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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