With another allusion to the glorious valor of our better adjourn this camp meeting, and go home and troops, who had accomplished this great victory, and drill."-Boston Transcript. reminding all of the great cause they had for returning thanks to Him to whom alone thanks were due for this blessing on our arms, he concluded amid the tumultuous applause of the assemblage, and was escorted to his hotel.

At 9. 30, a large concourse of citizens and visitors having assembled before the Spotswood House, the President was again called out, and again stirred the popular heart with his eloquent recital of the brave deeds done by our troops in the late battle. He was preceded on this occasion by Col. Chesnut, of South Carolina, (an aid to Gen. Beauregard,) in a chaste and eloquent speech.

This unannounced arrival of our President took the citizens by surprise. Had they known of his coming, such an ovation would have greeted his return as never before was witnessed in the Old Do

minion.

A REBEL'S LETTER.-The following letter was taken by one of the pickets of Col. Gordon's Regiment, (the Massachusetts Second.) It shows that the privates as well as the Generals of the rebel army can tell big stories:

"CAMP JACKSON, MANASSAS JUNCTION, July 23, 1861.

and have nothing of any consequence to complain of, "DEAR MOTHER AND FRIENDS:-I am safe yet, which is more than many a fellow-soldier can say.

"I suppose you have heard what an awful battle we had down here last Sunday. I was not in it—as it so happened I could not get with my regiment, and glad I am I was not. This morning I went out on the battle-field, and, hard-hearted as you term me, I was horror-struck at the sight. Men (Yankees) lying Just behind the train which brought the President, around in every direction, dead and wounded. I there arrived a second, bringing 585 Hessian prison- suppose I must have seen at least 500 men and 200 ers, 25 of whom were commissioned officers, and 30 horses-some places as many as six horses lying side of Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves. Passengers' by this by side. It is supposed their loss is over 5,000 men train inform us that several hundred other prisoners killed and wounded, and they took somewhere near were left at Manassas, and that our troops continued 1,000 live Yankees prisoners. Oh, they were whipped to bring them in hourly; and that many of them decently. They chased old Scott so close, he had to leave his coach, and lost his epaulettes; and if recame into our camp and delivered themselves up. The 585 brought to this city were immediately ports are true, he lost one of his cowardly legs. Our marched to Harwood's factory.-Richmond En-regiment took the famous Sherman's Battery. Well, we have taken near 50 pieces of rifled cannon, and quirer, July 24. run them clean off the field. Beauregard, of South Ar Bull Run, when the order came from the head- Carolina, led our regiment. They (I mean the regiquarters for the retreat, word was passed down the ment) whipped the Ellsworth Zouaves, that muchline to the New York Zouaves. "Do not!" exdreaded band of ruffians. Yes, I have seen them claimed a score of the "pet lambs" in a breath. myself yes, more than a hundred of them, as high "Do not!" "We are ordered to retreat," said the as six in a bunch, dead as a door nail. They had commander. "Wot 'n thunder's that!" responded 75,000 men against us, and so sure was Scott of sucone of the hard-heads, who evidently did not compre-cess, it is reported he brought up one hundred ladies hend the word exactly. "Go back-retire," continued the commander. "Go back-where?" "Leave the field." "Leave? Why, that ain't what we come for. We're here to fight," insisted the boys. "We came here with 1,040 men," said the commander. "There are now 600 left. Fall back, boys!" and the "lambs" sulkily retired, evidently displeased with

the order.

Two of the New Hampshire Second were leaving the field, through the woods, when they were suddenly confronted by five rebels, who ordered them to "halt! or we fire." The Granite boys saw their dilemma, but the foremost of them presented his musket, and answered, "Halt you, or we fire!" and, at the word, both discharged their pieces. The rebel fell, his assailant was unharmed. Seizing his companion's musket, he brought it to his shoulder, and said to the other, "Fire!" Both fired their guns at once, and two more rebels fell. The others fled. The leader's name was Hanford-from Dover, N. H. As the Maine troops were leaving the field of battle, a soldier stepped up to one of the officers of the 5th Regiment, and requested him to lend him a knife. The officer took out a common pocket-knife, and handed it to the soldier, who sat down at the side of the road, pulled up the leg of his trousers, and deliberately dug a musket-ball out of his leg, jumped up, and resumed his march.

from Washington to see him conquer Southerners ;— (but some one got hurt.) Jeff. Davis came up here on Sunday, and was on the field himself. Gen. Jackson was wounded, two fingers shot off; Gen. Bee killed. I do not know our loss-250 killed, not more, and it may be less, but 200 men lost will cover all. It commenced about 6 in the morning, and lasted all day. They had a fight here on Thursday too, hear of us will be at Washington. We are deterbut it was nothing to this. I suppose the next you mined to have it."-Boston Journal, Aug. 16.

COL. HAMPTON, upon having his horse shot from under him, seized a rifle, and said, "Watch me, boys; do as I do." He then shot down successively several of the Federal officers who were leading their forces against him. Gen. Beauregard then came up, and said, "Take that battery." Just at that moment the flag of the legion was shot down. Beauregard said, "Hand it to me; let me bear the Palmetto flag." He did bear it in the fury of the fight. Col. Johnson, of the legion, was slain in the charge.

The Hampton Legion promised to defend the flag presented to them by the ladies of the Palmetto State while one of them remained to step the field of conflict. That this promise will be sacredly redeemed, no one will doubt, when he comes to learn that of the eight hundred who went into the field on When the news of the repulse reached the camp Sunday, one hundred and ten sealed their fidelity meeting at Desplaines, Ill., Rev. Henry Cox, who was with their blood, that being the number of their preaching at the time the intelligence was received, killed and wounded, according to the unofficial reremarked, on closing his sermon, "Brethren, we had | ports.-Richmond Whig, July 24.

Gov. SMITH's reigment, the Virginia 49th, was in the thickest of the fight, and all of his companies suffered considerably. His own horse was struck by a ball. His adjutant, Lieut. Caleb Smith, was wounded. Lieut. Ward, commanding a Fauquier company, was killed, as were also a number of his men, beside others who were wounded. Col. E. C. Carrington, of Washington city, formerly of Virginia, was one of the prisoners taken in the battle of last Sunday.

MEMPHIS, TENN.-The serious results of the victory He returns involuntarily, in humiliation and shame, have been ascertained at the War Department to be to his mother State, which he left in respectability sixty-nine pieces of artillery, 28,000 stand of arms, and with fair prospects. His hundreds of patriotic 800 wagons laden with stores and munitions of war, and influential relations in Virginia point the finger of and a quantity of provisions so huge as to appear scorn and contempt at the traitor. The capture of almost incredible. Never dreaming of defeat, and Col. Carrington will make Abraham need a new Dis-only occupied with the advance of their grand army, trict-Attorney. His eloquence and his arms have proved alike futile against his mother State. He has disgraced himself, not her.

the liberal commissariat for their immense forces had converted the town of Centreville, distant five or six miles from the battle, into one great warehouse for provisions and army stores.

A citizen of Fairfax Court House says that when the retreating enemy passed through that village, in an answer to the question whether they had been defeated, they said there were hardly enough of them left to tell the story; that it was foolish to talk about fighting the Southern soldiers; that they fought not like men, but devils. They begged for water, and betrayed every sign of extreme terror and exhaus-guns in position, met the remnants of his vanquished tion.

An officer of the army, who arrived here yesterday, says that he witnessed the onset of our soldiers, the Arkansas Regiment, he believes, on the New York Zouaves, and that it was a terrible spectacle. They threw down their guns, and made the charge with their brandished bowie-knives. The Zouaves at first seemed petrified with amazement. Then, as their assailants knocked aside their bayonets, and fell upon them with their furious blades, they fairly screamed with terror, and fled in the utmost consternation. They were nearly exterminated.—Richmond Enquirer, July 24.

THE BATTLE AT BULL RUN.
BY "RUTH."

'Forward! my brave columns, forward!" No other word was spoken;

But in the quick, and mighty rustling of their feet,
And in the flashing of their eyes, 'twas proved
This was enough.

Men, whose every bosom held a noble heart,
And who had left their homes, their sacred rights
To gain: To these, this was no trying hour,
No time to waver, and to doubt--but one
For which they'd hoped and prayed-
One (as they felt) they'd brought not on
Themselves, but which they knew must come-
And nobly, O most nobly, did their
Bravery, their sense of right, sustain them.

The provisions of every kind captured at this grand depository are sufficient, the President asserts, to feed an army of fifty thousand men for a whole campaign. To save their immense wealth of stores, it was at Centreville that McDowell attempted to rally his flying army. A large division of fresh troops, with heavy forces, and forced them into a momentary halt; but so demoralized were his men, that at sight of our pursuing columns, they again scattered, and were chased like hares from their lost position; nor did our cavalry cease from their bloody business of cutting up and riding down the cowardly hounds until within four miles of Arlington Heights.

At this place (Centreville) our troops had the good luck to find a large table spread with a sumptuous dinner, and almost untouched, as the rout, which commenced about the fashionable hour for a dining feast, had left but poor stomachs for digesting rich food.

A correspondent from Manassas has just shown me a number of bills of fare for the dinners to which McDowell had invited his friends to enjoy with him on the route to Richmond, indicating that they expected to repose a short time at Fairfax Court House, Manassas, and other convenient localities on the way.

The bills of fare are mostly in French, and quite costly as to the cuisine. Twenty-five baskets of champagne and a dozen of claret were also found at Centreville-the centre of "good things;" and a soldier who was present has just informed me, that when our brave hungry boys arrived at the village and took possession, they at once commenced a sad havoc upon these delicious drinkables, during which a sprightly officer in one of the Rappahannock companies, named Hopper, mounted upon the table, (then relieved somewhat of its load,) and proposed the following im promptu toast:-" Our sincere thanks to the gouty old Scott; may his captured batteries soon send a shower of grape from which he can fill his wine bottles." It is needless to add, that our lieutenant was vociferously cheered; and the boys, out of respect for the great man's memory, drank standing and in silence.-Memphis Argus, July 29.

RICHMOND, VA.-It is reported here, and almost universally believed, that five full companies, attached to one of the Yankee regiments which participated in the battle at Manassas last Sunday, surrendered to Gen. Beauregard on Friday last. These men, it seems, in their haste and fright, missed the road to Arling

ton, and became lost in the Virginia forests near the | of battle in our favor, decided the fortunes of the Blue Ridge. Worn down with fatigue, famished with field." hunger, and despairing of ever making their way out without being discovered, they hailed one of our scouts, and requested that their condition be laid before Gen. Beauregard. All surrendered, and were kindly furnished with nourishment. It is presumed that they will be sent to Richmond.

It is also stated that a house in the vicinity of Fairfax Court House, which was suspected by our troops, was surrounded last Friday, and found to contain sixteen Yankee officers, who were not quite active enough in their movements last Sunday, and took refuge in this building. They were all bagged, of course, and will be securely held until it is ascertained what disposition is to be made of the crew of the privateer Savannah.-Richmond Dispatch.

SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.-Both Gen. Scott and the Brigade Commander Col. Burnside, have expressed the warmest appreciation of the extraordinary firmness and steadiness of this regiment while under galling fire and during the retreat.

Col. Marston was severely wounded in the beginning of the engagement at Bull Run, and although gallantly returning to the field, the command devolved upon Lieut.-Col. Fiske. Col. Burnside himself relates, that, testing the resources of his brigade, he said to Col. Fiske: "Will your men obey such and such an order?" To which Col. Fiske replied: "My men will obey any order."

The following paragraph from the Washington National Republican shows how far this confidence was justified:

A member of the Palmetto Guard writes to the Mercury as follows:-"The day was lost when our two regiments came up. Our troops were falling back, and had retired some distance. Col. Kershaw gave the command ‘Forward,' and, after some ten or twelve rounds, away went the Yankees. I understand Beauregard said our regiments 'saved the day' -a second battle of Waterloo.

"No regiment ever entered a battle under more depressing circumstances than we did. All along our line of march men were retreating, and saying to us we are defeated. But we went forward, and the day was won."

THE correspondent of the Charleston Courier tells this story at the expense of the Virginia chivalry :— Among the prisoners is a noble-looking and intelligent Zouave, one of the few decent exceptions in the crew. I saw him on the field, just after he was taken. While passing a group of our men, one of the latter called him some hard name. Sir,' said the Zouave, turning on his heel and looking the Virginian full in the eye, 'I have heard that yours was a nation of gentlemen, but your insult comes from a coward and a knave. I am your prisoner, but you have no right to fling your curses upon me because I am unfortunate. Of the two, sir, I consider myself the gentleman.' I need not add that the Virginian slunk away under the merited rebuke, or that a dozen soldiers generously gathered around the prisoner, and assured him of protection from further insult."

Ar the battle of Bull Run, some Congressmen were taken who had come out to see the fun. One of them seeing our representative, the Hon. Porcher Miles, accosted him with, "Hallo, Miles, my dear fellow; how do you do?" Miles looked for a moment surprised, and replied, "Sir, I have not the pleasure of your acquaintance. What is your name?" To which he quickly replied, "I am Mr. York. Don't you remember me, old fellow? We were in Congress together. I only came out to see the fun." To which Mr. Miles replied, drawing himself up with dignity, "Sir, I don't know you. I can't recognize any one who comes out to witness the sub

of New

"THE SECOND NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.-During the late engagement, the Second New Hampshire Regiment behaved with the utmost gallantry. Arriving on the field the second regiment, they were instantly called upon to support the right of the Rhode Island battery, and with the coolness of veterans, although swept by the fire of the rebels, formed line of battle and remained in this trying position for more than an hour. When ordered to charge, they rushed on with great impetuosity, driving the enemy from their position to the woods, and sweeping every thing before them. At one time, when a retreat was sounded, Companies A and B remained in their position half an hour after every other company had re-jugation of my country as an amusement;" and treated, and poured in a destructive fire upon the rebels, who were advancing to outflank them, only retiring when capture or annihilation became inevitable.-Boston Journal, Aug. 6.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Charleston Mercury, writing from Richmond, Va., says: "It is settled, without question, that at one time during the fight, our army was on the eve of being defeated. This was in the early part of the afternoon. Scattered and exhausted as were our men, victory, for a time, inclined to favor the overwhelming army of the enemy, and its General, believing he had gained a victory, despatched the news to Washington. Happily, at this critical juncture, Kershaw, Cash, and Kemper stemmed and turned the adverse tide, driving the frightened foe before their accurate fire and rapid charges. Both Beauregard and Johnston rallied their forces, and led them in person to the attack. Soon after, Elzey's and Smith's brigades, of about four thousand men, came up opportunely and reinforced This reinforcement, with the heroic rally made by the Generals, after Kershaw turned the tide

our army.

turned on his heel, leaving the New Yorker to enjoy the fun of bare floors and rations not such as he has been accustomed to at Willard's or Barnum's, and from which, no doubt, he will come a wiser, if not a better man.

An old soldier is here who fought in the Creek, the Seminole, and the Mexican wars. He was in the fight at Manassas, and he says he has never seen any soldiers, regulars nor any others, who stood fire as our army did at Manassas. They were perfectly fearless and unflinching, heeding neither the falling balls nor their falling comrades, but keeping up a steady and persistent fire. He seemed to think it was glory enough to fight in such company. I heard a similar testimony paid to Magruder's men in the Bethel fight. The officer who came over from Fortress Monroe with a flag of truce, was one who had been a friend when they were in the regular army together. He said, "Magruder, your battery must have been manned by regulars, or it could not have done such execution." He replied, “So far from that, they are only boys; the half of them have spelling-hooks in their pockets."—Charleston Courier, July 27.

forward from out of the mêlée, and fell, sharply wounded, close beside him. The Georgian recognized his uniform, though he was fatally hurt, and feebly held out his hand. "We came into this battle," he said, "enemies. Let us die friends. Farewell." He spoke no more, but his companion in disaster took the extended hand, and escaped to relate this touching fact.

AN English officer asserts that he met one of Gen. Johnston's aids in New York on Sunday, and that he personally knew him to be such. The rebel spyfor he was nothing else-told the Englishman that Messrs. Davis, Beauregard, Lee and Co. consider their victory at Bull Run as a defeat, in comparison with what they expected and ought to have made it. They had their lines so skilfully arranged as to draw us within and beyond their flanks-to catch us in the most deadly kind of trap, attack us with shot, and musketry, and horse, from every side at once, and enforce a wholesale surrender of the "grand army of the Potomac." They had been fighting, he says, all day, in such wise as merely to indicate a determined defence, and by a gradual retreat had nearly lured us into the desired position, when all their plan was defeated by the mistaken enthusiasm of Col. Kirby Smith. That officer brought on the railroad reinforcements from Winchester, and, instead of going straight to the Junction, as had been positively or dered by Beauregard, he stopped the cars near the battle-field, formed his men in solid squares, and A member of the Second Connecticut regiment marched superbly to the ground. This was the re-writes to the New Haven Journal: serve which our tired forces saw coming against them, and before which they retreated in time to escape the snare laid for them. Johnston's aid affirmed that Smith was in high disfavor for his error, which was the only movement that saved the Federal army.-N. Y. World.

In the thickest of the contest a secession colonel of cavalry was knocked out of his saddle by a ball from one of our riflemen. "There goes old Baker, of the Georgia First!" shouted one of our boys, in hearing of his chaplain. "Who?" queried the parson. "Colonel Baker, of the rebel ranks, has just gone to his long home." "Ah, well," replied the chaplain, quietly, "the longer I live the less cause I have to find fault with the inscrutable acts of Divine Providence."-An unlucky private in one of the New York regiments was wounded in this fight, and his father arrived at the hospital just as the surgeon was removing the ball from the back of his shoulder. The boy lay with his face downwards on the pallet. Ah, my poor son," said the father, mournfully, "I'm very sorry for you. But it's a bad place to be hit in-thus in the back." The sufferer turned over, bared his breast, and pointing to the opening above the armpit, exclaimed, "Father, here's where the ball went in!"

One of the Zouaves was struck by a cannon shot, which tore through his thigh close to his body, nearly severing the limb from the trunk. As he fell, he drew his photograph from his breast, and said to his nearest comrade, "Take this to my wife. Tell her I died like a soldier, faithful to my country's cause, and the good old flag. Good-bye!" and he died where he fell.

One of our riflemen had his piece carried away by a ball, which struck it out of his hands just as his company was in the act of advancing to storm one of the smaller rebel batteries. Unharmed, he sprang forward, and threw himself down on his face, under the enemy's guns. A Zouave lay there, wounded and bleeding, out of the way of the murderous fire. "Lay close-lay close, old boy," said the latter to the new comer, "the boys 'll take this ole furnace 'n a minnit, and then we'll git up an' give the rebels fits ag'in." Three minutes afterwards the battery was carried, and the two soldiers were in the thickest of the fight again.

While at a halt, it was my lot to witness a very painful scene. I captured a prisoner, (a German,) belonging to the Eighth South Carolina regiment, and took him to Major Colburn for instructions as how to dispose of him. The prisoner requested one privilege as his last, which the Major very humanely granted. He said his brother lay a short distance off, in a dying condition, and he wished to see him. I bade him lead the way, and I followed.

He took me to an old log hut but a few rods from where our regiment was halted. On the north side, in the shade, we found the wounded man. The prisoner spoke to him-he opened his eyes-the film of death had already overspread them, and the tide of life was fast ebbing. He was covered with blood, and the swarms of flies and mosquitoes, which were fattening upon his life's blood, indicated that he had lain there for some time. They clasped hands together, muttered a few words in the German language, supplicating the Throne of Grace for their families at home, kissed, and bade each other a final adieu; the prisoner remarking as I took him by the arm to lead him away, for the column was moving, Brother, you are dying, and I am a prisoner." The man was shot with a musket ball, in the back, just over the hip; from which fact I inferred that he was on the retreat when the deadly ball overtook him. N. Y. Express, Aug. 1.

WHY THE SOUTHERN ARMY DON'T MARCH:-The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel of the 18th, has an article on the question, "Why don't our army move forward?" The editor says:

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We claim to be the superiors of the Northmen in every respect, and we are; but we have got to prove An artillery man lay on the ground, nearly ex-it to their satisfaction before we can expect peace. hausted from loss of blood, and too weak to get out It is the policy and fixed determination of the way of the tramping troops and horses that of our government to advance, and, if possible, to flitted about him. A mounted horseman came tow-bring the war to an end before the cool weather, the ards him, when he raised the bleeding stumps of both recruiting of the enemy, and his preparations of suffihis arms, and cried out, "Don't tread on me, Capt'n! cient transportation shall enable him to make an inSee! both hands are gone." The trooper leaped over vasion of the Carolina and Georgia coast. him, a shell broke near by, and the crashing fragments put the sufferer quickly out of his misery.

A rebel-one of the Georgia regiments-lay with a fearful shot-wound in his side, which tore out several of his ribs. The life-blood of the poor fellow was fast oozing out, when one of our troops came dashing

It is well known now that Gen. Beauregard's forces at Manassas, previous to Johnston's arrival, were comparatively small; and even after Johnston came, the combined army could not have exceeded forty thousand effective men. Since the battle, we have good reason to believe that Beauregard and Johnston