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The Titmonse.
" Gay and polite, a cheerful cry,
‘ C’Izic-cliic-a-dee-dee ! ' saucy note.
, Out of sound heart and merry throat,
As if it said, ‘ God day, good Sir!
Fine afternoon; old passenger!
Happy to meet you in these places,
When January brings few men’s faces.‘
This poet, thoughfie live apart,
Moved by a hospitable heart,
Sped, when I passed his sylvan fort,
To do the honors of his court, _ ,
As fits a feathered lord of land, ,
Flew near, with soft wing grazed my hand,
Hopped on the'bough, then, darting low, "
Prints his small impress on the snow,
Shows feats of his gymnastic play,
Head downward, clinging to the spray.
Here was this atom in full breath' '
Hurling defiance at vast death,
This scrap of valorjust for play
Fronts the north-wind in waistcoat gray,
As ifto shame nut weak behavior,
I greeted loud my little savior:
‘ Thou pet! what dost here i and what for:-
In these woods, thy small Labrador,
At this pinch, wee San Salvador!
What fire burns in'that little chest,
So frolic. stout and self-possest ?
Didst steal the glow that lights the West?
Henceforth I wear no stripe but thine:_
Ashes and black, all hues outshine.
Why are not diamonds black and gray,
To ape thy dare-devil array ?
And I aflirm the spacious North
Exists to draw thy virtue forth.
I think no virtue goes with size:
The reason of all cowardice .
Is, that men are overgrown,
And, to be valiant, must come
To the titmouse dimension.’ ”
. «Q»
The One-Horse Town.
I’ve heard that. for all our earthly sins,
The punishment here on earth begins;
And the doctrine’s true, I haven’t a doubt,
For the proofs are lying all loose about ;
And one of ’em is that I can’t escape,
Can’t vamoose or travel in any shape,
For cruel destiny pins me down
In a mean little, green little one horse town.
Early rising’s a terrible bore,
But here they all rise at half past four;
And if I am late, they’ve a regular trick '
To rap and inquire ifthe gentleman’s sick!
Breakfast half over—all in one key,
Folks holler out, “ We’re waiting you see.”
For they do up old jokes exceedingly brown
In this mean little, green little one-horse town.
When a letter for me in the post ofiice lies,
It runs a muck through the whole town’s eyes :
And a half a dozen stragglers come
The ritin’ is so pretty and sleek,
We think it’s the gal that Wl'lt you last week.”
And if you look gram they think you’re a clown.
In this mean little, green little one-horse town.
There are very nice little girls, in this place,
But if you look in a pretty face,
You’ll find before you’re at home I guess,
That you’ve put the whole town in a roaring mess.
“ Round at Betsey’s last averting, hey?
“’hat’ll that gal who writes to you say ?”
For all of our actions are noted down,
If in a new garment forth you go,
A wonderful interest the natives show .;
And all exclaim in the very same note,
“ Now where did you get so much new coat '2”
And they lift up the tails and collar and guess
If I tried I might go it for less,
For genius all runs into beating down ,
In this mean little, green little one-horse town.
If you don’t go home before half-past eight,
They wonder what kept you out so late!
And by nine o’clock they’re all in bed,
Sleeping like regular pigs of lead ;
And you may as well be sleeping too.
For never a thing besides can you do ;
And in bed your cares you can always drown,
In this mean little, green little one-horse town.
-—+v<.>o—o——-—
WJudge Smallwood of Missouri says the
loyal men of that State must be “controlled
by the inexorable logic of events.” Slave-
ry is (loathed in that State. He adds:
“We ought not, by fighting this out 19 the
bitter end, turn the question into the hands
of radical men. or men who hitherto have
been nothing but detestable agitators of it
for more party purposes or personal advan-
tage. I say let the loyal men of our State,
the loyal slaveholders, and all other loyal
men, deeply interested in the pecuniary in-
terests of the State, now so fearfully dam-
aged and jeopardized by the rebellion, lift
this , uestion out of and elevate it far above
the purlieus of mere papty strife, and 1.1.39.08'
forth deal witltit in a spirit of Enlightened
patriotism—a question of political economy.
Let such men as I have indicated take it in
hand, and deal with it, not rudely,not rough-
ly, not in a spirit of vindictiveness or aver-
sion, which might lead them. to disregard
either long cherished associations or ac-
knowledged private rights; but to deal with
under the impulse of a strong desire to pro-
tect those immediately interestpd, to pro-
mote the prosperity of" the State, an to se-
cure, as in a well-fastened chamber, the loy-
ulty of our people.
The vague and visionary structure of a
cotton Confederacy, built upon piles driven
down into quicksands can never prove a
faithful shelter for any solid principle of
free government. No matter what happens,
no matter how many barriers may be broken
down during the war, or how unfaithful our
public servants may p’rovctg the great trust
of human freedom Committed to their hands
yet still it is true there is no hope for the
preservation of a solitary sacred principle
out of the FederalUnion. To that end we
must cling,.discountenancing whatever may
suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any
event, be abandoned.’ This is the foun-
dation u on which I have been taught from
childhood to held the "supple! utters? 9i "’V
political principles. In accor ahce w; hit,
all things else are with the su ordinate to
the Union, and there are no sacrifices I
would not cheerfully make to preserve the
Union.”
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WParson Brownlow gave the Washing-
ton seccssionists an ugly hit in a letter pub-
lished J unc 27th, declining to give an adver-
tised lecture upon finding that 1; concert for
the benefit of the sick ’i’lfl WQHll‘le‘l soldiers
was to be given the same (Monday) evening.
He closes up his letter as follows:
“It is perhaps Well enough for myappoint-
ment to be withdrawn, forsome of the pomts
Iintended to make would have been any-
thingr but agreeable to a large class of your
citizens. I intended to pay my respects to
men and their families who are talking se-
cession talk, and sympathize with this infer-
nal rebellion, and still living off this govern-
ment. And I intended i0 potigc he tears
and aliiit'clipiisiliiis '0'; those who have such a
dread of abo itiouists, and have no drend of
secessionists. Andlintepded other bus of
a personal character, that would have fallen
with some force in other quarters, and might
have resulted in my getting flogged, a mat-
ter I was willing to risk, and to meet ihe
consequences of, as an unconditional Union
man."
N.».—-——-——
A NEW DODGE—A number of citizens in
Middletowu are 'said to have been rascally
cheated buying pig's from it drove which
passed through the town several days ago.—
When bought, the pigs looked plump and in
good condition, but they soon became lean
and lank and in a'numb‘er‘of ipstancés died.
The suppositihn' is, t flit the drover had given
his pigs poison, for the purpose of making
them swell, that they niit'rht present a good
appearanCe and sell readily.
,‘ ———-——-.o‘.>o
WA correspondent of the New York
Times says the ' replies to the call for more
than the Government anticipated. . Let not
Connecticut be “backward 'in coming for-
' Ward.” ’
The Battles in front of Rich-
mond—A Running Sketch.
The correspondent of the Boston J outn-
al gives a connected account of the bat-
tles fought in front of Richmond. After
stating that McClellan’s line reached from
Mechanicsville on the right to Seven
Pines on the left,along the Chickahominy;
River, with néw gunfight-1a,", pivoii ojr‘f,
' " center, a distance ofifl or-‘Lhiore miles, he
gives the following: ”
l 0%.... ..
'- ,r'os'rrt'ou or memo-nu
member, let ,us sge . how the two armies
stood on Thursday morning last.. Our.
right wasat Mecha'nicsville. , Our” pick-
ets consisted of the Eightlllinois Cavalry
' Colonel Forusw'OI'tlié—the athletic, robust
Colonel, formerly member of h Congress ;
six companie'sbf the Pennsylvania Buck-
tail Regiment, so. called because each man.
wears the white tuft of a. buck’s tail—-
sturdy mountaineers,,who first at Drains-
ville exhibited their prowess; and several
companies of Pennsylvania Reserves.
To the east of Mechanicsville was Gen.
McCall’s division, composed wholly of
Pennsylvanians. About a mile from Me-
chanicsville East is BeaVer Dam Creek, a
little insignificant stream emptying into
the Chickahominy. McCal encamp-
ed on the west side of this s ; Gen.
'Griffiu, with a brigade was north of Me-
Call, and Gen. Martindade, with a brig-
ade, still farther north,on the road which
you have marked down as running due
east from Mechanicsville. Between Bea-
ver Dam Brook and New Bridge, were
the remainder of Porter’s division. Slim!
ucr’s division, and Franklin’s. The other
division, of the army were on the other
side of the Chiekabominy. This line of
McClellan was about ten miles long—not
on a straight. line, that portion south or
west of the Chickahominy beingnearly at
right angles With the stream, while the
divisions north were nearly paralled to it.
The rebels of course stood face to face
with us—Dr. Lewis’ Hill being their
strong point. How many there were of
them is only a matter of conjecture ; but
they were thick everywhere——hanging
around in masses, like bees upon their
hives on. a sunny summer day.
Before hotieing any movement let 99
go down to the Seven Fines and White
Oak Swainp and take a look. It is a big
swamp, impassable to armies. It is a
mile wide. Beyond it south. is a beauti-
ful farming country traversed by roads,
which we will travel by and by. It is
six or seven' miles from the swamp t'o
James River—littlest poet vtsre lieu
Darling upon the southern bluff, keeps
watch and ward against the .Monitor
and Galena. McClellan had no troops
south of the swamp. Rebel cavalry
watched all the roads in that direction,
and rebel. infantry lay in the woods and
wheat field's tcward Ricbmhhd and, rebel
batteries loom upon the hillocks and elev
vatious, a mile or two out from the robe1
capital.
Tun REBEL ADVANCE.
Let us go once more to Mechanicsville
It is Thursday morning, 10 o’clock.—
Tlle videttes who live Q’ll’ go the Hanover
at a quick pace, follovved by rank upon
rank. It is Gen. Hill’s division. They
crossed at Meadow Bridge and at Central
Railroad, and indeed all along the stream
which up there is fordable at any point.
The Buchtcils, who have watched the
forces upon the mountains, moved into
position to support our pickets on the
Ashland road, but not beiug aware that
the movement was a'grand one to get in
our rear, were nearly surrounded before
they were gwqre 9f the‘phpiq hdvahce of
the'eneipy no the Hanover road. Gen,
The Bucktails, un‘daunted, gave the foe
in front a volley, loaded again, wheeled,
fired upon the rebel cavalry in their rear,
and cut their way 0hr, tithing hitch upon
the road running parallel with the Chick-
ahominy.
THE FIRST BATTLE.
Remember that we are at Beaver Dam
Creek. McCall is, nearest the Chicka-
hominy; then the first brigade of Gen.
Morell’s division, commanded by (Sea.
Martiusdale, tbsp the second brigade,
commanded by Gen. Griffin, which as
has been stated, makes a line reaching
across the road due east from Mechan-
icsville There is quite an extensive forest
east of Mechanicsville, through which the
rebel General formed his lines, ll‘ll’lllg
been reinforced -
He hesitatpd ahoht advancing. It was
nearly fio’clock before the engagement
begap. The artillery opened, about :30
pieces on each side. It was mainly an
artillery .fight, and lasted till nearly 9
o’clock—a terrific cannonade,represented
by those who witnessed it as of indescri-
bable grandeur. _
In Gen. Griffin’s brigade were the 9th
Mass, Col. Cass, the 4th Michigan, Col.
Woodbury, the 14th Neg Bork, Col:
McQuade, mod the h2d Pennsylvania. I
hovers distinct'recollection of this brigade
—its splendid performance in the skirmish
near Falls Church when the rebels occu;
pied Manson’s Hill. They were equal to
the present occasion. '
* The rebels advanced upon this brigade
with the intention of breaking the center.
They were signally repulsed. They then
turned all their strength upon McCall’s
With this indexer . {hallway {die-1
road discover rebel skirmishers advancing .
Hill had swept his divison upon our flank. '
and was threatening the entire right wing.
NORWALK, CONN.,
division, and were also driven back..—
This ended the fight for the day the rebels
retreating to the thick woods at [Me-
chauiesville, and our forces lying down
upon the field. .
THE SECOND BATTLE.
Before fighting the second battle let us
look at the roads in the rear, and our
megns of getting acrosstheChiekahominy
to Iliefréihiiindér’of the'V'armyi'ifwe are
' worsted, or if wedmve a plan in view to
get into Richfiio’n‘d‘ by anothefidit‘ectioh
than that at Meadow Bridge. The road
to White Hdii'sefas 'We have seen, crosses
New Bridge.-- :It-runs north-east. Close
'by’New‘ Bridgé,‘on‘th'e' ' edst'side of this
road, is the house of Mr. E. B. Gaines—e
Almost in front of his hou'seflis the road
which leads to Mechanicsville, where the
fight was yesterday-#to-day being the
27th. Not going up the road but mak-
ing the White House road the north-east
we cross allttle stream—Powell Swamp
Creek—where Mr. Gaines has sOme sort
of a mill. Just beyond is a hill, 0 new
tavern on the top of it. A half mile fur-
ther on, or two miles from the Chicka-
hominy in all is Cole Harbor. "New
having traveled thus far north-east, let us
face to the right, and go south-east about
three miles, along a road which will bring
us'to Dispatch Station, on the road lead-
ing to York river. Here, at Dispatch
Station, we shall find an immense amount
of supplies for the army's—for that portion
which is on the northeast side of the
Chickahominy. This is far enough in this
direction. The distance [to the Chicka-
homiuy from the station is not more than
half a mile. Between the railroad bride.e
and New Bridge are four bridges, which
McClellan’s forces have constructed.—
By these we are to get west of that stream '
if desirable. 4.
By daylight the enemy were on the
move. Through the night there had been
an ominous silence along the lines, but
my the quick, sharp crash of the rifle
woke every sleeper. It was plain to
those who were in front, that the enemy,
having felt of our position, was about to
make a fierce onslaught. Dark masses
of men could be seen congregated in the
space between the clump of forest trees.
Gen. Porter, who was iii commad, at 0:309
comprehended the intention to drive him
into the Chickahominy, or sweeping him
down toward West Polnt—the first rath-
er than the last—for at an early hour a
division of the enemy appeared, making
its way along the road running east from
Mechanicsville to outflauk high.
He whs ill a gercus position for he
was above New Bridge, which was par-
tially in the bands of the rebels. If they
should push a bedy across it he would be
surrounded. To. avoid that, and to be
in position to connect himself with McClel-
lan on the south side, he fell hack to
fihihs’ hill. The falling batik is repre-
sented-to have been conducted admirably.
He took a new position along the White
House road, east of it; his right resting
on Cole Harbor and his left co the Chick-
ahomiuy.
Gen. Porter’s force gongisted of three
diuisigus, Morell‘s, McCall‘s and Sykes’s
and Cook’s cavalry brigade. , I
The line of battle "was about two miles
long. It extended over 6 meadow near
the Chickahominy, through a piece of
woods, up the Gains’ hill, dovyh 9 ravine,
up ahgther hill, out in Cole Harbor.—
Tue positions of theirbatteries may have
been somewhat different from what it is
nowgiven,but this" is only an attempt to
give a general idea, an‘outlinemhieh the
imagination of the reader must fill up. The
force thus disposed snowed to. about
$8.090 men. clinfronted by 5.0 or 00,000
of the enemi-
Notwithstanding the enemy was on the
move at day break, no fighting Was done
till past noon,when the rebel artillery open-
ed on the centre, at long range, the shot.
and Shell falling ill the T0968, in ”the rear
of Martiudale’s command. They fired ten
or fifteen minutes before any response
was made. Before the infantry become
engaged, in fact before the enemy’s artil-
lery debauched from the woods 9. battery
on Gains’ hill turned its pieces, firing
across New Bridge, at General Smith’s
division, fronting the rebel batteries near
Lewis’ house. It was a strange diversion
Abput 2 o’clock the enemy’s infantry
slowly, and cautiously advanced. The
artillery was in full play, about sixty
Pieces under Porter, and almost Sigh”:
from the rebel ranks. Que who has nev-
er hefipd a light artillery fight, can have
but little conCeption of the continuous roll
of thunder and storm. When the runs-
ketry joins in, it is like the falling of great
.wallsfor forests or- tba everlasting roar
upon the beach, where the heavy break.
ers roll landward over a stormy sea.
. The enemy advanced in column direct-
ly upon the centre, to break the line at
Martindale’s brigade? The batteries,
right and left and in the ceutt‘c, opened
upon them. Imagine the picture—dark
masses of men in solid rank advancing like
waves of the ocean rolling on, cleft con-
tinually by the passing shot which leave
gory streaks behind. The Solid shot cut
them like upseen thunder-bolts. Grape
and canister pick out scores, and rank
after rank'reel before the musketry. But
such a scene is not one-sided. The ad-
vance is covered by their batteries and a
tornado ,sweps ,over- our , ceuleii—leaden
rain and ironhail strewing the ground
with dead and wounded. ‘10 vain this
grape and canister upon them, followed
granted to goal @2105 not galactic (020ml gutrlligvutv. filtering», goblins, . gym
TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1862;
attempt to break the line. The rebels
were repulsed. ' A
They were, not disheartened—They
attempted the right, near Cole Harbor,
making an’ ineffectual attempt to fold,
Gen.Reynolds and Gen. Sykes back upon
Gen. Seymour. . .
As, you have seen a sudden calm upon
the ocean-after the winds have lashed
it to fury, so was the strife. The rebels
retired, but only to receive reinforcements
and to swing‘down toward New Bridge
to make a desperate attempt to cleave
our left-from its base, and separate the
entire, command from the Chicknhominy.
Gen. McClellan, understanding the move-
ment, sent over from the other side Gen.
'Slocum’s,‘ Gen. Meagher’s and Gen.
French’s brigades. I
' The enemy made no secret of his inten-
tion. He formed his columns deliberately
upon the hill near Gains’ house. Our ar-
tillerists saw them and opened, Nothing
daunted, they came down the hill six or
eight ranks deep. They made directly
for Butterfield’s and Meade’s brigades.-
They were received with terrible valleys,
and they gave a terrible fire in return.—
BOth sides stood firm ; both were plowed
through and through 5 both disdained to
waver. But the ‘odds were too great
against'usn With a rush and yell they
fell upon the batteries upon our right and
centre, shooting our horses. Our infan-
try could not take them away, and a
scene of confusion followed which alumst
became a panic. Nothing but the disci-
pline of the soldiers, and the heroic efforts
saved a disgraceful rout, '
General Barter saw that it was no use
to attempt to rally the men, and gave the
order to retreat across the Chickahominy
whither the supplies and stores had been
sent. '
It was night. The rebels had sufi‘ered
too severely to keep up the rush. The
temporary fright who aileyed and a sec-
ond line of battle taken about half a mile
in rear.
It was encouraging“ 'to see'tbe ranks
formed so readily. The enemy seeing
every inch of ground would be contested
did not follow up their advantage. It
must have been, gratifying to them and dis-
heartening to us.
Our loss in guns up to this time foots
up as follows: Kern’s battery, three
pieces: Weed’s, two; Weeden’s, three;
Aliens, four; Easton’s four.
, Early on Saturday morning the troops
began to move across the Chickahominy
on the retreat. The rebels were fooled,
supposing there would be another fight
they sent a large body of tr00ps- across
New Bridge to annihilate Porter. All
night long Saturday night the trains
moved in the direction of James river.-.=
All day thday slow, cautious retirement
tools place, Sumner, Keyes, Franklin and
Heintzelman forming in the rear.
Three main thoroughfares lead from
Richmond southeast, between White Oak
swamp and James river, and no one knew
what obstacles would he met upon either
0t thttl'l- ‘ '
At 10 o’clock on Sunday a portion of
Porter’s force pushed up the New Market
road and came upon a large body of rebel
cavalry advancing. The rebels have no
baggage trains. and could move faster
than McClellau’s Sam on nearly parallel
roach.
FIGHT 0N SUNDAY—THE sanur arrotssn
IN nvnav QUARTER.
The enemy soon became elated. His
successes stimulated him to. press as hard.
He thought he would have as. Smith’s
division and Sedgwiok’s fell back via
Savage’s Station on the York River rail-
road. It was necessary that they should
halt and hold the position, that the long,
winding train might move away. They
took positions in a wood north and east
of a large field. All of their artillery,
wilh the exception of two pieces, was
masked in the front, bearing upon the
road down which they had retreated.
They had not long to wait. First, the
enemy’s skirmishers came in sight, care
fully smelling their way like veaturesome
mice towards toasted cheese. They saw
the guns—glittering like gold in the sun-
shine. They looked, talked, pointed.—
One or two officers went back. Other
officers came up. Soon the dark masses
of infantry followed. The two, guns
gave them a salute, but everywhere ,else
there was silence. Flushed with victory
the rebels started upon the double quick
"across the field to'capture the coveted
prize. Suddenly, quick as a flash of
lightning. twelve additional pieces hurled
A
by the roll of ten thousand muskets. No
longer a thought of getting the pieces,
but how to get out of the place. - After
a few frantic efforts the ranks became
confused, broken, disjointed, and. notwith-
standing the endeavors of- ofiicers to rally
the wavering columns, they fled precipi-
' tately, leaving a multitude upon the
plain, dead and dying. ~II'; was a. trap
most successfully set and, sprung upon a
flushed foe. In this affair Gen. Burns
was slightly wounded.
Fleur 0N Honour.
But the enemy was pertinacious. He
was determined to push McClellan to the
wall, instead of being pushed. Heint-
zelman had charge 0f the rear. He de-
termined not to be outfianked, and also
determined to give the transportation
trains time to reach the base on- James
advance. or rather opened the way for
the retreat. Four or five miles below
Bottom’s bridge, on the Chickahominy,
is Long Bridge. To prevent the rebels
from crossing there and attacking our
left flank. Smith was instructed to take
position on the Long—bridge road. Next
to _ him, looking south towards James
river was Snmner’s corps of Richardson’s
and Sedgwick’s. Still beyond was Heint-
zelman’s corps, Kearney, Hooker’s, Slo.
cum and McCall—the ~last two in, re-
serve. The line was almost three miles
long—sufiiciently extended to cover all
the roads ' running east from Rich-
mond, south of the swamp.
To get a comprehensive view, select a
point on James river, about ten miles be-
low City Paint—Hardin’s landin g,—
Three roads from Richmond partly con-
verge at the same place.
It is Monday afternoon, and the head
'of Keyes’ Divusion has reached the local-
ity, and you see the interminable trains
reaching up towards Richmond, and be-
yond all the divisions mentioned, spread
out like a fan. The enemy came down
all the roads in great force It was
about two o’clock in the afternoon.—
‘Placing his artillery in effective positions.
the enemy opened first upon Sumner, but
occasionally sending shell over the heads
of the division at the wagon trains, to
create a stampede among the teamsters.
But the guards kept cool and prevented
any disorder. After- an hour’s cannon-
leug. conducted with great spirit on
both sides, the enemy adopted a new
kind of tactics, an attack on both flanks
at once. It was made against Sedgwick
and Richardson, and was pressed so hard
that Slocum was ordered up from the
reserve. The infantry action lasted from
half-past three to six. It was a brave
fight on the part of our exhausted troops.
They held the ground and repulsed the
enemy.
It was an obstinate, bloody fights-—
These divisions have been so often in ac-
tion that they know what it is to fight.
More, they . know how to fight. The
enemy were not in sufficient force to at-
tack Smith. They made a demonstration
but the Green Mountain boys were called
upon and quickly settled the matter, by
driving the enemy out of sight in that
quarter. ' ‘
barren or iiALvsaN HILL ' .
A correspondent of the N, Y. Eve-
ning Post gives the following account of
the fight at Malvern Hill, on Tuesday,
July 1st :
The engagement at Turkey Creek was
one of the severest the army has sus-
tained, and the loss was heavy,but the
James River was reached, and the army
felt a ray of hope as the heavy booming
of the Galena’s guns echoed around
them. During the night the army fell
,back across a peninsula to another bend
of the river farther down, and knciwn as
Malvcrn Hill, a slight eminence well cal-
culated for a‘ desperate resistance and
permanent" position, ,but ekposing the
supplies below. “’agou trains, in the
meantime, proceeded towards Harrison’s
Bar, some miles still further below,wbere
the headquarters were to be stationed,
and supplies were ready to land.
But all the trains had not got away,
The immense train of siege guns was still
waiting a clear. road. and on Tuesday
Gen. McClellan gave the command of the
position and preparations for the defence
to Gen. F. J. Porter, than whom a cool-
er, braver officer and a more perfect gen-
tleman does not live.
During the night and early in the
morning up eminence and its slopes had
been planted with artillery, rising tier
above tier with the heaviest guns, until
nearly two hundred pieces were ready
for the reception of any foe desperate
enough to approach. Gen. Porter, him-
self an old artillery oficer and instructor,
took personal supervisionof a battery of
beautiful 82-pouud rifled guns, the ex-
cellence of which does credit to our re-
cent improvements in artillery warfare.
The forces under Gen. Porter were his
own corps, Gen. Morell’s— and Syke’s di-
visions, Col. Hunt’s reserve artillery of
cut heavy artillery which did such fear-
ful execution at Yorktown, Gen. Coach’s
division, Gen. Meagher’s Irish brigade,
and Gen. Sickle’s brigade kindly volun-
teered during the day by Gen. Heintzel-
man to his brave companion in arms at
just the right time, and when his expe-
rienced eye thought them of service.—
-'l‘hey were quite acceptable. Such little
exchanges of courtesies on a battle-field
are appreciated when heat add toil have
exhausted a brave band. One who
looked on as-Gem Porter advanced to
receive the proffered aid, stated tome
that neither the General nor himself
could suppress a trickling tear'at the un-
expected thoughtfulness and kindness of
a General in whose corps he had served
all along in front of Yorktown and until
recently. '
The force of Gen. Porter was stationed
with General Couch on the Quaker City
road, at the extreme right, with General
Morell on the left, and Gen. Sykes’ divi-
sion of regulars in the center. _
Here again was the army which had
engaged the enemy at Mecha'uicsville and
Chickahominy face to: face with nearly
river.
~Keyes, as has been stated, was in the
ninety six pieces, including the Connecti- ,
L" ., -' W...“ .fV/v
tack, in fact he thought it necessary to
bring up all his available force before so
doing: ‘At ten o’clock ’the enemy’s line
was found to extend in a half square, his
right wing extending nearly to the James
river, and left directly in front and facing
the river in a parallel line, when be open-
ed fire from, an eighteen gun battery
near our lines, under cover of the woods.
It was immediately responded to, and
at the same time the gunbozits on the
.river swept out the'line , on the right,
compelling the rebels to abandon their
dead on the field. The action became
general , as soon as the position of the
rebels and their approaches were discern-
ible. As the battle progressed and the
enemy advanced, the roar of the siege
guns and heavy artillery was terrific be-
yond any language of description. Near-
ly fifty shell a minute were exploded
above and amid the solid colums of the
approaching-enemy, an‘d socoutinued du-
ring the day with no apparent cessation,
and up to 9‘o’clock in the evening.
The determined manner in which the
enemy pressed up showed that they had
determined to make this a decisive battle,
either to capture theU'nion army or drive
it into the river. The rebels could depend
less upon their artillery fromlack of num-
,bers and our better position, and, there-
fore, pressed column after column up in
feverish haste, to see them break before
the terrific iron hail of 'our shell, and
either fly precipitately or march rapidly
out of danger.
All. this time, and up to near 1 o’clock
our infantry were resting upon their arms
hood of continually advancing columns
should render it necessary to meet them
with the bayonet. It had been deter
mined that very little musket ammunition,
'comparatively, should be expended, but
that the enemy should rather be kept
back at the point of the bayonet, under
range of the artillery: _ _ . . _ ,
Col: Hunt; in cemmand or a... ’ mu-
lery, had his horse shot early in the day,
and mounted another, and personally di-
shot under hita. At one o’clock the reb-
els came up in solid phalanxes and pressed
forward toward the guns, supported by
column after column as far as the eye
could. reach, and. presenting one, of :the
most fearful as well as interesting sights
imaginable. '
For some miles around, with the ex-
ception of a point on the left, the country
is almost entirely cleared of forest, and
one of the largest and most beautiful es.
totes extend, over which the eye sweeps
at pleasure. '
The fearful havoc of the rapidly burst-
ing shells from guns ranged so as to
sweep any position far and near, and in
any direction, was terrible to behold.—
The burning sun which had poured dowu
its terrible best during the previous few
days and up to noon had become over?
clouded and'the day was was compare?
vtiVely cool. Still. the ”dust _ and smoke
partially concealedthe dreadful carnage.
The enemy’sgu‘usflwere by no means
without their effect on our side, and the
dead and wounded were literally covering
the field, while as the énémy Nadyanced
nearer and nearer, the old dwelling turn-
ed into a hospital was immediately under
fire ; still the surgeon and nurses never
fiinched, and the stretchers and ambu-
lances came in with their loads of wound-
ed. As the enemy approached, General
Morell’s division met them, received their
distant fire, and, advancing, poured in
volley after volley, while the several pie-
ces of artillery directed ‘to this point
threw canister and grape, and as it were,
mowed them down by battalions. The
enemy could not stand it, and our troops
fought against a relief of fresh troops. in
several instances, and. then charging,
drove them from the field. Another col-
umn came up in front of Gen. Sykes,
when‘the regulars met them in a. most ad-
mirable and determined manner. Per- -
fectly disciplined, they obeyedeach order
with promptuess and precision, and with
as much coolness as if merely at dress
parade with white gloves and shining
buttons. '
THE FIERCENESS or THE CONFLICT.
Colonel Warren, commanding a divi:
sion, made a most desperate charge, and
was warmly complimented by Gen. Por-
ter for his bravery and the efficiency of
his men. At the right a most desperate
effort was made to divide the army and
penetrate to the hill over a rising sweep
of gr'ound, extending down in a less slop-
ing manner and offering a. better progress
to troops advancing up the hill. But
they sadly mistook this point of attack.
Gen. Meagher, wounded though he was,
was there with his brigade, and the boys
only wanted ,to be 'let loose to send each
successive approaching column skcdad-
dling dowu the bill as last as they could
be filedinto place and ordered to ad-
vance. _ , , .
As the battle grew warm, Gen. Grif-
fin until recently in T command of Grif-
fiin’s battery—and the battle of Chicka-
hominy was his Iasst command—who had,
during the idle of the infantry. again
taken his accustomed place directing one
wing of the artillery, but seeing that the
services 501' his brigade were needed, rec,
.turnedtohis command, and at his first
advance was met by' ten' regiments . of
my seemed in no haste to make the at-
l and ammunition.
and waiting the moment when the hardi- '
rected the operations until a second was. i .. _
came up, proffered by Gen Heintzelmlh '
Pines.”
rebels in every quarter.
in
4: twir-
L .
On the right thél'reibels, _were.later,in
their approach, but when they ,advahccd
it was with a desperate attempt to turn
the flank. General Couch’s division had
seen less service, perhaps, than any-69h-
cr, and was fully prepared to receive"
them, and the. men were impatient to' get
into action. . .. I
They were gallantly lead by Generals,
Howe, Abercrombie and Palmer, and
held their own without a moment’s flinch-
ing, until, when the day seemed to wii‘er
they gave a new impetus. ‘to the fight,
which seemed to extend along the whole
line in a contest which lasted over~ an
hour, when he drove the enemy from the
field, his men climbng over the pile) of
dead as they advanced to the charge.—
His horse was shot under'liim during 1 ac
(engagement. It was now approachi :3
night, and the fortunes of the day i Ld
only wavered momentarily at times to-
wardthe rebels; and ithev'fight was goo 7-
ing desperate. The troops were gettl lg
used to the smoke, dust and din of battle
and the roar of cannon and bursting of
shells, more terrific than ever, seemed To
have less effect upon the rebels.They pr: 3-
sed up with fearful determi nation,colur; a
after column of fresh troops,and the can :-
age of the whole army was at its best.
Even the General Commanding short-rd
"signs of apprehension for the result 3:.d
safety of the heavy siege t rain, 80 dread;
ed at Yorktown, and the other artillery
. But it was no time
for faltering. Troops who had fought
with courage, gallautly repulsing the on-
emy at every step for five days, must use
desperation now.
The line of the enemy’s attack was
concentrating, and Gen. Porter rode in
front of the army, ordering the two
wings of Morell and Sykes, and Couchto
concentrate, and withdrawing Meaghor
placed him on the left, with orders to
flank the approaching columns, and to '
charge at advantageous opportunities,
and giving the same ‘orders to Butter- ..
field’s brigade of Morell’s division, and,
Col. W'arrea of Gen. Sykes’. and to Gen.
Abercrombie in Gen. Coach’s.
At this moment Gen. Sickle’s brigade '
and was received by Gen. Porter, and
conducted to a point a. little neglected.
The engagement now became a scene
of madness—a. force of thirty thOusaud“ "
contending against fully three times their
own number, plunging in with rapid
charges and deafening shouts, and sue; ,
cessfully driving them from the field. A
brilliant charge of the New York Forty-i
fourth, under Colonel Rice, captured. a
Secesh flag, with the motto “Seven-
Our troops were in no condi-
tion to follow the enemy beyond the"
jrange of the artillery, and they content-
ed themselves with leaving them at a
range where the effect of the artillery
was most terrible. The roar of musketry
died away, and the engagement became
an artillery contest, neither side attempt-
ing to advance.
The force formerly beaten in aicavairy'.
blunder at Chickahotniny, had in the bit-
tle of Malvern, successfully repulsed; he
Our killed and
wounded were numbered by thous‘an ls,
and what the loss of the rebels was an
be imagined.
As night closed in the firing grade: 11’ '
ceased. until not an alarm gun was her .'d.'
Detachments of each company Were E-lnt
out to gather in the wounded and bury
the dead, and judging from the appeal"
once of the field, nearly the whole stay
was out rec0gnizing friends and memt- an
of their companies killed and wound :d,
and bringing them off.
The Union and rebel soldiers miug ed
promiscuously in the search and separa-
tion of those of either side, hardly zlo-
ticing that a few minutes before they
had been opposed to each other in'deadly
combat. All the wagons, guns, and the
immense siege train were safely removed,
to Harrison’s Bar by lVedneiday noon,
and the army was set at work to recruit~
and reorganize.
“a.-.
LEGAL TENDER—The law regnlli'ting
the payment of debts with coin, provides
that the following. coins be legal tender:
I. All gold coins at their respective
values, for debts of any amount.
2. The half dollar, quarter dollar, hols
dime, at their respective values, debts of
any amount under five dollars.
3. Three cent pieces, for debts of any
amount under thirty cents; and >
4. Onecent pieces, for debts 'of any
amount under ten cents. _ , .
By the law of Congress, passed some
four or five years ago, goldtwas made the
legal tender for large amounts. '
«a.-.
An increased coinage of cents has taken
place at the Philadelphia Mint, during the
present month, amounting to $10,000, and.
this coinage being double the usual amount
will continue for a considerable period long. '_
or. The Mint offers at anytime to give cents
for United States dema'h'd notes;
—-—The Treasurer of the State of Penn.
has received an anoymous letter post marked
“New York,” which read as follows: “ Pam
the enclosed to the credit of your noble, patriata:
State : it's-her due.” This letter contained a.
$1000 United States Treasury note of mole-
gal tender issue;
———The employees of the rebel Post Oflco
Department at Richmond were last weal-3.0!:
dered into the service, and the State militia
were placed on guard over the prisoners and:
the works around the city, so as to- m in?
every soldier for the attack on McCle‘ and
array. This shows that the rebels date. min"
ed to use their entire form, and to risk "at,"
treble their number, as before.. The ene-
l rebels.
ghing on the grand onslaught.
Norwalk Chronicler