Colycr. -- He came to me and asked
me- my. opinion. I- gave. it to him, and
told him I thought it was injudicious
at this time—that it would look as
though I intended to disregard the
laws of the State, which would de
stroy all my influence, and make me
a very unwelcome visitor to the peo
ple of North Carolina. I treated the
gentleman kindly, made no threats to
him, nor did I give him advice or in
structions. I have been misrepresent
ed in the whole matter, which has un
necessarily engendered a bad feeling.
Mr. Lincoln is no Abolitionist. He
is the best friend the South has got.—
Look at his proclamation to Hunter.
It is full of meaning. If you will not
take these things into your hands,you
must abide by the consequences. lour
ports and custom houses can be open
ed in less than thirty days.
_ I am hero for your benefit, to get
you out of a bad scrape, and bring you
back to your allegiance.
Tell your leaders what I say. Go
and tell the people what I have said.
If this war lasts, what is to be done?
what will be your condition ? I can't
say how long I can remain with you,
or how long it will be in my power to
avert the approaching dangers. My
interest calls me away; my affections
and hope of doing good keep me here.
The Administration wants peace.—
The Government did not commence
the war. Ima no agent of Abolition
generals. When required to be such I
will leave you, and return with a hea
vy heart. I will do nothing unbecom
ing a Christian gentleman and patriot.
Beaufort, glorious old Beaufort !
How Often I have thought of you, the
home of my early friends, who have
made me what I am, these scenes of
my childhood ! Listen to a friend and
countryman, who has ever been true
to you. Come under the old flag
which has protected you so long and
well.
The gallant champions now in arms
for the Union would fight for you to
morrow if you were with us, and should
your rights be invaded. You have
proved your courage, and are now able
to sec, the wicked intentions of your
bad leaders, many of whom deserve
the halter.
I am told that I had better go back
—that I can accomplish no good here,
and that my coming will displease the
extremes on both sides. I notice no
such , nonsense.
It -would have been far more agree
able for me to come to you as a pri
vate citizen. As it is, however, there
is no love lost between me and those
Avho find so much fault.
I come not to insult you. I come
to do good. I shall not be able to
control armies forever, nor stay the
uplifted band. Unless you soon show
a disposition to accept of honorable
terms, the war will go on, and the ar
my will be forced to march inward.
Why did Mr. Lincoln send me ? I
did not vote for him. He knew that
I was born among you, and would
stand between you and all harm and
the able to suggest such terms as you
(could honorably accept. I come With
the olive branch, and stand, for the
dime being, between you and the pow
erful armies of the Republic, whose on
ward march will sweep you under, and
necessarily destroy your institutions
-.when brought in contact with opposing
forces. Soon it will be too late for you
to accept of my honorable terms. Then
events must be left to the harsh and
cruel necessities of the justice which is
vindicated by the sword.
Old friends-- , -honored gray hairs—l
come for your benefit. You who have
come from the distant counties to hear
me to-day and take home what I say.
Your interest demands peace. You
desire to be free from turmoil and bat
tle strife. Why, then, will you not in
sist on baying these troubles brought
to , dose.-? I believe you will act.—
Wrom the signs of the times it is very
evident that a great reaction has ta
ken place in the hearts of the people.
If your people should refuse to act,
and will still cling to Secession, and are
given up to your idols, I must then
leave you with a sad heart.
To my country I will do my duty.
And to you, my old friends to whom I
atm so much attached, I will also do my
Zuty. Can I ever forget you ? The
monarch may forget his crown, the
bright sunbeams may forget to shine,
.but I never will forget friends so dear,
.and a people who have done so much
-for me.
Where is Fort Done Leon, Columbus,
Macon, Pulaski ? Where is New Or
leans? Where are all the rebel forti
fications? Before New Orleans fell,
:some distinguished British subjects,
who had been and examined all of its
-fortifications, went to Washington and
told the Government that New Orleans
could not be taken, that it wasimpreg
nable, and begged of the Government
to desist; that the Federal troops
would meet with a greater disaster and
more slaughter than did the English
troops in their attempt to take that
.city. how was it? What are the re
sults? New Orleans was taken before
breakfast. All bell could not prevent
the Yankees from taking that city, or
any other. Where are Nashville,New
bern, Roanoke Island, Corinth, and all
the fortified cities and batteries on the
Mississippi river ? All fell into the
hands of the Federal troops within a
few months after they undertook the
job. Well may foreign nations marvel
at the power of this Government. We
have accomplished in months what it
would take years for foreign Powers
to accomplish. Well may they trem
ble at our greatness.
You say that you are in want of the
=necessaries of life. Where is there a
citizen destitute of food? Show him
to me, and I will see that his wants
aro supplied• This I am authorized
to do.
Some of you appear to have a faint
hope for the Confederacy still. Wait
untilyou hear from Richmond. Even
suppose that the results are disastrous
-to the Union army, it would only de
lay the contest a little longer. The
-thousands upon thousands of unem
ployed troops now in the North who
.aro so anxious to share the glories
: awaiting the Union armies, would be
.c.alled into the field at -once, and finish
this struggle at a blow.
We ask for peace, and are willing to
forget and forglve. The Government
can afford to be generous, for she has
vindicated_ her power. Listen to the
voice of reason, conscience, and patri
otism.
The great Jehovah—the author of
peace and love of concord—commands
vs to cease shedding each other's blood.
Take things into your own hands, dis
card political aspirants who fight for
fear of punishment, and ten thousand
times ten thousand shall rise up and
call you blessed.
_ . _ _
(61Din.
HUNTINGDON, PA
Tuesday afternoon, July 8, 1862.
Our Flag Forever
"I know of no mode in which a loyal citi
zen may so well demonstrate his devotion to
his country as by sustaining the Flag, the
Constitution and the Union, under all circum
stances, and UNDER EVERY ADMINISTRATION,
REGARDLESS OF PARTY POLITICS, AGAINST ALL
ASSAILANTS, AT HOME AND ABROAD."-STEPIIEN
A. DOUGLAS.
Democratic State Convention.
- Curiosity took us to Harrisburg
the 4th. We attended the Democratic
State Convention as a spectator, and
were not surprised to - find it packed
with men as delegates who have been
repeatedly repudiated by the honest
Democracy of the State. But as the
honest Democracy do not make office
hunting a trade, and are not ambitious
to excel in intrigue and deception,
they permitted the old rotten politi
cians of the State to again meet to
gether to devise ways and means to
insult the true patriotism of our coun
try. The same men who aided the
Secessionists to secede from the Dem
ocratic party in 'l3O, and who have
ever since been acting directly or in
directly with them in opposition to
the Government, were largely in the
majority, and were only kept from
passing resolutions more open in sym
pathy with the rebels, through fear of
defeating their candidates by the
weight of their platform. We must
admit that the resolutions are more
respectable than we had a right to ex
pect from a committee with such an
old political sinner at its head as Ar
nold Plumer. Several of the resolti
tions every true Union man can en
dorse—they are the natural sentiments
of all loyal men, Democrats and Re
publicans. IL is only necessary to ex
amine the resolutions to discover a
party feeling that should disgrace any
man yielding his consent to it, espe
cially at a time when the President is
making every honest effort to save the
country. The leaders in this Conven
tion should be the last men to ask for
an opposition to President Lincoln.—
They should remember that the peo
ple have not yet forgotten the Bu
chanan Administration and their course
during the last Presidential campaign.
The nominee for Auditor General,
Mr. Slenker, of Union county, we have
no doubt is a man fully competent to
discharge the duties of the office—but
if he can endorse every resolution in
the platform upon which the Conven
tion has placed him, we cannot sup
port him. The nominee for Surveyor
General, Barr, of the Pittsburgh Post,
will not be in the way of the success
of any ordinary man who may be vo
ted for in opposition to him. He is
one of the very smallest of the small
kind of huckstering politicians. He
has been fishing for an office with va
rious kinds of bait for some years.—
The a nigger" wont save him from
defeat.
Party Spirit,_
There is a strong penchant shown
by certain would-be politiCians to or
ganize strict party issues, and to draw
the lines as closely as though we were
at peace with all the world, and.noth
ing to do but get up party strifes to
keep us from the lethargy always at
tendant upon a people who live secure
and at peace with all mankind. We
are sorry to see this state of things ex
ist. Men who love their country bet
ter than office, have eschewed party
feelings, and have entered heartily in
to the cause of the Union, regardless
of party. Such men wo admire, and
to such men wo look, for bringing
about the restoration of our unhappy
country. The office-hunters of both
the old parties of the North aro as
zealously at work concocting party
issues, for the purpose of dividing and
extending the breach in the public
mind, as they can be, their only object
and aim being the triumph of their
schemes in order to place themselves
in power, regardless of the consequen
ces to the benignant institutions of the
country. Once in power it would be
rule or ruin, and perhaps both. We
want no further evidence of their de
signs and purposes than the sentiments
promulgated by their miserable, trai
tor sheets published in this and every
other State in the Union. We warn
the people to beware of these wily,
sleek-tongued " snakes in the grass."
They are in " league with the devil,"
and in their hellish plots only seek to
carry out the plans of that prince of
traitors and secessionists—old - Lucifer
himself.
TRY. CASE OF DR. Days.- , .-- The Com
mittee on tho Conduct of the War hav
ing made a thorough investigation of
Dr..flays,latel7 dropped from the ar
my by order of the Secretary of War,
for neglect of duty while engaged in
the transportation of sick and wound
ed soldiers to Washington, are fully
satisfied of the justice of his dismissal.
OUR TRIP TO BALTIMORE.-011 Sat
urday last, in company with Mr. Hays
HaMilton, Mr. Wm. B. Zeigler and Dr.
Jerry Wilson, we left Harrisburg for
the purpose of visiting the battle-fields
near Richmond, and to look after the
Huntingdon county boys. Arriving
at Baltimore with documents from
Gov. Curtin, Commissary A. J. Dull,
of Mifflin county, gave us all the assis
tance possible to secure us a pass to
Fortress Monroe, but the orders of the
Secretary of War were to permit no
civilian to pass to Monroe or within
the lines of the army. Of course we
could get no further. On Sunday Mr.
Dull gave our party his kind attention,
and we visited Fort McHenry, Fede
ral Hill, and a number of the hospitals
in the city. All the hospitals are in
the best condition, and the sick and
wounded are as well taken care of as
they possibly could be at home. Sick
and wounded were arriving every day,
but we could not find any of our boys
amongst the number in the hospitals.
Our stay at Baltimore was very pleas
ant, made so by the kind attention of
Mr. Dull, who will not soon be forgot
ten by our party.
RECRUITING.—Gov. Curtin has al
ready more than fifty offers of .compa
nies under the new call. Camp Cur
tin is to be the principal rendezvous
for the new troops. It is announced
that no regimental officers will be ap
pointed until regiments are formed of
companies in camp, and company of
ficers will be appointed in proportion
to the number of men furnished.
NE' I S.
Prom Fortress Monroe.
The Buildings at City Point Burned by
our Gunboats.—Supplies Going to
McClellan under Convoy.—The Late
Movement a Prearranged .211atter.—
Army of the Potomac all Right.
NEW YORK, July 2.—The Evening
Post of this city has the following in
telligence from Fortress Monroe :
" That the evacuation of White
House was a prearranged movement is
suflinienutly proved by the fact that
on Monday last the first steamers from
White House arrived here, with six
schooners in tow, on their way to
James river.
" To-day, three hundred or four
hundred vessels of all kinds have ar
rived here, and despatched up James
river to Turkey Bend, or Harrison's
Bar, where they 111'0 to await further
orders. The precise point where the
new depot is to be established is not
now known, but it is presumed to be
near City Point or opposite that place.
"A gunboat or two will convoy the
stores to their destination, and protect
them against the gueriilas along the
shore. Last night Col. Campbell was
opposite City Point with one thousand
cavalry, and said that General Mc-
Clellan would have ten thousand troops
thereto-clay." City Point was burned
by our gunboats yesterday.
The Repress has the following in its
last edition :
" City Point, on James river, the
railroad landing en route from the riv
er to Petersburg, has been burned by
our gunboats. Gunboats now accom
pany all the transports as they leave
Hampton Roads to go up James river.
" The headquarters of our army are
not at Fort Darling, but - five or six
miles below. Our advanced pickets
are said to be within sight of Port
Darling. General McClellan's head
quarters arc now seven or eight miles
from his reported base, Turkey Bend.
"Sections of our cavalry are as high
up the river as the plantations oppo
site City Point, and are clearing out
the guerillas on the river.
" The army is safe, therefore, in its
now position, but the loss of life has
been great, very great, in earning it.
Gen. APClellan is now being reinforced
by the way of James river, but the re
inforcements do not give him any
thing like the number of the enemy."
Rebel Account of the Battle on Mon
day and Tuesday.
TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER
8,000 Lost in a Single Dirision.---No
Fighting on Wednesday or Thursday.
WAsmixoToN, July 4.---The Rich
mond papers, of July 2nd, furnish a
number of items with regard to the
battle of Monday.
It says that on Sunday, Gons. Hill
and Longstreet, with their divisions,
crossed the Chickahominy, and late
on Monday afternoon attacked the en
emy about five miles northeast ofDarn
town, on the New Market road. The
conflict was terrible, and by half past
S o'clock the enemy had been driven a
mile and a half. At half past 9 o'clock
the enemy being heavily reinforced,
made another stand. The loss on our
(the rebel) side was terrible. The sit
uation being evidently powerless
against such overpowering forces, Gen.
Hill slowly retreated, amid the vocif
erous cheers of the Yankees.
The Examiner says it thinks that
the division which went into the fight
on Monday 14,000 strong could only
muster 6,000 men for duty, and that
the Ices of lifo exceeds that of any
battle or siege yet fought. At eight
o'clock, on Tuesday, Jackson and Hu
ger's divisions attacked General Mc-
Clellan's left flank on the west bank of
the Chickahominy,l7 miles from Rich
mond. Later in the day, General Ma
gruder fell upon hisright flank. Fight
ing was going on up to nine o'clock. on
Tuesday night. Heavy firing from
the gunboats on the James River was
heard on Tuesday morning. A num
ber of Federal transports aro in the
river with reinforcements from Gent.
Burnside, but they have not yet land
ed.
The above extracts from the Exam
iner relate to Tuesday's battle, in
which, according to General Afee/el
lan's despatch, received yesterday, the
rebels wore badly whipped.
Advice received at the War -De
partment show that there was no fight
ing on the Peninsula on Wednesday
or Thursday, up to 5.30 P.M.. ,
LATEST NEWS.
More Good News From MoOlellan.
FORTRESS MONROE', July s.—Fresh
troops arrived here from Washington,
yesterday, and went up the James
'River in the evening.
Four small steamers,wi th four barges
in tow, arrived at Fortress Monroe,
this morning, laden with artillerymen,
horses, &e., and were doubtless bound
up the river.
A skirmish took place yesterday
morning near our left, wing, which re
sulted in the defeat of the rebels. We
took 1,000 rebel prisoners, and three
small batteries, and our cavalry fol
lowed them up till they passed beyond
White Oak.
For the last two days the rebels
have shown little disposition to fight,
and yesterday relinquished their
ground and batteries almost without
resistance.
The Operations at Vicksburg.
Chicago July 7.—The bombardment
is kept up at regular intervals. The
rebel batteries were still replying oc
casionally. It was believed that the
rebel works would be stormed on the
4th, and there is every reason to be
lieve that the city is already alien.
The city is said to be not so badly
damaged as was at first stated. All
the noncombatants were previously
removed. The rebel force is said to
be 16,000. A story has reached the
fleet that several hundreds of the reb
els had been killed by the explosion
of shells.
[This despatch only gives news from
the fleet to the 2d. inst. The despatch
from New Madrid announcing the cap
ture of - Vicksburg was dated July 7th.
Although as yet unconfirmed, it
does not appear to be improbable.]
McOlellan's Address to his Army,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POY , MAC,
Camp Near ilarrison's Landing July 4.
Soldiers of the Army of the Potomac:
Your achievements of the last ten
days have illustrated the valor and en
durance of the American soldier. At
tacked by superior forces, and with
out hope of reinforcements, ;you have
succeeded in changing your base of
operations by a flank. movement, al
ways regarded as the most hazardous
of military expedients. You have
saved all your material, allyour trains,
and all your guns except a few lost in
battle, taking in return guns and col
ors from the enemy.
Upon your march you have been as
sailed day after day with desperate
fury, by men of the same race and na
tion, skillfully massed and led. Under
every disadvantage of number and
necessarily of position also, you have,
in every conflict, beaten back your foes
with enormous slaughter.
Your conduct ranks you among the
celebrated armies of history. No one
will now question that each of you
may always'Avith pride say," I belong
to the Army of the Potomac."
You have reached this now base
complete in organization and unim
paired in spirit. The enemy may at
any time attack you. We are prepar
ed to meet them. 1 have personally
established your lines. Let them
come, and we will convert their re
pulse into a final defeat. Your Gov
ernment is strengthening you with
the resources of a great people.
On this our nation's birthday, we
declare to our foes, who arc rebels
against the best interests of mankind,
that this army shall enter the capital
of the so-called Confederacy • that
our National Constitution shall pre
vail, and that the Union, which can
alone insure internal peace, and ex
tend security to each State, must and
shall be preserved, cost what it may
in time, treasure or blood.
(Signed) GEORGE B. MoCtanaAtsr,
Major-General Commanding.
We learn that Brigadier General
Andrew Porter, Provost Marshal of
the Army of the Potomac, has arrived
at Washington with despatches front
Major General McClellan. lie repre
sents the army as safo in its new posi
tion, and in fine spirits.
Pittsburgh Female College,
11re copy the following notice of this
excellent institution from the Pittsburg
Gazette of the 3d inst.:.
The Seventh Annual Catalogue of
the Pittsburg Female College has just
been laid upon our table by the Presi
dent, Rev. I. C. Pershing. We confess
that we have examined its contents
with a degree of satisfaction amount
ing almost to pride, as We have marked
the fact that we have in our midst one
of the most vigorous, well managed
and successful institutions in the land.
We question much whether one in ten,
even of our own citizens, has any real
conception of the status the college
has reached, or the grand and glorious
work it is to-day accomplishing.—
The recent commencement, at which
nineteen young ladies received their
degrees, gave evidence not only of wo,
man's capabilities, but also of the supe
rior facilities afforded by the college
for their development. The entire
commencement was a brilliant success
and reflected the highest honor on all
concerned.
As an evidence of the prosperity of
the college we need but state the fact
that the attendance the past year
reached the largo number of two hun
dred and forty-eight, gathered from nine
States.
The utmost care is taken in the se•
lection of teachers, and the present
Faculty will compare favorably with
any in the country.
The no:ct, term will commence on
T k iesday, September 2d.
m. Whew 1 we have had oppres
sivoly hot weather for the past few
days:
Proc,laination of Governor Curtin.
OAT.TI FOR TROOPS.
Pennsylvania, ss
Tn the name and by the authority of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of the
said Commonwealth,
A PROCLAMATION
More men are required for the sup
pression of the rebellion. Our regi
ments in the field are to be recruited
to their original strength, and in addi
tion new regiments are to be formed.
Pennsylvania has hitherto done her
duty to the country. Her freemen
are again called on to volunteer in her
defence, that the blood of her sons,
who have already fallen, maynot have
been shed in vain, and that we may
band down to our posterity the bless
ings of Union and civil and political
liherty,, which we derived from our
fathers.
The number of men now required,
and the regulations for enlistments,
will be made known forthwith in gen
eral orders. Meanwhile, the men of
Pennsylvania will hold themselves in
readiness for a prompt compliance with
the necessary demand upon their gal
lant and patriotic spirit.
Our noble Commonwealth has never
yet faltered, and must stand firm now,
when her honor and everything that
is dear to her are at stake.
Given under my hand and the great
seal of the State at Harrisburg, this
fourth day of July, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two, and of the Commonwealth
the eighty seventh.
By the Governor. ELI SLIFER,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Important Correspondence Between
the Governors of the Loyal States
and the President.
Preparations for Military Occupancy
of Insurrectionary Districts.
A Call for 300,000 Additional
Troops to be Issued.
Collection of the Direct Tax in Insur
rectionary States.
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT
'WASHINGTON, July I.—The follow
ing correspondence between the Presi
dent and the Governors of several
States will explain itself:
To TUE PRESIDENT—The undersign
ed, Governors of States of the Union,
impressed with the belief that the citi
zens of the States which they respec
tively represent are of one accord in
the hearty desire that the recent suc
cesses of the Federal arms may be fol
lowed up by measures which must in
sure the speedy restoration of the Uni
on, and believing that, in view of the
present important military- movements
now in progress, and the reduced con
dition of our effective forces in the
field, resulting from the usual and un
avoidable casualties of the service,
that the time has arrived for prompt
and vigorous measures to he adopted
by the people in support of the great
interests committed to your charge, we
respectfully request, if it meet with
your entire approval, that you at once
call upon the several States for such
number of men as may be required to
fill up all the military organizations
now in the field, and add to the armies
heretofore organized such additional
number of men as may, in your judg
ment, be necessary to garrison and
hold all the numerous cities and mili
tary positions that have been captured
by our armies, and to speedily crush
the rebellion that still exists in several
of the Southern States, thus practical
ly restoring to the civilized world our
great and good government. We be
lieve that the decisive movement is
near at hand, and to that end the peo
ple of the United States are desirous
to aid promptly in furnishing all the
reinforcements that you may deem
needful to sustain our government.
Israel Washburne, Jr., Governor of
Maine.
N. S. Berry, Governor of Now Vamp
shire. t,
Frederick Holbrook, Governor of
Vermont.
Wm. A. Buckingham, Governor of
Connecticut.
E. D. Morgan, Governor of New
York.
Charles S. Holden, Governor of New
Jersey.
A. G. Curtin, Governor of Pennsyl
vania.
A. W. Bradford, Governor of Mary
land.
F. 11. Pierpont, Governor of Virginia.
Austin Blair, Govet'not•of Michigan.
S. B. Tornle, President of the
tary Board of Kentucky.
Andrew Johnson, Governor of Ten
nessee.
11. IL Gamble, Governor of Missouri.
0. P. Morton, Governor of Indiana.
David Tod, Governor of Ohio.
Alex. Ramsey, Governor of Min
nesota.
Richard Gates, Governor of Illinois.
Edward Solomon, Governor of Wis
nsin.
Kirkwood, Governor of lowa
Burton, Governor of Delaware.
RESPONSE OF TEE PRESIDENT.
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND ADDITIONAL
TROOPS TO BE CALLED OUT
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, July 1, 1862.
GENTLEMEN :-Fully concurring in
the wisdom of the views expressed to
me in a patriotic manner by you in
the communication of the 28th of June,
I have decided to callqinto the service
an additional force of three hundred
thousand men. I suggest and recom
mend that the troops should be cheily
of infantry. The quota of your States
would be-
I trust that they rua3,- be enrolled
witboqt delay, so as to bring this un
necessary and injurious civil war to a
speedy and satisfhetory conclusion.
An order fixing the quota Qf the re
spective States will be issued by the
War Department to-morrow.
AI3RAILIM LINCOLN.
The fallowing proclamation has been
issued by the President :
By fhe President of the United AS'tates
of America.
A PROCL4MATION.
WItEnEAs, In and by the second
soetion of an act of Congress, passed
pOhe 7th day of.T!.pe, A. P. - 1862, on
titled "An Act for the collection of di
rect taxes in insurrectionary districts
within the Vnited States, and for oth
er purposes," it is made, the duty of
the President to deelare,, pn or before
the first day of July then next follow
t'. by his proclamation, in what
-States anct parte of States
,exists
, '
,
;' , Now, therefore, be it. known that I,
Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States of America, do hereby
declare and proclaim that the States
of:South Carolina, Florida, Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississip
pi,'ArkansaS, Tennessee, North Caro
lina, and the State of Virginia, except
the following counties, Hancock, Ohio,
Brooke, Marshall, Weizel, Marion,
Monongahela, Preston, Taylor,_ Pleas
ants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, liar
ribon, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane,
Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker,
Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, Randolph,
Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nich
olas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan,
Wyoming, Webster, Fayette and Ra
leigh, are now in insurrection and re
bellion, and by reason thereof, the civ
il authority of the United States is ob
structed so that the provisions of the
"Act to provide increased revenue
from imports to pay the interest on
the public debt and for other purposes,"
approved August fifth, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-one, cannot be peacea
bly executed, and that the taxes le
gally chargeable upon real estate un
der the act last aforesaid, lying within
the States and parts of States as afore
said, together with a penalty of fifty
per centum of said taxes, shall be alien
upon the tracts or Jots of the same,
severally charged, till paid.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
sot my hand and caused the Seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washing-
L. S. ton, this first day of July, in
the year of our Lord 'Duo
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two,
and of the Independence of the United
States of America the eighty-sixth.
ABRAIIAM 'LINCOLN
By the President :
F. IV. SEWARD, Acting Sccrotnry of
State.
TILE BATTLE OF SATURDAY.
Pull Particulars up to Monday After-
noon,
(Special Doopotchee to the Preas.l
FORTRESS MONROE, June 30.—1 have
arrived here safely, in company with
General Stoneman and staff and Gen.
Casey and staff, who are hero, it issaid,
under special orders.
You have no doubt been apprised of
the great confusion existing here, and
natural]): attendant upon the crowd
ing of vessels into the harbor from
White House Point.
The affair on Saturday last partook
more of the nature of a battle than the
engagements of Thursday or Friday.
General Fitzjohn Porter has covered
himself with glory. lie selected a very
strong position, and having posted his
forces in an admirable manner, was
prepared to hold it against any orces
of the enemy. The brave men of' his
command all fought with heroic cour
age, and the volunteers vied with Gen.
Sykes' regulars in making steady
movements, and carefully executing
the commands of their officers.
Time and again, vast hordes of reb
els moved up in solid columns against
our troops, but our regular batteries
as often mowed them down in a most
destructive manner. Steady dischar
ges of shell, grape and canister in reg
ular salvos seemed to sweep down
whole companies.
As soon as confusion in the rebel
ranks was apparent, General Porter
ordered General Meagher's Irish Bri
gade to charge bayonets, which they
did in the most gallant and heroic style,
bare-headed, in their shirt sleeves, oc
casionally with these rolled up.
This charge had an excellent effect.
The rebels were driven back with
great slaughter, and, General Porter
was preparing to move upon them,
over the piles of the rebel dead and
dying, when the enemy again advan
ced steadily, strongly reinforced.
Now the Pennsylvanians gave them
the benefit of all their splendid rifles,
while the batteries played upon them
as before, creating sad havoc. Indeed,
the slaughter upon other fields during
the war has never been anything to
compare to this. The rebels stagger
ed under their losses, and our forces
Were advancing steadily upon them,
driving them back at every point,
when a staff officer rode up with an
order from the commander-in-ehief to
General Porter, directing him to fall
back with his command, and cross
the Chickahominy.
The order was executed in fine style,
mid our troops did not miss a man, the
enemy being too severely punished to
follow us closely. The only difficulty
was with the Pennsylvania _Reserves
ar,d Meagher's Irishmen—their com
manders exerting all their powers to
induce these' brave men to cease firing.
They saw the advantage gained by
hard fighting, and they were anxious
to follow up the success.
All the troops must be praised for
heroic gallantry in this affair, but the
regulars must have especial notice.—
General Sykes, the lamented Major
Bosse], the 3d, 4th, and 14th Infantry,
behaved admirably.
General Porter thought ho would be
"reinforced, and he ordered to advance
upon Richmond forthwith, but it was
not so designed, and he fell back as
ordered, promptly.
Four trains of cars, loaded with for
age, were ordered to Despatch on Sat
urday, but meeting the enemy's pick
ets on the road, the trains were backed,
down near the White IToese, the cars
were burned, and the
. four•'locomotives
were blewn up. This was u great lop.
het it was enhanced by the dpstrac
tißn of stores, &c., at the White House
—everything there being in flames.—
Elegant
,alpbulances and loaded bag
gage-waens were rolled down to the
river bank, and, there being no time
to burn tbem, they were cast into the
river.
I emb,arlfed with many others on
board of the John Brooks, but owing
to the fact that our vessel wad' too
large to move dowti the river iq safe
ty- at night, we dropped antihor in
1.0g,'14 ,
White Rouse, Point. The
houses burned on night, and the
scene presented was one of the grand
est I ever beheld. The rebels were
not in sight on Sunday morning when
we moved down the river. The gun
boats dropped down with us some
Miles, and anchorel under a bluff, so
as to allow the rebels a - chance to
come as far east as they chose.
A portion of General Stoneman'e
command was ordered to •Yorktown
and WilliamsbUrg to , guard the tele
graph wires and open, direct commu
nication-with- General McClellan.
Arrangements are perfecting, un
der the direction of officers of high
standing here, to convey a full supply
of stores to General McClellan's army,
but by what means I am not at liber
ty to publish.
A single- sutler, in the vicinity, of
White House, bad property to the
amount of $lO,OOO destroyed on Satur
day.
There are many rumors bore re
specting army moveinents ;* all, how
ever, unreliable. The correspondents
skedaddiedWith our vanguardover to
the main body of :the army, and they
may not.bb' heard from for a day or
two, when they will be able to write
" Richmond; or very,near it," at the
head of their cOntributiong...NOVlCE.
Battle of White Oak Swamp
Admli able Behavicar of our Generals and
Pennsylvania Reserves---A Whole.
Brigade of Rebela.Captured.
[Correeponaeneo of the Now York Tribune.]
TURKEY BRIDGE, .TAMED RIVER,
Nine A. M., Tuesday, SuIY4 . 1,1862.
Another tremendous battle, 'moro
terrible carriage, yesterday: From,
Wednesday to, Monday has this army
been fighting—a Six-days battle, or, if
you please,Torty battles.
Early yesterday morning the ene
my appeared in force' at White Oak
Swamp, the position- wd had assumed
during the night previous. In this re-.
treat—why hesitate to use the word?
—he has not, in a single' instance, long ,
hesitated to attack—be did not now.
By noon the action had commenced—.
the battle of White Oak"SwiMp.—
MusketrYlad. not cea4ed_ . When_l_left
the• field at 10 B. M. it will. scarcely
rank in magnitude with El:Mlle's' , Hill,
and yet we did not suffer more, nor
cause to stitibr more, it Fair Daksl'•
„It is impossible for me to give a cir
cumstantial account Of this battle,ra
ging as it did, ten hours, and extend
ing along a line of two and a half
miles, and 'fought on jround such that
not one-tenth Odin field-was in view
from any one point of action. At least
three-fifths of McClellan's army was
engaged or in immediate reserve.—
Heintzleman's, Sumner's, and Pv• 71- .
lip's corps were thus, and a portr: -.
each of Keye's and Porter's. M.
could scarcely have been brought int,
action, had the fate of the country de
pended on the ono effort. And yet,.
we only barely hold our ground—per-.
Imps not quite.
I shall have to hurry on to the re
sults. Our loss of yesterday May be
estimated at 6,000. Many of these are
prisoners. The Pennsylvania Reserve
were again in the thickest. This
morning they do not muster 3,000 men.
Add , to these 1,000, who are strag
gling and will yet come in, and the
number is loss than half that they be
gan with at Beaver Dam. They lost
severely there; they were more than
decimated the next day at Gaines'
and yesterday they shrank to
this small measure. Their leader,,
Gen. McCall, is severely wounded, and;
in the enemy's hands. Our brigade
commander, Gen. J. J. Reynolds, is a
prisoner at Richmond ; another, Gen.
George G. Meade, lies in a tent near
us seriously wounded. Officers of
lower grade they have lost in about
the same proportion.' Of the Buektail
Regiment. not a hundred responded,
to the
And so with other divisions. For
the losses of the last six days cannot,
be less than 15,000. It is only hoped_
that they will not reach 20,000.
Our generals behaved like Napole
ons under his own eagle eye. Gener
al McCall was severely wounded in
tho shoulder. He refused to leave the
field or to dismount. At night, when
the enemy bad been driven back,-his:
horse was found dead, and this is nil
that is known of his fate. How Gene.
Richardson and Dana, always well up.
in the . melee, escaped unhurt, seems
miraculous. The same may be.
said of scores. Gen. Bnrns and Gen.
Brooks were each slightly Wounded,
but neither so disabled as to leave the
field. Col. Wyman, l6th Massachu,
„setts, was killed late -in the day, un
der what circumstances I cannot say,.
bnt in a brave fight it may be war-.
ranted, for such was the place he al
ways sought. Col. Rinks, 19th Mas
sachusetts, fought his regiment until,
he had less officers than companies,
made two bayonet charges, and fought
his men until at length he fell wound
ed.
Let it be recorded hero that a regi-,
ment always fights precisely like its
officers. ThiS fadt redurs to me as I .
speak of' the 10th, shim, that furnishes
one of the most notable instances
bearing on the assertion.
The varying, fortunes of the field are,
shown by the fact that each side took
guns and a large number of prisoners.
Among those taken from the ,enemy.
are Col. Lamar, of Georgia, ex-M. C.,
the noted Secessionist of long stand:
ing, and Col. Pendleton, of a Louisiana
regiment, formerly of Cincinnati. A
whole brigade was captured by Heint-_
zlema,n—a small brigade, 1,000 strong,
Perhaps 3,000 were taken during the.
day.
That the enemy's loss of the. last
week more than exceeds our oav
as nearly certain as ttayt4iog can; be.
of which there is nq (Went proof: _T.M,
has lost fewer by capture. than vice, guf,
his killed 4nd 7p,ansledmust fully bat :
ance account. fighting the en :
emy in chosen positions, where the.
artillery could play havoc with all
who should dare to approach, we find
his dead in great numbers. Our quit:
riority in artillery has saved *army
from utter annihilation. .A.,nd yet the
most tenacious struggles have been .
over these very guns. The enemy
never fails to attempt their capture,
evidently having a' 3yh9)c.Setne sense:
of their value.
. •
Yesterday the gunboats participated
to the extent of silencinga rebel bat•
tery they had stkeeeedef in getting in- .
t . o play upon our baggage trains.
,•
Th - e salvation of this decimated, ex- .
LuNited and depressed army is a quei- .
tion of supplies and reinforcements,
im
mediate and heavy. If these Weary
thousands could get twenty-four hears
rest, their safety would be assured,
but if left alone, any cessation of attack
and repulse until the final catastrcril
will not be permitted.