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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09
TEE PLEASANT LAND OF FREEDOM.

June 23.-At4 o'clock last evening, l
started in the train for Chicago How pleas.
ant it was to see white faces in the fields, 10
gaze on the waving corn, and on the martial
rows of wheat sheafs to behold the villages
and the christian spires rising in the distance;
10 observe, as it were, under ones eyes, the
growth of civilized communities; the village
swelling into a town, and the town grasping
the dimensions of a city. And how wonderful
has been the work of the rail; in 4 night it
has spanned the interval between war and
peace, between swamp and harvest fields, be-
tween sedition and contentment. Last night
we Travelled through lines of outposts, over
dauger-haunted bridges, by camps where the
soldiers watched eagerly for their supply Of
bread, and cheered Justify us it was delivered
to them from the train, for without its aid
they could get none. This morning Union
flags hoated from the little stations. Corn is
abundant. The vast plains are rich with
crops, or are ready TO yield to the tilth. A
city worthy of such q name rises above the
waters of the sea-like lake whose waves roll
from the boundes horizon in crisping foam on
the smooth sandy beach. The pure, clear air
invigOrates the frame, weakened by the warm,
clammy breath ofihe South. The notes Of the
mocking bird are heard no moro, but the
prairie hen gets up with sharp whirr from
the roadside and drops with her brood into
the deep, Towering clover; the Parridge calls
from the stubble. and instead Of the foul tur.
key buzzard and his lazy wheel swoops the
gray falcon over the broad meadow in rapid
curves. Chicago receives US, and comfort,
cleanlne s, quiet, good meat, butter and bread
of which, indeed, we had foretaste at the
refreshment rooms at Centralia, where l took
tea last night-assures the traveller that lie is
not an inmate of Southern hotel.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09

Reliable information has been received here
that cannon ball from our batteries passed
through the dining rooW of Beauregard's head.
quarters at the Hrst Ball Run fight. 1t was
just at the opening Of the fight, and came near
proving disastrous 70 him,,
Mrs. Katy Brewnwell, daughter of the First
Rhode Island Regiment accompanied the re-
giment to Bull Run. She was fred at good
many times, but escaped injury. One man,
N bis determination 10 kill her, pursued her
Tor some distance, when she turned and shoe
him dead, and fleeing to the woods escaped,
Her husband is also safe
1t is now believed that the teamsters who
produced the excitement and caused the re-
treat, were rebels--not of the condition in life
from which such employees are usually selected,
but men of means and position in the South,
whe, under disguise, had deceived the Gov
ernment into employing them. III
Winchester letters to secessiouists report
in part, twelve hundred secessionists certainly.
killed at Bull Ran; that it is California Al;
bert johnson who is killed, and not Utah Joe
Johnson; that the enemy retired from the AeId
simultaneously with our army believing them
selves to be beaten; and that Beauregard show
ed the white feather during the battle.
DR. J. II. Irwin, Surgeon of the I'd Wis-.
cOnsin Regiment, was chased BY one OF tha
Black Horse Cavalry, who fred when within
ten feet Of the surgeon, at the same time shout
ing, Surrender. you d--d Abolition sooun-
drel!" The ball grazed the head of DR.. l., WIN
at the same time made big leap into clump :.
Of woods. The trooper rode around to head
him off, but ais opponent meantime managed 10
load his rife, and W hen the trooper next ap- ..
peared, shot him through the chest. he fell
sideways, the saddle turning with kim, and tho
frightened horse gallOped off with its dead oe
wounded rider dangling by the stirrupq.
D.ufing one Of the charges or the Fire Zou-
avcs upon the Mississippi Rifles, a Zouave aud
a Mississippian came in contact on an open
space, both with discharged rifles Simultan-
eously they attempted 10 draw their revolvers,
and the Mississippian having succeeded before
the Zpuave in drawing his, the latter cried out,
" Blaze away, Mississippi; I'll take the second
shot" The MississipRiQn instantly did 81,
missing the %ouaYe, who, having drawn hid
Yeagon, discharged Il at his foe, piercing his
heart and instantly killing him.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09
What Cato the Younger says to
Breekinridge the Younger and Conn

When Cataline's confederate conspirators
were TO be sentenced by the Roman Senate,
the Senators declared for the severest punish
ment until Caesar spoke-J ulus Caesar, who
was then planning the overthrow of the Re
public. He suggested milder measures Ca
to replied, and his reply is the only Grafton
preserved to uS.
Does Mr.. B reckinridgc, who lately aspired
to be Preside ut of the United States. remem-
Der the aeoc unit Plutarch gives of Cato's
speech to Caes ar ? II is this
"He attacked Caesar, and charged him with
a secret design of subverting the Government
under the plausible appearance of mitagory
speeches and humane conduct and of iutim-
idating likewise the Senate, even in case
where he had to fear for his own person, and
in which he might deem it an instance of
great good fortune if he himself could be ex-
empted from imputation and suspicion of guilt.
He, who had openly and daringly attempted
10 rescue from justice the eneries of the
State, and shown that far from having any
compassion for his country when on the brink
Of destruction, he could even pity and plead
for the unnatural wretcheS who had medtated
its ruin, and grieve that their punishment
should prevent their design"
Do Messrs. Breckenridge, Vallandigham,
Burnett, Bayard, Powell, Ben Wood and
Company think, as they read these words,
that treason has changed much since the days
of Cataline?
EBut when they hear Joseph Holt declare
1T is time that in their majesty the people of
the United States should make known 10 the
world thai this Government, in its dignity
and power, is something more than a moot
court and that the citizen who makes war
upon it is a traitor not only in theory but il
fact, and should have meted out 10 him q
traitors toom"-when those gentlemen hear
these words, do they not know, as every gem
erous heart in the land acknowledge. with
ardor, that heroic patriotism, also. has not
changed much siucc the days of Cato p Ha~-
per's Weekiy.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09

PFTScE NAPnIEox Ix NEy YoRg. Fripec
Napoleon, n s,n Of jerome Bo apar 9 ly
his second marriage. and own cousin Of the
Emperor Of the French, arrived at New York
on Saturday aftrInosn. in the gunboat jerome
Napoleon. The Fringe is accom- .Ianicd by
his wife Cl.tilde, daughter Of Victor E'nanp-
el, Il ing Of Italy, end a suit Of four or eve
officers. The young Duchess d'A brantes is
in attendance I'm the Princess. Prince Ma
poleon is thirty-nipe years of age-his wife ou-
ly eighteen. S quiet were the movements Of
the distinguished visitors. and SO mach is the
public attention engrossed with home matters,
that they had been 10 New York thiriy-six
hours before thrir arrival was chroniclcd in
the papers. The Prince preserves a strict IN
cognito. On Sunday be attended St. Sic
phen's Catholic Church, with his wife. and in
The afternoon visited Camp Scott. As already
reported by telegraph, he bias beeq invited to
visit Washington. and Will. doubtless, go
there, as it is evident that be has come 10 this,
country 10 get information as to our afAirs.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09
MEMORY.

Sir William Hamilton tells some huge sto
ries in his lectures an Memory. Ben Johnson
could not only repeat all he hal written.
but whole books lie had read If we had his
faculty, should pray to ba delivered from
the full exercise of it, Nebuhr in his youth
was employed in one OF the public offices of
Denmark, where part of a book of accounts
having been lost. he restored it from his
collection. Seneca complains Of old age be-
cause he cannot As he once did, repeut two
thouaand names in the order they were read
to him and AYERS that on one occasion, when
at his studies, two hundred unconnected YER
Ees having been pronounced by different pu-
pills of his pTeceptSr, be repeated them in q
reversed order, proceeding from the Last to the
first uttered. quick and rctentive memory.
both of words and things. is an Invaluable
treasure and may be had by any one who will
take the pains Theodore Parker, when in the
Divinity School, had u notion that his MEM
ry was defective and needed looking after
and he had an immense chronological chart
hung up in his room and tasked himself to
commit the contents--all the names and dates
from Adam and the year one, down through
Nimrod, Ptolemy Softer, Heliogabalus and the
rest. Our verbal memory soonest fails us,
less attend to it and keep it in fresh order
A child will commit and recite verbatim easier
than AN adult, and girls than boys. 10 keep
the verbal memory fresh, it 10 capital exercise
TO study and acquire new languages. or COM
NIT and treasure up choice passages, making
them part of our mental wealth : Monthly
Religious Magazine.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09
The Difference,

While the Enquirer, the Crisis, Yallandig-
ham and all the rest OF their sort, are busily
at work to relieve The traitors of their guilt
by charging upon the North the responsible.
ty. the Louisville journal thus manfully puts
the-cntire crime where it belongs: --...t.
Nothing pertaining TO the passing trou.
blcs is EIlser and more pernicious than the
notion current in secession circles towards Sc.
cesson, that the Government is responsible
for the beginning aud prosecution Of the war.
Precisely the reverse is undeniably true the
reUoimiOnists are responsible for both. = y
The whole secession movement is not merely
eauseless, but could have sprung only from a
decp-seatcd and relentless determination to
destroy the government The movement has
no other rational explanation. II is purely
and intensely n REASONABLE mouement.
With such war as this, inaugurated by a few
States which claim t he right TO seccde and
break up the Union, staring US full in the
face, what was the President to do? Was be
to do nothing? Wes he 10 sit still, and,
without moving a finger, permit the Govern
ment to fall to pieces Was he to "let alone"
the most unpreroked rebellion that has eUsr
get dcfaced the rrorld's history ?"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09
AT vIcksBrRG.

Here lives ma who has been the pioneer
Of hotels in the West, and who has now eslab.
lished himself in hig caravansera, which he
rules in a curious fashion. McMakin, has, he
tells US, been rendered famous by st. Charles
Lycll. The large dining room-a stall, man
ger, as friend of mine called it, is filed with
small tables, covered with parti-colored cloths.
AT the end is a long deal table, heavy with
meat and vegetables. presided over by negress-
cs aud gentlemen of uncertain hue. In the
centre OF the room stood my host, shouting
out at the top Of his voice the names of the
joints, aud recommending his guests to Partic-
plar dishes, very much as the chroniclcr tells
ms was the wont Of the taverners in old Lon.
don. Many little negroes ran about in attend
ance, driven about hither and Ihither by the
command of their white Soulouque-white-
teethcd, pensive eyed but sad as memory
"Are you happy here ?" asked / Of one of them
who stood by my chair. He looked uneasy
and frightened "Why don't you answer ~
Use feared to tell that to Massa" "Why,
your master is kind TO you?' Berry good
man, when be not angry wild me-" And the
little fellows eyes filed with tears at some rec.
objection which pained him. asked no more.
Vicks burg is Secessionist. There were hun
5reds Of soldiers in the streets, many in the
botel, and my host said some hundreds Of Irish
bad gone off to the wars, to fight for the good
cause. If Me-. G'p9aneI were alive. he would
surely be gained to see the eQHFssa taken by SO
many of bis countrymen on this question
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09
zravsrv of Us Troops.

The full accounts now before Us Of the bat
tie of Manassas, prove beyond question, that
braver troops than those composing the Army
of the Potomac, worsted though they were,
Reyer yent into action. Il is certain they were
vastly 6utnumbered on the we'll selected and
fortified ground Of the cnepayS aud yet, that
they made one of the most gallant and desper.
ate struggles on record. indicting terrible loss
es on their alvcrsarics, yielding the field only
to overwhelming numbers The rebels had. as
they admit; four Generas killed, and Solra Of
their craek regiments cut 70 pieces. IN no case.
on the wide field OF battle during the six hours
collision Of armies. was there fsir. open fight.
between the Union troops and the Coniedcr-,
ates, in which he latter sustained themselves
for quarter Of al hour. II is reported that
a panic took place among the rebels, and the
fact that they did rot attempt TO pursue our
troops IN force, corroboratea the report; -,
Troops were never subjected oa more terrible
trial, than were ours, among the masked bat
terics and the euormous masses Of rebels at
Marassas; And IL is bat common, slmpIe justice
10 saw, that they covered themselves wite glc-
ry. The best regiments OF European regu
lar armies never showed more indomitable
pluck than tLc Fire Zouaves ara the Irish
seth e sfi - -
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09
Strength of the Rsbels at Manassas
juno Ciou.

The Fairfax corresp, dent of the n. Y.
Tribune furnishes the following information in
regard to the Rebel Army at Manassas juno
ton. The letter was written on the 18th, two
days before the fights at Bull Run:
have just had a conversation with pris-
oner now in the hands Of our troops, who says
that he had been impressed into the Conledtr.
ale service, and that he took advantage of the
confusion attendant on the retreat yesterday
to desert. He claims 10 be a strong Union
man, and says Of the defenses at Manassas
Junction, hat the intrenchmenis extend ten
miles; that the embankments are from thirty
to forty feet in height, on an elevation south
Of wide, level plain, and that they are mount
to; with sixty llinch Columbiads besides
er'-a' number Of smaller pieces. He says that
lbe number of rruops within and ready to fall
b ok within these cntrencbmenis, from the
North and West, is from forty to fifty thou
sand. and that there are from thirty 10 forty
thousand more in reserve within a days march
hack pn the road to Richmond. The plan of
Gen BCaurpgard, he thinks, is to keep falling
hack until all the advance troops are within
these iEtr ucEleais. and then TO make a stand.
lie says thai llRy have enough water in tanks,
brought by railroad from The mountains, to
flood all the nlustts al moments warning
There are no other intrenchments, lie says,
north of Richmond. He represents the South /
ern troops at and about the Junction as well
armed, and sanguine Of a successful resistance
of the Federal forces, and urges, with appar.
cnt honesty and earnestness, that our column !
be well provided with p,cn'y of the heaviest
kind Of artillery, before taking position before
the guns Of Manassas. The entertainments at
the Junction, he SAYS, are so constructed, and
most of the guns 50 arranged on revolving and
movable carriages or supporters, as to point in
the enemy. He expresses the opinion that the
enemy will make an obstinate stand at that
point.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09

The Carolinians, Louisianians, and Seventh
Georgians, in turn enfladed US with terrible
effect.
The regiment finally withdrew out OF reach
Of the shot, while the 9TH Georgia took our
place. The remnants formed, consisted Of
about sixty men, with Major Couper, Capts
Magruder, Lamar, West, Dawson and Bryan,
and Lieuts. Wilcox, Hall, Lupkin. Dwinnell,
Harper, CouPer and Butler, and Sergt. Ma.
ior Bernard, and marched back.
As this small remnant of the gallant "six
hundred" marched, they passed General Beau
gard, who stopped, fronted and raising his
hat, said, II salute the gallant sth Georgia Re-
gimentl" Every bosom thrilled with the
proud compliment.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09
GROWING OLD.

Did you ever consult the mirror to ascertain
whether you were growing old-to detCct. If
you could, pair of feet and croc's at that
at the corners of your eyes to sec if that gray
hair somebody charged you with having :es
terday, was nothing but a peculiar reflection
of the light, and not much whittier than the ace
of spades after all! But the mirror Is nothing
to go to for information it reflects to very
little purpose. If you would know what age
is doing for you, look upon the face of friend
you have not seen in ten years, and the story
is as plains as pike staff There is something
or other about him ycu cannot quite under
stand; his features are a little sharper the ex-
preston of his eyes a little colder, of his brow
a little harder, of his mouth little fiimer.
To be sure hislaugh hasn't gone, but then
tooth or two has. He is the same, yet not the
same. but somewhat harder and rougher, and
not so much of him as of old.
But the strangest of all is his hand That
has grown old faster than his face. How soft
and smooth it used to be, you remember. and
plump as partridge There was a tracery of
blue veins upon the back of it, and you and
he used to read each others fortunes. and life
Journeys, in the meandering currents that
flowed on SO quietly just under the surface
hut it is more like a cka0 now, as if he used it
in digging then it is brown as October; the
full rounded muscle has shrunk away from the
veins, and they stand out like ridges in a fall
low Veins indeed they look like Il handful
of WhipcoFd. There is a knotty look and a
knotty feel about the the joints, as if You were
grasping q handful of walnuts. Then again,
his hair has grown wiry or gray, or thin, or
something that it not, for the truth is, il
Is growing upon an old head. -.
You think, as you look at him, ''is it posi-
b3ei' and he keeps you company with his
WlaRaer Thew it can he. = and in that look, yun
have seen yourself, as he sees you, as they all
see you, as you are. .-l....- .-..
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09
RaheI Aeeounta.

The following brief extracts from the rebe
accounts of the battle OF the 2lst, are giver
to show the extent of their loss, especially il
officers, according to their own showing !:
The Savannah News gives the following
particulars e aa
Gen. Evans. Of South Carolina, who first
led his brigade into action, is uahurt Sloan's
4th regiment, Kernshaw's % regiment, and
IIampton's Legion, OF South Carolina, mex
engaged The 7th and 9Th Georgia rcgIm enfs
next engaged, and were nearly annihilated.
Col. Barlow, of Savannah, Was mortally
wounded, and Col. Gardner, Of Augusta, Ras
slightly wounded. f. .
The OgIethorpe Light Infantry, Of Savan-
nah. were much cut up.
Gen. Beauregard was re-enforcel by Gen.
Johnsons command, from Winchester, be-
tween eleven and twelve O'Clock on Sunday
after the battle commenced. The Confeier
ate loss in killed and wounded is said TO be
1000.
Adjutant Theo. q. Barker and Capt James
Conner, of the Washington Light Infantry
Hampton's Legion, were slightly wounded -
Lieut. Col. B. J. johnson, of the legion vas
killed. Capts. Earle and Echuls were slight
ly wounded.
The Oglethorpe Light Infantry of Savan-
nan were cut 20 pieces.
Col. Bartow's finc regiment of Gcorgiars
were nearly annihlatcd.
Gen. Barnard Z. Bee of South Carolina,
was MORALLY wounded.
Col. Wade Hampton was slightly wounded.
Among the Confederate officers killed, un-
reported, are Lieutenant Colonel johnson,
of HamptonS Legion; Colonel Thomas
Johnson's Staff and Colonel Fisher, OF the
Sixth North Carolina.
Wounded- Colonel St vens, Of Beaurc-
CARDS Staff; Colonel Gartrel Georgia :;
Lieutenant Colonel Montgomery Gardner of
the First Georgia; Colonel Nelson, of the
Second Virginia. Colonel Jones, of the
Fourth Alabama Colonel Hampton, Legion.
Col. Moore's First Virginia Regiment suf-
fered the most, and bore the brnnt of the bat
tie. This regiment is made up entirely of
Richmond companies.
After the wounding of Col. Moore, the
command devolved upon Lieut.. Col. Fry, aid
ed by Maj. Skinner, and Adjt. Mitchell.
Adjutant Mitchell says the enemy's bullets
came like hail. He saw eleven of his men
wounded at one voliey.
All agree that the enemy fought well.
Major Harrison, of the Seventeenth Tir.
ginia Regiment, is mortally wounded.
Capt James K. Lee, mortally wounded.
and not expected TO live.
Tue Courier says;
The enemy fought bravely and well, but
their valor could not resist the courage of men
under the inspiration of a grand and holy
cause, and they have been utterly routed by
half their number.
The following official dispatch from Bean
reguard, addressed to JEFF Davis after the af
fair of Sunday at Bulls Run, was received at
the War Department in Washington Tuesday
by way Of Louisville: ..-=
"Ihe battle lasted from o'clock till A. We
have possession Of the field; The loss Op
both sides is immense"
1t is clear the rebels do not claim the vic
tory in their usual extraragaut terms
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09

Gov. DENXIsox. We learn from the .Cipein.
nati Gazette. has Fesdrned from WSAhipgtoN
having made arrangements which secure to
Ohio all the expenses she has incurred oH ae-
count of the war in fitting oet, subsisting, and
paying troops etc. including the nine State reg
iments WHICH have done such geod service u!
Western Virginia. s0'e
He received also such an increase Of the
Ohio contingent as will give her for the war
thirty.three regiments Of infantry. seven bat
teries Of artillery. OF six guus each, aud twelve
composites Of cavalry. .s...- E
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09
GEN. PILLOWS ENGINEERING.

Fer five weeks thesTcnnessee troops under
Gen. Pillow, who is at the head of the forces
of the Sial e, have been working at a series of
curious entertainments. which are supposed to
represent an entrenched camp, and which look
like an assemblage of mud beaver dams. In a
word, they are so complicated that they would
prove exceedingly troublesome to the troops
engaged in their defense, and it would require
very steady, experienced regulars to man them
so as to give proper support to each other
The maze of breastworks, of flanking parapets,
of parapets for field-pieces, is overdone- Sew
eral of them might prove useful to an attack
ing force In some places the wood was cut
down in front Sc as to form formidable nat
ural abattis; but general here, as in the bat,
teres below, timber and brushwaod were left
uncut up to easy musket shot of the woods, so
as to screen an advance of rihemen, and to ex'
pose the defending force TO considerable am
nOyance.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-08-09

How AN OLD HERO FEIL--The Philadel-
phia Press says, speaking of the battle Of
Manassas:
Among those who fell was one old man
whose head was white with age, and Whose
story is a romance Of war. He bad bean
thirty years in the regular services as a pFi-
vate soldier. He had followed the Indians
through the everglades Of Florida, bivouacked
upon the side Of the Rocky Mountains, chased
the Camauche and the Cherokee through New
Mexico, stood before the FIRE OF Buena Vista,
charged upon the heights Of Chepultepec, and
followed the victorious flag Of his country a.
long the plaza Of Mexico and into the halls
of the NJ ontczumas. His arm was covered
with che verons, six blue stripes indicating six
consecutive enlistments, aud two red battle
stripes, typifying Florida and Mexico; aud
with these simple insignia he felt proudrr than
ever did the white-plumed Murat at the head
of his gaudy cavalry. He fell ia the beat OF
battle.