bout tbo time of the inauguration gave no troops to' tbo causo of the Union. The Border States, so called, were, not uniform in their action, some of them be fag almost for the Union, while in others such as in Virginia, North Carolina, Ten nesse, aud ArkauaB, the Union senti went was nearly repressed and silenced -Tho coun-c t-ken in Virginia was the most rcrosrkablr, perhaps the most im-norlant. A Convection elected by the people of that State to cousider this very question of disrupting the Federal Uniou, was in session at tho capital of Virginia when Fort Sumter fell. To this body tho peo pic had chosen a largo majority of pro fessed Uuion men. Almost immediately nfter tho fall of Sumter, inanv njembers of that mojority weut ov er to the original , Disunion minority, and with them atiopt fti nn nrflinntino for witlidra KIWI tuu Sute from the Union. Whether tbio change wrought by their nreat approval of tho assault upon bum tcr, or their great resentment at the Gov ernment's reactance to that assault, is not . definitely known. Although they sub ..mitted the ordinanae for ratiGeatiou to a vote of tho people to be taken on a do then somewhat more than a month dis taot, the Convention and the Legislature which was also m session at the same time and place, with leading men of tho State, not members of either, imeante ly commenced acting as if the State was already out of the Union, The? pushed military preparations vig orouly forward all over the State. They seized the United States Armory, Jiar per's Ferry, and the Navy Yard at Go port, near Norfolk. They received, per haps invited, into their Stato lare bodie , of troop9 with their warlike appointment from the so called Seceded States. The entered into a treaty of temporary alii ance with the so-called Confederate State.4, and scut members to their Cou gre.s, at Montgomery, and Dually they permitted tho insurrectionary Govern raent to to transferred to their Capitol ot .Richmond. The people of Virginia have thus allow ed this giant insurrection to make its nest within her borders, aud this Government has no choice left but to deal with it where it fiuds it, and it has the less to re gret as the loyal citizens havo in du from claiined it protection. Those loy al citizens this Government is hound to reco.-nize and protect as being in Virgin ia. In tho Border State, so called, i:i tact the Middle States, there are those who favor a policy which they call an armed neutrality. That i, an arming o' those States to prevent the Uuion force pn-ing one way or the Disunion the oth er ovrr their coil. This would be cis union completed. Figuratively speaking, it would be the building of an impassable wall alsus thv line of frpuration, aud jot not quite a u irortasMhk! one, lor. uuuer tue cui-e o: noutrlity, it weuld tie the hands of the Union aieii, and freely pass supplies fro cn(D them to the inurrectioiiists, which it ccitd not do s an open enemy. At a strode, it would ake sll tbc trouble o2 the ha&ds of Senu.ssien, exr-cpt only what proceed h from the external blo.kado. It would do for the Dhunioaist that which of all things they most de-irs, feed them well aud give them disunion with juA h struclc of their own. It recog- uize- ik) bflent to (be Uoiiststution, no obligation to maintain the Uuion, and while very many who have favored it are doubtk-sa loyal citizens, it is nevertheless very injurious in effect. Becurring to the action of tho Govern merit, it may be stattd that at first a eali was made for 75,000 militia, and rapidly following this a proclamation was isued for closing the ports of the iusurrectiona ry districts by proceedings in the nature of blockade. So far all was believed to be strictly legal. At-this point the insurrectionists an nounced their purpose to enter upon the practice of privateering. Other calls were made for volunteer to. serve three years, unless sooner dis charged, and also for large additions to the regular araiy and navy. These measures, whether strictly leal or not, were ventured upon under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public ne cessity, trusting then, as now, that Con gress would readily ratify them. Iti believed that nothing has Leon , done beyond the constitutional competen cy of Congress. Soon after the Gr.-t call for militia, it was considered a duty to authorize tbo Commanding General, in proper cases, according to hia discretion,' to mfpend the privilege of the writ of ha beas corpus, or, iu other words, to arrest and detain, without retort to the ordina- j ry processes and forms of law, such indi viduals as he might deem dangerous to the puolic safety. This authority ba purposely been exercised tut very spar ingly. Nevertheless, tho legality and propriety of what Las been done under it are questioned, and the attention of the country baa been called to tbo proposi tion that one who has sworn to take care that the laws bo faithfully executed should not himself violato them. Oi course some consideration was given to the questions of power and propriety be fore this matter was acted upnu. The wnoie oi the laws wnicu were required to oe lanuiuny executed were being reii-t-ed Bud failing of executiou in nearly one- third o: the btstes. Aluit they be allow ed to finally fail of execution, even had it been perfectly clear tbat by the ve of the means necessary to their execution. some single jaw made in tweh extreme tenderness of the citizen's liberty, that, practically, it relieves more of the goilty than the innocent, shonld to very a limi tea extent be violated? To stato the quebtiou more directly, aro all the law out one to go uuexeouted and the Govern scut itself to go to pieces, lest that one ee vioiaieui , Even in such a oaae, would not tbo of fieUr oath bo broken if tho Government should bo overthrown when it was be Iieved that disregarding the einjilo law would tend to preserve it. Butitswas believed that this question was presented. It was not bolicycd that any law was violated. The provision of the Constitu tion that tbo privilege of the writ of ha beas corpus bball not be "suspended, uu- ess ween in cases of rebellion or inva sion, the public safely may require it, is equival. lit to a provision that nucu pn.i of rebellion or invasion, tho public salety iJnnK rpniiirn it. It was decided that we nave a cush v. " . .. . t ( roM'inn and tbat tue PUD11C aaieiy uuuo . 1 . - . , .1 .,:, tim nualinea suspension oi tne ILUUIII' " 1" I -.I 1 . i I. nrici effB Oi 100 Wril, WUICU was uuluui irod to be made. Now it is insiated'that Concres!, and not the Extoutive, is ves ted with this power. But tho Constitu- tiou itseU is bileut as t(J which or who is to exercise the power, and as the provi- -ion was plainly made for a dangerouw emerceocv, it cannot be believed that the friwTs of the instrument iutended that in evnrv case tho dancer should run it J 5 course until Congress could bo called to ithcr, the very assembling of which might be prevented, as was intcuded in this case by the rebellion. vo more ex tended argument is now afforded, as an opinion at some length will probably be presented by the Attorney-Geucral. Whether there shall bo any legislation on the suhject, and if so what, is submit ted entirely to the bettor judgment o Congress. The forbearance of this Government had been so extraordinary and so lon. continued, as to lead fose foreign na tions to shapo their action as if they up posed the o&rly destruction of our Nation al Union was probable. While this, on discovery, gave tbo Incentive Eouie con cern. ho is now harp7 to say that the j soverciDtv and rinhta of the I nited States are now everywhere practically re vpectcd by foreign Powers, and a genera sympathy with the country is manifested throughout tbc world. The report of the Secretaries of the Treasury War and Navy, will give the information in detail deemed noceat-ary and convenient for your deliberation and action, while the Executive and all the Departments will stand ready to supply omisdons or to communicate new (act considered important for you to know. It is now recommended that you give the legal means for makmj: this contest a hort aud decisive one; that you place at the control af the Government for the woik at leai-t 400,000 men and 8-100,. 00D.0U0. That numter of men is about ou'Menth of thode of proper ae-1, within the regions where, apparently, all are willing to engage; and the- sum is lcs than a twenty-third part of tho money value owned by tho men who seem ready to devote the whole. A debt of 000, 000,000 now is a le-s um per head thau was the debt of our Revolution, when we oaae out of that struggle, and the money-value in the country bears even a greator proportion to what it waa then than does the population. Surely each man has as strong a motive now to pre ;er;c oar liberties as each had then to establish them. A right rcH al this time will be worth more to tbc world thou ten times the men and ten times the money. The evidence reaching us from the country leave no doult that the material for the work if abundant, and that it needs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanctiou and the hand of the Executive to give it prac tical fchape and efficiency. One of the greatest perplexities of the Government i-ri to avoid receiving troops faster than it can provide for them;in a word, the peo plo will save their Government of the Government itself will do its part only iu difftrently well. It miht seem at first thought to be of little difference whether the present movement at the South be called secession or rebellion. vThe mover-, however, well unler.-tand the difference At the beginning they knew that they could never raise their treason to any re spectable magnitude by any name which iu.piiea violation of law; they knew their people possessed as much ot moral sense, as much of devotion to law and order, aud as much prido in its rovoren;e for the history and Government of their com mon country as any other civilized and patriotic people. They knew they could make no advancement directly in the teeth of these strong and noble senti ments. Accordingly, they commenced by an insidious debauchery of the public mino; luey invented an ingenious soph ism, which, if conceded, was followed by perfectly logical steps through all the in cideots of the complete destruction of the Union. The t-or hisa: itself is, tbat any Stato of the Union may, consistently with the nation s (Jon.-tttution. and, therefore lawfully and peacefully withdraw from the Union, without the consent of the Union, or of any other State. inc nine aisguise mat tuo fupposcd right is to bo exercised onlv for iust cause, themselves to be tho sole judgo o its justice, is too thin to merit any no tiee. With rebellion thus sugar-coated they have been drugging the people o their section for more than thirty-years and until at length they have brought many good men to a willingness to take up arms against the Government the day after some assemblage of men have enact ed the farcical preten?o of taking their State out of tho Union, who could have been brought to no such thing the day betore. This sophism derives much, perhaps tue whole, ot its currency from tho as sumptiou tbat there is somo omnipotent ana tacrea supremacy pertaining to a Stateto each Stato of our Federal Uuion. Our "States have neither more nor les power than that reserved to them in the Union by tho Constitution, no on of them ever having been a Stato out of the Union. J ha original ones passed in to the Union ovcu before they oast ofl their British oolonial dependence, and tho new ones camo into tho Union dircctlv from a condition of dependence, except ing Texas; and avon Texas, in it tempo rary independence, was never designated as a State. The new onos only took tho doMcna- tion of States on coming into tho Union. while that name was first adopted for old ones in "and by the Deolaratiou of Inde nnnderico; Therein the united colonien .wore'dcblared.to ho free and i?idependoit States. 33ut even then the object plainly was not to declare their independence ot one another of tho Uniou, but directly tho contrary, as the.ir mutual pledge and their mutual action betoro, at toe nice, andafterward, abundantly show. Tho exorcss plichtinc of faith by each aud all of the original thirteen States in the ar tides of confederation two years latvr. that the Union shall be perpetual, ia most conolu-ivo. bovinj never been btates eith er in substance or in namo outside of the Union. W'hcnoe this magical omnipo teuce of State Rights, asserting a claitb flf nowcr to lawfully destroy the Union itelfr Much is said about the sovc e'ntutv of tho States, but the word even is not in the National Constitution, nor, a; is believed, in any of the State Constitu tions. What is a fovcreiguty in the politioa o j . stx,p. nl Mo rerm it ouiu u ue nu wrong to defiue it a political community without a political superior! Tested by this no one of our States, except Texas, was a sovereignty, and even Texas gave up tho character on coming into the U uiou. by whicb stct she acknowledged tin Constitution of tho United States, and the laws and treaties of the Uoited State made in pursuance of States, hare theii hiatus in tno.Union made in pursuance o the Constitution, to be for her tho su nreme law. The States have their status in tho Uuion, and they havo no other le al status. If they break from this they can only do so against law and by rovo lution. The Union, and not themselves sopa ratcly, procured their independence and their libeity by conquest or purchase; the Uuion gave each of them whatever ol in dependence aud liberty it has. . The U nion is older than any of the States, aur in fact it created them as States. Ungi nally socio dependent colonies made the Union, and in turn the Uuion threw off their old dependence for them aud made them Slates, such as "they are. Not one of them over had a Stato Cou?titutiou in dependent of tho Union. Of coarse it ii cot forgotten that all the new States form ed their Constitution before they eutercsJ the Uuion, nevertheless dependent upon and preparatory to coming into the Union. Unquestionably the States have tho row era and rights reserved to them in an! by tho National Constitution, but aeon" these surely are not included all coueeiv able powers, however mischievous or de structive, but at mo.-t such only as wer known in the world at the time as ovem mental power.-; aud certainly a tower to destroy the Government ibcif had never teen known as a governmental. As i merely admintrative power, thi; rela tive matter of national power aud State right-, as a priuciple, is no other than the principlo of generality and locality Whatever concerns the whole bhould I confined to the whole General Govern mcnt, wbiio whatever concerns only the State fchould be left exclusively to tin State. This ia all there is ot original pnnci pie about it. Whether tho National Con stitntion, in defining boundaries bctweci tho two, has applied the principle, witl exact accuracy, is not to be questioned We arc all bound by that defining with out quostioD. What is now combatted i the position that becesston is consistent with the Constitution is lawful and peaceful. It is not contended that there is any express law for it, and nothing should ever be implied as lav which lead.- to unju.-t or abtrurd nation purchased with money the countries out of which scleral of these States wen formed. Is it just that tboy should go ofi without leave, and without refunding Ihe nation paid very largo suais in tnr nggregate I believe nearly a hundred millions to relieve Florida of tho aborig inal tribes. Is it just that she shall now be off with out cou;ent or without any return ? Tin nation is now in debt for money applied to the benefit of these so-called seceding States, in common with the rest I it ju.it either that creditors shall go unpaid or the remaining States pay tho whole! A part of tho present national debt wav contracted to pay the old debts of Texas Is it just that sho shall leave and pay no part of this herself? Again, if one State may scccdo, so may another: and when all shall havo seceded, noue is left to pay tbc debts. Is this quito just to creditor.-? Dfi wc notify them of this sage view o ours wheu wo borrowed their money? If we now rccopnize this doctrine by al lowing tne Feceoers to go in peace, it is dimcult to see what we can do if others choose to go or to extort terms upon whicb they will promise to rcmaiu. The secedcrs insist that our Constitu tion admits of secession. They havo as sumed to make a National Constitution of their otvo, in whicb, of necessity, they have either diecerded or retained the right of Accession, as they insist it exist m ours. If they have discarded it, they therohy admit that, on principlo, it ounht not to exist in our-; if they havo retained it, by their own construction of our's they show that, to ho consistent, they must secede from one another whenever they shall find ittho caficst way of set' tling their debts, or effecting any other sclush or unjust object Ihe principle itself is one of disintes- ration, and upon which no government can possibly endure. If all tho States save one should assert the power to drive that ane out of tue Union it is presumed tho whole class of seoeder politicians would at oooe deny the power Bnd de nounce the aet 68 tho greatest ou.trago up on State rights. But snppoo tbat pro cisely tho same aot, instead of being call. ed tho sccoding of tho others from that one, it ould be exactly what the seccders elaim to do, unless indeed they make tbo point that tho oue, becauso it is a minor- ty, may rightfully do what tho others, beeauso thoy arc a majority, may not rightfully do. Ibeso politicians aro subtle and nro- ound in the rights of minorities. Thoy aro not partial to tbot power whiob ciado ho Constitution, and speaks from tho pre amble: oalling itself "We tho people." It may well. bo questioned whether tnore ia to-cfay .a majority, of the legally quali- led voters of any State, except, pcriiaps, South Carolina, in 'favor of Disunion. . There js much reason to believe that tbc. Uuiou-iceu ore the majority in many, if not in every other one of tho so-called acceded States. The contrary has not been demonstra ted in one of them. It is ventured to af firm this evenof Virginia and Tennessee, for the retult of an election held in mili tary camps, whero the bayonets are all on one tiue oi tue question voieu upon, cau scarcely bo considered as demonstra ting popular sentiment. At sneh an elec tion all tbat large elurs who are at oucc for the Union, and againt coercion, would be coerced to vote a:rii--t the Union. it may be affirmed without extravagance that the frue institutions we enjoy have developed tho powers and improved the condition of our whole people neyond any (vimn e iu tne world. Ut tuu wo now have a striking aud impressive illustra tion. - So lare an army as tho Government has now on foot was never before knowu, without a soldier in it t ut who has takcu his place there of his own free choice. But more thau this, there aro many sm-o-le reginjents whoso members, one and another, possess full practical knowledge of all tho arts, science, professions, aud whatever else, whether useful or elrgant is known iu the whole world; and there i scarcely one from which there could b selected a ' protident, a Cabinet, a Con gress, and perhaps a. Court, abundantly coapetcnt to administer the govetnmeut itself. Nor do I say thin is not true also in the army of oar late friend-, now ad versaries, in thi.t eonte.-t. But it is so much Letter the reason why tho Govern iLOOt which ha conferred such benefits on Lboth tbem and us should not Lc Lrokeu up. Whoever iu auy section propo.-cs to abandon such a Government would do well to consider in defercuce to what principle it is that he docs it; what better he. is the substitute Will ui?e, or be intended to give, fO much of good to the people. Theie are toac forshedowina ou thi subject. Our adversaries have adopted some declarations of indepcudenco in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefk-rson, thev omit the word.-, "ali men aic created equal." Why ? They have allotted n temporary National Constitu tion in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one signed by ashington, the omit "we the people,'' and substitute, "we the Deputies- ol the Sovereign and Inde p'udont States." Wti) 1 Why thi- dililerate preesinj; out o view the rights of men and the authority of the people ? 1 his is essentially a peo i.le's contest. Ou the side of the Uuion it is a struggle for maictaiatCH m the world thai form and substance of Govern merit whose leadiug object is to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificia n eights from ail shoulders, to olear the paths of laudable pursuit for all an un lettered start and a fair chance in the race of life, yielding to partial aud temporary departures trom necessity. J. his it the leading object ot the Government, for who-e existence wc con tend. Iam uiost har-py to believe that tho plain peopie understand and appreci ate this. It is worthy ol note that, while in this, the Government's hour of tria largo numbers or tuoso in tue army and navy who hate bteu favored with offices have rc&icned and j ro?ed false to the baud whiob pampered thcia, not one common iioldier or common sailor is known to have Jeserted his flag. Great honor is Sue to those officers who regained true, dcepitc the example of their treacherous assoei ates; but the greatest honor, and the most tmpottaut laet ot all, is tho unanimous firmness of tho common soldiers and com mon sailors. To the last man, so far as known, they have cuaccNsfully resisted the traitorous efforts of those whoso coajmaods, but an hour before, they obejed as absolute law. This is thu patriotic in-tiuct of plain peo pie. They understand witboutao argumen (hat the dc-trovina the Government which was made by Washington means no good to them. Our popular Government has of ton been called an experiaient. Two points iu it our people have settled, tho success ful establishing and the Hucccssful admin istrating of it. One still remain-. Its Muccessfulicinteuance ayainyt a fc dablo internal attempt to overthrow it. It is now for them to dornoutrato to the world that those who can fairly carry iin election oan also suppress rebellion; that ballots aro the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and tbat when ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided there can bo no successful appeal back to bullets, that there oan be no successful ap peal except to ballots themselves, at sue . r- .... cceuing elections. buch will he a great lesson of peace, teaching men that vhat thoy cannot tuke by an election neither oan they take it by a war. Teaching all the folly of being the begiuners of a war. Let thero be soaio uneasiness in th minds of candid men as to what is to be the cour'so of tho Government toward the Southern State after the rebellion shall have been suppressed, tho Executive deems it proper to say it will be hi pur pose then as ever, to bo cuided by tho Constitution and the lawn, aud that he probably vtiil have no different understan ding of the powers mid duties of the Fed eral Goverutatint relatively to tho rights of the States and the peoplo under tho Constitution, than that expressed in tho LUgural Addresi. Ho desires to pre serve the Government, that it may be ad- ministered for all as it was administered by the men who made it. Loyal citizens everywhere havo tho right to claim thia of their Government, aud the Government has uo right to with hold or neglect it. It is not perceived that in giving it there is any ooerciou, any conquest, or any subjugation in any ust sense oi tuese torms. Tho Constitution provided and all tho States havo accepted the provision, that tho Uuited Slates shall guarantee to ovo- rv State in this Union a Republican form of government; but if a Stato may law- ully go out of tho Uuion, having done so, may also discard tho Kepublican torm of government, so that to prevent its go- . .1 ! 11. A I. mg out is an muispensaoio means iu iuu end of : maintiaining the guaranty . men tioned, and when an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to it are also lawful and obligatory. It was with the deepest regret tbat the Executive touDU tne uuiy, oi uuijjiujiuK i .i r i tho war power in defence of the Govern ment forced upon him; he couta nut per form this duty, or surrender the exist once of the Government. No compro misc by public servants could in thidcase be a cure not that coc: promises are not often proper but that no popular Gov crnroeut end long survive a marked pre edent. That those who carry an elec tion can only euve tho Government from immediate destruction by gi'iving up the main point upon which the people gave the election. 1 be people tbemselveB and not their servants can ? afely roverae their own deliberate decisions As a private citizen the Executive could not have consented that thece Institutions ahall perish, much less could be, in be trayal of o vast and so sacred a trust as these free people bad conuded to mm; ue felt that he hud no moral right to shrink nor even to count the chances of his own life in what miirht follow. In full view of his great responsibility he ha so far done what he has deemed his duty. Yo will now according to your own judgment perform yours. Ho sin oerely hupos tbat your views and your ac tions may so accord with his a-s to assure all faithful citizens who have been ais turbed in their rights of a certain and nnnndv restoration to them under the i Constitution and laws; and, having thus ehocn our cause without guide and with mire nurpo-e. let us renew our trust in God and eo forward without fear and c with manly hearts. July4, lcfil. Abraham Lincoln. A Good Example. The Fourth New Jersey Regiment, at Washington, were paid off last week; and the men, instead of squandering their money iu riot and liceutiousnc-ss, sent it home to their families. It h taid tha no man sent home leas than Sftecu dol lars. Tasto of Garlic in Milk. In answer to a query iu the Farmer and Gardner upon this subject, a corrcs pondeut says: "I tio uot know that cau prescribe the best method, lut a very fiectual remedy is found in saltpeter.- Placc a lump, from the size of a pea to . . i i . hickory nut, in the bucuet beioie com mencing to milk. Thesaltpetro will thus become thoroughly disolvod and diffu-ed through the milk before straining. By a little experience, a oareful milkmai will be able to almost wholly remove th taste of Garlic from hermilk and butter It is advisable, where it can be done, to remove the cows fro. -a the garlicky pas turc five or pis hours before milking. lare portion of the garlic will be expellee in tho exhaultalion-, consequently le; salpetre will be required, ani there wi be less danger of the latter being detected on the ta-to of tho butter. h. n every thin? is kept perfectly sweet and clean there need be no fear of the butter tost ine old, if churned several days before it is destined for u-e, provided it be imme diately well worked. Indeed, where it is necessary to u?o this salt as a corrective, the butter is improved by a week or two of age. Saltpetre will, to a considerable extent, also remove tho Uste of. bitter weeds, turnips and rank olover from milk and butter. Whether it will interfere with 'Cno flavor' imparted to 'Phiiadei phia June butter' by tha sweet-scented vernal gra-s, I have no means" of know mg; but this I do know, that I have ofteu sold butter treated in tho above manucr to some of your city couno'iSscurs, who lnvanalMV praiseu its noou nusiitie.. es- ml I U pecially for keeping free from rancidi- ft. mt W ty." Soldiers' Exemption. The patriotic men who havo enrolled their name as volunteers iu the service of their country, will perceive from the following section of the Act of 1928, that in their absence their property will be fully protected. Tbo act says: "''No execution or other process shal issue against any oincor, non-commissioned officer, or private of tho militia. when called into actual service, under requisition of the President of the United States, or in pursuance of tho Governor of this Commonwealth; nor shall any such process issue asainst him until HU days after ho shall have returned from duty to his usual placo of residence, or until 40 days after he shall havo been discharged; and tho court, alderman or justico of the pmce, from which or from whom any suah procees shall havo issued. shall quash the same as soon as tho fact of any such persou being enlisted on pub lio duty shall have been proven, and all the costs which shall have accrued in commencing or conducting any such pro cess hall bo paid ty the person or per sons who shall havo applied for tho said execution or other process." Gosef Lane. This noted individual did not meet with a very flattering reception on his return to Oregon, after aflih'ating with tho Southern rebel. A Portland (Ore iron) correspondent of tho New York Commercial gives the annexed account: MGcn. Joseph Lane met with a very oool reception in Oregon. Tha drayman refused to haul his luggage to tbo hotel. At Dayton, as tho Genoral crossed the river, ho saiu to tho lorryman mat 'he supposed bo was tho worst abused man in Oregon. 'I don t believe that,' said tho ferryman, who did not know Mr. Lane, 'unless you are Jo Lane himself.' At Dallas, farther up tho valley, ho was hung in cnigy ngu& bciore nis uotoi dodfc." THE WAR FOR THE UNION A Battle 'Etraght The Enemy Routed xi.ea.vy juuss oi xne Ja-eDeiSf July 2d, at four p. m. a special corf veyance arrived at Hagerstown, bringing Corporal John H. MoGinley, of thoIo- dvpendent Rangers. Ho being tho firsf soldier brought here wounded in action consiacraoio excitement was occasions on his arrival, and from statements made by him, and from thoso of a higher au thority, tbo Government operators glean tno lonowing: Between three and four o'clock thir morning tbo troops which have been con centrating at Hagerstown and Williams- port for several days past crossed tho ford at Williamsport. Gen. Pattersoir reviewed them as they filed past him. Tho morning was bright and beautiful and the soldiers were in excellent ppir its. Scouting parties of Capt MoMullin's Rangers and others selected from the first W isconsin Ilcgtment, were out at midnight, and frequently during the night brisk firing was heard between the Fede ral pickets and those of the enemy on tho Virginia side. The proper fords having been ascer tained, the advance took placo beforo daylight, the post of honor being aligned to Capt. McMullen's llangernj the fir-t Wisconsin and the eleventh Pennsylva nia. The advancing column consisted of tho brigades of Abercrombio, Thomas and Ngley. The Independent Bankers behaved remarkably well, getting up closo to tho enemy at a distance of only seventy-five yards. Abi rtromlie's brigade led the advance, and the casualties of the conflict were al most exclu-iively in the first Wi-consin and the eleventh Pennsylvania repi ments. Col. Jarrelt and Lieut. Col. Coulter led tha skirmisher.-, openiug upon them at 10lJ yards. The wholu of the rrlel forces at Mar tinsburg consisting of four regiments of infantry and one regiment of cavalry, were engaged in the action. They had with them four pieces of artillery. part o f them rifitd caution, and were commanded by General Jackson Tho First City Troop of Philadelphia wcro assigned a position near the United States cavalry, unier Cap:. Perkiu-, and behaved remarkably well. As far ai known, the oa-uiItic- on our side arc only two killed and several woun ded. Sccral of tbo dead and wounded of tho Sercssion troops were lcft on the field in their hasty retreat; one or ro of wboni were buried by our u,eo. The loss of life on their si Jo is stated to be very heavy. Iu anticipation of the retreat by our forces, tho rebel had levelled tho fences on both sides of the turnpike even with the ground, to as to cut them off in the event of tlu ir retiring to the Potomac. Ihe first ta tani was maio at rorter- neld's farm, on the turnpike, near Hiynesville, where it was necessary to destroy a barn and carriage houiC, to make a charge upon tho enemy. Hero the conflict was fierce the rebels standing, well up to their work, and finally slowly retreating. Knap-acks and canteess were hastily thrown aside as encumbrances to a hasty march. They left behind thorn a num ber of blankets and other articles of val ue, indicating a heavy loss on their side. A Odd Adventure. A Pike Pcakcr pi ves a sketch for Har per's Magazine, oi the eccentricities of one Dr. B , formerly cf Missouri. Among other a Ui using incidents in his career tho following is related: The Doctor was very fond of his dram and his "little same of poker." Quo Sunday morning, riding (pretty well fill ed with the "extract of corn") through Central City, on bis way to his hoine in Missouri City, ho passed a Jew telling ''a, few small tricks" at auction on the publio street. A happy thought occurred to him. He turned back, alighted from his horse, mounted the dry-good box occu pied by tho Jew, and to the unutterable consternation of tho perplexed Israelite commenced a homily to the surrounding crowd on tho wickednes of such business transactions on tic Holy .Day. After he had finished he remounted his horc, and riding slowly away, muttered to himself, "Now having done that duty as a Chris tian, I can with a clear conscience play poker the rest of the day, as none but a Christian can." At night he had lo3t upward of two hundred dollars. Re turning home, his wife naturally asked him where he had been all day. "I have preached a sermon," he replied, and distributed two hundred dollais among three or Jour charitable" For the Jcffersonian, The Game at Poke, in Rhyme. The game, I see, has been "played out" Between "Observer" and his f ic. "Observer thought he'd "go it stout" lie shuffled "Fair Play" "cut too low. if "Observer" deals and "plays out" too; Then "Fair Play" "follows suit" you know. Thus they keep on play three around Each tries to "trump" the others "tricks.,r "Fair play "throws up;" he leaves the ground;. Admits "Observer" heats him suck. Ho bids his too a kind adieu U alf glad no doubt the game is through. Now, in stops "Peace" a face quite long- lioth used 'foul play,' he thinks, alt throughu IJesays that all was very wrong. Would like to take a hand in too. Now "Peace," of course, was not to blame',. Knowing not "Observer" won the game.. Now, I'm aware, and you must know, A three hand game ne'er looks right stout,. So I'll "fall in" we'll put it through We'll take a game "four hands about . With rotten eggs I do not joke We'll have a friendly game of poke, PLAY FAIK Buttermilk Falls, July 2nd, 1861'.
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