Orr, is marked by a broken musket planted as | Manassas. You have created an epoch in the a head-stone.

Away on the extreme northern verge of the battle-ground is the pine grove in which the Georgia regiment met the enemy's advance. The gallant band there withstood the enemy's columns until nearly surrounded. They then retreated, not from those in the front, but from those who were closing around them. In this pine grove there seemed scarce a tree that was not struck by the enemy's balls. A number of Georgians fell here, and their graves are close by. In the grove was pointed out the spot where Lamar fell. In the rear was the dead charger of the lamented Gen. Bartow, killed under him, himself to fall soon after. But the Georgians suffered not their heroes to fall avenged, for they piled the ground before them with the slain of the enemy.

history of liberty, and unborn nations will rise up and call you blessed. Continue this noble devotion, looking always to the protection of the just God, and, before time grows much older, we will be hailed as the deliverers of a nation of ten millions of people.

Comrades! Our brothers who have fallen have earned undying renown, and their blood, shed in our holy cause, is a precious and acceptable sacrifice to the Father of Truth and Right; their graves are beside the tomb of Washington, their spirits have joined his in eternal communion. We will hold the soil in which the dust of Washington is mingled with the dust of our brothers. We drop one tear on their lauun-rels, and move forward to avenge them.

One week ago a countless host of men, organized into an army, with all the appointments which modern art and practiced skill could devise, invaded the soil of Virginia.

Their people sounded their approach with triumph and displays of anticipated victory. Their generals came in almost regal state. Their Minister, Senators, and women came to witness the immolation of this army and the subjugation of our people, and to celebrate these with wild revelry.

Soldiers! We congratulate you on a glorious triumph and complete victory. We thank you for doing your whole duty in the service of your country. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, G. P. T. BEauregard.

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NORTHERN PRESS ON THE BATTLE.

LET no man to-day whisper the thought of abating a jot of our vast undertaking. Taught by one reverse, the nation will rise above its misfortune and press on in its just and holy cause. The people who have poured out their blood and treasure so freely will be kindled to new efforts. Even the army which is now reIt is with the profoundest emotions of grati-cruiting its strength and renewing its courage tude to an overruling God, whose hand is manifested in protecting our homes and your liberties, that we, your generals commanding, are enabled in the name of our whole country to thank you for that patriotic courage, that heroic gallantry, that devoted daring, exhibited by you in the action of the 18th and 21st of July, by which the host of the enemy was scattered, and a signal and glorious victory was achieved. The two affairs of the 18th and 21st were but the sustained and continued efforts of your patriotism against the constantly recurring colors of an enemy fully treble our numbers, and this effort was crowned, on the evening of the 21st, with a victory so complete, that the invaders were driven from the field, and made to fly in disorderly rout back to their intrenchments, a distance of over thirty miles.

They left upon the field nearly every piece of their artillery, a large portion of their arms, equipments, baggage, stores, &c., and almost every one of their wounded and dead, amounting, together with the prisoners, to many thousands; and thus the Northern hosts were driven by you from Virginia.

Soldiers! we congratulate you on an event which insures the liberty of our country. We congratulate every man of you whose glorious privilege it was to participate in this triumph of courage and truth, to fight in the battle of

on the banks of the Potomac, will burn for a chance to strike one more blow for the honor lost at Manassas. The colors have only been shot away from their staff; to-day they shall be nailed to the mast, from which they shall float forever; and the day shall soon come when they shall be borne in triumph by a victorious host from the Potomac to the James, and thence on to the gulf. Our present misfortune will disclose to all the true secret of our weakness, and will teach all that the advance for which some have so long clamored is not to be accomplished at a single effort. With a full knowledge on all hands of the nature of our undertaking, and with such further preparation as must now be made for this grand enterprise, we can doubt its final success as little as we can doubt the justice of the cause in which it is undertaken, or the wisdom of the Providence which rules all things for our good.

-Boston Daily Advertiser.

It is our duty, as it is our wish, to derive from the calamity every lesson it is fitted to inculcate and enforce. It must necessarily tend to bring all things connected with this controversy down to a much more serious standard. We are now fully engaged in a war, and with men who, it is evident, can and will fight. To conduct this war to a peaceful

termination, which is the end of every war, so as to save our own honor and to preserve the Government of the country, a much higher and more manly tone of principle and ment is to be encouraged, than has actuated too many of those who have so confidently as sumed to be the leaders of public opinion and feeling. Fanatical partisanship will not serve the public welfare. But we see no reason to despond of the great cause of the country. Any defeat, and especially such a defeat, at the beginning is prejudicial to the right cause, and encouraging to the wrong. But it has neither exhausted our strength, nor our confiAfter driving the rebel armies three miles dence in a good cause. The day of disaster is beyond Bull's Run, our troops have been comof all others that in which lessons for our fu- pelled to fall back. This is occasioned by the ture guidance are to be learned and contem-junction of General Johnston's army of twenty plated, and it will be our own fault if we do not find in this unexpected turn of affairs wiser and juster means of accomplishing those ends, which alone honorable and truly patri

onded by pressure of politicians at Washington. Accomplished military men have shook their heads at all this, but they have constantly said senti-things were going on splendidly, and the right result would come if the people would not be impatient and would let the veteran general alone. This has not been the case. The forward movement was precipitated. The result is before the astounded country. Dearly bought is the experience, made up of Pelion on Ossa of the horrible, and all that remains is to profit by the awful lesson.

otic men have in view.

-Boston Courier.

In the valor of our outnumbered and exposed troops, we see assurances which immeasurably overshadow the incidental mishap which followed. The Capital is saved. Our determined soldiers, made wiser and more eager by the sacrifice of their brethren, are rushing forward by thousands and tens of thousands. We still have our gallant and competent leaders, who will set an immortal seal of vengeance on this transient success of the conspirators. Let us, then, calmly review all the events of the one day of trial. Our duties are paramount, and, thanks to heaven, our hopes still go hand in hand with them.

-Boston Journal.

It was confidently expected that when the standard of the law was raised, and our precious citizen soldiery were consigned to the care of the constituted authorities, a force so mighty would meet the enemy that serious disaster to our troops should be impossible; and the material for an army seemed to be such that, however anxious, three months ago, the country were for the safety of the Capital, the opinion became general and fixed that a defeat now was out of the question. But, all along, here at the North, there has been a continuous depreciation of the numbers, the resources, and the quality of the Confederate army; and the press that have kept on this strain, especially the sensation press of New York, have been insanely urging a forward movement to Richmond. This has been sec

-Boston Post.

thousand men with Beauregard's main army. This gave the rebels between eighty-five and ninety thousand men to oppose our troops, which number less than fifty thousand. The rebel force was too great to withstand, and General McDowell has fallen back upon his intrenchments at Alexandria. The junction of Johnston with Beauregard it was General Patterson's business to prevent. It is not right to blame a commander without knowing all the circumstances which controlled his actions, and we must remember that all blame of subordinates falls at last upon the commander-in-chief. Nevertheless it is impossible not to see that the army corps of Patterson has not performed its very important share in the general attack, and that in this way only is the temporary retreat of our main army brought about. Meantime, in the general anxiety, we must remember that the strong fortifications which General Scott wisely erected opposite Washington will give our troops a rallying point, where they will make a stand.

-N. Y. Evening Post.

What the losses of the insurgents were on this occasion, we have not yet been advised; but it is likely they were very serious, if not as great as those of the Federal troops. It is possible that, instead of remaining much longer there, they may retreat at once to the Junction, as they did after the Great Bethel affair.

But the conduct and spirit of our men, we feel certain, will not suffer from the fact of their making a retreat under the circumstances. Fresh accessions will be made to their numbers, and, with their present knowledge of the ground, they will return with fresh energy and determination to the work of putting down the rebellion. And the people at large will rally with still greater devotion to the Government,

-Philadelphia Press, July 23.

the Constitution, and the Union. In the Revo- | that city was commenced before we had conlution, our troops were terribly cut up on Brook-solidated a sufficient force to render its downlyn Heights; yet that calamity proved the fall certain. salvation of the country, since it developed the masterly Fabian system of tactics subsequently pursued by Washington.

-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

To the brave man defeat is only an argument for new effort. Our banner, which has been trailing in the dust, must be lifted up towards the stars. Overwhelming numbers have repulsed our army, after it had conquered an equal force entrenched behind earthworks and masked batteries. Our retreating columns have fallen back to Alexandria and Washington, leaving hundreds of our brave fellows on the soil where they fell so heroically. But why recount the disasters of yesterday?

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SOUTHERN PRESS ON THE BATTLE.

OUR telegraphic despatches this morning tell a glorious tale for the South. It is not the bulletins of our friends alone which announce a grand victory for the armies of the South. It is confessed in all its greatness and completeness by the wailings which come to us from the city of Washington, the head-quarters of our enemies. It is told in the groans of the panic-stricken Unionists of tyranny, who are quaking behind their entrenchments with apWhat is to be done? Every thing. The prehension for the approach of the avenging capital must again be defended. The ground soldiery of the South, driving before it the which has been lost, must be regained. Vic-routed remnants of that magnificent army which tory must follow on the heels of defeat. Not an inch more must be yielded. The ranks must be filled up. The fifty thousand must be made a hundred thousand. For every regiment that has been broken up, two must appear straightway. Let no man lisp the word discouragement. Let us begin to-day. Let not an hour be lost. Let the Government say when and whence it wants men, and they shall be forthcoming. Such at least is the spirit of Rhode Island.

-Providence Journal.

It is idle to seek to disguise that we have met with a great disaster, but one for which, under all the circumstances, we should not have been totally unprepared, and which only proves that even our soldiers cannot achieve impossibilities. We have paid an awful penalty for the error of underrating the strength of our enemy, and attempting, with too small a number of men, to drive him from his stronghold. We have suffered our zeal to outrun our discretion; and in deference to the strong popular sentiment which demanded an early capture of Richmond, the forward movement against

they had prepared and sent forth with the boastful promise of an easy victory. From Richmond, on the contrary, come the glad signs of exceeding joy over a triumph of our arms, so great and overwhelming as though the God of Battles had fought visibly on our side, and smitten and scattered our enemies with a thunderbolt.

Such a rout of such an army-so large, so equipped, and so commanded--was never known before in the wars on this continent. Whole corps disorganized, regiments cut to pieces, arbody of disciplined men converted into a panictillery captured in whole batteries, and a mighty stricken mob-such things have not been read ciplined troops who bore Scott into Mexico enof, except on that smaller scale where the discountered the races of semi-barbarians, who parted before him like sheep before a charge of cavalry. It is the same iron race which took Scott upon their shoulders, and carried him into the capital of Mexico, which now bars his way to Richmond with a wall of steel and fire. The leaders may clamor for new and greater efforts for the straining of the resources of the people and the gathering of large armaments, to be precipitated upon the South in the desperate hope of retrieving the fortunes of a day so deplorably lost. We will not venture to say to what extent rage, disappointment, baffled cupidity, and thirst for revenge, may carry a deluded people; but the confidence of the South will rise high, that no continued and often-repeated struggles can be entered upon in the face of such obstacles which have been found in the courage and constancy of the Confederate army, and the genius of its illustrious chief.

In every corner of this land, and at every capital in Europe, it will be received as the emphatic and exulting endorsement, by a young and unconquerable nation, of the lofty assurance President Davis spread before the world on the very eve of the battle, that the noble race of freemen who inherit these States will, what

for objects really dear to them. If England or France were invading the Northern States, no one can believe that a whole American army would evaporate because three calendar months were up; nor, to bring matters nearer home, can we imagine that the Southerners will take the rail homeward while New York rowdies and Boston abolitionists are desolating the villages of Virginia.

tunes, in their faculty of what they call coming | resolve which animates men who are fighting "right side up'ard," that as a community they are no more depressed by a total rout than they would be in their individual capacities by a pecuniary loss. A singular trait in human character is exhibited in their open acknowledgment to all the world of defeat, coupled with the "enthusiastic reception" which they are giving to whole regiments of volunteers, who, on pretence of their time being up, are marching homeward on the morrow of a great In all ages success in war has inclined to the defeat and on the eve of an expected advance party which is fighting for its existence, and is of the Southern army. The more aristocratic consequently steeled to a sterner resolve. There New York volunteers had returned home long is a want of this earnestness to be noticed in before the battle at Bull Run, and now regi- the conduct of the Northerners. They take ments from almost every State are hastening things easy to a degree which astonishes an back to their respective districts, to be received Englishman who recollects the frenzy which with the loudest plaudits of their friends. followed the first misfortunes of our army at The 14th Ohio, on returning to Toledo, "ex- the end of 1854. The whole story of the battle perienced a cordial reception." It was men- of Bull Run is given by the Northern papers, tioned that, after a few weeks' furlough, they of course with many variations, but, we are would be ready to reenlist-those few weeks, bound to say, with entire candor. The comfor all that they know, being destined to de- pleteness of the defeat, the courage of the encide the fate of the Union forever. But the emy and the panic of their own army, are not most extraordinary case is that of General extenuated or denied in any way. There is, of Patterson's army. The general, according to course, the usual tendency to lay the blame on his own account, was in front of General John- the commanders, and to save the self-love of ston, who had 40,000 men. "My force is less the army at the expense of its chiefs. But, than 20,000 men. Nineteen regiments, whose making allowances for this, it is probable not term of service was up, or would be within a only that the leaders were incompetent, but week, all refused to stay an hour over their the mass of the troops felt that they were. time, with the exception of four. Five regi- From the first there seems to have been little ments have gone home, two more go to-day, purpose in any thing that was done. The adand three more to-morrow. To avoid being vance began before dawn, and one writer says cut off with the remainder, I fell back and that even at that hour there seemed a lack of occupied this place." This is, we think, one unity and direct purpose among the officers, of the most astounding incidents in the history which sometimes was made too evident to the of war. It entirely agrees with the statement troops not to affect their spirit and demeanor. given by our Special Correspondent, that while At the very opening of the day it was plain to the cannon of Beauregard were thundering in all, that real and sound discipline was abantheir ears, a regiment of volunteers passed him doned. On the other hand, the Confederates on their way home, their three months' terms of were evidently commanded by men who knew service being complete. If such a thing had something of war. The ground on the Federal happened to one corps, it might have been set side was wooded almost down to the ravine, down to the bad counsels of one or more discon- through which the stream flows, but on the tented spirits, or to the injudicious conduct of other side "the enemy had cleared away all some commanding officers. But here it is evi- obstructive foliage, and bared the earth in dent that the whole volunteer army of the North- every direction over which they could bring ern States is worthless as a military organiza- their artillery upon us." The battle began tion. It is useless to comment on the behavior about sunrise, and was at its height a little of men who, pretending to rush to arms for the after noon. The accounts given by the Northsalvation of their country, make off in thou-ern correspondents describe the enemy as alsands when the enemy comes in sight, and leave their general to take care of himself. This is certainly carrying to its furthest limit that right of secession which they flew to arms to punish. In any other country such conduct would be looked upon as the extreme of base-York Reginent is described as having inflicted ness. But the Americans do not visit it as such, and they, perhaps, have an instinctive sense of the justice of the case. They feel how hollow has been so much of the indignation expressed by their party-how much the campaign against the South is a sham, entered into in obedience to a "sensation" policy, and differing widely from the earnest and steady

most destroyed by the repeated charges of the Federalists. Allowing for exaggeration, it may be taken as pretty certain that they were hardpressed, and that some, at least, of the Federal troops behaved with gallantry. The 71st New

severe loss on the enemy. Indeed, the bulletins published by the Confederate authorities appear to admit that the Southern army suffered severely at one point of the action.

But this was but the beginning of the day's work. Whether the Confederates had any plan of fighting settled beforehand by their commanders, we do not as yet know; but the ac