New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-01
ruth a, last dawnsd smsrtingy upon the eyes Of the

enemy IN 'front.' anu 10 uialutai tDo ptec VI LIZ 9"t
plies aud guard his connection With it 10y railroad
We here were looking upon what might ripen ere
,sunset into terrible demonstration OF the impera-
tive necessity of re-eDforcing the Army Of 'ne 20
fomac--to save the campalgo in Vrgna-aye and
70 save the army from annhilation 10 open battle, or
capture and captivity IN the far South.
Early 10 the action this morning, Porter wound
ed were ordered 70 Temottr hospital than that IN
which they lay. Tue Regulsre for the frst TINE
were brought ny and set 20 work. Before noon the
Pennsylvania aud Massachusetts troops beyond
Gainess Mills had yielded the ground 70 Dumbers and
retired under orders-burniIg commissary and otner
property before they went, and destfoyins q Drose
over the ChiekahOminy as they crossed H. IN al
tack in great force upon Smiths DIVISION wa also
made. The Vermont troops aud the Ncw-iorS %d'
and Others, with Ayress immortal battery ami
Governs, repealed it with terrible slaughter.
Superaboundiug in regiments, as brave and reso'
Lutte as tigers, the Rebels rolled their fresh men in
successive waves upon Sumner, and Gercely carried
abe general assault to the lines Of Hooker and Rear
ney The ground, a. | have repeatedly said, IL a
swsmpy wilderness dotted with clearing, in corn,
snd wheat, and oats battle all along the front we
woods will hide the most of it. They viii mask
nearly all of bsue in front of the corps dameo, or
of the divisions either.
This fight of to-day, therefore, cannot be descr bed
waye by memorandum of the positions respectively
held by the opposing parties at its close, and by the
list of the killed and wounded. On the Rebel tlde
however il was characterized by the steadfast old
policy, for which their leaders are to be so much
honored Of pouring in fresh and eager troops upon our
weary men, and endesvoring to crush us with supe-
Tier weight of fire and vastly superior exhibition OF
force.
Twice all along the front did the bloody and deter
mined attack cling 70 our lines of battle aud rifle
pins and redoubts Porter Numbered on them with 30
cannon; Summers, Hookers. and Ayres's guns reaped
them with very death harvest. Their loss in killed
and wounded was horrible. We but debate now Ii
our OWL dead wounded, and missing equal those Of
the Seven Pines-or exceed theirs! In the mean
time notwithstanding the dispsoportion Of numbers,
sbe Union line is at every point about where II was
10 the morning and the heroes behind il are in heart.
The towards behind il were never in heart, mali.
sons be on them! OF the ID, the til, the
----th, that ian like kicked ours, and Of Msi. --,
who, overtaken in bis 81 ameless seamper away from
the Rebel fire, had MS sword taken away by q
brother officer, and used 10 beat him IN the face
with, before be Was booted and booted away from
his regiment. OF the conduct of-bnt what is the
Csc lie, it all go. The morrow is close at hand
and ts promise does invite TO elimination or recim
nation. Let us brace ourselves.
Before 90 TO the necessarily imperfect census of
the dead and wounded Of the battle Of the Chieka-
hominy, let me ask in view Of what moy happen To-
MORROW, WHO'S 20 sssume the responsibility Of the
crime of neglectDg resisting the reinforcement Of
Mcclellan?
The train delays little. Col. Black Of Penn
rylvanis is killed--bis head blown OIL by she'll.
When we lost Eatons battery we lcs. It's valuable
commander beside. Ten gus were taken from 1s
by sudden flank attack covered by the thick smoke
which hung around the pieces and slowly drified 70
leeward.
1lP.M.--There is a council OF the three or four
best minds in the army this late hour Of the night
If they decide that we are not strong enOugh to
maintain our position against the long-aocumulated
numbers OF the enemy, aud that sce must retreat To-
-norroso, on whom shall rest the grievons RESPONSE
bility of resisting or refusing McCelans appeals for
reenforcements
LaGer.-l2l A. n.-Coupt de Paris took prisoner
Rebel Major, who belonged TO Jackson army. Tie
said be had been in the Valley Of the Sbenan.
doah all Winter and came here yesterday
with part Of Jaoksons army. The rest Of it
arrived this morning. The whole Of it was here.
he said that in the attack on our night the Rebels
had from co. 600 10 So 600 troops. Thie will explain
the enormous fire under which our men were borne
down and swept away precisely 40 some Of the
regiments swept away at the Seven Pines.
Yesterday the Pennsylvania reserve drove the at
tackirg regiments OF Jsessons command. To day
they were overpowered by the same troops
enforced S,ke.'s regulars called Up proved unequal
20 the task Of stopping them, and SlOcum command
had to be added TO them. The Count de Par. tesii.
fes to the kaby good conduct Of Ill the regi.
rnens that sustained this unequal attack Porter.
They gave way, indeed, but not one OF them ran.
Their losses Enormous,
The regular llth infantry IL about annihilated
Nearly every officer in it is killed IN wounded The
18th suffered also severely. Major kOselle Of the
regulars, kinsmsn Of Gen. DcClellans, ia killed
Col. Pratt Of a New.York regiment is aleo killed
sDd Lt.-Cols Black and Sweater.
Our loss in officers is very marked. Indeed the
disproportion in numbers was so extraordinary and
the obsinacy OF our troops 20 unyieldng, that our
Losses were inevitably large The artillery in both
Porter's and SIaitbs Div lions piled the Rebels in
heaps. The FIRE wss horribly effective.
At savage's Station, the wounded already I'll the
great street Of tents in the garden and begin to pave
the grass yard as after the Seven Pines The same
meaning and sbrieking fill the night ss then, and
again bear testimony against the style Of warfare
which submits regiments to the fire of brgades s. W
sIsu Our Special Correspondent.
WsITK HoUsR LispivG Va
N0eiosk noon Friday June ~, 1857