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VEIVP 4 ; Li • •- , • kiz, - until ~~ defend themselves, Until their ammunition wa - -? • N• • .AC ••••", 4 44 I_ 4 1 4 1 . 7 . ei d • 1 1 1 ;4r, and their retreat cut off. In addition to the 1 tt' rsc , • • _ these two Mississippi regiments, the Federals - • ~ -j, •,` • 1,.; t (t. • I v guns of the Washington artillery and two of - rzy z- 41111rA, Ir A ..)1141. ". tery, these being, I believe, the only guns captu d ..° l- cf" " "p p it; -KO tr q. • (luring their residence south of the Rappahannock. 'llpo ' t DROIT. the capture of Marye's Heights and Lee's and Tilers.a. Hills, Gen. Early fell hack two miles from the first line of - he enemy, who re .71 1 4. 7z .t , . tr t ' u .' Z.l ' 1:171 ~, !14i/ hills, where he was hardly followed by ti tired when he commenced to shell him. v:THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1863. No. 22,142, PRICE ..... -..4d. STAMPED ....sd. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 180. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accumulated and Invested Funds Annual Revenue.... 422,401 FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insuran - es granted both at Home and in Foreign Countries on the most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Nit ty per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers on the participating principle. The new Life business , ransacted in 1862 as follows: Policies. Am-unt In • tired. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every infor I,ation will be furnished Du application at the OFFICES : LONDON. 5B, Threadneedle-strut. 4, New Bank Buildinzs. Lothbury. If West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. THE ADELAIDE (NORTH ARM) PORT AND RAILWAY EXTENSION AND LAND Con- PANY , SOUTH AUSTRALIA (Limited). Capital £lOO,OOO, in 20, 0 00 shares of £2O each. First issue 10,000 shares. Depo , it, 10s. per share, and los. on allotment. Calls not to exceed £3, at intervals of not less than three months. A portion of the capital reserved for the Colony. Five per cent. per annum guaranteed during the constructfon __ of the works. Payments will be received in advance of calls. DIRECTORS. George Lathom Browne, Esq. (Director of the Cape Town Dock and Railway Company), Old Broad-street, London. Lord Robert Cecil, M.P., 11, Duchess-street, Portland-place, London, W. Frederick poulton, Esq., M.P. (Director of the London and Colo , : t ial Bank), Manor Bons , Dulwich. Johl - 1 Henry Harrison, Esq. (Mes srs. J. H. Harrison and Co., Australian Merchants), G resham -street, London. W. J. Marshall, Esq. (Messrs. Wil son, Bowles, and Co., Mer chants), 9, Mincing-lane, London, E.C. Hon. Alexander M'Arthur (Messrs. W. and A. M'Arthur, Australian Merchants), 46, Moorgate-street, London. George Peacock, Esq., Australian Merchant, 1, Lime-street square, London. Albert Pelly, Esq. (Messrs, A. Pell and Co., Merchants) , Finch-lane, Lond on, E.C,Y Henry Spicer, i' d : London and Asecilair LOCAL BOARD. Adelaide. (Messrs. E. and H. Spicer, Merchants), YTon. John Baker (late Member of the Legislative Council) , Hon. George Hawker (Speaker of the Legislative Assembly), Captain Lipson, R.N. (late Harbour Master), Adelaide. Bon. Col. O'Halloran (Member of the Legislative Council), Adelaide. Hon. 'I hos. Reynolds, M.P. (late Chief Secretary), Adelaide. Hon. Abraham Scott, M.L.C., Merchant, Adelaide. Messrs. Barclay, Bev a n, 1 Tifto BAR Rifi. n, Tt and Co., Lombard-street, London. South Australian Banking-Company, Adelaide. BROKERS. Robert M'Ewen, Esq. ' Manchester. Messrs. T a u n to n and Co., Liverpool. Messrs. A. Scrutton and Son, 81, Old Broad-street, London, SOLICITORS. Messrs, Phillips and Son, 11, Abchurch-lane, London. SECRETARY-W. H. Payne, Esq. Offices-36, Old Broad-street, London, E.C. PROSPECTUS. I. This company is formed for the purpose of affording more convenient accommodation for the shipping and com merce of the colony of South Australia under the following circumstances : 11. The colony of South Australia, with its mineral and agricultural products, is admittedly rich in all things which can tend to create an extensive and prosperous trade with other countries, and mthing retards its elevation to the highest point of commercial prosperity so much as the want of convenient and sufficient accommodation for the shipping resorting thereto. 111. That portion of the Port of Adelaide to which the name resent resorts is about seven miles irons the city of that and situated at the extremity of an arm of the sea, which after leaving the point known as the North Arm becomes a narrow and tortuous channel, two miles and three quarters in length, difficult to navigate without grounding, and except at flood tide and with a favourable wind inacces sible to vessels without th expense of a steam-tug ; this ter minates in shoal water, where vessels are crowded together, for the most part aground, subject to all the risks of broken ribs, broken backs, and conflagration —nor can these disad vantages and risks be remedied at the present shipping - place, as the water is shoaling, up every year, and with ail the pre sent heavy and constant expense incurred in dredging can not be sufficiently deepened for vessels to lie afloat. (Sc Appendix.) IV. The serious and important nature of this question has frequently engaged the attention of the Colonial Government and Parliament, and it may be safely affirmed that the effect of the testimony of successive Governors and other authori ties, colonists and shipping masters resorting to the port has down to the present day been condemnatory of the present shipping place and in favour of the North Arm, as affording the requisite facilities for accommodating a large amount of shipping of any class, and of becoming, as originally in tended, and still desired, the permanent port for Adelaide. (See Appendix.) V. At the North Arm is a magnificent sheet of deep Water land-locked, forming a natural basin of great extent, with smooth water and of easy navigation for vessels of the largest burden ; and the site selected by the Company, unlike the adjacent land, is elevated above the highest flood, has deep water in immediate proximity to the shore, and an abundant supply of fresh water, with a frontage to the harbour of over 3,000 feet In length for wharf purposes, and of over 1,500 laterally, immediately abutting on the site re served for Government Graving Docks. VI. An advantageous arrangement has been made with the proprietors of the land required for the purposes of the Company, by which nearly two-thirds of the purchase money will be taken in referred shares, to remain in the Ii ands of the directors, on terms securing to the shareholders a priority of dividend to the extent of 5 per cent., till the profits yield sufficient to pay that amount of dividend on the aggregate of the paid-up capital and deferred shares. The remaining one third is to be paid in cash, at periods favour able to the shareholders. The property secured is about 700 acres (extending from the river across Lefevre's peninsula, about one mile in breadth to the Gulf Anchorage), to be con nected with the western bank by means of a steam floating bridge, and the Company has also arranged to purchase on favourable terms additional land on the western bank oppo site the site already secured, with a view to bringing both Sides of the harbour within the sphere of the Company's perations. VII. It is intended to construct upwards of 2,000 feet of wharf frontage at once, w here vessels of the largest tonnage may lay alongside, and to erect wharves, warehouses, and other conveniences, affording ample accommodation to the shipping resorting to the port. Also an extension of two miles of railway to complete the line already laid down by the Government, from the city of Adelaide to the North Arm, and a short line of four-and-a-half miles to the Dry-Creek Station, on the Great North and Murray River Railway, thereby effecting a saving of 12 miles of carriage between the great producing districts and the port of the colony, VIII. As Droving the opening afforded for additional ship accommodation by the increasing prosperity of the colony, the commercial returns show that the exports and imports for the year 1850 amounted to £1,416,389, that of 1860 to £3,423,107, and that of 1861 to £1,063,165, the wharf dues upon which amount to upwards of £30,000 per annum. IX. The frontage of the proposed wharves, extending for upwards of halt a mile, where vessels drawing upwards of 20 feet of water can come alongside at low water, offers such superior advantages as must obviously secure a large propor tion of this business, and thus a very large return to the shareholders, as by colonial law the wharf dues for all goods landed are levied according to regulated tariff. Other impor tant sources of revenue are supplied by the rental of commo dious warehouses inciuded in the estimates, the aggregate rental of which cannot be estimated at less than £12,000 a year ; also by the railways, land, and other rentals, which will accrue from the large population which the operations of the company will atract to their property. X. The cost of the undertaking, including the purchase of the land, the construction of wharves, railway communica tion, and the e - ection of warehouse a and other accommoda tion above-mentioned, has been carefully revised, and esti mated by the late Captain Moorsoin, C.E. at a sum within the first issue of th e company ' s capital. It is also estimated that the whole of this amount will not be required for two years. Responsible contractors are prepared to execute the works within the estimat . Any further capital will only be raised as the increase of business and the advantage of the company requires. XI. The proprietors of the land will place in the possession of the directors s,curitles to pay 5 percent. per annum on the paid-up capital until theworks are so far completed as to en able the directors to commence the business of the Company. XII. The direct, - Ts desire to draw attention to the impor tant advantages offered by the present undertaking, and con fidently refer to the map and the official documents set forth in the appendix, which embraces the site of the Company's property, as establishing the necessity for, and the highly remunerative character of, the proposed works. l'rospectuses, with maps and appendixes, can be obtained at the brokers, solicitors, and of the secretary at the Com pany's offices, 36, Old Broad-street, London, E.C. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHXRES. To the Directors of the Adelaide (North Arm) Port and Rail way Extension and Land Company, South Australia (Limited). Gentlemen.—llaving paid to your bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., the sum of £ , I hereby request that you will allot me shares of £2O each in the Adelaide (North Arm) Port and Railway Extension and Land Company, South Australia (Limit, d) ; and I hereby agree to accept such shares, pursuant to the articles of association, or any smaller num ber that may be allotted to me, and to pay the calls on the shares allotted. And I request you to place my name on the register of shareholders. —I ate, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Usual signature Name in full Address in full Date ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRoNEss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRE SIDENT — Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., P.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPU TY - CHAIRMAN—Then:IM Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning, of the year 1880, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of Eng"and. Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800 ; for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £18,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67, , 00 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-cart iages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kinr , dom Deeply sensible, however , of the g reat res p on s i bility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the a Larne lmagne and permanentagementoftheir boats, whih can only be effected by annual income, they earnestlyappeal countrymen to aid them plioli g to all an p c e l rp as e s t e u s a o t f in t g he s i o r in a great and truly national a work. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions:— X s. d . Her Majesty th e Q ueen • • • annual 50 0 Campbell, the lion. Mrs. G. • • . • • • annual 50 0 Clerk, Colon e l, R . A . .. • • • • annual 1 1 0 annual. 10 0 0 Coutts and Co, Messrs., Bankers • • Currie, Wm. Esq. 4th don 10 0 0 , •• " • Erie, Lord Chief Justice . • :: • • don. 10 1 0 0 ' Fanshawc, Vic e -Ad miral Sir A.. K • C: l3 ' • ' Fenwick, .T., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting Caniage 2d don. 25 0 0 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G . an d i rrs • • •don. 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. Moore, Rev. G. 11. •• • • • 7th don. 10 0 0 • • Smith, Mrs. George, •• • • don. Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, RAS B • • 1 53 15 00 0 00 Thom s, Lady, Weston -super-Mare, e•,•collecied annual 2 by her Ladyship Willoughby d'Ere — ,by, Lord • • • • ' 16 16 0 Donations and Annual Bu , ,ec r th ti • o • ri " annual 5 0 0 teived by the Bankers of the in -t-f;.' will be thankfully re ution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Ressrs. }ferries, Farauhaer, and . 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NOTlCE.—Durin g the Week the Selections will be—" Der Frieschutz "—" I a Forza del Destino "—" II Trovatore " "Don Giovanni," &c. LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays from half-past Nine to Twelve. Admission, ls. 29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, containing 1,200 Models, Natural Preparations, Monstro sities, &c., illustrating every part of the Human Frame ; also the Moving Anatomical Dying Zouave, Julia Pastrana, &c. Admission, One Shilline• tor Gentlemen only), from 10 till 10. Lecture at Four. Illustrated Catalogue free for 14 stamps, sealed 20. Address the Secretary, as above. MR. T. CARRICK begs to announce to his Artist Friends and the Public, that his Photographic Establishment, 32, Regent-street, Piccadilly-circus, is now in full operation. Cartes de Visite, 10 for 10s. 6d ; 21 for £l. Miniatures on Ivory, Marble, and the Photographic base in his former styles. 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ANEVER FAILING REMED Y.— Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre dared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. -cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who .utTer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &a For habitual Costiveness, as a family a p er i en t me di c i ne, an d as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, an d strengthen' the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three timen the ona n tit y i n one, 28. lid. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pins. The genuine are a square green package, with ..William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate v i c i n i ty of the Great Northern RaiS way Terminus, at liing's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCTI, MG, Treasurer—Edward Masterma n , Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without th for malityof governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which panted by sickness and disease, and is now of BSnaccfn,rl - that, with adequate support, it may be rendered---ent capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued suppart, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. C on t r ibutions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq. Nicho l as -l a ne; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond ' and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; DenisOn and Co. ; W Maras, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and CO. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Earned and Co., Liverpool sad at the Hospital STANFORD S. SKITS, _Secretary, THE BATTLES OF CHANCELLORSVILLE (Front the Special Correspondent of the Tinzts.) BEAD-QUARTERS OF GEN. R. E. LEE, CHAN CELLORSVILLE, VIRGINIA, I\L G. If ever the narrative of the memorable drama played upon the stage of Virginia tietween the morn of Wednesday, April 29, and the morning of Wed nesday, May 6, be undertaken by a competent mili tary critic it will be found that never in history did grander or worthier theme engage the scientific at tention of a Jomini, or kindle the sparkling elo quence of a Napier. It may be that in at tempting to describe operations which were spread over an area of something like 15 square miles of country, intersected by two great highways and numberless by-roads, and which involve minute descriptions of intricate fords over one trunk stream and its two tributaries, I shall utterly fail to make myself in telligible to the reader, or to convey a distinct im pression to his mind. But it should not be forgotten that the ablest historians of military events have never been able by words alone to give distinct de lineations of the collisions of great hosts of men, and that the plain diagram which serves as a key to the text of Napier or Alison, and which by a few simple scratches gives clearer ideas than pages of letter press could convey, is denied to me, who have like wise the disadvantage of writing in the midst of an excitement and hurly-burly such as eye has seldom seen or ear heard. It has seemed to me best to throw my narrative into the form of a diary, ex panding and weaving the notes made day after day into a consecutive thread, and adding at the com mencement a description of the scene of action, so far as it is capable of being painted in words. Ten miles due west of Fredericksburg, on the same side of the river Rappahannock, stands a large brick house, with a blacksmith's shop and a few small outbuildings attached, where a certain Mr. Chancellor once lived and kept an hotel. Ia the poverty of nomenchttive invention of this continent, where hamlets are ordinarily named on the principle of selecting some prominent resident in each, and attaching " burg" or " viile" to his name, this little group of buildings, likely to be as famous in the western as Hougomont in the eastern hemisphere, is called Chancellorsville. The brick house, which has lately been used as a boarding school, reminds the Englishman who is old enough to remember the north road from London to York before the days of steam of the once-famous posting-houses at Barnby or Scarthing Moor, Chancellorsville is connected with Fredericksburg by two highway-roads, which unite in front of the house, where, deflecting from the westerly course they have hitherto pursued, they proceed together in a south-westerly direction towards Orange Court-house. These roads are dis tinguished by the names of the turnpike and plank roads. In former times Fredericksburg was con nected with Chancellorsville solely by the turnpike, which during most of its course runs nearer to the river than the plank, the latter having been laid down because, being further from the river, it avoided the hilly bluffs which adjoin the stream. Almost parallel with these two roads runs the river Rappahannock, until, 12 miles west of Fredericks burg, it bifurcates, the north branch of the Rappa hannock running northwards and westwards,while the Rapidan river flows in from the south-west. Two miles below the junction of the streams the Rappahannock is crossed by the United States Ford. Eight miles above Fredericksburg is another ford called Freeman's Landing; four miles above Fre dericksburg another called Banks's Ford; while at and below Fredericksburg itself, in place of the two bridges which once spanned the stream, pontoon bridges have, during the memorable seven days of which I write, been constantly and in many places thrown across by the Federals. Proceeding west ward, and following the two streams above the fork, the north branch of the Rappahannock is traversed by ono or two fords, of which Kelly's is the principal,while the Rapidan is crossed by Ely's and Germanna Fords. The whole of the country commencing four miles west of Fredericksburg and for 10 miles southward and westward of Chancel lorsville is clothed with woods, dense as the pri rnmval forests of Germany, in which Yarns' legions were destroyed, consisting partly of pine, partly of scrub oak, called here black jack, intertwined with a thick undergrowth of chicopin, and apparently im penetrable, save to rabbits and foxes. To the wild, dreary region extending southwards and westwards of Chancellorsville, towards Orange Court-house, has been given the appropriate name of the Wilderness. At Chancellorsville the plank and turnpike ,roads are at their union joined by a third road, which runs to Ely's Ford, on the Rapidan, out of which third road branches half a mile away from Chancellors ville, a fourth road leading to the United States Ford, on the Rappahannock. Again, as you advance from Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville, a country road on your left leaves the plank eight miles from Fredericksburg, and proceeds due south towards an iron foundry, called the Catherine Furnace, and then plunging into the woods brings you out again on the plank road five miles from Chancellorsville and 15 from Fredericksburg. It is to this country road as connected with the famous flank movement of " Stonewall" Jackson that I would particularly in vite the reader's attention. It will be seen, then, that the operations of the past week have principally had to do with the 15 miles of plank road from Fredericksburg:to Wilderness-house, with 10 miles of turnpike from Fredericksburg to Chancellors ville, with the country road by the Furnace, with the road beyond Chancelloreville leading to Ely's Ford on the Rapidan, and with its branch leading to the United States Ford OR the Rappahannock. S, imila E rly ly, ,s 7 Kelly's,ehaa,eto bear in mind the fords, spe cially Banks's, and, most of all, the United States Ford. Over the whole of this region, as well as over the old historical line of hills which the Confederates occupied during the first battle of Fredericksburg, backwards and forwards, rolled for seven days the tide of war; and if asl hurriedly endeavour to narrate the incidents of this momen tous passage of arms some trifling inaccuracy should hereafter be detected, the reader's clemency is in voked in consideration of the difficulty of verifying, within sound of the deafening roar of cannon, the reports of 10,000 informants who fought in different parts of the field, and gathering such a right per ception of its tangled and intricate geography as will defy error and evade mistake. Upon the evening of Friday, May 1, accompanied by a Virginian clergyman, I left Richmond on horse back, following the telegraph road towards Frede ricksburg. My friend's knowledge of the country about Richmond was not such as to preserve us from losing our way in the swamps of the flooded Chicka hominy, across which we plunged on our way to the Hanover Slashes, the dreariest waste of marsh and fen and spongy copse on which mortal eye ever rested. Putting aside all question of resistance, the broad belt of the Hanover Slashes would, except in the height of summer, be an insurmountable obstacle to an invading army, while in summer its poisonous breath would exact fearful toll if an army lingered within its precincts. Yet even to this forsaken re gion the interest of having given birth to a great man clings, and the nickname of the " Millboy of the Slashes," by which Henry Clay was so gene rally known to the country folks of this continent, points to the fact that here, in the humblest circum stances, he first saw the light, and here as a bare footed boy, was wont to ride to the flour ing mill, carrying on the bare back of his horse a sack of wheat to be ground. As we proceeded in the bright moonlight the tree-frog and the bullfrog croaked in chorus so dissonant as to defy even Aristophan es t o produce restless of nightf arers, the whip-poor through the wo o d s an d astonished me br; d w i t m hi imitation, el a r ti a o n n g while the ce ase l ess cry of that most indefatigable an accu racy with which his three notes are repeated. Be tween 1 and 2 we had got no further then Ashland, 16 miles from Richmond, where we lay on the ground, though under cover, fora few hours-36 hours later the party of Federal cavalry which sub sequently so fluttered the doves at Richmond, and from which at other points we narrowly escaped, burst upon Ashland, and inflicted some slight da mage upon the railroad and upon the astonished little town. On Saturday we travelled at our best pace from sunrise to sundown, and were rewarded by hearing not far distant the heavy firing which commenced about four in the afternoon of Saturday, and continuing long after dark announced that we were approaching the neighbourhood of what was rightly expected to be the bloodiest battle of the war. Sleeping near Guiney's statio❑ we were close to Chanccilorsville at nine on the morning of Sun day, and I found that my anticipations that I should be on the spot in time to witness the struggle were fully and happily realised. Wednesday, April 29. This morning, under cloak of an opaque fog, a large body of Federals arrived unmolested on pon toons below Fredericksburg, and, clinging closely to the river bank, spread themselves right and left, surprising two or three parties of Confederate pickets, which were surrounded before it was known a Yankee had crossed the stream. Simultaneously a far larger body crossed the north branch of the Rappahannock at Kelly's and other adjoining fords, while Gen. Stoneman, with a powerful cavalry and artillery force, struck in towards Culpepper Court house, and began to spread with impunity over Vir ginia, breaking his men up into parties, by whom various raids were undertaken, which General J. E. B. Stuart was for seven days powerless to cheek or to chastise. The suddenness and simultaneity of the enemy's operations, the apparent sagacity which guided them, the magnitude of the varied force which assumed them, the consciousness that General Lee, deprived of his " old warhorse," Gen. Long street, was far weaker in numbers than he has ever been since he left Maryland, combined to create uneasiness in the breasts of his staff, which was only relieved when they comforted themselves by watch ing the unruffled calmness of " the old Tycoon" (as they affectionately call 111 m- Without bustle or agitation his dispositions were made, their general policy being to leave Gen. Early at Fredericksburg with a sufficient force to guard the hills from Hamil ton's Crossing to Marye's Heights, and on down to the river, while Generals Lee and Jackson with the rest of the army slowly turted their faces westward along the turnpike and plank roads. Upon the afternoon of this day Gen. Stuart delayed the Fe deral advance in the neighbmrhood of Kelly's Ford by cutting the head of one o° their columns between the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers, and taking prisoners from three different army corps. And here it may be an assistance to the reader to repeat the official order under which, since the last battle of Fredericksburg, the Federal army has been re• distributed and reorganized : GENERAL ORDIRS (No. 6). "Head-quarters, Army of the Potomac, Camp, near Falmouth, Virginia, Feb. 5. " I. The division of the army .nto Grand Divisions im peding rather than facilitating its current business, and the character of the service it is lieble to be called upon to perform being adverse to the movement and operations of heavy columns, it is discontinued, and the corps organi zation is adopted in its stead. They will be commanded as follows :—First corps, Major-General John F. Reynolds; second corps, Major General D. N. Couch; third corps, Brigadier-General D. E. Sickles (temporarily) ; fifth corps, Major General George G. Meade ; sixth corps, Major General John Sedgwick ; eleventh corps, Major General Franz Sigel; and twelfth corps, Major General H. W. Slocum. "11. Hereafter the corps will be considered as a unit for the organisation of the artillery, and no transfers of batte ries will be made from one corps or division to others except for purposes of equalisation, and then only under the authority of the Chief of Artillery. " 111. The cavalry of the army will be consolidated into one corps, under tho command of Brigadier General Stoneman, who will make the necessary assignments for detachment duty. " IV. The foregoing changes in command will be made as early as convenient. " V. The Major Generals commanding Grand Divisions will report to these head-quarters the names of such staff officers as are for assignment for duty in the execution of this order. "By command of Majo r General Hooker, "JOSEPH DICKINSON, Assistant Adjutant General." THURSDAY, April 30. The three army corps which had crossed at Kelly's Ford were, it is believed, joined this morning by two other corps which crossed at the United States Ford, and together they swept onwards in a fine broad front towards Fredericksburg along the turn pike, plank, and Spottsylvania Court-house roads, the last being the direct route from Fredericks burg to the Virginia Central Railroad, by which on our first entry into Secessia, Colonel Wol seley and I proceeded on our way to Rich mond. The full strength of each army corps should, I believe, amount to 20,000 men; but, making allowances for the inevitable shrinking of regiments, it is computed that General Hooker's army at this point could not have been less than 80,000 men. With them marched a band of pioneers, or sappers and miners, 5,000 strong—in other words, mechanics accustomed to handle timber, fell trees, and build bridges ; lumbermen from Maine and carpenters; men who are clad in uniform in order that they may be exchanged if taken prisoners, but whose arms are the pick, shovel, and the axe, aril their employment to work at intrenchments while the soldiers rest. Contrast with them the Southern army, composed of men who for the most part never touched spade or axe before the commencement of this war, who work with tools insufficient in number, worn with use, and all of them captured from the enemy, and who fought on this occasion in the ratio of three fagged, weary, and hungry against seven fresh and pam pered men. General Lee, anxious to ascertain whether Gene ral Hooker designed to march straight on Fre dericksburg or, in pursuance of the plan by hi m exhibited to the Congressional Committee which in vestigated General Burnside's failure, to strike deeper into the country, moved leisurely towards Chancellorsville, holding all his troops except Gene ral Early's division closely in hand. But when General Anderson's division, stationed in the neigh bourhood of the United States Ford, recoiling before the immense Federal host, heralded its advance, General Lee threw up earthworks half way between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and there arrested the advance of his foe. General Hooker did not press him hotly, but, in his turn, fell slowly back towards Chancellorsville, followed still more slowly by the Confederates. On the even ing of this day General Stuart attacked the Federals upon the Spottsylvania - road, and inaugurated one of those " free fights" into which in this war night conflicts ordinarily degenerate. The 3d Virginia Cavalry charged the sth, the sth charged the 3d, Major Von Borcke, of General Stuart's Staff, had his horse killed by one of his own men, everybody fired at anybody and anybody at everybody, but the result was that "all's well that ends well," inas much as, after losing 50 prisoners, the Federals, notwithstanding their immense numerical superio rity, fell back, and were beard nu more on the Spottsylvania-road. FRIDAY, May 1. The day passed uneventually. General Lee con tinued to advance, General Hooker to fall back. But as they neared Chancellorsville the former penetrated the latter's purpose in retreating, when he discovered that about 500 yards in front of Chan cellorsville, in the midst of a dense thicket of black jack, the Federal pioneers had thrown up very strong intrenchments at right angles to the turn pike and plink roads with an abattis of felled trees bristling outwards in front, and seemingly defying the passage of any living and walking animal. Ren ning southwards for about a mile from the plank road, the Yankee works turned short to the west until they again met the plank road be tween Chancellorsville and Orange Court house, towards the latter of which points (as I have already said) the plank road deflects in a south-westerly direction after leaving Chancellors ville. 'Within these works the Yankees stood thickly and savagely at bay, their powerful ar tillery massed on some high ground a little in the rear. Their position was fearfully formidable— repulse, if the works were attacked solely from the front, seemed inevitable—the loss of life to the assailants anyhow must have been ghastly. Under theso circumstances General Lee resolved to out flank the flanker. SATURDAY, May 2. If ever a man was adapted for the execution of a plan daring and hazardous in the extreme, but de pending for its safety upon the celerity and audacity of its execution, assure:lly that man was Stonewall Jackson. With the first break of dawn he plunged with his three fa mous di v i s i ons—the fi rst com mandedth e th ?e e e t o n n i d r , d in l lately y a b u s n e n d e e r 3 nfTrimb b l y e, A b . y P. Coulson;Hill ; D. H. Hill, by Rodes, into the country road which leads to the Furnace. At the Furnace he ascended a hill, and was viewed by the 'enemy from an ad joining hill called Fairview, and heavily though harmlessly shelled. With his usual temerity he sent word back to General Lee that the Furnace hill must be held by one regiment until his artillery and waggons had got by. A South Carolina regi ment was accordingly sent there, but was, I believe, shortly carried forward in company with the cavalry, and in its place three or four companies of a Georgia regiment were left to guard the critical spot. The enemy, discovering the weakness of the guard, attacked and took the Georgians prisoners. The last of Jackson's batteries was passing as the Georgians were captured, whereupon Capt. Brown unlimbered his guns, opened on the Federals, and drove them back. He then passed on after Jackson, whose waggons had to fall back and pursue their General by a more circuitous route. Marvellous to say, it never seems to have suggested itself to Gen. Hooker, although this large body of Confederates passed under his nose, that his rear was in danger, or that Gen. Lee, greatly weakened, was lying 'within a few hundred yards of the mighty Federal host of 80,000 men. At four in the afternoon Gen. Lee, knowing that Jackson could not be far from his destination, opened fire steadily along his whole line, feeling the gigantic masses of his intrenched foe. For two hours and a half a heavy fire was interchanged between the hostile batteries, each party holding its own line. Suddenly, about half-pest 6 in the evening, the rattle of musketry was heard in the distance, followed by the loud boom of artillery, and instantly General Lee passed word along his lines, " Jackson at work ; press them heavily everywhere." Swift and sudden as the falcon swooping on her prey, Jackson had burst on his enemy's rear, and crushed him before resistance could be attempted. Passing right over the plank road, and extending almost up to the Ely's Ford road, getting behind Chancelloraville, the three noble divisions raced gallantly forward, drunk with the animal joy and inebriation of battle. Not a trench had been dug, not a tree felled, not a stick raised to resist them ; the unconscious Federals en gaged in cooking their supper—one regiment on dress parade—heard in the sudden volley of Jack son's long line the knell of their doom. An intel ligent Virginian farmer, Mr. Green, taken prisoner by the Federals, heard one of their Generals say to his men about six o'clock, " Jackson and his rebels don't dare face us to-night. Get your suppers ready, boys, and enjoy yourselves." With faces turning eastward, secured, as they fancied, by the dense masses of their friends within the intrench ments in front, without a thought of their rear, the Federals rummaged their knapsacks for all the luxuries with which Boston, New York, and Phila delphia pamper and recruit their Sybarite soldiery. Before that supper could be eaten the un washed, unkempt, starving raggamuffins of the South bad burst on them from the west, and scat tered them, nerveless, panic-struck, helpless, like chaff before the blast. Major Peyton, of General Lee's staff, found a coffeepot, with cups round it, standing in the wood. He poured the liquid out, but it was so hot he could not drink it. What might have been the result but for one casualty which alone almost countervailed the vic tories of a week who shall say ? Formation or order the Federals had none ; reserve, tactics, orga nisation, disposition, plan, all went down before the whirlwind suddenness of the surprise. The less of the Confederates was ludicrou sl y small; their adva le nc s. e like Nig htthahtod fallen of a white A s b q o u o a t l l 8 i o n ,o t l ohoekGe neral Bay of Nap Jack son rode forward with two or three of his staff along the plank road, and advanced 150 yards in front of his foremost skirmishers, peering with those keen eyes which you might fancy could be seen through the densest gloom forward into the night. He turned to ride back—a heavy fire from one of his own regiments, hailing from South Carolina, but whose number I will it. mercy withhold, saluted him. One bullet struck his left arm four inches below the shoulder, shattering the bone down to the elbow. The wound was intensely painful; he half fell, half was lifted from his horse. An aide galloped back to A. P. Hill to report that Stone wall Jackson was wounded and lying in the road. General Hill galloped hastily up, flung himself from the saddle, began, choked with emotion, to cut the cloth of Jackson's sleeve, when suddenly four of the Federal videttes appeared on horseback, and were fired on by . the Staff officers. The videttes fell back upon a strong and swiftly advancing line of Fede ral skirmishers. Gen. Hill and all the officers and couriers of both Staffs had no alternative but to mount and ride for their lives, leaving Jackson where he lay. Bight over the ground where was stretched the wounded lion the Federals advanced. Within their grasp lay the mightiest prize, the most precious jewel in the Confederate crown ; but it was not destined that Stonewall Jackson should be struck by Federal bullet, or yield himself prisoner to a Federal soldier, As General Hill and his companions galloped back they also became the target of the same luck less North Carlolinians. General Hill's boot was cut by a bullet, but his leg uninjured; Colonet Crutch field, chief of artillery to Jackson, was seriously, if not mortally, wounded; Boswell, of Jackson's Staff, killed; Howard, engineer to A. P. Hill, knocked from his horse, but whether killed, or wounded, or a prisoner, is not known ; two or three couriers killed. Without losing a moment, General Hill threw his own skirmishers forward, backed by heavy supports, and the ground on which lay Gen. Jack son was again occupied by the Confederates. But in the meantime two more bullets, both from his own men, had struck him as he lay on the ground one passing through the wrist of his shattered arm, the other entering the palm of his right hand and coming out through its back. He was at once car ried to the rear, and his arm instantly amputated under chloroform. Grave fears were entertained that he would lose his right hand also, but I am happy to add that they have since abated. Again may it be hoped that, if he is wanted, Stonewall Jackson will carry into action a guilelessness, sim plicity, and unselfishness which are all his own, and elmbine with them Cromwell's fiery zeal, saintly earnestness, and dauntlessness of purpose. Never was it more apparent than this evening what Jackson's presence and influence are to his men. With his wound ceased the fiery desperation of their onslaught ; tidings of it flew like wildfire hitherto through the ranks; the routed Federals found heartf selves no longer closely pressed, and . too _ the grace as they poured grape andGcanistelr Adowpnirlel a c n a d l f f o n f r h ea ls h le i g m , plank road. Between 9 and 10 General J. E. B. Stuart was by General Lee withdrawn i l n e g ad a ing ba G t e ti n e er t a h ls e who ntlll ithavetor is was reluctantly which struck tr uc causedk by from aa painful t ti h n fu field.shell contusion, 11A the 1 i e 0 p.m.. General from his cavalry command and put temporarily at the head of Gen. Jackson's corps, stripped as it was o p f ar h ln is ta k e n its dangers and glories without b • _ being arrested by disease or stricken by bullet. SUNDAV, May 3. °lnwtearptwreotunder the necessary disadvantage of describing as succes sive incidents which actually took place simul taneously along the whole line. This disadvantage is increased if, as in the present instance, simul taneous operations are progressing at both ends of a 15-mile stretch. The eye and mind oscillate between east and west—between the Confederate battery at Marye's Heights and the Federal works on the slope at Chancellorsville—doubtful which way to turn when both places demand notice, or whither in the first instance to address attention. e t ft oi the h t, At Chancello rsv ill e th e baffle, hardly intermitted through o p p la en o e k d r f o u a ri d ou e s.: s y y w o i u th t t r h a e ve c l ar f l r i o es m t dawn of day. Last n i g ht i t h a d rage d pr i nc ipally Orange Court-house to Ch ance ll orsv ill e; this tth u e gi- 1 he night, morning it was mostly transferred to the right, as the right wing of the Federals, recoiling before Jackson's onslaught. was doubled back on the Federal centre. Morning found the Fede rals entirely within their lines, which ran from the neighbourhood of the river across the turnpike and plank roads, back again, at a right angle, to the same plank road, after it has left Chancellors and turned southwards. The slope up which the road from Orange ascends, and which is one of the few spots in that densely clothed region which l i is bare of trees, was defended by ordinary earth works, but behind them was massed a wealth of , artillery such as no other modern field of battle has witnessed. Against this slope with earliest morning advanced in three divisions what, whether he lives or dies, will never cease to be called " Stonewall Jackson's corps." First advanced the division of A. P. Hill, now commanded by Gene ral Heath; next advanced the' Stonewall" division, under General Coulson ; last, and in reserve, advanced D. H. Hill's division, now under command of General Rodes. Through a perfect tornado of shot and shell hurtling through the woods, and rending trunk and limb and bush and sapling, as though a hurricane of iron hail had rushed from the clouds, steady as regulars, inexor able as doom, advanced, division after division, the fiery Militia of the South. Who that has seen the listless, sleeveless, ragged, mendicant-like units which compose the Southern host, dragging them selves wearily and painfully to the front, with pleading eye and dejected mien, could imagine into what a thunderbolt of war the aggregate of these units grows and ascends when death and danger lower in their front? Onward, right onward they press ; they have gained the edge of the torn and riven woods, they burst into the open, and here, for the first time, Heath's Division falters under the tempest of shot rained upon it from the heights. At this critical moment the Stonewall division, which should have given Heath in stant support, ineffectively handled, as is alleged to me by its commanding General, failed to ad vance, and disaster and repulse seemed not impos sible; But a man was found equal to the perilous emergency, as General Rodes, animating his men with voice and gesture, commanded the third, or reserve division, to advance over friend or fee and storm the heights. Nobly did they respond to his call. Under the inspiration of their presence and example Heath's division slowly and sternly re covered itself, and together they swept up the slope, and never rested till the well known battle-flag of the rebels was flying from the earthworks torn from their foe. If in this narrative something like censure of the Stonewall division is expressed, it is nothing less than justice to state that on the preceding evening a charge made by this division, and of which the exact particulars are unknown to me, elicited the very highest encomiums from General Jackson, and was continually mentioned by him for the first two or three days:after his wound. The prompt presence of mind and gallantry of Gen. Ruda were to the full appreciated by Gen. Lee, and a recommendation that he should be advanced to a major-generalship was by the latter instantly forwarded to the War Department at Richmond. Meanwhile the Federal lines, as they sweep round and face eastward, were, as I have said, defended by works more formidable than the slope at Chancellorsville. The trunks of trees, about the thickness of a man's thigh, had been cut down, trimmed of their branches, and laid longitudinally to the height of four feet, the in stertices between the logs being banked with earth. More scientific or better engineered works I have never seen. In front the lopped branches were interwoven with felled trees, and an abattis, difficult and impenetrable beyond description,seemed to defy attack. To four brigades of Gen. Anderson's division was intrusted the perilous task of storming works strong enough to have stood a siege, and de fended by vastly superior numbers of Federals. I am warned by the length to which this letter is ex tending that your readers' patience must well nigh be exhausted. But there were no more gallant rushes during six days of unprecedented gallantry than those of the brigades of Pesey's Mississippians and Wright's Georgians againstthe almost impregnable intrenchments of their foe. With admirable sagacity Gen. Stuart had fastened upon the hill called Fair view, and opened upon the flank of the Yankees an enfilading fire of 20 Napoleon guns. Simulta neously right up to the breastworks rushed Posey's and Wright's brigades. They spring into and upon the felled trees and matted branches — they bound like tigers into the works, and drive the panic-struck Federals headlong from their cover. Never shall I forget the yell which rent the sky, and announced that the enemy was broken. Yield ing works—from which ten times their number should never have driven determined men, leaving behind them knapsacks, canteens, overcoats, oil cloths, books, cards, paper, newspapers, muskets— the Federals rushed quailing to the rear, and never stopped until they had got behind the building at Chancellorsville, beyond which their artillery opened a heavy fire. IviThe battle at Chancellorsville was over for the day. The loss of Posey's and Wright's brigades, notwithstanding the terrible works they carried, was slight. But in the three divisions of Jackson's corps the loss in killed, wounded, and missing could not have been less than G,OOO men. Such a sight as the inside of the Yankee breastworks, just after they had left them, never may I see again I With astonish ing accuracy Stuart's enfilading fire had torn through their ranks. In every variety of attitude of death, torn, rent, and shivered into scarcely distinguishable relics of humanity, lay what so lately had breathed and moved. Still more ter rible and strangely appalling was the road from Chancel lorsville towards Orange Courthouse, along which, and on either side of which Jackson had descended to the harvest of death. Tumbrils overthrown, caissons exploded, horsess dead and dying, sometimes with broken legs,. sometimes with with ghastly wounds, human bodies in every gul l ' fearf Asa ing and death tortured, and riven trees, gandful thoughts of black jack brushwood, and suggesting r he most agonising wounded and helpless men perishing blood with horror as all, a crackling fire running swiftly. through death known to humanity, froze eyeheaven, to gain a the spectator in agony turnedeyes to ble and woful anguish of moment's relief from the unuttera 11 :: grass lyquaint balanced, humour but not, o fevenhic which earth. , l oc k, for the first time, I encountered Shortly after 1 at that time, whol l y ns through his composition. In answer to so rich a vein ru ongratulations he answered that they were pre my hearty c that things were not going everywhere as he wished m ature : ttsaid he, " we have lost Marye's Heights." I t h em , for, then learnt that at an early hour upon Sunday morning the Federals had made two or three abortive attempts to storm the heights, which were held by one Mississippi re giment (the 21st) on the top, and another Mississippi regi ment (the ISth) in the lane at their base. A flag of truce was sent in by the Federals, asking to be allowed to bury General Lee, calmoendneivlde .dof, their dead and carry off their wounded. To this consent was given by Col. Griffin. It is scarcely necessary to add that the real object of this flag of truce was that its bearer might ascertain the strength of the Confederates holding the hill. Scarcely had the flag got lack before three heavy bodies of Yankees, in all not less than 20,000 men, burst from the town of Fredericksburg, from the river road leading towards Bowling Green, and from the west of Taylor's Hill, and made at the double quick for the heights. One large body came across Bernard's Flats, in front of the eminence known to your readers as Lee's Hill, and ascended Marye's Height , from the rear; another column burst up the plank road, and were on the defenders before effectual resistance was pos sible; sible ; but gallantly and dauntless l y did the Mississippians ------ --- The news was quickly carried to Gen. Lee. He lost ntot a moment in detaching Gen. M'Laws' division, and sending them back towards Fredericksburg. Meanwhile, the 20,000 Yankees, intoxicated by the consciousness of their stupen dous valour in having overpowered two regiments upon Marye's Heights, and loud in their self-exaltation, streamed along the plank road towards Gen. Lee's rear. In one of the houses adjoining Fredericksburg a Federal officer caught up a Richmond newspaper, and, after reading for a few moments, tossed it from him with supercilious disdain, ex-- claiming, "They say we can't fight." Five or six hours later the same officer and many of his companions returned to the same house, dejected, mortified, and chagrined. Four miles off they and their followers had encountered Gen. M‘Laws and his division at S Clem Church, and had been driven back before him, smitten hip and thigh. At Chanceliorsville, although no match for the burning en thusiasm and fiery zeal of the Confederates, the Federals had, at least, not disgraced themselves; at Salem Church. wh , t i, la nf "l e y u c se t) corpsshow off i a c vr h t ailifoughtvalour. vh u ea n s d t el adulation r; s u e p n e . r or r d f g nt w uh i me c i k rb esrcs officers,a r c a e n l y madeuntold po oiwserl.edssist "finestt el geteven w one m h y n e o arty th e e ff p or la t n o e u t t ., o! this portion of the MONDAY, May 4. The scene shifts this day entirely to Fredericksburg. At an early hear this morning Gen. Early attacked Marye's Heights and recaptured them with ludicrous facility, tak ing, if I am not mistaken, two fine Napoleon guns which the Federals had mounted on the heights. Gen. Early then threw his forces forward towards the river, and en tirely intercepted the Federals lying between himself and Gen. M'Laws from retreat on Fredericksburg. Simultane ously Gen. Early sent word to Gen. M'Laws to press the fines y from of fr Fred t e h r e in w ks e b st u , r w g. hil F e h or e hung on the some unknomwnfrormeatshone etohnis owr greatide e k r s w hc a oo s unl n fde o d t he ar o av b te e e y e sevcdia.npt victories Stupendous r a a pr s e:r the u r i s e s s strait n ul a t t s u r o af by yth e t s hat the e disappointment should be felt that both Hooker and Sedg skin of their teeth. Here were, between the two divisions of Early and M'Laws, some 20,000 demoralised, shattered Federals, with a swift river and no pontoons in their rear. It is " beyond a peradventure" that if an attack on them had been made early this morning they would have lost all their guns and half their men. But M'Laws waited for Anderson, the precious opportunity was lost, and no attack was commenced until five in the evening. Meantime General Lee, satisfied that General Hooker would give him no more trouble at Chancellorsville, re paired to Fredericksburg, and in person marshalled the brigades of three divisions in that part of the field. The attack, as I have said, commenced at five in the evening— the resistance of the Federals was contemptible in the ex treme. Their shattered columns made for Banks' Ford, p d u e r a rs t u oef e s h , e b l u fif t gt hshcet length o l g y wth w i ; t af hr thiss s ffi l c ep a i r e te n enr t w v l i ea sgaoputr not, down bo already rn t e h a e C fdryemi o n n ot fe hr dmate, many details of the local circumstances of th is por tione height behind Marye's Hill upon their standing fee—how Lawton's brigade of Georgians, commanded in this instance by a gallant young officer named Gordon, specially distin guished themselves, might be profitably given—suffice it to say that night fell upon the Federals hurrying down to the river at Banks' Ford, and that during the night, under cover of ancther dense fog, threw a pontoon across the stream, under a heavy and damaging fire from M'Laws, and broken, discomfited, demoralised, got back to the Northern bank. At Chancellorsville the Confederates lay all day within the lines which with indomitable energy they had in the night traced around the position of Hooker's troops, and which hemmed them in, leaving only the United States Ford open, the sole exodus of that army which had advanced in full assurance of victory five days before. Along these lines for a considerable portion of their length it was my fortune to ride to-day, and never did I witness anything like the mirth and glee of the troops. It was touching to hear the complaints of the skirmishers who had just re turned from the front, and who felt themselvee personally aggrieved that the Federals refused to skirmish this morn ing, and that, in fact, no fight could be got out of them. strange and unprecedented fatality—So,ooo troops sur rounded and hemmed in by one-third of their number, powerless to break through, or make any demonstrations against their puny foe—to this pass had " the finest army on the planet" ingloriously come I TUESDAY, May 5. Early this morning I rode over to Fredericksburg, and found that not a Federal soldiet, save a large batch of pri soners around Salem Church, was left on the south side of the Rappahannock. I proceeded to General Lee's head quarters, and had the great advantage of riding back from Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville in company with the General, and hearing his free comments upon the events of the week. If for ono moment lam tempted to lift the veil, and reveal portions of his conversation, it is because I feel that all who speak the English tongie should be admitted to a closer perception and higher appreciation of ono who does honour to our race. The General bewailed the compa -at:ye impunity with which Sedgwick and his followers had escaped from his grasp. "Up to this time we have done nothing but afford the Northern press material for Another great Union victory I' True, we have driven our enemy from every field, swept away his every formation, scourged him out of works from which neither whirlwind nor hurri cane could ever drive my poor raggamuffins—but what of that ? I have learnt that nothing but the entire capture of a whole corps will ever produce ar effect, and such a capture should unquestionably have been effected yesterday." In answer to my remark that, judging from the wholesale cap ture of arms and accoutrements, at least one quarter of Hooker's army must be impotent for offence, the General observed, " With the resources of the North probably the deficiency of arms has been made good already. Conceive the glee of the contractors when a new call for everything wanted for 100,000 men, from caps down to shoes, is re ceived at Washington, all the profits going into the pockets of the Republican party I Compare with their resources those which I wield. Not a day passes but opportunities occur. Signal advantages oiler themselves, bat I cannot use them. Want of transport, want of tools, pontoons, horses, and inferiority of numbers force me to abandon the chance of action. But hereafter I think we shall be more on an equality." But most interesting of all was his conversation about Stonewall Jackson. " Had I been able to dictate events, most gladly would I have been disabled in my own person if he had teen spared. Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that if it can be done it will be done. No need for me to send and watch him. Straight as the needle to the pole he advances to the execution of my purpose. Pure, high-minded, un selfish, he has no earthly thought of himself or his own ad vancement. The solo aim and object of his life is the good of his country." As w e parted the General's last words led me to conclude that his attack upon Hooker would be resumed that after noon. We arrived at Chancellorsville about 1 o'clock. The morning had been singularly and oppressively hot. Pre sently heavy thunder-clouds blew up from the south, the wind swept round into the north-east, and there was a sound of much rain. The whole of that afternoor, the fol lowing night, and most of the next day, the heavens seemed to have opened. Torrents of rain deluged the earth, and it became very cold. As I sheltered myself in a little farm on the plank road the brigades of Anderson's division came splashing through the mud, in wild tumultuous spirits, singing, shouting, jesting, heedless of soaking rags, drenched to the skin, and burn in g again to mingle in the wild revelry of battle. One could not but speculate what manner of night Hooker's men were passing. But assuredly to them the heavy rain of Tuesday night, the deafening re verberations of God's artillery, which rent the heavens and mocked puny man's efforts at imitation, were blessings in deed. They arrested and delayed the renewal of Lee's at tack, and preserved Hooker's army for the opportunity of " another great Union victory T." WEDNESDAY, May G. The morn i n g broke misty, with rain, he avy an d lower ing. The reader will anticipate my statement that it found Hooker and his army on the northern bank of the river. All night long had they been streaming across the pon toons over the United States Ford. It was found that they had thrown up works and traverses which were marvels of industry and indefatigable energy, but which, fresh from the memory of the slope at Chancellorsville, and of the in trenchments and abattis in the black jack thicket, they dared not attempt to hold. Further comments upon the incidents which so hurriedly and imperfectly I have at- tempted to relate I will, in mercy to the reader, forbear. The bloody repulse of the enemy at every point, the frus tration of every movement, the spectacle of at least 120,000 men hurled back in three places across the Rappahannock, after paying fearful toll for its passage, constitute an 04- semblc which requires nothing to be added to it. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing llorniman's pure Tea ; very choice at 3s 4d. and 4s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. 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