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OUR PLATFORM
THE UNION-THE CONSITATION-AND
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.
Et ARMS Rll , PA.
Saturday Afternoon, July 13, 1861.
THE FIFTEEN REGIMENTS
A rumor, originating in an irresponsible
source, having become current that the Fifteen
Regiments now organizing in Pennsylvania, as
a reserve corps, would not be accepted by the
War Department,, we are authorized in stating
that it is without foundation in truth. On the
contrary, the Secretary of War is anxious for
the immediate mustering into service of this
force, and has intimated such a desire to Gov.
Curtin. In compliance with this intimation,
Ord. John A. Wright has been despatched to
Washington, where he is now engaged in assist.
ing in the preparation necessary to the reception
of these regiments.
In this connection we deem it just and proper
to state that the organization of these regiments
has been entirely under the control and super
vision of Gen. McCall, who rests his reputation
as a soldier on their perfection and efficiency.
When once in service, the men composing the
fifteen different regiments will zealously and
gallantly uphold the honor of the state that has
sent them forward at the summons of the War
Department, to assist in maintaining the in
tegrity and perpetuity of the American Union'
TEE HEALTH OF GOV. CURTLY.
Since the commencement of hostilities by the
southern rebels against the federal government,
the labors of the Governor of Pennsylvania have
been of the most harrassing and responsible
character. He has labored with zeal and all
his might, in the organization of the quota of
military force demanded from the state, and
the public need not be surprised that under the
immense pressure of all this business, immeas
urably transcending in importance that involved
in any past administration of this state, that
the health and the strength of the Executive
should be severely tested. The physicians of
Gov. Curtin have expressed to him the opinion
that he cannot retain his health and continue to
give the undivided attention to official business
that has so far marked his term, and therefore
they have decided that he must seek relaxation
and repose, or utterly sink with a shattered
constitution. In obedience to this opinion, it
is the intention of the Governor to seek the
reek necessary for a full regaining of his health,
mut therefore his absence from the Executive
chamber will be accounted for during the com
ing week or thereafter for a limited period.
2 CENTRE COUNTY PRISONERS.
The capture of a number of volunteers from
Centre county and vicinity, by a marauding
party of Virginia rebels, having given rise to
Much conjeotion and speculation, the following
additional information from the Wag Cheater
'Ptliasre Record may be of importance and grati
fication to the friends of parties concerned :
Orptuee and Recapture.—Gallant Act of Mew
Given.—After Gen. fattemon's battle at Falling
Waters, a body of rebel troops were reported to
be trying to get into the rear of the Federal
army, and Qen. Negley's brigade was ordered
to take :a diverging road, about two miles from
Falling Waters, to Intercept them. A part of
company I was thrown out in advance, and
while waiting in a piece of woods for the brigade
to come up, they saw a squadron of cavalry, one
hundred or more, belonging to the enemy,
which the thought were our own men, there
being no perceptible difference in uniform
They were careless, and their Captain much to
blame; for, being entirely off their guard, so
much so as to lay their arms on the ground,
while some of them actually let down the fence
for the cavalry to pass over.
Obr inen did not discover their mistake until
the dastard villain who commanded the troopers
shot down the man who let the fence down for
him 1 This man is Bob Swan, a Marylander,
who murdered Sprigg at Cumberland eight or
ten years ago. He is a great scoundrel. Our
men were completely taken by surprise, and
sprung to their guns, while the cavalry dashed
in among them. Forty men were cut off from
their an= and made prisoners ; the rest of our
men discharged their muskets, and fell back
upon the main body, while the troops hurried
off their prisoners. Our men, however, emptied
three saddles and captured two horses. One of
the troopers was killed and left ; the others
were lifted in front of the riders and carried off.
This occurred quite early in the day, and they
brought their prisoners through Martinsburg in
advance of the retreating rebel troupe. Our
men were tied with their hands behind, in
couples. Some of the citizens here gave them
food. They were greatly distressed by the
forced march they bad made. When notice of
the capture reached the Federal camp, Major
Given solicited and obtained permission to head
a party to rescue the prisoners. He made pur
suit and fortunately came upon the retreating
party, liberated the prisoners and captured
eight or ten of the rebels. Our townsman,
Jamestoonelly, gives a brief account of it in a
letter to his family.
JOliN 'HICKMAN declared on the floor of the
Roue of Representatives, one day this week,
that the gallows were waiting for traitors. This will
be good news to the loyal men who are now in
arms to suppress rebellion, and who are so far
the superiors of traitors that they should scarce
ly be asked to contend with them any further
than to capture and hang them. The gallows
should be the fixed and unalterable doom of
every traitor caught with arms in his hands.
The gallows should be the fate of every secret
sympathiser detected in giving aid and comfort
to the rebels—and thus making the gallows ou r ,
principal weapon of operation against the trai
tors, completely obliterate thn crime by entirely
exterminating the criminals. The gallows
should be borne in the advance of every col
umn of the army. As a peace offering, the
gallows will prove permanent in every respect,
and we thank John Hickman for having an
nounCo lite fart of such a purification being in
reserntfor trolsOn. •c.
THE APOLOGISTS OF TREASON.
In this morning's Patriot and Union there is a
paragraph calling attention to an article from
the New York World, which fairly exposes the
disunion tendencies of the New York Tribune.
The Patriot seems to be hugely gratified with
this expose, and suffers itself to show this grat
ification in the paragraph alluded to, but in the
same column its editors indulge in the very
spirit they applaud the World for condemning
in the Tribune. In a labored article, so far as
its arguments are concerned, but spontaneous
in its approvals, the Patriot endorses the con
duct of the traitor Vallandigham, and asserts
that his treason was only a defence of the lib
erty of speech. It goes even further than this,
by characterizing the virtuous indignation of
our gallant soldiers, who repulsed the traitor
Vallandigham from the encampments near
Washington city, as brutal and outrageous conduct.
We submit to the candid men of this commu
nity, the men who daily read the Patriot and
Union, whether that sheet, its editors,and abet
tors, are not as guilty of treason, as guilty of
open hostility to the peace and prosperity of
this nation as guarded and represented by a
Republican administration, as is Jeff . Davishim
self. No opportunity is missed to exhibit this
treason in words, and cowardice only prevents
• the r same parties from practicing in deeds that
in which they indulge by hopes and prayers.
We submit to the people of the capital of Penn
sylvania whether the Patriot has not from the
beginning of this contest for the Union, given
its sympathy to the rebels by embarrassing and
denouncing the action of the government, by
misrepresenting the military policy of the ad
ministration, and by coolly and artfully ridi
culing the common soldier as a brute or an as
sassin. The article in this morning's issue
proves all that we assert, without referring to
an article in yesterday's issue of the same sheet,
in which the editors indulge in a peculiar and
cowardly attack on the President, making a
feigned criticism on the syntax and prosody of
the message the pretext of again proving an
antagonism to a government which protects it
in its treasonable loving liberty of speech.
In the case of Vallandigham, the traitor re
presentative from Ohio, the whole Union has
pronounced judgment against him, save the
sympathisers with the Breckinridge school of
traitors, who persist, like the Patriot, in en
dorsing his conduct. Vallandigham is one of
the men whom the Patriot defends and repre
sents, and who declare that this war is unright
eous, unjust and unmanly. They assert that
the government has no right to take up arms
for the purpose of its own preservation—that
the law can be vindicated without a resort to
arms—that armed rebellion should be soothed
and allayed by the sweet compromises peculiar
to the diplomacy of the Democratic party, and
that wherever the armies of the government
march, they are guilty of invasion, and where
ever they strike a blow at treason, they are
equally guilty of aggression. This is the con
stant cry of such sympathisers with treason as
the Patriot. They do not urge, as a means of
peace, that the rebels should lay down their
arms, that they should return the property they
hey& otolroa from the legitimate govertkiiLenb t
and give up their leaders to justice. Such a
proposition would involve the Democratic party
in ruin, and criminate all of its southern
leaders, if it did not at the same time implicate
by confession those who have the odor of the
Patriot sanctum on their persons.
The mere written or printed word of the
Patriot and Union for or against this contest for
law and order is of no importance in this com
munity. They can do no harm by an eternity of
utterance in favor of treason. But the danger
is in the disgrace to the capital of Pennsylvania
which such a sheet creates abroad, and against
this we protest. We protest, because the Pa
triot does not represent the sentiment of this
community, as was shown when the indigna
tion of our honest citizens only recently almost
burst against them in violence, and when they
were only saved from the castigation of the
masses by an appeal for the protection of the
authorities. It would seem now that they are
invoking fresh indignation by an indulgence in
Vallandingham's freedom of speech—a freedom
=that levels epithet at the justice of the defence
of the Union, the valor of our soldiers, the
patriotism of our rulers, and the loyalty of the
masses. God knows that such traitors are
presuming on the patience of the people. When
it becomes necessary for the law to take hold
of them, it can only be expounded from the
steps of the gallows.
IN HARDEE'S TAcrics we notice the omission
of one chapter which is of the most essential
importance to the officer in command as well as
the soldier in the ranks. No man can become
a really good soldier, unless he first accomplish
himself as a gentleman, by which we mean,
that he must regard and respect the feelings of
others as in all respects equal to his own.
Hardee says nothing on this subject, and there
fore, doubtless, the aspirant for military honors
who, is elevated from social life, perhaps taken
from behind a counter, where he wielded the
yard-stick, or more probably dug out of the
musty records of a lawyer's office, imagines
that the first qualification of an officer in com
mand is the assumption of an overbearing and
tyranical demeanor towards those whom he
deems his inferiors. If this is the prerogative
of a military officer, may heaven save us
from his control. But this is not all. More
than one young man, whose tipper lip
is scarcely shaded with the down of
eighteen summers, has only to have a
gilded strap on his shoulders and a
jaunty blue cap with a gold band, set
forivard on his nose, to make him the most ter
rible young man, in his own imagination, that
is seen on promenade, to ogle the ladies and
frown on hapless dry goods clerks who vainly
envy such their epaulets and gold bands. We
submit to the reader whether such is not too
much the case with the young officers in both
the army and navy. No man of the most lim
ited observation will deny this fact ; and before
the evil increases, and danger as well as demor
alization originate from the exhibition of such
Petty Pride, tYranny antl real ignorance, the
pram should.remind these gentlemen that they
are in reality only . the se rvants - of the people,
educated, fed and clothed at thepalicAapease,
not t? .ttoi).3ragortg tYIVt. or the
pennepluania Celtgrapb, Saturbap - Afternoon, Juin 13, 1861.
bully, but to fight the battles of the republit
The positions which most of the young men of
the class to which we refer now occupy, were
not all won in honorable competition or strag
gle for the good of the country. They were
bestowed as patronage, in the face of the fact
thrit a dozen other men as good as tbernselres
were applicants for the same places, and that
their loss would affect only the circle which
their anxious and accomplished mammas so
gracefully adorn.
Sensible men are never inflated with eleva
tion. This is the fact particularly with men
who profess and have a martial disposition, so
that those who act otherwise must not blame-old
fashioned civilians like ourselves if we set the
down as up-starts, disgracing alike the unifo
they wear and the country that furnished them
with money to pay the tailor for its maktngi
Neither are we prepared to submit to the desi
potism of a military rule in the government,
the streets or the society we are daily compelled
to enter in the pursuit of our legitimate
ness. We therefore suggest, for the benefit bf
the young men who are just now appearing fOr
the first time in the glory of gold bands, epPi
letts and steel, that a chapter on civility d
courteous breeding be inserted in the next 4di
tion of Hardee. It will save the general public
from annoyance, and shield the army and rums ,
from the most silly and ridiculous as will as
disgraceful conduct.
THE CREDIT OF THE NATION.
When the administration resolved to rescue
the country from rebellion, the croakers and
traitors of the Breckinridge school, of which
the Patriot and Union is the organ in this locali
ty, raised the cry that the business and moneyed
men of the nation were opposed to the war—
that the masses would not sustain it—that men
would not enlist, because it was Lincoln's war
—and that the credit of the government was so
far destroyed by the war policy, as to prevent the
possibility of raising sufficient money to main
tain a brigade. These were the arguments used
to cripple the administration. As these failed,
and men and money were devoted to the gov
ernment in unprecedented numbers and amounts,
the men who urged a want of confidence in the
war, threw off their masks, and exhibited them-
selves as bold and undisguised traitors. If this
is not the case, this community is mistaken in
its readings of the Patriot and Union.
On the subject of the credit of the nation,
the Natzonal Intelligencer has never seen any
thing which has so strikingly displayed public
confidence in the Government and its financial
administration, in the great struggle for which
it is embarked for the Union and Constitution,
as the promptness with which the sum of five
million dollars was advanced to the Secretary
of the Treasury in New York on Tuesday last,
in response to a call for that sum—on such
liberal terms, too, in the face of the great loan
of two hundred and fifty millions about to be
authorized by Congress.
It was after business hours on Monday, the
Bth inst., that Secretary Chase sent the fcglow
ing telegr4phic dispatch to the Assistant Treas
urer at New York :
- —•••ruwAxtunr D;
John J. Cisco, New York, will Line six per
cent. lreasury notes, at sixty days, to amount
of five millions dollars for five millions in coin.
Please make arrangements furthwith.
The dispatch was received the following morn
ing, and Mr. Cisco immediately called a meet
ing of the leading bank officers and started a
subscription, and before the close of business
hours of the same day the following dispatches
were sent to the Secretary, and reached Wash
ington before he had left the department for
dinner
Nsw Yonx , July 9, 1861.
To Ron. S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasurer:
I have obtained the subscription for the en
tire amount of five millions. Over three mil
lions have already been paid:in.
JOHN J. Cisco
NEW Your., July 9, 1861.
S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury:
The five millions are secured.
JOHN A. STEVENS,
President of the Bank of Commerce
We doubt whether the history of the depart
ment shows an instance of similar dispatch in
negotiations, and we take it, from this display
of confidence, that the moneyed men of the
loyal states, do not, like Vallandigham and his
apologist the Patrwt and Union, regard this con
test for law and order, as unholy and unjust
WHAT WOULD TILL MEN OF TIM PAST DO, were
it possible for them to return to a stage of action
which they once enobled with their deeds and
their presence ? What would Washington, Jef
ferson, Franklin, Hamilton and Adams do,
were they summoned from the tomb, and asked
to participate in the struggle which is raging
for and against the United States? Eighty-five
years since these men were in the midst of their
struggle for the creation of the very Union
which one portion of the American people are
now eagerly clamoring to destroy, while another
is as strenuously battling for its maintenance.
Through heat and cold—in the face of well
disciplined troops and with scarcely any credit—
with a wild and unexplored territory on their
northern, western and , southern borders, filled
with a savage foe ready to take up arms against
them in their struggle for independence, for
civil libepty and religions right—with danger
and death before them wherever their march
was directed, the fathers and patriots and sol
diers of the revolution never hesitated for a mo
ment in the work in which they had engaged—
never shrank from the responsibility they had
assumed, or quieted before the foe whose an
ger they had invoked by declaring themselves
endowed with, the inalienable •rights of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness. From
the quiet plains of Lexington to Bunker
Hill, our fathers nobly battled for these rights.
They struggled on to Trenton, to Brandy
wine, braving the piercing cold of Valley
Forge, the heat and disease of Yorktown
and Cowpens -- all this that they might be
free, and transmit to their children a
heritage of freedom, such as would pass un
impaired from generation to generation until
freedom became eternal and immortal on this
hemisphere. What would these men say,
what could they do, were they once more
among the scenes made &none by their own
combats-1' We leave those to' answer 'who are
engaged in the damning work of eiseji4
destroy the Union. We leave the traitors in
the rebel States to answer' what Washington
would say were it possible for him once more
to return to the shores of the Potomac and
there behold the army of traitors, entrenched
and sworn in bitter hostility to a land and
Union which he devoted the best years of his
life in rescuing from tyranny and perpetuating
in harmony. Those who are contending for the
permanency of the Union have nothing to do
with the responsibility that struggle involves—
they have nothing to do with answering the
questions as to what would be the course of
the fathers of the revolution were they again
in our midst, either the spectators of our strife
or the participants in our broils. That the men
of the past would condemn the efforts to des
troy the Union, there is proof in what they did
to show what they would do were they back to
test their old allegiance and devotion to the
Union. The same hands that fashioned and
reared our fabric of government would also
guard and shield it from destruction, were it
possible for them to be raised in this struggle.
BY THEGIIPiI.
ARREST OP POTOMAC PIRATES.
Attempts to seise a Steamer Foiled.
THE PIRATE SCHOONER SEIZED
A Fight at Cambridge, Maryland
Another bold plot to seize one of our river
steamers by the rebels has just transpired. The
steamer Chester, as before stated, was sent by
the Government, a few days since, down the
bay, in search for a schooner fitted out by Col.
Thomas, the French lady, but returned unsuc
cessful.
Yesterday morning, the steamer Pioneer left
here for her usual trip to Annapolis, West
Cambridge and Easton, and on returning this
evening landed four prisoners at Fort M'Henry,
upon the charge of piracy, having, as is alleged,
been concerned in the seizure of the steamer St.
Nicholas. The pioneer lett Cambridge this af
ternoon. The prisoners came to Cambridge in a
canoe, about 12 o'clock on Thursday night,
having with them a large box filled with car
bines, Colt's revolvers, cutlasses, sabres, bayo
nets, cartridge boxes, buck-shot, etc. The cir
cumstances being suspicious, they were arrested
by the civil authorities, and taken into custody
by a platoon of the Dorchester Home Guards,
who had charge of them till they reached the
fort. Two of the prisoners were recognized as
Baltimoreans, and are said to have belonged to
Col. Thomas' expedition.
Baraniozs, July 12.
The steamer Arrow, which left here yester
day with a detachment of troops, made another
search for the pirate schooner, and found her
aground on a shoal, off Egg Neck Narrows.
She had been abandoned by the crew. A guard
was left on board, and a tug has been sent down
to tow her up. There seems to be no doubt,
from various circumstances, that the design
was to seize the steamer Chester.
When the steamer Pioneer left Cambridge, a
prominent secessionist, on the wharf, gave three
cheers for Jeff. Davis, which was the signal for
a regular free fight between the secessionists and
the Union man there gathered. Pistols and
bowie knives were freely used, and it is the
opinion of some of the passengers that several
parties sustained serious injury.
Governor Hicks was seen standing on the
wharf at the time.
daffy 8, 1561
S. P. CRAM
The Battle at Monroe, Missouri,
TWELVE HUNDRED REBELS ROUTED
A GUN CAPTURED.
Twenty or Thirty Rebeb3 Killed.
NONE MIXED ON THE UNION BIDE
CNIOAGO, July 12.
Three companies, sent to the relief of Colonel
Smith, at Monroe, Missouri, returned last night
to Hannibal, and report the road unobstructed
between Hannibal and Monroe. On arriving
at the latter place, they formed a junction with
Col. Smith's force, which was entrenched in the
Academy buildings. The rebels, 1,200 strong,
were grouped over the prairie, out of reach of
Col. Smith's'rifles. They had two pieces of ar
tillery, which were brought to bear, but the
distance was so great that the Lalls were almost
spent before reaching our lines. Col. Smith's
artillery was of longer range, and did consider
able execution.
The fight lasted until dusk, and the last shot
from our side dismounted one of the enemy's
guns. Just at that moment GoVernor Wood, of
Illinois, fell on the rear with the cavalry sent
from Quincy on Wednesday, and completely
routed them, taking seventy-five prisoners, one
gun, and a large number of horses. About
twenty or thirty rebels were killed. Not one
man on our side was killed, although several
were severely wounded.
Col. Smith is determined to shoot some of
the most prominent rebels.
Gen. Torn Harris, the rebel leader,eecaped
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Colonel McNeill publishes a proclamation to
the people of Missouri, stating that thesuppres
sion of the State Journal was in consequence of
its giving aid and comfort to those in active re
bellion against the authority of the United
States Government, encouraging -the people to
take up arms against that authority, to commit
acts of violende and oppression against loyal
citizens, and by fabrications of false reports
respecting the United States troops also inciting
disaffected citizens to the commission of overt
acts of treason, with a view of entirely subverb
lag the Federal authority in the State..
The Clinton county (Mo.) Journal,' published
by the printers in Major Sturgis' conummd,
states that outrages sre being committed along
the western border of Missouri by lawless han
ditti, led on by Montgomery and Jarrison. It
is also authorized to state that they are acting,
without the authority or sanction of the United
States, and will be treated as outlaws by all
good citizens and soldiers, wherever found.
A REBEL NEWSPAPER SUPPRESSED.
Sr. Louis, July 12.
About 400 men of Colonel McNell's regiment
(reserve corps) visited the State Journal office
early this morning, and removed the type,
per, &c., and read an order from Gen. Lyon;
prohibiting the further publication of that
sheet. The proprietors will respect the order
and lay the whole matter before
„General Fre
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mont on his arrival here... ,
Tab ZODAVES EN ROUTE FOR
WAJSZINOTO74'4.I/1414,
Advioas received ,hdie :rep* that the :Niro'
Zouaves, of New-York, under conuneuni.of
Finaham, were on their nag* lisiderdistV
Manassas Junction,
FROM FORTRESS MONROE. FROM WESTERN VIA
The Skirmish between Thirty Souaves
and One Hundred and Fitly Rebels.
TWO REBEL OFFICERS KILLED
The United States Frigate towed up last
evening proved to be the St. Lawrence. The
confederates cor.feas to the loss of two officers
killed in the encounter of thirty of Hawkins'
Zouaves with a hundred and fifty of their
troops a few days ago near Newport News
One of them was Col. Derussey, brother to Col.
Derussey of the United States engineers at old
Point.
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One of Normansby's evaporators is being put
in operation at Fortress Monroe, which will pro
duce from sea water one thousand gallons fresh
warter per day. This is the most effective
means yet employed by Quarter Master Fall
made to supply the post with water.
The examination of Col. Allen, for disregard
ing Gen. Butler's safe guard, began yesterday
Lieut. Lodie is Judge Advocate. Col. Allen
denies the authenticity of nearly all the papers
produced, as also the validity of the testimony.
If the Colonel is really guilty of permitting the
depredations charged against him, it is to be
hoped he will be punished to the full extent.
An immense volume of smoke is rising from
Sewell's Point, probably from burning timber
and brush.
XXXVIIth Oongress--Extra Session.
Mr. Hera introduced a bill providing that
the report of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy
be referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
A communication was received from the Post
master General in relation to having suspended
the mails in seceded States. Ordered to be
painted.
Mr. JonNeos (Ten.) presented the credentials
of the Senatokelect-from Virginia, W. B. Willey
in place of Mason,. Ind John S. Carlisle in place
of Hunter.
BALTIMORE, July 12
Mr. Joints:ix said he looked upon, as a favora
ble omen, the return of the Old Dominion to
this body.
Mr. Baran protested against the admission
of these gentlemen as Senators in place of the
Senators whose time had not expired. He
thought a very grave question was involved,
and moved to refer the credentials to the Com
mittee on the Judiciary, before administering
the oath.
Hot:wit—The Speaker laid before the House a
communication from the Postmaster General,
made in compliance with the law which re
quires him to state the reasons for discontinu
ing mails lathe so called seceded States. He
says the events for this course on his
part are se well known as to render
a detailed statement unnecessary. It seemed
more necessary for him to explain why the
transportation 01 the mails was continued there,
in so long it was for the purpose of disseminat
ing correct information in those States and dis
abusing the minds of those who had been de
ceived by the conspirators. Hence he thought
truthful information would contribute to break
down the conspiracy, the postal service afford
ing the best means to this end. He had no
doubt the people south will vindicate his course
the first opportunity after they shall be liberat
ed from the despotism which now there
prevails.
Mr. 13Lant offered a preamble, that,
Wmuur.as, John B. Clark was electeda mem
ber of Congress on the first Monday of August:
Whereas Since that time said Clark has held a
commission in the State Guard of Missouri,
under the rebel Governor of that State, and
took a part in the engagement at Booneville,
therefore
Resolved That said Clark has forfeited his
right as a Representative of the thirty-seventh
Congress, and is hereby expelled and declared
to be no longer a member of this House.
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The Rebel Force al Fairfax and Arylla
Greek.
A deserter from the secession army was
brought to headquarters last night. He was; a
resident of Madison, Indiana, named William
H. Wilson, until last spring, when he went to
Louisiana, on the Mississippi, to engage in the
boat trade; and finding himself in the midst
of a storm of secession, he entered the ;Sixth
Louisiana regiment, which was about leaving
for Virginia, and awaited his chance to get
among his friends by desertion. An opportu
nity he found yesterday, when on picket duty
near Burk's station. He gives very intelligent
information regarding the position of the ene
my. There were two thousand troops at Fair
fax station yesterday morning, including the
Louisiana regiment. He is not informed of the
number of troops at Fairfax Court House. An
arrival from down the river brings information
that a regiment of rebel troops had encamped
in the vicinity of Acquia creek.
The public will be , glad to hear that the
veteran soldier is in excellent health.' Close
application to businees gives him a buoyancy
of spirits, and is evidently favorable to his
uealth, both of body and mind. Never, since
the General made up his mind to settle the se
cession'question by a rigid enforcement of Fed
eral obligations,has he been : more thoroughly
convinced of the wisdoni of this'course than at
present. Re believes that the war will be
short, but thorough, without a great loss of
life, but resulting in a complete restoration of
the Union.
ST. Louis, July 12.
PENNSYLVI.A REGIMENTS ACCEPTED
The regimenth of Colonel Morehead and
Colonel Dare—the former at Baltimore, the
latter at Martinsburg—have, through the good
offices of Judge Kelly, both been accepted " for
the war." No better evidence is required of
the loyalty and patriotism of the Keystone
State than to see her three-months soldiers
coming forward in whole regiments and offering
for three years or the war. Colonel Dare's re
giment will be commanded by Lieut. Colonel
The movement of troops across the river con
tinues. The newspapers, some days since, in
arranging the programme for General Scott,
put the force required across the river at 40,000,
but' the veteran at the head of the army has
already a larger force than that over in Virgi
nia, and their number is constantly increasing.
REQUISITION FOR 111 E ,FLPTEEN PENN
' - SYLVANIA REGIMENTS.
,
WAXECINGTON, .july 13.
t ill dated here th4t the ~ War Department
has made a requisition on Governor Curtin for
ati alut
the' fifteen " oda Of Pennsylvania
_lmps
t!elfttllOUn , lit 2461*West.chester, .Us
' ' " • - aid-Another (=PIM indrac '
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n the Ate*
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TRIAL OF COLONEL ALLEN.
FORTRESS MONROE, Ray 13
WASHINGION, July la
Sassm.---Several petitions were presented
itUVUNDRIA, July 13
M MSM • • •
WesumeToN, July 18.
WAttemarozr, July 18,
THE FORWARD MOVEMENT.
WASHINGTON, July 13
Glorious Victory,
The Rebels Routed!
PHSLADELPEI: t
Load up your gutuil Gen. Mcb.l.a%
another battle. He took ilia I , r,w
two hundred tents, sixty wagons ,
one hundred and fifty of the enemy
several officers.
The rebels were ten thousand str,)L,
Gen. McClellan's loss is only elev,
and thirty-five wounded. The rebels R.
pletely routed.
MOVEMENTS OF TROOP
WASHMTON, J
. •
There are twenty-five regiment,
route, or preparing for an immediate
march to Washington. This is ex( I
movement now going on, of troops
different States States to join Generals PA
M'Clellan and Butler.
ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT OF
PAPER CORRESPONDENT
MAILTLY3BITG, i
All is quiet in the camp. Sam uel
well-known correspondent, has bees 3.
by order of Gen. Patterson, probably t)
communication with the Eastern pre
cess to him is denied.
TO CONSUMPTIVES
TECO Ansiarniza, having been rezt,
health I a few weeks by a very simple re,.
having suffered several years with a severe .
ton, and that dread disease, Communes—l. a.
make known to his fallow-sofferers the meat •
TO Mai who desire It, he will send a copy •
soription used (free of charge), with the d-,...
preparing and using the name, which they
sure cure fir Consumption ' Mauna, fl oann:..!
only object of the advergiser In sending the
p to benefit the alnicted, and spread Inforlnc
he conceives to be nvaluable, and he ho; ea •
ferer will try his remedy, AS it wi l cost
and may prove a blessing.
Pam% wishing the prescription will please a.: 1- •
REV. EDWAYD A. W 1.1 . ,• N
Logs county, New 1
New 2bratioments
ARMY SUPPLIER.
QtrAtaTICH KABTIII3 G fi 0 Fr. i
Harrisburg, July 12,
Sealed Proposals will be receiveti.,..
until 12 o'clock, u., on Saturday, the
of July, 1861, for the following Army
deliverable at the State Military store, 2..
burg, in quantities as required. Said p 7.,
to be publicly opened at the time ALI
named, and the successful bidders to
nounced as soon thereafter as convecie:...-:_.
right being reserved by the State to incr,i..*
diminish the number and quantity of
des.
One thousand common tents, army p4: . c.
poles, pins, &0., complete.
One hundred wall tents, army pattern t
pins, flies, Btc., complete.
One thousand axe handles, hickory.
One thousand pick bandies, hickory.
Twenty bugles, for mounted artillery.
One thousand and ten stable frocki.
It is desirable that all the above art.
of domestic manufacture, and when
them are furnished by the United State
same must conform in all respects to the
standard pattern in the United States
master's office and military store, Philaoe : - 1
Ten per cent of the amount of each Li,.
to be retained . as a forfeiture until the
is completed. The above articles being
ed for immediate use, the time of deiiN, - *
be considered in awarding contracts.
toys to state in their proposals the time
the goods can be delivered, and the iipr •
livery of such articles as are needed el.
sidered in awarding the contract.
bidders to give bones with two appr, ~-1
Every proposal to be endorsed, Prop,,,s:
Army Supplies. July 20th, 1861.
All supplies contracted for under theie :.
posals to be delivered at the Military ...
house in the city of Harrisburg, unleos
wise directed, free of all charge for freight
ing or drayage, unless freight to place u:
ery is greater than to Harrisburg, In win.f.:
the difference will be allowed. All
delivered to be marked on the outbido
number and description of articles tterry.
name of party furnishing same, togeLer
an invoice of contents, enclosed, embraci::
addition to above, notice of what spectt , :
ply it is a part. R. C. HALE
jyl2-ci6t. Q. M. (lent Pte_
HENRY C. SHAFFER,
PAPER HANGER, Front street, sec , '
door above Walnut street. ♦ll oraarE ;
attended to.
aa• Paper hung for Id Gantt per roll or pk:'
work warranted..
1.4 1 RENUII MUSTARD, Euglish and
mastic Pickles, (by the dozen or trludrei..!
for Wad Oil, Ketchup, 'MSUCed and COudorieuO ,
ee • - iption myil AT
GENTS BALMORA.L WALKISti
OR the Military, at the Pei aJe, ;
••
oboe Store, No. 88,X tderket street.
iyll aSt J C.Jr.:sl3k-
"OUR GOVERNMENT."
T
66 HE Unity of Government, which t)::
attune you one people, is now dear ~.') - " ~,
Was sagton's ihresedi Address. A nationality ..,,
tial to the enduring prosperity of our countrY• ',. :.
triotism must arise from knowledge. It et sail A ';,..
understanding of our civil Institutions that on ,
strong and settled attachment to their PriLe.i
Impart ability fur their maintenance. ....t
'OUR tioVERNISIRNT : An explanatory state s:
...
the system of Government of the Country," ohiLL:c ,:.
text of the Constitution of the United Slaws, an. , ;
~
stitational provisions of the several States, ,
. 1 . ::',„
meaning and construction, as determined by it. r i .,.. . , ] , „
bey* 3r and precedent and practice, or aer ~;„_`:..,
Sias. lod +viten; digested and arranged iort", , . r .
kt. it'lxlN• "„
trim $ oc Wit by
Pdel B siubci-• . "_.
—.oil!
DIIBLIC NOTlCE.—Notice is bee '..
teo... °
..11., given that letters twitamentary on the es a _ , ,
B.
B. Waugh, late of the city of Elarrbearg 1.:!..,:
county, deceased, haying been duly granted td luc' t, ,
scribers who reside in Bald city, all Pol`" ,„,ca
Chthluo or - demands against the estate or ma de.: ,
~.
-re hereby requested to make known the same ,
=Wieners without delay.
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