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Gash's "On to Richmond" movement con
tinues—but not without fierce resistance on
the part of Len terrible battle of Tues
. day afternoon at Spotisylvania, of which our
fall dispatches elsewhere will give the read-'
er a vivid account, was fought about twelve
or thirteen miles beyond the fled which wit
,nessed the fierce confilen of last Thursday
and Friday. So we will probably have to
mark the progieso from point to point of the
opposing armies—the one retiring after de
feat from this line of defence, which they
have found Indefensible, to that ly
ing next behind,. Which they .may
hope to find otherwito—till at length the
deadly race and pannilt, roach the fortifi
cations of Richmond. Unless some unforeseen'
.and almost inconceivable event should inter
vose-to change the course of things, such
must be the programme of the war during the
oorning week or two in Virginia. We can
now venture, with greater confidence than
aver before, to look steadily forward to the
end—or at least the beginning of the end-
Let's army fights, and probably will continue
to fight, even as well as our own. But every
battle thins its ranks, and they can never
again be filled, for ovary available man had
been drafted Into thorn, before this campaign
opened. Therefore, these successive battles,
even tf they were not also defeats, them
sielves involve the catastrophe—now so clearly
inevitable. Though it has been as yet im
possible for Graneto make any of his battles
With Lee decisive, the very succession of bat
tles which he has fought, however indecisive
each might be considered if it stood alone,
will as certainly attain a decisive result, ILE
the process of subtraction will reduce a num
ber inSiSuitely by repetition. Still, it is pos
sible that Grant's combinations—the co-oper
ation of Butler, Crooks and Sigel, in due time
and place—may hasten a deoleive result, with
out altogether relying on the more gradual
results of the depleting process just indicated.
Richmond and the Rebellion.
The Richmond pipers of Friday IBM eit.
press groat fear for for the safety of that city.
The Whig seems to think there is not only
danger Impending over the rebel capitol, but
over the rebel cause. In dismissing the mat
ter it says
"The people of the Confederacy have made
up their minds, unwisely, that the war most
end one way or the other this year, forgetting,
quite; that there eau ho bat one way. Ilion,
should fall and hie army be successful, we
greatly fear that the majority of the people
wositdbegie fo kola Ms other way. Bat neither
the lose of Lee, nor the reverse at his army,
nor the two together, will Justify the center,
lilatlon of that other way."
'Sotwithstanding the opinion of the Whig
about the justifiableness of so doing, it seems
highly propeble that tho ' , majority of the
people" would not only " look" and " con
template" tics ocher way, but actually set off
at a good ;round pace to get into it, under
the fullest sense of conviction that there was
no other cafe or even possible way any
whither.
Flow Prepared Coltees are Made
The editor of the Baltimore American, who
admits himself to be a great lover of coffee,
says he has recently received two serious
'cheeks to his entlittelasm. One was the as
manes of an old tiiveter from the East. that
his Mocha was not !Sochi, and the other!'
related below: .
Visiting meently the Commiesary Depart
ment of one of our large military boapitals,
we notioed fevers] barrels of dried coffee
grounds, tbspurpoin thereof excited our cart
enmity,. The polite Counnimery informed us
that they reeelred.tweive dollars et barrel for
the grounds,. end thus added materially to
the "Simh Fand.";But"what le it purchased
for?" we persisted, maid he, hesi
tatingly, "it is reormatised by the transform
ing hand of modern chemistry, and put up in
Dotted rapers; which are decorated with at
tractive labels and.highsounding names, and
sold at prices which create astonishment at
the /mall margin loft for Plea.
The Ale& of Charleston.
In addition to the news from Hi lton Read
given in our ditpStchea elsewhere, we copy
the following telegram from's late Richmond
paper
Causuceroa, May 6
The bombardment of Fort Sumter contin
ues with spirit. From Friday morning until
daft.. - On Saturday, 395 mortar shells were
thiown , st the fort from tho enemy's bat
teries.
This; tee Twelve
Oro was likewise kept up on
Sunday. Twelv e talons were thrown into the
city expilaturday and ten on Sunday. Sev
eral mire wessolui heavily laden, passed the
bar oullaturday, going southward. It is not
unlike(' that these may be a portion of rein
forcements for Partegut.
Strength ofl . Johnston 9 e Army
•
Referring to the strength of Johnston's
army the Cincinnati arsecuS remarks: There
has been an impreslionthist Johnsoaseas weak.
mid to re•enforoo Lee; and this impreeilen
is strengthenid by a report of a fight sokth
of Richmond; in *hick D. Rill was engaged.
Ile was with Johnion in she battle of Chatta
nooga. Our lorreSpondemtin Gen. Sherman's
army estimates Jpson's original force at
35,00. to this - be Mints Yolk's corps of
50,0.00 has been added; also 1.0,000' from
erbaricetox and other points south. If. these
intimates are correct, Gen. Sherman, with the
edrentsge of petition against him, =net
be expected to gala an cagy victory.
P 1011071071 or Bun firsts Hums&
Washington telegram or Tuesday sap : The
President 3as , nominated Col. //menden, of
the 300 arsine Aegiment, severely wounded
on.theited-Itiver .as Brigadier-General, and
was immediately iitahrined without reference.
General Andrew Jackson - Smith, who bore •
enmyienons part in the meant engagements
'on the lied Hirer, was nominated to-dayly
the president a' firjor•fieneral. It will be
sermiaberied that Gan. amith arrive the enemy
ali lilies , and hie nondent throughout display
e&the highert generalship, and hit aomina
ten Wen °mimed withontrefer
hadihetPresident indicated the vacancy to be
tnantii taazdance with the now imperative
rale of the Senate.,
now Bum' inwr.—An officer, direst
from Banks' army boo arrived In Cincinnati,
who reports that the entire loss in the Red
rimw, eatardSM, in men. was 4,600, killed,
wounded and mbming. Tho mismanagement
of oeratbms, he says, was not exaggerated
u. reports which have been published.
.The feeling to the army spinet Can. Banks
'mac vary strong. :There was no tenth in'the
xsport of a battle at Crute'zirer. Qin. Banks'
asmy has been reinforced, .and woo 4,000
titsonges - than 'hem it first advanced. • r
Or the Seth 'rat:, at RIR° Creek, Verttiont
r - • Jabas!Knapp, at the tender ego of 88, Ind
'Snertfid to Thankful Williams, who woo only
The aeons 'tows that,l7oretent is al
,Ottettortstlonai7 fr, population. It thit style
•;z,-;:;;;ninisifteyneralls to any entria, there can
limo surprise a., ahe beta tad by the-census,
ii t oca.=—Atdilaaa tiatti
Sooha Attila the sth ..lagt.;titaa that Gal.
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I.4aPiiiithanhclt:
THE DAILY - PITTSBURGH GAZETTE.
"REOONSTRUOTION•"
SPEECH OF
HON. THOMAS WILLIAMS,
OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Delivered in the flouts of Represents.
tivemon deturdny, April A 30,11104.
[CONCLUSION.]
And now let us inquire whether the for
eiture of the estates and property of the
traitors—of those who have been in arms
against cut—whether they consist of lands
or slaves, is required for these purposes.
If it be, there Is an end of the question.
I have no desire, individually, that any
thing shall be done for purposes of veng
eance only. "Pa vicar" is not the maxim
of a humane conqueror. "Parcae subjectia,
debalare type -rhos" is the rule by whion 1
would be governed. I wenld not exolude
the idea of mercy. I agree with the great
poet of human nature, that
"It become.
The throned monarch better than hie crown
And earthly power then ehowlikeet God's,
When merry lemons justice."
I am not clear, - however, as to the wisdnn
of a proclamatisn of amnesty in advance as
a mesente of pacification, without limits as
to time, and where submission 'after con
quest, and when it is no longer a virtue
but a necessity, is to be rewarded with the
same impunity as a voluntary return to do
ty before that time. But what is the of
fence, how much have we Buffered from It,
and how Is its recurrence to be prevented?
I think I may safely Bay that inman his
tory presents no parallel to this rebellion.
Since the revolt of the rebel angels there
has been no example of an insurrectid
to wanton, to wicked, so utterly causeless,
and so Indescribably ferocious and demon
iac se the present It wax not the eau° of
the oppression cf a Government whose
weight had borne heavily upon the people.
It was none of a violation of the fundamen
tal law. The object was not redrew, like
that of our Revolution, bat destruction. It
was a rebellion against the majority rule
for the purpose not of reforming, bpt of
overthrowing the Government. and ereots
mg upon its ruins another of an oligarchic
oast, whose corner-atone was property in 1 1
man. It was the product of a. system
which threw all the lendsef the South into
the bands of a few men. It involved an act
of aggravated treason against a humane,
paternal, and unoffending Government. It
boa been condnoted with a degree of tan
manity that has no example except in bar
barian wars. It has .involked to US an en-I
normone expenditure of money and of
blood. Its suppreision has become impos
eible without removing the Mlle of strife;
and disabling our, enemy by liberating his
slaves, and turning them against him. It
cannot be repaired. Thereisno reparetion
possible that would be commensurate with
the injury. Can you breathe new life into!
the bones that ornamentthe necks and fin
gers of southern dames, or bleadh unbur. I
led, without even the humble privilege of a
grave, on southern battlefields? Gan you:
reclotbe them with the comely vesture that
has been given to the vultures of the south
ern skies?, Who shall restore the shatter.
ed limb: tyo fill the vacant chair at the
family fireside; who give back the hut
band and the father, er dry the tears of the I .
widow and the o Than ? What trump but
that oLthe dread archangel, who gathers
the tribes of the earth for the last solemn
judgment, shall awaken the gallant dead
who elcep in bloody garments in their beds
of glory, from their deep repose? Mock
cot the grief that is unutterable by the Bug
gestion of indemnity or reparation. "Give
bock my legionel" was the passionate ex
elamation of the Roman Augustus, when a
enjft messenger brought to him the tiding.
of the slaughter of Varna and 'his brave
companions in the forests of Germany.
--Give me back my children!" is the wail
ing ory that will burst from the balm of
the American mother, who weeps like Ra
chel for her first born, by the waters of the
Merrimac and the Ohio—or mock me not
with the ides of ?operation. There is no
reparation for it, se there ozn be no pun
ishment, except in the divestiture of the
rights, and the seizure of the estates of the
guilty leaders. There is no security ex
cept in the distribution of the latter, and
the complete exorcism of the hell-born and
hell-deserving spirit that has wrought all
Elie world-wide ruin-
These things are necessary. Is there
anything in the law of nature to prevent
them? Gentlemen object that to seise the
inheritance would be to visit the sins of
the guilty upon the innocent. They plead
for the wife whose counsels have driven
the husband into rebellion. They weep
crocodile tears for the offspring who have
been taught to spit upon the flag of their
country, who are without title until the de
cease of a parent who may happen to die
intestate, and upon whom no law of nature,
but only the law which he has violated,
would in that cue have devolved the sue
cession. -The widow bed- the Children of
those, hoviever, who have fallen in the ef
fort to suppress this unholy rebellion have
no share in their sympathies. The chance,
of war may strip them of their ioherilanee,
but that makes no difference with them.
They take no account of the fact that Na
ture and Providence bare alike decreed
that the sins of the fathers, and even their
misfortunes, shall be visited upon their
children, and that law which autborlses
the sale of the estate Jar the debts 'of the
former has everywhere affirmed its justice.
The misfortunes of a northern mart and
his death in righteous battle at the hands
of a southern asettaein may reduce his off
spring to beggary. ill this ie right; but
to allow the family of a traitor who has
dealt a foul blow et the social elate, sod
stricken down all the sesurities of property,
Ito suffer, is regarded as a great iojoatice
rho felon-brood may run its plowshare
over the bone, of the loyal martyr, While
tote children are perhaps eating the bread
of charity in their northern homes, and it
is all right, because the former are the salt
of the earth; and a just punishment` ould
only exasperate theta inlets new-rebellion .
Let them rebel. A. jolt poverty will ren
der their efforts harmless, and by teaching
them the value and respectability °timber,
make' theta only wiser and bolter; men .
,
With my consent they shall never trample
open 'the relics of a northern soldier. 1
would carve out inheritances for his chil
dren upon the soil that his sword his ran
eoutedfatid his blood baptized and f. rill
iced. God's justice demands it, aid the
heart and conscience et the American peo
ple will say, Amen.
But gentlemen here insist that we Win
not subdue the revolted States, and sok
-triumphantly where there is an independ
ent Government with ten million' of pee.
pie, maintaining Itself for three year}, that
has ever been conquered? . What co they
mean by this language? Do they Intend
that we aluill not mangier them if they can
prevent it? Why do they insist on exag
gerating the numbers, anti prowess and re
sources of the enemy, end ignoiting the
facts'of history, to show that subjugation
Is impossible? Do they participate in the
feeling which they hare done so mach to
inspire, that one of this barbarian rabble
which claims to belong to the master , race,
and rejoices -to hear Itself called a Witte
of Cavaliers by degenerate spirits ea this
floor; IS equal to at least six Northren free-
Men with all the advantages of an mg...mind
od credit and a high civilisation? When
they, sailers, and any to the country, that
twenty-three millions of. white mos, with
four millions of blselui,all battling for liber
ty, and with these great in the
straggle, aro unable ,to..subdue -leis than
four millions of their one race, wilhoiat
audit or .resources, and `with no 'Maher
inspiration than' slavery,. they Mil the
People et the Nortbi by deigning elfaet
that tael signet worthy tp be free.. Bat,
what do they propose In view of these spirt
icarte;sopeasing them to be' rue? They Bay
that lAN with to preserve the Union, but
was ' infl ie not to be accomplished by
fighting for IL They to *at for
its restoration.,- Their areiln the
language of. l. pntlernatir -from- Indians,
sioneillittioti wan 4onciesaion.* ,,: well, the
former hallaiMa tried. under border State
I • i s
aatin!e parried tin; the rah for
PITTSBURGH. FRIDAY MOANING, MAY 13, 1864.
eighteen mental on the principle of doing
as little harm as possible to our enemy.
They have deolared, however, again and
nab, thatithey will onlyitreat on the:foot
ing of their entire independence. Negoci
ation admits the fact of secession, if not the
right, and Involves only the alternatives of
recognition or reconstruction munch terms
as they may choose to dictate. Do gentle.
men here propose to avoid ditenenthermen*,
and preserve the Union by going into the
Confederacy ? Is this the concession that
to to be the peace maker? No. Gentlemen
here may -.humble themselves to the dust,
and confess their unworthiness in the pres
ence of this superior race,
but they have
mistaken their masters, the people, if they
suppose that thy have any idea of falling
into the barefooted procession of mendi
cants which Is endeavoring to find its way
South, in order to kiss the black stone at
the Mecca of treason ' to which they tura
so reverentially in their epeeohes here
The people are high spirited if their sere-
ants are not. They know that if we have
not whipped the rebels it is Only because we
have taken counsel from the men who
thought we could not. They intend to clear
up this aspersion on their • manhood by
showing that they can not only eubjugate
the rebels in the South, but that they (can
do the same, if necessary, with their (can
In the North. They hove made
up their minds to chastise the self-abasing
thought out of those who have enterthined
it, and to preserve this Unions,. every ear
rifice, and woe to him who ventures to gets,
say their dealsioti.
But then there is a difference of blood,
which readers conquestond would, by the
same logic, render a harmonious reunion
impassible. Gentlemen on the other side
Lomat upon distinguishing, to their own
pdvantage, between. the North and South
is particular. They tell us that the
latter are a nation of Cavaliers, while we
are only Puritan', or Quakers, or Pennsyl
vania Dutch. Well, if it were true, and
they were twice as numerous as they are,
there is nothing in the facts of history to
warrant the servile reiteration here, of the
Richmond vaunt that they cannot be con
qnered, and will die in the last ditch, if
necessary. The little island of Great Br t•
'll4l holds in bondage the Celt of Ireland
and the hundred millions of India, while
the alautchou Tartar dominates over three
hundred and fifty millions of Chinese. Al
exander left the world as a legacy to his
generals, and the Ottoman still site upon
the Bosphorus, and sways his scepter over
the imperial city of the East. But it is
not true. Gentlemen on the other aide are
ea much out, I think, in their ethnology as
in their history. Thera is no distinction of
blood, and none of habit or opinion, except
•at which must prevail between a higher
civilisation and a lower one. If they mean
that the men who colonised the South were
a superior variety Of the same stook, they
speak in ignorance of the fact that the New
England Pilgrims were the very highest
and purest type of the genuine Englishman,
abandoning high social positions and corn
fortehle homes. in the quest of liberty in
he New 'World, while the coloalets of the
tooth were, with a few exceptions, a mot-
And miecellaneens herd of mere aiventura
au, some flying frog their creditors at
home, and alters rejected by the stomach
of the Old World, and vomited per fures up
on our shores. If they mean that - they are of
the class which believes in the divineright
of kings, in the ides of an exclusive caste,
and that free society Is a failure, then they
are perhaps right. But these opinions
were not imported by them. They are of
indigenous growth. They are the legtimate
offspring ;Otte institution which turns the
man into a chattel, and makes his the pro
perty of lie fellow. They are the results
of asocial system that ignores the ides of
Republican equality, and cannot possibly
exist, as it never yet has existed, in any
other than an essentially aristocratic State,
which it most necessarily engender, if it
does not find it ready-made. In this sense
of the word they are indeed a sort of W
eird Cavaliers—with this difference, how
ever—that the typo of the class was a pat-
tern of knightly fault, who honored and
worshipped his God, his lady, and his
king, white this, the counterfeit presenti
ment, is a sort of Jonathan Wild—bait
highw,ayinan and half footpad—rejoicing
in treason, murder, perjury, and robbery,
apd signalizing hie faith and gallantry by
lynching. Methodist preachers, selling or
burning negroes, or hunting them with
bloodhounds, and persecuting helpless and
uooffending Yankee school ma'am. Aod
yet thereto not a miserable sand•hiller to
the.Oarainas who does not claim, upon
Northern teilimony, such as we listen to
beret a lineal descent from the companions
of the Conqueror, and strut and swagger
,with an stir oven more lordly than the sans
'culotte Mesquite king, or the equally am
bitioui and pretentious native of the Gold
Cdast, Who, in complete destitution of all
nether integuments, buttons up his sup,
rite. man, and treads the deck of a man-of..
war in the regimentslaat of a British of
ficer:
There is one leo', I admit, and it is the I
only one, that does seem to indicate an
ethnological difference, and that is that
the newly invented Cavalier, like the,
Frenchman, suld the Spaniard; and the other
dark-skinned races of southern Europa.,,
Garnett readily with the Meek man as tl a
Teuton rarely does with either the black man
or any of the Ceitio tribes, whose politic', is
Daring generally the Individual mu, kn w
no Government without a king, as mar
religion knows no cherish without a Pape.
Tbe,,blood of those two great
manNowing side by aide in parallel cur•
rents for more than ;a thousand years to
Franca, has never intermingled, an.: the
exampleed the French and Spanietert.t
merits in Louisiana, Florida, and th' C
nouns, is eV . d nee that they do rot lo et •
mingle here, but that the Latin races,
like the Indian, are dying out ender the
&imbue of the paler Northman. I leave
the negro r however, and his place In pawn
and the social scale, to the eihnologiste,
like the gentleman from Ohlo, only &dein
log further rermarchee in this new and in -
tussling branch of petition' science. lam
not personally averse to these speculations
- do not know whether the question of poli•
Licet may not mum ont lent to be no more
than a question of ethnology. Bolting the
darker vices aside, I have been sometimes
tempted Le think that 4 could almost deter
mine a priori from, the .physlognomfcs
around ms here, the political complexions
of the teen to venom they respectivel Dv.
longed. Oa this hypothesis I should e
pnttho gentleman from Ohio Just whore I
and him.
I do not, however insist upon the fact
jest mentioned as conclusive upon the point
of coneanguinity, and am still willing to
confess, if their friends here will consider
it no disparagement to the chivalry, that
we belong to the samolamily. I would not
underrate the stnk,ellher in its courage or
oapahllities. They are just as good in that
respect as oursetves, and no better. That
we do not harmonize Is only attributable to
the institution that makee them fierce and
proud and barbarous; and haters of every.
thing that savors of democracy. Tale that
away, end we shall run together agate like
two globules of mercdry. Take that away,
and there never was a people more homo
geneous than ourselves, with the exception
of the one disturbing element, the Celtic
Irishman, who, with 'high courage ; and
I quick and generous Impulses, If he cannot
be absorbed—or, If gentlemen on the other
side prefer the etymological hybrid, ettlecg
I matte—will probahiy.be subdued into ha
its of repnblican,obedlonoe, under the in
struction et the Yankee schoolmaster.
Take that away, esed we shall have no ono
cause of discord loft-
Bather, however, than do this simple
thing—demanded as' well on grounds of
consistency as of seenrity--gentleman on
the other side, who admire the Cavalier and
dislike the Puritan, would prefer to treat
with the former at the expense br the lat-1
Hter. In the Cincinnati Conrentiou of
11853, e delegate frtjm Pennsylvania de.
d are d that Inoalla of 6ftepiration that Btate
wonli go with the Bouth, New York •was
entitled itriakiS thS'eame direetlen,;and
uPtinthOlogotArgs4l All-Senth wont out.
The programme was that Las pistilent'Pa•
ritan,•who wonld'ihialtanti Wit - at all sass
ar#ll, because he claimed It as his births
sight, mast iiiillided.;Mlefe WM:a°
Piseeitinny plan of zneonstruotion for bhp;
.„,
New England was to be left out in the cold.
Leave out . New England in the cold
Well, I am no Yankee. No drop of my
blood has ever filtered through that stra
tum of humanity. 1 claim, however, to be
a man. I think I love liberty above el
things. I know that' eon teepee:lod admire
Courage, and constancy, one high thought,
and heroic achievement, wherever I may
find them. I would not, quarrel with even
an overstrung philanthrophy. I eon al
ways excuse the errors that lee on the
side of vietna, sud find fanaticism much
more readily in that devil -worship of sla
very, that would be willing to esarifice not
only all New England, but even the Union
itself upon its horrid altars, than in those
noble 'spirits whose sin is only their coos. ,
sive love for Mao. I may speak therefore,
without prejudice.
Leave out New England in the cold I I
doubt whether •even this would chill her
brave heart, or quiet its tumultuous throb.
binge for humanity. Tbough.Do ardent
southern enn has quickened her pules, or
kindled her blood into lava, no frigid neu
trality has ever frosen her into atone,
when the interests of liberty appealed to
tier for protection. She has been ever faith
ful to the memory of the great ides which
brought her (mindere across the ocean, as
the only colony that landed In this re wly
discovered hemisphere upon any other er
rand than the search for go'd. I cane'
fcrgt t that it was this proscribed race that
inaugurated the Revolution, by forging in
their capital the thunderbolts that emote
tho.tyranny of England, and dyeing their
garments with its first blood upon tho com
mons of Lexington. Lease out New
England in the cold! You may look un-,
kindly upon her, but you cannot fret no her .
Into apathy any more than yod can pit
out the light of her eyes, el arrest the
missionary though t which eke haelatinebed
over a continent. It was not Now Eng•
land that stool shivering in cold indiffer•
cams when the boom of the first rebel griti
In Chatlestowil harbor thrilled along her
rock bound coast. Yoking no thought of
coat or consequences, she rushed down
like an avalanche, to avenge the insulted
flag of our fathers, and Massachusetts was
glorified by a eeconl baptism when the
blood of her eons dyed the paying-etones
of the city of Bellmore. I would it had
been my own great State, whose drum-bast
was the first that walled an 'echo in these
Halle,whice bat won the honor of that sao
riftoz. But it was not coo; d tined.
Mr. Kelley. With the permission of my
colleage I will remark that flee oompenier
of Penneyvania troops came trough Balti
more on the 14th of April, a (ley preceding
the appearance of the sixth Massachusetts
in that city, and the blood of some o' teem
woe shed, though not unto death, in the
streets of that city. Be niey therefore
truthfully claim that the first blood (died in
this war Was that of Pennsylvanians.
Mr. Steele. Allow me to say that th •
first blood shad was the blood of a negro
from my district who accompanied the fire,
companies that came here ler the defense
of the capital.
Mr. &eery. Yes, the first man that bled
in this war was a negro by the name of
Ntcholas Biddle, a constituent of my col
league. [Laughter ]
Mr. &rouse. I diet sly be woe a
esuetituent of mine.
Mr. Willtam+. L.3. , 10 et Massachusetts
is the cold' Whet tweeters it that no tropical
sun hos levered her northern blond into the I
delirium of treason f I know no trait of '
tendernees more touching and more humor
than that with which she received hack to
her arms the bodies of her lifeless children
"fondle them tenderly," was the esseu :
of her loyal Gavernor. Ma.elehusetts de
sired to look once sabre upon the floes of
her martyred eons, ' - marred es they were
by traitors." She lifted gently the sable
pall that covered them. She goon them a
soldier's burial and a seldier'e farewell;
and then, like David of old when he wt.
was informed that the child of he afteetione
had ceased to live, she roes to 'her feet
dashed the Dar-drop from her eye, end in
twenty days her iron-clad battalions were
crowning the heights, and her guns frown-
Ing , deetruct ion over the streets of the repel
city, Shut out Nlareachemette in the cold'
her. You may blot her nut from the map
of the continent: you may bring back the
glacial epoob, when the arctic ice-dritt that
lee deposited so many monuments on her
soil, swept over her buried surface—whet
'the poise bear, perhaps, pace! the di iring
lies, and the walrus frollcked among the
tumbling icebergs—but you cannot ein
her deep enough to drown the memory of
Lexington and Concord, or bury the tutu
unit of the tall column that lifts ite bead
over the first of our battle fields.. 'Werth
her,' in the language of her great son,
"the poet at least is secure" The muse of
!history has flung her story upon the
world a canvass, in tints that will not fade
and cannot die.
But while we are told by geetlen3en on
the other side that we cannot conquer the
South, wo are somewhat inconsistently
ohnrged in almost the tame breath With ti
desire to - protract the war for the purpose
of perpetuatittg our own power, and at ked
imperiously how long it is to continue, and
when and how It is to end. Ailey rue to
say in the first pleoe that the prolongation
of the war is not the means w etch a ration
al matt w mid/adopt to secure the ascend
ency of the Repoli:ice party. No ad nin.
istration in any free conntry has ever been
etrong enough to stand up eueoessfully in
Ito face of a long and expensive war, where
ri elm have proved Income usurate
with meant, and enormous armies that
wanted to fight, were compelled to stagnate
in inglorious repose. None has been strong
enough to carry on its shoulders mast'
such generale as the unready captale who
ie the Idol of the Democracy, or bloc who
was just half an hour too rate at Willlame
tort. No rebellion was ever put down by
hero,' of the Fabian err, or instrumental
ities like the spate. N o country is rich
enough to hold ouch 010.5101 of men inactive
for indefinite periods of time, and under
the commend of generals who fortify when
they ought to attack, and turn away when
ever the env my turn upon them If there
is anything I dread and deplore it is the
tenacity with which such men aro retain
ed after related failures. If there is,any
thing which gentlemen on the opposite
aide desire, it is to ere this struggle pro.
erected under the auspices of Justine lead
ers, who have invariably been their ettede
Sal favorites, until thepatience of the emu
try Is exhausted, and its creditentirely ru•
toed. I think I understand them. They
want no Grants or Butler.; but they know
that another McClellan will area them,with
the argamenf that a Republica* Adminis
(ration is inadequate to the time.. They
do net want this war to terminate Until
the next Prceldential election.
To the question, however, how long It Is
to continue, an apt response might read
ily bo found In the stormy exordium of tbo
Roman orator, when he drove the infamous
Catalina from the hall - of its august Ren
ate: "How long, 0 Welke, wilt thou abuse
oar patience? How longwill thy unbrid.
led audacity parade itself insullingly
bore?" That, however would savor too
much of the Yankee by separatingl ono
question with soother. Allow me, them, to
respond a little mote directly, that ittwill
continuo just so long as the interrogator
and his confederates hero and elsewhere,
shall °mittens sumsessfully to embarrass
the Government jolts proSeeution, add t 3
encourage protracted resistance by slaw.
anoes no often repeated on this floor; 'slid'
es eagerly caught up and reiterated by. the
rehel presses, teat lee cannot tempos ; the
bourgeois. The last hope of the rebels le
confessedly in the encomia of their preps.
thisere hero
But these gentlemen, the neutral, ofi the
border and the come; vation of the North—
Ardadiane,all--itive,l think,abontperfcirm.
ed their mission. They have done, nob the
Work they Intended, but the one theyre
been put upon by the great Ruler of nett na.
It was s bloody work, but it was, per k pa
A iteceariary. one. A blow struck stifle
heart of the rebellion at its. antilop is :MO
spirit of tho :proolamatiorke of- '
moat aod.• liaatar, would.: • Fallibly
•hare motto-. an end of it= for the
Gino bela6, while . It proser.oed. mate,:
Tbt."titnobrvitivii itatesmensifiriff ',mad
to pike the routo47,tatiloal Aka oafftii by
proloaginianailloposatingtholtrifei flda
intensifying and universalizing the very
partial abolition feeling of the
North. It was the voice of Jehovah
that spoke from the very throats of
these engines that burled their thfiant
missiles against our flag at Sumter, just as
the name voice thundered from the clouds
and darkness of Siani, when it promulgated
to the world the great law of hunmaity.
It was the groat proclamation of freedom
to the oppreesed—antecedieg that of the
President by nearly two years—that pealed
in the ears of the lordly chivalry, who held
high carnival no that memorable day on
the boulevards of Charleston. The light
that blazed from the muzzles of those guns
flashed 'over the Amerioen firmament with
a radiance like that which floated chaos, at
the fiat of Omnipo'ence, on the first morn
ing of creation. Thinking people saw it
and rejoiced. It was "the beginning of the
end' of the long agony under which this
nation had been sweating, as it were, great
drops of 'blood. The war had become a
necessity, which politicians were powerless
either to postpone or avert. Though no
abolitionist—(illthen—l saw it and rejoiced
along with them, I thanked Gad—au Ido
now—that by an sot of sublime justice,
such or the pen of inspiration had never
recorded, and the genie's:of the derma never
immeMed, Ile had put out the eyes of the
slaw-owner, and guided his own hands to
the pillars of the temple which protected
him; that Ile had made him drunk with
arrogance, and decreed a tranecendant
suicide, by making himself the Nemesis—
the instrument of the great work, which no
merely human agencies could have accom
pliehed Bet that work would have
been imperfect without more; and,
by on act of justice equally sublime,
Ile caled into the counsel the statesmen
of the border, along with the edvccetee of
human bondage in the North, and neutrality
and conversation stored bend In hand by
the bedside of the sufferer, helpteg it into
eternity, and nvetaklng all the while—like
the lzehrensmo and leg( Minus gentleman
from Indiana—in,,the inipulchral:g'oom of
that Mamber of mortaliy, the unburied
and of snsive corpse over which he still
sobs, for the image of a dead or dying
the border SMUT, If Kentucky es
pecially has euffsrod—as she is claimed to
have done—if her dwellings have been des
elated and her soil drenched with theblood
of her people, she Lee to thank her states
men, as we of the free States do for all the
sacrificee it has cost us to save the negro,
while we were throwing away the price
less jewels' of the North. I!, instated of a
neutrality which was only another name
for treason—which the law of Solon would
have deaounoed as the worst of crimes, and
the Scoot genus cf Dante would have gib
bstDod in immortal and withering verse—if,
instead of den) tug to the General Govern
ment, and even to her own citizens, the
privilege of orgatoizirg troops upon her
ehe bad tut opened Der arms to a de
limiter, a hiedred thousand northern bay
mots would have belud her round as with
ea wall of tire, and no hostile( foot would
have kit a mat k urea her roil. Shechose
the artier part. 94reran/2i flushed slowly
into the sickly and li•il h or, the pals, dims•
trues twilight of conservatism, and sat upon
her chest and ours until eller pulses were al
most bus)ied; and, as ea a eonsegeer.co of
a'l this, the bravest of teat FOOS have died
ignobly in the effort t, destroy the ijaion
of their fathers, and the most honoree' of
her names base guns dome in darkness
'among the oat e'ees nod undistinguished
and f eons .w steep in felons'
graves. ualenelied, uti.oMeei-"unwept, un
, honored, and tifilltlo9:-
Bat what is to he the end! Who double
It that trusts in Providence and knows
tact God lebast ? in the darkest hour of
our trial, when tho gallant bark that bears
our to-tun
,had disappeared among the
manuteita Sows that threatened to ingnif
it, nod llifs len ering aloads shrouded in
tasupdra/Plte - k :003 tee glorious conatells-
tion of our Oath , re—when oil monarchical
Europe slapped Its hands and sang petits
or Joy, as the ,eat Republic reeled and
staggered and, the felon blows that were
so treacherous y aimed at her life by the
bands of tier own unnatural children—l, for
one, never doubted or faltered. I knew
that its timbers eight be strained, and its
prow dip deeply in the trough of the tea,
bus I rend "rmi.garrs" on its keel. I had
a fatth that it must cc use up again, with
the old flag--that God-bleseed banner of our
fathers—ia pa of regenerated humanity
el rebid of hope to the nations—still flying
at r•s peak. tea only stain washed out, like
tee star that guided the magi ever the
plains of Bethlehem, to light the oppreesed
of the Old World to a knowledge of thair
rights and capabilities. If it might no per
muted to the great captain who conquered
the liberties of Rome, to say to the tremto
ling pilot, "Why fear you? lon carry
Claw," bow mush more may we—with snob
a freight as no weasel ever bore since the
ark of the patriarch rocked upon the heav
ing Odes of the deluge, or grounded upon
the lorry summits ot Ararat—say to tbh
trembling cowards who despair of the Re.
rotbllr, sett even yet nit down and ring,
their hands like women Over the imptseei
btlity of eavtug it, ' oye of little faith I
Up, if ye are Men A world's hopes are
&salted upon your mantrondl" Tea, there
is no throb of this great heart that does
net pulsate through the nations, as they
stand' at:gese, looking with suspended
breath, upon tee sway leg fortunes of this
Taint° struggle It is the great battle of
the spa. It is hums tit} , in its
last death wrestle with the powers; of des
potism. It is a narrow view of this con-
Lt 0•4257 to suppose It a question of freedom
to the negro only. The chain that binds
four millions of black men, and as many
whites bosh N 'rth and. South, reesollea not
only to for distant Africa, tat grasps in
' lit Iron links the men visit climes and eons
plosions, from the green island that hangs
at the'belt of Britain, to the gorges of the
snowy Caucasus-0,.n the ilindoo who
bathes in the Ganger to the Calmoek 'who
pastures his hooka ripen the steppes of Tare
I vary.
I trust we shall not either ignore or un
derrate our minion. We are in the midst
of a now exptriment upon the grandest
theatre that the world titer net. Ged has
113 Cushioned this country as to make it an
iodinoluble unit. What lie boa so joined
together, all the power' of earth and hell
cannot rend assunder. The man who
would comet to divide it onany.terms, is
like the false mother, who was willing to
take the mutilated half of the Child. The
indieldval who world treat for lie Sever
ance, or oven lend an embassy to those
who insist that nothing ehott of this will
I satisfy them—if an American—is a man 1
cannot comprehend. I do not claim soy
more natural sensibility than other men,
but when the dome of this Capitol firer
rose before me In the spring time of life, I
looked upon it with a feeling to which no
words of mine could give expression. It
woo not the colonel pile of masonry—it
was not the Dodo column, or the storied
architrave; or the frescoed wall, or the tee.
nista floor, or any of the 'wonders of
Grecian or Italian art, which the leatlos
years, have so multiplied around us. It
was' the great thought of the Union, embed
led-4t was the great fact of the Union,
Wealisedin stout; it was the starry ensign
that fluttered over these Hells where'the
nation's ileprceentatives were nseeMbled;
it was the reflection that there, under that
banner, in then sate, and hanging in
these galleries, were congregated the rep
rosentatitiemen of, half a continent—from
the Icy lakee of the North to the orange
groves of Lordeiana-.from the men vrho
hunted the moose en the hills of the Arooe
took, to those who fillowed the baffiio over
the great prairies of the West; men who
never met elsewhere, but were here eom
mingled in mann brotherhood, in deco.
lion to the one great Ides, for the dent.
epee:tont Of which this vast continent seems
. _
to hale been speciallY reserved,
Away with the jargon of art in enoh a
presence as thin! Blood, pulse, and heart
°enrolled the power of that overmastering
thought. wee is girt of the education of
the ical; and an I cube back now in the
usittrirrtyLof - licare,l te.ltike toy seat, in these
indis—tenlarged and beautified as theyhtive
b00n..-4nge of thp.flemaggiativeg of a
to ain , which diartai Our .41305.1), of
litaiteacinlsto tvighi that
Piglet bled, irblokstooPo - diro7Our bcad-7:'
e sea -eagle Xae IMO /14,
vicious perhaps at times—has swept within
almost a generation, with a pinion stronger
than that of the eagle of the Coasare, over
a region almost as wide as any that ever
owned their sway, while the establishments
of the Old World have paled with affright
at the rush of its mighty plumet—blood,
pulse, and heart slid recognize the sublime
idea that was responded to by the bounding
pales of boyhood. God of our fathers!
what an Inheritance for humanity, and
what a theatre for the sublimest of its de.
welopmeatii; and what a trust too for us
who have been eummoned hero in.the hour
of the nation's agony, to witness the new
birth that is to be the resomeation to a new
and better life! And who is the degen•
crate American in this great assemblage
that would even hold counsel with those
that would imagine its dismember.
meet 7 Who is it that in view
of the past fate of a'.l who have faltered
in the hour of the nation's trial, and of
the resistless current that is now drifting
the feeble and the fainthearted Into oblivi-
on, will be foolhardy enough to attempt to
stem that avalanche of opinion which has
Jost-swept down from the White Mountains
of New Hampshire, and will strew all the
other States with monuments of the public
wrath in the wreck, that it is making of the
antiwar party of the North? Thank God!
the dark hour has passed. The skirts of
this mighty storm are drawing off. The
fields that have been watered by its bloody
shower will roan be green again. We
shall come out of this war with a develop
ment of muscle and of manhood that will
shame our former degeneracy, and make
the world tremble as our power. We shall
hive passed the ordeal that was to try us
as a nation, when we shall have walked
the burning plowshare of mutation—as
we shall walk it—with our garments en.
singed, and demonstrated—as we ahallde
mons:rate—under trials that wall have
shaken down the proudest monarchies of
Europe,the intelligent, affectionate and un
wavering lo3alty of a self-governing peo
ple, and the sublime energy and indestruc
tible vitality of the republican idea. Our
Government will be no longer an experi
ment, but a fact of history; and we shall re
sume our no longer questionable rank
among the great Powers of the earth, as
first among our peers—the great Republic
of the Western Hemisphere, one and Indi
visible.
General iVadsworth
Brigadier General James Samuel Wads
worth, killed in the late bloody conflict at
Chancellorsville, was born at Genesee, New
York, Oat. 30th, 1807. He was °damned at
Harvard and Yale colleges, studied law at
Albany, and completed his course is the
office of Daniel Webster. In 1861 he was
appointed a Commissioner to the Peace Con
rention at Washington, and at the opening
of the war was one of the East to offer his
service, to the Government In April ho was
commissioned litsjer-General by Gov. Mor
gan, but the appointment was subsequently
revoked and the Commission withdrawn. In
Jane ho was appointed volunteer aid on the
personal staff of Gen. McDowell, was present
at the battle of Ball Run, and commended for
his bravery. He arts made Brigadier Gene:-
°robot volunteers August 9th, 1861, and wee
assigned top command in the advance tinder
McClellan. In March, 1862, he war appoint
ed military Governor of the district of Colara
biz, and with command of the defenseli at
Washington. In 1862 he was the candidate
of the Union party for Governor of New York,
but was defeated by Horatio Seymour. In
December following he was arsigned to a com
mand with Burnside and after the latter',
disaster at Fredericksburg, we believe was
out of active service. During 1863, he was
engaged in various commissions, and among
others went to Louisiana to Investigate the
cond:tion of the freedmen, and, as oar read
ers will remember, made an elaborate report
to the President. He also took a deep inter
est in the freedman', villages In Virginia and
South Carolina. 1:pon the reorganisation of
the Army of the Potomac by Goa. Grant, he
was assigned to a position, and in the advance
to Richmohd, gallantly died a soldier's death.
Gen. Wadsworth came from ono of the best
and moat unearned families in Now York,
and inherited from hie father and brother a
large fortune, to which he added largely by
! his energy sad industry. He was probably
i the wealthiest man in Now York out of the
city, and it is s.tid could walk from Genesee.
!to Rochester over his own soil. He was a
large sloth grower, and made immense im—
portations of cattle. But immediately upon
the fall of Sumter he abandoned wealth and a
beautiful home, and offered his services to
his country, and from that time until the
canvass in which he was engaged, we believe,
he never visited his home, but confined him
self ard4ously and devotedly to his duties.
He was a good man and a pare patriot, - and
dies without a stain upon his fair fame.
Gen. Butler . 4 Tells th. Story!,
Yesterday the telegraph made as attemp
to put us In possession of the following im
portant dispateh from Gen. Butler, but only
.neeseded in making out a fow sentences:
Wasaniarcur, Tuesday, May 10, L3O p.m.
Mai. Gen Der I forward a dispatch this
moment received from den. Butler. Ir Tetra
To■ Stony. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
IllanQraarces YUJI BIALUDA LANDING, I
May 9, 1864.
To Edwin M. Steno., Secretory of War:
Oor operation. may be summed up in a few
words
With 1,700 cavalry wo have advanced up the
Peninsula, forded the Chlekahemins, and
have safely brought them to oar present pbsi-
Von.
These were colorod cavalry, and are now
holding positions as our advance toward Rich
mond.
Gen. Kuntz, with 3,000 cavalry from Suffolk,
on the same day with our movement op the
James River, forced the Black water and burnt
the railroad bridge at Stony Creek, below Pe
toolbars, cutting in two Beanregard's forces
at that point.
We have landed bare, intrenched ourselves,
destroyed many miles of railroad, and got a
position which, with proper supplies, we can
bold out against the whole of Lee's army.. I
have ordered up the euppEoe. ' •
Beauregard, with a large portion of his
command was left south of the cutting of the
railroad by Gen. Kanto. That portion which
reached Petersburg under hill I have whipped
to-day, killing and wounding many, and
taking many prisoners, after a severe and well
contested fight.
Lient. Gen. Grunt will not be troubled with
any further reinforcements to Lee from Beau
regard's foroo. Bor. F. Bonne.
General Sed{rwlek
Major-General John Sedgwick, command
ing the gthth Corps of the Army of the Poto
mac, who was killed at Spottsylvanis Court
Hoene on Monday, was a native of Connecti
cut, and graduated at West Point in 1837. He
distinguished himself at Contreras and Che
ratatseo in the Mexican war. He was ap
pointed Brigadier-General of volunteers Au
gust 31, 1661. When Gen. Stone was arrested,
ho took charge of his command on the Upper
Potomac. During the Peninsula campaign
ho led a division of the 131 Army Corps. Ile
was commissioned a Mejor.Ganeral of volun
teers July 4th, 1864. He was seriously
wounded and carried eff the field at Antietam,
end on his recovery in December wits assigned
to the commend of the Sixth Army Corps,
formerly Burnside's. At the battle of Chan
cellorville he captured the heights of Frod
ariokebtirg, hot was afterwards compelled to
retreat across the river with heavy loss. In
the late re-organisation of the Army of the
Potomac, he was assigned to the command of
the Sixth Corps.
General Webb.
Brigadier General Alex. B. Webb, who wit
killed in Thursday', battle ' was the youngest
eon of General J. Watson Webb, Minister to
Brand. He graduated at West Point in 1855,
entered the army as meoond.lientenant of the
Eighth Artillery, and drat Ban Berries
in Texas. His rank in the. regular army'
was captain In the 11th regiment of in
fantry. 11q was also acting Inspeator•Oen
oral, under the sit of July 17, 1872. Ha was
commissioned brigadier general about a year
ago, and distinguished himself at the battle of
Gettysburg. At the time of hie death he
commanded a division under Gen. Warren.
A TILLTILLING Bierosnas.—Under the Im
mediate superintendence of A. M. Zevaley, a
travelling pastoMee has been ostablhihed be.
tween New Tork and Witakington, on the
Hue of the New Jersey Tr:impartation,
Plated:aphis and Baltimore . and Baltimore
and Ohla Companies, which promises to fa
&UAW We work of distributlng maU matter
destined for plams diverginfromlifew York,
Philadelphia! Baltimore and. Washington.
The fret car to be wed
at Jersey - City -on, Tuesday: It is 40 feet
long,: and Attila np with boxes L pottehesabagt,
• 04 0 7 1 E 7 . Titoof or 54b." 11 ; abk/clit
=AU Feet wide, dettignea for thefame am
115v go nearly topripit, and will :1#
goidlnisii.ittajnik: •
VOLUME LXXVII-410. 1534
ZTLEGRS.
FROM THE POTOMAO ARMY.
The Enemy Fortifying their Po
sition During Tuesday Night.
SITUATION WEDNESDAY AFTEn NOON.
The Success of Sherman and Butler
Announced to the Troops.
GREAT EXCITEMENT AND ENTIIIISIASI
THE.WORK GOES BRAVELY ON I
The Battle of Wednesday
GENERAL ASSAULT AT SEYRR O'CLOCK
Most Magnificent and Terrible of
the War!
OUR FORCES VICTORS ON EVERY SIDE.
Advance of Our Army ! I
THE BLOODY WORE OF 7L'ESDAI
Butler's Movement South of Richmond.
Nun Yoac, blay 11.—The Eferssfel's speeial
says that on Tuesday Gibbons' and Barlow's
divisions were withdrawn from the south bank
of the Po, the latter division closely followed
by the enemy, who wore chocked by our ar
tillery posted along the ridge commanding
the river. Early in the day the whole army
began to be straightened into line of battle
and renewed the engagement. Skirmishing
was kept up during this time between the ad
vanced lines Of the two armies, the enemy
bestirring himself as though he Intended of
fensive operations. Our lino was formed with
the Second corps on the right, the Fifth in
the centre and Sixth on the left, with Burn
side'a corps in the rear of our loft for the pro
tection of oar immense trains and to act as a
reserve in any emergency. The country here
is quite rolling, with studded groves, pine and
hard wood, and affording much better !scin
tilla for handling troops and using artillery
than about the Wilderness. The enemy, dur
ing the night, strengthened his fotguidable
position with ride pits,' breastworks, hurl
oades, ace., rendering it stronger, than any
line of defence occupied by ham sines leaving
his earthworks on the Rapidan.
Thus matters stood until far into the after
noon when the fighting became quite sharp at
intervalsat different points but without any
thing definite. Five o'clock was fixed for a
grand 113113111 t.
General order,. announcing , the enemies of
Sherman In the West and Butler on the James
river were read to the troops, producing the
wildest excitement, and as the hour ap
proached for an attack the enthusiasm of the
troops became almost ungovernable.
Grant was surrounded by his staff; Meade,
Hancock and Warren, all stationed on twin
eaoea within sight of cash other, while the
great columns of our army gathered together
for a great straggle.
J., as the attack was about to be made,
the enemy advanced on our right, threatening
to press back that portion of the line, dis
continuing for a time our plan of attack.
Troop' were hurried to support the right, but
Barlow sucmeded is checking the rebels,
sending back such reinforcements with word
that he bad enough and some to spare.
The most determined and persistent effort
which hue been made ever sines the com
mencement of the war, was made in the fight
in this locality to turn our right. Charge as
ter charge was made by the epemy on our
right with form columns. Our men repulsed
each charge valiantly. At length the sth
corps drove the enemy, compelling him to fall
back into his third line of defenses.
The effect of this repulse was apparent.
Tho rebel dead at points lay plied in heaps.
One of these gallant charges was made by the
brave General Rica at the bead of his column
as he has been in every fight Busy in the
midst of this terrible confildt was General
Warren. .4o rode upend down Ms lines di
recting the movements regardless of thufly
ing shells and bullets. Another horse was
shot under him, the third within the last tour
days:.
We made a general assault at 7 o'clock.
It was the most magnificent and terrible
one of the war. The batteries, through the
cutting down of some trees, were placed in
very advantageous positions, as likewise the
batteries of other corps. Simultaneously these
cannon hurled their murderous missiles into
the ranks of the enemy, accompanied by •
general volley of musketry,end froDi this
hoar till dark the comber deafened. Right
left um victors on every tide.
Oar lines now advanced, and we had taco
more prisoneri than we had lost, but it has
been another expensive victory. Our losses
are heavy, but believed that of the enemy
far exceeds ours.
Ids expected the battle will he resumed this
morning. Our troops are still in genii spirit,
and there is no give way to them.
W•somoroa, May 11.—L special to the
Times says that a distinguished officer who
loft Grant in the saddle at 10 o'clock this
morning, SUM up the bloody work of yester
day thin : The battle opened all along the
LSIIVIASOL'I corps, under Rill, held
the rebel right resting about.9o miles north
east of Spottsylvanla and Grant nitted Barn
side's 9th Corpsagainetit. Ma givenmommt
ink the afternoon Burnside precipitated his
entire command, except colored troops, upon
the rebels' right, driving and completely
crumbing It, and captaring three rebel bri
gades and four pieces of cannot. Tho. fight
continued with a ferocity never before wit
nessed until tine o'clock, and night closed
upon the bloodiest field produced in this war.
The loose, on both sides are stated to be
very large.
Of the rebel brigades captured some escaped
during the awful carnage which followed, tut
1,200 of the captured were sent to the rear.
This morning oar informant talked with some
of them before leaving to-day, and acknowl
edge that they had been in ovary principal
battle of the war, but never experienced such
terrific fighting.
The battle ceased At 9 o'clock, our line
having advanced. Bufnside occupied at the
end "of the milky the entrenchments held
by angstreet's force at the beginning this
morning.
The fight was not renewed apto ten o'clock,
at which time Burnside held, his position.
Lee's army was thiecontracted Into a sort af
horse-shoe in and about the town of Spottle
sylvsnie. C01:111. MOWS. -
Gen. Stevenson is killed.
Butler's movements south of Richmond
have been felt and appreciated.
WASHINGTON May 11.,Daring the Las:
twenty-hours *about 7,000 men from the army
of thaPotomae, wounded Tinirsday and Fri.
day, arrived here. Comparatively few of
them are suffering severely from injuries, and
many will soon bo returned to the army.
Aecougts from the Arad of the Potomac
concur that there was heavy fighting pater
day, and about live o'clock in the afternoon
an attackwu made upon the rebel, batteries.
It is stated that after the tumult continued Jam it i Zasl . l23.l_, 144 102 7
a rrlay. p, erns
for some time, and it was totted that the rebel 4 0 r t Et,....,,,,,. . i... n n a t i a..D'%,.. , ,,=
re
batteries Could not be without probe- J , „ o , k , x., ~,,, 5G5t ... 4 ),.. 16.. ,
bly a great sacrifice of life, theoffoxt. for the ..1 Ptlatden.i. land las B Mortar, 7. tbet..
time was abandoned. • ! ! Corp/ I. ilorafi, leg " Geo II Mountain, E..diell,
It is reported bete tbh morning that Oen. tlU_ 3
foot
11-.1 J.A,lltbddon.B.aboelder Jolutyytey,p,reg. :,,.,..
oral Warren wag woundsd yesterday and d ,-, . ,rohn Mauer, B. shedder . 7 P dilio.we. W, . ' _linter
l on the way to Fredericksburg. The rumor ill li.i • . sio r a ts.a
repeated to-eight unil Igen. era)) believed.. _ , WmQueen,O, shoulder RI Saco, P, jam,
The fighting yesterdaylafternoon Is said.td Corporal J Cansgba„l6, Albert
Der,
have;been very severe, as heavy attilleryw . as .1., t i plus , .. me. . ~ lobed Ilene, 11, himd
Ist Mut/Lye', I,thighs
brought lute action on both sides. The' result, If pi . . ; kT, :r. b ar d , - . gab ' -. . 'l.'.
so far as known this forenoon, was talons ad- i t c,,,i, Nut s ...te es _ ID Beal h. Lana ~..,, .
'vantage. The retell to get
, n the L J Breousa, 0, leg Corporal ll W Willorg, It,
rear of our
,iiiny to obteli — eupplies but aunts eilwother, lading. ....coed - ' : - , : ~...
were driven or with does. - vioung vie to- 11 ii , eieeedid. Fs leg
.:Lat i ar leen:T. aim
r or .. r rho kdlowing wen we n ongespweent of
newed to-day. ~„„- . th• 7th Inst., while ataUng the renewed tOterests,
- Wsentsorog, Pl a yl2.:--Gelittemen prate!. Inch and Lad Petersburg. They we ft sansto the
handy oonneoted with the GoVernitient: are lifedelli ' :,' n General EgiPt!al. trOM City .Poing ' , au the.
In good spirits to-day haview Of sweentritotp.: ash instant: — • . • .
~,t,
. as Irate" 7th ' • - ' L W.Thomse Rath
matte. Other norromenta are! in - Progrtf.e. r , a... 7 7o s a , , , N a ku. sem _
whichwill soon_be publicly developedifera - Kura este - • • mites,/ ewe 'l -
Lug pad of :the moral • plan looking to aMs. ithtml 76th . , ', - • '. tgthattblBth
-1
mi. , , . . . , , .
~ • . -.. , LE Marks 7601 a stoat** vuir:::.
Batiside sent . word to I Ils ' Sri - aide' la 3 D P"ilinn 76th '''' • w li'llieZilleuliith'L
...._ . W 8 Wang 76tti . .::: k SentL V trrini 1(4.1 - ..
Washington that eferiielag . tooked,eerl fa. Pi? IV aducts Testa' ' - . T Utaitgotreny 7Cgs.',
torable and hapeiht , - ' , ' -
,- " ' . t__.- -JW. EL Toots nth-. Charles Cala k* --;
`Tbii 21tibeare'specid Uys that Buinslde 1141- D Johnston 7601 , ; - el trar.ketaah link
meal to ' Stitaeleatia Coot - . Moe that D B4D*lllll6llt ' % ,:, : ' - J'Llablelath,,, , •, ~,',....,
toralag; Orly l the - rebels ` hereto blat, and t ite n e tr i f t rit -,-.,:,. Veteneneettn
1
toll - holdgtherplage. alare'll'rrebel , litifinatb 'Mutt nth::: , .i -,. ",. 1. Z I Z T II k I-
TAD area t„ - was. oalteried by charge of the p Rho lu i -,,'- ' I I am . 650. fit:-
Vermont nrigndet trot goad,' halt of um mnozotiss Tom' -;--- ritoodisouliaiti - )...`:
dumped. , -,- - 1i . 1 , ,,/ ir . : : :- , te.:-.-j.,u 7 Vf i D.Aaprll9llk ., IF afklipleViqpi i; : _ , _
.
. .
FROM CAIRO AND 'IIO3LOW.
Death:woo of Three Govern•
meat Transport&
GM BANES STILL A T A.LIIMANDBIA.
Reported Fedoras succ^ssa DOUR.
and Jar:sun, reps,
GENERAL STEEL FORMIINEI LITTLE ROSNAM,
Canso, May-H.—The dispatehlmat genes' al
Lyon, from below, reports that on the Blithe
transports City Belle, Berms and 'Warm in
passing a b Atm, twelve miles below Alma' ..
aria, were Iced upon and destroyed: The &a
bout Signal was also destroyed
and the gunboat Covington set on An to pe
rmit her from falling into the hands alb*
rebels. This battery composed thtirans esp.
tired from Banks.
Gen.. Banks remains at Alexandria and b
strong enough to zealot any attack that XfiacP
be made upon him,
Daring the fight above Alexandria, wfani
the gunboat Juliet was destroyed, the Crielintw,
Admiral Porter', boat, stunted severely, Vento
engineers being killed and many of the etas,
wounded.
Forrest, Chalmers, Roddy and Lee are aid
to two at Taspido ' where they ware to hats •
grand review onEatarday bat
An escaped Federal sanity officer reptile
a Federal mow at Jackson- and Barer
Tenn.
The steamer Belli of Memphis arrited
from Memphis with 104 bales of eatedm
steamer Commercial had arrived atidertiplis
from Little Rock with 917 babes of cotters.
Steele*. forces were actively engaged fortify
ing the town. All was quiet on the'Arken
!as river. The rebel attain had gone fithh 6
direction of PoM Smith. It ta rumored tut
they had taken Dardanellebit mill town
below Fort Smith.. •
Ile said the rebels did not carry Ott *di
system of slaughter of colored troops et .the
battle of Saline river, bet took many of ;the
wounded, dressed their wounds and sent et
flag of truce to Steele fir an exchange. no
reason assigned for this L great. - Darthrthe
whole of Steele's campaign be took no
ere in the vicinity of the Bite •
Eight hundred bales cotton were sold. at
Memphis on Saturday; 600 tutu bro)g , b).
71c. the remainder 74Q75. Total—reco ts
for Le week, 3,176 bales • shipments, 2 0;
middling to strict middling, 72@73;
71@76; fair; 77@79.
CAIRN May 11.—The;Silver Moan, tiom
Memphis for Cincinnati passed bare last
night with 1,07 T bales of cotton. The St; Pat
rick passed up with 700 bales for Eiansvipa.
Goa. Canby and gaff arrived this amain
on route to his command.
It le reported the rebels boarded theeteeiner
Emma on Red Rite; forted the crew ttqlte
hold, and then set lire to the boat. Thstre
port is not vouched for.
On Saturday night a email band'ef
gaeatll
las passed between the camp and the . picket
post of the expedition sent out: brOse 'Wird
Prince from Golembus, Ky., =ler OoL Me V*,
encamped near Mayfield, and captured:
entire picket past without our forme' seOng
them.
•
Maur= ' May 10.—Advices from Vigini
burg state that an - expedition left there far
Yazoo City, with a large force, and an catnip
meat was antielpated. Forrest`haa
South. Starves was unable to cam tip prith
hint.
THE CAMPAIGN IN GEORGIA.
The Rebels Driven Baek•
EVERYTHING MOST SATISFACTORY.
Timms link, Gs., May IL—olitar Isters
skirmishing, in width ell the Corps perlicd
paled, the enemy ware driven back to Roolizt e
Ridge end Brassard Bout Menntaln, lGom •
whleh we are fait expelling them. r.
Everything is going on In a most . tatlntao.
tory way. > D. Ctrxwatexew.
Latest From Europe.
HALITAX, May 12.—Ths steamer Mau,
from Liverpool on the Seth and QueonstOn
on ilia lit, has arrirod.
The Danes had evacuated Frederti .and
withdrawn to 'Punta Island. A
Liverpooi, April 30.—Brealstalls irm; tiro•
visions quiet arid steady ; prodaeO q%detrisid
steady; cotton buoyant, with 1131 . adninang
tondenoy ; consols, .91Y.591%; Minot; Cen
tral,
224.20 discount; Brie, 62164;
loan kg' advaneed.
Sigel's Fortes.
BIIT/ALO, May 12.—N0 oonflrittatle .
been movies& here of the roman of. Oen.
Sigel's having formed a janotten with pens
Grant-
woutdei Penn*.
AddlUanal LLsto of
TY* following addil
Pennsylvania= =We j'
Armstrong A. 139th
Armstrong A 1511th, leg
Brialy Dan 614, Jaw
Bowman Joseph 71at •
Darks Col Mid
Boyer S 72d
Bane Col 704
Bwegle John 110th, shoal
Boyer 15 72d, stomach
Boons A' It 110th, arm
Biggins Jno 05th, arm
firmly Bata Glut •
Conn 8 061st. shoulder
Ours= D 119th,hand -
Cooper W A 119th
o. oos iu l beri D early
1.2
Craig Joall9th, knee
Goshen 81150, foot
Caton Banta, 1134 arm.
Clark Jae9l.st, shorlder
Cooper Corp I, Until, arm
Davis A Gbh, wrist
Datemanl3 145th
Diokle A 1491
Dawson Copt alst, leg
.Don vey negan Jar Nth,
i ha= ger
D oek O
ark M 67
954 h, An W
, th head .
End,yaith, Anger .
Elliott Tim lird, leg
Ellett Robt 119th, scalp
tick Charles 96th, leg
Mk Joseph 30th, hind
Egger B U. U3o,llnger
.Eceren Bent 13 8924,arm
Ereedman Morris, 150th,,
'Farley Dash Glet,ltaew
Ilya J Id 119th, Imes
Wither W 0119th, knee
Fry Reuben 112th, arm
fludgar Jonas, Bath
Gump Henry 91st, knee
Gifford Adjt 106th, arm
goal Hcoley D 7th hands i
slightly.
Joseph Budd 1709thright
arm flesh:
Taws Arm. 1100th nark
flesh.
John - Elm= B. 00th leg
flesh.
Henry Bane.= 100th.
/et Bat QM W Claudenin
1411 arm amputated.
Louis rfsla 143.1 gager
GeortreCooper Bllth chat
died.
Walt. Hoffman UN anklo
Geo U Ludwig Ilthlthee.
David Bowan nth Odin'
James Bunter B 1160
breast flesh. -' •
Richard/ ParkerDlooo
Anger flesh
Baker Chealine, D 105170
hand
Steele A, nth
Stratum! Cap:, 724 -
gooddy natal, alth
Older Benner, 67t13 -
nydlth Irwin, Gist thigh
Steward Dag 61st, rein
tionneteJ,
_ssd, wide •
Wooditard Wm, 61st.
anal Mt of m'on'ad
,
rot bean method: ..--
Geer Dwight 111.0, 40 •
Galtua Brie J 4.19-11, - Isic
Guineas Yu SW, hip, -
Gifford A /1.119 th; Lost '
Ha John lel
llellinp Ism P With -=
lltuoy Ma elst;grol7
Harper illgtossch -
Holosttar ritsdlusj; iSth
Baba; I( Usll4 sum
Noobs Obis 14.51, UM
Hoff 11 TIDOS Ilfrulas
IltdmatiDsul UM; lag
Heuer Ph111.1y4170,4wil
Ileiratsliihrt =ir= •
Holbroyd Jos
, 117th, ' . Uns
J :los ah rl - 9911,..gc5is
=!Urdu 14.11- , .
11.7 th- hank i
Kockinspedirar Lt Got Mt '
LorbYJ /3 119th,g0giOd'r
Lair Goo 119th, lusid;
Lytiell JuGlititalk:
Lockhart CYO .12d -, .;
Lositt Lt G 0 U9lll,Oses. Ni
Lutts 0110 Kallgt..autk
Caddy Andrins,tat With
kleasltssi IL 111th,Ilsolt
11111sr.J LS 105th,, wirers
PlcDslde SSA ~-
narks Autos Mgt, 7lst
ON&
Iliirths Qua Gist, r slismil
IdurryJos 61stilitglsi
Users JscohllYth.4oll -111c11sughtetiJuoirlOSth
ktellorton .1 Vr.l.os7l;sdck
ilMarjou Militias/A •
Itsthigust 11.011411,thigh
McGowan SIMI, hot
Moore .1 95th olds - :- . _!l
McKinley J W-F; szdis
Nicholas :as 119th,Syssat
Wes JcsirPli. GSM ail!
'Patois Geo ma tarts,
Pyles Iwo 111711 lag:
Parley Joko
_MOW both ---
hs-
Pr ildd im:ton E 13711..budt: •
Piper 7 9.5 th scalp ,'. •
Solsinuon TO Grist Iris
BoosattsWts 110th thumb
llobtru I 8119th .•
Itaisshor/P /12th seals • i •
Roberts J pt a cob79 Gist &lin
• Lios °ad -r ~
illgsloas Leos 11.9ththiTh
Sham 0 W,9701 shoulder.
ssolsorg 7red.l39th bush
shows kfl 67th she:Wm
Trauma. Hurls 15th
Taylor J L SUS sasoc:-.
Ulm. M' 13th bawd'
Yes Bell. B. looth`-: foot •
slightly. "
ViresHashboa 1r Ott Ned
Watt Wm,. 115th, iladp
Wirsuutis 0 11,119th,lous/1
Wright Gayt, ST- '' • ;., , -...
i i i v l:l=ll9.s . th, th i p h, i ..
WlTartuusGTikat i lhoig'
Whittaker Ospr, -. F •
Wissessr.l 11, llthi, trait ' •
Wallow ?ref 934,Strofri
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