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- s «kVirtfO ZZ fiepuMicmt. VOL. X. T Z3FLMS. KAILV PAPEIti w * SoElh* * 920 OO TUreo month* ..f. { n« On* n«sih . } 00 TRI-VSBKLI PAPER s ■ sir nontii. a $6 oo "Hiree Monlhi 3 50 w Oa«U»grt. ...j0 • 1 50 WEEKLY PAPER i Sir Mouth* 4 ji 3 oo ADVURTISINQ Ter •■[dare of tcn i ines or less, or (pate occupied by tbi’ ?f“i v lines ol advertising IyPE, $1 50 for '’’ii t -eri on. SAY A3STJST-A-HI. SXirilar >1 nntn(, July 35, lilt. Major-Gee. D. H Hill, ol North Carolina, has received Irom the President the appoint ment of Lien tenant-General. He has gone to theScatn-west. Tan Steak r Brittanla The Stew Tork Times, of the O.h Inst., aqodnncee the arrival, on the 9th at Newport, R. I, for coal, prizi stiamer Brittanla, from Port Royal, 8. C., foi Boston. t The colors of the 4lst and 531 and 31 ItHnoi^ ■ Regiment of taken at Jackson'l lue'iith, are claimed by the 331 Alabama,, the Si Florida, and the 47th Georgia Regi- 1 menu, as their trophies. Osiubaw.—An officer of the army, wrltirg ns under date of 19th Inst., says : “ There is no doubt in my mind that the enemy has destroyed his works on Osssbaw Island, and * vamoosed,' perhaps for Charleston. Only one btockader— a steamer—has been loft to gaard the inlet to hese waters.” The Southern Cnltivator recommends a Con vention of Nurserymen at Atlanta, Ga.; on Wednesday, Aag. 19th, as suggested by a prominent nurseryman and fruit grower in a neighboring State. Delegates will report themselves to Dr. W. P. Harden, at the Atlan ta Hotel at 9 a. m. on that date. Tits Revised Elementary Spelling Book, by Robert Fleming, published by J. J. Toon & Cos , Atlanta. This is an edition of Noab Web ■‘ijr’ old Spelling Book, with new readings, t without the pictures. It is well printed -* 1 b tai .1; Indeed. It Is the best Georgia book « has w ; eared during the war, and we hope 4; will be bountifully rewarded for r>zs. juf- Conscription.— The Proclamation of the P cldent. calling dut all citizens of the Confederate States between the ages of 18 •».'>, Tib bo found on this page. WIT Gi? Brown, in a national crisis like this, Inter . re to secure the three or four thou tani railUiaofficers of Georgia, who are with out commands, from service in the army ? We shall see. 'Captain Gladding. —A gentleman of this city now absent, telegraphs that he has seen the N. Y. Herald of the 7th instant which mentions the death ol Capt. Wa. it. i.TadAta*. at Hilton Head, on the 37th June. If this be so, he has fallen a victim to Abolition persecu tion and onr government should retaliate by hanging some Yankee now ir. its posses sion. Warehouse Drstroyid by Lightning.—We regret to learn, says the Uolumboa Enquirer of Saturday, that the two warehouses si Baffold, Ga., on the Chattahoochee river, containing about 8.00” bw>“? ol ■■■'jt-i-j, - LfiAirb'-r rlt.,- 'vno wgt; aty.j. ■■>-*•- -aotreyed by fire on the 15th 1 ghtutng at the same time, and were totally onsumed. We understand that most of the cotton stored belonged to Mr. Metcalf, of Au gusta. Loss about *500,000. Battles or Gettysblbg.— At last we have the long and anxiously looked for report of this series of great battles from our special aimy correspondent. A portion of it will be found r-n tHls page. Another letter in contin nn.ion of the subject will appear to-morrow. We are content with the results of the light lUshers preaenteu. The enemy’s loss is evi ” arir 5 Ist greater than our own, if not double, '•■uitni wh held our position until the d»y after the had retreated toward Washington. >V«" hale also a number of lia*s of killed and won dad it; Borgia regiments, which will ap« pear an fast as we can possibly find room for them. Railroad AcctpOM.—The Augusta Chroni cle learns that ay i .plosion occurred on the'’ .oa>thy.iro'-ufl jadroad, nineteen miles from last, by which the engine Js entirely demoPshed ; the engineer, John /"itzb.gh, and a fireman were instantly killed, ged .mv her ti reman so badly scalded that be aifWt'.wo hours afterwards. The conductor’s ear • as also smashed up, and it was miracu iov that no one was injured in it. None of the pi sengars sustained any injuries. The engi nerana firemen were residents of Charleston, <ud the former had been connected with the Tb&afbr a long lime. „ Charleston. —The Mercury says three men were hilled and several slightly wounded in the Morris’ Island batteries on Friday. Among the ki'.ied is Sergeant Lee, of the Savannah Volon tper Guards. » The enemy evacuated James’ Island on Fri day, and withdrew to Folly Island. They left their tents and a large quantity of stores behind them. - GF. M. Mb Arthur and Freeman Wliils, had Ga., slightly wounded in the James’ Island fight, are in the Trappman street hospital. I at Savannah. —A correspondent of * the Macon Confederate Is dreadfnlly alarmed by the unusual receipts of cotton at Savannah ■» ithin the last week or ten days, aad gives vent to the very uncharitable suspicion “ that it is VbMes.etortd lu Savannah, ready for sale when -sJc7cUy Is surrendered to tbe enemy ” We ean relieve his uneasiness with a word.— The arrivals of cotton hem are not large, but such as they are were caused solely by the threatening aspect of affairs at Charleston.— The cotton was m rvuie for that place, to be Shipped through the blockade, and was brought tieee solely because tt was a place of greater va/f'y, and not with the expectation of its fall' Jcg into anybody’■* hands except those of own ers or their agents. A Noblx Jnxn.x-0: Wednesday, in re sponse to the call of Col. Lee upon all thoee citiasns of Atlanta who were willing to fight In "Tp# «*»'*>■*'fffifrfi.omes, upwards of four thons- Jd men assembly! at the appointed hour, and sere re^*—sd. There waa quite a respectable We presume that there were 4>t> the occasion. This la capi BIW . J-o’.-imaAh, A&d every other place . rOkor.ia, and all the rest of th Suite, show •chat they ean do. We iearn that the o tote of troops required ' i Cobb eouqty for f ocal defence, under the pvernor’s caU, has been filled, and'that a ovemeot l*«fc foot to raise a battalion. 4oapks ocunty , says the Athens Banner, whose riots was 80 men, has raised 185. Lumpkin anlv, whose quota was bO men, has raised Jt Hand His Name Rousd,—The Augusta Ceustltuttoßaliet gays : -» Sealjiu B. Mitchell, of Baea, Vista, Ha., h*t never soli corn for mere than gi a bushel, lie Is selllijt t-iur nowst 10 ceutsVd ISJ£ cts. u pound. Mis a trne patriot. We regret t*Uear that Capt. Thounh q Ker >foc, the w*lt\aown commander of the light battery re~entl jt ire> has been seriously though u'S fatally daring one of the late bat the Mercury, , 1 hs Hew* from Ck*rlwtsu. TLe telegraph brings us glorious news from Can Jkston After a day'# terrific shelling of baril'ittery from their combined fleets and two Vaattei ies'on the is'and—Craig's Hill and a mor tar battery h 'tween there and B tilery Wagner, ejected a lew sights age—the enemy, doubtless believing that we were either exhausted or killed off, made an assault in force. Ten regi ments—eight white and two black—rushed boldly up to our works and made a determined assault. For a long time the struggle was hand to band and desperate. Many of them suc ceeded in scaling the parapet and getting inside the fort, but all were tlther killed or captured. Finally, the rneinyggave way and made A pre cipitate retreat, leaving the island in front of the fort, for halt a mill, strewn with their dead and wounded. Mauy of the troops who were captured, in cluding officers, were thoroughly drunk with liquor. It seems that this is the only way the Yankee Generals oan get a charge out of thefr soldiers. . • A gentlemen who was present at the fight In orms ns that our loss was about twenty-five tilled and one hundred wounded, and that the fl'htinjma* most desperate. killed] by the bombardmeuk. , / j ’X] The garrison of Bittery Wageer cc.ns/eerd oCj 'parts of two reglmeair Ikoi , Se;th Carolina,! ,ib-IKtand blit, Ha Charleston Ba.tolion, a ' detachment of the (>3d fPEo ~a) Georgia, and another Lorn Colonel E 'C, Anders Vs command. Eight of the Ptoai* detachment were killed in the fi s ht, add lour in the bom bardment of the day previous. Our force in the battery did not exceed sis teen hundred, and we doubt if the same num ber of men ever achieved a more brilliant vic tory. The Ch papers ol to-day will doubtless give us fuller particulars. The Case or the Alexandria. The decision of the British Court in the case es the Alexandria, says the Richmond Dispatch,, puts an end to Mr. Adams’s operations, through his spies, peering and pryirg into every Brit ish ship-yard to ascertain if there were any | ships building for the Conlederate States. The | decision gives perfect liberty to every ship builder to build as many ships ns he pleases for the South. It will highly irritate the Yankees; but the English Court fortified Itself by the highest Federal authority. It sustained its decision by clung the opinion of Judge Story. 1 who “laid it down that, although by the terms of the Foreign Enlistment act a neutral State was precluded from equipping or arming ves sels for the purpose ol aggression against a friendly power, they were pot precluded from equipping and arming them for the purpose of eale, to any, bcllismrent or otherwise, who ’chose to purchaseliftm.” This, the Court as sumed, authorized a neutral to (qnlpyt ship-of •he may construct a cannon, If he intendpSot to use or have It used against a friendty-power, but merely to sell It; and he might even sell it to cither of the belligerents. Butin the case ol Alexandria the question was not as “to arming and equipping,’’ the testi mony only proving the “building” of the ship The Jury gave a verdict for the defendants very promptly. . A Little Too Free —H is not the Editor of the SavAoaah Republican committed a blunder In revealing to ih« enemy off Charleston how ixiay interrupt the beiweeu that city and Morris’ Island, and how they ctfto take Fort Sumter and csptnre the “ nest of the rebellion It seems to ns that a little more reticence” would be desirable here, if ever. [Macon Confederate. 1 By no means, as you will clearly when you know that the em my Ini 1 1 -i pd/fftion ig j~| fur wltCT localities n the vicinitj, and of theirl strategic value/ is we could possibly be, and. were actually in possession of the particular point Indicatefoy us at the time our letter from Charlesth, was written. What Informa tion could wetossibly give them und[er such circumstances! We hear tbit some absurdly cautions people about Bavatnah have qigde a similar criticism on the latter! from Charleston. II they are as cautious as ts e are. the enemy is not likely to derive muck "alii and comfort” from impru dent revelaions. Some mcith* ago an interior paper took us roundly If task for announcing the arrival of a vessel a/ Charleston which had had a severe time wilt the blockaders in crossing the bar. as it theinemy did cot know that she was in long hefDre the fact came to the knowledge ol »ujb<dy on shore ! The two cases are paralhj Savaanah.—We hear and credit a report Gen. Mercer called upon Gov. Brown by tSlegrafh for troops for the defence of Savan nah, la roastant expectation of an attack. [Macon Telegraph. This b trne, at least so far os the call is con cerned. The answer wss that the Governor had no troops to send. And now, do the peo ple of Georgia desire to know why ? Then Is bnt a t'litary reason. The last Legislature passed bill to raise a large force for State de fense ai I prepare them for the field. Had it pas Uo a law, we sbonld have now had as many rell-drilled citizen soldiers as any emerge! cy might require. They did their whole and ty, bnt Oememor Brown vetoed the bill and left he State in Its present condition. And yet, the s are men who talk about “our match less Got irnor” ! Politiikl trickery may succeed in times o* peace, bit the man who thus trillss with the safety onbis country in the hour of peril, should bi held to a strict account. Proclamation by tile President. Wberots it is provided by an act of Congress, entitled *An act to further provide for the pub lie deletes,” approved on the lO.h day of April, 1812. and bv another act of Congress, approveiSon the 27th .September, 1862, entitled ■j-n act to amend an act entitled an set to; provide furthe* for the public defence, ap proved 1(1 b April, 1862,” that the President be authorized to call out and place In the military service of the Confederate States, for three years, unless the war shall have been sooner en led, all white men who are residents of the Confederate States, between the s ges of eigh teen and foriy-five years, at the time the call may be made, and who are not at snch time legally exempted from military service, or such part thereof «a in his judgement may be neces sary to tbd public detene 1 : And whereas, in my judgment, the necessi ties of the-public defence require that every hlan capable of bearing arms, between the ages aforesaid, should now be called out to do bit duty in the defence of his country and in driv ing back the invadera now within the limits of the Confederacy: Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President Os the Confederate Slates of America, do, by virtue Os the powers vested in me as aforesaid, ! call onl and place in the military service of the j Confederate States all whtte men, residents of said States, between the ages of eighteen and ' forty-five yearn, not legally exempted from mu. itary service; and Ido hereby order and direct that all person subject to this call, and not now in the military service, do, upon being en rolled, forthwith repair to the conscript camps astablished in the respective States of which they may be residents, under pain of being beld and punished as deserters in the event of their failure to obey this call, as provided in said laws. And I do further order and direct, that the enrolling officers ot the several States proceed at once to enroll all persons dmbraesd within the terms of this proclamation, and not here tofore enrolled. Ands do further order, that't shall be law ful for any person embraced within this cal! to volunteer for service before ourollment, and that persons so volunteering he allowed to select the arm »f Bervice and the company Which they desire to join, provided snch com psny be deficient iff the fnll number of men al lowed law for its organization, i— ) Given under my heed, andtae Seal of 1 seal ) the Confederate States of America, at •TT' ? ,e cUr of Richmond, thin fifteenth day of July, in the year of onr Lord one thonsaud eight hundred and sixty-tbrse. (Signed,) Jevcubson Davis. By the President: (Signed,) J. p. Benjamin, Secretary of State. Punch says women first reso-ted to tight lacing to prove to men how well they could hear squeezing. -Ajntlt.ajb:, &jsjrrjri£tt&r2., crcrr.-y 33- 1863. Kditorinl Correspondence’. Chablbston, July 18, !HtW. An affair ccenrrcd on James’ Islaud early this morning which, I am not sure, is entitled to be called a battle. Little versed in military nomeuclature, it may be safely 'to style it a reconaoissanco in force. Yet it is worthy of note, notwithstanding the results are unim portant.” It was the first regular engagement that hag occurred on our coast with Lincoln’s “feliow-citixena of African descent" ; at least it probably approximates an engagement as dearly as any conflict we are likely to get up with that ignorant, cowardly, and sadly be trayed_ and deceived race. It has been known for many days past that a considerable force, chiefly of blacks, under the Kansas brute, Montgomery, had landed from the Yankee transports and were encamped on Lagaro’s f-rrj, miles south of Secessionville Their “eketa had been regu larly posted within sight .of‘our own, frimi Grimbali’s farm, adjoining Lagare’s on* the the attest, u, a small creek which divides James Island from what is caljad Battle Island, on the East Genera} Haygocwf , i the ifcLund this party, and, if pos- Sill or capture the whole of them. Ac cordingiy, before break of day this morning, a considerable lores, consisting of Colonel Simonton’a Eutaw (8. C.) Kegiment, portions of .of the 3th, 19-h, 33d and 54th Georgia, one section of Georgia (the Chatham) find two sec tions of So. Ca. artillery, moved forward to the work. It was arranged that the two wings should press forward and turn the enemy on cither flank, whilst the centre thould follow up with an advance and thus surround the enemy as nearly as the nature 0 f the ground and the presence of the gunboats in Blono j would permit. We deployed skirmishers with | orders not to fire a gun until they came up with the main body of the enemy. We soon ran foul ol their pickets, who fired their guns and imm Qiately beat a hasty retreat. Our forces followed close on their heels, and soon flushed the v.hole covey of blackbirds. Alarmed {jy the firing of their pickets, they were foWmt* in line of battle, and as we approacLcd within a short distance, fired one round, which did ,Bttle or no harm, and forthwith retired, slowly at first but wi-fi a precipitate flight as our men pressed npon them. Very many of them fell 1 before onr deadly fire, and our troops pursued* shooting down without mercy all who were not so fleet of foot as to distance them. They proved most excellent ranners, reached the beach where their gunboats were lying, and succeeded in saving the great body of their forges which is estimated ou reliable data at 1,500. A considerable party made for two cansways that lead from James’ Island to Battle Islaed and were overtaken by our left as they were crossing over. The afrighted creatures jumped into the creek, and a large number were slaughtered while attempting to get over Some few succeeded in crossing, and • exact number unknown, were captured. Four teen--a sergeant and thirteen privates, were brought in. The remainder probably fell ex hausted by the wayside ! Our troops pressed the fugitive* for a mile or more, and would have come up with the en tire force, but for the gunboats which oppor tunely made their appearance in the Stono and swept the open field with grape and canister, making it A^JrrTlii- "cowardly V vantage wt ich the Yan- Ixees avail themselves of in evtrx /neighborhood it water.’ The two negro regiment*, vere She 54',h Mas sachusetts, 990 strong, and what is called the Carolina,” Hnr 11 u*ri**v *i‘HMH. Soil H is (estimated thai their loss in killed’ (there were Very few wounded) amouutcd to 100 or more. ®ur loss was two or three killed and ten or | J-"elve wounded, all, or nearly so, by grape and ('-anlster from the gunboats. Tbe infantry fight being over, onr artillery ‘.moved cut into an open field and made a bold 1 attack npon the gunboat Pawnee. It lasted about a half hoar, when the Yankee craft, with many a hole in her side, backed down and hob bled oat of the way. Oar men think she is considerably damaged. The section of artillery from Savannah was commanded by Capt. Vheator, and the guns are said to have been served with admirable I effect. Exasperated by this unceremonious morning call upon their pet lambs, the gunboats con tinued to shell that portion of the island oc cupied by onr pickets, and even as far back as tbs camps, for several hours, but without damage. The fleet at the foot of Morris’ Is land also bombarded heavily for some time onr position at Secessionville, making it necessary for one of the regiments to remove their camp. Nobody was hurt. The captured negroes all belong to Compa nies B and H, of the 54ih Massachusetts regi ment. Company B whs enormanded by Capt. Samuel Wiliaid, Jas. W. Walton and Thomas Appleton, LieuteDante. Company H was com manded by Capt. Hnssell, Howard being the Lieutenant. Tbe ri giment was command ed by Col. Bbaw. All these are white men. The prisoners say that after they were put in line for the fight, they saw nothing more of their officers—they all vamosed the field. There was a white regiment in the rear, but they say it broke and ran at the very flret fire. They speak with great conli mpt of the Yankees, say they were very badly treated, and all agree in asseverating that they were driven into the ser vice and kept there against their will. They were humble and polite, taking off their hate when interrogated and answering promptly all qnestions that were propounded to them. The slaves appear truly repentant ami express a strong desire to be returned to their masters, to whom several of thengi requested me to ad dress letters begging tlypm to'come and take them home. Am ore very apprebcqyive of their late, and think tt a hard case that Abey should suffer death or sr.y other severe penally for simply doing what they were compelled to do .by men who bad them in their power. They jere a body of men and clothed in the regular Yankee uniform from head to foot. The names of the party, as given to me by themselves, are as follows : FKEE NEGKOES. Sergeant Alvis Jeffords, from Hillsboro’, N. C., but for a few years a resident ol Cleveland, Ohio. Henry Worthington, Defiance county, Ohio. EnoaSmith, Eaton, Pennsylvania. Leml. Blake, near Boston, Massachusetts. James Caldwell, Battle Creek, Calhoun coun ty, Michigan. John Leatherman, Rockford, Jackson coun ty, Maryland. Armstead Williams, Detroit. Michigan. Fred. Wallace, Covington, Kentucky. slaves. Harrison, belonging to William Taley, Rawls county, Missouri. Dickerson, belongs to John Johnson, Rawls county .Missouri. George, belongs to James Council, near Nor folk, Va. Henry Kirk, belongs to William Cannon, Marion county, Mo. James Williams, belongs to Jacob Waring, Carroll county, Mo. Jas. Proetor, belong* to John Bryan, of Wil liamsport, Md. On Morris’ Island, to-day, we had a repeti tion of tbe usual programme. No iron-clad* were vleible, but the gunboats bombarded Bat tery Wagner heavily for aeveral houra, killing one man and woaudlng five. I could get no particulart, except that none of them were from Georgia. Three men were wounded in the same battery by the bursting of a rifle thirty two ponnder. The freqnent accidents with these guns, in the hands of volunteers, are sufficient to exclude them entirely from that branch of the service. It may not be an ex tra >agant assertion to say that tbey have killed as many of our men as they have of the enemv since the war begun. The place of the lost gun will be supplied with a safer and far more effective one daring the night. The Yankees were busy daring the whole«f ternoon In landing ammunition from small steamers on the southern point of the island. Tbe rational Inference la that they have about completed their works on Cfslg’s Hill, and will o-aa be ready to open a fire upon us from that strong position. In my judgment w* have made a a-rst mistake In allowing Un» au«. main ok the island long enough to construct; this battery. We must submit, however, to the pc >rern that be, even though ii may be evi dent that we mast drive them off or be driven ' etr jur; tlves. g. ABUY COR^SPOSfIpa-S fhr thx Savznnah 111.-br At». * The Great Bat le of (Sksitj&odfcg. Grtiyspshg, Fa., July The Moodiest and most desper,.te Wls of this bloody and desperate war, h:f if»t beers tought here, on the soil of Peimejfv *la. It commerced ojt the evening of Wednesday, the Ist Inst was renewed on the 3d, *ufi again on the 31, and the two armies still Lici each a insß m lino of battTh, worn, battlo-scarred abT verclj- punished. The Cenfedera eS ; -,ave aal the beet of the tcrrihl.* conflict, yet their' suc cess has been purchased at a • o*t hfi rill carry grief to many thousand hearts in qitj- »üßi sering land. I forwarded a full tc' ■; Aibhic snyopsis of the battle to WlncK rr, s •* .’rust it was received in due season. V. dhav* * more detailed account, written u, i dpi • i"y possible disadvantage: THE BiVl Lk FI EL *' _* , j^e ' The two armies bot^t the ti*tik» ot the Rappat-.nqV-"a flifefSV ' ■the Potomac, and through Mni#iaaAiat« Perm syivania. Federal prisoners sky vuey Alsrahed, on an average, twenty-fivo miles ad. Y, and that they stripped themselves of , sur plus baggage and transportation th«> pede their movements. The two badSCnct!*. • ed to understand the designs ol oa*k ottjP; sT| least, there is good reasou for believin ’ that Gen. Lee expected to encounter his 'antagonist not far from the place where he finally m binij It is probable, however, that he wo Vi na”4 chosen a different field, and one some jffiaftl nearer both to Billimore and Wasiiinzon.* but the rapidity with Which General ra- 1 vanced, left him no alternative but to -ndcf Jl battle here or to manoeuvre for a morevdvaa tageous position. As it was, Gencral AJead. had the choice ol groutid, and use dM ha make of it. A position in rb 'aviut, able to himself end more nnfavora’o e t.{ UmT Lee, (slrdult the latter mnka ’lie utsr ult.l "dul l hardly have been selected. His line i-xl ud and ■long a range of hills just in front, and a UIM to the right of Gettysburg, and nearly to the Gettysburg and Kuimettsburg inruptU' and the South Mountain in our rear. His right wing routed upon Cemetery Hill, opposite » the town, and his left upon two viry liifh hills or mountain spurs, one of which was cov- ered with limber, and tbe other with imntjeaw locks, behind which his men were protected as under a wall of adamant. General Lae’/Tposition was plso a strong o 1 hut iii no respect equal to that of tho ertetn; His line extended from a point above the town along a gently swelling ridge to the right. The space between the two lines, which was some four miles in length, was undulating, end, for tbe most part,frco of timber and other obstruc tions, except an occasional stoue fence nd farm-house. Tflo distance from one line to tho other, or rather from, one line of hills to the other, varied from a thousS'Bd to fifteen hundred yards; so that tbe party that should make the assault, would be subjected to a murderous artillery fire before his Infantry could get within musket range. * The enemy • decided Xo receive the atjjqk:, and thus he s - all the great uSvantagcs which his posi tion gave him. But to the BATTLE OF THE FIRST UAY, Hearing ot Me .lie’s approach, Gow. (.ee, air the 30lh nit., put the Ipreea-rboul jJjiaiuX ’ h.far IwTffbttod. "W»nd3i’.: ikiillWain - ot AlU’s corps were thv fleet to ere.,Abe ; oh mountain by the ff'ishtown tnrnyiikl. ' r y apjnoachcd Gettysburg on the Ist i, slant . ' fludlug the enumy ta |yi»t»tep ’hetwevi. hibaylf ■BUdUhe town. Gim. 11H .. .-ooetueok, vßec givd him baffle.' The 1 a'.taek svaa made with vigor and success ; (1m em my wa? and a , hack willy heavy loss throug ■ the town to ’.no range •ot hills which he finally.occupied u,e remainder of the cj,ll < , .Tito bat wdi-i. not. open until after midday. L to in k „eafiernhcn Early and Rode* of Ewell’s eorps came up on the felt from York, and contributed larg’dyto the success of our arms. Several fl gs, tcylf d’eg the colors oi the 104lh N. York regiment, nearly all ol the enemy’s wonn h-d. end apont 3,000 [irisoneis, fell into our bandi. General Reynolds, who commanded thr Federal forces (Gen M ade with tlio in on body of the army not having then arrived) and Geu Paul were killed. Had uof night pu l an end to the cuiifiict, we should have gained the s'rong position which the enetfiy dually occupied. We. lost a few prisoners on our part, including Brigadier General Archer nl Maryland, who commanded the Tennessee brigade. Johnson’s division of Ewell’s corps, snd An derson’s division ot A. P. Hill’s, reached the ground just at night, but not in time to parcel pate in the conflict. Longstrcet’s corps, except Pickett’s division, arrived within three miles of the battle field late at night, preceded a few hours by Gen. Lee. The whole of the Federal army, largely relnlorced by the troop, stationed at Washington, Baltimore, Harper’s Ferry, and other available points, came up the same night; and Gen. Meade assumed the immediate com mand of the Federal troops as Gen. Lee did onrs. Thus concentrated, the two armies were ready for THE SECOND DAY’S FIGHT. It was late in the afternoon ol the 3d before either army got fully into position. Gen. Lee desired to make tbe. attack immediately, feeliDg confident that his infantry were able to carry any position however strong. Bat little dispo sition was shown to undertake a proper recon noiseance of the ground—an omission which every man in ihe army now deeply regrets. It was well Known that Meade had chosen a for midable position, but the extent and strength of his line, the disposition ol his forces, as wi ll as th. nature of the ground, and especially the riTUion Ids line bore to the mountain spurs on the right, were but little understood. Longstreet was posted ou the right, Hill in ths centre, and Ewell ou the leli. It was deemed advisable to malio an effort to turn the enemy's left flank, and Longstreet was charged with that important duty. For thin purpo-e McLawst anil Hood’s divisions were put in motion, ’bnt the latter discovered, after pro ceeding some distance by a circuitous rou'e, that he could go no farther in that direction without bringing his column within view of the enemy, arnsihus disclosing the whole move ment. It became nece6fary,’ therefore, lot him* to retrace bis steps, and to advance by another route. Is this way much time was lost before tbe movement noon the enemy's flvnk could he executed, ami w hich might have been avoided by a previous ex..ruination of the ground. McLaws’ proper position was on the extreme right, but in the hurry to make the attack Hood was placed on the right and Mi Laws next to him. Both of these excellent otflerts des'ired that a reconnoissance of the ground should precede the assault, in order to ascertain, if possible, whether the enemy occupied the high hills In their front, and In what force; but the decision of Generals Lo* and Longstreet was against it, and the assaulting column was or dered to move forward. It is a fact not generally known, and wbich it may not be improper tdstste in this connec tion, that In all his famous flank movements Gen. Jackson was careful tw examine the ground and to learn the exact position of the enemy, and hence his blows were always we q aimed and terrible in effect. Such, too, is Lee’s practice, bnt in tee present case it was probably enpposed that an immediate attack before the enemy could get into position, would more than counterbalance tbe disadvantages resulting from inexact knowledge of the ground. But four o’clock bad arrived, and the first gun from Hemy’s battalion of artillery an nounced that the assault bad commenced on tbe extreme right. Cabell’s battalion, of McLawa’ division, opened next, and in a few minutes the artillery fire became general along our entire line. Tbe splendid divisions of Hood and Mc- Laws swept on to tbe charge in admirable style. An officer who was present said it was worth ten years of ordinary life to witness the manner in which McLaws’ division rushed across tbe field and assaulted tbe almost impregnable position in front. It was soon discovered that the enemy was in strong force upon the moan tain spurs on tbe right, and tbat it was impos sible to tnrn his position and get In his rca-, without passing around the moutains, which waa Impracticable; bnt it was then too late to pause, and onward the column moved in the face of a terrible fire of musketry and converg ing batteries. If the position could not be turned, tbe only alternative left was to dislodge the foe by hard blows. These blows were given freely; he was pushed, -from the wooded mountain, end his line bent back until it rested upon tbe high rocky hill or eminence. Indeed, his line all along Longstreet’s front was driven Wu-kMith igi*H>'» battery after lottery was silenced or cartK*» letter number of flags taken ami about l.SOti prirdnera captured, chiefly by McUws’ division. It is estimated tbat Wofford’s Georgia brigade alone killed, wounded and captured more thag !h? IriJ : 1' si, i 3 eoramtd !,■ l • tight of! sot.-l I ;to .j-s, ijkenbyth !... c.r • Tom Ho X-L- *t audArUiikV' . iRr-.-v -ml f t3T the reertim at one time he jj-afed ti ■ tat my had turned bis own poei • UoA It wad (i’.ruig this brilliant charge that Major G isralTtpad. r ue of the best officers in the ai ) ■, r-c. -;i a air. i’ll, lb’ugh not danger oi;Hj W>uV -, tbs left arm, which made it ?ie c ?F rv Wlm i ’ turn me c mm and o f his d*■ -ion V' i to that using young officer, ' ’*T Go: Law e* A’ .una, whose excellent b’ formed a part of the division. E g Anderson of Georgia, and Kobin ‘■cn j f T r nag, were aiao wound id in the same chi>|' ; e. : he former in the thigi . Gene L'-w andlGg.-Ajig ese-it e,! without a bruise, though 71 ape ■ ■ their field officers were billed woffiS’ I, ,nd ibo:r n giments badly cut up. In Met and visit).., Gen. Barksdale, one of the W*>vl srdnobi. .it spirits that have fallen In a., -iffejnir, was ki'led, and Gen. 6e.nrues.aa tnv j.n'L r ht a6 erel* drew a blade, and who nt> ;>> to his command, “go on,” but al w_. cjfaeon,” was'geriouslv wounded. An 9” a made *.o eavd Gen. Ba'ksdate’s bodv. ™ not be done. He had led bis bngl ; >"i" hn.ui, uuii'hfid first carried a heavy n 1 : ei when he was allot downbv r>n<- of tbdl ■jiltto i-li r ‘- t 'ir **•* I ■ Other bat “V , bW o upon the position he had taken, and Vi. jKribte converging fires rendered it ne . E tr.-j for bis brigade, which was also thrown into temporary confusion by his fail, to retire •somewhat to the rear. The tnemy waved their flag over bis-prostrate body when theyreoc cap ed • i.e eminence from which he and his rm 'e AUss'ssippians had driven ’them. Gen.- j liksafijp's last hasty words wore-: ‘‘Give my* l 010 Jt dear family and tell them I died ■a* my post,” t-en. Semtnes hadcariied a tourniquet on his Bi oil Since the beginning of the war. The lire ol the enemy becoming more fearful than a uv re had ever witnessed in the many battles t! 'Ugh which he had passed unscathed, he ’-o<. i tho tournequet from his bosom and w s molding it in his hand, when he was struck in ’ i' -high by q minnie hall and tbe femoral artery >u., lie applied the tournequet with he- ■ wn bands aud stopped the hemorrhage km.! a surgeon could take up the artery; ot_i awlse be must have died iu a few minutss. If IS but justice to the dead and the living :hac he names ol the brigades composing the dfv lens in Longstreet’s corps, which partiei pat’d iuthis brilliant w rk, • >,cvu»3 lien be fjvtfi, and it is to be regretted that time and to .o do not allow me to record ibe names of ike regiments aud officers also. The brigades ate In Mi-Law. ’division, S-'nimes’ and Wof ! V\a ,r °m Georgia, Barksdale's j ro m Miisls t‘\<7» Kershaw’ Irom Soul*. Carolina; and in lord’s , ivisioc. Law i b,iga«’.e from Ala.- bntih, Robißson’s Irom Ti.vab, aud Bonning’s stilt Aedetson’s from G orgia. Th.re is no , .yt p material id all ths imy than in these lie. re brigades. Tne Twenty-fourth Georgia, bvi ne Colonel (McMillan) was absent on leave, it'.-' \ r ed for a tUiimeut; hut Gen. Lougstreet vT,< q himself at the bead of it anfi led it for- | f i ,(H'heu tbe men give him Circe ronsing o' yard rn--!, i up; n:; e i,)c Iti most gal ia. . I . ad bis Gfiftlinians al v behave well, and their onadfiet on the pis' * m occasion, nr w ’I i that of the other olfl and brigades Is the corps; was all that vjbir: pn desired. k is proper to add that though Hood aud aotLam captured a number of batteries, they wq cable to bring eft'but few guns. Gen. dead' ~ who belonged lo the corps of Topo g SPhlcV. Engineers, had chosen his ground, iJtft* led his artillery so wisely that one bat tery bora npon another; so-that when a bat ter. was taken, it was found impossible to bri.ig iff ihe guns on acconnt of the fire from other batteries bearing upon the position. In morY instances too, the horses Were kided, arid the Irti-rveqlng stone ionces prevented our msr (rnrn drawing the guns irom the field by habiE • l V . i ;us'. hurry on, even lliough my ac ec iLt sbonU be meagre and uncailsfactory; for ts-. v mil-.:-has saddled hia hoive and U ready to’.l ive, t trust he may gel through aafely, and ifiJR .my letter may : rmh yo'q ,ia due SUSP..eI - J ’ _ "A-eVghog a» -» -emnilutigieTy, was 'Qwrfw'aiiiiiiitanecu.lv v. chat on the a*“« n»y tm said tff the attack on the if A 'he artillery rpeued about the same time jZffip’biW tlii; ltn*, but McLvws and Hood ’f®*' ! b - ..c ;g. \ J evhen they dm T>» ce, tbelr movement was fiot regular ..j ,■ ..rniiic us ’’ should have been. For lot. Anderson’s division ot Hill’s corps, wh ! Wa. pos ed oti the left of McLaws, never did gia.tally iffio action, while Pender’s divi «ioi. not fire a gun until lute in the day. Anderson s div'tiioti, for example, Wi.s posted in the follow!c -order: Wilcox’s brigade on the right, Hahooe’s o a the left, Wright’s ia the < ■nice, Perry’s on the right eon tre, and Po sey’s osfdhe left centre, Wilcox was to advance first, lie followed by the other brigades in their O'?er to the left. Wilcox and his uncoil quern' t Alabamians moved cut at the ap oota . lAime and fonglp long and diftporateiy. Peri" ’ ■ brigade (Perry wan not present himself) ad"RTi.-irg* short dls ance, hut dut did not be come /Uj.y engaged. VI right went boldly for ward, ami excelled, it i ossible, all bis previous perfonrasces, though at i fearful cost to his cornu it'ii. as will be seen when a list of his lose srl JI come to be publish ! Bis brigade cap! a red a battery ot 20 em e, and two of his best vfflAsrs—Maj. Ross andlT.pl. [tedding, of Macon—were shot down while endeavoring to mov oii he guns. The first was badly wounded and lei u the field ; the other was killed. But Po.v y, it’ii was to move next in order, was unw llini it Is reported, to advance, contend ]iagtjjxarte left flank would be uncovered, and GMI JFibiTse should move first. Mali one, on ahe otic band, declined to proceed uidtss I’o isey let’s division on bis left should do jo a* 6 same time. Upon this fact being load-it town to Pender he rode forward to cx )uiin» tl,« ground, when ho received a wound am fjsw disabled. The question then arose lai.irii: b»S Brig idlers as to who was the senior pill er.'and this point w..s not settled until abort sunset. Meanwhile, Wilcox and Wiight Wert atriggling with mortal odds against them; bnt their valor and blood w»re expended to Hu le purpose, Binco the i fleet of their cour ageous efforts was defeated by the unpardon able -eddset of o'her portions ,t die d.vieion. Wilcox'# loss, as well as Wright’s was very heavy. Among the.killed in the brigade of tbe latter wai Col. William Gibson, of the 48th Grorgu. 7 an not. yet well informed in regard to the order ii which Ewell’s corps became engaged, and carrot, therefore emer in'o detail* It is report*.!, however, that the attack on the left was mr.\e a little late, and not with even and Weil pu-tained lines. I know not whe'tier this srPbnut tg.entirely correct; but it m.iy be safely »florae-!.ths*. the coips fought well, and was •k hard.Sd alter it did become engaged. It i sal 'hat on the left, as on the right and cei tre, the enemy was driven from several sir :itg i •sitioTi.; but that it was found itnp-je- Jifclt • oliyhffi. owing to the commandin-a Vdos- m the-'rear, and to the rig’ afdleft. J. rssilts of the second day’s light may bo Btfinmed ip lu a ew words : The Confederates Injicjed trenjendoue loss upon the eqemy, dj-ofo fcju a mile and a half on the rig ca tdred about two thousand pri soners s Blfe number of flags and batteries, an i won Urn ground on which the conflict for the most part had been waged, but owing to the great -irength of the enemy’s position—far ex:e dingtbatat Malvern Hill—the skillful ar rai • fuenl of his numerous and admirably set v*d artillery and Ihe want of previous knowledge on ou; part of the precise nature of th ground, tbM found it iqppracticable to hold to: pixel lons V’tging off tuauy ol the guns th- y had aiw’s brigade, of Hood’s di vision, earned one ot the batteries on the mountain, and turned the guns upon the ene my; but being inked by a cruel tire trom other po-ltion be found ii n-‘ jessary, finally to aban don it. For the m'O part, however, Long <tv*c. maintained the gronnd he ad won on the rSJit, ui til late next day, wh'-n he voiuis-. ttn:y wtthdswir lion, it 10 bis original linA"’ Our swir-kA*; was v> iy heavy, especially ‘h ; Rddu » andVc *.»-'• uivisloiis, and Wright’s and Wilcox ■; brlgid— l ou An-.orsou’s division. . T»e Timio jp.ur’a untile. Gereral Luc did not rer-nv the attai k next day— Sd—ucill ter. o’clock, whoa dfiropened upon the enemy trom all parts of his Hne wi'b over a hundred and forty guts. The •ue.my responded promptly and v'gorously, tiling r. great deal of round shot, his inppiy ol shell, it may lie, havin ' been exhausted, ii > he ivy an artillery fire Was probably never had before Our guns were well served, as w r o •bown by the ground around tbe Federal bat tari.)i. w ich was covered with dead men and |oi, - At a quarter to three o’clock, and alter the artillery had prepared tbe way, Pickett’s Virginia division, Longstreet’s corps, whicb ha-, only arrived the night before, was ordered to S-. nit Cemetery Hill, which was consiaered the k yto tfct enemy’s v hole position. He as* eupporteh hy Hd-h's division, commanded by P -ttigrew, (Heth having been wounded in thu first day' light,) sod Wilcox’s brigade, of Anderbnn’s dlv vlon—both belonging to Hill’s corps. Pickett' marge w s made in vj.a»Ur.nt order and gallant style, an-; be succeeded in wrei nga purl), nos vbe bill and ms guns in that i, .alter in). the the ■ l.tliadlug fire, .vincf’ were -ought ■ O ’-Hi ll;.yi: Id And lb .. llureef Peiiigia** -40 SKAVp Mi Jy with hiths-.i 1 ' i'3 '%i' EststMaS tar, h 111 lo retire vjugreatJb'Xi fft hie biigafftars.'- I C m-,. L.woet*s»*«ni,'.le?. nttyfeMifetifß Gftt. Htxai-oe ' mviuiiy et-agyl, dSifl A{ng» ! djaft ■ ; ' Arm* ad w (since ! a - ' **-•> *»c : • j « . -is wire *" .. - ** * • >!•-■ and u.> •A Id l A. Modi y Sorrel, i.id if ... muon, of ljongstrret’s staff, liid their horse* killed under then?, and Captain Gorees of the same siafl. was wounded. M»j. Read, of Bavamnab, ala. bed to Hearing's artli lery battalion, w -.-a- lin the forehead by a pjece of shell, but cot dangerously. To-ds r!1 ha. been quiet along the lines. Gen. Lee 1 -ndiavored to provoke Hie enemy to i;i»Kr a i uts .ait upon his p-mPi by throw i". I.'s tklrmisheis forward ; but Gen. Meado, who b s displayed much skill and judgment, is t»o veil aware o- the strength ot his own posi- I tiou and the ma uess of attacking Leo. Besides, j Ifn »u i ( arly annihilaiad, he is certainly too t .uv crippled to undertake so hagaidous an , .ide.priM.' Uhe ram but save his army and i -'<• ■ away, ho will doubt! -ss be more than 1 e alee l 1' would have been better for us, perhaps, if our attack had tieen delayed cutit the Dext day, ! and the tnterv.il had been <S voted ’o a careful j reconnoiasai.ee ufti eg-ono Toe delay would ; have enabled ( en. Leo io get 1 army ims pro . r r Aittoil, would have irfv. u ihe troopi time to rest and prepare ratloi..., and have ini- Mh '* 1 > * aatic, combined and simultaneous attack Ir., i ;,1 parts of bis lines. It this plan had been pursued, it is believed that the enemy would have been dislodged from his formidable position before now, and driven igne miniuusly 'back upon his capital. It was probably Gen. Lee’s desire however, to fall upon his adver sary before he could get into position, confi dent that his troops were equal to any deinmd upon their courage and constancy. But no person, much less one who, like myself, 1- un skilled ii oi litii'".' affairs, can S3fefy criticise.: Ahe operations of eueh a commander as Lee,' and I forbear, not for his sake, but my own. July s.—Gen. Meade withdrew his army iast , night in tbe direction, it is supposed, of Fred | erick. It is said that Gen. Lee was aware of! the movement, or guessed that it would be made, and commenced to put his own army in motion about tbe same time. No pursuit has beeti attempted, or any demonstration made by cither party. We are now moving down the South Mountain towards Hagerstown, wilh a view probably to-reopen our line of communi cations and ■ iwepare for further efforts. There are other satisfactory reasons for returning to j Hagerslov’i, wni oit would be iin pro per to ■ state, but which wcul-1 be considered good if! made known. But more of this hereafter. I have made all necessary arrangemen s to procure lists of the killed and wounded, and hope to be able to forward them in a day or two. Among our casualties are four Major General* won ted—Hood, Pender, 1 til and Trimble; and in Brigadiers—Barksdale, Gar nett and Kemper killed, Archer captured, and Bcmruep, Andt u >n, R -biLPon, Hampton, Jen kins and Joins wounded. The wounds are not considered dangerous, except Gen. Hampton's, who received two sabre cuts ou the her. ' ; Was shot in the after he was . i lie was cngigia at tin tin in. , at dry engagement on the left, w' .. , ueceeded In capturing 250 wagon i I have omitted 'o stale tbit v r ■th h ttle war .. on Friday, U, c in*’ cavalry made a .ff irt to , round our right wing.— to 101 l this "ovei.it. General Law, win. Lad succeeded to tb command of Hood’s division, detached a battery, of Henry’s battalion, and the First Texas and Eleventh and Fifteenth Georgia, the latter for the time under com mand of Wj. Henry Di McDaniel, ot the Eleventh. The artillery engaged the attention of the enemy iu trout, while the infantry pass ed around to h e rear, an* opened a murderous fire from that quarter, ifie end is soon told. Ot two regiments oi F. di-ral cavalry engaged only T 8 rn“U escaped, fir others were killed or captured. p. \y, A. Further Detalln of ihe (trewt Battle of Gettysburg. Hagerstown, Mu., July 7ih, 1803. Dm army reached this poiutjvesterday. aud hllrjpons Into lauup. This apnJf' akr.;-. •• do rn-. iltriia'v ree-'A.- >i,-., I-1..kJ8 Cffpri.e in the SSPcnrrrM, e«pectn*-r ti. • „f Meade’s .rawat and Lee’s failure :oY *..;r«ue biin I caa only express tbe (decided convic tion that the reneous for returning to Hagers town were conclusive a-d .aOsfactoty, rbnngh CLe I*.no hair not yet come wj.eu they may he safely I'Vd. One thing, however, cannot escape the aitentioa of intelligent men, to wit: that’rn army, whatever may ti it- triumphs in the field r....i ..... es-ui iy rs c m | missariat mjy be supplied ucd ansporta tioc conducted, cud'long maintain itself in an enemy’ country without a w-ll stablirhed base aud safe ..,.d I ..'l' eoiurauniratiou. In the pres. .A '..nee Gc.i. L6c’ iine of communi cations bid 1 u in: rupf .. to a degree which rendered it diffi-ilt, if in; impoesihle, to cor respond with the government, or to receive supplies of any description. Tho army has not suffer'd fur want ot excellent food since it crossed the Potomac, though it cannot well re main in any one locality beyond lour or five days at a time, in consequence of die scarcity of provisions. The farmers upon the approach of the array not only remove their horses ,md take off one or more w heels trora their wagons, but they drive the beef cattle-ini:* distant dis tricts and conceal them iu the mountains; so that it is impossible to subsist the troops and animals employed in necessary transportation at one point for any considerable period. The supply i bacon and corn is limited, but little comparatively being produced iu Maryland and Pennsylvania. There is a great abundance of wheal and flour and hay howevtr, and of these the array has made very fee use. The mer chants and manufacturers also have seut into the interior—in some instances as far as Phila delphia—their s’oeks of clothing, shoes and hats. To such an extent has this policy been carried, that the troops in Ewell’s corps, which led the advance, and had, therefore, better op portunity to supply themselves, are iu worse condition in regard to shoes, (owing to their longer men her) than those in I.ongstreet’s corns which brought up th rear. The reader will thus neieeive some ot the disadvantages attendii; art invajing army, and bew a policy like ibi- on ihe part ot farmers and merchants Can be made as effective agaiustGen. Lee as the burning if Moscow by the Russians was again-t Biiiaparie. But let us return to the late bat tle. The success of our arms on Ihe first day of the battle, when we ujflicted a loss upon the enefny, according to his own admission, of 10,- 000 men in billed, wounded and prisoners, de muDßtiii'is i.c fact that if the Confederate army bad lieu concentrated twenty-four hours sooner ih ; ft was, it could have destroyed 'Trade, .id j ::l his government and capital in the area: .->• j,. pardy. Only four divisions v ere ei tg and n uur part, one ot which (Evrly’s) .1 ived on tbeground laie in the af ternoon , whilst the enemy had present three, or parts . f.three, army corps, all of which were repre- nted by tbe prisonr s captnred Hal th le y, or the greater part of it even. (>■•. t ■ it -..-mind on the Ist Inst, when sh« batik’ i- in in need, it would have been an en.-y cia; r t . d.spose of the three Federal corps al> i.'d to, and then to have fallen upon the remo id rot Meade’s forces before tbey could pi • it get into position. If this be' true, was not me march of Ewell upon Har*. risbutg mi' riannte and ill-advised, in that it lost .uspnci.ius time? It is understood that it was no ;. it of Lee’s plan to reduce Harns bnrg; he (i uld not afford to lritter away hfg time and strength upon harmless militiamen, wLiie the main a’ icy of the enemy remained in ths field Flaviug first disposed of the army, be might then march wheresoever he pleased, whether to Washington, to Baltimore, to Har risburg or Philadelphia. As has already been stated, Early’s division of Ewell’s corps reached the field late in the afternoon, but in time to contribute largely to the suce -s of me Confederate arms. He came by the Y-jik turnpike, and took posi'inn on the left of Kodes’ division, also -of Ewell’s corps, then hot’y engaged Pender’s and Heth’s division of Hill’s corps being on the right, and the only other forces present. The leneruv yielded easily to the impetuoti charges of onr men, and was thrown into much eon fusion avid saffened more heavily, in proportion to the numbers engaged, tha a on the two fol lowwwc flays. Gordon’s (late L * ton’s j brigade, «vr inwiM®. counted about 870 dean oil Ibat pail ot tiie field where it fonghv (beu.g on the i;c r tau left), and took more prisoners ihuu hs . hole command numbered ! lli? • wn dead was just 40. The brigade is one of the best in the seir-ice, and it has acquired fresh renown by its conduct in the late battles. It was known ibat Locgst-eei’s corps would come up that night, am hence the enemy was not pressed after dutk. after tbe lashlon of Jackson ; other wise, It is no' improbable the Federals might have limn driven rnirely from the field, and the adv.vo.sgi one p -iiion subsequently taken by Meade would hove been secured for our selves. Tie freiigth of jhis position cannot hardly be • xaggeraled. The enemy not only occupied a rar ge of hills, but along ranch ol the rocky ridge was a stone tence, behind which his in fantry were as well posted as ours were at Fredericksburg. Ho had also strengthen ad his position by abattis and Ihrowlßg ir;, held works wherever they ceuM be ol advantage. Ha even constructed WOrka on the bald, rocky hill ou the right, impregnable as ths position scera «d to be, and dragged, MftiUcry up tt*. rujfged’ side* tf)ftp«o».*»situML i The fiTaCtiCe apfegl;at .Hk ifeec! day* cofiffienfr-is sooges unfi’-jia tdlcs.. The/ soiwv’a sfejASattycd 46vh grait *iHUi*udr| ji*».ki6*»L sod 'oißb of H><H- Msota wkfrtsu/- i priswirt/acguraie. Tfle f-i«k uikKjieffffU/ilj tintpat'.’-fies, TsTO 29. which there ha3 been a decided improvement since lac y. v . The poii: • f placing „.«*,.. . a * ’’ " " and ,i. ’.ere , so. c m produce hut i —.li.. ’kt general re*ult, has been abandoned, and a number of batteries are t;ow massed together in commanding position—and iV r-V T c< ? ncen Hated upon the point ot at ta Ih» f “ er, ‘ das aißo been much improvement ia ii he character of our projectiles. inr ‘® 08S ? n 1)01,1 alde9 wa# much heavier Tff?etad any haUle of . tile war ’ snd 100 wounds a general thirg, m >re serious The Washington Ghronicie of ibe .Tb, the raenda “‘Tma7ef n °‘ lhH derai sell mates our entire, casualties in killed wou-d --ed and prisoners, at 10,000, and admits that its own side suffered more than in any p.rvions engagement. Onr 1 ss was heavy eireugh though nothing like as mneh as the Chronicle’s ifiwil and ° D u i°, bcli,,v C' It will not f. ~and t J alow 1! ’ 000 Bay, 2,000 keiej, 10.000 wounded, arid 1,200 missing or pn- oners—making altogether 13.200 if the wounJtd who were left behind, be counted .K.IU as Wounded and prisoners, .'then jur ,uss ! will oxceed lhi9 estimate .ton-i'what. At) ihe available tranFDortatiou was brought into re quisition to remove the wooded, and vet it wa* round necessary to ieavc a considerable number behind, and especially those whoso in juries were serious. They were placed in houses and tents, and surgeons, nurses and cooks were lelt with them, and several days iutions provided. The enemy, malignant and unprin cipled as he is in other respects, has generally treated our wounded with kindness ; and the jnends, therefore, of these who may have fal len into his hands at Gettysburg, should not indulge in needless apprehensions in r*-gara to I tbe treatment they will receive I o~Til!2 *'. ne T n y , . a m »y be sately put down at I 000, lncludimr 6,000 prisoners. Such is the ! f ?H! n!OD of iTT, P 3rtial person? who examined parts ol the field. His infantry gave ns but little trouble, it was his numerous and well nerved artillery and the strength ot his position that enabled him to make an ob stinate resistance. The ambulance train, with such of our wounded as could be moved, is now at Wil liamsport, unable to cross the Potomac on ac count of a (resbet in the river. There has not been a whole day of 6umbine since we left the < j• of the Bine Ridge, nearly three weeko ago. it has rained, more or les?, every day or two, and the roads have been very heavv. Last year we had dnst and drought; this year mud and rain. The wounded will, probably, be placed in hospitals at Winchesf( r , Staunton and other Convenient points in the Valley, About 4,500 prisoners taken at Gettysburg '.re also,ai Wilburr.sport, on their way to Rich- tiome 1,500 were paroled near the bat i •••«', but the Federal authorities are report t ' ' 'juve* declared that they weald not rtcog i : n* ;> role, and required that ihe prisoneis i- taken to City Point, beiow Rieb i. > i-meo that and Vicksburg were the only b / ■ lii( i.i m owhaDgc could be properly di ’'r’lind**! he agteciuenl ol the two gov tsr • coni '- this was not the true r ! bholding their consent to an ex ... u': lysburg. They were alraid that he ’ unijjtation to their troops to surrender themselves, in order to get wonld be too strong tor many ot them to resist. They, doubtless, desired also to force Gen. Lee to de t*eh a large force to guard the prisoners to Richmond, and to impose upon him all the ex pense of provisioning them, as well a? all the ri6k of conducting them safely back to Virginia. The objection was weil taken, however, and we have no j ust cause of complaint for their refusal. Vly letters and telegrams of the 4:h and sth insts. havej'ast been returned to me, the cou rier not being able to cross the Pototn *c, on account of the freshet. Until yesterday, the line was interrupted by the presence of Federal cavalry, and when they were driven oil it was ascertained tna the rivvr could not be forded, and the ferry chaiu had been broken. This is indeed vexatious, but all has been done that could be dont* to get my. communications through. P. W. A j >4*i4L>iXfte<.’ ictid, Col. Du Rose, iost its colors | anoVjfferud mucu dutiug tbe last day’s tlgbv If tisff Inruwit forward, and was conduct ing itself witb its well known gallantry, when, fiy tbe withdrawal of other [lortions of the line, il was left alone, and without notiee, to contend against frightful odds. The men | tone7't their -ny a*.’' I.uwaat. dfoadvan tage, and nothing but their steady courage and t the skillful leading of the!” commander en | abl ”and them to gel off at all. All the color i guard were die y.-d <v ; . ne. No Liame I can he attached to f:.l or Col Ilaßose or Gen. ' Benning, both of w ocen stated in former communications, are brave and . ::;’ei. lent officers. Tbe accident was one of those things which will sometimes occur in battle, especially in an army which is without an edu cated stafl. Geu. Benning’s horse was shot under him. R, w. A. The Speech of Mr. Seward on the Fall of Vicksburg. Afie.r Lincoln “took the music,” in W >sh lugton, upon the fall of Vicksburg, Seward was serenaded, and made a speech in reply.— He promises the immediate, happy and glori ous reconstruction of the Union, though he seeius to lose sight of the fact that Ihe Confed eracy has about 700,000 troops in the field who won’t exactly agree with him. He said : He bad considered it the part of a patriot and statesman if possible to avert the condi tion of public affairs we had lately witnessed, and following the sublime example of Him who had died to save the world, he had prayed that this bitter cup of domestic dissention might be put away from our lips. The discord of our country was calculated to gludikb the worst of despotisms, but the couinrywwould survive the shock it was called upon to endure. No nation can perish that has a spark ol pop ular virtue left. The people are the guardians of the national title and national greatness and prosperity. No nation can be saved except by the sacrifice of individuals. In the language of the Scriptures, we must renounce father, mother, brother, all, !or*our country’s sake, we must give up our treasures, our affections ; we must make sacrifices, give up everything to be saved. For himself, he had surrendered all. There was not a child ot his capable ofjbearing’ arms who had not been freely given to the eer? vice of the country. It he would not preserve our ualiona'ity he was here to be buried in Us rums. If he had to tall, he wanted to lal', he wanted to fall in the streets of the capital of his country, ard be trampled under the heel of the assassins of Us freedom and greatness. He had chosen for his fi'c leader Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. He was for this Union with slavery it it must be, and without slavery if he conld have it so. (Tremendous cheering. ) There, is cow anew issue. Away with the dead The future will develope -who shall govern this great country. Neither wisdom nor vir tue came into existence with this people Thev will not die with the result of this contest Presidencies, Secretaryships, foreign legations, presented no temptations to him. He was ready to put them all away from him. it his country would be saved he should never ac - cept official position at the bauds of his couu trymen. He had been censured for the predic tion that the rebellion would be ended in ninety days, it would have been ended io that time— it would, in fact, have been ended before it was begun, if the counsels oS true patriots had been heeded. It has been protracted by the hopes held out ol foreign invirference. It had thus dragged its slow length along, with blood and carnage in its track, trough two long years; bnt in this beginning of the third year we hati just attained the beginniag ol the end. We have seen the stars one by one falling away from our national firmament, bnt now we are to witness the joyiul sight ot star after star, alter wanderiDg iu darkness, returning to the galaxy in which It belonged. Missouri had been for a while obscured, but tt now shines with redoubled brightness. Maryland vered ; it is now firmly set in the nations: coronet. Kentucky Dad been almost torn from the magic circle ; but it/ steadfastness was now assured. It will not by long belore Tennessee will be numbered sgai* among the loyal States, nor till Arkansas shall/- o again represented in the halls of cur Longs ss. Louisiana had al ready asked for reeogjuuon upon the old basis, and the Old North mate would soon follow Buit. In a little whiim we shall witness the ex traordinary spectacle of Old Virginia asking forgiveness of her siik, and even South Caro Una, the source of ir.: this mischief, would be sandwiched betwesn.Georgia and North ' iro lina and purified i.r her Iniquity. We already pee a pretended cm federation divided into four parts by traaswree lines drawn along the MUsissipni river and the Southern line ot Ten nessee. 'if heß the war could no longer be put aside, bo had but one request to make. He in voked God Almighty to inspire tbe people WKh virtue enough to vote tor the Union, and our iponiea with conrage enough to light lor it. But after all this conflict, this greatest, proud est, most prosperous ol nations, mua' still continue to thrive. If foreign nations would keep their hands off we should settle tfc'eed questions for onrselves, and when tbt, bait Provost Marshal sbonld call upon tbe jSWSWa of ylrlf district, he hoped every mapr-fitlcr duty jWriuld only -ask Where he was tqhls placed. If .Kysy needed spy one to folks*, old as he w:-.*, ’ iieCnMmld be with UioSo vi 7» tar ready u lay down their lives’for of the riia Os thu nation. _ /, 1* "AV 1 Supreme* oiir? ot GeingU is now iu Rpsalou in A ’ iftAfa.