DAILY POST. The Wulen fill at was s The Coustthattem we It lel MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 22 Ye. Needing Neeeter ea every page. OFTHE DEMeaIAT STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE—The Democratic State CestralOolanittee will m vet et the SAINT CHARLES HOTEL. in the city of Plt'atreath. on 'Xuaaillay. flxeptember 23d. lladle, at 4 ooideek p. pia. addadd day. attendance of the Ctimmittee Is entn.ltlY requeded. F. W. HUGHES. Chairman. ATICAT—GEORGI ER B. K EIM. ROBERT CRANE. BREAK THE REBEL ORGANI ZATION. That is the purpose otall legitimate civil war ; and when, that is completely done, beyond a reasonabit hope of re-organization, the civil authorities will be entirely adequate tar the treatment of all offences and for the restoration and preservation of civil order. That this is is the natural and normal order of all civil wars, all history proves, for they have always ceased when this purpose has bee:, achieved and have left civil law to take it: , course. Break the organization and the war is over. It is of the very nature of society that all our earthly hopes cluster, more or less closely, round the social organization. That is the centre-that attracts-them all and gives them consistency and body. and when that is gone, all these hopes are scattered in wild confusion until they fiud another centre sufficiently powerful to at tract and control them. Once the crgani• sation of the rebellion is broken, the rebels can find no such centre among them selves. All its moral and financial credit will be gone; its leaders scattered, cap tured and discredited, and no new ones will be found that can unite the faith and hopes that made the old ones strong. Foi a little while there may be small, erratic guerrilla centre in many localities; but they will carry fear and fright, rather than hope, wherever they are seen, and will soon be treated everywhere as robbers and outlaws; and the old moral habits of the people will prevail over their transient excitement, and will he the attraction that will draw them to their old organic centre. May their return meet a kindly welcome. Pardon will be easy when victory is cone plete. Break the organization. If we bear this in mind as the only true purpose of the war, we shall be saved from many acts of folly and injustice into which undefined and misdirected excitement will be sure to lead us. It has already led us into some. Aim right at the rebel organiza tion and stop the fire of legislative edicts about confiscation, emancipation, disfran• chisement and public execution, which only fret and excite the enemy and prolong the war, and increase its .craelty, and keen loyal people in a state of uneasy and ar defined excitement. Such proceedings are the acts of incipient and unfledged statesman, and premature generals, and vaporing editors, and mere partisan lead ers, who studied neither the history nor the philosophy of such great events, nor the public and international and natural law that regulates their management. It is organized and armed secession that we aim at; for that is the true cause of the war. To base the war on "remote causes." as lawyers say, such as slavery orany other differences of institutions, would be to disregard all the lessons of wisdom taught by our judicial experience in the settle ment of controversies. We not only make the point of controversy uncertain: but we expose ourselves to the change—that some of those remote causes proceed from ourselves. And, besides this, we do in fact go back of the war awl the seces sion altogether, and decide that, because oy these dzrerence.4, the Union itself :can un nateral and illegitimate or has becomc so by lapse of time; and that is just where both Secession and Abolition alike desire to land us ; and that demands separation not war. It is by organized war that organized war is to be met, and not by legislative edicts aboutconfuication and emancipation. These maybe little better than the fevered frettinga of spited partisanship, and can do no more good than the wailings of women and children at a great conflagration ; but they may embarrass the real work - to be done. We will not say that such laws, passed after the rebellion has begun, are unconstitutional; but certainly they are, in a very proper sense, ex post facto, and can find no ear to hear them during the encitement of war, and after the and rage calls of patriotism and the terrors of trea son have been already set aside. Inter aroma silent legi..•. Civil w ar i m . plies the suspension of the civil authority in the place-where it rages, and the sub stitution of the war power to the necessary extent of restoring order. And, though the military must always be subject to the civil authority, as to when and how long it may act, and - dependent on it for all its force and supplies ; yet civil legislation ought to doubt its capacity and its right to direct the conduct of a war ; tor the rules of war are not and arbitrary, but international and national. We are bound, and all the generals are bound to conduct war according to the roles of civilized war fare, and not according to our caprice or will, or sentiments; and all civilized nu. ,tiens mid the God Of nations will hold us to aceount According to these rules. For ( our internal civil conduct we answerto ao.,nation ; for the conduct of war we must answer to them all. Our partisan excitements will often control our inter nil legiektion; but the laws of civilized warfare are intended to eeatr.o.),qpr excite- male: There bemk two parties to a was, neither of them can alone settle the law of it. Both must depend on military skill and thepublie law of war; and When re. billion it embed, it lust submit - to the penalty of rebellion, except so firs as PAW interPosee. " SAFE." Gen. McClellan's dispatch to Major (ianeral Haack. that " Pennsykauia and Matjiand'are safe," has furnished anoth er cause of complaint to his abolition re vilers. The Gazette of this city is par ticularly indignant at him, beings he did'nt telegraph that he had annihilat ed the entire Southern army, and remarks that the people are capable of mak ing ".infeteices " for themselves. We wonder yhat it ie possible jos Mg,Ciellaa to do to please these abolition slanderers? Moiling but an announcement that he is ProseelOine: hostilities for the emancipa tion of slavery, and not for the restoration of the Veiled. If he were to make such a Precliirciation, he would secure the favor of his present abolition revilers. As it is, he is the object of their persistent °slim ny. Indeed, the Major of the Gazette, Rho holds a sinecure in the army, loudly charges that all the half hearted ttai tors'' in the country are McClellan men meaning, of course, that the (literal i• only half loyal to his government himself We do not know how this is, hnt wed• know that all the whole-hearted traitors in the South-, and the equally sholehearted Abolition traitors of the ifiorth, are one and all desperately opposed to him. And we might add that of all the Abolition traitors in the country, who have been agitating the country for the past quarter of a century until they have plunged it in blood, this same Major of the Gazette, the bulky Abolition Paymaster of Simon Cameron, stands in the front rank. Had heated his crew of original Abolition trai tors been hanged twenty-five years since the country would now be at peace, and ieneral McClellan would not be, while fighting for his country, the object of his cowardly slander. A Sword for Gen. Corcoran. The Board of Harbor Masters of New York are about to present Gen. Corcoran a handsome and costly sword.. The grip and pommel are of solid silver, the lat ter being gilt and shaped like an ancient hemlet. The hilt is in the form of a spread eagle, above an American sheild. I'he blade and scabbard are exquisitely ornamented. Important from Charleston, S. C. A letter was received by a gentlebian in this city yesterday, from an officer on board of one of our war steamers; which Mates that there were twenty Union gun noats lying off the port at Charleston, S. C., and that, probably, by the time the letter would be received in Boston news would also arrive of the fall of the city. In the fleet was Stevens' battery, and as many rifled guns as would l‘low Fort Sum :4.r "our or the water.••—n-q,o, The Fisheries The Boston Traveler says: There has been quite a number of of arrivals at Glou cester from the bay (hiring the past fort- night. The vessels have brought in good fares, and the prices rule much higher ~ hah those of last year. The quality of the mackeral is said to be vastly ”aperior to those of last season. DIED At liavid's •New Jute ItiCHARD HANN EN. Ifolital :Steward, lit Rt I:intent Es.celiior'd Bliende. egod 22 yearn. Miff:moral will take place horn the r(Adenee Wm. W. Taber, Oakland tbi+ afternoon at 2 o'clock. Carrilge3 wilt !etre It. ii. Patterion'a Amble at I o'olo,k. The relatives end friends of the &wily are in vital to niter d. Soddenly on Sunday , the el et in 4„ at 5 tt',l..,k • ILL. Dr. XAVIER VE H9LETTE. Jli r funeral will take place ~ n this atterneen e*/ fi hi, hite No •l Grant =trier. All :•hv-icint. art. in, 'ted to attend. LI ELM HOLIES GEN I'l E Pit E11..t. AA RATION. 11l itsocuit for tile Itttlder: litolanbolera lissehu for t e : HelUll hOMI - 15 Racli n for the .:ra, . Hisisnbo.sre Huh for the Droi : 11114elasboId - e Machu for Nervott.-ce,-.: fiedembelers Hushes for DtmneFg of Vi •; a . Buelsit fur Difficult Drew hing : Ilesnebold'a Moveh es Inc Weak . .\"‘.n. iliellaabour‘ ameba for General Machin for Universal latesitu.le: liFeislebeld"m Mwelms for Horror of 1./isette : Hellsuboldra marina for Night awes s: 111.esnabolld's Swim for Wakefolsiess: itelsobeldN litniebn flryness of the Skin; Ilelsoilsoitra Muslim for Eruptions ; Ifiellosiselld'.4 harem for Pain in the Back. For sale by SIMON JOHNIeTON. sels Corner Smithfield ft Foisrth streets. . - MANHOOD— HOW LOST! HOW RESTORED! lost published, in j Ses!ed 14avelope. Price Six Cents. A LECTURE ON TILE NATURE, TREAT HEN T and Radical Cure of Spermatorrhea of Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Emmissiots, iexttal Debility, and Impediments to 31arriture rencrally,__.Nervousneee, Consumption, EpiloPsY and Tits; Mental and Phytcal Incapacity mutt on from Felf-Abuse. &e.--B HOIST. I. CUL VER WELL M. D., Author oft he Green Book. etc "A Boon to Thousands of Sufferers." sent under seal. in a plain insvciope, to any ad Iran. Post pai.l„ on receipt of-six cents, or twt post - c , stamps. by Dr. CR. J. C. KLINE. IW7 Bowery. New York. Post Mice Bor. 45fit an7•lrli-iovet.l. nE.IDQUARTZRS, Pittsbureh. Pa,. September IStb. 146`3, _ .- 1. Cara. EDWARD S. WRIGDT, 62ci Pennaylvtuaia Volunteers, i 9 hereby appoint ed Provost MarAal vice Charles T. Camp bell 37th Pennsylvania Volunteers, relieved- lie will be obeyed and respected aseerdinMs. A MONTUMERT. A. Q. M. U.S A...COommending. Order No, 2 L - CALL" AT MTLELLANIPS Auction and see the beautiful High Calf Bal moral& STATE AORICULIVRAL -NO 10P TICE hy given that tha State Fair has been pondpose until next ye ir acconct cf the unhappy railitarcondition of our country. A. TIIOB. P. K"‘OX President B. LnINGSI.F.R. Secretary. Norri , tecrn, l'a. selli VERYBODY IS A N Xl° S 12alhear from their friends. in tho army. and also b. know where fo buy Boots nod Sl:l,es (thear.— The rhea is at .55 Fifai street. - - - TO CONSUMPTIVES. mins ADvEirristat HAVING BEEN cst °red to health in a few weeks, by a very simple:remedy, after having suffered Per er years with a severe lung affccuon, and that dreadful disease, Consumption—is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferer.: the means "(cure. To al who desire it, he will send a prezenption used *coot charge). wi.h the directions for pre paring and using the s+ me. which they will fi n d curefor (. I .m. , i,uptturi, Asthma, Brast.sitis, at V. The only °West of the. advertiser in sending the Prescription is to benefit the afflicted, and spread information which he coneives to be invaluable, and he hopes every sufferer will try his remedy, as it will mit them nothing, and may prove a blessing. Panics wisli ng tbe_preFerptioa will _please ad dre a liar. lIEWARD A. WILSON ser_ftin WWilliamsburg King,: County, . BOOTS. SHOES AND GUMS SELLING. VERY LOW on account of the War Tunes, Men's Brogans. Prime do Boots, do do Army Shoes and Boots at BORLAND'S cheap Cash btore. Nays Mark,eat agreed, second door from PSffh. Nerd lEvaa RENT—The third and fourth stories of the new building No. 21 Fifth street; near Market. The youth story, 22x10u get,As Wing fitted up for a ionla DAGI.TERREAN GAL LERY. the lees being one of the best in the city. The third story is two compartments, well suited for olticaq, and will be rented sea or together. Apply to .1. L. CARNAGILVY aep9 ederal near Diamond, A Ileate43 • 20.000 P.Fsurito or NU wand at AMORE'S Win Fay tititlihpitot gest prices. THOXiii MOOSE. 49 First street. Pittsburgh. Fiat LATEST NEW IT ORA FROM THE ARMY ENEMrACROSS, THE POTONC. ENTHUSIASM ti -OUNißterie! ! 1 MAR I'LAND RID, OF VIE REBELS REBEL lONS Iti,ooo TO 22.000 The Enemy in Sight Across the River. Railroad Bridge Bunted at Hatiier's Ferry t HOOKER TO BE A BRIGADIER NJ,: Ws pitom -n- ARRIVAL FROM CALIFORNIA, Are.. 41ine. 1341.-rimous, Sept. 20.—The following dispatch has just been received from the special army correspondent of the Amer can, dated Keetsville, via Frederick, Sept. 19th. The rebel army retreated during Thursday night towards the Potomac ricer. General McClellan's array was all in mo tion at an early hour this morning, pre- pared to renew tiie , ' offensive operations against the enemy. By 10 o'clock every road was crowded with our troops, and trains moving towards tha Potomac. The enthusiasm and spirits of the troops indi cated a determination to push the enemy -in their retreat and to make the work of today a final contest on the soil of Mary• land. From 10 o'clock in the morning until about 8 o'clock in the aiterno3n, heavy firing of artillery could be heard at inter vals, seemingly across the river. Occa sionally a shell could be seen hurstitrr in the air, though no musketry could be heard. Meanwhile our wagon and am munition trains were moving steadily to wards the Potomac, across AnticLim Creek bridge, while our troops, from the position they occupied, appeared to be moving mainly along the Sharpsburg and Williamsport roads. Many conflicting reports prevailed here during the day of skirmishing -with the rear of the enemy, who were in full flight towards the Potomac. - A gentleman who left Gen. McClellan's Headquarters before the General started, informed me that at four o'clock Burnside had crossed the Potomac and was harm sing the rebel's rear. The latest reports received are, that the rebels were forced to destroy a large portion of their trains and spike and abandon.much of their artillery, in order to prevent it from falling into our hands, so closely were they pursued by the VT:lion army. Gen. McClellan rode out towards the front at about 11 o'clock. The cheering of the troops as he rode along could he heard at a great distance. Fitt:ni:KicK, Sept. gentleman who left Itoonsboro last night says the firing heard was occasioned by our batter. ies and those of the rebels across the river, he latter endeavoring to check our pursuit at the river bank. IF:toot - min:es Anur or PoToir,„ ) Saturday. Sept. 21), I at;2. ;- The rebel army has succeeded in making its escape from Maryland. They com• menced to leave at about dusk on Thurs day evening and by daylight yesterday morningwere all over except a small rear gurrd; they saved all their transportation and carried off all their wounded but about three hundred. Between three and four hundred rebel stragglers were taken during the day by ;en. Pleasanton's cavalry, who weds the advance. Nearly every house in Sharps burg wee struck . by our shells; two were humid and also a large;barn,located in the centre of the town. '1 he citt•ens who re• mnined escaped by staring in their cellars: ogle one child was killed. Two rebels, while eioking their suppers, uu 'Tuesday, were killed by one of our shots passing Ihrongh the kitchen. The name given to this battle is the An tictum. After this our forces occupied the whole field. The rebel lose was found to be far greater, particularly in killed, than it was at drat supposed: fully *.htieo were found lying on the fleld,while a larmei number had been buried the day before b ytheir friends. Their loss from killed and wounded will not come far from Irk,oor, to 22,000. Gen. Stark, of the rebel forces. was killed, and General?. Ripley and Hayes were wounded. The rebels on Thursday night hinted the Railroad !,ridge at Harper's Ferry. The citizens of Sandy Hook were fleeing into the country on Thursday night, to avoid being impressed into the rebel army and carried into Virginia. Large details of men were made this morning to bury the remaining dead bodies,which have become offensive. The troops are all in excellent spirits over the result. Therebels are still visible on the oppo• site shore in force. A large amount of artillery has been posted by the enemy to prevent our troops from crossing. The officers of this army are unanimous in the expression of the opinion that Geu. Hooker should, for hie gallantry and bra. very, he made a Brigadier General in the regular army, to fill the vacancy occasion• ed by the death of Gen, Mansfield. Oust's, N. T., Sept. 20.—Messengers dispatched by acting Governor Paddock to the northern settlement of this terri tory, two hundred miles from here, re port the panic created by the massacre in Minnesota as entirely subsided; that the settlers have returned to their homes, and that there are now no hostile Indians with in the limits of this territory. There is not the remotest. probability of trouble to settlers of any section from Indian depre. dations, N FR A NC/::co, Sept. 2.o—Arrived, ship Ellen Foster, New York; sailed, steamer Golden Age, Panama, carrying one hun dred end twenty-five passengers and $800,• 000 for New York, and $447,000 for Eng land. Of the treasure remitted $lOO,OOO was the voluntary contributions of the cit izens of San Francisco to the National Sanitary Fund. The market for the week closes quiet. Merchants manifest no desire to lay in - ' • %Mind Wright has issued an order giv ing notice to an concerned that the provi sions of the confiscatiow,bill will be. en forced in this State, throughout the De-. partment of the Pacific. ST. Louis ' Sept. go.—it is understood that a gener al court 'martial is ordered to meet here on the 24th inst., for the trial of General 141cKinstry. The following WS (*rig have been detailid for the court: Brigadi6r* tenerida Harney, Graham, Philip St. George Cooke; Cols. Taylor, Craig, Waite, Simmons ; Lieut. Colonels Graham, Alexander, (bier, and Major Vodges. A. A. Homier, 14th Managu setts voltintoers, aidilis4asup, ; is Judge Advocate, and Geneial Harney is Presi- dent of the court. All the oaare are of the regular. aracyazeept the 3.dg Advo cate, and it is conceded to be an unusually Me op. Idelrinstry was ordered ander ather , ixkl f tiltembielatialiLhunitaim-Lbi eessant in applications a court =MN to investigate hie °Seel conduct. McCLELLAIOS SUPERIOR - - GIOPIOUS News, if True /inset LM in DWELL con BIM 50,000 HOOPS NOW READY FOR • THE FIELD. WAsHINGros, Sept. 20.—The President ana CaltiOei ere exultant over the events of 'the week. There ii no longer a doubt as to McClellan's admirable generalship. It is now admitted that the President ap pointed Major General Halleck to his present position through McClellan's in fluence. Even Secretary Stanton him self earnestly sought McClellan's services, all turning to him as their chief reliance and hope in the terrible Strait to which General Pope's blunders brought them. Hours were spent in earnest. Conversation on the subject ; in prestling the matter on the young general, and the result was a better understanding ail round, and hearty satisfaction to all. The result has shown the wisdom of the Government's selec. tion, by demonstrating tho ability of the bravo and ariny.wnrshippod chieftain to ozonize ritaory. 1-1/;l4i'liti I.luta,it mf,r IV feel nu honest pride in thus having justifi ed the confidence of the Government and covered his assailants and persecutor:- with perpetual shame. Great expects tions have been indulged that Oen. Mc Clellan was going to bag Lee, Jackson, Howell Cobb, one and all, but was it ever known that an army of 1iss),000 or 1t50,000 men was bagged by another army of only equal numbers, especially with the topo- graphical advantages possessed by the insurgents. That; until the surrender of Harper's Perry to the rebels, General McClellan anticipated the capture of a large portion of their el and their munitions and the consequent greatest do moralization and weakening of their army is highly probable, but the untiumly sur render of that point by the Union forces made such a desirable result impossible and Gen. McClellan had to content him sel with driving them the Potomac. pursuing them vlgoriiii.ly in their flight. wit; hll iiny genet caul ido with the art: door thus oi.eu. 0011 1 ,i:up; th , ::n to , •ipe u, our virtoriou. , arn:y upprouchr. from the front importnitt 11:01,em,,tit Lee!) going on for scalp Attys. lln Wv , ir.r;ilay morn gilas %%"ar I)e!,F,F:tnent iAzurci orders for certnin carp= to lvdd t!'...ms.ilvem to read i n rvic, y 'ran-i ,,, rltili , t) 0t f, , itvy inunition3 ovrr t., ! tidvitr:rt! 1.. r r. 11,..n I,r , t.l,tirg !uis been cleaned of the ei I.eli and Thorungi (;tip km; hrtm• lo be in :Inn unditioa f r nn t...!0,n0:1:g artily. Our m•s ht&VO been widtly ?xtfu:klPd ..tud you must nut Aurf)::sc,l to hear of ttrietiter Depart enent of the 7.4 , riouA Aram of the Potomac do;ng sk,rnuthing short, sharp and Your correipundeut l,rE.rh from excel t .inthority that t! .ern r,r• now 80,000 i•ool rvatiy fir =rrvi, ‘vlit-rt•ver 1:: 1%, :divr They, 1:i bu! dirrrt l aln it! ;il..•rt: to ~tv may perhaps ile r before .S•uttilay night of Lrir movetocnts, thoir destination, and [heir di de. It is onongh to know that, let tho rebel:4 tts they may, there , is ins Ctittlo for t•Vihalloh L And t pt 01,140 ,) ic{,,,y kit I , l l 7t'llleToal 0 Whii:ll your con egponikut rtfer3 No one here believes •in the allegation of Col. Miles' treachery. Those who are best able to judge in the premises assert that no more true or gallant man has yet served the nation. All his orders are marked with loyalty, end his deeds will not warrant the cruel slanders against his memory HARRISBURG, Sept. 11 P. M.—A ru mor is in circulation here, brought by re liable gentlemen direct from Hagerstown, that the entire rebel army under Jackson had surrendered. Their loss is represent. ed at from 20,000 to 30,0 0 0 , and they are said to be entirely demoralized. Gov. Curtin is expected to arrive to night from his visit to Cumberland Valley. There seems to be a difference of opinion in official circles in regard to the where abouts of the rebel army. Wounded sol diers arriving here represent that the reb els are completely hemmed in by MeClel lan's right and left wings, resting on the Potomac, while Sigel and Ricketts are keeping a look out for them on the oppo site side. The militia lately sent. to Hagerstown and Boonesboro were this afternoon, sent back into Pennsylvania. Report says our pickets wore this morn ing driven in three miles outside of fin gerstown, and that skirmishing had been kept np throughout the whole day. Surgeon Caller, Medical Director, is now here, making every exertion to pro vide for the sick and wounded arriving. The ladies of rlarrisbmg are busily en gaged in making up the necessary articles for their comfort. Great complaint is made by those engaged in this chiritable object of the unfitness of the articles fur nished by the Government, particularly the bedding, which they say is of the meanest quality. Major 0. W. Sees, Chief of the Trans portation and Telegraph Department of this State, is now lying sick at his resi dence in this city. Major Sees Lae been heavily taxed in his official duties for some time past and his sickness is no doubt the result of excessive labor. Mr. T. Rockhill Smith represents Major Sees during his absence. LOUISVILLE, Sept. 20.—Lebanon Junc tion is the furthest point in operation for telegraphic communication. About 3,000 rebel wally are at Lebanon. About 19,000 rebel infantry are reported en camped last night about two miles east of ,lguldeough's Hill, on the pike. The car. airy advanceckets of this : fordo rime through New R aven , en ?cute for ards own, this moraine. WSAING E., • .`k From Mr. M. • z weizer. ofltrui • citytitho has just arrived flow the seat of *se walaryland. we get the following: . 1 Our troops were in excellent spirits over the result of the week's fighting, and the entlinsiasm of:the newlroops was espe cially noticable.' The latest estimate places our loss, in killed and wounded, in the late battle of Wednesday, as high as 13,000. The ene my suffered terribly. The scenes at the hospital' a nd: elsewhere , in the vicinity of the battl e fields, were horrible. A large hole, deg in - th e - resrof=s7elntre , • • • tysville, - had been filled with amputated limbs alone . ; On his way past the previous battle fields of the•week, -- Mr. &miser taw many 'Nitrifying bodies of the Confederates dead. Five bodies were in one . gronp. Near by was the body of a Confederate soldier who, in his agony, had kicked away tbp earth for a considerable space in the vicinity of his feet. Mr. S. passed some 1,200 Confederate pristine?* taken in the recent battles. Seven hundred of them were in a body at lifonocazy. He met large numbers of troops moving forward to reinforce McClellan. Col. Max Weber, who had his arm shat tered in the battle, came down on the train last night, as did also General Dana. Lieut. Whiteman, of the New York 13erdaii Sharpshooters, shot in the leg, died during amputation. The wound received by the gallant Hooker was through the flabby part of tau foot. Symptoms of lockjaw caused uu• easiness in his case. A gentleman who loft the front yester day assures us that among the rebel dead left unburied on the battle field of Wed• nesday last was a Major General, besides many officers of all grades. if the rebels offered an armistice, Restated, concerning which fact there is some doubt, their pur pose MUM heretofore to carry out a fraud and gain time to get off the field, for it is certain they buried few of their dead and devoted the time alleged to have been cov ered by the armistice in making prepara tions for a skedaddle under cover of the night. At noon yesterday it was believed at this point that the enemy were aiming to cross the river at Harper's Ferry. Our impression is that this must be a mistake, as at daybreak to-day there was no sign whatever of rebel occupation of Harper's Ferry. No rebels in arms were there then. Yesterday tie last of the rebels took their departure from Ilarpet's Ferry, after having burned all the government property they found there that they could not carry off, including the pontoon bridge and store-houses. They made five at tempts to blow up the fine piers of the railroad bridge there, all of which proved unsuccessful. The superstructure upon them was, however, much damaged by these vandal attempts. We take it for granted that Gen. McClellan will to-day re occupy this ill-fated position-with some portion (Whig troops. A. reconnoissance in force to Harper's Ferry was made last night, by a parted Gets. Stoneman's force. They found only three hundred sick and wounded *tele there. They learned that the reb,el army had been crossing the river, above Harper's Fe ry, into Virginia, nearly ell yesterday and that night. Ali General McClellan's advance was close upon the rebels' rear. Nt:»• Yonx. Sept. !O.—The steamer Ro• anoke, from New Orleans on the 30th ult.. arrived at this port to-night. Among her passengers is Commodore Porter. She brings no news. FORTILESA MONItOF, Sept. I 14-11 e steamboat Canonicus left here this morn ing with a flag of truce for Aiken's Laud ing. Major Ludlow in charge, taking np a few ladies from Norfolk, and intending to hying down-all the Union prisoners that Are able to come. h.s Lo. eilecerded There ia a curnor ofa rel.& force of I ti,- ouo or 20,000 iu the vicinity of Black Water Hirer, but ample preparntione have been made to repel their invasion, it that is their intention. At the reception of the intelligence of the death of General Mansfield, the dig on Fortress Monroe was at half mast. CAIRO, Sept. Zi.—General Roseerans commenced moving from Inertia to•lnka, Miss., yesterday morning. During the afternoon his advance came in contact with the enemy's pickets, and heavy skir mishing ensued until night. The fight was renewed this morning, and lasted till nearly noon, when the enemy gave way, rt;lcaLing in a southerly direction. Our loss is stated to be between tour hundred srd five hundred, killed and wounded, lie rebel loss was not ascertained, but is hell( red to be greater then ours. lien. Little, formerly eavernor of Mississippi. was killed iu the tight, and Gen. Whiiheld wounded mid a prisoner. The rebel force is aided to have been 15,04.)0, under Gen. Price. The battle took place two miles ea.it Mli Inks,. Gen, il,iFecrans is in pur suit of the enemy. STRICTLY YCRRE ..i.ttIICLES. lour 'Prices. PITTSBURGH DRUG HOUSE, TORRENCE & EIoGARR, AporrnucA.nams, CORNER FOURTE& MARKET STREETS JEUTTSISUIRGFEI. Drums, 1~, Creams Tartar Bledleirrea. Boatman. ',Mature Mods. Perfumery Dye Stu , ff Liegalastard, Chendeata, Xylem, Offs aft. tr.. Oa OP Physicians Prescriptions accurately oom pounded at all hours. Pure Wines and Liquors. for medicinal use only. NEW FALL GOODS. 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Frene:gio *Oa. seetese BATTI.E.FIELD fisIeaPSIOMGH, Wednesday Evening, Sent - 17, '62. ...-Fieree-and s desperate battle -between 200,94:41) men has raged *ince day light e yet arritiesnticertabs!' t Ahe - greateetrfightrigace-Waterloo—alkieer the field contested with an obstinacy equal even to Waterloo. If not wholly a victory ao-night, Jobelieve it is the prelude-. to a victory • to-morrow. But what can be foretold of the future of a fight in which from sin the morning till 7 at night the beet troops of the continent have fought without decisive result? I have no time for speculation—no time even to gather details of the battle—only time to state its broadest features—then mount and spur for New York. After the brilliant victory near Middle. town Gen. McClellan pushed• forward his army rapidly, and reached Keedysville with three corps on la onday night. That march has already been described: On the day fullowittg, the two armies faced each other idly, mail night. Artalli;ry was busy at intervals; once in the morning,. upeuieg with spirit, and continuing for , beef an hour with vigor, till the rebel bat ' tery, as usual, was wilenCed. ateCiellati was on the hill where Benja min's battery was stationed, and foued nimseif suddenly under a rather heavy fire. It was still uncertain whether the 1 rebels were retreating or reinforcing--their batteries would remain in position in either case; and as they had withdrawn nearly all their troops from view, there was only the doubtful indication of col umns of dust in the rear. (in the evening of Tuesday, Rooker was, ordered to cross the Antietam Creek with , his corps, and, feeling the left of the enemy, he ready to attack next morniug. During the day of apparent inactivity, Me- Clell n lied been maturing his plan of bat tle, of which Hooker's movement was one development. The position on eitherside waspeculiar. When iticherdson advaneed on Monday he found the enemy deployed and displayed in force on a crescent shaped ridge, the outline of which hollowed more or less ex actly the course et AetetaraCriek. Their bees were then forming, and the revelation of force in front of the groued which they really intended to hold, was probably meant to delay cur attack until their ar rangements to receive it were complete. During the day they kept their troops exposed and did not move them, even to avoid the artillery fire, which mast have been occasionally annoying. .Next morn ing the lines and &Annan:" which had dark ened cornfields and hill crests, had been withdrawn. Broken and wooded ground behind the sheltering hills concealed the rebel masses. What from our front look ed like. only a narrow summit fringed with woods, was a broad table land of forest end ravine, cover fur troops everywhere, nowhere easy of access for an enemy. The smoothly sloping surface in front, and the sweeping crescent of slowly mingling limes was all a delusion. It was all te' rebel stronghold beyond. Under the base of these hills runs the deep stream called Autietum Creek, furd• able only at dissent. points. Itiree bridges cross it, one on the Hagerstown road, one on the Sharpsburg pike. one to the MI in a deep recess et steeply billing hills.— Hooker passed the' first to reacts the ford by which he crossed, and it was held by Pleasentca with areserve of cavalry during the battle. The second was close under the rebel centre, and no way important to yesterday's fight. At the third Burn side attacked and finally crossed. Be tween the first. And third lay roust of the battle lines. They stretched four miles from right to left. 'rim:Wed, attack in front was impossible. McClellan's fort-es lay behind low, dis connected ridges, in tront of the rebel summits, all, or nearly all, nn wooded. They gave some cover for artillery, and guns were therefbre massed on the centre. The enemy had the Shepherdstown road and the Hagersttiwn and William:Tort road both open to him in rear for retreat. Along one or the other, if beaten, he must tly. This, among other rctc deter mined, perhaps, the plan of battle whieh McClellan finall,y-reeolved on. The plait was generally as fellows:!Took er was to moss on the riche establish him self on the enemy's left if possilee, flank ing his position, ited to epee the fight. Stnner, Freeklin and Maublield were to send their Laces also to the right, co-op erating w jib and ell,taillmg Litielter . B at aws, while edvaucing ;1150 nearer the centre. Tee heevs eerk ie the centre ices left mostly to the batteries. Porter class ing his infantry support in the hollows. On the left llareside was to carry the hi idge alteady referred advanceag then by a road which enters the pike at Sharps burgh, fuming at once the rebel flank and destroying his line of setreet, Porter nod Sykes were held in reserve. It is obvions that the - Complete slime:SS of it plan con templating widely divergent movements of separate . corps, must largely depend on accurate tithing, that the attack st'onld be simultaneous and not successive. Hooker anoied TuCsday afteruobn at 4 o'clock, crossing the creel: at a fuld.above the bridge and well to the right, without opposition. Fronting southwest his line advanced not quite on the rebel flank, but overlapping and threatening it. Yarning off from the road after passing the stream he sent forth cavalry skirmishers straight into the woods et rover the fields beyond. Tha rebel pickets withdrew slowly before themi firing scatteringand harmless slots. Turning agairttothe4ett, the cavalry went down on the rebel flank, coming suddenly close to a • battery which met them with grape and canister. It being the nature of cavalry to retire before batteries, this company loyally followed the law of its being, and Caine swiftly back without pur suit. Artillery was sent to the front, infantry nos rapidly deployed, and skirmishers went out in front on either flank. The corps moved forward compactly, booker, as usual, reconnoitering in person. They came at last to an open grass sown field, inclosed on two sides with woods, pro tected on the right by a mill, and entered through a corn field in the rear. Skir mishers entering these 'woods were in stantly met by rebel shots, but held their ground, and as soon as supported advanc ed and clearea the timber. Beyond, on the left and in front, volleys of musketry opened heavily, and a battle seemed to have begun a little sooner than it was expected. Gen. Hooker formed his lines with pre cision and without hesitation. Rickett's division went into the woods on the left in force. Meade, with the Pennsylvania Re serves, formed in the centre, Doubleday was sent out on the right, planting hiS batteries on the bill, and opening at once on a rebel battery that began to enfilide the central line. w lt was already dark, and the rebel position could only be discover ed by the flames of their guns. They pushed forward holdly on the right, after losing ground on the_ other flank, but. made no attempt to regain their first hold on the woods. The light flashed, and glim mered, and faded, and finally went out in the dark Hooker had.iound out. what he wanted to know. When the firing ceased the hos tile lines lay close to each other—the pick ets so near that six rebels were captured duritig • the night. It was inevitable that the fight should had at daylight. Neither - Side • had 'suffered considerable loss; it was a skermish, not a battle. "We tir are - loi : tii:Xight,''"Veneirketi*the 1 Gin '' ' ,lwit_OPtiitirrow we fighi the batik 1 tha - "del the sate of the Republic." Not long after the firing exceed, It aping up again on the left. Gen. Hook er,*to had taken up his headquarters in a Misers, winch had been nearly the foots of **rebel artillery, was out at First eaieg rapid and unusually frequent picket Apr - a, then several heavy volleys. The Olberal listened a moment and smiled grimly. "We have ne troops there. The troops are shooting each other. It is Fair Oaks over again." So everybody lay down egain, - btit - alrthi night through there were frequent Alarms. had, been infortited of the night's work, and of the.certainties await ing tke 41swn. Sumner was ordered to move his corps at once and was expected to be on the ground at daylight. From the extent of the rebel lines developed in the evening, it was plain thatthey bad gathered their :whole army behind the height., and were waiting for the shock. The battle began with the dawn. Morn. lag found both armies just as they bad slept, almost close enough to look into each other's eyes. The left of Meedtis re serve and the right of Riekett's line be- Clime engage] at nearly the same moment, one with artillery, the other with infantry. A battery was almost immediately pushed forward beyond the central woods, over ploughed field, near the top of the slope where the cornfield begun. On the open field, in the corn beyond, and in the woods which stepped forward into the broad fields, like a promontory into the ocean, was dm hardest and deadliest struggle of the day. For half an hour after the battle had grown to its full stren_gth, the line of fire swayed neither way. Hooker's men were fully up to their work. They saw their General eve,rywhere in- front, never away from the fire, and all the troops believed in their commander and fought with a will. Two thirds of theta ware the same men who under &Dowell had brcdten'at Ma. WISSII9. NEOA The half hour passed, the rebels *ton to give way i little, only a little, bet at the first indication of a receding firs, Forward, was the word, and on went the line with a cheer and a rush. Beek etross the - corn field, leaving dead cud wounded behind them, over the.fence t and acrossehe road, and then hack again into the dark woods which closed around thee: went the re treating rebels. Mead and his Pennsylvanians followed hard and fast—followed till they came within easy range of the woods, among which they saw their beaten enemy disap pearing—followed still, with -another cheer, and flung themselves against the coear. _ But out of those gloomy woods came, suddenly and heavily, terrible volleys— volleys which smote and bent, and broke, in a mom. to, that-eager front. and hurled - them swiftly back for half the distance the; had went, Not swiftly, nor in panic any farther. Closing np their shattered lines, they came slowly away—a regiment where a grigade had been, hardly a brig age where a whole division had been vie torious. They had met from the woods I the first volleys of musketry froth fresh troops—bad met them and returned them till their line Itadlielded and gone down before the weight of fire, and till the am munition was exhumed. In- ten minutes the fortunes of the day seemed to have changed—it was the rebels now who were advancing. pouring out of the woods in endless lines, sweeping through the corn-fields from which their comrades just fled. Hooker sent en his nearest bngade to meet them, but it could not do the work. He called for another. There was nothing close enough, unless he took it from his right. Ilia right might b e in danger if it was weakened, - but his. centre was niready threatened with anni hilation. Not hesitating one moment he i ent to Doubleday: "Give me your best brigade instanily." the best brigade came down the hill to the right on the run, went through the timber in front throUgh a storm of shot and bursting shell and crashing limbs, over the open field beyond, and straight into the cornfield, passing as they went three brigades shattered by the rebel fire and streaming to the rear. They passed by Hooker, whose eye lighted as he saw these veteran troops led by a soldier whom he knew die could trust. "I think they will hold it," he said. Gen...Hartsuff took his troops very stead- , ily, but now that they were under fire, not corn fiel d ubpg to s th o e hill fnodm, which rm h d them on the crest. Not es man who wag not in tun view—not one who bent before the storm. Firing at first in volleys, they fired them at will with wonderful rapidity and effect. The whole line crowned the 1 bill end steed out darkly against the sky, , •hl bpi lighted and shrouded over in flame and -smoke. These were the Twelfth and Thirteenth Massed:l:Atte—old troops all of them. There Mr half an hour they held the ridge, unyielding in purpose, exhaustless in courage. There were gaps in the line, but it nowhere dwelt. Their General was wounded badly early in the fight, but they fought. on. Their supports did not come-- they determined to fight • withont them. 'They began 'to go down the hill and into the corn. They did not stop to think that their ammunition was nearly gone, they were to w:n that field, end they won it. The rebel line for the second time fled through :he corn and into the woods. I cannot' tell how few of Ha:feu/T*B Brigade were' left whets the work was done, but it was :done. There was no more gallant, determined heroic fighting in an this desperate day. Gen. Hansa' is very severely wounded, but I do not be -I:eve he counts his success too dearly pur chased. d he crisis of the fight at this point had arrived ; Rickett's dion, valyd by eeav ming to advance, and exhaustin end the effort had fallen back. Part of Mane field's corps was ordered in to their relief, but Mansfield's troops came back again, and their General was mortally wounded. The left, nevertheless, was too extended to be turned and too strong to be broken. Ricketts 'sent word he could not advance, but could hold his ground. Doubleday lia4l.llipt his guns at work on the right and had finally silenced a rebel battery that for hatf an hour had poured in a galling enfilading fire along Hooker's centre' line. There was woods in front of Double day's bill which the rebels held, but WV long as those guns pointed shit way they did not care to attack. With his left then able to take care - of itself, with his right impregnable with two brigades of Mans field still fresh and coming rapidly np, and with his centre a second time vieton ions, Gen. Booker determined to advance. Orders were rent to Crawford and Gordon —the two Manafiold. Brigades—to move directly forward at once, the batteries in the centre Were ordered on, the whole line was called on, and the General himself went forward. To the right of the cornfield and beyond it was a point of woods. Once carried and firmly held, it was the key of the posi . 4 don. Hooker determined to take it. if. rode oat in front of . hie furthest troops on a hill to examine the ground fora batter!. At the top he dismounted and went for. ward on foot, completed his reconnolk sauce, returned - and remounted.. The • musketry fire ill:Up the point of woods wile all the while extremely hot. As he pet his foot in the stirrup a flesh volley 9f ritle t , ; .bullets came whizzing by. The tall, sol dierly figure of the General, the. white horse - which he rode, the elevated place where he was—all made him a most dan gerously conspicuous mark. So he had been all day, riding often without n staff officer nor an orderly near him—all sent off on urgent daty-e.visible everywhere on the field. The rebel bullets bad followed him all day, hAt 'they had . nt bit him and he would not regardthem. Remounting on this hill, he had not ridden five mew 1 when he waa struck in the foot by a ball. Ilreeenen wore shot down at the same i mdmesitobethia side. ~,T he air -was. alive with bullets. He kept on his horse a few moments, though his wound was were
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