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A NEW SONG.
The following rallying song is form the pen of Hon. Wm.
Flflgg. of Cincinnati :
Pl'T IT THBOUOIl.
Tiinsp nnf. nr>? ainclp hnnri
Binding our Union gr?nd,
Woe is on all the land
If.jou do.
CnoErs?Long as the rebels can.
We can fighl, man to man,
Traitors the war began.
Put it through.
8top not for parley, when
Knaves fall on honest men;
Blow for blow give again,?
Three for two,
Till the last foe is dead,
* Or over all is spread
Proudly the white and red.
And the blue.
Law shall in triumph refgu,
Order shall come again.
Com age and hope remain,
To the true.
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NEWS FROM NORTHERN PAPERS.
THE REBEL RAID INTO PEJSKSTLVANIA,
T he most important news fron. the North during
the present week relates to an extensive raid into
Pennsylvania. We give a synopsis of the state
mcnts in JNorthcrn papers, it appears that the
array under Lee commenced to move in a northwesterly
direction on 9th .Tu:;e, and that Genoral
Hooker, discerning his intention moved on 11th,
or 12,hon a parallel line. On the morning of!2th,
Jackson s old corps, now commanded by General
Ewell, passed through Strasburg. The alarm was
given, and General Milroy at Winchester prepared
tor defence. He was attacked, surrounded by
..I8u00 men, but made a gallant defence. The rebels
being strongly reinforced, however, there was
no way but to cut his way through, which he did,
successfully, and proceeded to Harper's Ferry.
He lost 2000 mm, killed, wounded and missing
On the same day, 13th, a Union force under Gen.
Reynolds, at Berryville, and another body at Middletown,
were attacked, and fell back to the Poto.
mac. On 14th, Sunday, Martinsburg was attacked,
and a sharp affair occurred. The rebels were repulsed,
and our forces fell back to the Ferry.
On the evening of the 14th and morning of the
loth eight thousand rebels under Gen. .jenkins
crossed the Potomac in the vicinity of Nolan's
Ford, and moved on Hagerstown, which was evacuated
by our troops on the 15th. In falling back,
our peopie took with them their stores, supplies,
and guns. At 9 p. n. on the loth, the rebel advance-guard
entered Chambersburg, which place
our troops evacuated. The rebels advanced in
t tree columns one towards Gettysburg and Wanes*
boro', cue towards Mercersburg, and i?.e other
direct on Chambersburg. Greeucastle was occupied,
on the 11th or 15th." The rebels captured
nothing of importance at Hagerstown ; they behaJ
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veil wtni. anu pniu lor an uiey iook irom stores in
greenbacks. The people of (hambersburg had
ample warning of the rebel approach. Some of
the ' solid " men skedaddled, tue rolling stock of
the railroad was secured, and the telegraph operator
hid his instruments. When the rebels arrived,
they charged through the t. wn with yells, and
made directly for the railroad depot and telegraph
office. At the former they found nothing. Every
car and engine had been moved to places of safety.
The rebels did not capture any rolling stock at all;
none even at Hagerstown. Along the road some
i .irs were left on the side tracks, but they were the
property ot private individuals. At the telegraph
office they found themselves again foiled. The
place w;us in darkness. They threatened to break
t lie door open ; but at the suggestion of a citizen
waited until it was opened. In they rushel,
looked all around, and on being unable to find
anything manifested gouie degree ot disappoint-:
nicnt. They then left the house, and did not |
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ll\)llilir n twin UtViuo* -?x iwuv. unn-wU t^unuo Ui'?^
that w is displayed over the door they left flying,!
ftuJ although they saw it every day they did not
tear it down* Why it was they acted so generously
none pretend to know. Tuesday morning
lound the stores about town closed up. General
.Jenkins ordered them to be opened I y a certain i
ln.ur, and threatened that those who did not comply
with this order would be made to suffer by
* having their goods destroyed. The stores were
opened. During the day the re&ol officers and
soldiers passed around from one store to another
and purchased whatever they desired, paying for
the same in relud script. Sometimes a private
would come along, who would take many things he
did not piy for; but on the whole the rebels behaved
tliein?elves very welD Thcv paid liberally
for what they gut, and the storekeepers did not
fail to ftok almost enormous prices for their goods.
The drug stores were made to suffer the heaviest,
in that the rebels laid in a good stock of drugs and
articles of medicine found at such places. In trading
matters the soldiers were generally very talk:
ative and often remarkably courteous. Soon after
their arrival the rebels went out live miles and
burned Scotland bridge, liO feet long,ovei Cheaque
creek.
On Wednesday morning, about half past ten
o clock, a courier arrived at the headquarters of
Gen. Jenkins from the direction of Ilagerstown,
bringining important communications. Immediately
after reading his despatches he ordered the
command to get in immediate readiness for a retreat
movement. Then a scene of much confusion
ensued. The rebels evidently were much scared.
Their wagon train was burned out of town in the
direction of Greencastle as fast as the horses could
with safety be driven, by one o'clock the rebel
rear lrrft town. The extreme rear guard went out
, with cocked revolvers. Some few got separated
i from the command, and with difficulty escaped.
On the 19th 2o0 rebels entered Mct'onnellsburg,
seized the telegraphic Instruments, and then rej
tired towards Han ,ock Aid , at which place they
burned the canal boats; they were then driven off
by a cavalry force from Col. Gallagher. Seven
I hand eJ rebels made a flank movement toSt.Jobiis
river, intending to destroy a large culvert oppo1
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Site hiancocK. jncy were uriveu uuciv uj vwi.
Gal agher, after an hour's tight.
General Kelly then ordered Colonel Gallagher to
proceed with infantry and cavalry to Cumberland,
but within six miles of there he received word frotn
General Kelly that ten thousand rebels were at
j Cumberland, and returned. At last da'es the
rebels were 8000 strong ut llagerstown, 250 of
Mo.ocby's cavalry were at Greencastle, and stores
i and ammunition were being brought over to the
north side of the river, as if to make the base of
supplies there. Gen. Milroy, after retreating to
Harper's Ferry, advanced into Pennsylvania to
look after some of his force which had been cut
off and escaped in that direction. He established
his headquarters at Bloody Bun. where he took
command of such troops as had been gathered
there, with a jiew to attacking the rebels at Ureencastie.
lie had there the 116th Ohio and 12th Virginia
Vols., and had ordered Col Gallagher, who
had command at Bradford, to report to him with
the U. S. forces under his command?the 12th
Penna. Cavalry, the 1st N. Y. Cavalry, and a portion
of the 13tli. At last accounts he was said to
be approaching the rebels with four thousand
mounted infantry and five thousand riflemen, .*?' o
in the saddle and that a battle was imminent, 'i be
' ^ " 1\A?1A AVAit,.,! O M.tnr An.l
rcuui auv&iiuc serins in iihtu c.\tuc(i ? nun aim
intense war feeling all through the North. No
less than 15 militia and returned 9-months regiments
in New York, were under marching orders
on the i7th. Aid is to be furnished from Massachusetts,
Maine, New Jersey, and many other
states and troops are flocking to the new seat of
war. Harrisburg at one time in imminent danger,
is now considered safe. The President has called
for ICO,000 men, 10,000 from Maryland, 50,000
from Pennsyhania, :J0,000 from Ohio, and 10,000
! from West Virginia, to serve six months, unless
| sooner discharged. The'rebels invested Harper's
! Ferry on the 10th inst., and made an attack. The
j Union troops retreated to the Maryland Heights
| and'shelled the rebels out ol#Uarper"s Ferry, 'ihe
! enemy retreated to Williamsp rt, when Gen Tykr
j recrossed and occupied his former position.
AFFAIRS ON 11IK POTOMAC.
Imring wick before last Gen. Hooker,
commenced changing his base of supplies
from Aniii.a freek to Alexandria, and bv
a forced march, during which the troops suffered
severely from heat, moved his army from Falmouth
to near the old Bull Hun battle field. On Wednesday,
the 17th a skirmish occurred near Aldie, Va.,
between our cavalry and Colonel Fitzhugh Lee s
forces, which lasted several hours. 'J he rebels
were driven hack five miles, with con.-iderable
loss. We lost Colonel Douty, of the Maine cavalry,
hilled, and Colonel de Cesnola, of the Fourth
cavalry missing We took seventy-four prisoners,
including nine officers. ']he object of this expedi:ion
was to discover the whereabouts of the
main force of the enemy. It succeeded
in ascertaining that the army of General
Lsc were concentrated in large force near that place,
bodies of cavalry, infantry and artillery having
been advanced to guard the passes of the Blue
Ridge. It has been surmised from this reconnoisance,
also, that only a small portion of Lee's cav-i
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oirjr c ciij^a^cu in ixic taiu iuiu i cuuajr * > uma,
and that not uiore than one-third of his force was in
the Shenandoah valley. Further information obtaincd
by this important reconnoinance would lead
to the belief that Lee was marching against Hook- j
er's army in three colnruns, under Longstreet.
Hill and Elwell, and that news of a great battle
maybe expected. It is said that our array is
ready for the emergency.
FROM YICKJ3C&G.
Reports from Vickslmrg to Saturday morning
last arc, that General Sherman's corps had pushes I
their forces up to within twenty yards of one of
j the bastions of the enemy, and driven them out of
i their rifle pits. On Friday the rebels cut away
; the timber in the rear of their lines and opened on
; our troops with au eleven-inch shell and two or
three siege guns. General Logan silenced their
j mortar with his thirty-two pounders. Thirtecu of
our gunboats guard the river between Helena and
j Young s Point The gunboat Mormora destroyed
the town ofLuniee on Saturday.
FROM MEXICO.
The steamer Corsica, from Havana fith. via Nassau
Nth arrived at New York with confirmatory
news of the occupation of Puebla.
Ortega, on the loth. offered to surrender on
condition that the soldiers be allowed to carry
j their banners, the officers, their side arms and ail
: to march to the city of Mexico and report to the
I supreme government. These were all granted, ex.
; cept the latter. Gen. Korev ordering them to march
to Orizaba and there await in inactivity the close
of the war.
On the 18th, G^n. Forcy presented to the offij
ecus a document to sign, ii< cianng that they will
n./t mix in the tx^lici?-s of the nation, and will b ;
come neutral durii g the present war; that they
j will not leave the limit aligned by the French
Goner d-in-Chijf; that they will not communicate
! with any one without his consent. The officers
| received this with ciics of ? i/mg live Mexico,"
" Death toXupclcon&V " Death tothe traitors,"
i and then signed a protest that they were not al:
lowed to sign the above by the laws of their country,
nor by military honor. Gen. Ortega* previous
to the surrender, ordered all artillery to be
broken np.
President Juarez had issued a proclamation announcing
a g?eat disaster in the surrender of
l'ucbla. and stating that the capital will not only
lie defended to the last e.\tr? nnty, hut ail me pmcesbe
defended with vigor; that the nation will
wage war without Ceasing and under sacritice3
against the odious army which is proi&ning its soil.
Vera Cruz advices report the escape of Generals
Ortega, La Live, Mcndoza, and eight more of the
pi incipal chiefs, over 800 minor o;titers and ?000
prisoners from the French convoy, en route to
Orizaba.
Dc P. nt and Foote.?*Motiewall ' Jackson
j has been hold up for admiration on both sides of
I the water, and very justly as an oilicei of a typo
I which in these clays is rare. A devoted, Godfearing
and single hearted man he added to high
i military talent moral qualities ot that sort, which
I have for ages been known as the surest qualifies
tion tor great achievements, as well as the highest
1 characteristic cf the Christian. A man of such
I Croihwellian stamp seemed to belong to the f'urii
t.in of this strnffcle rather than with the sell
styled " Cavaliers'? and it seems a strange disposition
of Providence, wuieh placed him, a m n of
high faith and of noble personal attributes, in the
front rank ol the defenders of a cause which is so
j essentially immoral, and is stirh a thorough negation
of everything except material ends, as the
] cause of the rebellion. * .
Without stopping to point out the explanation
of this incongruity, we wish to remind our readers
! that although generals of Jackson s stamp are but
j too rare in our service, we have an admiral who
i corresponds very near to him. in the religious cast
of his mind and its effect upon his conduct as a
! commander. We refer of course to AdmhalFoote,
| who, if we have no Cromwell, is at least our i lake,
; ?an earnest, devout and single-minded sailor,
whose life is devoted to the praise of his God ami
the honor of his country ; who tinds the hand ot
Providence in whatever befalls, and looks for
strength only from on high; and who, besides h*vi
ing his courage and resolution thus powerfully
upheld by deep religious faith, has a thorough
knowled c of his profession, and faculties pecult- v
' arly adapted to its wants. In this admiral we bavo
| as it seems, much tjje same combination of which
: we have envied the rebels the possession in the
case of Jackson
If any man should replace Admiral Da Pont it
I should be a man like this. "Whatever depends
I upon the character of the leader in such an enterj
prise as is now understood to he committed to him,
, he will supply. "We have no assurance that Ad|
miral Lu Pont left anything to he desired in thisresp
ct, though it is the fashion of the moment to
accuse hiirr of a lack of faith in the work. The
' man now placed in charge of tho attack upon
Clk a >1 nnlnn liAlllAlfAa liAO in il'A h(t Ami
V liaMt'diuii) uuncvci) uaa laiwi iu 11117 uuia will
faith in God in a singular degree, besides tho prestige
of continuous success. Under his guidance
therefore the attack will have every gnarsutee of
success that man can give; and if it is not successful,
we shall at all events be able, by this narrowing
down of the reputed causes of lailure, to arrive
more r.early at a general understanding of the
truth as to the obstacles which stand in the way
of success.?Boston Jldvertitcr.