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General Lee
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(THIRTY* THOUSAND
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IFrm the New Tork Herald of?J*ly 3d.]
k^. The Tillage of Gettysburg, Pa., was the
scene of a desperate conflict on Wednesday
and yesterday. The forces engaged were
the First and Eleventh army-corps, under
Generals Reynolds (who was hilled in tbe
action) and Howard, and the rebel forces
under Generals Ewell, Langstreet and
JL P. Hill. General Meade had arrived
oil the afield and participated in yesterday's
fettle. Six thousand rebel prisoners had j
been token, many of them comprised of 1
General Archer's brigade, numbering one
thousand five hundred, which, were taken
"by the Fourteenth Brooklyn, Ninety-fiiftli
"Ww Vr?*lr tind Rirt.h Wisconsin resriments.
Ofcneral Archer and liis whole staff were '
captured. Two thousand four hundred
cl the prisoners.arrived in Baltimore last
night. Our forces in Wednesday's fight are
+ arqxjrted to have been only twenty-two
thousand against fifty thousand of the
enemy. Our loss was undoubtedly very
heavy, many regiments having been badly
cot up, and several having all their officers
shot down.
From the NewYork Times of Jbly 7th.
Gen. Meade on Saturday issued a genAll
order thanking the Army of the Potomac
in behalf ot the country for the glorious
result of previous operations, and
announcing that its task was not yet accomplished.
That task?the destruction,
no far as possible, of the rebel army of
Horthern Virginia?it is now moving to
noeomplish. It was ascertained on Sunday
morning that Lee had commenced liis
xefaeat daring Saturday night, and it was
noon found that he was endeavoring to
xeach the Potomac, their reaijguard having
passed through Emmettsburg on Sunday
morning at daylight. Gen. Meade's headquarters
were at Creagerstown, Md., about
fifteen miles north of Frederick on Sun
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day, and yesterday tney were prooaDiv ai
^Frederick. The whole {Arniy of the Potobuk
was in motion again yesterday, and
entertained the highest hopes of capturing
the greater part of the rebel force. In
addition to the rebel pontoon bridges at
Williamsport, their bridge at Dam No. 4
bad been destroyed, and other preparations
had been made to prevent a crossing.
Our cavalry was also active at all points.
Gen. Kilpatrick, on Saturday last, it is
reported, intercepted a retreating train of
rebel wagons near Monterey, on the
Hagerstown and Gettysburg road, capturing
900 prisoners, including 200 wounded i
officers, 150 wagons and two guns?the
rebels'being completely surprised and
unable to make any serious resistance.
The enemy are abandoning all their
wounded on the retreat. They are leaving
all Generals and Colonels as well as
privates. The more we hear of the enemy's
loss the more disastrous the battle
becomes to them. On the 5th our troop3
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buried eight hundred rebel dead on Gen.
Slocnm's front, and over one thousand on
the front of Gens. Hancock and Newton.
The total number of the enemy's wounded
left on the field is not less than three
thousand.
From the New York Hertld of July I.
Perhaps the best evidence of the entire
route of Lee is the number of prisoners
which our troops are picking up in large
''bodies, amounting now to nearly twenty
eight thousand, or almost the fourth part
ft the aebel army. Hie troops of Gen.
Lee are scattered in the mountains, and
were endeavoring to escape towards Virginia.
Since Friday ithere was no general
engagement; but cavalry skirmishes in
the rear of the enemyare continually proour
cavgressing.
JL 'fight was reported at Fayetteville yesterday,
and another at Mercerburg, no
doubt the operations of our cavalry on
the enemy's rear, it is a remarkable fact
?hat the late seizure of horses made by
the rdbels horn the fanners in Pennsylvania
and Maryland has turned out greatly
to their disadvantage. The animals, not
being trained to the battle field, have become
<o unmanageable as to render their
riders almost helpless when attacked by
airy.
General Couch has pushed forward all
his effective force to co-operate with the
Army of the Potomac. His advance is
already in contact with the enemy and
aiding General Meade's army.
The troops under Gen. Pierce captured
at ^rAonPR&?.U> fira.knndiy.1 nrimn-nair* twn
wagons loaded with plunder and three
pieoes of artilleiy. The prisoners were
stragglers making their way to the Potomac,
in company with wagon trains.
A heavy freshet earae down the Potomac
as far as Washington yesterday, and
it was stated that all the fords from Falling
Waters were rendered completely impassable.
The waters of the Potomac are
now six feet above the fording leveL
It is stated on excellent authority that
the rebel General Ewell, the successor of
Stonewall Jackson, died yesterday from
wounds received at the battle of Gettysburg
on Friday.
Our whole army is in motion, and the
highest hopes are entertained that but a
small portion of the rebel army will be
able to reach Virginia.
The slaughter among the rebel general
officers is very great. Maj.-Gen. Trimble
of Baltimore, is a prisoner, with his left
foot gone. Brig.-Gen. Kemj>er, of South
Carolina, is also a prisoner, dying. Brig.
Gen. Armistead, captured Thursday, is
dead. Mnj, Gen. Hood is wounded in the
arm. Gens. Beth, Pender and Picket are
plso known to have been wounded. Barksdale
and Garnett were killed in the charges.
Archer was captured on Wednesday.
Gen. Kilpatrick last night, 5th, got in
the rebel rear near Funkstown, and burn
ed their wagon train.
Gen. French sent a strong expedition to
"Williamsport yesterday, 5th, who destroyed
the pontoon bridges which the rebels
had constructed there, captured a number
of convalescents, and burned an amunition
train. The enemy cannot cross the river
at that place.
Gentlemen who left Gettysburg last evening,
5th, state that Gen. Longstreet is
dead and within onr lines. Longstreet's
Adjutant General is a prisoner. Everything
looks as though Lee's army would
be forced to turn and give battle or surrender.
Gen. Hill is reported killed.
Among our losses are Generals Paul,
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URJAY, JULY 11,1863.
Weed* jand. Zook, killed, and Sickles, Bar- |
low, Graham, Warren and Doubleday,
wonndad.
The price President of the rebel government,
Alexander H. Stephens, and
$r. Commissioner Onld, came down the
James river on board the rebel gunboat
Dragon, on Saturday, under a flag of truce,
and requested permission from Admiral
Lee to proceed to Washington in order to
present in person an important communication
from Jefferson Davis to Abraham
Lincoln. Admiral Lee at once dispatched
to Washington for instruction- A Cabinet
meeting was accordingly held yesterday
morning, and it was decided that permission
should not be granted to these gentlemen
to fulfill their mission, whatever it
was, to Washington.
The probability of the return of North
Carolina the Union is foreshadowed by
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says :? 44 Reliable information has been
received here that the return of North
Carolina to the Union is an event which
may be daily expected.
We have news from New Orleans to the
1st inst. The bombardment of Port Hudson
was then going on vigorously. All
the steamers in the service of General
Banks we*? running up and down the
river without interruption.
ADDRESS OF GEN, MEADE TO AIS ARMY.
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Near Gettvhbcbcii Jn.v 4. /
General Orders No. 68.?The Commanding
General, in bghalf of the country,,
thanks the Army of the Potomac for the
- glen. ioun th<yr*^ut ffperatioP.^Our
enemy, superior in numbers, and
flushed with the pride of a successful invasion,
attempted to overcome or destroy
this army. Baffled and defeated he has
now withdrawn from the contest. The
privations and fatigues the army has endured,
and the heroic courage and gallantry
it displayed, will be matters of history
to be ever remembered.
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uur tasK is noi yei accompnsueu, ana
tlie Commanding General looks to the
army for greater efforts to drive from our
soil every vestige of the presence of the
Invader..
It is right and proper that we should,
on suitable occasions, return our grateful
thanks to the Almighty Disposer of events,
that, in the goodness of His providence
He has thought fit to give victory to the
canse of the just.
By command of
(Signed.) Maj.-Gen MEADE.
S. Williams, A. A. G.
An enthusiastic believer was relating to
a skeptic some spiritual performances to
which he could testify, and among other
things he said that, on a certain occasion,
the spirit of his wife, who had been dead
several years, returned to him, and seating
herself upon his knee, put her arms I
around him and kissed him as much to
his gratification as she used to do when ,
living. "You do not mean to say," remarked
the skeptic, "that the spirit of
your wife really embraced and kissed
you?" "No, not exactly that," replied;
the believer ; "but her* spirit took pos- j
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session 01 uie uouy 01 a iemaie meuiuin,
and through her embraced and kissed
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me.
The sunlight makes the violet blossom.
No surgeon's instrument can make flowers
bloom, and no hammer can drive them
forth. But the sweet, persuading sun can
call them out A seed is planted. The
sun looks and kisses the place again, and
a green plant appears above the ground.
It looks once more, and kisses once more,
and a beautiful white blossom unfolds itself.
And thus it is with the soul. No
philosophy can drive them forth. But let
God's sweet, persuasive soul rest upon
ours awhile and they come up and blossom.
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NO. 27.
Surrender
OF
Vicksburg,
FOl'RTH OF JILY.
Cairo, July 7, 1863.
Vicksburg surrendered to Gen.
Grant July 4.
OFFICIAL
Report.
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Washington, July 7,1863?1 p. m.
The following dispatch has just been
received : 4
U. S. Mississippi Squadron, \
Flag-Siiip Black IIawk, >
July 4, 18G3.)
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Hon. Gideon Welles, Sec. of Navy:
Sir :?I have the honor to inform
you that Vicksburg has
surrendered to the United States. ; ' forces
on this 4th of July.
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very resDecuuuy,
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D. D.* Porter,
Acting Rear Admiral.
Misebs Extinguished by Papeb Money.
?"Thepassion for wealth," writes Chas.
Lamb, "has worn out much of its gros6ness
by tract of time. Our ancestors conceived
of money as able to confer a distinct
gratification in itself, not alone considered
simply as a symbol of wealth.
The old poets, when they introduce a
miser, constantly make him address his
gold as his mistress; as something to be
seen, felt, and hugged, as capable of satisfying
two of the senses at least. The
substitution of a thin, unsatisfying medium
for the good old tangible gold, has
made avarice quite a Platonic afi'ection in.
comparison with seeing, touching, and
handling the pleasures of old Chrysophilities.
A bank-note can no more satisfy
the touch of a sensualist in this passion,
than Crusea could return lier husband's
embrace in the shades. See the Care of
Mammon in Spenser ; Baraba's contemplation
of his wealth in the Jew of Malta;.
Luke's raptures in the City of Madam.
Above all, hear Guzman, in that excellent
old Suanish novel. The Rogue, exna
tiate on the ruddy cheeks of golden Haddocks,
vour Spanish Pistolets, your plump
and full-faced Portugese, and your clearskinned
peices of eight of Castile,' whicln
he and his fellows, the beggars, kept secret
to themselves, and did 'privately enjoy in
a plentiful manner.' 'For to have them,
for to pay them away is not to enjoy them,
to enjoy them is to have them lying by us
having no other need of them than to use
them for the clearing of the eyesight, aud
the comforting of our senses. These we
did not carry about with us, sewing them
in some patches of our doublet near unto
the heart, and as close to the skin as we
could handsomely quilt them in, holding,
them to be a restorative.'" De Foe's. ^
thieves have this sense of the reality of
money. Children, old women, and some
inhabitants of semi-civilized and unsettled
parts, are the only hoarders left: a coin to
them is appreciable ; a bond on extremely
thin paper next to nonentity.
Why is delirium tremens like a pinching
boot? Because it is a tight fit.
Why should a tippler never have a wife?
Because he is sure to licker.
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