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