DAILY POST. L . t\• ) •-: The 11111011 ea It wan The Conelltuttonhait Lt TUESDAY ISIORNNG,4II.NE-3.0. air Whore there b no law there is no freedom. Democratic Nominations. : ,, rLFOA 00VERN08, GROittilk W. WOOD WARD. FOR SUPREME JUDGE, WALTER IL, LOWRIE. THE INSOLENCE OF OFFICE. The sensitive and 'melancholy Prince of Denmark, in his enumeration of the abuses which would justify one in committing suicide—were it not for the "dread of something after death," —places conspicu ously "the insolence of office." Every one, almost, has seen and heard something of this, if he has not experienced it with in the past two years. The war office at Washington, through its burly principal, has made for Itself a degree of infamy which the--alining of the rebellion will not corer with oblivion ; and men's na tures will have to go through a purifying process, itinjaries and insults will, by the -end of this Aciministration,be entirely for gotten. Some of those who are now "dressed in a little brief authority," will have to answer for their insolence, most assuredly ; and When that time arrives, they will be found meaner spaniels, fear ing chastieement, than- they are now un mannerly boors dispensing insolence. Bat the most remarkable exhibition of cold, biting insolence that we have seen or heard of since oar troubles began, is given to us by the Washington Republican, the especial champion of the Administration. _After Alluding, .in_ abject. and fulsome terms, to the great labors of President L'neoln and Gen. Hooker, it devotes the following paragraph to Pennsylvania's cries for succor to stave her from the rav ages of rebel. invasion. To our inquiries in relation to where is Hooker? the Re. publican thus responds: a due time he will be heardfrom,v and, when heart from, the people of Pennsylvania, who are constant/10 sending• committees here to harass and complicate the duties of the general government by asfring qaeattons. and favors I alike unreasonable, will be .911:i9fied that and P, esident, Secretor . / of , War, Uctimml Ilalleek and General Hooker have had:in this crisis, an eye to the general good, and at the same time have nor been so indifferent to Pennsylvania as the people of that etate have been to themse/ves. lf the official records do no t I lie, Pennsylvania has not get furnished her full quota of tsoops to the general government, and at this very moment she is manifesting a humil- rating inailference, in the fins:ern part of the state, to her own fate." This paragraph, we presume, is by the authority of Halleck and the War De partment; and whatdoes the reader think of it ? Pennsylvania . has furnished the Government over one hundred and fifty thousand men, to fight for the general cause and what has she done with them ? We have been promised victory and a restored ~_ • • • . ; an. now, after two years of slaughter and devastation, when the int uiting toe is laying waste some of the Wrest portions of our State, we are told, when we ask for assistance, that we have not yet done quite enough. Must we drain our veins and coffers for the protection of trembling imbecility in Washington even while rampant rebels are polluting our very homes? This, it appears, is the expectiy lion of the War Department ; and this, too, we are told in terms of sneering in solence. Then, since we are informed that we must protect ourselves, let us demonstrate our ability and willingness to do so. Our State is now thrown upon her own re sources, and they are ample in figthing upon the defensive, with our mountain ous fortifications to defy the entire power of the Scuthern Confederacy. Our popu lation is as great as was that of the thir teen colouies, who conquered their inde pendence of Great Britain ; and, since we are authoritively informed that we must not look to Washington for assist ance, let us arouse to a buoyant feeling of self-reliance, and show the world that " the blood of Douglass can protect it self." Would to heaven that the General Government, in the beginning, had in trusted the conquering of tfie rebellion-to the - respecai - e Staten Theri - we would have had no -Congressional conspiracies to supplant meritorious officers ; we would have had ,no proclamation of etnincipa tine, calculated to unite the Southern,pea; ple ;we would have-seen -no vigorouswar fare to prostrate the liberty of speech and of the press; we would have no necessity for a conscription, and begging for negro en listments; none of these expedients would have teen necessary, but in their stead, we would have witnessed patriotic and bound ing volunteers, genereuelcontending for each forlorn hope, witit'the• lendable de-' sire of securing fortheir , respective,States additional'rerioWn. These opportunitiei, ho sveyer,, are not within our-reach; We are reduced to the necessity of self defense.— This is comptdisyry, - it is a necessity and must be met and dealt with as such. Then to arras, and lash back the desperate in vaders of our soil, those famishing beg gars, weary of their lives wit.), were it not for their present adventure, would ere this, have hanged themselves, * Hooker hat been heard fro= HOW TO PROV4:3Iig OkPOBI. TIO,N . The_ precarious condition of cui com monwealth, becauae of rebel invasion, has partially caused, the ultra abolitio n pa pers of the State to cease their slanders of! their neighbors.-:;In Philadelphia,:howev.. er, the s‘loyel leaguers" 'Continue it, and for doing - tto the .Te.cige_r` Tety.properly re. marks that "everyday there sre,appeale in the ultra lispubliCati(joiarnate-to: Govern meat to exercise moie'restrictive meas ures against and putdoWn 4Copperhead." ism"-La foul tth !in-! meaning except such, as the violent feel kip and prejudices of individuals clio,o'cti, t o apply to it The Government should' concentrate- iill-ita-eneponppttigg down the rebels now in the field Thus!: are known to beefientietittf*e G - 4ve'rn - • meat, and ire tiotrtdently itiOlopug tore- , .ztaxC3 quir 3 all its means and exertions to over• throw them. It should not go to hunting up supposed enemies, while these known ones are so defiantly in its front. Let it conquer the rebels in aims, and the rebels at home, it there are any:such will S ubside of themselves. _This is no time to be urg lag measures tariding to divide the com munity-in Sentinient pr to create bitterness and opposition biapplying opprobrious epithets to characterize mere difference of opinion. The Government needs all the support it can receive, and it would re ceive a great deal more if the partisan press were to cs_ase..theirloolisimbuse--of those who differ from them in opinion, and by alittle decency and common sense allow- the sentiment of the community to grow up united, and resolved to put down all the enemies of the Constitution and the Republic. HOOKER, RELIEVED Hooker who testified that he could have marched into Richmond without firing a gun; he who a couple of montl,'s since electrified the netion by a telegram an nouncing that he had the rebels just where he wanted them . ; he who was disgrace fully whipped at Chancellorsvil!e imme diately after this pompous announcement has, at his own request, been relieved of the command of the Army of the Rappa hannock. Here we have a blustering bragadocia who, after one engagement, shows the white feather,_ plays the dung hill, and bewildered. by the superior strut egy of Lee, becomes petrified with fear, and upon the eve dfan engagement, which may decide the fate of the nation r igno• minously retires before the storm ; and whait is' equally remarkable, the Adminis tration which saw nothing wrong in hie generalship up until the present alarming crisis v accepts his resignation and appoints another 'to his place. Is it any wonder that:the rebela 'in Eastern Virginia gain v;ctories ;. and is it at all astonishing that such inconceivable management upon the part of the A.dmitistration is fast reducing it below contempt? ENLISTMENTS IN IRELAND' Sometime since we copied an account of the manner in which American agents in Ireland are securing recruits for ou r army. We learn now that in the English. House of Commens on the seconclofJune, Mr. Howard asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether her Majesty's Gov eminent are aware that the Federals are recruiting in Ireland, and whether they are taking active steps to prevent it. Sir R. Peel said there was no doubt that re cruiting was taking place, and that there were Federal agents in lieland; but, of course, these did not carry on operations openly. It was quite true that a number of young men had taken their passage to America, and on inquiry, the Government found that their passage had been paid for them. There was also reason to be• lieve that the Federal authorities on our aide of the Atlantic had used influ ence with the Irish to induce them to enlist in our service. The Government, of course, was making inquiries, and would do what was necessary in the matter. GEN. GEORGE G. MEADE, Th!offte.r.ffist,iii fiTlgreVrali' of yeeter. day be true, was born in Spain, in 1810; hie father, an eminent Virginian of his Ime, sojourning at that time, with his family, in some official capacity under President Madison's Administration, at the court of Madrid. He entered West Point Academy from the District of Columbia; graduated in 1839, and was appointed to the 3d Ar tillery. In May, 1842, he was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Topographical Engi neers. In 1846 he was breveted First Lieute nant for bravery at Monterey, and going through regular military gradation until appointed Major of Volunteers in June, 1862, and' fterwards Brigadier General of Volunteers in Augnet, 1862, He commanded a brigade in McGall's Division of Pennsylvania Reserves in the army of the Potomac until September. 1862, when he took command of a division in the army corps under Gen. Reynolds. He was severely wounded in the battle of White Oak Swamp, June 20, 1862, and has been in active service since the out break of the rebellion. `•The Arsenal Case!"—Gazette. Ma. EDITOR have heard the corn ments of sundry persons, relative to the covert attack of the Gazette upon Major Butler. The editor did not auy that But• er was the "feeble-minded old dotard that he referred to. Yet he intended that every one should know, and every one did know, that he alluded to no other person. Some say that this was a diplo matic dodge on the part of Mr. Riddle.— Others say that he had not the moral courage to name Butler as the assailed ! Whilst others say that it was impolitic land in bad taste, to refer to the Major in so skulkinga manner. The reasons which they give for this, are that Mr. Butler has been here too long, and is too well known in this community to be assailed in this equivocal "Who do I mean?" manner; and Mr. Riddle has been here too short a time, and is too little known, to warrant his making.openly or covertly such an at tack. Bat be this as it may Mr. Editor, I will state that my only object in request ing you to insert this paragraph, is to state that I know John B. Butler, and to assure Mr. Riddle, that if he refrained from naming him, by a recreant fear or a cra ven weakness and apprehension of a -- libel I suit, I can state for his security and nom- fort that Mi. Butler never did nor never Will attempt to bolster and vindicate his conduct or character, 1)7 bringing his as' sailanta and slanderers into court! If this assurance does not "bring the courage of this editor,to the sticking point," it will at Inuit quiet- his' nerves, to be granted an immunity of privilege, and the most unre • strained license to his pen. Tn Secretary of the Interior has de tided that to entitle the widows of those Who have died of wounds or diseases in• curred in the navy service in the line of • duty to receive pensions under the act of July 14, 1862. it is not necessary that the deceased should have died while actually an the service, but only that the cause of death'should have so originated. College Students as Soldiers. - Pennsylvania College, , Gettysburg and Lewisburg UntversitY•:eaeli pro'niptly fur nished a full .eompany of volunteerswhen I.lui' 'news - of ttp-Isyssiop„444-4 Slake resehedr-thini: , ' 1 - •',, ~., •. -,--I I , * on i : ' 1-...-.Lua t ~..:03 -... 11C. C`: •-'-' - ‘ 1"- ' ' ' ' Ol .zityli... . the Post. THE VALLANDIGHAM For LETTER Numnza XX. To Ms Excellencx, Abraham Lincoln, President of the , rnited States : Spa : You have made the name of Val landighain stand for a 'principle, and it will long stand as a memorial of a great struggle for co'netitutional liberty. I have read your letter in reply to the resolutions of the DemocratiC meeting. in New York on the subject of his exile, and I think it expresses your views with great candor, clearness mid force. Anifiet it seems to me to contain some immature opinions and some strangely and dangerously an sound doctiiries., d . l beg your attention while I endeavor to point them out so briefly as to bnaving of yorcr time. Com mentaries are usually larger, than their text, but mine shall not be. I notice the argument of the resolutions that the Constitution, prepared immedi ately after the Revolution, must be taken as investing the ground with all the safe guards that were deemed proper even for a time of civil war; and I feel some surprise that you should think it answered by your suggestion that the argument would have been good if the Constitution had been made during the revolution. Surely it was not reflection that taught you this. Political knowledge is the effect of ex• perience and usually follows its course. Political wisdom is the summing up of our experience and that of others, and cannot be completed during the experience, but by careful reflection and after it. It was always after severe experience of civil troubles, and not . during them, that the English nation made advances in political wisdom, and many of our political doc trines are founded on the experience of ptOr nations, which t,OQ't place centuries before we were able to sum them up. That remark of yours was not wisely made, and it weakens the force of your letter. The whole. history of, the Constitution shows that the framers of it intended to use all their experience. and observation of the past in guarding against arbitrary and mere discretionary power over the liberty of the citizen. 01 course you deny this; or you wJuld net have offered a refutation of it. You refer to one exception—that the privilege of habeas corpus may be suspend od in times of rebellion or invasion, if the public safety requires it 4 and this very ex ception shows that the subjeat of dolt war was considered and provided for, and o course no other power is given by impli cation, or can be resumed without usur pation You intimate that it was one of the tricks of the rebels, that the question was raised, "who was to suspend is," the habeas cor• pus. This is rather a startling remark; for it implies yoar opinion that that power belongs to the President, and your prac lice confirms this implication. Now, Sir, that question was never raised by rebels, but by one of your own party, Mr. Bincey, and no one is known to have thought of it before. You and others had thought that State neressily justified or excused you in breaking the Court. but you had not thought that the Constitution susiained you. And the very novelty of this thought condemned it as law. That iciterpreta• tiro cannot be the law of a people which was never thought of as such by the peo ple or law makers, until Mr. Binney sug gesteddt. His argument is itsell sufficient to shOft tbadit had never been thought of before:' As you say of yoarself, he was "by degrees forced'' to regard and adopt these atitution, and as indespensable to the pub lic safety." It was, therefore, your view of State necessity that made you adopt it. You wove the interpretation oat of your own brain, or took it as Mr. Binney wove it out of his, and not by studying the his tory and analogies of that provision and of kindred ones, so as to learn what was meant by the people who made the Con• stitution. If you had done this, or had adopted the common thought of the peo ple, you could not have been misled by such a view. All statesmen and jurists who had ever before spoken of the authority to suspend the habeas corpus, or any other right or law, had treated it as a legislative autho rity ;.and our whole history shows that it is so, and the 0003173011 iittnosphere of so cial thought forced it upon every breath of their intellectual life. It was one of the great elements of the contest that end• ed in the dethronement of the btuart dy• nasty in England, and at the entrance of the new dynasty, it was fixed in the Bill of nights that the suspension of and dis pensing with laws was a legislative function, and not an executive, not even a royal one. You have, therefore, assumed more than a royal prerogative. You have pro fessed to set aside the law of liberty de scended to us from Magna Charta, that no man shall be imprisoned but by due process of law, not by orders of king or kings' council, or president or governor ; and of course you mean to set aside all the penalties, rights and remedies for your wrongful arrests. But those penalties and remedies were inten4d to prevent the usurpation of the authority to suspend the law or the right. In general principle it is clearly usurpa tion - for legislative authority is null, if another power may suspend its efficacy; ' then this is supreme and that dependent. I Suspension of law is as much legislation 1 as the abrogation or repeal of it. It is I true, you expressly claim) the power only in relation to the habeas corpus, and du. ring invasion or rebellion; but even thus I restricted, it is in its nature a legislative power, and must belong to Congress, un less 11 expressly given to another power. And the power of_suspending it is placed " among dig ' legislative functions in the Constitution, and was so adopted by the convention, and by the States and the pet:). ple. Moreover, it is an insttiution I ited from our English ancestors without, any expressed modification, and there it never was suspended by the king since the 1 great habeas corpus act was passed. The remedy is in fact an institution designed to prevent the suspension of law, by seen ring every person against arbitrary con &clement, contrary to the law that requires' bail to be received and a speedy trial 1 granted. Add to all this, that the same provision, in substance at least, is found in nearly all our State constitutions, and in no instance has it been supposed to confer an executivepower. In one instance in England during - our revolution, the king's ministry attempted to set it aside, by arresting an American, Mr. Sayre, and imprisoning him in the Tower of London ; bat he was discharged by Lord Mansfield on habeas corpus, and afterwards stied the minister who caused his arrest, Lord Rockford, and by the ver dict of an English jury recovered one thousand pounds damages. And it is worthy of your notice that when, during oar revolution, the British ministry pro posed a general suspension of the habeas corpus, the measure was so earnestly con demned in its application to England, that the ministry - gave hp that part of it, and it was suspended only for America, where the rebellion existeci - . I beg of yon not to let the abolitionista drive out of your memory the elements of English and American liberty that you learned at achhol. They are.elementary and fanda mental yet. For the Post Cue hnz But as e , e proceedin your letter, mat, tern become worse. Certainly you have expressed your newly adopted opinions before you havehad_time to fit them into your spat= and discover what theY lead to !Let me- beam* you to ripCipzolhe qule . 101 40'cthilf 1if.7374k fate of a nation in years of its prosperity may depend upon your course. Yon ad mit that the -people arrested by you and your marshals and generals have committed `"no definer; crinin," and That the arrests were nOtr,‘lcriniitial prose cations," but were made "for what probit bly would be done," Mid tlitif,underthelaVr of theland and the remedy of habeas corpai they'are entailed to their discharge. :No Wonder, you - say that "nothing is better known to history than that courts of jus • tice are utterly incompetent for such cases!" They arrest end punish only for transgressions of civil law. I wish yon, would - appeal to the lessons of history oft- ener and nibm Yonpass by the authorizsd--courts and remedies, Aid the laws of crime, especial ly those that - provide against the preven tion of enlistments and supplies and se dacing to desertion, and for holding to bail persons who are proved to be danger ous to the public peace, and the punish ments provided by law, and institute new courts, new crimes and new punishments —all lawless and firbitrary throughout—and think this is all the legitimate consequence of your suspensftm of the habeas corpus. No wonder you :seem to regard your ac tion as analagotis to- that of Lynch courts. which arise, as fon say, when "bands of horse thieves grow too numerous and pow erful for the ordinary courts of justice;" and of course yOu might have added when a mob rescues a criminal from the punish ment of the law, which it considers too. sevsre. or inflicts punishment for acts which the law does not make criminal I I am sorry you have let out this lurking bought, Is it a result of your abolition training ? I hope it has not become fixed in your mind; though I fear it has ; for the acts, which you justify, include, not only the suspension of the habeas porpao, but the transgression of countless other laws. Are you not, therefore, lawless and arbitrary? I ask this with very sin cere deference, Be pleased to recall what a historian of the English Constitution says on: this sub ject, Stephens : "It is impossible to ques tion the wisdom of these (habeas corpus) enactments, for where the liberty of the subject is concerned, the landmarks, by which the discretion of the committing magistrate is to be regulated, should be accurately defined and positive in their nature ; for the arbitrary direction Hof any man is the law of tyrants,—it is always inhuman, it is different in different men, it is casual, and depends upon oonstitn Lion, temper and passion i in the best it is oftentimes caprice ' and in the worst, it is every vice, folly and passion to which human nature is liable.' Allow me to stop here, and to finish this review in another letter. Very respectfully, yotys, For the Pit sbrirgh Morning Post. Army Correspondenge. Though at a rather late day, we pub lish the following letter, giving an account of the attack upon the enemy's works at Vicksburg. It will be found graphic and so clearly written as to give all whp read it a thorough understanding of the move• meats. The writer is a native of Penn sylvania, but has a command in an Illi nois regiment : OF VICKSBURG, MISS., 1 . June sth, 1863. DEAR We have had a very hard campaign the past month. We left Mil liken's Bend, La., on the 25th of April, marched across the bend sixty Miles to Bruineburg Landing, crossed the river amidst the booming of cannon in front. On the Ist cf May marched out ten miles to the battle in front of Port Gibson.— When we arrived, Gem McClernand's corps, with Logan's division of ours, had driven the enemy with a loss of over 1,000 ° MIMI tgalrva tgris , e'cra wog Port Gibson at noon. Here the enemy had destroyed the Suspension Bridge across Bayou Pierre. A portion of the bridge was built and we crossed it at 4 o'clock p. ru„ and drove the enemy's skirmishers 6 miles to Little Bayou Pierre, Here the enemy fired the bridge, but we put it out and held one cud and they the other all night, they trying to burn it and our men pouring volleys of rifle balls into them. They retired before day of the 3d. We fixed the bridge and commenced cross ing by 0 o'clock a. m. We had a very broken country to go over for eight miles to big Black River. We went in line of battle all day, the rebels making a stand at every defensible point. They were covering the retreat of their army from Grand Gulf, a point they held on the river and which ogr march in the rear made unten ble. About sun down they began to run across a plantation, we on the double quick after them; wo got to one end of the bridge as they were leaving the other. Our men shot a number of them on the bridge, and here we had it all night again to save the bridge. Many of the rebels would run for the bridge with torches and combustibles, but it was only to certain death. Towards morning gen, McPherson planted a battery at the'bridge and chased them to the Bluffs. We lay at this place until the 9th of May. In the meantime we got orders to send our knap sacks to Grand Gulf, and to leave here with but two wagons to the regiment load ed with hard bread and salt, as we would be ten days without any communication with the river, constantly ott thq march and skirmishing, On thu morning of the 9th we started, Gen. McOlernand s corps one road, Sherman's another, and Mc- Pherson's (ours) the central. We marched east, skirmishing nearly all the time, until the 12th, when we came up to the enemy in force, posted on high bluffs, three- miles in front of 4aymcmd, the country e st of Hinds county, our forces attacked him on sight. 'l'ha fight lasted four hours and part of the time was terri ble. At 6 o'clock p. m. we charged bayo nets along our whole line and drove them in confusion through ft,aymond. We had 60 killed and 180 wounded. The loss of the enemy was 150 killed, 400 wounded and 400 prisoners. They say they don't care for the Eastern troops, but our troops fight like the d--,-I. The next day we marched to Clinton, on the Vicksburgand Jackson Railroad, passed on two miles further and camped the morning of the 14th. We got started at 8 o'clock a. tit., and commenced skirmishing soon. It rained all day hard, In foar miles we found the enemy strongly posted in the hills three miles from Jackson. Our bat. tery was run up in range to feel them and find how they were posted. We soon found them in heavy timber with an open plantation in front. We crossed tks in quick time under fire of sTot and shell, and, forming in line of battle in the edge of the timber, advanced, drove in their skirmishers, and drove them back to some open fields. Logan's division now came up, and form ed in our rear. We then charged their batteries. It was very exciting to us, and more so to the rebels. The land was roll ing, and the rebel lines were behind the hills. We would charge up one, they would give ns a volley and ran for t the next hill ; when we reached the top we would give them another volley, drop flat down, and the regiment behind as would run right over us, and ohase them off She next, and so on alternately, till in a mile we broke them up, and took many priso ners. The balance went through the cap ital of Mississippi on quick time. We took a number of cannon and small arms. They lost 250 killed and wounded and 400 prisoners ; our loss was 180 killed and wounded. At six o'clock, p. m., our flag floated over the State House. The morning of the 15th we started west, for Viokabarg, 1 along the •railroad; marChed 14 miles. The morning of the 16th,before we left camp, the cannon were booming in-front. r Oar regimentrwas in Advance of the-bri gade, and shortly after westarted, General • ;;; ,nt rode,np; / kikapi him tell our Tdrig . adier to keep closed up. In six miles we came to the battle-field. The enemy were strongly posted in a succession of heavy wooded ridges, called Champion Hills. They were (we afterwards learned from prisauere) 0 6 ;900- - etrong. Gen. McCler nand had atteckedlhem in the morning with; Ilovej's :and Osterhaus' divisions. When we arridedon,theground the rebels were driviogHoveyte division before them. Our brigade - was': then ordered on the " doable quick."‘,,, We went in and formed under a heavy Ire. One brigmte_pf :.- vey's ran thr-degh-on-F-Tir-ies WI-WE Wetirtil. Tney were out of ammunition. We check edtheilde of rebels, and held them there (four times our numbe4onejtour,.nntil our ifeeetid brigade`came up. We thin. fell back fifty yards; completely exhausted; (it was a very hot day,) leaving overtone third of , our brigade dead t attdwptintled on the fiild=nr 11 1 / 3 17. W - e,were outflanked when We got 'The enemy Were mass ing their forc4 cot tie tOlireakthiebth on the left: and-it was certain destruction for 113 to - fall , back ,over- thek.greitiuf otir, rear. When our first and second brigade s` I came up, we made the lintterntitit:travel. It was an awful sight,•wlieti we' had time I to looked the field,-corered with dead' and wounded: The rebels and our= men Min. gled together. We had fought in-MfMyeasee knee to - knee' so dose , that Seattelif;tior, men: could catChthe'relieht bY the littiiAttl I pull theta into our lines; taking Pis"' oners. ' One of our menjerketilte colon of a rebel regiment away from - them .; they couldn't take them back. ' Our flag had '26 bullet 'holes through it, and the staff was , cut by seven balls in , the length of -ten • inches. The color bearer was shot dead, and tte color coax ! parry lost over half their men. We tient ; ed up all the wounded of otir •company land carried theta iipt to the read as soolt. W 'Charged and took, ;•as we got One. We' charg ed !a - battery, around which we counted forty-. , live dead rebels- . ;in a pile, and I bin know how mini bunded. Wa taptiliet nearly all their' artillery, 'fire bafteries: Two fresh divisions-more up;ant killowet them six miles. We foond their dead all along the road the next day. They had about 2,500 killed end wounded and 6,000 ralsoners. We had about 2,000 killed, wounded and missing: Our brigade lost heavier • than any other in the, fight.- - There were •very Many borrow escapes amidst that iron hail. My cap WO struck with a grape shot j me d o w n , as our le fell , and in when I r evv ed the rebels were close at hand and called to me to halt, but I don't like corn bread and have a dread of Southern prisons, so :I took : chances for-getting up - the hill and made it, but they fired:Pretty close. I fell down at the top of the hill, but the brigade was , there ready for them. I hope I may never see each a tight again as that battle-field—the groans of , the dying• and. the horrible countenances' of the dead were sickening. Passing over the battle-field atter ,datk went, through a corn-field oti our left to find Water. Our , whole line had advanced and driven the rebels through this field. It seemed to me there was a dead or wounded rebel to eveNy cap hill I foqnd, and carried water [ for the poor fellows for an hour. A wounded _Lieut. Colonel told me that our I brigade was fighting a whole division. I never saw any one as thankful as he was when I brought him water. I had him carried to the road and he was soon taken to the hospital, Many of the wounded were ootpicked up fbr two days. The next day our advance had a fight at the crossing of the Big Black, took 2,600 prisoners, 18 field pieces and some Beige guns. The enemy were working to get to Vicksburg as fast as possible. Our army crossed the Big Black on the 18th ult., at different points, and on the 19th we completed our line, encircling the city. The rebels have strong forts - all around and when we were closing in greeted us with any amount of shell. which_oansetna. loges very otose. tin toel 22d ult. an order was issued for a general ' advance on the fortifications. We moved up to within 200 yards of the principal fort with ladders, under an awful fire, but found it impossible to scale these heights. We lay under that Are, with orders not to fire again, for four long hours, the reason for which Heaven knows for I don't. Our brigade was then ordered back and went two miles to the left iq front of McCler nand's corps, to charge the rifle pits in front of the Fort. Why we were out to do McClernand's charging is more than any " 1 one of us can understand. We had to ad- , vance do wu a hillside in plain sight and l goodyards, before we reached any cover. Our regiment was in front, four , regiments deep. The order was given to " right shoulder shift arms," and then forward into the leaden bail. We had just 22 men in oor company, 11 were down in less than a minute. It. seemed to me the whole regiment was gooe. I passed under i a peach tree, the air under which was so full of the falling branches and leaves I could not see under it. We closed up and halted at the foot of the hill. Colonel Broomer, who was acting Brigadier, (a cool, brave mart, ) raised his head to order the regiment behind us more to the left, ; and was fixed to give us the order to for ; ward, when he was shot through the head. We wore sorry to loose him, but I believe I it was Providential, as I don't believe that one of us would have escaped had werais ed that hill. Our Qolonel wanted to go on with the charge as' he amain command, but every line officer protested against it. Word was sent back to Gen. McCler nand and he ordered us to get out of there the best, way; We could. We had to lay still- till : night: 'an we cover ed our retreat, as worn• out and exhausted a set of men as , ever slept on the ground. The whole advance, from right • to left. was a failure, and the only result gained was the disheartening of our men from ever storming the wbrka when the chances might be mach better. &nee then we have kept our old position, 0:10 yards from the main Fort. Every other night we spend in the rifle pits close to the Fort, as sharp shooters, and keep the rebels from firing their oannon. around Quint is still planting batteries all theis t and the gun and mortar boats work night and day. I think we will have the town buried in Iron pretty soon. Oar only chance of taking the city is storming them oat, and their only hope is in a rebel force they expect from the rear, to raise the :siege. They have made several efforts to cut a way out, but we are in the centre corps - and our line of in fantry is not very strong, bat they are of the fighting kind. The tine Weakening ' the city is about Id miles long. - We sup pose Gen Grant understands hie business,- bet I would like to have McClellan here to blow up these Forts; he is a good en gineer. Well, to sum all up, we have marched in the last month 200 miles under a burning sun and drenching rains, and fought six battles, driving the enemy eve ry time with great loss; have skirmished all the time, and have captured 84 can- non; 'don't know how many stand of col ors; 10,000 prisoners, and if we .get into Vicksburg we will thinkwe lave made the most successful eempajto that has been made during the war. We have also captured lot of cannon at Haines' Bluff, and tk lot at Yazoo City. Oar troops are just returning from there and have burnt the Navy Yard. Yon need not feel stir- Mieed if Vicksburg is not taken for a month yet, but it ie only a estion of time. We may have to fight (h ensraL Joe Johnson on Big Black. When tt , whip him Vicksburg will give it up. It he undertakes to come into our rear I don't feel a doubt that we will be able to whip him, as. I believe that on a fair field we can always cope suomsefully with im perior numbers. MORRIS We were all pained to hear that the Potomac army has again been defeated under Gen. Hanker. The rebels say - that the Eastern soldiers dont fight as well se Western troops.; Now I 'do not believe that eepeciallyof men from my old natiye Stet-. PanngivaniamiVillliglit why one half of our regiment are from that State. The rebels have gOtAule in the East and well treitted"i' ieldleA 4 7.• McClellan is the onlypttan (We believe here) to command that army snacessf*. The admitditration.iilofed beetle . * he waa'nt fdirt'iitfought'""Efe.was faitt eeetigh to always keep hand, in)his and when he, , tapthem , thfri,felt it. The rebels hemw:ere rporeAtraid any othertinerel we ever bad in the Held. We are not anxionl.fdpanother campaign, but after we take Viektibarg would not .. •.. !oin • h:4o,4Wtroepr added - to trETPotorcae — army„ander,.McClellak., I thinh.thii rind among tid4sNot, Inili'ellettr all fight better, and the rebels onchm-d eonttFlittEtettenieTcreldieqiiii-" ,teri r with on/qv:tops.-- - - J. A. 2:0-Dzi.va ALRyp,EvitlzirmxTe HausoncE.--,lAltentTitt G -sur-Barnettlelereparatune—Coeotrikte. Sal- Wton , .iclo..ilenelTootb-Wasli!aid Ftst varlug Rcsrgets at 87 iliOatek'XI- 0043 such as ECORIIIV - VS•f 'BITTERS. littainetkblit likci Ulf theliciiiier . DIALON '1023, corner .rottitit ? tsra eta SiOnlignaeor i _ • 14ovesorti Brown -- wintbor. 141 ennlBrpwqya4daor..- L _ . 'Low k .14ohow'A Honey. soap, lierlboru& Von's Honer , I • Low too eiltalhow's elsoofitifi,roop.; J.C.-Hull's 800 Honor soap. , Low Sou &Denbo - W.l chineso uni4c roaD. • BreckneU's bkin (rei7 fine _'; .C/wiWer's Honey 008,13 sisenj , ardlor & Stsithairre Ulro.eriwOJanta. r : , flutes LA. - render_ woti -Pal in room Xesatis 800 % (vary 1 1 14 1 and na rr i ai2 With all oSoOrtmtot aline vaatile. & ;I t ar ago bw at 1411'P eall/4 §1010'54011NEM0151: lu2zi- oozier Smithfield &ad Fourth strait • • MILITARY DIEN. AND OTHERs. _Um tad _gall arld4+pply-themetives -with SHIRTS, LINEN COLLA.EE: RANV,STREL COLLARS, SMOKING CAPS SOLDIER'S DRESSING OASES, Aiid all desoripticns of FURNISHING GOODS. MACRIITS Et GLIDE. N 0.78 'Market Street, la3o Betweett Fourth iuld the I)l==d.! Black Lace Mantles VERY CHEAP PLAIN A2ltD FIGURED BLACK SILK FANCY SILKS DRESS GOODS, Shawls, Grey Bonnets, HATS, SHAKER HOODS, RIBBONS, Ruches, flowers, and San Umbrellas, HOOP SKIRTS, AND LINEN DIAPERS Shirt Fronts, Linens, and Ginghams and Tickings CLOAKING' CLOVIS, CASSIM EBBS For Boys Wear. COTTOBA.DES, dze., AT LOW PRICES AT Win. SEMPLE'S, 180 and 182 Federal Street, ALLEGHENY. _ . irie- Who'saute Dealers are invited to call and examine our stock. iu3o rcurn.ez STORYBE CH D WIiLLINo for Bale, alb/ate or: Second etreet, between Market and Wood Areas. Hail. parlor. dining room, kitchen, bath room, cellar, yard and five chambers. For price and terms apply to S. CUTHHER.I & SONS, bl Marketatreet. 2%;;FEBRY STREET. FOB BALE—A UP Three Story B ick Dwelling House and loir, 'aihiste opposite the Third Presbyterian Church. Hall, Parlor, eight or ten rooms, cellar and yard. Price $3.000. Apply to. $. CUTHBIsIi r Ar. SONS. `5l Market street. yr HAVE Two coLons OP FRUIT CAN : WAX, • FRUIT CAN WAX. RED...II4ND 'MACH, 25 and 116r.AND BL'ACK. a:pound at A. J. RANKIN & CO, Druggists. 63 Market street. three doors below Fourth , JOSEPII B, MILLI SEN, BUCOBSSOB TO • JAS. P. FLEPAINC. DRUG GIRT, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Drugs, Medicines, Paints., Oils, Dye-muffs and Perfumer!, . No. 77 V'oderal Eiltreet ray2llyd , ALLEGHENY CITY, A. 3. DIINLEVIir, Grocer, NO. 4 DIAMOND, lydew PILTSBIIRGE4P.C: ra372A QTRA Y-11. FILLET- AISOITT %IWO • ears old. left hind Reit With a little white on it, cams to the residence o rthetindereitratd. The owner can have. the rime Visreving property and paying charger, ar !helVilAbq cord 1 i114 4 zlC ' 7 cording to Ta 26 Std corner Z.B.t OR:Roust-- rS street and Diamond erz iseAr Ej E v jzs. wrria aziri; Frietion. oreonutiotßlocib. for male by • BECKHAM 44 LONG • 40, , • • Bol4.7.LibertY dr4V. 1111114157214,_REAPERs./ 11 01MILIPAIk Farm Muir Dot Powers. wheeled and_o. *dying HAT, ,Itoief isrYieaotiallT ,RFxirratc!rc 1117 Lthatistrast. Pik PER COLLAR 4 Brass Poun (kers. SAS AND STEAM FITTERS.: MI kinds or Bram and Iron Coen o made: to order.. BRABB - GAs i nsitol, - or ALL KLUB Made at the shortest notice. Particular attention paiu to the fitting up attd repairing 017. RAME.gara. 31 &34 WAT E R STREET, near Liberty. The members of thirlna ocansmaal lam me ohatdos. or 111111V76111V owe or the bud nom will hum to give as oa ever, Po neat. ee6l 3,d-vju29 Bas: pare Cvd Conine Brandy. Buy Pure Old Cognise Brmady; Puy the best Madeira, 'Moe, Bey the best Madeira Wine, my the best Madeira. Wine. Buy the best Port and Sherri, Wines. Buy t , e best Port and i-herz7 Wines. antihe best Catd Sherry Wines, Buy Ftill Spark Mt Catawba Wil2o }Soy Still and Sparttlieg•Catawba Wine. Bay Still and Sparkling Qatawba Wine • Buy , the best Imported Gin. Bay the best Imported Gin. Boy the Lest •Imot rted Din, At Ji!SPIPEI PIiBMIFG'S. car. of the Diamond and Market St. juß Above the Diamcnd Orphan . Orphans' Court Sale. . , LOT-ON lAMONDiSREKT-- _D T- ._, metsiein Smithfield and Grant Stec. B T . 'Artie of a n order of the Online' Come' •, • cfAjlealieny one ft tr. i will expose to salemt t the Court - Home. in the City of I - Amour/M. Otr. • • . Ineattar,' the first day of July, *sea. at 10 o!oloch. It. /11., all that certain lot or piece or -' groned ttmate in the city of Pittsburgh. Immedl; -'..- ately adjolnum lot of James. H. Boykin& Re 0,,,,, • : . and bounded and described as tallows: --- . beginning at a poin : dis taut 15 feet n ortherard* -'. ' ' from the northern lino et Diamond alley, (in , tali down orlytinally,in the trateral Plan of,lead city of Pittsbarall.) sate p dutheirm on therpimak..., ,-- ern line of - Diantond'etreet. as *hewn b y the plop. - - %... of Diamond alley, between Emithileld,and (grant . -t-. Btreet,. ghowrayr. the increase in - - width made M .., , ,pursuance , f thoact of anembinappmi,ed 3/ii,,„ , 16 -1&57, and the supplement thereto paned may ` J 1858. weich plan is. recorded In that:oY Itertda-' . to. 's, c fice ; tad point &taint allo:distentte feet :, . ' *westwardly , from the watt-To- lino et ebo n y. a y_ .... „,, 167, ard:minning thence parasol ',with Cherry._ , suety northwarely 93 feet 3 Inches: ` thence west- •, . . wardly parallel wits Dismount alley .20 - feeti Oar co eouthwardly varallel, 'pith .I.,herry - alley . i : es feet 3 Moiler to, Dial:need - street r atm thence i outwardly along the northern line of Diamond street V) feet to the ~-p lace ..of beginning.: being : 1 pai t of OM tame' propery ' which the Beartof &hoot oireetors- et the Teud Ward. - rittbbenth. , am ves err to Michael thuinon. be died. datedt lune, P4:.,o;leeCidedin , Deett:il.e.k. volume 96;'" page 420. - • aer . tour — one., fourth sigh:-one eighth m a one yftn.Gl/0 eighth in two year* and the rentablina - " hall in ( tie y ear after thadeatit *fairs - Oatharbee , • • Garth : d, w:dcw of Michael Cannon. Sr. lieed; .. -, 1...:..., and mother or Michael' Cannon. Jr.. deoft vino- ,:-.. interest an the unpaid instalments. payabor-,qt, ,:...- terlyr, said imtalments to be et:oared by „tvad,„ :.- ,\ and btortgage. : _ .-„,.. , • For farther pitiliiidiqAiimuttli of 2 , , -,,.,. ~ . :L . IV and KIKLi... Y,, • Gil:lrian of Jane, Cathraine andltaryAnnii. , .- • • , cannon, minors. •Or ' • , - ' .04,P. it tr. L. B FETTEithu r • . IA t:Ls. 4 . l torzterklio. 37 hearth tr.reet, l'ittkbani,l4-. - • tOrigAttirin llitftßlVErt. kt* /1 1 0Blia.- A" 1321Lif Ave BErggzip ir JP- i° aeitts4likezeelklfith.vhiteibre feet - wideUri/4a.tripe &W U - till lack a fdaaß about - tevel , years - okk strrta a BtOitliayed =oases cf the trudereitamt earlyte;th e , uu. SUlidars ulandag The 4 1 eneN 4 rev ) . - nw Sw ese2legt 2e3161). &lidos eillk_e_thettotstav v er they 104 .mww.iLlA vosewcif neeorumrtatair'" asilveaD auoßia, • twat Monongahela Borough, TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS 4th of July, Every description of BOOTS &SH_OES, vAVTItt . f "S!* Q ~~.. F. za~s.~.~:—;. era^...~.c.::r.~<:n:--:~,.:.--.-.y. MASONIC.:IIIIMTION puss, -_> 7,t o 7,2. o.) a' .s. F'o' V> f_reet. L 117: ' *GRAVEL ROORISta. 1411113,PON; OXiktkEili aMCO, Riefant raniiikarardthiiaatneas:Ate Warren's, &a:b ddeawatir the employ ofrWarren & Co l* elkhqeshrtir:: : ' ofniai ioofretve rz**• . , Fifth and VOcia:;6ol43, ree en-uitory..- ' •-•-• Ju3o .** . W.V,:*OODS Just nr. r cxrrEn int HUGUS BACKE) Car. Idar!cat'a. DRESS Go'or• - #, CC gko f nerwest stVaa. t at q ue, amp ace ant 8, _ • POINTS -WITH CAPES, TWO OASES OP Past Colored Pruita Selling at I. worth 20 o's. I IS YOU , WANT New Detainee. Veenah Lamle at peeyerd, - - • 4iv- 23 Conte. CLLGL ON ,flEgas &Ilacke o z' ~ ~; :. Cla 04 - E-1 bz, fr; af c) i mu eir g RR; 0•1. lIY PIIIILE OLD CO9NLIII3 1117414/11- .
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