%\t gcmocrat.
lIARVEY SICKLUR, Editor.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
Wednesday, MAY 13 ,1863.
S. M. Pettengiil & Co.--No. 37 PARK ROW
KEY; YORK, A 6 STATE ST. BOSTON, aro our Agcuta
fo: .'.it N. B. Democrat, in those cities, and are author
to take Advertisements and Subscriptions for
tc at our lowest Rates.
*72£T* There are two theories advanced as
to what induced the powers, at Washington,
who control the whole matter, to telegraph
to " the world and the rest of mankind,"
the monstrous lie about the taking of Rich
mond. One is that old Abe got alarmed for
the safety of Washington after Hooker's de
feat, and got up this ruse, hoping thereby
to divert the attention of Lee from the Capi
tal at Washington, to that at Richmond.
The other is, that, as Lord Lyons had des
patched a special messenger, with the news
uf the disaster to Europe, Old Abe conclu
ded for the sake of lluucouib, to send by tele
graph, to cape race, a.dispatch, announcing
the fall of Richmond which would be car
ried to Europe by tbo 6ame vessel. If the
last supposition, which is the more probable
one, be true; the honest old chap probably
availed himself of the advice of that cunning
little minister of his Billy Seward.
GENERAL HOOKER'S TESTIMONY.— Cener-
Ilooker's testimony on the conduct of the
war is a remarkable document. He has had
his " camgaign of a hundred days"—in the
mud, yet when interrogated by the War
Committee, he thinks Gen. McClelaln might
after the battle of Williamsburg, have gone
to Richmond in two days !
" Question by the Committee.—ls it your
judgment that you could have gone into
Richmond then ? (After the battle of Wil
liamsburg.)
"A. I think we could have moved right
on, and get into Richmond by the second day
after the battle without another g t n being
tired."
It takes a bold and reckless man to make
such an answer to such a question. lie
might just as well have said, " I am a better
General than McClellan, and i would have
gone to Richmond in two days !" We shall
mark the time when he gets out of the mud,
aud then count the days it takes him to take
his breakfast at Richmond.
When Hannibal was asked whom he tho't
the greatest General of all times, lie answer
ed, " Alexander of Macedon : and if I had
won the battle'of Zama. 1 should have been
the greatest." General Ilioker is evidently
lollowing a classic model. Without it ,his
modesty would be inexplicable—Philadel
phia Age.
The Arbitrary Arrest of'C. L. Vallandlgham
Aa account of the arrest, by (Jen. Burn
bide, of Hon. l\ L. Vallandigham, with the
charge and sepcifications, which re pub
lish to-day, is perhaps, considering all the
circumstances, the most unwarrantable and
unjustifiable of all the arbitrary acts of thi->
tyranical administration.
Mr. Vallandigham has been arrested with- !
out lawful authority and tried by a court >
without jurisdiction—without a jury—for an 1
tfi'emo unknown to the law. Whatever may |
be '.,,e consequences of this star chamber in- '
qu.iition, (the finding of which is not yet ;
l.iaue public) to Mr. Vallandigham, they are 1
insignificant compared to the direct blow
which has been struck at the liberties of a
people who have the right under the consti
tuA/n and laws, to regard free speech as one
of the most inviolable of rights. llow the
people cherish this right, was once eloquent
ly expressed by Daniel Webster, when lie
said:
It is the ancient and undoubted preroga
tive of this people to canTass public measures
and the merits of public men! It is a " home
bred right, a fireside privilege. It hath been
eiij >yed in every house, cottage, and cabin in
the nation, li is not to be drawn into con
troversy. It is as undoubted as the right of
breathing the air or walking on the earth*
Belonging to private life as' a right it be
longs to public life as as a duty, and it is the
last duty which those wbose representative
lam shall find me to abandon. Aiming at
all times to be courteous and temperate in its
use. except when the right itself is questioned.
1 shall place mveslf on the extreme boundary
oj my right and bid defiance to any arm
that uould via e me from my ground.
The high constitutional privilege I shall de
fend and exercise within this house and in all
places ; in time of peace in time of loar a d
at ad times. Living, 1 shall assert it; and
should I leave no other inheritance to nay
children, by the blessing of God I will leave
thern the inheritance of free pt inciples and
the example of a manly, independent, and
eonstiutional defense of them. Daniel Tf'eb
iter.
rar We have as yet, received no very
succinct or connected account of the late
disaster to our forces on the Jlappahan
uock. There seems to be an embargo upon
truth from the capitol \.ließ radiate freely
from that great centre of. corruption and
folly.
JC3T The l?.2nd. regiment, whose termsof
enlistment have expired, w ill return to their
dating the present week
JS2C" Henry Clay said, twenty years ago,
of the Abolitionists :
" With them the rights of property are
nothing ; the deficiency of the powers of the
General Government, is nothing; the ac
knowledged and incontestible powers of the
States, are nothing : the dissolution of the
Union, and the overthrow of a Government
in which are concentrated the hopes of the
civilized world, are nothing. A single idea
has taken possession of their minds, and on- !
ward they pursue it, overlooking all barriers,
reckless and regardless of all consequences."
And Henry Clay told the truth— though
his solemn warning may now be disregarded
by the radicals, in this perilous hour when
events are proving that it was but too well
founded. This is a time, however, when
one-half of the community, assuming to be
exclusively " loyal," seem to have as utterly
discarded reason as those unfortunate May
layan victims of mania, who are sometimes
seen " running a muck" and destroying
every person in their path. To such men
and, for shame be it added now, to such wo
men—what appeal can avail to show them
the madness of the course they are pursuing?
Could the shade of Washington return to
earth, and appear before these frenzied zea
lots whose headlong fanaticism is ruining the
country, his warning voice would bo decided
bv those who now scofi'at his farewell Ad
dress ; nay, the illustrious Patriot himself,
were he clothed oneotnore in flesh and blood
would be denounced as a ''copperhead," if,
indeed, he were not seized by some minion
of tyranny,'in the shape of a "provost mar- i
shal," and cast into Fort Lifayette as a trai
tor. It is the reign of fanaticism run mad :
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the very carnival of infatuation and folly
and blood. Webster spoke the truth, when
he said, in 1852 :
" If the infernal fanatics and Abolitionists I
ever get the power in their hands, they will I
override the Constitution, set the Supreme
Court at defiance, change and make Jaws to
suit themselves, lay violent hands on those
who difier with them in their opinions, or
dare question their infallibility, and finally j
bankrupt the country aud deluge it with j
blood."
Mr. Web stor said this in private conversa
tion, of which the witnesses " still live."
Events like those which are now illustrating
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the sad foresight of this striking prophecy,
while they seem likely to deepen the hor- j
rors of a condition ofaflau-s already fearful,
are not likely to cow down the indomitable :
body of true Union men who have dared to
stand firmly by the Constitution, or to drive
them one iota fiom tneir position. Perhaps
it is best for all that this truth should be
understood now.— Hartford limes.
[From the Phila. Sunday Dispatch, (Abolition )J
Conscription Regulations to be Strictly Ob
served.
j
The Provost Marshals have nearly all 1
been selected, and Colonel Bry, the Provost j
Marshal General, has prepared and issued
the " regulations for the Government of the ;
Bureau of the Provost Marshal General," as
approvedjbv the /'resident, who orders "that
they be strictly observed." There are one'
hundred and thirty-one separate regulations
with twenty from the general regulations of
the army, and full directions for filling up
the thirty-nine printed forms of blank re j
turns. &c.
' NO DEMOORATS TO KILL THE OFFICES.
Each Provost Marshal has jurisdiction 1
over a Congressional district. lie may ap j
point two deputies or more, if necessary, at \
salaries of not more than SIOO per month \
each ; found special officers for detecting and j
arresting spies or deserters, at from .S4O to I
SGS per month each, depending on their use-j
fulness; enrolling officers, at not exceeding!
§3 per diem for the time actually employed ; 1
and special guards for deserters, at not more \
than Si per diem, besides their actual ex- !
penses. All these appointrn -nts are to be i
made subject to the approval of the Provost I
Marshal General here, wlro will unquestion- |
ably be guided by the Representatives in
Congress from thejdistrict, ifßepublican 1
if not, by prominent politicians.
GENTLEMEN TO BE STRIPPED NAKED, OR PAY
S3OO.
Those who neither wish tc " fight or pay,"
but hope to avoid being drafted by obtaining
a medical certificate from their family phy
sician, will find themselves mistaken. All
those who plead exemption on account of
bodily infirmities or diseases must go before
the regular authorities, and the regulations
prescribe that men are to be " examined
stripped , in the day time, in the presence of
the Board of Enrollment, and in a room well
lighted and sufficiently large for the drafted
man to walk about and exercise his limbs
which he must be required to do briskly."
Now many a man wil I fork over his S3OO
rather than thus be trotted about naked be
iore four or five other men, who will sit in
judgment on him as the famed Council of
Ten of the sons of Malta used to examine,the
candidates for initution into that respect
able order. A list of fifty-five diseases and
infirmities is published as " those which dis
qualify for military serrice, and for which
only drafted men are to be rejected as phys
ically or mentally unfit for service."
MARK THE CONTRAST —Wm. 11. Seward
our Secetary of State, in a conversation with
Lord Lyon, uttered the following language :
"My Lord, I can touch a bell on my right
hand, and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio.
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I can touch the bell again. and order the im
prisonment of a citizen of New York, and no
power on the earth except that of the Presi
dent can release them. Can the Queen of
England do as much V
Lord Chatham, one of the ablest of Eng
'and's statesmen and jurists, once said :
" The poorest man, in his cottage, may bid
defiance to all the forces of the crown. It
may be frail ; its roof may shake ; the wind
may blow through it ; the storm may enter ;
the rain may enter ; but the King of England
can not enter it. All his power dares not
cross the threshold of that ruined tene
ment
| The Rights of A Freeman
Violated.
Arbitrary Arrest of C. L. Vallandigham#
CINCINNATI, May 5 Clement L. Vallan
digham was arrested at his residence, at Day
ton, Ohio, about two o'clock on Tuesday
morning last, by a squad of soldiers sent up
I by special train from Cincinnati for that pur
! pos.e The soldiers had to smash in several
! doors before they could get him. The bells
1 were then rung and an attempt was made to
j rescue him, but it failed, and he was taken to
Cincinnati. This arrest so incensed the nei
ghbor sand friends of Mr. Vallindghara at
• Dayton, that on the same day they proceeded
' to the Journal (Republican) office and com
' pletely gutted the building. They then set
fire to it and burned it to tho ground. The
1 fire communicated to the adjoining buildings,
! and all the property from the south end of
Phillips' house to the middle of the square
was destroyed. All the telegraph lines in the
city have been cut down, and a bridge on the
Xenia Railroad is reported destroyed. At 10
o'clock on Tuesday night, troops arrived from
\ Cincinnati and Columbus, and succeeded in
putting down the rioters. On Wednesday j
! the town of Dayton was comparatively quiet, j
' About thirty of the rioters had been arrested
and placed in jail. The soldiers removed a
swivel from the E. office,and also took poises- ■
! 6ion of two wagon loads of muskets stored in
the Light Guard armory. Mr. Vallandigham
was brought before the court martial at
Cincinnati on Tuesday for trial. He refused
to plead to tho charges which were road to
him, and the Court proceeded with the evi
deuce, the publication of which is not allow
ed. The charges are based on his Mount j
Vernon speech. Mr. Vallandigham was at
the Burnet House under a strong guard.— j
; Diyton and Montgomery county have been
placed under martial law. The total loss by
the the en 11 ignition at Dayton was 339,000
The damage otherwise by the riot was small.
[From the Cincinnati Commercial of Saturday ]
The trial of Mr. Vallandieliam having been j
concluded, it will not be improper now to !
publish the eharges and specifications against
linn, and so much of t.ie evidence as is of
importance.
The judge advocate read the general order
from the headquarters of the Department
of the Ohio appointing officers a
commission to try all parties brought before i
it, and Mr. Vallandigham was asked wheth- j
er he had any objections to offer to any |
member of the Court.
Mr. Vallandigham said he was not ac
quainted with any of the members of the
court, and had no objections io offer to them
individually, but he protested that the com
mission had no authority to try him. he be
! ing neither in the land nor naval force of j
, the United .States, nor in the militia in the }
i actual service of the United States, and was '
not therefore triable by such a court, bui j
was amenable only to the judical courts o i j
the land.
The members of the court were then sworn 1
to try his case impartially.
The judge advocate-then read the follow
ing charge and specification :
.
CHARGE.
Publicly expressing, in violation of Gener- j
! a! Orders, No. 38, from headquarters, De-
i part ment of the Ohio, his sympathies for '
j those in arms against the government of the j
! United States, declaring disloyal sentime nts
j and opinions, with the object and purpose of'
| weakening the power of the government in !
| its efforts to suppress an unlawful rebellion.
SPECIFICATION.
|
i In this, that the said Clement L. Vallan- ]
i digham, a citizen of the State of Ohio, on or !
j about the Ist day of May, 18G3, at Mount
| Vernon, Knox county. Ohio, did publicly ad
dress a large meeting of citizens and did ut
i ter sentiments in words or iu effect, as fol-
I lows: declaring the present war "a wick id, j
j cruel, and unnecessary war;" "a war not
j being waged for the preservation of the Un-
I ion •" "a war fop the purpose of crushing
out liberty and erecting a despotism ;" "a
1 war for the freedom of the blacks and the
; enslavement of the whites;" stating "that
if the administration had so wished, the war
j could have been honorably terminated months
ago ;" that " peace might have been hon >ra
bly obtained by listening to tho proposed in
tormidation of France;" that " a proposition
! by which the Southern States ould be won
, back and the South be guaranteed their r.ghts
under the Constitution, had been rejected
the day bef re the late battle at Fredericks
jjr.urp, bv Lincoln and his minions," meanidg
thereby the President of the United Stales
and those under him in authority. Charg
-1 ing that, the government of the United States
were ah >ut to appoint military marshals in
every oistrict to restrain the people of their
liberties,-to deprive them of their rights and
1 privileges" Characterizing General Order
N-. 38, from headquarters Department of
the Ohio, as " a base usurpation of arbitrary
authority ;" inviting his hearers to resist
the same by saying , " The sooner the peo
ple inform the minions of usurped power that
i they will not submit to such restrictions up-
I on their liberties the bcttcdeclaring
| " that he was at all times, and upon all oc
casions, resolved to do what lie could to de
feat the attempts now being made to build
up a monarchy upon the ruins of our free
govornmentasserting " that he firmly be
lieved, as he said six months ago, that tho
men in power are attempting to establish a
j despotism in this country, more cruel and
I more oppressive than ever existed before."
1 All of which opinions and sentiments he
well knew did aid, comfort, and encourage
those in arms against the government, and
could in his hearers a distrust of
their ntvn government and sympathy for
those in arms against it, and a disposition to
' resist tho laws of the land,
J. M. CUTTS.
; Captain Eleventh Infantry, Judge Advocate,
Department ol Ohio.
MR. VAI.I.ANDIOHAM'a PROTEST.
Arrested without process of law, without
warrant from any judicial officer, and now in
military custody, I have beeu served with a
charge and specifications as from a court mar
tial or military commission. lam not either
in the land nor the naval the United
States, and therefore am not tryable for any
cause by such court, but am subject, by the
express terms of the Constitution, to arrest
only by due process of law, or warrant issued
by some officer of a court of competent juris
diction for trial of citizens. lam subject to
indictment and trial on presentment of a grand
jury, and am entitled to a 6pcedy trial, to
be confronted with witnesses and to compul
sory process lor witnesses in my behalf, and
am entitled to counsel. All these I demand,
as my right as a citizen of the United States.
But the alleged offense itself is not known
to the Constitution, nor to any law thereof.
It is words spoken to the people of Ohio in ail
open public political meeting, lawfully and
peacefully assembled, under the Constitution,
and upon full notice.
It is the words of a citizen, of the public
servants of the people, by which policy it
was alleged that the welfare of the country
was 11 <t promoted. It was an appeal to the
people to change that policy, not by force but
by the elections and the ballot-box. It is
not pretended that 1 counseled disobedience
to the Constitution or resist-ance to law or
lawful authority. I have never done this.
I have nothing further to submit.
(Signed) C. L. VAI.LANDIGHAM.
May 7.
The judge advocate simply remarked that
the accused had the privilege of counsel and
and of witnesses. It did not become him toen
ter into an}- discussion as to the jurisdiction • f
the court. That the case has been referied
to it was sufficient.
liCttcr from the 13 2nd,
CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, )
April 2(Rh, IBG3. £
FRIEND We have been under "march
ing orders" for the past two weeks now, with
five days rations in knapsacks and three in
haversacks, expecting that each succeeding
day would be our last in this camp ; but,
from some unforseen circumstance, we have
not yet been disturbed, and almost begin to
hope that tbe time for our advance move
ment will not arrive until we are out of ser
vice. I say hope, because the prospect of
going into an engagement, just on trie eve -f
the expiration of our time of enlistment,
when, in imagination, we can almost feel the
clasp of the hand we love most within our
own, is anything but pleasant ; and, yet,
should duty call us, I trust that the honor
and good-naare of our regiment will sutler no
disparagement.
Tbe weather, during the past week, may
have had much to do with the delay, but
yesterday and to-day have been as pleasant
as heart could wish, and should such weath
er continue fur yet a few days, bad roads
and bad weather will scarcely be a legiti
mate excuse for continued inactivity. I think
that Hooker's plan of operations includes a
vigorous and well-supported Hank movement
which, if successful, may result in something
of advantage to the army and the country.
Whether Hooker is exactly the man to car
ry our all the details in au affair of such mag
nitude as the offensive movements of this
army must necessarily be, is more than L
am prepared to say ; but the men seem to
have confidence in his ability, and are will
ing to give him the benefit of a fair trial. A
few weeks, and it may be a few days, will
undoubtedly prove his capacity or - incapacity.
I w ill not attempt to write you the news
from tbe arinv, because we generally get all
that is really of any moment from the daily
newspapers ; and, of course, you have bet
ter or equal opportunities lor getting it.—
The impressions we form from events trans
piring around us, from the general tenor of
orders ic., is quite another matter, but opin
ions formed from these impressions are, after
all, merely speculative, and probably of little
real consequence. Thus judging that you
would prefer a little of the j'er soil' el ol our
company, 1 am not disposed to disappoint
your preference.
" Our Bogus"—the same " Bogus Billings"
who, in Ins own peculiar way, figured so
prominently in the ranks of our company at
Antietam and Fredericksburg, has once more
been the subject of frequent mention about
camp. Like his last recorded adventure, the
present one happened on picket and wifh the
" officer of the day." " B >gu>," is not by
1 any means one of your fancy soldiers. On
! the contrary, his ideas of a soldier's duty are
| all practical, and have direct reference to
; the use of means, in his opinion,
best adapted to the settlement of
the difficulties now unhappily dividing the
country. According to his notions, drill,
discipline, parades, reviews, inspections,
guard-tnour.tings and " officers of the day,"
are all part of a premeditated system of hum
bug, instituted for the special purpose of
annoying without cause or reason the patri
otic volunteers who came into the army to
fight, and not to be made the puppets of a
i parade, or die tuine actors in the play-sol
dier business of mounting guard. I cannot
say. of a verity, that " Boguss" has a horror
of guard duty, but I am quite certain that it
! has no place of honorable distinction in his
I
; mind—consequently according to the mood
j that happens to be upon him, lie is either
! indifferently careless, or facetiously rigid in
his practice of discipline, upon suoh occas
; ions.
Not many days since, " Bogus" happened
on our'outpost, down near the "Lacy
House," and in front of Fredericksburg
His turn of post-duty cauie on at midnight,
at about]wh'ch hour it is usual for the "offi
cer of the day" to go " the rounds;" for the
purpose of6eeing that all is quiet aloDg the
lines, and that the guards are doing their du
ty. The early part of th# evening had been
beautiful, but dusky clouds of vapor arose
from th# bo6om of the stream and now hung
like a pall upon all surrounding objects—
There was no countersign out and the guards
ad just been instructed to exercise more
than ordinary vigilance, and to permit no
person to pass without proper authority.
" Bogus" was either fully impressed with
the importance of his charge, or supremely
disgusted with what he considered its insig
inticance, and he determined, come what
might, to fulfil his instructions, not only in
spirit, but to the letter. I will not say that
he prayed for the approach of an officer, but
I am a little fearful that he kept his eye turn
ed more constantly in the direction from
which he expected him to appear, than he
did towards the enemy. Indue time his
vigilance was rewarded by the appearance of
the " officer of the who was quietly
permitted to come to within the usual dis
tance, when his ears were saluted with the
customary challenge: "Halt! who comes
there?" to which the party approaching
approaching promptly responded, "officer of
the day !" Lut continued to advance. Now
" lit gus" had ordered him to halt aiul he
determined that that order, if he never lived
to deliver another another one, should be
obeyed—so lie yelled ut the top of his voice,
" Hold on there, God damn you ! llalt ! I
say !" The officer paid no attention to this
rather peremptory challenge, but came a lew
steps nearer, when " Bogus" cocked his rifle,
atid assuming a threatening attitude said ;
" Now just you ' mark time,' or Til blow
you to hell in a second." This brought the
the officer to a standstill}' but ''Bogus'
had got it into his head that "strict disci
pline" required nim to " mark time," so he
said, in a tone of menace, " I told you to
'mark tune.' and I'll be swamped if you ain't
got to do it." The officer remonstrated, but
it was of no avail, lie bad to " mailt time,"
until tbe officer of the guard was ca'led, and
he was relieved from his unpleasant predica
ment. " Bogu*," with his usual good luck,
escaped with a slight reprimand from the
officer, and ahearty cursing from the " offi
cer of the day."
But '* Bogus" is not, by any means, the
only peculiar character of whom our compa
ny can boas', although he is a special, in his
way, ami is. I believe, without a riva ! in the
regiment. We have our " corrupter of
words," for instance, some of whose speeches
certainly outrival Mrs. Partington, in even
her happiest efforts. He is at present detail
ed from the company for the purpose of car
rying the Division mail" lie pays us fre
quent visits however, rarely without an in
crease to his vocabulary. 1 said to him the
other day, "Jerry, how does it happen that
you are over here so often ?"
" Oh," says he,'' I just go to the Captain
and get a com mission whenever I want one
and then I go where I please."
Jerry," inquired I " what is the
news over at Head quarters
'• Oil, nothing particular, only they say that
Hooker is going to design if Lincoln don't let
him have his own way,"
" All, indeed ! ami what does Lincoln say
to this? Is he willing to let' Oil Joe'have
his own way ?"
" I believe so ; hut he'll hold him sponsible,
if everything don't come out right."
" Well II ooker has no objection to that, of
course, and, 1 presume if perfectly willing to
a-sume all responsibility for his own actions ;
but, Jerry, is there no news from up the riv
cr ?"
"Oh, yes; they say the calcary has been
making a recognistir.ee out towards Gordon,
ville, or some other place, and they had
quite a squirmish. A retail of themcome in
with a lot of prisoners, yesterday."
" I had heard of that, what do they say
about the prospects for a fight, over your
way ?"
" Not n.ucli ; but they seem to think
that a fight is iuventable before many days."
But enough of Jerry. llis distinctive char
acteristics are as plainly defined that we need
but a superficial view to read him like a book.
The Pay master is in camp, anu we expect
that he will disburse some of father Abra
ham's " green backs" to us, during the day
They will come in time, for we have been
" hard up ' for change, a long lime. The 10.
X. Y. was paid yesterday .and started for home
this morning. The 4th, X. Y. is being paid
this tn >r nng, and it is currently report,
ed will leave for home this morning. This
.. leave but two remaining regiments in the
Brigade—The Ist Delaware( three years men)
and our regiment. We ex pect to leave the
field some time next week; aul lean assure
you that the da}' we turn our backs upon the
river will be the happiest of all the days that
we have passed since we left the hills >( Wy
oming, though the last few months of
our soldier experience lias been quite the
pleasantest part of it. W e will reach home,
probably, some time between the 12th, and
2lith.
I really do not anticipate that we will get
into another fight, but there is no telling at
this stage of the game. If the government
cares to re-enlist the men it would be the
worst possible policy. Send them home with
only the sunny side of soldiering uppermost
in their minds, and two thirjs of'them will
re-enlist within three months ; but send
them home w'th tlio houors of a battle
field tlie prevailing idea, and not one in
twenty will return to the service.
Hoping to meet you soon in health and
prosperity, I am, as ever,
Truly Your friend,
CLINT.
TRCE.—Every officer or private who cries
out against the "Copperheads," we will ven
ture to say, was "sun struck" about the titna
he was getting into a battle, never aimed at a
rebel and never expects to, or is aspiring to a
Major General's stars. The brave, patriotic
hearts who have boldly met danger in a dozen
bloody battles, they are the ones who are
praying for the success of the party that is
laboring to quell the strife, that the baltie
scarred veterans may return to their dear ones
and bome6.
War News
FROM THE ARMY OF THE I'oron vu
General Hooker's Retreat.
[From the correopordeuco of the N. Y. Time(Rep-l
The fighting on Sunday was don • princi
pally by the Third and Twelfth corps, and
French's division of the Second Corp*|with
the aid of Tyler's brigade of the Fifth Corps
It was believed by many high in command 1
that at 8 -rae period of the fighting Gen.
ITookt-r would throw a portion of his army
unengaged on the right of the left flank of
the enemy and completely rout him. They
looked lor this in vain. The enemy, failin*
to turn tl e right flank and cut off Hooker's
line of communication via Banks' Ford, with,
drew to the left flank, where Hooker moved
out of their reach behind an entrenched line.
Sunday afternoon and Monday having pass
ed without a battle, the defensive attitude
began to work its effect upon the troops and'
all thought of miking an aggressive move
ment was banished from their minds. Their
conversation turned upon the strength of
their position and the safety of the arm)-
The advantage thus lost was felt by the com
manding General, and this, added to the re
verse of Sedgwick, and the advice of some of
his corps commanders, induced him to re
cross the river and commence the campaign
anew.
Early on Tuesday all the pioneers and men
with extra tools, were employed on the roads
leading from the army back to the United
Stales Ford. Old roads were repaired,and
new ones cut through the woods. The ar
rangements for the withdrawal of the arrnv
were extensive and perfect. The trains and
artillery commenced moving toward the river
eaily in the evening. Rain was falling rapid
ly. and the night was quite dark. The cross
ing was commenced at 10 o'clock, and at
three o'clock on Wednesday morning all they
wagon and mule trains, and the artillery ; had
passed the bri Jges and the crossing of the in
fantry commenced.
The 2 f corps, commanded by Gen. Couch
led Ihe advance. Gen. Meade's stb corps
f. med t:-* rear guard with Syko's division of
regulars to over the retreat. There was not
the slightest confusion in the movements of
the sever tl c >rps. E ich m irn ;d in the road
an 1 at the time designated, and in good order
The enemy was not aware of the movement
until it wa-jto lato to interfere. Tne artilery
massed on a hill that commanded the ap
lit aches to the bridges, and would have
made short work with the cnlurus of an ap
proaching enemy. Genera! Hooker gcrossed
the river on '1 ucsday evening, and pitched
his headquarters on commanding grounds,
from which he could watch the progress of
the crossing.
The heavy rain on Tuesday afternoon and
night had caused the river to rise 60 rapid
ly that the ends of the bridges were fiode
to such an extent as to make it impossible
to cross. Two hours were consumed in
laying additional spans, so as to lengthen
the bridges and raise the ends abuve the
water. It finally became necessary to take
up one of the three bridges in order to pro
cure mat rial to lengthen the other ' two.
Notwithstanding these delays good order
was preserved throughout, and (he whole
army, with all the irons, supplies, hospitals,
and prisoners, crossed in safety, and marched
away towards the Acquia railroad.
At day light this in >r nog siiarp cannonad
ing was heard at Banks 1 Ford, which contin
ued during half an hour. It is reported to
have been an ussuccessful attempt ot tin*
enemy to destroy Sedgwick's trains, which
were parked on a plain below the ford.
The panic at Acquis creek, caused by the
; repulse of Sedgwick's command, had subsided
this morning, and the stores which had been
hastily placed on board the transports
ing removed to the landing.
The enemy against occupies fredericksburg
and the heights, and the situation is subslan
| ti.-illy" as it was before the opening of the
I cornpaign.
In the hottest of the fight on Sun lav, a hat
I lory attached to the 3d corps had all its hor-
I -es Killed an 1 only one mm, a sergant, re
j in*line I witn the battery and continued to
I live one of the guns. General Meagher, com
j manding the Irish brigade, seeing the sit -
; nation, ordered one of his regiments to "haul
away the guns." The order was pro nptiy
obeyed, and five guns vvcie dragged from the
| clutches of the enetnv. The other five
j had b4en removed by another detaca
j ment.
j The losses in Sedgwick'B command are es
i tiinated at 5,0 )0 killed, wouned and tniseing.
: The losses in the six corps, immediately
j under II >okor fromcareful returns, areesti
j mated to he 5,000. It is known that the los
i ses of the enemy are much heavier.
An officer who went within their lines with
a flag of truce on Tuesday evening, reported
j that the rebel officers claimed to have defeated
I our army, bit ackn >wle lga I that their loss
was far heavier than those of the national
] forces.
.
GEN. STOSEMVVS RAID OX RICH
MOND
| The Harris Eight Cavalry Inside of the For
tifications of Richwoiii! -Sale Return to
j Yorktown
j VV ASiMNGTOn, May 8 The following de
spatch was received at the headquarters of
the army this afternoon:
YORKTOWN May T, 1863
To Major Gene*nl llalleck:
1 Col. Ivilpatrick. with his- regiment, the
Harris Light Cavalry, and the rest of the Illi
, nois Twelfth, have just arrived at Gloucester
Point, opposite this fort. They burned the
! bridges over Chickahominy, destroyed threes
I large trains of provisions in the rear of f/e-j'
army drove in the rebel pickets to within two
miles of R'chmond, and have lost only one Lieu
tenant and thirty men' having captured and
paroled upwards of three hundred prisoners.
A mom; the prisoners was an aid of Major
General Winder, who was captured with es
cort far within the entrenchments outside of
Richmond.
This Cavalry marched nearly two hundred
miles since the 3d of May, and were inside of
the fortifications of Richmond. On the 4th
they burnt all the stores at Aylette's Station
on the -Mattapony. On the sth they destroy
ed all the ferries over the Painuuky and Mat
tapony, and a large depot of commissary stores
near and above tlje Rappahannock, and came
in here in good condition. They deserve
great credit for what they have done. It is
una cf the finest feats of the war.
RI FLS KINO,
Brig. Gen. commanding Post.