eraid. CARLISLE, PA. Friday, Jam 25, 1864. S. 111. PETT.ENGILL & CO., jO. 37 Park Row, New York, and 6 11 State St.lioston, are our Agents for the HERALD I n those cities, and are authorized to take Advertisgc manta and Subscriptions for us at our lowest rates. FOR PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS VICE PRESIDENT, ANDREW JOHNSON, =I Union Electoral . Ticket SENATORIAL. Morton M'Miehael, Philadelphia. Thomas H. Cunningham, Beaver county I= 1 Robert P. Ring, 2 George M. Coates, 3 Henry Baum, 4 William 11. Hem], 5 Bunn 11. Jenks, 6 Charles M. Runk, 7 Robert Parke, Wllliam Taylor, 9 John A. Iliestand, 10 Richard 11. Coryell, 11 Edward Halliday, 12 Charles F. Rood, Shall wo have Richmond Tktis is the question now on every tongne. Shall wehave Richmond ? We have little doubt now that we shall do so. But the main objeot in view is not so much to take Rich mond as to destroy the great army which has defended it so long. It is true Richmond is the capital of the rebel confederacy, and that its fall must be a severe blow to the rebellion. Montgomery, Ma;,.the original rebel capital, had no military "'strength of position, and oould easily have been token by an advance from Pensacola. It was for this reason that the capital of the confederacy was transferred to Richmond, the strongest positou in the south. But the capture of Richmond should be accompanied by the capture or destruction of Lee's army, and we presume that it is for this purpose that Grant has been manocuver• ing and fighting. Despite the great obstacles in the way of such an achievement, we are Inclined to think that it will be done, unless Lee shall speedily evacuate Richmond and re treat in the direction of Lynchburg, as some reports say he is about doing. This would be something worth striving for. Of course the rebels laugh at such an idea, but they must by this time have learned that they have an antagonist more subtle, wily and dangerous than any they have yet had to cope with in Virginia. Our curiosity, therefore, is not as to the capture of Richmond, but as to the fate of Lee's army. Should it escape front Rich mond, it would be most unfortunate, and per haps lead to another tedious and Woody cam paign. But the effect of such a retreat upon the rebel troops would be disastrous indeed. They all avow that this campaign intot close the_ war, and_ with a_rtli eat frum Virginia they. would give up their cause as hopeless. The Resolutions The platform adopted by the Union Nation• al Convention is a frank statement of the prin ciples upon which the Union pally rest its claims to the confidence of the people. Tliere is no duplicity about it, no evasion of real issues, and not the rlighiest upped in a sin gle line to party prijailica or party males°. lenee. It is a manly utterance of the views .of the Union party upon the great que,tions of the day, and of the ends it seeks to attain. Its features may be briefly summed up thus: The assertion of the belief that it is the high est duty of the American citizen to maintain the integrity of the Union ; approbation of the efforts of the government to compel re bellious citizens to return to their just allegi ance to the Constitution end laws of the United States ; approbation, also, of the acts and proclamations by which the Goverernent in its own defense has airne 1 a death blow at slavery, the,cause and strength of the Rebel lion ; a declaration in favor of the abolition of slavery by constitutional amendments ; thanks to our brave soldiers and iotilors; in dorsement of the policy of employing negro soldiers to assist in saving the Union ; an as sertion of the duty of the Government to give to those soldiers the full protection of the laws of war; the fostering and encourage ment-of foreigh emigration ; the speedy con struotion of a railroad to the Pacific; the keeping inviolate of the national ',till), pledg ed for the redemption of the public debt, and the reassertion of the Monroe Docttine. To which is added an expression of cantideime in the President, and of the necessity of harmony in the national councils. The question of re construmqm was not referred to. That is a question Which can only be viewed properly in the light of events to occur hereafter, and the Convention was not composed of prophets. The platform is one that will command the hearly approval and earnest support of all true friends of the Union. It is a war plat form, and war candidates have been placed upon it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN and ANDREW JORNSON represent the party that is in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war until the Union is restored, and all who aro not for them are practically against that consumma tion.- Practically, we say, for any and all op• position to the election of the candidatel a bove mentioned is calculated in the nature of. things to encourage the South to continue its efforts to destroy the Union, and to assist in transferritig the Government to those who, if they were in power, would patch up a dis• honorable oornpromise with traitors to mor r ' row And hero we will be phrdoned for impress ing upon our loyal readers the necessity of taking.positive ground at once in favor of the election of LINCOLN and JOUNSON• Let no false sentimentalism, no factious spirit, no party prejudices brgotten' before the war, lead you LoWithholcl from them your best ef forts to secure their success. Above all things, do not Suffer yourselves to be deluded 'with the notion that, jf they are not elected, the country will be just as safe and the war as vigorously conducted if either of the oppo sition tiokots is successful. Bo sure that, if L/NOOLN - and JOHNSON are defeated European government and the South itself will regard the result, no matter who may be elected, as a condemnation of the war in support of the Union. We dare not run that ri: lc, if we would crush out treason and preserve fromd estruction the last hope of all who are in favor of the right of lhe people to ,govern themaelvei., In a foregone period of our political histrry it was usual forthe baser sort of Democrats to sneer at their opponents as "silk stocking gentry." It was a poor device, and yet per haps it had some effect upon the popular mind. It is n strange transition from this unworthy /appeal to the lowest prejudices to see the lead• era of the present Democratic party veering to the opposite point of the compass, and in veighing against "rail splitters, tailors and boors" in a fishion at once undemocratic and irrational. But the glaring inconsistency only adds one,more instance to the many which demonstrate that the leaders who speak for the Democratic party have no fixed prin ciples whatever, and are constantly revolving in a maze of contradictions. 13 Elias W. Mill, 14 Charles H. Shriner, 15 John %lister, 19 Da rid M'Conaughty, 17 David W. Woods, 1S Is I,lr Benson, 19 John Patton, 20 : 4 ainuel It. Thelt, 21 Everhard !Beret., 22 .1 ohn . P. Pen a ey, 23 Ebenezer 21 John W Blanchard." Of all narrow minded and grovelling ideas, the coppet head notion that personal merit depends on the extrinsic circumstance of wealth or poverty is surely tho most promi nent. Whether we consider the former hypo thesis which induced the demagogues to revile Washington and Adams because of the former advantage, or the more recent and opposite notion that Lincoln and Johnson ate to be dis esteemed and rejected because they ones oo oupied a condition of-labor and poverty, these atrabilious objectors aro equally at fault. From both classes—from those who inherited opulence, and from those who have in earlier life toiled laboriously for their daily bread— has America derived seine of her most eminent statesmen and devoted public servants. is• indeed, invidious to determine which is thi tno , :t meritorious—the _man who resists the blapdishmenk of woalth, mei trains Itimsdi for importune posit ionv in his c , olniry'.. err vice, or ho who Elruggles up from a eon ht:o: of poverty and obiViiri:y to the which ill of equality ate open to all. If a+ 3 et the America!) people hot 1 in :Ow). :Ince the Tiestion as to the beddowdl of politi cal I iglits rpou all racet, they ldive at len=t determined that ruin ,ids and intirjer,rs sha:l be checked in their endeavors to trample tdt those who-c skin n, a d rlter hue than our , . Bet with regard to white m. II ) equally ro solved is the pnl„r verdict that all shall 8i Hid on the samo pl inc. Nett vari tuce in religion nor di -parity of worldly posses si,us can Le allowed to interldre 11, I ill, N11,1.1[11(.11131 1 r:neiple. A:l are cr ~n 1 in the eye of the law— tho high awl low, the rich and p, , or, the occupant of ,plentlid utunsiun ut• the dweller in narrow courts. Frum either moy emerge into public notice) the leanir 4,1 armies or the Presinetit of the great repuhlic. The elpperhead cannot perceive these truths, and is continually floundering in the mazes of error. Ile is a politician t.l the in ferior species, adroit in mousing, schemes and subterranean management, but always prune to appeal to the lower motives which in2u• enc.() human °minuet. Ile would allow the country to perish, because its salvation in. volved some coot and nutiering. Ile is -as blind as any mole to the startling danger of permitting arms to decide a political contest already settled by votes, and would truckle to arrogant rebels with low trbJd.ernent to buy precarious peace. He would du-place Irom his high peniti• n the noble President who has dared so much to preserve Elie n Lonal exir• tence. for all that perilous devotion to so sacred a duty, the copperhead has EEO oilier decimation than that Abraham Lincoln was once a rail splicer, and therefu re is ineligible. Verily do such reasonern mistake alike the cardinal pi ineiplen of our republican organi zation and the drift and temper of the Amer ican people. More and more do the latter incline to the tree institutions which their furthers bequeath, and they instinctively per ceive that the very e-sence of these is politi cal equality. No repudiation of this sacred prinetple—be ho an lieglish lord, a southern rebel or a northern copperlmad—can change that ineradicable sentiment. But if the first of these is almost excusable for the errors of his, position, and the second has a semblance of rationality in his wickedness, since, being a slaveholder, be loans towards despotism, no possible extenuation alleviates the guilt of their northern ally. He calls'liitfiSelf u Dem• oorat, and yet despises or villifies the people's favorite, because originally he was poor and uneducated. The prejudiced partisan cannot see, or is too unottio4l to acknowledge, that these circumstaniiii&ally enhance the merit of the putilio 11:1110 who has risen above them and acquired the popular favor. But if the copperhead is oblivioui to a truth like this, the Amerio..n people are mere discerning, as he may learn from a long series of election returns which have lately elucidated the sub ject, and which are likely to I e followed , by many more equally corroborative and con vincing. The Independent and Inland Tele graph Companies. The following order now the Secretary of of War removes an injunction which has here tofore sustained a most iojust and unreason able monopoly and one which has oust .the government much money and inconvenience. WASHINGTON, Juno 18, 18U4. The order of the War Department prohibit ing the transmisi.dou of military business ever the wires of the Independent and Inland Telo• graph Companies is hereby revoked. All officers forwarding public business to this Department ran employ these the came as other lines by order of the Seo'y of War. . TItOM AS T. ECK 13 ItT , Maj. & Asst. Supt. Militry Telegraphs. dErciald is soiling iv the eastern cities at ERRONEOUS AND INVIDIOUS, DISTINCTIONS. These unworthy partisans, for mere tempo rary and paltry ends, have often endeavored to bring into the political arena the prejudices of race, of sectarianism, and of social classes. With no higher motives than such small gains, they have hounded on the turbulent and ea citable mobs of our large towns to maltreat or kill the poor negroes in their humble quay• ters—lo slay or t.trture, to pillage or burn, as the furious multitude might choose. Pity log angels might weep to behold such scenes of suflering and terror—fiends might bo satiat ed with such unprovoked persecutions and intense barbarities. Let us hope that the spectacle in the streets of New York, less than a year ago, was the culminating point of such outrages, and that if these fomenters of a war of laces cannot be restrained by any rirore communion() motive, they will desist from simibu mistieult, because no party profit can result. If the elections succeeding these per formances did not convince them of their blunder in such a course cf wickedness, we still have reason it; believe that the fear of immediate punishment will henceforth_ deter their tools and ngerrtil's=from incurring again such serious consequences as befell them. Our Candidate for the Vice-Pres- idency ANDAEW JOHNSON was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Dec. 29, 1808. — When he was 4 years of age he lest his tallier, who died from the effects of exertions to save a friend from drowning. At the age of 10 he was ap prenticed to a tailor in his native city, with whom ho served seven years. His mother was unable to afford him any educational ad vantages, and ho'never attended school a day in his life. While learning his trade, howev• or, he resolved to make an effort to educate himself His anxiety to be able to read was particularly excited by an incident which is worthy of mention. A gentleman of Raleigh was in the habit. of going into the tailor's shop and reading while the apprentice and journey men were at work. Ile was an excellent reader, and his favorite book was a volume of speeches, principally of British statesmen.— Johnson became interested; and his first am bition was to equal him as a reader and be come familiar with those speeches. He took up the alphabet without an instructor ; hut by applying to the journeymen with whom he worked, lie obtained a little assistiince Hav ing acquired a knowledge of the letters, he applied for the loan of the boo-k which he had so often heard read. The owner made him a present of it, and gave him smile instruction on the use of letters in the formation awards. Thus his first exercises ill spelling were in that book. By perseverance he soon learned to read, and the hours which he devoted to his education were at tight after he was through his daily labor upon the shop board. Ho now applied Itirnsel-f to hooks from 2 to 3 hours every night, after working trout 10 to 12 hours at his trade. Having com pleted his apprenticeship in the autumn of 182-I, lie went to Laurens Court House, South Carolina, where he worked as a journeyman f r nearly 2 years. While there ho became euga.ted to be married, but the match was broken off by the violent opposition of the girl's mother and friends, the ground of ob jection being Mr. Johnson's youth and want of pecuniary means In May, 1826, he re turned to Raleigh, where he procured journey work, and remained until September. He then set out to seek his fo: tune in the West, carrying with him his mother, who was de pendent, upon him for support. Ho stopped at Greenville, Tennesse, and commenced work as a journesinin. lie 'Tontine I there about twelve months, married, and soon afterward went still further westward ; but failing to find a suitable place to settle, he returned to Greenville and commenced business. Up to this time his education was limited to reading, as he had never had an opportunity of learn• ing to write and cipher under the instruo lions of his wife he learned these and other branches, The only time, however, he could devote to them was in the dead of night.— The first office which ho ever held was that of tvderman of the village, to which he was elected in 1828. Ho was re-elected to the same position in 1829; and again in 1830 In that year he was chosen mayor, which position he held for 3 years. In 1833 he was elected to.the legislature. In the session of that year he took decided ground against a, scheme of internal improvements, which he contended would riot only trove a failure, but entail upon the state a bur len smooth:ht. 111 , 1S1110 tv-is :11.(1 at the next electtun (18.:7) 1.0 was litYtt,llll-i 110 4..eatno a e.ilolol.lte io 14;;) 8./ this [init. , in.lny of the 00115 . 11 e 1:14 14eLlieted front the internal improvement pokey iihlch ho 1001 opposed 4 ears previous were folly .1010.ns: ritteol, :00/ lit 2 c.k.e!e 11 a large P-1 , ) Svrvt. , l as providential e:l,-:or 101' Il,e ;1100 I.llge on the .1.nr0.r.,1 it heart. cane.!-srd a let,2e p0r4.01 of the 61.,00, meolinz, n1).01 Lie slow!) yol'.olll . hie otatots. In It'll he Was eleete l t) ~ 11.t0 ti.. I IL'. 1.1 1 1 1 11: iv 1-3 tie`ttedto Vdaere, su-ecs-are ' thopi, be I triti', nil. pc n of :erviee he \‘ at 0.01 - ,'e.. us , 001 active , ut :olvoe:o i i t , VeQp• c Iv, ly , 11 e 11.1, lor rotund • tine 01ip0,2.1 J.keK , oll ui ~ :tv in 1815, the son, 1,11:1! ibis n'q a 11111111-11•411011, nn h .11,1,1. I'l I„• ii 14 1-1.e . 1. , 1 of Ten lie•-ee, all, tx..l , ltlg, t%11 , , Il he sV;Is open c I 1)y liti,tavini .1. li,nry. lle ,re tIL eted w IS - J 5, al:Lr • net I act; cc C. , 11 , C.5t, hie c, being 1' Gentry. At the expnwiou et hi , 'nil period nt governor. in 1837, lie wee eleetvd U. S striate for a full term, ceiling \Facia 8, 18G1 L , te irthe year 18(11, he wee appointed itwy dovernor i i Teunes,..ee, which position lie hes held up to the prelrent tune. GRANTS CAMPAIGN IN ENG LlSii EYES The campaign now going on in Virginia amazes the W&ld. Europe looks on in won der at the reports ul battle succeeding battle, and at the persistence and obstmancy Ntith which General Grant lights. Go living, ns we do, at the tem lul sacritiee made fur the preservation of our Na teem Eldon, we can not help a certain Iceling of satisfaction at hearing Eng I jail autlen ties ach now ledge that nothing as equal to the lighting of our twiny. Even the London Mu:N., which loves to ridicule and disparage in noticing the ()ally battles of the present Campaign, is c distrained to pay our troupe the highest compliments. In its itatling editoital of May it says: "I'ci haps the Americans may be proud ()I the preeminence, but they have eetlatnly luughL inure ecsperately, h,r a lungs r time, aod with more dieadlul olittiglder than icy nation belore them. It atoni( not be impos• sikle to !Hatch the resul a ul any one day's battle, with stories arum the wars of the Old World; but never, we should in the in the history of man wire live such battles as these compressed tutu SIX sueeesstve days. it is hard to euticetve how nature could have supported the exaustion and the strati). N a'' have been told that attar a single day's hard fighting the lassitude and reaction in even a victorious army are such that ally fresh force might snatch its laurels Irons it; whereas here are twofkrmies hotly engaged in the work of slaughtr from the morning of Thurs day till the night of Tuesday with scarcely the intermission of au hour. Oulevery day except Saturday there was a pitched battle, contested with the utmost fury i and even Saturday was devoted to marchiug and fight ing on the march. Nor were these prodigious operations divided among immense numbers brought into action by relays. Neither army numbered apparently above 100,000 men, and of these every wan seems to have been engaged in every battle. Indeed we are ex pressly told that the Federal 'reserves' were brought up on the very first day. "The desperate ferocity of the fighting may be inferred from the tact now reported that the'slaughter was produced without the aid ut artillery. No rifled gulls or 10 Order- OUS Shell did execution among crowded masses. Thu great battle of Friday, whiith , is said to have aust the Federals atone up war-s of 1 0,0 0 0 men, was a hand to-hand fight. The Confederates were posted in the well known woods in the vicinity of Chan cellorsville'where hooker once received so bloody :a: repulse, and so dense was the thick et that cannon could not conic into play. Regiment against regiment, and mall against man, the combatants fired and hacked at each other in this tangled wilderness till eight ilused in and an intercepted report from Gen. • Lee actually 'tells us that on his side the heaviest loss was . in men killed out right, and that be bad comparatively few wounded. II this be a correct version of the dispatch it gives a more impressive idea of the fury of the eunflict than any other of the incidents reported. It is clear, indeed, that whatever may be said of the compositiort of theliorthern armies, and of their inferiority in'this respect to the patriot legions of the South, they have fought in this campaign with a valour as obstinate as their enemies. No mere indifferent or disaffected mercena• ries could have been led from a battle like that at the Wilderness.tp.,three more such battles at spottsylvania.- -4 13e the impulse what it tuay, the-Federals are fighting in stern reality, and with a spirit as resolute as that of their adversaries." This much the English organ of our ene mies concedes to the valor.and endurance of the glorious Army of the Potomac. It goes still further to compliment General Grant After speculating as to the possible results of the campaign, and what may be the next movements of Grant, it says: "He has stamped a new character on the taches of the Federals. No other General would either have advanced upon the Wil derness after the severe battle of the sth, or followed up an almost victorious though retiring enemy after the still harder fighting of the 6th. None but he, again would have attacked his adversary so resolutely on the Nth and on the 9th, or held his ground so tenaciously in spite of failure. Under his command the Army of the Potomac hue achieved in invading Virginia an amount of success never achieved before except in re pelling invasion. The Confederate forces were once arrested by McClellan and once by Meade, but that was when they thought to cal ry war flan Northern t2rritory. Grant alone has done mote than this. He has advanced towards Richmond, and though he has inade but little way, and has lost half his army, he has nor been driven back. Whether his position can be retained, or his success improved, is a question which the next: mail will msolve lor us." His position was not only retained, but it has been very materially improved. He has not lost half his army, and he has advanced much nearer Richmond. We trust thitt ere many mails leave this country for England, the news will be sent that this incomparably gallant army, with its brave leader, has gone into Richinciii - dand captured Jefferson Davis, or coinpelled him to fly to the cotton States. Presidential Amongst the names which will probably be presented to the Chicago Convention for the Presidential nomination are the following, viz: Gen. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, of New York. HORATIO SEYMOUR, of New York Judge NELSON, of New York. FRANKLIN I'lEttcE, of New Hampshire- TIIONIA9 H. SEYMOUR, of Connecticut. C. L. VALLANDIGIIAM, of Uhl°. And last, but by no means least, GEORGE W. Woonwmto, of Pennsylvania. The Ccmvetilion cannot go far astray in selecting either of these distinguished gen tlemen.—Lan. Intelligencer. Certainly not. Any of the above narn«l distinguished gewlemon wool.] suit ad,nirably l'er a candidate fur the Democratic P,lrty. W;th ex, spoon of Gen. McClel lan all of them, ;IS long as they ddred favor ed the recognition ()I' the Confed-racy rather than that the tiovertiment should take up arms to defend 1-telf, ,tll,l even the re-. 1 mdt. able (he,lerul di 1 very' 11111,1 prarlically to reddrr him olidoxious to the South. ond ward, Vallitiniighant and Seymour, having IA!, n once Itelure 111 p umtle 1111 , 1 I;notviii r r what (101011 is might better endure the over whelming 1(110 that awaits the Chiedgo nom inee, 11111 i any of the others. We have t•" wish however lo dilate. Ally one that suit; the Conventio n ! will suit es. Nominate any or all of thero,`lo-u as you please, na) , l 111 you that Mr. Lincoln will , :elt at the nominee, in 51,011 a st)le as to cure 111111 any future l'tesaleMial aspirations. The Blue Hen's Chickens The fliTlowing account of the origin of the title of "Blue Ilen'a Chit kens," which the Delawarians are proud to claim, is authentic, and was vulle ed for by the late John M. Clayton : h'• am the Deleware Inquirer of May sth, 1861.] At Lite commencement of the Revolution ary war, there resided in S..iSB,X liclaware, a ge:dleinan of fortune, urb rimy of warners, and great le polarity in that and the adjoining. counti , s of Mart land, named Caldwell, in the langnuge of the county alt e:1 teas a sportsinan, whose breed of horses and out I lied wile tPlebrli) 3 and Lie judgement of the po ids of a horse or the ina;irt of u fow. n mire ventured to dispute. 1: 18 illVkal:e :I Xll,ll was, the cha actor of the progeny derends noire uu the mother than on the hither, and hence, his reply to all questions respecting the breed of game fowls was, be your cock ever so gave, you cannot depend On his prog-aiy, but must look to the 11..ta. My ob :,vrvat ion has led' ma to select a blue hen, and in no instance have 1 failed to hitch a good game-cock from a blue hen's eg:. Lt consequence of such an opini .n expresso' by such a man, la all matches and cock fights, the first question was as to the color of the hen, and trequently n certificate sworn to before a magistrate accompanied the fowls, Such questions engaged the tittle of the peaceltil men of Delaware when the news reached them of the battle of Lexingto. , , fought on thin 19th day of April, 1775, be tween the royal troops and the militia of Massachusetts. This roused the people to arms, and nowhere was there more martial zeul displayed than in the State of Delaware. In a very short time a full regiment was rais ed, and a day appointed to organize oil Do ver Green. On the morning of that ever memorable day a full company from Sussex county. was the first to enter the field, under the command of Captain Kilwell. Peeping above the loaded baggage wagon, was a coop of fowls, the famous blue hen's chickens, crowing lustily. Having been the first on the ground, Cap tain "Kilwell's" company was assigned to the right, and . before the regiment took up the line of march the boys were already call. ed the- game cocks, who retorting on their comrades called- them the clachens. After their gallant' conduct in covering the retreat on Lung Island, the whole army saluted the the whole regiment as the "Blue Hen's Chickens." Changes in the Artillery Arm. Wo learn that General Grant has made im iportant changes in the organization,of the artillery bf,the Army of the Potomac, with the :view of increasing its mobility and its Thd old organization of batteries of six pieces of like •calibre—light twelve or ten pounder Parrots— is broken up, and the number of piec'es in each battery is reduced to four With a view of adapting the battery to the varying conditions of an engagement, the calibre of the pieces is mired—two light twelves and two ten pounders. The four guns are accompanied by six caissons, tho inten tion being to provide a largo supply of am munition. Ana her innovation wade` by Gen. Giant is the breaking up the reserve artillery.. The guns have either been sent back or dis tributed amongst the corps, whose command. ors, so far as wo can learn, seem to have con trol of their artillery. Of the reserve artil. lery but two horse'batteries are left, and the commander of-the corps hoe - been assigned to duty in ohartio - of. tho. ammunition Oahe army. The reduction of batteries to four' 'pieces oor= responds with the organization of artillery in the Swiss army, the riled batteries of which since 1862 have been reduced from MK and eight pieces to four.—Arnly and Navy Jour. WAR NEWS. We give below, in the order in which they emanated from the War Department, the official despathes, of Secretary Stanton. The despatches, are the only 'official and re liable accounts of our military operations given to the public, and the order in which we publish them will give a more reliable and connected account of the war news of the week than any summary we could write. They constitute a brief and reliable history of the results of the great military operations now in progress. WAR I) EPA lITM ENT, WASHINGTON, Saturday, Juno 18-10 p. In. • To Maj.• Gen. Dix : The following dis patch`from.Gen. Gratit, dated yesterday, 11 a. m., at City Point, has been received by this Department: "The 9th Corps this morning carried two more redoubts, forming part of the defenses of Petersburg, capturing 450 prisoners and four guns. "Our successes are being followed up. "Our forces drew out from within fifty yards of the enemy's intrenchments at Cold harbor, :nude a flank movement of about 55 miles march, crossing the Chickahominy and James rivers, the latter 2,000 feet wide and fit feet deep at the point of crog - sing, and surpris .d the enemy's rear at Petersburg. This was done without the loss of a wagon or piece of artillery,. and only about 150 stragglers were picked up by the enemy. ''lit covering this niece, Warren's and Wilson's cavalry had frequent,ii.sikirmishing with the enemy, each losing from 50 to tio killed and wounded, but inflicting an equal, if not. greater loss up.m the enemy. "hoe 15th Corps (Smith's) were •transfer red from. the White House to Bermuda Inn dred by water, and moved out near Peters burg.' The night of their arr val they sur prised or rather captyned the very strong works north-east of Petersburg, before a suffi cient force could be got in them by the enemy to juin them. He was joined in the night following this capture by the 2d Corps, which in turn, captured more of the enemy's re doubts further south, and this corps was fol lowed by the 9th, with the result above stated. "All the troops are now up except two divisions covering the wagon trains, and they will be up to-night. "The enemy in their endeavors to reen force Petersburg, abandoned their intrench mounts in front of Bermuda Hundred. They, no doubt, expected troops from North of the James River to take their place before we discovered it. Butler took advantale of this, and moved a force at once upon the railroad and plant:-read between Richmond and Petersburg,.which 1 hope to retain possession of. 'lino touch praise cannot be given the troops and thoir commanders for the euergy. and Nadi:tole displaced the last live duce. Day mid right have been ail the same, no Mid . ), bidfig allowed on Nov IICCOUIit. " I. tier unotiic•ial disrifehes show that at o'clock this mottling the enemy still oeum pied l'ett.r-burg. Mifj , fr Mortun tray hided in an assauit esteold . .N..;himg to day from Sherman or 13 miler Etor:s. M. A NTO •cm•rct.mry of War. el n.y Sl4lllOll (,' , ll. Nr'w, 10) m S/, • tn I t,r7/ Ore'r• Rd. , c/ Kit( in .0 loss 1 1 f.,;171. Wm: Dt esicrmt.xr, Wssiircr;Tox,. ) Saturday, ducat 18. I I p. nt. 186 l. 1 Jl:itti-(,ent. Dix : Dispatches from Gen. tiht rinse have jtit-t. been received. lie re-) ports a victory river t l e enemy at Trevilan Statloa, on the Virginia Central Railroad, a few tittles south of Gordonsville, where. Gen. Lee a f'etv yr ars ago, reported a Rebel victory. The official report is as follows: "I have the honor to report to you the arritul of my comm and at this point, and also to report its operations since leaving Newcastle Ferry. "I crossed the Pamunkey River on the 7th inst., marching via At lea's and encamped on Herring Creels. "On the mornin•* of the Bth, I resumed the march via. Polecat Station, and encamped three miles west of the Station. "On the Dth I marched through Childsburg, and New Market, encamping- in: East-North east Creek, bear Voting's Bridge, "On the I t 6 I marched via Andrew's Tavern and Lerman'., Store, crossing both hianelies the North .luna, and encamped at !tuck Child , about three miles north-east of 'lre%il ti Situ ion. "My ottenthm w.ts to break the railroad at this Station, march through Mechanics cut the Go:donsville and Chai loues vill.• Railroad n l,pelsals Huns: and then march on Charlottesvide, hot on our at rival at Buck Childs, I found the enemy in initnediate "Un the morning of the I Ith, Gen. Tor bert with his dilivisisinfmTal Col. Gregg's dtv • ism!), attacked the eneiny. After an obsti nate contest they drove him from successi.e Imes of hreastwoi ks through an almost im as.aaitle forest hack on TreNilan Station. "In the meantime Gm. Custer was order ed, with his brigade, to proceed by a count! ) , road so as to reach the station in the rear of the enemy's cavalry. 011 his arrival tit this point, the enemy broke into a complete Tout, leaving his dead and nearly all, his wouticed in our hands; also twenty officers, fly,: hit Cred men, ane three hundred horses. "These operations occupied the whole of the day. At night I encamped at Travilan Station, and on the morning of the 12th in stant commenced destroying the railroad from this point to Lorraine Court House.— This was thoroughly done. "'l'he destruction of the railroad occupied until 2 o'clock of this day, when I directed Gen. Torbert to advance with his division and Gen. Davis's brigade of Gen. Gregg's division, in the direction of Gordonsville, and attack the enemy, who had concentrated and been reenforced by infantry dining the night, and had also constructed rifle pits at a point about five miles from Gordonsville. "The advance was made, but as the ene my's position was found too strong to as sault, no general assault was Made. "On the ektreme right of our lines a por tion of the Reserve Brigade carried the ene my's works twice, and was twice driven therefrom by. infantry. "Night closed the contest. " 1 found on examination of the command, that there was not n sullidency of ammuni tion left to ,continue the eugagement. "The next day trains of cars also came clown to where we were 'engaged with .the enemy. The reports of prisoners and citi zens were, that Pickett's old division was coining to prevent the taking of Gordons ville. 1, therefore, during the night and next morning, withdrew my command over the North Anna Via Carpenter's Ford, near Miner's Bridge. "In addition, the; animals were, for the two entire days in which we were engaged, without forage. The surrounding country affords nothing but grazing of a very infe r!oi quality, and generally at such points as were inaccessible to us. "The cavalry engagement of the 12th was by far the tenet brilliant ono of the present campaign. . • " The enemy's' loss was very heavy. They lost in killed and wounded Col. McAllister, comituAnditixa regiment, killed ;•Brig, Gem •Ite§ser, commanding'. a brigade, wounded, and Col. Caster, commandilig a regiment, wounded. 0 • "My loss in killed and wounded will be about five hundred and seventy-five. Of this number four hundred and ninety aro wounded. I.broeght off in my ambulances three' hundred and severity seven—all that could be transported. The remainder were, with a number of Rebel wounded that fell info my hands, left behind. Surgeons and attendants were detailed and remained in charge of them. "I captured and have now with me 370 prisoners of war, includinn- 20 commissioned officers. "My loss in captured will not exceed 160. They were principally from the sth Michi gan Cavalry. This regiment gallantly char ged down the Gordonsvilleaoad, capturing 1500 hundred horses and about 800 men. but were finally surrounded and had to give then) up. " When the enemy broke they hurried be tween Gen. Custer's command and Uulonel Gregg's brigade. capturing tiee caissons of Pennington's battery, three of which were afterward recaptured, leaving in their hail Is two caissons. EDWIN M. STANTON, SecL'y. of War Washington, June 19 To Major Gen. Dix : This evening a dis patch from City Point, dated at 9 o'clock this morning, reached the Department. It reports that our forces advanced yesterday to within about a mile in front of Peter,bur;r, where they found the enemy occupying a new line of entrench mews, which, alter suc cessive assaults, we faded to carry, but hold and have entrenched our advanced p( No report has been received by the De partment concerning the casualties of our army in its operations since crossing the James river, except the (loath of Maj. Mor ton. Gen. Sherman reports to-day that the ene my gave way last night in the midst of dark ness and storm, and . at daylight our pickets entered his line from right to left. The whole army is now in pursuit as tar as the Chattahoochee. EUWIM M. STANToN, Secretary of War. Mr. Vallandigham arrived at Ilamihien, Ohio, this morning, and mAde a speech in the l'ublic Square, atter which ho Ic f. fur D tytoo. A good deal of excitement occurred at Ilamil ton during his stay there. The Pith Ohio Regiment, the "Guthrie Grays,' arrived to•day, to be mustered out of the '.service. A good recepiiom was given them. CINCINNATI, June 15. Vallandigharn arrived at Da; too at 6.30 P. M., and proceeded immediotely to his resi deuce. There was no demonSiration, but ru more are current that soon after his arrival he had taken the night train for Toledo, but it was subsequently announced he would make a public speech to tnt.rrow. There is consider. ole appreheu•ion of trouble at Dayton, and the people a r e touch t•OCII ed. ' , III. VA CINCINN...TI, June 15 Mr. VallaniEgham rita le his appearance at the Dctip,cratie Di-ti let Giovenii to held' at I. dry, to the apparent surpri , e of 3 laid , e porn, n of the as , emblage. lie w.t rime.ve t with greet enthusiasm. Ila spoke hi telly from a mitten doeum^nt, nal riling his arrr,l , 311. i deletol,lig his act but. Ile eat I the as-erti.di tit tai Preidetit tit it h, wits arrested because lie with 150111“ etf;let to-prevent -the raising cf troops, and encourage 1 desertions from the artily, or I rat disobeyed, or tatted to catinsd ob•idience to lawful authority, was la!so. 11. appealed Gtr prodf to every speee I lie h made, and to the record ot the iiiiitiary com by the trial tin 1 sentence tit which he ten. I. ' Tile sole offence," he said, '•rcl:ioh was laid to my charge was words of et itieisin of the public policy of the Adminis t rat ion, tuldrested to an epee politica meeting it toy fellow ci tacos For more than one year no public min has been arrested, no newspaper has been suppressed within the State for the expression of pu'ulio opinion, while hundredf in public assgmli,i•s, and through the press, with violence and threats, la which I have never indulged, have criti. cised and condemned the acts and policy of the Administration end denounce.' the war, maintaining oven the propriety of recognizing the Southern Confederacy, I (to not wean any longer to be the only man of the party who is im ho the viwitn of this arbitrary pow er. If Abraham Liu olit seeks my lite, let him SO declare, but he shall it. t agate restarin me of my personal liberty except upon due process tit law. Ile denounced Order Nd miler which he was arres'ed, rtn•l sai I II W.l-1 ;1g11:14t tie Cons' itutio • and the laws, without V ‘ii , ll. All idoceediog. , under It were null it 111 void. "file tune has iitr,ved,' he mtiontp. , l, ~ w hen tt becomes 1110 t its It sit avi of Dili, and of the U 1110 1 States, to demand, coil, hi my own act, vindicate the rights, liberties, and privileges which I never torteited, but of which fur so many months I have been de privet." lie reiterated his right to criticise the acts of the A Iministration, and can:bitted his p , ltlir.•tl friends to abstain fioin any cots of violence on his account a'tliough he advts ed none to shrink from any responsibility, however urgent, u forced upon him. Mr. Vail intligh ant woo nccomp I.Elled to the depot by tin entliusias:ic crowd, and arrived at Dayton to night, where it is understood he will make a t-peech. The Convention elected Mr. Vallandigliam a delegate to the Chicoigo Convention. Lotter from England. SIIEFFIELD, June Ist 1861 Dv.Au I.lEnALD:—,Since I. last wrote you I have been to see tilt -Derby," the greatest of the English races. Every body who clan got away from Loudon goes to Epsom Downs to see this rime. The road on the morning of the Derby was jacuned with every discription of vehiule, from tae gentleman's carriage w ith its four tine horses, down to the hucksters truck drawn by a dilapidated donkey. Omnibitsses, cabs, dogcarts, spring carts, ponoy phaetons, beer wagons and e.on drays all hurried on, amid a blinding cloud of dust, covered with their living freight, bound for the Downs The course presented a lovely scene Booths for the sale of provisions, beer Ste., were erected In every direction, negro minstrels were in full blast, and Punch and Judy and the scientific English game of “Aunt tdaPie," bad many patrons. 1 noticed several iudivid us is engaged in introducing some "young men from the country" into the mysteries of that nice little game with three cards, now you see it and now you don't see it. Each banker had his confederates in the crowd and it amused me not a little to see the flats caught. It is curious to notice the extraordinary appe tite that the lower orders of Englsh have for oranges; no a - boner dues Bull get out to euj•ay himself titan he must, begin to destroy quail titles of oraues The appetite for this fruit seems to be a chronic disease with him, sim ilar to the desire to gor.ie ground nuts which seizes some of our country friends at Mime on a holiday. I walked over the course before the races began and took a look at the crowd. There were nuutbers of ladies in the c trriages und I think a more unbecomingly dressed party I nover sari, none of those neat, trim. tigures so common among American girls were to bo seen, and each damsel seemed in tent oil comforting her haler woman with quantities vt beef, ham or ohiSken and wash. tug them down with liberal libations of beer and ohampaigne English people are blessed with good appetites and on any occasion of this kind eating scows to be their 1 rincipal amusement. About three o'clock the boll rang' for the great race of the day, there wad a treamudous rueh towards the standing place and your nu. fortunate eorrespandetit was oqueozed most CINCINNATI, Juno IS The principal features of this evening's pro gramme were "The Muck 'like," the unveil ing of the Statue cud a patriotic scene highly appropriate to the times entitled "Maryland My Maryland!" The first is a scone taken &eta —Pilgrim's Progress" where the inter preter introduces the Pilgrims into the room in which an old man is eagerly engaged in raking together the effects.of this world to tally indifferent to the golden crown suspend. ed by Mranget's hand over his head. Tae see , . ond, ''The Unveiling bf the Statue" is a seems taken from Shakespeare's Winter- Tales in which Leoutes supposing his wife to be dead is taken to view a statue and whilst lost in ad miration before it, it desciends.from the pedes tal and lie beholds his wife alive. This was very'finelly represented and the actors in it deserve a great deal of credit. The scene of "Maryland My Maryland," is the finest yet produced. Maryland is repro• seated by a young lady dresses in black hav ing her hands manacled, on her right side are the Northern states dressed in the national colors, on her left the Southern drthed is black ; South Carolina advances and beseech• es Maryland to join them, at the same time throwing off her mask and disclosing the Rebel colors, her example being folkowed by the other Southern States. Finding:Wet Mary land will not yield to her entreaties, North C trolina slowly recedes and one of the North ern stales boldly advances and claims her as her right, at tit. suns' time the (Main with which Maryland is bound are hurled towards the South her mask falling off discloses the National colors in which alto - its filly ar. rayed, as She joins the Northern states two flags which appeared in the back •ground separate and disclose to view the goddess of Liberty kipperted by the Army and Navy. This servo was decidedly the success of the course, but to discriminate where all is done BO well is scarcely possible. The evenings performance closed with the scene entitled "The Enat ress Etigeie" rep resenting a uurt scene; the l3alPl'o.B seated upon a throne and surrounded by a numer ous train of attendants. El= The leading feature of Thursday evening's perlortnanoa was a scene entitled "r,bo_ Ar- tists Studio." The scene represented an ar. List overcome with his labors reclining upon a °Ouch in Lie studiu and surrounded by groops of statuary. Too much praise Oannot be giv- . , Nowl` like sortie kinds of squeezing; but being jammed io a Crowd of dirty "cads" and being compelled to play an involuntary game of leap frog over a post is not to my taste., I never knew the advantage of lengthy understaudiegs until that occasion. An unfortunate. youth near to, me had a bas ket of ginger beer bopies on his shoulder, the basket was driven into the ribs of-the people next him, the pressure occiasioning great de struction among the glass-ware. Such a jam I never saw In in the whole of my experience and my corporation, never very great, was reduced, I'm sure, several inches. I man aged to see a little of the race (which was won by Blair Athol) and then made the best speed I could for London, with a blue veil, an india rubber jockey, a race card and a sore set of ribs as remembrances of the great Der by of 1864. It is the fashion after the race fur everybody to get drunk, and come home with their bats decorated with penny dolls and piper feathers, after the manner of our fautastics, to spend the night at Cremona Gardens. The iron ram business is settled at last.— The British government buys them of M r . Laird for two hundred thousand pounds. I have been dunking over this affair and it seems to me that the, government has discov ered that their laws are so badly framed, and, fearing to establish a dangerous precedent by letting them go, have bought them fis, the shortest way of settling the affair. Rather a slovenly way of botching up their badly damagrd neutrality. A t ner, edited by a disciple of Aminidab who , e columns are filled up with a mix ture of religious reports, extracts from the Tones' M hat tan's letters, and similar stuff, takas it upon itself to ridicule the move tnent among our ladies at home to cease wear ing goods 0: foreign manufacture. It proceeds nt too usual E style to praise up them selves anu their nobility, calling our ladies' movement l•miserable imbecility" and saying that Broad way is full of the "worst but most lavishly dressed women in the world." That sounds well coming from an Englishman when it is it well knOwn fact that the English dress with lees ta,to than any other civilized nation on , the face of the earth. It is not hard to account for this opposition in England to this movement. Anything that affects John Bull's packet touches him in a very tender place and makes him wriggle no little. The rebel sympathisers here are quite .iibilant over what they are pleased to call tl rnu l's defeat, all rebel accounts are believed and any thing that is favorable to the North is put down as false. As usual I get the full benefit of the sewerage of some of their addled brains in the 'way of having their unasked opinions forced upon me an all occasions.— Their stupidity, egotism and blind belief in the English newspaper correspondents in the United States, are amusing in the extreme.— We are all on tip too of expectation for the next Steamer from New York which we think must bring news of something decisive. Yours The Tableaux During last week our comrauciry was do entertained hy the zeal au I admir aide dtste displayed by fhe lily managers of :he dal.ledux Not only was the cbject for the b. flout of which tlrie enterprise was un deri aki 0, one that called upon every patriotic caeca t i give it his hearty support, but the sdp.uuor taste di-played in the selection of the s,:O/109 the untiring energy' with which it was 0004 00Ied and the ability displayed by the ac tor; in It e ditr , we.,t scenes were all matters of which our c immunity may well be found. The performanots on Tuesday evening opened with the beautiful and highly interest- In: SOO , lO of M tying, in which the children , xcla Ivcly ook part.:ecd a ids from the taste tul inner iu which they were arranged, their .1 led tio.it. whilst the curtain was raised was SUM] t t elicit the approval of the audience. The next WAS the representation of an Gaeiern iioene, in which the mate displayed in the arrang,Joient of the characters as well as their dress and department was tru ly ruel , represeutiorr the gorgeousness of E ern Court, as though s it were the work of en enlist. Woman's ltightFt met with the hearty ap proval of the audience, more particularly probably Flan it wits truly American and represented many a family scene which or dinarily remain behind the curtin. The execution of ;Mary Queen of Scots, an historical scene, was produced in an excell ent manner and we would only suggest that. should the gentleman who represented the ex ecutioner have occasion again to participate in such a scene, he would lower his axe a little more thus giving the auJience a better view of it. A scene of ,tatuary was next produced, the etfeot of which was grand and it was with ildh ally i hat a spe,teur coal , ' persuade him sel t thatlt, was nut the noble work of an ex of the highest order upon Which he was ta,i ening. his eyes. The Gip,ey th;etie h id a true representation of i.s ch•tx.icler to eotnal..ll.l IL and this we k the It;g'iest coutplitwnit. we Can pay it. The .\l4zigrie..tale Btu, was hi.thly 111 - 11U9- lug till I elielted rouud3 of applause from the mudietle3. The evening pc-forrnance cleied with a painotio true euittled "The Army and ivy," reprelenting (hese two powerful arms ine g ,eernineut 'trier the e)nsommition of their gig MllO work, being crowned with the hurcl tney su rbmly deceive at the hinds of an angel, the arraugetneut at winch was ae nearly perfect 110 human agency soul; make Wednesday evening's programme opened with a beautiful 8001313 nail: led "Tile Feast of Rues" tar is p,rticipated iu exclusively by children and as in its corresponding scene 01 Elio previous evening spoke loud in praise of thetnatnigt.rs of the Tableaux. x. 11.8 For Liao Liarsld
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