thit erattl. CARLISLE, PA. Friday, May 13, 1864. The People's Choice for President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Great Battles We give up far the largest portion of our paper to•day to the best circumstantial ac counts of the great battles that can be had, ►nd up to the latest moment before going to press, we will make everything else give way to the last reliable intelligence concerning their issue. We apprehend that there are none of our readers who do not recognize in this struggle, the last desperate frantic attempt of the le bele to preser•e a foothold upon the territory of the United States; while all know that de feat now is to them utter, irretreivable do edruotion. The great loyal heart of the Republic swells to-day, as the electric messenger brings the glad tidings that Lieut. Gen. Grant's tactics are culminating in the utter rout of the fly• log enemy, while his capital is tottering to its fall. Let us all unite in obedience to the cull of our noble President, to offer up our adult, Lions and thanksgiving to the most high for this unmistakable evidence of His continued favor. What will The Democracy Do P The American RTublican asks the above pertinent question, and thus dilates upon it : It would be interesting and instructive to have a full development of the Democratic programme for the appro 'citing campaiin What will the followers of Seymour, Nl° Diener' and other leaders and candidates do ? Will they declare for the country and her ORURO, or against both ? All their antecedent. _,lfoul _l_l°o e_ccoa qktifilon_jlinj, they, muat be a War party. They gained their rep utation andvrength by defending national honor and human righ•s, can they so utterly forget the past as to become indifferent to both. We speak of the rank and file ; the Vallandighams and Woodwards of the party hare to clearly defined their positions as t 27 dispel all doubt. ney have shown their hands in full view of the people, and they are known to be unclean. The Hartford Conventionis's, by their op position to the War of 1812, rendered diet!' Selves infamous Those who took sides with Mexico, in our contest with that nation, de stroyed their popularity and usefulpe- ,, -. Those who sympathize 'with traitors, in the present rebellion, cannot suffer less, and may suffer more. They seem to envy the fame it Erostratus, and would destroy the temple, if he had n 4 anticipated them.. They seem to covet a place in the pillory of., history. Let us examine the situation that we may be mas tern of it. The moral of history is progress Rome, after many decades of labor, and wonderful strife, rose to refinement in aft, letters and government England, from a race of bar barians, after centuries of combat, has diffused intelligence throughout the world, and now controls, alike, ee.el!l and ocean. Very many other instances crowd upon us, but it is nu necessary to particub.rize theta The growl It of man isincessant and perpetual. The nine teenth century has brought forth the giant, -because the hest,,of I he E location. Creator. We do not mean that Goinl:..B spelling-book, or Cornly's Grammar, or . Alge bra, or Geometry, or the Integral Calcului or Latin, or Greek, or the Sanscrit, will make a man; but we do mean that intelligent parentage, and common schools, and extended experience, a knowledge of the past, and diffusive thought, will make a more perfect being, than can be produced without them The thought of to day is totally milks the thought of A. U C. 100, and it is more relic ble. If it is not, thee we do not advance, Mid there is no approach to perfection. Those who first struggled for Liberty had but a faint conception of the beauties which should ultimate by crown the edifice The pioneer does not look beyond a cabin, but Ite who follows iu the second or third generation conceives a palace. The founders of the-Republic were reared under a vice, but it did .. uot appear to them a , it does to us because its proportions were less vast. It Was not then regarded as possessing any characteristic of danger, but, on the can trary, as capable of easy eradicatium Crime is never stationary; and slavery moved for ward, growing with our growth, and strength. ening with our strength. Its stature assumed monstrous dimensions, and final) , it controlled not only local policy, position, end wealth, but states and the nation. Of course it bo came the enemy of Freedom. The ono means manacles, the other despises and casts them off. We are the children of the Fathers. Through progression we have been burn in the faith of regeneration. We are able at this day to look upon the darkness and the light.. On the ono hand we discern wrong, and on the other the principles of eternal justice. Just as wo re alize the opposing principles, a demand comes that we shall sustain the iniquity, which is despotism. It comes from the South acoom• panied by a threat that unity shall cease and an oligarchy of slavery be established. This fixes the point of divergence. Barbarism would throw us back upon the, past ; civiliza tion would push us forward on the heels of the future: Nearly nineteen hundred years have elaps ed since The true philosophy citis promulga ted. It enjoined upon us to deal justly, love mercy,. and render ,to every one his due. : This is the morality, *with which Amos Ken• dall declared democracy was allied. There can't be just dealings in the,slave mart; nor mercy in the breaking up of the social rela tions; nor dues rendered in the robbery of la bor. Here the Southern Confederate dissents from the NOrthern Loyalist, and an issue is joined. On which side will the democraby be found. Bearing in mind that Democracy is pure morality, and that the South battle for the establishment of a government, :which Must destroy the only freedom which the world lies ever recognized—declaring for the main tenance:at castes—the ownership 'of men— and despotism; what should the Democrat do to 'exemplify his consistency? The an river is plain to an honist mind, and, will come readily to honest lips. Liberty must be saved though we shall lose everything else. Naked, with it, we shall ,be rich ; clothed in purple, and possessing everything save it, we must be poor. Large wealth ever carries defensive weapons, and may go unattended; poverty is without arms, is in constant peril, and must have a friend. Heretofore the liv ing principle of Demccracy has been em bodied in acts, and it was made honorable. It wore impregnable armor when in the lists against subjugating aristocracy. It was the crowned champion in every attack upon hu• man rights. It was invincible because it was merciful and just. It must still be on the sid, of Humanity or die. 'fhb, path of duty is illuminated. Much having been given us, much will be required of us. Precocious virtue, whet - . we were ! weak, wrested from Oppressi in the fairest and most beautiful portion of the globe Guided wisdom gave us almost perfection in institutions whil,t a deep-seated benevolence made our land an asylum for the wronged and outraged. We were placed in the fore front of progress, and the benediction of the good was audibly uttered. In an evil mo ment we gave way to evil, and, as to our First Parents in the garden, Anguish was born. A civil war only equalled by that shadowed in the lakey or Milton is upon us. Everything is at stake—institutions, unity prerogatives, sacred truths, human impulses. Ihe tyrant throttles Freedom—the robber claims spoils from labor—arid licentiousness assaults chastity. Where is now Democracy, Alcibiades-like, gentle in peace and terrible in war? Why don't it come to the rescue ? Our heart fails us through fear. Jackson is dead, and we are reminded that even Peter slept and was smitten. A united South, intoxicated and mad, make reproaches day and night upon the cit adel, wherein we have placed our lives, our fortune., our honor, and our hopes. Will the Democraic party prove to be:one of sal vation or destruction to their country and themselves-?----We—shail—soon - know, We tremble in our hope, and a fear haunts us. WAR NEWS. The Great Battles. Victory j,r the Union .The President . 4 Call to Than ksg in,nt Offici 71 _Vett:3 front Lens (rantand 310.ide Le , drlven at all Ile Leav,s 3,00 U Thad and 10 001.1 Wounded On the Fteld 11 a Race p.a. Re , Amend :2 Thunder ern J(11714 1? 11`6' has a Ilan d lb the Richwond alio! Petcrxhtirg Railroad. Important Prom Chattanooga vd no' /1(1 r ,ti Sherrmin Ene u,y rpoli 11 , 11:n. ~Ifrl'hers,it Cuts 11,1, otr ,r arid 11-ash burn(' A !so ful Correspandenee of the N. Y. Tri bune ()F THE POTOSIAC," "M irchirr4 4, 1861 'rho Erna I Aral V oI ehr p• , s at 1 ,, 5 , 11.• iill . l4ll.iu 1I .I,llg, expect ed a.lvance and lu.enyhl eir„k, 0,11.,,04ip4 gain acr.,-N 'he tpnlon No ex , raorklinary arnvuni I•SCIVItet` IS necesso,ry la see no other son;zninary een Hier vi hand : al ventii Ines ell , n1111 41 :1t1 , P- , Only CO delay it. rue Favorer. TILFI The 2I .luny 'All) Gen. Ilaneciek forms the exiiiiisie len nt tIl'11)N' occup . \ ing the tight HMI the of h the c e nter. t ivet Iras et t'ulpiiper and C y Fiii , ls wii hoot opposntnn hy tht enittny'• Thu:, 21..e.0rps broke caw plu a bout 10 p tit. last night, atbl, under cover rot ,toe ilarkne-s, rn Irrhetl towns .1 the ltapidan, the dlvletirus 1110Vitig in their numerictl order. Ford was reached at 7 o'clock this snore , nig, where a liai tailor' of the ('Si li New York Engiubers, conimanileil by NI ij. 11',,iey !train - at d, hail, during the nigh', coo-trurled Iwo pontoon liridgb o:cr which iiiir troop: ' inediately pas-tut to the Solidi I atilt of the river. Gregg's Cavalry Div fit eceilibl the infantry several hour.' bef o re, and up a done,, or mete at the anerny's pi c k e t The plank road leading to Fie lerielishorg w .s thoroughly pittroleil several toile. lieyobtil tillinticellors‘ille, but no ItITO ol the .oretny reil The troop' el the 2 I reaciiii•l the old battle field of Chloe Ile vs neon to Duty. where t hi.y were ndvuUntruusly doi peel COMIIIIttIItIIIg s by fire Ilaticucli, and a hall for the night ordered =I Our cros.ing of the river without oppo-i ion ucca.ioned some surprise among the troops That Grant's sudden adv.mcs to t ilireci ion wits unexpected to the Rebel 0 , tier al iherc i , every reason to b, hey°. Now hint we have a 100 l hold hOlllll of the R.ipidan. Lee will undoubtedly use his best endeavoi, to force n butte on ground of his own choosing We have succeeded in completely flanking him on his Tight, which will of course compel bus eyacuatiot. ,if his works on Clot k's Mountain and at Mine Run. A report conies in to night, on apparently good authority, slating that Longtoreet is advancing up the Fredericks burg Thank road to attack our left at Clout cellorsvil'e to night or to-morrow The re port receives considerable credence, and every artangentent has been made to receive him Our cavalry have patroled the country in the direction of Orange Court House, and report no force of the enemy (his side of Mine Run. M'JOR•OENERAL HANCOCK This intrepid officer, although suffering from his wound received at Gettysburg last July, still remains in the saddle and is in defatigable in securing the welfare and com fort of his command. lie possesses the full est confidence of his troops, of which he is eminently deserving. His headquarters to night are in the vicinity of the ruins of the Chancelloreville Mansion. The Battle of Thursday Burnside Moving Up- Fending the Enemy —The Second Corps I'n gaged -An Obstinate Infantry Fight —Lee at Ills Old TrickB Grant Foils Han this Time Our Loss 3,000 to 4,000 From Our Special Correspondent. WILDERNESS TAVERN, IIEART OF THE EVIL• DERNESS, Ba. m , May 5. 1864. Late on Tues the %%hole army became aware that, it, walld be 'nosed within a few hours. During he night and ti . e first day light of the next moriiirg everything was put in motion Gregg's Division of Cavalry cross ed Ely's Ford, without opposition at clay break. Wilson's Division (late kilpatrick'al crossed Germania Ford. Hampcit's 2d Corps I followed Gregg, and Warren's nth Corps fol lowed Wilson. Long before night. Hancock had posted his corps and established - head quarters of Chaucellorsville, while arren, had pushed on to Wilderness Tavern and oc cupied the ridges fatting Mine Run and the enemy. By sunset Sedgwirk, with the tith Corps, had crossed Gormania Ford, and last night encamped along the road in roar of. Warren. Sheridan, with the Cavalry thoroughly scoured the countryrin all direct (ions. lie intercepted dispatches from the Rebel Gen. Rhodes to . Remit, stating that Monde had effected a crossing, and asking in -emotions: Anether intercepted dispatch ap prised us that Stuart was having a cavalry review at Ramilton's Cross Rim& Sheridan 'wee anxious to assist at the spectacle; but, it was not thought expedient, • ,Gen, Grant left Culpeper and Gen. Mende Brandy e ,, rly yesterday morning, and early, in the afternoon Oohed heddquarteis just this side of Germania Ford. ' At daybreak this morning.Sberidan moved with all his force with two purposes—to find and fight Stuart, and to push a reconnoissance far to our left on the enemy's right flank. The order of march to.day, as fixed since mid night, is for Warren to advance io Parker's Tavern, five miles toward Mine Run, for Hancock to take a road leading him 'rem Cbancellorsville, that, will enable him to es tablish a line on the left of Warren, connec ting with the latter, while Sedgwick is to move up and assume Warren's present position. It is possible, however, that Lee may cause a change in the programme. Gen. Griffin re ports the enemy menacing his position on the ridge south of this point., and not a mile away Warren orders him not to move elf toward Parker's Tavern until Sedgwick can come up and relieve him. Gen. Meade rode up ten minutes ago and said to Warren, 'At' the tine my comes near you, pitch right in with rill you've got!" The disNisitions necessary to sustain an attack if such be Lee's purpose, have caused a halt of the columns--and now we are listening for the first gun. If the ene my does not choose to precipitate the battle here our army before night will hold the posi tion contemplated by the morning order. On the other hand, we can well afford to fight him now. It is six miles hack to the Rapidan —if we ere attacked it will be with the hope of breaking through the moving columns by a vigorous assault upon the thank. Gens Grant am! Mende and Warren and Sedgwick will see to it that what the enemy supposes to be a weak dank he shall find to his cost i-i nothing less nor 018 P than a formidable front. Rest your coufidence not only iu what may be predicted upon the records of lig Generals as LO how this army will he handled. hut in this the rank and file will fight this fight with niece than the clan of the French with more than the pluck of the British.. They feel it in their Lit nee that something allied to these, but be to than either or both. C. A. P Immediately after '•wril log up" this morn leg, I rode out to Griffin's lines, then reported to be menaced by the enemy. llts division was in line nt battle at right angles with and on either side of the Old Turnpike The ene my had evidently dispatched a force nom hiv lair on Mine Run to worry ttnd delay our march by threatening tit flank Gen Griffin had sent the 18th Massachusetts and 83 Penn at Ivania, under Col Hayes of the former. to leel weal out on the tut npike. It was here that Charles Wilson tell, the Rebel skirtnivh line uppo•tng_ a vigilant front. Finally, alter some little tiring, Gem. Warren. _who had come up it per , on; ordered an advance down the road in force. Ayre's brivade moved on upon the right of the road and Bartlett's ui on the left, so h each flank well Supported. LDERNES4 BATTLE- Ft KI,D, 1 9 p w 'Thursday, Nl,ry 5 f Heavy fighting since 3 o'clock, mostly at the extreme left, under lianceok Betty's Qurps,, was tit the right of the? Orange Plank roa:I, fronting towd_Alitte Ilan, where Carr•s division, '.2,1 Corp., joined him on his left. The other . divisi“us ot Ilse c ck's corps were pushin4 up ; in the twink hog of- -1111 is great It rce, wish the evidew•parpose of turn i7IK 1 tar deal`. The I,, , r . oittid WiTs t rfitlly over oltn with sht.ih rtees, (hick as one bees sli“ots from the Saint. root In a few minutes ii gent th•quoslS caw, hack for einf...rceinients. ft, ,100010 ) w t•p,a; to laCtioS in Chan cot ool'sVI:Oe 00l I thing ; with fi..oiendous force ;1,1 Stlioetiocit.aio loot hobo one wing 111, Dote hr-was u,rt re - putsed - . Our- ftvitovi— tifillie raged for ini t .,' houto procisely where it hcgall , along,. line of nut in-re titan halt a. wile Foos( as our II en csrlit• up they were sent ic —SI ill no gi nand gnarled, none inst..— It w,s t.Il trios. , hrging upon roll not the least ce—‘ti..o 11, ~ , ere fighliog DOW inch, 0.1,1,11011 WOl , I:"• Uhl ..t t6r c, on try .at 110.0 h ue.. 0,01101 no iol-oh , o-1 bea.00 0 :1 0, 1 0 t/ii khea Why. 000, I•eU 1111 , ni!N• ovened A 1:1:;.• Tut relulurcvoinnt, ok I Ilkaid Tt 119 . 1, 11-1; WIII N1:1 , I •11i,;t. fu: no.no, ,•1 ing ;no 1,,,,,111.1ty 01 b cli gt• I 11.‘ 11 , ' Jill nt I y . nu help from eqvalry n u thing but close., In tie r. v:te, lace-to Mee sol:eys of tat L i ~,„„,r. ; lite wounded ,dit nw ~ 11 , 11 11 11 fi'C.,ll troops pour in. B.reteher , p,..1.1 out with ghastly bui.dens, tihd go Luck ',eking with blood tor more ISotd is brought that she atnintinHon is tailing Sixty I winds fite , llll one steady sta,d•up fight irti ti tit liol fought nut. I.3tX en 01 Cult td;:. , s me placed ou tint Eel iteit ing stretchers, and the, stroggl, shall 1101 cease 1, , r want lit ball and powder. Or the valleys gr OW neater, or do our fears Wake then st eto 1 4 0 ? I t n tist be so, for a second line I, r Thily tortned just where we stand. and he bill ets slip singing by as they have not done bel.o . e, while now and then a limb drops Ir• ta the tree tops. 'roe ballots are tiyiai. high lien. Ilancoult rules along the new lino. IS recognized by the men, and cheered with a will at.d a tiger. But we stay them. The 2 Corps is all up, and be th-it troops will collie up from ‘Varren or Sedgwick. or else they will kliv'erei he enemy's attention by an attack 1ip,,11 another gull ter. Yes, we hold them, and tile fresh men going in will drive them. 1 ride beck to General Head quartets, and learn that uu advance 11114 been ordered an hour ago a:otig the whole line.— Gen. Nleade is in hold with Warren. nut/ liraol IS even now listening for Wadsworth's division or Warren's corps to open on IlilTs Wink, for it is 11111's Corps that is battling with 11.incock The littler reports [hot he shall' be able to maintain his ground The severe lighting fur the day is over, and iL is sunset, Oen. Burnside has come u 0 25,000 strong and probably will be the reserve to-morrow. Our im.s to tiny may he estimated at 8 000 to 4.000, The main linole, pr hably a decisive one, must Ie to morrow To day we have fought because the enemy chose that we should To morrow because we chose that he shit I. Friday's Battle—Fourteen Hours of fi'ightinj Desperate Attempt by Lee to Break up Sedg trick's Division -.Heroic Resistance of Our Men Death of Gen Wadsworth— Varying Suc cessea, but Final Repulse l rf the Rebels. W.4BniNaroN, Monday, May 9 FIELD OF THE BATTLE OP TILE WILDERNESS Fliday, May t;—II p. Sedgwick was to adv toe° at 5 a. m but Ewell. who o amends opposite him, attacked at 4:45 Sedgmok says Ewell's watch must be 15 minutes ahead of his. This action on our right was spirited and well fought At the expiration of an hour the Rebels were handsomely borne bank, the firing ceased, and mieh bide held the ground they had bkouack ed upon. Our lose was severe and the one my's could not have been less. • Gen. Sedgwiek's staff were brilliant and übiquitous throughout, while ihe old General was the man of Antietam and Freoeriokeburg repealinit himself. This notion barely over, and suddenly . we heard front the extreme left that peculiar monotonous swell and volume of sound which tells of large numbers engaged —so many that single shots and oven volleys of lot g litres aro not distinot, but are merged in the mighty noise of a groat battle. . Han cock was engaged. GREAT BATTLE IN GEORGIA Desperate Fight Between Sherman and Joe Johnson. WAsiAlNarox, May 10 _ . ~ 4 Brent battle is ragingin Georgia.' 'l l he Government received dispatches_ this morning that there is desperate lighting be• fore Dalton, Georgia, between the Union ar• my under 11.10,j0r-Ocueral W. 1. Sherman and the Rebel 'army under General Joseph E. Johnston, and' that there is' reason to believe that a general . bat t le. is - going day- be tween the contending forces. , .P. S -Since the above was in type we learn' that the ()finial dispatch. to the Government, announceS that Sherman, with Thomas, Hood era and Seohfield's corps are now fighting for the possession of a-ridge whioh lies north of Dalton, and is the. key to the city. In the meantime !'Pherson has made a successful march to the South of Dalton, and has, or is about to strike a fattablow nt John ston by cutting the Tennessee and Atlantic Rrilroad, South of Dalton. Everything is going well. OFFICIAL CONFORMATION OF OUR GREAT vicroßs. The News of Our Vic to ries--The President Recommends Pi ayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God s EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washt:ioon. Slay 9, 18134 To the Fluids of _Union .2W Liberty: Enough is known of army tlit rations with in the last five days to claim our especial gratitude to God. IVhile what remains un• done demands our most sincere prayers to, and reliance upon, Him (without whom all human effort is vain), 1 recommend that all patriots, at homes, at their places of worship, and wherever they may be, unite in common thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God. Only' 10 c'elc,vlz and Lee had tried each wing and hid wet to each case more than be could of ercome, and we asked ourselves what next. All his movements were silent and invisible, and unknown until he devel oped them in the event. We can deliver blows over in the direction whence blows are dealt us—not against an enemy adv.nuit,g in boll sight, but against one who hss mys teriously withered and poised h mself for a deadly spring.; But the suspense is not lung. Both com. battants are too e tger to compel the issue fur either to delay another and s ill another enct..untei. Shuts begin to ring all a I ng the six viler. frsv;q. At 11 ~'clock the enemy press close upon ‘Varren and Sedgwick, and train a number of gu.,s xactly upon the attet's headquar ter,. A man and three horses are killed within 2.1.1 leer of the ttenerah and in the very centre ho Ins :. , runped start. Finding the enemy disposedrenew the ungagvnient id the early mourning, Sedf wick accept,4 the chit lang . c, and advaneem whole tine.— Th•• men Au in with more ila-•h aril hol , l on morn sturdily ilium in the 111.,tning. Iltvell is driven back to h; • nined line where hi. gotta ucd in puirtilin; and there' nutkes stand. Al this juncture, \V yen, who connect,. with Sedgwick's left, i tjAtrtlllek . rtuXioli• Lo gu in with all his a fight, lid the's pool4ion in his front st - eins too hq-inniallte. I st , e a trial) of Ilt , r , 11W(1 11.1111 g t. In llv up to tha lieu on.: i•iige bottle. and Cowllz. Warren au Naa rt-iciigiiized by the l'rpliel ul ui,i, fur they Pirlll , 2 itru Gans. GI 10 . '4 ..pia id Gran Cs Ilnitie walk inure thaulall a initi,tist . front of the Well, who are fiat upon their lirEasts, and tiring rapitity. aultl the wotttcs Oil one :title of an ripealpacti, pet naps one, fourth' of a wile aerusa, atai ;lot , l'ltAtttltt; lay along the tri•ll I ttl ilia vttoutlti upon Ilse other. side. their iritretielitntitus are plainly visible, anti the opt , t--tbollthtl;fif u; it will ~ ..114 , A 4 to vhiti.ge across. It inn‘• S'1,1•1; eharpstidoteN 1 , 111 Ili) !Ilan shall star' twit itre , . r. meta he n,kr ; EEOEiCia BEIM groeithi II • Halt ' loltrir4-I,itiliis h.•ut natidg itiss.ll rtiPoulse a worth or(tttB 1. el),rgo to re. hit CO.!) iiiaad from astirwaveriiik. Ile is,•peered by lids ltleu who ;4i ay bail horse is shot wide; hull. Ile mounts a second and spurs id) the front, hat in hand, and we should have won then, hitt his [lien saw 'lll' la I. Ile wits shot through the head, killed install lv, and his body tell An the handy 111 h" ills eolumal.d lell b:LLk to their original position with, comparative order. Wads wiirth's death is 41 heavy loss--scarcely ati ollici.r in the :only could have been bet ter spared, ark:. 1r a wiiuld have been more deeply regretted. Yest. day and to day he had displayed such inarliol ability and gal lantry as to compel oil all hands 115 all who, now that he is gone, can hatilly be replaced. lie was a title wan, a beloved, a high-toned getilleinaii, to be r spected, an unlhlinking patriot to he emulated, an accomplished soldier, dead on the held of Imo., to be mourned. But this bat4lo does not pause for a hero slain From noun until 5 o'clock, a number 01 sharp assaults at various points were wndu and invariably repulsed, whether made by us or by the outlay. Each one M these all.drs were material for a long letter, but I find it simply impossible at this !AIM, to as cerain and write out correctly the laclA ut Prisoners Caine in at the rate of 100 an hour. The day was exeessively hot, att.l the men were much exausted. We had neither gained nor lost ground, but cull tinsed this thing long enough, and we hoped to Liu Ily wear thew out. At o'clock Hancock was preparmg lor,a grand movement of our en• tire left. He did not make it, fur the enemy autieipeted hint, and he had to repel perhaps the most wielled assault thus tar encounter ed—brie) in duration, buk terrific in power and superhuman momenilln. The first few minutes we were staggered. Stragglers for tbedirst time in all this fight iug streamed to the rear in large numbers choking the roads and causing a panic by th e ir sttinpede and incoherent tales of fright ful disaster. It was even reported at gener al headquarters that the enemy had burst entirely tbroygh and supports were hurried up. Grant and Meade seated their backs against the same tree, quietly I stoned to the officer who brought the report, MO consult• ed a Moment in low tones. The order 4 for sending reenforeements were given, and for a little time ',not a-word, was spoken inn the group'Of more than twenty officers. They but looked into each other's faces. At lengthitGrant says, with laconic onplut• sis, "4 don't believe it." lie was right. Long beitac that Hancock had recovered lrom-.the fit* shuck,. held his own awls le, and now was gainink ground. In luny thni utes from this attack the' enemy was com pletely beatCa back with tremendous slaugh ter, and the loss of some hundreds of priso ners.' It was nets , nerefly sunset. From one encl of the line to the other not a shot contd. be heard. The cbiy's work seemed over. Our line of to-night would be that of In t n . ght. The auguries were good. lu twd day's tight-, ing we had lost heavily, but riot wore than the enemy., Our assaults had been futile but the enemy's had been equally so ; and it by thee massed ahenults that he has ever achieved his vieturius. Darkness. and . smoke wort.' n tni • g i rim twilight, and last detipeMing, into thick gloom, when we were startled out ol repos: back into fierce excitement. The forged thunderbolt was sped, and by a master. A wild Rebel yell away to the right. We know they had massed and were charging. We waited for the volley with which we knew Sedgwick would meet the onset. We thought it but a - 1 ight attack to ascertain df we had changed our position. We were mistaken-- it was more. They meant to break through and t'ley did. On Set wick's extreme right lay the 2 I Brigade, 3d Divish n of his corps under Gen. Seymour, who had been assign ed to but two days before. The brigade is new to the 6th Corps, and is known as the Mil; or brigade ; connecting, on the left of Seymour by Snaler's and then Neill's brit g .des, toe latter being a brigade of Getty s division that had not been sent to Hancock. These troops were at work iinrenching, when fallen upon. The enemy came down like a torrent, rolling and dashing in living waves, and flooding up against the whole tith Corps. The main line stood like a rock, but not so the extreme right. That flank was instantly and utterly turned. The Rebel line was the longer, uud surged around Seymhur's bri gade, tided ovtr it and through it, beat against Shale r, arid bore away his right regiments. All this done in less than tee minutes, perhaps not live. Seymour's men seeing their pickets running back, and hearing the shouts ol the Rebels, who charge I with all their chivalry, were smit ten with panic, and, standing on nu order of going, went at once, and in as incredibly short tons made their way through a mile and ;t halt of woods to the plank road in tile rear. 'filer reported, in the frantic manner usual with stampeded men, the en the corps broken. Grant, as in Hancuck's case, didn't: believe it. But when three of Sedgwick's staff rude iii p to army head quarters separately ano stated how they had ridden from Sedgwick's to keep Seymour's men to their work, had been borne !Jack by the panie, and ha I last s en Sedgwit'fit and Wright h urd to the 'rout working like fro• jan's to hold the wavering line, the situa Hon appeared more critical. No word came in Irom Sedgwick. It. hvgan to be feared that be and Wright, tli,d.tining, to dy, were prisoners. ABRAHAM LIN,!OLN Artillery moved quietly to commatiding poOttons, to be prt•Nired for the worst, ;toil cool hitatit It It that w,re the whole Gill corp. , liroketi. the attinv, us an army, would still Lt. I,Varreiils corps, is but with perleet composure, disposed to meet the sittiatom. Grant and :11 tole and Warr, is ate in Grant's tend, to tool from which officers come and gu with a certain toLritest air that bespeaks urgent and im p .riatit cares. So during an hour. No tiring has been heard' the last three-quarters of u-n h - our. The It, - thefs must have ceased to advance; but how far ha e they peffie itinl what is the present situation. The jib Corps' Iltg comes in. WI the ffilt Corps' chieftain? My watch says .o.'cLucli AL night._ A.. dispatch . r-eceived. John Sedgwick is sale Wright. safe. The Gilt Corps holds a strong tine ; ontv -- Sev inourVand part of Shit er's lnigaile have been looken. The entony can do mitt:ti 'n c., inure. it, nth Cor i .s has 1,),1 ifs pristine gffirs. (.'omitt Pepl to with Iraw under order , Hot,t the defficit ot of its it is :id. tot ho.v, awl ever chili tar t -W".. tritTiaot ftni mentimingt for g;LN" ~,,fr wri tt •,..1 with rue of :III; i It , I, thrt w,/II nn l di a ut 111,ii:it that ”at, t h .1.11 I ha4er I . -11 t, that I. I ib•)r •11, .11n 111,11, 111.•11 • k. l• I =I 0 lb.. (.111 , I , t I ISENIIIMI MEM iii ti .1, to .1 in Fi ,• l I. !war lir.rnt,i Lt 1,411 li ig, \,,v ri. \l. . ' ll . l I r•til \ Ilr illlll,llo] lew words: WI It:; venteen hundred cavalry we liar advanced up he l'ehmsaia, forced the Chtekahionniy, awl have solely brought them to our present podtion. These were colored cavalry, iind ,lee now 110Illitig our Ildr/1111 . 01 pickets tk/Warlli Oen. with tbrce 1114111,1.11 d Uitrairr, Iron Suffolk, on the same day, wt 1, our movement lip James river, hire,' the liiack• water, burnt the railroad bridges Stun, Creek. below l'etersborg, cutting in two Beauregard's force et that pout. We have landed here, entrenched ourselves, destroyed Hilly mi es of railrmid and got 31. posttioo with proper. supplies, we can hold o it againgt the whole of Lee's army. I have ordered up the supplies. 13-'aure earl, with a large portion command, was lett smith by the cuiting of Ole rail roads by Kautz. That portion which reach ed l'e'ersburg, under Hill, 1 have whipped to-day, and wounding, many, and taken many prisoners, alter a severe aad well eautes ell fi ht BM tien. Grant %%111 not be troubled willt any further reulloreemems to Lee frum Beaure gurrs forces. (Sigiud) BENJ. F. BUTLER, Major General. There was another terrible battle at Spottsylvania Court [louse on Tuesday The fight lasted until 10 o'clock in the eve ning. Lee's whole left was crushed. We cap tured a whole rebel brigade. Burnside chased Ewell over two miles. Gens. Steven son and Rice were killed. Reinforcements were pushed foreword this morning from here. II is reported that Seigel has re-captured some of our prisOners, as well as Wads worth's body. The death of the latter is also contradicted. The wounded from Acquia creek will he here to-day. It was - Hill's corps that was repulsed so gallantly. The _Star says Burnside's colored troops, who were previously held in reserve, were hronght into this action, and fought with desperation. The officers experienced considerable difficulty in restraining them as they appeared desiro is not to take any prisoners, being ex spiraled by the remem• bratme of Fort Pillow, and, the atrocities committed there by the rebel - S I on that raid. Gen. Burnside directed our informant a few minutes before lie left the field, yester day morning, to say to his friends here that affairs are looking most hopeful., It was believed, in the army , that.Seigel having made forced marches had destroyed" Lee's railrood.conneetions with ; Lynchhurg, and that Sheridan bad done the same to his communication with Richmond. -An order was given 'for another a Ivance . yesterday morning, and 8 o'clocic when.our informant left, oar centre and right were heavily en gaged, and the 9th corps wits then On the march. Gen. Rico who was killed was•at tached to the sth Corps; be died while undorgoing amputation. Oar losses .arr-•i reported to have been. very heavy, bur everything looks Imperil', and pretence' uffit:ara say that we shall soon see the end. I. Ir., J:1, -.- Opera tlli,,e//1 •,i i. . 11 //1. h/to'ills / , :j1 /hi/. \las. 1(1. tit MEM LATEST BY TELEGRAPH Washington May 12, 1864 Words Fitly Spoken. Mr M R, THAYER of Pa., on the 4th inst. advocated the Reconstruction bill which has since pmssed the House in a forcible speech, wherein tie said : " Mr. Speaker, the voice of the people of the United States cannot be mistaken. They demand us, their Representatives, that the institution of Human Slavery, which has from the beginning been our National repro ,ch, the fruitful source of sectional enmity and strife, the obstacle to the developa out of one half ot our territory. the secret enemy which has for seventy years sown our vineyard with tears mid brambles, which has alienated bret h. reu 01 the same blood, which has prescribed education, fomented discoid, encouraged op• position to our republican system, weakened the ties at National allegiance, qud at last ar. rayed Homt in bloody war against the Ciov eminent, shall be forever blotted out in the Rebel States, and that upon its rums shall he written a higend like that which indignant France wrote over the gateway of rebellious Lyons, Slavery made war upon the Itepub It,:; Slavery is no more !"fhey demand this as the right of war against the public enemy. They demand it in the name ot that very Con stitution which is sought here to be made its shelter and its shield. They demand it as the only adequate compensation for the sacri• [ices which they have made and the sufferings which they have endured. They demand it is trite name of Liberty and of Humanity.— They demand it as the only pledge of future union and tit: quality. They demand it. for tneir own peace and Nafety. and fur the repose and security of their children Already, its grim tind terrible lot in, weakened ty its wounds, begr mcd with the this: of tattle, and covered with the blood of brave men which its beeu shed in this sanguinary war, cowers and ree.s before the banners of the Republic As it falls, let it hear ringing in its ears the decree for its extermination pronounced here ny the BA pre-entatives of the People.'' :Si Its i d I' PI NCOT r, better known Its "Grace (it elm wood," lectiired at the Academy ol 1111/Hl , , is Philadelphia, last Monday evening, un " Lights st the War Cioud." Iu coin iniolc.ng her lecture, she said: tier lecture had been 01 , I•cted to because it touched up m lulutcntl mutters, as any• thing could lie written now-a days, !rum a love letter up to an order lot-goods, that.was 11,1. pultlical. rile polities of 1.1.1 , 111 y was the history ul to-morrow. To prevent ant mis. , iipp - rehessi'un howevt4; she ~ .ourd'in 'ihe nit- set d, tine her position. "he was It rabid Unionist, and a r,bider A boldiohist [ap plause], a woman's rights woman, and a dark cumpl xnumd Ref übbean. She believed in the Bible and the Declara tion of . Independence; in the r onstitution ot_ the United States, tun! the l'reclatnation ref Emancipation. She believed in Thomas Jedlerson and Wendell Philips ; Geocge Washington and Abraham Lincoln ; in Pat rick Henry and Henry IVarl Beecher Lab• piausel ; Alex.inder Hamilton and t harles S'irirrner"; 10 - 111 - 110ijaritrt Butler. Nory tbal_ she ltad _totae_a_ckan breast of it, sire desired, before she. unlitn- In-red her 11.21 it artillery, that those who dif fered ;rune her [night leave, and not disturb her in the midriiu of her discourse. alth Riattzrs, raLr'iVe are informed that li...change Of time fir nubile wursh'p, has been adopted at Emory Ntel he lio 1.116 , r:0pal Church, in the ”liernnon, on Sahhii h. Services will hold In•t esti ee ar Rr.r o'cl,,rl: in the evening instead or half ryvn. threo tL Messrs Charles NVeaver and )1,) se. ISrh•ker, hqving purchased ttin Carlisle ,o , red info pirtnenthip in the —.„ Th..y are, as p<