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Halnoeopathic ’
Physician and Surgeon,
Office over C. J. Gruman’s Store,
NORWALK, CONN.
Office hours from 1 to 3 P. M.
ONew
HARDWARE 8:. PAINT STORE,
M a i n S t r e e t,
Opposite I. H. Cmnpell’s Confectionery,
MARVIN 8t PROWITT,
Wholesale and retail Dealers in Hardware,
Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Glass, Paper Hang-
ings, Window Shades, &c.
ROOFING SLATE,
Prom Vermont,
‘V‘ERY CHEAP,
At South Norwalk by
H. E. WING.
THE ALLIS HOUSE,
. {formerly Union House,)
Opposite H. Y. d: N, H. Depot. in Union-st,
New Haven. Conn.
L. P. ALLIS, PROPRIETOB.
E. W. & H. H. SMITH & 00.,
Dealers in
China, Glass & Earthen Ware,
Kerosene Oil and Lamps,
Wooden Warn, Mats, &c.,
No. 4 PHIENix Bacon,
Opposite the Post Ofice. 3m12
JAMES or. nnnnoun,
egggrcar. AND MECHANICAL
D 'E N '1' I S '1';
Office at Residence, East Avenue, Norwalk,
Connecticut.-
chhitecture.
SIDNE 2 M. STONE,
ARCHITECT,
Will furnish i'lans, Specifications, Detail
Drawings, and superintend the erection of
ublic and rivets buildings. Office in Mar-
gie Block, ‘hapcl-st, New Haven, Ct. -tf52
“l E0. F. BELDEN, Normalk, Conn-Man-
ufacturer of Tin, Cop er, and Sheet
Iron Ware; and dealer in ‘toves, Ranges,
Furnaces, Cutlery, Bi'ittaimia, Wooden and
Willow Ware, Crockery; and a full assort-
meat of House Keeping articles generally.
V E. BISSELL, Auctioneer, will give
p particular attention to sales by Auc-
tion, of Real Estate, Personal Property and
Household Furniture : terms low.
WM. c. STREET & co,
iii'iportcrs; wholesale 3nd retail dealers in
EABDWABE. IRON.
Steel Cutlery, Guns, Agricultural Imple-
ments, Oils, Paints, Window Glass, &c.
O. S. LOGBWOOD,
Fashionable Draper & Tailor,
and
GENTLEMEN’S FURNISHING
EMPOBI UM '
N0. 3 Skiddy’s Block, Main-st, Norwalk, Ct.
s. n. onmsrnan a 00.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Groceries, Flour, Feed, Sc,
14. and 10 Maiuget" Norwalk, Conn.
JETNA mama company,
Of Hartford.
Incorporated in 1819, Charter Perpetual.
Cash Capital $1,000,000
Insure against loss and damage by Fire,
on Terms adapted to the huzardmnd
consistent With the laws of
compensation.
GEORGE It. COWLES, Sole Agent
1y3 For Norwalk and vicinity.
ROOPIN .
THE subscriber is prepared to furnish par-
ties, building, with Warren‘s superior
FELT AND CEMENT 1800 ”IN G
This article of Roofing is in use upon 'the
Norwalk Lock Company’s Building and at
Lounsbury, Bisscll & Co’s, where it gives en-
tire satisfaction, and is belicwd to be the
cheapest as well as the best ro- in-r in use —
All orders Will receive prompt ttgntion. .
._ C. I LOOMIS.
H Delightful New Books.
J.N.LocKwoon & co,
“’est Side of the Bridge,
LY NES’ NE‘V BLOCK,
EEP constantly on hand, a large and
varied assortment of Ladies‘, Gents’,and
Children‘s .
GAITERS, BOOTS, SHOES, &c.,
all made under our own personal supervis-
ion, of the best material, and in the most
workmanlike-nianner. Our assortment of
Ladies’ Gaiters undoubtedly comprises—both
in extent and quality—a finer assortment than
can be found at any similar establishment in
the County. In Gent’s Boots, Gaiters, Shoes,
, etc, we have a larger and better assortment,
we are confident, than was ever before Offer-
ed in IIOi'walk. We are prepared to manu-
facture, to measure any article in our lz'n.e,and
at the shorlost notice.
Misses’ and Children‘s Shoes, Rubbers, etc,
in endless variety. A fine article of Slippers
for Gents’ wear.
REPAIRING—in all its branches—done
neatly, quickly, and cheaply.
Whitney’s
Photographic and Fine Art
GALLERY,
N ORWALK, CONN.
ATE E. B. THOMPSON’S. E T. Whitney
would inform the citizens of-Norwalk
that he has established himself in the Gazette
Building, and will furnish them with Photo-
graps, Ambrotypes, and all kinds of Pictures
taken by the sun, from Miniatures, to life
size; colored or plain; in the highest style
of the art. E. T. WHITNEY.
important to owners of Horses.
WILLIAM B. SWAN,
Saddler 6L Harness Maker,
Adjoining Danbury & Norwalk R. R. Depot
NORWALK, CONN,
KEEPS constantly on hand and will make
to order every description of
Harness,
Horse meiture,
T/‘appz'vzgs 07 Clothing.
Also Saddler’s Hardware
and outfits.
Tran/cs, Valises, Carpet Bags, (it.
All in want of anything in his line,will do
well to give him a call. Orders for any kind
of work promptly executed. Repairing done
neatly and cheaply, and at short notice.
A? .mcnsonr a. 33.0.
No. 1 Gazette Building.
‘Nl OULD respectfully announce to the
public and their old customers, that
they have recently made extensive additions
to their stock of goods. We are now prepar-
ed to offer an assortment not to be surpassed
in Fairfield County, in quality or price. We
would call particular attention to our stock of
Watches, which is lar er than ever before.—
We have a fine lot of adies’ Swiss Watches,
in gold cases, at prices varying liven; $20 to
$75, which we can recommend as beingI cor-
rect time keepers. Also, Gentlemen’s ateli-
es, in silver and gold cases, at any price from
$5 to $100. lVe buy of the best importers in
New York, and alto ether for cash, so that
our facilities for selling cheap could not be
renter. Our stock of Jewelry, Silver and
lateri Wares was never better than at pres-
ent, and comprises all of the latest styles that
are manufactured. A. JACKSON & BRO.
NORWAIIK
Steam Sawing and Plaining
M: I I. I. .
HE subscriber has fitted up and is now
prepared to execute all orders for Pla-
ning; Scroll and other Sawing ; manufacture
of Doors, Sash, Blinds, &c., &c., in the best
and most expeditious manner, and at satis-
factory prices. Orders by mail promptly at-
tended to. 1y17 TIMOTHY B. FITCH.
mealtimes:-
HE subscriber havinrr taken the agency
of the New England ire and ilfam'mz In—
surance 00. of Hartford, is prepared to insure
all kinds of property against loss or damage
by fire, on as accommodating terms as anyd
other Company. -
The New England Fire and Marine Insu-
rance Company has been recently established
with a paid in capital of $200,000 and has a.
surplus of $6,295.00.
JOSEPH W. HUBBELL,
Agent for Howell? and vicinity-
Norwalk, Feb. lst, 1861. If?
nnvrn n. rn'c'n, ._
Dealer in
Grain, Flour, Peed, Meal, Hay,
&c., No. 2 Watcr-st,, third door south of tli
Bridge, has in store Flour and Meal,'(fresh
ground) direct from the mills.
Grocers, fiakprg Q5 Families
supplied as cheap as can be ,rocurcd in New
York or elsewhere. Feed _i every variety
constantly on hand. 51
SOUTH NORWALK
Ladies and Gents’
Boot ck! Shoe Store.
Il‘HE subscriber, having taken the business
and Sta-Rd of Stevens sir Trisha .1. Is pre-
pared to supply every article to be mind in a
first class Boot and Shoe Establishment, for la-
dies, gentlemen, or children’s wear.
Our goods are manufactured expressly for
our own sales, and warrant all work sold by
us. Always on hand, or made to order at
short notice,
Gents? Patient mam Beets, filters, «fw- ;
Ladies’ Gaiters, (ti-6., (to. ; Children’s
Gaiters, and Shoes, (to, (06., the.
Rubber goods ; a large stock kept constantly
011 band. Repairing done neatly and ecpedz—
may. HARVEY STEVEN S.
South Norwalk (No. 3, Ely’s Block), April
7, 1860.
Hardware and gallery-
Mechanic’s Tools, Farming Utensils, 'Guns,
Pistols, Iron and Steel, \Vindow
Glass, , aints and Oils.
M. C. STREET & CO. have in store
and are constantly receiving direct
from the manufacturers, a large supply of
Foreign and Domestic Goods, under the above
' denominationspvhich makes their assortment
of articles suited to this market, equal to any
in the State, and which will be sold either
Wholesale or retail on as favofable terms as
can be purchased in New Yoi' r.
WILLIAM C. STREET,
A. H. WILCOXSON.
TIMBER! LUMBER!
lath, lyime, Brick, Cement,
Paints, Oils, Glass,
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE, so. ac.
AT THE
New Lumber I’ard,
NEAR THE RAIL ROAD BRIDGE,
SOUTH N ORWALK.
Our Stock is new, bought for Cash, and
will be sold low. TOLLES & ELY.
South Norwalk, Oct. 15, 1800. tf42
House 3: Sign PaintiET—g—‘T
GILDING, GLAZING, &c., &c.,
. SOUTH NORWALK.
HE subscriber will execute all orders in
Plain or Ornamental Painting in the
most satisfactory manner, and at reasonable
prices. _
Also, For Sale, his present residence (with
his business if desired), comprising a house
nearly new, with garden, trees, shrubbery,
the, and ashOp thereon. Terms easy. Ap-
ply 91; t he premises, opposite Quintard &
Smith’s arriage Factory, to
, .UTHERLANDS—by the author f“R t-
S lodge.” At SELLECK’S?
For the Gazette.
Hymn for the Times.
Am :—“ Hamburg. "
Oh, Lord of Hosts, to Thee we cry,
In this our time of deep distress ;
PaSS not our loud petition by,—
Make bare Thine arm to save and bless.
In vain we seek Thy name to praise,
To rear the standard of the free,
Unless Thou dost protect our ways,
And guard the tree of liberty!
Reduce, we pray, the Rebel power!
Strengthen anew the cause of right;
Bring good out of this evil hour,——
Despoil the Traitors of their might 2
Grant that our armed hosts may feel
Thou art abate their hope and true! ;
To them Thy saving power reveal,—
May they Thy succor ne’er distrust!
Disppse Thy people’s heart as one,
To aid in means as well as might,
To put these great usurpers down
And all their myrmidons to flight!
Give strength and wisdom to the brave,
Who guide our ship thus tempest tossed ;
Upheld our Flag on land, o’er wave——
That not a star or shred be lost!
Show to the Nations that 710 power
Save Thine alone these States can rend;—
We’ve millions for a peaceful hour,
And millions more who will defend .’
Be then our leader, captain, king—
Direct our aims in freedom's cause ;
Help us through time Thy name to sing—
To guard our country and its laws!
Noawatx, June, 1862. W. S. Samoan.
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From the Hartford Press.
The Dead Soldier.
Gone in his beauty.
Gone in his truth,
Gone in his glory,
Gone in his youth!
Silkily soft his eyelids fall
Veiling the glory, a velvet pail
Riding the splendor of midnight eyes
That have looked on Death and Paradise.
Wrap round him the banner,
It cost him his breath,
He loved it in life,
Let it shroud him in Death!
Let it silently sweep in its gorgeous fold,
O’er the heart asleep and the lips that are cold.
The lips that are cold!
Dace worm with love’8 taken!
God pity his mother.
Her heart is broken!
She bado him go forth her hero, herjoy,
The pride of her heart her godlike boy.
Where the flag waved the proudest,
And the bullets came fast,
All covered with glory,
Death claimed him at last.
Now she waits for him over,
At morning an?! even:
But her love ~cannot call him
Back home from the Heavens.
Peace there, gentle soldier!
' Never war, never strife,
But the banner of Glory
And the triumphs of Life.
——XAVIERI:.
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A Soldier’s Letter,
Am! a Worse-R’s Answer.
Resume. April -.
I write with a great deal of pain, dear girl-
I‘ve not been able before since the light—-
And my brain is still so much in a whiJ-l,
That I can tell you but little to-night.
I’m wounded—don’t start—’tis not very bad,
Or at least it might be worse; so I said,
When I thought of you, “ I’m sure she’ll be glad
To know that I’m only wounded—not dead.”
I‘ve lost my left arm—there! now you know all !
A Minnie ball shattered it, and I fell;
Tl}; last that I heard was our captain‘s call,
Until—tic: rest is $09 with} Ir: it‘ll-
I‘ve had throughout the most excellent care.
And am doing finely, the surgeon says ;
So well, indeed, that the prospect is fair
For a homeward trip before many days.
But I've something else, dear Mary, to say,
And I’d say it if it cost me my life;
I’ve thought of it well—there’s no other way—
You’re released from your promise to be my wife:
You‘ll think me foolish at first ; then you’ll think
_0f the loose, armless coat sleeve at my side;
Ami 1cm" “retifls‘fii scholars ' sat Hi’l a risk:
Eron'r thg‘tifb‘u’ég‘t' of Eeilfié‘ag'rfplglt’i‘nglqé; "
’Tis a bitter struggle to give you up.
For I’ve lov’d you more than ever oflate;
But down to its dregs I’ve drained the cup,
And I‘m calm, though my heart is desolate.
I’m coming home, and of course we must meet;
My darling this once, one been I implore—
Let us still be friends—for that will be sweet,
Since new, alas! we can be nothing more.
SWEET liens 4W —-
My Borers hov PF“??? 9P5 119.5??? YEW? 1’
Too brave and ted noble, I know, for me:
But you’ve too little faith in me by for ‘
If you believe thatI would be free.
I’m not released from my promise—no, no!
’Twas never so sacred to me before;
If you could but know how I'ye logged to go
And watch by yopr side, you’d doubt me‘no more.
1 read your name in the terrible list,
But the tears froze back that sprang to my eye;
And a fearful pain, that I could not resist,
Crushed my heart till I only longed to die.
The blessed tears, by-and-by, came again,
And I felt, as you in, your letter Gold.
A feeling ofglad'ness 'n'iid a l my‘pai'ni'
That Robert!wasonl‘yk'v'vdurided—gndt dead.
Oh, darling! to think you have suffered so,
And I, all these long, weary miles RWIIY;
You’ve needed me very often, I know.
While I could do nothing but hope and pray.
But hardest of all is the bitter thought
That you have been suffering so much for me ;
Poor Robert! you manly letter has brought
A strange melange ofioy and mice“.
But you‘re coming 159g? t9 my one? ens} pearl;
You’re r'ght—I am proud and gensitlve too ; '
But I’m only so when we‘hre apart, ‘ I ‘
And now, I shall only be proud of you!
You’re coming homo to happiness and rest,
And I wait the moment of blissful calm,
When I shall be held to a Soldier’s breast
By a Patriot-Hero’s one strong arm!
n<.>.o~——
CAPT. Boeos.—.—When Ca t. Boggs was
seeking a command, he wfu to 'thc firesi-
dcnt, who asked‘him: f‘W int (13 you wish't‘o
do?" His 9 iaractci'istic reply WaS' in sub-
stance, “I want to bombard Charleston and
sew it with salt.” “ You shall have a ves-
sel,” said the President. The secretary of
the navy gave him the ghoioc of“ an' ycogcl
not yet assigned to a'com‘ma’nden ‘ ' e went
through the ship yards, and chose the “Va-
ruua," whose name, and that of her brave
commander, are henceforth imperishable in
our naval annals. He is a native and resi-
dent of New Brunswick, N. J. He is about
fifty years old, and as modest as he is ac-
complished and brave—Philadelphia Bul-
letin.
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01%“ Rev. II, G. Battersop, late of Texas, in
a lgozure at Hartford on Tuesday evening, re-
latcd many incidents of his experience, and
stated that he got clear of hanging as a Union
man, by assistance of his brother Masons.-
He left Texas Feb. 18th, and knew of five
clergymen hung last year for expressing Un-
ion sentiments. He spoke of what he saw
in New Orleans, Charleston and Richmond
and of the noble Unionists of East Tennessee
by whose help he escaped from Secessiondom
on the let of April.
*“.'s.—-—..—._
—Capt. Joseph A. Mower, of Neg Lon-
don, who is attached to the First U. . regu-
lar infantry, has been appointed by Gen.
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GEORGE HODGES.
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,Po e to be Colonel of the Eleventh regiment
of Elnora-i volunteers.
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From the N. Y. Tribune.
The Chickahominy to have been
the Grave of the Union—The
Rebels attack in Oven-power-
ing numbers.
SAVAGE’S STATION, J one 4, 1862.
The Chickahominy is the drain of a
Swamp. The stream is deep, though
sluggish. Densely timbered, marshy
land fringes it on either bank The reb-
els had gathered enormous reservoirs of
water by the use of dams, as a weapon of
military offense north of the Richmond
and York river railroad bridge. When
the awful rains of last Wednesday and
Friday had set every square rod of this
part of the Peninsula to work to contri-
bute the elements of a flood to the Chic-
ahominy, there was glee in Richmond,
and mutual congratulations among mili-
tary men. They surely reckoned that
Bottom Bridge Would be afloat, and that
on the otherfiide of the swollen stream,
wherever McClellan had made passage
ways for his troops and his transporta-
tion, his artillery would be motionless,
hub-deep in the water, and his trains of
ammunition and of food immovable, and
from 40,000 to 50,000 of the best tr00ps
in the army standing useless on the brink
of a river, beyond which their brothers
in arms were being crushed inthcir ranks
by overwhelming numbers, or driven at
the point of the bayonet to death by
drowning before their eyes.
On Friday night the. reServoirs of ac-
cumulated water on the Upper Chicka-
hominy were cut open, 011 Saturday
morning Bottom Bridge was afloat. On
Saturday noon. an hour occupied by sol-
diers inlcooking and eating,and favorable
to attack,because leaving little time to the
assailed to call for and receive help, 45,-
000 of the choicest of the Rebel troops
who fought at Bull Run, circled our left
wing with a crescent of danger within
the woods in front of our pickets.
Now to the situation. Casey’s division
held the advance. Coach’s was on the
right. To Peck was committed the care
of the left,
rThis left rested on the White Oak
Swamp, which runs parallel to our line of
march to Richmond. The Charles City
Road to Richmond lies beyond the
swamp. Numerous wagon ways from
this road cross the swamp, and come up
to the Williamsburg turnpike, on which
our center rested, and on which the whole
left wing had marched up. Finally, a
new road, branching off frmu the turn.
pike from Richmond, beyond Casey’s
comp, could deliver upon Peck’s flank
30,000 troops unseen and unheard.—
The key of our position was held by Peck.
Peck’s vigilance alarmed and misled
Lougstreet. He thought we had massed
our forces on the left, and that his secyet
purposes of an overwhelming flank at-
tack had been diviued. He resorted to
strategy to ascertain our strength. A
German artilleryman, whose mother
lived on the nearest farm to Peck’s head-
quarters—an exceedingly shrewd and
cunning man—was sent home in uniform
with a pass from his General. Our pick-
ets tgok big; as he emerged frgm the
woods justnext to his home. He was
forwarded to McClellan. The Mayor of
Richmond furnished a sharp and adven-
turous fellow with a civil pass through
the rebel lines, and Lougstreet instruct-
ed him to travel the ground that the ar-
tilleryman had been sent to spy oat.—
Peck’a pickets, picked him up, and he
did not return to make report. An side
of J 0. Johnson, sent on a, similar errand,
was pounced on the evening. before the
fight, and sent t9 the, rear as a. prisoner.
The loss of these spies exaggerated Long-
street’s apprehensions of the strength of
Peck’s force ; and although he had on
Saturday morning, three brigades in the
White Oak Swamp avenues, he hegitgtgd
to attack, and finally changed his plan of
battle.
This plan had been, to drive in Casey’s
pickets, to engage him moderately in ac-
tion with such superior force that help
would be sent to him, and when attention
was concentrated on the front, to full
like "sheila 0.11. feet CS Its iéc and
Good]. so. the. Sight and annihilate them
on the spot, qr. start them on a panic run
into the Chickahominy. The destruction
of two entire army corps had been care-
fully planned.
Casey was at his dinner table when his
pickets came flying in_from the wood in
front. The resistance made by their; to
the skirmisheys as; they came 0R the leap
through the timber was so ineffective that
Longstrect was in force upon Casey’s
command in ablow. Clea, Haileyls ar-
tillery met their run down the road
with grape and shot making gaping
wounds in their columns, but not staying
their attack.
The most conflicting statements are
made of the behavior of the troops in
Casey’s division. l‘he corpses of hun-
dreds and hairdreds of- them lie on the
graced, mate but impressive witnesses of
the courage that can die, if it cannot re-
sist unequal numbers. .
I buried a nephew yesterday, an act-
ing Captain in the New York 100th,
whose body I recovered way in front of
the bastioned fort, beyond Casey’s head-
quarters, where I heard a rumor that his
regiment made a charge to regal the at-
tack that first burst upon the ivision in
front of that work. He was shot in the
breast and lay in advance of all the dead,
span the field.
‘ way round the front, and flung upon the
CNN, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1862.
But I will interrupt the narrative of
this great battle to say, that if the same
care had been taken of the regiments in
this division, which had been taken of
the regiments in Coach’s Division and
Berry’s Brigade—if the same care had
been taken to form them into soldiers
which John Cochrane gave to making
the Chasseurs a perfectly organized fight-
ing machine, and Col. oe gave to ma-
king the 2d Michigan as deliberate and
manageable in battle as they are on pc-
rade, the field of the Seven Pines would
have been as deadly to the Rebels as
honorable to us. Cochrane, on the ex-
treme right, for two hours and a half
poured a deliberate fire into the enemy
across an open field—~50 deliberate that
every one of his men, obedient to orders,
covered his rebel accurately with both
sights, before he pulled the trigger—and
be literally piled the enemy’s front into a
line of corpses—and after a fight in the
woods, which always favors skulking,and
in the course of which he resisted artil-
lery, musketry, and a charge of bayo-
nets, he called the regimental roll, a'nd
there was not a. man “missing.” The
dead and wounded were answered for by
their comrades. When the dead fell,
they lay as they fell. When the wound-
ed fell, they handed their mnskets and
cartridges to, their comrades, and crawled
out of the ranks. No sneaking and
doleful prgcessiqu of from four to ten
cowards bore them backward. For Sha-
ler, the Lieutenant Colonel of the regi-
ment, and Hamlin, the Major, had so
trained them for the sacred duties of the
battle’hat it was impossible for them
to weaken the regiment and weaken their
cause by deserting their ranks on any
pretense whgtever, a; to waste ammuni-
tion by wild firing or firing contrary to
orders. _ So it was with Poe’s 2d Michi-
gan. Out on picket duty upon a line
four miles long, they, within the short
space of two hours, came in, formed, an-
swered every man to his name, marched,
and reported to Gen. Heintgelman on the
field 0i- haitle- Belly led them through
the woods to a position which flanked
the swarms of rebels in possession of Ca-
sey’s camp, and his headquarters and his
bastioned fort. There this regiment of
severely-trained and carefully-watched
woodsmen, in connection with two others
of Berry’s regiments, openeda deliberate
{ire upon. tha‘eaemy, so. deadly that they
were cleared out of the open ground
around the fort—swept from the spaces
between the houses and the huge wood-
pile—knocked wholly out of the camp,
and when they ran for refuge into the
clopboarded buildings, the bullets sent
in after them-drove therq out, and swept
the whqle crowd ofi- the ground, The
251. in tom, of coarse, sustained a furious
fire, for- the rebel attack was nowhere
made by cowards. But when the roll
was called at evening, not a man was
“missing.” Of dead and wounded there
was the inevitable list. Take also, the
case of the 93d Pennsylvania, Cg]. Mc-
Carter. Sent to, support Cosby, imme-
diately after. the. attack on him, was made
this thoroughly trained body of troops,
conscientiously looked after for half a
year by a commander once distinguished
for his zeal as a Methodist preacher.
fought furiously for an hour—were driv-
en back from their position, but ngt bro-z
ken—halted at tho word of- command——
loaded, wheeled and area—retreated,
halted, loaded, and fired, again and
gain, and came ofi' the ground .in per-
fect order, with their two colors flying,
and presenting to the whole army 9. stri-
king; proof that the success of battlesisin the
disaipli'ne of troops, and the excellence of sol-
diers is wholly derived from the cometary.
tiousmss and thoroughqmof their. films.
But the theme is not a grateful one,
and my personal interest in it is full of
pain.
To assume the narration. Peck stood
on the extreme left waiting an attack
from a force which, we have learned since
the battle, was cqmposgd of! three brig-
ades. Au erroneous caution restrained
the. attack. Just before 4 p. In, word
came that Couch was in danger of being
crushed, and Keyes ordered Peck to
march to his help. His brigade had been
reduced by details and other causes to
2,200 men. With these he came out of
the side road where he had been in line of
battle, marched across the open space
swept by the enemy‘s self- and our own
stragglers, and went into the woods for
through which Couch was hard at work
with three regiments and a battery. But
a wall of fire was suddenly raised up in
front of Peck. The immense force which
had hung over his left threatening it all
the day had been rapidly countermarched
right of the center. Here Peck met the
enemy which he, had watched since the
battle opened. A quarter of an hour be-
fore I had watched two streams of sol-
diers going from left to right in the edge
of the woods beyond Casey’s old position
and through his camp this side, double
quicking on some intent of mischief. Out
of sight,the fiery and furious scene at band
had drove them out of mind, till the re-
coil of Peck’s area before the infernalist
Niagara, roar of musketry ever heard on
this continent announced the'arrival of
that immense conntermarching force to
smash in our flank, and put_the wreck of
the Left Wing in motion to the Chicka-
_very ground of their first and greatest
‘ to, check any movement on the flank be-
Mortal men could not stand before it.—
It seemed impossible for the outnumbered
men to stay—that they must go. Not
so thought the fighting Heintzelman.—-
Mounted on the horse of one of his order-
lies, he flew everywhere among the re-
treating troops, begged them, ordered
them, threatened them, to stand; massed
them together, and led them again up to
the wood whence came the fire that had
swept us away, and there stayed the tide
of defeat which was rolling so furiously
on us.
In the meantime Jameson, at the rifle
pits first this side of Casey’s lost position,
fought desperately against overwhelming
odds. The killing of his horse and the
falling of the animal upon the general’s
leg and the impression that he was killed
produced by his inability to exticate him-
self and to rise, was the signal to his
men to quit a position which they could
not hold. Beyond him, in the wood
which flanked the whole of Casey’s last
position, was the admirable Berry with as
admirable troops as every breasted death.
How one of his regiments, Poe’s 2d Mich-
igan, was handled I have told. “Another
killed from 60 to 70 with the bayonet.—
Before the three regiments lay 500 Rebel
dead at the conclusion of the fight.
Not a mounted officer lived for a mo
ment within range of their rifles. Every
one was killed. Yet they I» ere not shoot-
ing at inanimate targets, nor playing with
fire-arms. Twenty-five of Berry’s sharp-
shooters, experienced woodsmen, Were
killed or wounded. The terrible punish.
meat he gave the Rebels, however, on the
success, unnerved their fight way to the
rear, where Heintzelman was restoring
the battle with-his gathered fragments of
the broken regiments. Their s slackened
here, then died away, and the echoes of
Coach’s fierce fight beyond the railroad
smile of, took his place. This good
soldier had been sent to save Casey by a
Rani; movement. With Neill, and Rip-
pey’s 23d Pennsylvania, and the 6lst
Pennsylvania, and Cochrane’s Chasseurs,
be penetrated the woods to do the work
that it would have taken, at least, three
brigades to do. The '(th and 62d New
York were afterward seat in to support
him. Neill, and Rippey, left in position.
tween us and the railroad, were overpow-
ered by the torrent of troops that I have
described as coming over from the left,
and forming in long and heavy columns
across the road way up above Caseyls old ;
ground. Conch was out 03‘, and in peril
of total destruction or capture. But he
had his can fight forced right on him —
Sumner at this instant came up, and by
virtue of his rank took command. Eugen
was there with a section of Brady’s bat-
tery, and Taylor .witb a battery of N apo-
leon twelve pounders. The brunt of the
battle here was borne by Cochrane’s
Chasséurs, the New York 31st, and Sul-
‘Y’$ Minnesota. and the artillorymeu of
these pieces. It was obstinate and
bloody in the extreme. The rebel dead
strewed the woods, and where they sus-
tained our fire in line, their corpses were
piled in line. The fight being not utter-
ly unequal here, they were positively
whipped, and the real attack on our right
was rolled bark at the some moment that
it was discouraged on our center. Ma-
gruder commanded apostle to Couch, as
Longstreet commanded opposite toHein t-
aelmau.
The sun went down upon the enemy in
full possession of our camps, for a mile
back of the position. Two days passed -
before the gallant Hooker with his Sickles
brigade and the New Jersey troops, had
recovered this lost ground and pushed the
enemy with the bayonet ttvo miles away
from the bloody field. During all this
time the Rebels were busy removing to
Richmond their wounded, and in burying
their dead upon the ground where they
fell. Yet so, numerous were their (lead,
and so many were their wounded, that on
the morning of the third day they were
thick on every scene of the shop contest,
cnmbering the way and frightening my
horse. My ride was one of anxious duty
and I was compelled to visit every corpse .
and every moaning form in the open fields
in the brush and in the timber, that I
could possibly see from the saddle. The
evidence of the Rebel loss was amazing to
me on this third day after they were in
possession of the ground where their kill-
ed and wounded lay. From every one of
our regiments engaged the reports are
concurrent, that our Springfield muskets
and our accurate fire killed multitudes of
the enemy.
Our own loss is heavy-ciao heavy—but
that of the enemy greatly exceeds it. I
fear that the official reports of our killed,
wounded, and missing will make a dead
total of over 5,000. The loss of the cue-
my is so vast as to smite them with dis-
couragement. They had been made con-
fident of beating us. Jefferson Davis ad-
dressed the troops that were selected for
this battle before they left Richmond,
and promised them ‘-'rewards such as
American soldiers had never received” if
' they proved successful. He told them
that a victory would establish the inde-
pendence of the South and end the war.
Upon what small cause hangs great
military results. Hientzelman on Friday
telegraphed to McClellan that he did not
consider Casey’s position a safe one, and
lbw). And it was dose, too, almost.
' of other nations,” says Dr. Merci, a med-
f
l neys division. He was told to act upon
his own-judgment, and Berry‘s troops
were ordered forward within reach, on
the very Short call allowed us, when the
front was 'so suddenly overwhelmed.—
Their proximity saved us.
M.»
From the Atlantic Monthly.
The Health ofour Girls.
Among the lower animals, so far as the
facts have been noticed, there seems no
great inequality, as to strength and endu-
rance between the sexes. In migriitory
tribes, as of birds or buffaloes, the males
are not observed to slackec or shorten
their journeys from any gallant deference
to female weakness, nor are the females
found to perish disproportionately through
exhaustion. It is the English experience
that among coursing-dogs and race-horses
there is no serious sexual inequality.—
xEliau says that Semiramis did not exalt
when in the chase she captured a lion,
but was proud when she took a. lioness,
the dangers of the feat being far greater.
Hunters as willingly encounter the male as
the female of most savage beasts; and if
an adventurous fowler, plundering an ea-
gle’s nest, has his eyes assaulted by the
parent bird, it is no matter whether the
discourtesy proceeds from the gentleman
or the lady of the household.
Passing to the ranks of humanity, it is
the general rule, that, wherever the phys-
cal nature has a fair chance, the woman
shows no extreme deficiency of endurance
or strength. Even the sentimental phys-
iology of Michelet is compelled to own
that his elaborate theories of lovely inval-
idism have no application to the peasant-
women of France, that is, to nineteen-
twentieths of the population. Among
human beings, the disparities of race and
training far outweigh those of sex. The
sedentary philosopher, turning from his
demonstration of the hopeless inferiority
of woman, finds with dismay that his Irish
or negro handmaiden can lift a heavy
coal-bod more easily than be. And while
the dream is vanishing of the superiority
of savage races on every other pointiit
still remains unquestionable that in every
distinctive attribute of physical woman-
hood, tho barbarian has the advantage.
The truth is, that in all countries fe
male health and strength go with peasant
habits. In Italy, for instance, About
says that of all useful animals the woman
is the one that the Roman peasant em-
ploys with the most profit : “She makes
the bread and the cake Of Turkish corn;
she spins, she weaves, she sews ; she goes
every day three miles for wood and a mile
for water; she carries on her head the load
of a mule; she toils from sunrise to sunset
without resisting or even complaining.—
The children, which she nurses herself,
are a great resource; from the age of four
years they can be employed in guarding
other animal 5.”
Beside this may be placed the experi-
ence of' Moffat, the African missionary,
who, seeing a party of native women en-
gaged in their usual labor of house-build-
ing, and just ready to put the roof on,
suggested that some of the men who stood
by should land a hand. It was received
with general laughter; but Mahuto, the
queen, declared that the plan, though
hopeless of execution, was in itself a good
one, and that men, though excused from
lighter labors, ought to take an equal
share in the severer—adding, that she
wished the missionaries would give their
husbands medicine and make them work.
The health of educated womanhood in
the different European nations seems to
depend mainly upon the degree of con-
formity to these rustic habits of air and
exercise. In Italy, Spain, Portugal, the
women of the upper classes lead secluded
and unhealthy lives, and hence their phys-
ical condition is not superior to our own.
In the Northern nations, women of refine-
ment do more to emulate the active hab-
its of the peasantry—only substituting
out-door relaxations for out-door toil-«and
so they share their health. This is espec-
ially the casein England,wbich according
ly seems to furnishthe representative types
of vigorous womanhood. “The nervous
system of the female sex in England seems
to be of a_mneh stronger mould than that
ical practitioner of English and Continen-
tal experience : “They hear a degree of
irritation in their systems, without the is-
sue of fits, which in other races is not so
easily tolerated.” So Professor Tyndall
watching female pedestrianism among the
Alps, exnlts in his conntrywomen : “The
contrast in regard to energy between the
maidens of the British Isles and those of
the Continent and of America is astonish-
ing.” When Catlin’s Indians first walk-
ed the streets of London, they reported
with wonder that they had seen many
handsome squaws holding to the arms of
men, “and they did not look sick either”;
a remark which no complimentary savage
was ever heard to make in any Cis—Atlan-
tic metropolis.
There is undoubtedly an impression in
this country that the English vigor is
brought at some sacrifice—that it implies
a nervous organization less fine and artis-
tic, features and limbs more rudely mould-
ded, and something more coarse and peas-
ant-like in the whole average texture.—
Making all due allowance for national
vanity, it is yet easy to see that superior-
ity may be had more cheaply by lowering
the plane of attainment. 'l‘he physique
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Muscular power needs also vier-
l vous power to bring out its finest q: ali-
ty. Lightness and grace are not- immi-
patible with vigor, but are its crew lug
illustrations. Apollo is above Hei *1) es:
Hebe and Diana are Winged,not wezgl ty:
The physiologist must never forget .hat
Nature is aiming at a keener and snhziler
temperament in fraiming the Amer-can
——as beneath our drier atmosphere the
whole scale of sounds and hues and c-I'ors
is tuned to a higher key,—and th t for
us an equal state of health may yet ,riro-
dnce a higher type of humanity. To make
up the arrears of past neglect, therefore,
is amatter of absolute necessity‘if we
wish this experiment of national tempera.
ment to have any chance; since rude
health, however, obtuse, Will in the end
overmatch disease, however finely strung.
But the fact must always be kept in
mind that the whole problem of female
health is most closely interwined with that
of Social conditionr. The Anglo-Saxon
organization is being modified not only in
America, but also in England, with the
changing habits of the people. In the
days of Henry VIII it was “a. wyve’s oc-
cuppalion to winnow all manner of comes
to make malte, to wash and ironying to
make hay, shere corne,and in time of nede
to help her husband fill the muchpayne,
drive the plough, load bay, come, and
such other, and go or ride to the market
to sell butter, cheese, egges, chekyns,
capons, hens, pigs, geese, and all manner
of comes ” But now there is everywhere
complaint. of the growing delicacy and
fragility of the English female population
even in rural regions; and the king of
sanitary reformers, Edwin Chadwick, has
lately made this complaint the snbiect of
a special report before Ihe National As-
sociation. He assumes, as a matter set-
tled by medical authority, that the pro
portion of mothers who can suckle their
children is decidedly diminishing am mg
the upper and middle classes, that de tbs
from childbirth are eight times as g eat
among these classes as among the pea an-
try, and that spinal distortion, hysi tie,
and painful disorders are on the incr: ise.
Nine-tenths of the evil he attribuh itO
the long hours of school study, and '. : the
neglect of physical exercises for gir ;
This shows that the symptoms of ill-
health among-”Women are not a matter of
climate only, but indicate a Chang: in
social conditions, producing a change, of
personal habits. It is something which
reaches all; for the standard of healti in
the farm-houses is with us no higher loan
in the cities. It is something which uu~
less removed, stands as a bar to any sub-
stantial progress in civilization. It .s a
mere mockery for the millionaire to I": ate
galleries of Art. bringing from Italy a
Venus on canvas 01' a stone Dian-.1, if
meanwhile a lovelier bloom than ere; ar-
tist painted is fading from his own (a id’s
cheek, and a firmer vigor than that of
marble is vanishing from her enfetisled
arms. What use to found colleges for
girls whom even the high school breaks
down, or to induct them into new indus-
trial pursuits when they have not strength
to stand behind a counter? How appeal
to any woman to enlarge her thoughts
beyond the mete drudgery of the house-
hold, when she "dies daily" beneath the
exhaustion of even that?
And the perplexity lies beyond the dis
ease, in the perils involved even in the
remedy. No person can be long 'conver-
sant with physical training,without learn-
ing to shrink from the responsibility of
the health of girls. The panacea for boy-
ish health is commonly simple, even for
delicate cases. Removal from books, if
necessary, and the substitution of farm-
life,——with good, pure air, dogs, horses,
oxen, hens, rabbits,-——and fresh or salt
water within walking distance. Secure
these conditions, and let him alone ;
he will not hurt himself. Nor will,
during mere childhood, His little sis.
ter experience anything but benefit under
the same circumstances. But at the
epoch of womanhood, precisely when the
constitution should be acquiring robust
strength, her perils beg in; she then needs
not merely to be allured to exertion, but
to be protected against over-exertion ; ex.
perieuce shows that she cannot be loosed,
cannot be safely left with boyish freedom
to take her fill of running, rouingmirling,
swimming, Skating—because life 10' gin-
jury may be the penalty ofa single e: cess.
This necessity for caution cannot I. ~ the
normal condition, for such caution c: nnot
be exerted lor the female peasant o sav
age, but it seems the necessary con ition
for American young women. It is fact
not to be ignored, that some of the :.' foug—
est and most athletic girls among a. have
lost their health and become invali s for
years, simply by being allowed to fi‘ 9 the
robust, careless, indiscreet life on ‘Ithh
boys thrive so wonderfully. It is .‘atal,
if they do too little, and disastreis, if
they do too much; and between thes :two
opposing perils the process of stem ng is
so difficult that the majority of z). rents
and in letting go the helm and leavi; g the
fragile vessel to steer itSelf.
To 1 e Continued.
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The ncgroes seem to have a bet) 1' in—
stinctive perception of the real spirit 817 ldrifl
of the times than some white men. The
Louisville Democrat reports a ham v old
darkey as cxclaiming: “Bress de Lo. 1, hal-
lelujer, (lat dis ole nigger should lib 9 see
dis ere happy time when white men must
bob :1. pass to move about, and nigger go
where him please widout one. Bress de
\fl
l or mould to the physique of a lien
artist.
{Muhammad to more up Kean
, of a healthy day‘labor is a thing Of inferi-
)I;
Lord.” The old fellow hit the case exactly.
Norwalk Chronicler