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WrhIWNIINu'hlhlhlNurhNhrNltilAN'Nr4rIN11N'NIN1/4uN1NNIr14NUNINNpUW111p1111WIJ1NNINN'hNNylllllhllh/hi1N.4NhIhJh/4JWNIN441141rIN14r41hNllll4lhrNlNldhN11N111rINNyrylrlN/4//N//IrrhIhl41rhrNNNNh1h/1hNNNNhII h11WhNWIdNNId11dh111N11N1A1NMNIMMIININN INNI /N1'Nlh h/lN hll'hlhN " "WE WILL CLING TO THE PILLARS OF THE TEMPLE OF OUR LIBERTIES; AND IF IT MUST PAL IIIIII'hNhrll/'/1r4111dhIrlNhIIIIIN114/hl141/1N14r1N4J4114r1111h W/NNIhWlh1lbdhIN114NINhrNINNNIIIIllh11NNINU'u11NNINnrIHIIINIIII,uNWuuVIIllrhllllirh141nf1h11111'llr'ININ'IrlhlhdylNlllllhNllllhllllNNyllp/lIIr4NNN1NN14NN/hJhN/I1pNI111NNdIMhdMN41IINId h1411uIIyNNhrhl/h/luNUIIINIruVNI'/NNNIINi SI IKINS, DU1tIa0E CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, 0,, AUGUST Home without a Mother. What is home without a mother? What are all the joys we meet When her loving smile no longer Greets the coming of our feet ? The days are long, the nights are drear, And time rolls slowly on ; And 0 ! how few are childhood's pleasurce, When her gentle care is gone. Things we pri:e are first to vanish Hearts we love, to pass away; And how soon, oeen in our childhood, We behold her turning grey. Her eye grows dim, and steps is slow, Her joys on earth are past, And before we learn to know her, She hath breathed in earth her last. Older hearts may have their sorrows; Griefs that quickly die away, rut a mother lost in childhood Grieves that heart day by day. We miss her kind and wiliing hand, ier find and earnest care; And, 0 ! how dear is life around us What.s homa without a mother there? Hope On. . When sorrow: depress, And blighted hope fall. As the leatlets of Autumn Obey Winter's call; Though faded and weary. Let there nut he a groan For a sweet word of comfort Is: " Ever hope on." Weary hearts, in all ages, Hare leant on its strength " Hlope ever" their watchword, Drought succor at le:gtb. The days dark and dreary Oft shadowed the morn, But then eame the sweet words: "lEver hope on !" Though proepccis hie d.irl;st ('ershn.low tei vi.. ' Au-l trial- ant cartes All our sorrows re.e":, Yet we kino'w that l.y lire is the guid tried alone: Ami, trusting God'.- uor'i. We will ever hue on. It' we bear not at cru.ss We will ne'er wear a crown : So. f.arewell repi:iamg. Despair is east dcwn. With the Christian's soul-anchoir Urave the white hillow's foan. hooking upward for courage, We will ever hue on Details of the Great Battle. We feel that we can give t.othing to our readers more welcome than the fullest ac counts from various source: of the great bat tle at Manassas on the 1st July. The fl lowing from " l.. W. S.' a Correspondent of the Charleston Xe-rury,. will be found very interesting At:'I oF ' 1E Poro.t'. ) N:..t M AmSSA , Jnly 2:1. .forc of the Ba'llc at Stone Br-ie;-:-The 1n set of Gien. E"can:-He is Rindthireed-The Advance of the Second and E hi!h/h Pei mtello legiments-Tie Pursult- - troops the iecld--Singular J.)erclopmeuznt.--.Th~e I have visited again to-day the scene of con flict, and am able to add still other particu-I lars of that most memorable action. Your readers will remember that thec battle was begun by a feint at Mitchell's. Ford, ona the road fromi Centreville to Warr-enton. 'J'his, however, was only true int part. To that point the nmass of the Ceemy's immiienise columns was indeed directed, but thaat :dso was another feint. Planting balttries against the forces guarding that bridge, he exhibited the purpose to force a crossing ; but while seeking to induce that imapreission, he in fact made a detour of more than a mile above, and further to the west ;and when ocr atte tion was directed to thae bridge they soughat to come upon our rear. 'ro Gen. Evans. as I have said, the task of defending the bridge had been committed. ie soon detected the1 enemy's purposes, anti advanced to counter aet them. Inder him, as I hatve said, were the a th South Carolin.i Ikgiament, Co!. Sloan, Whe-am's Battallior., two gum.s of b~~atas lTattery- ( not the Washinig on ;ua tilki-:y, :-.5 was att 11rs;:'nformed, ) a i I no co .: ;n.ua.es of ILtdford's -avalry. 'I hese he aiv-anced~ to Snidley- Ford, but haud hardly plate I tLem in1 position lbefore he ,nw the enemyi ini ovet whelmhinig mnasses on his !!ain:, h:Aving already crossed. To resist them: scce::sfll~y was beyond a reasonablie hir e. A portion of his small force had already b'een cdached to dni fend thc biridge, and witha thme rest, not more t han 1100O, hoecouild not Ihe pe to stami :igainst the neamuilate'd :houasands ont his~ Ilif ; hut be kniew that victory or de-athl w:: 'lhe di ter mination for the dav~-: he~ could ait :.-ast ar-rest thetm, and ordaering rountd his two piec-es of ar-tillery, nid rapidly throwing for-ward hia. forces to te left., ini the face of thle Cfeemy's battery, already- in position, andi of their- rer ried ranks near tvuente limes his ownt in numbe~cr, he nidv-aiced to lie charge; for a timae hie was covereti by a claitmp of trens, b~ut passitig ti.e--e- he canie direet !y it kusn~t of the enemy~i, wit hit eatsy distuanice, andii made his chaargei uiponi thlen:. I.-- re'snit. of course, could~r n ot he qu a::stionaed. -For- one. ball oti his." lhere were tw.-at.- o-' thae aanemya, and thaere could be no e-xpectation !.im to b.e ulti mately cut to p'eees, ba. lhe cotuld inell hi:: forces for thei-r uat mnst vaklie, andl hea did. The enemyn int fic'. rel:.iied frim the jilila e severity of his on.t t. iiut rec-overhimg, they b, -gu to bear him bactk. Gen~teral llee, with his Brigade, then e aime to his suappoirt :lt.at again checked the ci.rr- nt for an istant. Colonel Bart ow then came. ; that again ip,. dleu its resitless progres< ; bai, the dispaity was s:ill too great. Thiri forces~ were driven downt to Watrrenton Turnpike, then across it, and back to the woods one hunrdred yards below. Whent llamnptot's lkgion camne with this a chmarge was nmade, whic-h drove the enemty back to the~ roadl. F-rotn this they were able to recover, and drov-e our for-ces back iu turn; again they rallied and drove they forced is back again. Jackson and Cocke had also cou.e to maintain the unequal strife, and in the midst of fearful carnage strove to hold their owl: against overwhelm ing numbers. Then it was, whilst the victory wavered in the balance and hope seemed almost gone, that the gallant Second, with Kemper's bat tery, and the Eighth, of Bonliam's Brigade, tinder a previous and well timed order of General Beauregard, came sweeping every thing before them, the foe flying from their deadly fire and fierce charges. On the other flank Smith, too, marched with four regiments, fresh from the railroad, to the vir'nity of the enemy, put them to flight and commenced the pursuit. Eacb in turn had met the successive enflia. ding cumns of the enemy, until at length he had no other enfilading column to advance. The pluck of our men began to tell against. even overwhelming numbers. Their batte ries, which they had * advanced* to the eni nences east of the Warrenton road and near a mile within the line elf batle which we took at first, becaimo i~e ehjects 01 attack. The assault was fearful, but the defence wa stern and bloody. From Riekett's battery every horse was killed, and cren to-day ther lie around the place where it sicod the bodies of one hundred of the enemy. It was taken twice, lut retaken again ; and it was only when the regiments of Cals. Cash and Ker shaw had cleared the land to the left that. the flort to retake it was abandoned. The guns were turned at Area upon the enemy, and helped t: d; ive then them from the field. Not far to the right the same tragedy was enacted to the same result. The 'ne of the enemy cut in two at this point ..as rever formed again. One portion retreated by the Werren ton Turnpike, in the direetion of Centreville ; the others made nLain the :ietour round by S::tiy's Ford ; both made lr Centrevile; and, as they wi-nt : iig !he Turnpike ba-k. the lray of Demiper'. Da: t-ry uas as admiha ile as is often seen. The road is broad and stn ,ight for at least three mile:. Hle pilated hi.; hattery upon it. iHe was r.nimated to hit. utmost ,L.iil and power bvhis sen:e of wronns. Th:e enemy, ihr nw:nths, has held and ahn11,Ad his home in A'exsa::drii a :id, as he ploughed the road along w h ch they were IKrc' d to Travel. I !ear he did not ask for mer y on the soul. of those he s'!.t to tit- r.-com:l. tite l.;inments of Keishaw a:!d ta'., with itmper's hattery, fell.wedl to1 within a mile .mf Centrevile. The roa'l wa- A 'vvirowd iwith p i4UZderi, ::nd at the Ii :ngingz !hri.i', onCob' Creek, they took iwmy-t one guns, which had hccoiie jammtned, n m.d which, tosther with the horses, which they were all too hurried to utihitch, were taken and emit baek. I spuke, last a.b-, (f thn n.ovement of enerals .Jona.s amii tlonhai upoi the batte. rics in fint of tit ut: lit i did not state the full di-et of their ex.rtic.--s. They tiblowed In to within .ight of Centrevilk. 'Ihe eneny had preceded ti.enm. and had e:oniipeicd. Alarmed at their approach, he ,truck his camp ag:n, worn a. he was, and did not stop until far beyond iniriax. Whether he stopp ed this side of Atexandria or Wahaington, l.es not appear. in his rotate, he left equiu. age and baggage, aind four of. his gutis at Cent revitle, which he had not the sp~irit, even to attemplt to sate. The numu'oer of' gums now taken is repiorted to be 51, and as a ecn sive indication of what is the true import and efhect of outr action, it may be statedl that, yesterday, the Confeiderate flag was r-un up at F-airfasx. That igh~t the town was int lios session of' a detach;menit o1f our eav'alr'y, andl to.dght it will be o--tupied by a force stitti cent to hold it. In further evidenc~e of the demnoraliz.ationt of the enemy, it was state-d this morining by a rentlenman of ofticial position and character in .lexandriaJ, tl'at he lef:. that towvn unchal '-nged last night, that he camne to our own pikem.. urqu':stiened, and that the tumor was the, volunteer.-; whose te-rm of service had ex pied, have resolved to leave:; that it is de termined to prevent them, and that the regu lar soldiers mre now cailled otut to keep them in subjugation. This is ;<robable. in a house to-day where sonie forty of the woiunded enemy had crept, and wherte they have since beein lying without foodd or at tendancer, I mn't a ld' who sa:idl the i 'a:in r of 't term-na servhi .- hamving .-xpiro.ui. hey dem-uamii ed their dischnr-:,, bu:t were tahif thmey mui-. fight the battle, al that thecn t hey won!d1 be pai. II not willing to fight , t hey~ mi::i d;o it I mientionedlv ysm--.rday that' mulchi depenimded on the opi ortmune art ival of Col. i'2ny with his brigade. In referen~ice to the 1lmae I wa.s mitakeni - is was a~ portion~ of Inu- coammndn o: -.9 .Muit h. w..' :i < omning,~ hoi i-ei r,' uns me.-st opi :rtune; :.:md wien Ge O..ob oiti *a sh~ i;tol. .Cey to .2 i oT.mndi :.rn l qid at teas- his share to seenre i he victory. When I entered 'on the. field at 2 o'clock of the day of battte, the scene, as I have amen ti n':d was gh omy: ~, f ar the bat tle wa~s untdeci ded, andI tie ebam-e& . seemed ipai, st :s, butm I lid not mention: all that ma-lefu it painful. In peaci'fni life we are not fat ailiar' with the scees f a. .i hma- :mppiedl'to mne.at -t. to have~. woni but litle .s i ;m romt thi casuaimceii' or combai;t- ,of 1-. I I:rm . ihrereti.i th'- :dv hati- ot tfi m,iiairt::. and jS at once it e MO.. ws 5': to I ..k t' e nr of anman ~f. A t the' first ft. ieh I caine to. which was just beyond t .e raige oit b.:diets, ly one huind.&, at l-east, ini ers, s'- t age of tlerl g :;ii l d '.r;,ncet. ()Iot ha i- i k arm tbriiken, a:noi erti lbt-h hmi.;a m:- hnt away. i. I :iitm it n i t i.s I' h th si'd ia ran:t'e if ::vg hiad' a halt in his trmip!e. nad hei smid h*a hadl been inusea-ile hiomo1 th let'ecs, buot hoped soon to bie upimn the field again. A t;w~ ses fu.rther on I...aw a Pa:.tto boy wvithi his unde-jaw shot off at the instant. I met Col. Shiig'er riding beiforme an ambu~ihmece. Iwhich, h~e sail, conl ained the late taunented (Go. Ike. Th~e :;nieral lay pirostraite, and atost expiring fri-mt the wound in his tabdo uen, which oif n~ce.wity nmust. prove imort~al. A few st. ps further still, and iere: hay the el.I.ems nuri me late friend, Col. .tlhnsi~on. Otlier there were-aged men, whose gray hairs proclaimed them sixtv and more; boys, whose young hearts yearned, I know, for soil, or bands and sweeter faces than were around them there. To this spot all had been imr pelled by the wounded soldiers' constant watit of water. The stream, by the constant cross ing, was so muddy it wag scarcely fluid, but they drank it; and, with the night approach ing, through which they must either be un der the cod sky or bear the jolting of a jour ney to Manassas, and without attendance or the certainty of medical attendance, they yet were cheerful, or, if not, enduring. No one added to the sufferings of others by ex:hibi tions of his; and during the time I filt at lib erty to stay-for the order came for all able to hear a gun to enter in the ranks for a tinal stand-l heard no solitary groan from any one. But of all imaginable scenes of horror the battle field to day excels. Upon the hills from which the. enemy was hlst driven, still lay the dead they had not time to remove. Some hard been buried by our own men, but the ta-k was too r'-pulsive, and the most of the; were left upon the bare ground1 without ;l leaf to shade them, bloated, blackened and rotting in the sun, for birds and insects to de vour. And it was scarcely possible not to commisserate the fate of men who had offer ed up their lives for a country that would uot show to them the cold charity of eve. rave to lie in. Nor was it better with tL p:oor starved wretches who had crawled into the store-houses upon the field of battle. Sick, famished. friendles and without a home or country they could love or honor, it were scarcely bettter to be aliiv thau dead. I spoke of the fact to General Evans, in whose military department they are at present, and he pro;rmised to keep them from starving at least: but in the meantime the country peo ple were comin; in with oitl-rs of assistance, an:d one was taking one p or fellow off to his ho:-e at i re:tsville. Mat ties make singular developments. My friend, Dr. Sheclpardson, visiting, the prisoners yesteriay. found a croliege-mate anmon; them. Oine of our soii ers found amHong them his own brother. (.-en. Evans found among them Major Tiliinghu:-:t. long known in C:arleston, vLj hail been iis cassimat-e-.: :h ii:stat. of ro.'ognition, 3lajur T. was at the i.oint of lath, and died soon alttr: ar. ,rso. in a liorse that was taken ai l'airfaix, the charger apon w;hich hr rode in the service of the lIi ed States. And Cul. Mtliiis. in a rustaller that was skulking ol the rial to Centrevilly pon the. evening of the l.attle, and! whom he nr:ale his riinel, he I lian. Mr. i'.y, of New'.\ York. There is a feeling of regret 1r all the gaihint urien who fell ill tip is : gea " .t for none inure than for ti galiant Bartow. I e h l gone into this war with such uncalcula ting zeal and iid.liy to Ihe great c:uise. r1:i bote himitself so nl dy in tie fight, tha; if' tilere wre the wi.,i to it. it vwere ha:u1 to withhold our ui:i ation. When his Hors: was shot, he led use 8th Georgi: +mnt, on foot, to storm a battery. 'Thi:: .- it t: pieces, and retiring to put himoself' at the l' ;rl of the 7th, he atke'i of Gc:. Deua:egrdr'. vhrat he wotuld lave himi do. The (Gener ali id: - Tee i.s the. ba.ttery."' 1.: starited fur t again. Tfhe color hear--r was shoct down, when be sze thre colo:rs, mnd bearig them n, he received a ahot in his left breast. Nar less lamented is the death of Genr. Iee. ile has been r-egarde~d as one armong thre be*st nilitatry aippoinitiets. an:d has wo opinion in every act of' his mrilitmyr life. Hie was tirstL in the field to sustain our leading eenanm at :very succeedling" erisi..; of' the contest. lie was present at the piassug of the Turnpsike; t the gallanrt ehiarge of Ilramptonr's L egion; t the storming of the batteries; anrd at lbut fell near the fatal spot where also had f~dlen the gallant B3artow. Of his aids were Genr. (ist, Col. Shingler aind Majorr Steven.<, who ws slightly w;oum:le'l, .,ha: rd hris pains, andt remained to share the forrthrer fortune of' thre contest. Nor is less sympa:thly experienced for the sferings of (;en. Smrithi. lie came to stern the cnrrent of onr back ward fortunes; and. lemhdng hris lBrigade to, I ise v*ery heuadi of t he ini:~ra in ,Iobnnm, fil :rhnre.t. at the. tir-t lire ir.-. throughr the bre'a't with a :rapr, e ht. Ih,..4. hower. .r, are' enb-'Prlined ih h;is i .o.',.u. I' , hi< -,trt' weret toilr neme, Col. nligt' amid (ajet. TIlhf l.*r. wi. ho were wii ih 0 when(O he fll. u ti ( *.l. .lohnriso, iilm careier waso abonrt. mn.st brillianmt. Tfhe fi'on ar;r.e'd inr the night. :ali, in a fe.w !.onts ;uirr'r. :lhni.t ll:it farser vie, it was thrown into th~e very' thrickest of te fight, awld Col. Joh~lnson fell, with (Col. It:mpt on, on thle spout upon whrieh t heir cid uns hail ben plated. 1 sent thIe eniual Cie of('l. ler'-,aw's .Ilegi rmtt byv tel ~ler onay, hew of t he other' regimerent . a se-at ered s t hey ar'e, andl in weaethecr .,so exceedhingly ruitaleI to travelling as it has buer. I have not vet been, ale tooban President D~avis lef. thre army thIis morninig in the' enur, fr eyilihondl. Throuhr thre Chief Mgistrate oh' a great rennbhe at this most salient period oh irs gr'e::tnme.s, he arrogated no especial priviley..: hre took hi. scat, with oters, in ani c~er crejowded car: anid in that, nid in every~ other instarce of his intercourse iuih hilis fel~ew-cil ians heure. he exhibited but thre ap~pearrno und h~earing of~ a wel bred genitlemian, :r he tuw;e ' Th samire corre-porndnt, uner date of' the -nd.. nays: AIbourt thre time of' m~r final hrarge urponi thre emy's ri,.ht. whichI drove thmemr from thme field. Ge.n. .1 ones. with the 5thI Somrth Carolinra llegimertnt, Col. .l en'kins, and the I 7th and~ I.srh .\isis.ippi R ergimients, C.>-'. t-'ethe'rston anid Ibirt. mnoved round to gain the~ rear of the batteriie. over the hiil, above Mitchel's Fimrd. Gent. ~Irnham, with the :;rd anrd 7th South Caroinma Rlegirmenrts, Cls. Williamrs and Enacon, movedl up the hill in flont. Thie enemy', though in conisiderable force, at once recoiled froum thre eneonter, and, utnlimbering their artillery, they tmade th'eir way with the mit most raipidil y in the direction of Cenrtr'eville. It was too late for pursuit-too late to inter -. tre retreating cnlnrmns from thre wpnt 4he material for it is in the facts of this en gagement. No Christain people could hope to sustain that character, while they leave the illed and wounded of their battles to rot upon the open fieldt. But the most damning fact is in their firing upon our hospitals, and in the use of our flag. It is attested by thou sands, that, in several of their charges, they advanced under the Confederacy flag, and as .snmed the character of friends until within the distance to exhibit how much they were enemies. The greatest mortality amonst us was when, in this way, they came near enough to make their fire effective. Of individual experience, there were scarce ly room to speak. One lad Oakley, from Alabama. taken prisoner, was tied; but, when the enemy was fighting, he cut the cords, found a musket, plunged it in a Zonave, en deavoring to detain him, and started to his friends on the way. On an officer's prospect ing, he went up towards him, and, when near enough, he ordered him to surrender; the officer did so, and young Oakley bore him in triumph in to headquarters. He proved to be Col. Corcoran. One of the most obvious features of the b ittlefield is a group of horses, and the men beside them. The caisson had exploded. Men and horses were all killed, apparently near the close of the engagement, and now lie all together bloated in the sun. The mortality among horses was large; as many as one hundred, at least, may he seen upon the field, and it is of regret for their loss that they were particularly fine ones. 'Northern Accounts of the Fight. We subjoin some highly interesting reading from New York papers on the fight and re treat of the memorable engagement at Mannas sas, and regret that our space will not allow more copious ext racts: r:r1:.r m im;, ;.nc.. The New York lierahil say..: " : Tre can be no longer any doubt about the dia.. runs nature of tl:e retreat of our army from il)'= .i;;n to .\rlington Heights. In kill cd, wound'l and prisoners the loss amounts probally to twenty thousand,ineindingmanyof the be.t oflicers. together with the whole of the .ple:'lid nriillrv.' (t vorestimated.-ED. ;A. rantre .CCUorNT or -ratr. rr.w;Irr. The N. Y. World's correspondent says: At this time, near 4 o'clock, I role forward through the open p-lain to the creek, where the ab,:tttis was being cstailed by our en gincrm-!. The Ohio. Connecticut, and Minne set-t rcgiticit wire vtiausly posted therea bout: ter''. in distant. pertions of the field: u'1 were comt..I:'ly exhausted and partly dis severc': no G;eneral if 'division, except Ty h-r. could be futnid. Where were our ofiicers 7 Where was the fo? Who nuiew whether we had won or lint ? The qiistio n was qnildy to be decidcdl for u:. A raddcn scoop, and a body of cavalry ru,hlem down upon our columns, near the bridge. Thlcy came from woods on the left, and infantry poured out behind them. Tyler and his st:sar, with the reserve, were apparent ly cut oft by the quick fmamecuvcr. I suceeetledl in gaining the position I had just left, and there witnessed the capture of Carli~de%; battery in thme plain, and saw another frce of cavalry and infatntry piouring into the. road at the very spot where tihe hattle comn me~cd, and near which the South Carolini as, who mnanned the battery silence~d in the moning, bad doxbtless all day beeni conceal ed. Thie amulan1,ces and wagons had grad ually advanmced to this spot, and of course an in.ntaneous conifusionm and dismay resulted. Our owni infanitry brioke ranks in the fiehul. plntgedl into theo woods to avoid the road, and got upon tk.e hill ats best they could, without lade:a, every man satving hiimelf in his own way. By the time I re:ached the top of the hill, the retreat, the panic, the hideous headlong cofusion. wcre now beyond a hope. I was near the iteari of the mtove-ment, with the brave Capt. Alexander, who endeavored by ther most gallanm. but imtavaiiule excitions to check the onward tumult. It was (ditiicuilt to bluieve in thet reali:y of our sudden reverse. SWhat dloes it all mean~ ?' 1 rasked Alexan d.-. "it r~iwans de-r,.ai," was his reply. " We are hecat en ; it is shamnetui, a cowardly retreat Hold up. nmn !" he sthouate-, " don't hei such infenal riw ards !" and lie rmh.- back w-ards and forwam-ds, placing his horse across the rodl and vainly trying to raully the running troops. The' teams and wagons confusseud and d ise;bredl every corps. We were now cut off fronm the adlvance bodly by7 the enemy's inamrv, who had ruishedl on the slope just left by uts, surrounded the guns and sutlers wagou?, and vwere apiparentily pressing up against us. I 's rso nee, Alexander," T said, "yu msust leave wtithi the re-st. "I be d-d if I wili," was his sullen reply, and the s'lendidl fellow rode back to mnake his way as ~et he could]. Meantime I saw officers with leaves andi csgles on their shouluder-straps, majors andmu colonels, wvho had deserted their -ommnds asn'.- meut galloping as if for dear \'o enemtiy puirsud jt. then; but I sup tose all were afitha t his guns would be trined dlown the lonig, namrow avenue, and mow the reltreatin~g itiin~ands, anti batter to pieces army wagons and every thing else which crowdled it. Only one field oflicer, so far .as my observation extended, seemed to have rememberced hisanty. Lieut. Col. Speidel, s thrigner, atnachIedt to a Conmnectienit Regi m.:n-t, strove a-gainst, the currenit of a league. I positiveily dectlare that, withi the two excep tons metcntioned, aill eflbrts to check the panic htere Centrevillc was reached, were eon inted to cicilians. I .sauw a main in citizens d tres whot had1 thrown oti' hisu coat, seized a muket, and wias tryinig to rally the soldiers who camne by at the psoinut of the banyonet. In reply to a retquest for his name, Ito said it was Washburne, antd I learned that lie was the member by that name from Illinois. The lion. Mr. K ellogg muadue a similar efljirt. Both these Congressmeni bravely stood their groundl till the last momnent, and were serviceable at Centreville in assisting the halt there ulti mately made. And other civilians did what iboy could. already uinder rapid headway; and with no serious loss, and after but a short and spirited engageinent on the enemy's left, in which the 5th Carolina Regiment sufTred to some ex tent, they returned to their positions. (if tae results of victory I gave an insufli. cient statement yesterday. About sii hun dred prisoners have been brought in, and have been sent of' to Richmond, including Col. Corcoran, of the Irish Zonaves ; Col. Wilcox, of a Michigan Regiment; Ely, member of Congress from New York; the Captain of one of the batteries of artillery ; Edward Carring. ton. who, of Virginia, accepted office under the Federal Government, and about thirty other efnieers, whose names and distinctions I have not been able to learn. While among the killed was Col. Bumsiege, of the Rhode Island Regiment. We also have taken '6 pieces of artillery ; six pieces on the field, and 30 on the retreat, where they were jammed in the hurry-of movement on a bridge across - creek. The hospitals and hospi tal stores of the enemy fell into our hands. Their dead and wounded, to a great extent, wagons, baggage, piovi'sions, accoutrements, guns, hats and haversacks strewed the road, and quite a feeling of exu~tation was experi 'ced by many of the soldiers over an nnbn, lance, which, from its furniture and marks, was unmistakably the property of Gen. Scott. It contained an epaulette, which born his name ;pon it. From the letters which I send you, the for. ces of the enemy were stated at 130,000, This is too much, perhaps, but it is certain they met ns at the Stone Bridge with at least 50,000-our own was not at that point more than 16,000. They were whipped, therefore, on their own ground, by less than half their force of volunteers who had never bein in battle, and whipped with their best troops :mnd regulars at their head. Just. at sundown the 6th South Corolina ltegiaent, under Col. Wvnder. which had come to Manassas in the afternoon, arrived upon the field, and before the battle was quite over, caine the sr.lendid troop of cavalry, under Capt. Boykin. Ihampton's .egion came in time for a bloody part in the action of the day, but were not able to bring on the cavalry or Wa-hington Artillery. Of the members of the artibi!ry company, at least, many were present in the ation its infantry, and .shnred the fortunes of he Legion. Of the mtaty personal incidents of the bat :le I nave not time to speak to-night. My estimaltie friend. IL McK.ay. of Green ville, separated from his contltly. C:pt. IlIo:es. came upon four of the enemy in charge of three of our prisoncrs whom they ba-1 take,.. and w-t; uncaimhbrtabiy co:,scions lie was about to ;dd1 to their number : to lie certain of the fact, however, he exclaimed interro gativly, I Prisoners, boys?" A /.julavc an swered, "W11e dou't know ceactly who are priaone rs here." " t )h you of course," r id ou;1 " ad ti in'; whereupon demtanding their arms, t hey ,lil tiheia down. and were marched off to t he eitar. : : orsnet (;i::aclhcu ;rot their conuany, .h.-i f'.rw:'.:, d and came i 1:mn a company of tho enmyi ail ar-med, forty-five ini number, um~ig a :,--mler as t hI best mans of :viini t ihir own enpinC. Th'Ie enemyr coml mied, tm.d the -ix i;:..mn i wi ;hJ\Sabe otily Capitain Richi.-r'ion, of Ke.rshaw's Regi ment, wounded ini the leg, we.s taiken, at:11 while held by four of the enenmy, a party of his own comnpanyi emni- by rind imarched the cpture'rs off. GeL:eral B~ear.megaird ha-ms today bee-n crea. ted .a Generail of the Confederate A'rnmy. A friendl in conversatiton withI Presidlent D)avis to-day imrcuired as to the rank of General Beauregard. '"Y~esterdlay,"' Said the Presi denit, l'ie wras a Bigiadier-General." " And to-day ?" inquired moy friend. "To-day," said the P'resid.ent, '' he is a General of the Cmederate Arny." I haive no eertnin data upon which to go in est imating killed and wounded, liut, from all the evidence before me'. I should say that thte kleonorside ,mrc -am: wounded, I10t00. Of the enemyr. the kilied must harve been at least 10t00, and wotunded and prisoners must have diinishmed their forc'es :%00m moure. It iimprwivt-; onet feeings towards mecn to it~l -im; .;u it i:- aid, at leau, anad so it f.-me t1 be itn tis cas'. At t the crisist of the tiph~, wh-n it was dombt ful if we would nlot hel~ whipp~sd, and whleni meni, sinking from iheir won Oi mA we-re cimaing fromi ta fight in which their friemis and relations bad been Cut to pices, some three or foumr prisoners b:ouight were ratheir in t h. way of bein;; roughly treated. The priiposition wras imade. and was respondeid to, shoot themt. I pass d thecm on the way when the light, was oing on. and g.reatly feared Ihat, something mighbt be done to shatme its, but a fewv words brought the suil'erers to the~ir senses, andl the prisoners were sp~ared. In every other in stance, however, after the act of battle was over, the feling was kinder thano it (ouild have been before the fight began. I .aw the soliers sharie their water with thim, wicuh they could hardly spare themselveSa. Many of them were taken aud cared for by the very men who shot them, and a friend, passing through the field wvhen the fight was over, passe two wounded men, thue one fronm Georgia, the other from New York. Thme New York man asked for water, and thme wounded Georgian begged my friend for God's sake to give it to him ; for that lie himselhf had called utpon a soldier from New York for wter when his colunmu was in retreat, anti though it wvas at thme risk of his life, lhe ran to the trench and brought it. It wats in search of watcr tin-K A...ant S. M. Wilkes, of the l'ourth Rleginenit, lost hisa life, ie had escaped thme perils of the fight, and rode to the camap for a drink of water; when starting back he meot a piarty of the flying enemy who shot him. Colonel .Johnsonm fell the instant lie entcred into battle. They marched down to take position in the War renton Turn pike, and before the Legion had fired a gun lhe was struck by a ball in time Iforehead and fell without a word. If it were necessary to add infamy to the .lredy.la.ene cb1r.a 4o.cte r n ur snomy, But what a scene and how terrific the onset of that tumultuous retreat. For three miles, hosts of federal troops-all detached from their regiments, all mingled in one disorderly 'out-were fleeing along the road, but mostly through the lots on either side. Army wagons, sutlers' teams and private carriages, choked the passage, tumbling against each other, amid clouds of dust, and sickening sights and sounds. Hacks, containing unlucky specta tors of the late affray, were smashed like glass, and the occupants were lost sight of in the debris. Horses flying wildly from the battle field, many of them in death agony, galloped at random forward, joining in the stampede. Those on foot who could catch them rode them bare back, as much to save themselves from being run over, as to make quicker time. Wounded men, lying along the banks-the few either left on the field or ta ken to the captured hospitals, appealed with raised hands to those who rode horses, beg ging to he lifted behind, but few regarded such petitions. Then the artillery, such as was saved, came thundering along, smashing and overpowering everything. The regular cavalry, I record it to their shame, joined in the melee, adding to its terrors, for they rode down footmen without mercy. One of the great guns was overturned and lay among the ruins of a caisson, as I passed it. I saw an artillery-man running between the pon derous fore and after-wheels of his gun car riage, hanging on with both hands, and vain ly striving to jump upon the ordnance. The drivers were spurring their horses ; he could not cling much longer, and a more agonized expression never fixed the features of a drown ing man. The carriage bounded from the roughness of a steep hill leading to a creek ; he lost his hold, fell, and in an instant the great wheels had crushed the life out of him. Who ever saw such a flight? Could the retreat at Borodino have exceeded it in con fusion and tumult ? I think not. It did not slack in the least until Centreville was rcach ed. There the sight. of the reserve-Miles' Brigade-formed in order on the hill, seemed somewhat to reassure the van. But still the teams and foot soldiers pushed on, passing their own camp.; and heading swiftly for the distant Potomac, until for ten miles the road over which the . - 1 so lately passed southwar. and flushed with . .red with-the fri shattered and p -- [rou the brane' to Ifunter's tDiv gion of the tligih swollen current - fusi':, anl dist shameful abauc. at such expens. them, cut the traces ot tien . loped from the wagons. Others threw u... their loads to accelerate their flight, and grain, picks and shovels, and provisions of every kind, lay trampled in the dust for leagues. Thousands of muskets strewed the route; when some of us succeeded in rallying a body of fugitives, and forming them in a line across the road, hardly one but had thrown away his arms. If the enemmy had brought up his artillery, and served it upon thme zetreating train, or had intercepted our progress with live hundred of his cav:dry, he might have captmured enough supplies for a wecek's fca?st of t~anksgiving. As it was, enough was left be hindl to tell Lte story of thme panie. Tiae rout of the Federal airmny seemed comlei'te. Till-: RI:TJRAr. We find the followingr details in the New York Tbuune, of the 24th: The engineers were about constructuing a bridge for the artillery, the regular stone bridge h..ving been, mined, and the two col umns under Gen,. Ty!er and IHnnter, tihe lat ter of which was led.' by Gen. McDowell, had atually comp1leted the jumn:.ion when tho or der of retreat was given. Why it was given, no person who witnessed the battle and saw the condition in which affatirs stood, can at teipt, to comprehend. The only point posi tively held by thme enemy, was in a hollow to our left, and' althoughb an eff'ort was undou~bt sdly made to over reachl m at the left, an m p1.- far.---onep entire brigade--.was ready to rem i lhm, andi did r*eeive and repulse them afterward, ini spite of the panic which reigned. tikt at. thle beginning of the ret ire ment, a few aumbulances anmd baggage wagons were driven hurriedly away, the noise of which seemed to spread terror among the troops within hearinmg, who instantly broke ranks and r.~n, poll nmell, toward tentreville. This contagion caught the rest, amid in less than ten minutes our army was flying in the utmost disorder. FEverything was abandoned. The wounded were deserted ini the hospitals, and the only thought was of individual safiety. Guns were thrown aside, and blankets and knapsacks were lost and trampled upon. The artillery shared the panic; the gtuns were ctt loose, and the gunners used thme horses to es cape the more swiftly. Those on foot begged piteously to be allowod to share thme horses of those who rode. Many strove to clamber in to the wagons, andI were pushed back by the bayonets of those who occupied them. 'The ground was strewed with food, weap ons and clothing of every kind. Many of our guns were left to fall into the enemy's hands including the large .'t2.pounders which had done so mnich service in the fight. All courage, all mnanlness, seemed to have forsa ken our terror stricken men. The hist stand up'on the lield was made by one of~ the (.hio regiments, under Col. Me Cook, I believe, but about three milles back tme reserve birigade of Col. Blenker was drawn up ini line to cover the retreat and ef fect whatever service was needed. The stand of G3en. Blenker saved us from great losses. The disorder of our men continued during the night. There was no army, only a vast ramble. By midnight they were all scattered in the road to Fairfax Court House, and soon after General Blenker, with the Eighth New York Regiment, took up his retreat in perfect order-the only body that so retreated. I left Centreville at 8 o'clock this morning. may win him to become as well a soldier of the cross. In no way can we sn effectually- show our appreciation of those who are now dofending all that is worth living or (ying for; in no way so well aid the sacred cause of Southern independence, as by surrounding our soldiery with the restraining, sanctifying and enno bling influences of Christianity. Urged by such convictions, I would most earnestly invite the co-operation of all classes throughout our young "nationality" in this inviting field of Christian enterprise. We need funds with which to publish Testaments and defray the expenses of Colporteurs. Let all who have a mind to help, at once send on whatever they feel inclined to contribute. Address, A. E. DtctNsox, Gen'l Snp,t Baptist Colportage. Richmond, Va. Papers throughout the South will render as an important service by inserting the above. The Real and the Conventional Nigger. The Southern negro is usually a fat, oily, laughing, thoughtless semi-savage. Give him each week his prescribed three pour.ds of pork, his peck of meal, quart of molasses, (winter) his pound of salt, when he has swamp work his nightly.glass of whisky, and he is happy. His fun is bufroonery and practical joking. He is naturally alow order of being. I do not think, with all its faults, that slavery lowers the American negro. Let the planta tion black set his deer trap, snareraccoons or wild turkeys, keep his fowls and hogs to sell to massa at the big house, kill game for the same purpose, work moderately, and in spare time grow enough cotton to make op a bale a year, let him look after h's garden, and he will be (if the overseer is kind) one of the most carelets and happy creatures in the wide world. Give the blacks in addition, on cer tain feast days, "a regular break clown" ball, and they are happier beings than half Eng land, with all its freedom and religion, could furnish. I am not saying this to defend slave ry, but I say it because I think much wilful and dangerous nonsense is talked about the slave, whom Mrs. Stowe represents as perpet ually praying in chains, weeping or being whipped. I should rather draw slaves with more truth, as always idling, laughing, or eating; and considering that they are fed and rlnthed. have no taxes or other civic cares, . : i.a :!.~Ana*.4 'IR. their U.4:a sewing society and report the number of beds and articles for the benelit of the sick at Yorktown. Yesterday two ladie<could be seen, with their hos in hand, weeding corn, as such wo! k is ery necessary at this tinle. One of them in ormed mec that she wveeded about 2,500 hills, nd that her sis'ter was " too much for her" t weeding corn ! What will the husband say when lhe hears that, his wife is weedhing corn ? Wht will Vir'ginias say ? andl what will the entire tSouthu say t What prospuect i~s there f'or "subijugation T'~ Is a :niin to be frightened by Abe Lineoln, whn the ladi,:s act thus? Call for mnillions of men; call for mnillions of dollars, and when therc is no mnan to girt on his armor for war fare, woman will meet the hirelings of Yan deedom, and cause thema to kneel and call for mercy. I have only written a few lines, that you may insert it in your paper, to give to our sisters in the South what Virginia ladies are doing. I am not a writer for newspapers. P. S.--The above la.dy will continue to wtcd corn till the crop is well over. She wrote her hunsband word that she had elevern hmands in te field. (3ra. Srovv', ciuI, nrkr.-It may no- to enrah k;nown i., this1 cor'nunity- t'h. withbin f.;rty~tet of oe~ie ut the iitteries9 no eeing erected fosr ihr-. dceence of Richmndr two children of' l.ientpnant-Genecral Winii-]d Scott, lie buried. We retier to the fortiflka tins being thrown upI 'on Mr. Mayo's piantta tion, immediately sontheast of the city, andi comanding .lms Itiver. W hen we refleet upon Virginia's relations to Gen. Scott, and Scot's relations to Virginia-that he was bon and rearedl upon hrer maternal soil, and mar riel one of her daughters, that his nearest rel atives in the world are among her citizens and fighting for her defence-that children of his own flesh and blood, alas we fear we cannot say, of his love, lie heried beneath her soil; when we recollect the honors that Virginia in her pride has shown him, and the countless kindnesses her citizens have showered upon hi, it almost surpassess human credulity to believe that he could have turned the infamous ingrate and traitor that he is. If there is a tender emotion or feeling of love in his na ture, would he not naturally tura to the graves of his children? Alas I his long connection with the Yankees and Yankeedom, has cor rupted his nature, and he now stands, one of them by adoption, a violator of his allegiance to his native State, and a betrayer of his coun try.-lichmond Dispatch. A Methodist and Quaker having stopped at a pulie house, agreed to sleep in the same bed. The Methodist knelt down and prayed fervently, and confessed a long catalogue of sins. After he rose, the Quaker observed " Really, friend if thou art as bad as thou sayest thou art, I think I dare not sleep with thee." "TTons, spell weather," said a school master to one of his pupils. " W.i-e-t-h-i-o.u-r, weather." "XWell," said the teacher, "this is the worst spell of weather we have had since n...:..-b.1d mw the season has bepen." long gone ; even the hospitals were nearly de. sorted, all who could limp having started forth with erntehes and canes. The rebel scouts were passing through the town, and appa rently endeavoring to ascertain in which way they could best succeed in cutting oif the stragglers. I do not khow, however, that any serious attempt to do this was made. The road from Centreville to Fairfax was thick with the debris of the retreat. Baggage wagons were overturned and the horses lying dead and dying. Guns, ambulances, stores of provisions, were strewn everywhere. At Fairfaix Court House the inhabitants were plundering our deserted baggage. Toward Arlington the evidence of the disgraceful re treat continued. A correspondent of the Raltimore .lmeri. can, says: Enough has been gathered, however, and from reliable sources, to render it certain that the battle was most bloody, not in its gener al result, but in the character of its individ ual conflicts. In some instances the conflict is said to have been carried with hand-to-hand desperation, entrenchments bei..g lost and won again at the point of the bayonet, and in one instance at least, at the point of the knife- Thus the Second Michigan are said to have been driven out of a small battery which they had entered by a desperate bayonet charge by a regiment-of Mississippians it is supposed-armed with rifles without bayo nets, and with bowie-knives, one of which, captured by a member of the Second Michi gan, and triumphatly exhibited by its captor, was in size and weight not much unlike a sabre-bayonet. An ofleer of the 69th (Irish) Regiment states in illustration of the desperate charac ter of the attack and of the repulse, that the third battery attacked during the (lay by them, and defended, as was ascertained from two youthful prisoners, by a regiment of South Carolinians, was taken and retaken at the point of the bayonet cight times in succes sion, the Carolinians at last retaining posses. sion of the work by the aid of a fourth batte ry which was unmasked at the critical period of the fight. A Confederate soldier and a member of a Wisconsin regiment were found upon the field locked in a deadly embrace, the former clutching the hair of his antagonist, in whose -knife was found buried to its terce . then boki. -... . ne woods, and u. flight qjuickeneu ny a 1.super estimation of the dangers which would attend his capture, he succeeded in safely traversing seven miles of intervening woods and reaching Centreville, where he was supplied with means of retreat ing to Washington. A Plea for the Soldier. Rwnc;IOYI, VAt., July :2,1I8GI. At the late annual mneeting of the Thaptist General Association of Virginia, it was deter mined at once to send "colpurteurs to occu py all the important points of renzdei~vous, and promptly to reach all the soldiers in ser Vice in this State." In pursuance of this plan, I was direct-d to appeal fur aid to "such persons in the Confederate States as may feel interested in thme spiritual welfanro of' the sol diers who are gathered from various South eri States to fight their common battles on the soil of Virginia.. There are now, in nll probability, not less than 150,000 soldiers of the Confederate Ar my within the limits of our State, and the course of events indicates that, in a few mnonths.! we shall have double that ::mmber. Very many of these brave men have no: the Word of Goed. Onr colporteurs have found nmxty compa nieq in which two thirds nra. dostil mte of a copy of the Ne.w T.taumnt, while ini aIWlmo every company a consgiderable propjortionl have negletedi to bring with them this inval. nble treasure. There is great anxiety on the part. of our soldiers to secure religious reading. In many instances they have called upon clergymen in this city and btegged for a supply of Testaments and tracts. Eut they have. to a la' ge extent, begged in vain, as nearly all our religious literature, including Bibles, Testaments and tracts, has been pnh lished at the North, and now we cannot ob tain a supply from that quarter. Feeling that the South must build up a christian lit erature for herself, and that no foreign growth in this respect can answer her home necessi ties, we are publishing large editions of tracts in this city, especially adapted to soldierse, and expect soon to bring out an editiomr of the New Testament. We have pious, dievoted, and experienced colporteurs, who are anxious to be sent into this inviting field, and to gather sheaves unto eternal life. Already thirty are laboring in this capacity under our direction, and their reports are of the most encouraging character, Had we the reqtuisi te funds, we could in a few weeks sendl forth not less than a hundred such laborers. Besides, many of the chap lains are being supplied by us with trat. for general distribution. Thus it will be seen that there is much need of funds, if this most important and interesting work is vigorously prosecuted, and we are solely dependent on the free-will offerings of those who feel inter eted in such labors. Our books and tracts, which arc such as are approved by all evan gelical denominations; are for the most part given away. There is scarcely another such school of vice on the earth as the encampment, and we must counteract its brutal teachings by the " book of books, and by volumes and tracts of kindred influence. The leisure of the sol