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Headquarters, Army of the Potomac,
July 4, 10 p.m.
To Major• General Halleck :
No change of affairs since my despatch of noon.
GEORGE G. MEADE, Major• General.
Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac,
July 5, 8 30 a.m.
Major-General Halleck,—
The enemy retired under cover of the night and
the heavy rain in the direction of Fairfield and
Cashtown.
Our cavalry are in pursuit.
I cannot give you the details of our captured in
prisoners, colours, and arms.

PRICE.-- ...4d.
STAMPED.....Sd.

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to wait until he could communicao
authority to grant their req :
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instructions. This morning aspecial Cabinet meet-
ing was called to consider the matter. The grant-
ing of the request involved many delicate and im-
portantas such a proceeding
tsotiaonnsaCknowledgment of the nationality
c/a:lll:lien:ended Confederate government; and,
might be
o2of a st
thteu
after all, the matter might be some comparatively
unimportant affair, , such as the employment of
negro troops, Sze.
No decision was arrived at, and the Cabinet
meeting was accordingly adjourned until to-morrow
and Admiral Lee was instructed to ascertain if pos-
sible the object of the mission.
In the meantime, however, the tug containing the
rebel ambassadors had turned about and steamed
up the river, without any parting salutation or ex-
planation, and thus ended the mission.
A gentleman just arrived from Richmond, who
left the day before yesterday,says great consterna-
tion prevails there. The defences are occupied
chiefly by armed citizens, and fears are entertained
that Lee will be cut off and Richmond captured be-
fore an army can be concentrated there.

Upwards of 20 battle flags will be turned in from
one corps.
My wounded and those of the enemy are in our
hands.

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the following account of Friday's battle ;--
Heraldfur-
nishes
Headquarters, Third Army
Corps, near
Gettysburg, July 4.
The battle of Friday
of was the most desperate,
most fierce and deeisivethe war. It was com-
menced at early daybreak on our extreme left by a
determined attack by the enemy with
artillery. The attack was met
by the musketry and
Sixth Corps,
anti portions of the First and the
Fifth, the Third
lying close at hand in reserve. The battle raged
fiercely at this point for nearly three
hours, when
the enemy fell back, yielding to us the whole of
the battle-field of that morning as well as the pre-
vious day. Nearly simultaneously with the open-
ing of the attack on the left, movements were dis-
covered on the right, indicating that an effort was
making to flank our position in that direction.
Our artillery on Cemetery-hill at once opened,
thro wing:heavy vollies of shell over and to the north
and east of the town. At this point we had eight
or ten batteries in position, covered by earthworks.
The enemy responded briskly to our cannonading,
but with poor effect, and were evidently much an-
noyed by our fire. They, however, pressed their
columns on to the right, and very soon our infantry
poured on that flank, and were earnestly engaged.
The contest there was even more earnest and con-
tinuous than on the left. The Twelfth and portions
of the Eleventh Corps withstood the shock, giving
never an inch of ground to their assailants.
The fight raged here on the face of a lofty moun-
tain, densely wooded, from the summit of which
batteries could command our position on Cemetery-
hill. It was evidently with a view of gaining this
position that the enemy made the assault. For this
purpose Hill's corps, that had fought on the left on
the previous day, were brought around to the right,
to reinforce Early, and as the scheme was developed
it appeared that the early attack on the left was
intended as a diversion to cover this movement,
From a distance the progress of the fight could be
observed by the curling smoke rising above this
wood, marking the line of the fierce contest.

In reference to the application of Mr. Alexander
H.Stephens and Commissioner Ould,to be permitted
to proceed to Washington in the rebel gunboat
Dragon, to present in person a letter from Jeff.
Davis to President Lincoln, it was decided to-day
that the application could not be granted, and Ad-
miral Lee was instructed to notify them* that, should
the application be renewed, the ordinary channels
would suffice for the transmission of any communi-
cations they might desire to make.

GEN. MEADE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY,

GENERAL ORDERS-NO. 68.

Headquarters, Army of the Potomac;
Near Gettysburg, July 4.

The Commanding General, in behalf the country,
thanks the army of the Potomac for the glorious
result of the recent operations. Our enemy, supe-
rior in numbers, and flushed with the pride of a
successful invasion, attempted to overcome or de-
stroy this army. Baffled and defeated, be has now
withdrawn from the contest. The privations and
fatigues the army has endured, and the heroic
courage and gallantry it has displayed, will be
matters of history to be ever remembered.
Our task is not yet accomplished, and the Com-
manding General looks to the army for greater
efforts to drive from cur soil every vestige of the
presence of the invader. _ _ .

In this struggle our reserved artillery was brought
into play, and did most excellent service in im-
promptu positions on the elevated points, back of
Cemetery-hill, shelling the face of the mountains,
where the enemy were supposed to be. His reserve
fire of shells, added to the steady and unflinching
ardour of the glorious 12th Corps, ultimately
checked the vastly superior force of the enemy, who
for an hour or two had been gradually advancing.
At the critical juncture, about 11 o'clock in the fore-
noon, one or two brigades of New York troops, sup-
posed to be militia from Pennsylvania, arrived,
and were immediately thrown into position to re-
inforce the right wing, which was being so badly
pressed.

It is right and proper that we should, on suitable
occasions, return our grateful thanks to the Almighty
Disposer of events, that, in the goodness of His
providence, He has thought fit to give victory to
the cause of the just. By command of
Major-General MEADE.

S. Williams, A. A. G. .
FORTRESS MONROE, July 3.

The steamer City of Albany arrived at Fortress
Monroe, from City Point at four o'clock this after-
noon. She reports all quiet there.

A slight skirmish, however, took place last even-
ing, some way out, between a small detachment of
our forces and the enemy. _

The particulars bad not been received when the
steamer left, at ten o'clock this morning.
FORTRESS MONROE, July 4.

This assistance determined the fate of the day.
The enemy quailed before it, and soon the curling
smoke that marked the line of the contest began
to recede, surely indicating that the enemy were
falling back; but if they gave way at all it was
but slowly, fighting at every step ; and thus the
battle raged for hours, and until the afternoon, when
the enemy abandoned the field in that direction.
But they did not yet yield the day. For a period
hostilities seemed to be suspended, but the suspen-
sion was very brief.

The steamer John A. Warner arrived at seven
o'clock this morning from Annapolis, with two hun-
dred and fifteen women, and as many children, en
route. They left for City Point at nine o'clock this
morning.

A letter just received, dated Baltimore Cross
Roads, July 3, says :
Yesterday there was a skirmish four miles thin
side of Bottom's Bridge. Sergeant Burnet, of Com-
pany C, Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry, was killed.
No other casualties on our side.

The rebel columns seemed to be moved as if by
magic, and within an hour their whole force was
massed directly in our front, and once more the
fierce and deadly contest opened. This time it was
an assault along the entire line—a last resort, the
forlorn hope of the enemy.

This afternoon the rebels opened on our advance
brigade, Colonel West's, with five pieces of artillery.
A fight ensued. Oar advance fell back until the
reserves came up. There may be a fight at any
hour. The force of the enemy is variously estimated
at from five thousand to twenty thousand.

They were weakened in numbers and utterly de-
moralised, yet Lee had a reputation to save and a
name to make, and at any sacrifice of life he seemed
bound to win the day ; but he strove in vain. The
Union troops were fighting at home, and among
their own people. They fought like heroes, and,
inspirited by success, they had no thought of de-
feat. They could have withstood three times the
force the enemy hurled against them. It was a
mere play for them to drive back the columns of the
rebels, and so they did drive them back, and at five
o'clock, after more than 12 hours' constant fighting,
the contest terminated, the national troops victo-
rious at every point, and having nearly the entire
battlefield in their possession.
Time fails me to dwell upon the details of this
brilliant and glorious battle. It would be interest-
ing to state how we took thousands on thousands
of prisoners, how the enemy were slaughtered, how
our men fell by thousands heroically defending their
national emblem, but let all this be deferred; the
day is ours, the victory is won, the country is saved.
At the close of the action General Lee had the im-
pudence to send in a flag of truce asking a suspen-
sion of hostilities, to give him time for the burial of
the dead, and an exchange of prisoners. Gen.
Meade replied that he intended
prisoners the enemy to recapture
all the had taken, and
that he would bury their dead for them. Fail-
ing in this attempt to gain * •
time, and badly worsted
at all hands, the rebels had no other recourse but
to avail themselves of the fast approaching night
to fall back to the
mountains. So precipitate was
their retreat last night that their guards and sen-
tinels in town were not relieved, and were cap-
tured.

Our army is in excellent health and spirits, and
amply able to cope with the enemy now in our
front.

The enemy are rushing forward reinforcements
by railroad.
A slight engagement took place last evening. No
decisive result.

The Fifth Pennsylvania cavalry captured twenty,
five prisoners. _

A national salute was fired to-day from Fortress
Monroe, which was responded to by the English
frigate Rinaldo. The United States flag has been
displayed from her foremast during the day.
The Regan battery, Seventh New York, came
into Norfolk about five o'clock this morning, and
opened the Fourth, as well as the eyes of the inha-
bitants, by the familiar sounds of their battery.

. i

This morning upwards of 1,100 stranglers were
taken in Gettysburg, besides our wounded who had
fallen into the enemy's hands on Wednesday. At
early daybreak Gen. Pleasanton was started in pur-
suit of the rebels with his artillery, and at last ac-
counts was pressing them hard.
The summary of the battle it would be difficult
to give at this time, Both sides have lost heavily.
The country about Gettysburg is crowded with
wounded men. Every house and every barn is a
hospital. Probably i❑ the aggregate of both armies
at least 50,000 men have been placed hors de combat.
The apportionment of this loss would probably be
1.0,000 Union and 30,000 rebels. In addition to
this, we have captured from 12,000 to 20,000 pri-
soners, which is more than quadruple what they
have taken from us, including our wounded who
fell into their hands on Wednesday, and who
were recaptured by us in Gettysburg this morning.
It is exceedingly doubtful if we have taken either
Longstreet or Hill, as reported, though the report
is based upon statements of rebel prisoners. Other
reports say that Longstreet is badly wounded, and
some say he is dead.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENGE.
NEW YORK, July 9, Evening.

Money easy. Gold, 311 per cent. premium. Ex-
change on London—Bankers' bills, 144. Stocks
very firm. New York Centrals, 1181 Illinois
Centrals, 1064; Erie, 947 ; Six per Cent. United
States Bonds, 104_ Cotton improving. Middling
Upland, 55c. to 57c. Flour heavy. Wneat and
corn, good inquiry. There has been a continued
heavy fall in breadstuff's during the week, sympa-
thising with the rate of exchange, but the market
eloses steadier. Provisions steady. Coffee heavy.
Sugar and molasses tending downwards. Petro-
leum quiet, bnt unchanged.

Miss Braddon's " Aurora Floyd," recently drama-
tised for the TheAtre du Chatelet, Paris, and, aided by the
ghostly inventions of Messrs. Dircks and Ptpper, seems to
be making some sensation there.