may be drenched in blood, but the Union will never, never be dissolved. I have never had a doubt on this subject, never. I know we must suffer, but we must preserve the Union.

dition of Union men in the seceded States, and I be overrun and trodden under foot, and her soil seeing that they had to be hanged or be silent, and still wishing to be free as of yore, have lately purchased arms with which to defend themselves. This act is pronounced as a crime -a great crime. And how it irritates them. Garrett Davis received 1,200 stand of arms the other day, and a young gentleman of the secession persuasion became so irritated that he could not stand it at all; that the "States' Rights" men would not submit to it—no, never. Well, said I, I would not put up with it if I were in your place. I tell you what I would do, I would go and take Garrett's guns away from him. But he didn't.

South Carolina was irritated at the presence of Major Anderson and fifty-five men at Fort Sumter, so irritated that she could not bear it. She tried to starve him to death; she tried to knock his head off, and burn him up. She bombarded the people's fort; shot into the flag of our Government, and drove our soldiers from the place. It was not Mr. Lincoln's fort; not his flag nor his soldiers, but ours. Yet after all these outrages and atrocities, South Carolina comes with embraces for us, saying: "Well, we tried; we intended to kill that brother Kentuckian of yours; tried to storm him, knock his brains out, and burn him up. Dont you love us for it? Won't you fight with us, and for us, and help us to overthrow your Government?"

Was ever a request so outrageously unnatural; so degrading to our patriotism? And yet, Mr. Speaker, there were those among us who rejoiced at the result, and termed the assault upon their own fort and the capture of their own flag and their own soldiers a heroic victory!

You, Mr. Senator from McCracken, are a sanguine man. You think the Union is destroyed. Well, you sometimes err. I believe you had a correspondence with "Uncle Abe," in which you committed a glaring error. But that was only a semi-official correspondence, and perhaps should not be alluded to here.

Senator JOHNSON (good-humoredly)-Oh! yes; tell.

Mr. ROUSSEAU-I thank you. Well, as one of the Senators of Kentucky, you made your most solemn protest against the stationing of troops at Cairo, Ill. The protest was very elegant, as is generally what comes from you-a little highfalutin, it is true. You forwarded your protest to "Uncle Abe," and, in due time, received a reply, which was too good a joke for a good-natured gentleman like yourself to keep all to yourself, and so you disclosed it. Uncle Abe replied to you that your letter had been received, duly considered, and in reply, he had to say to you, (one of the Senators of Kentucky,) that if he had known that Cairo, Ill., was in your Senatorial District, he would not have sent any soldiers within a hundred miles of that point.

Mr. Speaker, I have but a word to say. Kentucky is an armed neutral, it is said. I submit, with others, to that position. I hope that circumstances may not drive us from it. I hope that our secession friends will be, in fact, neutral. If we remain so, it is said we shall have peace. I hope so; but the neutrality that fights all on one side I do not understand. Troops leave Kentucky in broad daylight, and our Governor sees them going to fight against our own Government, yet nothing is said or done to prevent them. Is this to be our neutrality? If it is, I am utterly opposed to it. If we assume a neutral position, let us be neutral in fact. It is as little as we can do.

Mr. Speaker, I am sick and tired of all this gabble about irritation over the exercise by others of their undoubted right, and I say once for all to you secession gentlemen, that we Union men know our rights, and intend to maintain them; and if you get irritated about it, why-get irritated. Snuff and snort yourselves into a rage; go into spasms if you will; die if you want to, and can't stand it-who Our Government, constitutionally adminiscares? What right have you to get irritated tered, is entitled to our support, no matter because we claim equal rights and equality with who administers it. If we will not support it, you? We are for peace; we desire no war, and yet enjoy its blessings, in Heaven's name and deprecate collision. All we ask is peace. let us not war against it, nor allow our people We don't intend you any harm. We don't to do so. Let us be true to our position, whatwant to hurt you, and don't intend you shall ever it may be. We are nullifying at any rate. injure us if we can help it. We beg of you to Our Government has not objected to it. But let us live in peace under the good old Govern- who can look an honest man in the face, while ment of our fathers. We only ask that. Why professing neutrality, refusing to help his Govkeep us ever on the alert watching you, to pre-ernment to preserve its existence, yet secretly vent you from enslaving us by a destruction of that Government?

Senator JOHNSON-It is already destroyed. Mr. ROUSSEAU-Not a bit of it. The Union will never be dissolved. I know you say it is; but, believe me, it will never be dissolved. We may have much suffering; we may endure many calamities. War, pestilence and famine may befall us; our own good old Kentucky may

and traitorously warring against it? For one, sir, I'll none of it. Away with it. Let us be men, honest men, or pretend to be nothing but vagabonds.

I hear it said that Kentucky will go out of the Union; that if she goes anywhere she will go South, &c., &c.

Mr. Speaker, let me tell you, sir, Kentucky will not "go out." She will not stampede.

gades by the commanders of brigades and officers in charge of the several fortifications. These statements will exhibit:

First. The quantity of land taken possession of for the several field works, and the kind and value of the crops growing thereon, if any. Second.-The quantity of land used for the several encampments, and the kind and value of the growing crops, if any.

That has been tried. Secessionists must invent | will, as soon as practicable, be made out and something new in the way of secession appli- transmitted to department head-quarters of briances before they can either frighten or "drag" Kentucky out of the Union. I tell you, sensation gentlemen, that your exciting events have ceased to affect us. Try something else. Get up a fight at Cairo, that you may get us to side with you. That is your game, and you will play it whenever you think you can succeed at it. You tried to scare us, but you failed in your purpose. And if you illegally and against right assault Cairo, I hope every man of you will get his head knocked, or be taken prisoner, and that the Cairo folks will never permit you to come to Kentucky again. That's what I wish, and what I believe would happen in such an event.

But we won't "go out "—have not the least notion of it in the world. You must take us out according to law and right, or take us dead. Believe this, and act accordingly. It would be better for all of us. We shall be but too happy to keep peace, but we cannot leave the Union of our fathers. When Kentucky goes down it will be in blood. Let that be understood. She will not go as other States have gone. Let the responsibility rest on you, where it belongs. It is all your work, and whatever happens will be your work. We have more right to defend our Government than you have to overturn it. Many of us are sworn to support it.

Let our good Union brethren of the South stand their ground. I know that many patriotic hearts in the seceded States still beat warmly for the old Union-the old flag. The time will come when we shall all be together again. The politicians are having their day. The people will yet have theirs. I have an abiding confidence in the right, and I know that this secession movement is all wrong. There is, in fact, not a single substantial reason for it. If there is, I should be glad to hear it; our Government has never oppressed us with a feather's weight. The direst oppression alone could justify what has brought all our present suffering upon us.

May God, in his mercy, save our glorious Republic.

-N. Y. Tribune, June 3.

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GEN. MCDOWELL'S PROCLAMATION,

IN REFERENCE TO DAMAGES CAUSED BY THE WAR.

Third.-The number, size, and character of the buildings appropriated to public purposes. Fourth.-The quantity and value of trees cut down.

Fifth. The kind and extent of fencing, &c., destroyed.

These statements will, as far as possible, give the value of the property taken, or of the damage sustained, and the name or names of the owners thereof. Citizens who have sustained any damage or loss as above will make their claims upon the commanding officers of the troops by whom it was done, or in cases where these troops have moved away upon the commander nearest them.

These claims will accompany the statement above called for. The commanders of brigades will require the assistance of the commanders of regiments or detached companies, and will make this order known to the inhabitants in their vicinity, to the end that all loss or damage may as nearly as possible be ascertained while the troops are now here, and by whom or on whose account it has been occasioned, that justice may be done alike to the citizen and the Government. The name of the officer, or officers, in case the brigade commanders shall institute a board to fix the amount of loss or damage, shall be given in each case.

By order of Brig.-Gen. McDOWELL. JAMES B. FRY, Assistant Adjutant-General.

-N. Y. Tribune, June 16.

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THE BATTLE AT PHILIPPI. OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE COMMANDER OF THE TROOPS.

PHILIPPI, Va., June 4, 1861. BRIGADIER-GENERAL THOMAS A. MORRIS:-I herewith submit to you a report of the operations of my command on the morning of the 3d day of June, 1861, at this place. On the 2d day of June you directed me, with eight com

THE following is an important order from panies of the Seventh Regiment of Indiana volGen. McDowell:

HEAD-QUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF N. E. VIRGINIA,
ARLINGTON, June 2, 1861.

unteers, to proceed to Webster, that I might be there reinforced with four companies of the Ohio volunteers, under the command of ColoGENERAL Order No. 4.-Statements of the nel Steedman, the artillery of his command amount, kind, and value of all private property being under the immediate command of Lieutaken and used for Government purposes, and tenant-Colonel Sturgis, and with four compaof the damage done in any way to private prop-nies of the Sixth Indiana volunteers, under the erty, by reason of the occupation of this section command of Colonel Crittenden. of the country by the United States troops, o'clock on the night of the 2d day of June, I

At eight

any directions in regard to the guns. Colonel | cause Colonel Kelly's condition is such as to Crittenden was necessarily placed in the rear, render a report from him impossible. In doing for he left the cars at Webster, after a tedious so, I may have made some mistakes, but not journey, but to take up his march on Philippi, intentionally. I herewith hand to you the rehis men marching in the rear, in the darkness ports made to me by Colonels Crittenden, of midnight, and in the raging storm, would Milroy, and Steedman. Our loss was two necessarily be vastly more fatigued than those wounded and two missing; what the enemy's in front. Still, they and their gallant com- loss was is not certainly known, as he succeedmander held up with unfaltering spirit, and did ed in carrying off many of his dead. It was as great service in the fight and chase as it was inconsiderable, perhaps not to exceed forty. I possible for good officers and good men to do. have heard the conduct of Jonathan W. GorWhile descending the hill towards the bridge a don of Col. Milroy's command, spoken of in body of troops made their appearance on the terms of decided approbation by the officers of heights to the left. A friendly cheer assured the same conımand. Since we have been here us it was the command of the gallant Colonel he had a small mounted scouting party on a Milroy, and the First Virginia regiment, com- hazardous expedition, and performed it in a manded by Colonel Kelly, and a detachment very satisfactory manner. David W. Cheek, from Colonel Irvine's Ohio regiment. A rapid Commissary and Quartermaster's Clerk, at my descent down the declivity enabled them to instance, mounted a horse, and rode at my side, strike the retreating enemy, but not with so bore messages and rendered me very valuable much effect as if the descent could have been services, and proved himself brave and coumade a few minutes sooner. Colonel Milroy rageous. The colors presented by the ladies of assaulted that part of the enemy who had left Aurora to the Seventh Indiana regiment, were the main road and betook themselves to the the Stars and Stripes which first floated over hills to enjoy the protection of the trees, while the town. Cols. Kelly and Irvine's command pursued the enemy up the road leading towards Beverly. They succeeded in overtaking, killing, and wounding a number, but, unfortunately, Col. Kelly himself fell severely wounded by a pistol Captain William C. Moreau, of Colonel Critshot in the breast; my men carried him into tenden's command, has rendered me very valuthe town, when surgical assistance was imme-able assistance in a business point of view, since diately rendered by Dr. Geo. W. New, of my I took command of this post; and I hear his regiment, who had proved himself as gallant conduct in the recent engagement spoken of in and courageous in the field, as he is skilful in terms of praise both by his officers and men. his profession. Just before we had approached I recommend Corporal Charles Bryant and Serthe town, he volunteered to make a reconnois-geant John Griffin of Company G, Seventh Insance of the bridge, and bore my message along diana, for good conduct. the line repeatedly, seemingly unmindful of his own personal safety.

Captain G. W. Robinson, of Col. Kelly's command, reports to me that he captured Capt. J. W. Willey, of the rebel army, and upon his person found his commission from AdjutantGeneral Garnett, of the rebel forces, and other papers of importance which he reports he holds subject to my order. I enclose his report. It perhaps is not my province to speak much of that part of the expedition which marched by way of Evansville, under the command of Colonel Kelly, consisting of Kelly, Milroy, and Irvine and their commands. I know nothing| personally of their march prior to arriving before Philippi, and only speak of what I myself saw. The two commands or bodies of troops arrived almost simultaneously upon different hills overhanging the town, and did all that could be done to arrest the flight and punish the

The disunion flag was captured by Captain Ferry's command, of my regiment, and the Stars and Stripes were run up and given to the breeze in its place.

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,
E. DUMONT,
Commanding troops at Philippi.

-N. Y. Herald, June 16,

THE VICTORY AT PHILIPPI.

GRAFTON, Monday Night, June 3. Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, four regiments left here in two divisions-one consisting of the 1st Virginia regiment, part of the Ohio 16th, and the Indiana 7th, under command of Col. Kelly; the other the Indiana 9th and the Ohio 14th, commanded by Col. Lander, of Indian fighting, wagon-road, and Potter and Prior duel notoriety. Col. Kelly's division moved east by railroad to Thornton, a small way station, five miles distant from here. Thence they marched to Philippi, a distance of twenty-two miles. The Indiana Regiment moved out the N. W. Virginia Railroad to Webster, where they were joined by the Ohio 14th, from which place they pushed forward on foot to Philippi, twelve miles distant.

The march of the two divisions was performed last night, through darkness, rain, and mud. It was a terrible undertaking, but they all went bravely through it, unshrinkingly and without

complaint. All night they toiled on through the darkness and storm, the soft earth yielding beneath their feet, till the gray dawn found them in the presence of the enemy.

But the legs of the fugitive chivalry knew them too well, and they could not be overtaken by our already exhausted men, who, after chasing them a couple of miles, returned to the evacuated camp, to learn the painful fact that their victory, though complete, was dearly, too dearly bought. Col. Kelly, who, with a bravery amounting to rashness, was foremost from first to last, was rallying his men in the upper part of the town, the enemy having all appar

Col. Lander reports that as they neared Philippi they were discovered by a woman, who fired at him twice, and who sent her little boy across the hills (as he afterward found) to apprise the enemy of their approach. He arrived on the hill across the river from, and below Philippi, and commanding the town and en-ently fled, when he fell by a shot from a foe campment, (just below the town,) a little before daylight this morning. They at once planted two pieces of artillery on the brow of the hill, just above the camp, and prepared to open on them when the time arrived-four o'clock was the hour at which the attack was to be made simultaneously by both divisions.

Colonel Kelly was to attack them in the rear and cut of their retreat, while Col. Lander was to attack them in front. But Col. Kelly's division was behind the appointed hour, owing to the terrible fatigue of their forced march of twenty-two miles, and, in addition to this, they missed the point, and instead of coming in on the Beverly road, above Philippi, and effectually cutting of all retreat, they came, when they did come, just below the town.

concealed either behind a fence or in a house; some say the assailant fired from behind a wagon; others that Col. Kelly was pressing him hard with a view of capturing him, when he wheeled and fired. This is not substantiated. At any rate, the shot was fired after the engagement was over, and was just such a piece of assassination as that by which fell the loved and lamented Ellsworth. The assassin was an assistant quartermaster in the Confederate force. His name is Simms, and he hails from Chesterfield, across the river from Richmond. He was immediately seized, and it is a great wonder that they did not make mincemeat of him instanter. The pistol with which he shot Kelly is an old-fashioned, old Virginia horse-pistol, carrying a very large ball and inWhen the day began to dawn upon the impa- flicting a most dangerous wound. The ball entient forces of Colonel Lander, it discovered to tered the left breast, and passing clear through them the camp below in a state of commotion, lodged beneath the skin, just underneath the evidently in great alarm and preparing for fight. shoulder blade. It has been extracted, and The hour appointed for the attack came and every attention of the highest medical and surpassed, but still Colonel Kelly's division had gical skill is lavished upon the wounded officer. not arrived. Impatient to begin the attack, If human skill can save him he will be saved; and fearful that the rascals, almost within his but if he is beyond the reach of human aid, he grasp, should escape without smelling powder, will die, as he said to-day to a friend who bent Colonel Lander ordered the artillery to begin over his couch, in a just and glorious cause. the attack; and at a quarter past four the guns "I expect I shall have to die," said the woundwere unlimbered and dropped the first messen-ed Colonel; "I would be glad to live, if it might gers of terror into the rebel camp less than a quarter of a mile away. Simultaneously with the roar of the first gun, Colonel Kelly, at the head of his command, came in sight across the river below the camp, and, comprehending the position of affairs, they rushed forward at once in the direction of the camp.

be, that I might do something for my country; but if it cannot be, I shall have at least the consolation of knowing that I fell in a just cause."

Several hats, apparently belonging to officers, were picked up, and a horse and buggy, belonging to B. F. Martin, at Pruntytown, a lawyer and defeated secession candidate for the Legislature, were part of the spoils. Thos. Surghnor, "the inimitable Tom," as Bill Cooper used to style him, "Captain of the Barbour forces," as he styles himself, and late editor of the Barbour Jeffersonian, at the first approach of danger, made tracks; he ran with all the speed the shortness of his legs would permit, and as fear lent him wings, he managed to get out of harm's way.

Meanwhile, the battery having, after the first shot or two, got an accurate range, played upon the camp with marked effect, tearing through tents and houses at a fearful rate. This the chivalry couldn't stand, and they scattered like rats from a burning barn. They had no time to retreat in order. They didn't even retreat at all-they ran, fled most ingloriously-ran like sheep in every direction that promised safety, after firing a random and scattering volley which did no damage whatever. Col. Kel- The American flag has taken the place of the ly's command was close after, the Virginia secession emblem in all the houses of Philippi. troops in advance, the Henry Clay Guards in Several of these piratical flags were captured. front, and Col. Kelly and Capt. Fordyce lead-The people are coming in from the country, ing. At the same time Col. Lander's force and expressing their gladness at the change of came rushing down the hill to the bridge, and they all put out after the fugitives, yelling like Indians.

colers.

-Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer, June 6.