TERiS OF ADVERTISING One Square ono insertion, For each subsequent insertion, For Mir cantlio Advertisornents, Legal Notices Professional Cards without paper, Obituary Notices an. COMMUnica thins rol ting to matte, Bof pri• vats intorosts alone, 10 cants per lino. ion flitiNTlNO.—Our Job Printing Office is the .ircest and most complete establishment in the ! o no ty. Four good Presses, and a general variety of to aerial Auited for plain and Fancy work of every ',lntl, enables no to do lob Printing at the shortest iutire, and on the most reasonable terms. Persons 511 W. 1.111. of Bills, Blanks, or anything in the Jobbing find it to their interest to give us'a call. =I HUMRICH & PARKER ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office on Main St., in Marlon nail, Car Halo, Pa. G. M. BELTZHOOVER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, and Real Estate Agont, Shipherdstown, West Virginia -4'4l—Prompt attention gitlon to all businesa In Jeftei ton County and the Counties adjoining it. January 19,18613.-1 y. WF. S R, Attorney' at Law, • Carlisle Pn. Offlee in Volunteer iluilding, SA•uth Uncover Strciet. C HERINIAN, Attorney at Law, Uarllsle, Pa. Next door to the Herald Mee. July 1,1804-Iy. A MES A. DUIqI3AII, Attorney at ty Law, Carlisle, Pa. Office In Ilheen,'s Hall, next door to W. M. Poorm,e's duly 1, IRtit--ly. lOSEP II RITNER, .Ir., Attorney at t :tud F.urveyor, Mechanicsburg, Pa. ()Mee on Rail Road Street, two doors north of the Bank. promptly attended to. July 1, 1864. "NO. C GRAHM A, Attarmy ut Law, •p CarMit). Pa, Oilier tbrtuerly nevupied by Juice (..;robani, South Hanover street. == E. 13ELTZHOOVER, Attorney at Law Office in South Hanover street, opposite Bents's dry good store Carlisle, Pa. September 0, 18(14. . M. WEAKLET, Attorney at Law, Office on south Hanover street, adjoining the office of Judge Uratun. All professional business en. ti usted to him will be promptly attended to. July t, 1111;. AMUEL 11 I' IHJRN, Jr., Attorney kjat Law. OfTire with Hon. Samuel Hepburn, Main St. Carlisle Pa, July 1, 186.1. rA NV EAR D. -C LI A IMES E. MA -4ILAIIuIILIN, A ttorney Law, Office in the room fornutrly occupied by Judge Li radar. July 1, 15.44-Iy. DR. WIYI. H. COOK, EIONIOEOPATIIIC PaYSICIAN, Su igen n and A ecouehou r ()FFICE at his residence in Pitt street, adjoining the Methodist Church. EIMEM E011(i E S. SE A , '3 , 7...if.; • _IL, MOIST, Dentist, from the Balti ' . more Collage ut Dental Surgery. 13' , ).Ufliee at the residence of his mother, Batt ',tither street, tiner e below July 1. u i4. GEo. W. NEIDICII, D. D. B. lento DemonFtrator of ( .rent Live Dentistry vi the vauntal Sur lt ~C . ro y i 1 ego of Office at te . siden co opposite Marion Itall, %Vest Main street, Cat lisle, Pa. ulv t, 1853 Dr. I. C. LOOMIS Pomfiet Street few doors IWAVb • below South Um:lover ,t .Inly 1, 1864. R. A. SMITH'S PHOTO- Iig graphic Callery South.east Corner Hanover Street, and Market Square, whore may be had all the different styles ef Photographs, from card to life ohio, lA - OM:TYPES, BIIOTYPES, AND ME LA INOT YVES 'Os° Pleturef , m Per:elain,(sofnething new) both plai l and Colored, and which are beautiful produ c tions ,d• the Photograpbb , art. Call and see them Particular:ate:llion given to copying, Roam Daguerro- types &c. She lovltes the pnironage of the public Feb. 15,1866 SOMETHING NEW. Porcelain Picture or OPAL-TYPE. THIS beautiful Picture is nosy made at Loehman fiallery, In Dr. Neil's Building, oppo site the First National Bank, with such perfection and style, tone - and finish that It cannot help but please every one, The p, rmlain imparts a most clear and charming complexion to the picture. All other styles of PHOTO(.; s, Of all si lea, R D l ' 11, " /T RES and A MBROTYPES, ore made in the most perfect manner. A large varie ty of Frames and Passapartouts, Cases, Albums are on hand and will be sold cheap. Cops log done kn the best manner. The public is re spectfully invited to examine specimens. The First Premium has been awarded by late county Fair to C. L. Lachman, for 'l'he Best 'Photographs I= TREMENDOUS EXCITEMENT ! .\ - ;,e Firm AS'ture ! Yew (;cods! ! Frl Ii undersigned having taken the Store Room, In Main St., recently occupied by John D. (lorga g, next door to "Marlon Hall," would re. spot:tinily Invite the attention of the people of Carlisle and vicinity to my large, varied and we:l selected Stock of Dry Goods. consktlng in part. of M HSI, I NS, CALICOES, DELAIN ES, OINGHAMS, FLANNELS, &c, at greatly reduced priers, Iu cuntequenee of the late heavy decline in Goods In the ilastern Cities, and as my goods are all new, I can and will sell at sot on' sh ingly low rates. I have also a choice selection of Ladies' Dress Goods, MERINOES, ALPACAS, MOHAIR, all Wool &Ishii's, Lusters, Poplins, also n lino assort mont oftleutlonton's Wear, such as CLOTHS, . CASSIMERES, SATTIN ETTS, JEANS, COTTON ADES &c., A) take great pletuure in showing goods and would be pleased to have the Ladies call and examine our Now floods, which we are determined to sell at great bar— gains. Wu feel satiatled that we can offer greater in ducements to purchasers than any similar Establish ment in this vicinity, remember the place at Gorgon' old tin Store, next door to Marion Ball. S.C. BROWN. March 16, 1860. HATS AND CAPS Fctr Men and Boys. THE subscribek \ announoce to the cit izens of Carlisle, alid vicinity, that he has re commenced the manufacture of hats of every variety of style. Having secured the services of the boot of workmen, ho feels prepared to sustain the reputation of the OLD STAND by making the boat hate In the state. Particular at tentlon will be paid to the makYng of the old fashion Stiff Brush, or Dunkard Rat ; also the soft; white brush hat, and any shape or style of hat will be made to order. Ile has also on hand a splendid assortment of all styles of bats from the best manufacturers in Phila delphia and Now York, which he will sell at the low est cash prices. Ills stock of silk and felt hate for men, boys And children of all kinds from the common wool to the finest moleskin are unsurpassed. lie has also a largo assortment of CATS and STRAW HATS, of all kinds and at all Mires. ' Call and examine his stock at tho old stand In North llanover Street, before purchasing elsewhere as he foals satisfied he can please you, J. A. KELLEN, • June I. MO. AgOnt. A few doors north of the Csrlislo Deposit Bank, and next to Common's shoe store. N.-13.—01d Lints repaired, colored and done up in al styles at the shortest notice and reasonable rates. EXTRA PENSION. TO WIDOWS. 1 4 XTRA PENSION TO WIDOWS WIDOWS aro now entitled to an INCREASED PEN BION of $2 per month for ouch child of the soldier un. der 16 years of age. To be Obtained upon application In person or by letter, to the MILITAEY AND NAVAL AGENCY, No. 957 WALNUT STREET, PHILADEL PHIA. JOSEPIT E. DEVITT& 00. Augustl7,lB66-Im. ' CONFECTIONARY I BEAM WORK, Stars, Tulips, Bon bOrio, A-latiode, Chocolates, ilandei Cocoanut and Cunt. Pec.ls/18.6P! 11 25 00 4 00 7 00 VOL. 65. A. K. RHEEM, Publisher WM, B. PARKBR WE desire to call the attention of the people to the new and beautiful Stock of If piing floods, just resolved at GREENFIELD and SIIEAFER'S ("I4i,'AP STORE, All kinds of Domestics at the latest Reduced Prices MUSLINS, CALICOES, CHECKS Tkkingv, Cottonades, Denims Jeans, Flannels, &c., plc A largo and desirable Stock of 0 - 003 IDS, Purchased direct from the largest houses, at the low est cash prices. which We are determined to Sell at.a.s •as any house in the Cumberland Valley. We respectfully invite the attention of all who are in want of cheap goods to give us d. call and examine our stock of Alpacas. White Grounds, elth l'olea Spots in all Cr BERAO ES, LENOI 8, MOH A IRS, MOZAMIIIQU ES, POPLINS, PLAIDS, ORO A N DI ES, WOOL DELAIN ES, all Colors, ke. Ladies Fancy floods, Hosiery, U oven, &c. A FULL A .ORTMENT or whitn 00.,as at yery Low Prices Cloths and Cassimeies, in great varieties fir men and boys, at old prices. Ladir s' Cloaking Cloths all Shades. Ladies' Crochet Shawls, Sun Um brellas, I'arasols, Floop Skirts, Corsets Linens of all kinds, BLACK GOODS, at greatly reduce.) prices. Elegant Black all Wool Delaines full double width only 1,00 per yard, a full and large sariety of single o kith black wool liolainos, Alpacas, Crape Poplins, Crape Veils, crape Collars, Ac. Ilan lug a cool select loin of goods now on hand we are prepared to meet all demands, and full confident we can offer indnot:no nts. that defy competitita, Re member the pla,e. GREENFIELD and SHEAEER, East )fain , South Side, Second Door from Corner, N EW CHEAP CASH GROCERY AND PROVISION STOIfI Great Excitement on the Corner of Pitt and Loather Streets, opposite the German Reformed (..hurch, Carlisle, Pu. The Subscriber begs leave to inftwm his Mends and the public, that he has just returned from the Eastern cities, with a full and choice assortment of G It (I C' ER lEs, Ile will keep constantly on hand an extensiN e and general assortment of Coffe. s of all kind. 111,,wn Sugar, Crushed Sugar, Pulverized Sugar, nice, Tallow Candles, Star do Starch. Teas of all kinds, Salt by the Sark, Buckets and Tubs. Wash Boards, Brooms, lied Cords, New Orleans Molasses, Fish—all kinds. Pep per. Spica, Soda, Cream Tar tar, Best illdigo, Chi na -111011, ('loves, 51ustard, Blacking, Twist Tobacco, Navy, Spun, Natural Leaf, Tobacco, Smoking, Killikinich, Fine Cut, Candies, Raking, Can Peaches, Crocks, s, Essence of Coffee, Dandelion, Cheese, H(1111113, 'loans Clears of all kinds, Nuts—all kinds, Sr., and everything else that is kept in a grocery store. I invite the public to call and examine toy goods and prices before purchasing elsewhere, as I ant determin ed to sell at very siu ill profits. hight,t prices paid for all kinds of Country Pro &Lire JACOB SENER. April 0, 1,,60-61n. A. L. SPONSLER, pEAL ESTATE AGENT, Scrivener, eqnvoances Insurance and Claitn Agent. Of- Ike Alain' Street Near Centre Square. Highly Improved Farm at Private Sale. ITU ATE near the village of Lisburn, LI Cumberland County, 0 miles from Mechanics bun g, and 7 miles from Harrisburg, containing 108 am es, all cleared but about 6 which are covered with good timber. ' The improvements are all new and very superior consisting of a large Brick Mansion Honse, 5 , 119 Brick Bank Barn, BRICK SMOKE 110 USE, Bake House and Spring House, Large Wagon Shed, and other convenient out-build ings, a stream of running water near the house and abundance of Fruit of all kinds consisting of Apples, Peaches, Pears, Grapes, &c. 'the farm is beautifully situated on the bank of the '•Yellow Breeches' Creek, the soil in the highest possible state of cultivation, :onsisting of a mixture of Limestone and creek bottom and, and nearly all under post and rail fence, and an tbundane supply of locust trees growing. A. 1,. SPONSLER, Real Estnte Agent. Aug. al, 1806 Two Valuable Tracts of Timber Land at Private Sale. (ZITUATE on the South Mountain O near Mount !lolly Springs. Consisting viz, I.' '1 ract containing 75 Acres, adjoining the propeity of the Mt. liolly Paper Co. Well covered with young chestnut. Another tract containing 40 Acres adjoin ing the above. Apply to A. L. SPONSLER, . Real Estate Agent. July 27, 1860. • tel Property in Chilrchtown at Private Sale. lITUATE on Main Street containing wo 170 feet in front and 150 foot in depth Improve ments a large DOublp two-story . FRAME HOUSE, Extensive Stabling and Sheds, Wash House, and oth er convenient out buildings, an excellent Well of Wa ter at the door, and a Cistern in the yard. For terms and further particulars enquire of thePowner Mrs. Sarah A. Ligget, residing In Churchtown, or of A. L. SPONSLbIR, Real Estate Agent. May 8, 18136 LICUE Insurance Company of Now - rfaven, Connecticut, Statement ofJanuary Ist, Capital Stock $600,000,00 Surplue • 275,880,10 • $776,860716 1.43608 unndjuded $36,077,72 INSURANCES MADE PERPETUAL AND TEMPOR- The Amato of this Company consist of IJultadStates Government Securities, stocks in National Banks, and IstOlortgages on Real Estate. The Board of Directors haVii declared a Semi-Annual cash Dividend of Ten per cent free from Government Tax payable on and af ter 10th, January 1500. 'Also a scrip Dividend of Sixty per cent on - the earned Premium of Policies entitled to participate in the pro. fits for the year ending Ist of January, 1806. And have voted to Increase the Capital Stock of the Com pany to Ono Million of Dollars. Apply to A. L. SPONSLBR, Agent. FOR SALE. anTOWN PROPERTY on South Rano ver street, Carlisle, °Pimp - rising 120 teat in front 240 feet in depth havidg thereon erected 3 Ilwoll ing llousee, Shope and other Buildings will be sold en tire or divided to Hutt purchasers. Apply to A. L. SPONSLER. Feb. 16, 1860.• AValuable Lot of ground:ork South . Street Containing overooo foot in front and2oo in depth.. Also, a Lot no the corner of Pitt and South Streets,. containing 00 feet in front and 110 feet in depth. Apply to DHYSICIANS will find it to their ad 'vantage to call and purchase thetriVedlclni at , RAIATONT; AT ILIVEII,I3TIOIII3. .:; 0 4 4' i tt k‘\ , r •, Spring Goods. LOW PRICES, Knotting - ham Lnc Curtains I) tho =I NOTIONS OF ALL KINDS, ARY FOR, SALE; A.L.OPONSW ,~;1 Qll~~il~~~e TO ANDREW JOHNSON UT HAROLD ST. CLAM "Faithful among the faithless," once wo thought thoo, kaithless among the faithful now thou art. , "fo this sad depth has vain ambition brought thou, Alan of weak brain, mid cold, ungiateful heart, lietteV for thee—our hope once and our pride— If thou hadst fallen when great LINCOLN died I Treason must be made odious I" This thy saying, Woo echoed through the land fr f irp North to South We feared, some of no, it would moot the praying Of men repentant with too stern a mouth. For we no vengeance wanted—hate had none; Only would keep the victory see had won. " Treason must he made odious!" Thou last dono it! Tre112 4, 11 to friends, tmeoutrtry, and Wright, More odious seems sh,ce now we gaze upOin it, A form of darkness in a place of light, This good at least, we owe to thee and fate Ti. hate a traitor with intotaier hate. I fill up thy little hour of ruling With deeds fantastic and with phrases low ; We need perhaps such days of sad, stern schooling, That we true men Worn falno may learn to know And yet ono deed It were not saki to dare— We aro but men,. and that wo will not bear. As once before we said, so now we say it We go before the People I If we foil, We hear the shameful verdict, and obey it. But if we win, we'll rule—in spite of hell, And all the powers of evil, low or high, And though a thousand traitors live or die I Nionllbtaltans. GENERAL GEARY The Battle of Wauhatehie ST. Louis, August 10, 1866 M the Edibirs Pittsburgh Gazette : GENTLEMEN lam a Western man, and have never lived in your noble old State, nor am I politician—having voted but once dur ing the twenty odd years since the right first alertked but 1 wish to give honor where hon or justly belongs, and to refute some of the uncharitable aspersions against that polish ed gentleman and tried soldier, General John W. Geary. I wish to prove in the just equity of things, that not only his native State, but that the whole United States, owe him a debt of gratitude, that should forever endear and itn- Mortalize his name, and place it among the ost illustrious of their sons The country can well remember the gloom and anxiety that prevailed the North after the disastrous day of Chicamaugua. Kon- Way and Tennessee swarmed with preda tory bands of rebels. Bragg, flushed with victory, had hurled back our shattered col umns on Chattanooga, flnd Rosecrans, on the first paralysis of defeat, (or perhaps of fear,) had ignobly abandoned Lookout moun tain, the key to the south banks of the river, as far as Bridgeport, where the railroad crosses the Tennessee river, and from whence all our supplies had to bo drawn. This mor al error and military blunder, necessitated the drawing of (di our supplies from Bridge port to Chattanooga by a circuitous moun tain route, (up the Sagnatehie valley, near Maclamonis cove, thence over the rugged mountains to the north bank of the river by a pontoon bridge to this city,) some sixty miles in length. The country around, oven in times of plenty, scarcely produce enough Coed its scattering population, but now lunpled, broken, crushed and devoured by uscilating tread of hostile armies, it was wroughly denuded on all kinds of subsis ince, and even the wretched inhabitants held daily struggle with famine, and looked with despair to the rigors of approaching MIMI From Bridgeport to Chattanoou by the South Bank was less than thirty piles, and by the North Bank, by which the Confed erates forced us to haul, we wore compelled to make an elbow of more that sixty miles, and that over the most execrable roads im aginable—either through the slush of swamps rendered doubly dangerous by the rains of nut umn, or over stony heights, so steep that eat could scarcely crawl up with rocky ledges cropping out,,often three to four feet perpendicularly, at each ono of which the wagons had to be unloaded and hauled up by band. The Ohio river was really our base of sup plies, and a wretched single track railroad from thence through Nashville to Bridge port, Alabama, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, requiring a full army corps for its defence, was our solo dependence. Our dispirited army, thus cooped up and half beleaguered in Chattanooga, was wholly unable, either to meet the enemy in the open field or to wrench from him the southern bank of the river and thus open a gate for food and munitions. Reinforcements had been ordered from Mississippi and from the army of the Poto mac, and to hold their position and with it tho great States of Tennessee and Kentucky, with all . the untold results thereunto belong ing, until the promised aid could arrive, was the great problem of . both General Rose crans and General Thomas, the latter of whom about this time had assumed the chief command. The depot supplies of Chatta nooga were rapidly melting away every energy, every resource and every appliance in the reach of the Government was set in motion to feed out starving force and ena ble us to hold,on until the expected succor came to hand. Our army was too weak to fight, and our means of transportation too limited to feed it or to keep it in munitions for its proper status for the field, and to retreat under the circumstances would probably produce this most unheard of disasters, perhaps annihila tion itself, and in its train woes unmimber ed and unheard of, for to retreat would( be not only to sacrifice the army and nll it; e quipments, but all our vast chain of depots and detachments throughout the States nitinedf with the countless millions they cost, but also tbo scope of territery they' coVered, and with the grand moral effects of victory, which at that juncture would have inevita bly turned the scale against us, for just at that momentous poricid,of our struggle she. Scales of Fate seemed to ,vibrate, with such an even beam that the breath . of an infant might have changed the balanCe„ The na-' tional destinies hung on a single thread E and danglOd suspended on the accidents of *Mince, or the moral courage and:valor of a single heart and' ATM. • In this . case necessity' was inexorable. The arnlty .must fed.. T'he Carlisle, Pa., Friday, September 7, 1866 place must bo sustained at every sacrifice possible. Every ration, every round of am munition, and ovary pound of forage re quired,' must be brought from the distant lino of the Ohio, and it became a painful cal culation between resistance and endurance— between the lives of men and the consump tion of mules—for as constant use destroyed the roads, it required .twelve or fourteen mules to haul a single ton of freight over the intolerable roads, to say nothing of pro visions, which could not be carried, and for want of which the. poor animals died by thousands and tons of thousands—beyond any thing recorded in history, MVO perhaps the retreat of the French from Moscow. In spite of this frightful sacrifide, the subsis tence in the depot at Chattanooga became daily lower, although the army was reduced to half, and a largo proportion of it even to quarter rations. Still the mules died. Still our means of transportation melted away. Our famishing army became hourly more gaunt and hollow-eyed, while the palo, over flowing throngs in our hospitals found vent in our crowded graveyards. At this critical juncture General Hooker; with General Grant—who had about this time been appointed to the supremo com mand of our armies—arrived at Nashville, with the 11th and 12th corps from the army of the Potomac and proceded at once to Bridgeport, to concert with the veteran, Thomas, as to the most feasible mode of re lieving his sorely pressed and famishing for ces. Atter brief consultation the 11th corps and the 2d division (Geary's) of the 12th corps—the last at Goary's earnest request— were ordered to Bridgeport, and after a hur ried preparation, crossed the Tenness, e on pontoons at that point. To make their movompnts perfectly intel ligible, it will be necessary to mim4le with the account a cursory view of the scene of their operations on the South bank of the Tenness'ee, where the enemy had destroyed the railroads and bridges. The road from Bridgeport to Chattanooga after crossing the river, occasionally bugs its banks and passes by Shell Mound and through a series of low rolling hills, and then enters the deep valley formed by Lookout Mountain on the light and by Raccoon Mountain on the left. The latter rising bold and rugged from the river, is in one or two places pierced with gloomy gorges and raises its wooden heights almost to the level of its more renowned neighbor, the Lookout, which starting almostin the suburbs of Chat tanooga towers abruptly into the very clouds and stretches away diagonally' from the river many miles to the Southwest. The river here is exceedingly tortuous. Passing the city, it stretches to the South, then doubling back to the North, and then again to the South, and then to the North once more—it forms the long tongues or penin sulas below the town—the first on the northern side, looking into one another lake cogs of a wheel. Opposite the town stretched a pontoon bridge. The plan of the assem bled Generals was to let a large force under Hooker advance up the valley, while a.com mensurate force from the town, under Gen. Hagen, dropped the river in the pon- toon boats to Brown's ferry, at the lower bend of the first peninsula, whore they hoped to surprise the enemy and effect a permanent lodgement, and at the same time a junction with the forces under Hooker, which wore to leave Bridgeport the morning before and penetrating Lookout valley, drive in the scattered outposts of the Confederates, un cover the gorge through the Raccoon moun tain to the river at Kelly's Landing, to which boats could then ascend from Bridge port with supplies, And there fortify their positions. This landing on the South side, at the base of the lower peninsula, to which I have alluded, to cut a road across this base to where Hagen was expected to make a foothold and then cross on pontoons to the northern side and thence across the upper tongue to the bridge at Chattanooga, would give only six miles of land travel against sixty miles over the worn out route on the northern bank—as boats could transfer everything from the railroad terminus at Bridgeport to Kelly's Landing, which, us I said, is only six miles from Chattanooga, and just opposite and only two and a halt' miles from where the Trenton branch join, the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad,. in Lookout valley, about five miles from' the point that frowns over the city. This plan seemed the only feasible ono for getting inp mediate supplies to our army in Chattanooga. Time was precious and Hope gambled with Chance, while fate seemed to verge on Ruin. On thh 23d of October, 1863, all being ready, General Hooker crossed the river at Bridgeport with the 11th corps under Gon. Howard, and boldly pushed forward into the.gloomy. recesses of Lookout Valley.— This corps composed almost entirely of Ger mane, was still suffering under the demon alizations cif' Chaneelloreville,% 'and- only' numbered about nine thousand men, but a- bout four miles in the roar followed about two thousand two hundred of the 2d division of the 12th corps, a splendid body ijlf.yetor ans, with bronzed faces and iron nerves, under the immediate command of the in domitablo Geary himself, proudly bearing the "white star," destined to bwthe "star of the oast," and of hope to the nation and to the leaguered army ahead. So, eihausted had become the means. of transportation at. this time, that the quartermaster at Bridge port could only fuinish Geary's whol'e mand scime four mule teams, which, with a, scout improvised, train, picked tip on. the route from II ashyille, was' all the tomintind had for their rations and munitions ,On this expedition. , The positions ,of tho enemy were unknown, to 'thorn. They' worn sup- posed to'be in largo force at Trenton,' and might come in on their roar, after they, had' passed the junction, or doscondo on their flanks from tho heights of Lookout; for• we did not then knowithat this vias arid Mabel moved with cautious stop, Hooker and the 111 corps imincumbered and well in the advance, and Geary with his bronzed veterans guarding the trains, repairing tho' WAY and, Snining on as fast,Ss. they coialst' never in the history of, this, nor, indeed of . 'aity..war, did there' hang , more Momentous, events on the sticeoss of an onterpriSo:, 4 . The" , failure of 440 of its payuf would involve thO'' failuro of the Wholo,,and the failure thO w)iolo the loss of .Thomas's' array, and the, loss of the latter the loss of . Tenneised and ltentilOkh and with .them th 4 prpljabiOlota of our .aittlie, with results before which the heart aird imagination stand appalled. Hagen vas successful, and not only surprised ,the enemy, but after routing him spanned tho rivOr.mith his pontoons, and proeeded to fortify his position, and established his communications with General Hooker and he 11th corps, which arrived in due time, the onomy's outposts retiring before them. The road from Chattanooga to Bridgeport crosses the road that lends from the town to the summit of Lookout, and then winding round the point of the mountain close under its frowning battlements, leads down into the valley, and crossing the famous -Wan hatehie creek by a bridge, follows the rail road track on toward Bridgeport. Just be low this bridge a fork from the road led off to the left, up the valley to ,Brown's Ferry, where Hagen had made his lodgment.— Hooker, coming up the valley, followed this road, and leaving the fork unguarded, en camped about n mile from it, above and to wards the river. Some three miles below the bridge, as you come down, another road sprang off at right angles and led down through the gorge of Raccoon mountain to Kelly's landing, and about three hundred yards further down the railroad forked, the left branch following the bend of Lookout off to Trenton, and the right through the appendages of Raccoon mountain off to Bridgeport, some twenty miles distant. As I said, Hooker's command, being un- Imeumbored, he formed a junction before dark and quietly went into camp. His in structions to Geary were to move on as fast as possible, and if he did not overtake the 11th corps to encamp at the fork that led off to Kelly's Landing, unless night sooner overtook him, and come onnext morning. It so chanced that he reached the-Forks just at dark, (but without knowing it,) and made a hasty bivouac around sonic farm houses in the margin of an old field on the north of the road, while his wagons were parked in a wood on his left, and his artil lery, consisting of two sections of Knap's Pennsylvania battery, was on a knoll in the centre of his camp. Geary, ever vigilant, knew he was in the face of an enterprising foe, yet he hardly suspected that General Hooker had uncovered and left unguarded the road leading down to him from the sum- mit f Lookout, but rather expected danger from the rear on the Trenton side, and made his dispositions accordingly. Sentries were postiid and the men had their suppers, but weary as they were, they seemed impressed with souse great impending danger ; yet how little did they realize its magnitude, or earn of the mighty results that hung sus pended in the gloom of that Autumn night! It was a fitting time for the phantom of 'Ruin to battle with the exaltation of patri otic resolution. These men were ordered to sleep on their arms, and it was well they did, for while Geary's hardy veterans were wend ing their way up the valley, and while the sun yet cast long shadows before them, ft group of Confedorate.officors stood on ono of the boldest projecting crags, hanging over the valley nearly 3,000 feet below, watching heir progress until the sun's last rays left the castellated rocks around thorn, and tho depths of the valley deepened into night. Their petition commanded a bird's-eye view of the whole length, and they saw at a glance the fearful error of the 11th corps in passing beyond and leaving unguarded the junction of the road leading up to Brown's Ferry, and around the point to the summit of Lookout. They saw Hooker encamped among the wooded knolls away above, and Geary and his handful of mon far below, and counting on the paucity of their numbers, they reckoned it feasible to hero enter a wedge, that would split the hopes of reliev ing our army in twain, for what was easier than to dispatch three strong Confederate divisions of infantry to sweep down from the summits where they lay, and while one guarded tho bridge over the Wauhatchie Creek, and another the forks of the road . ; let the third press over, and by a night's at- tack, m overwhelming numbers, crush Gea ry's little isolated detachment of veterans, while the division at the Forks kept all re internments from Hooker from reaching him ; then quickly retracing their steps, form a junction with both the divisions at the forks and the bridge, pushing up the valley, fall on the S keleton 11th corps, and by their numbers and the bayonet, annihi late or drive it with Hagan's coin wand over the pontoons at Brown's Ferry and thus precipitate the retreat or surrender of Thomas. That knot of officers thought the plan both simple and easy, and we after wards learned the knot was composed o Generals Polk, Longstreet, Breckenridge, Hood, Cheatham, and Claiborne, and num bers of their respective staffs. They could see that our united forces would hardly,roach twelve : thousand --mon. Three well-tried Clonfoderate divisions were promptly sot in Motion. It was an hour T , pregnant with danger to tho Union. Our cause with all its hopes and aspirations for all time to come, hung upon the vigilance and nerve of a single man, and that -man was Geary, Tho enemy knew the locality well, and -Marched with stealthy tread. Longstreot fSoi , T_L amid the clouds and chilling night Winds high over head, anxiously listened for the first fusilade of battle to reach him from the abysmal darknOss ltoloiv. It was about nine o'cloCk, when the hush of our camp was startled by the,: report of Muskot.; from.pur lino of sentinels, qiiickl'y 'foll'owed by others, and the call of the long roll, and 'the hoarse cry of " fall in "'broke the stillness of night; 'bitt our men,,lempoied by discipline and ex perinnee,' wore soon in lino ready for tho 11:)0. It/ proved to be a faie:e alarin, and ifivestigatiOn-roveale&tho'hOdy of a" donkey; that brovied too near the sentinois and d_ is 'regarding their challenge, had paid f?r Mmerity'viitli his nth; but lii words of the old hymn we can truly, say _ Great God, 011 what a elendor thread - Etornal marten hang." :Oor, but for this incident, the. ,fate of 'the. battle might have boon Vory,difforont, for, it influenced,Geary, to take addition-al' Meas . .- urea against 'Surprise, by strongt ing and, *elstondfng , his brni of On tinels,, and tearing down 'wine : log housin and fences his . • ~f Sont, hiadWith thti Maierials•ccinstrOcti4 do hiirrickati at the toot otthO knoll touoh g on thO:,itiiii•oadmiid CaphafibniOrif,here SOMOsi*'oei3fivoti - feet ml'et'retChng aW,ay,fti r',6130 9 . to: it thO . *o r th: whtti3iiiu right ;witiproteeted' by th©><ailrorid~ . • ' c'kl i t[it our roar by a gulch and swamp, and our loft rested on our little train ; our four Parrotts being on the knoll in the centre of our camp. The men were ordered to sleep on their arms in ready line of battle, when the General ro- tired to a tent that had been erected for headquarter uses, just in the rear of the bar- ricade on our left. It was now near cloven o'clock, and all was once more still, when we hoard a sentinel some distance in our rear shout out " who comes there," followed by the report of a musket, which was quickly succeeded by a startling and most unearthly yell—the Confederale battle cry—which must. be heard under like circumstances to fully realize its appalling discord. Without artillery or cavalry, or even throwing out skirmishers, they had stolen forward until they felt our sentinels, and then rushed for ward with their . demoniac yell in dense quadruple lino of battle. Getting into the open field in our front, and seeing some of our camp fires yet burning on the rising ground behind our breastworks, they panted and poured in a volley, and then charged tumultuously forward, fully expecting to finish us at once by their numbers and cold steel, and probably would have done so but for an obstacle as little expected as the sunk- en roadway at Waterloo by the French cuirassiers. To our ]eft, and about midway on the northern side of the field, commenced a gully, which traversed it, parallel to our front, and about sixty yards distant, and passed under the railroad by a stone culvert. The rains operating on the friatle soil had worn it from seven to eight feet deep, and there was nothing to mark its existence. On they came. The hail of lead over and around us was truly' , frightful ; but, deceived by the glimmenng lights on the rising ground behind our lines, their aim was gen erally too high, but the White walls of the General's tent were a conspicuous inark, and quickly riddled into shreds, it became the focus of death, and to remain nen r it was suicide Willi the first challenge of the sentinel, Geary al rend booted aiel spurred, threw himself into the saddle—for his horse was ready hitched and at hand for the emergency —and, with the only three of his staff pres ent, rode up and down his lines, encouraging his men with stentorian voice, heard even above the din of battle, and ordering such fresh dispositions as his cool and fertile brain and the emergency of the moment required. While his battle line replied to the enemy, his reserves, laying down their arms, tore down all the huts and fences within their reach, and pressed every rail, log, rock and chunk they could lay hand on into strength ening and extending their breastworks. His stalwart form towered above the lines a conspicuous mark for the rebel rifles, and both men and officers besought him to dismout and not wantonly expose himself to such inevitable peril; but his heroic reply was, " Defeat is death to us all, and death is preferable to defeat. The fate of our country hangs upon our success to-night. Never mind me, for 1 can work best in the saddle. God is my shield; by his Grace we will make a Titer or win the tight." He continued to move amid the smoke and uproar as imperturbable as an iron statue, although the enemy's charge promised to be irresistible and annihiliaion seemed inevita ble, while despair alone gave us courage to die with honor. On came the enemy, mad with exeitemen and the flush of anticipated victory, little dreaming of the treacherous gully into which they plunged and disappeared as if swallowed by an earthquake. Whole ranks plunged into the yawning wash, and those behind pressed forward to a likedisastor. It was too wide to leap, and, once in, too steep to crawl out ; and amid the roar of conflict canto curses, groans, and shouts from its muddy depts. Geary prompt to take advantage of th is bstaclo and diversion in his favor, iintnedi ntely ordered his men to lay low and sight along the surface of the ground and thus keep the rebels imprisoned in the trap into which they had so unexpectedly fallen, and at the same time ordered his artillery to shell the dense woods beyond the fields in front, in which the enemy seemed massed in great numbers, and as the shells were scream ing and crashing through the tangled wood, they became a fit bass to the rebel yells and the patriot shouts, and the incessant rolling musketry that reverberated against the rocky heights on either side with prolhnged and deafening roar and rumbled far away in many an echo. The conflict was tierce and determined, but the fatal gulch and the sheeted flame of lire that leaped along our line, carrying a storm of death over tlfe brink, and the hoarse execution of our heavy guns among their crowded ranks beyond, was too much for oven Confederate enthusi asm and desperation, and backward they reeled, sullen and disordered; into the ob scurity of the woods beyond leaving the field strewn with their dead and wounded, and hundreds of their comrades imprisoned in the gully in front, who dared not raise their heads for fear of the leaden hail that swept just above its brink. Their charge was ilveely niVe and bravely repelled, but the confldenea \ of as surance and their overwhelming 'Timbers, added to the importance of success, made them quickly rally their shattered columns and make ready for a second assault. • Our dead and wounded were speedily removed to the roar,. where a farm - house was im provised fur a hospital, our breastworks were strengthsned. 'Troops were shifted and every measure taken that could add, td our hopes of defence. The 'interlude, of battle hummed on the night air, but did not last long, for pressing. Up dense masses of troops, to thO very edge of the gulch, they poured' in an incessant and deadly fire on our barri. ondes while Strong columns deployed right and left to turn Our • Wings, and, if possible, "atidelt us in the flank. That on .our right partly rushed along the railroad embank ment and patlly to the right of it, while that on the left crept . along thr?reargin of the ,wood turning the head of ,thofataigully and fooling their wUy,along the margin of the sticnip, strioY us, "heavily on the left wing and - stubbornly" forced:it back, inch. by inch-iL turning as if, on a binge about one third Of thdWttV , dowa ;the line, thus forcing • us back 4a - back until` we were at; right :angfeiStogur.original pOsitiOn,.and ourcon 4itioa' .91: hattio , being on throe sidOs% pf:a square at oaoo..,,:thiS forcing of our left wing ilionknon of our TlittliTEC--$2,00 in Advance, or $2,50 within the year defences in that direction, and swung it around through our trains parked on that side, and loft them entirely uncovered, and outside of our line; and, strange to say, it created a diversion in our favor. As soon as our troops swung fairly clear of the wagons, the rebels 'ceased firing and com- menced plundering, thus giving our sorely pressed veterans a chance to rally at the foot of the knoll on that side. But still the fight was fierce indeed, and along the front it was one incessant sheet of angry lightning, leaping up and down the lines and Hashing on the midnight dnrkness with vivid and constant play. Ag, in the artillery came in need. it swept the railroad embankment on our right and one gun hauled over the grade by strength of hand enfiladed their advancing ranks and mowed them don by scores until baffled and bleeding thoY once morwlled back on their re4erViCs in the obscurtkof the wood ; when Getiiry seeing our trsting.captured and our left sorely press- ed, orclerofl our gotta to tiro canister and percussion shells among the rebels, busily employed in ravishing our trains on that side, and at the short range of two hundred yards they poured in their terrible death dealing volleys, crashing amid the tangled woods, wiil4;on wheels and beds, and plung- ng animals, dealing death and destruction, and quickly threw thorn into confusion, rendering the ground they had taken un tenable. Our lett wing being reinforced, again pressed thorn back and driving them wildly before them, capturing many pris ers anion.; the wreck of the train, and not only recovering their old line of breast work, but actually advancing it (turning forward on the same point it turned back- ward) some thirty degrees, along which they rew up rude defenses This last assault was stubbornly and fu riously made, and as desperately repulsed as it was made. Yet, in spite of our de- fences in spite of the natural strength of our position and the immense advantage of our artillery we had suffered seiierely, and our ammunitiLn was running low, and we could plainly hear their hoarse, ominous cry "to pick °tithe d—d artillery men," and fear fully was it obeyed, for a concentrated 01 fire of full five thousand muskets belched their deadly consuming fire around the cone of that devoted knoll, where the brave gun ners and their artillery horses were lined against the dark sky beyond. It was a whirlwind of death, cutting down and rid ding everything before it, and in less time than I have taken to describe it, killed the brave Captain Atwell and the brave and chivalric Lieutenant Edward Geary, the only two officers present, with twenty-five of their tuen, ttnd killing and disabling forty five out of forty-eight of their horses tether ed in the neighborhood. It was the incar nation of slaughter, but the only wonder was that they hod not done it eooner. was a tearful hour. Our h 11.11:4 almos stood still. Where was Hooker? did he no ear the roar of battle 7 Sorely lie mo:4 ear ,its echoes and come to our relief. I was a terrible moment; but the indomita We Geary was equal to the issue. Ile stood like some stoic, of old , unmoved amid the wreck around him. Assailed iiy six times his force; cut off from succor ; in the midst of an unknown country ; his amuni tion almost exhausted; one fourth of his command sweltering in death around him ; all his staff killed or wounded, and his he roic son, his first born, the embodiment of every noble virtue and manly promise, a mangled corpse near by ; yet calm and un dismayed he still rode unscathed along his weakened lines, encouraging, and ordering, and firing his men with his own indomita ble pluck and resolution to stand to the last extremity. But why attempt this midnight scene, its horrors and its mighty issue? It would re quire the pen of a Scott, a Napier or a o llugo to do it justice; to portray the deadly 'strug gle through the long hours of thet autumn night, when a nation's life hung in the bal ance, while a nation slept unmindful of the fact. ' To give the just weed of praise to the brave on' :ers and men that there bled or. maufutly battled until the grey of town ; to he I how charge after charge was repulsed until our ammunition was exhausted ; when we replenished from our dead, wounded and prisoners; how we watched hour af. er hour for the relief that cattle not, until the the last cartridge was exhausted, we fixed bayonets to sell the last issue with cold steel, and how the enemy baffled and foiled and kept at bay through the night had all his plans disarranged and so lost the prize for which he made his swoop—for the stub born, prolonged and unheard of resistance of Geary defeated his plans and saved the 11th corps from the combined assault in tended—and how after hours ajid hours of dreadful struggle the enemy hastily retreat ed just before day, leavirg over a thousand killed and wounded, besides tunny hundred prisoners in our hands ; and how, just after day, Generals Grant and Thomas, from Chattanooga, and Hooker and lloward, from Brown's Ferry came on thd battlefield and congratulated Gen. Geary on his glorious and. unparalleled victory, as he sat under the shade of a tree begrimed with the stout of battle; how great was their surprise when they found:that he had fought it sin gle-handed and alone, they supposed Gen. Shultz bad been dispatched with a division to his aid as soon as the first echo of the fight was head the night before. Yes, -all this would require greater space and ability 'than I can command, for I have not time to 'condense this article into its proper limits, for each moment as I write some new inci dent rushes on the mind and clamors for, utterance. Nor can I relate the fortitude with which Geary bore up under the loss 'of his noble sou, or'the sincere condolence of his , Superiors as tendered him' on that eventful mOrnlng,''or of the frank and quont tributtisAidid - then, and afterwards, by both - Grant and hooker,' in which they freely acknowledged him to be the savior of our army, and with it, of the mighty isttes , hanging 'thereon ; nor mention with • just 'Fr . aise, the yeroic and patriotic 'names that Vcire apart' in that. night; but,"suffiten: it to say, that Gesry'estubhorn and prolong-' ed resiiitariance consumed the , night, hurled' back the rebels, 'hafted and bleedibg, and ditto spied nnfrorn untold disaster, for all Of hOrdeserves•not only enduring fame,, but the heinnit; gratitude of every patriti(in the 'land; instead as iti the auheeinent; battle cc4,o,liout, being sworn of his just renown and assailed with political slander, or overslaughed by others, who played an inferior part in the dreadful fray, for the writer stood by . his side inboth of tinge fearful conflicts, and in the last as well as in the first, can testify that on both occa sions our success was Wholly owing to the genius of his brain, and the.dauntless nerve of his single heart. Ile alone carried out , the assault on Lookout, and was the senior officer and alone on the mountain until the day was won But he is as brave as he is modest, and suffers upstarts, who were' not even under.fire on those occassions, to rot, him of his just mood of praise. 1 have not seen General Geary since ho started with Sherman on his famous "march to the sea," and may never see or commu-N nicate with him again, but I cannot be still and see him unjus , ly assailed. Therefore I beg you will give this a place in your col umns, for, God knows, he is entitled to all the' praise and place you can possibly give him. r. NO, 36 As the Democratic organs throughout the country are laboring to create the impress ion that some vast piece of mischief was wrought by Congress at its late session, we wish to put on record in brief what it really did. This Republican Congress reduced the do mestic taxes to the extent of seventy-flue millions of dollars per annum. It provides for the gradual reduction of the great volume of paper currency at a certain fixed rata, so that financiers and business men niiglitAcnow how to calculate the future and be relieved of all danger of a commercial crash on account of the cur- WM It provided for the protection of the rev enue from foreign imports, by more stringent enactments to guard against systematic un dervaluation, through which the Treasury has 'been defrauded of countless millions of dollars. It secures equality before the law to all the citizens of the United States, of every rave and color, under the protection of the National Governntwit, and made every na tive horn adult a citizen. It furnished ample protection for the reedmen against their late master and hilt , issociates in the enjoyment of all their ME It secured a homestead to all settlers on the public lands in the Gulf States under the national laws, and so provided for the pour whites and blacks of the Smith a future of their own, better than any they could have otherwise hoped for, It reduced the number of Supreme Court judges by grad 0l process. It secured the election of United States Senators against the future actions of fac tious min ri ties. It admitted the reconstructed State of Tennessee under the circumstances which point out the way in which other recon structed States may return to their old places in Congress. t reconstructed the standing army to not more than fifty thousand men, against tho urgent appeals of all who wanted a force of one hundred and seventy-seven thousand. Doubtldss it has done some things which might judiciously have been left alone, for all Congresses do that ; but for what is stat ed above it, deserves and will receive the thanks of all rightminded A colored man entered a church in Col umbia, South Carolina, recently, and finding the colo-ed gallery full, took. a seat among the white Christians of the place. Of course the reader supposes lie was immediately turned out by the usher. No such thing.— Thu reconstructed rebel Christians of South Carolina are not so reconstructed as that yet. But these worshippers of the Prince of Peace had a much more effectual way than that of getting rid of the "nigger." One of the worshippers quietly rose from hip knees, breaking, off, no doubt, a penitent petition for the gracious favor and tender pity Of Him who is all mercy, tipors.human sin, softly approached the dark skin ed fel low-sinner, with Christian charity produced a religious revolver from his pocket, cocked it with a Sabbath day soleninity,`aimed de vout y at the woolly head bowed in prayer, and in a spirit of holy brotherly love, tired and scattered the brains of the intruder over the neighboring pews! The ushers carried out the corpse, and for aught we know, the services proceeded with undiminished ser enity', sending up to heaven the sweet incense of worsrtip trout humble, loving and devout souls. Gen. Howard, of the freedman's bureau, being a Puritanic, psalm singin , New England Christian, dues nut deem this sort of religious sacrifice precisely the thing ; hence, in spite of the constitutional right of all persons (even South Carolina church members) to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, h • has in terfered, and ordered a delegation of fanat ical Northern array officers to investigate the matter and arrest the Southern wor shippers, or such of them as can be proven guilty, for murder.—Detroit Pont. Of course we shall shortly hear a bitter howl from Columbia, echoed approvingly by our Pennsylvania organs. about Yankee interference with religious freedom. A BarAou OF PROMISE CASE —A ,oung follow named IL W. Undine, living in La- Crosse, Vis., recently sued a young lady who jilted hi.n, for the cost of presents made her. His bill was ns follows: One gold ring, $5 00 ; one fancy frn, 3 00 ; one box confectionary, 2 50. Total. $l3 50. Ex judge Cameron appeared for Undino, and "Brick" Pomeroy for the girl. Under the instructions of "Brick" the following coun ter-bill was' presented ; To kerosene oil 7 months, $3 00 ; to rent the parlor for spark ing, $lO 50; to confectionary eaten by Un dine, •$0 25. Total $l3 75. An amusing trial followed, and resulted in a verdict a gainst Undino of turtty-five cents and costs of the suit. Tux Atigusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist dfs-' courses-most irreverently on the clap-trap and deception of the Philadelphia Conven tion. It compares the coalition Iptween rebels and northern sympathisers for plunder to Artonnus Ward's account of why. ho loved Betsy. In 'its article It quotes Ward as applicable to the ease, thus— " Thar was"—say the greet Arte Mus his account of that episode,' his wooing— " Char was alfectin tics that made me hanker artor Betsy. ller fathoes farm fined oer'n; their cows and.Our'n squenched their thirst at the same spring, our old murex both -.bed stars in, their forreds. The measles broke ont in, both families at nearly ~A.lie,tatne: Period. ,Our parents (Betsy's and mine). sldptbevery' Sundey , in the same Meeting, botisd; - 'and nabers -used to Obserye..' how thick' the Wards &,Peasle's air!'." , To the History -of Perfumes, published some time ago in England, may be added the appendix that Phalon's ingeernie has attained a sale 04*its never before reached by any eitrn4 for tbe handkerchief, in any of, 'the civilized world. Sold avoiralan.a: What city in Frappe is a marrabOut:to visit 'alaini ho goes: to get •rnerried.?-.Hliois gotog , , to 'llavVe, her:) . 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