whole No, 2620.
Jacob C. Blymyer & Co.,
produce and Commission Mer
chants,
LKWISTOWX, PA.
£-i"Flour and Grain of nil kinds pur-
I it market rates, or received on storage
.ii shipped at usual freight rates, having
~ (I VIIIHIS''S and boats of their own, with care
f,| captains and hands.
>• vet'i al, Limeburners Coal, Plaster, Fish
3D ] Salt always on hand.
Crtin can he insured at a small advance on
. :lS t uf storage. n022
Let Thy Works Praise Thee!
■ The subscriber having obtain
-ffyjed the management of the old
/.Wjgai Lewistown Foundry, lately called
the Juniata Iron Works, respect
jaitv intonus the public that tlse tools and
machinery have been repaired, and are now
ready to make and finish up any kind of brass
.-•itigs which may lie ordered. Horse Pow
: ti.l Threshing .Machines of the bestqual
•, furnished at short notice and on the most
■ Miiin dating terms.
BAR SHARE, SIDE HILL AND BUIL
PLOWS
iinuvs "n liand. Having had a long exper
• :.ce in conducting this kind of business, tlie
mliv'rilicr flatters himself that he will be able
; give "i.tiro satisfaction to his customers.
i-o gi\-' him a trial.
i.j.4 lv JOIIX 11. WEKKKS, Agt.
I'. S.—AH persons having accounts with
■i.e above Foundry arc requested to call on
suntnd S. Woods, at his office, and settle
i .ir accounts as soon as possible.
AfcSBROTYPES".
A.NII
The Gems of the Season.
r | l ! 1 1S is no liumluig, hut a practical tiutli
i The pictures taken b\- Mr. lturkho'dcr
,r- unsurpassed for I'.OMI i.NKSS TIH TH
I I.XKSS. BEAUTY OF FINISH, and
hi ii.Vlil 1.1 IV . Prices varying according
t, >i/.o and quality of frames and bases.
Room over the 11 xpress Uflioe.
l.i'wi.-tovvn, August 23, le'GO.
lie driut' sl l)i.<rov> rj/ uj th> Ajc is that
John Kennedy & Co, Propietors,
A.\J>
JAM US FIUOIEI), Salesman,
t KM selling goods at prices that defy com
.V. p-tition. They keep a large stock <d'
kinds id goods such as Sugars, at 7.0, 10,
li. <'i.fF-es at 10, Teas SS, Syrups at GO per
1 a, lUO ! oxes of Mould bandies JG i z to
:!•„ ito dealers at 13 cts. by the box.) 14 ets.
■ r 1'• . S gars, very low. Sugar Cured Hams
12. i'ii. i l'.e. f pj, balicos, Mu.-liiis, tling
nu 1 all kinds of Dry Goods for sale at
j-'i-is ti.it can't he surpassed. Everybody
:i .4 iinvhodv are invited to come and see tbe
- P .li't I', rgi tto bring along the ready
• ,ii, is you may lie sure its that we're after;
v n't lorgi-; {hat we sell goods {■> suit the
lul l tin -: we take produce if all kinds in
."flange f..r goods.
,H>H\ KKNXKDY X Co.
; 14 J. 15. FIROVKD, Salesman.
New Spring and Summer Goods.
f ) F. Ml.i,IS. of the late firm of McCoy
Mliis, has just returned from the city
with a choice assortment of
Dry Goods and Groceries.
'T'cted with care and purchased for cash,
which are olfcred to tbe public at a small ad
vance on cost. The stock of Dry Goods em
braces all descriptions of
Spring and Summer Goods
suitable for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children,
With many now patterns. His
GU'Ocrvfttf
comprise Choice Sugars. Molasses, Java, Bio j
in l Laguyra Coffee, superior Teas, &c. Also, !
R iots anil Shoes, (Jueensware, and all other j
utieles usually found in stores —all which '
the customer?- of the late firm and the public i
in general are invited to examine.
It. F. ELLIS.
Country Produce received as usual and the
full market price allowed therefor.
Lewistown, May 10, 1801.
EDWARD FRYSINGER,
WHOLESALE DEALER & JHMF.UTIRER
or
CIGAHS/rOBAimSMFF,
&c., &c.,
ZP&o
Orders promptly attended to. jelG
SEC. Vf. EIDER,
Attorney at Daw,
Ofcce Market Square, Lewistown, will at
tend to business in MltHin, Centre and Hunting
don counties. my2G
Seigrist's Old Stand,
Near iJie Canal liridye, Lewistown, Pa.
Strong Beer, Lager Beer, Lindenberger
and Switzer Cheese—all of the best quality
constantly on hand, for sale wholesale or re
tail.
Yeast to be had daily during summer.
my'24-yr
Fish! Fish! Fish !
\TACKEREL, Ilering, Shad and all oth
d-'X er kinds of Fish, just received and for
? ale at the lowest prices at Henry Zerbe's
Grocery.
wmsmm IPOTBIMISJIIISIE) m<&m©m&m cai ssniHyiiaiisj IP^ O
THE MLIS TREE,
A SONG OF THE WEST.
Alß—,*v ri ii'nlf.
I -■
< ill! come lnv l<ve. c. .100 g,> will, me
To the distant west, where our home slieii 1..--;
Where the min shines warm and the sky is blue.
■ And flowers Gloom with a richer hue.
111 Guild our cot on a prairie wide.
] Where the tall grass waves like the restless tide, j
W here the hrcezes wander wild and free.
And their whisperings shall our tliusjc Go;
And we'll search in the Woods
Fur the l|oney Gee's home,
And rifle the loves
• if their golden eomG;
And our meat we'll hunt with quiver and Gow—
Then .'..in.', my love, to the west we'll go.
t'nder a grand, old sheltering tree.
' Near a sparkling river our homo shall !', i
V here >t't we'll glide in <>ur light canue,
j \\ hen the still eve conies with ihe stars and dew; i
w lien the day is dune, and uiir tuils are o'er.
And together we'll sit in the . "tinge door.
; Its murinuring's flow with a symphony he.
! To the gentle songs y.at will sing for me;
And we'll eliase the wild dee.
i t iver the hills. j
And drink, if we thirst.
Front the gitsl tug rills;
j <in dusters of strawberries, jui. y and sweet,
i We'll feast as we rest tit the tiooptjdf h.-at.
! Oh! come, dear love, for v.,-11 y<m know
i You promised tne whoa the frost and -tn.iv
Would melt 'in nth the spring smiles, warm and Gland,
You Would go with lue to the sunset land;
The aimw lias gone, the f.ost. and the rain,
I And I'iirth is l>l.aiming it, U-.tiil;, again;
j The glad Gods sing on every tree—
j And my heart i- pleading, love, for thee;
And 1 long for that 1 old
For that sweet Wc- 1„..t.c
'Neath a sh< It'ring tr.-e :
j For lie- soft flowing river, the toil and the rest,
j Tlteti go with ttn-to the di-lattt West.
/i,, . U!,h, ) Q,uftU
iHORiEOEEGIOM
SELF PRESERVATION.
| Has at/ (J/irtsho ii nation the rii/ht ■
|to commit d< fihci'afc • d ichfc ? This is in j
fact the question to be :itistvere<l by every ;
■ ; Christian man at lite North, when consid- !
| eritig his duty in connection with the pres
! ent exertions of the Government to put '
I down an armed apd menacing rebellion by !
! military force. 1 ndoubtedly there arc
multitudes to whom everything bearing
the name of war, pinl af oye all of civil
! war, is in its own nature most repulsive
! j l iie conscience ol the North especially, has
, ! heel) so long ami so diligently instructed
. ; on ibis very subject, and has rcsp tided so
• j earnestly to flic instruction, that detestation
' ! of war Itas long sine,, taken its place with
! us among the deepest ami most imperative
, ; moral iti.sf * nets; ami probably upon nooth
. j cr single subject h; - sueli absolute and tin
; j phatie ii unanimity obtained among ali
who have wislied an 1 sought the welfare fif
1 ; their country and the world.
it would not be unnatural, the re I ore, if
! tin re should exist the I'eeling among sonic
; Christian men that the war on the brink
i of wliieli wo seem to be standing is outside
1 , of, if not contrary to, tiio Christian rule;
that it is a thing which religion hardly
' i justifies, even if it tolerates it; and that we
i have ail been pushed along by the rush of
j our own sympathies, ami by the irresista
, ble march of events, into an attitude po
- j lineally necessary but morally dangerous;
" j which, however it may he defended by
i reasons of state policy, is hardly to he vin
-1 dicated as in harmony essentially with the
i genius of Christianity, and its great law of
love. If such a feeling has not yet arisen
in any minds, we may anticipate that it
will do so, almost as a matter of moral ne
cessity ; that some who desire to be at the
same time patriots and Christians will feel
themselves seriously troubled and perplexed
by it.
It will be well, therefore, for all such \
persons to go back at once to the primary
question with which we started, and to an- j
swer that clearly to their own satisfaction i
without going further, for this is the ques
tion which underlies the whole subject, !
and according to the answer we give to it
will be the subsequent decisions we airive
at. This is a war—if indeed that name j
uat al! with propriety to be given to it— j
not of aggression, not of ambition, but in
literal truth pf sglf preservation. It is or- ,
ganized and conducted, on the part of the j
Government, for the one sole purpose of
repressing rebellion, and maintaining and j
confirming, for ail time to come, our nation- j
al life fmd national unity. It has been
shown, by the failure of all other and dif
ferent agencies to secure the same ed, to
be the only means practicable and ade- i
quate for the accomplishment of this.— ;
And so, as a last and an effectual resort,
| with a sad but austere and determined pur
pose, this means has been adopted; and as
soon as the end thus sought has been real- ;
ized, the war will cease as a matter of
course, by its own limitation. Would this
nation then be justified, would the govern
ment which leads and represents the na
tion be justified in yielding to the vehe
ment and deadly assault made upon it, and
surrendering its life apd unity as a nation,
without such resistance ? Would it be
justified, in other words, in allowing its
being to be sacrificed, when it might have
protected itself if it would, by calling out
and marshalling its military array ?
That nations as well as persons have the
WEDNESDAY. JULY 31. 1851.
primary right of self-preservation, serins
plain at first sight. The statement of the
proposition is its complete demonstration.
I hey have no other rights whatever, if
i they have not tins. Hut further than this
every thoughtful man's mind must carry
him at once. The preservation of
his individual life against the assault of
treacherous malice is a duty which every
man owes to himself, to the circle of those
dependent upon him, to the whole com
. munity of which he is a member. Hut if
lie chooses not to defend himself, but al
low his life to be destroyed by the dagger
of the assassin or the bludgeon of the ruf
fian, the loss to society, to history, to the
world, is comparatively slight. The waves
of life close over him again with a sad
promptness, anu hardly a blood stain re
mains on the surface to mark the spot
| where lie went down,
Hut the relations; of a nation organized
• and placed a> ours i>, powerful, free, intel
ligent, Christian, with a noble past, a com
manding position, opportunity to bless the
: whole world by its influence, its relations
are with the earth, with the whole inter
; connected family ol man, with the ages of
. the luturc and their purer civilization, with
. the glorious eras of millennium itself i
| lilot this nation out of existence now, al
low it to commit a virtual suicide by yield
ing without sufficient resistance to the
treacherous ruffianism which now strikes
: with desperate haste at its life, and the
i race leels the shock! livery tribe on earth
\ would be darkened in its prospects and
hindered on its way toward purity and
! peace by that dire catastrophe. The crash
of that tremendous destruction would
shake the whole frame of human society.
'1 he issues of that tremendous folly, and
j yet more tremendous crime, would record
themselves in the blurred and bloodied
annals of each heathen nation now reached
; by our missions, and of each Christian na
tion now lulpcd and made hopeful by the
' great inspirations of our example! This
nation suffer itself to be destroyed without
; resistance/ This nation consent to its own
| murder by traitorous hands, and so viitual-
I ly change that murder into a drear and
■ colossal suicide? It wouid he not merely
i to throw itself against all the purposes of
God as revealed in its history, and against
i all the instincts of its own highest wisdom
I and cultivated faith ; it would he to put
. back the world's progress by centuries and
to suffer a deed and assist, it by the suffer
ance, over which the heavens might well
. gather in gloom, and beneath which the
solid ribs of the earth might we'll tremble
: and groan.
A" nationa' sniriih should he tlie pur
! pose .if every (Tni.-ftau. the motto uf'evorv
pul'iit and press, the ra'iying cry to call
forth not ''li!-; im a, or weapons, or funds,
but fervent oraver and unleiiitim; enthu>i
-1 * I 'll I
asm. ;:\m every Imu- :.o!a ami every
' ph<irch !
IMMAE ffi'SFOßt
The Blue oi.
' Two interesting additions, says the Irish
Weekly Agricultural Review, have been
made to the menagerie of the itoyal Zoolo
; gical Society of Ireland. They consist of
: the Neiluhans, or Rlue Ox of India: ' Al
| though an ox in name, this animal in for
mation more resembles a well-bred horse,
i with short horns growing out of his fore
head. He is remarkable for his size and
■ ! beauty, as well as being historically inter
esting. being specially mentioned as sacred
Ito Vishnu. The hunting of these animals
is one of the great sports of the native
! princes, and their courage makes them da
ring foes, as the animal throws itself upon
its knees when attacked, and then with a
sudden spring from its haunches, launches
its whole body like a dart upon horse and
man, with its straight, short, sharp horns
directly forward, most formidable weapons.
This animal is supposed by some to have
afforded the idea of the unieorn. or horned
horse. It is, indeed, in form like a horse,
with fine head and neck, full eyes, small
nose, and withers well up, and if seen at a
distance sideways, might well be supposed
|to be a unicorn. The pair in the gardens
; are young animals, not showing their full
size or coating, the male when full grown,
! being as large as a small-sized thorough
bred horse, and of a bluish gray color, the
; female without horns and less brilliant. As
j they multiply in confinement the public
may expect in a few years to be gratified
with the sight of a small herd of them in
; the gardens, and, we hope, rambling over
I some acres of turf, instead of being cooped \
! up as now, as if they were in a traveling j
I menagerie.'
The Oriole.
Of the Oriole there appears to be only
1 one species known in Europe; that is by
some termed the Golden Oriole. It is the
size of a thrush, and has been called the
golden thrush and the witwal. The head
and whole body of the male is of a rich
: yellow; the bill red; from that to the eye a
black line; the wings black, marked with a
bar of yellow, as are the ends of the feath
j ers. The tail is black, with the end yel
low. The body of the female is a dull
green, with dusky "wings and tail. The
! nest of this bird is of the shape of a purse,
' and rests upon the outermost twigs of tall
|
j trees. It is common in France, but rarely
visits England.
THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
From the singularity of the nest of this
species, from its brilliant color, and its pre
ferring the apple trees, weeping willows,
I walnut and tulip trees to build on, it is
generally known ; and is as usual honored
: with a variety of names, such as hang-nest,
J hanging bird, golden robin, tire-bird, Ac., |
but more generally the Baltimore bird, j
Few of the American Orioles equal this in
I the construct!"!! of their nests; he gives
, them, in a superior degree, warmth, con
venience, and security. 1! e generally fixes
| on the high bending extremities of' the
branches, fastening stronir strings of hemp '
or flax round two forked twigs; with Hie ;
same material he fabricates astro' g, firm
kind of cloth, not unlike the substance of
a hat in its raw state, forms it into a pouch j
; six or eight inches in depth, iiniug it sub- j
stantially with soft substances well inter
j woven with the ouiwe.rd netting, and lastly :
finishes with a layer of horsehair; the j
whole being shaded from the sun and rain
by a natural pent-liouse, or canopy of leaves
i The birds of this species have all a com
mon form of building, but they do not build
iu exactly the same manner. Great differ- j
enoe will le found in the style, neatness, i
and finishing of'tlie nest- Some arc farsu- !
peri.u- workmen to others. So solicitous is
; rhe Baltimore to procure [toper materials i
I for his nest, that the women in the country j
! must narrowly watch the thread that may
! bleaching, and the farmer must secure
his young grafts, as this bird will carry off j
the former, and the strings that tie the lat- •
ter, to serve his purposes in building.
The principal food of the Baltimore con- j
cists of beetles, caterpillars, and bugs, par- j
ticularly one of a glossy green. His song i
I is a clear, mellow whi.-tle, repeated at short
intervals, as lie gleans among the branches. |
There is in it a certain wild playfulness i
and naivete extremely interesting. It is !
not uttered with the rapidity of our emi- !
naiit songsters, but with the pleasing tran
quility of a careless ploughboy, whistling
merely for his own amusement. When :
j alarmed Ly an approach to his nest, he !
makes a kind of rapid chirruping very dif- !
fcrcnt from his usual note. He inhabits j
j North America, from Canada to Mexico, j
and is found as far soutli as Brazil. It is j
i seven inches long; the head, throat, upper '
part of the hack and wings are black; low- i
or part of the back, and whole under parts .
arc bright orange, deepening into vermil- j
lion .... the breast ; the back is also divided
by a hand of orange, the tail is black and i
orange. The plumage of the female is j
lighter and duller than that of the male i
These birds are several years incompleting |
1 (heir plumage.
I HSCELEAMEOIiS/1
REMARKABLE CASE OF TRANCE.
i Uti it . 'fir . . M !).. S ■ S. X. {Odin 'riirofnl in j
'• ha /• J'\ 11. Ii , ..-..v. M. li.. fjoftl JSpi'in<j 9 !
.Y. f-t fii- .\ t ,t a-'iH .J't >t n'll of Mt if* if SrittlCi.)
i • V I
In the month of January. ISI4, being j
! surgeon of the I . S. Frigate President,
' commanded by Commodore John llodgers, !
1 cruising off the coast of South America, a
sailor, belonging to one of the tops, about
23 years of age, named , burst a
ve-sel in his lungs, and was brought down
to me, about suffocating with the sudden
j and great discharge of blood. I succeeded
; in stopping the heuiorhrage; lie was confined
1 ; to his cot, and put upon low diet, and the
j use of such medicines as the case demand
ed. During my attendance upon him I
discovered nothing in his conversation or
actions different from ignorant, rough, pro
fane men in the same station. My mates
said that to them he was at times insolent,
swearing terribly at their refusal of such
things as would have been injurious to him.
saying they wished to starve him. He
was to all appearances extremely illiterate.
After doing well for some time, a vessel,
having the appearance of an enemy's frig
ate, hove down upou us, and as all hands
were at quarters and a fight expected to
commence in a few minutes, knowing the
spirit that animated all on board, I thought
prope •, before descending to the cockpit,
to call upon this man, and forbid his mak
ing any attempt to move, as it might prove
fatal to him. lie promised to obey faith
fully; but at the moment he heard the
sound of the first gun he sprang upon deck
and ran to the gun where he was quarter- j
ed. The excitement was so great that the
blood burst forth from his mouth and nos- j
trils in a full stream, and in this deplorable
condition lie was brought down to me in j
the cockpit.
1 with some difficulty saved him from im
mediate death. Tie was returned to his
berth and put upon the same course as be- ;
fore. The weather being hot and calm, I j
hung his cot between two ports on the gun
deck, from which he was obliged to be re- j
moved to the berth deck, whenever we '
were called to quarters at night, a strange ;
sail being near. lie had occasional dis- j
charges of blood, and became much debili- j
tated. During all this time, being appris- !
ed that his dissolution was nigh, I do not
remember of witnessing any change in his 1
expression of feelings, as far as the state .
of his soul was concerned. Soon after din- j
ncr-time, (say two or three o'clock,) Dr.
Uirchmore reported his death to me. The i
1 usuil orders \yc given to his messmates to !
lay out the body and watch it. Br. Birch
more called upon me to inform uic that the
• supposed dead man had revived, and ad
dressed his mes-mates in such a manner as
to astonish every one, and bring tears from
the eyes of all who heard him ; that he
then addressed himself to the surgeon's
mates, and had now sent fi v me. I imme
diately repaired to the spot, and found him
reeling upon and supported by a messmate,
a doctor at each wrist, trying in vain tolind
! a pulse. lie was universally cold, without
any perceptible pulsation, his eyes bright
and animated, his speech strong and dis
tinct, without any discharge of blood from
the lungs, although he had been exer
cising tlieiy so long. AH the men not
upon duty on deck, surrounded the sick
! one, and were gazing with wonder on the
scene. I was then brought to attend to
his add'-ess, which was long, and consisted
j of language strong and appropriate, great
fluency, good grammar, and words well put
together.
My surprise was too great to permit me
| to iceolleet more than a small part of what
he said, lie declared that he was dead,
that his spirit had been separated front his
body, that he had beheld the glories ot the >
otjicr world, of which, if language eouhl
: convey an idea, he was not at liberty to !
! give a description; that he was only allow
ed a short time to visit earth and give tbe
advice he was now giving to certain officers 1
! and men. He was extremely solemn and i
j impressive, and what he uttered wi s in j
such a correct and pure style, that it might
have been heard with satisfaction from the i
. pulpit, delivered by a learned divine. Af
j tor finishing with me, he ordered me to
! send for Commodore Rogers, as lie said
' lie must deliver a message to him before he j
| finally quit us. I waited on the Conimo
' dore and deliverd the order. The Commo- !
I dore stared, and for a moment hesitated j
j how to act, fearing some deceptiop, and the i
I ill effects it might have upon the minds of !
superstitious seamen ; but he descended,
\ when such a scene presented itself as is sel- |
I dom witnessed by man. Imagine to your- i
; self for a moment such a man as Commo- j
| dore Rogers in a sick bay, by lamplight, j
! surrounded by a hundred or more witness- |
I cs, standing before a common sailor, sup- j
; posed to have been dead, who commenced j
| to address him in words like these: 'I have j
j sent for you sir; some hours since I would .
have trembled at your form and fearedyonr
| displeasure; but now, sir, I am your supo
: rior, being a messenger from heaven to you:
; therefore, listen to what I shall say.' He
then touched in a handsome manner
! upon the different duties and relative situ
j ation of commander and men, dwelt upon ,
; the great responsibility of his station, his
| power tp do good, the force of good cxam
j pie, humanity, etc., etc.
I When he had concluded, his head sank i
| upon his shoulder and he appeared again to :
;he lifeless. The Commodore retired to his
j cabin, sent for me, and requested from me
a philosophical explanation of what had
happened. I endeavored to give one,
j which it would take up too much time to
j repeat; but there was and ever will be one
' insurmountable difficulty in the case, with- j
i out admitting something like inspiration,!
! to wit, how or in what manner lie acquired !
| the knowledge of such excellent language,
j and delivered himself with such fluency
and ease, mostly and clearly being an un
j educated, rough, common topman. Not
knowing what might take place after what
i T had just witnessed, I laid him down and
j retired to rest. Rate at night 1 was called ;
| out of my room to see a man who was very
| ill. and hanging in a hammock near the :
sick bay. After bleeding him and giving
him an anodyne, i went in haste into the
bay to get something. No one was pres
ent but myself; ail hands not on duty were
sleeping soundly around nse. A solitary .
lamp threw a sickly light. I'pon turn
ing my head aside, horrible dictu, what'
struck my eyes hut the aforesaid corpse sit
ting up in his bed, fixing his glaring eyes
upon me.
1 became motionless and almost petrific-d, j
when I was relieved from this unpleasant
situation by his exclaiming, with a loud
voice and much authority, 'Give me some
water.' 1 never obeyed an order so quick
ly before; springing to a tin mug that
stood near me, I approached, presented it
to his lips, he drank of jt, and closed his
eyes forever. The next morning he was
buried, or committed to the deep. I never
saw more anxiety depicted upon the human
face than every man discovered during the
reading of the funeral service. Among
six hundred and fifty men I believe not a
tearless n ye could be found, and when the
body was slid into the sea, every one, I
was about to say, instinctively looked over
the side, when their surprise was net les
sened by beholding the body rise fo the
surface once or twice before it finally dis
appeared. It was astonishing the effect
this affair had upon the language and
countenances of the men for sonic days,
especially those who had heard the address.
The Commodore was delighted to learn that
so far from representing fighting to be
criminal, he spoke of love of country, and
recommended discipline, attention to orders,
1 obedience, and performance of duty sn time
of action.'
fifeg-A wrought Thibet dressing gown, a
gift to Mr. Lincoln, contains 1109 yards of
I stitching.
New Series—Vol. XY. No. 38,
Authentic Particular? of the Battle at
Manassas.
The following description of the stam
pede at Bui! Run i from a vrcll known
gentleman of Now York, who was on the
ground two hours after the retreat began :
' The reports of a ok edor'y retreat of
our main army are grossly untrue. A brief
statement of a small part of what I witnes
sed will show this.
Mr. Tilley, of Rhode Island, and myself,
accompanied the Be lvalb Regiment from
Alexandria in the cars to the Fairfax sta
tion, on Manassas Gap Railroad; we reach
ed there at 1> a. *x. Heavy cannonading
was steadily going on. While the regiment
waited for orders we walked forward on the
track till within live miles of Manasscs
•1 unction. A scout was there sending hour
ly reports to Gen. Scott of the firing, ite
turnirur, as the regiment still halted, a par
iv of four of us, with a soldier, walked on
to Fairfax Court lloise. three utiles, and
thence on the road to C> otreville.
About four o'clock v. e began to meet
buggies and wagons with visitors returning
to \\ ashington. All reported that the day
was ours, and rode on jubilant, until, at
hall past four, an officer on horseback ri
ding fiercely, said with emphasis, ' No, no,
its going against us.' The firing had ceas
ed.
Near Centrevilie, between two long hills
we suddenly saw army wagons and private
vt hides coining down before us in hot haste
—a few soldiers on horseback mixed in the
crowd. Looking back, we found a regiment
coming frc-h from Fairfax in 'double
quick.'
Mr. Russell, of the London Times, was
on horseback, among the first from the bat
tic.
The New Jersey Colonel instantly form,
cd his men across the road, and resolutely
turned back every soldier in the road, and
in twenty minutes perfect order was restor
ed, and the whole flight of the vehicles
was shown to be absurd, so much so that
| we waited two hours at that spot, drawing
! water for the poor wounded men, who Le
t gag to limp along from the field —uiiiy two
| or three ambulances to be seen.
At half-past six, two hours after the bat
j tie was over, we started and walked back
j to Fairfax Court House, helping three or
j four wounded soldiers into the wagons.
'Those who were unhurt, and who had
j got by the Jersey boys, were stopped by a
company of the Michigan 4th, from Fair
fax, and compelled to turn back.
'At Fairfax Court House we quietly took
supper at the tavern, and never dreaming
of any disorderly retreat, we were supplied
with good beds ; we undressed and went to
Led and asleep at 11 J'. J/. At three
o'clock Monday morning, finding the wag
ons were moving on to Alexandria, we,
started again and walked quietly along
' with them to Alexandria, doing what little
j we could to aid the men more or less
slightly wounded or worn out —including
I some from the hospital —for still there was
; scarcely an ambulance to be seen.
'But on the whole read from Centrevilie
to Alexandria 1 am confident that there
were not five hundred soldiers in all, be
: twecn six P. M. and daylight; so that it. is
! grossly untrue that the whole army made a
liasty retreat. On the contrary, all seemed
to he certain that a stand was made at (Vm
treville of the whole of our main body, ex
cepting only the stragglers from this first
panic. This panic was explained by scgr
oral, who . greed that it was purely acci
. dental.
'I talked with at least forty from Maine,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, < )hio, Mich
igan and Wisconsin regiments, who gave
uie some thrilling incidents of the diffcr
; ent parts of the field—which I have no
time to tell now —many grumbled at their
I officers, but all seemed plucky, and said
that our troops could beat the rebels easily
| in an open fight, and would do it yet, but
the masked batteries on one side and the
blunders on ours had done for us this time,
f reached Alexandria at seven, having
, walked forty miles.'
(J-. P. PUTNAM.
Real Strength of the. Confederates.
The officers who took Mr. Pryor prison
er, say that among the other prisoners taken
was a very badly wounded rebel officer,
who wore the eagle of a colonel on his
shoulder strap, lie appeared to have got
in advance of his regiment and got separa
ted from them, and so cut off. Ilis left
arm had been shattered above the elbow,
and the useless member was dangling in
his coat sleeve. He was al-o bleeding pro
fusely from a wound in bis side, yet waving
his sword in the air, he would not give
• up until surrounded, and a big fellow of
one of the Maine regiments rushed up to
. him, threw down his own gun, and clasped
the officer round the body.
Ili3 sword then dropped from his grasp,
[ and be sank upon the ground. The first
words he said were, 'What fools you Yan
kees are, to attack us with such a handful
• of men.' 'Why,' replied his captors,
'how many have you got ?' ' There are
[ 90,000 men on the field,' he replied, 'be
sides ' here his strength failed ; he
j \ sighed heavily; the blood gushed from his
side in a torrent; he called out in a faint
tone 'Emma, Emma,' repeating the name
a twice, stretched out his limbs and expired,
f He was a very handsome man, about tbirty
| five years of age.