left, exeept that they had lost one killed, sod two wounded, and one taken prisoner. The Cabinet. The JV. Y. Times continues in its succes* sive issues to demand tbe dismissal of certain members of President Lincoln's Cabinet, who arc charged with having urged the reeent ad vaoco aod with general opposition to the views of Gen. Scott. Alas! must tho country suffer further by tho cootinuaooe of these insane, fatal dissensions? A terrible despotism, silent as oigbt and relentless as tbe grave, is couch, ing for a deadly spring at tho throat of the Republic, aod we srand bickering as to who shall fill the places of power and trust—say rather of anxioty and peril. Has tbe past no lessons for us that wc can read on her fresh est pages of blood? Dow much further must we suffer ere we learn the needed moral? We bavo confessed our own terrible mistake in ihe premises, and are trying to amend it. Gen. Scott has been equally ingenious and candid. "It was a miscalculation of forces," j he says of the recent disaster. That is the ; real truth. None of us had any idea of tbe ! immer.se numbers and tremendous enginery of j War that tbe Rebels had silently collected! around their position at Manassas Junction, j Whoever ordered or planned tbe attack ou that j position was utterly unaware of their strength. | Nothing ou esrth conld have induced Geu. Scott to order, or even give a formal assent to, ! that movement, bad not he too been systematic ' cally and utterly deceived. Very few dreamed that that position was to be attacked in front, hut supposed it would he turned, and the Rebels compelled to retire from it bf in tercepting tbeir communications. But there i is no time now for these disscussions. Put all j the blame on us that can bo laid there for tbe j benefit of the Cause, bat hush all bickerings— j well meant, doubtless, but most untimely— , and let os try to save the country. We pray the President to dismiss no one of ' his present constitutional advisers. The pub- j lie will has unequivocally pronounced against any change at present. Such a step would j have a most unfortunate influence on the pub- j ho mind. We oannot afford such a manifests- j tion in the face of our flushed and imminent ' foes. All together now, and let us try to woik j the good ship off the breakers —JV.F. Trib. j Rebel Account of the Battle. Official Despatch Front President Davis. LOUISVILLE, July 26. A special Rich inood despatch to the Charleston . Mercury, dated (he 23 1 instant, says that as soon as it became evident that the enemy meant to give battle, President Davis hastened to the scene of aetion, arriving in time to t3ke part in the battle, and immediately assumed the commtnd of the centre. Geo. BcauregirJ commanded the right wing and Gen. Johnston the left. It was against the latter that the enemy concen trated the best troops, and fought most obstis nately that the issue of the conflict in tbit di raetion seemed doubtful, Ii was here that the Barton Georgia Regiment was posted, which wa j so terribly cut up. A large body of our troops from the oentre was sent at this critical moment to the as.is. tanoe of Gen. Johnston, and turned the tide of battle. The enemy broke and fled before the impetuous charges of the Southerners, and the battle became a route. A letter from Richmond, dated the 2'2d, says that Congress met at noon, and after prayer the following despatch was read before that body: MANASSAS J UNCTION, Sunday night. The bight has closed npoo a bard-fought field. Our foroea were victorious. The ene-1 my were routed, and precipitately fled, aban doning a large amount of arms, knapsacks, and baggage. The ground was strewn fqr miles with those killed, and the farm-houses and grounds around were filled with the woun ded. Pursuit was oontinued along several routes towards Leesburg and Ceotreville until darkness covered the fugitives. We have oap tured many field batteries and stand of arms, and one of the United States flags. Many prisoners have been taken. Too high praise cannot be bestowed, wheth er for the skill of the principal oflue.-s or the gallantry of all our troops. Tiro battle was main ly fought ou our left. Our foree was 15,600, that of the enemy was estima ted at 35,000. JXRRSKSON DAVIS. Another report says that the entire Confed erate foree was 40,000. and tho entire forces of the United States about 80,000. No particulars were received of the dead and wounded. L. M. Brush had been arrested at Manassas as a spy, with Federal passes on bis person. The Nanhviile Railroad connection is now made at the State line, end there is no deten tion of passengers between Nashville and Louisville. SOUTHERN All/COST. It appears, from calculations at the Post Office Department, that the yearly income from postage in the boceuou States amounted to only #900,000, while tho expense of transporting the mail in the same States exceeded this suru by 3,000,000, whieh is now saved to the Gov* eminent by thsir suspension iu those States. And yet these scoundrels opprttstd them! Did over lying impudence further go ? RHSCMATISM ean be permanently emed by "Dr. Leland's Anti Rheumatic Bawd." See advertisement of "Great dure" in another eel* July 26, 1861. Elena Tfeaawotf Hen Placed in Che Fieldlu four Dajs HARRtsacRO, July 26. Since the diu*ter to the national arms on Sunday last the State of Pennsylvania be* thrown forward, to oieet the requirement? of tbe National Government, ten full regiments of infantry. On Sunday J nl gbt, July, 21st, the Governor was urgently requested to pusb on hie forces, and bin re : spouse within tbeenaoing four days was a mag j Dificeot army of nearly 11,(00 picked men, j t boroughly ontformed and furnubed tod having moat of them been regularly drilled in camps |of instruction for two months. One addition al regiment will be tent before tbe clow of the | week. Great pciua have been bestowed by the j State authorities upon thta fine army. It baa ! been organized under the supervision of George ' A. McOall, long an officer in tbe regular army, through all the gtadea of which be has passed with distinction, to the rank he now holds in it of brigadier general. Tbe State baa also an artillery rogiment and a regiment of twelve hundred cavalry, nearly ready for aerviee, botb of wbieh have been accepted by tbe Secretary of War. To the toresigbt and wise energy of Gover nor Curtio is chiefly owing tbe ability of tho State to contribute so promptly and tffioiently ' to tbe national safety in the present euacigen* cj. ■ ■ ■■-■ ■ % THK TAX BILLS. The committee of Waye and Means will withdraw tbe bill providing for a tax now bea fore the Hnnsc, and report one with impor" tent modifications. The amount to be raised by direct taxation will be reduced one-tbird or say one-half, $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 The income tax will probably bo per cent on all incomes over SSOO. The excise on distil leries will be unchanged. A resolution will be offereed in the House to-morrow rrquestiue the President to propose the exchange of Messers. Harnett end Vallan digham for tbe HOD. Alfred Ely, now a pris oner at Manassas. it may be voted down on the ground of the improbability that the Reb els will give up one cf our men in return for two whoru fbey have already. Gen McClellan arrived tonight, not yester day, as staled by some of your coteinporaries, and will take command of the Division com prising the Departments of Washington and. North Eastern Virginia to-morrow. The city already feels stronger than it has since Sunday, and in every camp the effect of his arrival upon the soldiers is most inspiriting. Gen. McDowell paid his respeots to his com manding officers this evening. ON S OP THE BALTIMORE BONAPARTES OF FERED THE SOUTHERN CROWN.— Malakoff, the Pari* correspondent of the N. Y. ••Times,'' writes: I have just been informed tbat the agent* of the Southern Confederacy at Paris have for mally made a proposition in writing to young Capt. Bonaparte, formerly of Baltimore, to ac cept the position of Military Dictator of the Southern Confederacy, with a crown at hit disposal, whenever he may deem it necessary to assume the dignity. If anything were wanting to prove the moral and political de gradation into which the politicians of the Slave Slates have fallen, sorely this last effort furnishes the coup dt grace. When any con siderable section of a great country has fallen as low as this in the ecale of morality, e little of the purifying 4 influeuce of the sword, inde pendent of any question of recession or slavery, will do no harm. Pctunately for Lim, Capt. Bonaparto (as well as his grandmother, Madam Patterson Bonaparte,) goes for the Union, and the Captain refused the unclean and unnatural preposition is the most decided way. Major Gen. McClellan and Prayer.. Dr. Thompson, pastor of Second Presbyte rian church, Cincinnati, relates that he vas recently seated in his study, when a gentlemen requested an interview which was grantedi. He came to disease the affairs of the country, expressing his anxiety about its condition, and at length requested the Doctor to pray for the Republics and for him. The Doctor of course complied, and after further conversation on this theme, the gentleman requested tLe minis ter to pray tri/A hitn. They knelt upon the floor, >nd the visitor, in a devout and eloquent petition, invoked the aid and protection ot the Almighty in the straggle in whiob the Repub lic is involved. My visitor, taicbDr. Thomp son, was Major-General George B. McClellan. It was the most touohing and unaffected inci dent I ever witnessed.— Rtligiout Herald. Corporal Hayes, the hero of the late skir mish , near Cumberland, is a native of York county, in this SUle, and lived for several years in Harrisburg,, where he worked with Speel and Zollinger. He was severely woun ded in the fight, having one ball through the shoulder, another through the thigh, and a sa bre out over tbo bead. Beiog a man of pow erful frame and exoellent constitution, ho makes light of bis wounds, and hopes soon to* have another brash with the rebels. A story is told of Bsoator Joseph Lane, of Oregon, whioh will bear repetition:—Ao oeunts of the Senator's rebel sentiments end movements preeeded his retnrn home, and, it is said, rendered hitn very unpopular, particu larly after the attaok on Fort Sumter. When he reached the shores of the Psaitio he began to feel his unpopularity in various but no remark that was made to him and in his hearing was more cutting than that of a stage driver with whom he had entered iai<i conversant, tioo without dUc.osing hi; same. lu the oourse of his talk tbe Senator took occasion to re> {nark thai he considered himself at that time about the worst abused man in the State.— "Well, I don't knew about that," replied the driver. "If you are any worse abused than that rascal, Jo. Lane, God help you,"- SALAUISS or FORXIGN MINIPTXBS.- -The salaries of tbe Ministers to London and Paris ars 917,500 oboh; to Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Pekin, Turin, Mexico and Rio Janeiro, 912,000, to Santiago and Lima, 910, 000; to all the other courts, 97,500. The con suls at London and Liverpool have a salary of 97,200; at Rio Janeiro, Havana and Havre, at 96,000; at Calcutta, Paris and Japan, 96,000, at Hong KoDg Alexandria, Fooobow,Vsra Crux, Panama and Callao, 93,500; at Glasgow, Frankfort, Constantinople, Tripoli, Tangier Atpiy,Ningpo,Lahaioa and Valparaiso, 93,000.
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