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the meagreness of our columns to-day, we
might say that most of our compositors. and
pressmen have taken up arms in defence of the
State Capital, and we were obligati.° getalong
with as little matter as possible and as best.
we could. The employees from this office who
have taken arms against the invaders of our
soil are, we believe, all Democrats, and we un
derstand that the employees of the Telegraph
establishment who have gone into the service,
with, we believe, one exception, are of the
same political faith. We state this in no spirit
of exultation, but merely as a sign of the
times.
The Situation.
This evening, 7 o'clock, June 30, 1863, the
the situation of the capital and the people of
the capital city of Pennsylvania, and of the
gallant soldiers on the opposite b nk of the
Susquehanna IS MUCh more comfortable than
it wab at this same hour yesterday. Then we
expected momentarily to hear the roar of ar
tillery and the sharp volleys of musketry of
men engaged in deadly conflict. Now it is
certain that, for some reason we may imagine,
but cannot give, the enemy have fallen back,
apparently on their retreat towards Dixie.
It is but justice to say, in this connection,
that we owe much to the sister States of New
York and New Jersey for the prompt assistance
they rendered us. But for th...4,..aezatietrour
capital might now be a heap of smouldering
ruins, and the citizens without homes, com
pelted to begin anew the labors of years which
they had expended to make themselves and
families independent and eOtefortable. We
must not forget what we owe to these sister
States—no one who has the heart or soul of a
real, true, genuine man ever will. For, be it
remembered, before the State furnished a sin
gle soldier for defense against the invasion,
New York and New Jersey had their thousands,
their organized and equipped regiments, on
hand ready to meet tie invader and spill their
blood in ear defense. This is enough to make
the heart of every true son of Pennsylvania
respond to the heart-beat of every true son of
New York and New Jersey. We are brothers
—let that suffice.
The sons of the Old Keystone were not
themselves slow to respond to the call of the
constituted authorities, but not having been
organized under military laws, they were ne
cessarily slower than their brethern of the
Empire State and New Jersey. However—
although lacking confidence in the wisdom
and integrity of their rulers—they came, fi
nally, and in numters, to the rescue of the
Commonwealth, and, thank God and the pa
triotism of the people, the tide of invasion
seems for the prigot to ha turned_
We shall not go into particulars, for in truth
few reliable particulars are known. The stuff
which we read in the press of Philadelphia
and New York is simply disgusting, and we
shall not try to emulate it. It is enough to
say that, for some reason, the rebel armies
have fallen back, and the Capital of Pennsyl
vania is safe at least one day more.
LATER—HALF PAST NINE, P. BI —We Touch
for nothing—we give the tale as it was told to
us. Gen. Heintzelman's headquarters, we un
derstand, are at Chambersburg, Gen. Pleasan
ton bae captured three hundred of the enemy's
wagons, and Gen. Geary is said to by as u1: 1 1013.
borough, York casuagy,..eft. nailing distressed
the enemy greatly. A gentleman direct from
Mechanicsburg says that a fierce skirmish was
going on there at half past six, p. m., between
the advance of the Federal forceti, two New
York regiments, and the rear guard of the
rebels.
The Two Civilizations.
With the radicals of the North, and of the
South also, there is a fatal delusion. The lives
of hundreds of thousands have been sacrificed
to it during the last two years, and the inter
ests of millions put is great peril ; the liberties
of mankind are in danger, very great dafiger,
from this delusion. These radieala assert that
the ,11,0 civilisations North and South are in
compatible with each other; that they cannot
exist in harmony under one government; that
now is the time for their final and perpetual
separation.
is it not Orange, she, that they really stand
on the same platform? The Secessionists and
the Abolitionists are another apt illustration
of the principle that extremes meet. They do
meet on this ground, and both assert that the
two civilisations can never be made homoge
neous. Of course the logical conclusion is that
we oan no longer have a Union as we have had
it. -
In ppeaking of the torotießitiOrt. the New York
Eva*/ Pont asks, "Why is it that they shut
their eyes to the fact that there can be no peace
between the North and South while slavery
cals . ts ? Eighty years of incessant bickerings
and dissension ought to have convinced them
of this truth—ought to have convinced them
of the fundamental antagonism of states of
misty founded on the one side on liberty and
up the other side on slaVery. * * There is
no doctrine of revelation or edema clearer
than that of the utter inoompatibility of these
two soeial systems. * * Either slavery must
be suppressed at the South, or liberty must
be suppressed at the forth."
This is the sentiment of the administration,
or, et Wet, the leading membespe of it. This
defines their position, their purpose, the air
of all their efforts. It is the enunciation of
the principles and the platform on which these
gentlemen stand whonow hold the government,
and who have, so often, directed our armies to
terrible and unpardonable slaughter.
Let its see how the Richmond Examiner
stands. It says Vicksburg must not fall, but
if it does fall, then war will have only com
menced; that the North and the South are
two dititinct. and incompatible civilizations ;
that they never again oan be joined under one
flag ; that the only plain, simple, naked issue
botieeen the North and South is that of Subju
gation and independence ; and that subjugation
means no more nor less than extermination.—
The Richmond Examiner, and the Evening Post,
the one a leading Jebel, and the other a lead
ing federal paper, both reiterate the same sen
timents. Do we not tell the truth when we
say this? Let honest men answer.'
Then -what is a fair statement of positlotiti
It is this : the Secessionists believe that there
are two civilizations here, and that they can
not live together in the same Union. The
Abolitionists believe exactly the same thing.—
Then why do we fight ? For this : the Seces
sionists for independence, the Abolitionists for
the emancipation of the slave, and the destruc
tion of the slave system.
To the independence of the South the North
will not consent, though half a century of war
be necessary toprevent it. Negro equality at
the South cannot be accomplished though
there be half a century of war for that pur
pose.
Now these simple, plain propositions the
people of this great North and South should
apprehend in all their force. They are true. If
the fathers now living do not acknowledge
them to be true, their children, in sackcloth
and ashes, will. Then where lies the solution
of thin problem t Who will Concede in the
least? all ask; the conservatives of the whole
nation will determine what shalt be done, and
when they decide, the ultras in both extremes
will be compelled to acquiesce. The majority
of thirty-one millions will ultimately ask for,
and maintain, the constitution as it is, the
Union as it was. Men in and out of power may
as well consider this, and make up their minds
to submission, for, as sure as the time contin
ues, they will he called on to yield, however bit
ter the submission.
We should hear no more of distinct civiliza
tions. Those who talk it, and say that they
cannot live under one flag, talk against thein
terests of mankind =Boston Poet,
-rae -- a - rurreriti - e — Potomac and the Inva.
sion.
While the whole nation stands aghast at the
formidable invasion of Maryland and Pennsyl
vania by the columns of the Confederate army
guided by Lee, and Longetseet, and Ewell, and
Beenregard, we are compelled to stand still
another shock in the sudden removal of the
oommandeir of the Army of the Potomac, with
out any other reason assigned than his own
consciousness of inefficiency. This is terrible—
but it is not the worst. Instead of supplying
his place by the restoration 'of M'Clellan, in
whom the whole army and nine tenths of the
people have confidence, and whose appoint
ment would have done more to drive back the
invading horde than all the troops we can raise
to meet the emergency, the a iministration,
dumb, in spite of all the experience it has had,
has ventured upon the fearful experiment, in
this terrible crisis, of appointing a leader who
is only known to the army as a brigade, or at
farthest, corps commander. For this step, un
wise an d i n j u di c i o us as it to, they will be held
accountable to their countrymen. General
Meade is a brave and experienced commander.
What a mere intelligent soldier can do, we
have no doubt he will do. Indeed we have
confidence that he is, as a commander, far su
perior to Hooker, who was a braggart and a
humbug so far as military capacity to lead a
large army was concerned. Gen. Meade le
fine soldier—but so also was Hooker—the mis
take is that neither of them, when chosen to
lead the army—both of them at 'critical pe
riods—had given any decided evidence of abil
ity to command to advantage such large bodies
of troops as compose the Army of the Poto-
M4O. With Gen. Meade no nominatli4r we
hope all may go well—but his appoistyneat, as
was the appointment of Hooka-1 , 9 11 ra mere and
very dangerous e
xpernitent, which the ad
ministratim enould and will he held ascounta
i for. The appointment of M'Clellan would
base aroused the spirit and enthusiasm of the
whole North. With - him at the bead of the
army we should to-day, independent of the
Army of the Potomac, have 200,000 troops in
the field, and the enemy who have insolently
invaded our soil would, in three days, be igno
miniously driven back, annihilated ormaptured.
As it is we accept the circumstances as they
have been -unwisely, thrust upon us, and will
do the best we can, hoping and expecting vic
tory, though judgment seems to have deserted
our rulers. The New York World, in the fol
lowing article, expresses our own views:
If the news which the telegraph last night
flashed over all the. land do not rouse the whole
nation to a sense of its instant and fearful
prril, like a fire-bell in the night, then do we
indeed deserve the doom Which Providence
seems, by the hands of our rulers to be prepa
ring for us.
In the face of the invading army of Lee, the
Army of the Potomac, already demoralized
and disheartened by the repeated and object
less sacrifices which recklessness and incapa
city have exacted of its patient valor, suddenly
finds itself subjected to a change of comman
ders, which transfers it from the control of
one general who has lost, to that of another
who has not won, its confidence and its re
spect.
The possible, would to Heaven it were not
simple truth to say the probable, consequen
ces of this indescribable step,.to the army in
volved, to the nation, and to the cause for
which the nation bleeds and has so long been
bleeding aribvery pore, are so Momentous and
so tt rrible that in the contempktiou of them
all other thoughts are silent.
This is no moment in which to brand, as his
tory will brand it, his presumptuous folly,
climbing by its dread results to the height of
crime against the state, whose moral suicide
now fitly closes his brief but fatal tenure of
command. Till the hand of Apollo is once
more upon the reins of his fiery chariot, and
the world draws breath from its peril, let
Phaeton lie where his madness has hurled
him.
Nor can we dwell to-day on the guilt of th6E6
men in the government who have seen the toils
of the invading army drawn daily closer round
about the helpless and agonizing incapacity of
the general who now throws up in despair the
command which it was their solemn dtity long
since to have transferred into other hen& than
his. Whether ignereutry deluded, 9r wickedly
deluding, these men have been cheating the
nation into hope while all around them hourly
preached despair and death, it matters lithe
just now to inquire.
The American people, by the open confes
sion of the National authorities, are this day
standing fans to fang with the impending anni
hilation of their finest army; the impending
fall of their National Capital; the impending
ruin of their National cause. The general wbo
has caught up the sword thrown away by
Hooker is a brave and worthy officer. Re will
doubtless do all that, under so`fearful a re
sponsibility as this which has fallen upon him,
can be expected of a man inexperienced in
high command, and suddenly called to extri
sate a great army from the straits into which
it has been led by a general who avows him..
self beaten before he has felt the first blow of
his enemy.
But it would be trifling with the highest
interests to conceal the simple fact that the
Army of Abe Potomac knows General Meade
only as a subordinate officer who has done
nothing to prove himself equal to such' an
emerg-ncy as that in which the army now
find's itself deserted by a goers' of whow it
knows that he would never have resigned the
position he• trampled upon so many sacred
things to reach, had be believed that victory
was so much as possible to be won. Had the
baton of command been passed to a general
tried and trusted by the army, there would
DWI have been danger in the execution of the
inuditidations which must have followed in the
plans and movements of the campaign. But
to the execution' of these modifications the
army would in that case have proceeded with
an alacrity and confi fence which It were now
_altogether insane to expect of them.
But it is idle to speculate on what might
have been. For what may be, let the Nation
at once prepare itself. It is well, doubtless,
to hope even against hope. It is possible that ,
General Meade may defeat, at the bleVehth
hour, the ripe combinations of the splendid
commander whom the Confederates have
launched, at the head of a hundred thousand
veterans, akainit the heart of the Union. But
he is. the worst of traitors or the maddest of
men who will rest the future of the nation, even
for a few weeks, upon such, a, possibility. The
duty
of the hour is plain and imperative to all
men. The people of the United Statea must
prepare this day for the worst, as if the worst
were upon them. If the Army of the Potomac
is beaten and dispersed, the answer of the Fed
eral governmentxto the people of Pennsylvania
will be its answer to all the North: "The
States must take care of themselves." The fall
of Washington, of Baltimore, of Philadelphia,
of New York itself, will be a simple question
of time if the Army of the Potomac disappears
beneath a great defeat., and the States are not
in arms to defend the Union by defending
themselves. It will be madness, in that event,
to talk of the conscription of new armies to be
surrendered to the imbecility and frenzy of the
men who have brought us, after two years of
w a r, to the fearful verge of ruin and disgrace
on which we are standing to-day. Conecrip
tion implies. confidence, confidence in govern
ment which enrolls and in the commander who
is to wield the armies of the people. Let those
armies at once be raised in the only way in
which they can be now raised, at the call of
the States; let them be armed and set in the
field, lest the evil day overtake us suddenly,
and find us alike uprepared to rescue the na
tional government from the shame and ruin it
has been bringing upon itself and us, or to im
pose respect upon the enemy whom our blind
ness and our blunders have educated to the
pitch of audacious power from which he now
insults and threatens us in the eyes of all man
kind.
NEWS OF THE -DAY.
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND
HEADQVARTERP, ARMY' OF THE CUMBERLAND,
MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE, Juie 28, 1863.
General Reynolds, at 8 o'clock a. tn. to-day,
took possession of this place. At 6p. m. Gen.
Granger occupied Shelbyville, the rebels, af
ter a slight resistance, retreating—their seve
ral columns retiring on lines of which Tulla
homa is the concentrating point. Gen. Rose
crane has removed- restrictions on the use of
the telegraph, arid I send the following synop
sis of the,tuovementtli Which resulted so fruit
fully. The movement began on the 24th, in
the midst of heavy rain, which continued with
but slight intermission.. The enemy's ad
vanced posts were formed on all roads leading
South, not more than nine miles distant froni
Murfreesboro'.
On the left Butler's First Kentucky cavalry
were driven rapidly through Hoover's Gap to
g ni .sh. Greve. They had not time to place ar
tillery in finished works In the Gap two com
panies were cut off and scattered among the
hills. Stewart's division moved from Fairfield,
on the alarm being given, to Beach Grove. and
engaged the bead of Thomas's corps under
Cu! Wilder. A brisk engagement between
Wilder's mounted infantry and Bates's rebel
b i l g ade ensued, in which the enemy attempted
fl an ki ng no, but were repulsed by the 17th In
diana. with heavy loss. Our loss was about
15 killed and 50 wounded. The fight lasted 8
hours. Tl rebels had two guns disabled by
Kelly and Harris's batteries. The battle en
ded with the night., the rebels being still in
possession of Beech Grove and the ridge of
hills diagonally crossing the road to Fairfield,
Manchester, Evringville and 'Garrison's Peek,
through which our course lay. Ou Thursday
the rebels threw up fortifications and planted
Dardin's battery to rake Hoover's Gap, in
'which Gen. Thomas's corps were massed.
Later in the evening they opened from five
p o i n t s a heavy cross fire upon our position,
but were soon silenced by Lcomis's, Church
and Harris's batteries. On Friday General
Rcseerana made a flank movement to the right
for the purpose of getting on the Fairfield
road and cutting the rebels off from their line
of retreat. The movement was made by the
brigade of regulars, commanded by Maj. Cool
idge, in the absence of General King at Mur
freesboro'. The advance flanking- force made
rapid and brilliant charges upon Bates's rebel
brigade, forming the rebel left; driving it in
great confusion for half a mile, and. causing
'the rebel right Pr,) hastily evacuate Beech
Grove, retreating in "great haste toward Fair
field. Colonel Walker, through fear of being
flanked, by forces apparently moving on his
right, but really retreating, failed to move his
brigade as far as Fairfield road, and the enemy
escaped. They threw away everything but
their guns, strewing the country with blan
kets and knapeaelv, General Reaseau pur
sued them to Fairfield, and the enemy retreated
thence to Tullahoma.
Gen. Reynolds moved forward neat day, nc
cupYing Manchester and taking thirty prison
ers, including three officers.
On the centre Claiborne's division was en
countered at Liberty Gap, and a severe en
gagement of an hour's duration ensued—our
loss about 800, the rebel loss unknown. Col.
Gowan, of Second Arkansas, and Maj. Clay
brook, of Gen. Claiborne's staff, were killed.
Millers's and Wallace's brigades were chiefly
engaged—the kiss of the former was heavy,
of the latter light. Gen. Miller was seriously
wounded in the first cavalry engagement, the
particulars of which are unknown. It took
place on the 24th, between Gen. Mitchell and
Gen. Forrest, in which the former found him
self outnumbered. Gen. Stanley went to
Mitchell's aid, and Forrest retreated. Gen.
Granger moved forward, but finding Polk's
eorps, reported 18,000 strong, in front, accord
ing to Orders the centre and right did net at
tempt to push the enemy. The rebels finding
us in Manchester, hastily evacuated Wartrace
and Shelbyville.
Had not the constant rains of the past four
days and the difficulties 01 batroads retarded
our entire . left, we should lave succeeded in
forcing Bragg from his line of retreat, and
thence towards the river, or compelled him to
fight us, north and west of Tullahoma: As it
now stands, he is safely retreating on Tullaho
ma Hardee is on the Wartrace and Polk on the
Shelbyville road. They will be in front of Tulla
homa to-night, assume a defensive position,
and await the attack of the Army of the Cum
berland, Which to-night will be within reach
of them.
Gen. Granger had a grand reception from
_the loyal citizens of Shelbyville, including'
men, women and children.
Gen. Granger captured 300 men, 20 officers,
and three pieces of artillery, and then puihed
on in pursuit of the rebel train, nine miles
ahead.
MARTIAL LAW.
DAmmtomm, Jane Kw—Martini law has just
been proclaimed in this oily.
FROM KENTUCKY.
CINCINNATI, June 30.—A special dispatch. to
the Commercial, from Central Kentucky, says
matters on the Cumberland river wear a threat
ening aspect. The rebels are represented to
be strong at Albany, numbering 15,000 men,
co mmanded by Pegram and Marshall, and pre
paring to. advanee into Kentucky. The ad
vance of the rebels entered Columbia yester
day. The 'character of the movement is not
yet fully developed, but those in command of
our forces are confident of their ability to
repel any attacks the enemy may be likely to
make.
BERKS COUNTY ABOV*ZA,
READING, June 30.—The Reading Adler, the
organ of the Democrats, acd generally known
as the "Berke County Bible," has come out with
a stirring appeal to the farmers to quit their
fields and rally for the defence of the State.—
A camp is formed, and it is expected that there
will be 20,000 men assembled there immedi
ately.
By THE MAILS.
TROOPS FROM NEW JERSEY.
Tanwron, June 29.—0 n Saturday, Gov. Par
ker received a telegram from Governor Curtin
stating that the enemy had again advanced in
force. The Governor immediately took mea
sures to call out the militia. All the troops
that had been directed to hold themselves in
r r imiluess for service, mere ordered to report
at once at Trenton. The troops are now ar
riving here, and will proceed at once to Penn
sylvania.
TRENTON, N. J., June 29.—The quota of
troops from New Jersey, to fill up the old re
giments, is 6,000. Governor Parker will issue
the orders to-morrow- dividing off this number
to counties, according to the ratio of popula
tion. A company from Lambertville, Hunter
don county, arrived to-day, to go into Penn
sylvania, in pursuance of the proclamation
just issued.
PROSECUTION OP A NEWSPAIP6.
WASHINGTON, June 29.—N0 apprehensions
are now felt of a rebel - raid on the' BaltiMore
and Washington railroad. Trains continue to
arrive regularly.
The grand jury for this district has just in
dicted the editor of the Washington Star. un
der the treason act, for publishing a letter
purporting to be taken from the Philadelphia
Inquirer, giving the location of the , corps of
the Army of the Potomac. It was announced
some time since that all the papers which pub
lished the letter are to be prosecuted.
WASHINGTON ITEMS
Among the Washington items we find the
following, under date June 29:
TRB MARYLAND INVASION
It is said that 150 colored men were captured
by the rebel cavalry at Edwards' Ferry, yes
terday; in addition to 15 barges, loaded with
government stores. The barges were burned,
together wish most of their valuable contents,
which consisted of rations of all kinds.
The reports generally agree that 100 Degrees
were captured wish the large train of wagons
and mutes near RoCkville"on Sunday. A gen
tleman had 13 horses stolen from his stable in
that vicinity.
HONORS TO THE BRAVE.
The following official order has been is
sued:
*AR DEPARTMENT, June 29
- GENERAL Oltorks No. l'9s.—The Adjutant
faerteral will provide an appropriate medal of
bettor for the troops who, after the miration
of their term, have offered their services to
the government in the present emergency ; and
also for the volunteers from other States that
have volunteered their temporary service iu
the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland.
,By order of the Secretary of War.
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.
THE ATTACK ON FAIRFAX 0011112 HOWL
Thirty of the detachment of Scott'a cavalry
who eucountered the enemy at Fairfax Court
House on Saturday, have returned. They in
clude Major Remington and Captain Campbell.
About thirty of the number, including three
lieutenants, are yet to be accounted for.
VALLANDIGHAM
The Ohio DeMOgratic State Convention Com
mittee received an answer from the President
to-day. he agreed to release Mr. rallandig
ham, provided they would personally conform
to certain terms, which the sub-committee were
not at liberty to do without consulting with the
entire committee, which will meet at New York
to-morrow , several of its members having
r-o,.bed that city,
PHILADELPHIA MILITARY DISTRICT-MEETINGS
OF CITIZENS-GENERAL DANA; AND WHAT EN
ME!
Thanks to the National Administration, the
Custom House and Woolly Head Leaguers have
General Dana as commander. His honor the
mayor made a special call and the good citizens
held special meetings, at the various pollee
stations, in view of the great emergency, and
General Dana made a speech, in which he said
he couldn't make a speech, and never had made
a speech; but, nevertheless, mould make a speech,
and the burden of the speech is simply this, all
that is worth extracting from it. He said :
"lie had a feeling of hatred against the
Soutb, and thought that any man who did not
hold - a hatred againet the southern gentlemen,
as they call themselves, was not fit to be called
enAmerican."
Good for General Dana He reminds us very
much of a white-livered citizen of Carlisle who
ran away from the rebels, and afterhe arrived
Daftly in Harrisburg. sworb the whole rebel
army should be hanged side by side with the
Copperheads who had invited them here, and
of *horn the loyal" men (who ran away) of
Curitberland county had a list. Brave General
Dam! brave runaways from Cumberland !
AE NT Or THE CYMBERLAND-GENERAL ROSE-
CRANE MOVING
CMCIINNATI. Tenn., June 29.—A Murfrees.
berg' dispatch, dated the 27th instant, says:
Jilrt skirmishes on 'ho 24th and 2.5t.k instants,
at Guy's Gap, between the advance corps of
General McCook and a rebel brigade, our loss
was two hundred and twenty-five killed and
wounded, l including Captain Vattier and Lieu
tenalat Thomas, of the seventy-seventh Penn
sylvfaia, killed, and •Captains Martin, Leine
and Rambo, and Lieutenants koulke, ling and
jon4, of the same regiment, wounded."
MNPEI/S, June 24, via Cairo June 26.—C01.
Kir. r has jest returned from an extensive
t
ta., y expedition south, from La Orange,
Ten He reports as follows : lie broke up
the mmand under General George, at Panels;
des . yed the railroad bridge at the Yocokaway
-and e trestle work just beyond, and a por
timi f the road from there north.
Fe then crossed the Tallahatchie, comin ii
g
nor b d pursued Chalmers beyond Coldwater,
I
• '
on the Helena road. He made for the Talla
hatchie to cross,
and at the mouth of theCold
water he killed fifteen or twenty of Chalmer's
men, and took forty prisoners. He paroled
all the sick at Panola, brought away and de
stroyed all the army supplies; workshops,
mills, tanneries, depots, &o.
He passed within three miles of Austin and
Commerce, destroying an immense amount of
forage and subsistence, took from six to eight
hundred horses and mules, and five hundred
head of cattle. He sent etachments north
and northeast from Pauoia, to destroy or bring
away all subsistence, forage, horses, mules, &c.
We passed through five counties, traveled two
hundred miles, and crossed three streams.
Chalmers had with him Stoke's, Slemmer's,
and Blythe's men, 900, with three pieces of
artillery. The remainder of his force, 900,
fled south via Charleston, under Gen. George.
He destroyed all the ferries at Panola and
Coldwater, and lost one man killed and five
wounded.
THE SIEGE OF VICKSBIIHO
MEMPHIS, June 26, via CAIRO, June 29.
Advices from Grant's army to the noon of the
22d say the seige was progressing vigorously.
On the 20th the cannonading was kept up from
morning until noon by the army and havy, but
elicited no reply from the garrison. A large
number of buildings were destroyed; but be
yond that it is not ascertained that much dam
age was done.
Deserters report that the Tennessee and
Georgia troops are much dissatisfied, and talk
of refining 40 fight any longer.
Johnston's movements are still wrapped in
mystery. He was last reported to be moving
south. His forces are all withdrawn beyond
the Big Black.
General Taylor is said to have hung all the
Federal prisoners taken at Milliken's Bend.—
Retaliatory measures will probably follow.
Very heavy rains in thia vicinity have raised
all the streams to overflowing, and very few
movements on either side have been made.
John Park. conservative, was elected Mayor
of Memphis yesterday.
WALNUT HILLS, NEAR VICKSBURG, June 23:
The rebels in front of Gen. Sherman on our
left came out of the works on Monday night,
and temporarily drove eur pidkets from their
rifle pits ; but they were driven back by our
batteries.
It is thought that they are feeling their way
to cut out, or to send out messengers in the
melee.
There has been considerable firing along the
lines to-day.
Siege guns are arriving in large numbers.
The ambulances sent out for our wounded
toward Jackson have returned to the Big Black
bride, having been turned back at Edwards
Station. No rebel camps are nearer than that
point.
CAIRO, June 26.—The steamer Continental
arrived here at 11 o'clock last night. Her dis
patches were forwarded. She brought Mem
phis dates to the 24th. From the Bulletin of
that date.l. learn that the Yazoo river country
has been the scene, lately, of a brilliant cav
alry raid by a detachment of the 15th Illinois
cavalry, under Major James Grant Wilson, by
orders of Gen. Washburne. The last trip was
made toward Mechanicsburg, where Joe John
son was reported to be massing a large force.
They secured a picket guard of the enemy,
the lieutenant of which , had taken refuge from
the falling rein in a house. They learned from
'the prisoners that a company of rebel cavalry
were at a house near by. They dashed -for
ward and came in front of about 400 Confede
rates instead of 50_ They were surprised
however, and unprepared for an attack, and
received a volley from the Feleral carbines.—
Then our men pressed in upon them with pis
tols and sabres.
Many saddles were emptied. The enemy
thereupon broke and ran in every direction.
Twelve prisoners were captured, fourteen hor
ses and a large quantity of small arms. Our
men being in the minority did not pursue, but
beat a hasty retreat, reaching camp with the
loss of one man killed and one wounded. The
prisoners acknowledged a considerable loss in
killed. They were of theist Mississippi cav
alry. They, with nine other regiments, had
that. morning arrived from Bragg's army.—
Major Wilson and his men are highly compli
mented for gallant conduct.
GRFORTIINATE AFFAIR IN WESTERN VIRGINIA.
CINCINNATI, June 29 —Tile Gazette has in
formation that seventy-five men of the Second
Virginia cavalry were surprised by two hun
dred rebels on Low creek, 'twenty miles above
Camp Platt, .Western Virginia, on Sunday.—
Twenty-nine men and forty-five horses were
captured—nine were killed or wounded. The
rebels lost two killed or wounded.
FROM EITROPB.
The Cunard steamer Heela, which arrived
here yesterday morning, and the City of Bal
tiwore at Cape Roast, bring European awe to
the 18th instant. In the House of Lords, on
the 15th, in the course of a discussion which
took place upon the alleged siezure by the
United States government of British vessels
engaged in legitimate commerce, Earl Russell
stated that in one or two cases of seizure, to
which the attention of the American govern
ment had been called, the reply had been made
that there were sufficient grounds to justify
the seizure, and that those grounds would be
proved before a prize court. The noble Earl
added that, in the opinion of the home govern
ment, the blockade maintained by the Ameri.
can fleet was sufficiently efficient to entitle it
to be observed, and he thought every allow
ance ought to be made for any hasty act on
the part of the blockading force. He believed
there was every desire on the part of the
American government to prevent injustice from
being done. Later advices from Vicksburg
were anxiously awaited in England.
Lord Palmerston, in a Speech at the Lord
Mayor's banquet in London on the 16th inst.,
said that on all questions of peace or war,
'whether in the East or in the West, France and
England were perfect accord_
The departure of French troops for Mexico
bad been deferred until the arrival of General
Forey's report. The Emperor, in
.a letter to
Gen. Forey, says his aim is not to impose upon
the Mexicans a government against their will,
but he desires that Mexico may be born to a
new life, and be regenerated by a government
founded upon the national will.
'New 7.butrifeements:
LOST—somewhere on Market street,
between Pecond and Pro th—e bteel Purse, con
taining slb in money a Ring and several other arti
cles A reward of $2O will be paid to the tinder by
leaving it at this office. j aly-3td
N""m.--Notiee itit h eby given that
"The Commercial Bank of nnsylvania" intend
to apply to the Legislature of Pe sylvania at their next
session. for a renewal of their e der. Said bank is•lo
cated in the city of Phdade 'a, with an authorized
capital of one million of Lars, a renewal of which
will be asked for, with th sual banking privileges.—
By order of the Board. S. C. PALMER, Cashier.
PHILADELPHIA, Tune 29.1863-8 m
HEADQUARTERS PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA,
Harrisburg, June 80, 1868. J}
SPECIAL ORDER,
NO.
All persons, residents of the city of Harris
burg or vicinity, unattached to any military
organization, to whom arms and ammunition,
or either, have lately been issued from the
Harrisburg State arsenal, or who are in pos
session of arms belonging to the State, will
immediately attach themselves to a military
organization, to report to these headquarters,
or return the arms and other State property in
their hands to the arsenal.
By order of A. G. CURTIN,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
A. L. RUSSELL,
Adjutant General Penneylvneis. 3t
ACKERELI
IttAORBREL, Non. 1, 2 and 8, in all sized packages—
new, and sack packags toarrasted. Just received, and
for Sale low by W3l. DOUR Jr., 1 GO.
BLOW:TASTERS P ERESTLVAETA MILITIA, /
HARRISBURG, J une 26, 1863,
GENERAL ORDERS 1
No. 44.
In organizing the troops, responding to the
Proclamation or the Governor, this day issued,
calling for SIXTY THOUSAND men for the
defence of the State, to be mustered into the
service of the State, for / the period of NINETY
DAYS, unless soonerslischarged.
It is ordered :
I. Camps of Rendezvous wilibe established
by the United States Government for districts,
comprising the adjacent counties at such points
as may be indicated by the commandant of the
Department of the Susquehanna and the De
partment of the Monongahela, in charge of
which Camps Commanders and Anhui Sur
geons will be appointed.
11, Squads and companies will be received
at the camps, and, as rapidly as possible, or
ganized into companies of not less than sixty
four men, and into regiments of ten companies
each, and mustered into the service of the
State, by officers appointed by the Adjutant
General for this purpose.
111. Officers will be elected—company offi
cers by the men, and field officers by the com
pany or line officers.
IV, Traneporthtion to the camp of rendez.
vous, nearest their location, will be furnished
by the United States government, on applica
tion of any one actually having charge of a
squad or company, to the agent at the nearest
railroad station.
V. Troops, responding to this call of the
Governor, will be clothed, subsisted, equipped
and supplied by the general goVerilmont, after
arriving at their rendezvous.
VI. Annexed is the quota required from each
county, on the present call, after crediting
those counties which had already responded,
under recent orders, with the number of troops
furnished and actually mustered into service.
Adams 469 _
Allegheny 3600
Armstrong
Beaver 600
Bedford 540
Berke .1738
Blair 550
Bradford 886
Bucks 1147
Butler 640
Cambria . 588
Cutlet= , vir ft..... 70
Carbon 425
Chester 881
Centre . 540
Clarion j2O
Clinton ... 286
Clearfield 365
Columbia 321
Crawford..,.., 980
Cumberland 587
Dauphin ... 744
Delaware 255
Erie 1000
Elk 115
Fayette 800
Franklin ..................... ........... 840
Fulton 180
Forest 120
Greene 480
Huntingdon 502
Indiana 675
Jt•ffersoll 360
Juniata 297
Lancaster • ....2154
Lawrence 460
Lebanon 614
Lehigh 907
Luzerne 1447
Lycoming 628
Mercer 740
_ M'Kean 180
Mifflin 320
Monroe 340
Montgomery 1261
Montour _
Northampton.
Northumberland
Perry
Philadelphia
Pike
Potter
Schuylkill •
•
Snyder
Somerset
Sullivan. ...
Susquehanna
Tioga
Union.
Venango
Warren
Washington.
Wayne
Westmoreland .;...
Wyoming
York
By order of
•
175
911
472
460
..7718
- 150
240
...1312
_. 232
- 540
80
655
• 554
-. 90
-. 500
- 380
950
640
1080
187
1.138
A. G CURTIN,
Governor and Commander-in Chief.
A. L. RussELL, Adjutant General of Penn
nylvani4._
MOT 1 CE.—Notice is hereby given that
application will be made to the Legislature of
Pennsylvania at their next session, for a renewal of the
charter of The Farmers' Bank of Schuylkill Counts.,
located in Pottsville, in tne county of Schuylkill, with
the present capital of one hundred thousand dollars,
and with the usual banking privileges.
J. W. CAKE, Cashier.
Temp 19.. 1R89,-7m
pROC . .LAMATION.
MAYOR'S OFFICE, HARRISBURG,
Jaue 25, 1863.
In the present crisis it is important that
every citizen should be perfectly calm in the
perfornianee of his duty. Therefere, to es,
elude all unnecessary excitement in this city,
it is hereby
. enjoined on all Tavern Keepers,
Retail Liquor Dealers and Keepers of Lager
Beer shops, to close their bars and shops and
discontinue the sale of any intoxicating liquor
whatever until further notice.
je26-tf A.. L. ROUMFORT, Mayor.
HE AMERICAN Tf LEGRAPH
COMPANY—From Harrisburg to Baltimore
This long neglected line bee passed into the bands of
the Inland Telegraph Cemtmy, who are about erecting
oppos.tion lines from'Philadeli.hia to Pittsburg and from
Baltimore to Pittsuore, connecting at the various
points with the independent lines, now made frrm
Portland to Washington. and making from New York to
Buffalo, Chicago and Miiwaukie ; also ,
from Pittsburg
to Cincinnati, ouisville, Si. Louis and other wesiern
cities and towns. These companies wilt extend their
lines to the Pacific the coming year. By the American
lire messages_ge direct to Yolk, Gettysburg, Baltimore,
Washington, Phiispislptit., Maw York, Boston, Portland
and intermediate stations
Connected with it is the Butiquebanna North and
West Branch lines.
Office PaTsior AND UNION Building, Third street,
between Market and Walnut, ilarri4mrg.
All business will be promptly attended to.
je:l6-fwd A. di. BALDWIN , Manager.
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