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being aware of physical weakness, organic debility* defer
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than by the prudent? Besides being deprived the pleas
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Where, ban effected SOMe Vf the meet **Wigging cargo that
were ever known many troubled with ringing In the head
and earn when asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed at
sudden sounds, bashfoiners, with frequent blushing, at
tended sometimes with derangement of mind, were cured
immediately.
TILED PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Dr. 3. addresses all them, who have injured themselves
by improper Indulgence and military Public wblch ruin
both body and mind, unfitting them -for eltber Maoism.
study, minim) or marriage.
Timm are some of the sad and melancholy effects produc
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coming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, baying a sin•
gular appearance about the eyes, cough end symptoms of
consumption.
YOUNG MEN
Who have Injured themselves by a certain practice indul
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companions, or at school, the effects of which are nightly
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reflecrthat a bound mind and body are the most necessary
requieltes to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with•
out these the journey through lite becomes a weary Fhb
grimage the. prospect boort' , darkens to the view• the
mind becomes shadowed with despair and tilled with the
melancholy reflection [him, the happiness of another be-
tomes blighted with oar own.
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deleyine till the constitutional symptoms of this horrid dis
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diseased nose, nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, dim
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ofit [march 12
blotches on the head, face and extremities, progressing
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or the bones of the no s e fall in, and the victim of this aw
ful disease becomes a horrid object of commiseration, till
death puts a - period to hip dreadful engerings. by sending
him to' that Undiocovered Country from Whence Ito 049-
ellur returnit."
It is a melancholy fact that thousands fall victims to
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Mercury, ruin the constitution and malts the residue of
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Trnst not your lives, or health, to the care of many On
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Educated Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep you
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tained, and in despair, leave you with ruined bealtitto
MO over your own galling dieappointment.
Dr. Johnston in the only Physician aJrertining.
Hie credentials or diplomas always bang In his ace,
lilo remedies or treatment are unknown to all °there,
prepared from a life spent in Ike great hospitals of Europe,
the first to the country and a more extensive Private Prac
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SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10,
Poefett.
HOMELESS.
BY ADALAIDE A PROCTOR.
It la cold, dark midnight. yet listen
To that patter of tiny feet! •
Is it one of your doge, fair lady,
Who whines In the bleak, cold street:—
Is it one of year Milton spaniels
Shot oat in the snow and the sleet I'
My dogs sleep warm in their basket.,
Safe from the darkness and snow
All the bends in our Chrintinn goglacd
Fled pity wherever they go—
(Those are only the homeless children
Who are wandering to and fro )
Look out In the gusty darkness
-1 have ma It again and again,
That shadow, that Mtn so alowly
Up and down past the window-pane :
It Is surely some criminal lurking
Out diem In the frozen rain I
2Cay, our criminals are all whalterea,
Therein pitied and taught and NS:
That is only a sistei-woman
Who liar neither food nor bed—
And the Night cries "sin to be living,"
And the Mier cries "sin to be dead."
Look out at the farther corner
Where the wall atanda blank and bare :
Cam that be a pack which a pedlar
Has left and forgotten there ?
His goods lying out unsheltered
Will be spoilt by the damp sight air.
Nay;--goods in our thrifty England
Are not loft to lie and grow rotten,
For each man knows the market value
Of silk or woolen or cotton—
But in counting the riches of England
I think oar Poor are forgotten.
Our Beards and our Thieves and our Chattels
Have weight for good or for ill
But the Poor are only Ilia image, .
Ills presence, Hue word, Ills will—
And no Lazarus lies at our doorstep
And Dives neglects him still.
OLD WOOD.
Old wood to barn f .
Ay, bring the hill-aide beech
From where the owlets meet and screecb,
And ravens croak ;
The crackling pine, and cedar sweet;
Bring too a clamp of fragrant peat,
Dag 'neath the fern:
The knotted oak,
A fagot too, perhap,
Whose bright flame dawni ng, winking,
'Shall tight tat at our drtaktub t
White the oozing sap
Shall make sweet music to our thinking.
—Messinger.
gals 6 an& Sititits.
THE MARSEILLAISE.
[From Alexander Durnaa' new novel, "Andrea de
Tavathey."]
Strasburg, whose peerless spire is reflected in
the Rhine, which alone divided us from the ene
my, was a boiling caldron of war, youth, joy,
pleasure, balls, reviews, where the clash of in•
etruments of combat incessantly mingled with
the music of revelry.
From Strasburg, through one gate of which
the volunteers entered, there went out by another
gate, the soldiers who were deemed in fighting
condition g there friends met, shook ,Lands, bid
farewell; there sisters wept, mothers prayed,
fathers said
"Go, and die for Franbe l"
An this, to the ringing of bells, and the rever
berations of cannon, those two bronze voices
speaking to heaven, one to invoke its merciful . -
nese, the caller its justice.
On one of these departures, more solemn
than the others, because the most considerable,
the mayor of Strasburg, Dietrich, a worthy and
excellent patriot, invited the brave young men
to come to his house to fraternize in a banquet
with the officers of the -garrison, the mayor's
two daughters, with twelve or fifteen of
their companions fair, noble daughters of
Alsace, who might have been taken, by their
golden tresses, for nymphs of Ceres—were, if
not to preside, at least, like so many bouquets of
flowers, to embellish the feast.
Among the number of guests, an habitual vis
itor to Dietrich's house, a friend of the family,
was a young, high-spirited native of Franc Cora-
Lois, named Rouge, de nate.
(We knew him in after years, and he himself,
while we recorded it with our head from his
mouth, related to us the birth of that noble flow
er of war, at the springing up of which the read
er is to be a witness.)
Rouget de Hale was then of the age of twenty,
and, as an engineer officer, was in garrison at
Strasburg.
A poet and a musician, his piano was one of
the instruments to be beard in immense concerts,
his voice, one of those which resound above the
strongest and most patriotic.-
Never was banquet more French, more nation
al, illumined by a more ardent Tune spn.
No one spoke of himself—all spoke for France.
Death was there, it is true, as in antique
feslivals ; but smiling death, not grasping in his
hand the hideous scythe and mournful hour• glass,
but a sword in one hand, in the other a palm
branch !
. They were puzzled what they should sing ; the
6141 flea foe was a sang of wrath and bikii was ;
they wanted a patriotic, brotherly outburst, and
yet menacing to the foreigners.
Who was to be the modern Tytrmus who would
hurl, amid cannon smoke, the whistling of bul
lets and balls, the hymn of France to the ens•
WY?
To this demand, Rouget de Plsle, enthusiastic,
amorous, patriotic, answered:
"It is I!"
He left the saloon.
In halt an hour, while his absence was hardly
causing any uneasiness, all was formed, words
and music ; all was cast at one gush of metal,
fashioned in the mould like a god's statue,
Rouget de Piste entered, his hair tossed back;
his forehead beaded with sweat, breathless with
the contest he had wrestled with the two sisters,
Music and Poetry.
"Listen—hearken to me, all of you l"
He was sure of his muse, the noble young
man.
At his voice everybody turned, some holding
their glasses in their hands, others holding a
hand in theirs.
Rouget de l'lele commenced.
"Awake, 80118 of dear France, awake
The day of glory dawns full fair,
Against you now doth tyranny
Its bloody standard high uprear.
Do you not hoar how, in our fields,
Its rat Wm. soldiers fiercely cheer'?
They've come to slay, e'en in our arms,
Our children, all we love so dear!
To arms, citizens! your battalions form !
March on L march on !
Until the beams of peace succeed the storm:"
On this opening verse en electrical shudder
overran the entire audience.
Two or three shouts of enthusiasm burst forth;
but the greedy voices of the rest cried instantly :
Hush, hush ! let us hear!"
Rouget continued, with a gesture of deep in
dignation; •
"What do they start, this horde of slaves
Of trait'rous monarchs, plotting kings ?
For whom have they had their fetters wrought—
For whom are meant these iron rings ?-
For Frenchmen—us T Ob, such outrage
All.sous of Prance this must upraise
Do they dare dream of binding us
In slavery of other days?
To arms, citizens I-
This time Rouget de Hale did not have losing
the chorus himself; a single cry came from
every bosom:
"Your battalions form!
March on, march on !
Until the, beams of peace succeed the storm."
Then, he proceeded amid growing enthusiasm:
What., shall we to foreign cohorts,
Without a blow. arr'uckt trembling how—
Shall we confess that our soldiers
Cannot base hirelings overthrow?
Great God! is it on hands enchained
We are, yoke weighed, to rest our brow?
Shalt we.be serfs of despots ever,
To tug, like cattle, at the plough?"
A hundred heaving breasts were waiting, and
when the last line was uttered, the final question
put, they cried
•• No, no, not"
Then, with the peal of a trumpet, the mighty
chorus resounded:
tt To arms, citizens! your battalions form!
March on, march on !
Until the beams of peace succeed the storm:"
This time, there was such a commotion among
all the auditors that Rouget de I'lele, before
singing a fourth verse, was obliged to beg si
lence.
Ile was listened to feierishly.
The indignant voice became menacing:
° Tremble tyrants ! with your allies,
Whom sit hate with oue accord,
Tremble for your muarous projects
Are fated soon to gain reward.
If our heroes should fall battling—
Fat has many sad things in store-a-
All our soldiers to fight 'gainst ye !
Our country shall have more, and more!"
"Ay, ay!" cried all the voices.
And fathers pushed forward their sons who
could walk, while mothers held up in their arms
those who still had to be carried.
This made the bard perceive that there was
one verse missing ; the sewer, the ehildran:
the hymn of the forthcoming harvest, the germi
nating grain; and while the guests frenziedly
repeated the chorus, he let, his head sink on his
hand, and amid the confusion, excitement, bravos,
he improvised the subjoining:
To march forward we are ready,
When our elders shall be no more; • •
We will follow in their footsteps
Glorious paths they trode before.
Should we fall while them avenging,
Should like water our blood outpour ;
Pierced by the ball or blade, our hearts
Had the same feeling our brothers bore."
Through the stifled sobs of mothers, the en
thusiastic tones of sires, was to be heard the
pure voices of children singing;
To arms, chizena! your battalions form I
March on, march on !
Until the beams of peace succeed the storm I"
"Ah, but," muttered one of the guests, "is
here to be no pardon for those who are cols
ed ?"
"Stay, stay 1" said Rouget de Ylsle; "you
will see that my heart does not deserve such a
reproach."
• In a voice fraught with emotion, he aang this
holy strophe, in which is the entire soul of
France; humane, grand, generous and, in her
wrath, soaring, on the pinions of mercy, above
anger itself:
" Frenchmen, when your steel is lifted,
Take good heed Wiume blood you're spilling,
Spars all those, the hapless victims,
Who 'gainat you are ranked. unwilling—"
Applause interrupted the poet.
" Yes, yes !" came from every side; mercy,
forgiveness for our misguided brotherg, !Mr ep
slaved brothers, who are pushed against us with
whip and bayonet!"
" Yes," resumed Rouget de l'lsle ; mercy and
forgiveness to them !"
"But the followers of Bourne,
Our hands 'gaioat them shall know no rest!
Against such tigers pitiless—
Who thirst to rend their mother's breast—
To arms, citizens! your battalions form!"
"Ay," cried every voice, "against such let us
A' March on, march on;
Until the basins of peace succeed the storm I"
"Now," cried Rouget de l'lsle, "down on
your knees, whoever you be t"
AU obeyed.
Rouget de Hale alone remained standing ; he
set one foot on the chair of one of the guests, as
if on the first step to the temple of Liberty, and
uplifting both arms to the heavens, he sang the
lost Terse, the laureation to the spirit of Fume
rr 0, sacred love of native land,
Strengthen, guide our avenging hands;
0, Liberty, dear Liberty!
' Strike thou with thy defending bands!
May thy sweet tones call to our flags
Victory to guide our story ;
May our expiring foemen see
Thee triumphant and in glory !"
.. France is saved !" said a voice
And from every mouth, in an universal out.
Wet, pealed the lie profundis of despotism, the
Magnifi:at of liberty:
"To arms, citizens! your battalions form I'
March on, march on!
Until the beams of peace succeed the storm
It was now a wild, intoxicated, unrestrained
joy; every one threw himself into hie neighbor's
arms; the girls collected flowers in nosegays
and chaplets which they strewed at the poet's
feet.
ler FIFTY DAMSELS, sent out from England to
Vancouver's Island, had, upon arrival, to be
housed in a Government building and a guard
put over them, in order to protect them from the
rush of amorous swains. They were all soon
disposed of l but whether by let, or to the high
est bidders, does not appear. The Vancouver
paper clamors for more, but prefers dairy maids
to governesses.
863.
AFTER THE BATTLE
BY VIRGINIA P. TOWNSEND
It was over at last. The sun, which had walk
ed slow and calm through the long hours of that
terrible day, bad gone down in a column of fire
beyond the western hills, and now ,she stare were
coming out swiftly, like golden petals scattered
all over an azure soil.
And the stars looked down on the battle-field,
as they bad value out and looked down for scores
of years on the fair young land which bad arisen
in her strength and beauty, until amid all the
nations there was none to compare with her—on
the great cities that were hung like jewels on her
green bosom—on the broad harvest fields that
waved their tresses for joy through her golden
summers—on the houses where the dwellers
thereof sat peaceful and happy under their own
vine and fig tree—on all this had the stars which
came up night by night to the watch-towers of
the sky looked, until at last there came a change ;
and now where the harve;ts had waved their
locks in the summer winds, was that most terrible
sight which the sun and the stars ever beheld—
the sight of a battle field. The conflict had
raged hot and terrible that day.
The hearts of the distant mountains had shud
dered with the thunder of cannon, and the earth
had drank in blood as in autumn she drinks in
the equinoctial rains; but at last the day's awful
work was done, and the night winds lifted the
gray banners of smoke from the battle field.
The air was full of the heat and smell of pow—
der; the dead lay thick together, with stark,
ghastly faces, on the trampled grass ; the wound
ed lay thicker, filling the air with moans—rider
less horses rustled terrified over the field; and
the dying daylight and the solemn stars watched
over all. A little way from the battle-field ran
a email stream, making a blue fold in the dark
grass,- and two wounded men had crawled to its
banks to slake elicit- thirst.
And when the two men crawling along the
banks looked up and met - each other's faces, they
knew they were enemies, and they knew too,
that a few bourn ago each had allied his rifle at
the other, and that aim hid made the ghastly
wound a little way from the heart, which had
drank the life blood of each, and each had glared
desperately on his adversary a moment before
he fell.
But there was no fierceness in the eyes of
those men now, as they sat face to face on the
bank of the stream; the strife and the anger had
all gone now, and They sat still, dying men, who
a few hours before bad been deadly foes—satetill
and looked at each other. At last one of them
spoke :
. We haven't either a Chance to hold out much
longer, I judgd ?"
" No," said the other, with a little mixture_ of
sadness and recklessness. "You did that last
job of yours well, as that bears witness," and he
pointed to a wound a little above his heart, from
which the life—blood was slowly oozing.
"Not better than you did yours," answered
the other, with a grim smile, and he pointed to
a wound a little higher up, larger and more rag
ged—a deadly one.
And then the two men gazed on each other
again in the dim light, for the moon had come
over the hill now, and stood among her stars like
pearl of great price. As they looked a softer
feeling stole over the Heart of each toward his
fallen foe ; a feeling of pity for the strong, man-
ly life laid low, a feeling of regret for that in
exorable necessity of war which made each man
the slayer of the other; and at last one spoke:—
"There's some folks in the world that'll feel
worse; I 'spose, because you've gone ont of it 'f"
A spasm of pain was on the bronzed, ghastly
ME=
"Yes," said the man, in thick tones, " there!'
one woman with a little boy and girl, away up
among the New Hampshire mountains, that it'll
well nigh kill to hear of this," and then the man
groaned out in bitter snguish, " Oh God, have
pity on my wife and children I"
And the other drew closer to him.
"And away down among the cotton fields of
Georgia there'e a woman and a little girl whose
hearts will bleak when they. hear whit this day
has done," and then the cry wrung itself sharply
out or his heart, "Oh God, have pity upon
them!"
And from that moment tho Northener and the
Southerner ceased to bo foes. The thought of
those distant homes on whom the anguish was so
soon to fall, drew them close together in that last
hour, and the two men wept like little children.
And at, last the Northerner spoke, talking more
to himself than anything else, and he did not
know that the other was listening greedily to
every word
"She used to come—my little girl—bless her
heart! every night to meet me when I came home
froin the fields; and she would stand under the
great plum tree, that's just beyond the back door
at home, with the sunlight making a yellow crown
in her golden curls, and the laugh dancing in
her eyes, when she heard the click of the gate. I
see her there now, and I'd take her in my arms,
and she'd put up her little red lips for a kiss ;
but my little gitl will never watch under the old
plum tree by the well for her father again. I
shall never hear the cry of joy as she catches a
glimpse of me at the gate—l shall never see her
little feet running over the grass to spring into
my arms, again!"
"And," said the Southerner, "there's a little
brown-eyed, brown-haired girl, that used to watch
in the cool afternoons for her father when be
rode in from his visit to the plantations—l can
see her sweet little face shining out now from
the roses that covered the pillars, and her shout
9r joy 144 I bettitded from my horse an 4 clivac,)
the little dying feet and the loud laugh up and
down the veranda. But, my darling, your bright
liUle face will grow pale with watching among
the roses for your father, and you and he will
never go laughing and romping up and down the
old veranda again !!'
And the Northerner drew near to the South
ener, and the hot tears stood on his cold cheeks,
as he said
"Friend, may (lod have pity on our fotherlooo
children !"
" Amen 1" said the Southerner, fervently.
And the Northerner spoke now in a husky
whisper, for the eyes of the dying men were
glassing fast—
" We have fought like brave men together.
We are going before God in a little while. Let
us forgive each other."
The Southerner tried to speak, but the sound
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died away in a gargle from his white lips ; but
he took the hand of his fallen foe, and his stif
fening fingers closed tight over it, and his last
look was a smile of forgiveness and peace. And
when the next morning's sun walked up the gray
stairs of the dawn, touched with •pink, it looked
down and saw the two foes lying dead with their
hands clasped in each other, by the stream
which ran close to the battle field.
And the little girl with golden hair that watch
ed under the plum tree among the hills of New
Hampshire, and the little girl with bright brown
hair that waited by the roses among the green
plains of Georgia, were fatherless.
LESSON IN COMPOSITION
A writer to the N. Y. Observer, relates the fol
lowing of the late Dr. Murray, alias ullirwan:'
Dr. Murray pursued his collegiate course at
Williamstown, during the presidency of that ac
cute and accomplished critic, Rey. Dr. Griffin.
In his fourth year he was brought into more
immediate contact with the venerable President,
whose duty it was to examine and criticise the
written exercises of the graduating class. Dr-
Mummy, when a young man, and even down to
the day of his last illness, wrote a free, round
and beautiful hand—and his exercise at this
time, which was to undergo the scrutiny of his
venerated preceptor, had been prepared with
uncommon neatness and accuracy. Dr. Griffin
was accustomed to use a quill pen, with a very
broad nib. •
Introduced into his august presence, young
Murray, with becoming diffidence, presented his
elegantly written piece for the ordeal. The
discerning eye of the President passed quickly
over the first sentence, and with a benignant
look, he turned to his pupil, and maid in his pe-
cullar way :
" Murray, what do you mean by this first
sentence?"
Murray answered blushingly: " I mean so
and so, sir.'
"Then say so, Murray," and at the same time
drew Ids heavy pen through line after line,
Striking about one•third of it.
Having carefully read the next sentence, the
venerable critic again inquired :
" Murray, what do you mean by this?"
He tremblingly replied : " Doctor, I mean so
and so,"
6, Please just to say so,": striking out again
about one-half of the beautifully written page.
In this way, with his broad nib, (which made
no clean mark) he proceeded to deface the nice
clean paper of the young collegian, so that at the
close of the exercise, the erasures nearly equal
led all that remained of the carefully prepared
manuscript.
This trying scene was not lost upon young
Murray. He considered it one of the most im
portant events of his college course. It taught
him to think add write concisely ; and when he
had anything to say, to say it, in a simple, di
rect, and intelligible manner.
ndeod. Inn& that diatingoished him, as one
of our most vigorous and pointed writers, may be
attributed to that early lesson, " Say so, Mur
ray."
WAR NEWS!
THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO
Five Days of Terrible Fighting
GREAT AND GLORIOUS VICTORY
Union Loss 6,500 Killed & Wounded
EARFUL SLAUGHTER OF THE REBELS
Official Repot from Gen. Rosecrans
ITRADOVARTORS FOITRTERAT. ARMY , CORP.,
' DEPARTMENT OP THE CUMBERLAND,
321 FRONT OF MURPRERMO3O, Jan 4.
Via NASHVILLE, Tan. 3, 1863.
Major•aeneral H. W. HALLECH, Generalin-Chler, Wash
ington:
On the 26th of December we marched from
Nashville in three columns, Oen. McCook by
Nolansville Pike; Oen. Thomas from its encamp
ment on Franklin's Pike, via Wilson Pike, and
Oen. Crittenden on the main Murfreesboro.
Our left and center met with a strong resist
ance, such as the nature of the country permits,
the rolling or hilly routes, skirted by cedar
thickets and fame, and intereeoted by small
streams, with rocky, bluff banks, forming serious
obstacle's. •
Gen. McCook drove Gen. liardee's corps a
mile and a half from Nolansville, and occupied
the place.
Gen. Crittenden reached within a mile and a
half of Lay.ergne.
Gen. Thomas reached the Wilson Pike, meet
ing with no serious opposition.
On the 27th Gen. McCook drove Gen. Hardee
from. Nolansville and pushed a reconnoitering
division six miles towards Shelbyville, who found
that lien. Hardee had retreated toward Mur-
freesboro.
Qen. Crittenden fought and drove the enemy
before him, occupying the line of Stewart's
Creek, and capturing some prisoners, with slight
lose.
Gen. Thomas occupied the vicinity of Nolane
ville, when he was partially surprised, thrown
into confusion, and driven back.
Gen. Sheridan's division had repulsed the
enemy four times, and protected the Bank of the
center, which not only held it own, but advent].
ed, until this untoward event, which compelled
me to retain the left wing to support the right
until it should be rallied and assume a new po
[titbit.
. .
On the Ist inst., the Rebels opened by an at
tack on us and were again repulsed.
On the 24 Ind., there was ekirmishing along
the front, with threats of an attack, until about
8 o'clock in the afternoon, when the army ad
vanced, throwing a small division across Stone
River to occupy the commanding ground there.
While reconnoitering the ground occupied by
this division, which had no artillery, I view a
heavy force emerging from the woods and ad
vancing in line of battle three lines deep.
They drove our little division before them after
a sharp contest, in which we lost 70 or 80 killed,
and 875 wounded, but they were finally repulsed
by Gen. Negley's division and the remaining
troops of the left wing of Gen. Morton's pioneer
brigade, and fled far over the field and beyond
their entrenchments, their officers rallying them
with great difficulty. They lost heavily..
We occupied the ground with the left wing
last night.. The lines were completed at 4 o'clock
in the morning.
The 2d was spent in bringing up and distribu
ting provisions and ammunition. It has been
raining all day. The ground is very heavy.
W. S. ROSECRANS,
Major General Commanding.
CAMP NEAR MERIEZEBBORO, 1
January 4, 1868.
To Major-General H. W. HALLEER., Gen-in-Chief:
Following my dispatch of last griming, I have
to announce that the enemy are in full retreat.
They left last night..
The rain having raised - the river, and the
bridge across it between the left wing and center
being incomplete, I deemed it prudent to with
draw that wing during the night.. This occupied
my time until 4 o'clock, and fatigued the troops.
The announcement of the retreat was made to
me at 7 o'clock, P. M.
Our ammunition min arrived during the
night.
To-day was °coupled in distributing the am
munition, burying the dead, and collecting arms
from the field of battle.
The &remit was commenced by the center. the
two leading brigades arriving at the west - side of
Stone River this evening. The railroad bridge
was saved, but in what condition is not known.
We shall occupy the town and push the pur
suit to-morrow.
Our Medical Direotor estimates the wounded
in hospital at 5,600, and our dead at 1,000.
We have to deplore the loss of Lieut.-Colonel
Gareeche, whose capacity and gentlemanly de
portment had already endeared him to all the
officers of this command, and whose gallantry on
the field of battle excited their adMiratioo,
W. S. ROSECRANS,
Major General Commanding.
GENERAL MITCHELL S OFFICIAL DESPATCH.
HEADQUARTERS, NASHVILLE, TENN.,
January 4, /803—/ P. M. I
To Ilon. E. M STANTON, Secretary of War!
Skirmishing comthenoed on the evening of the
29th, our forces following the enemy closely, and
driving them to the evening of the 30th.
On the morning of the Slat the enemy attacked
our forces at daylight. Ever since that time the
fight has been progressing. This is the fifth day
in the same locality.
If the whole Richmond army dose not get here
our success is certain.
The fighting has been terrible.
Our army has the advantage and will hold it,
God willing.
I cannot give particulars.
Our officers suffered terribly.
I have heard nothing of importance since ten
o'clock last evening. At that time everything
was favorable for us.
ROBERT R. MjTCHELL,
Brigadier General Commanding.
DETAILS OF THE GREAT BATTLE
BATTLE FIELD, STONSE RIVER, Jan. 3, 1863.
It rained hard all this day, and bah armies
suspended hosttlities, save skirmishing. This
evening we battered down a rebel house which
concealed sharpshooters, and after short fighting
drove the enemy oat of a oover from which they
had damaged us. Unless the enemy attacks,
Sunday will perhaps be quiet.
Up to date our killed and wounded, including
skirmishing, amount to nearly five thousand.
An unusual proportion of the wounds are severe.
The number of the killed is about one-fifth that
of the wounded.
The Murfreesboro Rebel Banner of yesterday
admits a rebel loss of five thousand in Wednes
day's tattle. They have lost at loot two thou
sand since. Prisoners state that. Generals Har
dee and Hanson were killed.
The following are the names of Union officers
killed and wounded:— ,
ICILLVD. •
Colonel Fred_ C. Jones, Twenty-fourth Ohio,
gallantly leading hie regiment into action.
Lieutenant Taliaferro, of Hickox's battery.
Adjutant Boynton, Bixty-ninth Ohio
WOUNDED
Colonel Nick Anderson, Birth Ohio.
Colonel Charles Anderson, Ninety-third Ohio.
Both of these officers were wounded quite severe
ly, but after the wounds were dressed they re
turned to the field.
Colonel .1. F. Miller, commanding Seventh
brigade, returned to duty after his wound was
dressed.
Lieutenant Colonel 11411.
Lieutenant Colonel Elias Neff, Fortieth Indi
ana, severely.
Captain C. C. Webb, Thirteenth Michigan, se
verely.
Lieutenant A. G. Russell, Twenty first Michi
gan.
Lieutenant Mark Walker, Fifteenth Indians,
severely.
Lieutenant Enoch Welry, Twenty-first Ohio, se
verely.
Lieutenant Frank Peeler, Sixty-fifth Ohio, se
verely.
Colonel Leonard.
Colonel C. C. Hines
-Major and Adjutant Elicit. These last are all
of the Fifty-seventh Indiana, and are severely
wounded.
Colonel J. W. Tyler, Ninety-fourth Ohio, se
verely but not dangerously.
Major Hiokox, Sixty-ninth Ohin.
Captain McDonnell, Adjutant General of Roae
crane' staff.
Lieutenant Tames McConnell, Eighteenth reg
ulars.
Captain C. W. Burket, slightly
Lieutenant g. T, Smith, slightly,
Lieutenant J. B. Gerguson, Sixty-fourth Ohio,
severely.
Lieutenant James C. Rowland, Sixteenth reg—
ulars.
Adjutant Massey, Fifty-fifth Ohio, severely.
Col. Ale.t..Cossell, Sixty-fifth Ohio, not don
germ:4ly.
Lieut. Grineled, 3d Kentucky.
Lieut. hicelana, 18th Ohio, seriously.
Capt. Brook and Lieut. Peter, 74th Ohio.
Major Martine, Ist Wisconsin.
The Lieutenant Colonel of the 69th Indiana
was saved by a breastplate. A shot struck his
breast and knocked him out of his saddle
Lieutenant Win. Porter, of General Romans'
staff, riding directly behind the General, receiv
ed a piece of shell between his pants and haver
sack; nutting his breeches.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 4, MS.
Everything is going on well in front. General
Kosecrans is in Murfreesboro. He captured the
rebel trains and is driving the enemy. General
Itousees.o is unhurt, His Assistant Adjutant
General (McDowell) is wounded in the arm.
The journey despatches say that a fourth
bloody t ght occurred last night during the storm.
The rebels charged us and were repulsed. Our
troops hold Murfreesboro. Our advantages are
tienided, Gonna Drockinrisles dirisiva was
Cut to pieces and routed on Saturday. Our
skirmishers decoyed a large number of rebels
among our batteries. We routed them with
great slaughter.
Capt. McCulloch, of the Second Kentucky
Cavalry (Union), says the rebel General Witters
was driven almost to madness by the slaughter
of his men. Eye witnesses nay that the slaughter
exceeds that of Shiloh.
Gen. itosecrans and his soldiers are in the
highest spirits.
On Saturday, Col. Daniel McCook engaged
Wheeler's Cavalry eta imilVs from Haehviller
routing him completely. All is highly cheering.
CAPTURE OF VICKSBURG.
ANOTHER GLORIOUS VICTORY.
HOLLY. SPRINOB, MiBB., Jan. 4, 1863.
Major Genera/ 13 ALLEM, - General-in- Chief .f.. '
Despatches from General Sherman and the
naval commander were received at Helena on
the Slet instant. The gunboats were engaging
the enemy's batteries. General Sherman was
inland three miles from Vicksburg, hotly engag
ed.
From rebel sources I learn that the Grenada
Appeal of the Slat says the Yankees have got
possession of Vicksburg.
Sinew the late raids this Departmenk.except
the troops on the river, have subsisted off the
country. There will be but little in Northern
Mississippi to support guerrillas in a few weeks
more. 11. S. GRANT, MajorgieneraL