&|e Dtmtitrat. HARVEY SICKLER, Editor. TUNKHANNOCKj PA. Wednesday, April 8, 1863. S. M. Pettengiil & Co.—No. 37 PARK ROW. NEW YORK, & 6 STATE ST. BOSTON, are our Agents for the N. B. Democrat, in those cities, and are author ised to take Advertisements and Subscriptions for j at oar lowest Rates. rar The news from the seat of war by the last night's papers contradict the rumors of the taking of Charleston by our forces.— The story is now said to have been started at Washington to influence the Connecticut elections. The rebel steamer Alabama by the last foreign news, still continues to annoy owr commerce at a ruinous rate. Some of the Charleston blockade runners have lately been captured by the squadron off that port. No changes have taken place in the army of the Potomac. The news from the Mississip pi still continues conflicting and uncertain. The report, nearly two years ago, that " the backbone of the Rebellion" had been broken turns out to have been premature. Active measures are now being taken to knock the " last prop" from under it. ■ JG3T The late election in Connecticut ■hows a Democratic gain of about GOOO. The Abolition Candidate for Governor being elec ted by about 3000. The woolies have ele cted three out of the four congressmen cer tain. The Democratic candidate in the sec ond district is probably elected.—" Snaiks" are getting quite thick, ''down east" C3TBy the late news from Europe, we learn that 15,000 loaves of bread, donated by the philanthropists (?) ot America, to the " suffering poor" of England, were used by the Englishmen at first, as missiles to pelt each other with, and finally were stamped in the mud. While we cannot but regret the destruction of property, and at this time par ticularly of bread, we do not regret that these sentimental, far seeing philanthropists have been most emphatically rebuked. When we consider all the circumstances, we can hard ly put down, this matter of sending bread to the English, as prompted by purely charita ble motives. There has been no failure in the crops in Europe. England is as proud, prosperous and happy to-day, as ever. Her manufacturers are reaping rich harvests of American gold.. We have, probably, ten suffering families ; ten helpless widows, and freezing, starving orphans to England's one. The English people have a hundred, and prob ably a thousand dollars of hard money in gen eral circulation, where we have one. Hun dreds of thousands of gold and silver are be ing sent by us to England almost every week ; anu we have in its stead, a depreciated, worth loss paper currency. Almost everything necessary to the wants of the poor, costs fif ty per cent, more in New York, than in Loa on. In view of these considerations, and ma ny others, which might be suggested, can it> be said to be genuine charity, that prompted the donation of ship loads of bread, pork &c. to what we call the " suffering operatives of England ?" Is not England better able to take care of her poor, to-day, than we are to take care of ours 1 Does not charity begin at home 1 Were not these donations rather a peace offering, a boat thrown to the whale, a few straws sent to tickle Johnny Bull, who show ed his horns so threateningly in the Trent affair? We have indulged in the most un measured abuse ot England and her people, sod yet we have money to buy bread from the atarving mouths of our own pooi, to send to them, to be used in a carnival and stamp ed in the mud ! •v ; We imagine our people who feel so deeply for the sufferings of the poor, would, upon looking about them, find objects upon which to exercise their charity, in the thousands of poverty-pinched, starving, freezing, helpless Widows and orphans, in every city, town and village in the land. They might not find quite so many laudations in the newspapers. The vanity that prompted these acts of dis interested. generosity might not be so much gratified, but an approving conscience and the grateful prayers of the suffering would be a far greater reward to the true philan thropist, than all the plaudits the newspapers could bestow. ' Arrest of Gov. Tod, of Ohio. Hx is TAKEN BEFORE JUDGE JOHNSON ON A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND ADMITTED TO BAIL. CINCINTATI, April 4. The sheriff of Fairfield county arrested Gov ernor Tod for kidnapping Dr. Olds, an indict ment having been found against him bv the grand jury of Fairfield. Gov Tod was taken before Judge Johnson upon a write of habeas corpus, nnd was ad mitted to bail to appear tetore the Court of Common Pleas in June next. POLITICAL MINISTERS. —The political ab olition ministers, who have for a long time been serving the devil by making dissensions and disturbing the christian harmony of the church, are many of them now taking an o- Cn position in the abolition, Iree negro, rub ra league. This is exactly where they be long, and the pjople should rejoice that they have thus put themseivea in the position.— Tbey will have a nice time in defending rob bery, bribery. negro equality, and drawing 'pey from the people whose liberty they are conspiring against. Let the true christian minister be sustained, hut let no man Eupport Mastering corruption fur Christianity. j Voting Per Order. The administration is now openly and avo wedly using the army as a great political ma chine. Encouraged by its partial success in New Hampshire and Rhode Island, it is sending home soldiers by the thousand to vote at the Connecticut election next Mon day. Yesterday the cars going east were crowded with soldiers from the Army of the Potomac, hurrying back to their various homes to vote against Colonel Seymour. All these soldiers tell the same story; they got their furloughs upon the express condition that they would vote the Republican ticket. The Democrats in the Connecticut regiments were not allowed furloughs. It is very clear that this objectionable prac tice is destined to work infinite mischief if persisted in. It is an outrage upon the sol diers to exact any snch pledge, and a still greater outrage upon the people to use the army for any such purpose. How can the war prosper in the hands of an adminis tration that thinks so much of a local election as to take soldiers from the field to vote at the commencement of what may be the final and certainly is the most important campaign of the war? We have said that the adininistartion is avowedly using the army to vote the Repub lican ticket and none other. Ilere is the proof: WAK DEPARTMENT 5 ADJPPAKT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, > WASHINGTON. March 13, 1863. j SPECIAL ORDERS NO. 119. (Extract.) 34 By direction ot the President, the following officers is hereby dismissed the service of the I nitocl States: Lieut. A.J. Edgerly, Fourth New Hamp shire Volunteers, for circlating '-Copperhead Tickets," and doing all in his power to promoto the success of the rebel cause in his state. By order of the Secretary of War. L.THOMAS, Adjutant-General To the Governor of New Hampshire. This same Lieutenant EDGEKLY, as was subsequently officially proven, did not distri bute any tickets, but merely voted, as he had a right to do, and because it was suspected he voted wrong he was dismissed. Inthis extraordinary order the government, through its military secretary coolly assumes that a majority of the northern pe >p!s—that is to say, the great conservative party—is en gaged in the work of "promoting the rebel cause." Surely a midsummer madness must rule at Washington when so mischievous and false a position is taken.— J lot Id Shocking Results of War. The New York Christum Inquirer makes, on good authority, these statements, but they do not tell the half of the whole sad truth : In several libraries of New England clergy men we have seen choice volumes of great cost bearing the names of Southern ministers) to whom they still belong, although they had been sent North as gif s from Yankee soldiers who had appropriated them. Some .Massa chusetts parlors are said to be carpeted with spoils of another kind. Now. it any one asks what has become of the. Union party once, so strong at the South, we answer t hat in part, they have been alienated from the Govern ment by the unjustifiable outrages committed by wicked or thoughtless Federal soldiers. At Ileaufort, South' Carolina, tombs were vio lated - At Holly springs, Mississippi, a com munion table was used In behalf of " euchre" and " old sledge." Such tales of wrong have infuriated many who were disposed to be friends of ihe Union, and their righteous in dignation has bad something to do with re verses that have overtaken our arms. In this connection, read the following reve lations published in the Tribune , soon after the Fredericksburg light: After the severe cannonading of yester day, it 6eems to have been understood that the city would have been given up to pillage by our troops. But to-day these fine man sions are not standing—elegaut china and most choice libraries of books, rare works of art, are all heaped together in the street, and are scambled for as trophies. The head-quar ters of general Howard are as he occupied thein, every room had been torn with shot, and then all the mirrors, furniture and works of art broken ami smashed by the soldiers When I entered, early this morning, before its occupation by Gen. Howard, I found the soldiers of his fine division diverting them selves with the rich dresses found in the wardrobes ; some bad on bonnets of the fash ion of last year, and were surveying them selves before mirrors, which, an hour or two afterward, were pitched out of the window and smashed to pieces on the pavement: oth ers had elegant scarfs bound around their heads m the form of turbans, and shawls a round their waists. What I saw in this mansion was repeated in nearly every one which the flames had not destroyed. Said a soldier to me to-day, raking among a private library, half covered with mud in the streets ' ' llow intensely religious these d—d Rebels are !,' —Tribune Correspondence. ■ ■——— The Oath of Allegiance an Insult to Loyal Citizens. -he New York Journal of Commerce , with great force, remarks on this subject: The offering of a pledge of locality to the people was an invention designed to convey the idea that there was so much disloyalty in the North as to require every man to " show his hand." The suggestion was a false oue, and so recognized by the country. It was very much like asking men to pledge themselves to honesty, or women to form leagues for a public vow of virtue. The pro posal itself would he insulting. IMPORTANT from NORTH CAROLINA. The |Rebels in Laige Force Near the Town ! of Washington— A Battle Supposed to Have Been Fought by General Foster. 4c., &c. WASHINGTON, April 6, 1863. Official information received here states that tbe rebels have a large force at Wash ington, North Carolina, and the belief is ex pressed in the same despatch that about the 3 Ist of March General Foster was eneaced in fighting the in. c The" Loyal Union Leaguers" of New York and Elsewhere. The N. Y. Journal of Commerce expresses a hope that the " Union Leaguers" have tak en a vow of loyalty for good. It will not do to take a vow to be honest for a week, a month, a year, or several years ; for that wo'd imply a resolution to be a rogue for the bal ance of the t : me. In the same way the Un ion Leaguers ought to take a vow to be al ways loyal to the Administration, even if, two years hence, a Copperhead Administra tion should succeed to the reign of the Abo litionists of the present day. If the past is an inde x to the future, the loyalty of some of! the leaders of the Leagues at least may be doubted. Here aro some of their loyal vows of former days: Speaking for ouiselves, we can honestly say that for the old Union, which was kept in existence by Southern menaces and Northern concessions, we have no regrets, and no wish for its reconstruction. Who wants a Union which is nothing but a sentiment to lacker Fourth of July oiations withal ? If, by chance, in ancient times, the crimi nal felt the loathsome corpse which justice had tied upon his shoulders, slipping off—he did not, we fancy, cry out, " O wretched man that I am—who will fasten me again t the body of this death ?" If we are, in the Providence of God, to be deliver d from un natural alliances—if the January of slavery is no longer to chill by unnatural embraces the May of Imman hope, who is there weak or wicked enough to forbid the righteous di vorce I — Tribune. Another:— The Fremont party is moulding sentiment in the right direction for the specific work the Abolitionists are striving to accomplish the dissolution of the Union, and the aboli tion of slavery throughout the laud.— Wm. Lloyd Garrison, in 1850, Another:— I will not stultify myself by supposing that we have any warrant in the Constitu tion for this proceeding. This talk of restoring the Union as it was under the Constitution as it is, is one of the absurdities which I have heard repeated un til I have become about sick of it. The Un ion can never be restored us it was. There arc many things which render such an event impossible. This Union never shall, with my consent, be restored under the Constitution as it is, with slavery to be protected by it.— Hon Thuddeus Stevens, Again: Who, in tho name of God, wants the Cot ton States or any other State this side of per dition, to Remain in the Union, if slavery is to continue ;— Hon. Mr. Bingham. Finally:— Whenever it shall be clear that the great body of the Southern people have become conclusively alienated from the Union, and anxious to escape from it, we will do our best to forward their views.— Tribune. Such are the recorded sentiments of the men who would now mislead honest Union Democrats into joining their newly formed Leagues for counterfeiting patriotism. " Mill as, the King has Ass' Ears I" W1 .en Lincoln dared to thrust forth his hand of tyranny and place shackles upon the Democratic press of the north, the Abolition ists responded with a loud amen, declaring that he had a constitutional right to do so. If, in doing this, he but exercised constitu tional power, what need had the Abolition Congress to make the order valid by enact ment! Surely his " constitutional light" ought to have been a sufficient protection \V hen he 6ent forth his proclamation sus pending the writ of habeas corpus, it too was pronounced a " constitutional measure" by them, yet their own Congress considered it' necessary to give the instrument validation by special enactment. When he gave his mercenaries the command to arrest and in carcerate innocent men because they were disciples ol the good old Detnocaatic faith, it was also pronounced a " constitutional measure" by the Abolitionists, yet their rep resentatives in Congress were compelled to give him protection and place him beyond the reach of that Constitution which he pro fesses to be carrying out, by an infamous -'ln demnity Uil}." What was the use of all this remarkable legislation, *if Lincoln's course has been constitutional! Certainly, if the Constitution gave him all this power, these acts of Congress are absurd and Ah, reader, there's a foul stench surging up from that pool of deception ! They cannot hide their guilt and stigma by the glittering diadem of false patriotism which they wear. The actions which they have been compelled to take for their own Bafety, like the tale, telling reeds which grew over the bhried se cret of the ancient king, cry out, " Midas, the King has ass'' ears !"' How long will honest men suffer themselves to be deluded by these imposters ? Surely the eyes of the nation should be open. C3T" Punch's malignant feelings towards " the government" appears in the following: THE KNAVES IX LINCOLN GREEN. When Federal bulletins we read, And Federal greenbacks sec, Why do we think of Kobin Hood Under the greenwood tree ! It is that Lincoln's Cabinet Like him defy the law ; Like him are clad in Lincoln green, Like him the long-bow draw. Like him more loud their trumpet blow, Than heavier odds they face, Like him trust largely to their'staffs, And live on spoils of Chase, 4.— The official report of the Peninsular campaign, by Gen. McClellan, has been with- 1 held by the Abolitionists until now, where they publish in connexion with it some false aud slanderous imputations against him by a committee of which senator Wade of Ohio, 5 is chairman, President's Proclamation for a Day ot Hu miliation and Prayer, Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to desig nate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation. And, whereas, it is tho duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence up on the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sor row, yet with assured hope that genuine re pentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proved by all his tory, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And, inasmuch as we know that, by his Divine law, nations, like individuals, are sub jected to punishments and chastisements iu this world, may we not justly feartthat the awful calamity of civil war, which now de solates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful reformation as a whole people ? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserv ed, these many years, in peace and prosperity We have grown in numbers, and wealth as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten the gracious hand which pre served us in peace, and multiplied and en riched aud strengthened us ; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings Were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self-sufficient to leel tlie necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us ' If, behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our na tional sins, and to pray for clemency and for giveness. Now, therefore, in compliance with the re quest, and fully concuri ing in the views ol the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of April, 1803, as a day of national hu miliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby reque t all the people to abstain 011 that day iiotu their ordinary secular pursuits and to unite at their several places of ( übhc worship aud their respective homes, in keep ing the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion. All this be ing done, in sincerity and truth, let us, then rest humbly in the hope, authorised bv the Divina teachings, that the united cry of the nation will be heard on High, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided arid suffering country to its for mer happy condition of unity aud peace. In witne-s whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city ol Washington. this thir tieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. it . s J ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President : WM. 11. SUYVAKD, Secretary ot State. War Mews The complete failure of the Hume's Bluif movement is vouched for by passeugers who arrived at Cairo on Friday. The bombardment of Vicksburg is about t> be opened. The firing would have commen ced un the 271h, but was delayed by a storm. The enemy are reported to be gathering in force on the Tennessee river, near Florence, and are building liuats to cross the stream with the apparent intention of reinforcing Vicksburg. A brilliant skirmish occurred at Woodbury s Tenn., on the Ist, which resul ed in our cap turing thirty men, fifty horses, and a num ber of mules, besides the camp of the enemy, The DeUaliv&nd Chillscotte recommended the attack on Fort Pemberton on the 27th ult. Admiral Farraguts's vessel captured the reb el gun-boat Vicksburg on Monday, she hav ing broken from her moorings, and floated down stream. Gen. Curtis reports from St Louis, April 3, tiiat guerillas took the steamers Lam Gotz and Murdock, with some soldiers and con trabands, Colonel King subsequently fought thein twice, and succeeded in routing the band completely— From The World April 6th. General McClcllan's Report ol tlie seven Days llattle. WASHINGTON, April 3.—General McClcl lau's official report of the seven days battle on the Peninsula, and hts falling back to Berkley, although dated on the 15 of July last, is to-day for the first time published. lie says, to the calm judgment of history and the future, he leaves the task of pronoun cing upon the movement, confident that its verdict will be, that no such difficult oun was ever more successfully executed ; that no ar% my ever fought more repeatedly, heroically and successfully against such great odds; that no men of any race ever displayed great er discipline, endurance patience aud cheerful ness under such hardships. Filling up the Old Regiments. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, April 2.—General Orders, No. 35, contain the following paragraphs : "In pursuance of in struction which have beeu received from the War Department, there will be a general muster of all the troops serving in the army on the 10th inst., and tho muster rolls will lie immediately thereafter sent to the Adju tant General of the armv for the use of the Provost marshal General in making drafts to fill up the regiments and batteries to the pro per compliment. Jill ie fjuiet along the liuoe to-nigUt. Pensacola Destroyed by Fire, by the Sol diers. NEW YORK, April 3 —A letter from New Orleans 6aps that St. Mary's Ilall, ihe fine hotel and all the dwellings in Pensacola, ex" cept Mallery and chases, were burned down by the U. S troops. The Fifteenth Maine and Twenty-eight Connecticut regiment were left there, on the departure of the Twen ty-eighth regiment; the soldiers seemed to think that the evacuation of the place to the enemy was intended, and many swore they would burn the place. On Thursday at noon the fire commenced, and for three days and nights the town was (filed with smoke and flame. The officers tried to stop the work of destruction, but seemed to have no influence over the men- Even the troops placed to gua r d the property set it on fire. Colonel Dyer, the commander of the post, 1 was almost distracted, and gave orders to J shoot down all persons caught in the act of incendiarism, but there was no one to execute them. Finally the long roll was beaten, and the men got into the Navy Y'ard and confin ed. Communication. ) The following graphic account of a Cavalry i fight in which some of our Wyoming boys participated, Wis sent us by Irving W. Bill ! ings who belongs to the 16th.Pa., Cavalry. RATTLE Or' kCLLEY'S FORD. | On the afternoon of March loth, our Reg | iment, under command of Col. Gregg, was ; ordered to report at Brigade Quarters, 8 A. M. of the 18th. Each man to be provided with four days rations, one days forage, arid forty rounds of ammunition. On account of previous details for picket, we had only two squadrons consisting of about two hundred men which reported at the time and place above mentioned. The squadrons were un der command of Capt. Kennedy and Alexan der. assisted by Lieut. Snyder and Yourg.— Owing to Col. Mcintosh's illness, our Col. was put in command of the 2nd Brigade, con sisting of the 3rd, 4th and 10th Penna. Cav alry, and in consequence, Maj. Fry, com manded the ICth. Under such auspices we started, and made our first halt at llartwood Church, (near Potomac creek bridge,) about nine miles distant from camp. There we awaited the arrival of the lit Brigade, con sisting of the following Regis., to wit : (4th) N. Y., (Ist) K. 1., (Ist and sth) U. Regu lar Cavaliy. We had now about 2,OtX) men, well armed and equipped. The flower of Ave rill's Division. It was noon. The col umn was again put in motion, and reached Mworisville, 7 rniies distant from Kelley's Ford, at 4, P M. There we eucamped for the night. Early ia the morning Col. Mcln t tosh arrived and relieved Col. Gregg, who j was again at the head of the loth, alone.— | A battery of artillery al-o joined us, and a! ! 3 A. M. the whole force except a small de j taciunent un ier Lieut. Col. Curtis, which was sent t ward Warren town to reconnoitre, moved rapidly to the ford. We reached the bank of the river at daylight. It was soon discovered the enemy were g >ing to dispute our crossing. A small force was therefore dismounted and sent forward as sharp shoot ers to wake up the foe, who had taken shel tor behind lenee*, ni housed and rifle pitts.— A brisk fire ensued, with little effect upon either side. The order to advance was giv en, and the Ist R Island which was at the head of-the column entered the river. A shower of bullets greeted them. Maj. Cham l> rluui, aid to Gen. Aveftll, was shot in the mce just ;e> he was entering the water, and was compelled to tall back. But the column moved rapidly on in spite of the balls thai fell around them. The other bank wa reaclied and now oaine the exciting scene.— From every protecting shelter the enemy ran in utter confusion. The brave Rhode Islandero dashed afttr them, over field and fence, till nearly every visible foe was killed, wounded or prisoner. The latter numbering 25 to 40. The whole of our force was then advanced together, with two pieces of artil lery, the rem lining lour having been put in posi tion on this side, to protect our retreat in case of necessity. The water was breast deep on the horses, the current swift, and the bottom not very smooth, so that the crossing was slow but was accomplished without loss. Once over we advanced al >ng the bank of the rive: ' out ola mile above the lord and took otr position in an open field, skirted on the left by woods with our right resting on the R-.ppahannock. Skir mishers were immediately thrown forward to watch the approach of the enemy, whom we appeared to expect, and :o fight on their ground, as we had crossed 'lie river lor that purpose. The 10th were on the right. Betug ordered to advance as skirmishers, we moved forward about 400 yards iroru the main body, and occupied a road which ran parallel with the front of our entire force By order ol the Col., the men immediately dismounted and barricaded this road by tak ing advantage ot a gate hanging across it, to enclose a barn yard, house and out buildings near the xiver. There we waited, watching, no enemy in sight, no firing in the distance, one main body behind us, iud yet we watch ed. It was now noon. A stranger appears in the distance. Still another, till the boys began to inquire, are they our men. A field glass revealed their true character. An indi vidual mounted on a fine white horse, calmly taking a survey of the field before him, is plainly discovered to be a gray Back. The information is given to the boys. A messen ger is scut to '.he Col. to auuounce the ap proach of a small party of the enemy. But scarcely is he gone, when a massive column rounds the edge of the woods, slowly but steadily approaching us. Skirmishers are advancing over the open tield, anil the boys arc eager to check them. When within j range, the order was given to lire at will, i A shown of miuuies goes whizzing through the air. The fight ia begun. contending forces must meet in dread * 11 " The Col. approached and ordered mount and fallback slowly on the force. Scarcely was this effected t were ordered to advance again. Q Ur bines and pistols were brought to l* a the enemy. But now only to noise of the firing which was raging 5 * the centre and left. From other sk- ' ers who had been thrown forward cover of woods, the enemy faltered, T ' could not overcome the barricade, nor the wall that bounded the righu! of the road. They then turned their c/* and advanced towards the extreme r J l ' out-flank us. Col. Gregg again order*! "r skirmishers to dismount and honse and other buddings near by, aa j '* a hot fire upon the advancing came a sharp rattle from the carbine* * the enemy were turned back once c, They fled in confusion. Capt. Kenned* "• vanced wi;h his men in gallant style ' * the open fields to occupy a stone w a ij J al hundred yards to the front. The * having failerl co turn the rtght flank re|r ' ed to meet us face to face, hand to hand the centre and on the left. They r , their broken columns formed in splendid! der, and advanced to charge against on-- tre. Col. Mcintosh was there to meet;*' but just as their first squadron had rev-: a central position a sudden, flash from the rear of our forces, and the der missiles were flying from the cannons t.. - right mto the unbroken ranks of the eoea In their confusion our line advanced to-' change, and the enemy were routed, 10th had been delivering cross fires fra their stone wall fortification, and now th i they were driven, our carbines were no 'a ger of service in that position. There;,, we marched back in good order to the hoi es, and mounted to take part in theru advance of the right, centre and left. Ci tain Kennedy, accompanied bv Maj.Frv his men gallantly forward, who actedi skirmishers and covered the right flank On we went from woods to field, tooti woods until at last the enemy came chit ing back upon our centre and left. Ct, followed charge, sabres were crossed, a were slain, prisoners were taken. Backi moved the defiant foe. For three y miles our forces advanced through cpen plains, fences, ditches and ewampt The 16 ih were now in advance oi all then They had made no charges, they Lad ta no prisoners. But the number of deadu wounded, testified to the fatal effects of] fire j and it they made no charges, ne.4 did they retreat. They lost not amaai stood by each other, true, constat;, c bnve. No straggler or coward data litem. It was 4:20 P. M. We had :x ed a splendid ba' tie ground. But everji vantage was upon the side of the enemi Behind us the country was intersperse! woods, before us a wide extended piani minuting in jOie distance, with a long lis wooded hills or ridges, at whose base the enemy's buttery, which had, a a tune belore, been brought into actios Their Cavalry were drawn back as a suppj to their a.i T . ii iery. To approach them must advance in full view over the widei tensive plain. There guns were heaner'j ours, besides that, but two rounds ofac.3 mtion for each piece was remaining, la luted Rappahannock was yet to cross. Gj enough tor one day had already been ic:i ed. We had met the enemy, and dri him back with equal numbers. We hade ed and wounded probably 100, and a GO to 80 prisoners. AH this in luce of a entire army lying at Fredericksburg, n we were cut off from the support of es, by the intervening river. The order' given to move to the rear slowly. Its I uchments retired, and at dark the i guard had the river unmolested the enemy. Thus from (i. A. M., uniili we had been vigilantly watching,or cC engaged with the enemy. It was a tine' airy fight for each part)', and but two ft ot artillery were engaged upon either si neither did much execution. This take its place among the remarkable of the war. An officer who has been inS different armies, and took a conspicuous? in the engagement, pronounced it the*- 1 brilliant he had ever witnessed. TheK 8 will prove of great advantage to our ins.' 1 It has taught them that neither oafivd on horses can the enemy stand *£i IL<i even handed. The fancied their cavalry is gone, and I am proud the sons of little Wyoming, perform^ 1 h JiioraUe part in the action. Our ot* behaved nobly and bravely. Our Co-' one of the best of men, was always founc the head of his command, ready and to lead them on. The fight being Ter we took up our line of march, and ret' Morrisville late in the evening, where uiained until morning. Early wc st and halted again at Hart wood reserve' assured the enemy were not following In the middle of the afternoon, m> again, and reached our old camp, wellp with the results of our maiden light. The Insolence of Despotism- When Rev. Judson D. Benedict to be discharged from his unlawful in l ! ment, Turner, the "Judge Advocate said to hun ; —" There true no red* 011 ' bi in j inj you here, and it was only M sary to briny you here to show ihdt ' ■ Uary laus W(ie above the civil lav- people want to kuow precisely 1 Lincoln dynasty is capable of, let thom 1 forget that this is the only reason *"'• by one of its minions for kid"4PP' u^ IL. 1L . f of New York from under the very Court of Justice which had just dec lttt guiltless of all offence, putting lii Ql ' n and prisons, and dragging him acols -to bo thrust into another , loathsome dungeon, there to lang a ' J weeks without examination and tola td without t: ia: explanation or redrew
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