RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Four litres or lass constitute half a square. en nes
er more than four, constitute a square.
Usif sq.,one day........ 1) 30 Ono iml.7 000 "Y. --1
$0
O 60
1
~ one week.... 100 .. one week.... 200
" one month.. 200 " one month.. 600
g g three months 509 " three months 10 0(1
" sin .800hs. - " six mouths.. 15 00
" one year.--12 00 i ' One year —. 20 00
WIF ' Business notices inserted in the LOCAL eoLtilte,
erleforo marriagea and deaths, TEN CENTS PIE mix for '
s r
insertion. To merchants and others advertising
by the year, liberal terms will be offered.
117" The number of insertions must be designated on
be a dvertisement.
1T Marriages and Deaths wilibe inserted at the same
sire es regular advertisements.
,litiscellantoug.
pE_NsIONB, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY,
War Claims and Claims for Indemnity.
STEWART, STEVENS, CLARK & CO.,
AU,oncys and Counsellors-at-Law, and Solicitors
for all kinds of Military Claims,
450 PENNLVANIA AVENUE,
WASHINGTON, D. C.-
This firm, having a thorough knowledge of the Pen
110u BeaineM 44144 being femllisX With the practice in
all the Departments of tPovernment, believe that they
can athirst greater facilities to Pension, Bounty, and
other Claimants, for the prompt and successful accom
,plishmtmt of business entrusted to them, than any other
el.M.in Washington. They desire to secure such an
amount of this business as will enable them to execute
the business for each claimant very cheaply, and on the
basin of their pay contingent upon their success in each
case. For this purpose they will secure the services of
Lair Pirate in each prominent locality throughout the
Staten Where such business may be had, furnish ouch
with all the necessary blank forms of application and
evidence, requisite printed pamphlet instructions, and
circulars for distribution in their vicinity, with moo
elates names inserted, and upon the due execution of
the papers and transmission of the same to them by
their local associates, they will promptly perform the
business here.
Their charges will be ten dollars for officers and
Warfare for privates, for each Pension Or BATUMI and
Pay obtained, and ten per cent. on amount of
Claims for Military Supplies or Claims for Indemnity.
11 - 7 Soldiers enlisted SiRON the lst ofMarch, 1861, in
any kind of service, Military or Naval, who are disabled
by disease or wounds, are entitled to PensiOnN. All
soldiers who serve for two years, or during the war;
should it sooner close, will be entitled to $lOO Bounty.
Widows ofgoldiers who die or are killed, are entitled to
Pensions, and the SlOO Bounty. If there be no widow,
then the minor children. And if no minor children,
then the father, mother, sisters or brothers are anti.
-.,ed as above to the $lOO Bounty and Back Pay.
JOSEPH B,
HESTOR L. STEVENS,
EDWARD CLARK
OSCAR A. STEVENS,
WILLIS B. GAYLORD.
WASHINGTON, D. C., 1862.
.E.Apply at our office, or to our Associate at
ismmo, Pa.--JO HN A. mount, Attorney and
Counsellor.
PITTSBNBG, Ps.—ARTIHIRS & BIDDELL, Attor
neys-at-Law.
Penwriams, Ps.--WM. R. SMITH, Attorney and
Counsellor.
IMILADZIAITIA, Pa.—J. G. MINNICHILD, 46 Atwood
street, WM. M. OHM Attorney and Counsellor.
lessinnerros i Pa.—BOYD 01117HRINCE, Attorney
COnneethir.
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Snore they ataxia to det6t6 their taitirO Una" to tho
utaatars of
BOOTS AND SHOES
all kinds and Toilettes, In the nutlet and most fan
.onable styles, and at satisfactory prices.
Their stock will conshit, in part, of Gentlemen's Pine
*Wand Patent Loather Boots and Shoes, latest styles;
Ladies , led Misses' Gaiters, and otherithoes in great
variety; and In foot everything connected with lbs
bushiest.
CUSTOM:BB WORBwilllepartieularlyattendedto,
and !wall emus will satisfaction be warranted. Lens
listed sip by en of the best embers in the country.
The long practical experience of the undersigned, and
their thorough knowledge of the business will, they
trust, be suedes: guarantee to the public that they
will do them justice, and furnish them an article Ilia
will umouurtard itself for utility, cheapness and dura
bility. ljuit] JACKSON & GO.
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a Solid, concentrated extract of
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obvious to used urging. Its highly nourishing qualities
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sick; while for those in health, it is a perfectsubeditute
for freak meat and vegetables. It will keep good in any
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Zt if parallarly well adapted NOR "TRIZOILIIIS, by
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lOU INVALIDS, whoa* capricious appetite can thus
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A BOOK FOR THE TIMES I
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Published by D. Appleton Co., New York.
The design of this work Is to furnish a record of all
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cupy a conspicuons part, bat all other branches—Sci
ence, Art, Literature, the Mechanic Arts, Are., will re
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next.
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per wham.
Awash Thirty Years em U. S. Satan, 2 column, SSA
and $3 per awl.
Vyaopedsa of Aneer&an Marmoset, containing the
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Partos's Lila and Times of Aardeatrlmelsoit,S aohnnes,
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of these openings. Sample' furnished on application
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Etigittego (Eartto.
DR. O. WEIOHEL,
SURGEON AND OCULIST,
RROIDHNOE THIRD NIAII NORTH OTRIRT.
He is now folly prepared to attend pretalptly to A*
duties of profession in all its broaches.
A LONG AND vsar stroasssin imams Ezrasrixos
juatillaw him in promising fun ant ample satisfaction to
all wb9 may favor him with a mall, be the disease Obrord•
or any ether nature. miti-dstwly
WM. H. MILLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OPTION IN
SHOEMAKER'S BUILDING,'
sEcoArD STARET)
MITIVIIN WALNUT AND MARKET MAIM
no2B] Nearly appetite the Buehler Souse. rd&tray
T Rop. 0, M4to.DOWELTA,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MILITARY CLAIM AND PATENT AGENT.
Office in Burke's Row, Third street, (Up Stairs.)
Haring formed a connection with parties in Wash
ington City, wno are reliable business men, any busi
ness "connected with any of the Departments will meet
with immediate and careful attention. me-p
_CHARLES F. VOLLM ER
UPHOLSTERER,
Chestnut street, four doors above Second,
(Omen% WASHINGTON HOSZ Houss,)
Is prepared to furnish to order in the very beet style of
workmanship, Spring and Hair ' Mattresses, Window Our
tains, Lounges, and all other articles of Furniture in his
lice, on short notice end moderate terms. Having ex
perience in the business, he feels warranted in. asking a
share of public patronage, conlideetof his ability to give
eatisfaetion. janl74lff
SILAS WARD.
NO. 11, SORTIE TR/ND BT., HARRISBURG. -
STEINWA.YPS PIANOB I
MELODEONS, VIOLINS, GUITARS,
Banjo, !dutch Fifth Drums, diccorckm
BTRISOS, ensue AND soot memo, &0., fie.,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. ALBUMS,
Large Pier and Mantle Ninon, Square and Ovablframes
of every desoriptioamide to order. Reminding done.
Agency for Howeis Sewing Machines.
13:1" Sheet Music sent by Mail. • ootl-1
JOHN W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TAILOR
Has just received from New York, an absorb
ment of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which he offers to his customers and the public at
nov22) MODERATE PRICES. dtt
W HARRY WILLIAMS,
CLAIM - .ACOIrMWLI,
402 WALNUT STRUT,
PHILADELPHIA.
General Claims for Soldiers promptly collected, State
Claims adjusted, &c., &c. mar2o-dlm
SMITH & EVirING,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
THIRD STREET, Harrisburg,
Practice in the several Courts of Dauphin county. Col
lections made promptly. A. C. SMITH,
feb26 3. B. EWING.
(MON,
V I 27 CHESNUT ST., between emend and front,
Sae just returned from the city with an assortment of
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES AND VESTING.%
Which will be sold at moderate prices and made up to
order; and, also, an assortment of BEADY MADE
Clothing and Gentlemen's purnishing Goods.
meal-Iyd
DENTISTRY.
. B. L MU, D. D. S.,
N 4 .' 119 MARKET STREET,
4 1401 0
RBY & ORREVS BUILDING, VP STAIRS.
janB-tf
RELIGIOUS BOOK STORE ;
TRACT AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPOSITORY,
E. S. GERMAN,
IT BOOTH SECOND STRUT, ABOVE OItiONIIT,
natuusevao, PA.
Depot for theses of atereoseopel l etturooPeopieVistre,
Mule and Musical Instruments. Also, eubecriptlons
taken for religions publications. oso-ay
JOHN G. W. MARTIN,
FASHIONABLE
CARD WRITER,
HMV EOM, lIARBISItaIte, PA.
Allmanner of VISITI N G, WEDDING AND BUSI
NESS CARDS executed in the moat artistic styles and
moat reasonable terms. decl4-dtf
FRANKLIN HOUSE ;
BALTIMORE, MD.
This pleasant and commodious Hotel has lbw's the
roughly re-fitted and re-furnished. It is pleasantly
situated on North-West earner of Howard and Franklin
streets, a few doors west of the Northern Central Rail
way Depot. Every attention paid to the comfort of his
guests. LXIBENRING, Proprietor,
jeltf (Late of Selina Grove. Pa.)
T HE O. F. BOITEFFEIe,
BOOK' CARD AND JOB PRINTER
110. 13 MARK= STRUT, RARRIABIIII4-
!Er
Particular attention paid to printing, ruling and
binding of Railroad Blanks, Manifests, Insurance Poli
cies, Checks, Bill Heads ito.
Wedding, Visiting and Business Cade printed at very
low prises and in the beet OWL janal
DYOTTVIIALE GLASS WORKS,
PHIL ADE L P HIA,
MAXIMUMS'S
CARBOYS, DEMIJOHNS,
wiNR, mum, DimimAri WATNB, PIOICUI AND
FRESHETS BOTTLES
07 /MST rmlosirrxox.
N. B. & G. W. BINNBBS,
odii-ay Er Booth front stem, Philadelphia.
MUSIC STORE!
NO. 08 lIABERT STMT. NARBISBUINt, PA.
MET MUSIC, PIANOS,
MELODEONS,.GITITARS,
VIOLINS, BANJO STRINGS,
Of fmay dlOosiptlon,
MUNI% Puss, PLUTRa, AGOORDzoNs, eta. at
the lowest CITY PRIM, at
W. ENOONWS BMW STORM,
No. 98 Ma'am: Sulam
PRO CL AM A TlON.—Whereae, the
Honorable JousJ. Pa.intion, President of the Court
of tommon Pleas in the Twelfth Judicial District, con
sisting of the counties of Lebanon and Dauphin, and the
Hon. Smarms, LANDIS and Hon. MOEN B. Tonna, Aliso
elate Judges in Dannitincounty, having issued their pre
cept, healing date the 24th day of February, MB, to me
directed, for holding a Court of Oyer and Terminer and
General Jeat Delivery and Quarts e the P eace
at Harrisburg, for the county of Dauphin, and to com
mence on the fourth llfirsaarof April next, being the
27 " 44Y, of April, 1863, and to continue two weeks.
Notice I. therefore hereby Oren to the Coroner, rine
taw of the Peace, Aldermen, and Oonertablea of the said
county of Dauphin, that they be then and there in their
proper perlona, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day,
with their records, inltuisitions, examinations, and their
own remembrances, to tio thole things which to their
*Mee offPottotho to be done, and those who arc bound in
reeognisances to prosecute against the prisoners that are
or dull be in the Jail of Dauphin county, be then and
there to prosecute ageinst them as shall be just.
wren under m 7 hand, at Harrisburg, the 24th day of
April, in the year of our Lord, UM,' and in the eighty
seventh year of the independence a the united Stating.
J. D. BOAS, Sheriff.
R AMS , DRIED BEEF, BOLOGNA
BAIIIIAraI, TONGUES tor wits tow, by
WM. DOM, Ja., &
HARRISBURG, PA:, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1863.
platem
Weekly "Patriot & Union,"
THE CHEAPEST PAPER PUBLISHED IN
PENNSYLVANIA! •
AND
THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC PAPER PUBLISHED AT
THE BELT OT GOVERNMENT !
FORTY-FOUR COLUMNS OF READING MAT
TER EACH WEEK I
AT THE LOW PRICE OF ONE DOLLAR
AND FIFTY CENTS
WHZN
SUBSCRIBED FOR IN GLOBS OF NOT LESS
THAN TEN COPIES 70 ONE ADDRE,S6!
,We have been compelled to rides the club subscription
price to one dollar and fifty cents in order to save our
selves from actual loss. Paper has risen, . Including
taxes, about twenty-five per cent., and is still rising;
and when we tell our Democratic friends, candidly, that
we can no longer afford to sell the Weekly Pivaios inn
UNION at one dollar a year, and must add fifty cents or
stop the publication, we trust they will appreciate our
position, and, instead of withdrawing their subscrip
tions, go to work with a will to increase our list inevery
county in the State. We have endeavored, and shall
continne,pur efforts, to make the paper useful as a party
organ, and welcome as a news messenger to every fam
ily. We flatter ourselves that it has not been without
some influence in producing the glorious revolution in
the politics of the State achieved at the late election;
and if fearlessness in the discharge of duty, fidelity to
the principles of the party, and an anxionsdesire to pro
mote its interest; with some experience and a moderate
degree of ability, can be made serviceable hereafter, the
Weekly PATRIOT AND Union will not be less useful to
the party or less welcome to the family circle in the fu
ture than it has been in the past. We confidently look
for increased encouragement in this great enterprise,
and Appeal to every influential Democrat in the State to
lend us his aid in running our sipscription list up to
twenty or thirty thousand. The expense to each indi
vidual is trifling, the benefit to the party may be great.
Believing that the Democracy of the State feel the ne
cessity of sustaining a fearless central organ, we make
this appeal to them for assistance with the fullest confi
dence of success.
The same reasons which Induce tut to raise the price
of the Weekly, operate in regard to the Dailypaper, the
price of which is also increased. Theadditional coot to
each subscriber will be bat trifling; and, while we can
not persuade ourselves that the change necessarilymade
will result in any diminution of our daily circulation,
yet, were we certain that such would be the cone
queues., we should still be compelled to make it, or suf
fer a ruinous loss. Under these circumstances we must
throw ourselves upon the generosity, or, rather, the
justice of the public, and abide their verdict, whatever
it may be.
The period for which many of our subscribers have
paid for their paper being on the eve of expiring, we
I take the liberty of issuing this notice, reminding them
of the earns, in order that they map
RENEW THEIR CLUBS.
We shall also take it as an especial favor if our present
sulbscribere will urge upon their neighbors the fact that
the Pe:calor Ann Moon is the only Democratic paper
printed in Harrisburg, and considering the large amount
of reading matter, embracing an the current news of
the day, and
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES
Prom everywhere up to the moment the paper goes to
asui-lrattl._news
market reports, is decidedly the
CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN
THE STATE!
There is scarcely s Tillage or town in the State in
which a club cannot be reified if the proper eiertion be
made, and surely there are few places in which one or
more energetic men cannot be found who are in favor of
the dissemination of sound Democratic doctrines, who
would be willing to make the effort to raise a club.
DEMOCRATS OF THE INTERIOR !
Let as hear from you. The existing war, and the ap.
preaching sessions of Congress and the State Legisla
ture, are invested with nmumal interest, and every man
should have the news.
TERMS.
DAILY PATRIOT AND UNION.
Single copy for one year, in advance 26 00
Single copyduring the session of the Legislature.. 2 00
City subscribers ten bents per week.
Copies supplied to agents at the rate of $l6O per hun
Bred.
WBBRLY PATRIOT AND UNION,
PnAiisked every Thursday.
Single copy one year, in advance $2 00
Ten copies to one address 16 00
Subseriptione may commence at any time. PAY AL.
WAYS IN ADVANCE. We are obliged to make this
imperative. In every instance cash must accompany
subscription. Any person sending us a club of twenty
subscribers to the Weekly will be entitled to a copy for
his services. The price, even at the advanced rate is
so low that we cannot offer greater inducements than
this. Additions maybe made at any time to a club of
subscribers by remitting one dollar and fifty cents
for each additional name. It is not neoessaryto send
as the names of those constituting a club, as we cannot
undertake to address each paper to Club subscribers
Separately. Specimen copies of the Weekly will be sent
to all who desire it.
O. BARRETT & CO., Harrisburg, Pa.
N. B.—The following law, passed by Congress in J.
defines the duty of Postmasters in relation to the de
lirory of newspe.pers to club subscribers :
(See Lett's, Brournit co.'s edition of the Laws of 1860•
page 38, chapter 131, creation 1.) -
“Provided, however, that where packages of newolps
pars or periodicals are received at any post once directed
to one address, and the names of the club subscribers to
which theybelong, with the ptag p ost master,uarter in ad
vance, sha ll be handed to thehe shall de
liver the same to their respective owners."
To enable the Postmaster to comply with this regula
tion, it will be necessary that be be furnished with the
list of names composing the club, and paid a quarter's
(or year's) postage in advance. The uniform courtesy
of Postmasters, affords the assurance that they will
eheerfallyaccommodate club subscribers, and the litter
should take care that the postage, widish is but a trifle
in each case, bepaid in advance. Bend on the clubs.
TAPANESE TEA.—A choice lot of
this celebrated Tea just received. It le of the first
cargo ewer imported, and is much superior to the Chi
nese Tess in quality, strength and fragrance and is also
entirely free of adulteration, coloring or mixture of any
kind.
It is the natural leaf of the :sponse° Tea Plant.
For sale by WM. DOCK, jr., & Co.
UNION HOTEL,
Ridge Avenue, corner of Broad street,
HARRISBURG, PA.
The undersigned informs the public that he has re
cently renovated and refitted his well-known "Union
Hotel , on Ridge , near the Bound Howe. and is
Prepared to accommodate citiz Ana, strangers and travel
ers in the best style, at moderate rates.
His table will be supplied with the best the markets
afford, and at his bar will be found superior brands of
liquors and malt beverages. The very best accommo=
dationa for railroaders employed at the shops in this
vicinity. HERAT BOSTGEN.
apl4•dtf
F"REN T
Two desirable OFFIOE
ROOMS, second story front of Wyethse Building
ooraer of Market Square and Market street. Apelyat
kis °Mae somas'?
PIANOS carefully packed or removed
by 13. WARD.
r2s-2w 12 North Third street.
CONDENSED MILK 7—Just received
sad for Ws by WM. DOCK jr., & 60.
SELF BELLING FRUIT JARS 1-
Bent and Cheapest is the markets! Call sad
niunies them.
U. DOCK, Js., & CO.
latrint
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 28 1863
OOYDUCT OF THE WAR.
The Report on the Conduct of the War and
the Safety of Washington.
From the Boston Post.
" Ifow Washington was left Undefended,"
is one of the headings of the Wade and Chand
ler Report ; and the country, by the Report
and Chandler's speech, knows now how the
radical cabal, civil and military, used the pre
text that Washington was undefended, to wring
out of the President the fatal order that de
tached BrDowell's corps from the Army of the
Potomac.
This committee—consisting of Wade, Chand
ler, Covode, Gooch, &o.—heard, according to
Chandler, that General APClellan had gone to
the Peninsula, and " had not left a solitary
gun on wheels for a defence of the Capital,"
when, with this alleged fact, they hastened to
Executive and the Cabinet, with their officious
voice for a change of plan. They found al
ready, a report to this effect in his hand.—
There is. a speech, containing this precise
statement as from General Wadsworth, made
by Senator Chandler, which may be found in
the New York Tribune of July 17, 1862. This
reads
" The Committee on the Conduct of the War
summoned Gen. Wadsworth, who swore that
he had only 19,022 men left to defend Wash
ington, and not a single gun mounted on wheels,
and part of this force was new and. undisci
plined, and some nearly disciplined,"
The report of the committee has a letter bear
ing date April 2, 1862, from this officer, and
this was made the basis of the most momen
tous military order that was` ever given in this
country—the order which prevented the cap
ture of Richmond.
From the committee, now turn to General
Wadsworth. He its a violent Abolition parti
san—as ultra as can be found in the country.
He stated, in the M'Dowell Court of Inquiry,
that be served on Dl'Dowell's staff as a volun
teer, from the 29th of June to the 9th of Au
gust, 1861 ; and, from the latter date to the
15th of March, 1862, commanded a division
under M'Dowell. From the 15th of March to
Nov. 25, he was Military Governor of the Dis
trict of Columbia ; "and for the first three or
four months of that time commanded the troops
assigned for the defence of the Capital."—
During this time, Col. Win. B. Greene comman
ded at Fort Albany, at the time Gen. M'Clel
lan left for the Peninsula—and had charge of
the forte covering the Long Bridge ; and this
officer makes the following astonishing and
damaging statement :
"When General Wadsworth commanded the
defences of Washington, he never, to my
knowledge, inspected any one of my forts, or
reviewed any one of my companies.; and I
think it would have been impossible for him to
do either of those things without my knowl
edge. It is my impression that Gen. Wads
worth was never, while he was my commanding
teliGweL
sk
mander of the permanent guard on long
Bridge, informed me that Gen. Wadsworth,
while be was in command of the defences of
Washington, never once crossed Long Bridge-.
No staff officer of Gen. Wadsworth ever in
spected, to my knowledge, any one of my
forts."
These are extraordinary revelations, which
prove that the statement of Gen. Wadsworth,
as to the alleged withdrawal of cannon, so that
not a solitary gun was left on wheels, could
not have been made on his own observation;
for this officer never inspected the forts he
commanded, and never crossed Long Bridge
while he was in the defences that covered
Washington ? But on whatever authority the
fact was stated, it was not true; for' Colonel
Greene says:
" I had, in eight of the forts, covering Long
Bridge, (which were under my command,)
some seventy or more cannon on wheels'—l
think the exact number was seventy-two.
Some of these cannon were mounted, it is true,
on barbette carriages, but, after all, barbette
carriages have wheels.' Not one of the sev
enty-two cannon was without its carriage."
But the committee present a letter bearing
date April 2, 1862, which, they say, was also
before the President. Now, officers at this
time, and subsequently reported direct to Gen.
Wadsworth. From the 15th of March to the
2d of April would seem to have been time
enough for him to have learned precisely the
condition of his command either from official
reports or from actual inspection ; and yet the
General, in this letter, bearing date April 2,
makes statements which Colonel Greene says,
"he read with astonishment;" and adds, " 1 am
not able to comprehend." And he goes on to
cite facts that show unparalleled blundering
as to the condition, of regiments, both of ar
tillery and infantry ! Was it possible for Gen.
Wadsworth to have committed such blundering
with official reports, made at the time, before
him ? Who will say that it was? Ile cer
tainly did not inspect the forts covering the
Long Bridge; and if he had no official reports
before him and was ignorant of the facts, why
did he make any statement at all ? In any
case the report, as to the state of the defences
of Washington, was not the truth !
However, upon the reports of that officer,
such as they were, backed by conclusions
based on them by Adjutant General Thomas and
the military adviser, General Hitchiock, who
figures in this business, the committee says
the day after its date (April-3) the corps of
General M'Dowell was ordered to be detached
from the Army of the Potomac." On the 2d
day of April General M'Clellan arrived at
Fortress Monroe, and, on the 4th, commenced
a movement upon Yorktown.
And now let facts be stated as to this great
movement, not as they appear in hastily pre
pared newspaper reports from the army, which,
though life-like and embodying the spirit of
an occasion, are proverbially inaccurate as to
plans and precise movements, but facts as they
appear under oath, and will be used in the
court of history. The truth. then, is, that
General M'Clellan submitted the plan of
the Peninsula campaign to the corps com
manders, General M'Dowell among the rest,
and by them it was unanimously approved.
The suggestions made as to the forces to be
left to cover Washington varied from forty to
fifty thousand, which included the column then
in the Shenandoah valley. "I think," Gen.
M'Clellan testified, "Gen. M'Dowell proposed
the latter number. Of one thin . lam confi
dent. That with the facts fresh in my mind,
I thought that I had left more than was sug
gested by any corps commander." The corps
of Gen. M'Dowell was left behind. " I did not
leave Gen. M'Dowell's corps behind for the
purpose of covering Washington, but expected
it to follow me the moment the transportation
for it was ready." This amps was designed to
be employed as a unit. It was under march
ing orders to move in the diraction of the
Peninsula, and its designed service was to flank
the rebel army. Gen. hiTlellan testified that
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the movement of this corps, as a unit, Was
" an essential part of the campaign."
In this full understanding between the Pre
sident, the General-in-Chief, the Corps Com
manders, and in high hope and faith, was this
Peninsula campaign entered upon. No sooner,
however, had lien. M'Clellan left Washington,
than the radical cabal, civil and military, com
menced their interference. Nothing was fUr
ther from the plans of the General than siege
operations ; and, when . he was supposing M'-
Dowell on the way to do his portion of the work
assigned to him, according to his orders, he
received by telegraph advices that this corps
was detached from his command. "When in
front of Yorktown," he testifies, "with a con
siderable portion of the army under fire, I
received the first intimation of an intention to
change the destination of M'Dowell's troops
from the Army of the Potomac." The intelli
gence was received by the corps commanders
with grief and astonishment ; and the cause
seemed inexplicable. It made a resort to,,the
spade, or a Fredericksburg slaughter, a ne
cessity.
The unity on which the campaign was based
was destroyed in the fatal adciption of inde
pendent commands. This unity might have
been less favorable to the .purposes of individ
ual military ambition, but it was immeasurably
better adapted to secure the high purposes of
country ; and military men deplored the
change. Bat the allegation, made in July, by
Senator Chandler, that Washington was not
covered, will not for a moment bear the touch
stone of facts: The force left disposable for
the defence of Washington, M'Clellan testified,
"w,as about seventy thousand men, independent
of the corps of M'Dowell." On the lat of
April letters of instructions provided for the
massing of this force, `so that the whole force
would be availdble" on an approach to the city.
Gen. M'Clellan, in reply to a question put by
Gen. M'Dowell, further testified that " the
troops actually left in Washington, and in front
of it, disposable for. its defence, were rather
wore than double the garrison fixed by the en
gineer and artillery officers, and considerably
more than the largest number recommended
by any of the corps commanders to be left in
the vicinity of Washington." The detail of
this covering force appears in the elaborate
letter of Gen. M'Clellan, dated April 1, 1862.
Washington was then in no danger of an
attack. " Before I left Washington," General
M'Clellan testifies, " I was satisfied that it was
not then in danger ;" and even Gen. Wads
worth's letter bearing date, April 2, reads: "1
regard it very improbable that the enemy will as
sail us at this point." Before us are journals
from March 26th to April 4th, and they show
anything but danger to Washington. The
rebels had fallen back beyond the Rappahan
nook and Rapidan. There is a letter of thanks
from theßecretary of War to General Shields,
(March 26) for the " brilliant achievement " of
that officer at Winchester ' • Stonewall Jackson,
" with the remainder of his army," were re
ported (March 28) at Woodstock ; Adjutant
Williams, in an order to Gen. Banks, (March
27) desires him to follow up . rapidly the ene
my's troops as far as Strasburgh, if possible."
The military horizon generally was so cheering
with victories, that according to the New York
journals of April 1, 1862—" The overwhelming
armies, navies and warlike means and faoili
itiffnanitlltkaliAnkS4o44ingaltf
Southern rebellion, will assuredly,_ within a
few weeks, reduce its:means of resiitance to a
petty guerrilla warfare in distant holes and
corners." The account of " the situation,"
printed on the 3d of April reads: "General
Banks appears to be following up the advan
tage gained by Gen. Shields at Winchester,
and has driven Jackson's rebel troops farther
off from the line of the Potomac than before."
At this very time, according to the Committee
on the Conduct of the War and Chandle'r's im
aginative speech in July, 1862, the rebel hosts
were advancing on Washington, and had not
the committee interfered, Stonewall Jackson,
Chandler's words, " would have had this Capital
before the fifteenth day of April! 1 " What !
Washington then in danger ! Not a trace of
such apprehension will be found at this time
in the journals'. This is the truth, and a
thousand such reports as this partisan com
mittee have made, would not make it a lie.
Such are facts as to this monstrous civil in
terference with military operations in the field.
It is idle, perfectly idle, to represent that
Washington was in danger;
assuredly it was
,not in danger. It is absurd to say Washington
was left undefended ; the facts show that the
covering was ample. How easy, if there were
apprehensions as to its safety, to have made a
patriotic appeal for the militia in the neighbor
ing States ! When did the PEOPLE fail to res
pond to such an appeal ? But the simple state
ment of facts shows there was no danger and
na apprehension of attack and no necessity of
such an appeal. Never was a case lamer than
thie defence of the radical cabal who procured
the detachment of M'Dowell. It is ridicu
lous.
Let the people do justice to the - noble corps
commanders and to their commanding General.
The plan of the Peninsula campaign was com
prehensive and grand—a combination worthy
of their genius and patriotism. Let us state
but two points. When M'Clellan was moving
from Fortress Monroe, he supposed M'Dowell
with his splendid corps, as agreed upon, was
moving to West Point and thence to flank the
rebel army. "If this plan had been cirried
out," Headly writes, "one of two things Would
have happened, either M'Dowell's march would
have been a surprise and the rebel army been
cooped up between him and M'Clellan, or ad
vised of ids danger, fallen back on Richmond.
In the latter ease there would have been no
battle, no delay at Yorktown." "The beat
military men to whom the plan had been sub
mitted pronounced it almost certain of suc
cess." The "astounding news" of the with
drawal of M'Dowell dampened the hopes of
the brave officers and really broke up the cam
paign ; and the result, in Headly's words, was,
"a defeated army and tens of thousands of our
brave soldiers fallen in vain. The time for
apportioning the tremendous amount of guilt
that belongs somewhere, has not come," but
he adds, "the mad attempt of marching un
supported on Richmond with only a little over
one hundred thousand men, *as never contem
plated by M'Olellan or his fellow comman
ders." Never were truer words written than
the judgment that this guilt does not lay at
the door of M'Clellan and his noble fellow
commanders.
Tan Paymaster of the iron-clad Keokuk,
sunk at the recent fight at Charleston, gives
the following account of ber :
I will not attempt to describe the fight of
the 7th, or the horrors of that afternoon. The
Keokuk was struck 90 times ; more than hal
of these shots went through the small vessel.
It was as one chance out of ten. thousand of
our ever getting out of the - fight. Never be
fore was a vessel under such a fire. Over 300
guns must have been playing on us, and that,
e, within 800 yards of Sumpter. We were
nearer the Fort•and further up than any other
vessel. The men were perfectly awe-stricken.
Such was the roll of fire along the sides, that
we could Scarcely open the ports of the vessel
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to fire. When the Keokuk was going down,
within a , ehort distance of Morris Island beach,
the rebels on the Island tossed their hats and
cheired. I fear Charleston may stand in spite
of us, but hope another attack will be made.
SERVED Mx RIOBT.—The Cleveland Plaits
Dealer is responsible for the following:
A curious scene occurred on the care of the
Little Miama railroad the other day. Some
gentleman on the train, it seems, had s device
cut out of one of the old fashioned cents, repre
senting very neatly the cgolodieriti of Liberty."
A very pompous . and burley fellow, with a
flashy vest, and an inordinate display of jew
elry, took great offence at the device, when the
following confab ensued
Pompous Chap—" What in hell are you wear
ing that copperhead emblem for r
Gentleman—a Will you answer me a queetioa
first t"
Pompous Cluip*—“Yes."
Gentleman—"Arn't you an army 'entrust
or ?"
' , Well, suppose I am ?"
•
"Arn't you an Abolitiosist ?"
Ares, dyed in the wool."
“Haven't you always sung 'let the South
slide ?' "
"Dn em, they ought to have been in hell
long ago."
"Don't you now sneer all the time at the
Constitution of the United States ?"
“Constitution be d—d ; this is no time to
alk of Constitutions.”
"Well," continued the gentleman, "do you
ever wear any of these emblems," pointing to
the device.
"No, by (31—cl !" said the flashy contractor.
"Then, sir," said the geltleman, "it is to
distinguish myself from such arrant hypocrites,
money leeches and scoundrels as you, that I
wear this,"
The people in the oar fairly roared, and the
oreet-fallen negro worshipper and Treasury
pimp got up from his seat and went into ano•
ther car.
Served him right. _
The same paper contains this good hit
"Who is it that wishes the rebels success,
but is too cowardly and mean to shoulder his
musket and give of his money to assist them."
paper.
We know of no one who answers the descrip
tion so well as an army-contractor, who is an
active member of the Loyal League Guard,
and whose attention has been entirely given
to swindling the government and abusing Dem
ocrats.
THRILLING INCIDENT.—The Lawrence (Mass.)
Sentinel publishes the following extract from a
letter received from Mr. James Evans Fallon,
Third Assistant Engineer on the steam sloop
Mississippi, when she was destroyed at Port
Hudson, on the 14th of March :
I would give you an account of the fight at
Port Hudson, but you will have read it in the
papers ere this reaches you. One fact I will
state : I was standing at my station when a
shell burst beyond me ; a piece of it hit my
sword and broke it short off by the hilt,,and
sent the hilt plump into my stomach, which
4110,AR down alongside the -bettpuit {which
---
stars, &c.
Shortly after I was struck with a splinter
which broke one of my ribs, and made me
senseless to all outside, but I had all my senses.
I heard the order given to take me below to the
cockpit ; then I heard the Surgeon ask them
why they brought a dead man down ; then I
heard the orders given to get all the wounded
out of the ship. There I was, laid out among
the dead men and amputated limbs, unable to
let them know that I was alive; all the wound
ed were taken out, I was left ; then they com
menced to fire the ship forward and aft. The
man who had been detailed to fire her forward
passed by me; I threw out my hand and hit
him on the leg •, he stopped ; I beckoned for
him to put his head down, and I whispered to
him that I was not dead ; he took me up in
his arms and put me into a boat, and took me
to the Essex ; here I lay until daylight ; then
I was put on board the Richmond ; there I
was made comfortable by Mr. Dove, of Ando
ver,Third Assistant Engineer of the Rich•
mod.
I am still weak from my injuries, but will
soon be all right. lam doing duty now on the
prize steamer Antona.
PENNSYLVANIANS IN KENTIICEY.—When the
history of this war is written, Kentucky will
be as greatly in arrears of gratitude to the Key
stone State as to any of her other sisters, for
its assistance has been as generous and hearty
as it was prompt. The names of Negley, Stam
baugh, Wynkoop, Williams, Jordan, Brown and
others, omitted from no invidious motive, will
always be remembered in our Commonwealth
for their gallant services. Their commands
were.among the first called to the State by the
General government for its defence, and there
is hardly a county from the Big Sandy to the
Mississippi, or from the Ohio to our Southern
border, in which they have not visited and per
foimed effective work. Among the more recent
arrivals has been the 45th Pennsylvania
regiment, under command of Col. Curtin,
which is now at camp Dick Robinson, having
left Paris on the 10th instant, where It was en-.
camped on the Fair Grounds. The Citizen
says it is one of the best-drilled regiments it
has seen, and won golden opinions from the
Parisians for its orderly and good conduct
during its sojourn in their midst.—Louisville
Journal.
At a treaty held July 4, 1744, in the Court
House•at Lancaster, Pa., by the Lieutenant
Governor and the Commissioners for the Pro
vinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the
Indians of the Six Nations, Canaseatego the
Speaker of the Indians, uttered the following
beautiful and sublime sentiments :
u We have one thing to say, and that is, we
beartily recommend union and a good agree
ment between you our brethren. Never disa
gree, bat preserve a strict friendship for one
another, and thereby you as well as we will
become the stronger. Our wise forefathers
established union and amity between the Five
Nations; this has made us formidable, this hat
given us great'wcight and authority with out
neighboring nations. We are a powerful con
federacy, and by your observing the same me
thods our wise forefathers have taken, you will
acquire fresh strength and power; therefore
whatever befalls you, never fall oat with one
another."
Ax HONIEST M. C.—The New York Timer says
the Librarian o Congress has sent a polite note
to a member of the last House from that State,
asking him to return two hundred volumes be
longing to the Congressional Library, whioh he
took away. He didn't steal them; he is only
illustrating a new system of book-keeping.—
The Librarian ends his .request for the return
of the books with the following hint :—"The
rebinding of the books will not prevent their
identitiostion."