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Tho jourmey of life has its lights and its shadows, And Heaven, in its wisdom; to each sends a share; Though rough be the road, yet with reason to guide us And courage to conquer, we'll never despair! Never despair! when with troubles contending, Make labor and patience a sword and a shield, And win brighter laurels, with courage unbending, As gay as the lark in the beam of the morning, When young hearts spring upward to do and to dare, The brig':t star of rpomise, their future adorning, Will light them along, and they'll never despair! The oak in the tempest grows strong by resistance, The arm at the anvil gains muscular power, Aw'l firm self-reliance, that seeks no assistance, Goe4 onward, rejoicing, through sunshine and shower; F.r life is a warfare, to try and to prove us, And true hearts grow stronger by labor and care, While Hope, like a seraph, still whispers above us, Look upward and onward, and never despair ! COPIES OF CORRESPONDENCE. O.r:t.AND, S. C., June 14, 1861. Rev. J. R. PicK-TT,-Dear .tr : The un dersigned, in behalf of many of our Citizens, w )uld request that you will favor them and the public with your close, full, and patriotic discourse delivered on the occasion of the day r,..,mmended and appointed as a day of fast. .1 pr.tyvr by the President of the South ,.f..deracy, at Butler Church on the i: st. We i'rqtest that you will furnish \*,-ry truly, yours, &C., \. S. DOZIER. A. L. DEA RING, , Committee. .. 1'. MICKLER. l OAKx..tsn, S. C.. June 14, I61. Cenlemlen,-I received your kind notice of my discourse delivered on yesterday, und will try and furnish you with a copy as soon as T can write it out, as I had no notes bef.re mea on the occasion. You wil' please not only wait on me but excuse any variation you may discover. I will copy my discourse as we;: Ib-r.. - x reman, gentleuee, Your obedient serv't, J. R. PICKETT. A. S. Dozier, A. L. Dearing, J. P. Mick ler, Committee. SUBSTANCE OF A SERMON DELIVERED BY REV. J. R. PICK ETT, AT BUTLRn CnEEK CHUCnH, oN THE oVCA SION OF THE FAsT I'RoCLA5uED FOa Jur: 13, 1861. Text. PSALMS CXL, S-ru Vyasx : " Grant ,i 0 Lord, the eirer of the mik : fjerther not his ,creked derice ; le.t they ctrult thenmIrte." President Divis of the Confederate Sttnes has by proclamation requested all radigiou< people to astaemble at their rtspective places of worship, as they fast for religious services. Gov. PicE~s, of the State of South Caroli na, ha~s seconded his desire by his proclama tion to the same effect. We have read some whuere that a crew of pirates starting on a cruise procured a Bible, but on looking over the commandments they found one which they immnediately cut out-.it was '- Thou shalt not kill." They would not face the Word of God where they were -confessaedly condemned. This is human nature. So from it we may judge that President Dis and Gov. PIcecss think they are right in the eyes of God and Religion, else they would not have maide their appearance by their proclanationls around His altari for religious devotions. There are times when a minister of the Gospel would deservedly lose caete if' he opened a discussion of a political character in the pulpit. lHe is the servant of all, and should try to save all as his great business; and though he has a right to his opinion, and should have one, yet he at once loses the confidence of the party opposed to him, and even the prudent and wise, who may believe with hinm, cannoL but believe thatt be lias low. ered himself, though they be willing to profit by his influence. This doubtless may be all right in party politics-iQ making up opinions and marshalling hosts to the encounter and battle of words; but the questions for our consideration to.day are taken out of " words" and placed amongst the "deed.," of state action, and is no longer one of polities, but patriotismi. , We, and1 the North too, have men in the field. We, and the North too, care for our armies. We, and the North too, know that God is our only trust. We too muay pray ; but yet we plainly see- that if the:' pray, our prayers must cro.'s. Then Bilhe in the text gives us to understand whose prayer shall be Iheard: "Grant not, 0 Lord, the desires of the wicked.'' In this controversy it mmy 1 e w.l for us to exainiue if we are on that side wvhsi h, in righ teousmes. nimy claim the p-.uy. r of the text Over the desires" of our enemies, as " the wick-e.": Nations and Corporations may very well through their officers and by all other means look well to the snaracter they bear in the light of God and Religion. It is the Faith of Christendom tha'. the individual man here in this life is on trial as a moral agent. His life and death on earth is not with hi "uAll of life to live Or all of Death to die." But while the future may be full of the aw ful sanctions of law for the individual; yet this is not the case with Corp )ratiorLs and 'with Nations. They have no future world beyond this. And if God administers law moral law at all-then their prosperity or ad versity must depend on their good or evil. See how forcibly the sanictions of moral law wero eaeted on the wicked Nations and Corporations of Sodom,. Gomorrow, Egypt Babylon, Nineveh, Tyre, Carthage, Jerusalem Athens and Rome. We mark the Divin' Providence even in modern times. Why hat England stood so long without the complett upturning of her society and laws, whilst the convulsions which have effected her only show the degree of her wickedness? But when we turn our eyes to some of her neigh bors, who could go so far in wickedness as even to deny God by law, we see France, fot instance, make, under the Providence of God, her home a "vortex of revolutions" and blood, In England there has never been a time bul she, in her citizcnsfas an "inborn reverence for the constable's staf'"-such a sense of moral obligation to law that any Dogberry could arrest any Duke and he would bow to the authority of law. Au oath with him is s it should be with all people, the highest ap peal knowen to the hunan conscience, because it involves the pledge of his religion before God. Society must be thus based on Relig isn to be stable. Without. Religion there is no moral obligation, and the amount of Re ligion is the amount of influence a moral ob ligati'n to God has over the man. To be destitute of this is to be " wicked," and that too in a generic sense. It is to possess in the heart the bitter fountain whence must flow ull manner of sin. In this controversy be tween the North and the South where do we, with our Rulers, our Generals and our armies stand ? The Constitution of the United States says: (Act. 1, .sec. 9, 6th clause,) "No preferenct shall be given by any regulation.of Commerce or Revenue to the ports of one State oves those of another." Here is the broad ground on which the Union was formed, EQUALITY -" no preference" of one over another-and by contemplation of law every citizen born i: the land is understood to be under oith tt support this Constitution, and the only reasor they are not required to take an oath of alle giance like a foreigner is because he was s born in the land which is regarded as ihr equivalent of an oath to support the Consti ttion. Was there " no preIdrence," no ine quality in so taxing the goods of Foreig Trade as to compel the South to purchase thi Manufactures of the North at high prices, tc k'eep her from purchasing the ramue cheaply from the Foreigner? Did not tins comupte the South to bear unequal burde: s in the sup port of Governmett-she paying the tar"a whilst the North got a bonus on her indust And yet she (the North) swore to support Constitution of "no prefercsce." In givingaway the public lands by 'orTnertt masjorit&3raccomtaot properfy the States, did ahe not do so with the exp undertaning that it woul'l rc quire a big taritY to snp-ort the Government, givin greater bonu., to the North antd a treater b de. to the South ? Yet an oath to the .., i.reference" Constitution stared thenm it t.aco ! ! Did not this same North, through het nasjority in Congress, pass laws to damn, bi pmalties of piracy, the only mnean- for in creasing the labor-power of the South, white at the same time Congress passed laws to en courage the inanigration of the laboring class from Europe, suited to the climate and iadustrial wants of the North? This, whilst we were united with the North gave then their majorities antd swept our power andt equality with thems away. The stoppage ? the S'ave trade, in the Slave holding Repub li, can have nao sue) 4"preferenace" for a see tiob and is consistent with equality. Every citizen of the North was sworn t< return our slaves who maight fly from work but did they not kill the very men that they wer.- sworn to help! And what is their ex euse? "A higher law!" A higher' law thati an oath to od !! A higher obligation that1 une to God!.!' If this is not wicked, where is a sinner ? In the fi~cal action of the Government with a Northern majority, is there "tno pref erence" in thiowing the use of all the mnoney collected by Government in Northern cities1 If the Government makes a Bank with tenm of millions of capital does that majority pul it where thte great staples of a wor'ld's com mece centres ? Int Richmond, Charleston Savannah, Mobile or New Orleanas? Not so but ita some northern city. This is what Iha' built up great, capitals in the North, whilst al the Southa gras grows itn the streets wheret tae great trade was, before this " preference' was inastituted by men who had sworn ntot tc have any. In miaki.tg new States outt of commton ter ritory has not the North mtoved Ileavena and Earth to carry out " preferenace," though uande1 the highest religious obligation to a Conastitu tion forbiddintg it ? In adnmittinag Missour was there not a comaqromtise muade, which th~ Supreme Court of thte United States, in thu Dred Scott decision, pronounced to be un constitutional? rTe decisions of thid Cour have the same legal effect as the Constitutiont because it is its Constitutional expounder Btt whant is an oath to men so wicked as t< pretend to a highter obligation ? In making a state of California was ther< "tao preference?" Three-fourthas of til.e soldier; whose bloo~d and valour won the land of gold an the turiir money which paid the "1mat of soup," atnd his sodijers in thtat war, weri from the South, and yet a Northern mnajorita would encouragre a set of hItur Spanius, hal Indian and half negro populations, who wer< whipped out of thecir country, to stay by3 thei coastitution, thtat the very men who thu whipped thsemt, should n ,t. go withI their prop erty there; but the North should. "0 Ojustice thou hast fled to brutish boasts, Ad mean have lost their reason." 'Tha elh c.iona of Mr. Ltrscors~ to the pr'esi ency was thec crowning act of sin against the Constitutiona and the ,South. The platforn or se of pr:nc~ples o.t hich he was electe< was a face to face fight against the decisioi of the highe'st tribunal oan 'arth known ti law, and the reversal of its decision in thi Dred Scott case was the great end to be ob tained, because it secured to the Souath equal ity itt the Unaion a:d the protection of he property under the Constitution. But th ejury of the millions at the North, und~ a o tenreme law and Constitutior dashed away all oaths to God, all justice ts the South, all fealty to law; and all shame is guilt. Mr. LINtOLN took the oath to the Consti tution, and three months had hardly passei before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States pronounced him e usurper, a tyrant, and violater of the Consti tution he swore to support-in his suspension of the Habeas Corpus act in Maryland. The group I assumed for all these acts o1 perjury and irreligion is equally irreligious and fanatical-fighting against God. It is nothing more nor less than trying to change God's work and improve on His plans. They would make what God has made a negro a black skinned white man; whilst every man who is at all familiar with the character and habits of the negro knows that it will be as hard to change his moral and intellectual habitudes as to change the physical formation of his body. "The Ethiop cannot change his skin." God has declhred this to be impos.4 ble. Yet the North stirs the "charmed pot" and excites its ignorant and simple-minded goslings to believe that robbing the negro of his master is building up freedom. No won der such a cauldron should produce such monstrosities as are found in the North. In fidelity, Fouierism, or denial of property, Free-lovisn, ,r denial of marriage, governing Society by bumps on the head, and doing away capital punishment, attacking human responssibility, Fataliss, Millanism-making s list of foolery in fact as long as anan's list of ships. Daring Heaven in all of them Stultifying philosophy and ruining humar society. If these be not wicked where shall we find the ungodly. Now, b cause t!.e.South wishes a copart nership no longer with such a rabble of sit and perjury, the North wages war upon us . 0 Lord. grant not the desires of the wicked.' Because we withdraw frot the common Gov ernient, they charge us with reblaii agaiis them, assuming the whole authority of Gov ernmsent. We cannot rebel against eqials they assume to he musters.. Onr States ar theirs, our forts are theirs, nur txe.i anc Ismoney are theirs, and in fact, that !he Soutl is t.heirs. We have armed, but has it ber-n to sulju gate them ? Do we fight for any thing or their territories 7 Not a thing. We clain none of their forts though more of' Southerr u., ine detres of the wicked." Will God answer our prayer? To shon that he will, just look what God has alread' done in his providence. Look at For t Sumter Fur two or three days there never was bette shouting nor nore skillful management, ant without blood (;od gave us the victory. But mark ! when .Maj. Anderson was sa'u:ing hi, Ib g-the symbol of all the ungodliness ant perjury o~f his .ie ot' the strile, thoughs it the battle a hutndred guns loaded with so andi ahell killed snone, God, without any shol ini the gun, killed several in salutinsg the symn bol of Northern enime. The first time the Southerni flag was lowered on Southern soi was its Alexansdria, Va., but Col. Ellswortl tell dead by Jackson's ball before it reachei the ground. 0 God ! how easy to show thm' blessinsg ins thy power. Here is death in dis hooring one flag, and death its honoring ans other. These are more thans straws whiel show how the wind blows. God works by meants somnetimses of His own selections ins op positions to means mess maiy select, but He hia intended us to consfide itn Ii< working througi the known lawi of nature. From this poinit wi have reason to trust He will ansswer nsot ths " desires of the wicked." We '-save the mnoi exeiensced Genserails and Othee~rs frost the Old Unsited States Army ana Navy, who leasr the (.ld banner to victory, but who have lefl it when it becamie the symbol of tyrannsy ani ensue, for ansother. We could run over list of cotticers which would co:nspare withs ok vetens in victory. Have they lost theci: skill? Our mess fly to armss from aill classos o Isociety. They are nsot of the class, which destitute of' labor and bread, marched dowr Bradway in New York, a few years ago with bannuers Ott which was written "BR EA E OR BLOOD" to the tune of 25,Ot. N< wotder the mn of property in Northerr Cities pay well to raise Re~gimuents and sern such to the~wars. Our nmen can msainssiuin ths field of themselves, and will do it if steed be whilst they knsow their canse i4 just. Wa have thie mieans its our great staples to raisa a revenUe suflicienst to pay our exports ive: two hiundred mnillion.s, while the Noirthi, t< invade us, will be comipelled to snpport twic< as large an army, anid their fifty usillionts o exorts cut if1 by Southern Privateers, thea canot raise any revenue. Already their credi is gonie. Ohio votes a loani of three millios and after the greatest strains cats only raise bj lian/three hundred thtousand. Linicoln's Con gress votes at loan, yet lie cats get only n par of it, ansd that too by pnsying onue hunssdra de lars f..iighty five, anid interest twice a yeal at that. Whilst our Governnst gets ever' dollar at par anid smore othfered than she wants Neer yet did heavier harvests press on: fiells than that which we are now gatherinig The North says the negroes will rise anic we will have our hanida full with them. have no doubt of the truth of thai,, buti will only be ins price that they will rise. Thi s ure nuegro snever did rebel-he never will Iand men know this who know the negro hest e will not g.ive up one of his first rights the right of a master,-anld especially so whes he masiy be sold to a worse by a Yankee is Cuba. Somse of our soldiers, now in Virginia, havy better crops thtan when tht.'y staid at homes And there arc entough men left to see that al rthings go on Well. Our boys have ntothinj It do or think but fight. and God bless ever1 one of them. They will do it, and if lhe Yankees "exalt themselves" at their expense something new under the sun will have taLeg place. With all the facts before us, my cou try men, our President and Governor may rith all the people, come arounl God's altarstand ask him for Ilis blessing with the well-ground, ed assurance that He " will not grant the de sires of the wicked nor further his de Idei lest they exalt themselves." My Cruelty to my Relatives. -AN OLD sTORY, SlUT A GOOD oNE. I had an aunt coming to see me fo'the first time since my marriage, andldon't laiow what evil genius prompted the wiekednelis (I acknowledge, with tears in my eyes, tha it was such,) that I perpetrated toward my wife. "My dear," said I to my wife, on the ay before my auut's arrival, you know Aunt ary is coming to-morrow; well, I forgot toy en tion a rather annoying circumstance in rtrd to her. She's very deaf, and although.ghe can hear my voice, to which she is accut6m ed, in its ordinary tonos, yet you wilt be obliged to speak extremely loud in order to be heard. It will be rather inconvenient, but I know you will do everything in your power to make her stay agreeable. . Mrs. S. announced her determinnaticn to make herself heard if possible. I then went to John Thona-, who loves --joke as well as any person I know of, and 'told him to be at my house at six o'clock on the follo,.ing evening, and felt comparatiely happy. I went to the railroad station with a car riage the next evening, and when I was on my way home, I said, " My dear aunt, there is one rather annoy ing infirmity that Amelia has, which I forgot to mention. She's very deaf, and although she can hear my voice, with which she is fa iniliar, in ordinary tones, yet you will: be obliged to speak extremely loud in order to be heard. I'm sorry for it." Aunt Mary, in the goodness of her hear protested that she rather liked to speak loud and to do so would afford her great pleasure. The carriage drove up. On the steps was my wife; Lt tI a window was John Thomas with a face as utterly solemn as if he had tha i evening buried all his relatives. I handed "at my aunt; she ascended. thi head into the carriage, att went into convul slons. Whe-i I went into the l-arlor, my w;fe was helping Aunt Mary to take off her Lonnel and cal e, :Ind there sat John with his fact of wo. Suddenly, "Did you have a pleasant jour ner ?" went off my wife like a pistol, and Johi Thomas faibly jumped to his feet. "' liather dusty," was the respons', in a Wan whoop, and so ti~e conversationl ended. The nieighbors, for atr-els arou i1, mnu. haive heard it ; when 1 was in the third stur) of the building I heard every wurd plainly. Tu the course of~ the evening, nmy aunt t~ol, occasion to say to mie, " How loud your wife speaks. Does i not hurt her?' I told her all deaf l:eople talked !oudl'y, ani that my wife, being used to it, wa< not ,.ifat ted by the exertion, and that Aunt Mary wa: getting along very niicely with her. Presently my wife said softly : " Alfred, how very loud your autnt talks." " Yes," said I, " all de af pets at.5 d >. Yom are getting along very finely ; she hears everj word you say." A nd I rather think she did ! Elated at their success i f lbeing understood they went at it, hamnmer and tongs, until eve rything on-the mantle-piece cla'icred ajraln and I was seriously afraid of a crowd collect ing in front of the hounse. B'ut the end was near. My aont being of na inivestig tiing turi of mind, was des'rous of finding otut whethei the exertion of~ talkinag so loud was not in jurious to my wife. So :he said in an un earthly hoot, fur her voice was not so musical as when she was young : "Doesn't talking so lind strain your lungs? "It is an exertion," shrieked my wife. " Then why do you do it'?' was the answer *ing acream. " Becausse-bcueyucan't hear i don't," squealed my wife. "What ?' roared my aunt, fairly rivaling railroad whistle this time. I began to tnak it time to evacuate thu prent ises, and looking round and seeing Jobh gone, I stepped into the back parlor and ther< e lay flat on his back, with his feet at righi Fangles with his body,rolling from side to side hi hands poked into his ribs, and a nmost agonizing expression of countenance, but not uttering a sound. I immediately and in voluntarily assumed a sitmilar attitude.I think that from the relative positions of our boots and heads, and our attempts to restrait our laughter, apoplexy must have ensued, ife huorrible groan which Johnt gave vent to, it hi endeavors to repress his risibility, had not beryed our hiding place. In rushed my wife and aunt, who, by thi: time, comprehended the joke, and such Iscolding as I then got, I never got before: and I hope never to get again. G ExT.E).N iv LanJ"s.-In a roilroad cat the seats were all full, except one, which wras occupied by a pleasant looking Irishman-' couple of evidently well-bred and intelligen young ladies, came in to procure seats ; bu' Iseeing nones vacant, were about to go into the back ear, when Patrick arose hastily with 3evident pleasure. " But you will have no seat for yourself,' Iresponded one of the young ladies with smile, hesitating with true politeness to ac ~ cept it SNiver do you mind that!" said the gallant Hibernian, "ye'r welcome to it. I'd ride on the cow-catcher to New York anytime for a smile from such jintlemanly ladies T' and he retired hastily into the next car, amid cheers of his fellow passengers. By-and-by. Somewhere, down the stream of Time on which we are floating, is a beautiful Island, called the By-and-by. It may be just before us beyond the next turn of the river ; or we may not find it until the stream disembogues itself into the ocean of eternity. But we all look for it, from infancy to old age, and dream that all evil will be banished, when we arrive at the beautiful island-By-and-by. All day we float down the turbulent stream; the blue colour of heaven burns above us; the unfathomable depths yawn beneath us; the mysteries of God and immortality stream in upon us with their awful splendors, and truths that have confounded the loftiest intellects truths that in all ages have roused up the soul from its foundations, baptized it with reverence, and kindled it with love-environ us with their intensity, and all thoughts of the island are banished from the mind. But when the solemu gray of twilight falls around our bark, in fancy we see its magical shores, green wi;h trees of beauty, flitting before us like a star over the broad shadows of years, and our longings all return to wander on its fairy banks and listen to the silver voices of its inhabitants. And as the rosy flush of day fades in the west, and the watch stars open one after another their holy eyes, we go to rest in the happy belief that the morning sun rise will gild this immortal land, full in our vision; this clime we have sought so long and vainly, and whither have fled all the lost sum mers of our youth, which we besought with tears to stay. A land of promise is that By-and-by. Iu it we all have rich possessions, the anticipa ted enjoyment of which alone renders life tolerable. The past has proven a weary way; the present is full of thorns and beset with dangers, but in the golden By-and-by there is a recompence for all. There the broken heart shall be healed, and the weary spirit find a rest, Who would sell his birthright in this land? Though poverty, gloom and desola tion environ us here, we have both woalth and health and loving friends in that clime. Hiw eagerly we look for that Island ! II ---".' anv chart, no matter U1 1 I a ll a iJU A&)a III ~ - - ~ terday morning. It seems that inforniation was received that a party of the enemy, four hundred strong, were out as a picket, this side of Fall,' Church and a plan was laid to cap ture them. The Colonel in command had s'ationed five companies of South Carolinians along a road into which it was intended tu decoy the enemy. After getting them into position, it being still a little before daybreak, he rode back and directed a squad of three of the Black Horse to ride forward and ascer taina the situation of the enemy, atnd report as early as poissible. The three troopers sent were Anderson D. Smith, Madisoni Tyler, (son of Judge Tyler,) and Samuel Gordon son u1 Alexander Gordon, all of Faugnier. They dashed rapidly on in execution of their mes sage, but were challenged'by the sentinel: and o'rdered to halt. Th'lis Messrs. Tyler and Gordon. did nout immnediately do, and we ired upon01 and killed. Smith then pressed on to escape the constqulences of the terrible mistake under -which our men were acting, but soon fell among about one hundred icket, who tired a genieral vokly at hima. His horse was literally siddled b~y the balls, but strange to say, lie himself was untouched, save by one that tipped the end of his right elbow. AsnDIEw Johnso. .r Toney av DuseEN'r. The Knoxville Register asserts, on the au thority of a gentleman who has traced the traitr's lineage, "that Andy Johinson is of tory descent. Absalom Johnson, a grand father of Andy, was a Somih Carolina toery through the Revolutionary war, and all the descendents and family connections in that State are branded with toryism to this day.' Is there not s->me mistake about this? We have an indistinct recollectou of reading, s few years ago, a speech made by Rev. Wmn. G. Brownow, in Nashville, repeated in Knaox ville, and afterwards publi.,hed in the Knox ville Wh/ig, in which, if we recollect aright, it was stated that Andy Johnson's family were North Carolinians, that many of them were horse thieves and such characters, and that some of them had been whipped at the pillo ry and branded, and perhaps some sent to thc penitentiary. We think Brownlow also said that most p~eop~le had some mean kint, but An dy had no othier sort. Now all this does not preclude the idea of tory descent, but may go as collateral evidence to prove it-that is, a family of horse thieves may, without violene be presumed to come of tory stock, but let North, not South Carolina, bear the shame of being the home of such a people, if Brown low's statement was right.-Chroniele & Sen To S-roP BLEEDING.-Asa Kemaper, 'Ross County, Ohio, writes to the Americuan Agri orlturast, thtbleeding from a wound on man obesmay be stopped by a mixture of wheat flour and common salt, in equal parts, bound on with a cloth. If the bleeding be profuse, use a large quantity, say from one to three pints. It may be left on for h urs, or even days, if necessary. In this manner he saved the life of a horse which was bleeding from a wounded artery; the bleeding ceased in five minutes after the application. It was left on three days, when it worked loose, was easily removed, and the wound soon healed. NoTHraN ARaMY BE.EF.-A tough whip lash has been forwarded to New Haven, braided from a piece of beef served out to therhird Cnnecticut Reiment. Col. Gregg's official Report. The following is an official report of the in teresting fight near Fairfax Court House, Virginia: CAxP NEAR FAIRFAX C. 11., June 18, 1861, 1&A. M. COLONEL.: In pursuance of orders received at 1 o'clock A. M., on the 16th June, I pro ceeded in the forenoon of that day to make a reconnoissance across the country towards the Potomac. Marching from this place with my regiment. (about 575 strong, after leaving a large camp guard,) and Capt. Ball's troop of horse, numbering about 70, (including a de tachment from Captain Wickham's troop,) I met at the Frying Pan Church, Captain Ter rys troop of horse, about 70 strong, (inclu ding a detachment of Capt. Langhorn's Com pany,) and two guns of Captain Kemper's battery, commanded by himself in person, and with thirty-five men. With this force I went on to Drainsville, learning on the way that some four hundred of the enemy came up the Alexandria and Leesburg Railroad the same day, about 1 o'clock P. M., to within a mile or two of Hunter's Mills, and then re turned. Early in the morning of the 17th, I rode, with a troop of horse, to the heights on this side of the Potomac, opposite to Seneca Creek, and went in person to the bank of the river to reconnoitre. I could see but few troops of the enemy and no boats prepared for crossing the river. We marched down afterwards under the guidance of Captain John Powell, a high spirited and highly intelligent and most zeal ous friend of our cause, to Hunter's Mill, where, if the enemy had been engaged in re pairing the railroad bridge, a plan to attack, devised by Captain Powell, would have off'er ed the best chance. We found, however, no sign of the enemy, and only some railroad cars still smoking, which had been destroyed by our friends in the neighborhood. We then marched to Vienna and drew up our force in readiness to receive the enemy, if they should repeat the visit made for the last two days. Nothing being seen of them, however. and the water tank having been demolished (to increase the obstacles already caused by the removal of the lead pipe for conveying }ater,) I put the command in march for Fairtax Court House, towards 6 o'clock P. M. Just as we were moving off, a distant rail road whistle was heard. I marched the troops .*~ . U.&iiA'8 IIILU 11 ,.". - ".... "..ru..' " . haps four hundred yards. Captain Kemper and Liecitenant Stuart opened a rapid and well aimed fire with the two guns, which would have been very destructiveif the troops had not made a most rapid movement from the car., into the woods. Supposing that they might form and advance, I sent companies A, Capt. Miller. and E, Captain Gadberry, to deploy as skirmishers against them. After wards, finding that they were flying, I sent Captain Terry, with his troop, guidedi by Mr. GeLorge M. Hunter, a zealuus friend of the cause, in pursuit. From the lateness of the hour, however, the nature of the ground, and the start which the ene ny had, they could not be overtaken. Six of the enemy were found dead and one desperately wounded. Blood was also found on the bushes through which they had fled, but the darkness pnvented nm serious search. One pasenger car aind five platfornm cars were taken and burnmt. It seems, from the inforumation we gather, that live or six more cars bielonging to the same train, and, perhaps, a number of cars in a second train, escape-I by a precipitate re treat. The wounded p~risonier represented the enemy's force as eight hundred and fifty men, and said it was the fifth Regiment of Ohio Volu'.teers,ommanded by Col. McCook. Various arnms, accoutrements and tools were taken, and one ollicer's sword without a scab bard. My orders requiring me to avoid any un necessary engagenment, and not to remain ab sent from my camp more than one night, I marched back to the platce, where I arrived ab.ut onme o'clock this morning. I have every roason to bo satisfied with the conduct of all our troops. Captain Kemper's command showed great ardor, combined with discipline. Captain Kemnper and Lieuten.ant Stuarts skill in the management of the guns left nothing to desire. Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton led the first regiment with his umsuaml gallantry of bearing, duly seconded by Major Smith, Lieutenant Ready, acting Adjutant, and Capt. McGowan, Regimental Quarter master. Dr. Powell, Surgeon, and Dr. Bull, Assistant Surgeon, had little to do, as the fire of musketry, with which the enemy in scram bling out of the cars replied to our cannonade, was straggling and ineftective, Major Kennedy, Commissary, and Captain Tyler, volunteer in my staff, were prompt to carry orders, and to give valuable counsel. The companies of Captains Miller and Gad berry, though greatly fatigued with two days rough march in the hot sun and dust, appear d revived at once when thrown forward as skirmishers against the enemy. The same spirit was shown by all the other companies of the regiment. Lieutenant Boag, of -Com pany M, proved himself ready and-skillful in deranging the railroad track. Captains Terry and Ball, and the cavalry which they led, commanded my entire confidence by their bearing, and only needed opportunity for more effective action. We sarrived here about one o'clock this morning. I have the honor, Colonel, to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, MAXCY GREGG, Col. 1st Reg't S. C. V., com'g at Fairfax C. H. To Col. W. C. Moragne, A. A. A. General, Centreville. Nors.-From papers taken, it appears that it was the 1st Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, not the 5th, that was encountered at Vienna. Generals in the Confederate States Service. The following is a list of the Generals al pointed in the Provisional and Regular armit of the Confederate States: GENERAIS IN TIE REGU.AR ARMY 1. Sa-nuel Cooper, Va., Adjutant (inner: U. S. A. 2. Joseph E. Johnson, Va., Q. M. Genert U. S. A. 3. Robert E. Lee, Va., Col. of Cavalr U. S. A. MAJOR GENERALS IN TH. PROTISfONAI. ARMi 1 David E. Twiggs, Ga., Brigadier Genera U. S. A. 2 Leonidas Polk, La., Episcopal Bishop c Louisiana. BRIGADIER GENF.RALS IN THE PROVISIONA ARMY. 1. P. G. T. Beauregard, Capt. Engineer U. S. A. 2. Braxton Bragg, La., Captain Artiller U. S. A. 3. M. L. Bonham, S. C., Congressman fror S. C. 4. John B. Floyd, Va., U. S. Se retary c War. 5. Ben McCulloch, Texas, Major Texa Rangers. 6. Wm. H. T. Walker, Ga., Lieut. Col. Infi U. S. A. 7. Henry A. Wise, Va., late Governor o Virginia. 8. H. R. Jackson, Ga., late Minister ti Austria. 9. Barnard E. Bee, S. C., Captain Inft U. S.A. 10. Nathan G. Evans, S. C., Major Inft U. S.A. 11. John B. Magruder, Va., Major Ait U. S. A. 12. Wm. J. Hardee, Ga., Lieut. Col. Cav U. S. A. 13. Benj. Huger, S. C., Major Ordnance U. S. A. 14. Robert S. Garnette, Va., Major Inft U. S. A. There have been other appointments made but they are not yet known outside of the War Office. Generals Fauntleroy, Winder Locke, Rug-les and Holmes'are in the Pro visional Army'of Virginia. Generals Theoph olis H. Holmes, Gwynn and Gattin are in the Provisional Army of North Carolina. Gen erals Pillow and Anderson have appointment; as Maior (;p, r.., :.. v...._ General Taylor in Mexico. Gen. McClelland, who has charge of th North-western Military Department, is a na tive of Philadelphia. He graduated at Wes Point, and served in Mexico under old Scoti He can drink more liquor, perhaps, and no got drunk, than any man in the Vandal arm.y Col. Prentis, who has the command of th cut throat forces at Cairo, is a son of Illinoi: ITe was in the Mexican war. Gen. Lyons. who was appoinled to .succee [arney in St. Louis, had his birth in the lan of " wooden nutmegs," (Conn.) A good substitute for ice is the following Taean ordinary stone jug, fill it with th drinking wvater you use, cork tightly, an sink the jug in the well pretty deep. Th water, in an hour or so, becoumes very coh and is much more wholesomne than iced watr to dirink. Bly having two jugs, a consta, supply of cool water for drink'nig purpos could be kept up at no expense whatever. Gen. Scott and Virginia. A friend has handed us a slip cut out< an old paper, (says the Charleston Mlercury, containing the following 'speech delivered I. Gen. Scott, onm the occa.,ionl of a grand recel tion given to him by the Legislature of Vii ginia, his native State, on the 28th day February, 18S58. Geni. Scot t said : M.. Prsi and &atdors :I cannot gir expression to the deep emnotions of pleasur which I experience at this reception in m;, niative State. Little did I expect to mee with such honors here, and fromt you. I fin myself in the miidst of tmy countrymen-mn der com trymnen-natives of the State whic was the cradle of my first hoj~es, my ir~ aumbii. In iy long career-more remari able, perhaps, for its length than its brillianc -I have ever felt the responsibility inherite by my birth. r have always said, what wil Virginia say of me?7 and when, in the cours of my public life, I have always remnemberec t its most imptortant points, that I bore portion of her honor upon moy shoulders. have said that if I proved recreant, I wenl be doubly damned in her estimation, and thm of moy country.. It was in the school of Vii ginia that I imbibed those principles whic have guided mte through life, and it is by tLa example of her Washington and other gret Viigiians, that I anm inspired with the d< sire to be remembered by my State. Th: desire has been accomplished far beyond mn most sang'uine expectations. Ilontorm upo honors have been heaped upon me, and could not, if I would, ever forget her fav~om At the end of the war of 1812-'15, she pr< seted me with the sword I now possess. Sb has given may name to one of her countiec and after the lapse .of a third of a centur when. my little service might be supposedt have been fergottenm, she has honored me wit] a vote of thanks and a gold medal. I allud to these things in a spirit of gratitude, no of vanity. The time has passed away fo that. I have arrived at that age when thi passions are mellowed, and the imaginatiot enses to be fiery and irregular-an age c quiet and enjoyment; and the scenes of thi; day will fill me with grateful memories, ant I will bear its recollections with me to thi fina resting place to which, in the course o nature, I am rapidly tending. With a1 Vir ginia heart, I tender all Virginians my grati uade and affection. r kree suign oz rersuon. We published in our issue of yesterday an - account of the.seizure of a petition, in the s hands of Mr. Guion, by the, pojice of New ' York. This infamous attack upon the dear est rights of freemen, in the principal city of 1' the- free States, is aronsimg tire peoeple of New York tooa sense of'the degradation which is 1 in store fur them, anil of the fatal -consequen ces of the military despotism n hich has now y supplanted the Constitutional Government o the United States. The Journal (f 'wCommerce of July 1, in a leader, says: An extraordinary proceeding was ehroti cled in the city news department of the New f York papers on Saturday morning, in which c)pies of a petition, numorously -igned by eit izens of New York, and addressed to the President of the United States, were seized, taken from the possession of those to whom they had been confided and conveyed to the headquarters of the police, where they are detained for public exhibition. It is not t shown that any proceedings have been had to authorize the police to interfere with the sa f cred right of petition, a right as dear to every American citizen at the present day as it was s to the people of the Colonies when they com plained that the British Government spurned their prayers for relief, and denied the tight which the humblest citizen has, to approach f the ruling powers with request touching the administration of the Government. It is dif t licult, as one after another of the dearest rights of freemen are violated, and article af ter article of the Constitution trampled un dler foot, by those who have solemnly sworn to support it, to realize tlhat we live under a free Government, or that we can lay claim to any privileges which are not liable to be inva ded by oiicial pret:tiri and r--;tomed power. * - * * We doubt whether any considerable number of signers will be frightened into withdrawing their names, but think it more likely that it will receive large accessions from the inderon. dent men of the city, who dare exercise their constitutiona~l rights under throatened intimi dation. There is no power short of absolute tyranny which can interfere with the right of petition, especially when that right is exer cised in a modo so void of offensive or treas onable language as in the present instance. The New York Ecening Express, which thinks that SuperintendentKennedy is stretch. [here is, therefore, at least one more num r ously signed petition for compronise, "or a peaceful separatinn," which the detectives have failed to dise->ver. Sni-erintendent Ken nely continues his days of grace to signers who wish to erase, and will tzot publish the list at present. This is simply a threant! This is mere dragooning! If such things ate n cessary-and they may be, ai everything se. ms necessary in civil war--^ive uS at on:e til 0 .vernmentt of VIrigadietr.etneral lall. TOin t~oment we pass, or be;;in to pi-as, from tl.o 1.-ivil law, the miliitary is the best of utlI. A +ddier is alnost always a responsbilit. When we deal wvith epiaulettes, we all under - stand " what is what!I" ,- Sw.uux; I i itnsW.-SQ.nel fi.-e or six Iyears ago, in one of the trains of cars running r between Newark and Jersy City, N. .1., there Swas a young naval officr who was constantly intermingling his conv: r.satiomn with the most profane oaths. A young lady was so situated that she'- could not but hear every time he swore. A t first she bore it with perfect eqna Snimity; then as it continued and rather in ) creased in the shoeking character of his i precations, she began to grow fidgety and her - .:yes tI..hedl. We knew a bolt waould .so .' be shot, and that it would strike him., it camne a directly. " Sir, can you converse in the lIe brew tongue? "'''Yes,-' was the atnswer, in a half unconscious, hut slightly snecering tone. L "Then," was the reply, "if you wish to eswear any more, you .vould grea:ly oblige me,~ and probably the rest of the passengers also. if you wvould do it in Ihebrew." I watehed, him. His color camne and went-now re.d, now white. Hie looked at the young lady, then at his boots, then at the ceiling of the Scars; bit he did not swear any' more either in .Hebrew or English, and be probably remiem bred that young lady. A volunteer at Winche.ster, Va., writing to to the llichmonld Dispatch, says: About three hundred of the Maryland ldtie, two nights back, made a flying visit to the Ferry. They have returned, and report hav' ing butrned the rifle works, destroyed the Shenandoah Bridge, tumbled a locomotive into the Potomac, broughtL away 2d,000 title stocks, and serena ' i-nion men as prisoners. Veiiy a good night's work, and worthy of double rations ! These rifle stocks are valima tble, being made of seasoned wood, several years old, and valtned at $1.50 each. ~We clip the following paragraph from the Prtsmiouth (V a.) Transeript: ]Tomawtoesfor Children.-There is no batter .remedy for the derangement of the bowels -il childrn't O teething than stewed tomna e toes, fed to them p&a. 4fully, care being taken ,to keep the child's extremities warm. lie careful to cover its neek and arms, especially of an evening ;' give it crushed ioe to assuage thirst ir possible, rather than give it watf-r., Savoid cordials as they only produce fever. The ttomatoes ought to be ripe and frcsh ; though the vegetables preserved in cans have been ued with great success. This may be a good prescription, but we Sdo not aidvise any ~One to use it without first consulting the family physiciarn.-ED. A tav. The Nashville Union mentions a run;or Sthat all the Federal forces, with the exceptionz of one reguient, have evacuate:1 that mow quitoinfestd, agule and feverridden place called Cairo,