ever righteous. tat as, Alinu, fioneatly and manfell, ,pley eerpart,: seek to understand ,and perform our whole duty, and trust un mnveringly in the beneficent find wiz° led POIr anCeSt9rS I,lereve the see, tad sustained awe zi(mcward, amid dangers more appalling even lima those encountered by His own rheum people in their great exodus. He did not hripg us here in vain, nor has He sup pMtA ns thus tar for welt. If we do our .dutrind trust in Hinz, He will not desert us in our seed. Firm in our faith that God will acre our cotultry, we now . dedicate this site to the =wry of brave nne, to loyalty, 'patriotism and honor. olOtitta IL W. JOBS, 1. Editors. 8. Jl3llllBB, ► "One Country, One Constftqfhp, Destiny," 'llleatobtnikSl )t,2 TiIiMIDAY, JULY 13 ? 1864. POE PRESIDENT IN 1864, GEN. GEORGE R. McCLELLAN, [Subject to the Decision pf Me Democratic No hapgiConvention.) PfMoollAfte COUNTY TICKET. ASSEMBLY, THOMAS BOSE, OP PERRY TP. BEIBUIFF, HEATH JOHNP, OF WASHINGTON. COMMISSIONER, THOMAS SCOTT, OE WHITELY. DIETRTOT ATTORNEY, AIONSPiI G. RITCHIE, COE= POOR HorsE DIRECTI)P., RIN ART. or rizAkDFLpr. AUDITOR, A. J. MARTIN, Ot WILYNE. The Oration pf Gen. McClellan. The chaste and elegant Oration of this poptidar favorite, on the dedication of the Battle Monument at West Point, will be hand in to-day's paper. It breathes a spirit of pure and lofty patriotism, and abounds yin beautiful aThisions and deserved praises of the gallant dead. We trust it will be generally read, as we know it way be .I)Nritit. l 4Y. • • •-i•- can. LazeaP. itti4 faithful rePreseutittire and servant of the Moyle boa returned to his home, looking neat the wove of bis Oongressional labors. Bigelow attention to his public duties, his devotion to the interests, rights and liberties of the people, and his fidelity to the great and patriotic party with which it is his pride to )4, identifiesl o —these, not less than his esal i.ed private worth, have secured him the pop *: confidence nod esteem in an eminent de gree. frig re-election is o foregone conclu sion if he will but consent tg be p candidate. MfPieY? Vie aFp ref civing very little in' ney at this Plnce, consigeripg our necessities and the !aro amount flue us. our subscribers no longer neglect tp pay th,eir guns? Ve cannot live or keep the paper running on promises TO PAY, or excuses for NOT PAYING. What we need is MONEY, and that is all bat does us any good; and just now there is plenty of it, such as it is. The only trou ble with us is, we can't get hold of it. The $3OO cRIIVIIViation Clause Re, pealed. Against the plainest evidence of the strong wishes of his most judicious friends to the contrary, the President succeeded in the dos ing hours of Congress, which has just ad journed, in striking out the $3OO commuta tioe Claim from the new enrollment bill.— At the firitt rtqte taken on the subject, there was a 4.ppiAled majority against it. This ma jority dwindled at the next vote, and on the last vote the amendment passed, only Thad. Stevens and Judge Hale of this State, aii Wm. Blaine, of Maine, among the friends pf the Administration, aiding the Democrats to defeat this illjudged measure. We need not say that we regard this re peal as a fatal blunder. We know some ttt4—pg he temper of the people upon this subject: It is not sWI question. It will operate alike upon the friends and the foes of the President ; and however nm,:h we Infiy be gratified at the loss of the supporters of the Administration, on account of this re peal, we need not say that we regard this as the Illast of the consequences dependant upon this rat unjustifiable and most uncalled for act. If more of our citicens must be '41011430 in this terrible war, and new vfctimi are to be added to those already in the field, exper ience has' demonstrated that volunteering, stimulated by a indicpup system of bounties, is the Only mode arsops ction- Dequently efficient soldier:4. •'.' • ' Kentucky.. PPBAlg o r i a ld a PiTelaa'ad,l9P Paipaidin AO Omits sad ~ d WitiTg 41:r , is the Stet . tontillkiy. A Tamisti•('''"`°rlPlF . * _ roof Couhimedion eft Adminis tration:' • The justly indignitnt comments of the pemocratic press Apse the Lincoln triode of carrying dieetwaaa is Kentucky, pelaware and Maryland, last summer and autumn, by military farce and dictation, were strikingly sustained and justified, even by a portion - of Lincoln's friends, by their votes on the bill of Senator Dar s, of Kentucky, which passed the Senate a fete daysago by a vote, of 10 ta 13. The following are the leeding provisions of the Bill referred to : "That it shall ttpt• to lawful for any mill- , ' tart' or naval officer of the United States, or 1 other persons engaged in the civil, military or naval service of the United States, to or der, bring, keep, or have under his authority •or control, any troops or armed men at a place where any general or special election is held,,in any. State of the United States of America, unless it be necessary to repel the ' timed enemies of the United States, or to keep the peace at the polls; and that it, shall not be lawful for any officer of the army or , navy of the United States to preserilae•er fix, 1 or attempt to prescribe,: or biz by ptoclatna- 1 tion, or order, or otherwise, the qualifications of voters in any State of the United States of America, or in uPY Planner to interfere with ; the freedom.of any election, in any State, pr ' with the exercise of the free right of suffrage in any State of the United States" This Bill was voted for by all the Demo crats and the following Republicans : Grimes, Hale, Harlan, Lane, (of Kansas) Pomeroy, Trumbull, Wade and Willey. We make room for a few of the comments pf members pf that body during the consid eration of the Bill, We coefess to a lively gratification at the ! healthtulness of the sins of the times when I even Republicans thus exhibit a restiveness and show a disposition to revolt against the arbitrary add illegal acts of the Administra tion : "Mr. Howard thought this bill had con sumed too much time already this session.— In all brevity he thought this nothing less than a bill to prevent the President from crushing the rebellion, and making the polls a sanctuary for rebels and traitors, whom it was the. duty of the government to keep away." "Mr. Johnson said hp understood the hon . orable Senator as saying that it was within the limit of the government to exercise, by !neaps of its military power, the right to de cide who are proper voters in a State elec tion. Was not this placing the control of the elections entirely in the hands of the mil itary, while the Constitution of Maryland, i and the laws passed in pursuance thereof; are ' abundantly ample to protect the purity of the ballot-box ? He protested against such a use of the mil itary power, because if we are to have any freedom at all in the exercise of the elective franchise itis not to depend uponthe will of the military authority," "Mr. Howard did not wish it to go forth to I the country that the report of the committee established the right of any enemy to go to the polls and vote. It simply set twit the legal fact that no public enemy of the United State* should be allowed to vote, and held it to be the duty of the Government tt nee its military power to expel from the polls, and to exclude from the exercise of political rights, all persons who are known as disloyal, and hence enemies. ' "Mr. McDougall said a free and uncontroll ed ballot was the only power possessed by a free people. Power was only expressed by the presence of armed men to suppress the freedom of the ballot. The polls, he said, in reply to Mr. Howard, were the only sanctu aries of a free people.. He believed that mil itary power had been employed to control the voice of the freeman when he had, resor ted to his sanctuary, the polls. When such military power is employed, our Government becomes simply a military despotism." "To expel from the polls and delude from the exercise of political - rights, all persons known tq be dishayal," forsooth goy. Wicklifib who sat in the last Congress, venerable for his age aqd eerviiee to his couetry, and persecuted by the Secessionists et Kentucky for his attachment tp }be jJnion, was the Democratic candidate for Governor iof Kentucky. He and the rest of the Demo ! • • crane ticket were declared by the military 1 . minions of President Lincoln "disloyal," and summarily stricken from the list of persons to be voted for at that election ! In Maryland and Delaware the military, i with the approbation of Secretary Stanton ' and President Lincoln, under the immediate direction pf the renowned Gen. Schenck, i who made that famous attack noon the Re ! bels at Vienna, figh4qg in Pa4flad cars, 1 • • "expelled from the polls," and "excluded • from the political right'! of voting, all Dem ocrats who would not subscribe to certain 1 . unconstitutional oaths prescribed by these 1 same military satraps, but not required by i the laws of Maryland 1 Yet this man Howard iu the face of the emmtry just on the eve of a Presidential elec t tion, ip which this very President Lincoln is a candidate for re-election has the hardihood against many even of his own political friends, to stand up in the Senate and openly justify these grave wrongs! If Democrats do not by their votes, at the next election, put their emphatic reprobation on these unjustifiable acts of the powers that be, we must csnfess we shall be greatly dis appointed, r Resignation of Secretary► Shawl. Secretary Chase had a difference, a few days since, with the President, and in con sequence of it resigned. The resignation was accepted, and, Ea-Govornor Tod, of Ohio, appointed in his stead, but the Senate refused to confirm him. Subsequently, Win. P. Fessenden, of Maine, an able Republican Senater, was nominated and unanimously confirmed. Though unwilling at first to take the Treppry portfolio, he has at last accept ed, and has entered on his duties. The resignation of Mr. Chase, yaw! what ever motives it may have proceeded, ennui fail to have a most unfavorable effect on the public credit and all the interests dependent on it. He was unquestionably the ablest and most. upright man in the cabinet L and we very much doubt whetluir his pace, just at this crisis in our tumcial affairs, can , 116 4 •••-• *I" • 110-The edam 114 P killsburg 4ps Wing been drafted.* Ptemateiiaie hOps of the town raised a collection to help R . 27 thOcommetatkm, sad pieieited him *i . th• the imadeome awn of twp bead Fed sad' twelve dam,. A Dad.. The &pub Keens, sumo the newinetion of Fremonkare attempting their Abo lition connexions and &ening% lad abet to rejoice at the desertion of the Abolition ists from the support of Mr. littooln, whose administration, they say, will thus be freed from the odium of the Non equality notions of these Abolitionists! The Republican, however, will not and cannot dotty th i at these Fremont men helped elect Mr. Lincoln, and were among his staunchest supporters. They worked cor dially and heartily in co-operation with the Republican party, and we recollect of but an occasional whisper against the batch of negro measures adopted by Mr. Lincoln at thew suggestion or recommendation. We believe that no manly and earnest protest from ally recognized organ of Republican opinion can be found on this subject. In truth, the Re publicans really deeply deplere the defection of this large body of their former supporters, who are driven to the support of Fremont by the wicked invasions of the legal and con stitutional rights of the people, and their at tempt to make a little capital in the mode suggested is but the clever dodge of wily politicians, and really deceives nobody. ler The country should not forget the fact that President Lincoln was guilty of the ineffable folly, (not to say crime.) of nomina ting such a man as David Tod as the suc cessor of Gov. Chase, as Secretary of the Treasury of the U. States, at a time when the emergencies of the country called for the highest stalemanship, ability, and integrity, Mr. Chase abluitlone4 the ship of State when she was about rushing upon the break ers, in consequence of the failure of his finan cial system ; and for the President, under these circumstances, to nominate such a man as T.od, notoriously a mere politician, de void of the ability and correct knowledge of finances which this office requires, was much nearer a crime than a blunder. Sappily, the energetic remonstrances of the President's friends, rescued the country from this dis grace, but did not relieve him from the im ; putationtof attempting to foist into this im „portant ose a mere tool, who would do, (what Mr. Chase would not) use the patro nage of • the office for Glie .advancement of ; Mr. Lincoln's Presidential aspirations, I But it is not improbable that the shrewd schemer in the Presidential mansion only intended this nomination as a means of conciliating Mr. Chase's Ohio friends, rely ing upon Tod's refusal to accept to extri cate him from the dilemma. Lincoln, though no statesman, is the smartest among the many entining politicians by whom he is sur rounded. Another Blow at Poor Men. The bill repealing the commutation clause of the draft law has passed both houses of Con gress. It being Old Abe's favorite measure, and passed upon his recommendation, of course ht will sign it. popr men will now have no alternative but to go into the army and fight with and for the niggers, when drafted, no matter if their wives and children should starve. Men who can afford to pur pbase substitutes, however high the price de manded, will do so, and the poor men—the mechanics and laborers of the country—will have to do all the fighting in this war for the freedom and social elevation of the niggers. It is an unjust and infamous discrimination in favor of the rich against the poor, and we rejoice that the Democrats, as a party, zeal ously resisted its passage.—[Patriot & Union I==ll=l UrLet the fact be made known East and West, North and South, that the Tribune of ,Tune 17th, 1804, editorially admitted that the radicals and rebels understood each Wi er, and cpespired together tp destroy this glorious Union. "When," said the Tribune, "through their (the rebel) aid we elected Lincoln and Hamlin our triumph was no where more generally or openly exulted over than in Charleston, the fountain and focus of the rebellion." These factions have been equally the curse of the country, and it is Ate duty of the country to rat the next elec tion and put down Lincoln as well as his con federate, Jeff. Davis.-11141.1ey Spirit. bar The radicals hate General Frank Blair most cordially. In a speech at St. Louis re cently} IV *id : "I am for ntaint&qiug this country for the benefit of white peop)p. I am opposed to clothing blacks with the privilege of suf frage.- Commenting upon this Ow N. Y. Tribune says, "Es position seems to us meaner and more glaringly inconsistent than that of Jeff. Davis." Of course Qreely hates the Soldier wlio fights for This Union, worse Op be cUms, Jeff Davis who fights Against this Union. Mrs The Washington Republican states that the important speech of Senator Wilson, in which he stated that within a year we lytd put into the field 700,000 new recruits And re.-enlisted men, was suppressed by the telegraphic censor. This accounts for the fact that the country heard nothing of it till it appeared in the Washington Globe. Why ohcinld the War Department wish the facts suppressed ? Goon.—Prentice of the ',mil:Tip .Toturual has the following : Gen. Butler tnaqe war upon women at New Orleans and saccped 7 ed. He made war on dogs at Norfolk and gained a complete victory. He made war on men near Petersburg and was inglorious ly whipped. He will confine himself hence forth to the women and dogs if he knows whaps gQp4 f #lll2. ,The office-holders resolve first to sus tain the proclamation of the President, which abolishes slavery, sod then they want the Oonstitution amended so as tb abolish it.— As a matter of taste, we suggest that ene abolition is sufficient, and their desire for a d t i i2r only shows that they have no con*- in the edit. • • 011.• sr The AbnpAptilits advpaikte siss4s teat* bet, Were they pnepke It; they 'iciliase to get the mosso afehe nigger. ,A ithe *Pr is getting rec,4. rgvart. man, Daven Port Democrat, Kansas City Post, the Nene Zeit, and Westliche Post, of St. Louis, have hoisted the Fremont and Cochiane ticket. The Nene Zeit reads the St. Louis Demenmt out at the Party. and pitches into Lincota fieneely. 'John Spic er, of Chicago, contracted to deliver within fifty days 1,000 cavalry horses at Colambus, and 1,000 cavalry hor ses at Indianopolis, at $lB5 each. Spicer having failed to deliver any of the horses, has been tried by court Martial and senten ced to pay five thousand dolkes fine, and ba imprisoned until the fine is paid, skir Gold represents Democracy, as green backs do Abolitionism. The one is going up, and the other down. Democracy, like gold, will survive the crash which is inevitable, while greenbacks will turn to valueless rags. The Abolition party:. will follow the fate of its greenbacks to dust and ashes. stir An Abolition contemporary, in an article condemning any censure of General Banks, thinks that he islust about as likely as the majority of editors to know the points that fertain to the conduct of a given bat tle," Yes, we suppose so--“just about." g"We are coming, Father Abraham," &c. There were upwards of two hundred and fifty auplicants for the Conol-General ship to Canada, of whom forty two were frpip Ohio. dr The Harrisburg Telegraph asks what the effect of Gen. Fremont's election on Mr. Lincoln would be. We presume it would "remind him of a story." fen. THE NORTERN REBEL INVASION. -The Confederate expeditisn across the Potomac is led by General Early, who succeeds Ewell is i ommand of Stone ! wall Jackson's celebrated division. The expeditidn is varionsly estimated at from ) 30 to 40 thonand. There is a large iforce of cavalry and artillery with it. It came from Winchester in the Shenadoah ' Valley. It advanced from there in two columns. One marched north-east to Harper's Ferry, twenty miles distant ; the other nearly north eighteen miles to Martinsburg. The Martinsburg column i found Sigel's advance a few miles south It of Martinsburg. The Federal soldier's however retreated, and Sigel evacuated { the town. At Martinsburg, in order to out-manauvre Sigel, the Confederates divided their column ; one part followed Sigel eastward six miles to Shepherds town on the Potomac, eight miles above Harper's Ferry. The other marched northeast to Falling Waters, ten miles 1 above Shepherdstown. This compelled Sigel to cross the river. He abandoned Shepherdstown and went to Sharpsburc , two miles from the north bank of the river, and on the Antietam battle-field. One body of the Confederates followed ' him. Hearing that the other body had crossed the river at Falling Waters and Williamsport, near by, and were march ing down towards Sharpsburg Sigel has tily retreated sonth ward towards Har per's Ferry. This left the road into Pennsylvania open, without a federal soldier to oppose the enemy's progress. The column of the enemy which marched from Winchester --to Harper's Ferry, found the Federal advance at Leetown. A skirmish took place and `the Federal troops retired to Harper's !Ferry, and withdrew across the Potomac to Maryland Heights. They took the i supplies in the town with them and brake down the bridges which cross the river. The Confederates advanced to the town and occupied it. The river was all that separated the two forces, each combatant being posted on the hills on his side of the stream. As soon as Harper's Ferry was reached, the Con federates sent a force of Cavalry and ar tilery ten miles down the southern bank of the Potomac, to a place opposite Point of Rocks. Here the point of South Mountain juts out to the river, and for some distance the Baltimore • and Ohio Railroad runs along the water's edge. The Confederates on the southern bank `fired on a passing train, and compelled the abandonment of that portion of the road, They crossed over and tore up the track, but afterwards re-crossed and remained on the southern bank. Their object is to prevent troops being sent from Washington along the railroad to 1 Harper's Perry. They have accom plished it. When Oar accounts closed, the follow ing was the position of affairs : There was a small Federal garrison on Mary land Heights, Sigel with the troops from Martinsburg had just reached that place, so that all the Federal troops in that quarter were on the North bank of i the Potomac opposite Harper's Ferry. The Confederates were in. the town, 1 on the south bank and on the hills 1 around it. A force was opposite Point of Rocks, ten miles below, and prevent-1 ed reinforcements being sent from Washington.t v .. A form was at Sharps ' burg, six miles north, and another com ing towards Sharpsburg from Falling Waters, Hagerstown, ten. miles north of Sharpsburg, had been abandoned, and was believed to be held by the Cimfedarates. Frederick, fifteen miles rihrtlipaat of Harper's Ferry, had had 1,4 t, hp Federal supplies and wounded taken .a*.ay from it, and its capture was feared. grey, pi urtin has called out 24,000 mm for ppe -hundred days, and , has asked•the Peimsylvania Reserves to re-enlist for the emergency. There are no troops now defending pennsylvania ; very few at Washington that can be sent westward; and it will take Hrintpr nearly two weeks to come from Western Virginia. At . six o'clock last ever 4g the Confederates attacked the Fedaria garrison on Maryland Heights.. , Thp rest4t op t - kpagm: Later. 'l,l4,rafraysto, Daly 7.—The situation, is ae.folloya ; The rebels drove a rag -7 ,of 1 4iteti Sts4g . trove, ; 1 14 trepera yeeteraty, . , 'the leek •a. riundpialaylaro 644 fas our. part.— -OW mclW seventy. It had driven the rebels out of tie town the day before, taking three prisoners—a lieutenant and two pri vates.. Our regulars retreate4l' to the State line this morning. Adams' Express and the Chambers burg Bank have sent all their materials to this point All business at_ ChM bersburg is stopped, and cannon plant ed in the streets. There is a strong determination of the citizens to defend the place against any mere raiding par ties. Gerioral Coach came . here • from Chamberiburg this morning on a spe cial train The authorities here think the raid is a very heavy one. At least thirty thousand rebels are on the march, they say. • There are hourly expectations of hearing from Hunter on the enemy's rear in . the direction of Williamsport, Mary land. His troops are (41340 d to reach Cumberland over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It is not broken anywhere west of that. The enemy's line of march seems ten ding towards the Washington and Bal timore railroad, north of Frederick City. The first object is apparently to separate Washington from the North. Not successful at that, then to turn, sweep ing everything before them in the Cum berland Valley on their retreat towards Virginia. Particulars of the Entranee of the Rebels into Hagerstown, WASHINGTON, July 7.—The Star says: We have information direct from Ha- gerstown to the effect that on Tuesday lafternoon at three o'clock, a rebel squad, consisting of fifteen cavalry men, com i mauded by Lieut. Shaver, formerly of Martinsburg, Va., entered that place.— ! This force appeared to be a reconnoit ering party, and they had only been in town a few rhoments when a detach ; ment of our regular cavalry from Car ; lisle, commanded by Lieut. McLean, I dashed into the place, A brief cavalry fight immediately ensued in the streets of Hagerstown, which resulted in the rebels being driven nut, of town, with the loss of a Lieutenant and two pri -1 rates. taken prisoners. I About half an hour after this the 1 rebels again entered the town, their forces consisting of cavalry and mount ed infantry. Lieutenant McLean, of the Union cavalry, finding his force too small to cope with as large a number of rebels, slowly fell back to the Penn sylvania line, carrying with him leis prisoners. . Trie rebels, after entering the town, set to work to destroy the telegraph, but they had made no demonstration against the railroad when our infcrmant left. They also plundered many of the . stores, and seem to have adopted a dif ferent course from the one they pursu ed last, summer, I riiti,AnriptiiA, July 7.—The Bulle -1 has tin just received the following spe cial despatch ; Clainbersburg, July 7.—A man from Hagerstown, just arrived from Greene castle, says that McCausland's com mand, formerly Jenkins', 1,500 strong, ! cavalry and mounted infantry, and oue battery, entered Hagerstown yesterday and left at 11 o'clock by the Frederick pike, where the main body of rebels , have all gone. Small parties return . ed this morning, and made axequisi tion on the people for 1500 outfits and $20,000, under threats of burning the town, which was paid. The Raid—Rebels Stealing and Plun- daring—Great Destruction at Har i pap's Ferry. BALTIMORE, July 7.—The city is full of rumors, but the following is believed to be oorrect: Intelligence from Mary land Heights and the region beyond, • warrants the belief that the rebel force now on this side of the Potomac and on the Virginia side is not less than 30,000. Advices from Sandy Hook to to o'clock this morning say that sklloishing was I going on back of the heights, but the number of rebels there is small. The Rebels can be seen towards Sharpsburg, driving off cattle, horses, and plundering the farmers in the val ley. No large force is visible. Advi ces from Greencastle, Pa., this a. in., say that the rebels occupy Hagers town, but the force is uot known.— While in Middletown yesterday, the rebels plundered the people of their horses and other property. The railroad is still unobstructed as far as Sandy Hook, opposite Harper's Ferry. It is believed there was only a small rebel force on the Virginia shore, opposite Point of Rocks. LATEIL—The rebels in Harper's Fer ry have destroyed all the railroad pro perty there, the telegraph and ticket office, and burned a large quantity of forage. Still Later. BALTINORE, July 7.—The folloiriog particulars were gathered at beadquar tem from information received there to-night: This afternoon the rebel ad vance made an effort to gain the bridge near the Mon ocacy. General Wallace, finned in line about a mile eastward of the town, and shortly after 4 o'clock. the fighting conimeneed, and lasted with more or less severity lip to eight q'olpok, when the rebels after Wing three times repulsed, finally retired, leaving us in possession of the ground. During the action several shells fell into the city, but did no damage of moment. The citizens viewed the fight from their house tops and from the out skirts. General Wallace is confident of holding Frederick. We have no ac count of the killed and wounded. Rein forcements are rapidly pushing forward, and there is every reason to believe that ,his movement of the enemy will result only in disappointment and dis inter to tbp rebel cause. BALTtmoun, !Illy 7.—We are assured at Headquarters that everything is pro gressing well, and, with' the reinforce ments non- mashing to the front, the rebels will soon find their expectations sadly disiippoinif)d. General Wa'.lace says that detachments of the one hundre4 dare awn dot ''irere in thcf ggat t boAukv -9.11 WAX DEPARICKENT ) WASHING:ON, 3.—.. Major. Gen. Dix : The follow ing telegram, dited today at Marietta, was received this evening from Gen. 13herman, giving OM, successful result of flanking operations in - progress some days back. The movement on our right caused the enemy to evacuate. We occupied Kenesaw at daylight and Marietta at 8:30 a. m., General Thom as moving down the main road tow.ardf, the Chattahoochie, and McPherson to wards the mouth of Islickajack, on the Sand Town road, with our cavalry on the extreme flanks. Whether the en emy will halt this side of the Chatta hoochie or not, 'Will soon be known.— `Marietta is almost entirely abandoned by its inhabitants. More than a mile of railroad iron has been removed be tween the town and the fuot of the Kenesaw. A dispatch fro.o Gen. Grant's head quarters, dated 9 'o'clock this morning, gives the following results of General Wiison's operations : Sixty miles of railroad were thoroughly destroyed. The . Danville Road, General Wilson reports, could not be repaired in less than fourteen days, even if all the ma terials were on hands. He destroyed all the blacksmith shops where rails might be straightened, and all mills where scantlings for sleepers could be sawed. Wilson brought in about four hundred regroes and many horses and mules gathered by his force, He re ports that the rebels slaughtered with out utOcy the negroaa they took. Wil son's loss of property is a small wagon train to carry ammunition, his ambu lance train and twelve cannon. The horses of the artillery and wagons were generally brought off'. Of the cannon two were removed from the carriages. the wheels of which were broken and thrown into the water, and another, said to have been disabled by the rebel shot breaking its trunnions, was aban doned. 110 estimates his total loss at from 750 to 1,000 men, including those lost from capture in the division. A rebel force made its appearance near Martinsburg this morning, and were at last accounts destroying the railroad and advancing on Martinsburg. The reports received as yet are too confus ed and conflicting to determine the magnitittie of the force or extent of opera tions, (Signed) E. M. STANTON. Fight Between the Kearsage and Al abeina.—The Rebel Pirate Bunk.— escape of tho Notorious Captain aemme#, NEIV Yoax, July s.—The steamer City of Baltimore arrived this morning. The pirate Alabama left Cherbourg on the 19th to engage the Kearsage, and attacked her ten miles from Cherbourg The engagement lasted an hour and forty minutes, and both vessels made seven complete circles in maneuvering, at a distance of from a quarter to a half mile. The Alabama was sunk. Captain Semmes and a part of the crew were saved by the English yacht Deer hound. Semmes was slightly wounded in the Before leaving Cherbourg, the pirate left sixty chronometers, his specie and ransom bonds. There was no one killed, and only three seamen slightly wounded on the Kearsage. She land ed at Cherbourg. The vessel sustain ed bat little injury. Captain Semmes declined a public dinner at Southampton and went to Paris to report to the Confederate com missioners. Three of the Alabama's officers and six of the crew landed at Cherbourg from a French pilot boat. Also several from the British ship Ac ton. It is .fated that the Kearsage cap tured sixty-eight of the officers and crew of the Alabama. Semmes pub lishes a statement, in which he says he had nine killed and twenty wounded, and charges that the Kearsage continu ed firing after the Alabama had struck her flag. 14elirible Railroad Accident ST. HALiJsa, C. E., June 29.—The emigrant train of eleven cars want over the Beloit - bridge to-day with 354 Ger man emigrants aboard. Thirty-four bodies have been recovered so tar, and about forty taken out injured. One car is not yet reached. The engineer appears to be to blame for not stopping before going on the bridge. The place is nineteen miles from Montreal. Adjournment of Congress. WASHINGTON, July 4.—Both Houses of Congress adjourned sine die at halt past 12 o'clodk this p. in. It is believ ed that all the bills passed by both Houses have been signed by President Lincoln. SAD.—A s mong those killed before Petersburg, on - bloAday, was the ser geant-major of the Tenth. Massachu - setts, which, regiment was just march ing out of the works, its time having expired. While in the act of saying good-bye to a friend he was instantly k illed. SPDDEI AND SAD. DsAm.—A Miss Stor ps, of Clyde, N. Y.,purchased her wedding Outfit on Tuesday of last week, was taken suddenly ill on her return, died on Patin'daY, a 44 burif,d iu tier bridal robes onMon day, which was to have been her wedding day. ORPHANS' COURT SALE• BY virtue of art order of the Orphans' Court of Greene county the undersigned wilt sell on the premises ou Saturday, July 234,1564, the following tract of land, viz ; about one acre, situated in Franklin township, Greene county, Pa.,adjoining the Scale Lot of Jesse Hook, an the Waynesburg Turnpike, and other lands of the sa;d minor. TERMS—The whole of the molten money to be paid at the confirmation of the eat°. ABNER 8A.4.1r, Guardian of Catharine Margtu'etta, minor child of Andrew f 4 antz, sr., dec'd. July 13, 1884. ecisQol. NOTICA. .kh«4 *stele of Anemic, totreallip give to all having claims against said tows- Frio7 to 111 & present then. before . the Board, lithe next semi on the Sot Saturday of Anima. By (peter Of Beard, SOPIIDE WiIITK, Prot. ADA!! tier. —4 ' l 3 ' • 4,1 Y 13 Vonemetation Clause Braled. 'the Conference Committee of Con grdss cut the disagreeing amendments o the military bill have agreed u rata reported almost substan _AA WWI. Smithers substitute, which has se e n adopted by both Rouses, and oily wants the President's signature to be come a law. This bill, which repeals the commutation clause, authorizes the President to call out troops for a term of one, two or three years, and fixes the bounty to volunteers at $lOO, $2OO and $3OO for the respective terms for which they may enlist. Fifty days are allow ed after a call in which to raise the quo tas of the several districts, at the end of which time a draft is to be ordered in those districts where there may be a deficiency. The Executives of the several State§ are empowered to recruit wen in any of the States in rebellion, with the exception of Louisiana, Tennes see and Arkansas. The Losses in the Virginia Campaign'. NEW- YORK; June 30.—The Com mercial Advertiser states t litorially, on good authority, that our total loss in Grant's campaign, exclusive of cavalry and of Hunter's column, will not ex ceed 52,000. The total loss since crossing the James river will not ex ceed 7500.. Only 3400 wounded re mained at Headquarters i im the 27th. As to the rebel losses, the Richmend Enquirer of the 24th, gave a list of 11,- 130 wounded, sent from Lee's army, and 3004 from Beauregard's command. These did not include those sent from the Rapidan to Gordonsville. - 90,921-` OW * ' THE REBEL RAID ! Ewell, Breckinridge & Rhodes North of the Potomac. BATTLE AT MONOCACY ON SATURDAY. Our Forces Overpowered and Retreat The Confederate expedition across the Potomac is assuming large propor tions. Not only Ewell's but Long street's Corps is reported to be on the march northward. Nothing has been heard from Sigel for three days. He is completely surrounded. General Hun ter's movements are not reported, and there is no announcement of his arrival at Parkersburg, on the Ohio, the first railroad station he would meet on his road eastward. The various Federal detachments available against the inva ders are acting on the strict defensive. Gen. Couch has removed his headquar ters from Chambersburg to Harrisburg, in order to organize the militia called out by the Governor. The Cumber land Valley is fitst being deserted by its inhabitants. The Confederates have made a new movement. The troops that crossed the Pennsylvania border, south of Greencastle and Chambersburg, have been withdrawn to Hagerstown, and their entire force has marched towards Washington. Frederick, three miles west of Monocacy River, has been cap tured. General Wallace, with a small force, garrisons the railroad bridge across that river near Frederick. Point of Rocks is by this time given up to the enemy, and the I!donocacy divides the opposing forces. Of the strength of the Confederates very little is known. It is however believed to be large.— The idea of Gen. Lee appears to be this : Leaving a strong force at Pe tersburg, he sends a large army north ward. This army threatens Washing ton and Pennsylvania; both compara tively defenceless. By working on the fears of the Administration, General Leo hopes to secure the recall of the", Federal army on the ;fames itiver.— There is every indication that at least forty thousand Confederates are on the road to Washington. PHILADELPHIA, J S uly 9.—The Bulletin has a special dispatch from Uarrisburg, stating that the corps of Ewell, Breck inridge and Rhodes, arc all ou this side of the Potomac. WASIIMGTON, July 9. —Maj. Gm, Dir,: An official di , :patch just received from Maj. Gen. Wallace states that a battle took place between the forces un der Gen. Wallace's command and the rebels at 14.onocacy to-day, commencing at 9 a. m , and confirming until 5 p. in. Our fore were at length overpowered by the superior number of the enemy, and were forced to retreat in disorder. He reports that Col. Seward, of the New York heavy artillery, was wounded and taken prisoner, and that Gen. Tyler was also taken prisoner; that the enemy's forces numbered at least 20,000, and that our troops behaved well, but suffer ed severe loss. He is retreating to wards Baltimore. (Signed) BAL7INICIRE, July 9, 10 A. M.—The , enemy are now reported at Ellicott's Mills, but, as the telegraph works to Mariottsville, which is beyond, this is )3 , g,T1-1101T, July 10, 11 A. I!. — The party at Rustertoivn is said Li tip. It was reported that a bridge was burnt en the Northern Central. Gen. Wallace is retreating towards the city. His re treat is covered by fresh troops. The city is alive with troops for defense. BALTIMORE, 11:30 A. m.—lt is report ed at headquarters this-, the Northern Central Railroad track is torn up, but it is not stated where. We have also re, ports that the main body of the rebels are making for Washington. BALTIMORE, July 10, 5 P. m.—The Northern Central railroad has been cut near Cookeyt.ville, and a bridge i re ported to be burning. It is supposed to be the bridge at the Ashland wars. A rebel cavalryloren ftsgiqated at fif teen hundred strong, _p_mhafily exagger ated, PFlNied th: liorthprn Ceptral Ic a p sc o above Cockeysville this tare nor, anti they acti goi towards the Philadelphia Railroad. whey expected to reach tOnfOinfore night and cut that in. Disorder. E. M. STArcroN, Secretary of War,
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