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Y0L.1 * Personal.?Gen. Meade, the new leader of the Army of the Potomac, is the grandson of George Meade of Phiiadelpliia, an eminent Irish-American merchant, whose tirm (Meade and Fitzsimmons,) contributed in 1781, $10,000 to a fund for the relief of the famishing army of Gen. Washington. G^n. John F. Reynolds, who received liis mortal wound at Gettysburg on Wednesday, was one of our ablest officers. He N -was a native of Pennsylvania and graduated at West Point and entered the service in 1841. He served with honor in Mexico And on the Pacific coast. He was Lieutenant Colonel of the 14th Regular In fan try, and Major General of volunteers. He was commander of the First Army corps when he fell. Be?ignations and Promotion*. RESIGNATIONS. Asst. Surg. Jno. Freeman, 62d Ohio ; Major P. H. Cowan, 115th N. Y. ; Capt. Beuj. A. Thomas, 62d Ohio; Capt. R. Itandolph, G7th Ohio; 2d Lieut. J. W. Hendricks, (>2d Ohio; 1st Lieut. J. F. Sehoener, 55th Penn. ; 1st Lieut. T. A, Brunn, 11th M^ine; Chaplain Charles Mason, 8th Maine, 1st Lieut. Walter Wheeler, jr., 3d R. I. ; 2d Lieut. A. S. Jackson, 3d R. I. ; 1st Lieut. Daniel J. Flanders. 3d N. H. PROMOTIONS. Eugene I. Button, 1st Sergt, 3d N. H. Vols., 2d Lieut, same Regiment. Frank L. Morrill, 1st Sergt. 3d N. H. Vols., 2d Lieut, same Regt. J. Homer Edgerly 1st iJergt. 3d N. H. Vols., 2d Lieut, same Regt. Henry A. Stone, Sergt-Major 8th Maine, 1st Lieut. 1st S. C. Vols. Charles B. Parsons, Sergt. N. Y. Vol. Eng. 2d Lieut same Regt. Wm. Chase, Sergt. Mass. Cavalry, 2d Lieut, same Regiment. Adolph Bessie, Private 55th Pa. Vols. ?d Lieut 3d S. C. John A. Smith, Private 47th N. Y. Vols., 2d Lieut, same Regt. F. M. Gould, Sergt. 3d R. I. Artillery, .2il Lieut, same Regt. Swearing Them.?A Murfreesboro cor respondent ot tne (Jincinnatti commercial writes: "I have just returned from a pleasant visit to the outposts, a part of Gen. Jeff. C. Davis's division occupying the front apon the Shelbyville Pike. Colonel Heg "has a regiment of Norwegins or Scandinavians. They are mostly from, and are knows as the Fifteenth Wisconsin. They are a splendid body of well disciplined inen, and all speak our language fluently. I heard an amusing anecdote of one of their captains, who, a short time since, took a lot of rebel prisoners. As the Norwegian captain had them drawn up in line, lie said to them, in broken English and in accents very like the German : ' Say, you fellows?you putternuts?I want you all to schwear a leetle. It do you goot to schware mit de constitution. I schware tiim three years ago?now you schware him. Now, recollect, you schware him goot?no d?n nonsense. You schware Lim and keep him down, and not puke him up again.'" The Indianapolis Journal tells the^ fol lowing good story of Peter Apple : " Peter Apple of Oakland, in this county, was lately recruited for the Eleventh Indiana, and took part in the attempt to storm one of the Vicksburg batteries. The rebel fire was so destructive that our army recoiled. Apple, the 4 raw recruit,' 'didn't see* the backward movement, and kept going ahead until he came right up to one of the rebel guns, caught a gunner by the collar, and brought him within our lines, ?j,ying : Boys, why didn't you come on. Every fellow might have got one.' We have heard of no more daring act of bravery than this little incident since the war began." m + m The subject of impression at first sight was being talked over at tea-table, when the lady who presided said that she always formed an idea of a person at first sight ; and that idea, she found, was generally correct "Mamma," said her youngest son in a shrill voice that attracted the at tention of all present. " Well, my dear," said the fond mother, "what do you want?" "I want to know," said Young America, "what you thought when you JissL saw me ?" The decrease of the negro population in the North is very marked. In Boston, during the last eight years, there have been 507 deaths and only 304 births. In , 1861 there were 47 births ; in 1862 only 43 births and 74 deaths. In the North i this race diminishes, and finally perishes altogether. I * ' THE FREE SOUTH, SA1 The PreliminarieN of the Surrender of VickMburg. Chickasaw Bayou, July 3, 1863. Vicksburg is- ours. tiring from our front ceas^i this morning, pending negotiations for a surrender, which have occupied the ^-eaters part of the day. The only contested point touching the surrender has been in reference to what shall be done with General Pemberton's army.? He asks and demands that, while the surrender is unconditional in other respects, the garrison which has so long and so heroicly resisted ortr army shall be spared unnecessary humiliation, and shall be paroled at Vicksburg. This will be probably conceded from motives of expediancv alone, and not as a condition, as it will save an immense expenditure for transportation and subsistance. Generals Grant and Pemberton had a long and private interview, at the latters request, in relation to the surrender, before it was determined. Officers accompanying the flag of truce have indicated by their conversation that all that has been written and published in the North concerning the suffering of the rebels at Vicksburg has been but half the truth. There are about 22,000 people in Vicksb'-.rg, 10,000 of whom are efficient soldiers. Our army will take possession tomorrow morning, The surrender is just in time to save both armies from the loss and destruction of life which would have attende.1 an attempt to carry the works of the enemy by storm, as such an attempt had been determined on for to-morrow morning. Not having been allowed an inside view before the departure of the despatch boat, I cannot give such interesting details as may be desired. Col. Markland, of the Special Post Office Department, will on the 5th establish a post office in Vicksburg. Admiral Foote* A good man, a true soldier, a faithful citizen, an honored officer is dead. At the moment when he is about going to a new sphere of duty, followed by the love and confidence of the people, he dies, and that love and confidence can only recount his virtues and his services, and bevwil tlia nation's creat loss. Admiral Foote was early distinguished in the war by his reduction of Fort Henry and the gallant management of the Western flotilla. The vigor, the rapidity, the success of his warlike operations gave him a hold upon the . popular heart which was only confirmed and strengthened by the simplicity, purity, and fidelity of his religious character. Neither a bigot, a. fanatic, nor a zealot, he was?what many a religious bigot is not?an honorable man. An American citizen, and a sworn officer under the American flag, no other authority and no other flag, under whatever specious pretence, confuse his conscience or betray his honor. His friends to-day, and history hereafter, will have no terrible excuse to make for liim. They will not be obliged to contrast his heroism with his treachery, nor his religion with his infamy ; but the praises of his Christian fervor and bravery and ability will be forever unalloyed. Admiral Foote dies at a moment of chagrin in the war. He dies at a time when we can ill spare a tried and true leader. His name is added to the sliineing list of heroes who have died in the noblest service ; cheerfully obedient, full of faith, believing in the cause, in the country, in his countrymen, steadily holding the flag of hope and humanity : And il some hour seem dark with glaom, That sacred banner lifted higher, Shall flash away the gathering gloom, With inextinguishable fire. m 0 m In his advance from Port Gibson Gen. Grant captured two immense piles of bacon, each covering an area of 2500 square feet, and containing, by estimate, 46,000 pounds each. The rebels had piled it up in the woods, where our boys, when advancing, found it. - a A distinguished officer in our Southern army, remarked that "if he had eight thousand Northern rebel Democrats, brigaded and down here, he would take Ticks burg inside of ten days, or lose every man in the attempt?and he wouldn't care a damn which!" "Does the razor take hold well ?" inquired a darkey, who was shaving a gentleman from the country. " Yes," replied the customer, with tears in his eyeg, " it takes hold first-rate, but dont't let go worth a cent." The rebels are building with all dispatch a railroad from Danville, Virginia, to Greensborough, North Carolina ; this will, of course, give them another hue of communication with the South. ?URDAY, JULY 18, 1863. The Latest News from the North. [From the Herald of the 9th.] The news from the armies of Generals Meade anilLee to-day is most important. A despatch from Frederick last night says that our forces occupied Hagerstown ves terday 4 4 after a fight; but no particulars are given. A battle of a decisive char- i acter is imminent to-day. A freshet, amounting to an absolute i flood, has prevailed in the Potomac, Mo- i nocacy and Patapsco rivers and all the ! smaller streams yesterday, owing to the < heavy rains. Property to a considerable extent in cattle and crops was destroyed. 1 The prospects of retreat of Gen. Lee's < army are consequently diminished. The < position of his forces up to noon yesterday would, seem to show that his line of infantry was drawn across from Funks- < town, Md., to Fading Waters. In the i rear of this line the enemy were endeavoring to get their ammunition and artil- . lery across the river on canal boats and : other contrivances ; but the prospects of succeeding were very small, considering ; the state of the river and the absence of pontoons, which, it is said, even if the i enemy had them?and this is very doubtful?could not resist the current. It was ? thought that General Lee would make a < stand between Hagerstown and the river, i and at a late hour last night it was repor- i t:d that the old battle ground of Antietam ] would probably be the scene of another J terrible conflict. It appears pretty cer- i tain that no portioij of Lee's army has i crossed the Potomac up to this time, and i he is resolved not to give up the campaign i in Maryland without another general en- < gagement. Our cavalry, in the meantime, i under Buford and Pleasanton keep making attacks upon his flanks and rear. 0> Boakd Steamer Johx Adams,) July 11th. 1S63. f Genebal : I have the honor to submit a report of an expedition up the South Edisto river, undertaken with your consent and that of General Gilmore, commanding Department. I left Beaufort on the afternoon of the 9th, with the armed steamer John Adams, the transport Enoch Dean, and the small tug Governor Milton. I had with me 250 officers and men of my regiment, and a section of First Connecticut Battery, under commaud of' Lieut. Clinton. By four o'clock the next morning we anchored before Wiltown, 21 miles up the river, and engaged a three gun field battery there stationed. After three shots they ceased firing, and landing, with Lt. West and thirty men, I took possession of the bluff, where the clothing, equipments and l^eakfast fires left behind betrayed a very hasty departure. This bluff affords . the key to the river, and we held it all day, until sunset, though with constant j skirmishing between my pickets and those of the enemy. We found, as we expected, a row of 1 ?'I? Iha of Wilfnwis an/1 a I spues ueruss iuc mu ?? nuuunu, uuu ? prisoner, whom we had taken, -affected great terror of torpedoes. None, however, appeared, and the able engineering of Capt. Trowbridge, in three hoars, effected a passage for the two small vessels. This was too late for the tide, and we were obliged to wait till noon before ascending further. At the first attempt to ascend with the flood tide the (tor. Milton went aground and the Dean, going about a mile further, had another engagement with the same battery, and again drove it back. She, also, running aground, we were compelled to wait an hour longer for the tide, when the two small vessels ascended together. We met with no further interruption (the rice fields on each side being indefensible) till i within two miles of the railroad bridge. < Here the Dean unluckily grounded again and all efforts- to get her off being fruitless, I signalled Major Strong, on board the tug, to proceed upward to the bridge. { He soon found himself under the fire, at 250 yards, of a sis gun field battery, plant J o1,Aro ort11 nffar tJU Ulilt 11IU1 UU l/UC OUVAV) wuv?) MAW* a severe engagement, in which my vessel ' could render but little aid, our httle consort was compelled to withdraw, and when at last the Bean was got off, the tide rendered it necessary to abandon the attempt We were at this time more than 30 miles from Charleston. Descending the river the Bean had another fight with her old enemies, apparently reinforced, who shelled us very severely from a point near Wiltown. We passed the spiles successfully, but regretted to find the ,V<ZMhground upon them. The John Ada as tried in vain to pull her off, and the officers ou board were reluot- i antly compelled to abandon her, as the 1 tide was rapidly hilling. I was drawing in the pickets and taking them on board the Bean when this decision was made and acted upon, and it was then too late for me to do anything but order the little ves?4 ' \1 NO. 2a sel to be set on fire, which was accordinf^f , ly done, the few men on board having been safely removed. V After this we met with no further incident, except one more artillery tight on the way down the river, making five in aH. I am happy to say that in all these engagements the artillerists, both white and black, did themselves much credit?as did. all my command. I must especially mention Cos. K, Capi Whitney, and G, Lieut. Sampson, upon whom very exposed duty devolved in the way of skirmishing. We brought away about 200 contrabands si* hales nf enttnn nf the heat quality, and two prisoners, F. Hall, 6th. Cavalry, and G. Henry Barnwell, of the "Rebel Troop," one of the well known family of that name. Both were captured by my skirmishers, with their hones and full equipments. For want of transportation we left behind a number of fine horses. We destroyed large quantities of rice, by burning the rice houses, and cutting1 the dams of the rice fields, No private property, not amenable to military rules; was burned or pillaged, though there was abundant opportunity for so doing. My command reports two killed, private July Green, Co. A., and William S. Verifier, Co. C., and one wounded, myself* not severely, in the side from the concussion of a shell. Besides these, the engineer of the Milton was killed, (Mr. Mills,) and one contraband, name unknown: One sailor was slightly wounded in the foot and one contraband lost a leg. Considering the number of shells that exploded in and near the vessels?fifteen having passed through the Enoch Dean alone?I ant surprised that the list is no larger. The loss of the enemy is unknown, but the prisoners stated that one of our first shots dismounted a gun and killed three men, I have the honor to be, General, verjr respectfully, your obedient servant, T. W. Higginson, Colonel, Commanding. Brig. Gen. Saxton. The following General Order was read, on dress parade after the return of the expedition of the 1st. South Carolina volunteers, Sunday evening, 12th inst: General Order No. 86.?The Lieutenant Colonel commanding, in belialf of the colonel of the regiment, desires to exprese his satisfaction with the soldierly qualities ~~ displayed on the late expedition up the South Edist^ siver?the most hazardous of any which you have undertaken. You proved your calmness in the hardest test of a soldiers capacity, while confined to the limits of the vessel which bore you on the hostile errand to the soil of your ene-?mies, until the severe fire of shot and shell of which you were subjected, and you showed your valor on the land, in repelling the attack of your foes, two of you capturing, two of them with your own. hands. You have the proud satisfaction of knowing that you have given the boon of free&om to hundreds of your oppressed race, and you have shown to the world that you are willing to do and suffer foe that which to dearer than life?your freedom of your country, in then, her hour of peril. May you always be equal to the duty which rests upon you, and worthy the noble career which opens before you. 'By Order S. Billings, Lieut. Col Commanding Pnn'f Q f V?l'o xov ^ v* v. v vi o. To Suttlers. Snttlers Ticket*?Five, Ten, Twentylive and Fifty cents?on hand and neatly printed at thin office. Harness. Two setts of stoat new traces for sale at thin jfflce. NEW 6OODJL * Hessrs. G. Bobbins & > HAVE JUST RECEIVED, DIRECT FROM NEW FORK? Gent's Boots and Shoes, moat date sirable styles, also Hosiery?Ladies and gent*. White and other Gloves. p Violin and Guitar Strings. Musquito Netting, different patW American Watches, for which W are agents direct. And nrrntipml Axfmrtment of lite goods suitable for this department, to which attention to respectfnlly called. SUITS OF CLOTHES MADE TO ORDER by compe tent workmen?fit warranted. Soldiers buying Cape and Boots will get the Colonel's order when coming to ns, as per orders from. Headquarters?otherwise none can be sold. nfl m I