MEE '1; ili pi.lntra,',tiiiirtistr. _ .ICAILD DZAteI:AI DDINCIDIAZi tA,AOI TO LEAD, R& CZAO CUIMESI WILL. K. BRESLIN, Editor =4 Proprietor LEBANON, PA WEDNESDAY, JUNE IL IS6lt THE NATIONAL PLATFOR4 FFR POSES OF THE; WAR Congress, by n rote nearly unanimous, 'prticsed `the fellowirg rosolutlan, which expresses the - rotes of the liatica and is the true standard of -loyalty : "That the present deploritble civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunioniets o f the Southern States; now fn arms against the "Conatitutiooal Ourernmentr.sud in arms around the Capital; that in thia National emergency, Congress, banishing all feeling of tbdre passion or reaentmeut, will recollect only its duty to the whole country ; that this war is not waged on their part in any spirit of oppression, or for any .purpose of conquest or subjugation or purpose of •overthrowing ur interfering with the rights or, -established lortitulions of those stow, b ut t o d o . fend and maintain the supremacy of the Consti tution, sod to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States 'unimpaired ; and that as soon as these objects are nocomplished the war ought to cease.." Democratic' State Convention In scoordanoe with a reitluti p n of the Tleme. • cultic State Executive Coto m ittee, rUE DSMOC4A ;CY OF PEZISOYLVANTI'WtIinnettn . STATE CON VENTION, at 11ARlq8BURG, ou FRIDAY, the 4th day of July, 1882 at 10 o'clock, a. et, to nominate candidates for AIIIIITOR TEITERAL and SUMMON. GENERAL, and to adopt such measures as may be deemed necessary fur . .the welfare of the Democratic party and the bounty. 111ILLIMI 11. WEITASII; Chairman of the Democratic State Ear.,Oom. lif.z.EPErs CAPruasnet 7 flag ,Of#Cer C. H. Davis, on Friday- last, entaged 'the rebel fleet, .comprising eight rams .and , gun boats, near Memphis,,and in ;ninety minutes after the first gun was fired, had succeeded in sinking or ` , capturing ,every vessel of the enemy 'save one, which by superior speed was enabled to escape ourlietilla, and tetiporarily prolong its ekistonee.— After the engagement,. the Mayor of Memphis surrendered the city to our gallant naval commander. The rebels evacuated Forte .Pillow and Randolph, Wednesday night,leav ing arr Tnertar and 'two guns to an swer us. The wok of destruction has been complete. The barracks, 'hospital, buildings, horse sheds, for: age, barns, and three largo commis. sary houses, full of stores, were burn ed. Over a dozen heavy guns were left, a part of them spiked, and the balance burst, and the carriages de stroyed. Another victory upon the Missis sippi, and Cal Lain Davis will find his flotilla without a . single wooden or iron-clad antagonist to interfere with iris progress down that noble stream. D.p.TOORATS, be of good Cheer, the day of. deliverance from abolition-Re publican rule is rapidly approaching. The people are getting heartily tired of the niggerism of the opposition; they now see, although rather late, that the only hope for our country is under Democratic rule. They see that the opposition are determined to abolish slavery in disregard of the consequences, and without the hope of benefit either to the negru or the white men. We •could name, on our own knowledge, demons upon dozens of men in thipt county, .who have in variably heretofore voted with the opposition, who will not do so this fall, and, perhaps, never hereafter.— When they wore their caps and capes in 1860 they did not mean to indicate thereby that they were•in favor of setting free the negroes in the South and have them overrun the i's - orth'; they did not mean that a good many other things.shcold go exactly as they have gone. Wv . then say, let Demo. crate have. courage. They wilt be a power in the land this fall already. so. A man named Helper, brother of the "Impending Crisis" Helper," went recently to North Carolina and opened a near() behool, contrary to the laws of ;tit State. Upon the ar rival of Gov. Stanley, the schools were closed, -when Helper wrote an impudent and idinonisiting letter to him, and offered some advice relative to the General's duties, Gov. S. im mediately replied,ordering Mr. Helper to leavc,the -State in. thcfirst vessel North, which order was obeyed per force. i in the Senate, on Friday after consifteßableilisoussion, the ,tax bill was paisest fiy , a vote of thirty-seven yeas to one , nay. The principal ar gument was upon the adoption of an amendment proposing to' tit* persons claiming tak.ferviee and:74bor of slaves, two **tare ettehy,for every person so claimed,. which resulted in rejection by a vote of seventeen yeaa to twenty-three nays. hir.Fes sendkipAbe - oonrae of We remarks in adrdeadY Of' the*, estimated the Government dehtkat- the end' of the fiscal year, at1100)00,000, and that the regular, yearly eiPenses must be greatly Increased, as we tract hereaf ter have largo etapding arniy: and a lirge navy I The Negro vs. White Man. In the House, at Washington, on Monday, Hon. Wm. A. Richardson, of Illiuoie (the warm perseiiat-and polit ical friend of Douglas,)".inat*lr capi tal speech. He proceedektAiseues points relatiVe to the card* of the Government in the present war.— White _men ..egnuot without obtaining a pass, but negroes eau go withoift,one. The Abolition ists, by Weir adtion' ih' - thie Congress, have aboliel4A: aver).4iti-this District, and laid a ibit44 annual tax upon the people of,. thl-FlTnite4, States., You are issuing ,to, s lday, ra i tiOns for eighteen thousand negroes. ...M.here are you issuing rations t fel.;.,the , white people ? The people of „Minas, were selling corn for eight cents. per bushel to pay the taxes. The Goveramen t has four hundred negroes employed as teams ters„ paying them more than the sold iere.who are fighting' the hattles.— Employing th.eae, negroes intpesitions Where the white men of - this'entrntry would liyo to be employed. The government are issuing rations to negroes iii, thie District for their support at an enormous expense, as much ,as it would `take to support sev- I prat of' the State governments. He had it from the best information that I the government' was issuing rations for five thonsand negrees-.:in a fort in one of the SauthernStates, at ,a cost -of forty-four-cents a'head. They are supported everywhere at'ehe expense of the government,-whero there is a general, that will do it—Gen. Hunter has withdrawn his support from the loyal men and given it to the negroes. The gOvernment are,elothing the ne groes everywhere, and furnishing them with the best employment they have to give, and the white man goes without. This Congress has been in session for six months, and . Congress has made no appropriation to. pay a bounty to the widows and children of soldiers who have been killed up- 1 on the battle-field. It will appear be fore the American people that :,leis Pongress has legislated for tlyis negro everywhere. The cost of rations is• sued to these negro amounts to one hundred , A and foliyq'our thousand dol. larit . ,per anhum. Where do, you find Ant.rations have been issued to poor; white people? What have you donel for . thethildren whose fathers fell on the bloody battle: field ? A few days age he saw one hundred negroes marched through the streets by an army officer; ho inquired where they were taken to, and the reply was they were going to work for the gov ernment, , The .Courier has a great deal of abuse to shower upon loyal Demo. Dem ocrats, but not ft word sgninstthe.ras cale who have robbed the Treasury in one year ender Lincoln of a great. er sum then the current, expenses of Ur. Buchanan's administration. In commenting upon the lit tle meannesses of the Courier, last week, the following paragraph in our comments on the decision of the Su prerneCourt relative to the army vote appeared :—"Our reasons for satisfac tion are that it disfranchises the sol diers and throws out of office men elu ted, not legally, it seems, but by the popular will. The word satisfaction should have been dissatisfaction, as we had written it. That it was a typo graphical error - was, of course, seen by every reader, yet it furnished the opportunity to . the CoUrier to perpe trate, still another little meanness. peff.. The abolitionists, in pursuance of their policy to elevate the negro to an equality with the whites, polit ically and , morally, are endeavoring to baiTe Liberia and Hayti recognized so as to haVe darkey embassadors flourishing in Court circles at Wash. ington. Alessrs..Cox and Biddle, last week, gave their 'views on the sub. jest, in sledge ,hammer style. We shall find room in our columns next week for the debate. What Congress has done. LET us SEE! It has been in session six. months. It has earned $1,500 for each mem ber, mileage and pickings. It has - expelled Bright for being a democrat. It has welcomed Phillips for being a nineteen year disunionist. It has freed all the slaves. (black ones) in Utah-24. It has freed all the slaves in New llexico-29. It hashfreed all the slaves in Kan• sae --NONE. It has freed all the cooks and cham bermaids of Washington City. It has violated the Constitution. It has made secessionists of South ern Unionists. ' If it has done anything else we can't see it just not*. It is a: disgraceful fact that the ab olition 'Republicans would rather see our army destroyed and Alta Union dissolved than that slavery should not be abolished: A Coniinta MACHINg.—Amotg the other cu rious instruments, exhibited in the,Philosoph lea! in Instruent Dephrtment in the. London Greet Ex hibition, is a machine, exhibited by Mr. Peters for microscopic writing. With- the !machine of Mr, Peters, it is stated that the words "Matthew; Marshall, Bank of England," can be written in two and a halt• millionth of en inch in length ; and it is Weakly said that oalculaticinarrande on this data show, that the whole Bible can ls,nrrit tau twenty-tiro limes in the spade eta square inoh. The words to be Written microscopically are writ ten in pencil;in ordinal., alternators; on 'a sheet of payer at the 'bottom of the imatrisment. But the pencil wifh Which - ibis la done comeiunicates by ,a series of lavers and gimbaliwitb another min• ~uta pencil end- table at the: top,. by means of which the erdhaary writing of the pencil and the microscopic writing bottrmove in unison, though the motion of the latter is so graduated that a stroke.of a quarter of :an ' . inch at the bottom ie 'ouly,e stroke of - a•stillistlith of an Inch at the top, the Fl ape and character of both marks be ing o necertl t.!eas ptephiely alike in outline...At rs' natter of e,mrse, t t mieroacopic writing at Tito , top is oßly visible under Ettwerfulmagnifiera,and tlfe Oleo t the, m Robins), iito mark beak notes, lo* oeiesMillifaroto signothred for the preiroa tioitot-fozgoty. - DESTRIUCTIVE FLOODS. The very heavy rain whiCh commenc ed on Tuesday night, and continued with. out intefmission .during Wednesday • and up to Thursday morning of last week, raised the Waters in ..Pennsylaania to .an almost unprecedented degree. The Del aware, the Lehigh, the Schuylkill, the Susquehanna, the Juniata ; and their.tribu taries, all rose so suddenly and to so great a height as to cause loss deitruction of property. The loss along theiielaviare and Lehigh alone,-is said,to...be ten mil lions of dollars, which is probably 'an ex aggeration. But there is no. ,gpubt - that the pecuniary loss will amount to lions." Canals,'-bridges, - 'daina Mid-rail roads have,, been swept, : away. ; towns have, been inundated;: furnaces, factories and Mills have been stopped. by the rising torrents ; ,houses have been swept away, and, worst of all, :many lives have been lost.. The suffering and distress' caused by the'flood will be immense: , At Beading,' the Schuylkill rose on Thursday morning about 17; .feet above the ordinary water revel, and within 6, or 8 feet as high as it was ln the niemaraMe freshet of September 2d, .1850: Consid erable datnage was done. Along the en tire river front, gardens were Overflowed, boats broken 'from their`' moorings and sunk ; the pit dug'for,the .. Nev? . o b as 'Re ceiver'was filled with water, causing much damage and delay to - the company f coal yards - were overflowed; small bridges long the canal and .river carrieaoff,,&c. There are several breaks in the-Schuyl kill Canal between 'Beading and Potts ville, but none of any_magnitude. They can all be repaired in'a few days, at small expense.. The freshe:t appears to have been' most disastrous in the Delaware and' Lelf, g h rivers between Easter) and 11 , 1aucl-,,, At Easton, the lower portior,;,'Dithe town - bordering on the, two rive rs inundat ed, and on River' 'str e et, along the. Dela ware, the water reached the second 'sto ries of the •:_iviellings: The, Di kges on the Lehigh ; between Easton and Mauch Chunk, have, all- been I swept away. The Lehigh bridge at:Eas , ilen is still standing, but ,can hardly be regarded as anything more than a mere wreck. The Delaware bridge sustained but - little injury. 'The railroad bridge is safe. . . The town - of Glendon,- situate a mile a bove Easton, and inhabited' ,by' the em ployes of the furnace 'of that name, was wholy intindated. The tenements, offices, furnaces, &c:, were ,entirely surrounded by water; which' reached nearly, to the second stories of the ,houses. All the iron works in the Lehigh` val• are stopped: The rise the water - was so rapid as to preyent, the escape Of many persons from - their -houses,' ilhfi many have been &owned: The damage'to the Dela Ware, .LaCka wanna and Western railroad is great,a'n4 will perhaps take a week to repair, so as to allow the passage of trains. The Delaware Canal has probably : not been very greatly damaged, and the Le high Coal and Navigation Company's works were much less injured than by the great freshet of 1841, though it may re quire several months to place them in nav igable condition. No trains liave run upon the Lehigh Valley Railroad since Wednesday, and it is feared that the railroad bridge at Mauch Chunk has been swept away. Should this prove to be the case, the iron fur naces in the valley of the Lehigh will be stopped, as they will not be able to get a supply of coal. There is no doubt that many lives.have been lost. Boats-with their crews were swept from their nioorings'and dashed to pieces, and many tenements- witk'their occupants were carried away before as sistance could be rendered to them. A passenger who came through from Easton last evening, reports that at least tWolun dred lives have been lost by drowning be tween that place and Mauch Chunk. THE LATEST. • . EASTON, June 6.—Persons just arrived from Mauch Chunk, give a fearful account of the damage above. . The darn at Mauch Chunk, as well as two others, are swept away, and many houses demolished.— The railroad bridge is also gone. Canal navigation is stopped for the sea son, and, the Lehigh Valley pailroad will not be in running order for several weeks between Allentown and Mauch Chunk. The portion between Allentown and Eas• ton, on the New york route, is . not so much damaged, and will be in running or der this week. The whole town of Weisiport, is wash ed away. There are but threp houses left out of about three hundred. Many families were drowned. The loss of life has been terrible. Krlt is said that the president has expressed himself that he will hereafter not yield his assent to any' legislation relative to slavery while the.warla.sts. We trust to. God that is so, and= that he will have sufficient firmness to ad here to this resolution. If . he had thus made up his .mind a year ago, and Congress had expelled several dozen of the leading abolition-Repub.= liens, there would not be any enemy ih arms to-day within the 'borders of our Union: TILE KILLED, WOUNDED AND MISSINWAT THE BAT TLE OF PAIR OAKS. OFFICIAL Brat mENT. WASHINGTON, Ttine*B.—The raw ing statement of the loss in the bit= tle of Fair Oaks has been received at the War Department. To the _r_ton. „EDWIN. M. eSTANTON, Secretary o f`War :--Stat9nieut of the killed, wounded and missing nji the. 81st of May and Ist of June, 1862, in front. of Riehraond:— Kate. Wotineed. Missing (ten. Sumner's 2d Corps 183 894. 146 G. Iteinkielmen'a 3d Corps 259 980 155 Oen. Reyes' 4th Corpe -.448 1753 921 Total) • • 890 3027„ 1222 GraiVrtat: of kiiled, wound.; d and missing; _S7' / t f *or e )- ..,1110 will be furnished as data can be - received. G. Ih . ,•McCLELLAw-, CQ m ip an di n 4 , :General . Etr:Toliit Atilen buehilits 'cbirri to en eed AU Gnu Sinithifig,in girket street, this borough. As he is a geld meet:lento, auctail iheluaineas is naelitteh tßanted in- this fetid fir 'ire' barn no doubt but he will receive sufficient enceurage tueut to stake it pay. _ ' . Tim Hattie efore Ri.Chi-00;11i A TERRIBLE FIGHT Heavy Loss on Both Sides On Saturday afternoon, about one o'clock, the Rebels made an attack in force upon our encampments, directly in front of their lines. So sudden was the attack that, although every possible exer tion was- made by the infantry, aided by .artillery,lo hold their positions, after a half-hour's fighting General Casey's en tire Division vacated its encampment, and retired in confusion to the rear, a tew him - dred.'yards: distant. Here a second Stand -was made by'the troops of Casey's and douch's'Dlvisloris, thoSe of the former be - ing,mainly- concentrated ',in front 'of the line, while the latter were:deployed to the righttatitleft,- with a view of preventing a flank. Movement on' the Ipart of the Reb :els at eitheki or these pointh, The firing, of musketry and artillery, from thaßebel side, now became quite .gerreral";, and, ~.as our troops fell back, those ofithe,Rebels advanced - Upon us, at Ihnsame time discharging their muskets an'd(hallooing in the most savage manner. i'Ouri:soldiers finally reached the first -rifle-pita, - and ,into these they rapidly fell, , and disputing every inch of ground over which the Rebels sought to pass. Twice had, our men been driven back, and twice had,they recovered their,around, hurl: dng backpthe foe with deadliloss. cipal p 0 - ortion of the troops .of r' prin ..en. Couch's Division, among whikh of Gen. Peek, gallar*:, defended- the rail - - eras the brigade _road on the righ;. , t i e means ° of which route the Rebels were endeavoring to-effect an entralice On our tear. Here also Geiter al. 7ilaglee's Brigade made &brave stati, lira the: hierWhelming forCes of the RO els cansed af , inomentary check, and ant ed theirs to fall back. Yet stubborniy and persistently the troops- , preVibpslir mentioned maintained their grouild here, and,•as the sequel *ill show, sticcessfullY, held the point against entrance by the fae.i The attack was first -made upon the left, and it was here that the'heaViestlight ingrwas had. The country beyond our encampments, and by which the Rebel troops entered, was heavily timbered, and -the ground 'was of a soft and swampy character. ' From this reason the foe , was -necessarily concealed, and the deadliness of niuch of our fire was thus rendered non-effectiie. The batteries - of the First Pennsylvania Artillery successfully defend ed the encampment of Couch's Division long after those:Of Casey's had evacuated theirs, Those were .Flood's, Brady's, McCarthy's and Miflers's Batteries, and the .re hailed in upon the advancing reb els was of lightning rapidity. Allithis the rebelshad been threat :ening to flank us ateither point, and thith er our-force had been diverted. Now the rattle of musketry was terrific upon .10-e right, and then it became louder .and ,deadlier on, the left. The-troops on either . .s,ide were running first- backward and then forward, according to the :effective ness of either side's fire. The battle was emphatically a running one on tire part of the foe, as well as our own, taking and regaining ground almost every fifteen minutes. The battle had now been raging sevel%, • al hours. The reinforcements for which General Keyes had sent were now com ing up, those of General Casey's corn mand—of Peneral Heintzlenaan's corps —being in the advance front. Their appearance was vociferously greeted by the tired and bleeding troops, and they immediately went to the front, amidst the raging fire, and nobly endeav ored to stem the tide. Barry's and Bir ney's Brigades were disposed .of in the front and to the right on the railroad, arid,here a brave Stand was made by theth.to defend our ground against fur ther incursions, Generals Heintzelman, Keyes and Hook er, who were upon the ground, endeav oredlo stem the retreating current now rapidly setting in, but, in consequence of the superior force of the Rebels and the lateness with which reinforcements ar rived, failed so to do. Night was also coming on, and the scene became - truly fearful. Wounded soldiers were being borne in every direc tion, and the ambulances were running 'between Higgin'S'and Sawyer's Wises as last as possible. So fast did the, Rebels Advance upon us, 'prepared as they were to give us battle, and having yesterday set as the occasion for such,,and so rapid was the stampede among Casey's troops, that a large number of our dead and woundelwereleft upon the field. The soldiers had not even time to gather by their knapsacks Ofhaversacks, and these, with camp utensils, were left upon the ground. Bailey's Battery, of the First New York Artillery, was 'captured by the Rebels, and -taken possession of by them. The loss in Kearney's Division, who marched as they were, right into the face of the enemy is, no doubt, also large. So soon as our troops were wounded, they were taken io the railroad and immediately sent to the White flouse. The One hundred-and Fourth Pennsyl vanja sustained the first,fire,o6he Rebels, and this regiment, together the Nine tytMrd Pennsylvania; is . terribly cut up. There are others in similar cimdition. The loss• ol the Rebels is severe.— Scores'of them were seen to fall during the fight; and over their dead bodies their comrade's advanced, only to fall in turn before the well-directed-fire of our sold iers. Towards nightfall the firing on the reb el side ended, and no attack Was made up to midnight. SECOND -DAY The rebel army still occupied the camps of Casey's - and Couche's divi alone: on. Sunday morning, with a strong picket force guarding the road facing Snead's house and wheat field were our eartlaworks were thrown up, extending from-our extreme left to the railroad, near Fair Oak Station. The distance from the point where our earthworks were located to the edge oft the .wood could not have been more than four hundred yards. This position the rebels held until day dawned on Sunday morning. Gen. Reintzelman at 6 A. If., or dered reconnoissance to be made by a small force on thii lift of the wood and ,to the right, towa.a:d the railroad. A liedianant with cavalrymen, crossed over the whetat , bebind Sneadi house, and was about to pene trate the- wood near the Widima bairg road, when , tVo`;enegiy l s pickets appeared at his front. • He immediate ly turned back and reported to Gen. lieintzelman the close proximity of the enemy. In the meantinie, the other parties sent out came in, and reported the enemy in great force in front of our right and left flanks. Gen. Heintzeltnan then ordered out Gen. Rooker's division, part of which had been left to guard the camp, and a certain position on our extfetne left. The regiments Gen. Rooker brought on the field were the five regiments composing the Excel sior Brigade, under command of Gen. D. E. Sickles, and the - sth and 6th Neiv Jertey Regiments, Gen. Rein t zelman having resolved' to`attack the enemy and drive them . from the wood. It 'was about a quarter of seven when "Gen.7ieintkel man ordered - Gen. Hooker to' attack' the rebels in his front, , atid drive them.from the Woods. The' Excelsior Brigade' marched out from - their:camp in the woods tah illiamsburgh rold,`thVNeW :, - .6118 1 5 ,3 T stin and 6th following. `'Tto NseelKi or Brigade filed in the' - wheat field in -front of onrcelarthwe j ik e, t o 'th e r i g ht of t l l 6, rnad, 140 iiigienents of New Jer:,-.ev troops took' a position to -the -I,;,rt As the S'eeeW Regiment, Bx^..,elSior Brigade, 'with 'forming in position to 'flie.front Of the wood, the rebels' opened a rapid' and heavy fire upon it, killing two or th'f_ee priv4t.es, ab and `wounding ont six. Among : those woudded the'first fire of the rebels was Lieut. Lawria (formerly an' aid t:6'".Gen. Sickles) and . Capt. Nolan. • . Theßie of the enemy immediate. ly 'beefy:no simultaneous along their entire line. The courageous, fighting, of our trhops,ob - SenddY, When it shalishave beeit'cletiled, will show that the or der'or- der'of`tho commanding general- was carried out least% Among the killed we . have a large namber of offi ce -1.6 - The fire - of our 'artillery was terrific in the extreme. At every diS:chltige of a . picee "streets were made in their ranks." The bravery of. our troops; With few exceptions, was 'unsurpassed. One brigade of Casey's division wa*s an exception:— ght on Saturday they ;became - demoralized, and retreated. • Trio- Now - JerSey troops fought splendidly;` loading a - l A-firing without flinching from their position. Gen. Sicl es' regiments did - great eX6cation, fidvancirig at` every - fire upon - the'l•eb 'els, masked by the Wood. HoWever, it was plainly to be seen the enemy had every advantage; and'it was re. iolved to clear : the woods at the point of the bayouet. Gen.'Siekles rode along the front of his men, in the midst of an iron bail whieh the rebels poured in, and gave order for the Pd ItaSgiment, Col. Hall, to charge bayonets. No Sooner was the order.giv-en than the men fixed bayonets: Col. Hall lautly led the ebarge—one of the most brilliant ever made in any bat tle. Not a man shirked or - straggled froin the ranks. The rebels presented it strong front to the gleaming bayonets of our men, not a hundred yards distant. As the -2d advanced on the double quick, cheering and shouting the reb els held back their fire until cur men Were hardly one hundred foot frOm their line, when they fired a murder ous velley into the ranks of the 2d.— It proVed too low,. and few were kill ed or wounded. Immediately after the rebels fired this, volley, they broke ranks and fled throutrb tlie wood, a few Of the bray est remained to resist our passage, but they were-soon meowed down by the steel front of the gallant 2d Ex . eelsior. Major'Herbert, of the Bth Alabama Regiment, was captured, after a des perate registanee. Advance parties scoured the woods on both - sides of the Richmond road, and succeeded in capturing nearly two hundred of the rebels, among them three lieutenants. The enemy were drivefifrom every position they occupied by our troops 'The main column rested 6, 'mile in advance of their pot - 3160n, at the com mencement of the fight. Prisoners continued to be brought in very fast ' - we had captured'nearly five hundred. They were im m ediate handed. over to the Provost Marshal Young, of Gen. Hooker's division, who sent them properly guarded to Heintzelman's headquarters; at Say age's station. Many of them were dressed in new clothes, captured in Casey's camp-=-a large 'supply baying `been sent up to Casey's division a few days before the battle, but had' not been. distributed to the men. The result was that the enemy, who had been wearing-laded, worn out home spun doffed, their forms in our genteel uniforms. • This was the cause of many serious mistakes, our men, un fortunately, mistaking them for our Own: In company with Gen. Sickles, Col. Graham, Col:Hall, and Lieut. Gra ham, I-rode out upon the battle-field on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.— The Kerte' witnessed here baffles all description. Caissons, with horses shot dead in their traces, ambulances wagons,dce_, filled the road in front of Casey's Camp, Therevere'about two hundred of our wounded still lying were .they fell •on Saturday. Some of these spoke kindly of these rebels, saying thertreated , them very well. Dead rebels, as well as our own men, .were•lying,in 'every part of the field and wood i , I - counted flity-seven dead rebels in front of a small piece of„:w oods not forty tent square. One wounded rebel was lying on the ground unable to move ; he was shot in both legs. On each side of him lay some dead rebels. As we passed by, he begged us for God sake to take the dead Men away from him. The stench was intolerable. Two regiments of: Gen. Meagher's Irish brigade were fo-tbe actiOn, the 69th, Col. Nugent, and the 88th,.Col. Raker, and they behaved splendidly in the bayonet charge made by Gen. Richardson's 'clivisiok, to which they were Attached. RN oz: Gen. 'McClel lan personally . thanked•phese two rog iments..for their gallant oonduct in the: field • on waniont - Lieuts. King and "O'Cognot,- 5f the 88th, were both wounded. Wo lost, 19 guns in the fight of Sat urday. Not one of them has been recovered. The rebels ran a train down near Fair Oak Station, and car ried away our commissary stores, guns ' etc., to Richmond. The rebels destroyed what they could not conveniently carry away, including the new tents of Casey's and Couch's division, - Gen. Sickles had several' narrow escapes ; he was always to .be found in the thickest of the fight. Had those gifted-Senators who refused to confirm his nomination but witnessed the- enthusiasm of his troops, - when serving under him; utiEL his: military qualification for, Vce7Office,:they would do penance wati-ri-e-elected. • , The rebels *dttkag the fight had their siartishooters posted inn''-trees to - pick of -our officers— . .a fact discov ered in the early - part'or the action. The. rebel generals, commanding in this engagement, were °ens.. Long_ street, Roger.A. Fryor, Bull, F;ronk, Howell Cobb, Rallis, Huger, and five others whose name , I could not learn. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS .-OIIR Our loss is heavy; and the estimate of fifteen hundred , killed and• five thousand wounded is believed to be nearly correct, That of the enemy is not known, but as our cannon - played on their dense columns with terrible certaintyf:'opening longianes through them'with solid:shot, shell,:grape, canister and shrapnel, it is thought that their loss will reach- froin4enethousand to twelve thousand. The fire of our — mus• retry was steady and heavy, and in some places' he Rebels were piled three and four_men...deep--..one on_ the - other.----Jdead, with balls through their heads and breasts. They aimed low, and finis the large pro portion of our wounded are struck in the lower extremities. More than - half are -wounded. in the legs, and often times the feet. , The piird Day—What Was .Done on , . Monday. On Monday morning our position could be summed up about thus :—Two divi sions, much reduced in strength from va rious causes, had been attacked by a greatly superior of good troops and driv en fully a mile - from the first point of at tack ; but by the arrival, of fresh troops the enemy's course had been arrested, and his purpose to drive us into the Chick ahominy decidedly defeated.. Yet he oc cupied our camps and the position we had taken. On Sunday ,he had again attacked us and been compelled to retire with loss.— But though Richardson's Division had driven him on the 'railroad, and the Sickles Brigade through the woods on the Williamsburg road, he still held already all, and certainly much the ,greater part of the ground taken en Saturday. Some men of the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment went into their camp on Sunday and brought away a barn; but it was quoted as a piece of dexterity, so near were the "enemy to the place, and the camp of the Tenth was in the rear of all Couch's Di vision. ,So, noW, on Sunday morning, we Were apparently to begin the week well—to go forward and re-occupy, alive or dead, the pesition from which the enemy had driv en us. Resolution was on every face, and all buckled themselves up with a de - - termination to do a full share of the work, and not only to retrieve what had been lost, but to win more. It was still, dim and misty when the fines were under arms, and but little lat er when the advance of skirmishers was thrown forward. Cautiously the men went on ; every step was Made complete ly sure before the next was taken, until a position was gained on the Williamsburg road where a battery could be Posted.— There a battery was accordingly placed, so as to command the whole road, and again the men went on. Farther and farther, and the enemy fell bask,' his pick ets in Sight. It began to look very mach as if the third day—the day of re-occupa tion—Was to be a bloodless one. Camp .Re•occupied. And so indeed it provekanil our men pushed on step by step, pushing the Reb els on before, with a light exchange of fire but no serious resistance, until we were once more entirely a home. Farther Still. Theh they pushed on again, through camp and beyond it, and once more they were on the road to Richmond ; and they kept on it, and that night our pickets were posted within four miles of the Rebel cap ital, and near to a litie of works that we fancy is, or represents, the celebrated last ditch where the Rebels are to make a final stand. End of the Battle of the Seven Pines. Thus the affair became complete. We had lost our camp, the enemy held it, and now it was retaken—ours once more, and We felt a satisfaction in the resulttthat would not have been greater if we had retaken the camp as bloodily as We had lost it. His departure was a full aCknowl edgement that he had failed, and was-,de feated in the purpose for ,which he came. On the Field - - Lay even yet a large number of the Rebel dead, and even some of their wounded were yet alive , and unearbd for on the third day. AN ESQUIMAX RIFLEMAN.—As we were in the, open country, and there was no tangible object to shoo Vat, he made a circle in the snow of about two feet in diameter, then stepping . in the centre raised bie gun perpendicular from the shoulder, and fired in the air, After firing he, stepped out of the ring, and in a few seconds, to my aston ishment, the bullet came down within the circle he had made. Ile coolly remarked, "We want no target to fire at; and if a man can bold his musket with that precision as to eause the ball to return jiist where he stands, what need has he of -a butt? But ' the princiPle reason why they thus test their shooting is an economic one. Net always tieing able to 'get bullets they are chary 0.111'1414m array, and I have no doubt it is for thereame reason that So many ravage people hare the boomerang, or return Missile." AV- The Northwestern Bank, at Warren, Pa., from some uneaplained sans°, has ceased' to re deem its issue at currency rates in Philadelphia and Nen Work; The issues of this bank, it its , mid, hare bean largely-beyond th e limit prethrib. ed by law, arid whether inflated forlhe' pimpase. of a collapse cannot now be stated. We hope that holders of its ambition. will uht sacrifice it by selling at heavy difkmuntit and, thus contri— bate to an, alleged attempt at swindling the eons. Inanity., The - principal owners of the Bank re side in New York, and consequently have but little interest in sustaining itieredit.--Plriea P. 8.--We see bythe;dtilly PaPers that the notes' of tb ahove oozed 1314 'are, wholly redhemerliiy mon dealeh: ' NEW GOODS ! JEST RECEIVED AT TITE STORE OP L. K. LA_UDERNITLCII, In Cumberland Street, Lebanon -- r Pa. Selling otr: Selling 00 AN INDUCEtIENT TO CASII. DUTDRS. WILL SAVE 341111111 PER CENT. I:4114ES? ,DRESS GOODS French Merino and Coberg. • Fancy and Shack Sillnyfrom 50 cents to $1 50. Delains from 10 to 20 cents.. Lawns from ex to 16 cents. Mohair Plain from 16 to 374 cents. Talenciaa from 8 to 16 oents. MEN'S *AND; BOY'S WEAR. niackOloth, from $l.OO to $4 50. Fancy and Diadir Cassimeres, from 50 to $l. 50. Ladies' Cloak Cloth, from $1 00 to $1 50. • Cottonades, from 10 to 20 cents. DOMBSTIOS. Muslin, from %ton% cents. Cheek, froml.o; to 32xants. - from - 10 - thl6 cents. Calicoes, from 63.4,t04234 cents: 91ugharns, frtintlo.to SHAWLS ! 'SHAWLS ! ! Spring Shawls; from o'oo to $1 00. Black Tbibet Shale's; from $2 00 to $1 00. - NOTIONS ! NOTIONS! ! Parasols and Umbrellas, from 50 to $2 00, Stocking% from to 75 cents. Ifooir,Skirts, from 25 to $1 50. Hartlkorchiofo, from 64" tolB cents . Linen and paper Collars. • An assortment of ' READY. MARE OLOTOINA., . r . CARPETS'! CARPETBBI . - GROCERIES AND QUEENSWARB. PROVISIONS. Sugar Cured RAM' and MACKEREL. FRUITS'! FRUITS!! Dried Apples, pried Plums, , Dried Peaohes,!Drited Efderbirrins, Allsold to snit the : limos, , L. R. LAUDEit3III,Cif. N. kinds :Country Produce taken in chute for Goods. ' ' Lebanon, April ;:3,1862. LATEST NEWS °tat Oheagest and Best Goods EVES BOLD IN LEBANON!! , . . . BOWS Rats, , Shoes ,,, Caps, .BEST E undersigned has opened one of the AS TBOB,TM,BNTS of ~ L . ' 1 BATS, CAPS,BOOTS, * sitdas,,Tauxxs, f TRAN,BLING, BAGS, &c., of all kinds„ and of the best materials, which he will . ... sell at prices to recommend thern,,to purcha sers.Of `theMATS'he'has quite a variety: of New Styles, embracing; the Washington, Stanfon, Burnside, Dupont;McOlellan,-Btringhato and Monitor Rat, lieu beautiful and very cheap. Of CAPS he has a complete assortment of all the New Styles, got up in superior manner, withilne finish ; 'Womon's Misses' and .01131- drone lialmorals , tialters,"Congress Boots, slippers, and all - other kinds; Men's and Boys' Balmorals; Ox ford Ties, Washington Ties, Congress BOO). aid all other kinds worn by them, Including BOOTS and SIPES, of the different varieties, at his cheap Store in Walnut St., next to the County ' son. rz . to Thankful for the liberal' encouragement o f the public heretofore, I would invite all wishing anything is my line to call and examine my stock beforemitklug their purchases.. . , . JOS. BOWSIAN. Lebanon, April 23,1862. P. S.—Measures taken and work made at short notice. Lebanon IDeposit Bank. eumbertand steed, one door east of arrinany',l• Hotel. NITILL pay the followiug RATES of INTEREST on DEPOSITS, Furl year, and longer, dperxent. per minim; For 6 moutlasond longer, 5 per, cent, per amine; Far 3 months, and longer, 4. per eent. per annum; requiring a short notice of withdrawal. Interest paid in full for the Deposits from the date of depdsit to the date of withdrawal. We will also afford a liberaliine of ac commodatitnsio thos6 who may favor us, with Deposits, payable on demand. Will pay a premium on SPANISH and Alli2UoAl4 DOLLARS, and also on,old Mexican Dol lars laid 727e1Y. Dollars. . ill-make'callections on. and re. wit to all parts of the United States, the Canada's and Europe; Negotiate Loans, Rce., &c., and do a general EX GRANGE and BANBraIG BUSINESS. G.' DAWSON COLEMAN, Itresident Gro. GLEIN, Caffhier. The undersigned, MANAGERS, are litairidtuilly Mae to -the extent of their Eitates, for all Deposits and other Obligations of the "Ln.l3AtiON DiPOSIT Emus..." DION CAMERON, G. DAWSON coLum.AN . , NEORGE SMALLER, LEVI KLLNE, JAMES YOUNG, GEORGE (KEEL Lebanon, Iday 14,1801 Take up.Youir Licenseit. atteution of aft Dealers is called to, the ,follow -1 ir; Act passed by the Legislature, An Act Arnim& story of the Lieeme Law of this State. , Savior s.—" That it shall be the dt4 of witlir - y city and comity TreesUrar to sue for the recovery of-all Li censes duly retutned to hint by the Mercantile 4ppral- ser, if not paid on or before the Drat, day of Jisly, In each and every year within :ten days after .that date; and said Treasurer shall not be discharged from any such License, unless he brings suit to recover thesame within said date and presses tho seine to Judgment and execution as soon thereafter as- practicable; nor shall Le receive any commissions on such Licensee unless he make payment as aforesaid." The particular attention of alI Dealers of hierchan dize de., is called to the above notice as I have the special instructioasfrom the Auditor General topnratm the above curse. 3011 N ALLWEIN, Treasurer of Lebanon County. Lebanon, May 14,11962, ITIERCIIA NT TAILORING. S. RAMSAYOn Funek's building, corner of Onm. beiland street and Doe alley, has on hand and for sale, either by the yard or made to order, a. large lot of CLOTHS;._ CASSIMERES, and VESTrieiGS, well selected from Good Houses. Good Pits and sub. Amnia' making 'guaranteed to all. Also- Handker chiefs, Cravats, Gloves, Hosiery, Suspenders, Fancy and Plain-Linen Shirtif,'Under Shirts and Drawers. B. ,S. RAMSAY. Lebanon, April 9 1862. man LONGA= iIEBA NON :our 6. amm, Door, Sash and Steam Planing Located on, the Steam-firearm Read, near titentherland Sired, East Lebanon. 'TIRE undersigned respectfully inform 1 L „,. • • the. public in general, that they Still manufacture and keep on hand, f,,F IBBSR. Door, Saab, Shatter, Blinds, Flooring, ' -':. , * Weather-Boards, 0 Gee Spring 51ouldinss, of all sizes, Weak-Boards, eating; Siirbace, po'redces, and an kinds of BUILDING iiidTBRIALS for llouses ..We also construct the lf,test and most im proved Stitii,Casing and Hand Railing , . suitable for large and small buildhigs. , We now invite Farmers, Meetiaiiies , and Etagere to call and examine inc stock, which we will warrant to give entire satisfaction to all who may favor the under signed with their custom. LONGACRE & GABEL. Lebstion, April 23, 1862. P. S.—There is..elso'nll . kinds of TII.II.NING at the same Mill Planing, Sawing, ire., promptly duns for those 'who may furnish Lumber.. $6O EMPLOYMENT. $2OO AGENTS -WANTED SEWING TO E CHINES ! AT REDUCED PRICES $l5 'EACH Our Machine is PERFECT in WI Mechanism. It 113 less liable to get out of order thaw any other. Diplo mas base been awarded:W . 9l'er the Grover & Baker end other high priced Machines. • $l6 -AAOH Our gaphilie. uses rtntritight needle., ad.ivin WORK WITH. ALLRINRSQF THREAD., Silk or mat ing an eh* ttio -4101Unj free from nobilities to break in washing, and is the BRST.and bREAt.PR§T Machine in 116 C. SIS,EACH.! - • Our Meehan° will HEM, FELL; STITCH, QUILT and ELtiD, and will sew on all ;kinds of goods, from the finest Swiss lituella to. the coarsest Woolen, ~, with ease through selrgial thickueeses of thick 'Woolen Cloth. ALL 'MACHINES AIM WARRANTED. $l5 EACII! fffirflFllffVFOlfiffsol rffyon.W,Ablu:i. OCIOD MACHINE, AND NOT RAVE IT COST 'YOU ANYTIIING, WRITE TO us, AS WE WANT VIE MACHINE fiIISTED IN EVERY NEIGIEBORIIOOD'IN'T.RE UNITED-STATES: $l5 "ACTT ' Enzploging agents. Wo g ivo a commission.= all goods sold by our Agents, or we parMages at ' FIFTY DOLLNRS TER MONTH _ , 3 and pay - all lamasery expenses. Tor partial/RS la dr#B4 CHAS. RUGGLES. Agent, May 21 , 1862. " DETROIT, MICEL ABILIMAIK BRIM. DAVID V. LONG. A.New %myCask Store; and and brain,-.l3usiness. rpm undereireed having Armedlipertnieriblp lathe III'ERITANTILE; 11111TENG AND - GRAIN BUR NESS, would respeetfullAfivith the attention of the •p_ablie to their estahliehriente., They will contioe. „to keep, at the' late ,ateiitl - of /MERE GEE SAMAII 'LONG, a poet complete. stook of all 'kinds .0, Qom venally kept a .eountry store, Which they: ra tail Cheap for .cAsu, or COIATRY PRODUCL'They also want to buy for cash 50,000..Bashele.of WHEAT, 30,000 B saheb of BYE, _ 20,000:13nabels of CORN, 25,000 Bushels of 0 , 4C8.' For which they will pay the bikhest Market ,Prices. They will also take GRAIN on STORMIL. The wm k ee p always on hand and sell at the lonvolit prices, COAL, by the Boat Load or by the Toe; all ktaila pf MILL FEED, SALT, PLASTER, Ae•• ,thir , ThoY solicit the busieeee of`ell their oldfrieida and Ake public, and will:endeavor to deal ,on pooh lilt. kat and , just principles esesiii)l - falve aalikfinistldn'to all. MOAK' 4 . '024 . 0: . North - Lebanon, Illinth`lo,lB62.
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