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ARMY CORRESPONDENCE.
1 ho following letter from Surgeon U. P.
loop, written to a friend in this place
contains particulars of the conduct of thu
8-lth in the battle of Sunday tin 4th inst.,
with the losses sustained 1 j y l;t, other reg
iin. mis of the division, with a list of the
k 1, woundvj bin missing of Company
V, of the 84th,
'.'ilfr. KtAR KnEIIERIl Kil'LHU, )
VA., May 8lh, 1803.
Mv W.All Sis.
! have wailed a long time for
-"iii.'lhing of interest to write to yourself,
is well us to many others of Clearfield, and
iTA thotime has coiiitt aud brought with
i1 ii -h1 stoiy of death to many of our
'le i . field frionds. 1 will enclose a list of
'he officers and men of Company K, lost
in i lie great buttle of Sunday, the 4th day
if May. Our two old regiment, 84tn and
Il'Uh, appear doomed to suffer in the se
verest of the fight at all times and places,
and well indeed havo they sustained their
honor, as their depleted rnkswill testify.
I iil not attempt to descriho Ihe tight,
m i' tn speculate ujon the results, but will
I e.d; only of my own Corps, 3rd, cooj
n.aiidedby Maj. Gen. I), E. Sickles. It is
"imposed of threo divisions, commanded
as follows, 1st division, (Jen. liirney, (sale) j
L'nd, 'j.'ii. Bony, (killed) ; 3rd, Gneral
iiiiii.io, wouudeu ana aiea yesterday).
I l.e, w hole corps fought with more than
u-uul eounige ; and Moj. Gen. Sickles is
unquestionably a daring and courageous
tlvcer.; This I know to be true of
him, whatever miy be the prejudice of
die mny or the world against hisn.
I will now confine myself to the part
inkivi and the hs sustained in my own
hiipado, the 2nd brigade of the 3rd corps,
formerly coruniutided by Gen. S. S, Cai
roll, und at iipsint by Col. S. M. Bow
man of tho S4th P. V.. (Gen Curroll huv
: i; henii assigoej to French's division.)
I his I n'gu'ie is made up of three reji"
menli, namely-84th P. V., 110th F. V.,
1-th Now Hanipsliire,and numbeieil when
s-i- went into the fJchi as follows: 81th
Ik'I in tho fight, with cuns, 303 now
ciuniLer 145, loss 21S. 110th lost 44. I2th
New flatnpshiro lost out of 540, 340 men'
and of olfioejs us follows . 1 1 line officers,
nd of the stuff, my assistant .Surgeon, J.
S. Warner, mortally wounded bv shell : of
j our h'.ld !lcers. none are killed : of the
non-commissioned staff officer), John S.
j Jury, 6-rgcantsmnjor, was killed.
) i'lio Uiith lost Col. James Crowther,
killed : Mnj. Jonea, mortally wounded;
i Lieut. McCune, killed; Sergeanti major
I Sliaw, son (f John Shaw, of Philipsburg,
! .missing. 12lh New Hampshire lost Col.
; Potter, Lt. Col. March, Major SavHge, and
-I lino officer and their Assistant Surgeon
,'Ir. Hunt) were killed. I'rs, Pomeroy
iicd Wil'.iMiis of our division were wound
d so the country will surely rot blatuo
( '.ho surgeons fur being cowards this time,
tm four cut of twelve are wounded and one
killed.
Sj much for the glory of the medical
department. I was niyseif within their
flinks twice, but my former skill in cil-
' rng'the pine : hitkels and laurel brambles
d Mofhunn'.ii brought mo out safe. Two
', Men were killed in the field hospital
whero wo were operating on Monday mor
; iiing, ti;ree were wounded, and a horse
ilitt stcoa near was torn to pieces by a
i shell.
I tlnupht we had seen terrible infantry
i 1'i'hting at Fudericksburg, but this mote
i i ban erjunlbd ah) tiling I have yet seen.
; Vi h drove taoni (mil weie driven again in
i e!urn,and finally flanked,then surround
!'d, thus is our division, they cut their
' way out cn a doubio quick, and lost as
above slated.
I m of tho opinion that we, in the ag
Xrrpnte killed 5 to I, and why we fell
back is a mystery to mo, unless it was the
heavy rains ewd'ing the river so as to des
troy the efficiency 'f our pontoons and
ihreitsning to render tho loi.ds impassa
bio for our supply train. I am sure that
not one third of our army was engaged
nMiin whole cor s ecarcoly fired a gun
and if we could have kept up our supplies
and amnnitioii I really uolieyo wo could
have taken their whole at my in three
days moro fighting. Our men behaved
splendidly, oxeept"iho 11th corjs. Tl,
broke on tho right wing, and disgraced
tl.emselves forever. They are th men
j formerly commandcl by Sigel, and say
s 'hey could not fight without him they
? hud one of tho very best commanders this
j war or the world has ever seon, I me: n
Gen, Howard, an exalted christian and
Koldier. May the devil pound thorn for
their cowardly conduct pardon me. I
riiimot write, not having recovered from
t he futig jes and anxieties of the past ten
lays fo that I am stupid as an owl.
Here please find a list of killed, wound
c 1 and missing of Company K, 84lh P.V.I
l,pi. ). l eierman, killed.
Lieut. A. Kixon, wounded and missing
Lieut. W. A. Nelson, do do
Liout. Kobt. Jamison do do
(.orporal Chas White, killed.
Jos II P.argor, missing.
Pnn'l Graham, do
J II Ferguson, do
' M O Taf, wounded and missing,
j Jos S Lydic, left hand shot off.
Sol lussidy, musing.
Oratz M Johnson, wounded in hand.
John Lytlo, wounded and missing.
Samuel Hare, missing.
JoBoph St nu fter, do
Rudolph Young, do
John bolomon, do
John Lozire, do
R.J ShaflW. do
J S Townall, do
Hi it Reams, do
James Mead, do
Robert Graham, do
WroKralier, killed.
Frsnk Wesar, missing.
John Marks, do
m issing.
do
do Frenchville.
do
do
do
Christ Metzel, wounded,
James Gorman, missing.
Pern Addiemau, prisoner.
O. F.
noors.
THE INCOME TAX.
The first of May is the time designated
by tho tux law for tho asessment of tho
tax on incomes, the present assessment
beir.g for the year ending December 31,
1XG2. Kvery person, whether In business
or not, including those acting in a fiducia
ry character as guardinns, trustees, and
administrators, must return to the assis
tant usseiisors a statement of all tho re
ceipts of their business or property of evi
ery kind and description, and tho asses
sors will decide what deductions are to bo
nmdo. This tax is annual, and the assess,
ments will bo submitted to examination,
and appeals may bn taken. If persons
refuso to make a statement of their in
come, or tho statement is not deemed to
be true, a list will bo made on tho best ins
formation the assessors can obtuin,Rubject
to the oath or allirmation of tho persons
assessed, a3 prescribed by tho law. In
taxing trust funds the exemption nf'fGoO
will not be made unless oath is made that
the minor or beneficiary has no other in
come from which the $000 exemption can
bo tnndc. Tho following succinct ab
stract of the law relating to this annual
tax will be found useful in guiding per
sons in making out a statement of their
incomes, and also gives the deductions to
be mudeby the assessors.
Mechanics, merchants, and manufactu
rers will return tho whole amount of tho
avails or revenue of their business, and a
statement of thp expense of tho same, for
labor, material, &C. Co-partners will re
turn their shate or interest in the co-partnership
income. Corporators the amount
of profits, whether in tho form of divu
donds or otherwise. Evidences of debt,
for adjusted accounts, w ill be iiilutd as if
f the ierson was making an inventory
01
the sumo on settlement of nn estate
j Fanners will return tho value of the
j produco of tho farm. If a portion of the
i same 1ms been "fed out" to stuck for
sale, thn aluo of tho stock for ealo, the
valuo of the stock fattened, dc, will bo
returned ; al.-o all Kales of such stock.
(This will avoid the payment of a double
tax, viz: both for the product of the farm
grain, hay, iVc nnd the incomo from
tho stock fattened from the same.) No
deduction will be made for tho labor or
service of himself or family. Expensesof
hired help will bo deducted ; also all pay
mem for rent, insurance, ordinary repairs,
interest on mortgages, lo. No deduction
will be made for any portion of the pros
ducts of the farm consumed in tho family.
Produco on hand December 31,1802, must
be valued at the then maiket price.
Salaried men will return the full ain't
of the salaries they receive, whether fixed
ty ttatutesor agreement, or derived from
foes, Ac. Previous to September 1, 1802,
uo deduction of threo per cent, was made
from salaries of persons in tho employ of
the United States. It follows that the
gross amount received between Januiry
1, 1802, and August 31, 1802, inclusive,
must be returned.
A return must be tnndo of tho income
or dividends derived from stock in any
bank, insurance company, savings insti
tution, truft company, railroad, railroad
bonds, steamboat, fen y bout or bt idge, be
tween Jan. 1, 1802, and Aug. 31, 102, in
clusive The net gains orprofits of manufactu
rers are to be taxed under section ninety
of the la v, without regard to the fuel that
thev have blrcadv naid a tux. the ex
empt.on contained in the original stat-..e
was removed by the aructidineut bP'Marcli
1'
All income received from goods, mnrt -
gages, noi cs, stock in gas companies or
n'.Unufacturing compi-.nies, during tho
whole of the year 1802, is to be returned
and taxed.
All income received from telegraph or
express companies, or profits made by ex
press men, arc to bo t.ixed, if received be
tween the first of January, 1802, and Sops
(ember 30, 102, inclusive
Persons whose incomo does not exceed
? 10,000. and who reside in tho
United
States, are liable to a tax of three per,
opnt nnon nil such nart thereof hs in noil-
John Keiniglo,
Goorgo Colmer,
John Fontenoy,
Samuel Dixon,
Robt Hod key,
(leo Hoffman,
exempt. Exceeding $10,000, five per BA correspondent ays : "It is pos
cent. Providing, however, that income . aille that Mr. Wanton hai somewhere, at
derived (mm United Slates securities somo out of-the-way-placo, uttered a
shall be subject to a duty of one and a threat to resign, but I do not believe ho
half per cent. only. Citizens of tho" Uni- has done so in the presence of responsible
ted States residing abroad, and not in tho witnesses. No such luck for the country.
employment of the United
States, aro
subject to a duty of five per
cent, upon
their property, stock, oi securities, and
upon those one and a half per cent.
1 he following deductions will also be
made from the .aggregate income of any
person, and the tax levied upon tho re
mainder, viz:
State and looal taxes of the calendar
year, Januiry 1, 1H02, to December 31.
Salaries of United States ofticuls from
which has been already deducted by diss
... . , ,
..o..,6 v,ui. ... iu.cn j,or L-eiu. in oi t )eie meeting.
the statute. I
Interest, dividends, Ac, of stock in I ljTrue virtue is above all price. False
backs and other moneyed corporations j virtue is contemptible, and whosoever as
from w hich the statute tax of three per'sumes it, deceive not for the veil is pene-
cent, nas aireauy Deen ueuucieu or retain'
ed (i. .) since August 61, jsou
Receipts derived from "advertisements" r
on which a duty shall already have been
J paid.
i The sum of $f00, except in those cases
j in which the ?6f0 has alraady been de
due tod from the salaries or pay of govern
I ment officers as aforesaid,
j The rent actually paid for rent of dwel
ling house of esUto, the residence of per
son assessed. (The value of rent of
house occupied by owner, is not deduc
ted.) The amount of hired labor, and value of
the board of such labor.
Persons receiving rent are entitled to
deduct the cost of repairs, insurance and
interest on incumbrance upon rented
property. The cost of extraordinary re
pairs, new utructures, &c, will in no case
be deducted.
In referring to this tax the Philadelphia
Age remarks :
"It is a fact that tho income tax, from
tho manner it is levied, and tbo inquisi
torial method of ascertaining the amount
to be a"yssed on each taxspaver, is the
most onerous of all that can e inflicted
on a free people ; vhilo.on tho other hand,
its yield seldom reaches moro than half
tho estimate.. Keal estate is the only
species of property which cannot be con
cealed, and it is for this reason that it cans
rot escape the assessor like personal prop
erty which may be transferred from hand
to hand."
Tho Chicago Post expresses itself ou
tho same Rubject as follows ;
"On Friday last there becamo due and
payable to the United States tho incomo
tax. That is u tax laid by Congress upon
the earnings and proceeds of the labor and
caiiital of the country. All persons are
required to furnish the Federal tax otli
cer a statement of all the moneys received
by him during the year ending April 30,
lsG3. From the aggregato receipts.wheth
er it be laborers' or mechanics' earning,
clerks' salaries, or dealers' profits, or in
terest, or rents, or capital, there is to be
deducted the sum of six hundred dollars,
und on the excess a tax of three per cent,
is levied by law, which tho party upon
whom it is levied must pay. If we under
stand the law correctly, in addition to the
exceptions of six hundred dollrrs, the lav
exempts the amount paid for house rent.
This will, therefore, leave to every house
holder six hundred dollars and the am't
of hi houso rent free from taxation.
Those housekeepers who own their dwell
ings will have to pay on all their income
over six hundred dollars.
"Every person whose salary or wages
exceeds twelve dollars a week, will have
to pay the threo per cent, tax on 1 11 sums
above that amount. In estimating the
income of a person, he is required to state
(and on oath, if the assessor demand it ;)
the uctual sums received by him during
the year from all sources, whether as earn
iligs of labor, rent of houses, dividends on
stocks, interests on investments, 4c. The
entire business of every man must be dis
closed, and tho moans of living of all ex
hibited to the public. The assessor makes
the legal deductions, and collects tho tax
es upon the residue. No more searching
tax law was ever passed by any govern
tnent, and nothing like this was evor pres
vioiibly known in this country, lt re
quires the farmer to disclose the amount
of produce of every kind raised during the
the last year, with the amount of money
received therefor. He is allowed the
crcditof six hundred dollars, and the
amount paid by him for labor in produ
cing his crops, raising his stock, Ac. On
the balance he must pay the tax of three
per cent.
"We do not think the amount realized
by this law, after deducting its expenses,
will be very great. The principal source
of revenue will bo from capitalists; from
those wlioso income, after deducting all
allowances, will exceed three thousand
do J ITS.
"The law, as we havo said, exempts six
hundred dollars and the amount paid fur
house rent. Thcso exemptions will re
leaso tho vast majority of the people. The
annual gross income of two .thirds of the
people does not exceed ono thousand dol
I mm ivi year. iue exemptions in uuei
lurs per year.
, f ' ' foU wilh opprei,iVe
I i,nimii i A7a bnt.tincA nccnuanra will
I ensn l ,.,;t1. tlw.l.. liuta orwi I lin
i , must be i.rci.ated to show their
business ali'uirs to the revenue ollicer.
BfJDuTlic Republican party is distinguish
ed for mobbery, robbery, jobbery and
snobbery.
The golden days of Deruocraey aro gone
and behold the greenback days of Aboli'
tionism are upon us.
'Tho Ox knoweth his owner atd the
Ass his master's cib : so it is with those
who declare in favor of Lincoln's abolition
Baf A small rebellion occurred in An
tioch College, Ohio, last week, caused by
the introduction of a negro student from
Oberlin. Two classes withdraw, en masse,
but the faculty compromises! by making a
new classification, with other students, se
as to avoid the offensive association.
JKiy-Geas. Fremont, Sigel and Butler
aro engaged in addressing Union Leagues.
We have not seen it stated that recruits
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' mi ineuiujy uata uuvu uulouicu rkhiji vi
(table
ItiTA vonni ladv who was ureed to
study French, replied that she thought j
one tongue was sulhcient for any woman.
ley Lawyer's mouths are like turnpike
gates never open except for pay.
teThe barber who dressed the head of,
a barrel! has been engaged to Gx up the ,
locks of a cAnal.
THE MOZART HALL DEMOCRACY
SPEAK OUT.
Tho Mozart Hall Democracy met at
their rooms, in Urge numbers, on Thurs
day evening, and adopted a series of leos
lutious in favor of peace, and piotctii:g
against the arrest of Hon. Clement L.
Vallandighiim.
Ex-Uccorder Smith said, thero is not a
despotism en the face of tho eurlli where a
man at least bib not tho right to express
his views in tho cause ui humanity. Jin t
in this country a man who has lately oc
cupied u high position .is a member o!
Congress, n man of ability, education, and
tried patriotism, for no cause in tho woi la
except that in a political metiing ho said
to those that wore mound him that we
were in a war which cannot reu!t bene
ficially to us ; for this his house is folcibly
entered by soldiers, and he is carried
away and imprisoned, lie is brought be
fore a military tribunal. Is noL treason
defined by the statute ? Is Inert, and reas
son that the law should bo trampled on
and entirely tlisreanled, us if they wish
ed to show the people tho power they
have, and that they caro not for the Con
stitution and laws? Tiny commit an ast
of outrage and violence unparalleled in
tho history of this or any other civilized
land since tho bloody days of the French
Revolution. Applause.l Neither this
Government or any other can stifle the
voice of tho million of the people, except
thpy drown it in blood. Applause.
Have they forgotten how Burke and Chat
ham in tho British Parliament denouticed
tho American Revolution ? These men
were not fei,ed and brought bol'oro a mil
itary tribunal for expressing tbatopinion.
It is true there was a punce party.
If ever there was a lime when woshould
call for a cessation of these experiments
we have boen making, it is now. Some of
these men who are opposed to tins if they
could but hear tho wails, tho weeping,! hat
go up all over this land ; if they could un
derstand, as they will understand by and
by, thai no benefit whatever is to result
from this war ; if they can understand
that wo mny go on spending milTons of
treasure, entailing upon our children a
debt that will be fearful ; and if they
could understand that it must result in
some arrangement or other at lust, they
would agree with.us and say : "For God's
sake let us eheatlie tho sword and muko
a peace upon sumo terms or other, ami
stop this horrid war, which is a curse to
both North and South." Applause.
In response, to loud calls Hon. Jams
Brooks rose to speak Uesaid ho thought
a crisis had arisen in public affairs in
which it is necessary for every man, as
often as possible, to show himself in pub
lic in order to rebuke theoxistiug Admin
istration. When a distinguished public
man, whom he knew well, whom many of
them knew well, whom we nil loved and
revered, distinguished for h:s eloquence,
his learning, his high attainments, distin
guished above all lor his moral heroism
physical heroes are abundant, but moral
heroes are few and fir between when
such a man had been arrested, h had felt
it his duly to appear hero and join in a
goneral expression of public opinion. Mr.
Vallandinghnm's arrest. The doors of his
house had been battered down at o o'clock
in the morning by a company of Abolition
soldiers, armed with muskets, an I ho as
arrested, kidnnpped from his nnd
house, abducted, carried oil to Cincinnati,
and incarcerated theto lawless!,-, lyranis
cally. wickedly, by the minions in power.
No outrage on Ourth can bo great as
'.hat. No king in Europe, rot Napoleon
on bis throne, or the Czar oi Russia even,
dare violate the baeredness of a private
citizens home, nnd the principle- is so hih
and holy in English law that for five hun
dred years the king of England has not
dared to violule it. A man's houso is his
castlo. The doors of this man's house
have been broken into by a law less fcil
diery in the hour approaching morning,
when man slumbers most hetvily, cruelly
alarming his wifo and children.
If such a thing were done in England,
not only peasant und laborer.but the aris
tocrat himself, would rise in indignation
to overturn an Administration that dared
bn guilty of such an outrage. Applause.
Here, and here alone, has the thing been
attempted, in order la ullrigbt and over
awe the Democracy of Ohio. Twenty live
years ago, when Napoleon was laying out
the beautiful garden of the Tuileries in
Paris lor the gratification of th French
nation, a miserable but a dirty shanty ivns
held some two hundred yards from the
palace of the first and august Napoleon,
who had six hundred thousand bayonets
under his control, by tin humble French
man, who, on being asked to sell, refused,
and the uugnst Napoleon never' dared to
broak open the door of that litilo hut, so
sacred was this right, even in Frace. Ap,
pluuse If we do not re iut this now, it
will soon be too late to resist it. If vo
do net protest against it from the begin
ningand on every occasion, tho menaclos
of despot ism will bo soon so enchnined
upon us that no huuiun power can bear
them. W'e should carefully, within the
bounds of law, create the system of agita
tion, continu.l agitation, which will
arouse the people and awaken them to
resistance. We should present petitions
as well as remonstrances to the President
for the right of petition is yet left to us,
poor subjects of Abraham Lincoln; we
should petilion our Governor if necessary,
to use bis influence with the Governor of
Ohio to maintain the principles of the
Magna Cbarla and haben curpu for the
liberation of our illustrious follow-citizea,
Mr. Valandigham. Cheers.
Mr. Brook i said he had received a let
ter this afternoon from a Brigadier Gen
eral in Indiana, General Haskell, in which
he speaks of an article commenting on a
most extraordinary war order he had is
sued, and says it is lucky for him (the
speaker) that his paper was no! publish
ed in Indiana, for h- would have sup
pressed it very quickly. Tno audacity
und iiisnlenoe of thene mi.-erubU creatures
in straps and laea the speaker would res
fiat und uenou nr
U!ir on every occasion mi l
. liepu' lien liberty is nev
lit nil bazar I
er to beseemed but by continual
watch-
minors. lyiiMiny u.ia uespoiism wo
should resist to tho utmost of our ability
in and under the law. As loot; as they
leavens tho ballot-box our victory is sure,
nnd il they do not leave us the ballot box.
said Mr. Brooks, by the eternal God I will
bo willing to lea. 1 nn army if you will
trust to my lend"!-', qi lo resist all Etich
(yraunyju uetive opposition.
THE WM NflWi
THE LATE BATTLES.
Congratulatory Order of Gen. Hooker.
JIcaJjturtiTs Army of the J'l.lvinac, May .0 j
General or ler No -j'j. Tuu il dor een-I
oral commanding tinders to iho army his lover r0. lt is doubtful whether t'.e pieo
congratulations on its achievements of the ' es taken from the Washington Artiflory
lasi seven days, If ii has net accomplish- j were recaptured, It is most prob ible the
eu all that was expected, the reasons are .enemy hurried therm to the rear, that they
well known to thu unuy. lt is sullicient J might" hereafter be paraded as trophies aud
to say that they were of a character not to boasted ovel.
bo furosuen or prevented by human sagas j Tho Yankees ndmit that they were aw
city or lesourcea. i fully beaten, but say it wn owing to the
In withdrawing from tho boulh side of! fact, which thev never uoaso to nroeUim.
j tho Rappahannock bol'oro delivering gous
jeral battle to our adversaries, the army
I has given luieaved evidences of its conli
deuce in itself and i.s fidelity to thu pr:n
ciples it represents. In figining at a di - . -
: uUv. Mage we would havo been recreant to
our trust, to ourselves, our cause and our
I country. I'lul'uuudiy loyul and conscious
' of its suvngth, tho Army of tiie Potomac
; will give or decline battle whenever its
interest or honor may demand, ft will
' aloo bo the guardian of its own history and
j its own arm.
By our celerity and secrecy of move -
meut our advance and passage of the river
was undisputed, and on our withdrawal
not a lebei venture.! to lollow.
Ihe events of the last week may iwell
with pride the hearts of every ollicer and
boldiul of this army. We have added new
lustre to its lurmer renown. We have
made long marche-, crossed rivers, surpri
sed the enemy in his entrenchments, and
wherever we hive fougiit havo inllicted
heavier blowa ihun we novo received.
Wo have taken f roiu the enemy five
thousand prisoner.-, fifteen colors euptur
cd, and brought oil seven pieces ol artille
ry, placed livrs da c ihbai t igliteeu thousi
and ol his chosen troops, destroyed his de
pots tilled with vast amounts of stores, de
range.! his communications, captured pris
oi era within the loi tilka.ioiis of hii cap
itol, and filled hi3 country with fear and
cuiist.: nation.
Wo havonoodier regret than thatcau-
SOi
by tho loss of our bravo companions;
ami m tins we are consoled by iiie com ic
tion that they have fallen in the holiest
cuiso ever submitted to the arbitration of
battle.
By command of Major General Hooker.
S. Williams, Ass't Adj. Gen,
(!es. fl.sLi.r.cK to Tase the Field. A
dispatch to tho Nert Yoi k ll'or,'tays :
' flic indications are that 'FLdiiing Joo'
Hooker, ulthou.'h remainim; nominally in
Cilnmaiei ot Hie Army ol the J etoin
and privileged to exerci-o his lighuii!; pro
pensities wuen occasion arises without
stint, will soon bo supc-rsoded in ll'eet by
Gen. Ualleek, who, it is understood, is to
take ihe fi"ld in person and superintend
the appr; aching campaign luruss the Rap.
pahttniiock."
Stonewall Jacksoa Dead.
Ilea !irt- r.i ,1 rv ,'.,. 1'otnnic, May 12.
We have Richmond papers of yesterday
containing, obituary notices ol Gen. jack
son, who died on Sunday at 3.30 P. M.
Ho was shot by accident (in the engage
ment at Ciiuucellorsvillo) by hisoMii men.
I.ATE NEWS lTHOM THE SOUTH.
G' ii. Lccwhl JijJ'.Jhicls on tlui LiUe. Bcttlle
J'rvni J-'ri'lerklitliurj 'J'te L'.t'.d.rdte
Lews, iff.
The Richmond L'-eitiiner nr.d Euyivrer of
tho fth instant, received at Washington,
con tun ihe following:
(JET. I.Ll's ADDRKsS TO II 13 AttklY.
Iluunj'Uirtirs Aeni, Xortfrn l'ir,ini,i, May
7, lMi i. General Orders, No. 'o'J. Willi
beartlult gratification tho Geueral com
manding expresses to tho army his serine
of the heroic conduct displayed by ofliters
and men din ing thu arduous operations in
which they have just been engaged.
Under trying vicissitudes oi heat . mil ;
fctonn you utlac.kcd tho enemy, strongly
eutlenchcd in Ihoduplh of a tangled wil
derness, and again on thu hills o! 1-redei-i"ksburg,
fifteen miles distant, and, by the
valor that lias triumphed ou so imny a
field, forced him once moro to seek salutv
beyond the Rappahuiibock,
Whilo this glorious victory entitles you
to the pruiso and gratitude of tho nation,
we are especially called upon to return
grateful tlianks to the only Giver of victo
ry for tho signal deliverance Ho has
wrought, ll is therefore earnestly re
commended that the troops unite on Sun
day next in ascribing to the Lord of Hosts
the glory due unto Hib name.
Let us not forget in our rioicine the
biave soldiers who have fallen in defense ;
of their country, and wkilo wo mourn
their loss lot us resolve to emulate their
noble example. The nmy and the coun-
try alike lament the absonce fm a timo.of
onetowhoee bravery, energy and skill
theyare so much indebted for success.
'Ihe following letter from tho President
of the Confederate Stales is communicated
to the army a an expression of hi? sppre-
eiation of its success :
"I have received your dispatuh and rev-,
orently unite with you in giving praise lo
Go 1 for tho success with which ho ha
crowned our arms. In tho name of the
people, I oiler WV cordial thnnka Lt vour.
'self and tho troops under your command
for this addition to the unprecedented
series of great victories which vour armv
bus achieved, ilia universal rejoicing
produced by this happy result will ho
mingled with a general regret for tho good
iud tho bravo who are numbered among
tho killed and wounded." II. K. Ui,
General.
CAPTTK':!) Alt V! UO-'U' Of VAN IKE 1'ltISON -EK9.
At Hamilton's Crossing there are moro
mui-koU pded on either side of th road
than havo ever been toen togotht r sinco
the war. They wrro left on the
li.dih by th' Yankees, nnd th.irenr
thousands moro which havo j.ol bi :
leeted.
battle
many
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Tho uumher of uiinnnn entitnrnil i,e Aiir
men is not ve t known, bin is mid t,s bn
j that ttiey have no generals. They brieve
' that their Hoops are asgood, but that wo
beat them by tiie superior skill of our gons
i generals. Many ol tho prisoners say that
1 Hooker fell, or was knocked from bis
I horse during the battle olSunday. They
. know nothing moro than they saw him
j fall. This wu doubtless iho origin of tho
j story that he had been wounded and his
j leg taken oil.
One of the Yankfo officers brought to
this city told a gentlenan who was in cons
versution with him that BurnsiJo was not
; beaten at Fiodericksburg, but repulsed ;
but Hooker bad gotten, perhaps, tho
, d Jest drubbing that ever a general
had.
All of our troops aro jubilant over what
they consider as b-ond all comparison
to be the greatest victory of the war.
They say the victory of tho Hilt of Dec,,
was not a cjrcumstauco to it.
From n surgeon who left Fredericksburg
on Thursday, wo lo.irn that the surgeons
in Uon. Emu's unuy make tbo following
approximni e estimate of our los in the re
cent battles :
Wounded : : : 7,000
Kill"d : : : ; 900
Missing : : : 1,200
Tufal, 9,100
The enemy's lo;s is morn a subject of
eo. : j' dure, but from the number of dead
that enciimbir iho ground for miles about
Ciimicellorsville and behind Frederickl-
jburg, and the prisoners now on their way
to Richmond, it is believed that it must
be between twenty an I t.venty five thou
sand.
crTi i'.E or Nr.wsiwrEa cjnitEsro.NtrENrs.
Vic!;dar,, May 4, 1803. To Oen. S.
Cooper : East night two large barges, heavs
ly laden with hospital and oommiisary
store's, with a small tug between thorn, at
tempted to pa-shere. I hey were burned
to the water' edi-e nnd twnnlv four nris
or.eri .ik-..n from iboin niiHinn wlmm ni'A
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"un eo. . esoo'iucriiL ui iuo
New Yoik
World, two of the New Yorle
Tribune and
one of the Cincinnati Times.
J. O. Femherto.v. I.iout. Gen. Cotnd'g.
TIIE CITIZEN'S DUTY.
'i ho w ork w hich tho citizen ha? to do
at home Ls another and a different work
from that which the soldier has to per
form in tho do!. i. It is one of the worst
h( avsies of the day which teaches (list wo
have committed tho fate of our nation to
the military power, and that we have no
thing to do at homo but to sustain that
power. The same heresy has destroyed
nations bel'uro, and il it should become
universal here, would destroy our own
country. Wo have other work to do be
sides making war. However important,
however v itul to tho national life may bo
that part of national duty, it remains, nev
ortheless, true that there aro other equally
vital duties, other equally important sub
jects of patriotic labor. It is madness tu
teach that whi n the ship is drifting ou
rocki there is no danger from fire ; that
when an enemy is boarding (lie ves elat
tho bow, it is unneeesfary to watch tf
helm arid t;nvo the ship from going on tho
bieakors. Tho rebellion is not our only
national danger. It i not certain that if
the rebellion is crushed wo shall save tha
American Union and tho Constitution
which makes us a nation. Etornal vigil
n:ieo is liiod'ity of tbepalriot. Wartimes
nre the dangerous times for national lifo,
Iron) oilier causes than tho open eieray.
Hence it is a terrible error which men
make who would hnvo nil other patriotic
nnd personal duties absorbed in thioneitu
ty of sustaining the war. Hence it is that
the clergy, forgot for the timo the ordi
nnry province of the church, for the sake
of devoting t heir force to aiding lae war.
Her.oe it is that pohte.ians muko an litis
pardonablo error who nays that we Lava
nothing to do with the course oftlioAls
niinistrntion in this or Ihat mutter; that
we ought (osubjecl. ail public ml private
riirhts and remedies to tsti ono idea of suss
tsining the Administration in it? i-Jforti to
orush the rebellion. Journal Vumnurtc
i Tits CoNSCHirnos. It is stated that the
conscription is expected to commenoo in
York between the first and middle
Df Juno. as the list of persons liable van
I ,u n)B,irt ou! lone ago.nnd jt only remain
for t,e Deputv Marshals to bo appointM.
Co. Niiom, the new Provn. Mar-hal, is
getting every thing ready frr Hje turning
'ofthewbotl. '
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