Whole No. 2656. PATENT COAL OIL GREASE. rpais Grease is made from COAL OIL, I and has been fonnd by repeated tests to be the most economical, and at the same time the best lubricator for Mill Gearing, -Stages, Wagons, Carts, Carriages, ! Vehicles of all kinds, and all heavy bearings, keeping the axles always cool, and not requir- < jng them to be looked after for weeks. It has been tested on railroad cars, and with one soaking of the waste it has run, with the cars, 20,000 miles ! All railroad, omnibus, livery stable and Express companies that have tried it pronounce it the neplus ultra. it combines the body and fluidity of tallow, beeswax and tar, and unlike general lubrica tors, will not run off, it being warranted to stand any temperature. 1 have it in boxes 2} to 10 lbs. Also kegs and barrels from 30 to 400 lbs, for general use and sale. The boxes are more prefera ble; they are G inches in diameter by 2] inches deep, and hold 21 lbs net; the boxes arc clean, and hardly a carman, teamster, expressman, miller or farmer, that would not purchase (me box for trial. F. G. FRANCISCUS. Lewistown, February 12, 1802. AMBROTYPES AND laai&aiaQStfsm Tho Gems of the Season. rpiIIS is no humbug, but a practical truth. 1 The pictures taken by Mr. Burkholder are unsurpassed for BOLDNESS TRUTH FULNESS. BEAUTY OF FINISH, and DURABILITY. Prices varying according to size and quality of frames and Cases. Room over the Express Office. Lewistown, August 23, 1860. New Fall and Winter Goods. J) F. ELLIS, of the late firm of McCoy IV. & Ellis, has just returned from the city with a choice assortment of Dry Goods and GrocerieSj selected with care and purchased for cash, which are offered to the public at a small ad vance on cost. The stock of Dry Goods em braces all descriptions of Fall and Winter Goods suitable for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children, with many new patterns. His (Groceries comprise Choice Sugars, Molasses, Java, Rio and Laguvra Coffee, superior Teas, &e. Also, Roots and Shoes, Queensware, and all other articles usually found in stores —all which the customers of the late firm and the public in general are invited to examine. 11. F. ELLIS. Country Produce received as usual and the full niarkpt price allowed therefor. Lewistown, November G, 18G1. Carpets, Groceries, &c, V Linen and Cotton Carpets— T T cheap—Gueensware, Hardware, Glass ware and Earthenware, with a good stock of Groceries, as cheap as our neighbors. Please call and sec for yourselves. seplß JAMES PARKER. OIL. DOWN again ! Best No. 1 at 0 cts. per quart, at HOFFMAN'S. RIO Coffee, extra, at 20 cts per lb, at febSG HOFFMAN'S. LADIES' DRESS GOODS. IM'KRY description—Prints, Ginghams, _J Delaines, Black and Colored, Black and White, and Second Mourning Calicos, Bro oke, Osmanle and Paris Lustres, Ormbra Cashmeres, Gray Plaids, China Madonas, Alpaca Plaids, Black and Colored Dress >i!ks, and all kinds of Dress Goods. Flan nels, Ticking, Nankeens, Crapes, Linens, Brilliants, and Bleached and Unbleached muslins. Shawls, Balmonel Skirts, Hooped Skirts, all prices, Shaker Bonnets, Cloth Cloaks, new style, Bonnet Ribbons, Dress Trimmings, <tc. Cash buyers will fird it to their advantage to call and examine the Stock. (seplS) JAMES PARKER. NEW FALL GOODS. MY assortment of Goods are of the best . quality and the newest styles, and by attention to customers I hope to be able to supply the wants of the community at large. Call and see and examine for yourselves. seplS JAMES PARKER. TO THE MAN WITH THE BRAN NEW WIFE That your bride may not think I slight her, 1 thought I would"send you a line, And inform you of things to delight her, To be found at the Coffee Pot Sign ! I'd be pleased to make her a call. And wish her bright [honey] moonshine; But I could not there make mention of all I keep at the Big Coffee Pot Sign! So tell her, for me, ere 'tis too late, That ail she may want she will Had— From a rattle to ah A B C plate— Supplied at the Big Coffee Pot Sign! I have just received a fresh supply Of useful things in household line, O! then tell her, whenshe starts out to buy, Not to forget the Coffee Pot Sign! A WHISPER TO THE WIFE. I've tobacco and snuff boxes, too. Made oval—they silver-like shine— Which for your husband I'll present to you, If you call at the Coffee Pot Sign! Lewistown. March 26,1862-Im Hames and Traces. X\T AGON Ilames at 50 cts. per pair. Tra- V Y ces, Chains, &c., at 75 cents per pair. All kinds of Chains usually sold in hardware stores, sold at low rates, by mhl2 F. G. FRANCISCUS. CULTIVATORS, Cultivator Teeth and ! Points, at reduced prices from past seas ons. for sale bv F. G. FRANCISCUS. THE IIIITEEJL LONELY. .Sitting lonely, ever lonely, \\ aiting, waiting for one only. Thus I count the weary moments passing by ; AH J the heavy evening gloom Gathers slowly in the room, And the chill November darkness dims the sky ; Now the countless busy feet, Cross each other in the street, And I watch the faces Hitting past tnv door: But the step that lingored nightly. And the hand that rapped so lightly. And the face that beamed so brightly, Comes no more! By the firelight's fitful gleaming I am dreaming, ever dreaming, And the rain is slowly falling all around; And the voices that are nearest, Of friends the best and dearest. Appear to hare a strange and distant sound ; Now the weary wind is sighing, And the inurkv day is dying. And the withered leaves ii scattered round my door; But that voice whose gentle greeting Set this heart so wildly beating, At each fond and frequent meeting. Comes no more! Edited by A. SMITH, County Superintendent. For the Educational Column, j School Architecture. The great practical necessity of educa ting the young properly, the beneficial res ults which flow fioni such a course, and the enormous responsibility resting upon all whose duty it is to aid in the great work, are abundant reasons why no one should leave a 'stone unturned' by which he may further the advancement and improvement of our public schools. Many are the aux iliaries necessary to accomplish the object of our common school system, and if not the greatest, certainly not the least among all these, comes under the title of School Architecture. That school houses—saying j nothing about play grounds—are necessary, is evident to all; yet the advantages to be derived from having good houses, —houses worthy the object for which they are erect ed, are yet far from being properly appre ciated. Much improvement has already been made in this, as well as in many oth er things; we have passed from log huts heated by means of a great fire place at one end of the room, windows consisting ' of greased paper stretched across the spa- i ces between the logs, no floor but the na- j ked earth, and furniture corresponding, up ward to those which arc now to be seen dotting our valleys and hill sides, yet we are far short of that advancement which the importance of the subject demands. — More than this, we are not permitting im- j provement in this particular to keep pace with that of many other things which have j no stronger claims upon our attention. In S a majority of cases see how taste, comfort and convenience are consulted in the erec tion of dwelling houses, factories, church es, public buildings. If a man wishes to build himself a dwelling, and have the means wherewith to construct a good one, does he not consider the uses to which the different apartments are to be appropriated, I the size of each, and that arrangement of all which will best insure a combination of comfort, convenience, and, to a certain ex i tent, beauty, and then build accordingly? I When the manufacturer wishes to erect a factory and supply it with machinery for | the purpose of converting raw material in to manufactured goods, does he not long and patiently consider many plans and specifications,—thinking more of making the building suit the necessary machinery than the machinery suit the building,— and from among all cull the best, and have i these well matured before proceeding to . the work? And, if he does not consider ; himself capable of doing so, does he not engage another who he thinks is capable ? Enter one of our modern churches, and do we there see a low ceiling, benches with perpendicular backs, or with no backs at all, and so high that the feet of the con gregation are dangling in the air, and the other things about the room corresponding? ! No, instead thereof we see the gratifying result of consulting taste and comfort. — (lan as much be said of our common school houses ? Nay. Why? It is certainly not because they are inferior to other build ings in importance, for, in this respect, they will stand the test when compared with any other branch of architecture. They are not, like our churches, to be occupied, as a general thing, only two or three hours in a week, but many times that amount and by whom ? By those very persons whose comforts, tastes, inclinations, pleas ures and griefs need to be cared for above those of all others except infants, those be ings who are then and there laying a por tion of the foundation upon which to build their future lives. Is it because the source from which to derive the means necessary to build, is insufficient to have the work done properly ? The negative of this is in most districts so emphatically true and evident as to need no discussion here. One reason for the defect is, that, as a general thing, the making out of the plans and specifications is performed by unskillful hands, by persons who are far from know ing all the real wants of a school room, — persons who, from their lack of experience in the routine of school exercises and la bors, are more or less unacquainted with WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1862. the proper proportions of the buildings or 1 the most comfortable and convenient ar rangement of the furniture which will best suit the many, many things which should be taken into consideration ; and deficient in this respect, they have recourse to some thing else as a basis; the consequence is, they generally copy after some other school buildings which are far shori of what they ought to be. Another reason is, because i the benefits or injuries which are the ef fects of good or poor houses, have not so direct an influence upon the pocket as deal- i ing in stock, raising and selling grain, or manufacturing goods, and it requires a lit- I tie more thought to comprehend the rela tions of the different causes and effects, that in the investment of a few extra dol lars at the proper time, lies the affirmative answer to the question, < Will it pay?' In fact this is the great stumbling block in educational matters. Could those who have anything to do with the building of our school-houses, be made to understand and feel the fact that the better the build- ; ing and its surroundings the better the in- i vestment, our poor houses would rapidly vanish and noble specimens of school ar chitecture supply their places. If the planning i; done by those not versed in the busiuess, where are we to look to have tho deficiency supplied? Directors and others interested, could and should make them- 1 selves better acquainted with the subject by giving it some thought, by consulting j teachers about it, and by examining works devotee, to the subject, particularly the Pennsylvania School Architecture, a copy of which is legally in the custody of the secretary of each board of directors in the State, and is public property. Although not perfect, it is an excellent work on the subject and contains a vast fund of valua ble ideas. It is worthy a careful perusal b}* any one. A board of directors espec ially should, when about to build, make it a point to carefully and thoroughly exam- j ine its pages before commencing the work. 1 They should not only examine the chap tures devoted to 'Plans and specifications,' j but acquaint themselves with what it says ' concerning the 'Situation of school houses,' ' Heating, lighting and ventilating school i rooms,' ' School furniture and apparatus,' ' Size, enclosure and improvement of school grounds,' etc. The great source from which improvement in this as well as j in other educational auxiliaries lias, and must yet come, is—the teacher. For the great deficiency yet existing in school ar chitecture, much of the blame should, in my opinion be fathered—and mothered, if you please—by flic teachers of past years, and. it is much to be feared, that those of the present arc in this respect very little better. Many of them can do their share of scolding and complaining about the poor houses, but that is as far as they go. Who else has the opportunity possessed by the teacher, of examining and knowing what are practically the best pro portions of a school building, the most pro per form, size and arrangement of the desks, seats, black board, and the many other things necessary to a good school room, among which are those arrangements which will best accommodate the several classes during recitations; —an item which is very much overlooked in the Pennsylvania School Architecture. K. WAR .NEWS. The Great Battle of Shiloah 3 or Pittsburg Landing, GEN'L. SHERMAN S OFFICIAL RE PORT- HEADQUARTERS, FIFTH DIVISION: Major Gen. Grant, commanding army in the Jield: Slß:—With the cavalry placed at my com mand, and two brigades of my fatigued troops, I went this morning out on the Corinth road. One or another of the abandoned camps of the enemy lined the roads, with hospital flags for their protection. At all we found more or less wounded and dead. At the forks of the road I found the head of Gen. Wood's division. At that point I ordered the cavalry to examine both roads, and found the enemy's cavalry. Col. Dickey, of the Illinois cavalry asked for reinforcements. I ordered Gen. Wood to advance to the head of bis column cautiously on the left band of the road, whilst I conducted the head of the Third Brigade ef the Fifth Division up the right hand road. About half a mile from the forks there was a clear field through which the road passed and immediately beyond a space of two hun dred yards of fallen timber, and beyond an extensive camp. The enemy's cavalry could be seen in this camp, and after a reconnoisance I ordered the advance companies of the Ohio Seventy-sev enth, Col. Ilildebrand, to deploy as skirmish ers, and the regiment itself forward into line with an interval of one hundred yards. In this order I advanced cautiously, until the skirmishers were engaged. Taking it for granted that this disposition would clear the camp, I held Col. Dickey's Fourth Illi nois cavalry ready to charge. The enemy's cavalry came boldly down to the charge, breaking through the line of skir mishers, when the regiment of infantry with out cause, broke, threw away their guns and fled. The ground was admirably adapted to a defence of infantry against cavalry, the ground being miry and covered with fallen tin:ber. As the regiments of infantry broke, Dick ey's cavalry began to charge their carbines and fell into disorder. I instantly sent or ders to the rear for the brigade to form in line of battle, which was promptly executed. The broken infantry and cavalry rallied on this line, and as the enemy's cavalry came to it, our cavalry in turn charged, and drove them from the field. I advanced with the en'ire brigade upon the same ground, and sent Col. Dickey's cav airy a mile further up the road. On examining the ground which had been occupied by the Seventy seventh Ohio, we found fifteen dead and about twenty five wounded. 1 sent fur wagons, and had all the wounded carried back to camp, and the dead buried; also, causing the whole camp to be destroyed. Here we found much ammunition for field pieces, which we destroyed ; also two caisons, and a general hospital with about two hun dred and eighty confederate wounded, and about fifty of our cwn. Not having the means of bringing them off, Col. Diok"y, by my order, took a surrender signed by the Medical Director Lyle, and all the attending Surgeons, and a pledge to report themselves to you as prisoners of war, also a pledge that our wounded would be carefully attended to and surrendered to us to-morrow as soon as the ambulances could go out. 1 enclose within the document, and request you to cause to be sent out wagons and am bulances for the wounded of ours to-morrow, and also that wagons be sent to bring in the many tents belonging to us, which are pitch ed all along the road for miles. I did not destroy them, as I knew the enemy could not move them. The roads are very bad, and the road is strewn with abandoned wagons, ambulances and limber boxes. The euemv has succeed ed in carrying off the guns, but has crippled his batteries by abandoning the hind limb- r boxes of at least twenty guns. 1 am satisfied that the enemy's infantry and cavalry passed Lick Creek this morning traveling all last night, and that he left be hind all his cavalry, which has protected his retreat, but the signs of confusion and disor der mark the whole road. The check sustained bv us at the fallen tim bers delayed our advance so that night came on before the wounded were provided for and the dead buried. Our troops being fagged out by those three days of hard fighting, ex posure and privation, 1 ordered them back to camp, where all now are. I have the honor to be, Your obedient servant, Brig. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Commanding Division. The correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga zette furnishes that paper a most thrilling and graphic description of the great battle at Pittsburg Landing. The account is long, and as we have already published some particulars of the fight on Sunday, wo confine our ex tracts to a resume of the results on that day and to the fuil details of the battle on Monday. [Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.] FIELD OF BATTLE, J PITTSBURG LANDING, Tenn., April 9, 18C2. } Fresh from the field of the great battle, with its pounding and the roaring of artillery, and the keener voiced rattle of musketry still sounding in my wearied ears, with all its vis ions of horror still seeming seared upon my eyeballs, while scenes of panic-stricken rout and brilliant charges, and obstinate defences, and succor, and intoxicating success arc burn ed alike confusedly and indelibly upon the brain, I essay to write what I know of the battle of Pittsburg Landing. Yet, how bring order out of such a chaos ? llow deal justly, writing within twenty four hours of the closing of the fight, with all the gallant regiments of'the hundred present, that bravely won or as bravely lost, and with all that ignobly fled in panic from the field? llow describe, so that one man may leisurely follow the simultaneous operations of a hun dred and fifty thousand antagonists, fighting backward and forward for two long days, in a five miles line and over four miles retreat and advance, under eight division comman ders on one side, and an unknown number on the other? llow, in short, picture on a can vas so necessarily small a panorama so grand ly great? The task is impossible. But what one man, diligently using all his powers of observation through those two days, might see, I saw, and that I can faithfully set down. For the rest, after riding careful ly over and over the ground, asking questions innumerable of these who knew, and sitting consistent truth from the multiplicity of re plies with whatever skill some experience may have taught, I can only give the concur rent testimony of the actors. THE CLOSE or SUNDAY'S FIGHT. We have reached the last act in the tragedy of Sunday. It is half past four o'clock. Our front line of divisions has been lost since half past ten. Our reserve line is now gone, too. The Rebels occupy the camps of every divis ion save that of W. 11. L. Wallace. Our whole army is crowded in the region of Wal lace's camps and to a circuit of half to two thirds of a mile around the landing. We have been falling back all day. We can do it no more. The next repulse puts us into the river, and there are not transports enough to cross a single division till the enemy would be upon us. Lew Wallace's Division might turn the tide for us—it is made of fighting men—but where is it? Why has it not been thundering on the right for three hours past ? We do not know yet that it was not ordered up till noon. Buell is coming, but he has been doing it all day and all last week. His advance guard is across the river now, waiting ferriage; but what is an advance guard with sixty thou sand victorious foes in front of ua ? We have lost nearly all of our camps and camp equipage. We have lost nearly half our field artillery. We have lost a division Gen. and two or three regiments of soldiers as prisoners. We have lost—how dreadfully we aro afraid to think—in killed and woun ded. The hospitals are full to overflowing. A long ridge bluff is set apart for surgical uses. It is covered with the maimed, the dead and dying. And our men are discour aged by prolonged defeat. Nothing but the most energetic exertions on the part of the officers prevents them from becoming demor alized. Regiments hare lost their favorite field officers, companies the Captains whom 1 they always looked to, with that implicit faith the soldier learns, to lead them to battle. Meantime there is a lull in the firing. For the first time since sunrise you fail to catch the angry rattle of musketry or the heavy j booming of the field guns. Either the enemy must he preparing for the grand final rush that is to crown the day's success and save the Southern Confederacy, or they arc puzzled by our last retreat, and are moving cautious ly, lest we spring some trap upon them. Let us embrace the opportunity and look about the landing. We pass the old log house, late ly post office, now full of wounded and sur- j gcons, which constitutes the " Pittsburg" part of the landing. General Grant and staff are in a group beside it The General is con fident "We can hold them off till to-morrow; then they'll beeshausted, and we'll goat them with fresh troops." A great crowd is collec ted around the building, all in uniforms, most of them with guus. And yet wo arc needing troops in the front so sorely ! COWARDS. On the bluffs above the river is a sight that j may well make our cheeks tingle wi'h shame | for some soldiers. There are not less than ] three thousand skulkers lining the banks.— ' Ask them why they don't go to their places in the line? Oh, our regiment is all cut to ; pieces." " Why don't you go to where it is , forming again ?" " I can't find it," and the hulk looks as if that would be the very last , thing he would want to do. Officers are around among them, trying to S hunt up their men, storming, coaxing, com 1 manding—cursing 1 am afraid. One strange fellow—a Major, if I remember aright—is ! making a sort of elevated, superfine Fourth | of July speech to everybody that will listen to j him. lie meant well, certainly : " Men of ! Kentucky, of Illinois, of Ohio, of lowa, of In diana, I implore you, I beg of you, come up now. Help us through two hours more.— j By all that you hold dear, by the homes you hope to defend, by that flag you love, by the 1 States you honor, by all your love of country, J by all your hatred of treason, I conjure you, j come up and do your duty now." And soon 1 for quantity. " That feller's a good speaker, j was the only response I heard, and the fellow j who gave it nestled more snugly behind his ' tree as he spoke. I knew well enough the nature of a skul king animal in an army during a battle. I had seen their performance before, but nev er on so large a scale—never with such an utter sickness of heart as I looked, as now.— Still, I do not believe there was very much more than the average per centage. It was a big army, and the runaways all sought the landing. ARRIVAL OF GENERAL DC ELL. Looking across the Tennessee we sec a body of cavalry awaiting transportation over.— ! They are said to he Buell's advance, yet they have been there an hour or two alone. But | suddenly there is a rustle among the runa- i ways. It is, it is! You see the gleaming of the gunbarrels, you catch amid the leaves j and undergrowth down the opposite side of j the river glimpses of the steady, swinging I tramp of trained soldiers. A division of j Buell's army is here ! And the men who ! have left their regiments on the field send up ) three cheers for Bocll. They cheering! May it parch their throats as if they had been breathing the simoon. Ilere comes a boat across with a Lieuten ant and two or three privates of the Signal Corps. Some orders are instantly given the officer, and as instantly telegraphed to the other side by the mysterious wavings and raisings and drippings of the flags. A stea mer comes up with pontoons on board, with which a bridge could be speedily thrown across. Unaccountablyenough, to onlookers, shp slowly reconnoitres and steamers back again. Perhaps, after all, it is better to havo no bridge there, it simplifies the question, takes escape out of the count, and leaves it victory or death—to the cowards that slink behind the bluffs as well as to the brave men who peril their lives to do the State some ser vice in the fields beyond. Preparations go rapidly forward for crossing the division (Geueral Nelson's which has the advance of Buell's army,') on the dozen or so transports that have been tied up along the hank. We have spent but a few minutes on the bluff, but tbey are the golden minutes that count for years. Well was it for that driven, defeated, but not disgraced army of General Grant's that those minutes were improved.— Colonel Webster, Chief of Staff, and an artil lery officer of no mean ability, arranged the i guns that he could collect, of those that re mained to us, in a sort of semicircle, protec- I ting the landing, and bearing chiefly on our : centre and left, by which the Rebels were I pretty sure to advance. Corps of artillerists to man them were improvised from all the batteries that could be collected. Twenty-two | guns in all were placed in position. Two of them were very heavy siege guns, long thir* jty two's. Where they came from Ido not know ; what battery they belonged to I have 1 no idea : 1 only know that they were there, in j i the right place, half a mile back from the bluff, sweeping the approaches by the left, and by the ridge Corinth road ; that there was nobody to work thehi; that Dr. Cornyn, Sur geon of Frank Blair's First Missouri Artil lery, proffered his services; that they were gladly accepted, and that he did work them to such effect as to lay out ample work for scores of his professional brethren on the oth er sids of the fight. Kemomher the situation. It was half past four o'clock—perhaps a quarter later still. Every division of our army on the field had been repulsed. The enemy were in the camps of four out of five of them. We were driven to within little over half a mile of the land ing. Behind us was a deep, rapid river. Be fore us was a victorious enemy. And still there was an hour for fighting. ' Oh, that night or Blncher would come!' Oh. that night ; or Lew. Wallace would come! Nelson's Di vision of Buell's army evidently couldn't cross l in time to do us much good. We didn't yet know why Lew. Wallace wasn't OR the ground. ! In the justice of a righteous cause, and in that semi-circle of twenty two guns in posi tion, lay all the hope we could see. Suddenly a broad, sulphurous flash of light i leaped out from the darkening woods, and ' through the glare and smoke came whistling. New Series—Vol. XVI, No. 25. leaden hail. The rebels were making their crowning effort for the day, and as was ; expocted when our guns were hastily plated, they came from our left and centre. 'J'hoy had wasted their fire at 1,000 yards. Instan taneously our deep mouthed bull dogs flung out their sonorous response. The rebel artil ' lery opened, and shell and round shot cams tearing across the open spaco back of the bluff. May 1 be forgiven for the malicious thought, but I certainly did wish one or two might I drop behind the bluff among the crowd of | skulkers hovering under the bill at the river's j edge. Very handsome was the response our bro ken infantry battalions poured in. The enemy soon had reason to remember that, if not 'Still ia their ashes live the wonted fires,' at least, still in their fragments lived the an cient valor that has made the short Itted rebel successes alrsady cost so dear. THE GUNBOATS OrEX FIRE. Tlie rebel infantry pained no ground, but the furious cannonading and musketry contin ued. Suddenly new actors entered on the stage. Our Cincinnati wooden gunboats, tho A. O. Taylor and the Lexington, had been all day impatiently chafing for their time to come. The opportunity was theirs. The rebels were attacking on our left, lying where Stuart's Brigade had lain on Licking creek in tho morning, and stretching thence in on tho Hamburg road, and aeross toward our old centre as far as llurlburt's camps. Steaming up to the mouth of the little creek the boats rounded to. There was the ravine cut through the bluft' as if on purpose for their shells. Eager to avenge the death of their Com - manding General (now known to have been killed a couple of hours before,) and to com plete the victory they believed to be within their grasp, the rebels had incautiously ven tured within reach of their most dreaded an tagonists, as broadside after broadside of sev en inch shells and sixty four pound shot soon taught them. This was a foe they had hardly counted on, and the unexpected fire in flank and rear sadly disconcerted their well laid plans. The boats fired admirably, and with a rapidity that was astonishing. Our twenty two land guns kept up their stormy thunder, and thus amid a crash and roar, and scream of shells, and demon-like hiss of Minnie balls, that Sabbath evening wore away. We held the enemy at bay, it was enough. The pros pect for the morrow was foreboding; but suf ficient unto the day is the evil thereof. We had had plenty of evil that day—of course, therefore, tho text was applicable. Before ; dark the 3(ith Indiana, from Nelson's advance brigade, had crossed, advanced into line with [ Grant's forces at tho double quick, and had put in fourteen rounds as an earnest of what should be forthcoming on the morrow. The enemy suddenly slackened his fire.— His grand object had been defeated; lie had not finished his task in a day; but there is evidence that officers and men alike shared the confidence that their morning assault would be final. As the sounds of battle died away, and Di vision Generals drew off their men, Buell had arrived and Lew. Wallace had been heard from. Both would be ready hy morning, and a council of war was held, and it was decided that as soon as possible after daybreak we should attack the enemy, now snugly quai*' tered in our camps. Lew. Wallace, who was coming in on the new road from Crump's Landing, and crossing Snake creek just above the Illinois Wallace's (W. 11. L.) camps, was to take the right and sweep back toward" the position from which Sherman had been driven on Sunday morning. Nelson was to take the extreme left. Buell promised to put in Tom Crittenden next to Nelson, and AfcCook next to him, by a seasonable hour in the morning. The gap between McCook and Lew. Wallace was to be filled with the re organized divisions of Grant's old army; Ilurlburt coming next to McCook, then ALiClcrnand, and Sherman closing the gap between McClernand and Lew. Wallace. THE NIGHT BETWEEN TWO BATTLES. Stealthily the troops crept to their new po sitions and lay down in line of battle on their arms. All through the night Buell's men were marching up from Savannah to the point op posite l'ittsburg Landing, and being ferried across, or were coining up on transports. By an hour after dark Wallace had his division in. Through the misdirection he had recciv ed he had started on the Snake -pel proper, which would have brought the enemy's rear, miles from su where he would have been gobbled ful. (Jetting back to the rig'-' layed him. lie at once asce a BC,V< ; tion of certain rebel battel' J strain front of him on our right, p yttice r absolutely to bar his advancc"if su<- and selected positions for a coupi<;„ c teries, from which he could silence t.. dreaded. Placing these in position, . ranging his brigade for support, took h one o'clock in the morning. Then his we. men lay down to snatch a few hours of 81. before entering into the valley of the Shadow of Death on the morrow. By nine o'clock all was hushed near the landing. The host of combatants that three hours before had been deep in the work of destruction iiad all sunk silently to earth, ' the wearied to sleep, the wounded to die.' The stars looked out upon the scene, and all breathed the natural calm and quiet of a Sabbath evening. But pres ently there came a Gash that spread like sheet lightning over the ripples of the river current, and the roar of a heavy naval gun went ech oing up and down the bluffs, through the un natural stillness of the night. Others speed ily followed. By the flash you could just discern the black outline of the piratical look ing hull, and see how the gunboat gracefully settled into the water atthc recoil; thesmoko • soon cast up a thin veil that seemed only to soften and sweeten the scene ; from tnc woods away inland you caught faintly the muffled explosion of the shell, like the knell of the spirit that has taken its flight. We knew nothing then of the effect of this gnnhoat cannonading, which was vigorously kept up tiil nearly morning, and it only ser ved to remind us the more vividly of the day's disasters, of the fact that half a mile off lay a victorious enemy, commanded by the most dashing of their Generals, and of the question one scarcely dared ask himself, " What to morrow ?" We were defeated, our dead and
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