The music room was a singulary constructed apartment; small closets with glass doors were constructed around the sides, each containing a pianoforte, so arranged that the occupant of one is not disturbed though the others are all in use. From the center of the hall the teacher can watch each pupil, though she hears no sound from the score of instruments in practice. In the main hall there was a large variety of musical instruments. A thorough and complete musical education can be obtained here, and every month the young ladies give an entertainment in the concert-room, which is a fine hall, constructed with particular regard to acoustics.

The studio, or painting room, contained some very fine pictures by the old masters and copies by the pupils. The dining-hall was painfully neat, but the kitchen was the chef d'auvre of the institution. Its arrangement was perfection itself, and its accommodations magnificent. The most scrupulous neatness was evident here, as in every other part of the building. As it was growing late, after a hurried and cursory view of the kitchen and appurtenances, we hastened to the cupola, from which we obtained a splendid view of the surrounding country.

About two miles distant on the mountain side, surrounded by trees and foliage, is St. Mary's College, also a Catholic institution. The Seventeenth encamped upon the grounds of the seminary, and a guard was

detailed by command of Colonel Merrill,- at the request of the officers of the institution. As the duty of guarding a nunnery was of a novel and delicate character Captain Mattocks was selected to take charge of the detail, his well-known asceticism rendering him peculiarly fitted for the post!

Rumors reached us of a severe engagement at Gettysburg during the day, in which the first and eleventh corps participated; and of the death of the gallant Major-General Reynolds, commanding the first corps. Every man felt confident, when he retired at night, that on the morrow we should meet the foe, and seemed rejoiced to have an opportunity to fight him once upon our own ground.

The breathless shock-the maddened toil-
The sudden clinch-the sharp recoil-
And we were masters of the soil,

In bloody Pennsylvania!

To westward fell the beaten foe-
The growl of battle hoarse and low
Was heard anon, but dying slow,
In ransomed Pennsylvania!

Sou'-westward, with the sinking sun,
The cloud of battle, dense and dun,
Flashed into fire-and all was won
In joyful Pennsylvania!

But ah! the heaps of loyal slain!
The bloody toil! the bitter pain!
For those who shall not stand again
In pleasant Pennsylvania!

Back through the verdant valley lands
Fast fled the foe, in frightened bands,
With broken swords and empty hands,
Out of Pennsylvania!"

De Trobriand's Brigade, with one from the Second Division, and a light battery, had been left at Emmettsburg to guard one of the mountain passes, while the remainder of the Third Corps pushed on to Gettysburg, on the afternoon of July first. At two o'clock on the morning of the second, we received orders to march and rejoin the division and corps. Our pickets, which had been advanced quite a distance, were immediately withdrawn, and at five o'clock we

were on the way. As we reached the boundary line, the troops greeted the free soil of the north with cheers and much enthusiasm. After marching about nine miles, we found the remainder of the corps in line of battle. near Gettysburg, and a portion of their skirmish line engaged. A delay of fifteen minutes would have cut us off from the main army, as not more than that time had elapsed after our arrival before the enemy had possession of the road by which we advanced. Their bullets whistled over our heads as we marched up to join the corps.

After several changes of position, our line was finally formed at about three o'clock, P. M. The Third Corps formed two sides of a triangle, De Trobriand's Brigade constituting the left angle of the apex, and Ward holding the line from his left to Little Round Top. Our lines were scarcely in position, when the enemy, whose movements had not been unnoticed from our signal station on Round Top, moved heavy columns to his extreme-right (our left) and attacked us vigorously, his object being to gain possession of Little Round Top.

The fact that General Sickles' disposition of his troops was made in violation of orders from General Meade is well known. Whether the change was made by General S. on his own responsibility, or whether his lines were formed in advance of the point indicated, from a misapprehension of General Meade's