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'v';ilv' ;"-'. 5""'-:."- 7S "7 Xlx. .-.1 -.x:-"; .xn'.p' WILLIAM w. Editob and Proprimo. -VTaB WEEKLY. Four dollars per annum, in advance. .it. WEEKLY. Six dollars nor an- TEBMS 01 TU& nuin, in advance. lernia v. serted fir 2 per square of 14 line or Advertisements in i for Brst insertion and $1 pr square for each snbse- ' f desiring to contract' for nx .kmll be charjed the above rales wun a ueauo- 1. ..,, nAhe whole .mount. tinn or p , ,v .v .::!. The Standard is conaucieu Bintuj vu v ill ipers are discontinued when the time paid for expire, ill remittances of money at the mk of those send- Th Latest News. Thoutrh we continue our usual heading of latest wws, we really have no late news of importance. hut mTraineot has complete control of the tele- kand sends only suclx news to the press as it ;ho jses to send. The last Richmond Dispatch says : Thn intelliirenee which we receive from our forces now operating on the Northern border of the state is exceedingly meagre. We have nothing really definite or satisiaciory as to toe preueui, lo cation of our army, and only rumors with reference to the movements of the enemy, some oi me paa- I n. ih flnntral train Vf-Rtfir- ....nnarfl Willi I UUVII UU UIH " T J ('av evening assert positively ium u liL'adc a iorcea us crosou mo forJu east ol the mountains, whilst otters maintain .t,.r ihpre ir no consiUeraDie iorce oi iue eneuir vu the South side of the river, and they have only their cavalry on the V irginia mae. ueiween mean wiu- Uicting sutemenus n is uiuicun wiiiio nrHpr has been restored in New York City. The flirfli says, an order from w asningwu u.. - lithe, drafting shall proceed. " Large bodies of soldiers 'Ibonsuuitty Ptrol the street to keep down the L,oA.,l1p.rine diBQUiet VTho conflict at Charloston was in progress up to i he 22d. In the battle of the 18tb, on Morris Ljland, in which the enemy auempiea 10 o.i- Vcry Wagner, they were repulsed with heavy loss. Iwfl had one hundred and fifty killed and wounded, a knd the enemy, it is saia, mciuuiug ithniit two thousand. Sfovsnunn Ttowen. Barton uiith and Cumming, auJ all the field officers cap- .t TiMmhtiro' have been excnancea. xue . . - nen have straggled all over the country. Raid on Rockr Mount. A Yankee force ot four hundred men from Wash ln"ton. made a raitt on me n umiugiou mw E. E. at that place on Monday last They first keched Tarborough, where apart of them, number Sag one hundred and fifty, remained, burning ware Biouses. Railroad property, &c, woue tne large Lumber Droceeded to Rocky Mount, where they com ,r.;ttoH mnn axtenBive dcoredations. ine Aauroaa bridge over the Tar, Uattie s .cowon laciurj, mu., barns and storehouses, and 5,000 bales of cotton ... i. Ml Ur hmed by them. A Railroad train, laaen waaTO.wro potrntn of tem and Crawing two cars of ordnance stores, was captured and destroyed. The track was uninjured. Negroes, horses, mules, cattle, and a large amount of money were stolen ironi the citizens in the vicinity. The force remaining at Tarboro' was attacked on Monday'' evening by Major Kenneday, with one hundred men, and routed, with the loss of six kill ed, fifteen wounded, and eight horses killed and forty captured. Our loss was three wounaea, among them Oapt Thompson shot through the . rri . Kir llnl niairhnrnn'snn other, but the latest intelligence is that tae wcoie party has escaped. List of NorihCarliaa Dead. "We give below a list of field officers from this State who have fallen in the war, so far as we can recollect them : Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew, Gen. W. D. Pen der, Gen. L. O'B. Branch, Gen. Geo. B. Anderson. Col. M. S. Stokes, OoL C. C. Tew, Col Gaston Ifeires, Col. R. P. Campbell, CoL C. C: Lee, CoL Solomon Williams, CoL R. M. McKinney, CoL H. 1L Burgwyn, CoL G. B. Singeltary, Col. J. C. S. McDowell, CoL J. H. Whitaker, CoL Charles F. Fisher, CoL Champ Davis, CoL Isaac E. Avery. Lt. CoL John A. Graves. Maj. T. L. Skinner, Mej. A. K. Simonton, Maj. John C. Badham, Maj. Thos. IN. Crumpler, Maj. E. R. Ross, Maj. A. B. Carmi- Ichapt Uni Hriidnn. Four Generals, fourteen Col- Alonels, one Lieut Colonel, and seven Majors. This JBist is no doubt imperfect We cannot well approx- mate the number ot uaptams ana lieutenants wno lave been slain, nor the number of privates. STorth Carolina has sent 85,000 troops to the field, and of these 40,000 have been killed, or wounded, r disabled for life, or died from disease. Georgia M irginia, with larger white populations than 'orth-Carolina, have not sent as many troops as be has to the field. It will be seen by the order we publish to-day, Mt Gov. Vance has withdrawn his call for troops r State defence between the-ages of 40 and 45. bese conscripts, therefore, sxe turned over to resident Davis. The E.litor of the Register says if the people of orth-Carolina should pursue a certain course, he ill leave the State and cast his lot in some other gion. The people are competent to govern them- wes, and will not apply to our neighbor for in fraction or advice. When does he propose to ve the State? Let him go at once. He invited imself here from Virginia, and,' to the extent of his Nble influence, he has been a source of discord ever mce ne has been here. When he leaves, ss we rust he will, and that right soon, he will leave ny dry eyes behind him. If a majority of the people of North.Carnlin are lrepared for submission, and Vorced reunion with the Yankees, let them uv .n. ftgitter. J I i . . x .monger langua-e than we have ever used Joking to reconstructiou. But the 7ni.t. ha Ven harping on reconstruction for months past, as .uu ui renaer ujo people familiar with the ord. The Editor of that paper calls ns s traitor because e wrote and published an article containing a true teuient of our present condition, and Urging our e, wnue they continued to fight, and to present arm front to our invaders, at the same time to about them and see if negotiations could not bo - n loot that might lead to an honorable peace. ld now the Editor comes out and says that if a rjniy ot our people are prepared to restoi the government, let them say so.. . Wt have made for restoration or reconstruction, but the mter has certainly made a tuggettlon t that ef- 1 StShFRIPAY. JllLY 24. 1863, voi,. xxix-No. 3i. RA The Richmoftd Enqslrer. - We noticed in one of our recent issues the ex traordinary position of the Richmond Enquirer in favor of despotism and against liberty. That paper holds that all power ought to be vested iu the President, and it declares that "AH laws oueht to be silent excent military law. We regard all Judges and Courts, State and Con federate, all Congresses and Legislatures a a nui- $anc, save in so far as they help us to strengthen me nanas ot the coiutuander-in-cbief of this Con federacy. There is no interest or institution in the country worth mentioning now, except the army. The government of the Confederacy is the government of the army ; and no citizen has any rights which can interfere with or impede its effi ciency." The meaning of which is that the Courts must be silent unless they will record the edicts of the commander-in-chief; that they have no right to ex pound the laws or interpret Constitutions; that the habeas corpus, which protect? personal liberty even in kingly governments, is a nuisance, and must not be allowed; and that civil liberty the! right of free speech, of a free press, and to be se-j cure, under the law, in our property and persons must give place to the will of one man. What would this be but despotism ? Who is ready for it f The people of North-Carolina have never bowed their necks under the yoke of any man, and by the help of God they never wilL Martial law, which means the absence of law, and military law, which means the absolute subjection of the civil to the military power, will never be tolerated by our peo ple. With the Richmond Examiner we hold that " No power in this country can put in force mar tial law but a General of an army, and his power to do so is limited by bis lines. As to arbitrary gov ernment that is not what the people have made here. If arbitrary power should bo inaugurated by the action of a clique, it is revolution, and the death of the Confederacy. How many would uphold it longer r joe people are ugnung jor meir consti tutions, laws, liberties. Tney will never under stand the logic of surrendering them that they may keep them. When they are gone, no matter how, all is gone."- The Enquirer of the SOth instant contains an ar ticle in reply to one of ours in favor of peace on hon orable terms, which we propose briefly to notice. The Enquirer, as was to have been expected, garbles the article referred to, and distorts it to make it mean that we are in favor of reconstructing the old government The only reference to recon struction in the article was intended to show that that paper had proposed reconstruction in the event of the failure of the Pennsylvania campaign. But the Enquirer says, "if this newspaper the Standard did, indeed, represent, as we know it does not, the opinion of its State, then the Stats ought to go out of tlx Qonfedtraeg and male tub- mission upon its own account." In reply to tbia we say that we hare a very large circulation, and our nirniMinn ia constantly increasing. ; We do not as- -sume to speak for or represent any one ; but we ' have no hesitation in declaring that the article on ( the subject of peace, so violently assailed by the . Enquirer, embodies the sentiments of at least two thirds of the people of North-Carolina. We stake ' ourself upon it Every public man 6tands or falls to the people. Let the Enquirer observe the de velopments of public opinion in this State, and Bee whether we are sustained or not ' But if our people are despondent as to. the future, and if they would be glad to have peace on honor able terms, and if they believe that negotiations and fighting should go on at the same time for that is the gist of our article " then the Slate ought to go out of tits Confederacy and male submission upon its own account." Suppose this State, thus ' invited to go out, had not gone in, where would ' the Confederacy have been to-day 1 Where would j the cotton States have been ? Where would Vir- j gjnia have been ? Overrun and trampled down. . Richmond would have been long since in the hands j ofthe enemy, and the States south of us would . have been occupied at every point and their people crushed into the earth. North-Carolina troops saved Richmond when assailed by McClellan ; they won the battle of Ghencellorsville ; and during the recent movement on Pennsylvania they defended Richmond under Gen. HilL Our people and troops ' have done more for Virginia and the cotton States than they have done for themselves. They have ; poured out their blood and their treasure to protect j others, while their own territory has been ravaged ; by the enemy. And now, because they do not act in such a way as to please the Richmond Enquirer in all respects, they are invited to take themselves out of the Confederacy ! They will do so, if they choose, in their own good time. They, will not be . hurried nor retarded by their enemies. . The Enquirer regrets that the President has no power to suppress the Standard. ) We tell that j paper that even if the Congress should again sua- pend the habeas corpus, the President would have j no such power;" for the Bill of Rights of this State ! declares, that the freedom of 'the press is one of ; the great bulwarks of liberty, and, therefore, ought j never to be restrained." No matter what tne press does in this country, it is responsible only to public : opinion so far as public affairs are concerned, and to private individuals whom it may wrong, in dam ages. Our " local Judges," with their " crude opin ions," would sustain the above -provision of our Bill of Rights at all hazards; and our worthy Gov- ernor would sustain the Coarts. ( We do not feay. the President It is true, he has the physical force at his command to suppress the Standard; but if ; he attempts it he will be met with physical force, ) and a revolution in this State will be the result But the Enquirer, admitting that the President has no such power, calls for mob law to destroy our ( establishment It says, " to destroy the Standard would no more hurt North-Carolina than the cut- j ling out of an ulcer would hurt living man." And ? again, " there ought to bewi remedy for the evil ;" ! and then it asks, significantly, " why is the Raleigh Standard suffered to exist!". We have uniformly I Mitk l.w mnA nl all amiau it llfufaF &11 Clf I - - PpuKu , yj I cu instances, except in self-defence. We shall not begin it, but- woe unto those who do I We are 1 strong in the confidence of the people of Raleigh, of 1 Wake County, and of North-Carolina ; and if a fin- ger should be raised against our office by the cow- ! ardly assassins who echo the orders of the Enquirer,, j a sudden and terrible retaliation will fall upon their heads. If they cannot meet us in argument, they f will not he allowed to triumph over us by physical force. We fear nothing but assassination and the torch of the incendiary applied at midnight We do not fear the army, for our brave boyajknow that LEIGH. N. C. WEDNES the Standard has always been their friend, nd nine-tenths of the rank and file are our friends and endorse our course. .". i'-,' The Richmond Enquirer is edited by John Mitch ell, foreigner, as its echo in this City, the State Journal is edited by another foreigner, John Spel man. These are the men who propose to blot out State lines, to establish a despotic government over our people, and to inaugurate mob law I They,: who have no houses of their own, propose to burn 1 down other people's houses; they, who have no character of their own, endeavor to blast the cb.aV acter of others ; they, who have no stake uv the country, propose to govern and control the eou We entertain no unjust prejudices against foreign ers. We recognize them as fellow-citizens, and we have friends among them; hut w da' insist thai while they enjoy with our native population the right of suffrage and the protection of the laws, they ought not to be permitted to dictate to eur people and change the character of our government Such persons as John Mitchell and John Spelman are a disgrace to our adopted citizens.. - Secure in their exemption from military duty, they cry con stantly for more blood, and clap their hands for joy as our poor boys are led to slaughter on distant battle-fields; while those who make earnest and honest efforts to arrest this slaughter and pave the way to peace, are held up by them as traitors and enemies to the country. If the people of this State could have their way with them, thoy would seize their cowardly carcases and place them in the fore front of the hottest battle, where they would have an opportunity of realizing what it ia to prolong the war by calling for more victims for the sacri 1 fice. Of all the publie men of Ireland who were tried and convicted for their participation in the last re bellion in that country, John Mitchell is the mean . est and most degraded. He was transported to Van Dieman's Land, but he broke his parole that is, his pledge of honor and came to this country. Trained by Mr. O'Connell, who was honestly op posed to African slavery, and opposed to it him self as long as be remained in Ireland, no sooner did be touch our shores than he sighed for a planta tion and a hundred negroes. This, he thought, would commend him to certain oligarchs in the cot ton States ; and, ever since, be has appeared to sympathize with them in their views and to do their bidding. He wandered for two years in Europe ; until recently, when be obtained control of the Rich , mood Enquirer. It is well known that it has long been a cherished wish with Great Britain to divide the Southern from the Northern people, and have them engage in war until both should be exhausted, so as to enable her to step in and re-establish the power she once held on this continent; and the fierce and persistent manner in which Mitchell la , bora to inflame the two sections against each other, and to prolong the war, leaves room for the infer ence that be is a paid agent in the hands of Great Britain to effoct her purposes. But the Standard must be silenced, say these Destructives, or it will lead North-Carolina to her ruin. Mistaken men 1 In itself the Standard is powerless. What influence it has flows from the people. As long as they uphold it, and encourage it by their approval and patronage, it will live ; if they should set their faces against it, it would die. The people are not a set of school-children to be led by a newspaper ; but this is the opinion of these Destructives, who thereby show that they neither know the people nor have confidence in their capaci ty to govern themselves. K ,, ,,. From the outset of this war the Editor of the Standard has Btraincd every nerve to render it odious to the people, and we now believe, has had a settled purpose to bring about the reconstruction of the Union. Register It is not true that we have endeavored to render the war odious to the people. On the contrary, we voted in the Convention for men and means to pros ecute the war ; and up to the last call for conscripts by the President we have invariably encouraged our fellow-citizens to enter the service, to endure its hardships and privations, and to dio, if needs be, in defence of the country. Our readers recollect the appeals we have frequently made to absentees and deserters to return to their regiments. Does that look like "straining every nerve to render the war odious to the people f " But the cause has been in jured, and the ad.niuistration at Richmond has ren dered itself odious to our people by its incapacity, its mismanagement of our affairs, and by its prodi gal and wasteful use and . misapplication of our re sources, as well as by itnajgugbly manner in which it has insulted and trJjJSi on North-Carolina. We have cplainedpTnd resented this, and en deavored inge "IP; and because we have done so, for thd of our cause, and on account of our Sf.f. .n,i m k.. i i: j r r 6 "- represented, and abused, not only by tho Register, bu by every mere puppet of powerjn the country. If our votes in the Convention could have prevailed, and if the policy in relation to State defence advo cated by this paper had been adopted, Eastern Car olina would not have been desolated,' nor would the enemy have been tearing up, the Weldon and Wil mington Road, and burning property along its line at pleasure. It is the policy of the Register and its friends in this State, and of the administration at Richmond, which has rendered the war unpopular, 1 J Tl A 1 , . .1 T . ! and opened Eastern Carolina as for west as the Rail road mentioned, to the ravages of the enemy. Nor is it true that we have a " settled purpose to bring about a reconstruction of the Union." Every purpose of a political nature which we have, is frankly announced to our readers. Does not the Register know that in the event of being overrun and conquered by the enemy, reconstruction would be impossible f . Does he not know that Mr. Lin coln would say, "Gentlemen, you cannot recon struct what you have not destroyed. Indeed, you have never been out of the Union.. You thought you were, but you are mistaken, J . ' Resume your 7. ' , ... lr . . ,. ... j ,.f!nn -a mamhaM aF Ih. Tint An An . fMU.infr With 1 uuuw -o - a tue most favored States t" We tell the Register that we have been, and still are devoted to the cause but, as we stated ia the article on - the subject of peace, we fear that the chances are j against us. We did not make those chances, and we cannot change tnem. ne are aesponaent, duc we are not "in despair. We tell the people the truth, and for this we are censured. We should feel the humiliation of it restoration of the old gov ernment as profoundly and as acutely as would the jATi JULY 29. 1863.. Editor of the Register; but if the' people of this State, with subjugation or restoration staring them in the face as alternatives, should sadly and reluct antly accept the latter, it would not be in our power to prevent it, even if we would, If the cause of Southern independence fails it will not be our fault, but the fault of the administration at Richmond and its partisans. The Conservatives of this State have done their whole duty in the war, and they have anxiously labored to unjte the people, to repel the invader, and to achieve independence, at the same time insisting on the preservation of bberty among .ourselves; but the Register ing its party have pur- iued a different course have done all they could to idoOTpV-tfiu the flame-of internal da- cord, and to encourage our enemies by falsely'rep- 'nsteting to them that a large majority of our citi zens are their friends. All governments on this continent belong to the people. They can put up and put down when and as they choose. And whatever may happen will be providentiaL The hand of Providence is continually engaged directing the affairs of nations. Nations rise and fall accord ing to His direction. There is no doubt about that Whatever, .therefore, may happen, will redound in the long rah to our good and to the good of man kind! And this we are bound to believe as Chris tians. Legislation by the War Department. We extract the following from General Orders No. 98, by Adjutant-General Cooper: ' . " The folfowing regulation will be in addition to those heretofore published in regard to substitutes : Hereafter every person furnishing a substitute, in accordance with existing regulations, shall become liable to, and be immediately enrolled for military duty, upon the loss of the services of the substitute furnished by him from any cause other than the casualties of war." This is nothing more than legislation by the War Department Congress has passed a law providing that substitutes shall be received into the army, and the above order is an addition to the law. Congress has not provided that if the substitute shall desert the principal shall take his place. After the prin cipal puts in his substitute, as he has a right to do under the law, bis control over him, and his means of controlling him cease. We take it for granted, if any cue of the kind should arise, that our Courts will declare this order of the Adjutant-General null and void. Among the wounded at Charleston we find the following from North-Carolina: A Branch, 51st N 0 Co K ; L M White, 51st co. D : T J Thornton, 51st co B, side; Capt E Suther land, co A, 61st shot through the thigh. Fort Wat-ner, July IS. Private N Barber, co F, 51st wouaded by a shell. Fort Wagner, July 18. Willis Kinlock, Slat, co A, abdomen ; J D Meloy, LtBlst, co V, mck ; Arch iiraham, 01s', c i) ; li Hunter, 51st, co U; Sergt McArthur, 61st cn C; Lt G W Thompson, 51st, co F, leg, since dead; Sergt W B Bowdcn, Ul st, co U, bead ; U Bass, lst, co I, scalp ; S Granthem, 51st, co F, scalp ; B Porter, co I, scalp ; J Abncr, 51st co C ; J Henderson, 51st co F, bar onet wound ; J D Johnson, 31st, co B ; Jas Jones, Cist, co C, hand. Tub Tuird Days Fioht at GErrrsBOBO. A cor respondent of the Richmond Sentinel furnishes the - following account of the third day's fatal charge at Gettysburg by our troops : " The most of the forenoon of the Sd of July was cousumed in manoeuvring and getting batteries iu position, but from about 2 o'clock till night that day will ever be remembered by both armies of the Potomac as a day distinguished above ail others for unsurpassed strife and carnage. The fight at this time opened with that fierceness and desperation which told that both were battling desperately to win the victory which had been so long, as it were. poisiner in the balance. Favorable information comes fromEwell; he is driving them on the left mil presses them in the centre, so as to well nigh make them yield. On the extreme right Longsireet is gaining ground. One bill on the right, the strongest hold they have, must be carried. The undertaking to carry it by assault is very hazardous, but there is no other way to take it The hill is alivo with meu four lines deep in support of the powerful bat teries there. This point is the key to the position of the Federal army. Their fortifications must be. charged, and with the support of our artillery ve mustsilence their batteries and carry their heights. Pickett's division is selected for this work. Tbey commence steadily and in beautiful line to march upon the fatal spot ; the distance is too far to charge with the yell and rush that' generally characterize charged Tbey press on througli fli-ldp, over fences and ditches. The enemy can see all of our move ments, and troops are double-quicked up to meet us. Our noble boys charge on through shot and shell ; their ranks melting away as tney advance under the murderous artillery fire of the enemy. Our srtiliery performs excellently. The batteries of the enemy are almost silenced ; their three rear ranks are broken and almost annihilated by our well directed artillery fire. On we press to within forty yards of their breastworks wben we received from their concealed front rank a fire to mention which almost makes the heart to sicken, fturely none can escape. All must' perish before such a murderous volley. . MntK0l our men rise, manv wnnnried (mm I ha cloud of smoke, and press on with their ranks sadly thinned. Some reach the breastworks; mount them and capture many of their guns. A dark cloud of Yankees show themselves; they, have been rein inforced with infantry and artillery. What an aw ful moment Where are our reinforcements 1 What a momentous question I Alas, we have none at bandl They have either been too slow or basely skulked their duty, when to do so was indeed criuu naL No help at hand, we are driven out of their fortifications and forced back by overwhelming num bers 1 The fighting ofthe day over, our thoughts, natu rally turned to the wounded and the slain ; many of whom (in Pickett's division, sad to relate,) were left in the enemy's lines, on the field, to languish, per haps, to die, in a foreign land, with no " mother's hand to sooth the brow ;" die amid the shrieks and groans of their dying comrades ; the whole scene reitdred tho more ghostly and ghastly by the dim light of the moon ; and the cries of distress the more piteous by the utter helplesseness of their condition. None but those who have wandered, on a moonlit night, over a battle field, and bard the wiilings there, and the half-stifled cry for wate?, can really imagine its horrors 1" The bombardment in Charleston harbor i. we learn, distinctly heard along bJf the line of the r . 1 r i . . j - . . . .. L-entr&iitaiiroaa, as tar up as the ninety mile sta- 1 . - . J j iion, ana even nigner. xne ventctman at the sta ! tion over the river reports ttt he hird tho guns j distinctly on Tuesday night, and this would be a """f0 not it&s taan two nun- probj.ble in a ttill night and with a fevoraUe wind, the noise of these ministers of abolition wrath may be audible in this city. Macon Telegraph. A Qcestioh roR Antiquaries. Which is the oldest Miss Ann Tiqutty, old Aunty Delurian, Miss Ann Terior, Mrs. Ann Oestor, Miss Ann T. Mundane, or Miss Ann T. Cedent I Whole Number 1482. The Ferocity of the New York Rioters-Bi , tality or the Military. .' . No single incident in the New York riots better illustrates the ferocity of the rioters than the death of CoL O'Brien, of the 11th N. Y., who was in command of the military at the point where the deadliest conflict between the troops and people tooK place, i bis omcer was in command or a body of infantry and two howitzers. '. In front of him, on second aveaue, the streets was densely packed .with men, women and children. - He gave the order to the cannomers to fire, and a volley of canister was sent into the crowd, followed by a rapid fire from the Minis rifles of the infantry. A number of the mob fell dead in their tracks, including three or four women, who were looking on. One vOmao and the child she held in her arms, were both killed oy the artinery. The Msraui in its account says: After several rounds bad "been fired; the people began to disperse, and the police proceeded to another part of the city. - CoL O'Brien and his com mand, however, remained. The Colonel dismount ed from his horse and walked into a drug store. ma tne commanaer ot tnis military torce taken bis departure at this time there is little doubt that his life would have been saved. But fatality had de stined him for its victim and he was a doomed man. Colonel 0 Brien stayed in the drug store for some few minutes; it is thought that he went in to eet some refreshments. The .crowd were around the door at this time. There was scarcely a word spoken, but the lowering glances of one thousaod men looked down in their vengeful spirit upon him as he stood in the ,door. He then drew his sword, and, with a revolver in the other hand, walked out on the sidewalk in the very centre of the crowd. tie was immediately surrounded, and one of the men came behind, and, striking him a heavy blow on me osck oi tne neaa, staggerea mm. Tne crowd men immediately surrounded and beat him in a most shocking manner. After having been terribly beaten bis almost inanimate body was taken up in the strong arms of the crowd aod hurried to the first lamp-post where it was strung up by a rope. After a few minutes the body was taken down, he being still alive, and thrown like so much rubbish in the street . The body lay in the middle of the street within a few yards of the corner of 34th st Nature shud ders at the appalling scenes which here took place. The body was mutilated in such a manner that it was utterly impossible to recognize it The head was nearly one mass of gore, while the clothes were also saturated with the crimson fluid of life. A crowd of some three hundred persons wounded the prostrate figure. These men looked upon the ter rible sight with the greatest coolness, and some even smiled at the gay object Our reoorter walked leisurely among the crowd which-surrounded the I body, and in company with the rest gazed upon the ; extended mass of flesh which was once the corpu lent form of CoL H. F. O'Brien. Notwithstanding the fearful process which the soldier had gone through, he was yet breathing with evident strength. The eyes were closed, but thero was a very appa rent twitching of the eyelids, while the lips were now and again convulsed, as if in the most intense agony. After lying for somewhat of an hour iu this posi- tion several of the crowd took hold of the body by 1 the legs, and dragged it from side to side of the street This operation was gone through with several times, when the crowd again left the body : lying in its original position. Hd CoL O'Brien . been a man of weak constitution, he would certainly have ceased to exist long enough before this time. He was, however, through life, a man of great natural strength, and this fact probably kept him" breathing longer than woulS any other common person. The crowd remarked this, and natch?'! his every slightest movement with the most intense anxiety. Now and then the head would be raised from the ground, while an application of a foot from one of the crowd would dash the already mangled mass again to the earth. This conduct was carried on for some lime, and when our reporter left the body was still lying in the street, the last spark of existence having taken flight The Be. Ad mission of Louisiana Important Letter from President llucolu. ElECCTIVB llAXStDN, ) Washington, June 19, 1863.J Messrs. E. E. Afalhiot, B'radixh Johnston and Thos. Coltman : Gentlemen : Your letter, which follows, has been received and -considered : To his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States : The undersigned, a Committee appointed by the planters of the State of Louisiana, respectfully re present that they have been delegated to seek of the General Government a full recognition of all the rights of the State as they existed previous to the passage of an act of secession, upon the principle of the existence of the State Constitution unimpair ed, and no legal act having transpired that could in any way deprive them of the advantages conferred by tlteConstitution. Ubdcr this Constitution the State wishes to re turn to its full allegiance, in the enjoyment of all rights and privileges exercised by the other States under the Federal Consti tution. With the view of accomplishing the desired object we further request that your Excellency will, as Cotnmander-in-Uhief of the army of the United States, direct the Military Governor of Louisiana to order an election, in con formity with the Constitution and laws of the State, on the first Monday of Novembor next, for all State and Federal offices. With high consideration and respect, we have the honor to subscribe ourselves your obedient servants. EE MATHIOT, BRADI.sH JOHNSTON, THOS. COTTMAN. Since receiving tho letter reliable information has reached me that arrespectable portion of the Lou isiana people desire to amend their State Constitu tion, and contemplate holding a Convention, for that object This fact alone, as it sooms to roe, is a suffi cient reason why the General Government should not give the Committee the authority you seek, to act under the existing State Constitution. I may add, that while I do not perceive how such a com mittal could facilitate our military operations in Louisiana, I really apprehend it might be so used as to. embarrass them. ' As to an election to beheld next November, there is abundant time without any order or proclama tion from me just now. The people of Louisiana shall not lack an opportunity for a fair election for both Federal and State officers by want of anything within my power to give them. Your obedient servant, - A. LINCOLN. Gkn. Pettigbkw. A Mertinsburg correspondent of the Richmond 'Dispatch gives the following ac count of the death of Gen. Pettigrew :- "The army finished the passage ofthe river about 1 2 o'clock Tuesday night E well's corps ford ed at tho upper ferd above Williamsport ; the corps of Gens. Hill aod Longstreet crossed on pontoon bridges about five miles below Williamsport, which has been built to replace those destroyed -by the enemy's cavalry the week preceding at tho same place. Just before the rear guard leit the opposite bank an oflair occurred Which lost to the Confed eracy one of its ablest od most gallant officers General. Pettigrew, of North-Carolina. A body of the enemy's cayjary, hovering around our rear, and perceiving bis brigade not in line, dashed boldly in among them, hoping to create a panto. Oar men turned quickly upon them, scattering thera Tike chaff beforelhe wind, killing, wounding, aad cap turing nearly all. The prisoners passed through here to day en route to Richmond. Gen. Pettigrew. received a mortal wound ia the onset His Adju tant General was also mortally wounded in the same affair, aod di?d here tola morning." . - - ;r THE PROSPECT BEFORE U5& The recent disasters which have attended our arms, the rapid strides which our enemies have made . into our Territory, and the mejldeoeSjiWt evinced by Lineolnites still to prosecute the war, in t man ner hitherto repugnant Jto the moral cense of all enlightened nations, are evidently producing a de pressing and discouraging rofluenc upon ouf peo ple. . This is a natural consequence of disaster, up on minds whose knowledge and perceptions are limited, and especially, whose hopes and aspirations are bounded by time, . Looking upon things as they appear to the naked eye, reasoning from premises based Upon human calculation and tffjrt alone, men may well be alarmed and discouraged at the pros pect before us. But christian people should rise above this. Whatever diacouragnnente surround us, or however dark the temporal prospects of indi viduals or of the nation may be, we are neverthe less confident, this " the word of the Lord stanoetb sure the Lord knoweth them that are His." If this be so, how distrustful of God and how faithless, to ait down and pine over calamities that cannot be prevented, but which may be gready neutralized or alleviated by. our future course, un der the blessing of God. Our people have never yet felt their entire de pendence upon Him. They have claimed with blind assurance that God was on our aide that he was fighting for us because, perhaps, -" the wish was father to the thought" But have they looked, narrowly into this question f. Hvo they traversed the whole labyrinth into which this controversy has wound itself, and have the li ht of reason and. grace so shone npen .their understandings as to leave no doubt or uncertainty ? YVe fear not, ' What proof, clear and undoubted, have we, that God has been always on. our sidj, or that He oper ates actively, in this, cootroverK? at all t He hs njfcdoubt purposes to accomplish iu regard to North and South, 'but what they are no one can tall Whether He is accomplishing thorn by constant and direct interference, or whether Ho" has thrown off both for a. time, because of our ingratitude, our crimes, and above all, bocause of our want of appre ciation of the great blessings He conferred upon as under the first revolution, and. loft us to oitrselves,. and to tho control of Satan, who can tc.il T We confess, these are matters about which we have no light; hence we have avoided giving expression to Soy confident opinion; ' . But there are points of intere.it in thin matter about which there can bo no luixtake. If we are sufficiently humbled under our chastisements, if we come to God as a people, truly "penitent for our sins, and ask His favor, we may confidently hope to secure it "He that humbletii himself . shall be exalted," is true of nations as of individuals. ' This is the only way lea us to obtaii. Uod's interference and protection. If we shall ever secure and main tain a separate and independent existence from the ' North, it must be from God. I la alone can control and modify and change the elements of conflict le tween the two, and say to the ;ue and the other, " hitherto shalt thou come -and uu fAriuer." Ru. Christian Advocate. FOREIGNERS AND CONSULS. Judge W. G. Jones, ofthe OonfuJerate Court for Alabama, has lately given, at Mubile, a judgment and opinion on the liability of a! en residents to the conscription. As to foreigners aad Consuls, he says: . The netitioner. MeK inn. nro'Iuiwi a Mrf tfij-jifji dated at Mobile, 2tSlh May,' HM, signed by her Britannic Majesty's acting Consul at Mobile, and i.n.l. K I.. 1 1 . . 1 . CP . jt... . t . under the Consular seal, to the i3Vct, that the act ing Consul "has good reason to helieve, after careful examination, that the bearer, Petw MeKinn, a nv tive of Monaghan county, who has never forfeited bis claim to the protection of the Q teen by becom ing a subject or a citizen of any -loreign Slate or country whatsoever." It is not for any Court to determine wholber for- 8ignUonsuls are properly here or uuu It is excla- lively for the President to recoiiZ9 foreiirn Minis- ters and Consuls, and where he recognize a person as properly exercising the functions of a foreign Consul, the Courts are bound to recognize him as such. Nor is it necessary, in these cases, to inquire Into the powers and duties of Consuls. These paw- ers are generally prescribed by laws and treaties. i Know ot no law or treaty which autlioiizes a for eign Consul to exempt any poriwu domiciled in this country from obedience to our hws. The Consul's certificate, in this case, does not orotund to da any uch thing.- It merely states tho billtf of the Con sul that the party named in it is a British subject, and as such entitled to the protection of the Queen, ft is notice to any person to whom it is shown that the Consul conmders him a British subject, and nothing more. If the person hn iug such certifi cate is really, and in fact liable, i.y law, to conscrip tion, the certificate would not of itself exempt him. But it seems to me that an enrolling officer ought to respect such a ceitificate so far as i.ot to enroll the person having it without first malting inquiries, and obtaining such information as sblkd turn that the party is really a permanent resilient of this country and liable to conscription! The Mobile Tribune says the decision of. Judge Jones in the Confederate StaWa Court, respecting the liability of aliens, is regarde 1 v one of the most important decisions that have yd been given, and will have a wondurful effect in bringing about a change in matters generally.' Fur there is any quantity of these people "who Lave resided in this city, married here, and have been doing business for years, and since the war have sw rn that they never intended to become citizens, and were grauted ex emptions on this oath men who are now engaged in every branch of speculation, and doing more to depreciate our currency than any other class in tho community. We are told that there ere hundreds in the interior who travel from towns to farms, buy ing up all the produce that tbey can get bold of and shipping it to thec;ties on speculation, which iu partly the excuse for the exorbitant price we have been paying all winter. Now tUat the Judge has declared them liable to conscrij.uon, the country will probably be rid of them, so fr as lUuir " busi ness qualifications are concerned at least Mer cury. RiMArKS or Gen. Pbndir Tbs remains of ILyor General Pender, of N. 0., who died Iro.u the effects of wounds received iu the battle of Gettysburg, passed through this city yesterday, en route for bni native State. The regret for the dua th of this gallant officer and wholesou'ed patriot in this community is general. Peters. Express. ' " : Our Dead and Woondkd. Gettysburg, in the history of this war, is to be signalled wLi.it- Mauas sas, Shiloh, Malvern -Hill, Fredericksburg,, Sharps burg and other places, as a field of blood. All ac counts agrse that Gettysburg wa the ni'M severe and bloody conflict of the war. The enemy do ibu less was badly - handled, but ' o:r own shun, -nl wounded and prisoners number thousands. Our own suffering State has. mingled, with the dust of Gettysburg much of its best blood r Fathers, moth ers, sisters and wives mourn the foil of many a no ble man, slain on that fatal field.' Our columns are too much straitened to name or enumerate them, bet we must be content to nuke a record of their valor and self-sacrifice. For the dead, pews piper panegyric can do no good, nor can our pray ers avail them. Tbey have gone to reader dp their last account But for the wounded we may care,, and urge upon our people, who have heretofore never flagged in their munificence to remember them ,in their afflictions. Let all Oe done that can be to alleviate and restore them. l : And yet there is no end. ; War ia insatiable la' ' its thirst for blood. ' Thousands of the brave eont: or the South are still to be sacrificed Our waving' fields of com and wheat km to be displaced by bee-; atombs and Golgotha... ' Our land Will .to. be; drenched in blood, to ftppeasaia vrtb of nuw and to people helL Thousands of nomai soul are yu be rohed into the presence 'of -vjtod. unfurnished aod unsaved. And ell for whatr--lcv Ckrit- tian Advoeate, : ' lV; V-Ui-w'.-'; . A Na-SBo Soukm Dnwonwap. Te Vprtoa f-' fkials, while engaged in jroKtittfcer;wew n' Belle Isle, in order to send s; body.w4y-f 6 of ' truoe, discovered amooig the eolisw negro . who had cropped bis kinky hawShort, dhi the aid of alight oUve-completiotClisi. rtgUtatioa . uniform, had woaped ootk . He-gaJN, the nemeef Hascall, (intended rascaL) and Said; fcehltait;e4 lx Massachusetts. , The black sheen- wacav)vd froV the white flock, and provided wrth iyuu'ha beoout;