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They were all smarting under the reproach of Thursday, and longing for the opportunity to wipe it out. Thore was glowing rivalrv between the men of different States. "Old Maasachusetss will not bo ashamed of us to-night." "Wait till the Ohio boys get at them." "We'll fight for New York to-day," and a hundred similar utterances were shouted from the different ranks. The officers were as glad of the task assigned them as their nicu. I rode a few moments with Lieut. Colonel Haggerty, of the 69th. He mentioned the newspaper statement that ho was killed at the former battle, and laughingly said that he felt very warlike for a dead man, and good for at least one battle more. This brave officer was almost the first victim of the day. The cheery voioe of Meagher, late the Irish—now the American—patriot, rang out more heartily than ever. Then there was Corcoran, and Bumside, and Keyes, aud Speidel, and many another skilled and gallant officcr, all pushing forward to the first fruition of their three months' patient preparation. In the ranks of tho Connecticut and othor regiments were old classmates and fellow-townsmen, with whom it was a privilege to exchange a word on this so different an occasion from any anticipated in those dajB when all the States were loyal, and the word "disunion" was a portion of an unknow tongue. Gen. McDowell's carriage halted at tho junction of the two roads, a place most favorable for tho quick reception of dispatches from all portions of the field. Tho column assigned to Col. llunter here divided from the main body and went on its unknown, perilous journey around tho enemy's flank. A mile along—and by this time the white morning twilight gave us a clearer prospect than tho fading radiance which had thus far illumined the march—we could not cross an open country on the left to the farm house where we knew Colonel Bichardson was stationed, and to the blood stained valley beyond, whose upper reaches were now to be the arena of a larger conflict. But it was after sunrise when the van of Gen. Tyler's column camo to the edge of the wooded hill overlooking those reaches. The sun had risen as splendidly as the sun of Austerlitz. Was it an auspicious omen for us. or for the foe ? Who could foretell ? Tho sccnery was too beautiful and full of natures own peace, for one t C believe in the possibility of tho tumult and carnago just at hand, or that among those green oak forests lurked every cngino of destruction which human contrivance has produced, with hosts of an enemy more dangerous and subtle than tho wild beasts which had onco here made hiding places. Then, too, it was Sunday morning. Even In the wilderness, tho sacred day seems purer and more hushed than any other. It was ours to first jar upon the stillness of tho morning, and becloud the clearness of that serene atmosphere with the rude clangor of tho avant messenger that heralded our challenge to a disloyal foe. which proved the existence of an enemy in that direction. (What can be done against men who, to all the science and discipline of European warfare, add more than tho meanness and cowardly treachery of tho Indian 1 We had, all through the day, to hunt for the foe, though he numbered his myriads of men.) At the same time a scout on the right captured a negro native, who was led to the general shaking with fear, and anxious to impart such information as he had. Th(ough him wo learned that tho rebels were quartered among tho woods on the right and left, and in the groves in the open oountry; that thoy had ereeted a battery on the distant hill, and had kept him at work for three days assisting to fell trees so that a clear range of the road we occupied could obtained. By this time our scouts reported the enemy in some force on the left. Two or three Ohio skirmishers had been killed. Carlisle's battery was sent to the front of the woods on the right, where it could be bro't to play where needed. A few shell were thrown into the opposite thicket, and then the 2d Ohio and 2d New York marched down to rout out the enemy. In ten minutes their musketry was heard, and then a heavy cannonade answer. They had, without doubt, fallen upon a battery in the bushes. For a quarter of an hour their firing continued, when they camo out in good order, confirming our surmises. After advancing a furlong, they saw the enemy, who exchanged their fire and retired through tho forest. Suddenly, from a different direction, a voice was heard, exclaiming, "Now, you Yankee devils, we've got you where we want you 1" and several heavy guns were opened upon them, with such an effect that Schenck finally ordered them to retire, which they did in perfect order. The boys camo out indignant at the practices of the rebels, and swearing they would rather fight three times their force in tho open field than encounter the deadly mastery of those thickets. No soldiers are willing to have their fighting entirely confined to storming infernal earthworks at the point of tho bayonet. Every regiment yesterday, was at times a "forlorn hope." A few dead and wounded began to be brought in, and the battle of Manassas had commcnced. Carlisle's howitzers and the great rifled gun were opened in the direction of the battery, which answered promptly, and a brief, but tcrrifio cannonading ensued. In than half an hour the enemy's guns were silenced, two of Carlisle's howitzers advancing through the woods to gain a closer position. But a fatal error was here made, as I thought, by Gen. Tyler, in not ordering in a division to drive out the four rebel regiments stationod behind the battery, and to seize iU eight guns. Through some inexplicable fatuity ho seemed to assuwo that when a battery was silenced it was convinced, and there it remained, with its defenders, unheard from and uathouglit of until the latter portion of the day, when it formed one cause of our final defeat. It is actually a fact, that while our whole forces were pushed along the right to a co-operation with Hunter's flanking column, and a distance of miles in advance, this position on the left, close to the scenc of the commencemen.t of the fight, and just in front of all our trains and ammunition wagons—a position chosen by all spectators as the most secure—was, through the day, within five minutes reach of a concealed force of infantry, and a battery which had only been "silenced." No forco was stationed to guard the rear of our left flank. It was near this very point, and with tho assistance of this very infantry, that the enemy's final charge was made hrhich created such irretrievable confusion and dismay. And after the first few hours no officer could be found in this vicinity to pay any attention to its security. AH had gone forward to follow the line of the contest.teer—Burnside—the Second New Hampshire, and our finely disciplined Seventyfirst. Gov. Spraguo himself directed the movements of the Rhode Island brigade, and was conspicuous through the day for gallantry. The enemy were found in heavy numbers opposite this unexcelled division of our army, and greeted it with shell and long volleys of battalion firing as it advanced. But on it went, and a fierce conflict ensued in the northern battle ground. As soon as Hunter was thus discovered to be making his way on the flank Gen. Tyler sent forward the right wing of his column to co-operate, and a grand force was thus brought to bear most effectually on the enemy's left and center. The famous Irish Bcgiment, 1600 strong who have had so much hard labor to perform, olaimed the honor of a share in the hard fighting, and led the van of Tyler's attack, followed by the Seventy ninth (Highlanders) and Thirteenth New York, and the Second Wisconsin. in completely turning BUSINESS CARDS. THE GREAT BATTLE! (German rifles) and 29tli New York regiments, the Garabaldi guard and the 24th Pennsylvania, the 16th, 18th, 13stand 32d Now York regiments, and the Company G (2d artillery) battery—tho one lately bro't from Fort Pickens. wild shout rose from TTUFKOBD HOUSE. PITTSTON, PA.— H HENEY HUFFORD, Proprietor. "Tin. 1,186#.  lookouts saw that AUTHENTIC AND FULL ACCOUNT. banners, and we knew other rebel general, The New York World has the following carefully prepared account of the great battle at Manassas Junction, evidently prepared from official information. Its clearness is admirable: fresh troops against B. KOON,—ATTORNEY AT LAW.—Of). fico in the Butler House, Main street, ttston. M'18W- Thus Richardson would call to his support, if necessary, arcservo of 7000 men, in addition to the 4000 with which ho was instructed to hold his position, to prevent tho enemy from moving on Ccntreville past our left, but not to wake any attack. The center, on the Warrentown road, commanded by General Tyler, consisted of tho first and second brigades of tho Tyler division, embracing the 1st and 2d Ohio and 2d New York regiments, under General Schcnck, and the 60th, 79th and 13th New York and 2d Wisconsin, under Col. Sherman. Carlisle's, Ricketts' and Ayres' battery, accompanied this important column, which numbered Bix hundred men, and which was supported in the rear by the 3d Tyler brigade, under Col. Kcycs, consisting of tho 1st, 2d and 3d Connecticut regiments, and the 4th Maine—a force of 3000, available at a moment's call. On the cxtremo right Col. Hunter took the lead, with two brigades of his division, viz : the 8thand 14th New York regiments under Col. Porter, with a battalion of tho 2d, 3d and 8th Regular Infantry, a portion of the 2d Cavalry, and the 5th Artillery Battery, under Col. Burnsido; tho 1st and 2d Ohio, tho 71st New York, and two New Hampshire regiments, with tho renowned Rhode Island Battory. After Hunter's followed Col. Heintzelman's division, including the 4th and 5th Massachusetts and tha 1st Minnesota regiments, with a cavalry company and a battery, all under Col. Franklin, and the 2d, 4th aud 5th Maino, and 2d Vermont regiment, under Colonel Howard. To about 14,000 men was thus intrusted the difficult and most essential labor of turning tho enemy by a circuitous movement of tho right, aud these troops, as it eventuated, were to experience the larger part of the sanguinary fighting of the day. On tho night proceeding tho battle Qcn. Cameron visited the camp, reviewed the 3d Tyler brigade, passed a few hours with Gen. McDowell, and then left for Washington, in spirits depressed by no premonition of the disaster which was to befall our arms, and tho private grief which would add a deeper sorrow to tho feelings he now experiences. After midnight a carriage was placed at Gen. McDowell's tent, which was to boar him to the scene of action. In order to bo ready to move with the army, I went down to the familiar quarters of Lieut. Tompkins, whose company was attached to the general's escort, and there slept an hour while our horses ate tho only forage they were to have for a day and a Jialf. At 2 o'clock we were awakened; the drmy had coinmenced to move. tre. It was time icnt forward, and K«yes ... ordered to ad ranee with the first Tyler brigade. The thr*e Connecticut regiments and the Fourth Mnh» .ime en with a will; the First Connecticut was posted in reserve, and the other three corps swept up the field, by the ford on tjbie right, to aid the struggling advance. All eyes were now directed to the distant hill top, now the centre of the fight. All could see the enemy's infantry ranging darkly mgainst the sky beyond, and the first lines of our men moving with fine determination up the steep slope. The cannonading upon oar advance, the struggle upon the hill top, the interchange of position between the contestants, were watched by us, and as new forccs rushed in upon the enemy's side the scene was repeated over and over again. It must have been here, I think, that the Sixty-ninth took and lost a battery eight times in succession, and finally were compelled, totally exhausted* to resign the completion of their work to the Connecticut regiments which had just com up. The Third Connecticut finally carried that summit, unfurled the stars and stripes above it, and paused from the fight to cheer TEROME G. MILLER.—ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in the Court House, Wilkei- Barre, Penna.  JOHN RICHARDS,—ATOORNEY AT LAW. CONVEYANCBR, and NOTARY PUBLIC, Collections promptly attended to. Office—One door north of Cha». Law A Co.'s Cash Store. [March 30, 185*. Washington, July 21. At 2 o'clock this morning 1 arrived in Washington, having witnessed the great conflict near Manassas Junction from beginning to end, and the gigantic rout and panio whioh broke op the Federal army at its close. I stayed near the action an hour or two later than my associates, in order to gather the final incidents of the day, and fully satisfy myself as to the nature and extent of the misfortune. Law and Colleotion Office. /~i EORGE B. KULP, Attorney at Law,—Office It in the Court Hou»e, (Register's Office,) Wilkct-Barre, Pa. [Dec. 13, 1860. u2» Sewing. MR8. DA VIES having procured a sewing machine, is now prepared to do family sewing and etitching of aU kinds, at short noticc, in Stunner's new brick, «ocond tloor.  And now in what order shall I describe the events of yesterday ? Even now, how shall one pretend to give a synthetic narration of the whole battle, based on the heterogeneous statements of a thousand men ; a battle whose area was a tract miles in breadth and length, interspersed with hills and forests ; whose contending forces were divided into • dozen minor armies, continually interchanging their positions, and never all embraced within the cognizance of any spectator or participator ?— Even the general commanding the Federal columns was ignorant, at the close, 01 the positions of his several corps ; was ignorant at the beginning of the topography of the dangerous territory on which lie attacked an overpowering foe. Was either general of division better informed oi the movements of even his own forces'( I doubt it. I only know that at sunset last evening generals, colonels, and majors were all retiring, devoid of their commands, no more respected and obeyed than the poorest private in tho broken ranks. I know that a grand army, retreating before superior numbers, was never more disgracefully or needlessly disrupted and blotted, as it were out of existenco in a single day.— This is tho truth, and why should it not bo recorded ? And why should I not tell tho causes which produced this sad result ?— Weeks will be required for the proper summing up of details. At present, for one, I acknowledge my inadequacy to describe more than tho panarama which paused before my eyes, and the result decided by the combination of this with much that was seen and done elsewhere. It was a bravo sight—that rush of the Sixty ninth into the death-struggle? With such cheers as those which won the battles in the Peninsula, with a quick step 'at first, and then double quick, and at last a run, they dashed forward and along the edge of the extended forest. Coats and knapsacks were thrown to «ither side, that nothing might impede their work; but we knew that no guns would slip from the hands of those determined fellows, even if dying agonies were needed to close them with a firmer grasp. As the line swept along, Meagher galloped toward the head, crying "Come on boys! you've got youi chance at last I" I have not since seer him, but hear that he fought magnificent ly and is wounded. rn i ■ - !~1 8. BECK. M. D.—DENTIST, (/, late of Office,—Main St., above the Publio Square, East Bide, Wilkes-Barre, Fenna. July 18, I860.—ly.  XDUY YOUR GOODS AT TIIE CHEAP CASH ji Store of Clark and Oranahan, Main street, Pitts ton Penna. . , , They have a full assortment of all kinds or merchandise constantly on hand. July 1J, I860.  T\R. c. R. GORMAN, having resumed the | 9 practice of bis profession, respectfully tenders his services to tho people of Pittston and T'Callable ft at the EAGLE HOTEL will receive prompt attention, night or day. Pittston, July 25, 1861. tf for tho Union cause. Then the battle began to work down the returning half of the circle, which the enemy described during the day, driven before the desperato charges of our troops, until thejr reached the very point where Tyler's advance commenced the action. Down the hill and into the valley thickets on the left the Zouave*, the Connecticut and S[ew York regiment*, with the unconquerable Rhode Islanders, drove the continually enlarging but always vanquish* ed columns of the enemy. It was only t4 meet more batteries, earthwork succeeding earthwork, ambuscade after ambuscade. Our fellows were hot and weary; most had drank no water during hours of dust, and smoke, and insufferable heat. No one knows what choking the battle atmosphere produce! in * few moments, until he has personally expcrlr enced it And so the conflict lulled for a little while. It was the middle of a biasing after* noon. Our regiments held tho positions they had won, but the enemy kept receiving additions, and continued a flank movement toward our left—a dangerous movement for lis, A movement which those in the rear perceived, and vainly endeavored to induce some general officer to guard against. Here tea* the grand blunder, or misfortune, of the battle. A misfortune that we had o» troops in reserve after the Ohio regiments were again sent forward, this time to assiat in building a bridge across the run on the War* renton road, by the side of the stone bridge known to be mined. A blunder, in that thf last reserve was sent forward at all. It should have been retained to guard the rear of the left, and every other regiment on the field should have beer, promptly recalled over the route by which it had advanced, ordered only to maintain such positions as rested on a supported, continuous line. Gen. Scott says, to* day, that our troops had already accomplished three days work and should have rested long before. But McDowell tried to vanquish the South in a single struggle, and the sad result is before us. As it was, Captain Alexander, with his sappers and miners, was ordered to cut through the abattis by the side of the mined bridge, in fhe valley directly before us, and lay pontoons across the stream. Carlisle's artilliacy was detailed to protect the work, and the Ohio and Wisconsin reserve to support the ar* tillery. Meanwhile, in the loll which I have mentioned, the thousand beroio details of Federal valor and the shamelessness of rebel treachery began to reach our ears. We learn* ed the loss of the brave Cameron, the woundJ ing of Heintzelman and Hunter, the fell of Haggerty and Slocum and Wilcox. We heard of tho dash of tho Irishmen and their decimation, and of tho havoo made and sustained by tho Rhode Islanders, the Highlanders, the Zouaves and the Connecticut Third} then of the intrepidity of Burnside and Eprague—how the devoted and daring young Governor led the regiments he had so munificently equip* ped again and again to victorious charges, and at last spiked, with his own hands, the guns ke could not carry away. The victory seamed ours. It was an hour sublime ia unselfishness, and apparently glorious in its results) ' At this time, near 4 o'clock, I rode forward through the open plait* to the oreek where the abattis was being assailed by our engineers,. The Ohio, Connecticut and Minnesota regi* ments were variously posted thereabout; others were in distant portions of the field; all were completely exhausted and partly dissevered; no general of division, exoept Tyler, could be found. Where were our offloerl? Where was the foe? Who knew whether W# had won or lost? The question waa quickly decided fot ua. A sudden swoop, and a body of cavalry rushed down upon our columns near the bridge. They came from the woods on the left, and infkntry pourod out behind them, Tyler and his staff, with the reserve, were ap. parently cut off by the quick manoeuvre, I succeeded In gaining the position I had just left, there witnessed the capture of Carlisle'* battery in the plain, apd saw another fbroe of cavalry and infkntry pouring into the road at the very spot whero the battle commenccd, and near which tho South Carolinians, who manned the buttery silenced in the mwpipfr MINNESOTA! LE SUEUR, Tyler's foroes tlms moved forward for half a mile, describing quite one-fourth of a circle on the right, until they met a division of the enemy, and of course a battery of the enemy's most approved pattern. Xao Sueur County. A. W. BANGS, T AW and COLLECTION OFFICE. Taxes for I j nun-residents. Business promptly attended to. Address as above. [Nov. 8, 1800. Heat of the Contest. DR. J. A. ROBINSON,—HOMGSOPATHIC Physician and Operative Burgeon, Pittstoa, Pa., respectfull offers his services to the people of Pittston and its vicinity. A constant supply of fresh medicines always on eases famished or reflllod to order. OFFICE in Second Story Capt. Uturmer s New Brick Building. Pittston. May 3,1S#0.—ly. It was noon, and, now the battle commenced in tho fierceness of its most extended fury. The" batteries on tho distant hill began to play upon our own, and upon our advancing troops, with hot and thunderous effect. * Carlisle answered for us, and Sherman for Hunter's division, while the great 32-pounder addressed itself resiatlessly to the alternate defences of tho foe. The noise of the cannonading was deafening and continuous. Conversely to the circumstances of the former engagement, it completely drowned, at this period, the volleys of the musketry and riflemen. It blanched the cheeks of the vilagers at CentrcviMe, to the main street of which placo some of tho enemy's rifled shell were thrown. It was heard at Fairfax, at Alexandria, at Washington itself. Five or six heavy batteries were in operation at once, aud to their clamor was added the lesser roll of twenty thousand small arms. What could we civilians seo of the fight at this time? Little; yet perhaps more than any who were engaged in it. How anxiously we strained our eyes to catch the various movements, thoughtless of every thing but the spectacle and tho successes or reverses of the Federal army. Our infantry were engaged in the woods and meadows beyond our view. We knew not the nature or position of tho foroe they wore fighting. But now and then there would bo a fierce rush into the open prospect, a gallant charge on one side and a retreat on the other, and we saw plainly that our columns were gaining ground, and steadily pursuing their advantage by their gradual movement which continued toward the distance and the enemy's centre.-pwB. j- M. BARRETT,—DENTIST. —Office I / at his residence on Franklin street, opposite the Methodist Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he may hereafter be found at all hours. Dr. B. inserts Teeth on Gold asid Silvor plate, 4c., and operates in all tlin branches of Dental Surgery, in the best manner. A deduction from usual charges sufficient to cover expenses, allowed to parsons who coine from a dutanee. April 19, 1860.—ly. The affair of Thursday last was like a spectacle in an amphitheater, visible in its oneness to all who were on the sides of that inouutain valley. But those who were on yesterday'n arena now understand how little of a great battle in a hilly region is known or seen by curious lookers-on ; how much less by those actually engaged in its turmoil. Hut lot me give the plan and commencement of the engagement on our side, the progress of that portion which was within my ken, and the truth in relation to the result. "mfILLEH'8 PICTURE UALLEHY, first door JjX north of the Cash Store, will be kent open for the impectiou of his specimens in the Sun light art until 9 o'clock P. M. Come one, come •fi, and see his fine specimens. Picture* taken in cloudy as well as in pleas- Ant weather. Just received, a new assortment of splendid Frame* it- Cant*. June 28, 1860. Hurrah! Hurrah! The Midnight M!arch. j. w. MILLER. Thore was moonlight, as I have said j and no moonlight scenc offered moro varying themes to the genius of a great artist. Through the hazy valleys, and on hill slopes, miles apart, were burning the fires at which forty regiments had propared their midnight meal. In the vistas opening along a dozen lines of view thousands of mon were moving among the fitful beacons ; horses were harnessing to artillery ; white army wagons were in motion with the ambulances—whoso black covering, when one thought of it, seemed as appropriate as that of the coffin which accompanies a condemned man beforo him. All was silent confusion and intorniingling of moving horses and men. But forty thousand soldiers stir as quickly as a dozou, and in fifteen minutes from the commencement of the bustle every regiment had taken its place, ready to fall into the division to which it was assigned. Gen. McDowell and Btaff went iu the center of Tyler's, tho central column. At 2J a. m. tho last soldier had left the extended encampments, except those remaining behind on guard. Tho central line appeared t» offer the best chances for a survey of the impending action, and in default of any certain pro-knowledge was noeompanicd by all the non-partioipators whom interest or duty had drawn to tho movement of the day.— In order to obtain a full view of its moonlight march to the most momentous effort cf the campaign, I started at tho extreme rear and rapidly passed along to overtake the van of the column. For some way the central and right divlsious were united, the latter forming off, as I haveexplainpd, about a mile beyond Centreville. So, leaving camp a mile below the village, I enjoyed the first spectacle of the day—a scene never to pass from the memory of those who saw it. Here were thousands of comradcsin-arms going forward to lay down their lives in a common cause. Here was all, and more than one had read of the solemn paraphernalia of war. These were not the armies of the aliens to us, but, with the dress, the oplors, the officers of every regiment, we were so familiar that those of each had for us their own iuterest and a different charm. We knew the men, their discipline, their respective heroes: what corps wero most relied on; whose voice was to be that of Hector or Agamemnon in the coming fray. How onother day would ohange all wis! How some long-vaunted battalion would perhaps lose their as yet unearned prestige, while accident or heroism should gild the standards of many beforo undistinguished. Then, as I followed along that procession of rumbling cannon-carriages and eaissoons, standards and banners, the gleaming infantry, with their thousands of shining bayonets, and the mounted officers of every staff, what fine excitement was added to tho occasion bv the salutations and last assurances of the many comrades dearer than the rest. The spirit of the soldiery was Hayden Brothers, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN Fancy Goods, Yankee Notions, Cigars, &c., snow MHjTonr) r*»- WM. I1AYPKJf, JOHN 1IAYDK*, TRACT If AYDEM, aEOHOE HAYDEH. Mny 23, 1881. 3?lan of the .Advance. The Battle. On Friday, 'tho day succeeding our repulse at Bull Run, Major Barnard, togographical engineer of the general staff, escorted by Co. B, of the second cavalry regiment (under Lieut. Tompkins) made a wide reconnoisance of the country to the north, in order to examine the feasibility of turning the enemy's rear by a strategio movement in that direction. From the point I mention, where the road slopes down to a protracted ravine, wc caught tho first glifnpse of the enemy. A line of infantry was drawn up across the meadow in the extreme distance, resting close upon the woods behind them. We could see the reflection of tbeir bayonets, and their regular disposition showed them expectant of an attack. After a moment's inspection, Gen. Tyler ordered Carlislo to advance with his battery, to the front, and here one could think of nothing but Mijg ton's lino— ZABBISKIE & IiUMBY, China, Glass, Earthenware, LOOK.IHG GLASSES, la. 1UP01ITEKH Asn jo»»r*» or A route was discovered by which it appeared that suoh a measure might be sucoessfully executed. I a letter on tho defenses of Manassas Junction I pointed out the different roads leading thitherward from Centreville. One—the most direct—is that passing through Thursday's battle field; another, further north, leading, when produced, to Warrentown, beyond the Manassas Gap railroad. From the latter a minor road, branching off still more to the north, was found to open at a fork half way between Centreville and Bull Run ravine. This road could be used for the rapid advance of men and artillery, prececded by a corps of aappers and miners. A plan was at once projeoted by General HoDowell for a decisive attack on the enemy's line of defensos, to be simultaneous by three advancing columns, from the several points of approach. The various division encampments were already advantageously located for the inception of such a movement, and orders were swiftly issued for the entire army to start at 6 o'olock on Saturday afternoon. It was afterwards discovered that our stook of heavy ammunition embraced no more than nineteen rounds to each gun, and that we must send to Fairfax for a better supply. It was also tho't advisable to have the army arrive in sight of the enemy at sunrise, and the first orders were accordingly countermanded and fresh ones issued, appointing 2 o'clock of the ensuing morning for leaving camp.— Three days' rations were to be served out by the oommissary,jknd the ten to of each regiment to remain standing and under guard. In the moonlight of tho stillest hour of the night, our force of 36,000 men began to move, in pursuanoe of the following arrangement for the advance: On the left, or southermost road, the gallant Col. Richardson, be it remembered, had oontinued to hold the approach to the field where be fought so bravely on Thursday, his command contisting of the 4th brigade of Tyler's division, vix: the 2d and 3d Michigan, the 1st Massachusetts, and the 12th New York regiments. It was rightly determined that these troops, if they fought at all, should be apportioned to ground of whioh they already had practical knowledge. Behind Richardson, and near Centreville, Col. Miles was to take up his position in reserve, with his entire first and »ccod4 brigades. These included the 8th So. 126 Greenwich Street, Between Barclay and Veney, Geo. I. N. S5a)Dri«kie, D William Lumby. J September 27, I860. NEW YORK. "Vanguard! to right and left in front unfold." The ancient order for the disposition of the advance ranks ia still in military usage.— For the second and third Tyler brigades under Schenck were at onoe formed in line of battle, in the woods on either side—tho 1st Ohio, 2d Wisconsin, 79th, 18th and 69th New York regiments succeeded each other on the right, and tho 2d Ohio and 2d New York being similarly placod on the left, whilo the artillery came down the road between. Wo indeed heard continuous tidings of heroism and victory; and those in the trees abovo us told us of more than wo could discover with our field-glasses from below. We heard that Hunter had fairly rounded tho enemy's flank, and then we listened for ourselves to the sound of his charges in the northern woods, and saw for ourselves the air gathering up smoke from their branches, and the wavering column of the Mississippians as they fled from their first battery, and were forced into the open field. Then we saw our own Sixty-ninth and Seventy-ninth, corps animated by a chivalrous natianal rivalry, press on to the support of the more distant column. Wo could catch glimpses of the continual advances and retreats; could hear occasionally the guns of a battery before undiscovered; oould guess how terribly all this accumulation of death upon death must toll upon those undaunted men, but oould also sec—and our cheers continually followed the knowledge—that oar forces were gradually driving the right of the enemy around the scoond quarter of a circle, until by 10 o'olock the main battle was raging at a point almost directly opposite our standing place—the road at the edge of tho woods—whoro it had commenoed six hours before. 1860. 8PR1NCI. 1860. FRESH GOODS REEGEL, BAIRD, & CO., Meantime, Richardson, on the extreme left, could not content himself with "maintaining his position," for we heard occasional discharges from two of his guns.— However, he took no other part in the action than by shelling the forces of the enemy which were sent rapidly from his vicinity to tho immediate point of contest.— From the hill behind we could see long columns advancing, and at first thought that they were Richardson's men moving on Bull Run j but soon discovered their true character. Indeed, from every southward point the enemy's reinforcements began to pour in by thousands. Great clouds of dust arose from the distant roads. A person who ascended a lofty tree could see tho continual arrival of cars at the nearest point on the Manassas railroad, with hosts of soldiers, who formed in solid squares and moved swiftly forward to join in the contest. The wliistlo of the locomotive was plainly audible to those in our advance. It is believed that at least fifty thousand were added during the day to the thirty thousand rebels opposed to us at the onset. It was hard for our noble fellows to withstand these incessant reinforcements, but some of our regiments whippod several corps opposed to them in quick succession, and whenever our forces, fresh or tired, met tho enemy in open field, they made short work of his opposition. At 10 j A. M. Hunter was heard from on the extreme right. Ho had previously sent a oourier to uen. MoDowell, reporting that he safely crossed the run. The general was lying on the ground, having been ill during the night, but at onoe mounted his horse and rode on to join the column on which so much depended. From the neighborhood of Sudley Church he saw the enemy's left in battle array, and at onoe advanced upon thom with the Fourteenth New York and a battalion of regular infantry—Colonel Hunter ordering up the stalwart Rhode Island regiments, one I led by that model of the American vpl»n- IMTOBTCM a*# JOBBBB8 Of FOREIGN AHD AMKRIOAJf Dry Good*. Ho. 47 North Third Street, Philadelphia. Would respectfully invite tho attention of Country MMll!jME0ANDr 8TOCK OF FRESH SPRING G00D8, Which they are now receiving in Store. 49* Merchants would And It to their aCtr an taae to £All and examine our stock. May 51,I860.—1 y. A great 32-pound rifled ParTot gun— i the only one of its calibre in our field service—was brought forward, made to bear upon the enemy, (for the bayonets suddenly disappeared in the woods behind,) and a Bhell was fired at 6:15 a. m., which burst in the air j but the report of the picce awoke tho country, for leagues around, to a sense of what was to be tho order  day. Tho reverberation was tremendous, shaking through the hills like the volley of a dozen plebiau cannon, and the roar of the revolving Bhell indescribable. Thioughout the battle that gun, whenever it was fired, seemed to hush and overpower everything else. We waited a moment for an answering salute, but receiving none, sent the second shell at a hill top, two miles off, where we suspected that a battery had been planted by the rebels. The bomb burst like an echo close at the intended point, but still no answer oame, and Gen. Tyler ordered Carlisle to cease firing and bring the rest of his battery to the front of the woods, and our column, ready for instant aotion. It was now about 7 o'clock. For half an hour but little more was done; then skirmishers were deployed into the forest on each sid in order to discover the whereabouts of our nearest foes. Before us lay a rolling and comparatively open country, but with several hills and groves cutting off an extended view. In the west, ern distance oq the left we could see the outekjrta of Manassas J unction. The woods at whole edge our line of battle formed, extended half around the open fields in a kind of semi.oircle, and it was into the arms of tbi# oresaent that our skirmishers advanced. Soon va began to hear random shots exchanged ia the thick#* oo tho left, OEORO-E R. TJOVE, HOPPOCK, BARBUTT & CO., C3toc6TO and Commission Merchants, JToa. 87, 80 & 91, Warren Street, (first Door East of Greenwich Street), JJ"JEW YORK. Elmer H. Garbutt, Julius D. Boberts, Moses A. Hoppock, William H. Black, Mortimer Hendricks, August 18th, 1840. Wilson, Barnes & Co., WHOLESALE GB0CEK8 AND Produce Commission Merchants, AW ETTKKSITB IlEiLKUS IS TEAS, No. 11B WARREN STREET, There was a hill at the distance of a mile and a half, to which I have hitherto alluded. From its height, overlooking the whole plain, a few shell had reaohcd us oarly in the day, and as it was nearer the Manaisas road than almost any other portion of the field, more of the enemy's reinforcements gathered about its ridgo than to the aid of the beaten rebels in the woods and valleys. Here thero was an open battery, and long lines of infantry in support, ready, for a wonder, to let our wearied fellows see the fresh forces they had to oonquer. (Third door below WatkingtonStreet,) William IX. WiUon,. AbneVC. Keeney, } *EW YORK £ ' — St. Del&ao. ' dogl V,  BOBEBT t. MULFOBD, COBTHHD k. 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