lie Cancastcr JnteHigencer lujttmiwQyt a—od»f > v -•'■oißioqßk»iBßr, Shoo N uMkS^j^^^oriDn! a. amnwr* co^s^a iat£HomMr t tSi the Snort mfinenaalsAdlargtocfelrciili' ttng Newspapers la the United States end the Canadas.— they ere esuiorfled to contract for os at our fewest rotes k Abbots, No. 885 Broadway, New York, ere authorized to receive advertisements for Tht mutt*- gcsicer, nt oar lowast rate*. 49" V. B. Piuon, the American Newspaper Agent, N. corner fifth and Ohertnnfc Streets, Philadelphia, la authorised to receive cnbaeriptlons and adrertiewnente fcr this paper, at our lowest rates. His receipts will be re garded as payments. 49* Jons .Wsssn&’s AnrzßTisiHa Aanrcr Is located at NorthStti stmet; Philadelphia. He is anthorised to receive advertisements and subscriptions fbr The Lanctuter BtUQtamaer . - 'B?& Nius,Nb. 1 Seollay's Building, Court St, Boston, advertisements, Ac. O tTH IF Hi AIGI- - Now onr flag Is flung to the wild winds fr« Let It float o’er onr rather land, And the guard of its spotless fame shall be Colombia’s chosen band. COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING. The County Committee met agreeebly to the call of the Chairman, at the Hotel of Emanuel Shober, on Wednesday the 28th lost., at 11 o’clock, A. M. On motion the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Etsolvid, That the Chairman of the County Committee is«ue a call to the Democracy of the city and coanty, for the election of delegates, on BATURDAY, JUNE 14th, 1882, in the several wards, boroughs and townships of the county, to meet in County Convention, at Fulton Hall, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of JUNE next. On motion, the committee adjourned. TO THE DEMOCRACY OP THE CITY AND COUNTY OF LANCASTER. In accordance with the resolution of the County Com* mittee, adopted at their meeting Wednesday, May 28th, yon ore requested to assemble in the several wards of the city, and boroughs and townships of the coanty, on SATURDAY, the 14th day of JUNE next, then and there to elect the nsual number of delegates to a County Con* ventlon, to he held on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of JUNE next, at 11 o’clock, A. H 7 at Fulton Hall, in the City of Lancaster, for the purpose of selecting six dele gates to attend the Democratic State Convention, to meet Ip Harrisburg, on Friday, the 4th day of Jnly next. The local committees are requested to give early notice in their respective districts of the time and plaee of meeting for the election of delegates. Jn accordance with the established usage of the party , Vie several districts will each nominate one person to serve on the County Committee for the ensuing political year, and also nominate their local committees to serve for the same period of time, and place their names on their respective credentials to the ensuing County Convention. By order of the Democratic County Committee. P. Martin Heitlsb, H. B. BWARR, Secretary. Lancabter, June 3rd, 1862. BATTLE NEAR RICHMOND. Prom McClellan’s Army-—The Rebels Driven Back at the Point of the Bayo net, From the Battle, Jane I—l 2 o’clock, M. 2b Eon. E. If. Stanton , Secretary of War: We have had a desperate battle, In which tho corps of Genorals Sumner, Helntzelman and Keys have been en gaged against greatly superior numbers. Yesterday at 1 o’clock, the enemy, taking advantage of a terrible storm, which had flooded the valley of the Chlcka hotniny, attacked oar troops on the right flank. Casey’s division, which wa6 on the first line, gave way, unaccountably, and this caused a temporary confasioo, daring which the gnnß and baggage were left; bat Genl’s Heiatzelmanand Kearney most gallantly brought up their troops, which checked the enemy, and at the same time, moreover, succeeded, by great exertions, in bringing across Sedgwick and Richardson’s divisions, who drove hack enemy at the point of the bayonet, covering the ground with the dead. - This morning; the enemy attempted to renew the conflict hat was everywhere repulsed. We have taken many prisoners, among whom Is General Pettigrew and Col. Lang. Oar loss Is heavy, bat that of the enemy most be onor mona. With the exception of Casey’s division, the men behaved splendidly. Several fine bayonet charges have been made. The Second Excelsior made two to-day. . (Signed,) G. B. McCLELLAN, Major-General Commanding. A. Telegraph Station in the Air. a Baring the whole of the b&ttle of this morning. Prof. Lowers balloon was over-looking the terrific scene from sn altitude of about two thousand feet. Telegraphic com munication from the balloon .to Gen. McClellan and In direct connection with the military wires, was successfully maintained. Mr. Parker Spring, of Lancaster, acting as operator. Every movement of the enemy was obvioas and instantly reported. This is believed to be the first time in which a balloon reconnoissancebasbeen successfully made daring a battle, and crrtainly the first in which a telegraph station has been established in the air to report the move meats of the enemy and the progress of a battle. The ad vantage to Gen. McClellan must have been immense. THE a PRESS’*— A PROPOSITION, The Lancaster Intelligencer must be a gresv eyesore to the Blaok Republican Clerk of the United States Senate. In last Thursday’s issue of his veracious sheet he devotes a col umn and a quarter to the Intelligence r, inter spersed with an occasional fling of bitter and vindictive malignity at ex President Buchan an, Judge Cadwalader, Hon. William B. Reed, and George M. Wharton, Esq. On first reading of his tirade of abuse, we felt strongly inclined to reply at length and with soiqe degree of severity; but on a second perusal we entirely changed our purpose, for the following reason : It is very seldom that the readers of the Press are regaled with any truthful remarks in reference to passing events, and therefore, by copying some half dozen extraots from our paper, the editor, unintentionally perhaps, has contributed somewhat to the public enlightenment—con sequently, we have no objection to stand his abase, and smile oomplacently at it too, if-he will continue to publish the articles he finds in the Intelligencer. Nor do we presume that the distinguished gentlemen above mentioned will have any objection to being made the targets of his poisoned shafts, if he will consent to our proposed arrangement. Now, then, let the editor of the Press go ahead with his abase. Let him open upon us his heaviest battery of malice and detraction, and let Blip the dogs of war. We shall bear it all patient ly, so that he will but copy our articles, or even extracts from them, and let the readers of his paper have the truth in that way , aB they can get it in no other from his pen. We hope to hear from our quondam friend often in the Bame manner be noticed us in his issue of Thursday. EVACUATION OP CORINTH. The abandonment of Corinth by the rebel army under Beauregard concentrates the chief interest of the war on the great issue pending at Richmond. The retreat is, on the whole, a misfortune, as there is every reason to belieye that, had the rebels awaited an attack, Gen. Halleok would have won a great victory. The evacuation mußt havo been in progress for several days, but the country is so thickly wooded that no vigilance could have detected the rebel movement. We publish in another part of this paper the proclamation of President Lincoln, in whioh he assumes the responsibility of the appointment of Cummings, Morgan & Co., and to a large extent claims the censure passed upon Cameron by Congress, for the pecula tions and corruptions in the purohase of arms, vessels, &o. It is a strange document, to say the least of it. A New Daily.—S. A. Wylie & Co., of the Inquirer, propose starting a daily paper, in this oity, on the Ist of July, to advocate Be* . publioan principles and the policy of the present Administration. We had supposed that the Repress was dark enough for the purpose of the Abolitionists, but it appears .j,mehis nottheoase—henoethe establishment of a new organ. BjW>g^£^gjj2ji2£j32ii OBS. BDTI.KIVa PBOCL.ABATIOS. We publish below an extraordinary procla mation b; General Bdtlxr, at Near Orleaiuk In it be deolarea that any femaft-whopliaU by; “word, jestnre, or movement,” insult or ehow* Contempt for anylbflioer or fgjdier jif the, United States, alkali bSjkegM|p an4;ireato4; as a coma&n haStbtl ftbis w|i nnnOQH*arjc. ; 'New Origins is ini thejhands af.Gen. Rons*.; It isattihe of tbe Upion araiy and gunboats. A sneer from a Secession female oonld not work snem injury to the Union oanee as to call for such an order as this. Nothing could so pointedly sting the people of the South to their very eonls, Union men and all, as this treatment of their wives, end sis ters, and mothers. Nothing oonld bo effectu ally rouse the secession army' to deeds of daring and desperation even, as this; and .already the order has been read to the rebel army, and it is rooßing the most intense feeling of revengeand of hatred. The Union. Cause did not require this unmanly attack upon females in New Orleans. The war is not with them or. their sneers. If they were doing harm to the Federal army, the remedy was not ,to:deolare them prostitutes, with an order that they be treated as eneb,..whioh the Southern men will look npon as an invitation to the soldiery to outrage the women of the oity. Better have imprisoned or pnt them nnder guard. It Is a most unfortunate and injudicious order. Indeed, is General Butler the right man to command at New Orleans ? Headquarters or the Dbpt. of the Gulf, ) May 15, 1862. ( As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women calling themselves “Ladies of Hew Orleans,” in return for the most eornpnlons noninterference and courtesy on onr part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, jestnre or movement, in sult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall Is regarded and held liable to be treated as a ■woman of the town plying her avocation. By command of Major-General BUTLEB. Geo. C. Strong, A. A. G. GREAT DEMOCRATIC VICTORY ! “ Lehigh has done Better !” Hon. J. D. Stiles, tho Democratic candi date for Congress in tho Bucks and Lehigh District,"(to fill the vacanoy occasioned by the death of Dr. Cooper,) ha'B been elected by 584 majority—showing a large gain over the pre vious Congressional election when Cooper had only 143 majority. At the election in XB5B a Republican Congressman (Longenecker) was elected in the district by a considerable majority. And all this, too, in the teeth of the pronunci amento of John W, Forney who, a day or two before the election, insisted that Mr. Stiles, whom he denominated a “ Breckinridge Dem ocrat” and a “ Sympathiser with Secession,” must be defeated at all hazards and the place given to a Black Republican of the Greeley stripe. But it was no go. The Demooraoy of Bucks and Lehigh know Forney, and his power for misohief is at an end in that region, as well as in every other part of Pennsyl The result of this election, taken in connec tion with other municipal and township elec tions throughout the State, and also the triumph of Col. Oharlbs J. Biddle in Phila delphia laßt Bummer, should satisfy the Re publicans that the charge made against the Democrats generally of being “ Breckinridge Secessionists ” is about played out, and that it is full time for them to cease their vile slanders and defamation of the Democratic party which has always been true to the Union, the Constitution, and the flag of our oountry—and that is more than these loud mouthed Republican brawlers of the Abolition s tripe can say for themselves. Chairman. Since we read in Scripture of the nervous lady who was grievously tormented by a devil, our pity has not been so greatly aroused as at the condition of the editor of the Phila delphia Press. The ghost of the “ Breckin ridge democracy” is omnipresent to him, by day and by night, Bleeping or waking, alone or in company, its sepulchral tones are in his ear, its bony finger threatens him, its ghoatly arm waves him on. Like most nervous suf ferers and hypochondriacs, he takes melan choly satisfaction in relating these things, but instead of boring but one or two, he inflicts all his readers with the rocitai, until his sheet has become a mere chronicle of blue devils. Can’t the friends of our Black Republican Clerk do something for him ? Is there “ No power in holy men, Nor oharm in prayer—nor purifying form Of penitence —nor outward look—nor fast — Nor agony ” Washington, June 1. that can avail ? Is there no medicine, nor balm in Gilead, nor catnip tea that can heal ? In a debate on the tax bill, in the Senate, on Friday last, Senator Fessenden, (Rep.) of Maine, stated that at the extra session last summer and this session they had appropriated $535,000,000 and over, and last March they made the regular appropriations—not less than $65,000,000 —and the debt was then $120,- 000,000. 110 thought, taking all the odds and ends, the debt on the first of July, 1862, would be about $720,1)00,000 . » This does not tally with the assertions of Mr. Dawes and others, published in another column, who have evidently been trying to throw dust in the eyes of the people in refer ence to this matter. Mr. Fessenden does not appear to be “ in the ring”—hence he tells the naked truth. Tho Greensburg papers announce the death of General James Keenan, senior Proprietor of the Democrat, and late D. S. Consul at tlong Kong, China, in the 39th year of his age. He died of Consumption, at New York, where he arrived several weeks ago from China. General K. was a brave soldier in the Mexican war, and held the office of Adjutant General of Pennsylvania under Governor Bigler. He was appointed Consul to Hong Kong in 1853 by President Pierce, and filled that important and responsible position with great credit and ability until superseded by the present Administration. TROUBLED BY A GHOST. THE PUBLIC DEBT. DEATH OF GENERAL KEENAN, ALL QUIET AGAIN. The military excitement, growing out of Gen. Banks’ retreat across the Potomao, has subsided. Two or three of our military com panies were nearly ready .to start for the seat of war, in accordance with the requisition of Governor Curtin, when a dispatch was re ceived from the War Department counter manding the^ order. Of course, our brave vol unteers have again returned to the peaceful pursuits of civil life. 86f The Rev. Dr.- Tiffany, of Chicago, started for Pittsburg Landing with contributed supplies for the sick and wounded soldiers in the Union army. Ou the steamer he took so much whisky to correct river water that he became orazy drunk. When he got sober he immediately returned to Chicago, resigned his pastoral charge, and his resignation was, of course, accepted. This is the same clerical demagogue who was prominent in the Dark Lantern party in 1854-5, and delivered an inflammatory harangue against foreigners and Catholics in Fnlton Hall, in this oity, during the hey-day of Know Nothingism. We have known this man for about fifteen or . sixteen years, and never believed that he had “more religion than the law allowed him,” and the event re corded above only goes to confirm ns in that opinion. _ ; TREASOS AT THB SOUTH. Tlie AtooUtlontats nfaiiaf to ffiomlEli . mere Troop*. We have again and again j demned tha fanatical and treasomlbleipolicy. of.jkbe abolittoSets—aaifironded' oqj&e elngle ' emanMjpation,; jind failing sj' giving iXtifih* character, of Sbandofclpg itf and leaving Gove^Maeptwi l^# ito the-TebeiKoif It-Bay be'&at ; have sometimes regarded our condemnation ' of this class of then as too severe, and’have hesitated to believe them gnilty of a crime so nearly approaohing the treason of southern, secession; botwe have been nhable to extend that degreerof ~cbarityto theabolitionleadere of the Tribune school, because the proofs have been abundant that they took no interest in sustaining the Government id tibia straggle for existence, beyond their measure cf success in perverting the contest into one tier negro: emancipation. When that effort Anally toils, they will 1 be prepared to the Tribune did in the beginning—a separation and recognition of the Southern Confederacy. Fresh evidenop of the oriminal disloyalty whioh animates this olass of radicals is jnst afforded. The President appeals to the coun try for additional troops, to fill up the ranks of onr armies in the field, thinned by sickness and death. l faiqrganizc ihi governmental powers of that State in suchform as to them shall appear the most likely to secure their interests and happiness.’- Do hot, how ever, understand, me as adopting; the doctrine of the Democratic partyj fay . declaring that they may form their own,domestic institutions in their own way, by enslaving other persons. They may consult their own interest and happiness,' hut they .most hot invade the rights of others. They must hot enslave their former masters, hut they may govern themselves. . Now, sir, I suggest that the,greatest service which you and other philanthropists, public officers and teachers can do your country, or mankind, is at once to rally these people to the formation of a State Covemment, or, if you please; to re organize the old State'Govern ment of South Carolina. Let a day be agreed upon at once ; let these people elect good and loyal men to their legislature. When elected, let them conveno and.authorize a convention to amend the Constitution. Let a free Constitu tion be adopted, and in ninety days or before Congress will again convene, let us have a free and loyal State Government in full operation, just as we had in California. This will inspire the emancipated people to obey their own laws, to educate their children, to acquire knowledge and become useful. It will silence that constant inquiry of conserva tives, “What will you do with them when free V : These people must remain where they are to supply ns with ootton. Every European nation now demands that they shall exercise their rights as men, shall cultivate the soil, and supply the people of other oountries with its produots, thus contributing to the wealth, the comfort and the elevation of the human family, while all Christian nations will protest against the removal of these from their homes, from the land of their birth, their childhood and youth, from the plaoe where they will be most useful to themselves and to mankind.” WHERE RESTS THE RE3PONSIBII,. ITY OP THE COBIFROHISE. Forney,—over the signature of “Occa sional"—in his answer to the address of Demi ooratio members of Congress, gives an extract from a speech delivered by the present pro visional Governor of Tennessee, appointed by President Lincoln, to prove that because “ Six Southern men” refused to vote against the proposition to supplant the Crittenden with the Clark proposition, that therefore, the respon sibility of the defeat of the Crittenden plan of compromise, rests with tho Southern men. What is a compromise ? It is an amicable agreement between parties in controversy to settle theifdifferences by mutual concessions. In that Congress every Democrat from the North, and all the moderate men from the South—both demoorats and Union men—were' in favor of the Crittenden plan. It teas op posed bp the Republicans in a solid body. The ' extreme men of the Squth stood off—refusing to vote. Had they voted with the Democrats and Union men they could have carried either the Crittenden, or any other of the plans of adjustment over the heads of the Republicans —and for not doing so, they are now charged with defeating and preventing a compromise* But, suppose they had voted, and then carried either of those measures would there have been anything of Compromise about it ? Certainly not, for the reason that the Republicans, being a party to the controversy, and having op posed, and resisted the measure of adjustment, could not be held as a party to that compro mise. There could be no adjustment without the assent of the Republican party as repre sented by its members of Congress." It is therefore perfectly absurd to charge the defeat of that, or any kindred measure, to Southern secessionist? ; and it is equally obvious that the whole responsibility of the defeat of that measure—and consequently of the present ruinous war—rests with the Republican mem bers of the 30th Congress. The offer was made them in December, and stood open for their acceptance until the 4th of March.— They refused to accept, and likewise refused to offer anything instead. Are they not, then, alone responsible for all our trouble*? - In proof of what we have said above let us call the late Senator Douglas to the stand. — On the 3d January, 1861, he said : “ I address the inquiry to republicans alone, for the reason that in the Committee of thir teen, a few days ago, every member from the South, including those from the cotton Stales (Messrs. Toombs and Davis) expressed their readiness to accept the proposition of my ven erable 'friend from Kentucky (Mr. Crittenden) as a FINAL SETTLEMENT of the contro versy, if tendered and-sustained by republican members. “ nENCE, THE SOLE RESPON SIBILITY OF OUR DISAGREEMENT, AND THE ONLY DIFFICULTY IN THE WAY OF AMICABLE ADJUSTMENT, IS WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.” Because certain of tho Senators—who are now active secessionists and rebels—were then opposed to compromise—as were the aboli tionists, and like the abolitionists desired to break up the Union, is no justification of the Republicans. By: refusing to accept any of the measures of adjustment that were offered, ’they placed themselves in the same category with the Abolitionists and Secessionists. — Clearfield Republican. EXCITEMENT AT EASTON, MARY LAND. Last Saturday Deputy Provost Marshal James S. McPhail, by order of General Dix, commanding this Department, proceeded to Easton, Talbot county, Md., to arrest Judge : Richard Carmichael, Judge of the county, and James Powell, prosecuting attorney, upon charges of treason. Marshal McPhail, with several officers, arrived at Easton on Saturday evening, and took lodgings at the Easton Hotel. Early on Sunday morning, the purpose of their visit was rumored, and a follow named McNabb was actively engaged in exciting the people. Some called on the Marshal and stated that the attempt would be resisted by at least 100 armed men. On MondayWhe excitement was intense, and threats of violence were repeated; still the officers were patient and quiet, but determined to make the arrest or die in the attempt.— The. Marshal telegraphed the state of affaire to Gen. Dix, who sent 125 of the Delaware Regi ment. They rcaohed Wye landing yester day at noon. The Marshal met them, and gave an order for them to be in town in an hour. In the meantime the Marshal and his officers went to the Court House, where the Judge was presid ing, and told him that he must consider him self under arrest, and a prisoner. The Judge demanded his anthority for such a proceeding, and was answered by the authority of the United States. The judge replied that he did not regard that authority under the circum stances. Here a call was made for the sheriff, but the crier was soon stopped and one of the officers ascended the steps to arrest the judge. The judge resisted, and kicked the officer, who drew a revolver and struck the judge on the head with it, inflicting a severe wound. Other officers arrested Mr. Powell and two citizens, Wm. McNabb and Elixir Pescault. The proceedings were prompt and derisive,' and all was accomplished in a few minutes, the greatest excitement prevailing in the court room. The military soon made their appearance outside, and after a short delay, the whole party, including bis honor; were marched to the steamboat, and brought to this city, .when they were lodged in Fort McHenry. ■ Who would be without a first-class Pianoforte, when they can obtain' them for the 1 emsdlsuin as advertised by Messrs. Grovesteen- A Hale, in another- column. These instru ments are nnsdrpassed' in beauty of tone, fine', touch, and general finish* LOCAL DEPARTMENT. Lieut. McPhaid.—We bad'the pleasure jMterdiy of tiktog bj tb» bud oor old fHeod Llent Wk T. •HoPbui, or Con posy E, (Lancaster Guards) Ist Regiment, Pennsylvania ITnWirsos Ybi* gallant, esteemed and effici- ent young officer bed been seriously Ui for pome yreek*-, .andarrivod at?hto fidberioxetklence th StrlsbargJnbdut fen tos ax&to' meruit hJsiraUh. improved: ;nplqjtj£ snniftfrorts toleave on? TfranNUy nefer ThoXUuteoaatStas oordtolly Mnpned: dtjKpHl* ability, cjSftoltty ’ of manner sad always malm Uni' troopa of friends be j&es, xn&Jwe Dampen to greatorJ&v3 v : ;- .- WABawwoK, May Bo. r/ A telegraphic ffiaaateir fere j ust bren received from tat ; TBPoffictoi loft Corinth last night, ;*nd UfartQen. Hme eMd their entrenchments it 8 morelnk W • >, . .4,2?-. • DISPATCHI \ Wax DiPiincure, May 80. A jOftpateh jpftt'Toraliedftiliy corroborates the former message that (fcrlnth ta evaeofitod by the rebels and occu pied by oar troops. Prisoners say that the enemy left last night for Okelon, n point about 67 miles south-of Corinth on the Mobile end Ohio railroad. Official Dispatches from Glen. Halleck. Wax Dxpaxxxxht, Wissuraros, May SO. The following has just been received at the War Depart ment. - Headquarters Dxpastxxxt otyhi Mississippi. V. Camp on Oorintb Road, May 28,1662. t 7b Hotu K JC iS&rafoo, Secretary of ffhr; J Three strong reeonnoitering columns advanced this mferhiag,-bn the right, centre and left, to feel the enemy and unmisk hie batteries. The enemy hotly contested hto ground at each point, but was driven In with considera ble loss. The column on the left encountered the strong est- r - kflled and woundtd- The enemy left thirty doad »n the -field,. Our losses at other points arenoiyetaseertained. Some five or.six offlcarsAnd a number of privates were captured. The fighting wfil probably be renewed to morrow morning -at daybreak. The whole country to so .‘thickly wooded that we are compelled to feel our way. ... (Sighed) --H.W. Hiiucx, Major General. Wax Dspasvxxht. \ . WAssoiatoH, May 80. j The following dispatches were,received at the War Department this afternoon: ----- Nias Gobxhvh, May SO. To Hon. E, M. Stanton, Secretary of W!tr: Geh. Pope’s heavy batteries opened upon the enemy’s entrenchments yesterday abootlO o’clock,and soon drove the rebels from their advanced battery. Major W. T. Sherman established another heavy battery yesterday afternoon within one .thousand yards of their works, and skirmishing parties Advanced at daybreak this morning. Three of our-divisions are already in the enemy’aadranced works, about three-quarters of a mile of Corinth, which to In flames. The enemy has fallen back of the Mobile railroad. (Signed) . H. W. TTaraerg, GeneraL . [SEOOKD DISPATCH ] . Nxas Co&iHia, May 80. To Eon. E. M SUmtoni Secretary of War ; Onr advanced guard are in Oorintb. Conflicting ac counts as to the enemy’s movements. They are believed to be in strong force on onr left flank, some four or five miles south of Oorintb near the Mobile and Ohio railroad. (Signed) n. W, Hallick, Major GeneraL . .Washington, May 81. The following despatch was received this morning at the War Department: Headquarters Oak? near Corinth, > Friday, May 80,1862. f Hon. E. M. Stanton. Secretary of War: The enemy’s position and works In front of Corinth were exceedingly strong, and he cannot occupy a stronger position in his flight. This’mornlng he destroyed an Im mense amount of public -and private property, stores wagons, tents, Ac. For miles ont of the town the roads are filled with arms, haversacks, Ac., thrown away by hiß flying troops. A large cumber of prisoners and deserters have boon captured, estimated l>y Gen. Pope at 3,000. Gen Beauregard evidently distrusts bis army or he would have defended so strong a-position, nis troops are gener ally much discouraged and demoralized. In all tbelr en gagements for the last few days their resistance has been weak. H.W.HALLECK, Major General Commanding. From the N. Y. Times. GENERAL BANKS’ CAMPAIGN. Sketch of Gen. Banka’ Three Months’ Campaign in the Vwlley of the Shenan doah—His Triumphant Mareh from Harper's Ferry to Staunton—Hls Dlsas* trous Retreat from Staunton Into Mary land. Precisely three months ago, on the 26th of February last, the army of Major General Banks crossed the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry, and took up its line of march along the valley of the Bhenandoah. The column'numbered some thirty thousand men, finely drilled and.well equipped; and was composed of regiments from almost every loyal Btate in the Union —from New England, from New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, and from the' Northwestern tier of States as far as Wisconsin. Its worS was to destroy 1 or drive from the valley the Confederate force under God. Thos. J. Jaeksoo, (commonly called “Stonewall” Jackson,) who had, during the winter, held possession of that section of Virginia extending from the Blue-Ridge to the hills in Berkeley county, and from the Potomac on the northeast to the southwestern limit of the State. Gen. Banks’ column set ont in high spirits, anxious to measure swords with the Confederate foe, soldier and statesman who was in command. The day after reaching the soil of Virginia, the advance began. The enemy was driven from Charlestown, dlacomfitted In - innumerable cavalry skirmishes, his whole army was defeated at Win chester, he was pursued to Btraabnrg, from thence to Monnt Jackson, the terminns of the Valley Railroad; from -tbenre to New Market, to Harrisonburg, and to Staunton—a dis tance of over a hundred.miles from where he started; while a harassing series of cavalry and infantry skirmishes was kept up along the whole line. Gen. Banks’ work, bo far as bis own Department was concerned, was now nearly completed. He had only to advance upon Staunton, defeat or drive away • the Confederates thefe, hold the railroad runniog across the Blue Ridge, and then bis fine army would i>e ready for further operations wherever it might bo ueeded. Suddenly, and while near this point, it was darkly given ont from Washington that Banks’ army was on* tho retreat—why, no Common mortal could divine. It was reported that early in the'present month to be back at New Market, back to Woodstock, back to Strasburg, wbere it temporarily made a halt, and it leaked out from the telegraph that one half of the column (Shield’s division) was on the wing over the Manassas Gap Railroad to Fredericksburg—for what purpose nobody but the war gods at Washington could tell. The Confederates, In the meantime, came up with the remnant of Banks’ army at Strasburg, defeated a part of it at Front Royal, drove the remainder back from Btrasburg to Winchester, defeated it there, with great loss, drove it back in haste from Win chester to the Potomac; and there,on yeßterday,itefferted a crossing into Marylaud—after a retreat of a hundred miles—precisely three months to a day, as we have said, from the time it set out. The advance, so gloriously and hopefully made in February, after all bnt accomplished its ol joct, ended in disaster and disgrace to the National arms In May. For which whoever may be responsible, General Banks is not. We will recapitulate, a little,more in detail, some of the events of the forward and retrograde movements. As already mentioned, the army reached the Virginia shore on the 26th of February, crossing the Potomac on a pontoon bridge. (The main Confederate army, it most be remembered, was at this time still at Manassas.) It at ouce took possession of Bolivar Heights, near Harper's Ferry; the next day moved forward to Charlestown, where the enemy was discovered to be in some force; bat he was driven out with loss, and on the 28th that town was oc cupied. Hundreds < f loyal refugees, who bad been ex pelled by- the Confederates, returned to their desolated homes, and the loyal inhabitants were overjoyed at the deliverance, they, too, bad received. Martiosburg, also, occupied by the Union troops, and the work of recon strncting the Baltimore and Obioßailroad, which bad been held by the Confederates for nearly a year, was actively carried on, and every point of the road was protected from Harper’s Ferry to Cumberland. The weather at this time was very cold, and tbo snow and slush tried the endurance and strength of our troops, bnt they stoutly bore op under their hardships. . . In the first days of March, General Banks began to posh but detachments to occupy various important points off the line of the railroad, to prevent the possibility of the Con federates outflanking him: Now began a series of severe and harassing skirmishes between our advance and the rear guard (Ashby’s cavalry) of the Confederates, in which frequently several regiments of infantry took part. Skir mishes occurred at Berrysvilis, and a hundred other places. Indeed, every foot of ground was contested by the enemy, thoughhedid not dare to give battle in force. On the 6th of March it was ascertained that the Confederate Jackson’s column web in foil force at Winchester, behind formidable earthworks, mounting sixty guns and supported by field batteries. On that day we occupied Smithfield, seven miles north-east of Charlestown. On the 7th, General Banks detached Colonel Geary’s force, wtflch marched down to Leosbnrg, drove out the Confederate Gen. Hill, with hia whole command, from the town and the surrounding forte, and occujHed the place. This brilliant achievement— a well-timed blow and a skilful manoeuvre—gave us posses sion of a position which, up to that time, had been con sidered as one of the greatest Confederate strongholds, and bad by them been often pronounced impregnable. They did not, however, attempt a defence, as Gentral Banks had completely outflanked them, and resietance was useless. From Charlestown Gen. Banks began to move forward toward Winchester, and his proximity to that point and Str&sburg, from which he could menace the rear of the Confederates at Manassas, caused the evacuation of that world-famous stronghold on the 9th and 10th of March. On the 12th, Geo. Banlu advanced upon Winchester, and Jackson’s Confederates escaped from the place Just In time to save their skins. (In these retreats the Confederates had the advantage of our forces, in that they traveled upon the railroad, but tore It up behind them to hinder pursuit, aud our army had to flounder along through mod and mire ) Our advance immediately began to feel its way from Winchester toward Strasbnrg, in which direction Jackson had fled, and brisk fights took place daily with Ashby’s Confederate cavalry; while a portion of Banks’ column pushed forward and parsed over the railroad to Manassas—making our first communication with that point from this direction since the region fell into Con federate hands. Gen. Banks himself seeing that the Con federates were flying out of the valley, crossed the moun tains, preparatory, it was raid, to establishing bis head quarters at Fairfax Court House, and operating in another din-ction. Whl’e these movements were being made, the Confeder ate force had retired a few miles below Strasborg. Jackson, imagining now that nearly our entire army bad left the valley, came out from hls covert aud passed through Btrasburg toward Winchester, for the purpore of devour ing the small National force he thought to be at that point. He attacked our outposts on Saturday, the 22d, and on the subsequent day advanced upon us with an army ten or twelve thonsand strong. General Shields—who, in the temporary absence of Banks, was in command—was pre pared for that very event, and suddenly sprang upon the Confederates with his whole division, and gained the very important victory of Winchester. In the meantime, Gen. Banks bad eome up, and next morning gave the Confeder ates chase, and did not stop till he had reached a point five miles beyond Strasbnrg, where he had to halt on ac count of destroyed traeks and bridges. The pursuit was a terrible one for the enemy, and bis loss was estimated by the Commanding Officer at 500 killed and 1,000 wounded, besides the demoralization and almost complete breaking up of this division of the Confederate army. Oo the Ist of April, Gen. Banks had things ready for continuing the pursuit of the enemy; and by this time Jackson, also, had again succeeded in getting hls force in some sort of fighting trim. Banks advanced toward Wood stock, the Confederate cavalry disputing every foot of ground, and rendering pursuit almost impossible fay their destruction SSth.lSSi \ KiSnSc^EsßOXi: The totally and.- of fti« «?£ M metropolis : aitf «W« beautiful to behold, eepadallywhen they are eallMhlnto fetkm at a moment's n