Year: 1861

WAR TALE The Sacramento Bee of Sat
urday, has the following in regard to the
late battle. 1t is really encouraging:


Well, it is the first repulse our army of the
Potomac has received and it probably
would not have received that, if zen. Patter
son had engaged Johnsons forces, as he was
ordered to do. SO far as the contest in the
vicinity of Manassas is concerned it is about
even. This makes up to the rebels what
they lost by the defeat OF Pegram by Me
Clellan, and takes from us the glory of that
achievement; but we have the other successes
on the Potomac upon our side, while the
rebels have no offset This defeat is not a
disaster. The cnly reason of frcgret lies in
the manner of retreat. We can't brag of
that That is the only disgrace; but ii will
be wiped out. Ehe New York Sixty Ninth


Irish regiment, and the Fire Zouaves, fought
like tigers Their charges are said to have
been equal in daring to that of "the gallant
six hundred" in the Crmea where they
"galloped into the jaws Of hell" They had
the post Of honor, and they held it nobly.


1t matters not whether this be our first de.
feat or their last victory. The result is sure
The roads to and from Manassas, and be-
tween that and Richmond, are no doubt
bristlng with cannon. Behind every hedge,
on every hill side shaded by n clump of
chaparral, at every gorge and canon and
short turn in the narrow road, may rest Il
masked battery, but if the conquest of Rich
mond be needed to crush ont rebellion, Rich
mond will be conquered. The remainder of
the 100000 troops voted by Congress have
been called for, and the loyal orth responds
with alacrity. Even California, distant as
she is, nsGy yet be permitted the honor of
furnishing few thousand of her hardy sons
to this battle for the Union. This little vic
tory to our opponents will doubtless intensi-
fly the contest. 1t viii give them hope and
make them fight the harder, while it will
only increase the determination of the Union
men. One thing it will assuredly do: II
there be any croakers for compromise fitting
ghoul-like about the loyal States of the
North, they will be sllenced by the stern re-
| solve ofthe public


Whatever countenance such course NAV
have received there, it can receive none now.
Cannon and the Constitution form the only
basis ofcompromise that can be advocated
now, and before there be peace these must
triumph. Even Crittenden, the great COM
promise man, accepts that fact now, and the
whole country must accept it; and whatever
OF her strength be needed, will be put forth
TO ENFORCE III. lnlS BullS ) Kun affair lS but a
slight matter, and will soon be remeded II
our whole force could have been engaged the
result would have been otherwise, but either
through miscarriage of the instructions or
determination to disobey them on the part
of one of our generals, it is as it is. lie has
been superseded, and the little iron man OF
Massachusetts takes his command 1t re-
! quires time to fix the right man in the right
place, but little patience and determination
will bring all things right. This is not the
work of day or a month If rebellion can
be efectually crushed out in a year, or even
two years, the ma tion will have done well-
| The treatment Of our wounded and dying by
the rebels will raise the war feeling to a ter
rifle intensity. Fight while a single regi-
rnent remains in arms against the Govern
ment" will be the watchword every where.


The Union in summing up the results Of the
battle concludes its article as follows:


The effect of this battle will brighten the
hopes of the Secessionists, but it win not de-
press nor dishearted the Federal forces. They
Will rally and strike again, and with the Ger