h 4• uaZ4 CARLISLE, PA. Friday, May 15, 1863. S. M. PEPTENGHAIs & C 0.,. O. 37 Park Row New York, and 6 State St. Boston; are our Agents for the lIERALD n those cities, and are authorized to take Advertise ments and Subscriptions for us at our lowest rotes. A BRACE OF Lits.—The Trofunteer of this week, in speaking of our .Union League, calls it a " secret oath-bound League." At' least one hundred Demoorats have been pres ' ent at the meetings of the Union League since its organization., Ask those gentlemen wheth er there is the semblance of truth in this statement. The 'Volunteer is eloquent on this " secret oath-bound" business, when it falsely applies the term to Union men, hilt it is won derfully silent, as to the recent developments of the Northern rebel knights of the Golden Circle, who abound so plentifully in Copper head localities. Again the same truthful (?) journal tolls us that the last meeting of 1 he Union League was a " fizzle—nobody being present." The truth is that a misunderstanding as to the hour had the effect of misleading a number of members, but notwithstanding thisa goodly number were present, and several interesting speeches de livered. Veracity is as rare an article as hen's teeth in the Volunteer establishment. Xte-We cannot pick up a loyal paper awcm our exchanges that is not filled with patriotic resolutions from this regiment and that regiment bearing down upon the Cop perheads and Peace men of the North, while we have yet to see the first resolution of the kind in any Copperhead sheet that has come under our eye. This . is a significant fact, and one which will be noticed by the soldiers in the field. We hope they. will. make a- note of this fact, and remember who are their friends and who are not. Mark the sneak ing traitors in the rear. The tory papers are taking exceptions to, Gen. Ilaßeck's declaration, that after our army had whipped the Southern rebels, the soldiers would return and "place their heels upon the heads of the sneaking traitors in the North." Well, now why should not trai tors South But • Nn rozne'et felt the halter draw With rood opinion of the law." 4 - &- When you hear a Man claiming to be loyal, put two questions to him: Ist, Do you believe the present rebellion to be causeless and wicked ? • 2d. Are you in favor of using the resour ces of (ha Federal Government, if-heeessary.- to crush this rebellion and restore the national authority over all the revolted States? If he says yes, and is in earnest, he may be counted as a loyal uian. If he answers both, or either, in the negative, ho is, to all intents and purposes, practically if not actually a secessionist. re—Thlt Harrisburg Pirtriot says it is "heat tily sick of Bench and Pulpit politics." We don't di,ubt it. The civil law and the efiristiat i Llaw are sickening: to sitek.fellows as control that sheet. editors probably pre fer lager beer politics, brothel polities, or peculating politics to politics voverned by law and elevated by Chrivtianity. No won der such fellows get heartily sick when they think of the law, and its enforcement. 2W,V-.. Keep it before the people that the only party the Copperheads fight, is the party of the Union I Keep it before the people, that the Cop perheads are in sympathy with, and many of them actually belong to the Knights of the Golden Circle. Keep it before the people, that none of the Copperhead Newspapers or Speakers ever denounce that treasonable organization, but expend all their wrath upon the Loyal men who have banded together to save the Gov ern in en t. 11[While thousands of names are being enrolled, showing that their owners are un conditionally for the Union, lot a book be opened in every community to enter the names of those who refuse to join Union Leagues and who act with the Copperheads. When tho war is over and the Government victorious, the Copperheads will be the loud est to protest that they were loyal citizens and in favor pf a vigorous prosecution of the war. Let us have it in white, and black, and then there will be no mistake. Record their names.—Exchange The Copperheads are loud their profess ions of love fur the Union "as it was," but will not fight for . it, and are opposed to the " Conscription " Act, without which we will be unable to save the Union it as it was," or any other way. The Copperheads used to be in favor of the Constitution as it. is," but fearing that some of their loading men, North and South, may. yet be hanged upon that instrument" as it is" they now call for a Grand-Union-Compromise- Peace-• Doughfacc—Dirt Eating-Pro-ISlavery- Secession-Convention, to alter and amend that sacred couipae and of course date the ;in end meets back, so as to save the traitorous necks of the most: of the leading men of their party.—Exchange. • Tits- SEASON AND ITS still: lingers in the lap of spring, and the cold east wind is,almost always with us. "railer. day we had:rain and a cold east wind ; to-day we have the oatoe,'„probably; and to-morrow "a-fine —sunshiny-"day; - These great olitingeS make sad'havoc with•tho.health of - our citizens, particularly, those having weak lunge. For all diseases of this kind, use Bryan's PulmOldo Wafers. .25 set. a box, at 8. Elliott's. "Trust" •is a good . motto for a Christian ; " trust not" is a good one for a tailor. OEM CARL SCRURZ AND THII . VOL IINTEER • AGAIN. It • Was 'its the' fall: of 'lB6O, when - COIL Amok was stumping : Penasylvania iu, be half Of Ont. CLlnT;Nnad th'e' general RaPuti- , lican :ticket, that' the American Volunteer publiShed-Whaqt said was an extract from, one of his speeChes:' This paragraph can tajned, with many other treasonable notions, an infamous libel upon the constitution of our country. Oa Mr. SCEIURZ'S arrival in Carlisle, while on that tour, this paragraph in the Volunteer was shown to him and ho at once indignantly pronounced it a scoun drelly forgery, and promised to so prove it in his ensuing speech here. The editor of the Volunteer hearing of this, - and 'dreading the impending expose, sent word to Mr. S., that he had copied the extract 'referred to from one of his exchanges—was sorry he had done so—and would apologize therefore in his next issue. Air. S. expressed himself perfectly satisfied with this explanation, and said so to our citizens at the meeting held the same evening. He admired the honesty and manhood of the editor who had thus done his best to repair the injustice he had Atythis juncture the editor of the Volunteer, who had been present during the meeting, arose, and in a very excited man ner, denied having made any apology, and in effect reiterating the fraud he had perpe trated. Mr. Stnuaz, in reply, promptly ac cepted this horn of the dilemma, and after proving the utter falsity and atrocity of the Volunteer's paragraph, paid his respects to its now avowed author. Such a withering,, scathing rebuke we never heard man receive —it-left him considerably smaller than the "little end of nothing." Ono would have thought this renewer would have been Pllnkietit to have 'fisted the Vu/nnteer the balance of its natural life; but the galled jade will wince long after the -spurs have been removed ; and -then,--in this instance, the wearer of the rowels is at such a safe distance, that .this kind of revenge is very cheap. But on behalf of CARL (now General) Scnuaz, a brave and accomplished soldier, battling in his adopted country's de fenc we totally deny the Volunteer's state ment this week that " General Schurz and his troops without firing a gun broke and ran pill-well, and could not be arrested in their flight for half an hour;" and tee 'now proceed to the proof of its falsity. THE BREAK AND PANIC IN THE ELEVENTII CORPS The following correspondence has taken place; HEADQUARTERS TIIIRD - Divrmos, Mny 6, 1863. Maj. Gen. iluweitn, Commanding Eleventh Corps: Gest:oat : I find it stated in the papers, The New York " Times," Tho Washington " Chronicle," The NOW York " Herald," etc., that it was my division which, in the action of last Saturday threw Itseit !lying upon the rest of the corps, and it is even stated in The-Now York " prat " that I 'Lied .theilh4gracitfil fUght,l l , person:" -- The.sl are statements against which I feel myself obliged to ask for protect ion You knot, the facts, and you saw me in flint a ngagement. I would respectfully request you to state w tort troops threw themselves tip ing upon the rest, and where I was, and what I was doing, while you ',LW 1110 011 the field of battle :- I am, ()uncial yours respectfully. C. SCIIUItZ. Major General* HEADQU4RTERNIITII ARMT Cour:4, May 8, ISM. Gen. entree, Commanding Third Division I am deeply pained to find you subjected to such false anti mat HOUN attacks. I saw you just as the or ter 11 i'olllllloll Cod You hastened to your poet. 1 next saw you rallying troops near the rifle pits, upon the ground occupied by our Corps. After this you were with tut, forming a new line of battle near (len. Berry's line. I do not helieve that you could hare done morn than you did on Iliattrythir. occuzlon— -Thwailltizationa uith hfniieueutn tourdivision are un trite; 'SiiliirYlitreTrffrpti did not Occupy the front on the point of attack. It u cold to improper for me at this lime to speak mat [rely of the lona uet of different dl, ishins. My official relent will FOOD he Made. L. iriles me pleasure to sul.serihe mynel f yours truly. 0. 0. I IOWA!: o, Major—General, Now the cowardice, treachery and villainy of this second assault of the 'Volunteer upon a brave soldier in the front rank of his coun try's noble defenders—lie in the fact tluit the Volunteer, when it published its mean fling at his reputation, must have seen this authoritative denial of Gen. How Ann, for it appeared in the daily papers of Monday last. There is no escape then from the odium which attaches to this patent calumny. The statements that " Gen. SIGEL was re moved to make room for Schurz," who is a " mere political adventurer, without 'one par. title of military knowledge,' are the petite fabrications which usually go to season the Vo/unicer's more imposing' manufactures.— Gen. Scnuaz•is not and never was a corps, but a division commander, and consequently could not have replaced SIGEI„ whose corps is commanded by Gen. FloWAnn. Seeing that Gen. Scuusz received a first-class mili tary education in Germany, a rational guess would be that he is possessed of several " particles" of " military education." The editor of the Volunteer will not deny that if his sword is half as sharp as his tongue the rebels south will get as sick of the former as their copperhead cousins here were of the graph latter. ADMIRABLE DUPONT AND GEN. HUNTER.- Late news from the Department of the South authorizes the statement, which is a manifest contradiction of the stories of the sympathizing newspapers, that there is a hearty, cordial, and determined co-operation between Rear Admiral Dupont and Major General Hunter, and that if any attack is to be inude on Charleston, they will join forces; not simply because they fight under the same flag, but because they agree upon, tbe` principle of employing all means for the pur pose of crushing out the rebellion.. The lai d and-naval forces act with the heart of one man. • Admiral Dupont, who has experi enced the value of negroes on the Water' like General Hunter, who has bx per ienced their value on land, is resolved to employ this_greaLelementia_accomplishing-the4 a -S1 before him, and securing triumph to_.his-op• eratious in the South. All out' news from Port Royal, from the army as well as the navy, iddicates the hapiiiest and most con .fident feeting..amung_tlipse- -.who - cow mand i • as well as ,those who obey. , REFUSING , TO ALLOW SOLUIERS' , TO VoTE. —The Legislature of New York paisSd a law to allow soldfers to vote, but Gov Seymour has will - n.4 . 0'1° Veto it:. The tories seem determined to prohibit soldiers from voting, if possible. The. Seope of The. Co nflict: The'; , Rom 44.-' ; :teitt quoror, Julius Caesar, burned bis - sbipeoti' landing on the shores of Britain, 'tied as the glare of- the darning NO, lit ;up the wild coast, it testified to hi's I ' • determination to• quell the "barbarians" or die on their shores. In the onSe of the lie publio of the. United 'States, warring to pre, servo its sovereignty, Providence has shut t ho nation up in like manner.' Says Bancroft, the Historian, in his noble speech at the loyal meeting in New York, on the anniversary - of thelßaltimore bloodshed : " The'question is found to be, not merely whether tile United States shall be stricken from the family of nations, but whether the viral principles of freedom sh all be preserved. [Applause I The imperative call of duty cheers us on to the struggle mare than ever; for, unless we succeed, the power of the pee . _ pie which pervades all history as a prophecy; is beaten down, and there is no other Western hemisphere where the struggle can be renewed. We have nb choice ; we must persevere. If wo would build up the home of humanity—if we would safely transmit the regenerating principles that give life its value—we must persevere. The result cannot be doubtful.— The resources of the rebellion are nearly ex hausted, while our own prosperity has hardly been impaired; we must press onward with united zeal, and 'win the victory of endurance horn." ' Time's noblest empire" is this R,epnblic, and it is true that we must stand to our guns in full view of the fact that freedom,, onto vanquished inher chosen centre and home, is detected everywhere. Italy, Poland and Hun gary ,have nobly struggled for liberty, yet, even in the first named land success is not thOroughly assured. Even in England pre scription holds a stern sway and that nation seems no nearer to Republicanism now than when Cromwell died. France is the sport of of every demagogue or tyrant, while the prog., ress of Russia is slow. As for Austria and Spain, they are both as despotic as they were a century ago. Nowhere can the banner of freedom, "torn though flying," stream out on 'the - win - 4g with perfeet hppreeiiition save in. the country of Washington, and never was there so heavy a relstonsibility laid upon any peot , le as upon (he citizens of this Republic.— The ark of human civilization rests upon our shoulders ; the future is bound up in our strug gle, and this nation must persec 7 ere to the end. How desperate then is the treason of Americans North or South in perilling the holiest. interests of the human-race either to gratify mad personal ambition or to attempt the founding of a Government whose corner stone is slavery ! An Infidel and a Coward's False hood. the following is a plain assertion from the Tory Organ, yesterday morning; - - .WE HAVE :* * RELIABLE INTEL LIGENCE THAT HOOKER WAS BEASTLY DRUNK AND ENTIRELY INCAPACITATED FOR COAIMAND OR ANYTHING ELSE ON 'SUNDAY, AND THE REI'UItIS THAT THE ARMY HAS ENTIRE CONFIDENCE IN HIM ARE' UNFOUNDED. —Now we only ask, that the soldiers who are at present in this city, and who p , rilled their lives with 'llooker in achieving the sue ceas of the most consummate \ stragetieal movement of the war—that these brave_mcra meet and resent this foul assault on their brave commander. Be it remembered, that ,the wretches who put forth this uu founded libel on Gen. Hooker arc• themselves the most confirmed inebriates in the hind, who owe a stipend to every lire plug. lamp post and curb stone in Harrisburg, for the uses to which these were put while being occupied by their bkiated heads. And yet these dastards,when they cannot write and print treason against the Government, fur fear that their craven necks might be subjected to the pressure of a halter, turn their spleen on a brave leader of brave wen, and endeavor the aspersion of his character, to bring reproach and dis grace upon he Government. We repeat, that we trust the soldiers who are now'in this oily will take some notice of this cowardly attempt to traduce the char• actor of their leader, by miscreants Who are the open and the uncompromising foes of the Government. It such libels are allowed to pass unnoticed, we may expect to see these wretches resort to other .and more forcible means to overturn the authority and destroy the dignity of the Government. it will only need the passage of a few brief resolutions, by the brave men now now in Harrisburg, repelling and exposing this falsehood, to make the poor drivellers of the Tory Organ retract, chew their words, and admit their unblushing falsehood !—Barriiburg Tele- rie,_ IN AN article intended to show how the problem of slavery is being solved by the irresistible progress of e.vents, and how indivi dual opinions aro formed or modified by the influence of the present national struggle, the Nov York Tribune says : Every hour of the fluctuating fortunes of of this terrible strife is an hour of added pt , ril to slavery. No sun sets that does not see some. persons free who were slaves the night before. IdeElellails and linens contribute to 'flie inevitable result as surely, though not so willingly, as Freu.cmis and Hunters. Butler enters the war a Breckinridgo Democrat, die- tales the famous “oontrabauds" order, gov 4. erns New Orleans a few mouths, and come' home to enjoy and requite the intensest hate of every Copperhead acid every open Rebel in in America, simply Leeauseihe is earnestly hostile to the Rebellion, and sees that Its fate and - that,of shtvury have become 'inextricably bleudedi, Gov. Hamilton, a slaveholder,, is - hutited - eut - ofT'etas. -- becauser.—he — wlik-it i t 80 -- made a Rebel, and becomes antislavery from convictloniltat . neither he nor any other Union ist canisvor lire in the South horeafter-unlessi the Rebellion and .slavery shall both die.— An& hi f i convictions aro shared by nearly ever,_ Unionist, ketnitining in -the South: - • - . Vrench tragedy occurred in New York last week. A. deserter frotn the U. S. -Army poisoned himself and his sweetheart. The' poison worked violently upon him, but, had less effect upon the, girl. He tried to strangle her, but his death struggles 'week. erred him, and he died, while she recovered. Letter from a Loyal Southern Gat- POR TEM NATIONALINTELLICIENOER. 2 A rebehrvisitle and a;ciinitant cotrespon-. deuce with the South, linsoonvinced the ytriter . of thirs•article orthe,eorre r etness of tliOriewa. advanced in his communication to youtTial uable'paPer some months since. 'The fanatics on both sides who have asserted that the peo ple of the South have been and are a unit in their antagonism to the United%States Govern ment are in the wrong, and the falsity of their assertions in every day becoming apparent Every Southerner knows that a majority of the white population of his particular section, are not in .favor of establishing any stronger form of the government than that set tip by 'our fathers, and that they have interest in, but, on the Contrary, have an interest against the maintenance of slavery, which only operates in competition with their labor. ');very Southerner knows there are not over two hundred thousand persons, all told, in that portion of the United States now in re hellion, who are directly interested as slave owners in upholding slavery, and that a ma jority of them are not disposed to abandon a republican form of government as a failure.-- It is true that the politicians of the South who fomented and still centrel the rebellion, do regard a monarchy as the best form of gov erment, and have boon and are laboring in sidiously to get their opinion adopted by the people who put inn in in power. They have already established a rigid militai-y despotism, which, so long as the war continues, will an swer their purposes well enough, but in the event their rebellion were to prove a oneness., which is now more imptubable that ever, what would become of them in case their armies were disbanded before some strong form of government were adopted add organized ? They have pondered well upon this question. They know what in that event would be their fate. The writer of this article, having been born n the South, having always resided there, and riving bee❑ in five of tae seceded States with in the lust six months, is perhaps bettor quali fied to judge of public sentiment in the :South than those who have never been there. Those residing elsewhere, who are known as “sym pathizers with the South," are not entitled to be so designated. They do not sympathize with the majority of the white population of the Sunthomt with the . politiehinS LIMA are riding them to their ruin. Thu question is often asked, why, if such be the state of the case, do nut the masses in I he South rise up, and, alter(' epusing the rulers, return`lo their allegiance It is easily an swered. They lack arms, munitions of war, and organization, all of which are in the des polio control of Mr. Jefferson D.ivis and .his confederates. Alter having been abandoned to their fate in portions ut Tennessee, Ken tucky, and Virginia, and Texas by our guv• erument, it is nut to be expected that the people of any portion of the sededed States will now demure. themselves fur the Union until they see clearly that they will receive per ma lo at protection. It is not at all strange that Mr. Jefferson Davis's health scents to tie giving' way under the pressure to which he has been, is, and must continue to be, subjected. -What has become of the flattering inducements held out by hint and his associates in the conspiracy to us, the people of tha South? Have we had "peiteenh . le secession ?'l - Ills the export duty on cotton f i led the treasury of the so.called Southern Confederacy by pa) ing the interest on the bonds i•sued by Al r. Memminger ? Have he great PONVera of liurape intervened and opened our ports". llave the Democrats of 'the North held their party tie stronger than their allegiance to their government, and consented to help out the treason of those who regard a republican form of government as it failure? Thus far, what have the leaders of the South gained by the war they inaugurated save a stay of execution? They ktitiv that, their doom is fixed, and they are only tight fug. for delay. If such is mit the, /11421 su many of the knowing ones among them oc cupied in converting, at,a ruinous sacrifice, their assets into gold or sterling exchange'!-- Where has lien. Sterling Price sent hits per sonal effects, and why ? Where have Floyd and a host of tae contractors of the so I=ri!M IYhy are millions worth of exchange and gold, not to spcak of government cotton, quietly escaping out of the limits of — Secessia" by the only safe rout loft open by the neglect of President Lincoln's administration—by why of Matamoros r The " Northern man whir Southern prin ciples" who, like Slidell, have ridden the South for years past, and yet ride it, have a prudent consi leration for the future_ Though, like rats, they way instinctively desert their sinking ship, they have their hoards for future use in places of safety abroad. Letter from the Reserves. CAMP OF VIE 7TII REO . T P. V. RC. } Near Convalescent Camp, May 10, 18(13. DEAIt leam.n : —The di vision of Pen asy vauia Reserves, which according to the press has been represented as rusting, reorganizing its shattered ranks, &c. is =Aimed and quar tered as follows, viz: Ist brigade at Fair fax Court llouse, picketing an extensive line, and as the tile is limited, its duty is extreme ly arduous. Two regiments of the 3ud bri gade (7th and 4th,) are guarding at camps Convalescent and Distribution, and (ho re .rnainder are at Alexandria patroling the prin cipal thoroughfares, arresting persons whose seeesh proclivities predominate, and keeping things straight generally. • The 3d brigade is stationed at Washington, doing provost and other duty, and among the moot pleasant we notice from tYishington papers, is that of es corting rebels, whose desires of visiting Washington, wore more than realized, to the Old Capitol prison. We have the most envia ble position of all, and it is of that we pro pose to write. Immediately on our first ar rival in this section of Virginia, we were or., tiered to Upton's Hill, and occupied the camp vacated by the'l4'3d New York. • Our duties there consisted in picketing,' which we did almost continually and occasionally to take a nocturnal tramp in search of raiders. We remained there some two months, performing ouF labors to the satisfactieu of every ono, won it was rumored that - ii "Change posi• tifin was contemplated .and it was the inten- tiotilef the Colonel commanding to canton the:' 2nd brigade at Washington. Accordingly everybody was in the best possible spirits, and on the ipti vice to Y•eceive, the ever wel come order.. Our anxious expectancy was finally relieved at 2 o'clock on the morning' of the 15th of April ,with orders to break camp and got on "the march irnmediatelY— which we did with truly remarkable alac rity, and proceeded—where ? not to Wash ington but Convalescent camp to guard itttagglerearicHlesertersl — at — whielr - ptrice we are at present writing. Our duty now con' gists of guarding with loaded inttsketsi - un armed men, and daily largo details are made from the 7th and 4th for that purpose. The two regiments occupy the camp vacated by thellth--Ithode Island. and- as--far -as guar-- tors are coireerned, they are the most corn-• fertable we have been in ddring our term..... Government is supporting here at an immense expense, a camp (Distribution) in which are .confined deserters, stragglers and• convales- cent soldiers. As far as we are able to' learn, no punishmetrris administered to the two for• mer, with 11;o - exception of keeping them in comfortable Sibley tents--.:as guard liouys the litter are certainly an expedae and drudge ' • • tleman. A Dutchman, who had accompanied the soldiet 4 t from Salt Lake City, had grappled a Injuit," gat hifhead under his artirt lrt Benicia boy, and was knifing him. The In dian was trying to draw his knife from its sheath, and the Dutchman seeing his predi cament called to a 'comrade : " For Gott tam's sake, come quick! or dere lie von dead DUtelltll4ll here in two minut." The soldier stepped up and put four balls into the Indian before he dropped • Two hundred and seventy-two Indians were Idled on the field, forty-eight were shot in the river, and twelve escaped. One hundred and fifty squaws . and children were left 'to subsist as well as they could on the dead horses; and to inter the,corpses of the tvar-' riors. The command lost - twelygLtacadrEthe: ight. The Bear Hunter, head - chiel,of the was ,killed and his scalp, with all the horses; and rifles of the Indians falcon to Bait Luke City. After the eitizonshadreccliered' their stolen stock,the rernainder_was sold at auction, and the proCeeds distributed.among the soldiers. IV. C. IL D.,Z7R411.. SLENKEIC, Auditor General; Mr . HAni Sniieyor General, and .Mr. McGitant, State":;.greAsurer, entered upon - the—tluties - o f their re'Opeetive offices, at, Harrisburg, on the Ist itistant. Mr. Barr has appointed Theo. J. rtehterEsq., 'as his Chief Clerk. Mr:' Mc- Grath. has Appointed IYm. 11. Boas, Esq., Chief Clerk'nt the Treasury lidpartmont. . . whose uniform they , wear. Thousands of those mou are kept here inao Live, depriving the country of their services, and doing infinite injustice to their comrades in the field:'' ' ,••• ~ We cannot say that our regiment is being reeraiteti to any alarming extent; a few con valescents from different hospitals in the Ninth being ait theticcessions, , We are well . officered however, soros of the companies whose numbers do not exceed twenty men; having their full.' - oompletnent. Cul. Bolinger and Major Lyman are on special duty at Division Court Martial and the command devolves upon Capt. Spence, a bravo and efficient °e l cer. Lt. Col. Henderson, who has boon act ing on the staff of Col. Sickles as Inspector General having recently received the appoint. merit, of Provost Marshall of the 15t h Con gressional District of Pennsylvania, left a few days since to assume the duties and responsi bilitios of that position. Brave to a fault, affable and courteous to all, and a soldier in every sense of the word, ho was admired and respected by the entire command, and carr i es with hula the heart-felt regrets of ollicers and men. The monotony of camp life was painfully broken last Sunday by the burial of a meta her of this regiment. The deceased, who was out of Company " 1" had visited Washington and becoming intoxcated got into trouble and was maltreated to such iin extent that he died shortly after reaching camp. Tao funeral ceremonies were performed by the chaplain, and wet e very solemn and impressive. Paymaster Ball lately appeared among us and distributed Uncle Satu's good gifts to the ' tune of i 152,00 per man. Thu venerated face and white hairs of " old Gideon" tire alwityo hailed with delight in this neighborhood as the precursor of coining events—viz : a copi ous distribution of hii -• greenbacks" spiced with a corresponding quantiy of "cousin postage stamps." Gideon is ever welcome. We are contiguous to Alexandria and the town is daily visited by the 'boys for a little amusement and rerreatiom No intoxicatig 1 liquors are allowed to be sold, and with that " exception the freedom of the city" is gur r ) anteed. The houses in Alexandria are ow and dingy and the streets narrow, all pre senting quite an antiquated appearan . The place is a notorious secession rendezvous, full three-fourths of its present population are traitors in the guise of loyalty and ever ready to give aid and comfort to the enemy. In the parlors of sonic of the most pit:eminent t. iti zoom are displayed full length portraits of many generals in the rebel army, and is their open boast that the city has furnished one whole regiment to the Confederacy, —the Nils Virginia under Longstreet. Company "A" has its 'I headquarters' at the i'etinsi lvania Restaurant." oil kit% St. now under the charge of Mr Jacob Hartman formerly of Carlide. Our eipectalions were nut exactly realized Nvith regard to the movement of the army of the Potomac, but having served under Oen eral !looker we know hue as not the man to become totally depressed and disheartened at temporary reverses. Our hopes are st reng' eneil with the knowledge that Lee's army has suffered infinitely greater than ours. and that the gallant army of the Potomac is not in the least demoralized, but ready again to resume the offensive whenever the general command ing orders. God grant he meet with success in the third attempt at that modern Gibralter. COL Conner's Fight i:vitlPthe Snako Indians. Col. Conner is stationed at Great Salt Lake City with a regiment of California Volt/Li tt...els, for the purpose of enfbreing the laws of the States in the territory and pro tecting the mail route. Fur sevmal sum mers the Snake or Shoehone Indians have been troubleso ne and defiant, killing and alping individuals and small parties while distant from the settlements, and attacking trains of migrants, which they will follow for days . atid 3trike . at -- Siehe un , uaftlti'd -iMi ment. Early in January about four hundred encamped in Cache Valley, on Bear river, threw up earth works, and sent word to the trJups that they desired to fight. The men were very s.,licitous to go and their Colonel was willing. 'Die difference between Cali fornia In.i,an lighters and regulars is that the former have experience in this method of warfare, and the soldier retains his indi viduality without being lost in it corps, while the latter are ready to operate only as the command is received. Totally ignorant al everything connected with the business in hand cxeept discipline, and dependent wholly upon the knowledge and conduct ut their officers fur success, they are not utifrequent ly defeated by all enemy not superior in numbers to themselves and using inferior 3. When the Californians go for diilB" they generally get Mein. ()mho 25th of January Col. Conner star ted hir the Indian camp with three hundred cavalry and .infautry and two howitzers. lie made forced marches, travelling principally at night, and breaking a trail through the snow. The fatigue and exposure disabled nearly sixty of the men, some of whom were compelled to have their frozen feet amputa ted. Tile 'whims were found near the mouth of a canon unsuspici f ns of an attack. The Col. endeavored to bring his howitzers into Position, but his men grew impatient of the delay and begged permission to go at them. Ile consented and only took time to place them in proper position for the assault when the word was given and the troops delivered their , fire and then rushed down the sides of the mountain, - pistol and knife in hand. Af ter the first discharge it was throughout a hand to hand conflict. The Indians fought desperately fbr there was no escape. 'After discharging his revolver a soldier would close with a warrior and the contest lie terminate MOM with the knife. An incident will illustrate the manlier in which the 'combat wits con- ducted A movement is on foot for another column, but particlars are withheld for - the present. An inspection of the ground upon which the late-baffle was.fotight shows the despera. tiou of the rebels and their immense loss.— Large numbers'of their dead and wounded are upon the field; In the Wilderness, where the tire took place from the shells from our bat teries, a very large number of charred re mains have been inund. ' The sufferings of the poor wretches must have been terrible. Yesterday afternoon a flag of truce was sent across the - Rappahannock- - by -General Lee, with a letter to General Hooker, in which it was stated that. Lee's army was deficient in supplies and their communication cut off, so that it wa+ difficult to reinforce their commis sariat, rendering it necessary that General (looker should send over supplies for the wounded soldiers in the hands of the Con- • federates. Medical and hospital supplies were- sent. over in response to th.s communication. which indieat , .. plainly the great success of General Stoneman's 'cavalry expedition. Iletropub. Movement —Hooker's Communica tions Threatenel by the Terrible Rains 11,oher Reerosses the Rai;pnhannock—Gen. Hooker Brinys.of 2,500 More Prisoners.— General Lee's Losses—Operations of General Stuneman—llan C'avalry within the Entrench ments at Richmond. The Washington Star, of last Thursday, brings us the following ,necounts otthe - with drawal of General !looker from the south side of the Rappahannock The storm that commenced on Monday eve- Mug and continued throughout Tuesday was at its height on Wednesday, evidently warned General !looker —whose movement was nee essarly made with only eight days' supplies, carried by the men (which were then nearly consumed,) and without trains—of the immi nent danger that, unless he promptly sought his camps the elements would out a stop to his operations; the railrotd communication with Apita Creek having been destroyed by floods for i we've hours at Brook's Station be fore he determined ro - recross - tlre river: In the course of all the fighting throughout Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the enemy has not ventured a general engagement tviilu his army, only a portion .of which was in action at any one time ; and on no occa sion with as great loss as he inflicted upon the Rebels. Nevertheless, is it became evi- For the " 11 vrald " dent. that the greatest storm of the season would surely cut off his supplies of all de -criptions, if he remained on the south side of the river awaiting an opportunity to induce the enemy to risk a general engagement, ho evidently had left him but the only alterna tive of returning, for the tune being, to where Nis supplies could readily reach him•. On We.tnesday General Milroy capturel Rebel officer on whose person wis found a fresh dispatch from Gen. Lee; stating that his (Rebel) loss h.td been •` fearful" • The destruction of the railroad nod turn pike bridges south of Fredericksburg by Stone man's force has surely placed the rebel army in even a worse position for supplies than our own is nt this time, as !looker is now whero his communications are already reestablished; while theirS (wito Richmond) must. continue unavailable for weeks to come, necessitating them to scatter or fall back in a body, it seems to us. On the whole it is clear that a decisive vic tory was snatched from our gallant troops only by the elements. Gen. Hooker brought out with him, we may odd, an aggregate of 2.500 prisoners. The following additional items, from the second edition of the Star, if reliable, will greatly relieve the fears entertained that the aura of General Hooker has beou aecompa ied with serious disaster: General blooker, it is understodd, estimates s losses in the bite battles at about ten iousand men, all lon, killed wounded and is.ing. It is believed that the Rebel losses (which their officers admit wore terrific) were nearly if not quite double this amount. Stoneman's cavalry ha've marched nearly two hundred miles since the 3d of May, and were inside the fortifications , of Richmond.— (hi the 4th they burnt all the stores at Aylet tes Station, on the Mattapony. On the 6th they destroyed all the ferries. over the I'a monkey and Mattapony, and a large depot of commissary stores near and Above the Rap pahannock, and same in hero id good condi tion. They deserve great credit for what they havo done: It is one of the _finest. fe_ata of the star. • CAPTURE OF POR9 GIBSON, 'OFFICIAL DISPATCHES rROM.. GEN, ,000 RERELq-ROUTED AND DRIVEN TOWARDS Taken— Gen. Griersaie:t Cavalry .Itiaid. . • . Washington,. May 9. Tho followiag - has been received.at. head, quarters : . . Grand Gulf,. Nay 3.—To HaHeck, General-in-Cbief.—We . landed at Bordinsburg April 30th, and moved immedi, litely On Port Gibson. We Met the enemy; 11,000. strong, 9 miles south of Port Gibson, at') on the Ist; andengaied hitn. all day, .entirely routing him,. with' the. loss of many killed and aboilt 500 prisoners, .besidea the wounded. Our loss is about : 100 killed and 500 wounded. c--; . The enemy retreated_ towards Vicksburg, • WAR NEWS. HOOKER AGAIN ACROSS THE , RAPPAHANNOCK. LEE'S ARMY IN RETREAT General Lee Cut Off from his Supplies, %Vast:lmam:44 May 9. 12 P. M.—On Friday morning last General Hooker re-crossed the Rappahannock with two corps d' armee, and, after reconnoitering the old position held by him at Chnnoellorville, found that the enemy had fallen back,. leaving hundreds of his wounded behind, and his dead unburied During the day tho entire Army of the Po tomac crossed the river, with sixteen days' rations, and moving forward, deployed right and lef,, in search of the enemy, who was net to'be found in force up to 8 o'clock this morn ing. • A large number of ;stragglers have come into our outposts lines and giving themselves up, expressing their disgust with the rille,of the rebel lenders. These men confirm the public accounts of the consternation created in Richmond by Gen. Stoneman's raid. General Hooker informs Gen. Halleek that be only needed active co•operation from Gen, l'eck and Keyes in a second advance to ren der the destruction of the rebel army and the capture of Richmond certain. The report that Richmond has been 'cap tured by General Keys is not credited by tho War Department. The President and Generalßeck, as well as the members of the Cabinet, are in ei6et lent humor and very hopeful. Reinforcements are arriving hero rapidly. It is th.mght these troops will be sent to Gen. Hooker. ARMY OP THE POTOMAC. GRANT. VICKSBURG.
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