THE P»KSe, JOTLIBHKD DAILY (SUNDAYS.BXOIRI9). BY JOHN W. FORNBY, office, jro. in south fourth strrbt. CHS DAILY PKKSS, Fifteen Gents Pkr Wekk, payable te the carrier. Hailed to Subscribers out of tun City at Bbvbn Dollar* Pbr Annum* Thrrb Dollars ant» Ftptt Orntb for Si* Months, On* -Dollar and Bbvbnty*fivb Gbnts fob Yhbsb Months : invariably in advance for the time or dered.';! '49* Advertisements Inserted at the usual rates. Six tine* constitute a square. VHK TRI-WBBKLY PRESS, -Mailed to subscribers out of the City at Four Dollar* Pbr Annum, In advance. MILITARY NOTICES. PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. COLONEL R. B. ROBERTS, SPECIAL AID TO HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR CURTIN, Has been detailed to this city for the purpose of attend* >lng to all business relating to tlie mustering in, and ‘transportation of, troops from tliis city for the defence of 'the State. His office is at the COMMONWEALTH BUILDING, CHESTNUT BTREET, ABOVE SIXTH, Where all persons desiring information will apply. jy2-tf jr DEFEND THE STATE. HEADQUARTERS Ist REG’T, infantry, p. h. g.» ■ • v. No. 7 Statb Housb 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 v« r clOOl£. • \ \ Each man enlisting in this corps receives $5 0 BOUNTY From the City, $lO from the Bounty Fund, besides his ■pay.' . OHARI/ES J. BIDDLE, Colonel, JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, Lfcnt. Col. TTBADQUABTERS OF COMMISSION J-X JFOB U. S. COLORED TROOPS. jNo. taio CHESr- WUT Street, Philadelphia. ; 'The following is the official order authorizing the re cruiting of Colored Troops::. Headquarters of the Army, Adj’t Qenbrai/s Office, Washington, Jane 17, 1863. GENERAL ORDERS No. 178. Major GEORGE L. STEARNS, Assistant Adjutant General United States Volunteers, is hereby announced - as Recruiting Crmmissloner for the United S.ates’Colored v, Troops, fcubject to such instructions as he may from time to time receive from the Secretary of War. . By order of the Secretary of War: (Signed,) E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. - To Major Gbo. L. Stearns, Ass’t Aaj’c General U. S. Volunteers. /' - ' -The undersigned is-prepared to issue the proper au thorization to colored men id enlist recraits for the Armies, of the United States. He will receive applica tions from those desirous of being made commissioned ■officers, and transmit the same to the Board of Inspec tion at Washington, and will be glad , to give full in formation. on au matters connected with this branch of the service to those who may seek it. r The undersigned -has the co-operation of a Committee of sixty citizens of Philadelphia. Tne Agent of the -■ said committee is B. B CORSON, who is likewise the Agent of the undersigned. ' ; %CAMP WILLI AM" PENN, at Ohelton Hills, has been . iselected as the camp for instruction, and Ltent. Colonel # IiEWIS WAGNER placed in command of it. Ail re cruits will be mustered in by companies of eighty .men. ■iarid by squads, and immediately uniformed, equipped .'and sent to the camp. v Squads of men will be subsisted until companies are • completed by the committee of citizens, at such localities ■•aß their agent may designate. v . "Papers in the interior of the State will copy this ad - vertisoment one time, and send the paper containing same, • With bill, to these Headquarters. ; Communications by letter will be promptly answered. - GEORGE-L;BTEARNB, Major and A. A. G., Becrulting Commissioner for U. 8. .Colored Volunteers. • ie29-tf . • . .. ji THE INVALID CORPS. BY GENERAL' OEDERS No. 105, from the War De *v|l partment. authority is given for creating a military ■• organization, to he composed of such worthy officers -and soldiers as may have become disabled' from wounds Teceived in service, or from disease contracted in the line of duty, and tobo called the IN VALID CORPS. As Uis to be composed of VETERANS who have become more or less crippled in the service of their country, and •have produced.evidence of lOorthinesH., this will be em rphatically a CORPS OF HONOR, reckoning among its numbers many of the noblest and most gallant sons of America, brave relics from every battle-flald of the war, .gathered under the fostering protection of a grateful Go vernment. . • i .■ It.ls to be NATIONAL in its character, having no re ference to States; hence an applicant, furnishing' the no -cessarv qualifications, may be received by any provost . n arshal appointed under the enrolment act, whether in his own or- ln anotber State, . i /" ■ Its officers and men will be designated, as a mark of -.distinction, by a uniform peculiar to themselves, and . their duties will be such home , service as they may be i -capable of performing, thUs. relieviar many, thousands -of able-bodied troops whose services-are needed in the ‘field.. . . ■ ■ ' One office has been open fork, few weeks, for the enlist -sment of invalid discharged soldiers, at No 808 Lombard street, Philadelphia. This is now closed, aodanother opened at No. 343 South THIRD Street, Philadelphia, • adjoining the .office of Captain LEHMAN, Provost Mar shal of the First Congressional District. , A camp has been, opened near Harrisburg for the re ' caption of all recruits for this corps enlisted in this ; ;Btate, where comfortable quarters are furnished, and the recruits uniformed, armed, and-equipped,' The foilow : ing information concerning this corps Is published by the War Department, viz: .' . , “The term of enlistment in the Invalid Corps>hall be three years, unless sooner discharged. It is further an nounced that no officer or eolisted man shall, be entitled -to oi receive any pension, premium, or bouuty, for en listment or're-enlistment, or service in the-Invalid’ Corps. Claims for pensions or bounties, which may be due for previous Bervice, will not be invalidated by eu lietment_4n the Invalid Corps; bnt no pensions can be drawn,' ? or accrue to the benefit of any man, during his - service in said corps. The officers and men will be orga nized into companies of infantry, of the- same strength as is now authorized by law for the United States in fantry. . “The officers and enlisted men will receive the same pay and allowances now authorized by law for the united States infantry, and will be paid in the same manner. - “ Men enlisted in, or transferred to, the Invalid Corps will be subject to the Articles of War. Army Regula tions, &c., the same as other soldiers, and will be re - -paired to perform.all duties within the limit of their ■physical capacity, as laid down in the Rules and Regu . lations for that corps; but for the convenience of service • they will' be selected for three grades of duty. Those who'hre most efficient’ and able bodied, and capable of uring the. musket,and performing guard duty; light :snaVches,- &c.> &c., will be assigned to companies of the - Istjß&ttalion, Those of the next degree of physical effl p eienov, including all who have lost a band or an arm. to the companies of the 2d Battalion. Those who are the least effective, and including all who have lost a foot or - a leg, to the companies of the Sd Battalion.. * Companies of the Ist Battalion will be employed - mainly as provost guards and garrisons for cities, out i may be assigned to torts, field works, and railroads near •the cities and other important points. They will be warmed with muskets, and will not be liable to active ~ campaigns with the field armies. . “ Companies of the 2d Battalion will be armed with -Aide-arms only, and wlll.be employed as guards of buildings, hospitals, &ci, and will have companies of the Ist battalion on duty with, them when the use offire < arms may be necessary. . “The companies of the 3d Battalion will be armed with.side-arms, like the.2d Battalion, and will be em ployed in hospitals as cooks, nurses, ward masters, orderlles.-Jrc., &c ; the officers of these compa ‘ mes doing the duties of military assistants at thehos “pitals.V For furtherinformation. discharged soldiers are in vited to csll at 343 South THIRD Street, or at the office -of any provost marshal acting under authority of the enrolment aot. . E. W; MATTHEWS, . - . Major Ist P«nn’a Artillery and je2s-dtf ../ . Sup't R. S. Invalid Corps for Phlla. FURNITURE, Ac. /CABINET FUBNITUBE AND Bit- V/ LIAS]) TABLES. •. MOORE A CAMPION, ■o. HOI South SHCOKD Btreo«. I* eonnectlon with their extensive Cabinet business, are now mamifacturina a superior article of BILLIARD TABLES; and have now on hand a full supply, finished with the • HOORB & CAMPION’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, ■ •Which are pronounced by all who have need them to be euperlor to all others. For, the duality and finish of thess Tables, the manu facturers refar to their numerous patrons throughout the ffnion, who. are familiar with the sharacter of their work. mhS-Sm CARPETS AND OiI—CLOTHS. .QIL CLOTHS AND WINDOW SHADES. OABKIAGE, TABLE, STAIB, AND FLOOB OIL CLOTHS, m COTTON AND LINEN FABRICS, .QUALITY AND STYLE UNSURPASSED. WINDOW SHADES, ■GOMPRISINC EVERT VARIETY OP HEW AND OII GINAL DESIGNS. PLAIN »nd ORH AMENT Alt* Those loads wIU be sold to Dealers and Manufacturer, ■mi prices much beloto the present price of stock. THOMAS POTTER, 'MANUFACTURER OF OIL CLOTHS AND Window shades, MV ARCH Street, Philadelphia, end •*» CBDAK and VS LIBERTY Streets. New York. myl2-2m ' CLOTHING. JOHN KELLY, JR, TAIL O R , *AB EZMOVKD FROM 1023 CHESTNUT BTBBItI EDWARD P. KELLY’S, Ida South THIRD Street! Wbsr, h» preseats to former patrons and thspnblls the adTaata.es of a STOCK OF GOODS, eanal If not su perior, to any In the dty-the skill and taste of himself and EDWARD P. EsLLT. the two beet Tailors of the •lty— at prices maoh lower than any other Irst-slassests bllahment of the city. apl-tf JJLACK OAS 3. PANTB, $5.50, BLACK CASS. PANTS, *5.50, At 704 MaIII? BLACK CASS. PANTS, «S.M, At7ol MARKET Street BLACK CASS. PANTS, M.SO. At 704 MARKET street BLACK CsSS. PANTS. $5 SO, At 704 MARKET Rtieet GBIGG AVAN GUNTEN’S. No. 704.MARKRT Street GRICC, A VAN GUNTEN’S, No. 704 MARK BT Street GgIGG GUNTEN’S. No. 7M MARKET Stilit ORIGO: & VAN GUNTEN’S, No. 704 MARKET Street GRIGG A VAN GUNTEN’S, N 0.704 MARKET Street. mh22-6m . TO FAMILIES RESIDING IN THE -*• RURAL DISTRICTS. We ara.prepared, ae heretofore, to supply Families at their Country Residences .with . EVERT" DESCRIPTION OF FINE GROCERIES, TEAS, AO., ALBERT C. ROBERTS, myZl-tf CORNER ELEVENTH AND VINE STS. ' TAKE SUPERIOR INGOT COPPER, A 4 from the Amygdaloid Mine, In store and fornale in mastltlen to suit, at WOMRATtfs, IeSO-But* *l3 ARCH Street. VOL. 6-NO. 291, COMMISSION HOUSES. JOHN T. BAILEY dk CO. BAGS AND BAGGING 01 EVERT DBSOSIPTIO*. NO. 113 NORTH FRONT STREET, WOOL BAGS FOB SALE, IrtgJtos - ! WATCHES AND JEWELRY. QUARK’S, 609 CHESTNUT STREET; IB THE CHEAPEST PLACE Iff THE CITY TO BUY GOLD or PLATED JEWELRY, Si L YER-PL ATED WARE, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, POCKET-BOOKS, TRAVELLING BAGS, Ac. , . , Call and examine our Stock before purchasing else- Where. - The following la a partial list of gooda which we are selling from 20 to 100 per oent, leas than at any other es tablishment in the city: ' ICE PITCHERS. SYBUP PITCHEBS. CREAM PITCHEBS, SUGAR BOWLS. BUTTER COOLERS. GOBLETS. CUPS. CASTORS. WAITERS. CAKE BASKETS. CARD BABKETB. SALT STANDS. ' TOBACCO BOXES. NAPKIN RINGS. FRUIT KNIVES. TABLESPOONS. DESSERTSPOONS. ' TEA. SPOOKS. . SUGAR'SPQOffS. . SALT SPOONS. v . TEAzBQBKB. BUTTER KNIVBSF>, OYSTER LADLES.* GRAVY LADLES. ? SETB IN GREAT VARIETY. BRACELETS. BREASTPINS. _ CHATALAINE CHAINS. .GUARD CHAINS. MEDALLIONS. CHARMS. „ ' TBIMBLES. -RINGS. . - GOLD PENS. > GOLD PENCILS. GOLD TOOTHPICKS. GENTS’ PINB, beautiful styles. GENTS’CHAINS... 44 “ SLEEVE BUTTONS. ** '! - STUDS. ARMLETS. NECK CHAINS. POCKET-BOOKS. TRAVELLING BAGS* ALBUMS. CIGAR GASES. CARD CASES, &a. , , Call early and examine the largest and cheapest stock »f Goods In the city. ' • D. W. OLARK S, 609 CHESINUT STREET. fib WATCHES, *JUST RECEIVED PER STEAMER EUROPE. GOLD WATCHES, LADIES’ SIZES, OP HEW STYLES. SILVER AHCRBS AHD CYLIHDBEB. ' SILT AHCRBS AHD CYLIHDRES. PLATED AHOKEB AMD CYLINDBIH.’ for Bale at Low Bates to the Trade* by O. T. PRATT, m CHESTNUT STREET. AF I N E WATCH REPAIRING sttsnied to, by th* most expcriencad warkmom, «4 otorr wst.li wsrruiltsd for one year. J- O. FULLER, Importer and Wholesale Dealer In FINK WATCHES AND JEWELRY, No. 113 CHESTNUT Street/ ' (Up-it&lrs, opposite Masonic Temple,) Has now open a LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK, • • embracing , ; : 1 HOWARD & CO.’S FINE AMERICAN WATHBS, "‘GOLD CHAINS, GOLD SPECTACLES, THIMBLES, ' " AND NINE JEWELRY OP EVERT DESCRIPTION. myZ7-tau22 - . • -•••- • - AS G. RUSSELL, FINE AMERICAN ££?and Imported WATCHES, Fine Jewelry, Sllyer and Plated Ware, &c. _je27 J 0. FULLEB’S FINE GOLD PENS, 1 THE BEST PEN IN USE, FOB BALE IN ALL SIZES. . myg-3m piNE GILT COMBS IN EVERY VARIETY. IMITATIONS OF PEABIi AND OOBAIi. J. O. FULLEBi - Ho. 713 CHBBTHPT Street. pyg-Sm yULOANITB BINGS. JL fall auortment, all sizes and styles. J. O. FULLER, Ho. TU CHEST HUT Street. my22-9m MUSICAL BOXES. ... .. -■ , ■ \ . j fN SHELL AND ROSEWOOD OASES, A playinc from Ito 12 tunes, choice Opera and Amerl* tanuelodiM. FARR fr BROTHER, Importers, *ap4 ' »g* CHESTNUT Street, below Fourth. GAS FIXTURES, dec. &1? ARCH STREET. O. A. VANKIRK d OO.J UAXUIAOTURBRB Of OHANDELIERS AND OTHBX GAS FIXTURES. Also, French Bronze Figures and Ornaments. Foreelala tad Mica Shades, and a variety of . FANCY GOODS, WHOIISAIiI AND BITAIL, name* nil nl .T.raln. rood. DRUGS. SHOEMAKER A OCX Northeast Corner FOURTH and RAGS Streets, % PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS, MANUFACTURERS OF WHITE LEAD AND 2INC PAINTS, PUTTY, fro. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED FRENCH ZINC PAINTS/ Dealer and consumers supplied at VBRY LOW PRICES FOR CASH. Je24>Sm SEWING MACHINES. gINGER & CO.’S “LETTER A” FAMILY SEWING MACHINE, with all the new Improvements-Hammer, Braider, Binder, Feller, Tucker, Corder, Gatherer, Ac., is the ' CHEAPEST AND BEST of all machines for FAMILY SEWING AND *' LIGHT MANUFACTURING PURPOSES. Bend for a pamphlet and a copy of ** Singer fr Co.’* Gazette.” I. M. SINGER * CO., JelO.Sm Ho. 810 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia. gEWING MACHINES. THE “ SLOAT ” MACHINE, MITH GLASS PRESSES FOOT, NEW STYLE HSMMEB. SKAIDER. iid other valuable improvement*. v ' ALSO. THE TAGGART * FARR MACHINEB, Ageney—va» CHESTNUT Street. mhß-tf PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, dkc. JAMES S. EARLE & SON, IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURIRB OF LOOKING GLASSES. ML PAINTINGS, - engravings, PORTRAIT, PICTURE, and PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES; PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. fXTENSIVE LOOKING GLASS WARBSOOMS AND GALLERY OF PAINTINGS. jal4f .... 810 CHESTNUT Street. Philadelphia. TYRAIN PIPE.-AS T O NEW AB E DRAIN PIPE from 2 to 12-inoh bore. 3-inch bore*. • **< r * 26 Vents per yard V§ d 0.......... 30 do do. - f do. 40 do . do. 6 d 0... ...',,60 . do, do. do 86 do do. fiver y variety of connections, bends, traps, and hoppers. -3 are iA° w Prepared to furnish Pipe in&nr Quantity, ana on liberal terms to dealers and those purchasing la arse Quantities. Mr.*-*- CHIMNEY TOPS. V ltrifled TeiTa Cotta Chimney Tops, plain and orna mental designs, warranted <to stand tag action of coal *aa, or the weather In any climate. GARDEN VASES. ff AF 61 of Ornamental Garden rVasea in Terra c *!r all sizes, and warranted to stand the weather. Also, Fancy Flower Pots, Hanxlnc flaskets, and Garden Statuary. «—***• Philadelphia Terra Cotta Works: CHESTNUT Street. - mM-wftntr ft. A. HARRISON. G. RTOSBLIi, %% Horth SIXTH Strsst .23Ndrth SIXTH. Street. The cavalry occupied the advance in the army which followed the rebels in their march northward. Our heroic soldiers, with their new andgallant com mander, leached the border-link of Pennsylvania on Tuesday night, June 30. On Wednesday morning, General Buford, with his cavalry forces, met the enemy hear Oashtown, and engaged them during tile day. Theenemy approached with their oa valry, ar tillery, and Infantry, in such numbers that our forces were in the end obliged to retire. General Reynolds coming to the relief inspirited our men, and they re solved to again push forward. . An effort to gain Gettysburg Heights was at once made, as to hold' them was of the utmost importance. The enemy, meanwhile, was advancing fast upon the town. General Reynolds got one division of his corps en gaged, and afterwards his whole corps. The 11th Army Corps, approaching by the same road, /came opportunely to the assistance. After the death of the gallant Reynolds, General Howard, who now assumed command, took possession of the whole raDgc of hills commanded by the approaches to Get tysburg, through Emmcttsburg, Taneytown, and Baltimore. Thle position was held until the rest of the army came up by different roads. The details of the three days’ fight have already been described by the correspondents with the main army, and I need not here repeat it. General Meade personally su perintended on Thursday, and his presence had the happiest effect. The movement to turn our left was a failure. On Friday they paid their respects, iu turn, to the right wing, General Slocum, and here, too, their movement was not only a failure, but re sulted in fearful decimation to their ranks. But let me speak more particularly of the part taken in the contest by the cavalry. General Kilpatrick, than whom no general .is braver or more popular with this army, superin tended the fighting on the flanks during the three days of fearful struggiSphaving previously whipped Stuart at Hanover. When the enemy were about to retire, the cavalry were ordered to move on their flank and rear, with a special eye upon their wagon trains. from Huntsville toward Get tysburg, striking the Gettysburg pike at a point where was located a rebel train of 200 wagons on our right flank. General Kilpatriok sent forward some skirmishers to attack the rebels supposed to be in the vicinity. The wagon train was burned, and no force was met to fight or to imprison, all having fled to a place of safety. No rebels were fouiul in Ein metaburg, and accordingly we pushed westward over the Catoctin mountains, which are this sidk of the South Mountains. While passing over the ridge, a large force of the enemy were discovered on the right flank. The Ist and 6th Michigan Regiments were moved onward to hold them in cheok, while the whole column continued their march. The rebels had one piece of artillery, but they fired only three rounds, and then tested the strength and agility of an effective'cm of their service—their legs. Our forces charged upon the retreating rebelß, who made: good their escape because of the darkness of the night. The night had set in thick blackness, and fighting was necessarily at a disadvantage. charge, however, was continued to Kidgeville, seven miles, and was not concluded till daylight next morning. Brig Gen. Robinson was captured during the night, and his whole brigade that had stampeded in the darkness. Their wagon trains also fell into our hands. These were loaded with ample supplies that had been stolen from the farmers of Pennsyl vania.’ The wagons were immediately burned, for they could not be allowed .to impede the progress of • our victorious dragobne. Those which were not fired, were so demolished as to be unserviceable. The spokes of the wheels were broken, the wheels themselves detaohed, and the spirit of locomotion crushed within them. There were about six hun dred wagons in all. Singularly to say, none were loaded with ammunition. Our forces, realizing the danger of delay, provided for the sending to Frede rick of the rebel prisoners, and then recommenced their march. From Ridgeville, they moved on to Smithburg, arriving there at noon. As General Kilpatrick was completing the arrangements to send off his prisoners (who were safely es corted away), General Stuart pounced down with great velocity upon the men of the command, , with all his cavalry. Gen. Kilpatrick immediately brought his men into position to meet the attack, and without any artillery duelling, the whole of Stuart’s command was repulsed. Kilpat rick, if, not his men, believed that Stuart intended not a precipitate retreat, but a sudden movement on the flank. Instead of this, the rebel general, con-. vinced of that prudence which is the better part of valor, took to flight, and was soon out of sight. Kilpatrick then moved on to lioomboro, and joined the cavalry forces of Gen, Buford. ■ Here it was ar ranged that a movement should be made upon the rear of the rebels, who were reported in large force ..at 'Williamsport, endeavoring to : escape across the Potomac. • On the 6th* Gen. Buford moved his com mand from Boonaboro on the Williamsport pike, and attacked the enemy wherever found. Gen. Kil patrick moved his division from.Hagerstown to Boonsboroat the same time, and soon bccameen gsgeil with a brigade of the enemy, comtuandedby - Col. Harris, of the 10th Virginia,Cavalry. To meet the attack, Gen. Kilpatrick charged with the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and were highly successful. The fight was for a while quite desperate, and there was heavy, loss on both sides., Captain Ohauncey,, ofthe staff, wbb in this engagement seriously wound ed. Gen. Kilpatrick detailed Gen. Coster to flank the enemy on the right. Gen, Buford opened on the enemy with his guns with terrible effect. Gen. Kilpatrick moved forward to assist Buford. He as signed, meanwhile, Col. Kichmon’s brigade to hold Stuart in check at Hagerstown. He at onoe moved down the - Williamsport turnpike, and attacked the enemy, drove in their left, and fighting them on the right, to join Gen. Buford. -It was getting late in the' afternoon and the brigade at Hagerstown, confronted, by greatly superior numbers, was obliged to retire. 9/jrt 'Sim, FRIDAY, .JULY 10, 1863. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. GEN. MEADE IN FEEDEBICK. HIB RECEPTION BY THE CITIZENS. HIS POPULARITY INTHE ARMY. CONGRATUIATION OK THE FALL OF VICKSBUBG. Tlie Army Still Moving. OUR CAYALRY IN TIIE LATE BATTLES. TIIEIB BECF.PTION BY JHE PEO- PLF, OF MABYLAKD, DESTRUCTION OF WAGON TRAINS LARGE CAPTURES OF PRISONERS A BATTLE FOUGHT AT WILLIAMSPORT, HOW THE REBELS . WERE PURSUED AFTER THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, [Special Correspondence of The Presi. ] »■ One of our special correspondents with the Army of the Mr. McDevitt, sends ub the follow ing nceount of the cavalry operations in the late fearful struggles at Gettysburg, as well as a report of'the recent fight at Williamsport, Maryland: Booksboiso, Md., July 1. Too much cannot be said in praise of4he cavalry ■ arm of the IJnited. States service. In the progress of-this war especially/itTflis, by its great and-bril liant achievementß upon numerous battle-fields,enti tled iteelf to the lasting memory and gratitude of all sections of the.oountry. At the commencement . Government and peopfc were alike slow to assign to the cavalry thatpost.of consideration which its value demanded, Slowly but steadfastly, it has earned Its own reputation, and today, more particu larly In view of the battle-field of Gettysburg, the cavalry are not only the pride, but it might be said the salvation of our army. Among other errors which two y ears of war have dispelled, is that one, so universal at the outbreak of the rebellion, that the Southern people, so long accustomed, to horse riding, were far superior to us of the North, in noth ing so conspicuously as horsemanship. General Pleasanton, the gallant cavalry commander of the Army of the Potomac, has not yet found his match in the Southern ranks, and the men of his com mand are unequalled for dexterity, bravery, and skill. In the brief campaign which com menced on Wednesday last, and closed by the return to- day of Gen. Kilpatrick’s cavalry to Boons horo, the- mounted soldiery have again covered themselves with glory ; having had the honor—an honor whioh'soldiers always appreciate—of opening 'the ball in "a great fight, having afterwards moved swiftly to the right and left of the enemy, harassing them in all their movements, leaving the main army to take care of itself, and pushed forward to destroy the wagon trains of the enemy, diverting their at tention from serious points of attaok, to dash into the contest at the most critical period, and to turn the scales of victory, and in the end to start upon the heels of the retreating foe, and give him either battle or annihilation. Your correspondent, leaving to others the chronicling of the main struggle with the infantry and artillery of both sides, has confined his attention in the Pennsylvania' invasion to the ope rations of the cavalry arm. By no portion of the army was the rebel invasion greeted with such feel jngeof welcome and enthusiasm as by the cavalry. The Army of the Potomac; knowing that its organi zation can never be dissolved till the dissolving of the rebellion, and feeling, too, the importance of hastening/ with all possible speed, that consumma tion bo devoutly to be wished, every man of them, when they learned that Sen. Lee had seriously meditated an invasion of the North. No'obstacle was placed to their .advance. Gen. Hooker quietly permitted the movement, conscious that the result would be disaster to an army that had never fought but upon their own chosen ground and behind their own fortifications; When the Potomac was crossed, and while the North was filled with alarm, the soldiers in the Army of the Potomac were rejoicing that at last their opportunity had ap proached to meetthe rebel army face to face, and on terms of equality! :•' PHILADELPHIA, FHIDAY, JULY 10, 1863; The retreatSwas effected in good order, and without loss. Night having advanced, Gen: Buford ordered* a retirement to the left. Our little army was; now in a precarious condition, but of this the enemy were not aware, for he failed to improve the oppor tunity of crushing us. Admirable generalship kept the enemy in check, both to the front and rear. A division of infantry were kept at bay during two hours by a force not one-fourth ita size. They had in their possession droves of cattle that they had stolen in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The loyal cttizenß of the neighborhood informed Kilpatrick that the rebels were movingiheir wagon, trains over the river further to the north of Williamsport. (Our correspondent here recounts the destruction of the pontoon bridges at Williamsport, which; having been effected by Gen. French, has already been re ported by another correspondent.) The cavalry forces then. returned, entering this town to*day.‘ The expedition served many valuable uses, not the least of which is the knowledge gained of the rebel plans for the forthcoming fight—information which will be of incalculable service to Gen. Meade. About one thousand five hundred prisoners were captured: In yesterday’s fight two hundred were taken, be sides a large number of wagons. The fight at Wil liamsport was one mostly of artillery on both aides; Our'light batteries were placed to the front, and did great service. The men fought with great spirit and gallantry, nobly sustaining their well-earned laurels from the field of Gettysburg; General Kilpatrick managed bis men with skill and bravery. He was at the post of duty, which was generally the poßt of danger, The major of the Bth Illinois Cavalry was mortally fwounded, and the adjutant of the 6th Michigan' killed by a shell, which likewise killed his horse. Captain Dahlgren was shot in the right leg, and the wound is quifce serious. When ourvoav alry reached Williamsport they found Captain Dahl gren engaged in destroying wagon trains, two hun dred of wbioh had been captured by him. •’W In all the cities and; towns through which the cavalry passed, they met with most cordial reception. At Hanover, especially, the young ladies came out with bouquets and v wreaths, which they showered, upon our troops. The stars and tripes were dis played from the house tops, and every demonstra tion of loyalty that could cheer the heart of our sol diers was made by the patriotic people of the town. They freely took care of our wounded, and dressed their Bores in their private dwellings.' One would hardly imagine himself among a people who had ever been reputed disloyal, or that here were any avowed friends of the Southern cause. , It is unjust, becauee untrue, to say that our koldiers, ever near the battle-field, are charged exorbitant prices for what they buy. from the people' on their march. ■Many a farm-house was depleted, not forcibly, but at the request of its proprietor, of all the milk, bread, and meat within its precincts, without money and without price. Our losses at Williamsport can not yet be fully stated. A renewal of the attack ; may be expected at any moment,' not by the cavalry alone, but it may be by our whole army, as the re treating rebels are to-day massing at Williamsport, and will there await an arrival. The Potomac is un fordable, and General Dee cannot permit one por tion of his army*to erosß and leave ther balanoe ex posed to an attack, which being likely to occur at any moment, will require all hlB effective strength to reßist. . . Frederick, Md., July 8, [Special Correspondence of The Press. J The part day or two has imparted new life to the city of Frederick. The vast movements of troops through its streets since the battle of Gettysburg have so changed its appearance that the oldest in habitant would hardly recognize his old home. Ma jor General Meade and staff, General Naglee, General Pleasanton, General Ingalls, General Williams, and others, were here.last night, but left again this morn ing, in what direction itis not proper for me to state. The oty'ect of General Meade’s visit was to ascertain from General French, the commander of this post, the disposition of the latter’s forces, and how they can be rendered serviceable in the coming struggle. Generals French and Meade were in consultation many hours, and their interview will result happily for the service. Last night the following “ Circular” was issued to the army: Headquarters Army op the Pot6kao July 7,1868. * ORDERS. It is with much satisfaction that the Major Gene . ral Commanding announces to- the army under his command that he has received official intelligence that Vicksburg was surrendered by the enemy to General Grant on the 4th instant. By command of . Major General "MEADE. S. F. Bakstow, Assistant Adjutant General. Thig was good news to the brave soldiers, who are already . flushed with victory of their own achievement, and it Bpread like wildfire through ..the ranks. Another battle of Antietam must-yet be fought, before the Army of the Potomac closes up its record. The rebels are gathering their, scattered hosts, and will make another stand in the Boonsboro valley. They cannot escape another contest of arms,-for their retreat,being out off across the Potomacfthey are in a atrnit such as no army has seldom been in before. If they should be again defeated, and par t.icularlyrif 'tKey"shbuld, experience anotheff'Gottys-’ burg, the end of the rebellion may be confidently predicted; - The task is not yet completed, and it' is folly for our people to persuade themselves of this belief. The generals of our army deprecate,the over-exaggeration respecting the *,< death-blow” of the rebellion. One of them remarked to-day, in the presence of General Meade, “ Well, I see the news papers are again telling us that the rebellion is crushed, that , the war is . ended.”- “ Well,” said another, “ it is the character of our people to ex aggerate ;we arc always extremists.” There is no one who feels more the responsibility of the hour than Gen. Meade.: He knows the tenacity and the endurance; of the enemy, which. must yet - undergo another trial on the soil of Maryland, before it can be truthfully said that the “rebellion is crushed.” Officers , whose position entitles their opinions to respect affirm that the next battle with the rebels will doubtless be the bloodiest of the war. It will be the last convulsive gasp of the giant, and its mighty roar will resound through the land. The popularity of GerieralMeade with the army and people bids fair to equal even that of McClellan. He iB not yet known personally to the army, some of the brigadiers even notyet having formed his intimate acquaintance. His name, however) is re sounded on all sides with eulogy and enthusiasm. At last, a leader has come worthy of the confidence - of- a noble army., : As General’ Meade- rode through Frederick yesterday afternoon, it'was whispered about from neighbor to neighbor; soldiers conveyed the news to brother soldiers, and anxiety followed surprise; That feeling of natural curiosity which impels us all to go out of our way even to look upon a distinguished man was indulged in by citizen and soldier alike. He stopped at the United States Hotel) and was soon visited by "a deputation of the ladies of the town. On being presented, woman’s feelings were expressed in woman’s-style. “G-od bless you, General,” they would say, and with an emphasis’" that Bhowed the words ißsued from the heart. They asked him to accept their bouquets and wreaths in token or the patriotism of Frede rick. “ I thank you,” said General Meade, “not for myself, but for my soldiers; they have won the victory, and to them belong the laurels.” General Meade turned to his staff officers, and to General Pleasanton remarked, in ,the approbation of the ladies, “ One of these for you, Pleasanton; not only a brave, but a bachelor.” General Meade shook the ladies all by the hand, and expressed the plea sure he felt in meeting them. General Meade is exceedingly affable in conversation, easily ap proached, and of lively, engaging manners. With no outward pretensions to superiority, he preserves a dignity which is. noticeable beneath his careless exterior. His form is gaunt and thin, impressing one with an idea'of bodily tenacity rather than strength, arid a capacity to en dure fatigue that we could not predict of a more robußt and invincible figure. His high-top boots and loose blouse are bespattered with mud, and, were it not for his shoulder-straps and intelligent face, it would be difficult to distinguish that he was not a private in the ranks. His face is almost covered with beard, and his neck displays a leather stock that might have been used in the days of his ancestors. He is otherwise as collarless, and his face is colorless, being of a ghastly pale, with thought, study, and anxiety marked upon every lineament. His mind speaks through his eye, and tells you at a glance that before you stands a man who is'equal to any responsibility, and not afraid to meet it in any shape. His nose is of the aquiline bend, which is the most prominent feature of the face. ' He ap pears a restless and nervoUß man, quick to move, but riot so quick that celerity would destroy steadi ness. "When addressed he turns suddenly upon his heel, and is.all attention.’ The more you see of him the more you like him. The Army of the Potomac has known him only two weeks and he is their idol. The spy, Richardson, who was hung- here on Sun dayi as I informed you in a previous' letter, had made a full confession of his guilt. He was a resi dent of Baltimore, where he was well known as a street pedler and declaimerof small wares. Upon "•his person were found complete, drawings'of the de fences of Baltimore and of the topography of this region, with, particular information of the positions, strength, and movements of allportions of the Army of the Potomac ; also, a letter from a citizen of Balti more, addressed to Gen; Ewell, endorsing Richard, son’s reliability, and stating that he would impart very important oral information, j also, passes from General Ewell and General Johnson, and other papers, implicating several citizens pf Baltimore. He at first denied having any papers about him, but when they.were found in his boot, he said'that a person named Domey gave them to him at this place. After making a confession, he stated that lie had a wife and children living in Baltimore, and requested that they should be informed of his wretched fate. BARING ADVENTURES OF CAPTAINS DAHLGREN'AND OLINE—THE CAPTURED DESPATCHES FROM DAVIS TO DEE—A REMARKABLE NARRATIVE. ; T ;•; - Md.*J July S, 1863. ■ The following incidents are not without interest at this time:... . Captain Cline, of the 3d Indiana Cavalry, on the 28th of June, the day General Meade assumed com mand oi the ' Army of the .Potomac, went into Hagerstown with eight men, and captured Lee’s messenger and a guard of thirteen men; together With despatches and a mail from Richmond. On the Ist instant, accompanied by the dashing Captain Dahlgren and twenty men, Cline went to * Greencastle, and oaptured private orderly and his entire escort, who had very important des patches from Jefl'Davis to Lee, together with orders to Lee’s.varioug generals, muster and pay rolls, and other aimy y matter. The most important,of these papers was a letter from 1 Jeff Davis to Lee, ami showed the weakness of the latter, and had a fhvqr- able effect upon the results which followed the \ battle of Gettysburg. The following are some of the points contained in the letter, which was dated June 29: Davis feared that hiß raid into Pennsylvania was a great mistake. It waß an error to suppose the Army of the Potomac had been so reduced by the discharge of the two-yeara and nine months men; asrto make victory an easy matter, j Accessions fo our army by new troops and militia were threa timee greater than our losses. These, facts, when the expedition was planned, were unknown. It was utterly impossible to organ ize a reserve army at Culpeper, as Lee had suggest ed, owing to the fact that D. H. Hill’s command had been largely reduced by- reinforcing other points, and it was equally impossible to spare a single man from Beauregard’s command. Horses were needed; Johnston c’ouhl not succeed Grant without them, and Davis had fears for the fate of Vicksburg. Davis was sorry that he could not forward money to Dee. The Quartermaster General tells Dee that he can not send him supplies and ordnance without horses, and the campaign must be abandoned unless animals are immediately sent to Virginia. Dee must also keep open a line of communication and retreat. Other matters of interest are contained in the despatches! Thomas Paulding, of Greencastle, is spoken of in the, highest , terms by Oline, as rendering him in valuable assistance, guiding the party, by generally unkpown routes, through mountain passes and forests. On the : 4th instant, Cline and Dahlgren, re inforced by’ one hundred of the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, under Dieutenanta Morrow and White, returned again to the rear of Dee’s army at Green castle, where they took thirty-one prisoners. Forty eight of the rebel cavalry came" into town, and called for tjh'c burgess, in'order to levy a contri bution. Cline and Dahlgren were posted in the square, 'aad'ffrcitizen told; the rebels they would find the Apart of our men made a detour of a *quare> aml at a given signal the rebels were assailed and rear, and the whole party was captured mthout the lobb of a man on either side. On another occasion the same day, near Green- CRBtle, Cline, with eight men, charged upon and captured a rebel paymaster, with his escort, and a considerable.amount of Confederate fundß.- A sup porting force near by was charged upon, and driven towards Williamsport. Following up these dashing exploits, Cline and Dahlgren hovered around the enemy’s route, and, on the the advance of. the retreat ing rebel trains making in the direction of, the Poto mac. This train consisted of from five to six hun dred wagons,- belonging to Ewell and Hill. The vanguard was composed of 600 cavalry, a regiment of infantry,’ and a battery of artillery. Waiting until the train had partly pasted, and taking advan tage of a defile, cur officers dashed upon the train, dividing their force, to work toward the front and rear at the same time. They cut down one hundred and thirtyJwagona, rim the horses into the woods, captured two guns and three hundred prisoners. Before completing all they desired to accomplish, the rebel cavalry and infantry ...were upon them. The guns and all the prisoners, excepting twelve, were recaptured, when our party took to the woods, closely pursued by the enemy. By the aid of friendly citizens they escaped their pursuers, and made their way to Waynesborough, through which they passed, skilfully eluding the rebel pickets stationed there. They saw the burning train captured by Kilpatrick, and a portion of bis force which was engaging the enemy at the time.. They reached Hagerstown, and rested for the night, inTsight of Moseby’s forces; but men and horses were too much worn down to attack him or retire another foot. On the .morning of the sixth they joined Buford at Boonsboro’, having lost only four men, who were taken prisoners. It was impossible to bring,off the captured horses, and these tycre turned over to farmers who had lost their own by Dee’s soldiers. The Battle Field near Gettysburg. [Correspondence of New Tori Herald. 3 TBACBS OP THE STRUGGLE AT THE. CEMETERY. Monuments and headstones lie here and there Graves, once carefully tended by some loving hand. have been trampled by, horses* feet . until the vestiges of verdure have disappeared. The neat and well-trained shrubbery has vanished, or is but a broken and withered mass of tangled brush wood. On one grave lies a dead artillery horse, .fast decomposing; under the July sun. On another lie the torn garments of some wounded soldier, stained and saturated with his blood. Across a small head stone, bearing the words, " To the memory of our beloved child,’Mary,” lie the fragments of a musket . shattered a cannon shot. In the centre of a space enclosed by/an iron fence, and containing a half Ldczen graves, a few rails are still- standing where .they were !erected by our soldiere and served to sup port the shelter tents of a squad. A family shaft has been brokendefragments by a shell, and qnly the base remains, with a portion of the 1 Stone, after, stone felt the • effects of the feu d’en/crthat was poured upon the ; crest of tfre?bill. Cannon thundered, and foot and horsfi Eoldl&rs tramped over the sleeping place of the - deaTd. Othp* dead Were added to those who are rest ing here, and many a wounded soldierstiU lives to v B l lent graves. , POSITIONOF CEIintTERV HILL^TS'iMPORTANOE; ' The hill on .which this cemetery ialosated was the centre of our line of battle and.the key to the whole*• position. Had the rebels been able to'carry this point, they would .have , forced us iqto retreat, antj ; thewhole battle would have been lost. : To pierce; our.'line'-here was Lee’s great endeavor,: and he threw his best brigades against it. Wave after . wave of living valor rolled up that slope only to roll back again under the deadly fire of our artil lery and infantry. It was on this hill, a little to the -right of the'cemetery, where occurred the charge of famous brigade, of : Louisiana Tigers. It was i their boast that they were never yet foiled in an at tempt to; take a battery, but on this occaßion they ' suffered a defeat-ahd nearly annihilation; Sad and dispirited they mourn, their repulse and terrible losses in the charge. . THE BATTLE GROUND BEFORE US. From-tbe summit of this hill a large portion of the battle ground is spread out before the spectator. In front and at his Feet : lies the town of Gettysburg, containing in quiet times a population’of four or five thousand souls.; Itiß-not jnore than a hundred yards to the houses in the edge village where the contest with the rebel.sharpshooters took place. To the left oT the town stretches a long valley, bounded on each side by a gently sloping ridge. The crest of each ridge is distant .a goo 4 three-fourths of a inile or more from the other, it was on these ridges that the lines of battle on the second and third days: . were formed, the rebel line being on the ridge to the westward. The one stretching directly from our left hand, and occupied by our men, has but little timber; upon it, while, that held by the rebels can boast ofseveral groves of greater or less extent. In one of these the Pennsylvania College is embowered, while in another is seen'the Theological Seminary. Half way between the ridges are the ruins of a large brick building burned during the engagement, and dotted about here and there are various brick and frame structures. .Two miles at our left hand rises a'sharp pointed elevation, known to the inhabi tants of the region as Round Hill. Its Bides are wooded and the forest stretches from its base across the valley to the crest of the western ridge. THE VALLEY BETWEEN THE RIDGES. !■ It must not be supposed that the space between the ridges is an even plain, shaven with the scythe and levelled by the roller. It rises and falls gently, and with little regularity, but in no place is it steep of ascent. Were it not* for its ununiformity,- and for .the occasional sprinkling of trees over its sur face, it could be compared to a patch of rolling prairie in miniature.’ To the southwest of the fur ther ridge is seen the mountain region- of Western Maryland, behind which-the rebels had their line of retreat. , It is not a wild, rough mass of mountains, but a region of hills of the larger and more inaccessi ble, sort. They are traversed by roads only in a few localities, and their passage, - except through the gaps, is difficult for a single team and impossible for an army, ... EVIDENCE OF HOT WORK. Moving to the left I find still more severe traces of artillery fighting. Twenty-seven dead horses on a space of little more than one acre is evidence of heavy work. Here,are a few scattered trees, which were evidently used as a screen for our batteries. These trees did not escape the storm of shot and shell that was rained in that direction. Some of them were perforated by cannon shot, or have been completely cut off in that peculiar splintering man ner that marks the course of a projectile through green wood. Close by where this fighting took place are piled a large number of muskets: and cartridge boxes that have been collected from the field. Con siderable work has been done in thus gathering the ddbris of the battle, but it is by no means complete. Over all the ground are scattered muskets, bayonets, and sabres, our own being indiscriminately mingled with those of the rebels. BURIAL PLACES OF. THE FALLEN. My next advance to the left carries me where the ground is thickly aludded with graves. In one group I count a dozen graves of the 20th Massachu setts, near by those of the 137th New York, and close at band an equal number from the 12th New Jersey. Care has been taken to plaee a headboard at each grave, 1 with "a legible inscription' thereon, showing whose remains are resting beneath. The headboard is .usually made from the remnant of a box that may have served its purpose and become .useful as a boxnolonger. In a few instances they appear to have been made from fresh lumber, with special reference to their present use. On one board the comrades of the dead.soldiers had nailed the back of his knapsack, on winch his name , was painted. - On another was a brass plate, bearing the soldier’s name in heavily-stamped letters. ARTIFICIAL DKFJSNCES. The line of breastworks continues. From the centre of our position, far away to the extreme left, our men threw up hasty defenoes, from which to re sist the rebel attack. Wherever stone fences were found they were taken advantage of to form a part of the line. Where these were not at hand the rails from fences were heaped up and covered slightly with dirt.. Where these'did notruuin the proper direction works,of earth and trees were thrown up, behind which.themen were to tight. They extended nearly to the base of Round; Hill, and into the tim berthat skirts that, elevation: They were thrown up on .Wednesday night, after the Istandllth Corps had been driven back through the town. It was Gen. Meade’s plan to compel the enemy to make an attack, and for this purpose the works were thrown Up. AAt the'same time the were not idle. They threw up a line of over four miles in length, in some, «ases constructing it with great care. For much of the way their works partake more of the nature of permanent defences than they do of a for tification that is designed to be’merely temporary. It was cyidehtly their supposition on Wednesday night that they could compel ub to make the attack. They looked for an. assault with inferior numbers upon their army, in a strong position of their own choosing. Their expectations in this' particular were not fulfilled. - r : EFFECT OF THjiWHITWORTH TROJECTILE. : Moving still to the left, I found an orchard in which the fighting appears to have been desperate in the extreme. Artillery shot had ploughed through the groundimevejy; direction, and the trees dill not by any means escape the fury of the storm. ' The.- ..long balls of iron, . said by officers present'to bs a modification on the Whitworth projectile, lay every where scattered; The rebels must, have been well supplied with this species of ammunition, and they evidently ÜBed it with 1 no sparing band. At one time I counted twelve of these boltelying on a space not fifty feet square. * I was told that the forest in rear of bur position'was full of these shot that passed over our heads in the time of the action. The rebel artillery fire has heretofore been excel? lent, but I am told that on the present occasion it was not accurate. Why it was so is difficult to explain. EFPECTB UPON WHEAT-FIELDS. A mile from our central position, on the crest of the hill at the cemetery, wns a field of wheat, and near to it a large tract, on whioh corn was growing luxuriantly before the battle. The wheat was fear fully trampled by the hurrying feet. of. the dense masses of infantry as they changed'their positions On our extreme left the pointed summit of a hill of a thousand feet elevation rises towards the sky, Bej;ond it the country falls off into the mountain region that extends to the Potomao ami across it into Virginia. This hill is quite steep and difficult of ascent, and formed a strong position on which the left of our line could rest. The enemy assaulted this point with, great fury, throwing his divisions one after the other againßt it. Their efforts were of no avail. Our men defended their ground against every attack. It was like the dash of the French, at Waterloo against the immovable columns of the English. Stubborn resistance overcame the valor of the assailants. Time after time they came to the assault only to fall back as they had advanced. Their final retreat left the remnant of our own men still standing behind their works. The rebel dead and wounded were scattered thickly about the ground. Our own were not wanting. Betracing my steps, before reaching the extreme left, T returned to the centre of our position, on the Cemetery Hill. Ido not follow the path by which I came, but'take a route along the hollow, between the two ridges. It was across this hollow that the charges were made in the assaults upon our position. Much blood was poured out between these two swells of land. Most of the dead have been buried where they fell, or gathered in little clusters beneath some spreading tree or beside clumps of bushes. Some of the rebel dead are still uncovered. The first that meets my gaze, I come upon suddenly, as I descend a bank, some three or four feet in height, to the side of a-small spring. He is lying near the spring, as if he had crawled there to obtain a draught of water; His hands are outspread upon the earth, and clutching at the little tufts of grass beneath them. His haversack and canteen are still hanging to his side, and his hat is lying near him. His mus ket is gone; either carried off by his comrades, taken by some relic seeker, or placed in the accumu lated heap by our own Boldiers. _This storm of pitilesH iron was by no means hurled at headquarters alone.- It was Lee’s grand attempt to sh atter and break our centre, preparatory to the charge which should possess him of the key to our position. It was a brilliant plan, and one in which Napoleon often achieved; success. Wherever that array of guns was pointed there the air was laden with the hurtling missiles of death. Every tree every shrub, every blade of grass bent before the blast. -Through the thick rolling smoke cloud that separated the contending . hosts shell after shell crushed on its fiery way. Man nor beast could stand before it. Huge»gaps were cut in our lines, and battery after battery hushed its fire, disabled by the rebel guns. Nearly two hours of this cannonade, and then came the charge which was so noblv re pulsed. J Gettysburg, July 6. This hill was made artificially strong durine the night,, after the first assault, by the erection of seve ral redans, behind each of which was a gun. These were sufficiently high to prevent their being carried with ease by the enemy. In addition to the artille ry in this position there was a considerable number of guns held in reserve. This position of the line received special attention, as it was the key to our whole position. Should thiß be carried our defeat would be certain, as it ; would separate- our • wiovs from each other. The defences that were thrown up still remain, but the guns were in the road in pur suit of the retreating rebels. The hill commands a ’ full view of the town and of the whole region of the fight. Far on the left the mountains stretch away to the Potomac; and-on the right the Susque hanna. The green fields andi darker forests look as peaceful as if they hadf mere* heard the sound of contending armies. two hundred thou sand, .men. met here three d&ys ego in mortal combat, ana to-day there is a Sabbath-like still-" ness. Our sharpshooters in some localities occupied .novel positions. One of them.found the half of what.had once been a hollow tree with a hole left by the removal of a knot facing directly towards the ground where , the rebels advances. He was thus provided with a convenient loophole from which he'could fire upon the enemy, Another found a nook between two rocks about two feet wide by six or eight long, and aB many high. The end ef this nook was> towards the rebels, and filled up with smaller stone. It made a fine spot for a sharp shooter to occupy. It was held to good effect by one marksmen, as three or four dead rebels in front of the position give evidence. Every con ceivable corner was filled with a sharpshooter al ways on the lookout for the foe. It was this fact that operated to slay the rebels in larger numbers. Their loss on the right was very heavy, ao much so as on the left. .••••. A Baltimore correspondent, writing on'the 7th inst, makes the following statement upon the au thority of a gentleman fromEmmettsburg, but who is well known and much respected in Baltimore: During Saturday the columns of General Use’s army were passing through Emmettaburg, and also on the country roads north of that place, from hear Gettysburg, across the South Mountain, towards Hagerstown., The movement was made in perfect order, and without haste or the least confusion. My . informant related many little circumstances that oc curred on the march, all showing the deliberation with which it was made. He was placed under close surveillance by General J. E. B. Stuart on Sunday, and informed that he could hot quit theto wn. Other wise no restrictions were placed upon Ms actions. On, that day he had a longcohversation with Gen. Stuart. That officer informed him that he had no doubt the Northern newspapers would claim the result of the battles of the three proceeding days ab a victory, he-‘ cause Gen. Lee haa retired from before Gettysburg. “ But,” said he, "before three days more they will play another tune. In those, engagements Gen. Lee exactly what he intended, and if the Union army follows us now it will be they who will never return to their capital, anil not we. I can/tell you tbis much, Gen. Lee is not retreating, and will not leave the north side of the Potomac until he has , accomplished that for which he crossed that stream.” Gen. Stuart had at Emmettsbiirg 15,000 cavalry, in splendid condition. They left that place in the course of the day* on receipt of a despatch from Gen. Lee. They.were the last rebel troops seen near Etn- i metteburg, or.at any point east of the base of the South Mountain. lam unable to say now whether Gen. Lee’s army has moved as far as Hagerstown or. not,. But this I know: that if he desired to do so 'on Saturday or Sunday he could and has done so: for the report that the passes in the South Moun tain were held by Union troops is entirely inaccu rate. On the other hand, all of those passeß have been held all the time by strong detachments of Gen. Lee’s army. It is through these passes' that the mails from Richmond to the rebel army were trans ported every day. It is asserted here to-day that General French was mistaken in regard to the destruction of Gen. Lee’s pontoon bridge at Williamsport j for it is said that long trains of loaded wagons have been pasaing over it constantly every day of last week, and on Sunday and yesterday of this week. The latter statement I have every reason to believe to be correct. It is pos sible that there were two bridges—one at Williams port andone a short distance below—and that the latter was destroyed, and that General French mis took it for the main bridge at Williamsport. The ‘ bridge at Williamsport has been held ever since the 28th of June, by Colonel Imboden, with a strong force of rebel, cavalry. ; Colonel Imboden has been in constant communication with General Lee, by means of couriers, ever since that date. THE MEANNESS OF GETTYSBURG. [From Correspondence of the Times.] 'And apropos to this, let me make it a matter of un deniable history, that the conduct of the majority of the male citizens of Gettysburg and the surrounding county of Adams, is such as to stamp them with dis honor and craven-hearted meanness. I do not speak hastily. T.but write the unanimous sentiments of the Whole army—an army.which no w feels that the doors from which they drove a host of robbers, thieves and cut-throats, were sot worthy of being defended. The actions of the people of Gettysburg are so sordidly mean and unpatriotic, as to engender the belief that they were indifferent as to which party was whipped. I will give a few instances. . In the first place, the male citizens mostly ran away, and left the women and children to the mercy of their enemies. On their return, instead of lending a helping hand to our wounded, and opening their houses to our famished officers and soldiers, they have only manifested indecent haste to present their bills to the military authorities for payment of losses inflicted.by both armies. One man yesterday pre sented a captain with a bill for eighteen rails which his men had burned in cooking, their coffee. On the streets, the burden of their talk is their losses, and speculations as to whether the Government can be compelled to pay for this or that. Almost entirely, they are uncourteous, but this is plainly from lack of intelligence and refinement. Their charges, too, were exorbitant; hotels, $2.50 per day; milk 10 and 15 cents per quart; bread $l, anu even $1.50 per loaf; twenty cents for a ban,’ dctge for a wounded soldie)'! And these are only a few specimens of the sordid meanness and unpatri otic spirit .manifested by these people, from whose doors our noble army had driven a hated enemy. I wish it to be understood that the facts I have stated can be fully substantiated by many officers high in rank, as well as by whatT personally saw and expe rienced. This is Adams county, a neighbor to Cop perhead York, which is still nearer the stupid and stingy Berkß. . Of course there were some bl ight exceptions to this conduct, and one or two that came to my notice, I desire to allude to it here, for they richly deserve it, having interspersed a bright oasiß in tbtsdesertof shameless indifference and discourtesy—a shameless ness which refused Miss Dix and her lftdy nurses board, because they “didn’t want to be troubled with boarders.” In honorable contrast to this sordidness was the conduct of Profeesor Stoever. and his amiable wife. As many as twelve wounded Union soldiers at once lay upon his dining-room floor, receiving from him self and Mrß. Stoever constant, care; His spacious yard was for days a free ordinary, where our men ate their illl, without money and without price hot ODly, but with that hearty ; and cheerful welcome which so reanimates the weary. In his cellar he concealed three Union officers for three' days while the town was in possession of the rebelß—anxious ly determined to save them from arrest and the Libby Prison’. His wife fed them stealthily du }ring that time. This generous man encountered Mr. Wilkeson while •earching for his son’a body, and overcame him wholly-with his tender outpour ing of sympathy and Offers of service. He subse quently sought him out and compelled him to pome ..to his homeland take food. The.next.day, as Mr. Wilkeson was passing the Professor’s door to an he plaoed his; little: son on the watch : for him, and as Mr. W. returned, he went ..out and tenderly forced him in, and showed him a room prp- during the battle. In the corn- field artillery had been stationed, and changed its position as often as the enemy obtained its range. Hardly a hill of earn is left in itß pristine luxuriance. The little that es caped the hoof or the wheel, as the guns moved from place to place, has since been nibbled off by hungry horses during the Dight bivouac subsequent to the battle, vNot a stalk of wheat is upright; not a blade of corn remains unisjured l all has fallen long before the time of harvest. Another harvest, in which Death waß the reaper, has been gathered above it. THE ASSAULT ON THE LEFT. THE REBEL DEAD. The body of another rebel attracts my. attention by a singular circumstance. The face is discolored in the extreme, black as that of the purest Congo negro. The hands are as delicate as those of a lady and of snowy whiteness. With the exception of the face, the body is but little swollen, and thereare no signs of the commencement of decomposition. Several bodies that I‘find.show blackened faces, but no others than this display such a contrast between thecolorof the face and'hands, Near a small white house on the rebel line lies the body of an officer, evidently a lieutenant or CHptain. His right arm is extended as,if to grasp the hand of a friend. All -possible positions in whioh a dyingman can fall can be noticed on this field. SHELLING GENERAL MEADE’S HEADQUARTERS, The little iarm house on the Emmettsburg road, where General Meade held his headquarters during the cannonade is most fearfully cutup. It is already known how General Lee masked his artillery and opened with one hundred and thirty pieces at the samemomeht. vTwo shells in every seoond of time fell around those headquarters. The shells tore through the little white building, exploding and scattering their fragments in every direction. Not a epot anj where was safe. One shell through the doorstep, another in thechimney, athird Bhatterioga rafter, a fourth cutting off the legs of a chair in which staff officer was seated ; others severed and splin tcred the posts in front of thehouse, hosvled through the trees by which the d wellicg was surrounded, and raised deep furrows of the soft earth. At the fence in front of the building the horses of aids and order hes were standing. A dozen of the frightened ani mals fell by the rebel projectiles, and others broke away and fled in the wildest fright towards the rear. One staff’ officer, and another, and another, were wounded. Strange to say, amid all this iron hail, no one of the staff was killed. Everyman stared death full m the face, and had little prospect of escaping unhurt. Barely in the history of war has there been a scene to equal thiß. THE CANNONADE ELSEWHERE. POSITION ON THE CENTRE. POSITION OP OUR SHARPSHOOTERS, «REBEL BOASTS, NOBLE EXCEPTIONS. THREE CENTS. pared for hie use as longas he should stay in Gettys burg, and then insisted upon his sitting down to a tea-table generously, and elegantly spread for him and five other strangers. Squire Samuel Donborrow, living near Two Ta verns, five miles east of Gettysburg, for days fed scores of men and officers, including Gen. Meredith, wounded; kept his wife and servants cooking con stantly, and provided large amounts of food for the wounded, and for all this he refused compensation. He has a noble son in the army, who he would have thus done by. He came home to see his father, and that father blessed him as they parted, and said: “My son, I wish to save your life if I can; don't expose yourself to needless danger, but reflect credit upon your family—do your duty And that son, now two years a soldier in the Reserves, does his duty. CHINA AT GETTYSBURG. CFrom The World.! Among the killed at Gettysburg was a young Chinaman, known as John Tommy,. Re was at tached to the Ist Regiment Excelsiorbrigade, Capt. Price’s company. He was a mere lad. entirely ig norant of our language., Beiog bright, smart, and honest, he soon became a favorite at Red Hook, Staten Island, and was at once the butt aud the wit of the whole regiment. Before he became lo cated on the' Maryland shore of the Potomac opposite Acquia Creek, in one of the recon noiesances on |the south side of the river, Tom my was taken prisoner by the enemy and soon be came a lion in the rebel camp. Hewasbroughtbefore General Magruder, who,"Surprised at his appearance and color, asked hiimwas he a mulatto, Indian, or what? "When Tommy.told him he waß from China, Magruder was very much amused, and asked him how much he would take to join the Confederate army. “Notunless you will make me a brigadier general,” said Tommy, to the: great delight of the secesh officers, who. treated him very kindly, and sent him to Fredericksburg. Here Tommy became a great lion, and his picture was' published in the Fre dericksburg papers. After his parole Tommy came to New York city, where he employed his time in at tending upon hisßick and wounded comrades. He was the kindest of nurses, and spent his little means in providing delicacies for his sick fellow-soldiers. In the subsequent engagements at Fredericksburg, Chancellorville, and last at Gettysburg, John Tom my was one of the bravest soldiers in that bravest of brigades, the Excelsior. He seemed not to know what fear was, and was the universal favorite of all his fellow-soldiers. He had not been-wounded up to Gettysburg, but in Friday’s fight he was struck by a Bhell, which tore off both legs at the thighs, aDd he shortly bled to death. The company he waß in went into the action with twenty-eight men, and lost twenty in killed and wounded. Tommy’s case is peculiar, as he was the only representative of the empire of China in the finest army on the planet. ARM! OF THE CUMBERLAND. A Stragetic Race* Mr, Swinton, of the Times , writing from Rose crans’ headquarters, explains a portion of the re cent movement: From the moment the three main columns by which the army has been advancing met at Beech Grove, it was from that moment between us and the rebels merely a question of legs. All possible strategy reduced itself to the simple problem of a race for Tullahoma, and the devil catch the hind l * moßt, Up to that point, it was possible to blind and de ceive the enemy. So long as our left wins (McCook’s coipa) moved directly south on the Murfreesboro and Shelbyville pike; so long as. our* reserves and our cavalry menaced the rebel stronghold on lines still furiher tcrthe west; so long as our centre (Thomas’ corps) continued at Hoover’s Gap, threatening Fair field and Wartrace, and thus looking to a direct ad vance on Shelbyville; so long it was possible for General Rosecrans to mask his real intentions, and make Bragg believe that Shelbyville was really his objective point. But—the moment McCook, ; having uncovered Liberty Gap, left the Shelbyville road, and struck eastward, to fonn.a junction with the centre corps at Beech Grove, on the Manchester pike, and the left wing (Crittenden’s corps) was swung round to wards Manchecter—from that moment, I say, the real nature, object, and end of the movement be came apparent. It was obviously a strategic ma noeuvre on the rebel right flank, with a view of grasping their communications at Tullahoma; and it became, as I said before, a race for who would get there first. UNIONISM IN SHELBYVILLE. It has long been known that the main portion of the population of Shelbyville was thoroughly Union at heart. This, in fact, has been a matter of con stant reproach.to them on the part of the rebel presß. On this score, a letter-writer in a late num ber of the Atlanta Confederacy sayß: “On the train coming down I was told that a short time ago the newly-elected town and county officers of Shelbyville were called upon to take the oattrof allegiance to the Confederacy before assu -ming their public functions, and that they unanimously refused the lest. It is assuredly a very distressing di lemma,. indeed, for a man’s homestead to be situa ted on the debatable ground between the two great armies, uncertain what changes of position to-mor row may produce. As mine host at Shelbyville said, within a few months he had been under the rules—first,of the Confederates, before the battle of M urfreesboro ; subsequently under that of that hum bug Rosecrans, and now under General Bragg again —and that it behooves a man of sense either to take a muelcet and join the side of his choice, or else keep his mouth shut with regard to his political opinions.” ' AN EPOCH-MAKING EVENT. It is rarely that we are able to mark historically the precise point at which great events in the march of progress take their origin. But I think such an epoch-making event was marked.yesterday. While Gen. Rosecrans and staff were riding down from Beech'Grove to Manchester, the General passed the word along the line to his staff officers to invite , all negroes met on the march to come in to us and wewould give them protection. This is-an interest ing fact as marking the first official inauguration of the emancipation policy by a military authority. -This is certainly a.great advance from the time when commanders'would tie up black pariahs who rougbt refuge within their lines. I shall never forget the moment when, on a g’lo rious balmy morning of June, marching through the lovely.glad.es And groves of Tennessee, our co lumn, bearing the resplendent orifiame of freedom at its head, was thrilled with that electric utterance of our good and great commander. STATES IN REBELLION. Blind Vindictiveness. The Petersburg Express of the 2d contains this charming specimen of termagancy and spite : “The tone of the Northern papers, just received, encourages us to expect the happiest results from the visit of our army to the rich valleys of Penn sylvania. Everything, according to the enemy’s own accouts, is going on delightfully-there. The broad-brims and sleek Dutch farmers, are in a Btate of splendid alarm and confusion, stampeding and skedaddling „in every direction, whilst (lie spirit of armed resistance is at a truly low ebb.” * * * * * “ The truth is. that this invasion of the North by one of the finest and moat powerful armies ever* organized, led on by the fiist generals of the age, will very soon open the eyes of the wicked and misguided people thereto the stupendous magnitude of their folly in inau gurating and prosecuting this war. They will now be made to know and feel what war is. Its peiilsaDdits horrors will confront them at their own doors, which was the last of their expectations when they embarked in it. Their actual experience of lts.consequences in the capture and occupation of their own cities and towns, and the terrible dis turbances in their own domicils, will have a most salutary effect upon them. Already are they beginninq to howl forth denunciations of their own Government for having involved them in such losses and distresses as this invasion is daily subjecting them to. If Ewell, in Stonewall Jackson’s style, pushes on-his columns to Harrisburg and Philadelphia, the popular fury against Lincoln will be charmingly increasedfuntil it will be intense 'enough to tear him to pieces. ” STATEMENT OF A REFUGEE. A refugee from the States in rebellion recently arrived in Beaufort, N. 0. He is a German by birth, claims to be a citizen of Maryland, and says he is, and has ever been, a Union man. He ap pears quite intelligent, and much confidence is placed in his statements. When he left Wilmington there were seventeen steamers—blockade runners—lying at the wharves there, five of-which are owned by the rebel Govern ment.. All of the steamers had brought in valuable cargoes. One brought in one hundred pieces of brass field artillery, which he counted on the wharf himself, together with the field carriages, caissons, harness, etc.; another came in loaded entirely with powder ; another brought, with other merchandise, three hundred cases of Enfield rifleß. Several brought cargoes of bacon, which had found its way there from r Cincinnati via New York, Liverpool, Nassau, and Bermuda. -He was told a few.days before he left that there was bacon enough in Wilmington to last an aimy of one hundred thousand men a year. The wharves ‘and warehouses were full .of shot, shell, provisions, and clothing, all of English manufac ture and produce, or purchased by them for the rebels. The male population there is nfoßtly foreign. All the natives fit for. military duty had voluntarily gone or had been conscripted into the rebei armies, ex cept those who buy and sell to the rebel Govern ment, The Cape Fear river is lined with batteries, and they have four, schooners loaded with stone to sink in the chancel if iion-clads, of which they have great fear, atteraptto go up; and at a narrow place in the river they have a heavy cable all ready, with buoys attached,.which they can stretch across the river in an hour. Abreast of it, on each bank, are heavy batteries. The only defences of the town are on the river. There are but few troopß in the vi cinity. The river batteries and cable he had himself seen, aIBO the schooners. The Late Siege of Vicksburg. The most wonderful piece of work in this cam paign, and what must render the siege of Vicksburg v among the great Bieges of history, is the enormous amount of labor performed in the entrenchment and mining operations. Sebastopol, to which this must bear a stroDg natural resemblance, may have seen something like the number of guns bearing upon it, and the quantity of iron hurled back and forward, but in the elaborateness of the engineering work'we doubt if its equal has been seen on either side. The labor of the forts and pits is prodigious, especially if we consider that it is temporary lor the siege. The enemy had leisure to select his position where all the advantages, would inure to his side and where all the drawbacks would be to ours. His forts were on the best sites and well* constructed • his pitß overlooked chasms and natural obstacles. His magazines and paths were all selected and built before we eame. Notwithstanding all these : mani fest advantages, he has, by the superior force of our artillery, been driven from point to point, until now he has not more than half a dozen giinß' which he can use, bearing on the land forces, and these situ ated so far within the works that their efficacy is impaired. If the rebels had ammunition abundant - (and they have not), it would be difficult for them to fire, as every gun which we could Bee could be effec tually silenced by a concentration of artillery such as the world has rarely .Been. We have guns of all sorts and calibres, from the monster n-inch columbiads, under Captain Selfridge, U. S. A., to the captured, iron 6-pounder. They have one 16-inch mortar, which hitherto they have fired with impunity, ; happily without much damage. We have six of the same calibre firing at .will, but we suspect with similar results. Thiß is the marvel of the contest that while our-' men are movibg about continually, and our horse men" galloping in plain sight of the two lines, the rebels can only fire, after a tedious stratagem, an occasional shot. We overpower them so completely, - that at no point except the; disputed fori, can they fire ie«mlarly. If they constructlobp:holes our gun ners knock them into one* and tumble off their sand bags, or if by chance during the night they have a few pierced, no Booner do they show the ends of their muskets through, than a rattling fire is poured at the aperture. Thus are they kept in perpetual terror and silence by this triple guard, They cannot afford to fight against such odds. Life and strength are too precious, because so limited, to waste in this unprofitable way. For every one of our men wound ed, they must have three, so that, in the long Tun, they must be reduced by casualties alone.—Coms* pondent Missouri Republican, GEN. LONGSTREET.—There are very contra dictory reports in regard to Gen. Longstreet.* Lieut. Col. Wass, of the 19th, who was wounded by? the. concussion of a shell, and who arrived home this morning, states that when he left, Longstreet was within our lines at the point of death, and had re-, quested that his watch and spurs might bo sent to Gen. Meade’s headquarters,—fictfon THE VAR PRESS, {PUBLISHED WEEKLY.} The Was'Pkesb will besentto subscribe** by’ mail (per annum in advance)at qq Three copies “ 9 00 Five copies *' “ gOO Ten •> “ •• ....35 00 Larger Clubs than Teh will be charged at the same rate, 01-90 per copy. - - The money must always accompany the'order, amt <n no instances can these terms he deviated from, as they afford very little more than the cost of the paper, are requested.to act as Agents fee Tea Win p EEM . To le Ketter-np of the Club of ten or twenty, an the Paper will be alTon.. Mr. William b. Reed and his Recent Pamphlet. [From the English Guardian June 17.] f i ir: I reai3 S!% sur P ri "e and pain, the letter addressed to you by Mr. William B. Reed. of thtr city, published in your paper of the 224 ult. It i» virtually anattack upon the good faith, as a reporter of facts, of the gentleman who has been so long vour Philadelphia correspondent, although the attack I*. in terms, disclaimed as regards him, and trans ferred directly to the “political organization that BUBtains the war,” whose “atmosphere of defama tion and credulity,” according to Mr. Reed, your correspondent breathes. The statement of your correspondent is substan tially this—that Mr. Reed’s pamphlet, printed first for private,distribution, was found to be so dama ging that every effort was made to prevent its being made public; that curiosity was excited in regard to it, And that at length one of the Sunday paperß suc ceeded in obtaining a copy, and thus gave it to the public. The material statement, the truth of which Mr. Reed in his letter to you denies, is that “every effort was made to prevent its being made public and he adds, that hiß “views as to the present state of public affairs have never been concealed.” I am not prepared to say that, as a matter of very nice special pleading, Mr. Reed maynotbeable to maintainrthe precise issues which hfs denials raise; but I deßire, in vindication of the substantial accu racy of your correspondent, to give, with your per mission, to your readers, some facts, known here for -some months to many, and to myself awong the number. Mr.* Reed’s Vindication purnorts on its title page to have been “published by John Camp bell, 1862,” and is dated at its-close, “Novembers, 1862.” On the 3d of December following Mr. Reed addressed to John B. Kenney, Esq., a gentleman, of this city, a letter which is now before me, and or which Mr. Kenney, in the interest of simple justioe* allows me to send you the following copy: ..Mr Peak Sir : I understand that there has been in your possession, and that yon have deposited at tae t-ommercial Rooms, a pamphlet with my signature. When I jay to you that the pamphlet in question was printed for circulation among personal friends, and has notyetbeen published,possibly may not he. lam confi dent you will see the propriety of withdrawing it from a place of public resort, and returning it to me or to the person from whom you gotit. Originally it mint lnv» come from tbe printer, without my consent jjome the favorto give this your early attention. > ery sincerely yours. Wit,Ll AM "B. R"RBT>. X B. FK.-SEY, Esq 0 ’ 4M Wato "t Etieet - DeC ' »• Mr. Kenney replied that Mr. Reed was mistaken in aayiDgtbat he had had in hit possession, or had deposited at the Commercial Rooms,' the pamphlet in (iiiestion; hut added, that he had seen the pam phlet on the public tables of the room, and read it. but had never had the control of it. What ineffectual efforts were made here to obtain a copy of Mr. Reed’s pamphlet for the public, you will judge.from the following letter, addressed to me . , n! f re s u cst, by Mr. John R. Young, onfe of the city* 18 Tress, a leading daily paper- of thia r. „ m Office of the Press. May 12.1883 While conversing with Mr* John Campbell, i?™. b £. oktellcr ' WHh whom I have had business rola tions for some years, be alluded to a'nnmber of political there was another from the pen of „ r v.,T ll i la - m B , R6e . d i” *he press; that it would be Suwo* -’ti a - few d , a r B : and that as I' might desire to notice it in tbe jonrnal with which I have the honor to ne conceded, he would send me a copy. This occurred some months Bgo. and as it waeAfr Campbell's custom in reference to all of;his publications. Idismiaßed the matter. A short time after, probably a fortnight, while in his store. I recalled the promise, and was told that the pampblct had not been published, nor was it likely jo be. The impression I received was that it had bean suppressed. In other quarters I heard that such a pamphlet had De«j written, and, after being exposed for sale for a dar £ r _two,"Was mysteriously taken out of the market; that it had been sent to some of oar public reading-rooms, and subsequently removed, at Mr. Reed's own solicita tion I was further told by those who had read it that it was particularly extreme and bitter; that its publica tion would have an excellent effect among the people, by showing the real gen timents of the men who are op pqping the Government and that Mr. Reed’s political friends thinking it foolish and inconsiderate, and apt to injure them, had induced him to suppress it. As & matter of newspaper enterprise, and, perhaps, with a view to its political effect. Imsde everv effort to secure a copy for publication in The Press, offering Mr Camp bell a hundred dollars, if in the way of his business he could obtain it exclusively for our journal. Mr. Camp bell replied that no copies .could be procured: that he would not sell one to me. being Mr. Reed’s publisher. A contemporary journal succeeded in obtaining a copy, and as this served my purpose the subject was forgotten. A .day or two after its newspaper publication. Mr. Reed s pamphlet reappeared in pamphlet form, and Mr. Campbell wa» kind enough to send me the cony he had promised. Very truly, yours, JOHN R YOUJTGL Horace Pixney, Jr., Elq. Mr. Reed’s pamphlet was first given to the public in the columns of the Sunday Dispatch of December 14th, 1862, with the following introduction: “ Within two or three weeks the Hon. William B Reed ex-mimsrer to China, gave to the world a pamphlet which he styled his Vindication.” This document had a very limited circulation, hut two or three hun dredcopies been printed, and these copies beinr caremllv circulated only amoDg the select few who sympathize with Mosers Jeff Davis and William B. Retd, and with whom the latter scarcely needed anu vindication. After the production had gone to the world its author peemed to think better of the matter, and he set to work to call in and destroy his literary bantling The pamphlets were sought out as diligently as the Cad - waladerpamphlet? were sought for" aud suppressed, and. finally, but a single copy of tbe brochurevraa believed to be left in existence.. Th o Sunday Dispatch, with, a jaudable desire to save so precious a document from beii g lost to the world, and for the purpose of giving it a more general publicity than its author originally in tended, has procured a copy, and it will be found below, as follows.’ - j . Your readerswiU now be able to judge how far the statements of your correspondent are sustained by competent testimony. In conclusion, let me say that what-I have now written you has not been seen by your corres pondent. The/acta which the testimony establishes were matters of notoriety here. I have volunteered the present letter from a simple instinct of justice to a friend. I have for many years been one of your subscribers, and I cheerfully bear witness to the accuracy and good faith of your cor respondent in his official relations with you. I trust that your interest in him will he a'sufficieht motive for your publishing what I have now written. When Mr, Reed, leaving the issue which he raises with your correspondent,‘goes so far out of his way to:express the. hope that « he does more justice to others thah he has done to ” him,-he stirs a chord of indignation in many breasts long friendly both to himself aDd to tbe person whom he now wrongs. Of all persons living, your correspondent is the last person to be charged by Mr. Heed with injustice . to him. When, in his introductory notice to the • lectures of his lamented brother, Professor Henry Reed, Mr. Reed, as editor, refers to the grief of Philadelphia for bis brother’s loss, and adds, that “no graceful expression otact of sympathy to- his *. family was withheld,” we, in Philadelphia, remember' well who planned and carried through the munificent compliment, at once a tribute to the dead and a benefit to the living, to which reference is there made. HORACE BINNEY, Jr. 227 South Sixth street, Philada, May 19,1863. [For The Press ] 66 Vicksburg Is Ours 177l 77 BY J. O. BLYTHE, M. I>. Hark l borne upon the southern breeze, As whispers breathed above tbe trees, Or as the swell from off the seas, In summer showers, v Fall softly on the ears of men ■ Strains sweetly indistinct, and then— Hist! listen! catch the sound again— “ Vicksburg is oursl” O’er eea* waves heating on the shore, ’Bove thunders e’en the storms are o’er, O’er cataracts in headlong roar, High, high, it towers. “O’er all the breastworks and the moats The Stary Flag in triumph floats, And heroes thunder from their throats “ Vicksburg is ours!” Spread all your banners in the sky. The sword of vict’ry gleams on high, Our conq’ring eagles upward fly, J And kiss the stars; For Liberty the Gods awake, And hurl the shattered foes a wreck, The Northern arms make strong to break The Southern bars. - - The flaunting flag, the rebels’ trust, Lies trailing m the bloody dust, With sword and halberd there to rust And rot to shreds; No more from its dishonored grave To flout defiance to the brave, Who .proudly our broad banners ware ggj^ High o’er their beads. All honor to the brave and true, Who fought the bloody battles through, And from the ramparts vict’ry drew Where Vicksbiirg cowers; And o’ef the trenches, o’er the slain, Through iron hail and leaden rain, Still plunging onward, might and main, Made Vicksburg ours. . . Wave, wave your banners In the sky, The glory give to God on high, In lofty praises far outvie All other powers, Who nerved the arms that struck the blow, Which, in defeat o’erwhelmed the foe, And laid his frowning bulwarks low, Made Vicksburg ours! [For The Press. 3 Colonel C. F. Taylor, “Killed at the battle of, Gettysburg, July 2d. 1 * He fell as many a hero falls, Untimely, in the fearful fray, Who only asks where duty calls, • Then bravely leads the ordered way. Undaunted by the battle storm, “ Come on, come on, my boys S' he cried; Dismayed they saw his reeling form. Hut conquered .where their leader died. And now he Bleepß the endless sleep; • Nought shall disturb that blest repose. Though friends may sigh, and'kindred weep, Hiß heart no pain nor sorrow knows, ' Young hero, rest! thy strife is o’er, And thou hast gained a sweet release; The bngle ; B -blast, the cannon’s roar, ■ Xomoreshall break thy spirit’s peace.- Wkstpax-e, Delaware county, Pa. D. B. Si GENERAL SICKLES.—Gen. Sickles, his friends will be gratified to learn, ib doing well. After re ceiving his wound and undergoing amputation, he waß conveyed to AVashingtonby a crooked route,;to avoid the enemy. At one house in Pennsylvania the wounded man was' obliged to pay five dollars for a night’s stay. After his Arrival at, Washington he Bhowed symptoms of exhaustion, which gave rise to apprehensions; a message was sent to Mrs. Sickles ' to repair thither, which has since been counter manded. General Hooker paid him a visit, and he was admitted; the two grasped each other’shands, ' neither of them saying a word. Tears rolled down, the cheeks of the. iron-hearted veteran, and he turned away. Messrs. Lincoln and Hamlin-also called, as is generally known.; According tb present indications it will not be many months before Gen- Sickles will again be; in the saddle. His surgeon has declined proffered assistance, because of the im proved condition of the patient; and application, has already been made for a Palmer 's patent leg, to replace 1 , as early as can be permitted, the limb lost at Gettysburg. THE DRAFT IN NEW YORK.—In every Eut ein State preparations are making to execute at ODce the draft, for which lists are now ready- On Monday next the drawing is to begin in New York. We hope not an hour’s delay will occur anywhere. Let the whole country unite with the Government in raising and 'sending forward reinforcements at once for the army. Lee must be pursued and de stroyed : Roaecraus must be supported' against Bragg; blow must follow blow without delay. We . cam force the rebels to lay down their arms, and. bring every. State; back to its place in time to re ceive the congratulations of the friendly world next New Year’s morning, if only we show proper energy and zeal. Therefore, let there be no delay about tqe.
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