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ARMY CORRESPONDENCE.
UoMrANY d, l0lst Regt. p. v. !
FORT CASEY, Va, May 81, '62 (


Yours Of the Goth came to hand .
few days since. was glad to, hear from ro',
ana the friends in your vicinity. am we'll :,
present and trust you are enjoying good health
also. The health of our company is not o.
good as 1t has been heretofore There are turor,
ty-slx OF our company sick and not able for
duty. will mention some of the namcs ~
those from our vicinity Jonas Robson. Hem,
Linn, Matson Miller, Franklin Mills and Corr,
Henry ). Ritchey. Some of them are at Rail-.
more, others at Washington. Wilson Gillian
member of our Company died a short tima
ago. He lived near Cheneysville.
will now give you sketch of our travail.
ana the surrounding country from Yorktown
10 W llliamsburg. The country over which vc
passed IS principally level, swampy and heavily
tlmbered with pine. Now and then we coujd
see little old deserted hut When we camo
to Williamsburg, we found it totally deserted.
1t is fine looking town surrounded by soma
splendid farms, on which the wheat is verv
good, but till we encamp in a field of wheat o.
yer night, 1t looks a great deal BETTER The coun.
try has been thinly settled, the greater part Of
the way through. We are now within six
miles Of Richmond. We have thrown up n
fort here and are digging rifle pits and breast
works. We will be strongly fortified here
in few days and then we will wake them up.
Wewil have two 100 Founders mounted on
the fort. The rebels are fortified about mile
from here. There is skrmishing along tho
lines nearly every day. They (thc rebels) tried
us yesterday, but it was no 90, with them.
They drove our pickets in, but they soon found
that reinforcements were coming up and thew
took to their heels. We followed them back
to our lines and gave them few grape and she'll
which soon scattered them. They returned
the fire from a masked battery. Cannonadinq
was kept up all day at intervals. Our loss
was one killed and one wounded, of company
B. All is quiet to day. Our men brought in
a prisoner this morning, he is one Of Gen.
Johnson's aids lie was spying around and
got too far away from the rebel lines. He
says they never intended to evacuate Richmond.
but will stand as long as there is q man. was
sorry to hear that Gen. Banks was repulsed,
but I, understand he is being reinforced I
hope he will regain his ground shortly. l will
close by asking you to write soon and direct az
before,
Yours Most Truly,
JACOB c. HANKS, Corp.
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Without supremacy of law, human rights must

Without supremacy of law, human rights must
ever be insecure. That party who called the
Chief Justice of the United States, "a corrupt
old scoundrer' and ''perjured villain," for de-
ivering the opinion of the Court in the Drcd
Scott case, have doubtless learned, ere this, the
fallacy of their higher law doctrines, now put
in practice by seccssionists in the South The
vindication of the law will also teach them
that this Government was made for the White,
and not for the Back man.
Corruption, too, has taken hold of those
in high places-avaricc is eating out the vitals
of our rulers The old political thieves of all
parties surround our Natio nal Capitol. But
the people begin to know them. When the
earth is satiate of blood, and fanaticism has
spent its force, then will the people have claim
ed to know and appreciate their rights The
misrule of the past, will be our best guarantees
for the future. Our citizen soldiery-the in
telligence of the country-are being cduca-
ted in politics by actual experience. They
will, on their return, from the battlefield, estab
lish the proper relation between labor and cap
|ital by hurting from power, those parasites who
are ever the supple tools of corporations and
monied monopolists, those ploters and schemers
who live upon the creduliiy of Il confiding and
deluded people.
Soon, very soon we shall see the friends of
constitutional liberty ralying around the honest,
law abiding men of the country-promoting
them to places of trust and honor; whilst the
retired list will be filled with the hangers-on Of
the present administration in the shape of con-
tractors, paymasters, quartermasters, &c, &C.
Men who have made merchandise Of the cloth
ing and rations of the soldiers who stand up
for the Union and the Constitution, as establish
ed by our Fathers
Nearly every day we hear some of the buzz
yards now prcying upon the blood and treasure
of the country, say, ''we must establish q I'm
ion party!" A union srih avhatS a union with
thieves can the honest laborer and the brave
soldier ever agree to unite with the cormorants
who have robbed the former Of his hard earned
pittance and the latter of his rations after
having uniformed him in Saodty? Can the
party who clothed Simon Cameron with the
honor of foreign mission, after the opposition
of the public forced him to resign his late high
position be sustained? Or, with what kind of
grace can an honest community approve an
administration which retains Secretary Weles,
after the Morgan specuiahm9 We shall see.
Very Respectfully,
BROAD TOP
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CUMBERLAND VALLEY, June 8, '62

FRIEND FRANK:
[ am thinking that our Valley is not
30 well represented in your incstimabe paper rs
it ought to be, although it is seldom that any
thing happens in our town to break the ordina.
ry tenor of things. Banks retreat was lately
''all the talk about here. think that it would
be a blessing if some of the Republican dema-
gogues, who are trying to buoy up their sinking
fame on the fortunes of this distressing war;
were removed from commands in the army. But
presume that is beyond hope.
l see that the President is out in message
defending the cause Of his late Secretary Of war,
Simon Cameron, and taking the responsibility
of Cameron's misdeeds upon himself Well, it
certainly is generous in the President to bear
the responsibilities of Cameron's corruptiops,
and think that, as old Abe can do no wrong,
the resolutions of censure lately passed on Cam
eron, should be rc-considered, and the President
should be voted as having done praiseworthy
act in doing what was coMidered censurable,
when supposed to have been done by Simon
Cameron.
The address of the Democratic members of
Congress, recently published in your paper, is
intended for good, and it certainly deserves the
confidence of the people in consideration of the
names which are appended to it. l hope that
it will have the effect of convincing the Aboli-
tionists of the error into which they have fallen
and cause them to return from evil unto good,
from darkness unto light.
had almost forgotten to mention that our
town was last week visited by Hon. Thomas
McKaig, of Cumberland, Md, and also by Capt
McCulloh, who is adjutant to Gen. Dix. No
more at present, but more anon.
JEFEEPcON
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Who are the Traitors2

Senator James II. Lane, of Kansas, a
model Republican" Of the Fremont stripe,
made speech at the Cooper Institute, New
York city, on Thursday night, 9th inst, in
which he declared that
."He looked upon the war as cOWarIly
war which must be che eCked, SO
as to prevent our children from suffering through
it."
This same man, Lane, is one of Abraham
Lincoh's pets, was appointed Brigadier
General by him, and is, no doubt, at this
day, high in favor with the Administration.
Of course he will be suffered to 60 about
preaching opposition to the war, without G.
ven mt,rmur of reproof from the patriotic
gentlemen who hold the reins of power at
Washington. Wendell Phillips and Jim
Lane are permitted to belch forth their trea-
sonable utterances, with perfect impunity,
because, forsooth, they are abolitionists.
But let Democrat like James w. Wall, OF
G. l.. Vallandigham, Or Benjamin Wood,
attempt only to criticisc the management OF
the war, and 10. the bloodhounds are on his
track and he is hunted down with ferocity
worthy of the days of Jcfrcys. Who, then,
are the traitors2 Are they not the men who
suffer such foul treason as that of Lane and
Phillips to go unpunished, whilst they i'm
prison men for far } reprehensible conduct
than that of these Abolition malcontents and
that, too, without compliance with the forms
of law or granting them even the semblancc
of trials Are they not the men who have
the power, (at least according to their own
doctrine) to close the lips of such incendia-
rics, but fail to make even an attempt to do
soS Verify, the people will learn, ere long,
who are the traitors
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ousy and political hatred led them to sell
their country for the accomplishment Of their
selfish and unholy ends. Then, the ques-
tion at the head of this article will be spec
Oily solved, and the people, finding the an
swer in the affirmative, will demand a new
order of things, new public servants, and a
new policy for the salvation of the country.
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Democratic State Convention,

In accordance with a resolution Of the Demo-
cratic State Executive Committee, THE Demo-
CRACY OF PENNSYLVANIA will meet in STATE
CONVENTION, Mt HARRISBURG, on FRI
DAY, the 4th day of July, 1862, at 10 o'clock,
A. NJ, to nominate candidates for AUDITOR
GENERAL and SURVEYOR GENERAL, and to a.
dopt such measures as may be deemed ncccssa-
ry for the welfare of the Democratic party and
the country.
WILLIAM II. WELSH,
Chairman Of the Democratic State Ex. Com.
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Is It Treachery7

Had we been asked, four weeks ago, how
long it would be till McClellans army would
occupy the rebel capital, our answer would
have been that the decisive battle would be
fought within six days. Since then, how
ever, we have had good reason to change our
opinion in regard TO the sincerity of the adj
ministration in its desire for the success of
Gen. Mcclellan; and if we were asked the
same question, to-day, we would answer
that if the wishes of very large portion of
the adherents and advisers of Mr.. Lincoln
are to be realized, the hero of Williamsburg
and Fair Oaks will never lead his army into
Richmond. We have seen statements
(which cannot be disbelieveD, that the War
Department has utterly failed to reinforce
Gen. Mcclellan after the severe losses sus-
tanned by his army in the various battles
between Yorktown and Richmond, and it is
reported, ON good authority, that his force
has been numerically weakened by some
queer kink in the red tape wound from the
official distaf of Secretary Stanton. There
is also cloud of mystery hanging over the
movements, or rather, the inactivity, of
Gen. Mcdowell. We are told that the troops
under that general number upwards of fifty
thousand. His force, at any rate, is large
snoughto assume the offensive. Why, then,
II
's ne idle? Why does he not advance and
menace Richmond from his direction9 Or.
If it is not the design of the campaign to
advance upon Richmond from the Kappa
hammock, why are not some thirty thousand
of McDowell's men sent to reinforce Nc
Clellan? These questions involve we'll
grounded apprehension that somebody at
Washington intends foul play with McClel-
Ian. Besides, somewhat singular order
singular, because fruitless in it's effects
has been issued by the President, extend
ing the command of Gen. Mcclellan to all
the troops West of the Rappahannock, and
that almost the entire army of Mcdowell
was encamped on the East bank of that riv-
er. Why, then, was this order issued2 1t
could not add troops to the army of McClel-
Ian, because there were none, or but very
few, upon the territory over which the COM
mand of that general was extended. 1t
could not give power to the commander of
the army before Richmond to control the
movements of Mcdowell No. It was not
intended to do either. The design of that
order was to prevent suspicion of the plot
laid by the Abolition leaders for the destruc-
tion of Mcclellan. They are trying to COW
er uptheir bloody tracks as they move on in
their malignant purpose. But they cannot
succeed. The trail of the serpent is over
all their schemes. Nor do we fear that their
deep-laid conspiracy will seriously affect the
Gnal success of Mcclellan. We believe
that our young Napoleon will defeat the
combined efforts Of the Abolition assassins
at his back and the rebel enemies in his
front. But should he fail, wo to the trick
sters at Washington who have crippled his
resources and prevented his reinforcement
Wo to the conspirators whose personal jeal-
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THE CAPTURE OF MEMPHIS.
AND THE REBEL GUNBoATS AKD RAMS
BEFORE MEMPHIS.
Seven of the Bnemy's Vessels Captured
or Destroyed.
ONLY ONE ESCAPED.
THE MAYOR OF MEMPHIS IMMEDIATELY
SURRENDERS THE CITY.

WASHINGTON, June 8-The following dis
patch has been received at the Navy Depart
ment
Z. S. STEAMER BENTON,
Off Memphis, June 6.
To Hon. Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Mary:
SIR-I arrived here last evening at 9 O'Clock,
accompanied by the mortar fleet under Capt.
Maynadier, the ordnance steamers, store ships,
&c, and anchored a mile and a-half above the
city.
This morning / discovered the rebel fleet,
which had been reinforced and now consisted
Of eight rams and gunboats, lying at the leveo.
The engagement, which commenced at $50 A.
M. and ended at o'clock, terminated in q run.
ming fight
was ably supported by the ram fleet under
command of Col. Elct, who was conspicuous
for his gallantry, and is seriously but not DAN
gerously wounded.
The result of the action was the capture cr
destruction of seven vessels of the rebel feet rs
follows:
''Gen. Beauregard" blown up and burned.
"Gen. Sterling Price," one wheel carried away.
"Jeff Thompson" set on fire by shell, burned
and magazine blown up.-"Sumter," badly cut
up by shot, but will be repaired. "Little Reb-
cl," boiler exploded by shot and otherwise
injured, but will be repaired; besides this one of
the rebel boats was sunk in the beginning Of
the action. Her name is not known.
A boat supposed to be the Van Dorm escap-
cd from the fotilla by her superior speed. Two
rams were in pursuit of her.
The officers and crews of the rebel boats en-
dcavored to take to the shore, many of them
wounded and prisoners. are now in our hands.
The mayor surrendered the city to me after
the engagement.
Col Fitch came down at II o'clock and has
taken military possession.
c. II. DAVIS Flag Officer,
Commanding pro tenn.
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LETTER FROM ABROAD.
MONTREAL, Canada, june 4, 6:

MONTREAL, Canada, june 4, go.
FRIEND MEYERS:
According to promise | now write.
Ever since l left Bedford, have been Son the
CO." For the first time in my life found my
self out of the United States; this morning, a.
bout 9 o'clock, on my way from Boston here.
This is a great big town, full of Frenchmen,
with pretty good sprinkling of rcd-coats. The
people are pretty well Americanized, however,
find the people more like Pcnnsylvanians than
the New Yorkers, with less disposition to
fleece travellers. The people of Vermont and
New Hampshire, along the railroad, don't APP
pear to be much concerned about the war. 1t
is too far off to be of local interest. believe
their cheese concerns them more. / visited Bun
ker Hill and Fancuil Hall yesterday. Have been
on old Trinity Stceple, in New York, was at New
port and am now here, all in very short time.
When look on the map and find that on my
route from Bedford, have been in Maryland,
District of Columbia, New York, New jersey,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
and Vermont, and have at last got myself out
of the United States, ia SO short time, can
hardly believe my own eyes. leave for Que
bee this evening, and then, tia Niagara, for
home. have stopped at Wizards, 5th Ave.
nue., St Nicholas, (Aquigneck, N. Y, fremont,
Boston, the Ottowa, here, and-I had almost
forgotten to say-at the Merchants, Phiiadcl-
phia, and my testimony is this: Give me Penn
sylvania for a home-and Pennsylvania Ho-
tel, with man like McIkIBBEN, for landlord.
More anon. In haste, O. +. S.
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H 0 M E NE w S .

ExAMINATIoN.- The examination and clo-
sing exercises of the Bedford English School
(Prof. j. W. Dickerson, Princpal) will be held
in the hall of the Union School House, on
Friday, June Goth. Prof Dickerson is one OF
the ablest teachers in the state, and richItreat
may be expected at this exhibition. The pub
lie are courteously invited to attend.
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LIKENEssEs.- any of our friends de-
sire correct and handsomely framed pictures oi
themselves (or s'any other many let them 60 to
Gettys' Photograph Gallery in the Hall building
Mr.. Gettys has Just returned from the East
with all the appliances used in taking the vari.
GUS kinds of likenesses in the latest and most
improved style of the art. The prices in this
line of business have been greatly reduced, ow.
ing to the improvements made in the process Of
| taking pictures, and by going to Mr.. Gettys,
one can now obtain three beautiful cartes des.
,lsite photographs, for one dollar, which is less
than one decent daguerreotype was wont to cost
Mr.. Gettys also has on exhibition some fine
stereoscopic views, which the public are invited
to examine free of charge. We spent an hour
most delightfully."-, the other day, with Mr.. Get
tys' stereoscope, and hence we can recommend
it from experience Go and see it. :.
KILLED AT "FAIRoAKs. Bedford coun.
| ty was represented at the recent desperate and
| bloody battle at Fairoaks, Va, by Capt Com.
piers company (Co. d. and Lieut. D. W. Mul.
Inns men in Capt. Spraguc's company (Co. G.,
all of the 10lst Pa. Vols. The loss of these
two companies fully attests the bravery with
which our noble boys bore themselves in the
contest. We are sorry to state that Company
d lost one man killed (NIartin d. Miller) whilst
the following were wounded (whether seriously
or not the report before us does not say:) Cor
poral John Il. Kcagy, Corporal Levi Kegg,
Corporal Jacob c. Hanks, John Besserer, A.
j. Mills, Geo. H. Tate Martin L. Potter, Pc
ter Clingaman, Joel b. Hixon, Daniel F. Switz-
cr, John Roberts, John L. Akers, Jas. Martin,
Alex. B. Hagcrman, Josiah Amck, William
b. Filler, Samuel Veatch, Geo. w. Carnell.
Company G also had wounded the following
JOS Brown, John Householder, Leonard Boyer,
William Knipple, Samuel Foster, Henry Beer
kamp, Augustus Lightningstar, Jacob Wyke,
VIM. B Hoffman. This company also has
missing: John Dunn, E. G. Trmble, Abraham
Beltz and Joseph Bannon.
e5-We regret to learn that Col. Charles 7.
Campbell, of Chambersburg, was severely, if
not fatally, wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks,
near Richmond. No braver nor truer soldier
ever drew sword than Charles T. Campbell.
e7-As we go to press We have rumor that
Gen. Mcclellan has been REINFORCED. IF SO,
the Abolition plot against him has failed, and
we may expect to hear of his being in Rich
mond in a few days.
sS-We have telegraphic news that the Buck
tail regiment has had fight with Ashby's por-
ton of Jackson's army, and that Col. Kane was
wounded and taken prisoner. Ashby is report
ed to have boen killed and his troops defeated
with loss of 600. The same despatch says
that the rebels claim victory near Charleston.
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ezyThe Democrats of the Columbia district
have elected delegates to the State Convention
and instructed them to support Col. LEVI T..
TATE, for Surveyor General. The nomination
of Col Tate is urged with much zeal by the
Democrats of his section of the state,
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DEMOCRATS, speak out. Let no intimidations
deter you. The arrogant pretensions of the OPP
position have been tolerated long enough. Stand
up for the right of Free Speech and Free Press.
DO not be allowed to be bullied into tame sub
mission to acts that you cannot, in your hearts,
approve. Maintain your principles with firm
determination. Do not yield an INCH Of your
Constitutional privileges The time has come
when it is tho duty of every man in the coun-
try to speak out, and he who is too tmd to ex-
ercise what of right belongs to him, is not fit to
be frec-Eiie Observer.
eSWe have received for publication the pro-
ceedings Of the Huntingdon county Democratic
Committee, and will give them place in our
next, with much pleasure. By some means they
did not reach us, although sent in time, until
too late for this issne
HoAto,cay's Pas-Bodt(y Prostratsons--A ,cora
Of Advice.-No other medicine has yet boen
discovered to equal the effect of Holloways
Pills, in their rapid cure of all morbid afiec-
tons of the brain and WEAKNESS or cnervaaon
of tho body; the one being intimately allied
with the other The primary causes OF TINS
disease exist in the stomach, and these mec,
cines especially adapted for purifying tho oiooo'
correcting the arrangements OF the hVer'
Strengthening the digestive organs, ana lnVlg-
Grating the general system. Sold by all Drug,
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lie are courteously invited to attend.
ANNIvERsARY.-The anniversary exerci-
ses at the Allegheny Male and Female Semina-
ry at Rainsburg, will be held on Friday eve
ming, Goth inst. The public are respectfully in
yited to attend. We have not seen program
of the proposed performances, but Judging from
the well known character of the school, we
have no doubt that they will be excellent.
o.
On FURLoUGH.-Oury young friend Hayes
Irvine, formerly clerk in the Prothonotary's
Office, and now of Col. Prices Pennsylvania
cavalry, is at present on visit to his friends in
this place We are sorry to learn that before
leaving his regiment, he received a wound in
his left hand by the accidental discharge of a
pistol in the hands of a comrade, He is on fur
Tough.
RETURNED late German s'mitbur-
ger" Warner H@rkens, has returned from the
army considerably the worse for the wear, on
account of an attack of rheumatism. He rep
resents the feeling among the soldiers at Wash
ingtcn as very bitter against abolitionism espe-
cially since the freeing of the slaves in the Dis
trict of Columbia
BrTTERs.- German Btters,
prepared by DIR. c. NJ. jackson and sold by the
proprietors, Messrs Jones & Evans, of Philadel-
phia, is the only one of all that large family of
medicaments known by the generic title of "Bit-
tiers, ;" which is really a good and useful medi-
cine. 1t is not liquor bitters, containing no
alcohol whatever. We can recommend it with
clear conscience. For sale by II. C.. Rcamer.
See advertisement in another column.
A HEGIRA OF BLACKs.-We are inform
ed that during our absence last week, there was
quite fight of black fugitives through this
place Northward. We hope that they may
alight upon the premises of the Altoona and
Hollidaysburg Abolitionists and eat out some of
the precious negrophilism of the latter. We
are told that some 5000 slaves followed the re-
treating army of Banks, and entered Pennsyl-
eania by different roui0 Every one of these
sable immigrants ought to be quartered upon
their friends, par excellence, the Abolition Re-
publicans.
RAILROAD ExcUgsroN.-On Tuesday last
a number of gentlemen from this place made an
excursion to the North Eastern terminus of
the Bedford Railroad for the purpose of taking
ride over the portion of the road lately finish
ed. We had the pleasure of an invitation
to be one of the party, but feeling somewhat
indisposed, we did not 60. We hear that the
trip was pleasant one, barring the weather,
which was not so agreeable. The cxcursionists
report the track laid on nearly miles of the
road, and every thing progressing favorably,
except the cut near Cypher's, which is worked
! upon rather slowly
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WASHINGTON, June 8.-The following dis.
patch has been received at the Navy Depart.
men: :