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©>