The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1863, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 9793.: TUE IMPENDING BATTLE, The Rebels Preparing for An- other Desperate Con- flict in Maryland. Gen. Meade’s and Gen. Couch’s Forces Moving Rapidly to the Scene of Action. BRISK SKIRMISHING WITH THE ENEMY. HEAVY RAINS THROUGHOUT MARYLAND. The Potomac and Other Rivers Flooded. nee IMPORTANT CAVALRY OPERATIONS. Captare of General Jones and One Thousand Rebel Prisoners. - General Early’s Rebel Command Re- ported to be Cut Of, Generals Robinson and Trimble and Six Thousand Other Rebels Captured. A Large Number of the Enemy’s Wagons Taken, a, ae, a. BBWS FROM GENERAL MEADE'S HEAD- QUARTERS. Bimapquarrens, ARMY OF THR PoTowac, July 8, 1833, } ‘General Lee is still on this side of the Potomac, unable forces with hisarmy. His lines extend§to Sharpsburg, and are formed by Longstrest’s corps, whore headquar- tere are reported to beat Funkstown, The rebels were Desiiy engaged yesterday in}eending over their wounded | end supply trains on flat boate. Two wagyons are ferried | @erees on cach boat, and tne crossing necessarily pro- (Bresses very slowly. 1t is not believed that any of Lee's @Mhotive force has yot crowed. Lae ie wdoudtedly anticipating an carly attack, and ‘making every effort to render his porition a secure one. Bbould the anticipated battle take place, tt will probably ecour on or near the old Antietim field. Our forces are Dapidly concentrating, and & desperate battle is impond- = Generals Kiipatriek and Buford are annoying the enciny ‘with cur cavalry, and have rendored great service to-day. @©ver seven bundred prisoners were brought in, captured By Kilpatrick, day before yesterday. General Crogy is pushing the enemy at another point, and heavy fring heard in the direction of Hagerstown to-day indicates that ‘Reo’s rear is hard presrod. ‘We bave a report that General Buford engaged tbe vebols to-day, but no details have been receiver. Byvery preparation is being made for a renewal of the fight. The river is ewollen to a great height, and is stil! rising. There remains no opportonity for Lee to escape General Butterfield has been relieved from hi position ea chief of staf, General Warren, an able and sooo Diished officer, succeeds him. General Paul, reported killed at the battle of ‘Darg, ie alive although dangerously wounded, entertained of biv recovery. ‘The movements of our army are being conducted with femarkable celerity. South Mountain has been occupied, end Harper's Ferry i in our possession. Yesterday there was some skirmishing in the vicinity of Marylund Bright, though no action of importance Ww place. Ali quiet to night THE FREDERICK TELEGRAMS. Freomnux, Md., July 8—10 P.M. Taformation which can be relied upon vomes from the freat this morning of the following purport —The rive in the Potomac has checked the pessage of the rebel army. A emall portion of Lee's transportation has been crowed @@ rafts at Williamapert and Bhopardstown, ond bie stork owam over. Hiv ambulance trains, with wounded, bave Glee crossed; but bie supply trains, artillery, infantry and ‘@evelry are reported to be pearly all on thie fide Hie Bret lime of battle has been formed on the Antietam fers Should thie prove tro, and it ie certain that he oxpnot Peceive remiercements, be will be compelled to trom the fate of bin ormy to the arbitrament of a bloody a4. er forces) are) gradually «concentrating fa thet direction. = The oper aod prospects ettys opes are Ff sunihileting the entire Army of Virginia are bright. — The best possi epIrity Animate the offiners ama men. AS the laat Adivicw Loe wee conowatrating bie force by every aveilable routs, Fearing an attack, be yeutorday morning planted bir batterior on every road by which we ‘wore likely 6 approach Generals Bolan! and Kilpatrick, «ith thelr cavalry di Visions, made 5 lemonstration im the fireotion of Wi! Hameport, bat were enable to pomerete Leey bore Many citivent @& Hagerstown, Fackiowo Wiliamapert Gnd Clear Ppring have ieft their homer heheving a De te Imminent, some of them have arrives im Frederick. and Sink that Lee only placed Due pone 8 porte kom ow fe Obeck While hue forsee werk crmee ne The reporie as Wo the cxietence of rebel beidgee et Wil Ramepor! are comtradiotery, bet (he cower sl lepresenn Be that nowe lewe bree Bulli. A seoul who wae thereon Banday cays preparations were io progreme to bald one. The mag dave been (romiraind by thew tden el hea 5 ee wm the Fotumee General (Mente and set hewe served of their heed quarters, Beving ridden shirty-fre mir (rom Gettye ‘Darg. Several corps are Umderetoed to be nearer (be deaived. A comaitersh ie fore hes protab y reached Me vicinity of Whamepert tom ght te the mrent\ me our covery are on the enemy © lon Genk and rear, 404 make freqment eiterkn. Our sorut« are (reyonwtiy bewrd from, amd their report mid conn, Wate of | 08 CBIRATORE bo re rom the Potomar Faaommen, Md, Joly © Mytright 1 te eased open reliable authority that [ee bee no « erRative but Wo deliver battle oF perren-ier About ote hundred prieooers arrived hereto dey The errival, arenrding to riatemer's of Digh Otten, aweile fe Bamber sirowiy © 1 10 seven thousand eight emdret — ee ertoret and forwarded by Goveral Lapate i. Cansiteraibie cannoy hing war men veart day in the Pireetion of Hagerstown bot as no reports have yet come @, 6 & believed have been caoned by cur coralry ettacks "pom the wemy's oetports Te wounded peroied ofwers from Gettyrtring te day press the pab'ehed statements in regard io the ‘oliow. pg coarse —Gen Peal wee alive last might, with some of hie recovery; Col. Root, of the Ninety fourth om York, was wpinjared, Cot. Whetioek ia uninjured, tut orvener Col Tikten, Of the Sinteenth Maine, ditto Paster in onimared, Got. Fetrebid, of the Recon: ~~ ere ae eUheted, Hrundreds of retiel devertors are te the country eur. rounding Gettysburg, having ebanged thew clothes aed tarned farmers in ibe harvest felts The si ice all clear to might REPORTED BATTLE AND OOOUPATION ¢ HAGERSTOWN BY OUR TROOPS. Freee, Md Joely @ DP Thue reliably reported that our treope to-day eooupes Hagerstown, after @ fight The particulars are ot known. The rebels were traneporting they men screws the river ‘on two flatboats, upon which our artillery hat opened and were shelling. The rebel army &@ suppemed to be strung along the river between Williamsport and Sharpe burg, and the opinion ie entertained by parties whose word ia entitled to great consideration that there will be & decisive battie to-morrow, or peat day at the furthert. THE POSITION O& THE REBEL PORORS, Baurwons, July &, 1860. I have received the intelligence to-night that Gener Lee is massing bis force at Antioiam creck, a few miles above the old battle ground of last year, and is foruifying Dig position, It is not believed in military cireles that be intends to make that loeslity a base of offensive opera. tions, but his whole motive ie to bold (eneral Meade in check until the ficod in the Potomac river abates mutt clently to enable his train to cross iow Virginia in aafety. There scems to be no truth whatever in the report that he bad either a pontoon or trestle br! aver the river ‘at Hancock or WilMameport, He four miles be low Williamsport, at Falling Waters, which our forces destroyed on Sunday last. He had but twenty two pon toons in bia train when he came throogh Winchester on his march northward. It is possible, however, that the ‘boats from the canal to the river to form a bridge; but it ie doubtful. The rebel sympathizers here say that such will be his plans. It is probable that another severe battle will be fought upon the old field of Antictam within a very few days. ‘There are many reports going the rounds here, but they are coinages of stay-at home military geniuses, and are ‘Bot worth telegraphing, I may say, however, that no part of Lee’s army has crossed the river into Virginia. Of this I am aseured by the highest authority, The only Dridge now upon the river is the railroad bridge at Har per'e Ferry. Bavimonn, July 8, 1863. ‘The Americun’s Frederick letter, daied this morning eays It is no longer a question whether the Potomac is forda- bie, but whether any bridge the rebels may have wonld stand before such a flood. It speaks of active army operations. Our cavalry are continually picking up prisoners and sending them ip by the hundred; also capturing or burning rebel trains. The | rebels are abandoning their wounded, whom they placed tn wagons taken from farms along the mad. If Lee ix detamed at the river his cage will be most desperate, If not hopeless. ‘The American's despatch, dated Frederick, Wednesday noon, July 8, says:— ‘The position of the rebels and their condition have been definitely ascertained. Their infantry line is drawn across trom Funkstown, Md., to Falling Waters, and be- | hind thie line they are using almost superhuman exer tions to get their trains, such as they have saved, and ' their artiilery and ammunition across the river. ‘The best military authority here doubte—I night almost «ay ie convioced—that they have no portioon train besides that destroyed at Fallin,,Waters, and that with such canal boats as they bad not previously burnod, aud with timber jelled in the vic nity of and at Martinaburg, they are endeavoring to wapply the deficiencies of their ‘engineer corpe. | dt is known that two days ago they had troops felling | Gunber, | op fiat boate, but the impetuons current of the | river rendered the attempt futile. They are now on this side, probably miending to take them to pieces and thus transport them on the caval beais. tary quarter that‘ the rebels will probably secure the most defensible Une in front of Williamsport, intrench they secure the means of crossing. The position of the rebele fs much more devperate than T had allowed myself to think heretofore. Of course they may get away: bat honre ago. General Lee's headquarters ave definitely secertained to be at Hagergtown to-day, and hix troops are mainly on the road ween there and Williamsport, whieh is only seven miles distant General Harty’s rebel command is to-day reported to be cut off in the mountains near Greeneustie, by our cavalry. | This is of course at present only a rumor: bat ft le cred- ited to some extent in view of the knowledge of the par poses of General Pleasanton’s present movements The cavairy of General Pleaeanton have been operating with magnificent succo# daring the last three days it i# a positive fact that while the rebels were relres ting we bad cavalry in their frout and rear and on both fanies Ite presence and bold dashes groately aided tp tnereasing | the demoralization of the rebels, aud their disciphine iar been ureatly relaxed. 1t © the opinim st) hetdyes tee that our | cavalry have taken not lene than tia thousand | Psomers wounded rebel, who have including 4 up everywhere along the road, wipes where they had been abandoned by Among the captures is Brigadier General tore off (he insignia of los rank and dressed jm citizens’ clothing. Brigadier Genera! Trimbie, of the 10th Of April and Philadelphia Ratiroed fame. is also a prikoner, He was found iv (he (armbo ee of Mr. David Wister, near Geutysourg, with bis left Diown off by a ahell. Yho damage done the rebel teams by the ‘ashes of our oot cavwiry ie aimort incredible, Everywhere they were captured, cut of and burned, General Kilpatrick dushed into the middle of Geweral wells train and Wurnt between iwo three bundred wegous and run off the berger, To-day he oaptured sixty ruore wageue aud three bundred horses and mules, Gor eavairy—| thik Kilpatrick's divition—nad a fight yesterday at Fligerstown with a rebel infantry division fom war at ove time dangerow, bub they yor out foally without serious lowe Onwr army ie moving steadily Of 18 direction and di position | shall eay tittle, thoogh the former may be roadily gooered at (rom what i said of the position of the eoomy. If Lee remains oo thie side of the river there ig probability of anotuer pattie within the noxt forty wig! hours Aw Telowe the by rain storm is over, and the nue ts breaking throngh (he clouds, “(Forward )"" ia the word along the whole Line MEASURES FOR THE CAPT REVEL ARMY, Waaniworos, July 8, 1868 Jnformation from the frout to-night tmdicates tbat noother desperate battle # Maminens at Hagerstown, in Maryland All necomery precactione Lave beep taken [0 sevure the aptnre of all of Lee'e nemy, It only a question of time. ‘The rumor that Reanregaré is at Culpeper Court House, with forty thousand men, # believed te be a rebel canard, | General Meade would ask nothing better than that Bean. verard ehould come up to his front with euch a foree to be whipped, while Lee is endeavoring to pars the Poto- mac, which in not new fordabie at auy point south of Comber ian Mock anxisty i expressed here in regard to the wounded in (he three days’ battle near Gettysburg. The | Rargeon Geoeral ber telegraphed (> Governor Oartin that bie department was amply #uife ac: for all emeryoncies, bot 4 & believed that he did not at the time conten plate | the simowt itnmeasarable lose of life and limba whic) bat | teen cocarioned. The presence of voluntesr surgeons’ oF | murses op the flelt would unquestionably afford grvat Tele to wumbers Of sufferers, Shelr pe RE OF THE } THE HARRISBURG TELEGRAMS. ) Aaamancna, Pa, July #, 1869. | News received here tnday by telegraph, by way of Je don tind Bedford, shows that the main bely of Gene. ral Lee «army i between Aowth Mountain and Hagere. wen | ewer Lee Wilh WobAblY peleet @ place betwee river may rise sufficiently to enable bim to got caval | ‘They also attempted to cross some wagons crossing thelr horse on boats and Jeavitig thetr wagons + 1 have heard the opinion expressed in a very bigh mili- — themeeiver, and endeavor to hold our army at bay, while | it looks mach less probable now than it did twenty-four _ Hagerstown and the Potomac to give General Meade Datlie, an it © comnidered utterly unpossible for him to 6 20,000 troops, protecting the reho! supply traing. Genera Lee's wagon tr yat pont, te the nom - ber of 4,000 wo 6,000 «0 way inte Virginiaggus fart os Ubeir lien ited © om will adinit, emerald Lee ee de uy sees that there le no escape for De army. and m preparing himself to give General Meade = whch will probably take place on Friday | } or Pavordy ‘The autheritiee are throwing troope up the welley as feel ae poreibie General Mexie® army and the troops under Geueral Comet are moving a rap diy aa the roads will admit. ‘The rain poured Gown im torrents last nignt, and has continued We de eo until twelve o'clock to-tay. ‘The present food would destroy any pontoon bridge om the Potomac, even f the rebele had one, and jt is pos! Hvely known they bawe nothing of the kind. Hanus, Pa, July SP. 1 ‘Tie reparte received bere from the vicimity of Wiliatis port seem to have Been sommwhat cxagrerated, as WO have no confirmation of the repert that Lee's army wast routed. The wires between here and Carlie nave been | down all day, however, and very little pews has reached | the ety of any kine | Governor Curtin inform we that reports have come ia | that Lee's heedquertore were at Hagerstown today, and | that there are rebel infawiry in the vicinity of Green- \ castle. | There wae 8 romer im circulation that our forces are between the enewy wed Ube river, bot the Governor thinks this rumer improbable. Lee unde river, amd i trying (© hold hie ground till it becomes | fordable, Heavy fain comlinued here. however, this | afternoon, and toe Potomee will net be fordable for several days: a | That there was fighiing jesterday in the wiomity of ) wen is confirmed by persons who arrived from | bat vicinity’ Im Marrisburg today, but of whit extent or with what renault | have ho means of knowing positively. Prinouers still coutinne to be brought ato our lines iu conmiderable pum)vers, aud the militia ix ail! being pas | ed forward | There is a repert inc | man is im the vicinity of Williameport, ou the Virginia | fide Of the Potomac, This would effectually out off Lee. ) There ie another that the rebel army are abort of ammu | nition. GEN, SEDGWICIOS ‘ation that General Heintye! CK ON THE RE! | Waswinaron, July 8, 1863. No information has been received from Williamsport | 10 two o'clock today, It is probable that General | ‘Bedgwick has done the enemy's rear much damage. FRESHET IN THE POTOMAC AND OTHER RIVERS. Wasnineron, July 8, 1868. Tt has been raining in torrente all day. The prospect is that the Potomac wil! be higher than it has been for two years. Bamimons, July 8, 1868. Heavy rain fell ali Inst night and up to noon to-day. Thave travelled a great distance, both by ratl and stage, and found freshets e#erywhere, The Monocacy, Patapaco and all the streams are very high, Along the Patapaco the country is flooded. In some places the water i up to the second story. Trees, fences, portions of houses and ‘Duildings have been carried down by the current. The people are on the banks this afternoon in large numbers, saying the property floating down. The bridges are in great danger. The crops dre injured considerably CAPTURE OF THE REBEL GENERAL JONES AND ONE THOUSAND PRISONERS, BaueiMonn, July §, 1863, Nearly one thousand rebels, captured by General Kii- patrick, arrived here tis morning, inclading Brigadier General Jones, a cavalry officer, and fifty one commission ed officers. : WHO IS THE REBEL @RNBRAL JONES? Brigadier General Jones, recentiy captured by our forces, was, at the commencement of the war, the + captain of the Nottaway troop of Virginia cavairy, aud ‘was attached to Colonel (since General) Stuart's regiment of cavalry. After Staart had*been promoted to the com- mand of a cavalry brigade Captain Jones obtained & posi. thon as feld officer of Stuart's former regiment. Shortly after his cominand was detached, and formed part of Imboden's brigade and with it operated in Central and Western Virginia. When Imboden wax placed in charge of a division the sobject of our sketch was made com mander of brigade with rank suitable te he command. The raid on the Baltimore and Objo Railroad just previous to the revent rebel javasion wes performed by troops ier Imboden, Jenkins and Joues, and the early rebel ce calyy movementspin Penpsylvania were under the same commanders. He has had the reputation of being « dashing officer and « remarkably fine horsemar | THE REBEL TROOPS IN HAGERSTOWN. FUMIE PASHAGR NORTH THE STRENG reEY TAULS. were wate me ENTERED PENNSYLVANIA —INTERETING the Washington Star, July 7. ed juformant just from Hagere! mevts io that vielnity — ‘pe, in the advance, remained in Hagerstown three day, The stores hoe en they were (oroed avd everyth veh as coffe lard, mo nd cape. Up pi m. Householder, & 1). Herbert Hi. Hager and others lost their entire stock. —bmory Me Comme, saddier, lost his stock of saddle. harness aud amounting to $2,100 All that ©xuid po be tak-o da card posted om the doore oF stores tatu (hat ~ stock is pressed inte the service of the (oofedernt mates, A will a * the aumy be Larger portion tributed te the army, but wore onda i ariveo into Virgin. Fweil s@ivea upon two printers one varnéd Jonathan Doobie, and the ovher a young man ho war for many years employed io thes uffice, they were compelled to print his general orders in relation vo the protection of private property These orders would bave been admirable liad they been earried out: but #ndh wae not the case, for horses, cows aud hoge were eeized and driven acroce the river. No distinetion wae tade Detweeu the property of Caen men and saessiouista. JG Kuode, a well known Unionist, was arrested four times during the stay of this Contade rate on but no Char being substantiated, ne we relonsed each time. As a general shivg, (hese 5 troope behaved themselves pretty well, evidently with the design of making & good linyrowsion in: My Mary land’ They were well clothed aud shod and were adavt rably organized, the stragglers being few Then came A.'?. Hill's corse, and they were (rom five | o'clock in the morning wntii three in the alternoon pay jog a given point. os Ewell’ . The artillery with thie corpe was fifty nie pisces. came Longatreet'® corps, followed by Geners! Lee bimself, This grand entree war met by the iobabitabis With & frivid COo\neRs, WILD A fuw eXoentions | Toe PMiee Macilie waved a Confederaie fing, and a Mise Rrowa placed upon the horse of teneral ine = wreath | made from towers beaged from the gardens of ber Union trends. ‘The entire Confederate force which passed through Hagerstown was 75,000, with 206 pieom of artillery. Fach corps wae followel by immense trains of wagons Of all desoriptious, We see it elated that the larger por: tion of wagous were marked U.S. This ie aot correct, for our infurmant took particular notice, mad the entire mrumber thus marked was not over one buodred at the | farthest. This 76,000 wen does wot include those troops which ; | into Pennsylvania by the way of Hancock. Of thelr nambere we know vothing, bet the entire force which crossed Marytand at varioas pointe is eatimated at 95,000. General Ewell rode in a carriage, accompanied by one of bie staf, and on the front seat of the em veyance he bad a large maj sproad out. « divivion wae the Inst to pase through He halted to front of Doyle's Hotel, anc, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1863. vtedly Was mot the meank of crossing the | ‘They carried out the same programme | A pleasing tmoident ocenrred during Kwell’s stay in town. The Fonrsh North Carolina, Colonel Grimes, wan @ \camped in the public 8jua @, duty, At tached to this regiment was an o: band, and on (he frst evening of thelr arrival sbey enlivened tho wee laying rebod airs, At last they struck up mimediately Home twenty young ladies, headed by Mies MoCameron and stiss Kmma Wants, joined tn widging the “Star Spangled Kanuer,”’ which soon drowned the rebel Dorne, This created intense feeling, aud the Union boys sent up shout atteh shout. Another incident worthy of note occurred after @ por- fion of the rebel army had paseod into Pennsylvania, Four ''nion prisoners, captured near Carlisle, wore brought into town under guard, when the two young iadies above named stepped into the strest and presented ced prisoner with a net, ted with red, white and He, Jn passing throngh Marylind the rebel army lort large bumbers by desortion, thy most of them being Virginians and North Carolinians, while some few were No thorn men and foregners, When the Union cavalry entered the town eeveral rebel soldiers came iu and gave them- welves up Afver the passage of Longstreet’s corps every ing Femained «et until last Sunday, when, about #ix v’¢loc im the cvoning, thirteen cavalrymen belonging toa New | Yor suent, made @ dagh into town, aod, with the as- + of the Union boys of the town, who ran to the + orald hospital and seized the muskets there stored, su -y Becceded in capturing quite a number of prisoners, among them 4 rebel mail carrier and Mis mail, Chaplain Dabney Bull (lormerly pastor of Wesloy Chapel in Wash- iwglon), who was in town, mado bie e#cape by jumping fzem Bis horse and taking tw the Welds. Hie hore wax secured by & smary litte (ellow named Richard Boward, who rode the bovwe to Frederick and handed itover wo the military. Agnin,on Monday jast, twenty men of the Fifth regu- lars made a dash into twa, and captured eleven strag glers, Wwo carbines, fone muskets and four horses Thin | Command took breakfast at the Washington House, kept | by Harry Yingling, a well kaown rebel sympathiser, and | who has been teking. rebel serip from Confederatos | for ills contracted. It wax suggested to the officer in charge that be should pay his bil with the same kind of money, and the “gray bucks’? being (urnivhed him by & citizen, he paid Harry off in bis own coi, And again on Tuesday morving, Our men meade another | dash. and captured eleven prisoners and two horses. The rebels hearing of this, oame over in force from Williame | port, but our men had made their eso pe with their Prisoners. THE REBEL ACCOUNTS AND HOPES. @OUK BALTJMOBK CORRES! ONDENCH. Barroeonx, July 7, 1803. Movement of Geneval Lee from Geltyturg Towards Hagers fown—He Holds the Paes in South Mountain—Ms Bridge at Williamsport No’ Destroyed—Reported Arrtvat of General Beauregard at Wiliamsport with Forty Thow | gand Proops—Noble Conduct of the People of Balivmore to {+ the Wounded, te. A gentleman who resides at Emmettsborg, but who ts weil known and much respocted in this city, arrived here | to day. | Jearn from bim the following facta — Durmg saturday the colamos of Gen, Lee's army were paesing through Emmetteburg, and also on the country roads worth of that piace, from near Gettysburg, acros® the Suth Mountain, towards Hagerstown. The nv ment was made in perfect order, and without haste or tbe Joust confysion, My informant related many little cir cumstances that oecnrred on the march, all showing the deliberation with which (t was made. He was placed under close surveillance by General J, B. B. Stuart on Sunday, and informed that he could not quit the town, | Otherwise no restrictions were placed upon his actions, On that day be bad a long conversation with General Stuart. That officer informed him that he had no doubt | the Northorn newspapers wold claim the result of the battles of the three preceding days 48 a victory, because | Genera! Lee had retired (row before Gottymburg. “But,”’ said he, ‘before three dayn more they will play another tune. In those engagements Genera) Lee has acon plished exactly what he intended, and if the ( nion army follow us now it will be they who wil) nevor return to their capital, and not we. [ean fell you this much Goveral Lee j# not retreating, and will not leave the vorth side of the Potomac unt! he has accom plished that for whieh be crossed that bream ’ Geveral Stoart bad at Ewmetieborg 15,000 cavalry, in splendid condition, ‘They left that place in the course of the day, on receipt of a dewpateh (rom Gen, Lee. They were the last rebel troops sey near Kmmettaburg, oF at any point east of the base of the South Mountain, 1 at unable joruy now wheter General Lee's army baw moved as far as Hagerstown or vot. But this | know that if be desired to do so om Saturday or Sunday be could ond las done so; for the report that the passes iu the South Mountain were held by Union troops ix entirely | inacovrate, Go the other baud, al! of those passes have been*uel! all the time by st/oug detachments of Genera! Lee's army. It was through these passes that the maile from Richmond to the rede! army werd tranxported every day, | Tt ie aeeerted bere Wo-duy that Goneral French waa mistaken in regard to the destruction of General Lee's poatoun bridge at Williamsport for \t ls sald that long tratus of loaded wagons have been parsing over i! con. | stantly every day of last Week, and on Sunday ud yor. Uerday of this week. (he l«tier statement i have every reason to believe to be correct, It ie possibe that there were two bridgee—mone at Wiiliatmaport and one « short distance belowaeand that the latter waa destroyed, and that Geueral French raietook it for the main bridge at Williamsport. fhe bridge at Williamsport tas been bela ever «tues the 28Uh of Juve by Colonel Imboden with « strong forer of rebe! cavalry. Colonel lusboden har been jo cOnstaal communication wih ve Lee, by means of courions, over since that date, It would glwidea your heart, and the the the Hmato, if you could see = tenth part heurte of goaders a Of ibe kindnew and real Chrietian chariyy of the poople wounded iw of Ba vowards the the ate partion ieore bust been sopphew and aid t woole people were moved with 0% all kinds of enyplie: came pouring express companies, Vawkete of jare of elie and prewe in ive, even of mh lemons. orangen, g a word. very thing that Could be ysefy. oF te wee Was sapplied in prof bt Palle. the big trom here (0 Fortresa Monroe, lald dwn on the the Adatne FApeeR* «roll of erennimek= bondred qolare Meswra. Men im a © A bondred devers, many other genvieine dred datiaré exeh, and av many moe fifty > coo (butions Mi Atal! same were immer money of beimg judicwmaly rxyeuried, and it may comfort inany 8 fad heart to kyow that » portion of iwi i be in peuding home Ih comfort some toved one whe bow au are oF & foot I hie country’® Rervire | dreds of big packed whow eye could fetmam dry while venanimg (or a0 bor where (Lee sOR0GE were gmOg dies th: prope of Haltanere, | aay. The rarity of (bristen © ity” eo herd, and thie owas on'y ue mapite-iation ait Av | clone Ubi latier | prone it erated Ulhet | Bem ogee’, With Forty thousand temps, cromee! the Poteunse ac WMianeport yenterday, aud i* wtvaneing 1 day f Hagerstrn, (9 muppet Cavers Tee { The vevy ww —The qunbost Mercrd ts Leutenunt Com mands Ransom, artived st Matnewte so, ine | yn the 10 wit, fhe ie rdered ty y the peed a J amd treagure ehiym vo en) frome Am Rosson malt @ denied to revain thie vente! a6 thie | port om & DArhOF defence for emma Lime to come | Dawn —The Dotted States «inane 0, Lievieoan | Commander L. HK. Newman, wrived preterdey, (rom | port Royal Jane, fhe has been ehannt weary brine | monthe, ar Cotas Borne for repair a pew propeier ‘The (ollowing @@ hat of bar offowrs | Liedenart Commander—A. A Newwne | deting Master amd Rewtver itor — saves Boon A ong Matter —3 W Mwnn vere Atridant Poynaster— homer © Puree j <iony Auge Deipeee a. temenes | am Avsietanie Pamert fran wre uot M user's Madetandon nares not Poser Mor | Paymater's Clare Charen ¥. haben | Comronnt —The guabust Cheraee ber erred’ at fe | too W108 DPOKe@ Oreme wher. | MowrooMMnT.— The guabast Mosigowe 7 bar rei cnred | to Bowie (rot Reraiee after privatonrs statement | Conn OF TO Nav t <A eomianeo | the comfitiog Of the savy op to July 1, 1668, mae been made, ALO WING Unad ioe tae reo mat nearly one bindred aad forty vemenia bel bee (ortrw preesly as 00-0f-war, and of (here nearly Oly are irom clade, Many Of the purchased steamers ae now a for midable as oavy Dullt eratt. There ore, sil told, shout five hundred aid Uhirty vessels cow reg Meret, &) Drmg Sased 5 — ™ Ran 4 Heng Ch “ We have uly ole ot (0 thounend tone cod epee —i any oo fest rate ron clade, But there are auna of teen wh Loud bere by menee, leven frat clam wemrnore chat a, vam | THE BATTLE FIELD AT GETTYSBURG. SCENES AFTER THE FIGHT. APPEARANCE OF THE GROUND. HAVOC OF THE ARTILLERY. The Lines of Assauit and Defence. CONFIGURATION OF THE SCENES OF THE SLAUGHTER. COUNTRY. nl e Effects of the Musketry in gine Forest. The Grand Charge and Repulse of the Louisiana Tigers. The Rebel Cannonade of One Hun- and Thirty Guns. THE GRAVES OF THE HEROES, ae, &e., de. Mr. Thomes W. Hnos's Despatch. Grrvvewuna, Pa., July 6, 1863. At the time of writing you yestorday I had not visited the entire battie fleid which is horealter to be one of the proud spots of our national history, ‘To day I have passed from end to end of the whole ground where the lines of battle were drawn, The place bears evidence of having | Deon the acene of a flerce struggle. The shocks of those two masses of humanity, surging and remurging the ono against the otbor, could hardly pass without leaving thelr traces tn feartul charactors, At Waterloo, at Wagram j and at Jena the wheat grows more luxuriantly and the corn shoots its stalks furthor towards the sky than before the great conflicts that revdered those folds Guioun. The fleids of Gettysburg and Aptictan hereatter shall mwre bountifully reward the farmer as Me tile the woll, which has been made richer by the outpoured blood of thousands of America’s sous, YROM THE TOWN To THE RATTLE PERLD. Passing out Of Gettyeburg by the Baltimore turnpike, we come in 4 fow stope ty the entrance of the cometry Little of the enclosure remains sa @ wicket gate way, from which the gates bave been torn. The neat | wooden feuce first thrown down to facilitate the move | ment of our artillery became absorbed for fuel and in Various other uses, as (he soldiers made their eamp on the apot. A Lew palings routtered carclessly around are all that remain, The cemetery was such as ie usually to befvund near thrifty towns of the size of Gettysburg. Nove ‘of the monuments aud adoruings were highly ex- | peosive, though al! Were neat, and many of them border | ‘ei on the costly, The place was kept with considerable | eare, ax te evidenced by the few tracer of borticulture | that remain. The eye ie arrested by a notice prominently | peated forbidding the destruction or matilation of any | sbrab. tree or stone about the place, under severe penal. ties. The defiance that war makes agginst the civil law, | and the overthrow of many of society’* customs, i# | loreibly apparent as one perusos those warning lines. | TOACKS OF 1MK SIR UUGLE AT TH CRMETEAY. Monuments and headstones lie here and there over turned. ven, once carefully teuded by wome loving | band, have been trampled by horses’ feet umtil the ves tiges of verdure have disappeared The neat and trained shrubbery tas vanished, or i» but a broken avd withered masse of tangled brush | wood On ove grave liek s dead artillery horse, | feat decomposing under the July «un lie the torn garments of some wounded soldier, stained | and saturated with his blood bearing the words + Mary, Acro # nal! beadetone, To the momery belo iia, He the fragments of @ musket #uaitered by a can ow In the centre of 4 xpace encioved by an irow taining 4 half dozen graven ® (ow rails are still standing where they wore erected by our mliiers | and nerved fo support the sbelter tents of a bivouseking wind. A family shaft bas heen broken in (ragmente by a abo!) and only the bave remains, with » portion of one afier stowe felt the effects of od pon the creme of Ue hit! 1 thundered and foot and horse soldiers tramped the sleeping phoo of the dead Uther ded sre resting here, and many @ the coment aluve those Ineeription thereou the f. doer that w suided (0 thane ele mate puldier ttt Lives t or hilton which thi cemetery ia & wom ated waa (he tre of ou w Had (he sebels beew able to carry this point they md the whole battle To pierce our line bere wae Low's | woeld have (oreed of inte retreat world have been Jom vor, aud be threw hit bem brigades agninat i. Wave after weve of living valor rolled op that slope roll pack again under the deadly fire of or aril wfantry War ou the bila Witla to the rghit oF the cavaetery, where opourred the charge of the tans brigade of Lweiama Tigers, Tt wen their boast that tvey ore never yet (Colled in an attempt take a battery but o ted & defeat and pearly an nihilation. sad snd dispirited they mourn their repalwe and torribie b meow at the “ ne perme Frew Une samemnit of th large poriion OF the bebe ground Spread out before Lue tyectator. im framt ond at hur (eet lier the awa of Cetiytburg, Containing in quiet timer a population of four or Give ihoossed seals it le wot more than a hovdret yards Ww the bow the ge of the vlage whee toe sarjane tere won place, Tw suey > The erent this occasion they Ku weront te roeow th of t b vide by a gently slop b the reve * hom beeper om et rid £ onch ridge * Aletant » pred three tai r more from the other there ridges cae t toc Of tmitle ow the wncund and third deye were f Whe robes Hine beleg on the ridge tH the westward The ome Curate, Gh eotly [ram enr lf hand, aed omeni ied Oy cat Own mn, bas bot Mitte timber open it, white thas bed by the rebels «om beast @ erverah groves f areaiar on an exes. im owe oh thete the Penney tyanla Cohinge e OUNOR ETH, SUM I anoLber We Keen Ube Thaw erat Howleary. Hall way between the reigns « rumme o large wick Woking be ret, end tetlet «b& ond frame otrwetwree, Two miler wt 1 hand rie 8 tharp primed eveting Enews to lee inhalitanes tne region ao Reems FN. lhe oie Ore weeded wed the foreet stretchen from lx bare errem (he valley to ine ote of tee seater ree ve rere ror eee seth tek We Cupmed thet the space beoweem the Fietgee 0 on eye0 plae, shaven wihjihe my the and love a GrOUy ned wD Linnie paguiarty, but ie no place le iM etenp of » Wore 4 tot for itm voemintormity sof for the ceonsiamal eprint ingot tren over ite werthos, \ cowld be compared ws poten f rolling prairie in minare To the eovih wer < tee farther teen the mountain rege hich the rete hel their 1, Poughe mrmee A tbe ot ant er wore ty fod barks beditg ee tog vent be Ou another | of battle and the key lo the whole pai | }e 4 thet the | ie lying Gone heim we PRICE THREE W : CENTS Here the joow was very heavy. and tho seminary rhows the foariul nature of the riruggle. 1k8 walle are por ora: fed with shot and shell, and the bricks idemted by numerous bullet marks, ‘Its windows abow the effect of vemaine bo abut out the t now in use according pied ay a hospital b: the rebels nt the Gospel to @ receptacle of rebel wounded is jedeed = The Pennsylvania oly has been occupied, and the instruction of the students is neglecied for the prevent, PosInON OF A MATTERY In parsing from the cemetery along the crest of the Fidge whero our lino of battle stood} Brat came apon the position cccupled by some Of the batterios, This fa shown by the numerous dead horses lying unburied and by the large mounds which mark where others have been slightly covered up, . There are additional traces of an artillery fight, flere ix a broken wheel of a gun carriage, al exploded cain merous peculiarly evlore fixed ammmuoittion, In ty ment, with the name Company G," written om the fly leaf, gunners have disappeared, the latier are now pursuit of the enemy, others with the colume moving are puffering in the hemp and till others are romting whore the bugle’s revellie #ball Lever awaken them, DRM ENCIS HY THE ROAD ALD Retween the cemetery and the town and at the foot of the ridge where 1 #tand rune the road leativg to bm moteburg It is not # turupyke, bat a eommoa dist aw it leaves the main street leading ini pt of the hill, On the Fiwewhero on both skies there in ft ays dutarail fence A portion of our sharpehooters took Position behind thie wall and erected traverses to pro tect them from a tanking Are up the whould the pepe A at tems to move vad from Gettysburg These travorker cled oat right He to the wall, by makiog a crib’” of fence: roils, two feet ig and the saine dirtanes apart, and thea Alling jt up with dirt Farther along on tho rood 1 find tho raile from the western side of tha road plied nat the fence ‘on the east, Bo ax to form a breastwork two or three feet io he ght—« fow spaderfal of dirt serve to fil the inter ttieoe. Thin defence was thrown up by the rebelg at the time (bey wore bolding the line of the roads, RVIDENCH OF NOT WORK Moving to toe left I fad atl! more severe traces of ar Ulery thing Twenty-seven dead horses on yee of Jere Little more than One aore Ie evidence of heavy work Some Of thet w by | been completely: t pecaliar splintering ner that marks (he course of projectile Kreen wood Clone by whore this Sghting took place are piled 4 large number of markets and cartr boxes that have beou | Collected from the field, Go le work har been | done th thas gathering the debrin of the battle, but it is by ne means complete, Over all the ground are scattered: muskets, bayonets and sabres, car own being Indiserim!- nately mingled with (howe of the rebels, AURAL PLAC OF THR PALL My vext advance to the left carries me where the ground @ thickly etadded with graves, In one gi i | count a dovea graves of the Twentiett § near by thoee of the Goo Hundred and Thirty seventh Now York, and close at hand am equal number the Twelfth New Jersey. Care has beon taken to ® headboard at each grave, with @ legible inscription thereon, showing whose fewains are feeting benoash. ‘The headboard ie arually made from the remnant of a atin bayo served ite parpose and become unefe) In & fow instances they appear Lo yeew made from froah tumber, with apeocial refe ‘On one board the eomrarten of bame wae painted, On another wan a bran oe waring the woliler’s game in heavily stamped Lore ARTUR DRRRNCRS, ‘The line of breastworks cootinaes, From the centre of our powition (ar away tO the extreme left, our men threw 4 which to resist the ; Alightly with dirt direction works of arth and behind whieh the men were to fant. nearly to the base of Konnd Hil! an skirts that elevation, They were thrown day Bight, after the First and Mloventh corpe driven back the town Tt was General plan to compel Uke enemy to make an attack, and yurpeme the works were thrown up, Ab the sane the rebele were uot idle, They threw op a tine of four miles jn length in #ome “CaN o: great are For muob of the way t to i 5 Fi i fl f iit a 53 ii q make the attack. fervor umbere upon thelr arcoypn & etrony powition of their own choosing Their be particalar were pot fwifiied. Err OF Te SHOTWORTE PRO ROTER Moy ing #Fii! to the felt, | found aa orebard in whieh the fighting appears to have been tn the extreme ArUllery «hot bad proughedt [hrough the ground ip every direction and the trees did net by any means escape the fury of the storm. The halle of \roe, maid by officers present to be a medihedtien of the Whitworth projectile jay everywhere scattered. The rebels must have been well plied with (bw species of ammunition, and they evideotiy onedite no «paring land At one time twelve of these belts lying on a space bot Aft J was told that the forest in rear of our of there abot that artery fire has herewtore been CRM OD the action, The excellent, but | am told that om the was not accurate Why it war ao ie narne The defenons throwu © | of visit, They cons caurthworks. ang in « few theta lay Uhe"debrie of battle scattered everywhere Vieces Cutuing tattered shelter tents _— «ar: ern verack Fides, canteens pierced by allete, fete in conf wri. pyal bleed. the fragments of clothing tore from wourded heroen bore ey The grvund was deaply eat by he artiery ae it perforined ite eveletions | es A mile from cur comtral peemen, Om the erest of the hill at the comer ue ft whest aed near ten © large tract, oo whieh com growing boxoriantiy be pro the battle. The wheat wae fearfully wamplee by De Wars ying foot of the dense mwnee of tafantry as they changed therr powitions during the battle tn the eorn | fel artiliory had bent stationed, and changed We paition ay fien ae Lhe onemy Obtained a range, Mardiy «hill Of corn # left im itn printing laxuriance eoraped (be hoot or the whent, ae the to place har nee teen oft Iw Goring the Right bivoone Rubee) neat to Not a rtalk of wheat in apright ts blade of on maine wninjeeed, all hae fallen long before the time of hareest, Acetoer harvest, in ebien death war the teajay bes been gathered ale The AeACLY Om Tae LOT F: fe (re Out @xtretne lett Ube frvintet women Ahoneatel fo@t elevation risew tow arte tee wt tbe co mtry (ally off ino the mvantann the Vettes sed serene ib inte Virginie. quite tterp and dealt of ascent, end f 7 k f i i bahun, oo which the ltt of oar om The culty amenuitod thie pelmt Wit grent fury throwing bis divuione que after the other sgainet it ‘Thely eerie were of PO mvell Cur men defended their sen the dash of the emevetle -abamre of overcome the valor at Mee samen eoattored tnt wnat hom, Nearly to tbe heft tween the crests at ¥ Aroand Unie Owe lag (i jooet at Waterko At ooe titoe 1 war te the retet 0, sed war Reromiy stundied by our men mere Lereed mt Abe ad Abell, imme of Ue lntier ding *hhn, sot tnnking doton, The Chen wee Aatiered by rifle Wallen ced at the weetwork Taare Castimneny te the every aie nee Coe herpehenars were in every ren, and : co det Cuno’ by the expuaion of eben the mieten epared (he widiery destroyed — The woe driven (rien the beme, sad the pedsion wes uw one men They it tare were dimiodged We im the ele reer ie heeee was the preattioe of be (ee beltoren dering « portion of the siteck spew vet «Wiftron © thet Reree fe deg om the trans, exon 0) 50 Ourmn sim, he yet the cfieme hove mate 60 sttemngt 0 bury the po tofyiee ome «A over the Beld Gre nemerou: ten te Omgity, mkert guthbering whatever te of va A tole are merely ih same of retem, brat Che intel thew are bearing ©68y kay and everything time teeny comevier of proumiery viles Here te rtrd | Get a cquntry ieee copege! © cette (he harness from won Nin ead vabinty bars, ate peoparing Mo emery + (roan Ube Beet. Anrttee tas colterted @ tn te ay tropgat by mobiiers i the Seat Of the Cugngement Ser walks past ine with three Of the bent pusteets hee ons O04 oo ie toh hemtrian hare very pre any eee wre they eam Nake from viemors a tat ew ve the eo orn ememt. wns = atone Femntaling tbe enigeme care rool Cut yeaa (Vom Comerary 10 A ew the putty by what | came, but take « Te ee ae ihe etew thet the Garges were mate te te ve vot peition, Much viol wae poured ov (bone V0 paella OF lawl — Mowt of the Gand eve - ed where thay fell, of pathared tn Vitie ehorters cnet one aptenting tre or bete cutape of beams of (he tee Gand wre etl! nenvered The fret \ neete my Gene | Come opm puttenly, ae | encom’ » the tet» ck wotme Waren or Sum took in tevighht = ing, We i tying beer there to obtain © drengit ead yon tite sath, aid Matching at the Dale " “ch theln haverwert an met, ben hur cite, oot ree 1° pone —aither CONTINUED ON EIGHTH FAGR