Daily national Republican., 1863-06-26
REPUBLICAN,
f I RA
THE SITUATION
MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY.

day, circumstantial history of the strength
and movements of our troops, has had It's effect.
dispatch from Harrisburg informs us that
yesterday Gen. Couch issued au order appoint
ing Col Coppce, formerly Professor of Girard
College, to collect from official sources all the
information that is not contraband, aud to
make up two dispatches each day for the use
of reporters"
This is as IL should be. Itappenrs, however,
by a tolegraphic statement of the Associated
Press agent, at Harrisburg, that Col. Coppee
did not get fairly into his new traces yesterday
as he neglected to furnish even one bulletin up
to the closing of the telegraph office last night
So VIC go FROM ono extreme to the other.
But 1t must be admitted that It is better to
have no news at all than that the papers should
be filed every day with information for the
enemy, of the movements of our forces.
Col. Coppeo has blundered, if he has blum
dered at all, on the right side.
The following dispatch was received here last
night, from Carlisle, which is the latest, up to
the moment of writing, that has reached here );
but before this reaches the press We hope to
have later dispatches:
CARLISLE, PA, p. H., June 20, 1858.
SpcciIl 10 he National Republican.
The enemy is within four miles OF this place
and is said to be moving this way. He ap-
pears to be quite strong. Our citizens are un-
der arms, expecting to be called upon to resist
the invaders every moment. Business is sus-
pended. Most of the women, children and old
men have been sent away, and the men re-
naming are being drilled and disciplined. 1t
will be altogether owing to the strength of the
advancing column Of the enemy whether Gen.
Knipe will deem it prudent to make a stand
here or will give the order to abandon the place
and fall back 10 the works of the Susquohannah
We shall soon know. MAC.
There is little doubt that Gen. Lee, with his |
whole command, is on the north side of the |
Potomac; that his left wing is in Pennsylvania
yond that point; that LonSstreet's corps is i'll
the Valley OF BOonsboro', between the town of
BoonsJoro' and the Pennsylvania State line,
and A. P. Hills corps, accompanied by Gen.
Lee himself, is not far from tho bstuc-held of !
Autotam.
Immense rebel trains ofwagons have returned
across the Potomac, from the valley of BoOues.
boro', loaded with all sorts of goods gathered
up by the traitorous pluudcrers. They have
made Charlestown, six miles from Harper's
Ferry, the depot for these stolen goods, 40 the
wagons, after unloading at that place, return
again to Maryland
Elsewhere We publish somc very interesting
items of the operations Of the enemy in Mary
land, copied from the Baltimore American.
Gen. Hooker is IL, The field, not In this city,
as many have enormously reported. 1t is suf-
icient to say that he is just where he ought to
bo-attendlng to the great work specially as
signed to him. In due tlmo he will be heard
from, and when heard from, the people of
]
mitteeB here TO harrass and complicate the du-
ties of the General Government by asking ques-
satisfied that the President Secretary Of War,
General Haleck, and General Hooker have
had, in this crisis, an eye 10 tie general good
and at the same time have not been so lndiher.
ent to Pennsylvania ab the people Of that State
have been to themselvcs If the official records
do not lie, Pennsylvania has not yet furnished
her full quota Of troops to the General Govern
ment, and, at this very moment, she is mani
Testing humillatlng Indifference, in the east
ern part of the State, to her own fate.
1t lisa fact that while the State capital of Penn
sylvania is menaced by rebels, aud New York
and Eastern troops are rushing to It's rescue,
PhiladephIans, who live within sound of the
bell of " Independence Hall, :" have ralsed only
about fifteen hundred men to 30 to the defence
of the State, and eleven hundred Of those are
said to be at Harrisburg, arguing with the Gov
ernor whether, If thoy enlist, they arc TO have
omelettes for breakfast can quit work at ? p.
NJ, and dine at 3 p. M. upon roast beef, straw
berries, and champagne.
Shame on the men whU have mado, aud are
making, such infamous recordb.
1t will be seen by the following extract from |
the Philadelphia b,7"irer of this morning, that
we speak by the record
At this time formidable force Of the best
disciplined corps Of our resoute and yindic-
tive enemies is ravaging and plundering several
of our border counties. In the rear Of that
force Is one still more powerful, embracing the
whole of Jackson's late corps, now under
Ewell, twenty to twenty-five thousand strong,
also marching through the State, and threat
enlnB It's capital. Yet, with all this warming,
and all this imminent danger the people are
dolhg nothing for themselves; and what is
done by our authorities is next to nothing.
Iherc Is an immense issue of thunderous
proclamaIions, and vast deal Of hurrying