b The Tloga/IWty Ablator; BY ,'lfe B. COBB. Pabliahed ereigr and mailed to gncflcrlbcnat ONIf AND POTT CENTS p«r year, always IN The paper is sent postage free to county subscribers, though* they may reeehle their in&U at lo cated in counties immediately adjoining, for conven- ience. -v The Agitator is . tbl Official paper of Tioga Co., and circulates- in eyeiy|teighbbrhood therein. Sub scription* being oh the udvance-pay system, it circu lates among a class mos fto the interest of advertisers to reach. Terms to as liberal as those of fered by any paper of ejaal, circulation is-Nonfaern Pennsylvania. \ \ ■ 1- "■ SSS* A cross on: tat|. margin of a paper, denotes that the subscription is Jibout to expire. Papers will be popped when the subscription time expires, unless agpnt orders their oontinu aocc. ■ *• i'.-. * . [Pcf 'll* igitiitor.i MAKBJFIEHy |OAMAL SCHOOL. Mr. Editor: Will allow me to, express a few thoughts to your readers in regard to this Normal School enterprise? %\ expect" some persons are not rightly estimating requisite for its succeed I hear the ideA Jjtsome localities that they have only to send theft here and they will be educated free o,f cost*[ i thqy think free os in the District schools, j ;Ct’ is true provision is made by the Legislature for, 1 ft think, one to be sen! from each School district freest tuition charges, on certain conditions to be by vote.of the Direc tors of the several towtS-lilps. Tet we'are told that the two Normal School pt Millersville and Edm boro, receive but very Jfy students in this way. I think it doubtful if msSjy'are sent in here, having their tuition‘paid by pul ' For i£thcy conyj in free this mjist be the wa. P\ The school must be made, if possible, aolf-supporti g; And how can this' be done without payment fruition. This Spring term the teachers are on 'the express condition that they receive the tuittan os their wages, running their own risk as to .the amount. They do run a risk, for it is expected the endance will not be large. ((Tet I may* remark by the way, it is hoped such satisfaction will be.given »nd iarerest raised that the attendance will be inerted aa*tho term advances. For students can enter time.; and if intending to continue the fall termvthey can enter the last half term with-good profit.) j i , Another mistaken' impression I fear is abroad is abroad in regard to th|| enterprise: .an impression that the Seminary having been adapted as a Normal School, and so being under the patronage of the State; that, having bpoifallowed an appropriation of $5~OOO, and /more beingjfaaticipated hereafter, why surely, the institution will now be a success. “ Uncle Sam is rich; he will now|to6t all bills on the Semina ry ; and we can getr tbo highest* price for every thing we furnish there hercaft|iV’ . Precisely hero is one great danger in regard institution. I fear that old creditors, whose claijwi were incurred upon the old which was Tnirned, and who failed of their pay because $3,000 ftffuratce was not received, and all creditors will lattice the idea that now they may claim the full among* °f tbeir bills.* 'Numbers offered to deduct 50 percent, of their claim last year; some more and vittne less than this} while a few did not report their-routas at all. * '-v This mistaken view oltbe ownership and respon sibility of "the State pcr.h&lng to this Normal School, is much like the which some persons have made in regard to thb r-fJishops jOf ‘ the Methodist Church owning all the efc’Srdbedifices-and parsonages. The Disbops'do'uot dwh 3je church edifices and par sonages; the State docs'.iik pwa the Normal schools. The people, pay their for the property in both cases, the Bishops and th# Stale owning Just so much as they pay in as person* and no more; and in both casep trustees hold the'&operty in trust to be used io a specified, way. The w>urch restricts the trustees to hold the church ,aqd parsonages to be oc cupied according to **ilcs and Usages of the clTufcli; the State restricts school property and it,is occupied according to the rules and usng * ifa&itnted by the Legislature. Stockholders, not £taW, appoint the trustees; and. the trustees--appoin , the i Faculty,. and manage its finances. The trusto' same in number and have the some gener I responsibilities now as under the old chattor. ' ; : Tbo public bare stsoed?rae in a position where I think I am able to J»ivo&n enlightened opinion in regard to the best ijitpfccsjtgpf those eld creditors abd all creditors I have A£toekt*and the best interests of the ioetittttioD. My opiniup is .these creditors should settle on juetlts eaty,te£ois as they would have done if this Seminary Yad 1 bot.Ucen accepted as a Normal School. lias yet the institution. The State does just enough lo save ■§' to thq people. The best economy needs to in settling iiccounts, and in managing its affairs?; With this economy, and by every one who deals with it Being moderate and patriotic in Iheic bo a great blessing to Northern jT Unless this course is twraued the institution will be , no better off, financially «fbin to have remained under . its old charier—undet £hq#bstertng care of a Chris tian churdi instead of thepSVate. Every person .who does a chore or service fbr this Normal School must not think ho may charge tbfc highest price : nor must he who .sells it anything.Teel that he may make a great bargain out it ;bpctf£|e “ Uncle Sam has it in charge.” It will not do behave any official leeches - here. If that course’ ia the Institution will swrely be crippled.* the 1 * 4 People’s College” of New York State? It understand, its doors are is doing nothtog; as I see it, because the people have thought: 'The State has it in charge, and of course it Will go' oty. Fearing this style or’iHeatment, I feared to have thtff Seminary constituit&n Normal School. -I judg ed it would be better car«'for, and more economi cally managed, while a ••religious denomination hod the chief, responsibility, f£>r Its success. Evidence way yet appear ihdfi by‘continuing that relationship the public*of NortharC Pennsylvania would have been as highly in its present relations. But some creditors, and citizens, thought a change of relation desirp.w[e, and work to bring it about. I thoujriit it wou.Sd be better lo make it a Norinal School than to U*ow it to pass into private bAttds; better tbamthat Didny honest creditors should get nothing; and havo;beartily joined in the effort to pass.it is done. It may bo mado in this way a great! blcssia-g j but in -order to this.it euust be well worked. A Contract was arranged this week between the trusteufi'fcnd the heaviest creditors, - which makes its financistyiffairs so plainly manage able that I do not expect to fice-«the Sem inary advertised for sale sy-tb© But to sue ceed well, old creditors %nd new dealers, must bo kind to the institution would.be to an indi vidual friend, as fj have ; m)ove urged. No one reli gious denonjinniiyn or of people have now any ipecial care or vcspotlsibSity for its success, All should be and|tnjoso who -do its business must see to its interested pot all who can, for the sake of the public help., them ; and all re frain from throwing in their way ? iMansfield, May 2, - W. Cociirax. I.IBT Of 1 JtTHWS—m:ay teem. GlUtfDaJijßOnS. , 4 Blyst —Reifbwi F. CAark«(o)i-j-D,Eoom; Chatham —Han ey X»eiib i-^Cphington —Hollaud Cl«tn ona; Delmar-i Geo, 'is igUih>; Deerfield —E> ,BoweD ; Clytiter —C. "Fannin f on —W. Case; Jackson —o. IfKbo; —H. Middaugh ; Mid dtcbtiry—J. Ei firett, p A.i Jacob Uytnes, J. E. Loslngor: JA*l« TAhip—K, Mitchell; Hard— j; ; . S«onS*B' ee t.' bih CbtTp, MarS -?f’ JM*»«y-U. S. Dieffen- TiddUhS. Borditt Wilson; Jacob Briie. Iplt»er^jn® 1 p lt » er^jn ®i t ’ Joha Brown, Wm. Rue, Holland • Al £" e Beach, Wm. CUvSmVtn I Bryant; Riehmoud-A. H. Oldroii?' ra A ‘ Sherwood; Rutland— Strait • ’ Euiliean—Sanford wold ’ Fi,b ■■■ “«-*■ Gria rvide, "^W-Che.t.r THE » to tbe &xttmion of tfce &vtu of iFmHom anir the Sprrah of J^cfomn. WHILE THEBE SHALL BE A WRONG UNSIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE, VOL. IX. Stora> of tl>e 221 ar. [For the Agitator.] COMING BOMS. BY GRACE LEE. Yes! Charlie H was coming home ! Two. years before, when President Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand loyal union men to put down the Southern. Rebellion, he was among the earliest* volunteers, and acqnitted himself nobly, all the while be was in the ser vice', winning the respect of both officers and privates in his regiment. At the battle of Dranesyille the Reserve Corps was called for but his regiment did not arrive in time to take part in the action ; and writing home afterwards he says: “It is one of the greatest disappointments I -have mot with since I entered the army; that of not be ing able to send a bullet to some rebel heart on this hotly contested field.” lie was engaged in the seven great battles before Richmond, in July 1862, and on the day of the last-battle was taken prisoner and car ried to the rebel capital, where -be was kept for three long, weary months, because he would not take the oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy. Said he to them, “ I entered the army to, fight against your Confederacy, and not to take tfllegiance to it!” While imprisoned in Richmond he, with a prisoner oomrpde, determined not to be wholly conquered by the traitors, sang the “ Star Spangled Banner,” and made the walla resound with cheers for the glorious old fiag, under which tbs brave Northmen are fighting. ' For this act, they were kept upon bread and water two days ; and when the offence was repeated, only half rations were given to them for three days. At last he was exchanged, and rejoined his regiment wj>ich was engaged in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va. llowmnxiously loving friends looked over the lists of •* killed and wounded,” and came, by and by, to the terrible sentence “ Charlie H ,Co. —, Reg’t P. V. R. C. severely wounded and a prisoner.” Two weeks of anx ious suspense to those at home passed by, when a letter came, saying be bad been sent to An napolis, aod was better. there came another letter and this time himself. “I am better, and the physician who «ttends 1 me thinks I shall re cover. After I was wounded, I lay forty-eight hours upon the wet ground before I was cap- tured, and when I wns taken to Richmond, the rebel surgeon said he did not think I could live thirty minutes. It was a dark time to me then; it seemed so hard to die all alone amoqg stran gers, and I thought if I could but see home and its loved ones once more, I could die contented ; knowing that my life wouW never bo given in a nobler cause than the' one for which I have fought. But the surgeon’s predictions did not prove true, and now I am at Annapolis, and am coming home on a furlough, as soon as 1 can travel. There were glad hearts iq the family circle that night, and they laid many plans for happiness “ when 'Charlie comes,” Oh ! bow £ttd it iSi that in this life of ours, where joy find sorrow are so strangely blended, the shadow should always follow the sunshine. If we could only read the future before the-page is unrolled before us, we would gather so much gladness into our hearts to have it ruthlessly destroyed, by Fate, but we would live as if, each day, we expected all which we loved to be taken from us ; and then when the trial came the heart chords, being disciplined by different tensions of grief, would not be so rudely bro ken, hut would dilate and contract like the strings of a musical instrument. Only a week passed by when the surgeon wrote that Charlie II had been taken sud denly worse and could live but a few days ; and if his father wished to see him while liv ing ho must come immediately. The sands of life were nearly expended when Mr. II reached him. “Father, I knew you would come,” and the invalid reached oat his white, wasted hand. Oh my sod ! my son I” and the strong man bowed *his head and wept, aa he saw his eldest son lying before him, with the Brown hair brushed away from the white forehead where the deatlf dowa were slowly gathering. Tell them at home, father, that I thought of them, oh, so often, and looked forward with such delight to the time when, I should join them again in the home circle. Tell my broth ers and sisters to remember Charlie, and some times in the long summer twilights to go to ray grave—for you will carry me homo, father, and lay me in the old graveyard on the hill—and leaning over4he grassy mound, talk to me for I shall get lonely, lying there alone, so long, waiting for the Resurrection angel.” “ And my mother, 0 if I could only feel her kiss once more upon my forehead, I could go out into the great unknown with every wish satisfied. Tell her, that her son did not forget the Chrietinn precepts she taught him in early life, and that through the changes of camp-life her memory was the golden chain that bound him to virtue. 1 am not afraid to die, for I know in whom I have pntruy trust, and had I my life to live over again, I would give it for my country’s sake, just aa I have done now. Father, I am going now;, when ydu lay me in my coffin wrap the old (Tog, I have loved so well, around me and it will make ray death sleep sweet. Dear, dear father, good bye.” Just one moan and the life-barque of Char lie If- was loosed from its fastenings to the shores of thne and was drifting out upon the silver-crested waves of the sea of eternity. Yes! Charlie H had reached homej at .last, bat how different the coming from what it " had been dreamed to be. There were no warm hand-pressures, and joyous 'greetings and pas t sionatef kisses at the threshold; only, the low sobbings of grief from the half-broken hearts, as strong arms bore the coffin into the -little parlor, and uncovering the face let the weeping frinds look- open their precious dead. - “ Oh! are not meetings in this world of change gadder than partings oft ?” -> But deep as was their grief, like a soothing balm came those words “|l am not afraid to die, for I know in whom I have put'my trust,” and then they knew be haji but gone before WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PAi, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1863. them jnto that land of light and beauty where loves hre never broken; and, that by-and by, when !the life-work was all eompleted, they should meet him. So, with that truest in their hearts, they buried him, and winter'dropped his white man tle over the monnd, on emblem .of the purity, and virtue of him who sleeps beneath. Oh! the sad “ comings home,” when "will they cease f and when will there be no more home-circles draped in mourning for loved ones who gave.their life on Southern battle-fields. Mansfield, 1863. Select J&isccUang. I lately dined in company with one of those insaneiyoung gentlemen who, as- Theodore AVin throp says in “ Cecil Dreeme,” praise slavery and think they are aristocratic. The young gentleman went for some time, when Mrs. ; said to him, politely ; “ If you sympathize with the rebels, why don’t you go and join them “I, raadame ? I assure you I am perfectly loyal.” “ Indeed V’ . ' “ Why certainly, I only'stand by the govern ment, not by the administration.” ' “ So Vallandigham says.” “ I mean I am no abolitionist.” “ So Brooks says.” “ That is, I am afraid we are alienating, the South.” “ So Torn Seymour says.” “ In other words, I nm a Union man but I dont think war can restore it.” “ So Toucey says." “ Bat, my dear madnme, the war is unconsti tutionally carried on.” “ So-George Ticknor Curtis says.” “ I mean that our liberties are in danger.” “ So YerSando Wood says.” “ Well, but isn’t the war fratricidal ?” “ So Ben Wood says.” “ Come, then, isn’t it hopeless ?” 11 So the London Times says.” “ Yes my dear madame, but what on earth do you say ?” “ I say that whoever stands against the ad ministration in this war stands against the government I say that whoever says ha is no abolitionist means that he intends to embar rass the war. 1 say that whoever is afraid of alienating the Sooth is afraid of irritating a snako that has already stung him. I say that whoever says that force cannot restore the Cnion°does not know that union is the most irresistible instinct of tbe American peoplb. I say* that whoever says the war is uncon stitutionally pnrriprt rm is jo Hancrpr of lipinp split py the tempest in which he is trying to split hairs. I say that whoever says our liber ties are : imperiled by the government and not by the -rebellion, works and prays for the suc cess of the rebellion and the annihilation of all civil liberty and order. I say that whoever dills the war fratricidal has no more conception of national honor than lottery dealers are said to have nf honesty. I say that whoever consid ers the cause of the United States hopeless hates that cause in hie heart, and is utterly igno rant of tbe character of tbe people and the facts of the situation. That is what I say, and that is what every truly American man and woman says and believes.” The young gentleman made no reply; but the next day, at the club, ho said to a friend, “ I dined yesterday at Mrs. 'e. What an awful abolitionist she is !”— Harper's Weekly. Not many miles from Boston, some time since, tbere was a revival, and a Merchant who was noted for dishonesty, suddenly became pious and joined the church. He took to exhorting and one evening remarked that be had done many things lor which he'was sorry, and deem ed it bis duty to make full restitution to those he had wronged. He therefore notified all such that if they would call at bis store, he would certainly do so. About 4 o’clock the next morning a gentle man called at the Merchant’s bouse and arous ed him from bed. Eaising the window, be demanded the busi ness of his visitor at that early hour in the mor- ning. “ Is this Mr. W V’ “ Thht is my name.” “ Well, I understand that you offered to make restitution to those you have cheated. You will remember that upon ono occasion I suffer ed to the extent of fifty dollars, and have called to get it.” •• Why did you not trait until proper hours and then cgli at my store ?” ■“ Simply because I thought if I did there would be such a rush there that 1 would npt get it I” The window wont down with a slam. Potatoes.— Any time in May is entirely too firs of so many hostile guns; and yet it soon early to plant potatoes, in our -opinion, for tho , became evident that we must get out of that or main crop. Yet there are many who, from long suffer much loss. One ahqll killed S“and woun oustom, continue to plant this month, and malty , Jed 7 or 8 in our regiment. Another struck who echo the opinion universally prevalent in in the 90th Pennsylvania, just in front of ps, northern joarriais, that early planting is more | and one to the right in the lilth Massacbsetts, exempt from rot. In a certain condition of the killing and wounding several in each case, crop it is liable to be affected by the sort of Many struck in the ground all about us, and I weatbet that produces rot, and this may be folded up a half-read letter to attend to other early or late, but the early planted is almost duties. We were ordered back to the road un sure td be forming the bulb when our July , der cover of the hedge along its side, where we drouth comes on,and to be out short by it The ! were comparatively safe. It is not a pleasure varieties require different limes to mature, and Itobe sc unmercifully shelled without,an op of course those requiring the'longer time should 1 portunity to return the compliment; jn truth, be planted earlier. The poach blow; undoubt-' it is no pleasure at best, but there is an excite edly one of tho most valuable sorts, is one of 1 ment and martial glory about a conflict, which, these, and the 10th of June is quite early one who escapes safely, reviews with pleasure; enough for them. ‘ I There were none from Tijga county killed or : '" ! wounded that day. 1 To Desteot Milkweed. —ln the Farmer for \ In the evening our regiment was ordered October, John Milton, Canada West, inquires , down to take up a pontoon bridge, which kept how to destroy the common milkweed. I will jus there tilV late in the evening, and after it tell him how I have known them thoroughly was loadeds.upotT'the wagons we were ordered subdued in two jffiars. Let them grow until jto follow it, as a guard, to Banks’ Ford. I they are in blow: then take a pole, like a bean ! escaped this tiresome march, and remained, pole] and whip off all the flowers and leaves, | with a few others, where the .arms were left breaiking down the stalks bat Two, or | with the brigade. In fact, there was no netes nt any rate three such floggings will discourage | sity of mors than 100 men to accompany it. them.—Wn. Howe, Xorth Almond, X. J*. . They marched all uight, and it was mid day -r * „ * AGITATOR. ! -i i | LOYAL OR DISLOYAL. Wanted to be in Season. SLtttetß from tDe Slrmi?. ZVem the 136th Pennsylvania Regiment. Camp bei.ow Falmouth, Ya., May 8,1863. Friend Agitator : Fatigued, lamed and de pressed with a very hard but unfortunate cam paign of ten days from our old camp, I sit down onco more to write a brief nnd imperfect account of the important events which have transpired within the last four days. I should have written sooner, but I have had no oppor tunity, and even now I do not expect time to finish this letter without interruption. On the 28th ultimo we bade adieu, as we had good reason to expect, for the last time to our old camp neat Belle Plain. It seemed almost like leaving home. There we bad spent many happy, or at least, contented hours. We went there entirely worn out by long marches of the late fall and early winter, and at lost defeated at the unfortunate battle of Fredericksburg in I December. We had recuperated our wasted | energies, had seen a great and powerful army brought up into a most perfect state ; and now onr hopes were high. Our time, it is true, was nearly out, and men who haveHsmilies depend ing upon their daily toil, could but think of their needy families, and hope that they might come safely 'through the conflict at hand, and not lie for months wounded nnd maimed after the expiration of their time without pay. Yet wo were soldiers; and though they were not anxious to risk their lives again, they believed that a victory was before, nnd were proud to march to the van to help gain it. The day was warm and the march was brisk. Eight days rations nnd the necessary outfit of soldier, placed a heavy burden upon the shoulders of men who had become somewhat effeminated through the inactivity of the win ter, and many of them were unable to keep up on the march.’ We halted just at night fall, very near where we are now encamped, perhaps the distance of 4 miles below Fredericksburg, and 1 i from the Bappahannock. In the morn ing we filed ont of the wood into an open field, and remained there till mid-afternoon. During the day it was that the pontoon bridge was laid down, after a most gallant charge across the river in boats, by the Wisconsin Brigade in Wordsworth’s Division. This was probably one of tho most brilliant affairs of the war.' I this morning had a detailed account of it from Lt. Prutsman of the 7th Wisconsin, who took part, but have not time or space to*>append it. They rushed across suddenly in boats, charged up a steep hill in the face of the rebels in rifie pits, took 209 prisoners, killed 17, and wound ed a largo number, with a lass on onr side of only 30. General Wordsworth swam the river on horse. That nirht 1 Wednesday “ion- .) '-r iu a plain by the bank of the river, where the bridges were across, some two miles below where we crossed in December. During the night a rain set in, but we managed to make ourselves quite comfortable with what we had carried. The rebels could be seen upon Jhe hills across, but there was no firing save an occasional exchange of the skirmishers, whom we could sec away across tho river on the large plain, which here stretches along. Tho next day passed without event hf importance here (though we could bear heavy firing away up the river) till about 3 p. u., when the rebels opened their batteries upon us. It seemed very strange tojne that we should be left there so much exposed, when we had no opportunity to I had been down to the first Brigade listening to eloquent addresses and prayers, "upon the occasion of tho day, 30th April, appointed for fasting nnd prayer by the President. Even while they spake the earth trembled and heaven resounded with the shock of can non ! It was truly an impressive scene. How many of our own friends at home now engaged in the same holy devotion, praying God for onr safety, and for the success bf the holy cause in which the Nation is engaged ! But all could not be saved : some must fall; and ns I turned away impressed with the eloquent solemnity of the scene, in such a place, nnd at each a time, memory carried me hack to the home of my childhood, where a kind mother first taught me to murmur a simple prayer, and to remember the Creator of all things in the devotion of the heart. I stood beside Lt. Lindsay of our own regi ment, hnf there was something strangely unlike himself in his manner, and we passed but few words. It was hut a few moments ere he was wounded by a'shell, a victim of the tyranny of war, soon, in a few hours, to look for the last time upon the beauties of this world ! He wae a model of manhood, a Christian, atfd a mere youth, not more than 18, with- a mind capable of conquest, and truly a pattern for all! We had scarcely returned to the regiment before the shells began to scatter around, and we to realise that, thougb a river intervened, we were getting in danger. The firing was not so fearfully terrific as on the 13th of December, when wo were lying on the ground under the I when the regiment arrived. The dny vrna very | warm, and the men completely overcome with the! fatigues of the march. This was the first Jof May. Beautiful. May 3ay ! Bright, suhliy, | warm, and yet the scene of such'terrible strife. Little going on down here, but nwsy up on the right there was heavy firing all day. That night we bivouaced again in the road. At daylight we cooked coffee, and were ready to march at any moment. About 7 o’clock we moved off up the river. 1 We had scarcely mo ved away before the batteries were opened on both sides. Just back of us that night there Were 20 pieces of rifled cannon, six 20-pound Parrot guns. Soon 'the' Bnn shone down very warmly, and although we marched at a mode rate rate, it was very oppressive. We halted occasionally, hut some of the boys were unable to keep up. Just back of Falmouth, as we were resting, we saw a Secesh on the other side of the river jjtowing ! M Think’s J,” to myself, “ sir, you are pretty cool.” All day we hurried along, nor halted even long enough to cook a cup of coffee. Tlie first division of our corps, which- was across the river here, was ordered btick, and followed us in the afternoon. It was just about sunset as we crossed the pontoons at United States Fordj. and after we had marched about a mile we halted, as wo supposed for the night. So we built little-fires and got some coffee over, when in company with"the Colonel ojnd a few others, we walked out upon the rise of ground away in front of us, to ; liatsnr“fo. thb terrific battle raging some 4 or 5 miles away. It was an hour fraught with great consequences ; and we could but think it must end in our favor. But it was the hour when we suffered most up there, Saturday evening, when the lltb Corps was so vehemently attacked and driven in. Of this we" then knew nothing. The moon shown down from the clear blue heavens in all her wonted splendor, illuminating surrounding objects almost with the brightness of day. — We hurried back for we sqw an unusual com motion, and concluded that we were ordered on. The coffee was just done, but it was too hot, and the time too short, to allow us to en joy it. So we harnessed up again. The bri gade was deployed into and faced to the front, with orders to allow no one to pass. — The was a great, humming, hustling noise in front of us. What could it mean ? We must have been repulsed ; for the moment, 1 could but tremble for the event of battle ! Ob, it would be foo-bad now td be defeated. How ever, the defeat was not so general as wo had feared, and as we approached the front, the ominous sounds died a-wari Our march was much impeded by bad places in the road, and it wasljmidnight when we oFPiraH np nAni* tl.-* !•«.••( Just at this time tlicre was very sharp fighting just in (fur front. It was almost as light ns day, and the rebels undertook to break our center by repeated charges—a game which seems to be common with them during this series of en gagements. But they were repulsed, and the firing soon died away. "\Ve were sent away out on the extreme right, and after waiting with our heavy loads upop our weary should ers, for nearly an hour, we were thrown out into line, skirmishers were thrown out to the front,, oud we had reason to hope that our labors for the day were about ended. We had set out at early morn, had marched all day in the hot sun with no opportunity even to make coffee, accomplishing the distance of 24 miles, and now we were to lie down for the remain ing hours of the night encumbered with our belts and sleeping on our arms. We bad lain there but a feiy moments when we were arous ed to make something of a breast-work Tor the night. Again we lay down, but wefe distur bed at intervals so short we got little rest that night. > - , Sunday morning came. At 0 o’clock the battle was opened in the center, and for more than five hours it raged with dreadful fury. We Muld hear the hideous cries of the rebels os they charged repeatedly upon our lines, and ns often were compelled to fall hack before jtHe deadly-fire of our artillery and infantry. The slh Maine artillery, in which we bave.'fpur men, was engaged, and lust 3C killed and wounded, and 48 horses killed. With great regret I have to report Timothy Sullivan, of our company, killed, and Jas. Russell wound ed, though not severely. They were both good soldiers and brave. The Irish Brigade drew the battery off by hand. Monday and Tuesday passed off without much conflict near us, though we were very often called in, "when the battle raged in our center, or there was skirmishing in our front. Monday afternoon the left wing of our regi ment was sent out on picket. They were not relieved, and have just arrived in camp to-day. 'Tuesday evening we were ordered to pack up without noise, and be ready to march at any time. Tbo artillery was hastened down to ward the center. At abopt 2 o’clock we were again in line and, marched off to the The recent heavy rain, which had been pour ing down all night in torrents, had made the roads very muddy, and our progress was slow. It was evident that we were to' re-cross the river. It'was daylight when we arrived at the bridge. The river was high, though It had fallen, as wo could see by the. appearances along the banks. The roads were crowded — thousands on thousands of soldiers had been led there, and were being hurried’ across the Bridge fts fast as possible. We could not see why that position, which had cost so much, . should he given up. We had entrenched our selves so that wo could hold the position ib opposition to all they could bring against ns.> Sipce learning of Sedgwick’s reverse here, it 1 is not so strange. The rebels could scud a division across below here, and cut off our sup plies, as we have but a small force along the railroad. Of these things I cannot form a sen sible opinion from the slight knowledge I now have of the events of this campaign. -But I know full well that my step was more weary when I learned, with great regret, that we had lost the heights of Fredericksburg. All day Wednesday we were on the march back. I never saw men more overcome by fatigue. At night we halted near Falmouth, and - remained oyer night. It was cold and rainy. I was very fortunhte in having s friend 1 Rates of Advertising, Adverti«ementa will be charged $1 per iqvmre of 10 lines, one or three insertions, and 25 cent* for every subseqaent insertion. Advertisements of leu (ban 10 lines oonridered os a square. 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If every one of the many thousands tired soldiers could that night have met so good a friend who would not pass by “pn the other ‘side/ 7 I myself should have slept still better, and been even more refreshed the next, morning. Bat all are not Few realize, the great hardships which the weary soldier has to endure, and few, therefore, go so far to make him comfortable. Yesterday wc marched a very round-about way to get to this camp. We are encamped in a pine grove, and have to-day been marking out the streets and getting things in shape. We have bod inspection to-day, and are order ed to supply-all deficiencies immediately. So that I have written this In the midst of con fusion, and interruption | by my own duties, and it is intended only aa a synopsis the important events which we h;we so lately wit nessed. * We have not been actively engaged, but we have done our share of the marching, and have no doubt much affected the balance of “ Legs" constitute a groat lever in the comnjs sion of forces; and these Hooker knows how to use. It was by this sudden transition Of forces that 'he intended to cross the river; and be did cross successfully. And it was by the same kind jgf power that the Rebels com pelled Sedgwick to retreat, i. e. by a sudden movement of the right of Lee’s ormy, which Swung around and drove him off before re inforcements could arrive. But of these things you know, better than I Respectfully yours, From the 149th Pennsylvania Regiment. [The following relative to the famous march of the 149th Reg”! is taken from a private letter. It will be found interesting by those who have friends in that Regiment.—sEn.] Camp near Belle Plain, April 24, 1863. * * * * At 3 o’clock, v. M.j the; 149th Reg’t P. V. started on their first expedition (and if they are all to he like this thbpp their last). We marched without meeting very serious mud holes until dark, by which time we were about six miles from camp, going we knew ' not where, and some of the boys pretty well tired out. AFe thought of course they would soon halt, but onward was the word and on ward we went. About 9 o’clock we entered a piece of woqde, or rather swamp hole, about two miles in length, through which the mud was half leg deep and some of the way over the top of our boots. It was so dark a person could not see where the next step would land him, whether on dry land or into ithe Rappa hannock. After emerging from this we entered a cornfield in which between the rows of which ran a respectable creek. It was laughable to see the boys tumble around in the mud (or rather to hear the remarks made, for it was too dark to permit of seeing). But there is an end to all things, so there w’as to this. About 2 o’clock a. m., we were halted after marching - about fourteen miles through the mud and fopd-. ing several streams knee deep, perfectly-ex hausted, with no place to lie down but the epld, muddy ground, and no covering except a”bissU- c rubber blanket. But the farms were very well fenced in this neighborhood, so we did-not suffer for the want of fire. As soon as it was light we were all stirring, some going off in search of water, while others replenished the AA’e scarcely had time to boil a little cioffee when we were ordered forward. 1 now had an opportunity of viewing the country, and was surprised to see so fine a country. I ex pected to see all-Virginia like the specimen I had seen around Bell I was, however, somewhat mistaken. But tbo whole country wore a desolate and forsaken appearance, ow ing probably to the fact that a large portion of the population have taken advantage of Old Abes’ proclamation and started business on their own hooks. I conversed with several of t the inhabitants, one of them told me thoj, at, at the commencement of the rebellion, be bad ~ fourteen negroes, only six of whom ; while his neighbor, out of thirty, bad only seven or eight left. As we approached the river the Country became almost level, the buildings were all miserable little log hovels, around which the peach trees were in full bloom and the gardens were as forward ours ate in June. After marching about 22 miles we came to the Rappahannock at Port Royal and r halted in full sight of tbo town, and made arrange ments for battle. The troops, numbering about 4800, under command of Maj. Gen; Doubleday, were marched down to the river and drawn Op in line of battle. The pontoon boats were be ing constructed as fast as possible ani every thing to our eyes looked as though the inten- ~ tion was to throw us across the river. The ar tillery, consisting of two six-pounders made of a pine log and covered with rubber Blankets came dashing up, and took a position in front of onr troops as if to cover-our crossing. Just i at night two boats were put into the river and all was excitement. Then the old General rode up and informed us that we wore not to cross at all; that the movement was all a ruse, (o attract the attention of the enemy while other nfovements wore being made. Then for the first time the hoys got out of patience. They thought it was too bad after suffering the hard ships of such a night march, with the expecta tion of getting a chance of having a brush with the rebels, to he ordere'd back without being allowed to even see a rebel, was almost too much of a tax on their patience. As soon as it was dark we returned about two miles and encamped for the night, but I must close for this time. In my next I will take yon'back to camp and send yijp the order from Gen. Dou bleday congratulating us on our good behavior. A. B. AV. (Farmington.) “ Ahin’idab, who is Capid V’ “ One of the boys. He is said to be as blind as a bat; but if be is blind he’ll do to travel. .He found his way into Aunt Kan’s affections, and I wouldn’t have thought any critter coifltl hare worked hie way into such narrow arrangements with eyes open!” ' * 1 Jno. I. Mitchell.