eyes, John—deep and blue and liquid ; and when she turned them upon you with 'one of her quick, sudden glances, they seemed to Took down into your very soul. She was down there in that little villiage - wamong the trees, spending the ..the same house with me. I •Imilakoktgling her one day of that 'View i fig4iscead Of the lake and she %rtme 'di I should drive her out the oh.' 'You remember my famous horses that I drove in those days with classic names. It was a gallarit team. How Mary's beau lithl eyes flashed as she sat behind them. 'We had not gone aquarter ofa mile when with the most natural movement in the world she reached over and took the reins from my hands. . 'Let the drive them, Tom.' • Ilaw.the relnii that guided those two powerful and spirited horses looked in her tiny hands.. But the horses seemed to know all about it, for when she spoke to than in the same sweet, gentle tones she would have used to ona of us, they seem ed to feet it just as 'you or I would.— They dew like the wind, but she manag ed them beautifully and in ten minutes we were there. *She stood up then, and looked down on the lake, and then her eye wandered around over 'the landscape, but she did not speak. Was I disappointed! No. I did not expect it. But I stood where I could see her face, and note all the thoughts that filled her soul at that mo ment. Her beautiful eyes never looked so beautiful to me before as they looked that Instant, and I could have loved her then if-it would have been of any use.— Then we sat down for an hour and,neith er of us spoke, till the shadows of the tall trees yonder on the bill were creeping up the slope on the east side of the lake. 'Let us go,' she said then, and I drove her home. As I put her down at the gate she only said 'Thank you Tom.'. 'What era this? She was , engaged at the time to Fred Wilson, who had gone over the sea, and I knew that her young heart was clinging to him with all a wo man's love. And she was th4king of him all the time and wishing . he. was there, when, at that very, moment howas going forth alone on the dark path, far from home and: far from ber. 'She was an orphan and alone in the world, and when she heard of his death In that far of country among strangers she turned at once to the hour ofhis death and the 'spot where she was sitting, be.. Came hallowed in her memory. She not. pine away. It was not in her nature to do so. But she used to ride out 'there with me, almost every , day, and sit .there for hours gazing off ins; the sky and—' 'Where is she now,Tom r inquired as he paused- q p 'Gone--.on the same dark path. Two years after, she sent for me in the city.— I found her ill—very ill. She had become like a young sister to me, and I loved her as such. I attended her until she seem ed to grow better, and then one day when I called to see her she said to rile— °tom, dear, It is about the time you al ways go to the country. Take me, up there, will you I. I want to.be among the green fields and under the cool shade of the hill-side again. I think I shall feel bet ter thefe.' 'And we came up. In that house where you saw the chit:antes just rising above the tall kola,. she died. We had been up at the lake all day. I had to carry b* in my arms, and she talked of the time when we &et came there, and then of Fred, and how he had died—and when the shadows began to fall on the other side of the lake, we went down. 'She said she was tired when we reach ed home, and I sat by her till she slept.— It was perhaps an hour after sunset, when she woke, and. there was a strange , mu sic in her voice as she spoke to me. 'Good bye, Tom—dear Tom. You have been very kind to me in these two dreary years. But I must leave you now. It is cold—very bold. There, take my hand in yours--note, kiss me brother Tom —yes, brother, good bye.' . 'And : she wet* to sleep again. I thought she had been dre,araing, and that her mind was confused as she woke. But her hand became cold and heavy in. mine, and when I felt of her forehead it was cold and damp, and her pulse had stopped !' . THE SPIEDIiE CITY. Lowell and' its :Industry. The growth of Lowell, Mass'., as a manufactur ing place, wholly within thelast forty years is almost unexampled in iistory, and the remit is a working mode) of skill, energy, labor and cap ital eoutbitteigifffirodUce wonderful results. Al thapreseitt , Wink 'there are twidvi. corporations with arr aggregate callital of $15,0 00,000, own ing fifty-tiro factory buildings, containing over four hundred thousand spindles and twelve thou sand looms, with other machinery in proportion; omployingsighty-sevon hundred women and for- Jyrtwo.biandnal men; mannfacturing yearly more than one hundred million yards of cotton 010 th, twenty-live million yards of calico, twenty mili tant yard', of bleached and dyed goods, one and li hail million yard. of woolen cloths, and over a million yards of carp/tinge. Think of a strip of cotton cloth It yard wide and two hundred man long, made daily l Enough in a year to gc twice round the globe, with ends five thousand miles long to lie with. The annual consumption of material is immOre; viz: forty million pounds of cotton; five - theesand tons of wrought and cast, iron ; thirty thousand tons of hard coal; twenty seven thodilatid bushels of charcoal; eighty thousand gallons of oil; sixteen hundred cords of wood;, thiitsen hundred barrels of Hour; a like amount of enuFah with groat quantities of soap, tussles sett dyestuffs in addition. Private atterprise-hawalsalmen busy; and prominent in this respect stands the vast - Jstemloallaboratory of Dr..T. O. Ayer a Co., whereenormoue quantities of their valuable pteparatiOnliCherry Pectoral, Pills, Apo Cure and linronpariUs, with a world wide 'inilintiiiini 'for the relief of suffering ha reattity, timil yeirij, alias. &alai in all lands' on wiliali. sits :anis elituaa. This Am pinto more than of,Adamtimes yearly, on asap. mid%•self hadininnuo, priming toih side, of WI .heat IA thilatoll gin; tbia greatest issue of essyswireit In earinagsage. Among otherthings of of in Loyolil Si. Ann.'. ohnroh contains a lama posaplote-ohimm of balls (11) than any nth -sr tit gig °Twit, with ...- single exception of that pooh ansaistl afFambpicle;liaso. The Lo • wellf . Vacitine //KM I. one of ihe„oldest in the eonaliq for tie bolding Of locomoares ; and . the pioneer of liiiroade in America le that between loyell and. Boston airand for pation.i'er,travel . In 106. Ae one of the swat industrial centres, at 71. W Ehigland It - eannorfitillo • be n:place of ifrol'hibtrAlli iktigreVer,,and-fitheiritell-in emotion. di. Or* ' • eapeoity for proiiii ,, 1 0 deg thiveriettli . - which it is finned, will tapir s'ildita I,:r W. - *O. ' . , ner. would get apass, from I , i.-, ,, i .: ~•., '.liletiOretgard.'fo - go to. Aiii ii ii s to• .. .i.. 4.4,, ' pate tiie w filit—.7 The is okileattit ;both , woxila: vii ii ly• Emit it. • ' rbanan, 51:1Vsviiisfr. • ... k` 2 .01- N,.._ ;;;.-..-;.:=7,-., i ..--. 1- ‘:' - „.,...41 • .- /'''4 l . 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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1882 THE NATIONAL PLATFORM PURPOSES OF THE WAR Congress, by a vote nearly mum intone, palsied the following resolution, which expresses the voice of the Nation and is the true standard of loyalty "That the present deplorable civil war has bean forced upon the country by the diannionista o f the Southern States, now in army against the Constitutional Government, and in arms around the Capital; that in this National emergency, Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war,is not waged on their part in apy.spirit of 'oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those Stated, but to de• fend and maintain the supremacy of the Consti• tution, and to preserve the 'Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired ; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." Democratic State Convention Initooordanoe with ayesolution of the .Demo tootle State Exeentive Committee, Tnr. DEnfoon.L. OT OF PENNSYLVANIA will meet in STATE CON VENTION, at HARRISBURG, on FRIDAY, the dth day of July, 1862, at 10 o'clock . , A. M., to nominate eandidatee for AUDITOR GENERAL, End SURVEYOR GENERA, and to adopt - nob measures es.maylie deomed'neetwaary for the welfare of the Remocratie putty and the county , . WILLIAM IL WELSIE P Chairman of Cie - Democratic State E. QOM. Off - We have stirring news. Gen. Banks has been defeated, and the en omy followed our retreating troopsup to .•pl, - nrday night. On Monday he tad not made his appearance and it is supposed that he is marching on Har per's Ferry: Washington and Balti more are threatened, and the Presi dent has made a requisition upon the Governors of the states for three month's militia. Prompt measures must betaken'to give the Govern ment every assistance in our power to avert the threatened mischief. The particulars of the repulse will be found in another column. li- The call for troops by the Pres ident upon the Governors of the States, is for "Three Months'li- Ca." No commanding officer of a higher grade than Captain will be ac cepted: , CHANGE OF POLICY REQUIRED It is self evident to every thinking mind that the course .of the Repub licans in Congress, with their confis cation, emancipation,- abolition, and other bills for the benefit of the . . ne groes, are doing more ! harm to the cause of the Union than the whole army is doing good—in other words, Congress is making more secession. fists in the South than the army is compelling to return to their allegi ance to the Union. We are now and have been all along in favor of exerting the utmost power of the government to'destroy the re bellion,-but at - the seine tune we insist thatihat strength should be exerted according to the Constitution and the laWs, and in such a way that the de sired object will -beeffected most ex peditiously and with the least cost of life and treasure. Instead of making- this a war of subjugation and to free the nogroes, let it be a war for the enforeenient of the laws, the reclamation of the pnb lie property and the punishment of treason. We contend that by the negro leg islation of Congress neither of these latter named objects will be effected, and that the former depend upon the chances of war,—ehanc.es at all timer; very uncertain. Instead of issuing proclamations to free the negroes, passing bills for the same purpose, and threatening the property of the loyal and disloyal alike, all of which Have4;nijc - a ten dency to embitter the Southern peo ple and drive the loyal into the ranks of the disloyal, let Congress drop the negro, and by- its legislation,.strength en and support the Union feeling in the Southern States, where such ex ists, and where it does not let such - a feeling be created. Sad the action of Congress, since the war commenc ed, been to attract , , the excited people,. of the South to the 'Union, instead of repelling them,- we feel confident that in many of the Congressional districts of the SOW the 'ballot boxes this fall would already decide 'for the Un ion. There is no doubt. that—the heart . feeling of the:masses-of the people, of the forthOgleriOus old 'Unien. Ent . under `the pressure of the tyranny of their Nadcri;the ne gro-legislation gro. legislation of .Congress, the.proc -lamations of Bunter and ethers -of a similar - character, and. the .infitimma 'hle•artiefes of 'Northern papers,like" -• • hoarier, that feeling is. ImproOd k ;i: - 111" rebels !..undendand, Abeiy , the. - tablloo and forbathe-eireniation of Democratic papers, speeches, &c., which have a tendency to create an Union feeling among the masses of their s people, ,they freely admit the circulation 'of Republican papers and speeches and proclamations, which tend to excite and augment the spirit of rebellion. As an instance of the effect of the Democratic principles upon the rebel. lion; it is said thtit theliddfess of the Democratic Members of &ogress, re cently published, created. a. trciuen. done 'excitement even Alehmond. One unfortiinate paper,-the 'Wytheville Gazette published it, the result of TirNch publication was the expres sion, by ntan?prominent citizens, of favorable opinions in reference to "the constitution,-as it is and the trnion as it was." > The Gazette was at once suppressed, and 'the farther' publica tion of tie;. address in the seceded States declared treasonable to the in terests of ,the Confederate govern. ment, as it tends to a restoration of the old Union, and thereby demoral. iies the army of the:South distradts public sentiment, and dissipates that unanimity of confidence in the Davis Government which it is desirable to maintain. Nothing in the northern papers has ever so alarmed the leaders of the re bellion as the address iu question, and that the few copies of it which have gotton out among the farmers in Grayson county, Virginia, have done more_ to paralyze the upraised arm of patricides than a thousands proclama tions could accomplish. It is consid ered by prbminent traitors and mem bers of the rebel government in Richmond as the most insidious and dangerous attack, that has been made. upon the permanency of the their new Confederation. - - And in order to counteract its el feet; and also to stimulate the south ern mind to matte new sacrifices and west more life in their rebellion, all the leadingjournals in the - interest of the rebel §ligareliy are Tepublislitng all the spenehei of Lovejoy, Sumner, Wilson, Chandler, Washburn, and I other confiscating and emancipating abolitionists. Nothing helps to revive the drooping spirits of the rebel- sol diery like .the reading of, the extreme speeches of those men, and nothing is. used so often and with such comb pieta success. . Thus the-two extremes meet. The northern abolitionists and the south ern secessionists denounce the conser vative principles and policy of the Democracy, because both want to keep up the slavery agitation to suc ceed in their designs. We trtist' the true Union people 'oF. bOth sections may come to a proper understanding of the position of affairs and succeed in driving the disuuionists from office in the north, and from the country in the south. Viir The Supreme Court of this State has rendered its decision on the constitutionality of the army vote last fall, and decided that the vote is unconstitutional. The rejection of the army vote will bave t the effect of displacing Mr. Ewing from his office of sheriff in Philadelphia, and Mr. Stevenson from that of Clerks „of the Orphans' Court, and also give the Repuhlicans a majority in the com mon council of .Philadelphia., At least five Republicans members of the last House of Representatives were elected over their Democratic opponents by the artily vote, viz Messrs. Hall and Russell of Luzern() ; Busby, of Adams, Crane of Wayne, and Daugherty, of Schuykill. These •men sat and 'voted as Members of the House, and gave the Republicans their majority in 'that body. By theii• votes John Rowe was elected Speaker, and the most iniquitous Congressional gerrymander that ever disgraced the statute books of the Commonwealth was passed. Had this decision been rendered before or during the session of the Legislature, it would have change the political complexion of the House. CONGRESSMAN ELECTED ALLENTOWN. May 26. J. b. Stiles, Democratic candidate for Congress ' has been elected to fill the place of Thomas B. Cooper, do .ceased. He had over 500 majority. "Nearly 1000 contrabands are in Duff's Green's Row, at Washington, and people resort there to hire contraband help. The blacks accept what ever terms may be offered them, and this is the reason why their labor is sought for. Most of them, however, are fit for nothing but out-door labor, and good house servants are rarely to be found. The free Degrees and other laborers of the district are somewhat disturbed by this in flux of muscle, which can be hired for almost nothing; but tho Government, having the article thrown upon its hands, disposes of it in the read lest manner possible." 110., The above we clip from the Lancaster Inquirer, a Republican pa per. White' : servants and laborers can there see what the acontraband nigger question" is bringing them too. Can white laborers maintain their families if:they are obliged to compete with the millions of negroes that Republicanism is;determined to east 14osp upon the country? The la borers of the North have on a num ber of-occasions been fooled with the cry of protection: Suppose they were to ask the gozermstinkfor -protection against this etntraband labor ? No, relief, because, as •theJnquirer says, "the Governmentrt awing: the:;arttele thrown-upon-as haulis; 4ifilosieslsl"it in thereadieit manner possible." We -are just getting it practical foreshad owing of what we have warned the laboring men an hundred times. If slavery is abolished, and the party in power is determined to do so in spite of the Constitution and the conse quences, the North will be flooded with negroes, and those who do not become inmates of our poor bonne and jails will take the bread from the laboring•white:inan . and his children, "by:working for whatever terms may be offered them." Those who have heenihouting loudest "protection to American Industry," will be the first to employ such labor. The "ten cents - a:day" =times are coming, but, thank God; not by the fault of either James _Buchanan. or the 'Democratic party. A DISLOYAL GOVERNOR Goietnor.,A.ndrews, in response to the Warl>epartment For more troops, .from Massachusetts, gives a disloyal answer thereto. He sa • t the Young men of the'State art 0 " pre occtipie4; that they never fir - , 6 , 4 4)ps out of the State without havt em first armed and equipped ; but that if the--President will sustain Gen. Hun ter, in his abolition and arming-negro prdelamations, that Massachusetts .will pour out multitudes to obey the tali. If Andrews were a Democrat, and made such a.response, he would grace Fort - Lafayette in less than twenty four hours. But an abolition - : , ist, cif courso,,is presumed to be loyal even if he serves in the enemy's ranks. Sir The President has made a call upon the States for an additional fifty thousand men. The quota from Penn , sylvania Will be sent forward in a day or two . if it has not already started. Congress has authorized the Presi• dent to call for 200,000 additional men. The President, last . week, is sued the following proclamation, in response to the one , isSued by Gen. A - Miter, freeing the slaves in the States of South' Carolina Georgia and Florida I. AnnanAn LINCOLN', President of the United States, proclaim shd declare that the Government of tlip United States lutikpo,knowledge, information or belief of en in tention on lite part of General Hunter to issue such a proclamation, nor has it yet any authentic information that the document. is genuine; and, farther, that neither General "Hunter nor any other commander or person has Wen authorized hy the Government of the United States to make a proclamation declaring the slaves of any State free end that the sappesed proclamation now in qaestion, whether genuine -or false, is altogether void, so far us respects such a declaration. I fan her Make it known that, whether it be compe tent for me, as Commander-in-chief of the army and navy, to declare the slaves any State or States freo, and whether at any time, - in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable tp the maintenance of the ear emment to exercise such power, are eprestions which un der my respells Willy, I reserve to myself, had which I cannot fool justified in leaving to the detision of com manders in the held. These are totally different ques tions from those of police regulations hi the armies and camps. . On the 6th day of .11arch last, by a special message, 1 recommended to Congress the adoption of a joint resulo tion, to be enbotantially tut follows: "Resolved, That the United States ought to co-operate with shy State Which may adopt a gradual aboliehment of slavery, giving, to suchiState pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in its discretion, to compensate for the in conveniences. public and private, produced by suck a change of system. - - • ' - The resolution, in the language above quoted, was :Adopted by largo majorities in both branches ofCengress, and now atands an authentic, definite, and solemn pro posal of the nation to the States and people moot imme diately interceded in the subject matter. To the people of those States I now earnestly appeal. I do not argue; /beseech you to make the argument, for yourselves. Yon cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times. I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. This proposal makes di)mmon cause for a common 'ob ject, misting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the Pharisee. The change it contemplates would come - gently as the dews of heaven—not rending or wrecking anything. Will you not embrace itt So much good liar nut been done by one effort in all past time, as, in the provideneo of Ciod, it Is now Tour high privilege to do. May the vast future not have-to lament that you have neglected it I In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States' to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this the nineteenth day of May, in the ,year, of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-Die, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-sixth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ~he President. - Wu. U. SEWARD, secretary of State. By:Ahe Procddent. We are.glad that the President has thus promptly repudiated the pre sumptuous and unconstitutional or der of his subordinate,• but at the same time we . are sorry that he has not laid down a general policy for all the Generals to pursue in the future. Further; the President reserves to himself the right to do what he has just declared-void in Gen. Hunter, or in other words assumes that he poi sesses the power to abolish slavery, and may exercise that power at a fu ture time. To do so would be exer cising a power not derived from the Constitution, and would make the President an usurper,—a crime more despicable than - treason, itself. The fact that the President has intimated that he may exercise such a power at some future time has awakened con• siderable anxiety in the conservative and loyal public, Ad' The conservative Republicans in Congress aro beginning to feel the blows of the abolitionists, and CoHamer, last week, in the Senate, when Sumner endeavored to last . ' him into a distasteful measure, exclaimed "that there had been a great deal of domineering here like the crack of a slave driver's whip." Just so but even Coßamer thought it fun when these same abolitionists were trying their whips over the backs of Democrats. Kelly too, of Philadelphia, and a Judge at that, tried his whip on Vor tices, of Indiana, in the House last week. Voorhees wouldn't stand it, when Kelly got gentlemanly and call ed him "a liar, and a scoundrel," for which he was hissed, called to order, and reprimanded by the Speaker. vs. .A large number of conserva tive Republioans of this county are disgusted with the niggerism of their leaders, and attaching themselves to the Democracy. Many. have not on ly spoken torus in regard to it, but we have'recently added-quite a number on Y our list of subscriber& The abo litionitWand di4Nitism of the,Coa rier is also disgusting the loyal peo ple of ttie county, and is becoming a "stench to the nostrils of our citizens." Our people feel "humiliated that such stuff" should be encouraged in our midst. It split up the party last fall, and has now only a "little coterie, gathering around the 'editor sing ing into his ears" "persevere for the negro," "the happy time when the lion and the lamb—black and white —shall lie down together," is near at band. 0:::r The fanaticism of the Republi cans—(and Republicanism and Abo litionism is almost synonymous now a-days,) is becoming every day wilder and more nigger loving. On Friday in the U. S. House of Representatives, Sedgwick (Rep.) .from New York, proposed to send Robert Small, a ne gro,-as Governor to South Carolina. He contends that thin would be an act of poetic justice, and hoped Abe Lincoln. would do so. • es. We would like to have the ab olitionists tell us what they propose to.do with the negroes after they get them' This is a practical ques tionf is generally a soedolager. VW DE I A . WAL 11. KELM.- Gen. Wit : tate Survey or Gene his Stab conahial - , ck of typh, tlyseeter the Brady Harrisburg ; on Sunday o 1 in the 49th year'of his r Kelm held the pe - rw! I,Tria at ti lb points ra 11 of Pensylvauia w and unarrisport.— months' servie ervi nc we have heard in re force here. We all Patterson. 0, -- • —Ammo to-night safe--men ed a Brigadier Ge Pal' by the Presi' :'n'E and all, I think, making a ilea which he accepted, and resigne I - v oh of thirty-five miles. thWoftioe of Surveyor General. (Signed) N. P. BANKit. was present at the taking of York- I.lajor General Corn'dg. • WAEHINGTONi May 26. town, and also at the battle of Wil- ! The following is the latest received liainsburg, but too ill to participate from General Banks: in the latter. His remains were taken To Hon. E. Jr. Stanton, Sec'y of War: for interment to Reading on Tuesday ! WILLIAMSPORT, May 26.---We believe a week of which city he was a native that our whole force, trains and all, will and citizen. cross in safety. The men are in fine spir its, and crossing in good order. The la bor of last night was fearful. The ehemy followed us last night on our march, but has not made his appearance this morn , ing. The news of your movements south has unquestionably caused them to look out for their safety. Your dispatch was read to the troops this morning, amid the the heartiest' cheers. (Signed,) N. P. BANKS, Maj. Gen. Commanding. Gov. Curtin has issued the fol lowing urgent appeal to the people of Pennsylvania, which will no doubt be patriotically respon - ded to: GENERAL ORDER ITEADQUARTLRO PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA, RAERISBUREI,Mtty 26,1862. On the preSsing requisition of the President of the United States in the present einergeney it is ordered, That the several Major Generale, Brigadier Generals, and Colonels of regiments, throughout the Commonwealth muster without delay alt the military organisations within their respective di visions, or under their control, together with all persona willing to join their commands, and pro ceed forthwith to the city of Washington, or to such other points as may be indicated by future orders.. Byorder of A. G. CURTIN, Governor and Commander-in Chief A. L. Itusszt., Adj. een. The following order has also been issued by the War Deparl!nent at Washington: AVASERNOTON, May 26 PRO6LAMATION. Ordered, By virtue of the authority vested by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in the United States from and after this date, until further or ders, and (Creole that the respective railroad com panies, their officers and servants shall hold them selves in readiness for the transportation of troops and munitions of war as may be ordered by the military authorities, to the exclusion of all other businesti. By order of the Secretary of War. M. C. MEIGS, Q. M. G. FROM GEN, BANKS' ARMY, Highly Important News. Attack an Banks' Army at Winchestm STRASauaG, Va., May 24.—Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War.—Colonel Ken ley's command of infantry and cavalry has been driven from Front Royal with considerable loss in killed, wounded and prisoners. Among the wounded and pris oners is Colonel Kenley. The Rebel force was estimated at from 5000 to 6000. It is reported as having fallen back on Front Royal, and probably occupies that place this morning. (Signed,) N. P. BANKS, Major-General. [Front Royal is a flourishing post vil liege, the capital of Warren county, Vir ginia, situate one hundred and forty miles northwest of Richmond, and one mile east from the Shenandoah river. The railroad from Alexandria to Strasburg passes through this viliaae, and a plank road twenty miles long connects it with Win chester. It has numerous flourishing mills and a population of about five hundred,) WASHINGTON, May 24—Midnight.-- Despatches were received at the War De partment at 10 o'clock to-night from Gen. Banks, dated at. Winchester. He has moved from Strasburg to Winchester for the pupose of securing his stores and trains from the enemy, did to prevent his communications from being interrupted. His advance guard entered Winchester at 5 o'clock, with all his trains and stores, in safety. A strong attack was made upon the trains at Middleton by the rebel infan try, cavalry and artillery, but it was re pulsed, and a few wagons, abandoned by the teamsters, were secured. General Banks will return immediately to Stras burg. The Rebels are now in possession of Front Royal. Gen. Geary occupies a posotion on the Manassas Railroad, at White Plains. He has been reinforced.— Gen Banks has also been strongly rein forced. WA.SHINGTON, May 25. Dispatches received by the •WaT Department-states that Gen. Banks was 'attacked at Winchester this morning, and has fallen back toMar tinsburg and Harper's Ferry. The enemy was reported to be in large forbe; and many reports state that the rebel force haii left Richmond and moved North to take the offen sive. [SECOND DISPATCH WASHINGTON, ..May 25, The enemy under, Generals Ewell and Johnson, with a superior for* , gare battle tio:-Gan. Banks .this morn ing at daylight, at Winchester. Gen. Banks fonght io t t htm :and -then Wilted in,Slae,direetionAgf,Mar tinshuro with what loss is unknbwn. The enemy are, it is understood, advancing from Winchester upon Harper's Ferry. Our troops there are being rapidly reinforced. Rumors say that Jackson is advancing to sup port, Ewell and Johnson, and there are also statements that still another force is behind him. Prompt means have been taken to meet these emer gencies if truly reported.. A. dispatch received to night states that General Banks has made good his retreat across the Potomac at Wil liamsport. Gee. Rufus Saxton is in command at Harper's Ferry. [THIRD DISPATCH.] IYIARTINSBURG, Va., May 25-2 40 P. M.—The rebels attacked us this morning at daybreak in great force. Their numbers was estimated at 15,- 000, consisting of Swell's and Jack son's divisions. The fire of pickets began at day light and Was followed by the artillery until the lines were fully under fire on both sides. The left wing stood firraly, holding its ground well; and the right wing did the smile for a tune,' when two regiments broke the lines under the fire of the enemy. The right wing fell back and was ordered to with draw, and the:troops pissed through the town in considerable confusion.— They were quickly reformed on the other side and continued their march in good (M i er to Martinsburg, .r. m wherg they arrived at 2.40 a distant? )f • • • my: Y.1i5341) -5 ! 3. 444 .1 4.2 1 is afternoon re& #"! r rear is to purposo . JAMES- RIVER EXPEDITION Repulse of the Federal Gunboats. Official I :Reports of the :Engagement. WASHINGTON, May 20, 1862. The, following reports have been received at the Navy Department, from Commodore Goldsboroucrh : UNITED STATES STEAMER GALENA,. Off City Paha, James river, May 17, 3862 SIR : I have' the honor to report this vessel, the Aroostook, the Moni tor, and the Port Royal, with the Naugatuck; moved up the river, get ting aground several times, but no ar tificial impediments Until we arrived at Ward's Bluff, .about eight miles from Richmond, where we encoun• tered a heavy battery and two seper ate batteries formed of spiles, and steamboats and sail vessels. The pi lots both say that they saw the James town and Yorktown among the num ber. The banks of' the river were found lined with rifle-pits, from which the sharpshooters annoyed the men -at the guns. These would, hinder the removal of the obstructions, unless driven away by a land force. The Galena ran within aboUt 600 yards of the battery, and as near the apiles as it was deemed proper to go, let go her anchor, and with a spring sprung a cross the stream ' not more than twice as wide.as the ship is long, and then at 7:45 A. Al. opened fire upon the bat tery. The wooden vessels; as directed anchored about 1,300 yards below.— The Monitor anchored near, and at 9 o'clock she passed just above the Galena, but-found her guns could not be elevated enough to reach the :bat tery. She then dropped a little below us, and made her shots effective.. At five minutes after 11,.the Galena had expended nearly all her atnpunition and we discontinued the action.— We had-but. six Parrot charges, and not a single filled 9 inch shell. We had thirteen killed and eleven wound ed. The rifled 100. pounder of the Naugatuck burst, half of the part abaft the trunnions going overboard. She is therefore disabled. - Lieut. New man, the excutive officer, was conspic uous for his gallant and effective . eer vices. Mr. Washburn° acting mas ter, behaved admirably. These are selected from among the number.— The Aroostook, Naugatuck, and Port Royal took the stations previously as signed them and did everything that was possible. The Monitor could not have done better. The hairier is such that the vessels of the enemy even, - if they have any, cannot possi- bly pass out, and ours cannot pass in. I have the honor to be your obedi ent servant, Jowl RODGERS, Com. IT. S.-Navv. Ns. The Republicans side of the House of Representatives ,is aptly called by a correspondent the "char. coal sanhedrim." stir Our loss at Williamsburg is stated to have been over 2000 in kill ed and wounded. All the official re ports have not yet been published. 00- We see in the Patriot and Un ion that the other day a conweny in Philadelphia discharged three: hen., dred white laborers and gave *their ;work to the Bade number ,of contra bands slaves. This 'is • protecting American Industry, e / Rresonike, which t l3 , 6 ‘r9o l l,bii * -.ew SteiK.htkiiP dirk the lase Presidential campaign, FROM, McCLELLANIS ARMY, Our Forces Within five miles of Richmond. Arrival of Beauregard in Richmond BALTIMORE, May 23.—The special cOr . . respondent of the American, at Fortress Monroe, says under date of yesterday : The steamer from White House this af ternoon brings a number of passengerS from the headquarters of Gen. McClellan; which were in proximity to Bottom'S Bridge, over which a portion of the , army has already passed, a second division hav ing passed the Chickahominy at New Bridge, about seven miles farther up, and within eight miles of Richmond. It is rumored that -acroposition for an armistice of ten days lead been made by the rebels, , but, of no such idea could be entertained. The advance was understood to be within five miles of the city, to which point the enemy has fallen back, with but slight effortto check our onward movement. The advance by way of New Bridge enters the .city on the north side. Passengers state- that Beauregard ar rived at Richmond on Tuesday. On be ing questioned as to their authority for this statement, they said that it was so announced and underatood at Petersburg, on Wednesday morning, and no onedoubt ed the fact. Jeff Davis and the military authorities declared their intention to fight to the 4. • ath before Richmond, but strong' sns: picions were entertained that it was really the purpose to abandon the city after a short defence at the works surrounding it. Large numbers of women and children from Richmond had arrived - at Petersburg; and they represent the distress prevailing in that city as beyond description. Threats were made by soldiers from the 'Gulf States that they will only leave Richmond in ashes, and great fears were entertained that the threat would be car ried into effect. It would require the great est efforts on the part of the citizens to pre vent such a catastrophe. RG, i 9g i I The number of rebel forces at Rich mond and ; •the vicinity was generally be lieved to .be fully 200,000, including the unarmed and poorly armed troops of re cent levies, who are having' pikes, put in their hands for active service. Deserters from Fort Darling report that, the infantry force in the vicinity of that work is nearly 30,000. - WASHINGTON, May 23.-7.'he latest ad vices from the Army of the Potomac state that Gen. McClellan had crossed the Chickahominy -at Bottom's Bridge, and that his headquarters are at New Bridge. Preparations for an attack being made. The rebels made a dash at Gen. Bank's line, near Front Royal, this afternoon, and an attempt was made to burn therailroad bridge, recently rebuilt by' the United States forces, over the Shenandoah. The prrticulars have not yet been ascertained. Nothing of particular interest has beerk r toeived from the other military depart ments, up to ten o'clock this evening. A steamer arrived at Cairo to-day from the Mississippi flotilla. An officer on board reports that the rebels gave a strik ing proof, on Wednesday, of their pres ence, by firing into a steamtug sent down on a reconnoitring expedition, but it is supposed that they are in small forces.-; The rebel fleet had disappeared. SATURDAY, May 24, 1862. The light brigade under Gen. Stone man, and the brigade of General David son, of General Smith's division, to-day advanced from New Bridge up the Chick ,- ahominy to Ellison's Mills, on Bell's creek. Here they encountered four regiments of the' enemy's infantry, with nine pieces of artillery and a command of cavalry. Of these, two regiments of infantry and three pieces of artillery were on the opposite side of the creek. The balance of the` fantry, which was composed of the Eighth and Ninth Georgia regiments, under Gen. Howell Cobb, were posted in a favorable position to resist our advance to Mechan icsville. Tittler's and Robertson's batteries of the Second Artillery were quickly brought into action, and, after filing some one hundred and fifty rounds, the rebels with drew with their guns (not, however, until one of them had been dismounted,) to the villiage, covered by their infantry and cav alry. Pour regiments of Gen. Davidson's brig;. ade were then sent around, but night com 4 ing on they went into camp within six hundred yards of the enemy. At day light the batteries on both sides opened, Wheeler confinin g his guns. to shelling the houses behind whichthe enemy's 'in fantry were concealed. The fire was -so hot for the rebels that theyiefi. the :village, a,portion retreating across the Chickahom . -my. [LATER.] SUNDAY, May 25. Gen..Negley's brigade is now encamp ed five miles beyond Bottom's Bri4ge.— To obtain this position they were forced to engage the rebel Gen. Stewart, with his brigade, composed of five regiments of infantry, one of the cavalry, and two bat teries. Our loss was two killed and six wound ed. The offeers engaged suppose the rebel loss to be between fifty and sixty killed. A number of their dead were left - on the field. There is nothing of interest from the vicinity ofßichmond to-day. Coptrabands who come in say that the inhabitants of Richmond are leaving as fast as they can for Danville. All those.capable of bear ing arms are compelled to remain. Very few soldiers are in the city all being in their camps. From the Mountain Depart. CcarrviArz, May 24:. Colonel Heath, withAOMmen, attack ed our forces underz:6olconel.. Crook yes terday mornin,g,attgevaisbmg, and after a severe fight the e'zienw was driven back and completely routed: Col. Crook's force , unmbered Our loss was ten killed, forty wounded` and eight missing. The enemy's loss was much. greater. We captured four cannon, two of which were rifled pieces, and two hundred stand of arms, and about one hundred prisoners, including a Lientenant Colonel, a Major and several captains and lieutenants.' [Lewisburg, where this fight occurred, TS gib county town of Grectibriel county, Virginia, and is nine miles - west of the fa rdbus White Sulphur Springs:] „ - !Baward Gebhar4, - of the Lo§anora Sohool Board; rosigned4ast week. - went.
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