Evening telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1863-1864, July 21, 1863, Image 2

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Tuesday Eftning, July 21, 1663
EXTENsION OF TIME FOR HOLDING
THE UNION STATE CONVENTION.
To the Editors of the Tdlraph:
PLIILADELPIIIA, Juno 24, 1863
At a meeting of the Union State Central Com
mittee, held in this city to day, it was resolved
to extend the time for holding the Union State
Convention at Pittsburg, from July Ist to
August 6th.
The following is the resolution adopted, pro
viding for this extension:
Resolved, That in the present emergency,
while many &legates to the Union State Con
vention are engag d in the military service, and
c+n•.ot be present at the meeting appointed to
be held at P.ttsburg on the Ist of July next, it
is dee ,eed expedient to postpone the Convention
until Wednesday, the bth day of August next.
,at 11 o'.clrvic., A. xt., and it is hereby postponed
until that time.
Editors of the different Union newspapers
throughout the Commonwealth, will please give
this notice an insertion in their - columns.
P FSASEEt SMITH, Chairman pro tem. -
tiemunarmr, Sicreary. • • ,••
ii Coincidence.
The future hiAorian, who will be summoned
to the work of faithfully chronicling the events
of the present, will be.struck with the fact that
in no instance wai•the rebellion so signaHy de
feated as when Lee at the head of his butchers,
and the Wood-Sey moors at the back of their
bullies, sought to tiansfer the war to northern
free-Soil. In the slave , States, the rebehion can
neither again gather force or provisions. It has
exhausted itself where it was supposed to be
inexhaustible. It has recruited its lust men and
made its last commissary requisition in the
South. Hence the persistency with vt bleb the
rebels in the North have bee; preparing for
invasion by the rebels of the South. Between
the leaders in New York, and the leaders of the
same faction in the South, it was .vitally ini
portant that invasion should succied. Jeff.
Davis was no surer of erecting his power per
manently on the desolation of the North, than
was and is Horatio Seymour expectant of Jen
daring himself popular with the niob by oink
ing at their bloody attacks on the law and its
upholders. The arrangement between theta and
their kindred spirits, was as explicit as any corn
pact between deuragogue3 could be made, and
the failure of the one following so closely on the
heels of Abe other, leaves their plans exposed
to the public, in,all the deformity and atrocity
in which treason and apostacy can array, them.
—The riots in New York completti theconnec-*
tion of the Democratic leaders with the rebel
lion. We need no longer indulge in. mere
charges on this subject. We need not insist in
honest labguage that the leaders of the Demo
cratic party North and South are in sympathy,
and that the object to destroy the Government
is the same. All that will be necessary here
after, is to point to results in both sec
tions. The desolation of the Soirth wil serve to
convict every Democratic leader of the South
ern wing of that party—while the blackened
ruins and remains of murdered men, women and
children in New York, will bring conviction
home to the leaders of Democracy in the North.
And thus togett.er, with an equal share of
infamy ascribed to their memories, the Demo
cratic leader's North and South are finding their
political graves. •
Position of the President.
On the 27th of February, 1860, Abraham
Lincoln made a speech be ore the YOung Men's
Republican Union, at Cooper Institute, New
York, professing to be a "vindication of the
policy of the framers of the Constitution and
the principles of the Republican party," which
he concluded with the following declaration in
favor of a resolute adherence to the right in
opposition to a policy of compromises :
" Let us not be diverted by more•of these so
phistical contrivances wherewith we are so
industriously plied and bolaeord--contrivances
such as groping for some middle groundbriuMen the
right and the wrong —vain as the , suarch ,for a
man who should be neither a living man nor a
dead man—such as a policy of "don't care" on
a question about winch all true men do care=
such as Union appeals beseeching true Union
men to yield :to disuuionists, reversing the di
vine rule, and calling.not„ the-sinners.-but the
righteous to repentance—such ;as invocationsto Washington. imploring men -, to 'unsay what
Wishington said, and undo what Wrishington
did.
" Neither let us be slandered from our duty
by false sccusations against us, nor fright( ned
from it by i oenaees of destruction to the Gov.
emment nor of dungeons to ourselves. Lit us
have faith that right soaks' 'night, and in that lath
Id us to the end dare to do our duty as , we understand
it."
Such are the sentiments with which we are
to understand Abraham Lincoln entered upon
the discharge of his duties as President. If
they did not make him a radical man, we do
not understand Vie political acceptation of the
term. Of late there are parties who have
claimed him as a conservative. With what
justice will , appear from the language' just
qutited; unless, since his
.hands have come in
contact with power, his entire heart has
changed. That language is the expression of
the most intense radicalism.
While we are compelled to admit that isola-
ted acts of the President would appear to cow
filet with the views he . expressed at Cooper
Institute An February, 1860, we are not yet
convinced of his determination to depart from
the line of conduct there markedeutzztet unsay
what he then'Said, and undo what he then did.
The politicians of Missouri, ha:f conservative
and half copperhead, who have , been throivit
into extravagant expressions of joy, over what
they, claim to be a thorough change in the
PreSidentlal policy, shouting "Bravo fur the
Prtsident,"- in consequence of the change. in
department commanders; and other conceFsions
,
which appear, to have , been made to itieir
terests, may-very - speedily find that they' have
counted without their host. Time .will piove
the result, and may show much sooner than
they anticipate, by most decisive acts in refer
ence to Missouriaffsirs, thatwe, are tritich pair,
taken in the President's' converaien- to their
views
,
The Conscription and. the War,
Tut' attempt of the leaders of the Democratic
party IN Now city, t, create a:division on
the nec(s,sity of illAing by the oi , eration of the
Caw, aid the bloody means to which MI6) Cs
these resorted, to accomplish their purl ose, are
both now attracting the calm scrutiny of every
decent man in the land. The ebullition in New
York is regarded a 3 the last effort of the party
leaders in question to assist the leaders of re
bellion. That ebulition failed cf any serious
cons. - quences to the success of the draft, and we
rejoice that the Administration is determined
not only to enforce the law in New York, but
that tte law will be carried out wherever there
is a citizen coming within its provisions, and
wherever there is a man owing a soldier's duty
to his country. The Administration is acting
wisely in ordering the immediate enforcement
-4 the draft. We have just achieved two great
victories which it-seems should paralyze the
war power of the rebellion. We have beaten
its greatest army and captured its most power
ful stronghold. Upon Lee's army the eastern
half ofthe canfe teracy depended for protec
tion. Upon Vicksburg the western half de.
pervied for safety. After Lee's defeat and
Yickgburg's fall, it might seem that the rebel
lion would come to a speedy end, and without
further effort on the part of the North. We
shall soon know the effect of these losses on the
rebel States;. but we are prepared to hear that
no signs of: submission appear, and that re
doubled bitterness and frenzy rule the Southern
heart.
The rebels have had great losses, heretofore;
and they have met them patiently and stoutly.
Their losses at Forts Henryand Donelson, of
,
Forts Philip and Jackson, and of the Cities of
New Orleans and. Norfolk, were great calami
ties, but they did not destroy their spirit or
purpose. The obstinacy of the rebels has ;been
sufficiently proved by their action in the past.
They have evinced a recuperative power after
mishaps, and given evidence of a fertility of re
source, and of ingenuity in creating the appli
ances of war, for which they had never before
had credit. We see no reason to believe, that
their spirits will now, all at - once, give away,
that their obstinacy will be broken, or their
aptnefs for war will fail. With all the harm
we have just done them, their power is yet
immense. And no cause so desperate as theirs
is likely to be abandoned until the last mo
ment, awl when there is no longer a leader or
an army to stand-in its defence.
Granting that we utterly disable- Gen.' Lee,
and that we drive the rebel arms from the Nis
sissippi River, we must still have the work of
invasion and conquest to prosecute. And this
is harder than the work of expelling from our
soil en invader, or capturing a stronghold to
which we advance with such a line of commu
nication as the Mississippi River opens to our
army. How much harder it is to invade suc
cessfully than to beat back an invader, let two
years' history in Virginia tell—let us recall
events from Ball Run to Chancellorsville. We
have an instructive lesson, also, in the State of
Tennessee. With a railroad and river behin.
it, our army has, for half a year, been held fast
bound in sight of the hills and steeples of . the
City of Nashville: qtn. Rosecrans lay half a
year at Murfreesboro, after a great victory over
the enemy. He .durst not pursue ; because
every mile of advance, penetrating inland into,
the enemy's country, weakened his army, ex
posed him to annoyances and attacks on . flank
and rear, and endangered his communications
with his depots of supplies at Nashville and
Murfreesboro. Such dangers will always beset
an invading army.
We have captured many, points around the
edges Of the confederacy—Norfolk, Suffolk,
Roanoke Island, Newburn, (N. C.,) Port Royal,
San Augustine and Pensacola, (Fla.,)
Ship Island, New Orleans, and at one time,
Galveston, (Texas.) But we have done nothing
but hold' those places. Every attempt to
penetrate inland from them has been baffled.
It is only when we have controlled deep navi
gable waters that our armies haie been able to
invade and hold their own in the rebel States.
Armies as large , as, those that have hitherto
made the attempt to penetrate Virginia must
renew the attempt. Armies greater thairGen.
Rosecrans now leads may be required to capture
Chattanooga, and go into Georgia. Gen. Grant
with all his reinforcements, mly not be able to
protect the Mississippi river, from the depreda
tione of Price on the west, hold Vicksburg and
Jackson, and pursue. Gen. Joe Johnston's new
army to the. interior . of Alabama, with the hope
of getting a stifti•fight out of him.
The. Way the Dratt Mats are Managed.
We have proven,elteithere, that the con-
ductors of the recent riots in certain localities
for the defeat of the conscription, were 'the old
radical D mocratie 'leaders. In order to cor
roborate the:evidence adduced by ourselves, we
submit the following testimony from the Lan
caster Evening Express
TUE aratlital RIOTERS. —We are informed that
Rev. Mr. Swartz, pastor of the German Catholic
Church of this city, administered a severe re
buke yesterday to those Getman men and wo
men who participated in or countenanced the
riotous demonstration at the Court House on
Wednesday last, declaring'that such conduct on'
theiipert made him feel ashamed of being, a
German. On the day of 'the disturbance also,
Mr. Swartz was active' in his efforts to control
the riotous element. "
It now appears that some of thederman Ns'o•
men who unsexed themselves on that occasion
are open in their denunciation of certain cop
perheads who urged them on to the disgraceful
work, promising that "the Demokrats" would
back them at the proper time, but the women
allege that when they were in for the trouble,
the promised reserves backed out and left them
to bear the brunt of, the rioting.as-weßas the
disgrace! It is to be hoped that these victims
of the copperheads will make "a clean breast
of - the matter," and exOese the guilty parties,
thns exonerating themselves and all loyalDemo
cra-ts, 'whose aid in, resisting law and order was
gratuitously promised by thse cowardly traitors
who steal the livery of Democracy to serve Jeff,
Davie in.
•
, —The dupes thns used, es, in the casenf the
tools who composed therimobs of New York,
were left.to suffer thebrunt if the riot, and got
for their labors broken heads and bruised faces
- After a little 'while, even these - men sill learn
that the leaders of, the Democratic patty have
no other interest in' the masses but that which
ensures theta their support for plunder or pesi
tion,„. „A few. More attempts to resist` the law
will place theDetnocratic leadeintinqhcir pro
per Position.
MR. VALLANDIGHAM, from his recare retreat
n Canada, has issued an address to the people
of Ohio, arguiLg the constitutionality of his
deportation to the rebel lines. OE course he
coroiders fly! act unconstitutional. Andrews
the leader of the New York mob, the mtird-.rei
and iuundiary, who was arrested the ether
lay, also all gee that his arrest was uticonsti
tutior.al Well, Andrews followed out the
doctrines of Vallandigham to their natural se
quence, and if the instigator to riot and blood
shed has been unjustly dealt with, why not the
perpetrator of the crimes. Is it net a maxim
in law that the instigator is equally guilty
with the criminal.
fattst EtlegraA.
PEE RETREAT OF LEE.
The Bata Body of his Army Between
Winchester and Culpepper.
OEN. MEADE IN ACTIVE PIIRWIT
=1
WASHINGTON, July 20
The movements of Lee are enveloped in as
much mystery as were his operations in the
Senandoah Valley prior to advancing, into
Maryland and Pennsylvania. The main body
of his army is supposed to be somewhere be
tween Winchester and Culpepper. Gen. Heade
is in active pursuit and will soon be heard d'iOtit
The Republican this afternoon says :
"Lee's army is moving leisurely down the
valley, toward Richmond. He is evidently
either confident that he has the advantage in
his route, and that he can move his forces ou
the southern side of the mountainsunmolested,
or he has assurance of a co-operating force ad
wincing to meet kim, or his army is so worn
out and exhausted that It cannot move rapidly.
It is certain that he is , not so far in advance of
Nies.d.e as the publio has been led to suppose,
and collisions between 'portions of our forces
and portions of the rebel army are liable to
occur."
Gen. Sickles has - so far recovered from his
wounds as to be able to ride about in his car
riage and return; the calls of his blends
REPORTS ER0,91 HAGERSTOWN
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, July 20.
The Inquirer, of this city, has the following
special di patch:
Haosawrowx, Sunday, July 19.—The rear
guard of Gen. Lse's army left Martinsburg at
2 o'clock on Saturday morning—a few cavalry
men picketing the other side of the Potomac.
Our whole force is across the river. The Pad
mac is falling rapidly.
Gun. Lee is 'retreating his main force by way
of Strasburg and Staunton, not by Culpepper.
CHARLESTON,
REBEL ACCOUNTS TO JULY 15
Resistance Street by Street to be Made
Before the Opp Surenders
THE REBELS "PREPARED FOR THE WORST,"
f
Their Dread of G eneral Gilmore.
=~.___
[Fiom the Montgomery Mail.]
CHARLESTON, July 10
Firing on both sides at half-past six o'c ock
The principal fighting has been with Battery
Wagner. Wagner, on Mortis Island, had four
Monitors engaged from five till two, when they
withdrew. A tngboA supplied them with am
munition, and they renewed the attack: at
three—infantry also fighting : - Several Yai3kees
made two assaults upon Battery Wagner, but
were repulsed. Oar casualties are about one
hundred and fifty killed, wounded and missing,
including three officesililled, to wit: Captains
Haskell and Cheves and L eutenant Bell. It is
supposed that the attack will be renewed to
morrow.
[From the Charleston Mercury, July 15 ]
MORRIS ISLAND.
There was little change in the condition of
affairs yesterday. Three of the enemy's wooden
gunboats kept np a slow shelling of Battery
Wagner all afternoon, which was slowly replied
to by our guns at the lattery , and also Fort
Sumter.
It was reported in the city 'kit evening that
the Yankees bad bran shelled from their posi
Lion on Black's island by.a battery of our near
,t 7 eceseionville; but of this we have no confir
matter' UP to the time of going to preen Four
new vessels, supposed to be the mortar boats,
had joined the -enemy's fitiet yesterday.
Governor Bonham has called for three thou
sand negro lalxirers to work on the fortifications.
CHARLISTON ARSENAL
We are gratified hy learn that the employees
of this establishment have organised themselves
into military companies for city defence. Three
hundred and thirty-three men from sixteen to
sixty, have formed five strong companies,
averaging upwards of 'sixty each, elected their
officers and tendered their services to General
Benuiegard whenever he shall think they can
do more good elsewhere than in their work
shops.
LAUNCH
The gunboat Charleston, built by Mr. Eason,
was launched about . b ; o'clock yesterday eve
ning, in the presence of a very large assem
blage, Including numbers of ladies. The boat
was gayly decorated with flags, and the launch
went off with great trial.
(From the Charleatom Courier, July 15 ]
• OAARLIETON RAT BE CAPTURED.
We are among those who cherish the confi
dent hope that the enemy will he miserably un
successful in executing the plans he is at
present working so vigorously and resolutely to
carry out. We expect him to be punished severely if
he persists in the undertaking. But we may be disap
poMted. Our hope may prove a ddusion. The
result 'the timid and deep mdent predict may
transpire. The capture of cur city may, per
chance delight his base and corrupt heart. In
case that frightful calamity fall upon us, they
who remain here must suffer grievous evils.
The woes they will have poured out upon them
will be far heavier than those under which the
citizens of 'New Orleans and Nashville and
Memphis have groaned. Soil this vile foe hales
the people of this State with a tenfold more bitter
hatred than' he entertained far the inhabitants of any
'other section; and he will not spare us:when )incomes
Oa the suppositian of the foists succesi it is
'oni . drity to avoid incurring his fiendish ma
lignity. All who can be of no service in the
work of defence should betake themselves to
places of shelter. And at were well not!to defer
removal to a late day. We may be compelled to
remain, or, if we make good our escape dream
stanc-s may oblige us to leave all our personal
effects behind. ' - ,
"FIGHT UNTIL . 15ILIVSN 11H0,11 STHEET . TO STREET,"
We •should aljp consider that our city is
going to make a fierce and determined reels
thrice:— If - the - enemy - gets it will hays to
take it. No flag of truce boat will meet hith
midway between the wharves and Fort Sumter
lu - brder to effects surrender. Wi are OW*
fight until we 0 - 6 driver: From ttreet to 8'724. nd
continue the fight while we are r6trrg ing.
S cb,termincii a re:Astir - Ice
ir.jury to our fair city at th- hii.ds of lb, cw.i
ray. It will bo lit.tle Utter than a help of
uius, even though the work Of dedruction is
not insured by military order.
PREPARE FOR THE WORST
We repeat that we are of opinion that the
present attack will result as the other attacks
nave done, and even morn disastrously to the
mean and wicked foe. But utt not proper to pre
pare for the wore'? If we are forced to defend cur
city after the manner we have resolved to do
fend it, the women and children and aged men
who tarry too long would suffer miseries infin
itely greater than they will have to bear during
their temporary exile.
It behooves us to give this subject serious and
profound consideration. If the enemy is forceo
to abandon the effort he is making to gain p
=elation of our city,we can return to our homes
If he is sucoessful—which God forbid!—we will
nave avoided privations and woes of which we
can now form no athquite conception.
Let us take counsel of prudence.
[From the Augusta Sentinel.]
GENER&L GILMORE.
The Yankees have a great opinion of Gen.
Gilmore, whe is now in command of the forces
thee are engaged against Charleston.
Ile is considered a nay dangerous tarn where forts
or other works are to be reduced by artillery. He is
a native of Ohio ' and, in 1844, graduated at
West Point at thehead of his class. For a yew
or two after hie graduation he was a Professor
at that institution. Subsequently he was as
signed to the duty of experimenting upon the
power of projectiles upon earth, wood and earth
works, and spent several years in this duty, Re
quiting in that time more experience and know
ledge on this sutject than any man in this
- country. The - more perfectly to record the re
sults of his experiments he took photographs
of the effect of every shot fired. At Fort Pu.
!ask!, for the first time, broueht his skill to the
test of actual experience. Pulaski was considered
next to Sumter in, impregnability. Giimoreoetting
his guns to within six hundred yards, kuocked tt to
pieces as he might have done a house of cards.
Important from Mississipp
Operations of Gen. Sherman' Expeditionar
Form, of Grant's Army, to July 16.
Terrific Fighting Near Jaokson
The City Shelled and Partially Destroyed
=I
Gen. Osterhaus Reported Killed
JOE JOIINSTOVA . LODRESS TO MS TROOP
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[Gbrrespondence of the Mobile Advertiser.]
JACKSON July 10, 1863
Gpneral Johnston this morning issued to the
troops the followiog battle order, which was
read along the line amid'deafening shouts from
the soldiers:
HEADQUARTERS, ON THE FIELD, July 9, 1863.
Fattow Suntans—An insolent foe, flushed
with hope by his recent success at Vicksburg,
confronts you, threatening the people, whose
homesf and liberty you are hero to protect from
plunder and conquest. Their guns may even
now be heard as they advance.
The enemy it is at once the duly and the
mission of lon brave men to chastise and expel
froth the soil of Mississippi. The commanding
general confidently relies on you to sustain his
pledge, which he makes in advance, and he
will be with you even unto the
The *ice of "straggling" he begs you to shun,
and to frown on. If needs be, it will be checked
by even the most summary remedies.
The telggraph hers already announced a glorious
Mewl/ Guar the foe, won by your noble-comrades of
the Virginia army on Federal soil ; may be, not,
with redoubled hopes, count on -you while de
fending your-firesides and household goods ti
emulate the proud example of your brothers
in the Rat?
The country expects in this the great crisis o
its destiny that every man will do. his duty.
Gen. Johnston orders all pillagers to be shot
The guard will shoot Ahem wherever found.
[From the Montgomery Advertiser.]
JACKSON, July 12, 1863 —The conduct of
Cobb's Kentucky bittery and the Washiugton
'artillery is spoken of highly bythe commanding
oeneral in the affair this morning, also Stovall'e
Florida brigade.
The banners captured, are those of the Twenty
eighth, Forty first and Fifty third Illinois regiments
Gen. Breckinridge sent an infirmary,corps tr•
bring off the enemy's Wounded ; their sharp
shooters fired on thew. BreCkinridge ordered
the cops to the rear. Their wounded and dead
are still lying in trent of our works.
The enemy's loss in the charge of Sunday - was
fully onelhotteand.
Col. Harry'Maury, the Thirty-second Alaba
ma, was severely wounded.
A Yankee colonel, two majors and a number
of officers were otptured.
JACIICSOIg, July 13 —lt rained hard last night
It is cloudy this morning, and there kas .been
but little firing on either Bide.
The enemy has six batteries in position,
plainly visible from the State House.
Our tronpa are much elated since the success
of yesterday.
Nothing of importance has transpired to-day.
The status is unchanged.
The Vicksburg prisoners will be at Braden
to-morrow. Supplies have been sent there for
them.
Cobb's battery lost nine men in the action
yesterday.
[ltem the Augusta S.entinel, July 16.]
311.0 X 'MOT OWN-OUR MIN BURYING TIER YANKED
DRAD-,THRY ADMIT A LOSS OF FOUR TO MITI
HUNIZRKG"MATOR LAMB, TWENTY- NINTH ONOR-
GIA, KILLED
JACKSON, July 14, via Hornig, July 16, 1863.
Gen. Johnston sent a flag of truce to-day to
Gen. Grant, asking permission to bury the
Yankee dead in front of our workd. Grant
asked permission to 'send assistance, in order to
recognize the dead, which was refused. Tue
first terms were agreed to. Our . troops have
been engaged all the afternoon in burying
them. •
The exact number is not yet ascertained; but
Yankee officers in charge of the flag of truce
admit a loss of, four or thre hundred.
Among their killed and wounded are Colonel
Earl, Lieutenant Colonel Long, Captain Ball,
Forty-first Illinois; lieutenants Smith and Mc-
Master, Fifty-third Illinois, and Lieutenant
Abernathy, Third lowa.
Among our officers are Major Lamb, Twenty
fourth Georgia, killed; Lieutenant C. C. Bra
den, Nineteenth Louisiana; T. L. Rust, Fourth,
Florida ; B. A: James, Cobb's Kentmcky, Bat.
tery, wounded.
The time specified passed before the burying
was finished. •
amour= M$ ist. or ow. OSTEItHAUS.
[From the iiritg,c#eri . AdvertUer,, - .7.4 15.]
ItcssoN, J 1863.—N0 cbiinge has ta
ken piece in the condition of affahl since yes
terday;
General Pemberton and staff arrived here last
night. An officer who Caine with them says that he
met Genirm Oeferhemie body going to Vicksburg. He
was kale; by a caumm 014 on the 12th.
[Fon the RWhniohd Enquirer, July 18 ]
A Pam JicaioN, lass.
Jeosax, " July -. 1. ' .=-Another day has pass e d
without iiny new ckveiopmr.nt. T.
n incet,s2ntly, and has Len
if . LTePi727. AEl'lllOl7 lliOl s c!).
d d Grant
J.)ch.-0:4, July if; —The en, my kept II:, a 1
heavy site.ling all t.ii>ht. One shalt
through G:n. Johnston's quarters with , ..ut in
jurkg any one.
Grant was reinfurerd yesterday ev. aim: by
one division of G:rn. Burl side's command.
We hut led one hunched and fifty-three of the
enemy ) esterday.
The Vicksburg prisoners 11.1V0 arrived at
Bland :D.
There is still no prospect of a g moral en
ga;,ement ; but heavy infantry and artillery
skirmishing continues.
Jacks m, July 16.—The enemy made a heavy
lemonstration on our ri,2ht and cautre this at
r.)rnoen; but Walker's and Loring's divisions
repul-eI them h rndsomelv. The artillery fire
vras incessant, and cur bstreries replied gun fur
gun. The enemy s right shelter in the woods.
Heavy reinforcements fur Grant continue to
arrive, who are pressed on our right for the
purpose of crossing Pearl river above and flank
lug ns. The enemy are planting si , -ge grins on
ci)eir redoubts. It is supposrd_tbat to morrow
the remainder of Jackson will be horned.
J ecx-on. July 16. —AA entire block in this city
was de &eyed by the enemy's she* yesterday. N ot a
4nn has been tired by the enemy this morning.
Various conjectures are indulged in regard to
their silence, but wed informed parsons think
they are trying to flank us on our right, as
their cavalry made an attempt to cross four
cui les abovo last night. Captain Ferguson, of the
'oath Carolina battary, was mortally wounded
yesterday by the enemy's shirpshooters.
FOSTER'S NEW DEPARTMENT.
Activity of the Commander on His Arriva
at Fortress Monroe.
EIPECTRD ATTACK ON FORT DiRLING.
The State Flag Hoisted at Wilmirgton. N. C.,
Instead of the Rebel flag.
MR. W. H SMIER'S DISPATCH.
FORTRIkS MONE9II, July 19
ARRIVAL OF MM. FOSTER-MS MOVEMENTS
Yesterday atont noon Major General John G.
Foster, the new commandant of this depart
ment, arrived here from Newham in the steamer
John Faron, and atter a ehert interview with
Brigadier General G. W. Geety, at headquar
ters, proceeded to Yorktown to inspect the for
tifications and give such directions to General
Wistar, commanding that post, as are deemed
necessary. If the General returns from York
town he will, in all likelihood, take a survey
of Norfolk and surroundings to-morrow;
TIM FLEET ON TUE NAMER BITER
is progressing well, and on Friday, the Noel
tors leading_ were at and beyond City Point.—
Out of respect for the flag of truce boat New
York, lying then at the duck, the Monitors for
bore firing into the rebel entrenchments.
Whether the vessels have passed farther up to
wards Fort Darling to attack that stronghold
we have not learnt d; but a second battle in that
locality is imminent and expected to come off
every day; and it is hoped that more success
will attend it than the previous attempt to de
stroy Fort Darling by the cockle-shell Galena,
although she was handled with so much skill
and courage by the indomitable Captain John
Rodgers.
The rebel iron-clad at Wilmington, N. C_, is
exciting some apprehensions. It is feared she
may suddenly make a raid upon our block-
Alma fleet, disperse them, and, proceeding to
Beaufort, commit sad haven among our naval
vessels in that harbor. She is pierced for seven
guns, but carries only five, the others causing
her to sink too low in the water. She is a for
midable craft, but altogether unfit for sea ser
vice.
It is remarked as a somewhat significant fact
that no rebel ffig has bten flying over Fort
F sher, below Wilmington, for some time past.
The State flag of North Carolina is the only one
seen.
THE PURSUIT OF BRAGG.
Gen. Rosecrans' Advance Reported
to be at Rome, Ga.
Mammas, Friday, July 17
Gen. Hurlbut's scouts arrived at Corinth
to-day, from Decatur and Jacksonville. They
report that Bragg was retreating precipitately
into Georgia, followed by Bosecrans' forces.
Rosecrans' advance was reported to beat Rome,
Georgia.
The scouts report that Bragg was endeavor
ing to make a junction with Johnson, and that
desertions from his army were numerous.
VARIETIES
MEAN souls, like mean pictures, are often
found in good looking frames.
Tam sating banks of New York State now
hold on deposit upwards of eighty millions of
dollars.
GRAVDMOTHER. used to say to grandfather,"lt
is no use quarreling, my dear, when you now
we must make it up again."
Tue tobacco crop in Kentucky is reported as
being very abundant, and promising to mature
iu season to be beyond the reach of the damage
sometimes done by early frosts.
Gsa. kicCiatrau has taken up his summer
residence at Orange, N. Y., in the elegant
mansion of Dr. Marcy, the uncle of Mrs. Mc-
Clellan. lie is the observed of all observers.
Tsui leadiog musicians of Brussels have sent
in a report to the government on the question
of pitch, announcing it to be their unanimous
judgment that the diapason ought not to be
lowered.
M'LLE Artroarrre Mucci, the new prima
donna who is making a decided sensation in
European musical circles, is twenty-four years
of age, a native of Vienna, and strongly resem
bles Mad. Grisi.
WALTER ECOIL - N3vas a dull boy at his lessons,
and while a student at Edinburg University re
ceived his sentence from Professor Mizell, the
celebrated Grak scholar, that "dunce he was,
and, dunce he would remain."
Tits trains of the Red river traders have ar
rived at St. Paul, with some $50,000 worth of
furs. About 350 of their singular carts have
made the journey of 500 miles from the north
ward. They load back with goods and stores.
Nes. FFIZDHAGON has long been waiting to
visit Highgate Wood Cemetery, and the other
day she said to her husband, "Yon have never
yet, t.ken me to the cemetery." "No, dear
that is a pleasure I have yet had only in antici
iiation." (Who said "Wretch.")
EVENING Cosrumt.—A writer, in an account
of the Adaman . Islands,,says that "both sexes
have no other clothing than a thick covering
of soft mud, which is put on regularly every
evening, to protect them against the bites of
moiquituea, ticks and other tormentors.
MICHIGAN TAR.--TNG manufacture of tar from
the pines of Michigan was begun last fall by a
party of Norwegtans,who have settled at Grand
Traverse, and propose to enter extensively into
the business. Another party'-have • since then
entered into the same,bushues at Bauble river.
Tan folipwing ; finmy advertisement of a mi
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MEE
\cr• - York. "
v 1 7 ;
I.Lter li tr . . fS
no ax mu, any r Iru i
dati for you
JoY. Foy,;., wl.O iil;cx
steniug to a vv ful , toiy told by 4.)
n which hi- tinigl,t,r Ma , y lore c
part. Joe looktd wire and doub!fut. •;
don't believe it you may go to her (w,
Joe took him at 6s woad ; t! , - 01.1 t_
ed on to 6e,i. the result, au i fiund
Mary veil - sweetly. 'Whit ( u :.
about?" "Oh, taking that a W ,111 t u,!_
from her own lips—but I am r
And so was Mary.
NEW BEDEW TRAP —SERE THLNE -
board, say a foot wine an.l tone fret lot,
tine it with many holes with a mail
it inside the beadb , ard and mat to th.,
and pillows ; if there is a bug about t. e
will find the way to the hors iu 11 t.
saon. Take it nt of its pl-ee
hold it over fire or water, and _iv it a t ,
raps wi h a hammer, then put in id e !
GI no more. This is cat•.hing the ;week
hurry and upon philosaphiesi _ t ,
best antidote we have 3 et beard uf.
Oita of the dei-Inahle futures of EU.
-
at present, says the London Novi. g Sra. t
'acres:Ai if child-murder. The St.r ,rid
crime is positively becoming a nath n=t i ,t
tion. Take up any newspaper, mod 101 l Tcr, :
some case of the kind cam:ruing in L t
Take up the next day's iseme of the ..tat e 1,1:r
nal, and you read fresh narratives of it;,.
kind. In every street, in every range of
some lametutabLe occuirence of Th s ii.tur•2
comes at one time or other a sni-j c - of e. ,, m!.,!
and Warm. Id ' , greyer, we may teel i 444 L,,, ; 4 ,
believe in the diminution of uthrr fora,: ;.
human guilt, it would be irn poesiblet to 4! j,t
that this crime is trightf.:lly on the Ecr
'England."
ROOST HIGIL—The Wheeling Intelligercc
responsible for the f Mowing god ne :
A few evenings ago a party of tout v
gentlemen were out " cn a I.rk,"
slightly intoxicated individual, from Hartle
county, stunahlt d into the c:ow,i, II ,
county Was invited to join the p iity
at a neighboring liquor house, of which tt ,
gentleman extending the invitation wa-1,,,, i ,, : ,
etor. After taking the drink, t pro, l
who is fond of a joke, insi-t• that Ilar:t.,.
countyshould pay for it. The intoxi a e , l i r:_
son hesitated a moment, and then puke i o r ,
dollar. After waiting a few momenta—i va'.
—for his change, he bolded up his pock
end walking indignantly away from the rr.
said : "Gentlemen, I don't say you are
thieves, brit if I was a chicken, and livid ar,
here, I would roost d—d high."
Nero Abnertiremtnis
BIRD CAGES AND
CHILDREN'S CRRI:ISE,
HE laretet stock in the city is fo , :n i at I,u
T
MARKET STREET. For Palo by
jy2l-1w GEO. W. PAR;;‘)N.
DEPOT
OF THE
CHRISTIAN COMMISSION.
Chestnut St., between 3d & 4th,
Sunth side,
Contributions for Sick and Wounded
j; 20 6t HAsatravßG. PA.
HOUSE AND 1.01 FOR BAIA',
A ROME AND LOT, Eituated on fi
Avenue, is offered for sale on reason .ble
terms. It is a good businem stand.
jy2o—d2wo E. Pildf.SEl
THIS is to caution all persons from ttuititi4
my wife, Mattis Unger (alias Wyant,) a , I
will pay no debts of her contracting, Ind AI!
persons harboring her alter this date I will
ecute to the fail extent of the law.
DALLAS M. UNGEG
Harrisburg, July 20.-3 to
"PENNY O TOKENS"
rrHE best quality. and in any quantity, fur
nished at $8 00 per thousand, by
JOHN GAUL I, No. 1 Park Plare,l
Two Doors froni Broadway, Nrw Yuik.
All Orders sent by Mail or Expres, pr. pll
forwarded. jy...0-d3ta,A2,a
GRAND PIC-NIC
POE SHE
Benefit of the Good Will Fire Co
AT FISHER'S WOODS,
ON FRIDAY, JULY 24th, 1863
Mumma CLNI,
r I •HE Company. give this Pic Nie for the par
I pose of obtaining mouev to make a piy
ment on their new " Button" Engine, and ex
pect a liberal support from the public. Dl20 -td
THE President and Ma- ag,ere of the liqttiz
burgandd Middletown Turnpike Road et)111•
puny have this day declare t a Dividend of uo
per cent. anon the capital stock of said com
pany, payable to the storkbokiers on demand .
RUD. F. KEL6.t.:II,
Treasurer, No. 5 South Front, arrest.
Harrisburg, July 13, 1863. j>l7-15t
NOTICE.
STATE LIBRARY Roosts, t
EfAHRLSBUSG. JULY 11, 1863. i
PARTIES in posbession Of books beloug'n
the Pennaylvtinis State Library are moue -Ito
to retain the same until the Library is re
arranged and open to the public, of which der
notice will be given. WIEN FORSEY,
jyll dtf State Ltbrartm.
rig A MONTH!—I want to hire Agditi
ti in every county at $75 a mouth, ex
penses paid, to sell my new cheap Family Se.-
ing Machines. Address S. MADISON.
mylB-dsw3m Alfred, Me.
DR. GOODALE'S CATARRH REMEDY r,
etrates the secret ambush of this terziy
disease, and exterminates it, root and Liz...lac:.
Thousands have - this loathsome mandy
don't know it. Dr. Goodala is the tir,l
only person that ever told the w(•rld ; r -
Catarrh really was, and where it cou}me-0..
His remedy is the first and only one ever no' , •
to cure, and extingruh that terrific dLe.t.-e
yot.ng or old with certainty. Price
Depot at Norton & Company's, 612 Bil)3 I WaY ,
New York. Send a stamp for a p anplArt,
call for one at our agency. Pambtates aLd roe
remedy furnished by GEO. BERGNER,
seller, Sole Agent for Harrisburg. [m4 -v,,1
LBS t I I
50,000
" EXCELSIOR
Now RICONIVING, which we can sell wholag• or
by`the :auk Ham, at a very low figure.
ray3ol WNI (WK. k (1).
ISH—Wo are now offering very low, a I° E
of choice Mackerei, in bands, halves,
quarters and kits.
NICHOLS & BOWMAN,
"e 8 Car. Front, anti Market Strc-PP.
VILTREL FAMILY FLOUR—A lot cf very
.111 choice extra family floor, jaatreceived and
by NICHOLS & BOWMAN.
Oor. Front and Market &asti
r,
CAUTION
DIVIDEND.
CATARRH 1