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BY JOHN W. FORNEY. •
F rice, No.lll SOETE.VOSRTH STREET.
PE..DAILY PRESS,
TTIRLTS ORNTS PEA WISK, payable to the Carrier.
Mailed to Subscribers out of the City at Six Cottage
Paf Amapa, Boo■ DOLLARS TOR EIGHT MONTHS,
TERRI DOLLARS TOR Six Mouna—invariably In ad
vance for the time ordered.
THE TAI-WEEKLY TRESS,
Nailed to Subscribers out of the (Sty at TIIRIIi DOIL ,
7rias Pia Assam, in &dram*.
.SUMMER RESORTS.
O,"MON - BPRIN OAMI3RIA*
00IINTY, PA.—This delightful and popular place
.of .miner resort, located directly on the line of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, on the 'aummit of the Allegimmy
Blouutaine, twenty-three huldred foot above Miff:old Of
the ocean, will be open for guests from the 10th a Awe
till the 10th of October. Since lays omen the groan&
they. been greatly improved and he tilled, and a totOO!
fiber of Cottages have beeu erected for the SCCOMIISC44
'Lion of families, rendering Cresson one of -the moot
romantic and attractive places to the State. The - fund•
dare le being tbotongUly renovated. The seeker' of
Amnon and the sufferer from beat and di.eate will dal
Attractions here ip a Brat-clam Livery Stable, Billiard
'Tables, Tenpin Alleys, Bathe, Ac., together with the
epureet strand water, end the most magnificent mountain
~ceoery to be found in the country.
•Tieicete good for the round .trip from Philadelphia,
187.60 t. from Pittebarg, 83.0 t.
For farther information, address
G. W. MULLIN,
Creosol Springs, (lambria co.. Pa
"BEDFORD SPRINGS. A. G. AL.
LEN.respootfully informs the sahib, that this cola
tbtated and !fashionable WATERING PLACE is now
room and telly prepared for the recetoino of visitors,
rand will be kept open until the Ist of October.
Persona wishing 'Redford Mineral Water will be sop.
*plied at the following prices at the
For a barrel (oak) IP 00
bar-barrel o 2 00
Parties wishing rooms or auy Information in regard to
the place wiU address the "Bedford Mineral haring%
•Company." my2il.dw
STAR HOTEL, - '
(Nearly opposite the trotted gtates Hotel ' )
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
SAMUZD ADAMS, Proprietor.
Winner 60 note.
Aho, Carriages to Blre.
I Bearden accommodated on the most reasonable
terms. • . je2o.2m
i fIOLUMBIA HOUSE.
ATL&IPTIO OITY.
SITUATED ON KENTUCKY AVENUE,
Oppoette the Bud Homo.
I TOMB to nit the times.
1i1204111 .. ,EDWARD DOYLE, Proprietor
QEA-SIDB }LOUSE, ATI.A.N T I
mi OUT, N. J.
BY DAVID WATT ICI/GOOD.
A NEW PEILVATS 130 &RD MO BOOS It, beautiful.
Q) situated at the foot of Pennsylvania Avenue.
-Now open for visitors for the season. j.20-=m
MANSION ROUSE,
ATLANTIC CITY.
This Horse having been thoroughly renovated and en
d urged, is new open for permanent and transfeet boarders.
The JR aNhION HOUSE is coneenie,t to depot. churches.
nod )eet office. The bwhlng grounds we an+urpatleed
en the Island. The Bar is conducted by Kr. E MEL, of,
hiledelphle, who will keep euperlor wined, liquors. and
choice brands of cigars. je2o-2m
EAGI L E HOTEL, ATLANTIC
orrt, - is now open, with a
LARGE ADDITION OF ROOKS.
Beard El per week, bathing dresses iacludel. jeo3.2m
ifIOTTAGE RETRE 9AT ATLANTIC
CITY, is now open and ready for 'Boarders. A few
mhoice Rooms can be obtainwt by enPlsion soon. The
'Proprietor furnishes his table with fresh 'milk from Ida
cows, and troali vegetal:dm from hi. farm.
Also, about four hundred dearisble Cottage and 'Hotel
Tots for side Di' ed. Mel IGEES,
Je.20.2m Proprioter.
•
ci TIME ALHAMBRA," ATLANTIC
01TY. ,1 N. J., - aaplendld new home, southwest
corner of ATLANTIO and al&liSatMilSßT rs Avennee,
will he open for visitors on and after Jurie29th. Thermal/I
and table of 6 , The Alhambra" are unsurpassed by any
on thelsland. There to a spacious Ice ()ream and Re
freshment Saloon attached tithe home. Tonna moderate.
C. DUBOI3 a B. J. YOUNG,
Proprietors.
IGITIT-JIOIIBE COT'rAGEJ, AT
4L. LANTIO ClTY.—This well-known Mateo, having
teen enittrgrd and renovated, Is now opou for the recep
tion of guest.. Invalids can be aocomrnedsted with
rooms on the fires floor, fronting the ocean. Light-
House Cottage pommies' the advantage of being the
nearest house to the beach. A conounatlon of the pa
tronage of his friends and the publm Is solicited. No bar.
Je2l-1m JONAH woortorr, Proprietor.
BEDLOE , I3: . HOTEL, ATL ANTI°
CITY, N. J—At the terminus of the railroad, on
the lett, beyond the depot This Howse Is now open for
hoarders and Transicnt 'Visitor., and oilers accommoda
itierle Ktilg 10 any Hotel in Atl4ntie City. Charges mo.
dirate. Children and servants halt price. •
OW' Partite should keep their state tudil the cars ar
c-Ivo int rout of the hotel. ie2.o-2m
CHESTER -COUNTY HOUSE.—This
privet° Boarding collier of YORK and
PAOITIO Avenue, Atlatitle City. convenient to the
furach, with a beautiful view of the Ocean, is now open
for the 1181110)11. The accommodations are equal to any
°others on •the ;Island. Prices modermtm
je2A 2m J. K RT 51, 'Proprietor.
jrCENTUCKY HOUSL, ATLANTIC
CITY, N. J —This comrortible and convenient
MAN house, located on HE NT Lila Y Avenue, opposite
the Surf House, oue square from rho beet cathing on Cue
beach, has been fitted up fur visitors this moon.
F. QUlttfeasY, Proprietor.
N. D.—Harem and Carriages to Rite. jo70•lm
Q.EA BATBIN:G.—Ab The • tilareadon,"
voidniti, Vises% :Nothee,j.Vl COIN a. Ai SNOT
ATLANTIC
of.
TM Haw Is *naiad imaaMstelr on the
13 each, aid Luc - oven room affords a line slew of the -
ta. . 1[142, 04,0] &MICS JNNKISS, B. D. •
ODA B AT ifiN 4.- U N 1.1141 D STATES
47 MOTEL, LONE) BRANOK, N J., is now open,
altusted.only, fifty yards from the seashore, central of the
place; house fi =Dug the oesan 500 feet; two hours
from New York. Steamer leaves Burro ) street twice
daily, SA. M. and 4P. M. thence by the R. end D. B.
Builroad. Addi esti B. A. 511 )1111AKER.
Communioutiun from' Philadelphia Is by the pawl=
4and Amboy Railroad, by U... A. 11. trod 2P. 11 traini.
iel9-3m*
B ALL, A'CJAA.NTIO
CONORI
U. W. HINKLE, the proprietor of the
'llnittd St.ces throe years ago.
g i e Iralltha been put into complete order and grealy
irrnon d. A new alike, billiard saloon, barroom, and.
13 , th , bo ß vi are most excellently arranged and aptly ap—
vropri.set for their respective uses. (Milgrim Roll 111
cow ii nearest house to the roiling surf on the smooth
°
r i.un of the level beach.
Ile subscriber avails himself of the present oppor
tunity to return his thanks to his former patrons of the
pot*" BM respectfully tow leave to say to all that
s) will be happy to meet its m at Roogross Hall, ON
/OFD AFTER JUNE 21st Instant, at which time he
wtlll Le ready to accommodate the public.
G. TV 11(NIELE, Lessee.
'QEA li ATHING.--llongress Hall,
t ,Long Branab, New Jr.,. it Dow open for the
reception of visitot 1. Persons wishing to =sage rooms
will please address WOOLDIAN BrUS69,
AielB.l9t . . Proprietor.
SHOUSE,. ATL&NTIO• OITY,
f... 1 N. J.—This stordons Hotel,, over 600 feet in length.
had :with I,looteet of veranda, fronts on the ocean, ex.
tendingyback, with its rear, to the railroad. It poseemes
the moil advantageous location on the island, with bor.
Cechy side bathing in front, and is, In fact, the only hut+
tints hotel within a abort distance of the beach.
A good Band of Most c has boon engaged for the season.
Billiard-room and Bowling &nose will be nuder the
charge of 'Mr. RALPH BENJAMIN, of Philadelphia.
Additional improvements have been made, and the ao.
mornmodations will be found mufti, if not euperior, to any
on the coma.
- . -
The house will be opened, for the reception of saute,
on THURSDAY, June 19.
jewiet H. B. DENSON, Proprietor.
UNITED STATES HOTEL,
ATLANTIO OITY, N. J.,
This celebrated Hotel will be open for the reception of
visitors on Saturday, June 21, 1882, and wilt continue
openuntil September 18.
Since the last season many handsome Improvement,
have been made, both to the house and the grounds,
adding still further to the comfort, convenience, and
gteasure of the guests.
Persons desiring to spend the sum ner at the Sea Shore'
will And the accommodations at the UNITED STATES
sciperior to those of any other hone° on the Atlantis
Coast.
HASSLER'S CELEBRATED BAND has been en
cased for the swoon, and will be under the direction of
the Messrs. thirster.
Mr. THOMAS H. BARRATT, late of Oape Erty, will
tittle charge of the Billiard Boom, Ten-pin Alleys, and
Mooting Gal ery.
The extensive Improvemente made two years ago, and
those now to contemplation by the ewnen3 of this splendid
ostabliehment, are an ample guarantee of what the patrons
of the bowie may expect cinder Its present management.
HENRI A. B. BLOWN,
For Proprietors..
QUMMER BOARDING.- BROAD
-41/4-) TOP MOUNTAIN 11013dE.—ei romantic, spot for a
t3UM FIER „RESIDENCE on one of the. Mountain Tops
of Pennsylvania, reached daily by Ric. Pennsylvania.
Central, and the Broad To fifonntain Railroad from
'Huntingdon. The Home ie one of the Soect in the In
of the State, handsomely tarnished. with all the re.
.onisites for comfort aad convenienca-.pnre air, deli-
Along spring water, romantic scenery, and everything to
atestore and invigorate health. Telegraph &tattoo and a
:daily mall, so that daily communication may be had with
IPbfladelphia. •
The Pennsylvania Railroad will furnish excursion
tickets through the sewn. Persons leaving Philadel
phia In the morning can take tea at the Mountain Houle
the wee evening.
The subscriber his kindly been allowed to refer to the
Allowing gentlemen, residents of Philadelphia, who have
linen patrons of the Mountain House:
Wm. Cummings, Egi , David P. Moore, Esq.,
Semi. Castner, Eat., Time. Carstairs, Req.
lion. Henry D. Moore, Lewis 'I% Wattfon, ilq.,
.John McCanlea, Esq., A. Albert Lewis, Eno.,
John 'Hartman, Elm , Richard D. Wood, Esq.
TERMS 11013zRATE. For orther information, address
JOSEPH ELOWitaßuti, Proprietor.
jel2-Im Broad-Top City, Huntingdon county, Pa.
HOTELS
OWEBS' HOTEL,
Noe. 17 and 19 l'Altli. BOW,
(OPPOBITI THS AsTon Bovss,)
NEW YORK.
.TKRID3 $1.50 pion DAY.
This popular Hotel has fairly been thoroughly sena.
witted and refurnished, and now possesses alt the redald
Sites of a
BIM-CLASS ROTEL
The patronage of Philadelptdans and the travelling
desiring the beet acoomodations and moderate
charges, is reepectfully solicited.
le2.3za 11. L. rowzas, Proprietor.
STEVENS HOUSE,
(LATE DELBIONI0011,)
No. 36 BROADWAY'
NEW YORK.
five minute. , walk from Fall River boat landins,
'Members street, and foot of Oortland street.
mli2B.2an (MO. W. BTSPHENB, Proprietor.
ACARD. -THE UNDERSIGNED,
late of the GIBABD HOUSE, Philadelphia, hare
teased, for a term of year., WILLARD'S HOTEL,,in
Washington. They take th is occasion to return to their
Old friends and customers many denim for past favors,
and beg to assure them that they will be moat happy to
gee them in their new quarters.
SYKES, OHADWIOH, t 00;
WAnursoTon, July 1e,1851.
•
.EPHRAT& MOUNTAIN SPRINGS,
LANCASTER COPINTY, PA.
'This delightful watering-place having been rourebneod
by the undersigned: he would inform his friends and the
patio generally, that it will be open for the reception of
visitors on the
FIRST BAY OF JULY NEXT.
For particulars, pieties refer to Oircniars, which can
be bad at the Continental Hotel, Merchants' Hotel, and
the Union Hotel, Arch street.
Hoard, one week or loss, $1.50 per day; over one week,
Or the season, $7 per week. Children and servants half
juice:
• These terms aro given with the assurance that the no
ticanmedations shall in every respect be equal to our
other watering-place.
;gr. Accotumodatinne for four hundred guests.
The Germania Band is engaged
ja23-1m
SIEEPLEY; HAZARD. &
E. LEE, Proprietor.
JAMES S. EA.RLE
MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS
OF
LOOKING GLASSES,
OIL PAINTINGS,
FINE SNORAVINGS,
PICTURE AND PORTRAIT FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,
OARTES-DR-VISITE PORTRAITS.
EARLE'S GALLERIES.
816 CHESTNUT STREET,
isls PHTLADILPHIA.
JAMES K. ROBISON,
Superintendent.
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VOL. 5.-NO. 277.
SUMMER RESORTS
COMMISSION HOUSES.
HIM;TIENISON.
Na in innonrirr BTUIT,
CODIMIBBION IgNROHANTI
PHILADELPHIA MADE GOODS.
Inh2B•6m
MILITARY GOODS.
ARMY 40003 , . - .:,
ON HAND.
•
DAME AND LIGHT BLUE KEBSEYS.
STANDARD 6.4 AND 8-4 INDIGO WOOL-DUD
MUD FLANNELS.
INDIGO BLUE MIXTURES.
COTTON DUCK,IO, 12, AND 15-OUNCE.
FARNHAM, KIRKHAM, & CO.,
sp2S-Sm . 222 CHESTNUT STREET.
CARPETS AND M ANTI NGS.
FOURTH -STREET
CARPET STORE,
•
No. 47 ABOVE CHESTNUT, No. 47.
3. T. DELA.OROIX
!smiles attention to Ms Spring Importation of
N
OARPETINGS,
Oompridng every style of the Newest Patterns and
Designs, in YEL VET, BRUSSELS. TAPESTRY *MUS
SELS, IMPERIAL THREE-PLY, and INGRAIN
OARPETINOS.
VENETIAN sad DAMASK. STAIR CARPRTINGS.
BOOTOM RAG, and LIST OARPETINOS.
FLOOR 'OIL OLOTIIS, in evert width.
0000 A and CANTON MATTINGS.
DOOR-MATS, RUGS, SHEEP SKINS.
DRUGOKTS, and CRUMB CLOTHS.
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
LOW FOR CASH.
• J. T. DEL ACROIX,
0116-4 m Sooth FOURTH Street.
WATCHES AND JEWELRY. i
ABIERIDA:N, ENGLIt3H,' 4 21
Amp
SWISS WATCHES;
JEWELRY, &ND fiIIiVE2WARS t
AT REDUCND PRIORS.
SOS: H. WATSON. ,
my29-2m •, 326 CHESTSIIT 5T.6101111%
REMOVAL.
- J. O. -FULLER
. Having Removed from No. 44 South THIRD Street to
No. 712 CHESTNUT Street, 2nd Floor,
(Opposite Dfasonlo Temple,)
Now offers a Barge and Desirable Stock of
GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES,
BOORRB & BROTHERS' SPOONS AND F ORB, ,
AND
• FINE JEWELRY,
To which the attention of the trade is invited.
46-4‘ AMERICAN WATCH 00M
PANT."
GOLD AND.SILVER
WATCHES,
FOR LADIES AND GENTLE:OW.
COMPANY'S SALESROOM,
No. 712 OHESTNIIT Street, Second Floor,
(opposite Masonic Temple.)
L B. MARTER, Agent.
aptio4lm
.17 .317.21 , 11TE1 RUBBER JEWELRY .
.• A beautiful Ilne of
. .
'GENTLEMEN'S VEST CHAINS, LADIES' MIA
TALAINE DRAINS, THIMBLES, pliossin,
. STUDS, BUTTONS, ao.,
Now in fltore.
J. (3. FULLER,
. No. 712 CHESTNUT Street, Second 111oor,
(Oppetite Mum& Temple.)
0004 m
WATCHES; JEWELRY, &o.
IPRESE . ASBORTMENT, at .LEtiS
xx. THAN FORMER PB/CES.
TARE &•BROTHEB.,
Impotters, SU CHESTNUT Street, below Fourth.
mb2o.tf .
LOOKING GLASSES
BLINDS AND SHADES
BLINDS AND SHADES.
- • - •
B. J. WILLIAMS. •
No. 16 NOE= SIXTH STBEZT,
IKAMIPACII7IIIII OP
VENETIAN BLINDS
AND
WINDOW SHADES.
The largest and Attest aesortment in the 010 at the
bOWINT PRIONLI.
OTOBN SIILDEIB LNITN/lIIN.
Beredrimi promptly attended to: • • .. aipB-8e
SEWING MAMENES.
WHEELER ec WILSON.
SEWING. MACHINES,
628 OHESTNUT STREET,
DRUM/ AND CHEMICALS.
R OBERT SHOEMAKER
00,
Northeast Corner TOUBTII sad RAOI Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
tl
FOREIGN AND DOMRSTIO
WINDOW AND PLATE GLABB.
XAN071019311,31111 07
WHITE LEAD AND ZINO PAINTS, PUTTY, dith
AMU; i'oll TH 011IMMATID
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
Milers and mann:kern enrAled et
VERT LOW PRIORS YOB 001.
ap29.2m
CABINET FURNITURE.
MINET FURNITURE AND BM
RD TARIM.
MOORE .& CAMPION
•
No. 201 South fiEOORD Stroet,
In connection with their extensive Oablnet Busineee fire
flow mansfacturins a superior article of
BILLIARD "TABLES,
And bare now on bend a full supply, finished with the
00100 CAMPION'S IMPROVED 00BEIIORS
which are pronounced, by ell who have need them, to be
ennertor to all others.
For the quality and finish of these tables the menu
tactarers refor to their numerous patrons throughout
the Milan, who are familiar with the character of their
work. fe96 Em
STATIONERY AND FANCY GOODS.
'MARTIN. & QUAYLES
STATIONERY, TOY AND 'FANOY GOODS
EMPORIUM,
No. 1035 WALNUT STREIT,
BILLOW ILLEMITH,
PEMADELPHIA.
Eljt Vrezz.
[For the Preps.]
If General McClellan is the son of his father, in
mind and manhood ; if he has equal breadth,
depth, and clearness ; equal quickness and cer
tainty; equal through.and-throughness in taming,
firmness in grasping, certitude and foroe in
executing, and a similar mixture of courage and
caution, insight and foresight, he will answer all
the expectations that rest upon him.
I knew the surgeon ; with the general I am not
acquainted ; but if the one may be safely inferred
Irma the other, General George may be relied upon.
I knew Dr. George, not merely as any one of his
thousands of pupils might know him ; by good
luck I was frequently near him, when the occasions
celled out all' that there was in him more than
other men—his peers in commonplace performance
—could command. In surgery there is much that'
anybody con learn, and
W which moat practitioner
..
can ell enough execute, when it is not of much
consequence how well the thing is understood or
performed ; and it is well for the world that very
Middling abilities and qualities serve its common
needs, in most things—such as preaching, editing,
lawyering, and legislating ; but, how should we
get along in the great emergencies that happen
every day somewhere in the general range of
things that nearly concern everybody, if there wore
no special providences running along with the
mediocrities, directing and overruling the unin
spired functionaries that we depend upon? I do
not mean to adthit that a great surgeon or a great
general is not better in everything than the com
mon herd which he heads ; nor, that he
.iii 4 not as
well and as much distinguished from themNa the
least as in the greatest things ; but I merely say
that nobodies will do pretty well when nothing im
portant is required of them.
Dr. George must have-entered the profession
some time about the year 1820.- Re was the pri
vate pupil of Dr. Dorsey, nephew and associate of
Dr. Physick ; and throUgh this intimacy he may
be styled the grandson of the great protagonist of
American surgery. That was. a fair capital to set
up with ; and, if he had needed such quickening,
the circumstance might be put among the causes
'of his own overreaebleg growth. The first of his
exploits came about through this connection. Dr.
Graham. a young Irish surgeon,' was the hapless
and hopeless subject of a diseased enlargement of
the parotid gland. The tumor, prevented by its
surroundings from getting accommodating room
outwardly, pressed upon the windpipe at intervals
to the very verge of strangulation. The struggles
in these paroxysms, by sheer force of the convul
sive effort, compelled a little relavtion of the
tough tissues embracing it, and thffn the tumor
would grow again, till another strain gave another
relief, at a constantly increasing expense of suffer
ing and danger ; for the limits of further expan
sion were rapidly lessening, and the fatal result as
rapidly and certainly approaching. The extirpa
tion of the gland was the, only remedy or relief.
That bad never been attempted. Carmichael, of
Dublin, was prevailed upon by the sufferer to un
dertake it; but he had proceeded a very little way
in the operation when the blood, spouting froth
innumerable little vessels, developed by the
disease, blinded the operator, and he desisted.
The danger in his way required a hair-breadth
precision in the use of the scalpel, for
the gland must be dissected from its eii
tenglenient with the carotid artery, the internal
jugular, and the' eighth pair "'of nerves, all dis
placed and distorted by the encroachment of the
tumor. Dr. Graham' either 'did' not despair, or
grow desperate, and applied:to Sir Astley Cooper,
who, about that time, had achieved some almost
incredible feats of daring_ in experimental arm
gory. When Sir Astley heard the history he re
plied to the patient, " Carmichael's scar, marking
his failure, is a beacon to all other adventurers."
This refusal left no hope in Europe for the sufferer;
but away over in that new country, where so many
new things bad _already been done, was Dr. Thy
sick, with a fame that promised enough to induce a
trial. Dr. Physiok positively refused to undertake
it.. Young McClellan was present at theJu erview,
and could notsuppresa tiiictiopetuinese even in that
presence, anti under that °pluton, endorsing as it
did thg despair of the .two greatest surgeons in
English Europe. Graham - caught the inspiration,
and plumply put the question to the young enthu
siast, Could you do it?" Dr. McClellan answered
decisively, "I can." You are the man, the very
man, to undertake it," clinched the confidence of
the parties. &supported, disapproved, plainly
iota by Dr. ?brick that his temerity was as
censurable, even if he should succeed, as if
he failed, he paused only to reassure him
self. Ile took Graham with him to the dissect
ing room, minutely reviewed the proms, rehearsed
it, and was ready. But when his scalpel reached
the depth of Carmichael's incision his progress was
by the • same cause arrested ; another cut and it
would be at once a suicide of the patient, who
would have it ended at any rate, and a homicide
by the bold boy, whom no caution could ours of his
conceit. The blood, spirting from a hundred
little vessels, as if pumped through a sieve, was not
to be checked. The actual cautery, if it could
have been used, would not hinder a greater flow
from the next stroke of the scalpel. The Doctor
paused a moment. The patient cried out, "Go on,
McClellan; it is my lest chance." Go on! eh,
how ? The answer came to him in a flash. He had
once seen an arm torn off near the shoulder by a
pair of rollers running too close to admit the body.
The stump did not bleed. The violence to the ves
sels contracted them. A practical hint in this for
the emergency.. Re turned the bone handle of his
knife and dug out , the tumor from its bed. No
danger of breaking the carotid or of hemorrhage
from any smaller vessel which must be ruptured.
In a moment the way was clear, the bleeding
ceased, and he finished hie operation, to the lest
atom of the diseased mass, with his patient in con
vulsions. Graham recovered, and Dr. George
never afterwards delayed an operation to tie an
artery lees than a crow-quill. He commanded the
flow by a twinge of the cut vessel with his forceps,
and spared the patient all the worry of ligatures at
the time, and the pain of disposing of 'them after
wards.
U. 8. NEWOOHER
There was the metal of a hero, and the mind to
manage it, in that young man. He earned a laurel
by that exploit; but it was treated by the authori
ties as a crime. The fact was denied. The stupid
bigotry of the leaders in the profession built a
charge of charlatanism upon the pretence of an
achievement, which they pronounced impossible,
till Dr. Drake, of Cincinnati, who witnessed his
bird' s enooessful operation of the seine kind, put
e doubters and deniers to silence.
Such a man was not to be repressed or matched.
e must he treated with homage or he must be de
nounced. I need not say to any one who has.wit
rimed the rivalries of schools and sects in medi
cines, which policy was adopted. I have seen an
English text-book of surgery expurgated of Mc-
Clellan's achievements, by the anonymous editor
and publisher in this country, forestalling the mar
ket, and so suppressing the testimony of the lead.
lag European authority In honor of the man whose
triumph must cover his antagonists with confusion.
Solite trial in all this, of the stuff that makes a
man, in a oivil war with the professional Titans
around him, protracted through a score of years.
Ile was the head of a new school in the American
Metropolis of Medical Education. That school was
prevented from getting a charter from the Legisla
ture by the respectability and influence which its
daring aroused to resistance: It had to construe•
itself to be a branch of the . Jefferson College, lo
cated at Canonsburg, to give-legal authority to its
diplomas, until it conquered its way to general re
cognition. Bow Dr. George bore himself through.
this long conflict, I need not say, for his sake ; for
the sake of others, I may not say. The quarrel
and the parties are all in their graves. On their
tombstones we must write nothing but the good of
their lives, the pleasantness of their memories. But
McClellan was not a mere operator. Better than
all others be knew when and how to avoid that
last resort. In all the instances of the higher style
of oratory and action that I have witnessed since, I
have teen and felt nothing like him. When com
mencing his lectures on amputations, he raised the
knife, turned its glittering blade upon - the students,
already eleoLrified by an exordium conceived and
uttered in the spirit and power of an exorcism, and
said : " Gentlemen, remember that whenever you
resort to the amputating knife, you confess that
you cannot cure, but must maim. Your danger
lies in the use, the abuse, of this weapon,. It better
reports you. to the crowd, the unskilled, and you
are tempted by your fame, and .often pressed by.
your uncertainty of the results of the case, to resort
to it. God forgive the man who is unfaithful to
the trust of his helpless patient, I cannot. The.
grand test of surgical skill is not in splendid and
successful, operations, but in the remedial treat
ment that rendersoperations unnecessary. Our art
will be perfect only when the knife is banished
from our practice. Teach ins how to dispense with
these instrumenta in a single disease, and, so far,
you are my master."
The victories ho aimed at were not those of mu
tilation, but those that restore health and whole
nets with it.. The glare of achievements that cap
tivate the vulgar of every rank, the ignorant of
every grade of culture, hid no , fascination for
him ;no power - to pervert his judgment, or muddy
his motives. Novelties never embarrassed; ono-
PRILADELPRIA.
7iVEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1862.
Doctor George McClellan
BY DR. WM. ELDER
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1862.
manes never confused him. He could strip the
'most obscure and complicated symptoms of their
illusions. In thinking, be was not fooled by gene
ralizations; nor in action was he cramped or limi
ted by apparatus. He knew how to obey princi
ples and how to interpret details:. His insight was•
a detective not to be baffled ; his foresight was a
process of clear induction, that grasped every feet
and weighed every contingency. And, bow brave
he was ! His courage rose in proportion to his
precautions ; his anxieties gave him firmness, and
his mental integrity served him best when its inspi
rations wore most needed. The first sound notion
of heroism I ever bad was from him. He was about
to perform a. capital operation in the presence of
his class—a hundred and fifty of us—who, every
one, remembered that he had said more than once,
in his terribly emphatic way, "Gentlemen, the
surgeon who operates with the expectation of cure,
and fails, disgraces himself, or exposes the impo
tenet) of the profession, and outrages hie patient.
His offence admits of no excuse. A surgeon
may operate to mitigate the sufferings of an
incurable case; but If be resorts to the knife
to core, and his patient dies of the operation
and the disease together, he has made a terrible
blunder." This sounds like extravagance—not
one man in a thousand dare subject himself
to judgment under this rule. Its announcoMont
fairly frightened one of the most distinguished men
in the country . , who was beside him when he again
proclaimed it before us, after describing the patient
as one of a constitution so bad, and laboring, be
sides, for seven years under a•disease so severe that
he was scarcely a safe subject for the extraction of
a molar tooth. There was even some danger that
the wound he was about to make would not heal
kindly; yet ho knew how to perform the operation
without risking a constitutional shock, and he did
it with as clear assurance of the result as the most
promising case would justify. The patient was
carried out of the room. There stood the surgeon,
with more than the courage of battle in him, and
gathering the attention of every witness of the
performance, ho said : "I have performed an ope
ration usually called capital upon the worst sort of
a subject—a patient debilitated, badilY and men
tally, to a degree that gives no hope of ultimate
recovery. I have operated to relieve pain, to pro
tract life, and to secure against sudden death. The
patient is incapable of sustaining any formidable
disturbance—fever or convulsions—even great ner
vous disturbance, or considerable prostration, would
be fatal. No snob symptoms will follow.: Watch
the case a week ; and judge my diagnosis by the
result."
Three or four days after, on a Sunday, about
thirty of Ms were gathered in the.room of this pa
tient under an alarm which had spread like light
ning among our boarding-houses, that the boy was
in convulsions ! I have not had such alright since.
We looked into each other's faces in blank dismay,
as we saw the poor fellow writhing like another
Tampon in the grasp of the serpents. The renown
ed Surgeon, who had witnessed the operation, and
heard the alarming test that Dr. George had an
nounced, sat at the bed-head, at the-end of his
wits. The catastrophe had come. Here was the
shock that must be fatal; and he could not help
whispering to me, in a tone of sorrow mingled with
deprecation, 14 No surgeon should be governed by
the rule that McClellan gave us in this case. Sir
Asticy Cooper would neither have ventured upon
the operation. nor would be submit himself to such
a test. Dr McClellan may well go as far as any
living surgeon, but this was going too far."
Every student present felt eat! nothing less than
the downfall of our idol was'doomed. It felt like
the exposure of a father's 'nakedness—a father
drunk with arrogance, stripped and stultified in
their presence. The stupified silence was broken
by a noise on the stairs. Dr.. George was coming.
We knew his step as well as we did the clatter of
our own ponies on the pavement. I wish I could
describe his entrance into that sick room. Words
serve only thus far: he was master of the situa
tion ; his habitual gravity lighted up with the glow i
of mental excitation ; not a tuck in a muscle of his
face ; not, a quiver in the eyelight that might indi
cate a suspicion of mischief, or an apprehension of
'defeat. Ile bad the message—" the boy is in con
vulsions." The life and the boast he had staked
were in peril., Now was the time for dodging or
desperation, if there had been a slack-twisted or
kinked fibre in the web of his character. He gave
'one keen, searching glance at the lad—a look that
explored him, his history, and destiny, at ono
sweep, and jerked out, " This is not the result of
the operation. This is not a consequence of any
sigh cause. There is lief° no constitutional shock.
This is epilepsy—plain, up anti'down, old-fashioned,
epilepsy." " Well," thought I, breathidest
freer without knowing why, "how does that better
the case?" The Doctor turned to the mother, who
was crouching whore she eat under a load of de
spair, "Madam, had Jonathan any sort of fits
when he was a child ?" " Oh, nothing like
this," she replied, "nothing at ail like this, and
be hasn't bad any of them these seven years."
"Seven years !" ejaculated the Doctor, with a
thrill that straightened every man of us like an
electric shook. "Hasn't bad them for seven
years—good! This new disease supervened se
ven years ago, and suspended the epileptic; habit.
The operation lies routed the disease. The old
habit of body has returned. It is a cure. Jona—
than will walk to your new boarding-house day
after to morrow."
Jonathan did walk from Tenth to Fourth street
on the day after the morrow. I went along to see
him do it ; and wasn't there a shout in the dissect
ing room that night when the story was told to tho
generous boys, who had so large a share in the great
venture f And didn't we all recollect then the com
mon-place of the text-books that tolls so oraoularly
bow, when, and where a fit of apoplexy, for in
stance, follows the suppression of some chronic
'discharge, and the case hangs in doubt; if the dis
charge returns spontaneously, the patient is safe
and the man is well aglin, no matter how trouble
gime the revived disease may be ? But none of us,
the renowned surgeon included, had thought of
•. that in the moment of alarm, nor had we distil'-
.
guiehed between epilepsy and the constitutional
•sbock of .a surgical operation.
!there was some self-rebuke in the sense of this.
Oversight, but Dr. George was out of the scrape,
vindicated, glorified ; and any one of us would
have stood in the pillory, that Sunday, and cheer
fully endured almost any shame to save him.
Some prayed, some swore their thanksgiving, and
all felt about a cubit added to their stature, in the
• demonstration that there was one principle proved,
rivetted, and clinched, in our faith and praotiee,
and broad and firm enough to lie down and roll
over on ; and, best of all, if never before, we knew.
• that, however the books bothered and staggered us,
Dr. George knew what he was talking about, hovr.
to make us understand it all, and how - to perform
'our own wonder-working, whets the time should
come, and for some time, more or less, "according.
as our souls were made to sink or climb," we pant.
ed for the opportunity as soldiers for the battle
! field.
The entire make-up of that man hai alwayabees .
a marvel to me. I have seen but one other who
might match him in any field of soientifio attain-
merit and achievement. The working of his brain
seemed to be spasms run smooth—an ocean-flow
as serene as a sky full of sunshine. I never saw j
the thinking in another man's brain so distinctly.
Very few, lecturers do any thinking at all. They
remember and they rehearse, with &little eloen-
tion, and a very easy conscience. Bat every
thought gave Dr. George a birth-pang, and the
hearers knew that an idea was born alive, with a
commission to grow indefinitely, infinitely, or as
much less as receptivity should determine. And -
what a mixture was harmonized, what a variety
crystalized in him ! No pudding-beaded quaok
ever gave half as mach respect to a fact. If Bacon
bad seen him scrutinize an anomaly, he would
have said : " This is what I meant' in the Nowent
asp.anum by the saterpretation of nature ;" and
-if rinto -1.4 heard him generalize, he would have
said: " This Mall was - made for pnitoidpby.-- - Bacen
would have been delighted with hum in details;
Plate would have approved him in speculation. Both
would have been surprised in turn by his exacti
tude in analysis. end his breadth and boldness of
induotion. In a four-month course of instruction
be traversed the whole range of handicraft availa
ble in surgery, through millinery; carpentry, to;
the dexterity of legerdemain—the whole scope of ,
remedial administration, front the nicest details of
cookery to the farthest bounds of pharmacy—the.
study of symptoms, circumstantial as the vigilance
of an affectionate nurse ; analytic, as the inquiries
of a chemist—all passed under the scrutiny of ex
perienee, enlightened by science, and all rendered :
with the clearness of a directory—a world of
knowledge, authenticated and warranted by a mss-'..
ter mind working upon an ample experience.'
After all-this, judge our surprise and its effeot,
when be used the last five minutes of his closing,
lecture to say, " I have purposely left all that can
be learned by reading, to be foiled in the horn
books of the profession. I have bad one principal.
object steadily in view : to teach you to think—to
think—to know what yen think, and think what
you know. If I have in any tolerable degree suc
ceeded in this, I have fully earned my fee—l have
performed my contract." , -
I eat out with an if, and I have all along had
some trouble in preventing it from running into a
Qatere ; but 1 have resolutely avoided the question
of the hereditary descent of qualities. The induc
tive philosophy has done nothing for the solution of
that problem yet. I do believe the doctrine, for
the law is absolute—" Let them bring forth after
their kind ;" but the conditions are not always ob.;
served, and opportunity does not always serve. If
the gods would be careful always to miry their
twin sisters—sisters mchologioal, as in the case of
'Jupiter and "Juno, Osiris and lais—the Divine re
sult would be secured; but, neglecting the condi
tions precedent, it is no wonder that bogus heirs pre
- tomptive are often produced: That question being
out of the question, the parallelism or surgical slid
military qualifications is the leading idea in these
re Ininiseences. A volume of anecdotes in addition
might be adduced toshow that the father had every
quality of a commander and a conqueror, in the
highest style. There is that inutile in favor of the in
, guenee firstabove statedhopefully, trustfully, and i
am well inclined to believe that the facts of the
life that we are all so much concerned with just
now"will fulfil the hope. 'No worthy biography of
Dr. George McClellan has been written. In
deed, there is not even a hisfory of American sur
gery in existence that might help in the portraiture
of the man. I hope the Soldier has the Surgeon
before him, as " an ensample "—I trust that he is
" another of the same."
OUR VAR CORBESPOBENCE.
The R64-first P. V. at Fair Oaks.
THEIR POSITION IN THE BATTLE.
Tilt DEATH OF * COLONEL RIPPEY.
HOW OUR RIGHT WING CROSSED THE CHICHAHOMINT
A REVIEW BY. GEN. MCCLELL%N
The Pennsylvania Reserves.
L. A . Aim=k=L _ . . llA=Jk. l
THE COURSE OF UNION MEN IN TENNESSEE.
(to., &0., &o.
FROM THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
The '6lst Pennsjlvania Regiment—The
"Stonewall Battalion."
[l3p . ectiti Correspondence of The Proof.]
BEFORE RICHMOND, JERE 16, 1562
The •Illst Regiment, which suffered more than any
other during the late terrible battle of " The Seven
Pthatt,". or "]air Oaks."' was at finit auttlmoi to have
been almost entirely eut to pieces. We who survived that
bloody fight were sled to notice, recently, in' The Press,
a correction of the statement that we were a Pitteburg
regiment. Nearly one half the regiment are Philadel
phians, they having been traneerred from the 281 Penn.
aylventa i Col. in March list , in order to fill tip the
Met, which had been recruited in Pitt bur;. Major Geo.
C. Spear, of the 23d, accompanied the Ireilale!phla bat;
tallon into the tilat, and was aprni ate(' lieutenant colonel.
pct no matter from what section of our glorious old Com
monwealth they bail, they proved themselves true sous of
Pennsylvania.
THEIR POSITION IN TES BATTLE
Their position we! in the hottest of the fight daring all
of that memorable Saturday, for when Casey's Division
wail compelled to fall back, Gen. Conch immediately or
dered the 61st to their imppeit. Having reached the scene
of conflict, they formed line of battle in the woos, the lett
resting on a swampy wood another regiment real formed
on their left, and this composed the line, somewhat in
the shape of the letter L. In a few moments the enemy
came pouring down, flushed with hie apparent. eucceas.
The regiment was ordered to Ile down, to prevent being.
K ee by the rebels, who were rapidly forming line of
battle within fifty yards of them—the dense underbrush
-preventing them from seeing each other ; hot they wore
in factso Close that the orders of their officers could be
distinctly beard. At this moment, and before they had
fine to form more then ball their line, the 61st rose up
arse poured In on them such a volley as swept them down
like grass. Then began one of the most desperate fights
of the whole battle. The enemy came on in thousands—.
seeming to concentrate their entire force at this point,
for, although they went down by hundreds, the matte
would be immediately *filled up with fresh troops. And
now it seemed as if our regiment was doomed to de
struction, for one be one our field officers fall, and our
reeks were fearfully decimated.
Our noble and heroic lender, Col. Hipline had fallen,
pierced by several belle, while in the thickest of the fight,
gallantly leading on his devotee men. Lieut. Col. Spear
was wounded, and a p.isoner, and so, also, was Major
Smith. Thar, you see, nearly all our line alms were
either tilled or wounded, and prieeners This disaster
was partly caused by the troop. on the left giving way,
and allowing the enemy to come In on our rear, so that
in a few moments we were entirely surrounded, and with
out eupport. And now, without officers, the order to
. reiteat was given by the colonel of another regiment,
but it was not until it was repeated three different times,
that our boys would give way. Then, and onlythen,
did they turn and fiat their way ont, step by step—few,
conparativelf.,,were taken prisoners They shouted to
the foe, " If pose want me, eime take me!" This wilt
account for ea few missing (i. 0., prisoners and sbirkers),
in our regiment, for although °artist of killed and wound.'
eel hi the largest of any regiment engaged, yet our pro-
Portion of missing is eery small. This, It has been as
certained, was the most deadly encounter of the fight, •
Orir entizelose is 267, which, though fearfully large for
one regiment, was at first supposed to be much greeter.
Gen. Conch, when asked hie reason for placing the 61st
in so desperate a no, Men, answered that he did it na "a
forlorn hope, a desperate chanee'to check the et mew,
until Sumner's reinforcements arrived." But the effort
seemed to prove unavailing, for we were lint mor
tal men, and all that we could do was to stop
the hordes who were pouring down on no in thousands.
Step by step then , we slowly retreated up the wood ;
there was the 31st Pennsylvania, let U. S. Muleteers, and
mere remnant of our gtorionslilst. In fact, there Were
not more tlitue./70 -in onr .gallant band-:Companies R
and C,. with come remnants of a few other companies—
while cur noble General, Abercombrie, consulted his
officers on what was best to ho done. t; If Sumner would
only; come! If his reinforcements would only arrive!"
Them were our only words and tlioneghts, and after waiting
some fifteen minutes, the glitter of muskets was soon in
the dietetic, rimming towe•da us, in the n .w. fast
waning eon. Every eye was strains, every breath
hushed, during the Stet moments of uncertainty. At
lest, all doubt was removed—there was "no mistake
about it"—it was Sumner with the long and anxious],
looked for reinforcements ! Never was a eight so gladly
welcomed. We could scarce contain ourselves for joy,
but were not allowed to express our overcharged feelings
by cheering, or any other noisy dertionseration, what
ever, as it would give warning to the enemy, who wore
evidently now very certain of an, easy laden', by de
stroying or capturing our entire command, as we were
wholly cut off by the overwbe' mine force in front of ns.
Gen. Conch now ordered, the 30th Pennsylvania jo
form on the road facing the woods, while the Ist United
S:ates Chasseurs, and the deteclur eat of the 61st, under
the command of Capt. Hobert L: Orr, of Company H,
were ordered to form line In a newly-ploughed wheat
field, facing the woods towards the left; our detachment
to form on the right of the Masseurs. We had scarcely
leeched our position, and tied not yet got fronted, when
from the woods in front, not ten paces off, burst forth a
perfect shower of fire—n cloud of balls—from the enemy,
who were there concealed, over B,COD strong (as was
afterwarde stated by some prisoners we took.) All im
mediately fell on their faces. During the confuelon
attending this unexpected onslaught from the
foe, some horses, belonging to the otticere of tho Chas
were, broke through the wend platoon of Company H,
throwing it into confusion, and injuring one of our men
for life. The first light that met our eyes, after the
smoke cleared away, wag Gen. Abercrombie, dismounted
end bareheaded, with sword in hand, and the blood
st=eaming over his Paco from a wound in the head, which
bee since happily, proved to be slight. Capt. Urban, his
adjutant genera], was also unhorsed, and both were gall.
Tautly, cheering on their men. This, however,, was
etitircely neceesary, fur no money bed the confusion at
tending the - first movements of the onslaught passed
"away, than in an instent our men were on their fee; and
poured in a withering and telling volley along the entire
/Me. A rail fence bordered the verge of the woods im
mediately in front of as. Down on their knees, behind
this fence, our line got, and soot in volley after volley on
the astounded enemy, who expected no resistance at this
point. They outnumbered - Ws 3to 1, but so well directed
'ass our fire, anti so steady was It kept up that we threw
Hum into cerifusion Bed broke their ranks. Three seve
ral times did they charge on us; one time, getting within
ten yards of the fence; but each time were they repulsed
• and driven back with many a vacant rank, al a view of
the field testified next morning, for they lay in heaps
along our entire front It was here we proved to them
that the filet was not ail gorte yet, but that some were
left to avenge their colonel and their comrades. Beastly
did that little band attetain their well-earned repntation •
and prove .themselves trim eons of the " Quaker City.'
(II and G are all Philadelphians.) Riccited by the gal
last example of their brave leader, Captain Orr; who ex
torted the enthusiasm anti admiration of not only his own
battalion, but elm of other regiments on our right, and
who, after- the fight was over, cheered him again and
again; and well he deserved it, for by his disCretion and
courage, we were enabled to take the enemy at hie weakest
point, and at the right moment, and to pay, with fearful
interest, for the slaugbter of our brave comrades daring
the afternoon. Captain Orr Is a native of, and well
known in, Philadelphia, husks been connected with the
loCal reilitoty of the city for a long time au lieutenant of
the old corp.; of indevudent Grays.__Re.rste,vi , k.
- coinpalif - iitllie • tnrce:Miiielbs campaign i , in the old
"17th,” under Oolone! (now General) Pratt:Patterson,
In which regiment be had no superior as an efficient of.
liter.. During our glorious triumph, he was nobly sus
!aimed and seconded by Captain Crosby and Lieutenants
Beldam, oft:kimpasy 0, and Wilson, of Company H.
Dy dark we had driven the enemy entirely out of the
woods, which they had entered with nearly eight thou
tend troops, expecting to find no opposition, and then
fell on the rear of our division and 'capture or destroy it
entire. But in this they were moat terribly mistaken-
The rail !trice, slight as it was, proved tigood protec
tion, and doubtless saved many a life.
The California Regiment, who said on the ground about
two hundred yards in our rear as a reserve, teat a num
ber in killed and wounded from the balls which passed
ever our heads. After the battle we were entirely fa
tigued and worn out, and, although thii ground was wet
and se:stripy, we gladly laid down, without overcoat or
blanket, to get a few lionrs' sleep We lay where we
fought, mid where, but a few moments before, the shift
and din of deadly battle raged.' Now, all was silent ac
the grave. At,, little thought those at home, on that
eventful Saturday night, what stirring scenes their ale
sent fathers, and brothers, nod sons had passed through!
We do not forget that very many earnest prayers had
been constantly ascending to Heaven for our preserva
tion and safety.
Our greatest loss, and ono which we daily and hourly
eel, is that of our beloved colonel, - Col. Rippey was
snore like a father to no than an officer—more like anent-
.
panion than a euperior. Ee wee beloved by entire
regiment.' , Generous, frank, and open-hearted to a fault,
We empathy : was alWays with the weak; brave - as a
lien, he knew no danger. Is Rio be wondered at, then,
that we all regarded Mules our friend and protector?
Never would he place Me Men where he would not go
himself, and, in the many vicisaitudee of a eoldier's life,
he ehared Mitre with his command. His whole Nut was
in his coontry's cause; his one idea to eerie it; and on
the shrine of the patriot he has .lied his Wood for it. lie
died as be wished to'dle, a soldier's death, at the head of
his men, with his face to the enemy. The last noel, of
hi& he was on foot, with pistol in hand and sword up
raised, rneing into the fiercest of the drht. His body
WOO, atteamirde round on the field. It has been sent to
his family at Fittebnig, of which place he was a native.
Though wlawier by profession, at the fist call for troop..
t he wee in the Held, with the 7th ronneylventri, as lien
tenant colonel." llts death hne left a void in our regiment
not easily filled;' society has test ono of its brightest or.
nnments;' and his country . Doble sOldieP and a true
patriot.
Mont. Col. 13pear, well known in Philadelphia, hae not
. .
been Been eince the battle. When the regiment wan left
without support, and we' were entirely surrounded, he
was in front rallying the men. Soon afler ho was wound
ed. Atter this he was not seen, In all probability he
prisoner. He was a conrteons and gallant gentle
men, and 'a thorough soldier.
Major Smith has also been misslng etnco the fight. He
was lest mean on his knee, wounded, gallantly waving
his sword, and cheering on
. his men. Ilia courage we
undisputed. Blind to danger, he sought the thickest of
the battle. He, too, is supposed to be a prisoner. Than
you tee that nearly all our line officers are gone. some
companies aro without any commissioned officers. Com-•
pany I (a Philadelphia Company) lost both its officers—
Lieutenant lloyian, commanding, severely wounded,
and Lieutenant Jones, wounded. The sergeants are all
killed or wounded but one, Sergeant Lindsay, who is at
present the highest officer.
Our colors were saved, thougliono of them—the United
Staten colors—had the flag staff sbot away, and eight
balls put through the flag. The ball that broke the staff
killed the color sergeant. The ceors tell, but were saved
by Corporals Bill . r, of Company 11, and Ford, of K
Corporal Miller• had a narrow escape while endeavoring
to cave the sag—a ball painting through his blouse, within
an Melt of his heart.
The United States colors was the property of Colonel
Bippey. - We sent it home with his body, but his family
returned it to the care of the officers who wore left, to be
carried by the regiment during tte war, and then to be
sectored to them. You may rest ,areured that that flag,
made sacred by the blood of our•comrades, shall now be
doubly dear to us.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Vallee, of the 3let Pennoyl•
vaoie, Las been placed in temporary command of the re
giment, until we can get completely reorganized.
Lieutenant Charles S. Green, of Co. 11., hi acting al
jutant. We hope his appointment will be made perma
nent, for a better soldier cannot be made. We are still
in front, aid if we only get a chance, are mighty anxious
to get a glimpse across that celebrated " Ditch" into the
stronghold of the chivalrous wF. - F.. Ws," fleet'
footed • :11uly they have adopted moat ap
propriate Mitiale. Of this rest assured, when the
filet is !lewd from there will be warm work—be sure, al
go, that the colors we now hold shall never be surrendered
by thole who claim them, own them, love them, and
who will fight for them while a heart beate beneath a
Union jacket. . A. 6.
ix OAKS, 1 r11:; June 20, 1852.
A complication of circumstances prevented my writing
the usual letter yesterday or the day before, and though
a little tardy, the value of the information I send you
this mornlng, I trust, will compensate for the delay. On
Widneaday, the entire right wing crowd the Chicks
hominy, encamping compactly on the ground from which
I write, late in the evening. The march was by a most
devious road, through field, wood, and swamp, and afier
a roundabout course of eight or ten miles, bringing us to
a point but four miles distant from the starting place.
Strict orders were given that not the slightest unnecessa
ry display should be mode, and as all the highlands•
which the direct 'lad crossed were 'within range of the
enemy's cannon, we were compelled to go .around the
skirts of the Mlle, half the time in woods and en webs ,
places. The general coerce was, hoWever, some five
miles down the Chickahomloy, then adds it, and then
back again on the other side for about two miles. Ths
river and swamp, which were thought by the enemy to be
such Impassable barriers, were suceessfrilly crossed on
Vl'ood bury 's bridge," and now the tables are effectually
turned against the rebels; for the Chickahomiey Is a
complete protection to our right flank. On the march, we
pissed a garden in Which five negro women were hoeing
vegetables, the first view of agricultural Industry I have
seen sines entering Yirginia: - -biegroes were at work at
eetiral. places in the woods, making charcoal and
trading tar from the pine wood, both which articles
have to be made as we go along. to supply the extensive
demand created by the blacksmiths arid artillery wagons.
But few other things of interest were to be seen, a road
through lowlands and swamps being anything bat con
ducive to art and beauty.
WOODDORT ARIDCIE
I cannot help favorably noticing this grand triumph or
engineering art commenced and completed in six days,
email one of the vilest swamps in this whole State. It is
over a mile in length, and two hundred yards of it is a
pile bridge across the Obickehonday. . Its course is zwr
steg across the swamp and dies . ' nails. across the river ;
on either side until it reaches the piles it is a corduroy
road, and throughout is fifteen feet In width. The road
is composed of lay ere of limber set crosswise, and the
foundation is upon solid ground. On both sides a ditch
of four feet wide and two feet deep is dug, and the earth
is banked ou the tipper side Mart as a barrier against
casual freshets The superstructure if gravel, several
inches thick, laid both on the road and the bridge, and
forming a float as level and easy for riding or walking
as a Obestont-street pavement. The bridge itself—across
one of the quietest streams in a dry season and tits most
raging in a wet one—is firm and solid as a rock. Piles,
b e ams, slid braces, all of ronsh•hewn timber, support a
corduroy roadway which is safe for crossing, and capa
ble of hearing the heaviest burdens. Artillery trains
.rtisbing across it at the highest speed would not disturb
it, and a marching column of soldiers do not cause the
slightest tremor. The entire right tying crossed this
bridge on Wecuirsday, and It was the admiration of every
passenger.
K stroll wooden boord nailed to a tree at flue centre or
the structure allows its paternity. Tile modest words
moon it ore :
- Woodbury Bridge,
On the way toltiobmouo,
Built by tte Volunteer Engineer Corps
From June 8 to June 14, 1882.
The completion of such a structure hi the short space
of six days, half the time rain pouring in torrents, is in
the highest degree- creditable, and retie:As great honor
upon the citizen eoldiere who perforiaed the labor. No
other nation ever did it, put whet force they would to the
work.
Previously to the croneiruction of this bridge a crossing
of the Chickaherniny was effected at this point over a
crasy affair, then almost impassable and now doweled,
which afforded a passage to General Smith's troopi a
week or two ago, and over which General MeOlelian
crossed ten days since. To find such a bridge as Wood
bury bridge in this God-foreaken land was to me a
luxury scarcely hoped for. Mud and water to the waist,
bramble bushes, toads, young alligators, and frogs
generally greet me on attempting to cross a Virginia
stream. This bridge was * a different thing. Proge
croaked and alligators jumped in the distance. Bramble
bushes were moved out of the way, and toads, like rebels,
beat a harry retreat, while the mud and water, lying
in perfect stagnation far below me, althocigh a disagreea
ble eight to the ey - F, was in6oitely more pleasant to look
upon than when I wee forced to wade through it and
carry it around adhering to my clothing.
A REVIEW BY GENERAL 3I'CLELLAN
Wednesday, at noon, General bicelellan commenced a
grand review of the army in the field, beginning away on
the left, near the James river, and ending et dusk on the
right wing. Peat Reyes, Heintz°'man, Sumner, Couch,
Casey, tedgwick, Bicbardron, Franklin, Smith, Slocum,
and Porter, he and his staff swiftly rode, the general bow
ing to the soldiers and the soldiers throwing up their hats
and cheering with great gusto. The sight was a fine one,
and "little George" bore himself most gracefully on
horseback. Re is a modest soldier. Not one of hie staff
but Orestes more gaudily and rides on with greater
haughtiness; end among weather-beaten troops a general
4ith a straw bat and plain flannel coat, whose ornaments
aie the victories he has won, will always be received
with unfeigned enthusiasm. Slocum's division had just
reached their camping grouted when the general appeared
for the review. The second bigade was a half mile die
tent when the first was being reviewed, but, with great
speed, they marched to and formed at the camp, and
caused the commander no delay. The 16th and 27th
New York, sth Elaine, and 96th Fennaylvaniti form this
brigade, and though almost exhausted by . a long march,
their cheers were as loud and their we'enine as hearty as
any given that day. Pennsylvania, especially, through
her regiment, gave him a whole•Bonled greeting, and I
thought, as he passed it, I saw on his csuutenance a
brighter smile for the citizens of his native State than sat
there before. Ha evidently feels that he can trust them.
This review was net barren of results in other wayi than
display.
MOREHEAD, OWEN, AND BAXTER GAIN A VICTORY.
The cheering at the review was the first beard for
weeks. Long ego, strict orders prohibited all noneces
eery noise In the camps, but on that occasion they were
auspended.• Such loud and' universal Shoats, extending
from ens end to the other of the army, portending BOON
terrible disaster to the rebel cause, filled the whole Se
cession horde with wonder, and a brigade was ordered
forward to capture some Union soldiers and discover the
truth. Three regiments attacked a position to the front
of Fair Oake, occupied by fiforeherid„ Owen, and Bag
...der'e_itertiments_hes..--....,c- try a — terfect - storm in
'hell, grape, and canister. A half hour served to drive
them back, the Union troops copturit g several prisoners.
One of them, an orderly sergeant, said that the cheering
caused the foray, and reported that over five hundred of
the enemy were killed and wounded, and that the fire
was too tremendous for .any hoops to withstand. At a
mile's distance, I heard the noise, and it fully equalled
that caused by the.cannonading at Tow Oaks. A ser
ifeint of Baxter's Zeuaves was killed, and one private
slightly wounded. Thus, other Philadelphia troops hare
eminently distinguished themsolvee, and though this en
gagevnent was much, smaller than that at Fair Oaks, yet
the completenoes of the victory demands a favorable no
tice for the gallant men who gained it. I trust that the
Richmond army. learned that these universal shouts be
tokened the confidence Union men have in their officcrs,
and if they will place this record side by side with that
betokening the dissatiefaction and disgust vast portions
of their - people have for Jefferson Davis, the lesson will
be complete.
Colonel Baxter's fine regiment, I am very eorry to say,
has been much decimated. Sixteen hundred strong when
it left Philadelphia, death- has deprived it of scores of
brave soldiers, and sickness and wounds have. stretched
Many a man on a pallet which may wove his last. It
hag seen hard service, and atilt toils-on with undimi
nished ardor. Fine ollicers, gallant. men, and a good
cause, have made it fumed throughoutthe whole cruntry,
and it still goes onward; fighting and working, and will
continue doing so to the eod of the wan We have
reached a period when Panties.lves& troops begin to -
dlcate their own cause. Gallantly, on hard. foaght
scattered all over the land, Is aho disarming•the •jealousy
of sister States, soli securing for herself that tardyjEl6fiCe
which should have been awarded long ago,
Nothing that I could write is needed to bring home to
Philadelphians the Niorih of Colonels Owen sod More
head, and the bravery of the troops they command.
Often since they were mustered into service telegraph
and coffeepondent have recorded the good !service they
have done their country. In the very front of the army,
daily fighting the enemy, honorable distinction has al
ways been the reward of every engagement with the re
bels. I feel a just pride in speaking of noble salons of
t ro ops from my native State, which nothing can alloy,
and these two regiments, for Wednesday's gallantry,
da
servo a niche in the temple of fame.
Llf /O. ogx. M'CALL'S PENNSYLVANIA 11,ESERVICS.;
On Wednesday last, Con. McCall, with hie epteodid
,division, rived at his 'place in the army of the Poto
mac. By I radual marches
. Le has come frora.Whlte
`house, storming; on Tuesday evening, at the centre of
Gen. McClellan's army, and on Wednesday, early in the
morning, leaving for the right wing. The extreme right
TWO CENTS.
is the position assigned to the &Berm aorps, and they
will bold Mechanicsville and the line of the
OhicYa
bsminy to New Bridge, relieving Gen. Franklin fromthta
duty. No body of troops in the army are soPerlor to the
Pennsylvania fleporves Excellent health, strict disci
pline, and a complete armament, qualify them, ander the
lead of their gallant general, to meet any number of
troops the enemy can bring into the field. Experienced.
officers are in command of all the regiments and corn
ponies, and the whole division is capable, if necessary, of
reproducing the gallantry which, amid bloom and de
spondency, elcctrified the country at the battle of
Drenesville.
Col. Simmons' sth Regiment were on the march to the
picket lines within five minutes after their arrival at the
mound, and the colonel, whose military ability ham been
of invaluable aid on the Potomac and Rappthannock,
stationed his sentinels with unequalled skill. It were it,.
vidione to mention any of the officers of this corps, bat'
perhaps the Philadelphia friends of come would be grad..
fled to learn their whereabouts. Col. March, of the Ist,
and Ltent. Col. 'McCandless, Major Woodward, Adjutant
Cross, Capt. P. J. Smith, and Lieut. Justus., of.the 2d,
were nil of them on the ground when the taros arrived,
and, though of course somewhat sunburned and swarthy,
were ready to perform their 'lntim; on an Instant call.
The Reserves hold a most important poet, and no one
knowing their high character te fearful of their: not hold
ing it well. J. C.
ORCHARD STATION,
FITZ MII Eg FROM RICHMOND, Jane 21, ISC
Yesterday was comparatively quiet, although from the
preparations by our troops an advance upon the enemy's
lines wee anticipated. Generals Sumner, firlatzelman,
and McCall kept their artillerymen busy, and occasional
cannonading—now lulling, now increasing_to a perfect
storm, and provoking equally as numerous replies from
the enemy—swept from one end to the other of the line.
Little effect was produced, however, by the caution of
either,party, both Federal and rebel being effectually hid
bellied :breastworks.
Orcbeid Station, from which 7 write, is the farthest
advanced commissary post on the Elcbmood and York
River Railroad. Fair Oaks, a hundred rods farther in
advance, was established as the issuing station on June
6th, but rebel, shells whistling about in rather close prox
imity soon compelled the choice of a less dangerous post.
Federal advances since have insured the safety of both
places. This eta! ion Is in the very midst of the battle
field, and the sickening evidences of human strife can be
seen on all aids. A solitary house, with three half
destroyed log ehede, onto up the civilization left by re
treating rebeldom, and their barbarism leaves many a
lied memorial in the surrounding graves of Union sol
diers.
The land in the vicielty is a swamp, and all through it
tbe trees have been barked, and had branches broken
from them by the enemy's shot. A more desolate country
I never looked upon. Acre upon acre of wood land was
felled by the rthele to barricade against the passage of
the Union troops, and the trees lie on the grenind.un
trimmed, the leaves withering, and the jagged trunks
tbrueting themselres out of the pile in all directions.
Save the four structures immediately beside the railway,
every house there has been battered to pieces, and imme
diately upon the battle•Seld, amid all the horrors two
days of dreadful carnage prodnced, thousands of soldiers
are encamped, all anxious to avenge their brethren's
cause. nurriedly.made head•bcarde and rude mounds,
decorated with leaves and Bowers by the comrade° or
those whose teat resting place on Virgiulaie Boil has been
caused by Virginia's treason, are Interspersed among the
tents of many a gallant regiment. Flying shells above,
and saddened troops around, daily sing the militate of
departed 'mow., whose great sacrifice for their country's
cause will ever be remembered with gratitude.
Orchard station now is a great supply depot, and hun
dreds of wagons parked atoned, and coming and going,
with teamsters thouting and laborers working, make it
quite a busy place. Between it and the enemy troops
are encamped, and a half mile distant is the firstpa
rallel "—a huge eetrenclimint, etretohiag as far as the
eye can see, and giving ocular evidence of the siege of
Richmond. The seven tali° stone of the railroad is right
at the landing. place, although the distance from Rich
mond in a straight line is scarcely five miles.
Civilians have little idea of tbe immense buiineintrans
act, d at this station. Food for three fourths of the army
le leaned here to brigade commissaries. who, in their turn,
Issue to individual regiments. Several trains arrive and
depart daily, and the arriving ones have to bo unloaded.
A pile of pilot bread, fifty feet square and twenty high,
neatly packed In boxes, is the great landmark of the sta
tion. Pilot bread, whirky, Belt beef, dessicaled vege
tables, hems, molasses, anger, coffee, tea, and the hun
dred things needed threats a it ration," are piled aionni
in the greatest profuiion. Orchard station just now Bows
with milk and honey, and how delighted famished rebel
darn would be could they only capture the stores of food
which from their present position they can almost me;
Capt. 1:1-.N. Swift, of New York, presides over the supply
issues, and glen universal satisfaction.. His immense
budnese, amounting daily to thooear.•ds of dollars, ie
transacted with ntrfect regularity, end without that
overbearing manner ca common in the civil departments
of the Berrie°.
Three rages length of General McClellan's "first
parallel,", reaching over bill and through wood, have
been already constructed. Its left is protected by an
impassable swamp, and the right is gradurOly being
vrcrked in between the rebels and the Chickahominir j
though, of course, zigzagging to secure safety, its gene
ral direction is a curved line, in all parts, about four and
a Leif miles distant from Richmond. The impregnable
works at Yorktown are imitated here, and some hosyy
'lege guns will strike terror to the very centre of the
enemy's works. Our pickets extend slightly beyond the
earth-works, being advanced to the skirt of a fringe of
woods about a half mile distant. — Through openings in
this wcod, the rebels can distinctly see everything done
on the Federal embankment, and within a week their
sharpshooters have picked off many a !soldier, whose im
prudence in exposing himself to sight cost him his life.
The siege of Richmond a ill be conducted on true scien
tific principlee, and its fall, though it may not be epaudy,
will be sure. Brett' life will be spared that can be by
any possibility, and though severe battles follow thick
upon each other,.ihe Federal positions will be such that,
while in each victory is secured, but few will have to de
plore tt a waste of blood which gained it. J. C.
FROM GEN. HALLECK'S DIVISION.
[Eyecial Correepondence of no Preee.]
IsTASHTILLS, Tenn., June 12, 1682
. THE TENNESSEE STATE CONVENTION.
In Feint:l:try, 1861, the General Assembly or the State
of Tennessee submitted to the people whether a conven
tion should asteroid() for the purpose of considering the
relations of the State to the Federal Government, re
quiring that they should vo'e, at the same time, for re
presentatives to the convention. Ruesell Houston, Esq.,
Ex-Governor Neill, S. brown, and Hon. Andrew Ew
ing, were the Union candidates for this county, aad were
elected by en overwbelmiogmajority, and the convention
was voted down. Let us observe their subsequent career.
THE COURSE OF RUSSELL HOUSTON.
!dr. Houston bas remainel a firm, consistent, loyal
MD, and it now enjoying the fruition of hie loyalty, ho
nored and respected by all who knew him.
GOVERNOR.BROWN'S ACTIONS
Governor Brown, upon the advice of friends, yielded
so far to the influence of the rebellion as to accept an
appointment on the Military Board authorized by the
rebel Legislature, ripen the persuasion of friends that his
presence there would prevent many excesses which other
wise might occur. When the Federal army occupied this
part of the State ; he di &Lined flight. When be, subse
quently, saw that the struggle of the South was hopeless,
he conceived it his duty, privately and publicly, to de
clare the fact. Go conscientiously regarded a protraction
of the war by the South as madness and murder. Bat
though the people hitherto confided in hie honesty and
sincerity, admired his talents, and relied open hie ability,
yet now some distrust him, some assail his parity of
motives and question his integrity Such is the result of
partially yielding to the tide of the rebellion, though he
may have and doubtless did endeavor truly and faith
fully, under the circumstances, to discharge his duty as a
man, a citizen, and a patriot.
ANDREW EWING'S CONDUCT.
Bon. Andrew Ewing went farther. He Completely
identified himself with the rebellion in all Its plumes and
fortunes. Learning the fall of Fort Donelsm and the re
treat of the rebels from Bawling Green, he sought range
in flight. to abandoned hie splendid residence to what
ever might b. fall it. The Confederate soldiers encamped
on hie beautiful grounds, and laid them waste. They oC
cupied his elegant mansion, defaced its deCorations, and
destroyed its coolly furniture; - and now, his oilicais
d o ped. la s ou vi re.e.---e---, home;
friends, and relations. A gentleman informs me that he
has recently seen him at Winchester, In Ible State ; that
he is pale, emaciated, silent, and melancholy. He is to
tally averse to conversation, and seems or ly to desire to
brood over his misfortnnes Re will sit for hones with
his elbows resting upon his knees and hie face between
his bends, without recognizing or noticing any one. His
apparel corresponds with his condition. An old bat,
battered and bruised, is pulled roughly over his brow,
and his elbows pry trude through his threadbare coat.
This is the man who was once the honored loader of the
bar of Nashville, and of the Democracy of the State.
The way of the &Integre:maw is hard."
THE CAPTURE OF CIIATTANoOGA. •
I mentioned, in Iny tut, the taking of Chattanooga by
General Neglay. He drove the rebel troops from there
but, apprehending that hie force would be insufficient to
bold the place, be retnined to Shrlbyvllle. The informa
tion now is, that there id concentrating at Chattanooga a
large rebel force, under whose command not known. It
tberefcre, believed a stand will be made there.
The neat of the evacuation of Cumberland Gap seems
to be confirmed, so you need not be surprised, at any la
ment, to bear of the occupation of Knoxville, by General
Morgan.
Governor Johnson has concluded to hold "Union Chula
Meetings," to attend which, all the rebel divines are po
litely, but earnestly invited. It appears that many of
them had become poWerfully solicitous for belligerent,
Providential interposition in the pending struggle, favo
rable to the success of Southern arms. These orisons had
become so frequently public, at places of worship and
elsewhere, that Governor Johnson concluded It would
not be unkind to solicit these gentlemen to loin in an
oath to support the Constitution of the United States.
The result has not transpired.
We are strongly impressed with the necessity of enlist
ing troops from this State, for its defence ageinet ma
rauding rattier, who infest the country. Our citizens
are familiar with the country, as well as the mode of
ilghting - pecoliar to those parties, and would, therefore,
be most serviceable. No doubt some plan of organization
wilt be adopted and made public soon.
A TRUE lINION NAN
Ono of the most indefatigable 'Union men in the State
it IIon: • t1'lllfam A_ Stokes,' formerly a member of Con•
gerea front the Rmath district. Ho has made a number
of eppolutments of times and places when nod wheribe
will discuss the issues involved in the war, and meither
threats nonviolence have prevented. Lim from ftlling the
appoktmonts.-• v. • • ,
The corporation of Nashville has enacted a law re
(fairing Tall counsellors and attorgoys practieiog in the
Receitler's Court to take the oath of allegiance to the
THE WAR PRESS.
'Ni Wei, PRESS will teesent to eubseciben by
wail (per Annum in ailrence) at 112.91
Three CoPita " 46 0.00
Fire " 9.00
Ton u u u 12.00
Larger Chili will be charged et the name rate, thud
20 copies WS; cost 824; 60 onlea Win coot $OO; and 106
coplea $l2O.
Fora Club of Twenty-one or over, wa will Bend es
x tra 00P7 to the getter-up of the Olab.
Pnotmasters are requested to act as digoilia for
Tim wag Passe.
SlGl ^ Advertisernents inserted at the usual ;rate& IRA'
lines constitute a square.
Government of the 'United States. The same rule• ;v111: ,
probably, be adopted in all the courts, and every lawyer'
declining compliance will be stricken from the roll. A ,
&tenet law, relative to merchants, has, prior to thie, beret.
parsed by the Municipal Legislature. It is clear that flies
loyalty of every citizen of the State will be tested.
A while since, it looked like an imposiibility to.prevent
the utterance of treasonable sentiments, and the concep
tion of treasonable plots and plans, in the city of Nash
ville T and persona, who desired to return to their alle
giance to the Government : stood more in dread of the
scoffs, jeers, and acorn of the Secossioniats, than a fear of
iivalshment for freewill. So that It woe evident that
something moat be done. Gov. Johnson determined that
be would send all noisy, turbulent traitors South, and
th ee give them en opportunity to teach by example as
well as by precept. Accordingly, be issued an order to
that effect. Astonishing to be told, not a solitary 0 Be
ceali" has been found willing to go. It has accomplished
everything that imprisonment in jail, penitentiary, and
Northern forts felled to do W. F.
To lhe People of Pennsylvania
The Washington City Pennsylvania Soldiers'
Relief Association, that it may realize the objects
it has in view, appeals to yon for material aid. In
doing so, it is deemed proper that those objects be
uublicly declared, and the plan it has adopted for
effecting them briefly disclosed.
The Association proposes to act as an auxiliary to
the agency established here by the State for carry
ing aid, .comfort, and consolation to her sick and
wounded sons in the army of the Republic. % The
Association intends to have at its rooms Hats of the
names of Pennsylvanians in the hospital here, and,
as far as possible, elsewhere; it will seek to ap,
prise the soldier's friends of his condition ; it will
strive to place in his hands and about him those
little nameless comforts which no Government,
however paternal, and no Government agency,
however complete or efficient, can, or can be ex
pected to procure or distribute; it will look to the
burial of the dead, and keep such records thereof
that affection may find the spot where its treasure
is laid ; it will endeavor to impart at its rooms siva
information as may conduce to the great purpose
in view—the comfort of our suffering brothers.
To secure the co operation of numbers in accom
plishing the ends thus generally stated, the Associa
tion has adopted a constitution, and chosen a bOard
of officers, consisting of a president, five vice presi
dents, en Executive Committee of thirteen, and a
Finance Committee of seven, a treasurer, and a re
cording and corresponding secretary. The Execu
tive Committee bee appointed a number of subordi
nate committees, each with its appropriate duties.
They have also selected a storekeeper and provided
a storeroom. The Finance Committee is enjoined
to collect funds and other supplies, and empowered
to appoint if found necessary, subordinate commit
tees to visit you, and in person ask your aid. Con
tributors will send money donations to any member
of the undersigned Finance Committee, or to Jay
Cooke Co , treasurer. But if your gifts be in
clothing, or other comforts, send them to some
member of the Finance Committee only. All in
quiries relative to soldiers should bo directed
to the corresponding secretary.
With entire confidence, the Association appeals
to the loyalty and generosity of a people who have
never shrunk from sacrifice or suffering when the
country called for them, as now, in a just and noble
cause. God permits us to live in troublous bat
heroic times, when justice, mercy, and humanity
unite in summoning all to the discharge of high
duties, at the expense of personal comfort and self
ish considerations. 'Wherever the Christian or the
philanthropist has gone forth from you to this field
of labor, among the sick and suffering, you have
followed him lovingly and trustingly, with your
means and your blessings. The knowledge of this,
borne to us on every breeze, encourages us in this
our appeal. Remember, it, is sot money alone we
shall need. Those who cannot give that, can be
stow some garment from their wardrobe, or some
comfort from their store-house. Our appeal is be
fore you ; of the nature of the response we enter
tats no doubt.
In behalf of the Finance Committee,
D. L. Farm, Chairman.
D. Wilton Haines, Chester Tuttle,
A. C. Hennershotz, A. H. Derrick,
Robert Morris, A. L. Kerr.
WASHINGTON, June 20, 1860.
The above address has the concurrence of th•
following gentlemen, the entire Board of Officers
of the Pennsylvania Soldiers' .Relief Association
PaasinENT—lfon. J K. Moorhead.
Vier. Pnasinanvs—Joseph Casey, Hon. John
Patten, lion. David Wilmot, Hon. Edgar Cowan,
Hon. W. D Kelley.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE—COI. J. H. Penton,
chairman ' • William A. Cook, secretary ; Jasper E.
Brady, Dr. William Elder, Dr. B. Lippincott,
David Haines, Titian J, Coffey, Chesterfield Rob,
Clement C. Barclay, J. B. Sheridan, J. W. Forney,
Bon. John Covale, J. N. Dickson.
TEBASURER—Jay Cooke & CO,
CoRRESPoIiDIiCC SECRETART.S. Todd Parly.
RECORDING SECRETARY-J. W. SaIUT/tn.
Pennsylvania papers please copy fur the
beim& of the good cause..
Gen. Pillow's Estate Carefully Guarded
To the Editor of The Press
NASIIVILLE. Tenn., Juno 21, 1862.
Sin : The most ridiculous act that has manifested
itself during this singularly conducted war is to be
seen at this moment at the plantation of General
Gideon Pillow, over which is placed a guard of sol
diers, and a chance visitor can scarce find admis
sion to look at the sylvan groves and growing crops,
wide% are carefully cultivated by hie overseer and
a whole colony of negroes; and no doubt the pro
ceeds of marketing and crops. 89 they are sold un
der the protection of Federal authority, are by some
underground route carried to the pockets of the
rebel general, in consequence of which he has ad
ditional means to more effectually aid in the work
of murder which he wickedly aided in inaugu
rating. The wounded and siok are crowded into
the hot city of Nashville, into hospitals hastily pre
pared in eld warehouses. and are curried here from
the neighborhood of Mr. Pillow's plantation and
elegant mansion, whim humanity would have dic
tated that the grounds, crops, vegetables, and house
of this notorious revel should have been devoted to
the benefit of the sick. Would such care have been
taken of his property had he been a Union man? I
trove not. K 2!
Again, we have in this city one or two clerks or
'aids, who issue General Orders" in the command
er's name, and who seem more desirous to annoy
Union men than they do to face the enemy. Re
cently, a chaplain and another officer, whose salary
was inadequate to pay the exorbitant prices asked
at the hotels, or stomach too weak to digest their
bad food, took possession of an untenanted building
belonging to a prrty who was arrayed in arms
against the Government ; but these men of " Gene
ral Orders" harried them out in a very ungracious
and unfeeling manner, treating them roughly and
uncouthly, and did not use that courtly and civil
language in their urder that they would hare dono
to the enemies of the country in open arms against
the Government. N.
The League Isiaud Questiou.'•
To the Editor of The Press :
Ern : The article in yeeterday's paper, signed
T. W. F., Ihave read with mu'eb pleasure, and cor
dially endorse. The donation of the crztirearea of
League Island , 600 acres, to the Government for a
naval station, is simply unnecessary, and exceed
ingly, on the part of a few individuals, generous.
The late Vorfolk yard (a first-class) does not ex
ceed one of that area, and it was always
found large enough for the heaviest operations
The Brooklyn navy yard does not exceed fifty
acres, and yet it is ample for all the vast business
transacted there. The gentlemen having this mat
ter in charge, in. their enthusiasm, seem to have
rather loose ideas, indeed, of space, and the area
of ground necessary for navy yards, and a little in
formation may not be out of place with them.
England, the greatest of maritime nations, and
whose celebrated naval stations at Portsmouth and
Davenport are the largest, I belieVe, in the world ;
and with a navy that, alongside of ours, at present,
would be but a respectable convoy, has not such a
navy-yard of six hundred acres in the whole king
dom
Let two hundred acres of League Island be pre
sented to the Government for a navy yard (and it
is a sad COIMMen tary OIL the rights we should de
mand, and not leg), and this will give us a navy
yard justfive times as large as the Front-street
yard, and the remaining four hundred acres be
appropriated as a public park. The subject has
scores of friends, and, I believe, from the views of
very many with whom I have conversed on the
matter, that a large portion of the citizens look
upon this generosity (?) of a corporate body with
dissatisfaction, and as unnecessary, and hope that
interests, large and important as that of the Govern
ment's will be protected, and nothing yreetaturely
done- ANOTIISTS Tax- PA YBR.
A. Case of Desolation.
•
7o tlss Editor of The Press :
Sin: In your list of the casualties st the battle
of "Fair Oaks," I notice in the Slot Pennsylvania
Volunteers, Company E : "Private Joseph Boggs,
killed !" This case is one of a distressing charac
ter. This young man, thus dying at the early age
of twenty-five years, leaves a young widow with
four children the eldest not yet
_five years old.
She is left without a penny to support this dead
patriot's orphans. Her husband enlisted from the
start, both among the three months and three-years
men. She hes been assisted by the relief com
mittee and his wages thus far. These sources both
fail her now, and whoro can she look for support?
She lives at 621 South Broad street, where the
whole neighborhood bear witness to her oharacter
and affliction. In contemplating' the I ong.coming
years of this poor mother's sorrow and destitution,
well may we all exclaim,
Gcd help us, when the storm ellen fling
The ph e against the palm !
If there be any charitably disposed, I refer them
to the number I have given D. E. hi.
To the Editor of The Press:
iiIR : In the midst of oar civil turmoils, when
we have but little time or thought for minor mat
ters, 'tis a subject of congratulation to notioe by
your paper of the ISth instant, that there are some
who are beginning to find the value to the commu
nity of Birds. To one, Eressrs. Editors, who' has
looked carefully into thia subject, and studied it,
it is truly surprising thatyear after year our far
mers and gardeners should quietly see gannera
shooting the most valuable friend they have, with
scarcely an effort to stop it. It is patent to every
farmer that he can no longer cultivate apple trees
or plum trees as formerly in this State. They are
eaten up by worms, and the grub worm, the natu
ral prey of the blackbird, and which destroys our
cereal cropi in their bud, has scarcely an enemy.
That truly useful bird, the Partridge, is no longer
seen near the haunts of men, and - the Robin. is
nearly exterminated. When will we open oureyea
to these sad truths? A FARlfniir.
BONES.—The skeletons of hundred's of In
diets, who Were killed is the feuds carried on between
the various tribes 'which , inhabited this section of noun
try many years ago, aro being dtg.np by the men now
engaged in excavating and grading the new line of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, on ;ti r. NelPs farm,
across Lake Butte des Mertes, opposite Menasha. Many
buried war implements love been found, and other Geri
°bailee' worthy,the notice of the intlquarlan --gonadal.
lria„ Manufacturer.
- SOBTIIRRN LOYALlEffg.:—CoSionel Cahill, of tho
9th Connecticut Regiment, who has had hut 700 men till
lecently, wraes home that ho has filled his regiment to
the maximum standard (1,040) by recruiting loyal men.
in New Orleitua,

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