Daily State Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3671, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1862 — Page 2

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ION t V nc t'nloti lt imuI be prearrred. üomocratic Union State Ticket rot CTAT Of fTATK, JAM KS 8. ATIION, Of Marion County. ro arnnrn or täte, JOSKl'II KI ST INK, Of Fountain County. ro& TacAsiar. or täte, MATTHEW L. IWETT. Of Daviess County. rOl ATTOI.tIT GL3EKAL, OSCAR Ii IIOHD, Ot Decatur Comty. ro, MTiiiXTitDiiT or rt utic ixsTaucrto, SAMUEL L. HUGO. Of Allen County. Thr Democratic Nfate Tfas Convention The proposed MtM Convention of the Demo racy and conservative citizens of Indiana tobe hehl in th'ucity on Wednesday, the 20th of July, proruUe to be the Urged and most imposing ever sembled within the State. The call is everywhere favorably received, with the assurance that it will meet with a farorable response from all who desire to maintain the Constitution as it is an to perpetuate the Union as it was. With great pleasure we announce that the Hon. Jon J. CairraMDUi, of Kentucky; Hon. W. A. RiciiaeI'HO, of Illinois; Hon. Johx S. Carlile, U. S. Sent tor from Western Virginia; aud Hon. Ciiablis A. Wicatirrr, of Kentucky, have accepted the invitation of the Central Committee to be present and address the Convention. Mr. CairrisDE says "that nothing shall prevent his attendance except some providential circumstance." The Democracy of Indiana we know will tnrn oat en masse to welcome these distinguished citizens, whose devotion to the Constitution and the Union.ajid elevated andslf-aacrifking patriotism none can question. Arrangement will be made by the committee with the railroad companies leading into this city tu run half-fare traius for the accommodation of all who may desire to attend. We appeud the Hon. W. A. Richardson's letter of acceptance, who is known to the Democracy of the nation as the life-long and most intimate friend of the late Senator Douglas: Washington, Jtdy 3, 1SG2. J. J. BtioHAM, K.-KJ , Secretary, kc. Dear üir: I am in receij of yours of the 2th of June asking me to be present at a Ma? Convention at Indiau.ipoli.-i on the 30th of thii month. I accept the invitation with pleasure. There are many strong tie existing to bind me to the Democracy of Indiana. I remember gratefully and hall while I lire the devotion with which their rcpre tenUtivesstoodbymeat Charleston and Baltimore in support of the great an 1 lamented Douglas. As they fought by my side then, so I am willing to render them faithful service now. Our battle is for the Constitution as our Fathers made it and for the Union born of that Constitution, and if our great leader was alive to-day his roice would be heird as in time gone by cheering on the movement in which the "Democracy and conservative citizens" of Indiana are engaged. Animated by this feeling and actuated by the principles to which my life has been devoted, I shall feel happy and honored to meet and council with the friends of constitutional Government on the 30th int. I have the honor to be your obedient servant. W. A. Richardson. The Eight Day righting He for Ilichmond The Administration has erred in attempting to conceal from the people the result of the eight days fighting before Richmond. In a popular Government there is nothing gained by such a course. Honesty is always the best policy, and the effort te withhold information defeat the rery object which is hoped to be gained thereby. If our arms have met with a reverse, let the people know it, so they may have the opportunity to meet the exigencies which disaster occasions. Fortunately if one source of information is closed, others are still open. From the corres pondenU of the press we learn what those in power have withheld. Overpowered by numbers and a sagacious foe. the Federal array has rc ceived a check in its advance upon Richmond an I compelled to change position. In the terrible conflict which will occupy a promi nent page in history, the two armies fought with unsurpassed bravery, desperation and generalship. The carnage was terrible, for it could not be el her wise when two such armies fought for eight day; but amid all, nothing was developed to tarnish the courage and the gallantry of those engaged in the fierce conflict, and who in common bear the American name. While the Federal artnv has not been defeated, ami in all probability occupies a stronger position now than before the battle, it might have been different if it had been reinforced. With an army equal to the rebel forces, aud we ee no reason why it should not have been, the Fourth of July, lfrb-, might have been signalized by the occupation of Richmond. With every resource and eery facility superior to that of the enemy, we have permitted the foe to outnumber and out general us, when a victory would have i!eiiioralized the cuemy aud hastened the termination of the controversy, if it did not virtually end it. We know not where the responsibility rest for the failure. If the Administration were advised of the superior numbers of the enemy and of the necessity of our army being reinforced, a great and fearful crime rests upon those who withheld the aid and thus jeopardized the interests of the Government. AH accounts agree as to the bravery, tenacity and desperation with which our gallant army fought. The retreat of McClellan across the swamps to James river, in the face ot a much superior foe. has no equal in brillhncy and success. None but an army welt disciplined aud officered could have accomplished it. This terrible fipht lefore Rkhmond illustrates the truth of what has often been stated, that the Administration has never vet comprehended the magnitude of the struggle in which we are engaged or the means necessary to successfully overthrow the rebellion. The annihilation ot the rebel armies should hate been the only njert in view to that end all the energies of the Government should have beeti directed, and no time wasted in discussing collateral isnes or adopting schemes of confiscation and emancipation, uselesstatutes unless we had the power to en foice them. Wisdom sometimes comes by the hardest schooling, and our rulers, after a few more defeats, with the immense sacrifice of blood and treasure which accompany them, ma have their eyes opened. But there must be a change, a different policy in the future mut be adopted, if the Government is saved . President making must eease. Peculation mut stop. Radicalism must, be rooted out and the conservative sentiment of the country rule, if e l'pe for the restoration of the Union. The Generals who are faithfully fighting the buttle of the Union uiu-l be sus tained or all is lot. In conclusion e copy the following from the correspondence of the NewYork Tribune, and ak for the facts and state menu it contains tie careful consideration of e err truly patriotic citizen: The moiemcut will ptobablj be successful.

though its trail will be bloody. The world will regard it as a materly stroke of genius. The army will so iegard it, and wiil fel for its coru-mjiidi-r the admiration and gratitude that saviors of mencirr tnkindie in loyal heirU. But the brilliancy of this movement will not for id instant dazzle the ejes of the wronged and wrathful men of the army of the Potomac, nor will it dazzle the fight of the angry people so as for a moment to obscure their perception of the crime against the nation, which has made this change of base and front imperiously necessary. This crime ia the refusal to reinforce McClellan. I don't care about the question which legislators, sol

diers and roliticians, have debated oT this (eueral's fitness to command. The York and James river peninsula wm not the place for that discussion. The hour of the junction of Beauregard's and Jackson's forces to those of Johnston is not the time for such a debate. I care not for any criticism of Geu. McClellan' campaign oo this Peninsula or on the Potomac. 1 have blows, but not a word, for the untimely casuist, in or out of administrative cEce, who, under the roar of rt-fel cannon sweeping our ranks with shot and hell, meets the demand for aid to this army with a chronological menu re of de' lays at Fort Monroe, at Yorktown, at Witliamsburgh, at Seven Pines. I don't care whether there were delays or no delays whether they were McCIelUn's delays, Quartermaster General's delays, or the delays of the elements! No man, no party, no inter est shall, with my absent or my silence, be permitted to mix up with the sacred, right of an outnumbered American army to demand help from their countrymen and to promptly receive it, collateral questions of fitness, of vigor, of fidelity in commanders. When loyal New York regiments, lifted from their feet by the fire of rebel brigades, cry, out of their wounds and death, for help when the choicest of New England, Michigan and Pennsylvania troops, outnumbered in front and on both flanks by hole divisions of the enemy, beg fof reinforcements, I mj that the blackest crime that power can commit is to stalk upon ti e field of eril and say "Soldiers, I have no faith in your Commander! Let your martyrdom proceed." Andosays this army of the Potomac, and it registers to-night vows of vengeance as it marched in the dark from a position which their diminished nurnben and disabled men prevented them from holding, but which is consecrated to them forever by their sufferings, their libors and their wrongs. The ftolitichin and statesmen who left here to be outnumbered and cut otr from our supplies and the possibility of retreat are doomed men. We here knew that the rebel army before Richmond was being reinforced with the most desperate energy. We knew that Jackson was to come. We knew that the whole power of the Confederate rebellion was being put foith to ac cumulate a force heie which just bv its weight should crush the Union army. Why were not corresponding efforts put forth by the Administration at Washington to slrengtheu our army at least to an equality with that of the enemy t W e being superior to the rebels in population, wealth, and all resources, the neglect to send into any and every field a preponderating advantage on our s:de is of itself a crime, which, had we Roman virtue, would be inexorably punished with the axe. The pickets of both lines firing into each other's bosorus day and night for a whole month of deadly animosity, and ours feeling every successive night and each successive morning that the enemy grew stjonger while we grew weaker officers, men, and civilians keenly conscious that when the rival brigades or divisions locked together in combat, the enemy outnumbered us in a constantly increasing ratio, and developed their settled policy to be to attack in col a runt in mass, because they had tho troops to do it with all of us demanding reinforcements, and demonstrating its necessity, we gnashed our teeth at receiving from President-makers and Convention euginecrs, instead of corps d'armee, a question for debate: Can a civil engineer be a good general? We had no time to debate whether McClellan was a good General or a bad one. He ico our General, and the strong grip of the strengthening foe was upon our throats, and we wanted help. We did not care whether it came to us und.-r Halleck, or Burnside, or was committed to McClellan. Not a single man of us who is not a fool or a slave, is fighting here for the glorification of any commander. We fight for success we fight to save the Republic, and to'sijuelch forever on this continent organized rebellion against the democratic principle. Ohle Democratic Convention The Democracy met in Convention on July the 4th, to nominate a State ticket and to give expression to their sentiments upon the great issues of the day. Gov. Samuel Mkdart wa8 President of the Convention. The Ohio States man in noticing the proceed ings remarks: Every county in tho State was represented, and many of them by immense delegations, and the nominations and the addresses and resolutions will, we think, meet the cordial approval and support of the conservative men of Ohio, of all parties, as they did the unanimous sanction of the Convention: The following ticket was nominated: Judge of the Supreme Court, Rufus P. Ranney ; Secretary. of State, Wm. W. Armstrong; Attorney General, Lyman R. Critchfield; School Commissioner. Cltas. W. H. Cathcarl; Member of the Board of Public Works, James Gamble. THE PLATKOKM. Judge Moore, from the Committee on Resolutions, submitted the following report, which was read by Judge Thirmax, of the same committee, and was enthusiastically applauded throughout: To the People of Ohio: In the exercise of the right guaranteed to us by our Federal and State Constitutions, we have this day assembled together in a peaceable manner to consult for the common good, and. rejecting all mere partisan feelings, fo give that utterance to our earnest and sincere convictions that the state of the country seems to us to demand. The history of the Democracy of Ohio is a record of unceasing and unvaried devotion to the Union of the Suites; ever fulfilling the injunction of the Fathers of our country, to "cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it; accustoming themselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of our political safety and' prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever miglit suggest even a suspicion that it could, in nny eve;t, be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to aleu ate any portion of our country from the rest or to cufreMe the sacred ties which link together the various parts." Incited solely by this love for the Union, and for the country it so signally blessed, arid relieving wiih Andrew Jackson that "the foundations of the Union must be laid in the affections of the people, in the security it gives to lite, liberty, character, and property in every quarter of the country, und in the fraternal attachments which the citizens of the several States bear to one another as members of one political family, mutually contributing to promote the happiness of each other," the Democracy of Ohio have never adopted a sectional platform uor ever cast a sectional vote. Actuated by this enlarged and elevated spirit of patriotism, and esteeming it no dishonor to perpetuate by compromise and concession a Union that was formed aud had hitherto been preserved by those means, and trusting that the power o'f patriotism might overcome the madness of ptrty. the Democracy of Ohio, in conjunction with the other conservative men of the country, most earnestlj sought to avert our preeut calamities, and to preserve the Union by peaceable mean?. But when the fell spirit of Abolitiouis.-n at the North and Secessiouism at the South, disregarding the wishes of the majority of the people of both sections, rendered II efforts for a peaceful adjustment meffectual; when the integrity of the Union w as assailed by force ami the country plurped into civil war; wheu the President declared Ins intention to maintain the supremacy of the Constitution by arms and to employ tbem for that purpose alor.e; the Democracy of Ohio, Union meu ia war as Vd as in peace, rallied en masse to the support of the Government- From that day to this they have given to every constitutional measure for the suppression of the re bellion an effective support. Iu the field thev have constituted and yet constitute a moiety, if not more, of the military quota of the State; and there is scarcely a battle ground that does iKt bcr witness to their heroic devotion to lite Union. In the Natioual and State councils thev have granted without hesitation all the men and money demanded by the Government; while as private citizens aid voters at the ballot box they have given to it a moral support more powerful by f ir than was ever before .given by a party to an Administration elevated to power by political opponents. And now, in this sore hour of our

country's trial, its motto is, as it ever has been, "To maintain the Conitilution and preserve the Union." A patty whoe whole hi-tory i iIuls signally il'u-trath e of patriotism, a pirtythit h.n thu sicrificed all mere partisan prejudice and feeling, for the sake of the Republic, needs no defense at our hands against the malignant assaults of its enemies, and is entitled to be heard

with thoughtful attention when it proclaims its sentiments. And the time has come when, in our judgment, that proclamation should be respectfully but distinctly and earnestly made. A little over a year ago. Congress, with an almost entire unanimity, solemnly declared that "Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion and resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is cot waged on their part iu any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend aud maintain the supremacy ot the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to ceae." We need not remind you with what satisfaction this declaration was hailed in the loyal States; how it served to fill the ranks of the army, to strengthen the hands of the Government, aud to infuse spirit and fortitude into the breasts of the loyal men of the South who yet clung to the hope of seeing the Union restored iu all it pristine vigor and supremacy. And had there been no departure from the spirit of this declaration; had no doctrines been adraneed in high cr influential places subversive of the most cherished liberties guaranteed by the Constitution to the peopler had there been no corruption so monstrous as to appal the nation by its magnitude, and were there no danger to our institutions to be apprehended in the future and to be carefully guarded against, it would not be necessary for us now to address you. But the powerful and persistent cfTortä thai hive been and are yet being made to convert the war into a mete crusade against slavery; the fearful strides taken by Congress at its present session, in that direction, and the yet more alarming measures proposed and warmly i advocated; the audacious attempts to overawe the President whenever he hesitated to yield to the demands of the radicals; the unmeasured abuse that has been heaped upon almo-t every (Jen eral in the field, however meritorious, who lias declined to become an emissary of Abolitionism; the daily promulgation of doctrines utterly destructive of the Constitution and of civil liberty, and the incessant denunciation of every conservative man, however loyal, who does not subscribe to them; all give a warning that ought not to pass unheeded by the people, and require of all who desire to see the Constitution maintained aud the Union perpetuated an expression of their sentiments. We, therefore, the representatives of nearly or quite 21 M ,0(I0 voters of the State of Ohio, who have as deep a stake in the welfare of the country and in the preservation of the Union as any other equal number of men, in the exercise of our duty at'd constitutional rights, und with the desire of upholding instead of w eakening the just powers of our Government, and anxious to unite nil men, without regard to their former party associations, who agree with us iu opinion, and to treat all loyal men who honestly differ from us with becoming respect, do hereby declare our own opinions and those of our constituents, as follows: 1. Rtsnlctd, That we are, as we ever have been, the devoted friends of the Constitution and the Union, and we have no sympathy with the enemies ot either. 2. That every dictate of patriotism requires that, in the terrible struggle in which we are engaged for the preservation of the Government, the loy al people of the Union should present mi unbroken front, and therefore all efforts to obtain or perpetuate party ascendency by forcing wrty issues upon them that necessarily tend to divide and distract thm, as the Abolitionist are constantly doing, are hostile to the b&t interests of the country. 3. That the Abolition party, by their denunciation of the President whenever he has mani fested a conservative spirit, by their atrocious defamation of our Generals who were exposing their lives for their country, and who needed and merited its hearty support, by their acts and declarations tending to promote insubordination in our armies, and a want of confidence in their commanders, and by their persistent representations of all conservative men in the loyal States as sympathizers with the rebels, have given immense aid and comfort to the rebel cause, and encouraged them to hope for ultimate success. 4. That we have seen with indignation the intimation of the Governor ot Massachusetts that that State will be slow in furnishing her quota of troops unless the war be carried on for the purposes of emancipation. When the nation is straining every nerve and pouring out its blood and treasure like water to preserve its existence, it is monstrous that a conditional Unionism that places Abolitionism alove the Constitution, and the success of a party above the integrity of the republic, should thus rear its head in high places and seek to dictate the conduct of the war. 5. That while we would mete out merited and legal punishment to the plotters of and leaders in the rebellion, we are opposed to the contemplated sweeping and i idiscriminate acts of confiscation and emancipation by Congressional legislation or Executive proclamation be cause: 1st. We do not believe that such acts would be constitutional. 2d. We believe that by driving the rebels to desperation, and converting Union men at the South into rebels, they would have the effect to indefinitely prolong the war, afford a pretext for foreign intervention, and render the restoration of the Union next to, or quite impossible. 3d. Because, if practicable and carried out they would engender a feeling of bitterness between the different sections of the Union that would not be allayed for generations to come, and that would be an ever-presertt cau-e of danger and disturb nice to the public peace, a source of perpetual weakness in the Governmet, and an ever present incentive to foreign powers to interfere in our domestic concerns, and to promote a disruption and overthiow of the republic. 4th. Because they would destroy, in a great degree, if not entirely, for many years to come, the industrial interests of a large section of the country, and most injuriously effect the interests of the whole people. 5th. Because the immediate and indiscriminate emancipation of the slaves would be an act of inhumanity to them. Cih. Because such an emancipation would throw upon the border free States, and especially upon Ohio, an immense number of negtoes to compete with, aud underwork, the white laboicrs of the State, and to constitute, in various ways, an almost or quite unbearable nuisance, if suffered to remain amoi.g us. And we would deem it moct unjust to our gall ant soldiers to see them compelled to free the negroes of the South aud thereby fill Ohio with a degraded population to compete with these same soldiers upon their re turn to the peaceable avocations of life. C. That, entertaining thee view?, we cannot too strongly condemn the refusal of our Geueral Assembly to prahibit by law the immigration of negroes into this State. 7. That we are opposed to being taxed to pur chase the freedom of nero slaves. With all due j respect for the opinions of others, we think that i such a measure would be unconstitutional, imJ politic and unjust. I Thtt the unparalleled frauds and peculaj tious upon the Government, revealed by the investigating committees, and otherw ise, demand i the sternest condemnation of every honest man j and friend of the country, and call lor the severi et punishment prescribed bv the laws. 9. That the patriotism, courape aud skill manifested bv our arnves has never been exceeded iu ! tlie history of the world, and deserves and re ! ceives our highest a J miration and giatitude. 10. That the refusal of the General Assemi b!y to permit our gallant soldiers in the field j the right to vote, was a great and unjustifiable ; wrong to them, that ought not to have been ; committed. J 11. That while we will, as heretofore, discouri age all meie factious opposition to the Adminis- ! tration.at.d will continue to give our earnest supi port to all proper measures to put down the re- ! bellion, and will make all the allowances that the necessities of the case require of good citizens, we protest against all violations of the Constitution. 12. That we hold sacred, as we d all other j parts of that instrument, the following provis- ! ions of the Constitution of the United States: j "The trial of all crimes, except in cases of imj peachrnent, shall be by jury; and such trial shall j be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been comn-itted." j "Congress shall make no law respecting an es tablishtnentof religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of

speech or of the pr; or the right of the people peaceably to ascnJ!e, and to petition the Goveminent for a relie-s of jrin ance."

"Tue jowers u t delegifed to the United States by the Uoiistismion, nor prohibited by it to j the fct ite, are re-erved to the States respectively or to the people." "The rihtof the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the plac to be searched and the persons and things to be seizel. . "No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land and naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war and public danger; nor to be deprive ! of liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation. "In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by au impartial jury ot the State and District wherein the crime shall have been committel, which District shall have been previously ascertained by law; and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory proces fur obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense." And we utterly condemn and denounce the repeated and gross violation by the Executive of the United States of the said rights thus secured by the Constitution; and we also utterly repudiate and condemn the monstrous djgma that in time of war the Constitution is supended, or its powers in any respeet enlarged beyond the letter aud true meaning of that instrument. 13. That we view with indignation and alarm the illegal and unconstitutional seizure aud imprisonment, for alleged political offenses, of our citizens without judicial process in States where such process is unobstructed, but by the Executive order by telegraph or otherwise, and call upon all who uphold the Union, the Constitution aud the laws, to uuite with us iu denouncing and repelling such flagrant violation of the State and Federal Constitutions and tyrannical infraction of the rights and liberties of American citizens; and that the people of this State cannot safely and will not submit to have the freedom of speech aud freedom of the press, the two great and essential bulwarks of civil liberty, put down by unwarranted and despotic exertion of power. McCLELLAN'S MOVEMENTS. CHANGE OF BASE Or OPERATIONS. The Situation ittforc the Change A SERIES OF BLOODY BATTLES. TJHLU SITXJA.TI02ST ISTOW. The fearful suspense that so long has trembled over the nation is at last relieved. The army of the Potomac, after a series of blood v battles and terrible suffering, is at length free from the swamps of the Chickahomiuy, and ecurely posted on the high lands and bluffs of James River. All eyes in the loyal States have been turned upon Richmond for months, where Gen. McClel lax, w ith an insufficient force, has been moving upon and menacing the rebel capital. Since the battles of May 31st and June 1st, when he beat back the massive columns hurled upon him, it has been evident to every reflecting mind that his situation was a very critical one, and that he must be heavily reinforced to make success os sible. The dashing demonstration in his rear, towards White House, disclosed the fact too that his base of supplies could be reached by the enemy, and with his force he could not advance his long line of investment, or even hold it without extreme danger. In short it was deriionstrated that he could be flanke!, but whether the move mcut to the James River was forced upon him prematurely or not by the advance of the enemy, we can only conjecture. The position of his army in his old line On the Chick ahominy is clearly stated by the correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial: TUE SITUATION'. You remember that the army was pressing hard upon Richmond. Every crmmunication to the press assured you that it was not stiong enough to execute the task. For weeks the symptoms of insufficiency of power manifestly increased. But the army pressed so closely upon Richmond it could not be withdrawn without great peril. Gen. McClellan was committed to "do al he could," with what he had, while he hojed for aid. If the enemy did not reinforce, he might accomplish his aim. So the w ork was pressed, while the people clamored that it was slow. The right wiug, consisting of McCallV, Morel's, and Sykcs's divisions, less than 23,000 strong, was well posted on the left bank of the Chickahomiuy, from Beaver Dam creek to a point below New Bridge. Several military bridges formed the avenues of communication between the two portions of the army separated by the river. The center, consisting of Smith's, Sedgwick's, and Richardson's divisions, stretched in line of battle from Golding's, on the banks of the river to a point south of the Yorktown railroad. The left wing, consisting of Hooker's, Kearney's, and Couch's divisions, stretched from Richardson's left to a point considerably south of the Williamsburgstage road, on the borders of White Oak Swamp. The whole bne waa protected by strong breastwoiks and redoubts. The necessary extent of the line left but few troops for supporters. Casey's, now Peck's, sadly re duced division, now guarded Bottom Bridge, the railway bridge, and were assigned to other similar duty. Our line of battle on the light bank of the Chickahominy, as I have informed you, pressed so close to the rebel lines that neither could advance a regiment outside of their respective breastworks without provoking battle. On Wednesday, June 25, General McClellan made the first distinctly offensive movement, by directing Gen. Hooker tc take np an advanced position on Fair Oaks Farm, near the Williamsburg road. It provoked a sharp resistance, w hich we overcame, and accomplished our object, lt is necessary to note this fact particularly, because it bears strongly upon the question whether Gen. McClellan had then distinctly contemplated chancing his base of operations to James nver a perilous thing to attempt before; more so now that w e w ere still nearer the enemy. It was pronounced an "important achievement by Gen. McClellan himself, because it gave him advantages over the rebel position which he had not enjoyed before. Sometime during the night, however, tidings were received of a movement of Stonewall Jackson on our right wing. It was deemed hazardous to maintain the advantage of the previous day, and the line was ordered to resume its old position. Thursday afternoon the anticipated attack upon our right wing was made and handsomely repulsed; but it was discovered that it had not been made by Jackson's com tnand. Information was received that Jackson was sweeping down the Pamunkey, pmbobly to capture military stores at the White House, to cutoff our communications with our water base, and menace our rear. Orders were given at once to destroy all public property at the White House and evacuate that point. Matters began to assume a critical appearance, and danger culrai nated in the disaster of Friday. It was then !ully determined to "change the base of operations to James river." It seems to me this was compulsorv. The enerav bad turned our riht, evidently outnumbered us in great dispropoition, was too strong in front for us to break through, and was in position to crush us in -front and rear and, perhaps, intended to strike on our left flank. Apparently his army was numerous enough for that grand combination. The great retrograde move ment was really begun last Friday evening, by the transfer of headquarters from Trent's Bluff to Savage S:ation, but the grand exodus did not commence until Saturday, and did not swell into full proportions till nightfall of that day. The reader being supposed to be familiar with the war map, will now follow tlie course pursued by the army. In crder to preserve the morale of the army as far as possible, and obtain supplies of ammunition and subsistence, it was determined to carry through all the wagons loaded, and the ambulance train making a mighty caravan vastly increased by artillery trains. There was but one narrow road to pursue. It struck almost due south froni the Williamsburg road, through White Oak Swamp to the Charles City road, into which it del touched about eight mile from Tur kev Bend in James river. The course then lav

up the latter road towards Richmond, where it struck a little southwest by the Quaker road, wliith tc rrn.ti.it 1 in New Market rond, leading from Richmond. The riv er w but a short (lis tance south, and Malvern Hill, a beautiful, lofty bluff overlooking the river and command ng the surrounding country, being our coal. Althongh there was but a single road with slight exception it hid the advantage of coursing through White Oak Swamp, upon which we might rely in fome degree for protection of oui flanks. There was greater d inger that the enemy might cut us off by moving columns down the Charles City, Central, or New Market roads, or all three, but these chances were necessarily a crept cd. Gen McClellan acted upon the supposition that the cnemv would not guess his determination until he was able to defeat their movements. At all event, it was the only hopeful course. tecause the eucmy was watching for him on the left bank of the Chickahominy. Tne road wij a narrow funnel for such a mighty torrent of trains and men, but fortunate! v it was smooth and drT. In order to make the movement successfully, it was necessary to fight at the outset, becaue it was was morally certain that our line of battle could not be withdrawn from the front without sucking the enemy after them so that due preparations w ere made. rata oaks. Supposing the situation as given above to be correct, ami it is bv all odds the cleaiest we have

yet seen, the advance made on the right bank or from the center was to cover the movement contemplated. The ground gained was not held and on Thursday, the 26th, the enemy in strong force attacked the right wing posted on the left bank of the Chickahominy. This tight is called the BATTLE OK MECH ANtCSVILLE. The extreme right wing consisted of McCall's Pennsylvania reserves with four batteries of artillery. Gen. Poi ter's corps, consisting of Morrill's division and Sykcs's regulars, 5,000 strong, with Duryet's Zouaves, were at New Bridge within supporting distance. General Stevenson with one regiment of cavalrv and two of infantrv c was stationed as a corps of observation to check the flanking movement of the enemy and if practicable to decoy him to the Pamunky river. About noon McCall's position was atticked by a heavy force consisting of Hill's, Longstreet's and Anderson's divisions under Gen. Lee. The fight was opened with artillery at long range, but the enemy findly discovering our su periority in this arm, foreshortened the range and came into close conflict. He was evidently provoked at his own inefficiency, since his shells were not destructive in our intrenchments, while our gunners played upon Iiis exposed ranks with fearful effect. The fight seemed to increase in fury as it progressed, and it finally became the most terrific artillery combat of the war. The uproar was incessant and deafening for eours. At times it seemed as if fifty guns exploded simultaneously and then ran offat intervals into splendid file tiring if I may apply infantry descriptive terms to cannonading. But no language can describe its awful grandeur. The enemy at last essay ed a combined movement. Powerful bodies of troops plunged into the valley to charge our lines, but our men. securely posted, swept them away ruthlessly. Again and again the desperate fellows were pushed at the breastworks, only to be more cruelly slaughtered than before. Mem time our forces had been strengthened by Griflin's brigade, w hich increased the volume of infantry fire, and Martindale's brigade came up to be read v for emergencies. At dark it was evident the rebels had enough much more than they bargained for. Their infantry fire had entirely subsided, and it was obvious that they were withdrawing under cover of their art'IIery. Our own batteries, which had opened in full cry at the start, had not slackened an instant. Comprehending the situation fully now, the cannoniers plied themselves with tremendous energy to punish the retreating foe. We have no sure means to determine how many were slaughtered, but prisoners who were in the fight, and an intelligent contraband who escaped from Richmond the next day, and who was all over the field, are confident that 3,000 fell. Our own loss was eighty killed and less than 150 wounded. The conduct of our troops was admirable, and the gallantry of the officers conspicuous. BATTLE. OF GAINES MILLS. It was ascertained that Jackson had not joined Lee on on Thursday, and it was presumed that he was sweeping down the Pamunkey to strike at the line of supplies. Gen. Stoneraan was sent to watch iu tint direction, and orders were given to evacuate the White House. The trains of the right wing were withdrawn to Trent's Bluff, and the sick and wounded to Savage Station. By day light Friday morning, the 27th, McCall hail fallen back to Gaines' Mills, his left joining the right of Butterfield's brigade resting in the woods and near the swamps of the Chickahominy. The attack was made by Lee, reinforced by Stonewall Jackson, about 1 o'clock, with terrible impetuosity. The enemy, massing his columns, hurled them on our lines, first on the right, and then on the left, and then on the center. His force was overwhelming. In addition to Jackson's armv, .'i5.000 strong, he had four divisions to 30,000 a'll told of our troops. We had fourteeu batteries, eighty-four pieces in the field, and lost tw euty of them. We lost 7,000 men, killed, wounded, and missing, and the enemy's loss, it is said. exceeded onrs. We clip from the New York Herald: A COUNCIL OK WAR. Headquarter tents were moved from Dr. Trent's field, on the bank of the Chickahomiuy, to Savage's station, a mile and a half distant, at dusk on Friday. At night, as the several brigades came over the bridge and clustered on the borders of the swamp, a single tent dotted the hillside, nod in this sat Gen. McClellan. At eleven o'clock a council of war was called in front of this tent, and the several corps Commander?, the Commander-in-Chief and his aids, the Prince de Joinville, the General of Engineers, with other trusted and faithful counsellors, congregated. A large fire had been lighted just beyond the arbor, and the blaze of the lighted knots lit up the faces of the military men within. They sat in a sort of aroor that had formed a pavilion in one of the tents, and the conference was very long and e iruest. Doubtless at that council the first called on the field since the beginning of the war General McClellan presented his plans of reaching James river. The order to fall back was given, and on Saturday the long lines of wagons, ambulances and dusty and tired soldiers took up their sad march. The sick aud wounded were necessarily left behind. TUE BATTLE OF FEACII OBCHABn. At daylight on Sunday our whole line of earthworks had beeu deserted, and our artillery removed a mile to the rear. Here it was judiciously disposed, the batteries marked, and the infantry covered by thicknesses of woods. The spot was a part of the battle ground of Fair Oaks, but it is designated as Peach Orchard Station. At daylight the enemy came eastward on the Williamsburg road, one column advancing down the railroad. They opened from two batteries on the left; but their firing was awkward and ineffective, as likewise their mu?kc;xy, which was close and might have been more serious. When they reached a line ot march, about three hundred yards from our front, the whole terrible fire of our cannon burs, upon them. They staggered, but betöre the lull effect of our discharge was discernible the pieces rang again and their columns were fearfully thinned. For a half hour our fire was so close that it seemed the perpetual echo of a single deafening report a continuous blaze of flame and wall, to which the Confederates replied feeb'y, but with some show of deter mination. Gen. Sumner rode in the thickest of th:s fight, aud the gallant brigade of Meagher wa like a wall of shamrock. Indeed Richardson's division vied with Sedgwick's, and Heitzel man's troops were not behindhand in the rapidity of their discharges and the steadiness of their beb tvior. The whole fight, though it lasted from eight o'clock A. M. to twelve, was like one incident, and it terminated with a loss to our side of not le-s than one hundred and fifty men, to the rebels of not less than one thousand one hundred. The efforts of the enemy to overreach u on the left were made finitely, for we took pain to cover our line of general retreat along the Williams ourg roi.o, ny deploying our leu aiong inai roau i to a rreek that crosses it more than a mile in the 1 rear of Savage's. They endeavored to charge through the brigades of Burns, Dana and Gor man; but the steady fire of such regiments as the Massachusetts 2hh baffled them in that regard. Having held the place uutil, in the judgment of the Generals, our team, heavy artillery and ambulances were far across White Oak Swamp, our troops fell back leisurely to the neighboruood of Savage's Station, and again drew up in order of action. 'Ihe fight of Peich Orchard (fort it was called) wa a decisive victory to the Union troops. It was fought with a small force cint immense odds, and in the rear of the main army that was every moment receding.

THt BATTLE Of SATACES. The battle of Savaces was more sanguinary. It commenced about five o'clock in the attcrnoon and lasted till eleven o'clock at night. The eb els. when we had fallen back Irom Peach Orchard, fiiod, with Urge reinforcements and additional batteries, as well as with several squadrons of cavalaf , toward several roads lead.ng to the Chickahominy, and, covered by the thick timber, were enabled to remain concealed until they had reached a wheat field that stretches from Savages to a dense belt of wo-ls in the direction of the farms of Dr. Trent and Mers. Mickey, Dudley and Couch. Suddenly appear. ng out of the edges of the timber, they opened with rilled cannon npon our forces, drawn up in full view to the south of the railroad. Directly they ran out three batteries to comm indium r-inu in the wheat field, and opened a rapid enfilading fire of shell and p-npe. This was at first so staggering that our men could not form, nor our artillery bring their bttteries into service. The lOCth Pennsylvania regiment was se'zeJ with momentary panic, but soon recovered and did god service. The first named lo-t in the beginning of the fight a hundred killed and wounded men, and a regimert of reel cavalry gt'bpod in and drove the regiment off, so lh:t the wounded had to be resigned. In the mean t;me a rebel brigade was observed stealing down the right, as if wuh the design of flanking our troops by reaching a position on the William burg road. Capt. Pet tit I orce planted two guns Vn the railroad and swept the column with prap and canuister untd it went back to the woods upon a run. Some of the sharpest infantry fighting of the war ensued, in which parts of Sedgwick's, Richardson's, Hooker's, Kearney's and Smith's divisions engaged with various success. The rebels came determinedly across the field, firing as they advanced, until Gen. Sumner ordered our troops up at double quick to a charge. About four thousand of them went off at once with a roar that miglit have drowned ti e musketry. The relels kept their ioitin for a moment and then

fell b ick to the rear of their b itteries. Meagher '5 brigade, however, succeeded in charging right up to the guns of a Virginia battery, two of which they hauled off, spiked and chopped the carriages to pieces. The rGth, 63d and C'Jth participated in this gallant act. It was here that the brave Col. Pierce, of the 29TH Massachusetts regiment, formerly Gen. Pierce of Big Bethel fame, lot an arm. It was taken off by a solid shot. Night came on, but put no end to the carnage. Theeteutdyro.tr of cannon aud the sharp, quick ring of musketry, now bursting into volleys, now degenerating to to that rasping made by file tiring, filled the whole air. The darkness was lit up by the fitful flashes; and to complete the awful picture, the wo ads were set on fire by bursting shells and conflagration painted fiery terrors on the sky. THE LOSSES AT SAVAOE's. The battle of Savage's was much heavier than that ot Peach Orchard. We lost, in addition to our wounded all of whom fell into the possession of the enemy from seven hundred to a thousand men. During: the several parts of the action we took not less than five hundred prisoners, but were coin -el led to let them go for the same reason that operated in the case of our wounded. Still the White Oak Swamps were to pass, and our weary and battle worn soldiers found no rest. THE GREAT BATTLE OF WHITE OAK 6WAJIP. The enemy followed us hard toward White Oak Swamp, the faithful fellows of Heintzelman, Sumner, and Franklin protecting our laggard baggage and artillery. These, indeed, were compelled to keep in line of battle across the country along the whole extent of the retreat, for the enemy was forever endeavoring to turn us upon the t ight and the left. The enemy apjeared on White Oak Swamp in strong force, and directly opened from some twenty masked batteries, that blew up several of Capt. Mott s caissons, dismounted his pieces, and raued a hubbub generally among teamsters, wagoners, cannoniers and infantry. The 20th NewYoikat this time taade their celebrated stampede, for which, next day, the Provost Guard, by order of Geu. McClellan, picked them up and took them to headquarters like so many culprits. However, very soon our light batteries recovered themselves anil vigorously responded to the enemy, w ho was soon at a perceptible disadvantage, so far as accuracy and effect were concerned. Our infantry, too, fell in line, ready to support the batteries or meet half way any attempt of the rebel infantry to push across the creek. Thus the battle progressed till late in the afternoon with serious loss to both sidesmore w ounds from cannon shot perhaps resulting than at any other time in any battle. The rebels made some desperate efforts to cross the creek, but Gen. Smith brought his men up to close quarters with them w henever they dared the contest, and although in each case some of our best aud most beloved soldiers bit the dust, there w ere no signs of holding off. The cannon firing was incessant here, some of the deepest and closest of the war, and the iufantry fire extended along whole columns. THE ENEMY AT CHARLES CITY CROaS ROAOS. The cannonading had continued several hours with fearful effect among our baggage and artillery teams. We bad, however, prevented the enemy from crossing the swamp in our front, aud fondly hoped that he would be unable to pierce its fastnesses at any other point at our right or left. That this hope was ill founded was soon testified by the apiearance of the enemy in great force at Charles City Cross roads, which lies about four miles lrom White Oak Swamp due south, and about a mile and a half or two miles from the James river at Tuikey Island BcDd. He had advanced direct from Richmond eight brigades, the first under command of the redoubtable Geu. Henrv A. Wise, and when discovered at the Cross Roads was endeavoring to work quietly down the river road betweeu our trains, our wounded and the army. At 5 o'clock they engaged the enemy, hidden by woods and the sw elling of hills, and the firing from musketry and field batteries w ere soon intense. The rebels did fatal execution among us, and some of our most valuable officers fell heie, wounded and dying. The men fought well, though half dead with heat, thirst and w eariness. Some broke for the river and plunged in the cool water for an instant, theu emerging rushed back to the fray aud fought like lions. THE OUXBOATS OPEN FIRE. About five o'clock in the afternoon the gunboats Galena, Aroostook and Jacob Bell ojned fire from Turkey Island Bend, in the Jarr river, with shot and shell from their immense rifle guns. The tirt few shots went wide, but the in ui in the Galena's topmast lookout signaled the propter elevation to the guns, and soon they threw among the serried rebels cm the hill their penderous obligations, that cut down whole ranks, spreading confusion, desolation and dismay. The fire went on with the same fatal effects, making music to the ears of our tired men, and consternation among the exultant and blood-thirsty traitors. They (already confident of concluding their work and driving us into the James) began to reel and grow uneasy. Their fire perceptibly slackened; their ranks seemed slow to close up w hen the naval thunder had torn them apart; dis affection and disappointment had already seized upon them, and every tocsin from the Galena added its impetus to the prevaing dread, when IIEITZI.LMA CHARGE! The whole corps of this famous warrior, confident that a recovery of the fortunes of the time could be made, prepared to give another great effort to retrieve the fortunes of the day and the cause of the country. Waterloo did not know such a charge ot horse and foot, while our batteries upon the hill tops, far and near, played in- ( cessaiitly upon the foe. Heintzelman made a little appeal to hi gene-! rals, telling them that in the dash about to be made, their confidence and courage might only ßave the arraj. but do something towards avenging the great number of loyal men who had fallen in the several fatal encounters. The soljiers, poor, heroic, jaded fellows, re- j pponded with a spirit that must have come from hungry heart, and soon the grand corps of Heintzelman was in line, with the gaont, gray figure of its commander galloping down its columns. The enemy anticipated some such dash, for they directed their fiie upon this part of the line if possible more concentrated ly than ever. Then lleintzelmaii passed down the order, aud like the surging of a sea long embosomed in a plain, the column moved, slowly, certainly, vigorously belchiug fire and ball at every step, but never halting until they came so close to the rebels that they might have halloed the name of each, man to man, across the little interval. The latter came up bravely to the offered combat; but there was a destructiveness in our fire, and a vehemence in our tread, that they could not withstand. The fiery brigade of Meagher edged up galUntly on the right, uing the musket right aoldierly, and Gen. Sickles' Kieelsior Brigade, already fearfully cut up, went into the action like a

battalion of fresh Tfteraxs. The bn of Hooter was ably led by hat dt.nruihed cflk er, and General Kearney seem-d nbuju.t., as he wie med hi trier here and there, Iajt urZin h.s m on to the ! The Uic! of dm. Graver. Inclnl'mg some MaMacbtwetts regiment, behaved finely here, but the wlW corps was a unit, and Heir.tielmau waa it rroia. I'ushiD steaddv ahead, defying all the efforts of theene mv to break or turn its line, the corps ovl at U.t the satif Action of seeing the enemy break and flv in ctmruiion to the awamp, totally d.n:e-l and rerml-ed. We took in this erggement over two thousand pisonfrp. but as our object had been ca ned in covering our a Irance to the Jams riT. it was not deemed of sufTic'ent importance in view of the risk to be o:itered in holding rvtesion 0f iii?m through the nigl t. A large nu miter of these prisoners, however, remain on our hands, and will serve in some tort to console us for the loss of very many of our owu. THE LCfcSLS AT WUITE OAK SWAlir. We could not have lost, in killed, wounded and prisoners, less than two thousand five hundred men, and our loss bj reach tce that amount. But we pained our point and made the James river, despite all the eucmy' attempts to cut u off therefrom. In failing to do this he fcuffete! the retreat, whereas in the pitch of battle we beat him back w ith immense loss and so crinlrd that he was either unable or unwilling to fiie a gun next day. The guntHMts Aro sUok and Galena are entitled to the most unbounded credit. Tin ATTLt or rrtsnAT. The battle raged with fearful earnestness on Tue-day, the first jf July, but lull and detailed accounts of it have not yet been received. TL rebel loss was apoalinc The gunboats hurled shell upon them like hail and they were driven back at all points. JEFF. DAVIS AT THE BATTLE. Jeff. Davis was at the -house of Mrs. Price,

just opposite Ir. Gaines's, for three consecutive day s before the battle or 1 hursUay, in every care engaged in close consultation with Gen. Lee. Col. Lamus, of the 7ih Georgia regiment, täte that Jeff, planned the whole attack. TUE tUTCATlOX SO. The army is now resting on the hills on the left bank of the James river, in a position much easier defended than the one abandoned, and far better for the health of the meu. The line extends along the river from Harrison's Landing to Curtis' Neck, above Turkey Island Bend. The gunboats can sweep the flanks, and here the remains of the noble army, whose perils and trials and devoted tieroisni will command the admiration of the world, can defend themsrlt es until thei- ranks are swelled by the uprising tide of patriotic feeling s uflicicntly to enable them to act again on the offensive. Proclamation To the Ptvfitof Indian: The large number of troops required to garrison and hold the great extent of territory which has been wrested from the totseasJou of the rebels by the many and distinguished victories that have attended the Union arms, enables the rebels greatly to outnumber our forces now in the ticinity of Richmond. The greater tatt of the rebel army haa been concentrated at Richmond, their last stronghold, for a final aud desperate struggle, ahd the army of the Union w bile fighting with a gallantry hardly equalled, and nver aar passed in the annals of warfare, has by overwhelming nu miters been compelled to a short and temporary retreat. The President, in the execise of the power vested in him by the Constitution and laws of the United States, has called for 3'J0,0(KJ men, a force deemed entirely adequate to the crushing out of the rebellion and the restoration of peace and the Union of the States. Again I call upon the loyal and patriotic men of Indiana to come forward and supply the quota due from our State. Up to this hour Indiana occupies a most exalted position connected with the war. Her troops have been iu almost every battle, and ha e behaved w ith uniform and distinguished gallantry. Never before has the State held so proud a place iu the opinion of the world, and it should be the prater and effort of every loyal citizen that she may not now falter, and that nothing mty hereafter occur to detrwrt from her w ell earned honors. But while we are justly proud of the high rank to which Indiana has attained, w e should never forget that our allegiance and lrghest duty are due to the nation, of which Indiana is but a part; that, in struggling for our National Government, we are conteuling for our national existence, honor, and all that ia dear to freemen; and that in this struggle we must succeed at whatever cost; that it is the duty of every State to furnish promptly her full proportion of the military force called for by the President, and that in doing so she has no right to dictate the terms of his military poiicy, or prescribe conditions precedent upon which such force shall be furnished. To do so would Ite to recognize the odious doctrine of State rights as it has been taught by rebel politicians for many years, and w hich is but another name for secession and the cause of all our woe. 1 therefore call upon every mn, whatever may be his rank and condition iu life, to put aside his business, and come to the rescue of Lis country. Upon every man individually let me urge tha solemn truth, that whatever may be his condition or business, he has no business or duty half so important to himself and family as the speedy suppression of the rebellion. Those who from age and infirmity can not enter the army can yet do much to simulate othets; and I want every man to feel especially callel upon to exert himself, and by public and private exhortation, and by every legitim cte influence encourage the immediate filling up of the new regiments. And to the women of Indiana let meespecully appeil; to them whose hearts are so full of je of country, and who, by their labors and contributions, have done so much to relieve the sick and woundel sol liers. Enulate the virtues of the Roman matron; urge vour sons, husbands and brothers to the field. Your influence is allpervad'ng and powerful. And to the maiden let me say, Beware ofthat lover who, full of health and vigor, lingers at home in inglorious ease when his country mil him to arms. The 12th and ICth Indiana-regiment will be rendezvoused at Indianapolis as before provided. At present one regiment will be called for from each Congressional District, to le numbered and located as follow: O.nz. fi t. !?t. Wtere Located. 1st Kith Kvan.-Tille. 2-1 Cr,th Nw Albany. 3d.... 67th Madison. I'h bth Greensbuig. -V.h Wth Richmond. 6'h f,h llidi.an.apolis. "ih 71st Terre Haute. &h 72d Lafavette. 9th "3d South Benl. K'th 74th Fort Warne. lit! 7Slh Wabaf-h Town. Six batteries are called for, to consist of lid men each, to be rendezvoused at Indianapolis, ox in the camp in the District in which it is raised, as may be desired. Tents, uniform, arms, artillery And equipments of every kind will be furnished at the various camps a faet as required. Commanders ot the camps will be prorojKly appointed and every facility afforded for recruiting and providing for the troopa. " The period of enlistment will b tor 'three year or during the war." aud the terms and mode of organization will be pointed oat m an order to be issue! in a day or two bT the Adjutant General. o. P. M'otox. Governor of Indiana. fJOTICE. Tw;!l Lt on Frtfay, th 25lh InMant. 1. u lb M lii-Uer tle etiUrpn sxA rsAnK aw addiUooal Story on School ItouM No 7, in Oatr lown.hip. F,r rartk. Ur at to plan and r-eciSraUor. and tenst of vir m at 1 . - , vw mwk . tf't'J 9, "V. JA MLS TU US Lit, Tnut. WANTED. CAVALRY HOUfSEN WASTFD IMMEDUTXLT. for which thB. 3 P Vf detenu! will 17 ta fetfhr it 11. n Je fuani f.b, n;at Ud.y, at thub'of 3 W JoLnon, oa Tf et Pearl treel, or at tba auu ii ItxU. on W.ryLnd rt, IrxWap llJuljr&.lt. rjj7-dTi) j.H DRX515, ÖAMiORfc insufiAr:c cq::.?ahy! OF 5F.W YOLK OTT. Ch Capital . . . , Assets fjoo.ooo 00 121,132 31 Total Assetu $32l,KÖ 31 J NSUKF.S PaiMino. Furnitur.. Hereh.odi. aad otl-r