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MII.ITAHY NOTICES.
PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
COLONEL R. B. ROBERTS,
-SPECIAL AID TO HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR
CURTIN,
Has been detailed to fcbis cUy for the purpose of attend
ing to all business relating to the; musteTlng : in, and ,
transportation of, troops from this city forthe'defeuce of
the State.■ :
Hia office ia at the
COMMONWEALTH BUILDING,
CHESTNUT STREET, ABOVE SIXTH,
Where aU.paraoas desiring information will apply.
jy2-tf , . - ; -, ■■
UNIONISE AGITXE
REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS,
ARE REMOVED TO
laoa CHESTNUT STREET.
THE STATE MUSTERING OFFICER,
CAFT. FRANK WHEELER,
Has Lie Office at the
LEAGUE HEADQUARTERS.
iy2-t(
f DEFEND THE 9TATE V
HEADQUARTERS Ist BEG’T. infantry, p. h. g..
No, T Statb House Row.
This regiment is recruiting for THREE-MONTHS’
SERVICE, under the call of the Governor to
DEFEND THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Commanders of' Companies will report daily at ten
o’clock;
Each man enlisting in this, corps receives .
$5O BOUNTY
From the City, SlD.from tho Bounty Fund, besides hie
pay.
CHARLES J. BIDDLE, Colonel. •
■ JAMES ROBS SNOWDEN, Ll«ut. Col. jy2-9t
4 PATRIOTSI FREEMEN 1-AWA.KS
BBFOBE IT IS TOO LATE. your wivc3
and children, and chase these robbers from your
doors.
WANTED—Men who can handle a Rifle. Carbine,
Duck,Shot Gun, or any other infernal machine. - Men.
Who are willing to enroll their names, come and bo
ready, 1 at the tap of the Bell of Liberty, with One Hun
dred Rounds'of Ammunition—no bounty. Enrolment
at 431 WALNUT Street: Office. jy2-6t-
TTEABQUARTERS OF COMMISSION
JJ- FOB U. & COLORED TROOPS, flo.'l»lo.CHESr-
NUT Street, Philadelphia. .
The following is the official order authorizing the re
eruiting of Colored Troops:
Heabquautbus of the army, Adj’t General’s Office,
.-> j ; Washington, Jone-17, 1863..
GENERAL ORDKRS N 0.178,
- Major GEORGE I*. STEARNS, Assistant Adjutant:.
■GeneralUnited States. Volunteers, is hereby annoanfced..
-as Recruiting Crninilssioher for theUnlted States Colored.
Troops* subject -to auoh instructions as he may from '
time 10 time receive from the Secretary of War.
fiy order, of the Secretary of War:» - • i .
(Signed,) E. D. TOWNSES, v
Assistant Adjutant General;
To Major Geo. L. Stearns, Ass’t Aaj’t General U. S.
Volunteers* ■- ' , ■ , \ .
The undersigned is prepared to issue the proper an-. *
thorization to colored men 10 enlist recruits J for- the-
Annies of the United States. He will receive applies,-
tions from those desirous of being made commissioned •
officerstand transmit the same to the Board of Inspec--
tlon at Washington, and will Jj.e fallin.--
formation on all matters connected branch of
the service to,those who *l-'■
The undersigned has * fle co-operation of a Committee
sixty citizen* Philadelphia. The Agout of the
cald r. r COBSON, who is likewise the
Agpjat of the undersigned. -. .
. • '_CAiTp WILLJAM PENN, at Chelton -Hills, has been
and Lieut. Colonel
IiEWI.S WAGIfER plECced, incommand of .it. All re
eruila'willibe mtisterecl inbycofhpaniesof. eighty men,
and by squads, and immediately .uniformed, equipped
and sent to the camp.
- Squads of men will be subsisted until companies are
©ompiAted by the committee of citizens, at such localitiea
as their -.-y
- Papers in the interior of mut j—
-Vertisement one time. and. send the paper containing same,
: with bill, to these Headquarters.- * ' ,
Communications by letter will be. promptly answered.
: GEOKQE L.BTEARNB, Major and. A. A. 0,,. .
fieotniting Commissioner for U. S. Colored Volunteers..
-je29-tf ■ :
«EWTS» FURNISHING GOODS.
JjfOß. 1 AND 3 N. SIXJH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
JO 111 C. ARB I BO I,
(j>Oßiraai.T J. SCBR KOORB.)
IMPOSTER AND DEALER I*
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS,
KAirtIFAOTUBEB
OF THE IMPROVED
WRAPPERS.
DOLLARS,
HATHBFAOTIOH GUARANTIED. . myM-to»l
-fj’INB SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
J- Th» subscriber would invite attention to his
IMPROVED CUT* OF BHIBTS.
Flkl he makes a specialty in hie business. Alee, toa
lU“U FOR GENTLEMEN’S WEAR.
J. W. SCOTT,
GENTLEMEN’S 53RNI8HINa STORE.
No. 81* CHESTNUT BTHEBT,
. Pour doors below the Continental. _
PAINTISiGS, ENGRAVINGS, *C.
JAMES S. EARLE & SON,
IMPOSTERS AID. MAIOIAOTUEIIS OP
' LOOKING GI?ASBEa
nxsLnns in.
on. FAIHTIHG9,
ENGRAVINGS,
■ POSTH4.IT,
PICTURE, and
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,
PHOTGGEAPH ALBUMS.
EXTENSIVE LOOKING GLASS WAKEKOOMS AND
GALLERY OF PAINTINGS,
810 CHESTJTUT Street, Philadelphia
GAS WIXTimES, *c.
ftyj ARCH STREET.
i O. A- VANKIRK A 004
« VAS'O?AOTtJBBBB OF'
CH A N D ELIEBB
AND OTHER
GAS FIXTURES.
Bronze Figures and ForielAll
■ftd Hie* Shade** ftnd. a variety of
FANCY GOODSj
WHOLES Ali B ANDHETAIL.
fIUIA nil •.wd-turamino good*-
FURNITURE, Ac.
/CABINET furniture and BIL
y.T4ItP TABLES.
MOORE A CAMPION*
Ho. hoi south SECOND Streets
la with their extensive Gabbiet buslnes*. are
80W BUiM&flturinr a a aperior article or
, BILLIARD TABLES;
and haT« a.ow on hand a fall *hpply. wMi the
• MOOBI * CAMPION’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
Wblch are prononnced by aU who bate wed then to be
the q uality G aii*d finish of the** T&bleß* tba manu-
Sfltnrera refer to their numerons patrons tbrongbont the
SiS.whowi femiUar with the eharaeter■ of- their
Worlr, „.aiMHßi_
CARPETS ANP * QII»-Cl»OTH9*
QIL CLOTHS AND
WINDOW SHADES.
CARRIAGE, TABLE, stair, and floor
OIL CLOTHS,
IN COTTON AND LINEN FABRICS,
QUALITY AND STYLE UNSURPASSED,
WINDOW SHADES,
•COMPRISING EVERY VARIETY OT HEW AND .OBI
SISAL DESIGNS. PLAIN and ORNAMENTAL.
These foods will be sold to Do&lois sad M&aulacitirere
at price* much below the present price of (took. y
THOMAS POTTER;
MANUFACTURER OP OIL CLOTHS AND
WINDOW SHADES,
IMS ARCH Street, Philadelphia, And
M OEDAB sad 05 LIBERTY Streets. How York.
atrlS-2m .
■pYE AND EAR—PROF. J, ISAACS,
A-i s*. L.. Oculist and Aurlst, formerly of Leyden,
Holland, now at 'No. #U FINE Street, where persons
afflicted with diseases of tho Eye and Ear will be solen
tlflouly.treated, and cured. If curable., Artlfloial Eyes
Inserted without pain. N. B.— No.charw made for sxa
«u*u»a ' loi-sn
PATTERN SHIRT.
UNDERCLOTHING. 4w*
VOL. 6;-NO. 289.
WATCHES AND JEWELRY.
QUARK’S,
603 CHESTNUT STREET,'
IS THE CHEAPEST PLACE IN THE CITY TOBHY
COLD or PLATED JEWELRY. SIL mE-PLATED
WARE. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. POCKET ; BOOKS.
TRAVELLING BAGS, bo. , ,
Call and examine our Stock before purchaslne elee-
la a partial list of goods "which we are.
•elline from 20 to 100 per cent, less than at any other ea-
Üblisnmentin the city:
ICE PITCHERS.
* SYRUP PITCHERS.
CREAM PITCHERS/ .
SUGAR BOWLS.
BUTTER COOLERS.
GOBLETS.
CUPS.
CASTORS.
■WAITERS.
CAKE BASKETS.
CARD BASKETS.
:*r SALT STANDS.
TOBACCO BOXES.
NAPKIN RINGS.
- PRUIT KNIVES.
TABLE SPOONS. •
DESSERT BPOONS.
. TEA SPOONS,
SUGAR SPOONS. "
SALT SPOONS. \
DINNER and TEA FORKS.
BUTTER KNIVES.
OYSTER LADLES.
GRAVY LADLES.
SETS IN GREAT VARIETY.
BRACELETS.
BREASTPINS.
CHATALAINE‘CHAINS. '
GUARD-CHiINS. • ’
MEDALLIONS.
CHARMS.
TBIMBLES.
BINGS.
GOLD PENS.
, GOLD .PENCILS.
GOLD TOOTHPICKS.
. GENTS’PINS, beautiful style#.
GENTS’ CHAINS. " **
SLEEVE BUTTONS. “ "
STUDS.
ARMLETS.
NECK CHAINS. *
POCKET-BOOKS.
TRAVELLING BAGS.
► ALBUMS.
CIGAR GASES.
CARD CASES, &0.
Call early and examine the largest and cheapest stock
of Goods in the elty.
I>. W. CLARK'S,
603 CHESTNUT STREET,
WATCHES,
®"jDST RECEIVED PEE STEAMER BUROPA,
GOLD WATCHES,
fcADIES’ SIZES, OP NEW STYLES.
4ILVE* ANCRBS AND OYLINDRES. -
GILT ANCRRS AND CYLINDERS.
PLATED ANGEES AND OYLINDBM.'
for Silt >t how Bitet to the. Trade, br
D. T- PKATTi
eOT_CHBSTNUT BTBBET.
J&L fi n b watch repairing
OB attendedto.bythe most erperiencedworkmen,
ind erery watth warranted for one year.
G. BUSSELL,
as-6m n% Nortk SIXTH Street
JO - FULTjKK ’ A
Importer end Wholesale Dealer In vvf
FINE WATCHES AND JEWELHT,
80. TIB CHESTNUT Street,
(Up-etalra, opposite Masonic Temple,)
Sav "now open a
: LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK;
v> 1 EMBRACING
i HOWARD & CO.’S PINE AMERICAN WATHES,
GOLD CHAINS, GOLD SPECTACLES, THIMBLES,
AND .
PINE JEWELRY OP EVERY DESCRIPTION.
myTMatig - ' ‘
G. BUSSELL, FINE AMERICAN'
Imported 'WATCHES, Fiae Jewelryv‘Silver
an d Plated Ware, &c«
je27 '
33 North SIXTH Street.
J C. FULLER’S
FINE GOLD PENS*’
THE BEST PEN IN USE,
FOE SALE IN ALL SIZES. myK-Sm
piNE GI;LT4G OMBS
• IH-BVEET' variety... .
IMITATIONS OF PEAEL AND OOBAIi,
J.O.FULLER; r
No. 713 CHESTNNT Street.
my22*3ni
yULOANITE RINGS.
A fall RMortment, all sizes and stria**
J. O. FULLER,
- ar^-M^nnKflTaOTStreet^BirSa-am
MUSI CAL BOXES. |
TN SHELL AND ROSEWOOD CASES,
L■ blarin'* from Ito 13 tunes,-choice Owra; and Amort*
M ItSoSia ?ARR * &ROTHEC Importers,
ainsiMW. yi*CHßgTNPTStreet.b.Blowj?oiirtji_
CLOTHING.
JOHN KELLY, JR,
tailor;
MAS REMOVED PROM MM CHESTNUT STREET!
EDWARD P. KELLY’S,
1U South THIRD Street:
Where he Present, to former patron, and the Bublie
theadTaitaiee of a STOCK OP GOODS,banal If net en
■ uerior.to any in the city— -the skill and taste of himself
and EDWARD P. KELLY, the two best Tailor, tjf. the
eitr—at prices much lower than any other flrst-elaeseert
bllehment of the elty. _
Fine Clothing,
FOH
Spring and Summer.
WANAMAEB& &
S.’A eor. Ath A'Market.
ALSO.
Medium and Common
GRADES,
Cut and Made In
iFMhlousble Stylo
SOLD AT. LOW PKIUBS.
DLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50,
D . At 704 MARKET Street.
RI.Ar.K CASS. PANTS, $5.60, At 701 MARKET Street.
BLACK CASS* PANTS, 85.60, At 7ol MARKET Street.
RT,A(!K- CASS PANTS, $5.50, At 704 MARKET Street.
T2T.rtr r*KK PANTS 85 50, At 704 MARKET. Street.
BRIGS & VAN GCNtS’S, N 0.701 JIARKET Street.
ORTGG § VAN GUNTEN’S, No. 701 SUREST Street.
oRTro AVAN GUNTEN’S, No 701 31 4RKET Street.
GRLGG I VAN GUNTEN’I: No. 701 MARKET Street.
6RIGG A VAN GUNTEN’S, N 0.701 MARKET Street
mh22-Cm ... 1 - -
SEWING MACHINES.
jgINGER &■ CO.’S
“LETTER A”
FAMILY SEWING MACHINE,
with all the new Improvements- Hemmer, Braider,
Binder, Feller,«Tacker,Border, Gatherer, Ac., is the
CHEAPEST AND BEST
of all machines for
FAMILY BEWIX6
asp .
LIGHT MANUFACTURING PURPOSES.
Send for a pamphlet and 'a copy of “ Singer & Co. ’e
gazette.”
I. M. SINGER & OO,;
JelSiSm Ho. 810 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia.
gEWINO MACHINES.
THE “BLOAT” MACHINE,'
WITH GLASS PBJSBEB FOOT, ■■ ■. ■ _
HIW BTYLE HEMMEB, BRAIBXE.
tad ether valuable Improvement,.
■ also,
rHK TAGGART * FARR MACHINES.
Aionev-sm CHESTNUT Street nM-»
rr<o FAMILIES RESIDING IN THE
A RURAL DISTRICTS.
We are prepared, ae heretofore, to supply Families at
their Country Besldeucee with
EVERY DEBCBIPTIOH OF ~
FINE GROCERIES, TEAS; &O.
ALBERT C. ROBERTB,
mva-tf CORNER ELEVENTH AND VINE BTB.
riOTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS
of all descriptions, for
i to 6 ft
Wide. TarpanU«, B,nin &i 0
»y«f IIwiJONSS’ Alley.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1863.
The State and the Nation.
To the Editor of The Press : " \ " '
SntArc the American people, as such, to look
forward to another Fourth of July, or la that which
they have just celebrated to be the last commemora
tionof the great act to which they owe their exist
ence as a nation ? . They certainly ought not;to anti*
cipate another return of their great national
if the men who are now striving to control .the De
mocratic party, and lead it to its and the coun
try Vruin* are permitted to bear sway unchecked by •
the patriotism which lies at the bottom of the hearts
of the- great mass of the community. Dook at the .
recent .letter of Mr. Charles J. Biddle, to 'Judge'
Woodward, the Democratic candidate for Governor.
Does this letter, or the reply of Judge Woodward,.
codtain'aword about theiAmerican flag, thecountry,
our national honor, the-esistence and perpetuity of,
the American people—about anything; phprt.-
which could remind us that we aro-fc nation, and not
a disjointed aggregate Cf distinct communities? Are
not such ide&s, on the contrary, carefully excluded,
in order to sound the Bingle chord of State pride and'
looal/eelingT Pennsylvanians, come forth to defend
Pennsylvania',*!because your Sfate, your property, .
your homeSf are in danger. This is all that these
gentlemen' could And it in their hearts to say at a
'time when every American should have felt that tlie
honor of the American name—that name .which
blends 'all the loyal States into 1 one—was the first
and highest consideration—at a time, ■’ too, : when
Pennsylvania was holding forth her hands for
succor- to her sister States, and owing her
safety? to the national'arms. It would* almost
seem as if- the writers,Tearful Jest the war between
North and South should too soon end, had deter*
mined to sow those seeds of future strife which will -
surely, produce a plentiful crop of armed and con
tending men. For what can come to pass if their
programme and that of their associates of the Demo
cratic club is carried out, if the sacred name of coun- r
try’ii to lose its influence, and be replaced by.the
impulses of local pride and selfishness,d3ut continual
war between |the crowd of petty communities that
Will then fill the place once held by the American
nation? There is hardly a State which, if the Union
were at an end, would possess the limits or have the
geographical conditions necessary for a distinct and
self-sustaining existence. The States are separated
from each other for the most part, 1 not by rivers,
mountains or other natural boundaries, but by lines,
drawn arbitrarily on the map centuries ago by royal
favorites or ministers ignorant of the land which
they were dividing, and careless of the wants of fu
ture generations. New-York is, indeed, by a happy
chance, in possession of the mouth of her great river,.
the Hudson; but the first step taken by Pennsylva*.
nia after the inauguration of thatsovereigntywhich
Judge Woodward, Mr. Ingersoll and others, would
force upon her, would be to assure the means of
access^ to the ocean, by the conquest of Delaware,
accompanied probably by a war with Maryland for
the rest of the peninsula. Those who-expect the
Stateß to.endure after the United States'haß perish*
cd, build their hopes on a sandy foundation. The
revolution would go on, enormous military .estab
lishments be formed for. defence or subjugation, and
the whole result in the formation of four or five cen
tralized despotism's ’ on the wreck of our present
admirably balanced Constitution.
The spirit.which animates this faction, its want of
true patriotism, are clearly shown by the sarcasms
heaped by their organ, The Age newspaper, on Gov.
Curtin for the wise foresight in seeking to* induce
citizens to be mustered into the service of the
United States, instead of calling them out as State
militia/ His desire was to protect both the State
and the Uniohf and lie knew thatthis could only be
effectually done by- troops that could be marched to
the Potomac, the natural- boundary and line of de
fence of Pennsylvania. For this be is sneeredat by
'Tfte;l4ge and its friends, as ■provincial; “ a provincial
Governor,*’ no doubt, because he does not wish to
see Pennsylvania reduced, to a province of the
Southern Confederacy. As the matter now stands, '
if Dee is forced back towards the Potomac, itsviU
depend on the good pleasure of the Pennsylvania
troops whether they will follow him across the State,
line, and drive vhim into and over, that river. The
glorious Army of the Potomac, which pours forth
its blood for the country asa whole, and knows no
State distinctions while the exiatenco of the nation]
is in danger, liss, by its victory, rendered this ques-.
tion of less importance; but it is easy to see that-the
disinclination of the militia to enter the national....
service, excusable in them, but criminal in those 7 by-
Whom it was fostered, might, if events had taken a
somewhat different turn, have changed the fortunes
of the campaign, and exposed Pennsylvania to'
another invasion. Let Judge Woodward, and the
politicians by whom he is surrounded, cease to be
State, and become, in some de
interests of this OomTO i
gociated with those of the republic at large, and the
American people. . He may theri merit the yotes of ’
his fellow-citizens; and fill the high office to which -
he seeks.to be' elected, with: less injury to the wel
fare of all, than must inevitably follow, from his
holding* the' reins of Government! at Harrisburg f
while still inculcating and practising his present
principles. : AN AMERICAN.”
[For The Press] ,
Heroes of the Nineteenth Century.
JIY J. 0. JtI.YTHE, At. D.
Hail! heroes of the Weetem world,
Whose crimson banners wide unfurled
Are streaming high;
God greet ye with his cheering smile,
Brave chicftaißS, soldiers, rank and file,
Who dare to die!
Who dare to die in Freedom’s cause,
Defenders of its rights and laws,
On field of Mars;
O’er arches blue that span the sky,
■Your names shall yet shine proudly high,
Among the stars, „ .
God bless ye, brave, heroic band,
Sustain you by hlB mighty hand,
On flood and field;
Where’er ye meet a nation’s foes,
Direct your, fierce, death-dealing blows,
Until they yield—
Or bite the dust, whence first they sprung,
yile traitors! who their country stung.
And deeply cursed; ..
O’er whom no requiem e’er be sung. -
By human or angelic tongue,
But thunders burst.
God give ye hearts of tempered steel,
Like the bright blades the foernen feel,
Who dare to stand
- Against the mighty rush and roar,
Of patriots red with human gore,
Heroic band!
Fight on! unyielding as the rocks,
Amid the battle’s rudest shocks
And wild uproar;
A nation’s gratoluUiearta shall claim
To raise ye to the highest fame,
Forevermore.
Fight on, nor fear, God loves the brave,
And wreaths a halo o’er the grave
Of them that fall
Where bursting bombshells thickly fly,
And shrouds them, as they bleeding lie,
In glory all.
The crimson ashes where they sleep
Shall wake the voices of the deep,
To chant their praise,
Some future day, when Peace shall bring.
Her olive branch on snow-white wing,
And greenest bays.
Glad millions, yet unborn, shall fly
To bathe the dust where heroes lie
With holy tears;
Wliile memory o’er the past will run,
And muse on deeds the brave have done
In former years. -
Publications Received.
From W. B. Zleber.— Blackwood’s Magazine,. for :
June, American reprint. 1 Norik American Review , for-
July, No. co. - Eclectic Magazine, lor July. Jilackmood
is of average merit, the beat articles being Hough
Notes of a Ride to BabylOD, and a Review of the
Life of Rlehop Bloomfield. The,North American Re
view, (apparently quickened into energy by the ri
valry of its able young rival, Sears’. National Quar
terly Review,) hoe several good articles, among which
“Peerages and Genealogies,” the “Chronology,
Topography, and Archaeology of the Life of Christ,”
“Leigh Hunt,” and “Liberia College,” are the
best. There Is also a fair notice of “ Roba di Roma,”
by W. W/'Story.the. poet-eoulptor, a work of great
merit, which, strange to say, hao not yet been re
published here. The July number of the’ Eclectic
Magazine, besides the usual variety of selected arti
cles from the British periodicals, has a' flne portrait
of Columbus, after the original by Parmagiano in
the Royal Gallery of Naples, very well engraved by
G. E. Ferine. It is the best portrait-engraving we
have seen for stfme time.
Prom J. jVlunsell, Albany.—TAe New England Ge
nealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, for July.,
This periodical is published'quarterly, under'the
direction of.the New England Historic-Genealogical
Society, and a highly valuable and interesting work •
it is. There is nothing of the same character half as
good in England. It contains a vast amount of his
torical Information, varied and valuable. The lead
ing illustration of, the present number is a portrait?
of Samuel Gardner Drake, A. M., author of various
well-known biographies and histories, and origina
tor,in 1817, of the Register, which here gives his life
and portrait. ■ Mr. Muneell, of Albany, publisher of
this periodical, is a highly accomplished gentleman,,
whose knowledge, of books and taste.in getting them
up is known on both,sides of the Atlantic.
From George W. Childs.— The American Publishers 3
Circular and Literary Gazette, for July 1, 1863. This
publication, now bi mensal, Is Indispensable to
. readers and publishers. Its original letters from
London and Paris convey full and reliable news of
European literature, and its , miscellaneous para
graphs are often entertaining as well as instructive.
The autograph letter In the present number is from
Lord Byron to. Lord Holland, on'the death of his
daughter, Allegra, in Italy, early in 1822. In the
Publishers 3 Circular every articleis original, and even
its English rivals have liberally proclaimetUts su
periority.
From W-'Z. Herbert.—.lke Prophetic Ttptes, No. 6.
The most readable article hcreis on " Napoleon 111.
and Ills Schemes,” by an English clergyman, and it
PHILADELPHIA. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1863.
'collects a number of curious f acts. An editorial
rates us of The Press for snubbing it, and denounces
'** anonymous news-monger*, employees [sic] of the
secular daily.presß.” Yet the gentleman who writes
thus is himself anonymous. , .
Frederick* JHd*.
[Special Correapohdence.of .The Pres*. 3
Frederick City,'-July 6,1863.
FOURTH-OF JULY i .
inFrederick Oity.dawned hazily upon the peo
ple, who awoke fromstheir broken slumbers fd ; .won
der if there would be any__celebration during the day,
or pyrotechnicAl dißplay at night. There was a time
when the young and looked and longed with
palpitating hearts for tfieHeonaingbf this.glorious,
dayfwith all its pomp, and noise, . {{ <DSy
Country, - ’tie of Thee,'”>, Was*,bung with fervor, the
Declaration of Independence'read ‘with vigor and
emphasis j the Union and the. ladies toasted. 'Some
of 'tlie citizens—and they were of the chosen few—
spread - what national bunting 'they- had to the
breeze, took from the bureau*drawer~thefew fire
crackers which remained* frdm'laßt fourth of^' Ll \y i
them to the younger boy, many cau*
- tioUS admoDitiofij t riame ft legion, ;
went to corner where thirsty ones most do con-
only to find themselves 'more disappointed
than Tantalus, who with a glance at
the cup, and watched eyes the--liquid
contents sparkle in the noontide beam.. But .to the
parched sfouls who came to moisfbn throats
with whisky on thisgTeat natal day, there was only
vouchsafed a look at a placard on the oloßedabutter
of their spirit?S'home, which plainly told them the
marshal had peremptorily ordered all gin
mills” closed, and prohibited the giving or Belling of
any liquors. Thus was Frederick saved from any
unnatural ebullition-of feeling. A few may,have
bad the good fortune to have been affected like Tam'
O’Shanter; of whom’tis written— .. ••**.
“ Kings may be h’anpy, bat Tarn was .gloriousi;’
O’er all the ills of nfe victorious;” V •
but the majority would have found themselves in
the guard-house next morning, where-there -is'nei-.
‘ ther comfort, honor, nor glory. 7 :v.
About noon Captain GroiT, of Maryland Home
Brigade, who was wounded in the rfoot during the
battle of' Thursday;'
home, with some of z •' *
' FREDERICK’S LAMENTED DEAD,
slain while gallantly charging the enemies rifle*pits.
occupied by rebels from their own neighborhood.
In this fearful onset- Maryland met In.i
bloody, deadly strife. Victory at first frowned'on
,loyal men $ they.were repulsed, Again-.they rushed
upon the rebels, and justice awarded victory to
loyalty. The renegades were outflanked,
ed, and captured.- Lieutenants Smith and Eaderfell,'
and were brought home. \
THE DEAD MARCH,
Slow, solemn, suggestive, can be heard over the
city. It had rained throughout the greater part of
the day. Now’fcwas Bunset, for toward night the
opaque clouds drifted away from the west, and the.
eleepy-looking sun shed his cheerful light over roof
and spire. The mournful procession passed beneath
my window. As I heard the low, plaintive, solemn
dirge, [listened to the muffled tread of those who
accompanied the coffined dead, saw their arms re
versed, and heads bowed low in (grief, I knew the
mangledtremains of the slain.were to have a - sol
dier’s burial. Soon his comrades ffred
> ' “ the'farewell shot.
And away from the grave they hurried.
From all I can learn by cross-examining soldiers:-
and officers who were.in the ' late three days’battle
near Gettysburg, I. gladly admit the Army of thef
Potomac really and .substantially victors at lastr:
That we- have been unprecedentedly successful, is
certain from the ..fact of our being in possession of
their dead and wounded, an event that seldom occurs,
as they take extreme measures to have them carried
ofi or concealed. Now they have thrust themselves
upon our hospitality, let us not only welcome them
o warmly, but detain them long enough to give them;
some lasting , tokens of friendship./ Lee is not the
great man we> are all apt to imagine him. -In his
own State he. be powerful. But on grounds
wheretcehave friends to,warn us. of coming danger
he is. but a shorn Samson.- 'All the while he was
growing because he-possessed a wealth of .
rpowey in on^man —Stonewall Jackson. Neverdid-
Lee get into j&mblc but Jackgon was nigh to save,
him. ‘ ■■■'■■
, S LEE RETREATS, ;
because we are getting uncomfortably near.- He
has. put one unijHeivupted communication—
that -is . from G ; eLtyßlmix 1 .thr Hagerstown’into
Sharpsburg and Gen. Meade
has- started them to running?* their loop-holes
should be well closed, when- rife can hunt down the
rata at leisure,'- I- think, instead <af hfuq£££jatilie'v
in Pennsylvania, they
Our brave .reapers are.
and gathering, as if they fe&redrH&iose.-the
crop by-delay: 'j£lready straggta^&nnd-vrouSded 1
'r men have passed through ahd-'a larges
train is xeported on its way—'Caiilgfiiheep, and plun-.
derof every description. ■
PONTOON-BRIDGES DEsgJROYED,. - , .
’ The pontoon bridge which the readers
' typo made forty-two nui«»> ueatv^jtss^^
detachment of our cavalry, who proceeded to burn
other,'which they heard built. Before
our forces left Maryland Heights they demolished
the pontoon over;the Potomac near Harper’s Ferry,
and by this time : have burned the railroad bridge at
that place. •
MOSEBY AND HIS GUERILLAS IN HAGER a-
Th(s are' reported to have been at Vienna, and
Moseby’s* headquarters .were located at'Fairfax.
He cifuld not have been there at the time the Wash
ington correspondent of the New York HeryM re
ported, for I can assure youhe cameinto Hagerstown
early Thursday morning, and had forty-live • men
with him—also General Jones and Col. Marshall-
About 2 o’clock P. M.fthey left for camp, three and
a half milds from town, near Salem Church onPeun
sylvania- line, where..they remained all flay Friday
and Saturday. Friday, -A. M., Moaeby, accompanied
by a lieutenant and two- orderlies, rode, Into town 1
and lounged through the different stores, the greater
portion of the day. He loaded a wagon with goods
for his own family use,which he started to Williams
port—a significant fact, meaning' they ho longer ex’ _
pect to get what they desire at Harrisburg, iand are
content to take the first thing they can get. He was
very uneaßy while there, sending his oompaniona.-
out to watch and frequently going .out himself to
peer up and down the streets. Which, way do the
Yankees generally cornel!’ he would ask,. Do you
expect them soon! How many are there of them?’
ami a thousand other questions, showing his mind
to have been in a state Of great*perturbation. .These
rebels Bay Lee’s army haß fallen back from Cham
beraburg ' and is! still retiring, and. describe his
- only'line of retreat to be that which I’ve here
-mentioned.
REBEL SCOUTS .IN TOWN
caused intense excitement. Emboldened by the
carelessness which our security lias created, a dozen
of theae villainous guerillas came into. the town,
alarming , citizensi capturing horses, and spreading
confusion and consternation throughout the city.
Our pickets were driven in on the Harper’s Ferry
road, and every one thought the enemy was ap
proaching in force. Small details of cavalry were
,sent to scoure the various roads leading to and from
ihe eity, and a battalion of carbineers was drawn
across the leading street in battle array. A squadron
of the 13th Pennsylvania started in pursuit, and
chased them into Harpcr’B Ferry, where they had a
large force. Major Kerwin, who had command,
■ deemed it prudent to retire. They shot two and
captured two of these audacious guerillas. In
■company with Captain Spearman, who, being
wounded in the hand, waß not on duty, I started to
see the fun. but succeeded in getting very wet, which
was not the least funny.
SUMMARY EXECUTION OF A REBEL'SPY.
■ About dusk on Sunday evening our cavalry cap
tured three men, who were undoubted spies. One'
of these, named Richardson, was a sharp little old
man, about fifty years old. He had documents about
his person sufficiently damning, beside his confession
in open court. Hiß body, now suspended to the
limb of a locust tree in the centre of a clover field,
Is swayed gently to and fro by the fitful breeze.
The other two will prob'ably be executed to-day.
This is just. It is never too late to do good.
POTOMAC RAISED,
bo that it cannot be forded. A.'droye&of cattle
brought to Williamsport, yesterday, could.'nob:be
got over the river. Many of them roamed abroad,
over the fields; a few were ferried over in flalboats.
A drove of aheepi which the enemy were driving
through Sharpaburg, was captured, and I had the
satisfaction :of seeing them in the hands of our own
soldiers. Every precaution is being taken to guard
all the passes through the mountains and, destroy all
the bridges over the river. If Lee has got himself
into trouble, he will find that it cannot be measured
by the peek,. ■ . ' : :
[From the N. T. Tribune. 1 ' ;
Colonel Frederick Taylor.
[Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.3
Many the way a that lead to death, but few
Grandly ; and one alone is Glory’s gate,
Standing wherever free men dare their fate,
Determined, as thou wert, tb die—or do 1
This thou hast past, youngsoldier, stormingthrough
The fiery darkness round it—not too late
To know,-the invaders beaten from thy. State—
Ah, why too soon to rout them, and pursue i
But some must fail aB thou hast fallen; some -
Remain to fight, arid fall another day; ; -
And some go'down in' peace to their long rest.
If >t were not now, it would be still to come;
And whether now, or when thy hairs.were gray,
' were fittest lor thee—God alone knows best.
New Vork, July :>. 1563. R. H. STODDARD.
Beauregard’s Forces Reported at-Cul.
It is stated that the whole ofGeneral Bragg's army
left Shelbyville some days ago, passed through.
Eastern Tennessee; and arc nowin Virginia, moving
towards Lynchburg, Gordonsville, Sand- Culpeper. -
Indeed, it is stated that they -have already begun to
arrive at the latter-place, although it isAnown that
some of Bragg’s brigades have not yet left Chatta
nooga. The rebel forces thus destined to operate
in Vir"inia are said to amount to fifty thousand
troops. It iB stated, also that there, are uo rebel
troops at all how at Charleston ; thatpart of them
have beeh sent to Richmond, where they are to re
lnainht present,but that the greater part of them
Dossed through Richmond some time ago, and were
being massed at Gulpeper and between that point
and This part of Beauregard’s forces
are said to amount to thirty thousand.troops. If these
renorts are correct, and I have -every reason toße
lievc them to be so, it is. evident that These two
bodies oftroops, originally so far .apart,-have been
•; brought together at Cuipeper.inpmauanceofßO^^^^
design not yet developed. In the light otother.iacts,
however, it is not difficult to indicate that desig .
Cor* ITeratd* - - "
Admiral JJahlgrcn.
Nnw Yobk, July *7.—Admiral Dahlgren arrived
at Port Royal on the 4th r iu the oteamer. Auguste
Pinamon, - -
GiTTYSBuna, July 6.—[Special to New York
Times,]—The. report from the front is v&ry cheering.
Our cavalry, supported by'infantry, is close upon
the heels or the enemy, and important results are
likely to occur before night.
A despatch from General Gregg, of this morning,
reports that the rebels, instead of going to; Cham.-,
bersburg, are pushing to Greencastle'. The roads
arc very heavy, and the rebel tralns.hre stuck in the
mud, and the enemy are abanctonidgall theirwound
"ed in the retreat, ■ ' i
" Brigadier General Kembcr is a prisoner in a dying
Condition.' • - ‘ ‘
< Frederick, July 6—[Special to the New York;
flfrcW].—General Buford, who set out with the in
tention of meeting Stuart, had a fight with him to
day, somewhere in the vicinity of Boonsboro.' He
whipped him badly. There is no further reliable in
, .formation. Stuart’s cavalry, “1,000 strong,- com
manded by himself, passed - through'-JVtechanicsbuig
yesterday, with eight pieces of artillery. This is
, supposed to be the force that met Buford to-day,
Rebel deserters represent the army to be much
-dispirited, and out pf_Jamnmnition. J Yesterday,
General Kilpatrick, with his division of cavalry,
. attacked an ambulance train of rebels under a strong
guard, at Smithshurg, eleven miles from-Hagers
town. The train comprised one hundred andgyrixty
ambulanoes and wagons, a great numbcrgjSpfeh
he destroyed. , ’ '
His artillery destroyed many wagonS'before the
rebels surrendered. He captured 167 prisoners, in
cluding wounded. officers. He also captured two
. small pieces of artillery. Our loss was very slight,
.and: that of the rebelß heavy, although they made
übut slight resistance.
New York, July The Herald's Baltimore
despatch reports-the death of General Ewell, on the
morning of the 6th, at the house of Sterling Galt,
two miles fromJTaaeytown.
• York, Pa., July?.—The only man killed in the
(118th) Corn Exchange Regiment, in the Gettysburg
battle, was Captain David. Lieutenants/Wilson
-• and Inman, and four men were wounded—none of
■them seriously. Captain L, L. Crocker made a nar
row escape. /. ' . ; .
CHARGE AND REPULSE OP HILL AND
E WELL ON THURSD AY.
About 6 o’clock P. M., silence,'m&pj, awfully 1 ira
* preßßivc, but momentary, was permitted as if-by
>magic to dwell upon the field. Only the groans, ua
t heard before , of the wounded and dying," only the
;■ murmur—a morning memory—of the breeze through',
the foliage, only .the low rattle of preparation for
what was to come, embroidered this blank stillness.
iThen, as the smoke beyond the village was lightly,
I'borne toutlie eastward, the .woods on the left were
.with dark maßßes-oAinfantry, three co«
-Humcs-dcip, who adyancedat'a quickatep. Magnifi
cent f'-Sufeh a charge by spcfcfcaibrce—full 45,000 men,
, underbill and tho'ugh itthreat
ened'to'.plerce.and*-annihilate the 3d Corps, against
Whioh*'it was <Jlrectedjil]rewforth cries of admiration
from'l\ltwho beheld Sickles and hißsplen
. did comimand'withßtood theshock with a determina
tion thatVchecked but could riot fully restrain it.
Rack, inch bv inch, fighting, falling, dying, cheering,
the men retired. The rebels came on more furious
ly , v haUing|at intervals; pouring volleys that struck
our troops down in scores.% General Sickles, fighting
v desperately, waß struck in the leg, and fell.. The 2d.
Coi-ps came.to the his deoimated colunui. The
fearful. ' Standing firmly up against
storm, : tiur troops, still .outnumbered, •
*■ fof shot, voUey, for volley, almost
j-.deAthfor death., Still the enemy was not restrained;
upon our left with a momentum that
: ; check* The rifled guns that lay be
• lore our oh a Knol? were In danger of cap-
V? SimS Jsfias?' ok . ! ? ,raB Wounded in the thigh,
, S£P_ ei L a * shoulder. TheAth dorps, as
anew, went inio thebreach
‘*'222isJ c volleys as made the rebel
l~Tlm' ? ?rt- <iroM6 ' at '- laßt - T - rp from the valley be
-1 the enemy’b ranks. CraahTcMait! mi&
deafcßing, terrible; the musketry firing went on;
the enemy, reforming after each discharge with
wondrous celerity and firmness, still pressed up the
declivity. What hideous carnage filled the minuteß
between the appearance of the, sth Corps,*;and the
advance to the support of the rebel columns bf still
another column from the right, I cannot bear to tell.
Men fell as the leaves fall in autumn before those
horrible discharges. Faltering for an instant, the
rebel columns seemed about to recede before the
tempest. But their officers, .who could be seen
\through the smoke of the conflict, galloping and
their .swords along the lines,- rallied them
r ahew, : and the next instant .the whole line sprang
’forward as if to break through our own by mere
' weight of numbers. . A division from the l2th.Corps,
on the extreihe right, reached the scene at thiß in
stant, and at the same time Sedgwick came up wittf
the 6th Corpse having finished a march of nearly
thif ty'-six'conßecutive.hours. . To what rescue they .
y came, their officers? saw' and told them." Weary as
they were, bare-footed, hungry, fit to drop for slum
ber as they were, the wish for victory wasso blended
with the thought of exhaustion that they cast them
selves in turn en masse into line of battle, ana
went down on the enemy with death in their
weapoDß and cheers on their lips. The rebel camel’s
'hack was broken by. this .“ feather.” His line .stag
gered, reeled,; anddrifted\slowly. back,,while the ,
>ghouts of our soldiers lifted up amid the roar of mus
, Aretry over the bodies of-the dead and wounded, pro- ,
. claimed the completeness of their victory. Mean
while,as the division of Slocum’s corps, on the ex
treme right, left its post to join in this triumph,
another column, of the enemy, under command of
General Ewell, had dashed savagely against our
weakened left wing, and as the-failure to turn our
left became known it seemed as if .determination to
conquerdn this part of the field overcame alike the
enemy’s fear of death and his plans for victory else
where. The fight was terrific, and for fifteen
minutes the attack to which the three divisions of
the 12th Corpß were subjected was more furious
than any thing- every known in the history of this *
Aimy. The 6th'Corps came to their support; the Ist
Corps followed,' and from dusk into darkness. _
until half-past nine o’clock, the battle raged
•with varied fortune and unabated fury. - Our
troops were compelled, by overpowering numbers,
to fall back a short distance, abandoning . several
rifle-pits and an advantageous position*to the ene
my, who, haughty over his advantage and made
desperate by defeat in other quarters, then made a
last struggling charge against that division of our
right wing commanded by General Geary. General
Geary’s troops immortalized themselves by their re
. sistance to this attempt. They stood like adamant,
a moveless, death-dealing machine, before whose
volleys the rebel column withered and went down
by hundreds. After a slaughter inconceivable, the
repulse of Eweil was complete, and he retired at 10
o’clock P, M. to the position before referred to.SiThe
firing from all quarters of the field ceased soon after
lhat hour, and no other attack was made until
inomiDg.
peper.
THE REBEL DEFEAT.
Great Loss of General Officers*
A Ilglit with Stuart near Boonsboro.
,Vl y for fiffclen miieß iaa hospi.
iai, are leaving all their wounded generals
and cclonele, as well aB privates. All their wounded
-will-fall into our hands. Wfe have taken thus far
•>over6iouo prisoners,-besideErthe wounded,
f .Another despatch' states that the head of the rebel
retreating column passed-' through Greenwood, 12
miles northwest of Ilageritown, Sunday forenoon.
./■On Sunday night headquarters were
at Jack’s mountain, ten miles from Gettysburg.
'EWeli’s at Fairfield, eight miles distant.
the. rebels passed through' Fairfield, they
were moving rapidly, three columns abreast.
The slaughter among the rebel general officers
was very great. .* .
frlajor Gen. Trimble is a prisoner in our lines; his
left foot gone. ■■ ■ ■ ■ • ■
; .General Aimistead, captured on Thursday, is
'. ' v
• Major General Hood is wounded in the arm.
‘ .Generals Heth, Pender, and Picket are also known
to be wounded. • -
!.Generals BarksdAlc and Garnett were killed,
v The enemy is reported to have a trestle bridge just
built across the Potamac, above Williamsport. If
so their main force may escape.
Further Details of tile Great Victor}*. |
(From Correspondence of the World. 1
„ TIIE RATTLE OF FRIDAY.
This last engagement has been the fiercest and
most sanguinary of the war. It was begun at day
light by General Slocum, whose troops, maddened
by the loss of many comrades, and eager to retrieve
the position lost by them on the pteceding evening,
advanced and delivered a destructive fire against
the rebels under Ewell. That General’s entire force,
responded with a charge that is,memorable even be
yond those made by them yesterday. Itwasdes
peration against courage! The fire of the enemy
was mingled with yells, pitched even above its
clangor. They came on, and on, and on, while the
national troops, splendidly handled and well posted,
stood unshaken. to receive them. The fire with
which they did receive them was so rapid and so
thick as to envelope the rankß of its deliverers
with a pall that shut them from sight during the bat
; tie, which raged thenceforward for six dreary hours.
Out of this pall no Btraggler came to the rear. The
line scarcely flinched from its position during the
entire conllct. Huge masses of rebel infantry thre w
themselves into it again and again, in vain. Back,
as a hall hurled against a rook, these masses recoiled,
arid were re-formed, to be hurled shew ngainstit with
a fiercenessuufruitmlof success—fruitful of carnage,
ab before. The strong position occupied by General
Geary, and that held by General Birney, met the
first and hardest assaults, but only fell back a short
distance before fearful odds, to re-advance, to re-as
sume,'And to hold their places in company with
Sykes’ division of the sth Corps, and Humphrey’s
(Berry’s old- division) of the '3d, when judiciously/
reinforced with artillery, they renewed andcontin--
u€d the contest until its cHse. Itscemed a* r if the
eray-uniformed troops, who were advanced and re
ndvanced by their oncers up to-the very edge of the
line of smoke in front of our infantry, were im
pelled by some terror in their rear, which they were
aa unable to withstand as they were to make head
way against the fire in their front. It waa hard to
believe such desperation voluntary. It was harder
to believe that the courage which withstood and de
feated it was mortal. , , -
The'enemy gradually drew forward his whole line
until in many places a hand-to-hand conflict raged
lor minutes; His artillery, Answered by. ours,
played- upon our columns with frightful re
sult, yet they did • not waver. The battle
was in this way evenly contested for a time, but at a
moment when it seemed problematical which side
would gain the victory, a reinforcement arrived and
were formed inline At such a position as to :eafilade
the enemv and teach him at last the futility of his
efforts, disordered, routed, and confused, hts whole
force retreated, and at u. : o'clock the battle ceased
and the stillness of- death ensued. This silence con- ■■
tinued until 2P. M. At this moment the rebel
artillery from.all points, in a circle radiating
Around our own, began a terrific And concentrated j
fire on Cemetery Hill, which was held, ab I have pre
viously Btated, by the: llth and 2d Corps. The flock
of pigeons, which not ten mimites previous had
darkened the : sky above, were scarcely thicker than
the flock of horrible missiles that now; instead of
sailing ; harmlessly above* descended upon our po
sition. * The - atmosphere was .thickswith shot and
shell. The storm broke upon us; ao.isuddenly that
soldiers and leaped as it began from
their tents, or from lazy siestas on the grasß-—were
stricken< in their rising with mortal wounds and
died t some with cigars between their teeth, some
-with pieces of food in their fingers, and one At
least—a pale young German. froixL,
with' a minature of his aißier im his hands, that
Seemed more meet to-grasp an artißt a pencil than
■' a musket. Horses fell, shrieking such awful cries
as Cooper told of, and writbingvthemselves about
in hopeless agony. The boards of fences, scattered
by explosion, fiew. in splinters through theair. The
earth torn up in clouds.; blended thejeyes of hurry
inff men; and through the branches of the trees, and
, amoDff the grave-stones of the cemetery, a shower
of destruction crashed ccaßelesßly. As, with hun
dredsof othersfl groped Through tins tempest of:
l death for the shelter of the bluff, au old man; a prl-
vate in a company belonging to the 24th Michigan,
was struck scarcely ten. feet a oannon Ball,
which tore through l him, extortingßuch a low, in
tense cry of mortal pain as I pray God I may never
again hear. The hill, which seemed alone devoted
to this reign of death, was clear in nearly all its un
sheltered places . within five minutes after the fire
began."
Our batteries: responded immediately. Three
hours ,of cannonading ensued, exceeding in fierce
ness any ever known. Probably three hundred can
non were fired simultaneously until four o’clock,
when the rebel infantry were again seen maßsing in
the woods; fronting our centre, formed by the Ist
and 2d Corps. Gen. Doubleday’e troops met this
charge with the same heroic courage that had so
often repelled the enemy in his desperate attempts.
The charge was made spiritedly but less venomously
than before. General "Webb, commanding the 2d
brigade, 2d' division of the 2d Corps, met the main
fury of the attack with a steady fire that served
to retard the enemy’s advance for a moment.
That moment :was occupied by the rebel
General, Armi&tage in steadying his troops behind
the fence. General Webb immediately ordered a
charge, which waß made with such eagerness and
swiftness; and supported by such numbers of our
troops, as enabled us to partially surround the ene
my, and capture General Armiatage and 3,000 of his
men. The carnage which accompanied this charge,
and the terror inspired by it were so great as to re
duce numbers of the foe to actual cowardice. They
fell upon their knees and faces,holding forward their
guns, and begging for: mercy, while their escaped
comrades, panic-stricken and utterly routed, rushed
down across the ditches, and fences, through the
fields and through Gettysburg. ' Not a column re
mained to make another start. The triumph fought
for during these three terrible days belonged at last
to the noble Army of the Potomao.
Incidents of the Battle*
, CFrom Correspondence of the Tribune.!
General Sehimmelfenig escaped capture by rcsort
mg-to a dodge worthy of the sharpest Yankee.
When he found his retreat cut off, he seized ..the coat
of a private, and buttoned it closely over his uni
form; he was knocked down and run over by a gang
of rebels who were after plunder. He then stumbled
away into a cellar,, and lay there concealed, and
without food, for two dayß; but when he heard the
boys playing Yankee Doodle” in the streetsf’lie ~
■ thought it safe to come out He is now in command
.of his brigade, and ready for work.,
The ltth Corps lost in killed, wounded, and miss
ing. 4,060 men; The let Corps loss foots up nearly
6,000. The: 12th Oorpß lost in killed and wounded,
'973; missing,'242; 17 officers killed, and 43 wounded. ,
.Oneregiment the 2d Massachusetts, in Slocum’s
Corps, loßt 11 officers in a charge, yet when this
division waß repulsed the regiment fell back in per
fect order and each soldier in his place.
' Sharpshooting has become a serious service in bat
tle. .Three hundred men from our brigade were
shot in the rifle-pita ,on Friday, by a half a dozen
of the enemy’s sharpshooters concealed Jin a brick
house in the suburbs of Gettysburg. The house
might have been destroyed, but in doing this many
others in the town would have been damaged; it is
a question however,-whether the whole town is
worth the lives it cost to save it.
The 2d brigade of the 3d division, 2d Corps, num
bering 2,500. men, lost half its numbers in battle, and
the 2d brigade, 2d division of the same corps, in the
last charge of the enemy on Friday evening, cap fcured
from the enemy double their own number in pri
soners, in eluding General Armißtead and five battle
flags;'all within thirty-five paces of the 2d Corps’
batteries.
The rebel cavalry was in constant trouble; if it
appeared beyond the protection of the infantry lines
on either flank, it was charged into by the national
cavalry and sent pell-mell back to .its.hiding-place;
and, if too far within its own lines, the horses were
demoralized by the explosion of shellß. The com
mand was of no serviee to the enemy, but the men
soon became a repfoaoh in the eyes of their com
rades.
Perhaps one of the most important features of the
line of battle was the facilities it afforded to each
portion to reinforce any point of attack. The enemy
was compelled to march from seven to nine miles in
going from one wing to the other, whereas, three
miles on the diameterof a circle was: the distance
between. Meade’s extreme infantry flanks. This
circumstance gave great advantage.
After the battlefield came into our'possession, a
private BOldier, who had been wounded in the foot,
was found lying in the grass, under a bush; he had
wiped his gun and taken off the lock to clean it.
When found, he was in the act of putting it to
gether again. To the question—what he was doing
there? he replied, “ I am getting ready for another
pop. I have two boxes of cartridges left.”
THE PROSPECT OF DEE’S ESCAPE. i
Although reports telegraphed from places at a i
distance from the scene of operations, to the effect :
that we have captured prisoners by tens of thousands, !
andvpieces of artillery by hundreds, are premature \
or grossly exaggerated; it is nevertheless true that I
the military situation, is at this moment extremely
favorable, or. at lealto-is so reported in circles best
informed' witn facts.
Gen; Lee may escape across the Potomac with a
large portion of his army,, although the destruction
of his pontoon bridges and.theriae of the river,
which is stated to be Bix feet above the fords, would
alone seem Buffieient,to prevent it. But the proba
bilities are that lie will not so escape. and that even
<if his infantry manages to get over the' river disor
ganized, his guns and wagons will be taken.
It is considered hot impossible that another battle
maybe fought before the decisive result which' the
country ia lookingfnr can be reached.
General Hooker, who has arrived here, predicts
that the army of,General Lee will be utterly de
stroyed—the rise in the river, in his opinion, being
sufficient to bring about that result, even apart
irom the military combinations making to that end.
PENNSYLVANIANS.
the Herald. 1 •
Colonel 'E. *Pi Cummins, of thpVW j
PennßylvamaVolunteerSjWaa killer v-i the 1-st,while j
gallantly men-Ag l atrfcr> : Superior 7,
numbers.' ’’ff of Somer- I
set county, Pennsylvania. He officer, i
and highly esteemed by his troops.-..He was chptain
of company A, 10th Regiment APeimsylvahiai Re- I
serves, and was made colonel of the -142 d Regiment :
Pennsylvania Volunteers, September !,
; Lieut. A. G. Tucker, of Company E, 142d-Regi
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and acting adjutant,.
was mortally wounded on the Ist of July. He w'Ka *
>t abotinthe.arm. but continued to cheer the men
'* ebody.- Hehas
regißElTC — ______
Captain C. H. Flagg, of C6mpmTpnsr«’™ = .
ment, and commander of Gen, Knowley’s staff* was
killed by a solid shot, on July 3. He was highly es
teeroedby all who knew him. This regiment was a
portion of the Ist brigade, 3d division, Ist Army
Corps. The division was commanded by Brigadier
General Larowly, of Pittsburg.
In the battle of July 3, the old California, the 69th
(Irish), and the Fire Zouaves (Pennsylvania troops),
were in action. The 71st or California regiment lost
nine officers of fifteen taken in, and one hundred
and one out of two hundred and forty ; six enlisted
: men. The 69th and 7Ut were bri the extreme front,
and, in proportion, their members suffered the worst.
Included in the killed are:'Captain Stefiar Gull, of
the 7lsts Colonel Odane, Lieutenant Colonel T.
Skeedy, and Captains S. Duffy and Thompson, of
the 69th: Captain Andrew Mcßushy, of the 72d, and
Lieutenant Jones. The loss in the brigade is four
hundred and eighty-two men and forty-two officers.
The right wing of the command of
i Col. Smith, fell back and took a position behind a
I stone wall, from which they did fearful execution.
I The left wing, with the colors, under .command of
Col. Kerchenßpercer, joined with the 7-2 d, under
command of Col* Hesser* and charged the enemy,
driving them clear over the: slight earthworks, ta
king more prisoners than they numbered and six
stands of colors, four of which were taken by the
. 71st. Gen. Webb, who commanded the brigade,
was in the chargewith the 7lst and 72d, and was in
advanced and within twenty feet of where Gen.
Aimistead, of the rebel service, and an old associate
of hiß, was killed. Gen. Webb had just been or
dered to this brigade. Both he and they are mutu
ally pleased with each other for conduct on this
occasion.
A REPORTER’S INCIDENT,
Whilst one of our reporters was on a tour of-in
spection to tlie wounded, at the late battle of Get
tysburg, he had his attention drawn to a Bingularly
beautilul young man, upon whom death had already
settled his mark. While admiring his tender age
and fragile build,the young sufferer opened his soft
hazel eyes, and looking up, said: , , .
“'Won’t you please raise my beau ana run my
handßl it cramps bo.” ' ..
Our reporter complied, and asked of him bis name.
He stated that it was James Warner, of Loudoun
county, Virginia. . *
It was then that he knew this young sufferer to be
in the rebel service. Upon questioning him, he
stated that he never entered the rebel service will
ingly : that both of his parenti were Union people.
“ Wont you tell my mother, when you get an op
portunity, that I am happy, and expect to meet her
in heaven! Will you give me a drink, and then J,
shall die easy!” , „ ..
;• Our reporter of course acquiesced, and gave the
-little rebel sufferer all the attention and consolation
he could bestow. As he left, big-framed and big
hearted soldiers of the Union were standing by their
late enemy, showering over Kim their, tears, and
blessing him with that attention that only the brave
know how to bestow.
REBEL PRISONERS IN BALTIMORE.
: Last'night, shortly before nine o’clock, anotner
party of rebel prisoners, 2,300 in number, reached the
Bolton DdpOt in a long train of cars, accompanied by
the 12th Tennant regiment as a guard. They were,
disembarked, and underguard of a detachment olthe
Ist Connecticut cavalry, with several companies of
the 7th New York regiment, were marched to Calvert
street," thence by Baltimore and other streets to Fort
McHenry. In anticipation of their arrival a large:
number of persons, male and female, assembled at
the ddpdt at an early hour of the evening, and large
crowdß were gathered on Howard, Calvert, and other
streets, desirous of witnessing the sight of so many
rebels passing through the city. The _ prisoners;
passed on ; their! way from- the ddpdt-without any
expression of public sentiment being made, except
at the corner of-Baltimore and Calvert streets, where
some enthusiastic Union men gave cheers, causing
the rebels to retaliate by uttering a shrill cry, those
following after catching it up and continuing it to
the end of the long line. In the party there were a
larse number of sick and wounded who were con
veyed in vehicles to the fort. Nineteen hundred
more are on their way to this city.- Balt* Gazette,
Monday. t.-f.ti AND WOUNDED.
The following is a list of the casualties among
the officers of the Bucktails (isoth Fa.) in the battle
of Coh tt £an , ghorn Wißter, slightly wounded in the
face, and a prisoner. . ... „
Lieut. Col. Hutdekaper, lost his right arm; doing
W Mijor Thomas Chamberlain, shot through the
Ch A(ijutant l fl W L. l Ashhurst, wounded in the shoul
der; doing well.
Captain C. O. Widdis, Co. A, severely wounded;
(loins well*
Captain William F. Dougal, Co. D, wounded;
dotos we)).
Captain Henry W. Gimber, Co. F; missing.
Captain .T. W. Sigler, Co. I; Blightly wounded—
Henry Chancellor, Co. B; hadly^
wounded and missing. A •, . 0 **
First Lieutenant Gilbert B. r Perkins, Co. O,
wounded in thigh—doing weH. • ■ _ ■ Tl ,,
First Lieutenant .Tohn Q. Carpenter, LO« ±->,
m F*rat Lieutenant C. W. Sears, Co. F; slightly
W R»t Lteutelint 1 Mile. F. Rose, Co. I; wounded
'"secondLievrtenantl'.Ohatburn, Co. H;missing.
. Second Lieutenant C. P. Keyser, Co. F; seen-to
fail and missing.
O!Nk-HO>'nitKP-A XD-FOnTV-EIGHTH PENNSYLVANIA
Capt. R. G. Foster, Company C, killed.
Lieut, J. McGuise, Company I, wounded.
Lieut. George Curran, Company F, head.
Lieut. J. Boyard, Company 11, wounded.
Lieut. Sutton, Company E, wounded.
SIXTY-SXCOHD PMXKSYLVANIA.
Capt: Conner, Company 11, shoulder.
Lieut. Morris, Company M, wounded.
HMajor Lowry, killed; ■
Total loss, killed, wounded and missing, 165.
sixty-p.iguth Pennsylvania.
Lieutenant Colonel Reynolds, wounded.
Major Winslow, wounded.
Captain Tunstone, Company. B, wounded.
Captain Young, Company G, wounded. -
Captain Fulmar, Company K, wounded.
Lieutenant Porter, Company A, wounded, arm.
Lieutenant Heston; Company F, wound serious.
Lieutenant Fenton, Company I, wounded, leg.
Lieutenant Guest, Company H, wonniled, hip.
Captain G. McLearn, Company D, .
Lieutenant Andrew Blook, Cnmpaiiy lb killed.
. Lieutenant Reynolds, Company E, kUled..
I I.ieutenaat W. Ealer, Company l.ktuea.
THREE CENTS.
iAXEOVS. * .
Capt A Prince, 16 fifass.
Capt H SB amar, 63 Pa
Capfc-T W Alexander.
CaptH (Joodfcllow, 2S Pa
Capt Thos Wood, 69 Pa.
Capt J H Murray, 62 Pa.
Lt Thos D McLean, 62 Pa.
Lt J H Johnson, 69 Pa.
Lt J J Taggart; 69 Pa.
Lt E H Harmon, 69 Pa.
Ma j James I) riffle, 69 Pa.
Capt Hugh Boyle, 69 Pa.
iitioaal ÜBt of casualties
. MrSCKIit,
Capt John Lockhart, 72 Pa.
Capt H A Cook, 72 Pa.
Lt J MoElyane, 63 Pa.
Capt 8 Connor. 62 Pa.
Capt M M Felker, 62 Pa.
it Isaac Vance, 140 Pa.
Lt Geo Curran, 148 Pa.
Lt M Heroling, 72 Pa.
Lt A G Brandt, 75 Pa:
Lt Jacob Manser, 75 Pa,
Capt T S Wallace, 61 Ohio.
Lt C Veidenheimer, 74 Pa. <
The following is an add
in the 2d and 12th Corps:
WOUNDED,
8-FJEerr, 62 Pa.
W E Bay, 62 Pa.
A Stroud, 62 Pa.
M Cook, 62 Pa.
Joshua Jay, 62 P&.
J.Sterrett, 62 Pa.
LMontz, 62 Pa.
8 P Willisor, 62 Pa.
8 K Carnaghan, 62 Pa.
Sergfc S S Farland, 82 Pa.
Wm Lawrence, 8S Pa.
David 8r0wn,;62 Pa,
P Lane, 62 Pa.
John Saulshury, 62 Pa,
H Anthony, .62 Pa.
A Maaix lay. 62 Pa.
J & West. 02 Pa.
Capfc J Brown, 62 Pa..
G Vetmont. 88 Pa.
D Sailer, 150 Pa.
Capt P Conner, 6*2 Pa,
Sergt P Morris,'62 Pa*
Capt McCalliater, 140 Pa.
Majßogera.piis’r, 140 Pa.
Capt McCullough.
Lieut Poxten.
Lieut Shellecberger. '
Lieut I Vance.
Lieut Vance.
Col Brown, 145 Pa.
A Bundled, 62 Pa.
A L Poiterrll Pa Res,
L Workman, 62 Pa
Win Reuser. 62 Pa.
P Sweet, 62 Pa.
J McKinley, 62 Pa.
AHarriger, 62 Pa.
MC.Goheen, 62 Pa.
Matthew Griffith, 62 Pa.
TMoore,"62Pa,
Capt Sell, 83Pa.
W M Lemon, 62 Pa.
W Kunkle, 11 Pa Res.
W-Cragle. 143 Pa.
J Miller, 76 Pa, •
FinSTBEJ
SLAWARE,
Pet Thos Seymour, B
Ccrp Damon Reasy, B.
Geo Bannard, R.
Wni Gribben, B.
Lieu t John T Bent.
Sgt Floyd, G.
Corp Mclntyre, G.
l.
Gook, S>. 1
CapfrHiiarf I.
Sgf Ch&llsniarbft
- Wright,.* r.
Herity, I.
-r— Mason, I.
The M&son and Conway Correspondence.
; ANOTHER LETTER FROM KRi COKWAT,
■. Rev, M. IX Conway, publishes the following let
ter in the TimeSi explaining ms.
MaßOn: ■.
64 To the Editor of the Times:
“Sir: Absence from London has prevented my
giving such careful attention to, the correspondenoe
between Mr, Mason and myself as was necessary
to make the explanation which the public on both
Bides of the ocean will naturally expect of; me,
“In the correßpondehce aB it Btands there are
three partieß involved—namely, the Abolitionists of
America, myself, and Mr. Mason with his Confede
rates.
“As to the first, it was to pounce upon them and
compromise them with their Government that Mr.
Mason rushed into'; print" so - eagerly that, though ;•
only a little way from London, I did not receive his
last letter until half a day after I had seen it in the
Times. But I wonder that Miy Mason did,not Bee,-
what the Americans will certainly see, that my
second note to him admits that my authority .
. extended definitely .to the. declaration that
the Abolitionists’of America were giving moral
support, to thiß wat simply and only in'
the interest of emancipation, and that when ,
that issue ceased, to be involved they would no
longer sustain it; ‘ but that, with regard to the spe
cial offer,’ I must write out and get a special autho
rity. This left it yet an open question whether the
leading anti-slavery men were ‘prepared to nego
tiate with the Confederate authorities.’ He springs
his snare before they are in it. They are not com
promised at all. They do, indeed, stand committed
to an unwillingness to prosecute this terrible war
for ftDy less important aim than the complete wiping
out of their country’s orime and shame, but it has
all along been their avowed position that they are*
to quote Wendell Phillips,‘ willing to accept any
thing, union or disunion, on the baßis of emancipa
tion.’
“Then, of the Abolitionists, I alone am implicated
by this correspondence. And here I am readyto
confess that my inexperience in diplomatic and poli
tical affairs has led me to make a proposition, the
form of which is objectionable. Recognizing Mr,
Masononly as an unofficial thoughrepresentative
Southerner, whose views would be a teat of the dis
position of the rebels on the subject of slavery, and
anxious to afford that test to certain very eminent
literary men in. England, who acknowledged that
the reply'to such a proposition would decide
the feelings with regard to the issue, I inferred
hastily and improperly that the right to declare the r
object of the/Abolitionists in the war justified me
in sen ding the proposition to Mr. Mason personally.
As this, my first 1 correspondence with the enemy,’
was undertaken only in the interest of my country,
and was virtually a demand for the surrender of the
enemy’s capital, X shall hope that the apparent dis
loyalty of it, of which I was unconscious, will be
condoned by the country I meant to serve.
“But Mr. Mason and his Confederates are impli
cated inthis matter in a way to which I desire to.
call the attention of those gentlemen to satisFy whose'
mindsT wrote the proposition; and of all others who
think that the South is fighting for any. worthier in
dependence than impunity in permanently robbing
another face of its independence. ' .
“In order to compromise the Abolitionists,
Mr. Mason concedes that I had authority to
make the offer of independence for emancipa
tion. He acknowledges, on the strength of Mr,
Garrison’s letter of credit, that I had that autho
rization to which, when shown him, he had pro
mised a reply. So the English public know now,
with a clearness which my own blundering way of
evoking such a confession did not merit, what the
reply of the South is to a proposition offering her
‘freedom,* aßshe calls it, on the condition of her ac
cording the same to the millions whom sheoppresses.
Whether I hada right, to make the offer or not, it is
answered. The belie verin the golden rule has only
to ask himself what would be his interest in the
eucceßS*of,the Northern arms if his own wife and
childTefjJ&'ere under the l&Bh on a Southern planta
tion, that we have Mr. Mason’s assurance that
every gateway exceptthat of war is closed.
“lam, &c M MONCURE i). CONWAY.
“ Aubrey House, Notting HiU, W., June 22,” .
Tlie Crisis ot" Patriotism and Treason*
, .On the Fourth of American liberty and
independence was declared; on the-same day, in
.1863, we may say thatdt waß preserved. The Fourth,
of this momentous year, was celebrated in complete'
victory over Eee, and the surrender of Vioksburg;
• " ‘ltfefefcllflßring was circnlated in the
DECLARATION AND PROTEST OP LIBERTY'Xf
USURPATION AND TYRANNY. -
‘ 1 Who would be free, himself must striks the blow. ”
First. The ODly solid foundation for all Govern
ment is the consent of the governed. Governments
exist for the benefit of the people, and notthe people
for the benefit of Governments. * -' .• -
A-Government.which fails to promote the interests,
and secure the affections of its people, does not de
serve to stand.
These principles are the foundation of the Federal
TJDion; to deny them is to undermine our own poli
tical structure, to slander the, title by. which we
have a place among the nations of the earth.
Second. The people of the Southern States have,
of their own consent, established a separate Govern
ment, sustained it for more than two years with re
markable unanimity and devotion, under circum
stances of great difficulty and trial.
We cannot consistently with our traditions and
our principles deny to that people the right of self
government, or oppose by force the existence of the
Government they have set up. If we cannot con
quer them by the arts and arms of peace, we have no
right to conquer them at all. -
. To Bpeak of a “ Union” by force is simply absurd;
a piece of Puritanical hypocrisy.
Third. The’glory of a nation is:.To establish jus
tice, unity, peace, and concord; to insure domestic
tranquilii y 5 to promote the general welfare 5 to se
cure the blesßings of liberty and civilization; to cul
tivate the highest standards of morals and religion.
Territorial possessions may distract and weaken;
wealth will enervate and corrupt; avarice, fanati
cism, and revenge, must debase; and ambition gene
rally destroys.
Fourth, when the present Administration was
elected to office, among all the nations of the earth
there was not one greater than the United Stateß of
America; not one more prosperous and happy; not
one which conferred superior-blessings on mankind.
The people were proud ‘ of their Government, and
loved it: they would not have exchanged it for any
other on the face of the globe; they hoped.to trans
mit the jewel, with untarnished lustre, to remotest
generations, ‘ • '
Fifth. Within the last two yearß this Govern
ment has suffered a grievous change, a most disas
trous and humiliating eclipse. has become-a
filthy hybrid ; a monster, smeared with ..the bloody
sacrifice of its own children; a detestable compound
of crimes and vices; a despotism which cannot fitly,
be described ip decorous language: “the sum of all
vuiaihies s” a league with hell and a covenant with
death. . ' . • ~ . .
The Administration i* ignorant, eonceitea, and
vulgar; ; cunning, - insincere, and unscrupulous;
fierce, ranguinary, and cruel; full of all subtlety,
and all mischief; of.all hypocrisy and deceit.. It is
without truth or honesty, without manliness or de
cency. Its avarice is insatiable; its corruption un
bounded 5 for gain it will do anything, however in
famous, oppressive, and wasteful, and does not
scruple to barter the whole country for profit. It is
a bully, a braggart, and a coward; it domineers by
terror over weakness; It shrinks from truth and
daylight; it deals in pimps, spies, and informers,
and fearß an enemy in every shadow. With bands,
of armed men it strikes down the liberty of, the citi?
zen at the dead of night, when he is surprised, soli
tary and' defenceless j wages war on women and
young ehildreft.
It is barbarous and wanton, for it desolates peace
ful and inoffensive lands With fire and flood ; it de
stroys cities, towns, villages, and solitary dwellings;
it plunders wherever its emissaries prowl, destroy
ing what cannot be taken away. It does not spare
the sacred monuments of aTt', science, and literature;
respects not the grave; has no pity fbrthe shrieks
and entreaties of helplessness and' plirity, and the
instruments of its erimes are only less detestable
than the crimes themselves, and the criminals.
In everything, and in ;the most stupendous pro
portions,is this Administration abominable; the
stench thereof rises towardß Heaven, as the stench
of Sodom and Gomorrah. Tt is a foe to all goodness,
arid whosoever should .destroy it .would confer a
blessing on mankind,
' Sixth. The Southern people are fighting for our
liberties,, as well as for their own. No greater
calamity could happen to us than their overthrow;
the destruction of the one would speedily be fol
lowed by the subjugation of the other. ,
Seventh. Should the Confederate army capture
Washington, and exterminate the herd of thieves,
Pharisees, and cut-throats which' pasture there; de
filing the temple of our liberties, we should regard
it as a special interposition of Divine Providence in
behalf of justice, judgment, and mercy. • • •
Eighth. No portion of this Union ib entitled to.
public sympathy, or assistance or protection from
Southern defensive invasion, so long as it continues
to be a party to the present aggressive war. -There
/cannot be innocent accomplices 1 in crimes at which
humanity stands aghast,
: Ninth. “ The thirty pieces of silver,” the price of
blood and the general ruin, is not entitled to protec
tion. • Let those who have grown fat on the mis
fortunes of the land defend their own plunder, fight
a little, steal and bellow leas. _ .
Tenth. So long as the present war continues ana
despotism prevails, we shall have no disposition to
oppose a Confederate army, whether on our borders
or in our- midst—rather would we hail them as
friendß and deliverers. .
Eleventh. We arraign Abraham Lincoln, presi
dent of the United States, And the men of his coun
cil, before the bar of public opinion
justice, lor the following high crimes, felonies, ana
“ror the country they have betrayed;, for the oaths
thevhavevlhlate.l-for the Constitution they have
the they h^ave^per-
they have destroyed: for
the rireolous’h?pes they have blasted; for, the uj>er
ties tbev have tahen away; for the riven of blood
thbv‘have Shed; for the armies they,have slaugh
tered “ for the manifold, excessive, and/ wide
inreal defrauding*, robberies,- plundering*, desola
' lions wastes, and cruelties, they have perpetrated.
Vy e ’ arraign them for converting this once great,
prosperous, free, and- happy land Into a land of dis
cord' strife, and despotism—of ruiOj, misery,; and
Sl> Tweiftli. These pernicioi&oriminals' we propose
to try by authority,of all tne laws their despotism
has left us, by that .very law of necessityand self
preservation which sthey maliciously, traitorously,
and falsely.have invoked, promulgated and enforced.
And we shall appeal for. justice to that universal
sentiment which passes, judgment on ail luon as are
•enemies to the human race. .
Thirteenth. Fellow-oitizens, in
thirteen colonics, we'say to you, * Resistance to
tyrants is obedience to Qod. aT>rP rr n p Vic
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Tile Polish Revolution.
On tic 32d: ult„ Lord Palmerston made some ex
planations upon the Polish question, [and stated
the following was the substance of the despatches
to Russia by England, France, and Austria:
1. A general and complete amnesty.
2. A national representation on the principle of
that established by Alexander 1., in virtue and in
execution of the treaty of Vienna. The Austrian
Governmenttooka modified view of this; but her
Majesty’s Government was of opinion that, to e»>
tisfy the just expectations of the Poles, the repre.
eentation should be established on the footing of the
charter of Alexander I. • •
3.-The Poles alone should be appointed to. public
offices,'as Poles alone were likely to command con
fidence.
4. That perfect liberty of conscience shall be
granted, and .that due protection be accorded to
the religion of the Poles.
6. That the Polish language shall be used in
all public'transactions and in the education of the
people.
6. That a regular system of recruiting shall be
established to prevent a recurrence of the proceed
inga which led to the present insurrection.
Her Majesty’s Government recommended and
strongly urged that there should bee cessation of hop
lilitics, because , in their opinion , there would be no usefuL
negotiations as long as t a conflict of thiskind was going on
between the Rubbish troops and the insurgents.
Austria did not actually recommend all these points,
but she urged the Emperor of Russia somewhat to
this effect. - He therefore trusted that when he could
lav the despatch on the table the House would be
offopibion.that her Majesty’s Government had done
all in its power. In such matters they.had to con
sider not what they desired, but what was obtain-*
able. . .
COT7HT I*EOK PLATER EXECUTED.
The Caes publishes the following letter from Po
lish Eivonia:
" The whole of Poland will uttera cry of laments
great patriot has stained with his blood? the soil oh
which Count Henry, his tifmrtor
from the States of Livonia to Sigismund AagusCaa,
King of Poland, took leave of hia electors in the
Stavostie of Dunaburg, which for centuries, up to
the partition of Poland, had belonged to his family*
Leon Plater was only twenty-six years of age, and
from the moment he fell into the hands of his execu
tioners he suffered martyrdom. 1 He died calm and
•resigned for the liberty of his country, : In re
turning from the execution we entered a church
where were assembled the desolated sisters of the
murdered man, hia family, and his friends, who had
taken refuge near the altar, and were offering up
their prayers. We admired the courageous.mother
of Leon Plater, who, seeing those around her bathed
in tears, consoled them by saying, 'Do not weep,
my dear friends; you eee r that lao not/ I should
have shed teara if my dear Leon.had been afraid of
the Muscovite condemnation. I went to give him
my blessing; I'prayed to God for him and with
him.’ It is only faith in the holiness of the cause
that can inspire such heroic courage and perse
verance. A nation which produces such characters
cannot die in Muscovite chains,' Twenty Russian,
soldiers guarded the venerated tomb, and were rein
forced at midnight. At one o’clock a cart came and
conveyed it into the interior of the fortress, .his body
pierced with balls. It appears that he had tfeea pro
visionally buried in the b&Btion which bears the name
of Constantine.”
; ENGLAND’S POLICY.
, /The London Times of the 25c hof June a ays; The
British Cabinet will once more have to acceptor
refuse an offer of joint recognition, or hit on a third
course, and one can be suggested. We are certainly
called upon to do what we can. We know how much
the United States are still part of ourselves; wo
have that right to be heard in America, and hu
manity has a right to plead for the children maasa
cred in vain hecatcombs and for kindly instincts so
fearfully disregarded. England has not hesitated to
send Russia six points of a bare salient character.
It: is difficult to see how Europe can escape the
analogy. It Europe may ask.a separate Constitu
tion for the one, surely.it may ask independence for
the other. Why should not precisely the Bame course
be adopted with the imperious Cabinet which ia now
engaged in the suicidal attemptto reduce toJTederat
unity the Confederate States of- Americat There
is a singular amount of resemblance between the
two cases.... 4
THE IRISH EMIGR ANTS.
Lord Palmerston, speaking in 'the Hou3e of Com
mons, on the subject of emigration from Ireland,
said: • ,
In one year, the year of the distressf the Irish
.emigrants in the United Statesman honor to then
for so doing—remitted a million and a half sterling
to their friends and families in Ireland, to enable
them to maintain themselves throughout the dis
tress. or to go out to America. I say, sir, that emi
grants who are capable of doing this , must be far
better off than they were before they abandoned the
country of their birth. .No doubt, it is. painful to
sever ties which were coeval with the man’s birth.
No doubt it is painful to leave home, and sometimes
to leave family. But allow me to say. that the senti
ment is not universal, becauseThave myself seen %'
party of emigrants intending to go to America,'para
ding the road with a band of musicians, announcing
themßelves #5 American bays, and ■ apparent!y proud
and happy to go. While, therefore, no doubt there
are many cases where it is painful to leave home,
that is, not; an universal feeling, because many per
sona feel that in leaving for America, or the colo
nies, they are about to better their position, they
are glad to go, and they hope to be able'to remit to
tyeir relatives the means of following- them, or of
maintaining themselves in greater comfort at home.
CAPTAIN SPEKE ON THE SOURCE OF THE
NIUE.
CFrom the London Times, Jtmc.Sf.-3 . .
The members of theßoyalinstitution held a special
meeting last night, to hear a lecture delivered by
Captain Spekeon the discovery of the sources of the
Nile.; The lecture was honored by the
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who was
attended by General Knollys, Sir Roderick TJlurchi
son, and a numerous Buitp. The prince was accom
panied by the Comte-de Paris and several other
members of the late royal family of France. " •••
Before commencing his lecture, Captain Speke in
,troduqe<l tojthe audience the two-little blaek'boy**
who were so lionized' at the Society
"the night before*? Jtt was mainly through; the lia
— fathers of theße boys that
to reeeiyean±!ngusii^UUeKtim««^MPM4i^Ag2-n^^-
the British consul at Zanzibar, through wlioAft UW 111 l ,w
s*rumentality so much had been done to-abclish tha
slave trade in those regions. He also desired pub
licly to thank Sir Roderick Murchison and' the Fel
lows of the Geographical Society for the assistance,
they had afforded him in proving, the correctness of
the conclusion at which he had arrived in 1858, that
Lake Victoria Nyanza was the sonrce of some great
river, and that that river was the Nile.
Timewould not permit him to describe the whole
of the incident of his journey from Zanzibar te
Egypt, which occupied two yearß and a half, aal
extended over a distance of more than 3,000 miles.
He chose rather to give some account of the WaKa
ma and some of the other tribes inhabiting the
shores of Lake Nyanza. Judging from the* physical
•characteristics' of these tribes, he considered them
to be descended from the ancient Abyssiniahs. This
idea was in a great measure confirmed by the tradi
tions of the people, who, when questioned about
their origin, always replied that they came'frbm the
North. The Abysrinianß sprang from.the union be
tween the children of Shem and Ham,'the negro
blood toeiDg modified and toned down by the Shemi
tic admixture.- Captain Speke then went on to
describe how the aboriginal inhabitants of Abyssi
nia, who weie essentially an agricultural people*
had been conquered and enslaved by nopiad races,
who lived on the produce of their flocks and
herds. These ancieirtrAbyssiniaiiß came down by
degrees from the North, carrying all before them,
aisa founding, the great kingdom of' Kittara,
which was now- split; up several minor
kingdoms through continual -internal wars. A
singular tradition of the double origin of these peo
ple was repeated to him; by one of the chiefs, who
gravely told him that at*vohe time the inhabitants
-of Kittara were half black and half white, one side
of their heads having curly hair, the_ other, straight.
The largest portion of Kittara consists of the king- „
domUnyoro. Captain Speke gave a long and inter
esting account of the history of this people, tracing
theirJtings down to the present monarch. On the
most fertile part of the shores of Lake .Nyanza is
the kingdom of "Uganda, which is the mOBt interest
ing of all the nations of {equatorial , Africa, being
better cultivated and better governed than any
other. The customs of Uganda- are many, of them
most irregular. The princes having large harems
of women, their progeny Ib, of course,.most numer
ous. When , a king dies all his sons are burned except
his successor andtwo others , who are'keptin caseao?
ciusst until the; coronation, after which t one is pen
sioned off, and the other banished to Unyoro. UntidU
•pcss in dress is a capital crime, except the offender pos
sesses sufficient richesto pay ah enormous fine. Ingra
titude, or even neglecting to thank a person? for a, benefit
conferred, is punishable. The court customs are also
curious. No one is allowed to stand before the kingi
and to touch him or look at one of hiß women is
death. They believe implicitly in mtfgic and the
eyil eye, and the, kings are always; attended by *
certain number of women crowned Jwith dead
lizards, and bearing bowls of ; plantain wine in their
hands. The Kingof Karagwe is the. most civilized
of all-these native chiefs; tefore; entering Ugandk
; C&pt. Spelte spent many days with him.; In man
ners, civility and enlightenment, he. might be coin*
-pared withjiiany Europeans. He owes much of this
to the influence of an Indian merchant named
Moussa Mzouri, who helped him by hia adnce to
conquer his brother, with whom he was at war.— .
Captain Speke was much.entertained with many of
his questions as to what'became of theold aims and
why. the. moon, made faces = at ■ the earth.
also wanted toJsnow' whether, England, or which he
had heard from'the ivory traders, could; blow up
the whole of Africa with gunpowder. The moment
the king 'heard that he was desirous of
going north, he sent messengers to the King of
Uganda to prepare the way for him." The king waa
most anxious to furnish every possible information
about the country. While at the palace, the king
tool: him yachting ; on Murchison~creek;for several
days, andv he frequently went shooting; With the
princes of the court, whoy when he had shot any
thing, would rush un and shake him heartily by the
hand, a custom littleknown in that part of Africa.
•Before leaving, they heard from King.Kamrasi that
a body of white men had been aeen ; to the north,
who had killed numbers of the natives with a won
derful gun. This made Captain Speke most anxious
to push on, as he suppoaed.the party of white men
to be that of Mr. Petherick, who.had appointed to
meet him. He then started for Uganda with a nume
rous retinue. Before leaving King'Kumamka s pa
lace at Karagwe, he had noticed, on several occa
sions, three-or four lofty mountain peaks, more
than 10,000 feet high. The King of Ugamla sent an
armed body of men to meet him, who him
thrrmffh tbp kine'dom. Every where they went the
neorfl left their hute, leaving their prsvlalons be-
Mnd thero. The fertility of thi, part la very great,
ftuJith>Hcenen-- on the shores of the lake mostheau
ttfuL¥Oh arr Sing at the King of. Uganda’s capital,
nStain Speke found it necessary to wrap up all hi*
nSents in chintz before sending them to,the King*
Ss nothing bare or naked could be looked at by his Majesty.
He found the palace to consist of hundreds of coni
cal tents, spread over the spur of a hill. Thousand*
of courtiers and attendants were to be seen engaged,
in every conceivable occupation,' from; playing on
musical instruments to feeding the royal chicken**
On tending word to the King that he wished for an.
interview, that monarch sent back a sharp message -
that he was to ait on the ground and wait until he
was at liberty# . : Captain Speke, however, sent back
word that he .was.prince, and not < accustomed
either to sit on the* ground or to wait. A courtier:
followed him." pro&esying all kinds of evil from
his presumption.' C»pt»m terrified
the-whole . court,. long and aljv into eubnuMion, by
- merely opening his umbrella,- which they toot to be
a deadlv weapon, killing by magic. A_chair waa
cohMOuently allowed to Captain Speke, who waa
Jpceived by the King, surrounded by hl» court and
having by his side the women crowned with dead
•lizards* to ward off the effects of the evil eye. The
kink stared at him for about ah hour, at the end of
which time his Majesty said, M Have you Been meT*
and retired to another tent, where the iame process
of staring was followed by a' similar inquiry. He
went into a third tent, and Captain Speke followed.
This time, 1 however, the monarch deigned to examine
Captain Speke’s Whitworth' rifle Captain Speke
-told him’that.it was the custom' of the .inhabitant*
of the country of which he was a prince, to make
presents of everything that they possessed to any
king • into whose -'country they entered.- ; .He accord
ingly left himaeveral rifles and watches, and a quan
tity of gunpowder. - •
Tlie New YorK seventh Regiment..
NTtw Ynnk.'jidr 7.— The 7th New York Kegi.-
•BiS.tieftß»uJawe,ye«fteni»T(&t Frederick.