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Democratic Nominations.
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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
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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 : '
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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
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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
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,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
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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 '
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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
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asilveaD auoßia, •
twat Monongahela Borough,
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS
4th of July,
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Riefant raniiikarardthiiaatneas:Ate Warren's,
&a:b ddeawatir the employ ofrWarren & Co
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