.Daily post. Tka Union a* It traa; EWSS2as*!=«=ft“" . Tbe Constitution HH It 1»1 TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 1 WPvßeadinc natter an every page. THE TRUTH IN ▲ NUT-SHELL- It will be remembered that between the’time of the election of Mr. Lincoln end the day of his inauguration as Pres ident ..of United States, many sa-1 g adorns persons who had supported him, frequently advised the policy of his pro claiming to the country the principles whwhv would govern his administration. One of the most influential of those who than advised was Mr. Thurlow Weed, editor of the Albany (N. X.) livening Journal. Mr. Weed, and those who thought with him, argued that if the President elect were to declare his in tentions not to interfere, nor to counte * nance interference in the local institu tions ‘..0f.-the States, the Union men of the South would be enabled to maintain themselves against the machinations of the conspirators, and bold their States firmly in the Union. Xiiis was the poli cy suggested by Mr. Weed nnd other ;gentlemen of patriotism and sagacity. Fearing that this sort of moderation Would produce the desired effect upon the mind of the newly elected President, the Mew York Tribune,- backed by its ; infuriated followers, opened upon Weed and his coadjutors, denonncing them as ' being' not only faUe to their' political hut with conspiracy to impose upon the fears and anxieties of Mr. Lin ’ . coin. The cry went forth loud and long ■ ‘ that Weed. was a traitor to tho Chicago platform, and in less than a month his single voice was drowned amid the thun dering chorus of abolition denunciation. > ‘.“there isno troublo in the Union.” these fanetiearepeated from day to day, until the President, himself, became satisfied that there really was no danger; and he, in . VlCthe.simplicity of this belief, informed the American people, but a fow days prior to his inauguration, and less than i month before actual hostilities commenced, “that , V;-allquiet an( j no body hurt.” President Lincoln was not to blame for entertaining thisimpression; the abolition press rang it in hisegrs ; and abolitionemissaries to Spring-1 field'.assured him that ail was well. Oth- { ers of the abolition crew insisted that the Southern people were not in earnest; wLilo Chandler, and his set of bloody partisans, telegraphed that “a little blood-letting would do the country good." These facts are not yet eighteen months old; yet the mourners who proclaimed them, instead of shrinking from the awful consequences ot their accursed infatuation, aro even now, , more bloody and brutal in their concep tions than they were before the rebellion began. The mere taste of blood has ope |;, rated upon them a 9 upon a Cuban bleod | - hound; they seem to exult in carnage, and I recoil from no expected slaughter. For . fear that the rebellion may be too speedily : put down, these fiends propose and advo , cate ail sorts of impracticable measures, ,apparently for no other purpose than to j- satisfy the Union men of the South that nothing bat absolute, and certain, and speedy annihilation awaits them. The i—oirfyeffect this produces in the South is one not only against a reunion, but in favor of fighting until every Southern man is . slaughtered. The efforts of the leading traitors South is to satisfy their people that there is ncthing left for them but to .."fight for their homes, or hang from a Northern gallows. The facts upon which they base these monstrous falsehoods are taken from speeches of abolition members ' ofCongress, and from the abolition papers which sustain them. These speeches are flaunted iu t! e faces of Southern Union - i man,-and produced “as confirmation! strong as proofs of holy writ,” that the Northern policy is to utterly overwhelm '‘.and crash them. From these facts it will be Been that abolitionism not only encour aged the rebellion, but that it is now fur . nishing material to indefinitely prolong its existence. Bat to return to Mr. Weed. We have noticed that gentleman’s course from the day ot Mr. Lincoln’s election up until that of his inauguration. Shortly after that defeat, Mr. Weed went to Europe, and re >:4fimttd to this conntey but the other day. ■VpHe'haa been -away therefore for nearly a * jw«r, not mingling iu the daily strifes of " our domestic squabbles. He comes back, like all Americans who go abroad, with a reverence for his country, its great- j ■s*g*rand its glory than he felt prior to his it; and after his year’s absence and he returns to the home of his "^children,and finds the bloody spirit of Ab .alition even more furious than it was when 1 ha departed. He finds nothing to equal "itin ferocity except the sanguinary spirit of rebellion which it is helping to keep alive. Mr. Weed says: '""The Chief Architects of Rebellion, be fore t< broke out, avowed that they were aided iniheir infernal designs by the ultra Abolitionists of the North. This teas too true, for without such aid the South could never have Iten united against ths Union. . -ißsUfor the incendiary recommendations wkiehrendered the otherwise useful Helper ~ BOgtU&Jifebrdnd, North Carolina could tMtiave been forced out of the Union.— And even noser - the ultra Abolition press aged -speech-makers art aggravating the Horrors they hetped to create, and thue, by playing into the hande of the Icadtts of Rebellion, are keeping down the Union men of the. South, and rendering reunion difficult, if not impossible." The reader will remember that this is not from the pen of a Democrat who .jright be silenced by being called a sympa '“tuser witk rebellion; it is the deliberate ‘.conviction of Thurlow Weed, the intimate -Vdf Secretary Seward, and confessedly one ofibe ihoet sagacious mien in the Unieu. -By the'course of the extremist, North and South, this fratricidal strife was pro duced and inaugurated; as if “faeU itaelf breathed forth contagion,” at call, the millions of tho country are feeing prisoned- by the fell spirit of extreme conspirators, who seem bent upon their country’s ruin. The millions North and South are engaged in deadly strife, produced by a few. mad fanatics residing in the two extreme sections of the coun try. Mr. Weed never put more troth in the same space than is contained in the above little paragraph. LIEUT. COL. SWEITZER AND MAJOB PATTERSON BOTH KlhlißD. By our dispatches it will ho seen that the death of Col. Black is confirmed, and that Lieut. Colonel Sweitzer and Major James Patterson, of the same regiment, are also reported dead. From this it will be seen that all the field officers of the 62d Pennsylvania regiment were killed in leading a charge at the head of their regi ment. Lieut. Col. Sweitzer, althongh not a na tive of our county, was a resident amongst us for many years. He was a native of Fayette county. He came to Pittsburgh in 184 C, opened a law office, and soon at irutid around him a host of professional aud personal friends. In 1849 he was ap pointed United States District Attorney, for Western Pennsylvania, and continued pursuing the legal profession until the gov ernment called upon her children to de fend it against rebellion. Col. Sweitzer was a true Union soldier and has given up his life in endeavoring to restore it. — He was a true patriot, a highly esteemed citizen and a good, kind-hearted, amiable Major Patterson, who is also reported dead, was a son of our late Recorder, N. P. Patterson, of Birmingham. He was a native of our county, his family being amongst its oldest residents. Major Pat terson had the true, steady courage and resolution of a gallant soldier. Modest and unpretending, he made but little dis play in gaudy regimentals, but, like that style of men, he was to be relied upon when great emergencies required steady and unflinching valor. ' In the regiment to which these officers belonged, there were several hundred men from this county, the principal portion being from North of the Allegheny. The extent of the regiment’s disaster we do uot know, but judging from the destruc tion among its officers we are apprehensive that it is appalling. Our county has, in this last engagement, offered up her full proportion of both officers and men. Incidents of the War. Mr. Willis, in his last letter to the Home Journal, describes an affecting scene: “As an incident of occurrence on the highway, I was very much impressed with a scene at one of the junction points be tween Baltimore and Philadelphia. Dur ing the ten minutes of necessary delay, a car, that was changing its fastenings to a more recent train, stood directly against us, on the parallel track, giving from my window especially the closest view ot the interior alongside. Upon the seat railings in the forward part of the car was extend ed a cot mattress, and in attendance upon its suffering occupant stood, apparently, the father and mother, at the very acme of affectionate anxiety. The wounded man, with the holsters and spurs ol a dragoon lodged in the rack over his head, was lying exhausted on his pillow, the mother trying with one hand to stop the hemor rhage from a wound, and with the other applying the stimulant to the reluctant breath. He was a noble looking youth, apparently near the foreclosed darkening at the noon of life, which is more sorrowful than earlier or later; and at the foot of his couch stood the father, with folded arms, looking down upon what Fate was allot ting to his dearest hopes. The group— all three entirely unconscious of observa tion—was the picture of human sorrow tasting its bitterest cup, and no one could look on it with a dry eye.” Mr. Beecher, in the Independent, tells this story of a wounded soldier: “Taking a little excursion in the coun try, we fell ia with an intelligent looking I rishman, dressed in a soldier’s faded uni form. He was resting himself on a bench in a public square, with one crutch lying beside him. He had lost his right leg up to the body, and his right hand was muti lated and stiff. Of course we asked his story, aud learned that he was wounded iu two places at the same moment by frag ments of a shell, one crushing his leg at the knee, the other his hand. “He was in the Chicago Irish Brigade, under the brave Col. Mulligan, ana wag wounded in the terrible fight at Lexington, Mo., last summer. In answer to onr in quiry, he said he was entitled to a-pension from the time of his discharge, but had not yet been ableto get it, and in the mean time had nothing to depend upon but the chanty of the people. After giving him a trifle, we promised to write a word to urge the government to take measures for for warding the work of the Pension Office, so that our crippled soldiers may not be com pelled to beg their bread.” New Orleans. The Foreign Residents. - The Delta has the following comments upon the position of the foreign residents ot New Orleans: “It appear*that the foreign residents in this city who have either participated in or sympathized with the rebellion affect much sensibility at being called upon to take the oath prescribed in General But ler’s Order No. 41. Considering with what alacrity they took the oath prepared for them by the Confederates some months since—an _ oath which, in effect, made them parties to the rebellion—we do not feel called npon to express any sympathy at their sitnation. and it is pretty evident that the authorities will make no conces sions in their behalf. “ Some of these foreign residents have participated in the rebellion, and promo ted its canse with a teal rivalling that dis played by those directly interested in the event. They added volume to tho denun ciations of the Union and of those who adhered to it—to the cry in favor of secession. All the sophistUal arguments by which the war was justified, all the vain hopes on which Bnccess was based, found in them a ready echo. Whenever a Union man was brought to light, one of these gentry stood ready to throw the first stone at him. They were constantly en couraging the belief that their government was about intervening in the war, and taking the side of the South. Their nom inal neutrality has been extensively em ployed in the -bnainess of smuggling, in running ammunition in, and in otherwise violating the revenae laws of the United States. * ' * “ * * * “ Let these men beware how they far ther tax the forbearance of a government to which they have acted so treacherously —a government which, were it to act from the dictates of simple justice, would com pel many of them to leave the country they have so grossly wronged by the first ves sel that anils. we referinth/ibngoing only to tba for eign residsats here who have sided with the rebellion. There an many foreign residents of this city, who have been faith ful to the obligation, they owe aa wall to this country sstothsir own, and who, we feel assured, will concur in the vises we hare expressed in reference to thtir faith taNeoufeymen.” j From tho Jourgipl of Commerce. WHAT ARTS WE FIGHTING It is a strange hallucination that possess es the minds of some-radical-men, : who when they read of a fugitive slave sent back, or a negro turned out of camp, like any other strolling non-combatant, start up and ask: “ Is it for this the life blood of the nation is spilled? is it for this we are fighting?” Why no, gentlemen, it is not for the negro, for his freedom or for his enslaving, that we are fighting. Whycan’t you get it into your heads that this war, practically and theoretically, has nothing to do with the negro? It is- a war of white men, in a country settled by white men, inhabited and ruled by white men, and the war is for. the good of white men and white men only. Yet these same gentle men seem to argue, in a manner satisfac torly to themselves, that when it is admit ted that we are not fighting to enslave ne groes, the converse must be true, that we are fighting to free the negroes! A cotem porary gave us the other day a sad picture of a wounded soldier, perhaps a dying man, who had suffered in the war, and de manded if we thought all that man’s suf fering was for naught, connecting there with the notion that it was for the negro’s freedom that he had suffered and his com rades had died. A thousand probabilities to one that if the man were asked whether he had offered his life on the altar for the cause of the negro, he would repudiate the idea with scorn. Never since the world was made did a nation pour out its treasure, its greatest treasure, the life of its youth and man hood, as this nation has been doing. In every mountain fastness, on every plain of the North, there is a cottage from which a son or a brother hasgoneto the battlefield. In every city, village, and hamlet, from the prairies to the ocean, old men sit sad eyed, and mothers look out of the window, through blinding tears, for the return of the brave who have answered their coun try’s call. Doeafhe wind shake the trees with unaccustomed violence, there are a million throbhing hearts that beat quicker even in the hours of sleep, lest the souni i betoken disaster from the field of blood. Does the morning break pleasantly with tho soft light of June, so' pleasant in the old times, there is scarcely in all the land a home to welcome the son with gladness, an eye to brighten with the cheer of the summer light. Tho land mourns. Old women go tottering to the grave for lack ot the support of the stout arms that lie nerveless bv the Potomac or the Tennes see. Young eyes are darkened with long grief and young heart are broken with the long long waiting, aud the terrible story that comes at last. This is what they have done aud suffered who are at home. And is all this for the glory of the past, the Union of the fathers, the land of Washing ton V And they who have gone, the hundreds of thousands who have given themselves to the battle, what have they gone for? They have endured, have suffered, have fought, have fallen, in the cause for which they have enlisted. Their graves are all along the banks of our mighty rivers. For what have they died ? Follow one man of that army from his home through all that he has suffered ; consider all that he haß lost. He waa young and strong, and he had hopes before, aud affections around him. He broke the bonds of home, bond known nowhere on earth so strong as here. He gave himself to the nation. He slept in the winter nights uuder the snow or stars—he lived in one yearas long, for exposure and sufierirfg aud pain, as most men live in seventy. He fought in battle after battle. The worst enemy that he met was the fierce camp fever that grasped him in hot conflict. In his delirium the cool breeze of the old home was on his forehead, and in his calmer hours he remembered the well at his father’s door and longed for it. as David never longed for the water of the well of Bethlehem. Who can paint the terrible story of the battle of youth and fever in the dismal tent of the soldier on the field ? But he conquered that enemy, and another day he was on the battle field again, and in the midst of the smoke and slaughter, he remembered the blue eyes of the woman that loved him more than life in the up country, aud even then, as the memory of those beloved eyes blessed him, death came in at his breast, and the form that she would have sheltered in her arms against every human woe, lay on the plain, and the wild flood of war swept hither and thither above the unconscious clay.-- No —not unconscious yet. For once, his comrades, loving him for all that he had been of gentleness and yet of firm ness, a hero in tne field, but a child in the camp; his comrades, as they rushed by in the melee, saw him open his eyes, raise his right arm, and though they saw it not per fectly, they knew he smiled as he waved his bands once —only once—before the darkness came. Will any one tell us what that dying ges ture was intended to signify ? Did it im ply that in the moment of his passing, that moment into which life is sometimes com pressed, when the soul gathers np all its memories to carry away with it into the other country, did it imply that he remem bered all he had struggled for, all he had lost, and died content, because it was all for the Southern black man and his canse? How can men do such foul dishonor to the soldier of the Union ? Whatever be the future, course of the war, and wheth er the radical views gain supremacy so that it dwindles from the proportions of a war for the nation into a war for the negro, or whether it remains as now a war for the American Union, let no man dare to des ecrate one grave on all the fields where our dead lie side by aide, with any monu mental stone to tell the falsehood that they fought for the men of Africa, and the free dom of the negro race. Rather, if the fu ture be in store for ns, which God forbid, that these men gun. their way, and make the war a negro war, rather let the dead lie in unknown graves, and be counted where the Union they fought for will then be counted, among the glories of the past. SOUTHERN NEWS. Tke Lonlilsslsii in Beanre> lard's Army. From the New Orleane Delta, June 14. When, in March last, Beauregard solic ited reinforcements from this State for ninety days, the call was responded to by nearly five thousand men. This force, we are informed, is mainly composed of the most respectable youths of this city, and includes a large number of professional gentlemen. In going, there were few of the number who did not make serions sac rifices of interest and feeling, and had they had the remotest idea that they would have experienced ill treatment, or been kept beyond the stipulated time, few of them would have gone at all. Their prompti tude has, we learn on unquestionable au thority, met with an unlooked-lor requital. It appears that Gen. Bragg, who, upon the death of Gen. Johnston, became sec ond in command, has constantly displayed amost vindictive spirit toward them. Soon after their arrival at Corinth, he is said to have remarked regarding them, with a sneer at their Social superiority—“ They have turned oat only for ninety days, bat I will give them Hell. before that time ex pires!” The wanton andbrutaLtlmathas been Tzarfally fulfilled. Thevreigjbtofth, camp, picket and fatigue duties ha, been sustained by-tkem at his vuetuticu, white the main body of the army, competed aa it tie*, eqjoyed mt'tti&fWmWSSm T*¥rglirtMißf es, when not out on picket, they were per forming all kinds of guard duty, or wield ing the shovel and pick-axe in construct ing earthworks, ot swinging the:axe in clearing the woods or opening the}yoadsi To t these: causal is to fearful mortality and the general sickness which it is now known": nas prevailed in this branch of Beauregard's army more than in any other. Gen. Stuart. From the Richmond Whiz, June Bth. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart rode into town Monday afternoon, and was paying his re spects to the Governor in a quiet way, at the Executive mansion, when, it becoming known to the large crowd of strollers in the Capitol Square, who were looking on at the evolutions of the Second Class Militia, that the bold dragoon was near by, the building was immediately surrounded by an enthusiastic multitnde vociferating for Stuart. The gallant General in a few minutes made his appearance upon the portico and acknowledged the compliment paid him in a few remarks full of spirit and good cheer. Among other things, he raid he had been to the Chickahomiuy to visit his old friends of the United States Army, but they very uncivilly turned their backs upon him. Seeing a manifest de sire on the part of the crowd to make for him an ovation, the General then mounted his charger aud galloped off, amid the shouts of the crowd, which by this time had increased to more than a thousand per sons. Yankee Spies. From the Riahmond Whiz, Juue IS. We are informed that the paragraph from the Petersburg Express, relative to a Yankee spy having been seen in this city, copied by us yesterday, is true, except that the place at which he was seen was at the Exchange, and not at the American,-and in the parlor instead of at the table. His name is Dennison. At Washington he was Seward’s chief detective. He was recog nized by the little daughter of Mrs. Green how, who had been instructed by her mother, while in Washington, to make herself familiar with the faces of such char acters. The shrewd rascal, it seems, recog nized the little girl at the same time she discovered him, and when she ran to give the inteiligenee to her mother, he disap peared. This fallow is remarkable for his cleverness and cunning, and has no doubt before this put McClellan in possession of much that he desired to know. The event should be an admonition to our own detec tives and guards—and to the people gen erally. Let all be on the qui vise, and let every person who has the least atmosphere of doubt about him be required to give an account of himself. The Currency. The sudden rise in the valae of gold, as compared with the legal-tender notes, somewhat alarms tho leaders in the new scheme of making money out of paper. If Congress were not so near an adjourn ment, the Senate would not pass the Treas ury note bill at present, but would wait to see the experiment tried further before adding another one hundred and fifty millions to the currency of the country. But an early adjournment is a foregone conclusion, no matter what the emergency may be; members are bent on leaving this hot and dusty place before the worst of the summer heats are upon us. It is a singular fact, however, that the dust, the heat and the unhealthiness of Washington never seemed to make any impression upon Congress so long as the pay was per diem. 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LATEST R BY TELEGIAPB. me bmtle or heceamcsville RICHMOND SOON TO BE CRPTUREO. DESPERATE FIGHTING OH BOTH SIDES. Oar Loom 1,200 la Killed and Weaaded. Reported Death of Colonel Sam'l W. Black Confirmed. LIST OF.KILLED AND WOUNDED. *«.i As., dr., Ac. New York, June 30. —The Tribune has just issued an extra with dispatches dated on the battle field, Sunday morning: The dispatch states that a severe and most determined battle was fought on the right wing on Thursday and Friday, which is claimed by- some ot our cfficera as a sue* cessful strategic movement, driving the enemy unwittingly, into a trap which will soon capture Richmond and the entire rebel army. The attack was made by the enemy in immense force, who crossed the Chickahominy near the railroad above Mecbanicsville on Thursday afternoon. The rebels fought desperately, but were unable to drive our men a single rod, though the enemy were ten to our one. The only force engaged that day was General M'Call’s Division, the battle last ing from two o'clock till nine p. m., when the division was ordered back. G jneral M’Clellan was on the field and expressed himself satisfied with the result. The Herald also publishes a report, dated the 27th, which stateß that our killed, wounded and missing will number 1200. The object ofthe movement was to bring Gen. Porter’s and other divisions into close connection with the rest ofthe army. In fact, changing the front of the whole of our forces, with our central and left pressing immediately on Richmond itself, wl lien could be done, it was expected, on Satur day. It was a virtual surrender or vacating of a long line of defense, heretofore kept up to Mechanicsville, in order to have the whole farce within a more effective dis tance, also to allow the rebels to follow, and if possible to bag them. Gen. McClellan ordered Gen. Porter to withdraw to two miles this side of Gaine’s Mills early on Friday morning, which was done, the enemy following and thinking they had gained the victory. Our troops slowly moved back in oraer ; fighting as they were crossing the Chickahominy, and reached the position designated for their occupation by Gen. McClellan. The rebels followed in great torcc and by three o'clock in the afternoon a gene ral and heavy engagement occurred here, lasting till seven o’clock, when a lull took place; but the rebels again renewed it with greater ferocity, having been rein forced. Our brave men stood the unequal con test like heroes, and the shell, grape and musketry did fearful havoc. Our forces were increased by Gens. Slocum, Palmer, French and Meagher’s brigade, and the rebels were beaten. Meagher's brigade went into the battle with their coats off and sleeves rolled up, fighting like tigers. The ground which General McClellan ordered Gen. Porter to occupy and hold was occu pied and held in the early part of the day. General Porter's corps only contended againßt the rebels, but subsequently rein forcements swelled our numbers to 46,- 000. The rebels had GO,OOO under Gens. Lee, Hill, Anderson and Branch. Among the killed are Col. Black' and Lieut. Colonel Sweitzer, ofthe 62d Pa.; Col. Gane, of the 22d Mass.; CoL Roberts, of the Ist Mich.; CoL McQuade, and Lieut. Col. Skellen, of the 4th N. Y.; and Maj. Pat terson, 62d Pa. The following is the list of the killed as far as ascertained: Col. Samuel W. Black, of the 62dPa., formerly of Nebraska, by a ball through the head, while leading a charge through a piece of woods; Col. John W. McLane, of the 83d Pa.; Col. Magilton, 4th Pa.; Capt. Carr, 16th Mich.; Capt. H. L. Brown, Co. I, 83d Pa.; Capt. McCatherley, 9th Mass.; Captain Madigaa. 9th Mass.; Ist Lieut. R. Wingent; Co. I, Hth Mass.; 2d Lieut. Francis Dowd, Co. I, 9th Mass.; Jos. Simpson, Co. E, 2d Pa.; private Par tridge, Co. C, sth New York; private Nes mith, 12th Pa.; George Ovitt, Co. F, Pa. Bucktails; William Quigley, Co. I,lst Pa.; H. B. Stager, Co. B, 12th Pa.; Horace W. Clark, Co. I, 4th Michigan. List of Wockded.— Jno. G. Rimes, Bth Pa., shoulder, severely; Thomas Ward, 2d Pa., shoulder and chin, slightly; Captain Thos. McConnell, 10th Pa., bruised face and neck by a shell; Anthony A. Laws, 2d Pa., in hand; John Cairns, 6th Pa., in thigh; Wm. H. Ellecks, 12th Pa. Battery, shoulder and leg severely; Roderick Wea ver, Bth Pa. in nead; Sami. Sepley, 12th Pa., in right foot; Jos. Kain, 7th Pa., in back; Abr. Jenkins, 9th Pa., in the breast, severely; Jas. Handar, 12th Pa., left knee, severely; Owen Aston, 6th Pa., in side, severely; Sergeant W. H. Wileus, 2d Pa., in the hips, slightly; Levi E. Linfield, sth Pennsylvania, in both shoulders, severely; Patrick Shane, 2d Pa., arm, slightly; Jacob Blight, 2d Pa- shoulder, severely: Jacob Davies, 9th Pa., leg se verely; J W Walls, 12tn Pa., buckshot in the hand; Jas Isenburg, 12th Pa., slight; John W Garrison, 12tn Pa., hand, slightly; Capt Theadore Eckardt, 6th Pa., by shell in the side, slightly; Mathias J Siplinger, First Pennsylvania, head, slight; Jacob Highstreet, Ist Pa., leg, slight; J C Atkins, 2d Pa., left side; Geb Festell, 12th Pa, shoulder, slight; John Lamb, Ist Pa, artillery battery, slight; John May, 12th Pa, cheek and arm, slight; S Reedy, 6th Pa, abdomen, mortally; L. Beck, 12th Pa, cheek and shoulder, severely; Sergeant David Long 12th Pa, cheek severely; Wm AUemins, 12th Pa, shoulder; John H. Carmady, Bth Pa, thigh and foot, severely; Sam’l Sugar, Bth Pa, breast, dangerously. Job Hamilton, lit Pa., leg, alight; Jno Rothwell, sth Pa., groin, dangeronslj; Jno Morrison, let Pa., leg, aerionsly; Wm Carnes, 6th Pa., thigh, seriously; Alex Bailer, 6th Pa.; head, slightly; Wm. Hauckey, 2nd Pa., side, severely; Corporal J A Blair, Ist Pa., thigh,slightly; Fred Hibberd, 2d Pa., side, slightly; W'm Hoff, 2d Pa., neck and shoulder, severely; Samuel Allen, 7th Pennsylvania, hip, slightly; John Jamm, Ist artillery, leg, severely; Dennis Maguire, 2d Penn sylvania, knee, slightly; Wm. A. LsnfiUy, 12th Pennsylvania, leg and shoulder, se verely; Irnng Delany, 6th Pennsylvania, thigh severely; Sergt. J. C. McCaosken, Ist Pennsylvania, arm, slightly; James B. Potts, Ist, Pennsylvania, thigh and arm, severely; Henry Muller, Ist, Pennsylvania, thigh, slightly; Geo W Keene, Ist Pa., right arm shot off; John Laney, 9th Pa., knee, severely; Jno Harper, Bth Pa., small of back, severely; Albert Marquis, 9th Pa., hand; A 1 Grover, 12th Pa., head; Leopold Heensteller, 9th Pa., head, slightly; Jas Carcon, Seventh Pa., krast, dangerously; Jno Bh«r, 2d Pa., side Sergt Jas Hebe. BthPti, ab do««), dangerous; mt/WB Knteer, 6th Fa, through arm antibody, ikigwnns; Jno RHonds, 6* ffetMimihVtfhtUfchs; AJewett, hips severely, Ist Pa; Robert Kirkwood, neck, 2d Pa KeeerviafajtfHH ham, ball in the side, 2d Ea: J TCB33Er hand, 9th Pa; John MdDade, wrist and aide; Geo W Bennett, lat'Pa. Artillery, am broken in tiiree places ;and wounded mas side; Jos S warthprp,“lst Pa., leg; Jn® J:;Bhefer, 6th N. Y.‘, slight, Lego Renor, lift Pat, head, badly; P Ilar vey, 2d Pa., ball through the back and side; AndMw Baker,-color bearer, 2d Pa., knee; Geo W Griffith, Ist Pa., neck,seriously; G W Frasier,Bth Pa.,wrist; A. Johnson, Pa., thigh; Lt Col JB Sweil zer, 62d' Pa., head,dangerous; Lieut. Bell, 62d Pa., leg; Lieut. Cunningham, C2d Pa., badly; F. A. Howe, 83d Pa., arm;. John A Bishop, 83d Pennsylvania, neck; O. F. Gifford, 93d Pa., arm; S. Holmes, 83d Pa., arm ; Samuel Middle ton, Ist Pa., groin; George Wiley, 62d Pa., ball through the breast; Wil liam Hughes, Co. G., Ist Pa., breast near the heart, dangerously; Henry Brendan, 11th Pa., hand; G B Culbert son, 83d Pa., side; Corporal W H Maw piney, 83d Pa., flesh wound in the thigh; Jenry Riegert, 3d Pa., leg; George W Kinsey, 10th Pa., hip; Matthew Black, 10th Pa., ball through the side; Ora L Otis, 83dPa., arm; Jos R Perry, 83d Pa., bowels, dangerous; Jno Boore, S3d I’a., ball in the thigh; A L Fell, 10th Pa., ball through the thigh, Jaß Herst, both Pa., ball through calf ol the leg; Jno Rein hart, Fifth Penna., shoulder, severely; John Slogan, Sixty-second Pennsylvania, right leg, near the knee; Adam Moffit!, 62a Pa., leg; Lieut. Hope, 9th Pa., arm; Chas Kelly, 96th Pa., ball through wrist; W Fullertin, Bth Pa., leg; Sergeant W W Whartenly, 98th Pa., arm, slightly; Ed Barnes, 2d Pa., foot; Thos Stanley, 95th Pa., thigh Capt Crosier, G2d Pa., side; ! and arm, badly; Geo. W. Moore, 95th Pa., injured internally by cavalry horses-, Btli Pa., Sami. Dummer, arm; Henry Lark, 1 hand; Henry Nesmith, leg; D. F. Broad i head, thigh. Daniel Burns, 95th Pa., head; Anson Harbach, 30th Pa., arm; G. . W. Robbins, 9th Pa., arm; David Phil bert, 3d Pa., leg; 10th Pa., Robt. Marshall, , thigh; 0. P. Robbins, ball through knee. Further of the Late Battle. Company orßnektailaCaptnred Gallantry of the Penna. Reserves. Partial List of the Killed and Wounded, Ae., Ac., Ac. Special Despatches to the Evening Chronicle. Pbilxoelphd, Jane 30. — We await with anxiety the newa from General McClellan in detail. An Inquirer special, under date of the 27th, from Fair Oaks, des cribes the fight of McCall's and Fitz John Porter’s divisions withs2s,ooo rebels under General Branch. After driving back the rebels, says the correspondent, this morn ing, however, the commands of Generals McCall and Porter fell back from the po sition they held during the night, and halted and formed a line of battle some three miles in the rear of the house of the rebel Gaines. This retreat, if it may be so called, was by no means a forced one, but was done voluntarily, and in all probability to se cure a better position, where they could be nearer the main' body, and hence be more readily reinforced should they need them. This retirement was done in a quiet and orderly manner, the retreat being covered by the Ist, 2d and sth Pennsylvania Re serves, who promptly returned the fire of the rebels, who were following. During the fight yesterday, one company of the lat Pennsylvania Bucktial reserve regiment was entirely surrounded, and all were taken prisoners. Some few, however, managed to escape, but were compelled to leave their dead and wounded comrades in the hands of the enemy. This regiment covered themselves with glory, winning from their officers the highest meed of praise. From early in the efternoon until this morning they were actively engaged in the thickest of tho fight. We were unable to get an official list of the casualties, but we gather the following from those who were participants in the battle: Col. John H. Taggart, wounded, but not dangerously; Lieut. Welsh, Co. K, Ist Pennsylvania Rifles, wounded; Hartshorn, Co. K, Ist Pennsylvania Ri fles, wounded; Jewett, Co. D, let Pennsylvania Rifles, wounded. These wounded are in the hands of the rebels. Serg’t Heber, Co. F, Ist Penn sylvania regiment killed; Corporal Eck ert, Co. F, Ist Pennsylvania regiment, killed. The number of killed on our side can not be more than fifty, while the wound ed will barely teach one hundred and fifty. Philadelphia, June 30. —General Mc- Clellan has evacuated White House, and burned his stores. He has got his gun boats in that vicinity, where he has enticed the enemy to cross to our side of the Chick ahominy. He has in the meantime cross ed to the southern side of the Chickahom iny, and his gunboats have been shelling the rebels at White House, while General McClellan has crossed the Chickahominy with his whole army, and is marching straight on to Richmond. The people here are in a good humor. The Bulletin of this morning heads its news as follows: “The Great. Battle near Richmond; Full and Exciting Particulars; the Enemy Severely Repulsed; Important Strategic Movement; Evacuation of White House; General McClellan’s Army Massed South of the Chickahominy: the Capture of Richmond Certain; McClellan’s New Base of Operations on the James River.’’ Wasbixotox, June 80. —The govern ment has not accurate information of the state of affairs on the Peninsula, in conse quence of the interruption of the tele graphic communication. Nothing has been received to warrant the belief of any serious disaster. STRICTLY PORE ARTICLES. Liow Prices. PITTSBURGH DRUG ROUSE, TORRENCE ft McGARR, CORKER FOURTH & MARKET STREETS. PITTSBURGH.. Draws, IssS, Creasa Tartar ■tddaes. Palate, lsMsg Bada. SS2S2T SSEr*- tta, da, etc. - 4V Phyrieiaai Prescriptions aeenrately coia poaudsd at all boon. Pure Wines and Liquors. for medicinal nse only. je!9-tc rosin xstss.— -usnon kktsi JOSEPH MEYER ft BOH, xinvAonraaor FAICT AB FLAIg FURNITURE ft CHAIRS WAUHOUBK, US SMITHPHLD STREET. (Between Sbrth street and Vlrsin alley,) ae» PimillMH. Q** 3 m*:*m*wm****»' ..... ..CRpimjnNl niIT.JAU. mpesisr axtials, always on'hand. and for fecond Elitita ME VERY UIEST TELEGKAPB. Farther Particulars of the Late Battle. . From the Corrcapondeat «f (ha Bftfttimore Americuk REPULSE OF STONEWAWJMsON INTEBEWTING DETAILS Ac., Ae., l > i!ii..u>!:i.i'i[iA, Juno 30. — The following is from the correspondent of the Baltimore American. On Friday mooting .the first item of news from the front received by telegraph was a gratifying announcement that Stonewall Jackson and Ewell, in at tempting to turn the right flank, were re pulsed by-Gen. McCall with his Pennsyl* vania Reserves and driven back with great slaughter. This attempt of Jackson was made at 3 o'clock in the moming*and bad closed at G o'clock with a signal victory, t his repulse is said to have keen one of the most decisive and destructive of the war, the enemy being put to a complete; rout with very light loss to onr forces. Al though at night and intended fora surprise, tho gallant Pennsylvanians were found to be wide awake. There was, however, every indication of a general battle along the whole line, and General McClellan, jn brdeir to b® ready for any emergency, gave directions to Gen eral Casey and Col. Ingalls to make every preparation for the instant removal or destruction of all the supplies at White House, should the result of the coming battle render such a course necessary, bis force being deemed too small to render the successful defense of bis position a certainty against such art amount of the enemy as might be brought against it. The mail steamer which should have left for Fortress Monroe at 7 o’clock in the morning, was detained, and at nine a dispatch was received that a general battle was progressing along the whole line, the enemy having renewed theattempt to flank Gen. Porter’s position on the right wing. At eleven o'clock a second dispatch an nounced that Gen. Porter had driven the enemy before him, nnd repulsed them three times with terrific slaughter, and was then ordered by General McClellan to fall back. This dispatch was a signal for renewed energy in the work of evacuation, and all the Quartermaster's papers and valuables and the Paymaster's chests were brought on board the boat. The' family of Quar termaster Engle was also brought on board with ids horses and carriage, and the'hor ses of Assistant, Quartermaster Santell. — l'he household furniture and servants of these officials also aoonjfollowed, which in creased the excitement among the ; phtlen and army followers. Some, of the sutlers became so panic stricken as to sell out their stocks at half price and hsistensid on on board the boat, whilst some thotenhined to hold on and take the chances. ,- = ■ That there-was an intention on the part of Gen. McClellan to evacuate the White House as soon as his inovementa in front should be perfected, there was no doubt, but whether as a necessity or a strategic movement, could not at that time be fore seen. - , The steamers and tugs were all in early requisition, nnd were moving down the river with long trains of transports in tow. The vessels nearest the landing were also stored full of commissary stores and. mu nitions. and moved out in. the stream. The immense piles of. bdxea' of eraekevs, barrels of. pork, and all other stores along the lnndiug are again covered over with bales of hay so as to-be ready at a moment’s notice to apply the _iorch for the destruction ot it should it become necessary. There was also great commo tion among the crowds of contrabendawho have been found most efficient laborers, and who have been used to great'advan tage in the commissary and .mnhition departments. They soon understood that danger was apprehended, and on being assured by Col. Ingalls that they would.not be left behind to meet the vengeance* of their masters, went to work with renewed energy. Stores and munitions everywhere disappeared from the landings withggreat rapidity and were being packedliflhhe wharf boats and vessels coniflHb- The wives and children of theconMmmOs also soon made their appearance and.with bundles and babies look position-oil'/the canal boals ns they were floated on tin the stream. During the afternoon the panic increas ed until halt pa3t 3 o’clock, and .the steamers and t-ngs were bußily engaged in towing down the transports. At 3 o’clock a dispatch was received from Headquarters, in • substance as fol lows: We have been driving the enemy before ns on the left wing for the past half hour. Cheers are heard all along our lines.- - This was the signal for a new change in the programme. All the g-ivernmeatval uables and the property of the officerswas taken off the mail boat and placed oh' 'the steamer. Cammonico, and the' order was given for the departure of the. mail boat, which left at :! o’clock for Fortress Mon roe, taking with her in tow two heavily laden steamers with directions-for them to be dropped at West Point. Two of the large hospital steamers, filled with eick and wounded, also left about' the same time and moved the river. The steamer Commodim waa still left at the wharf to receive aay iteir-arri vals from the battle field, auf.theDaitiel Webster and the Elm City, devoted to the | same service, soon after arrived, -ft-was also announced that Gen. six thousand cavalry and artillery, was within six miles of the White House to protect the work of evacuation if a dash should be made by the enemy in that direction. The scene presented oil the river was an interesting one. Ten mile* below tbe White House about 200hrigs, barges and schooners were at anchor with any quantity of canal boats loaded with implements of war, commissary and subsistence stores. On the whole rout down, steamers and tugs were paesed having large numbers of vessels in tow’, and at West Point, forty miles below.the White House, not lessthanBUo veseelswere at anchor,whilst the numerous steammaiid tugs which had brought them, down "ware preparing to start up for the severalhnn dreds still up the river. • = About seven o'clock Friday twining the wounded commenced arriving-'front the front of the lines, with : C fewof th* most intelligent of whom Ihadan omer '.unity of conversing ■ : -.- Those engaged in the rephbe of Stwfc will Jackson, represent it to ba the nost disastrous. He came down upon them ex pecting a surprise, butio'und them all mo mentarily expecting him, having b«tt in formed by McClellan two. that he was coming. Instead 7ireia|jffcn the enemy received the first shot, ana af ter two hours fight retreated itfcohlSmon. The wounded represent it to haye !*«*• most terrific encounter, the enemy com ing from. Richmond in such deaia maiaw that the shell and grape poured . into them as they advanced'.madegreattapsln their lines, which were immediately filled np, but they, moved forward most determiasd ly. They still • moved. Sliowemoti hnS wereducharged .on -tbodi aide*, hat w b*S.- iGa*, l -'Porter ordered a bayonst charge they retreated "it'sddabßP#uj|fc*“ They again rallied *nd appiuarhCd'y* Httfif IWi
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