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Where the red hail deadliest falls,* Where stern duty loudly calls, Where the strife is fierce and wild,' Father! guard, Oh! guard my child 1 Where the foe rush swift and sTrong> .Madly striving for the wrong, Where the clashing arms men.wield, ftuijj above the battle-field; Where the stilling air is hot With I'iirstiug shell and whistling shot— Father! to my boy’s bravo breast. Lei no treacherous blade bo pressed 1 Father! if my woman's heart—* . Frail and weak in every part— Vcmbn from Thy mefey scat 'After tho«o dear roving feet, I,cl Thy lender pitying grace l>ery thought erase; If this mother’s hive be wrong— Pardon, bless and male me strong. For when silent night Mint the bright world from my sight— Then around the cheerful fire Outlier brothers, sisters, sire— There [miss my boy’s bright face From his old familiar place, And my sad heart wanders back To tented field and bivouac. Often in my troubled sleep— Waking—wearily to weep— Often dreaming ho is near every anxious frar— often startled by tho flush Of hostile swords that meet and clash, Till (he cannon's smoke and roar Hide him from my eyes once more 1 Tims I dream--and hope and pray All tho weary hours away ; Hut I know his cause is just, And I centre all my trust In Thy promise:—"As thy day •So shall thy strength ho”—alvrayt Yeti need Thy guidance still 1 Father lot me do Thy will. Tf new sorrow should befall— If my noble boy should fall — If (be bright head I have blesflcd On the cold carlh fiud jta rest — with all tho motber-bearf, Turn and (|uivoring with the'smart, „ I yield him, 'uculh Thy chuatebing rod, To liis country and his God. Mmllntifom Memorv. —How many mingled memories are hidden away in every soul, memories of good and ill, of Joy and sorrow, that wait tlio vrouing of the will to spring into vivid and glowing life before us, or start unbidden into wr presence in the quiet hours of loneliness find meditation. How the soul can sweep backward over the history of its being, and Mt itself in the golden sunshine of the long agn, ami listen to tho sweet melodics that rody* eternal concord in tho soul’s inner tem ple! the sweet intonations of some song that thrilled us with a mystic Joy years ago, comes floating into our consciousness with a dreary rapture and a peace like that of'“The Kilon Above so, too', wo bend over the, dear faces that have been hallowed by tho tender ed associations of our lives, with a quiet Joy, mingled, perchance, with a tinge of sadness that all they represent and suggest to ua is irrevocable gone save in its results and influ ence upon our plastic hearts. Tho world knoweth not the hidden life within us, and tliCßtranger intcrmoddleth not with our joy ; yet who may toll tho potent away these mem ories have held in moulding and developing mu Roiritual natuvea to a higher and bettor being f , Cai.ves.— There aro various modes of feed ing calves when taken from the cow at two nnd throe days old, or when not allowed to £ nck at all. Our ■ practice is to let the calf Nick three days, as we think it greatly bene fito both cow and calf* At the end of this bme the calf is taken awiijr, the cow milked,, the calf’s head introduced into the pail where the thumb'of the left,hand rises above the milk. Xho mouth of tho calf is guided to the thumb, when it seizes it and sucks it readily. In a day or two skim milk may bo introduced Merited. "Wo use tea mado of sweet herd* grass or rod-top hay, mixed with a little new milk. In a few days a calf will drink from J De to two gallons at a meal of this tea? *At !"° end of a week a little corn meal may bo |nlroduced in tho milk or placed in a trough before tho calf, and at the end of three weeks he will take a quart per day without injury, knives need ample and careful feeding while We young, in order to secure a healthy and J'ljorous growth. They seem never to forget tins care, bear neglect afterwards i tho hotter*'for it, though neglect at any ‘mo is very unprofitable. . T'ro Roques Instead of ’One. —An amu .™B mciaout is related of a woman in Eag whose husband, a wealthy man, died "adonly without leaving any will. The "toy, desirous of securing the whole prop r J, concealed her husband’s death, and por a P°or shoemaker to take his place ” ll! > will could bo made. Accordingly he , 9 ci ° B dy muffled up in bed ns if very sick, n,, 1 lawyer was called to write the will.— j” 16 shoemaker in a feeble voice bequeathed Btlioi ,the property to the widow. “ What ,1 , done with the remainder?” asked t!{ l l "' , yer. “The remainder." replied ho, , ■ £ ITO and bequeath to the poor little shoo „ „ across the street, who has always bean ~" 0G ? neighbor and a deserving man.;” thus »iit riD ® a r ‘°h Acquest for himself 1 I’ho nml° W - waa Sunder struck with the man’s lbs r OlO j S canning, but did not dare expose ’ ° °° w 0 ro B uoB a ' mre( l fho S®* lirwV; that nobody wants, and fio ."““J'likwtolowJ A lawwif* Exciting Discussion in the House of Representatives. CHARGES AGAINST SECRETARY CHASE. Gross Immorality and Debauchery in - the Treasury Department. The following is an extract from a speech lately delivered in the United States House of Ropro sontativoa by Gen. Trank Blair; it is worth a careful perusal. Now, Kir, it ia not my purpose to fol low tljcso men who have been guilty of this baseness toward mo any further. These dags have boon set on mo by tbeir muster, and since I Imre whipped them back into their kennel I mean to hold theirmaatcr re sponsible for this outrage and not tho curs who have been set upon mo. Tho evidence, sir, shows that this forgery was made public )y a - Treasury agent who know at the time 10 made it public that I had no interest whatever in tho goods covered by tho order; who knew it so well that.tho goods having been seized ho turned them over to their proper owner, because there was no ground for their seizure and confiscation id thorn aver to tho riian who appeared on ho paper to own them* and yet ho retained n his baud this paper, to which he had no ight, and gave it out for publication aftcr’l iad been assailed in tho newspapers pf my city for speculating in this whiskey. lie gave it out for publication after lie knew tho lacts of the case and had hn.il his attention called to-them, because I. had attacked Mr. Chase in a speech' in St. Louis and assailed his trade regulations. So, sir, if any officer of the army, or any member of Congress, or any gentleman feels sufficient i«« public affairs, ami in the honest conduct of public business to assail in a public speech its management in tho Treasury nnd tho op erations of treasury regulations, ho lays him self open to assaults from the Secretary of the Treasury and all tho hounds and dogs that ho can sot upon him, and ho is to be hunted and dragged down by false charges nnd by forgery. It is for the House to decide whether one of its members, in tho face of the facts which! were brought to his knowledge when he first mode these charges on this floor,'shall he permitted, to reiterate in a manner so gross and offensive that which he utterly failed to substantiate when put to tho test, and escape without censure. It is for tho members of. the House to decide whether such a person is worthy of association with them or not* When I resumed my scat in this House, I felt myself constrained by a sense of duty to* my constituents to ask for a committee to in vestigate tho manner in which the 4 * regula tions of trade” with tho States in Insurrec tion have been carried out by tho Secretary of the Treasury. Jsut it seems that the Sec retary’s friends bad not the same continence in a committee of Congress have shown, for when I asked for a committee to investi- gate the charges which had been made against tho Secretary, of sacrificing a vast public in terest to advance Ids ambition, Ins friends upon tins floor refused it, and I was assailed in all the newspapers in tho country witli having made that allegation against Sec retary because ho had stopped my “ liquor speculation.” Now, Mr, Speaker, permit mo to say that when tho Secretary of the Treasury was ad vanced to his present position, although my good, wishes were nothing to him at tho time, yet he had them. I was in favor of his appointment. As a matter of course that was of very little consequence so far as- his appointment was concerned, yet it is a fact well known. It is of consequence simply so far as it shows that I was not inimical at that tirao to tlie Secretary. The reason of my change of sentiment towardjihu was that I understood that lie had authorized the May-1 or of Baltimore to proclaim on tho streets of that city on the MHh of April that im was in favor of letting tho States in rebellion 11 go in peace,” and because I also took this im pression from tho tenor of his conversation that it was with his opinion and wish that they should he allowed to go in peace. I un derstood tho same thing from tho publications made by newspapers in his own State which were regarded as expressing his sentiments. The allegation was made that such was his position, and it was never denied by him.— It was accepted as a fact by all. I know, and he will not' deny his written and recorded opinion, that he was opposed to the reinforcement of Fort Sumpter.- Iknow that after Fort Sumpter had fallen ho had opposed the calling out of a largo and suffi cient force to put down tho rebellion, and al though ho and others of tho men of his par ty and my parly then (but X hold no party relations then or noxo with peace men) were compelled by tho war cry that wont up after tho fall of Sumpter to abandon apparently their peace position. Yet Mr. Chase, Isoop found, never really abandoned his determi nation to out off the Southern States. On tho contrary, he has endeavored to work out, by another programme, tho very thing ho was then in lavor of doing—-of letting tho South go. lie is now for making them go, so far as their condition ns States is concern ed. Ho is unwilling that they should over return to interfere with his presidential as pirations. , , , . Why, air, it was perfectly understood in tho second session—the long session -of the last Congress, that ho favored the annihilation of tho State Governments of tho South. His friends in both Houses made that proposition ; those who had the moat intimate relations with him in both Ilduses made that propo sition. And it is .pressed in this House again this winter in a disguised and insidu ous form, and under tho pretentious title of <‘reconstruction,” but which is in fact in tended for tlid destruction of those States ; but this being the very crime of which tho rebels in arms are guilty, and which tho gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. Ashloy] charges upon them, it is thought convenient to givo tho operation another name. Tho bill re ported by tho distinguished gentleman ftora Maryland, [Mr. Davis,] representing tho committee on tho rebellious States, which, by tho way, is composed to a considerable extent of tho Pomeroy private circular com mittee, for I understand that tho gentleman from Maryland, [Mr. Davis,] from Ohio, [Mr. Ashley,] and from Missouri, [Mr. BIoW.J are members of both these committees, is a bill which could very properly have come from' tho Pomeroy committee. It is a bill which should have been entitled “ a bill for the permanent dissolution of tho Union, to disfranchise the whites and enfranchise tho negroes, to-prevent any of the from coming back in timo to vote for Mr* Lincoln for President, and to promote tho ambition ot tho Secretary of tho Treasury.” It is a bill which requires tho consent of Congress tor the re-admission of any of these, States to the Union. Mr, Rlair then charged personal corrup tion upon Secretary Chase and continued as follows: The committee on tho conduct of the war, that impartial committee to which this mat ter was referred, has not yet, although near ly two months have elapsed since this sub ject was committed to them, notified me that it wanted any testimony on these subjects. I do not think tho committee does want it, or has time to investigate it, especially as it has on. its hands all frauds in contracts con nected with the war ; and that is the reason I have volunteered some of it here, and giv en the committee the means of inquiring in to tho mattm* when they have leisure; but whether it docs or not, the inquiry will be made. "Whether it is dono by this Congress or not, there will bo aCongrean that will do it. And Mr. Chase cannot-cscapo. He is sure to answer, and however deeply tho com mittee may lay tho whitewash on, it cannot conceal the dark background. However ho may undertake to persecute and drag down men who speak of these nefarious transac tions) I say that.tho time willconio when he will he held to just accountability, when he will be called before the bar to answer for all ho has done; and all tho efforts made by his friends thus indirectly to shield him from the charges made against him will not serve their purpose. JMr. Speaker, I have deemed it due to my self, since I was not allowed a committee by which to prove tho allegations that I have made here, to say this much in justification of my action in the city of St. Louis, in a speech which I made tbere f and also in a speech which I made on this floor in rpgard to this nutter. . Hc turn- It will bo recollected that when I first of- fered thig resolution, it was couched in plain, I —n-ilhmit. !inv assault on the Secretary of tlio Iroasury; and it was i« until ono of liis friends on the other side rose nnd assailed mo for attacking Mr. Chase, by odering the resolution, that I rose and gave my reasons fur bo doing. Then, sir, this ill lair was sought to ho turned into a personal matter ; and an attempt made to drag mo down by engaging me in ft controversy with Chase’s understrappers, commenced by the agents of Mr. Chase in tit. Louis, is brought . into tliis House. '(• A judicial investigation has recently hoen hold in which it was o.inclusively proved that Jay Cooke & Co., who figure so largely and disgracefully in lliesi lotto, u in connectionwi h the eleven millions excess of livo twenty bonds, are principal owners of the Philadel phia /'lqniicr. 1 should nave guessed as much Irom the fact of the abuse heaped up ou mo by this Treasury organ about this “ licpior speculation.” Mr. Chase’s banking agents, as well as his Treasury agents and special and supervising special agents, have all boon brought into requisition to forgo and counterfeit and tell lies to break mo down for exposing and holding up to public con tempt UtlU Bonn -Hi-*!- jiml In addition to the profits realized by Jay Cooke & Co. on the fraudulent subscription for the eleven millions excess of live-twenty bunds, which, as the bonds were twelve pol ecat. above the time of their issue, the profits on them must have exceeded a million and a quarter of dollars, this lirm has also made profits on the negotiation ol tlie lite twenty loan, and other brokerage business lor the Treasury Department, .according to the statement of Secretaiy Chase, liy hinisctl transmitted ollioiully to this House, the sum of 51400,000, as near as I recollect, nut having the Secretary’s communication before me. A million and three quarters ot dollars rea lized by a banking firm in less than nine months is a comfortable competency lor two or throe private gentlemen, and would aid in the establishment of a good many newspapers in the interest of Mr. Chase by these men, who are shown to bo banking on political ca pital to a greater extent than upon their money. Accordingly, wo find a great many newspapers in favor of Chase for President, and very few people. Nobody -is simple enough to believe that the distinguished Secretary has really retired from the canvass for the nomination to the Presidency, although ho lias written a letter declining to be a candidate. That letter was written because the “ strictly private” circu lar of the Pomeroy committee unearthed Ids underground and underhand intrigue jigaiust the President. It was such a disgraceful and diso-usting sight to make use of the patronage and power given him by the President against his chief, that oven Chase got ashamed to 00, , cupy such a position publicly, Por that rea son liis letter was written ; he wanted to got down under the ground and work there in the dark as he is now doing, and running the Pomeroy machine on the public money as vigorously as over. The work is now being done in Premont s name, and that poor creature is unconscious of being made a oatspivw to accomplish the obioots of lli3 intriguing rival. His plan is to hold a convention of Jacoobins nnd red ro nublicau revolutionary Germans at Cleve land, Ohio, precisely ns Calhoun used poor John Tyler to hold a side convention in 1844 to force tho Democrats to drop Mr. van Da ren *Tho Cleveland convention is a whip convention which will say to the Union con vention to bo bold at Baltimore; If you insist on the nomination of Lincoln we will nominate Promont agains him as an indepen dent candidate.” In this way, if the dele cates who have been instructed to voto tor Lincoln can bo bought with greenbacks or friMitoned by the Jacobin hobgoblin, it is ex pected that Chase, who Ims'so magnanimous ly declined to bo a candidate, will then bo ta bon up as ft compromise candidate. This is the programme of the Secretary and the Pom eroy committee. It embraces the tactics the intrigue, the corruption, and fraud of Calhou and lliddle combined. O' Tho following versos, wrlUon by a bravo boy, who lost a log at Antietara, wo clip from tho Mercury, lie is ns expert with the pen as ho is with the sword Who tftiight thoo how to prniso tho blade, And sot with many a vllo attack, Thy clattering touguo on “ Littlb mac? J Greefy. ■Whom worn thy speeches written by ? What! sis! original? 0, fiol Who doubly taught thooho'w to lief Misoeoenation. —The Now York Day Book says there is now in that city a white girl who is married to a negro, with whom she is living. The'wives oi Republicans are in the habit of visiting her on terms of friend ly intimacy. The girlis rather good look ing, and her husband is as black ’as n Tarta rian'night. With that pair the “ equality’' which Mr. Likcoen seeks to establish is ful , ]y realised. “OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR. COUNTRY.” CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 19,1864. TO ANNIE DICK-AND-SOK. THE W« mIIT. 01 TO RICHMOND! The Great Contest!! RATTLES SOTEDIXR THE “WILDERNESS." Operations of Saturday, Sunday and Monday. THE THIRD DAY, tycr.ial Corrc*poiidrncc oj (hi'. Inquirer. • "WiuiKUMJsa, Va., May 7, 1801. A deep and almost impenetrable mist per vaded the whole haUlc-licld at sanri.se this morning, and we wore not an usual greeted with the saluto-of-tho-cannonadcin thonionir ing. Beyond some desultory musket-firing on the left of Sedgwick’s position, nothing happened to disturb the monotony of the moiming until about ten o'clock,' when a sharp musketry engagement took place on the left of Sedgwick's Corps. Generals Grant, Meade and Burnside spent nearly the whole morning in consultation. The enemy planted a battery about eleven o’clock in some woods on .the Orange Pike road, about half a mile from mir intrench ments, and sent shells with visible effect into some camps a quarter of a mile from head quarters. This'lirc was replied to by our batteries on either'side of the road. This was followed by sharp musketry skirmishing during which the itcbela were driven in about a hall a.mile. Sumo light skirmishing took place about 10 o’clock on the loft of Hancock's Corps, during which a few artillery shots were ox changed, huLwilhotit any material result.—- At noon General Meade and retinuo loft headquarters and proceeded to an eminence the purpose of establishing anew base of op erations, but after taking a brio! survey he returned to bis original quarters* The Rebels had been all day massing troops I on the right of our line, with the inrcnii'on uf flanking us, and early in tlao afternoon a moderate cannonade was hoard in that, direc tion. A fow companies of cavalry, on their way from Germania Ford, were met hy the extreme left of the line'of the enemy soon after passing the ford, and they were driven in on the Ohanccllorvillc road to within our lines. Artillery and infantry were placed in the rear of Sedgwick’s Corps, for the purpose of chocking any demonstration on our right flank. During the entire afternoon, with the exception of an occasional shot, nothing of any moment occurred. At five o'clock in the afternoon ' the order was given for a general nfovemont of the whole line in the direction of Chanocllorvillc, previous to which General Grant, accompa nied by his Staff, paid a visit around the dif ferent Corps lines, and was roeived with tu multous cheering. , , , ~ Khmolr.orror t’ cu 0 fi l nc ' c tho inn.'*, solid lines of 'the devoted Union army could be seen emerging from the various positions *> n which thov gave battle to the Rebels for tho three days' previous, and gradually they massed on tho open, imlulaiing piece ‘of country, directly in front of General Meade’s headquarters. Column after column broke on the night, apparently springing from Rut nround, ami forcibly reminding one of J\'oil crick Dint's boast tu James in Wal ter Scott's lv Lady of the Lake.'' Gradually the army massed in solid pha lanx at the point indicated, and as gradually did the columns emerge from that phalanx and file over the different roads in the direc tion of GhancelloTville. From tho woods opposite General head quarters, on tiie east, could be seen the troops uf Gcderal Ilurnsido, slowly winding down tho bill and swinging around on the Chau cellurvillo road. The four different army Corps, Hancock’s, Warren’s Sedgwick’s ami Rurnsnlc’s pouHdJh living masses over tho different avenues to the new positions to be taken. About dark the Rohels-whn had just been made nwlire of the march of the Union army, ventured from the position to which tlmy bail boon driven buck by our forces, and from a distant bill opened a battery on some of our rear colnms, but without indicting any inju ry. As these batteries opened lire tho bands pm formed “ Hail Columbia,” “ Yankee Hoo die,” & j., in defiance ami contempt. Birney’s Division of Hancock’s Corns wore detailed, by General Meade, as a rear guard to cover tho march, or as it was, strict- Iv speaking, the advance of tbo Union army. Tills division took possession of the intronoh nients of onr troops during the movement, and most effectually checked any demonstra tions of prowling Rebels on onr left. TTie troops wore engaged tho whole night in moving: infantry, artillery, baggage, am munition and supply wagons, ambulances and every variety of vehicle attendant on a great army, blocked up all. the roads for miles. The weather was extremely warm, find impenetrable clouds of dust tilled the air, rendering tho match an extremely un pleasant one. ,’iTIE FOURTH DAY. Sunday, May S. As Sunday is a day that lias figured so conspicuously in'the great events of the war, it was "confidently expected that its advent would record some momentous event in the present grout movement of tho army, hut up to the time 1 write but little has transpired „( hutment beyond a desperate light between -tho old First Army Corps, now attached to Warren’s Corps, and a portion of the Rebel army, who attempted to cheek our advance .near Todd’s Tavern. A full account of tho fighting has been for warded to you, and it is only necessary for mo to allude to it in this connection. In the morning Generals Grant and Meade estab lished their head quarters at Pincy Branch, about two and a halt' miles from Chancellor ville, on the Todd’s Tavern road. A party of twenty-five hundred Rebel prisoners, cap tured within the past few days, passed head quarters this morning, among them several Rebel Captains and two Colonels. . Tho weather to-day is intensely hot, and the soldiers in their onward career, suffered greatly from tho intense heat. , As division after division filed over the various roads on their wav to Spottsylvania Court House, eve ry stream, small crook and pool of water was eagerly sought after by the timid soldiers, when, after filling their canteens with inn ti dy water and applying them to their parch ed lips, they would proceed on tho way to Richmond. , „ , ’ At throe o’clock in the afternoon an order was given to prepare to move; and at about four o’clock Generals Grant and Meade left Pinoy Branch and proceeded over the hills in an easterly direction, and taking a turn through the woods to tho right, selected a spot about two miles distant as a base of op- Eelldj. _1;14,„ x " orations for Monday’s 'work. About five o’clock the train attached to General Head-qaarters left, and just at dusk the newly selected head-quarters were fully established. A detachment of four companies of Mas sachusetts cavalry went out in the morning on a reconnoitcring expedition towards the llapidan. They returned* in the afternoon with three empty saddles, have had a small skirmish with some Hebei cavalry a few miles out. The twenty-five hundred Bohol prisoners ftllvidcd to avo quartered directly in the rear of Grant’s head-quarters, and surrounded by a small guard. ’They arc, to say the least, comfortably clad. Nearly every man Ims good shoes, and they really look like good lighting stock. A Union deserter, who had gone over to tbo llohels on two occasions, was taken ftis morning, and will ho tried at once by court martial, and if found guilty will bo hung without delay. THE FIFTH DAY. Washington, May 11, 1864. Tho following has just been received from your Specials; Battle Field, nf.\b Spotts vltania Court House, May 10, 1804, I P. M. —The army ar rived in this vicinity on Sunday morning, since which time there has been a state of comparative quiescence. On our right, which rested near Todd’s Tavern, extending along the Spottsvlvania road and across the Cath arpen road, there was some little artillery bring on {Sunday evening, between the .Sec ond Corps and the enemy, hnt nothing that amounts to an engagement. Haring the af ternoon a column of the enemy was obscred moving to tho right of us, and appeared to bb aiming to.get in the advance, and come down on our left wing. General Sedgwick's Corps was in that part of our lino, and with Warren's Corps advan wViViHijf the enemy. Fighting was quite sharp for an hour or two, but ended hy our driving the enemy hack and forcing them out of their hastily con structed lirelt^works. Yesterday our right was pushed gradually forward and swung round across the Spottsyl vania road to adapt U to the changed position of tho enemy. Yesterday afternoon thollcbcl wagon trams were plainly seen moving along a road, four miles to tho southwest of the Spottsylvania road from Todd’s Tavern, an effort was made to create a stampede among them hy shelling hut they were rather too far distant to admit of doing, this effectually. Reports wore brought to General Hancock s headquarters, about live o’clock P. M. yester day, that the enemy was in but light force in his front. A battery of horse artillery, which they eomm'enced using against us, had been speedily silenced, and their line'had been pushed back far enough to give us possession of the house from .which their sharp-shooters had been annying us aU f«»on.«.n Every thing indicated that tho. enemy was not in force on their left sullicicnt to successfully sist an attack at that point, and the division of Generals Barlow, Gibbon and Birny were ordered to advance across a branch of Po riv er, and lake position on the further side. Within less than half an hour wo had com menced the- attack, our men cheering lusti ly and delivering a series of heavy volleys in quick succession. Artillery was als'o used to some extent, and before dark we were secure lv established beyond the stream, and within two miles of Spottsylvania Court # This morning there is considerable firing along our centre, but nothing amounting to an engagement. It is now supposed that General Lee, with one corps of his army, has gone on to Richmond, leaving tho others to oppose us and impede our progress as much as possible. We expect shortl yto make a general attack upon the enemy in front, and nu*di them with utmost vigor. Our losses since our here, except the irreparable one we sustain in Gen. Sedg wick’s death, and the wounding of Gen. Hob insim, have been light. About six hunderd prisoners have boon ta con up to this timer in addition to those ta ,en at the Wilderness. . ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Tlic folhnvingisa telegraphic dospath from Gafleton to the Boston Journal ; One of the greatest battles of tho war was fought yesterday, near Spottsylvania Court House. . . . ■ , 1 left the field at 0. 30 this morning, and am able to give a statement of what took place. One week ago to-day' the army moved from Culpeper. It lias had six days of. con tinual lighting, in which there have boon three groat battles. . On Saturday morning Lee retired from t.io Wilderness, leavingdnit a small force to keep up appearances. Gyant immediately oracicu an advance to Spottsylvania. The Jmuli Corps taking the lead, confronted Longatroet three miles northwest of tiie town, Earlv Sunday morning skirmishing began and lusted all day, ending in a hard fought engagement. Sunday night the Rebels wei o pushed hack a short distance. The Sixth Corps arrived near the close of tho battle, and participated. Tho Second Corps arriv ed in the evening. The Ninth Corps, march ing by a longer road, did not arrive till Mon day morning. ■ 1 ~ - ' Tho battle-field is placed by ndges mostlv envered with woods and thickets, iu winch the .Rebels lay concealed with bf tlories mask od. Standing in tho centre of onr hnc, be tween the Fifth and Sixth Corps, on Tmey Grove road, looking towards the Court lloujo, you see » gentle slope with pieces of undula tions marked with rillc-pita and batteries, which' enfilade all tho approaches. To f*a.in thorn there must htj fighting at overv°Btep. The thickets avo not quite so douse as in tho Wilderness. hut most of tho aground is covered by a forest. General Rob inson, commanding Second Division, I'ltth Corps was wounded in this engagement. Skirmishing limnmcnoed again on Monday morning, and from our prisoners it was as certained that Ewell was also m front. Bee had pushed his troopsTßpidly into a strong position on tho south hank of the Po Ruor. Tho Court House is an elevated land collec tion of lialf a dozen houses. Those roads radiate, one northward ' to Todd’s tavern, one duo north to Pincy Grove Olmroh, and one northeast To Fedoriokshurg. Tho .Second ainl Fifth Corps covered 'the road to Todd’s ; the Sixth the road to Pmey Reach, and the Ninth the road to Fredricks- The Cathargon road loading westward was used by Lee to roach tho position. A. 1 • Hill readied the Cold Monday night and took position on the Robolright, confronting turn side. Ewell had the centre .against Sedg wick, and Longstroet stood against Ilun -I'ho linos wore in the form of a horse shoo i it was Gettysburg reversed, Leo having the inner half circle. Skirmishing commenced Monday morning and continued through the forenoon. Sedgwick, while planting a bat tery, was picked oil’ by a Hebei sharpshoot er half a mile distant. His death cast a gloom over the whole *ar my, but did not diminish the ardor of the mem They were burned for revenge. Gon craal Wright was placed in command of Sedg wick’s Corps. THE REJJ RIVER./ Particulars of General Banks's Belrcnt. v [From the Missouri Uopublioan.] A lexa-npria, La., April 27.—A1l day yes terday and tu-day tho army huts been re-enter ing this place, returning Iron* the disastrous expedition toward Shreveport. Gens. Banks,' Franklin, and A. J. Smith are now here to gether with their respective commands. Al exandria begins to assume tho appearance it wore four weeks ago, when th 6 army, with high hopes and full of life, took up its march for Shreveport/ 1 Crowds of ollicers, soldiers and oiti/.ens arc everywhere to be seen. The levee is lined with steamers, and the tents of a large army surrounded the place. General Franklin and Cen Smith held a consultation at Grand Ficore last week, and agreed upon a programme by which they could bring tho army auecesslully hack 10 Alexandria. Franklin laid this plan before Gen. Hanks, and told him that he(Frank!m) held a consultation with Gen. Smith, anu that they had agreed upon the plan, and that lie would undertake to conduct the retreat, il lie (Banks)".would not interfere. General Banks assented and thus virtually turned the command over to General Franklin, Gener al Banks must have felt humiliated at this proposition, but ho submitted: He took a cavalry escort,, and came on to Alexandria, arriving hero a day or su in advance ol the \yns i sy»in General Franklin took up his march from (J rand Kcore hist Thursday, destroying all the stores for which he had no trau?\virlation. — When his army arrived at Cano river, Salur day morning, where General I ranklin cxpoc- I tod to cross, ho found the rebels under Lick TaylorJ posted on a high cminemm on the op posite side in force, to dispute the crossing. Franklin opened on them with artillery, and heavy cannonading was kept up all day Sat urday, Saturday night and until Sunday mor ning about nine o’clock, in the meantime Franklin sent a large infantry force up Cano river two or throe miles, where they succeed ed in finding a .ford, at which theycDsnod over and came down near the bank, and char ged the heights. A severe engagement en sued, in which both sides lust heavily. There is now but three feet five inches of wa- ter on the falls, one mile above this place. — The following iron clads arc above tiie falls and cannot get over: Osage, Neosho, Mound City, Louisville, Carondelec, Pittsburg, Chil- Boothe, Ozark and Kastport. The Lexington, Fort Hindman and Orikctt, tinchnh arc also ftbOVe CUO j c'i.o ports. ' . . . , The groat question now agitating tlio minds of the military and naval authorities hero, is how to got those gunboats over the tails. It is a difficult problem, and may not he aolveu at until the water rises in thu rivrr. Dams, lucks, &c., are suggested, but nothing looking to practical results has been dune. Admiral Purtcr is determined not to lose a boat 11 he can help it by any possible means. Ho says. I understand, that if the laud forces leave him ho will take in six months' supplies, and await arise in the river. This would sub ject the officers and crews to a UIo of annoy ance and peril. The rebels would swarm around so thick that it would cost a man his life to show his head above tlio decks. Hen. A. J. Smith was on board the gun heat For est Hose last night, informed Captain John son that General Banks and his army wore going to leave, hut that hound his men would remain with the gunboats until every one id them could be gotten out. It was gcncraliv* supposed heretofore that General Smith and his forces would leave immediately for Vicks burg, under nnlers Irom Gen. Grant; but this declaration implies a change of programme. It is evident that General Banks and Ins ar my arc going to leave this part of the State as soon as possible*. Steamboats that Game up hero n, week ago, loaded with commissary supplies, are now tied up, with their cargoes still unloaded. In a firmer communication, I wrote ynv the particulars of the firing into the steamei Superior below this place, lust weds, and also spoke of the order issued by the commander of the troops on board. I have obtained the proof of the issuing of the order by Lieut. Col. Parker, of the lid Khnde Maud Cavalry. I am permitted to publish the following let lor: Ai.exanuuia, La., Aplil, 18(14:—I. HI. ion r,sv, As.il. Special Aijl. Treasury Depui-imeat, Memphis, Venn: When on board the steamer Superior, on the 22d instant, about twenty five miles below hero, the boat was fired into by guerillas, and throo persons were Uilled aud thirteen wounded. There were three companies of the od Ilhodc Island Cavalry, under command of Lieutenant Col. Parker on hoard. As the boat canto on up, I hoar i Colonel Parker give peremptory orders to his men to fire on every white man, woman and child soon on shore. The order was executed and two unarmed citizens, while standing on the levee about fifteen miles below hero, wa ving their hats to the boat, wore lirod upon amf both fell to the ground, supposed to bo killed. - I have since learned that the men wore loyal, and had taken the oath of allegi ance to the United States. v John C. A, Duaun, Agency Aid. The truth of this letter can bo established hv every one on hoard the boat. Iho supe rior and the gunboat convoy fired four or five shells into Sirs. Wilson’s plantation houses, six miles above the place where_ the boat was fired into. This, was done by way of “ retaliation” Mrs. Wilson is a highly respect cd, well known Union lady. When the In mg beo*an the negroes —some forty in number ran out on ths bank, almost frightened to death. I was told by a'Federal olliecr on the Superior that the bout ceased firing for fear of hurting some of the ” colored people. They did not, ho said, want to hurt thm-T,; and seeing no white people about, the linmp was stopped. It was no difference how many innocent white men, woman and children wore slaughtered in cold blood, hut the col ored people.” Dear creatures I Not a hair of their bends must, for the world, bo touch ed 1 This is a speciraan of Abolition plulan throphy without a parallel. A LETTER mow OICIC TAYLOR, After the two days’ battloß, our forces, it is said, captured ft robot courier, bearing dis patches from Dick Taylor to Magvudcr, and among tho letters, it is said, was one from Taylor to tho Texas General, in which Tay lor said. . “ I thank you for your kind offer to furn- AN INFAMOUS ORUEIt. iah mo and my army with supplier But I have plenty on hand. Your offer came ft little foo late. My efficient commissary, N. P. Brinks, has supplied mo abnndantly/'&c. Banks to be called “ Stonewall Jack son's commissary." Heisnowout hero called Dick Tayli r T d. lUNKs’d COITI’ETEJTCV General A. J. Smith can bo heard at all times denouncing Banks for. incompotency as a general. There is another source of com plaint. There was. a criminal neglect on the part of some one to properly supply tho moil with rations. .The officers of the JLlGth New York Infantry declare publicly that after tho battle of Pleasant Hill, 'their men had to* search th& haversacks of the dead to get something to eat, while, at tho same time, the negroes wore well supplied with rations. Gen. Banks may bo useiul to the country in many capacities and places. But to con tinue him longer in command of tho Depart ment of the Gulf) is sotting at defiance tho wishes of nine-tenths of the loyal citizens of Bouisana, and is to treat with contempt tho deep indignation and well-founded dissatis faction of the soldiers in the field. Wo can not hope for success so long ns ho is in com mand. lie may bo asgreat a General as Na poleon, and. as bravo as Julius CiCsar, but while the soldiers tiiink otherwise it is use less to expect that they will fight successfully under him. Gen. Banka said to Oon. A. J. Smith, af ter the battle of Pleasant Hill : “You ImvO saved my army.” Ho may also say to Admi ral Porter: “ Yon'lmve saved my transports.'.’ Query.—Where would Banka have been had it not been for Smith and Porter? Interesting Incident. —A correspondent with the army' of the Potomac gives the fol lowing incident that actually occurred: Amidst nil the horrors of war many inci dents occur amusing in themselves; and which stances, are provocative ol’mii'th, and lornV' subjects for camp stories months after. I have seen soldiers chase haves and pick black hcrnc.vMien a shower of leaded messengers, iof death was falling thick and fast around I them and many other cool and foolish tilings. 1 But the following, which actually took place at Mine Bun, surpasses anything I remem ber to have seen or hoard: On one of those biting cold mornings, while the armies of Meade and Leo - were staring at each other across the little rivulet known as Mine Kiln, when moments appeared to lie hours and hours days, so near at hand seemed tho dead* ly strife, a solitary sheep leisurely walked along the run on tho rebel side. A rebel vi dette fired and killed thcshccp, and, dropping his gun advanced to remove the prize. In an instant ho was covered by n gun in tho hands of a U riion videtto, who said : “ Divide is the word, or you area dead Johnny.”— This proposition was asscntcd[to, and there, between the two skirmishTiii.es, Mr. Kebel skinned tho. sheep, took one half and moved back with it to his post, when his challenger fnvn iliv>j-n?n/t hh jynn the .ri.m-.tfnh the other half of tho sheep, and again resinn ed the duties of his .post amid the cheers of his comrades, who expected to help him, to eat it. Of tho hundreds of hostile men ar rayed against each other on either hank of that run, not one dared to violate the trued agreed upon by these two soldiers* Treatment or Croup. — -Wo copy tlio fol lowing suggestion from JlalVs Journal of Hcaltk in reliction to (lie _ treatment of this disease, Prompt application of the remedies proscribed may save many an infant that might otherwise die from neglect in the in cipient stages. ■ <’■ Croup is an inflnmation of the inner surface of the windpipe; Inflama tion implies heat, and that heat must be subdued, or the patient will inevitably die; If prompt efforts are made to cool the parts in the case of an attack of croup, be as prompt as it is surprising nnd delight ful. All know that cold water applied to a hot skin cools it, but all do not as well know that hot water applied to an intlamed skirt will as certainly cool it off. llenco the ap plication of i-ec-cold water with linen cloths, or almost boiling water with woolen flannel, is vorv ciliciont in the cure of croup, flake two or three pieces of woolen flannel, or two folds, large enough to covcr tlib whole throat and upper part ol tile chest, put these into a pot of hot water as hot as the hand can bear, and keep it thus hot, by adding water from rt b tiling tea-kettle at hand; lot two dr throe of the”flanncls bo in hot water nil the time, and one on the throat all tiro time, with a dty one covering the wet one, ‘so ns to keep the boat in to some estent, the flannel should not be so wet ns to dribble the water, for it is important to keep the clothing as dry as pos sible, and keep up the process until the phlegm is loose, the child easier, nnd begins to fall anloe.p, (hen gently wrap a dry flannel over the one wliiehys on, so ns to cover it up entirely, nnd the child is saved. When it wakes up both flannels will bo dry. [f7- A worthy Hibernian, who was Inbor ing'nndev the (delusion that men and women meant what they said, was temptedby a cor ilial invitfttinn from fi liuly of distinction to call at her bouse. The servant opened tho door so quick that her voice was hoard by- Dr. 51., saying; “Toll bini I am npl at home!'’ His Irish wit came to rffeoue, for he immediately said in a loud l tonqlo thd davllev. ’Coll vnnr mistress I have not, called upon her this evening, as she wished me.” The lady ran out, took the doctor by both hands, nnd laughed heartily at Ins ig norance of the greatest institution of fospcct ablo life—lying. J33P A Cincinnati editor says that lie lias many a time seen a man on ska’os jump (wonty.f.mr feet. Lucky lie didn’t say yards, for then we would not have believed him . UST Coffee, of Into, produces a soothing, pdas- able effect, anl creates a vo-rye bean-ay- 1 olont. disposition. ry Wh vis old Abo a had architect 7 80 3 cause ho is’ all tho time busy making drafts to supply the delioionoy of his previous draw- O” Probably' thq wittiest saying in tllp language is Douglass jcrrold’s tlolinition of, dogmatism—thgt,, it.->3 „puppynOss. corao ■■to ■ maturity. ; j, jigy A person who has been traveling “ Down V.ast,” says that he saw plenty of pino orchards but no pine apples- Efiy False fears bring true vexations ; tho imaginary grievances of our' life are morfl than tho renl-ones. y One day, at a farm house; a tvag saw an old gobler trving to cat ihe strings of soma nightcaps that lay on the ground to bleach. "That,” said ho, “ is what I call introducing cotton into Turkey. f NO. 4.9
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