THE AMERICAN WAR. THE GREAT BATTLE OF JUNE 3.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2213, 24 August 1864, Page 6

THE AMERICAN WAR. THE GREAT BATTLE OF JUNE 3.

The special cone<*pondent of the New Toil Times with the head-quaiteis of the Aimy of t ! \o Pnto'u ie writes from Cold Harbour, neav the Chrckahonnny, Fuday, June 3, 10 p.m. : — " Judged by ilie seventy of the eucnuntoi and the heavy losses we have experienced, the engage■ment which opened at giey dawn th s moming, and sj.enb its fmy in little ovei an hotu, should tike its place among the battles of the wai , hut viewed in its \ elations to the "whole campaign it is, peib/vp I',1 ', haidly rnoi'e than a giand reconnaissance — a leconnai=sance, however, "which has cost us not lesi than 5,000 oi 6,000 killed and wounded. The obieot of the actiou was to foice the passage of tlie Cluokahoininy, on the north side of which, and coveimg the roads to Richmond tlie lobels had planted themselves m a foitified hue. What we have ilono is to feel tins line by a vigoious attack, in \\ Inch, though gaming some tompoiary successes, and xb one oi two points actually canyingthe enemy's woiks, we have, on tlie whole, leached the conclusion that any victoiy that could heie be won must cost too much in its piu chase. Ido not say this as speaking with ' any authonty, but only as lecoiding the geneial conviction of the aimy. Such conviction, lrowcvci, "when the common judgment of suck men as have to day led then lines against the enemy, is apt to be of itself authonty, and hence I think I may safely piedictthat theie w ill be no lenewal of the assault on the lines of the ClucUaliominy ; that w o must look to the xesoiuces of strategy to plant this auny m a. position where, being at less of a disadvantage, its valour will have a better promise of adequate lewaid. It is in tins a lew that the action to day assumes to me tlie aspect of a great i ecounaissancc But it might easily have been moie. Weie prudence not as much a chaiacteribtic of Lieutenaut-Geneial Giant's mind as pluck, did he not know as well how and w hen to cry a halt as to older an ad\ance, he might ha.\c pushed the action for a reconnaissance to a bloody battle ; but to me it is clear we should have had oulyanotherFiedeiicksburg and its useless '.laughter. General Giant is not so poor in resouice th.it he need do this, and I think already his eyes aie tmucd away fiom the Chickahommy to lines and combm.i tions more bold than a*iy yet essiyed " Af tei a lengthened \ icw of the situation w hich led up to the battle on Faday, he goes on to desenbe the event thus • — " Iv saddle at 4 o'clock in the morning, the giey light of daw n is struggling thiough a thick eu\ elope of clouds and .a light pattenng laiu is f tiling. Oui men still he behind the bieastwoiks, worn out with the woik of the night, the lcbels, too, he behind their lntreuchinents, and only the sleepless picijuets peer with wary eyes foru aid through the dusk ol the woo.l. All is still as the giavc, yet in thuty miu.ites the stoun of bittle will bniat forth along a shetch of siv miles. Theie is but tune to take a glance at the line? Heie on t'ue left wing of the aimy is the corps of Hancock (the 2nd); connecting with him on the light, aud forming the left centre, is Wught's (the Gth) , then Smths (the ISch), winch holds the centio; ne\t conies Wan en's (the sth), which forms the light centie, and then Biunside's (the Qlli), which holds the extieine right. Oar hue inns almost parallel with the Chickahommy aud fiom I|_ to 2^ miles uoitii of it. On the left wing we appioach neaiest the nver; on the light ye aie somewhat i everted Haucock, holding the left wing, lests acioss the Despatch Station road (that isT the load leading fiom Cold Harboui to Despatch Station) , our light is acioss the Totopamoy. The lebel fiont is foiined immediate!}' in fiont of the Clnckahomiuy, in thice lives (two irnea of battle and a skiimish line) on an n regular line to confoim with the woods and ndges aud swamps of the giound. Between the two armies is a low swampy region, whose daik hollows w ill soon be lit up « itU thcTfires of death. Sndclenly from behind the nule paiapet theie is an upvtMtiiig, .1 noiseless springing to aims, the muffled command* ol officers foimmg the hue. The attack was oideied in 4.30, and it may have been five minutes after that, oi it may hn.\e be-u ten minuter, but it eei t uuly was not lalei than 443 when the whole line was in motio'i. Sknimsheis are thrown out, and piesently meet the enemj s picquets, ab we leiiu liy the smart fusilade we hear. Out aitilleiy opens, the lebels icsvK>nd, aud m a moment tie deadly conflict is joiued The metaphysicians biy that tune is naught, i^ but acategoiy of thought, nml I think it must be so, for into ten moital minutes th.-> morning vis crowded au ago of action. Ten miiiutes of the ngme>it men call time and yet that <-cant space d-~i k1 a bittle ' 'Xhei ewas a thousand details, ten tlnu&a id episodes, but the essential mittens this, that that ihsi msli of advance earned om whole fiont butt up against a line on woiks, winch we weie unable to bieak thiou«h, oi, breaking thiough, weio unable to hold. Conci-ne of this m the Laige — die fieico oiisbught amid deafening volleys of musketiy on 1 tie thnudei of aitilleiy, and the \.i!d, mad yell of battle, and see the iank& mowed doan, and the line? bieik heie and theie, and the s.ilien, obstinate reti cat, e\eiy inch contestel, and ne shall then bo aYe to descend to some of the points of action as they mdv lduahze them=el\es along the line ilaucock lield tlie left to the whole line of brttle, and of hi? thice divi-ions, that of Bailow held fie c\titme left of fie army, That of Gibb >n w,u d- .u\ n on the i lght of Bailow % ■while Bunej s> di\n<on w.is held in ie«eive. Ot the foui bngades of Billow s division, Biooks, had the Lit and Miles f'e light— each bugade m doublelme ot battle. .Smith, coiam Hiding the Irish Bneade, was placed m sappmb Tno left was protected by leuising it, the thud b.ijirte being disposed so as to covei that liank The foi mation of GibbonS di\ won on the light of Bulow was Similar, Tylei's bn"ado (hea\y artilleiy) i oldi lg the nght, Smith's the f-oitie, and O re.i\ the left— ileKeau in icai of 'J'y'ei's centie, in tto h 13,. On Hancock's hue fieie V2ie biit fjv, p'i«i3 wJieie aiti'leiy could be u ol with enect. Bnloiv had directed that his attick'iig bug ides shoild, pievious to the assault, bj moved onb an 1 formed just 111 the leai of the picquefc hie. Tio'a this point they advanced toi half a mile tluough w oods and over open mtei - % ils under a severe fiie sanare up to the enemy's w 01 k=. 'I'll it portion of his fionc w heie the light of Mile>'s bugade joined w ith the left of Brooks'*— the same bugalesthat so buliiantly earned the famous salient ii the hues, of Spottiyham* — succeeded iv a '•miilai sp'eudid coup heie, they got o\er aud into the c lemy's paiapet, captuung his guns (foiu light 12 ])3imdeio), hi^ coloius, and 500 or GOO pnsoncis, about 300 of «■ horn weie seciued by piomptly pa-jsiug them to the ren. The stoi-nmg column, 111 fact, weie just tvunijg the enemy's guns on the letieat l.ig rebels when powerful lemfoicements fiom the second lebel hue appealed advancing. The ft* lit rebel huew as held by BiecKnaidge'sti oops aud was earned, b-ifc Lee is too good a geneial to leave a point hi important thus weakly defended. Bieckiuiiflge's men wore j)laced in the foie fiont to leceive the baptism of fiie, b. it behind the->c lay the velc i."vns of HillS coips, and it is these we now see dashing forw aid to letueve the honotus we had snatched. Barlow's bngades — stout heaits not used to pale befoic the gieatest odds— could have hold then ownundei conditions the least hhoitof despe intion; but the situation 111 which they now found themselves o\eilea]>ed its limits. It was not moiely the ovei whelming fiont that came messing down upon them, of that they had 1,0 feai, but the position they had gamed placed them in advance of the whole hue of battle, and gave the lubel aitilleiy the opportunity for a deadly enfilading hre. Beside this they had lost the dnecting heads of tuo of the chief commandeis, Biooks and Byuies, ' souls of com age all compact, ' who fell mortally wounded, and all the organisations had suffered feai fully fiom an unparalleled lob? of offieeis. In this state of facts they fell back, bunging with them the pusoneisthey had taken and a captured colour, but n>t the guns They fell back, but not to their niigui.il poiition; to a position far in achanceof fiat they had held, and at different points not moie than 50 yaids from the enemy. Heie they 111tienched, and here 1 leav.e them to pass on to Gibbons , division of the same corps on the wU, and which was engaged at tlie same time. Gibbons'* advance was simultaneous with Barlow's, but 111 moving forwaid he came upon one of the swamps of tlie Chickahomiuy, which had to be tinned or overpasaed, in the piocess of which it became very difficult to establish the connexion between diffeient parts of his line. This oveicome, however, his tioops pressed forwaid with the hamo vi»oui that marked the conduct of their companion division on the left. Paits of the bngades of Jyler and Owen gamed the lebel woiks, but for reasons identical with those that foiced back Bailow'a troops they also were compelled to give up - what they had won. Gibbons's division, too, lost veiy heavily. General Tyler, befoie leaclnno the woiks, was CPU led oil the field, shot 111 the ancle. Cue of Ins logimental commanders, Colonel Porter, of the Eighth New Yoik Heavy Arhlleiy, wvs 1 llled ; immediately aftei the Lieutenant-Colonel (Bates) fell dead Auofchei of his regimental commanders, Colonel MciLahoii, of the 164 th New York, v.v.b struck whi'e p'autmg his coloms on the lebel woiks, and y m left a pusoner 111 the enemy's hand?, his tioops not snppcitmg him aftei he wa3 woxiiidcd. Owen'si bugade lost two entire compauies taken piisonera inside of. the

enemy* intienchments. In giving waj% Gibbons's division also was far fiora losing all the ground it had gamed It took an advanced position close to the enemy, and pist over the ciest, the Icm ward slope of which was held by the rebels. This position it has retained dming the d\,y, uul McX can's bi igadc h is held all day a position within lfi yaids of the enemy's woiks. Not until the splendid attack ol iTancook's ooips had been made, not till aftei its blood-bought victory had been wiested fiom om hinds, w vs be 01 any man in this avmy aw.aie of the supiemc importance of the position tins moinui^cawied and lost The key-pmnt of tho battle of G.wi'V Mills, two yeai-> a«o, it is stiangc and moililynig til it no one should have appreciated its value Ttii- po-,it'«M is abildhill, nimud Watts'-hdl, doim Hating liio whole battle giound, and covering the angle of the DcspaLch-io id. Along this ndgc the lebel works totmed a salient, and in fiont o£ it was .a sunken lnul Of this toul Hancock £>ot possos sion, and tho bvigides of Wiles and Biooks aelually struck .vnd earned the work dnoctly on tho salient ' Il.\d wo held this point, wo would ha\ c had a position whence the entile lebel lino might hive been enfiladed , and T think it is not too much to say that the day would have been ouis, a\ul l^oo pushed acioss tho Cluekahomiuy Had we even known in advance its commanding importance, vciy different dispositions foi attiok Would hive boon made, we would ha\e massed on the left, and made the Mctoiy a ceitunty. These considei itions coitamly 111spiic bittci ica;icts ; but v*ho doei not know that it is on precisely such contingencies that the f do of battles often" ho-ngs ' Simultaneously with the attack of the Second Coip-, the Sivth, under Wi ight, connecting on the left with Hancock, made a general advance at a quaitcr befoio o o'clock — each dmsion assaulting on tho cntiio hue. Of this coips, the Second Division ( MVNeill) held the right, the 'Lhud Dmiiou (Rrckctbs) tho centie, and the Fust Division (Russell) tho left Vive batteues under charge of the Chief of tho Aitilleiy of the Second Coip-, Colonel Tompkn.s— namely, Adams' Frist Rhode Inland Battery, Cowan's "Fust NewYoik (Tiulopendeut), ilahn's Timd New Yoik (Tndooendcnt), JlcCiu tin's Fust Massachusetts, and lUiode's Fust Ehodo Island, weio planted m good po&ihons, and did effective set vice m co\cuugthe advaneo The assault of the Sixth Corps was made with the utmost ■wgoui, and succeeded m ear i> mg the fait hue of lebel ulle-pits along its ciitue fiont, and got up within 250 yauls of the main w oiks Smith's coip^, connecting on thpiiffht vi ith the Sivth, had advanced m conjunction -w lth it , but the left division, that of jSLutiuaale, who led theattack m heavy deep colui.ius, got disat i uujed and M-, lcpulscd. General Smith made three dill*iem; atticks to iJicvc I\[utind\lo but list sniipoits did not get up m time to allow him to hold on The eftect of the lepuho on the loft of Smith hid a disastrous efttct on the position of Vnglit It unco\eied the tight fltnlv oE the Gth and evposod Uicketfc'b dnision which w as stoutly hold ng the advanced po'-ition.to asa^ age hvcon the pi elongation of ici line In tin-, stite of facts to letun possession of a position < -ome«hat m advance of hit. point ot btaibmg was the utmost Gen ci il Wnght could possibly do Operations along the the fiont of Wauen and Bui'iside were of an rmpoitanco quite subordinate to that of opeiations on tho loit No lesults weie achieved evcopt the curbing of the line of ufle pits occupied bythoicbcl slvirmi-»hcis The Fifth and Ninth Coips nouh?io struck the enemj''s mini woik Bimiside kept up i fmious cannonade foi some houi', but it w is nothing— \ ok et pietciea nilul Fiom the tenoiu o£ one of Burn- : side's morning despatches it was at one tune hoped I that he would be able to tiun the ene'ii> •, left, but this hope also doomed to disappointment." Tho coi respondent of the Boston Jovuvil wntc-, from Coal Haiboiu the 4th. as toilows — '• Intiencluig tools ucie Scut to the ftontduuug the night and wo aio tin owing up founidable on thwoil s Ihe line lcmams unchanged fiom li^t nighb It is icpoifced to day that w aio to sit down here and commence tho siec,c , tint me it guns have oeon oulucd up , ili- 1 fc rnihoad nan has aurved it Wlntc house, that after all tho tilk asimsfc McClelWn s optiations we shall be compelled to do hi-» woik o\or as;ain Iciiloitiina difteicnt ojunion Wo are to haie a second sioc;o of Richmond. Thcic i-s hard work aheail — iliL'gmg tionche-, mounting guns, but not m the Cluckahominy s«amp-> t know nothing w hatovci o' Gtiioial (4i \nt s plans oi those of Genpial Moale, but the clement 1 ! of a problem mdi(- ( catc the method of its solution , t'loiefoie, I e\;i3ot to see Richmond bc-ioged, with Junes Itnei f>u i hx^e, supplies close at hand, w atei ti in^poi tation foi laei"y oidnance, a ibgyin,; out of Full; Diihni; fiom the leai, a de~ti notion of icbel cmmunic ition south, the AppomattoN. ccneimg the opeiation, a consequent weakening of icbel sticiic,th. '

(incnr TiiE corau^pON'DFNr or me "timTj") EvLTmonr, I mie 7 The lcmaiks r>f i p^it'on of the TCngh-jh pics<;, winch seem to admit thatGcncial Giant his luthcit~> had the ad\ antage 1 1 the campaign against Iheh monrt, lu«e been ieeei\cd iv this city with gicat suii>n«o. So fai tiom having had the ad'^antTge, Gi iut in fvuy mo 1 ement he has made hi-, been foiled, it not defeated. He has been foicd to abandon cveiy position lie h i-. assumed and .iftci a month's stiitcny and fully a f Jitmght of h-ml lighting, he has 10-,fc one way 01 anofchn cln-se upon 100,000 men in Killed, wounded, mis-ing, and pi i sincis, and liiuls himself upon the C'ncl ahoivuny, a plate winch lie could have i cached without the los of a b itt ihon if eithci he oi the authonties at Washington had not been so peiveraC as to i eject that mode of a;>ptoach to llichmond because it was the fuoimtc louto of Gcncial ilcClellau. Ha\ui« made a loin; detom fiom the Noith Aun.i, he was confionted at his ue\l halting ])'ace at Mechanicsville by the whole itiongtli of tho Confederate aimy Nothing dauuted by his lepeated and costly failuies, he essayed duimg a whole week to foiee that position , bnt finding Ins supplies in dangei of being cut oil', aud Ikv\ ing lost now aids of 7,300 men on Fuday, the 3id instant, in one futile assault upon tho enemy's woiks in fiont of him, ho has once again found it necessaiy to change hi-, plans, to abandon Cold Haiboui and Mechanics'* iHe, which he >liscoAeied to be as strongly fortified as any pi ice with which Ins biave but luckle^ legions have come into contact, and to make anew and, ib is to bo suppose 1, a final cndeavoui to loach Uiehniond by cio^singtho Chickahommy below Xe,\bu<l;re This was McG'lcllan'b plau, and fiom all ])ioaeut appealancos a feu di>s will whethei he can make moie of it than his piedcce^'-oi. Up to tlu^ moment, how e\ ci , he has gamed nothing, lie has evhibitc I a bulldog pei tinacity. lie has saciiiiccd his men He has piactieally dechied that he know h no such w oid as "fail." He has been knocked down and got up again. He has been lepulsed and ictiiiucd to the oiicountci. lie has taken but slight heed of difficulties, and has exhibited a tlc«iee of coinage which ib the ie>nlt eithei of heioismoi of lgnoiance. Finally he has sat dow n to besiege a city, which 1-. Btiongly foitihcd in fiout and has all its communications open in the leai, which leai he cannot leach Even tho ISTew Yoik papeid, -winch aie always shouting " victoiy " when theie is no victoiy, begin to admit, w ith wiy faces aud the woi st possible taace, tint a sie^e thus begun may la->t the whole smnniei , and that before tho s>ummei is half ovci, the besieging aimy, setolcd in a swamp and swelter ing in the lays of a Southern sun, .aie juuch moie likely to lose half then numbeia by fever and dysentery thau to piodiicc the slightest effect upon the coinage oi the iesomcc-> of the besioged Tlie battle of Fnday last, of which but veiy slight and cuisory mention has been made by tho Wai Dejiaitmont, but of which the full dctnU have been communicated to tke ]>übhc by wituosses of and paiticipatois in it, hoirois, was piccimtateil by Geneial Giant with the intention of making iL thq oisib of the campaign. The position assailed vas supposed to bo the key to "Richmond, ziu the Chickaliommy , but as on all pievions occasions since the passage of the Eapidan, the Fedeial commandci found it impossible eithei to suiinise oi dofelt his evei -vigilant opponent In lew than ten minutes the battle "was ended. The Gonfcdciatc shot pouied thiongh themas-cs of the Fedeials, cut ting them down by hundieds. at one dischaigc— so thick weie then advancing ranks , and in almost less time than it takes to wnte down the sentence which lecoids their biavety and then doom npwaids of 6,000 men leccived their death wound and lay sprawling and helpless on the bloody field. Even the stoicism of GTant, though not outwaidly moved, as far as the eyes of his watchful aides could discover, gavewny. ITe oideicd no lenewal of the chaige that had cost him .so many thousands, incluolusive of five Geneials and 20 Colonels ; and aftei a ha'ty consultation with Geneial Meade, and afteiwaids with Geucial Hancock, appears to hive m.ule up hi;, miod that ho nai nofon tho light loul to Uulunond, and that he hadcithor to boMe«e it by leoular piocess oi hnd some other «nd move a.'adable loute by which he could cany it by atiatcgy oi a coup de main. People who aie oidinaiily rabid foi tho prosecution of tho war aie becoming alarmed ot Giant's contempt for human life. Ho valuer his legions no moi c than if they >\oe coveys of paittidtres, Alicady it is wluspoiod tint m»ily 1,100 oH.coi -, ,uc to be included in the 90 OUO oi 100,000 men who have been killed, wounded, aud taken pnsontus feince he began Ins fcangiuuaiy maich, llg is qpoktii

of as tho "bulchoi," and a lcquisition is hinted at cvllm' upon tko President to remove him. Not only the li lends of the South but multitudes of cuncst Noithcin men havo ahe.uly come to the conclusion that his campaign is a failure — that ho Ki-.i1.0n0 Uir> utmost and can do no moio, and that hi' li i . .tlieady done as little as McC'lellan, At a cost U"i turn s .is loaiful. Today some English oificoi.s anl nowspapci eouospondonts, who ani'.ed m tins city fuiiii the fionfc, icpoit that the losses on Fnday l.isc v on' n< .uci 15,000 th.vu 7,000 , th.it on Hatuulay i i,l Sunil iy ."i,OOO oi 0,000 moie weio sicuhcod to Lite ol>sUii.ioy ot tho Lieutciunt-Lceneial, and that >i spmt oi disaioetiotv has auscn in the .winy, winch tinoitens to become a mutiny if the men continue to be diivon like machines against lmpregnible position^, without the slightest solioibudo whtther 10 or 10,0i10 lives aio sicnhced m tho attempt. PiiUim/ue, .mstoci.itic and f.isluonible, is so en»ii>s=;i>d with Iho wxi news tint it thinks and sneaks of nothing but Giant anil Ijcc. Baltnnoic, dcmociatio and unfashionable, i>, on the oontuuy, wholly ibsoibod bj the pi ooeodmgs oE the Convention The noble ait of Piesidont making scorns in its initial stigos to lcquuc .i vast amount of mus.e and oio-toiy As the witches could nob ti.'msfoim the Th.iuc of GUmis uiti the Thane of Caw .lor and Knit; of Scoti md without mucli mcint.ilion .md a ni'isicxl accompimmcnl, so the delegate-) who have come lnthci to Ikul the pestilential c ildion and fchiovr then scvcial ■woiul lngiedients into tin' mass, cuinot pel foi m then .allotted puts without the aid ot lile and <li am, the bi.ass band and the ttumpul. All day lons* and hi'f the night, the delegations, who l\,v»c dctJiiumcd to pioloug tho iei;u ot Jill T-in-eoln, live in .in atmosphue of music. Undei the balconies of tho hotels, wheio tliey .ue loured in batches — the loinosentativi s of cic'i State kce]i together- some ab Baruum's, some at the Eufcw house, some at Oluy's, , tho miiistiels gather to make the dvy unpleasant and the night hubous with " Yankee Doodle," " Hail Columbia," ' St.v spanyl'-d B.innei,"and "John Biown's iiody Lie- IJouldeima in the Giave,' 1 v.aned occasion illy with the moio agiceablo melodies of the Tiovaloie and the Pnnlmu Tlie&c musical peifoimances.uc, howcvci, but baits foi siieechcs The ciowds that assemble under fie window-, listen patiently while the band plays, and when the musicians lixvo done shout for some meinUei of the delegation to show himself Attei shoi t and coy delay, he nppcai-t, and aildiossCb In, iellow citi/ ens "with loud \ nice xnd violent gesticulation If the spcikti bo hum Now Yoik, Plul.i dd]ihii oi Boston, oi my tmli/el yxil of the Union, ilie speech is foi the most pub pi >ctioal, though oina.lo, and dwells 1 m,ely upon the ncco-.bity of l counting the last man, spending the last doll u tociush the iJ>cllum, utd the ciiu.vlly urgent necessity of 10 electing " the scatesni,ui, tlie p.Unot, and chimpion of ]iueic\, Abialuin Liueoln," foi iiiotho! tcim Jf the speikei \>3 fiom the West xi om Ohio, liulima, Illinois, or Kaiuis— ho is equally «.tion« JU the last Hua, the last dolhi, xiid thopcLuhai litiuss oi Mi Lincoln foi his place, but fu moio emphatic in Ins denunciation ot tlieicbcK, uid proEiwo m tho employment of such wouls as ' hell," "damnation,' and (he "dcwl." Tlie-e and some kuulicd e\[)iesßion-. seem to foim tho staple of Western oi \toi y " The lobels," said a Bugadiei Genet al fioax Ohio la^-t night to a tiowd undci the bxlcony of the Eutaw T fouse, '-have bat two lights to which they can lay claim The one is a Constitution xl light and the othei is i Dismo light They lnve a (.'otistitution.il light to be hung— they ha\o -a Bnme light to bo dunned " Anothci Wt, stein oi itoi at Rimnma elcclMed that "Jtfl Divis would be in hell in less than si\ weeks, and that Abiaham fjin coin was the noblest mm thxtGodhad t\ci eieited " ITc was t )lk)\\ed shoitly aftctv aids bj a lluent spenkci, who took much lomoi gtoiiml, and deel.ucd tint " Lincoln wasa common m m, an oi'liuiiy mm, i l.'boui ing man that iic mblie in foim ot goininment l^nuitcil no otliei kind of mm foi i cluet magi, hate, and that it wa^ the gloiy of thn county that .my lieuoi ol rood o? di.xiui ot watci w.n lit to be i Pii'svlont ' Tin- 1 v.d of t ilk went i.-i al! day yeslouln, eonUnucd till w.di.ighfc, ,md wis ie sumed tin, moimiiT, and N ill ilou'itle^ i nt oiit tbc dxy, until the C'"iivcntiou assomblLi foi the uv>l time toi the tU'W-chon ol business.

B\t rnron , June 11. A st. >i \ it. leldin l\iltnn'>u\ by a cjoiitfuiun who wi 1i 1 - lecentH in Richmond, that t' us .Southern P.fiilont w is asLcil in ins pie^rnee h >w soon i.o thought the w.llw .11 wuuiil end J'heing his Jninl upon thn head ot x little boy, not li\o > eai sof age, Mi i>i\is ic|)lied, '' Not till Mni child is vi ol I mvi " Mi Px\ n\ s">riow fnl anticipation is shuoilii tins city, if not fmt'iii noiUi -VII expect ttton tint tho Fodi'i ils will conquci till" (.'oniVdciato^ oi the t'onfedeiatos tl'c Fci'oiaK, h\t subsided I'lic e.h mstion of oit'ic i iiiit> " deemed possible The 'lit 'nunlinn of Gieit Bi.ti.n mil Fi nice his coisnl to be looked for I'lic ca|ituionf Kicliino,id,u eiueted — \vlncli low bi hove -in \\ .xntity tho p.idc of the Ninth, but will nol c\]i2ditj Iho su'ijugifion of the South The %hen o th of the ConK derates hci in no cty and no locality, Int in the lient-. of. a pcop'e v, limn the jno'oii^ation of ho->-fcilit os> mvv c\i->pe ate, but ea l n^vc uieliu" to pi> ice .The only eh nice th it ) lonusj-, spi j oliei iosult:> thin Noi them \ letoi s in 2foi them Oofc it, to be sulnevcd o\ci Oiinfc oi She im l, it m itto not v Inch, The ulcaof llioso who in the lmtcpfMi donee of tl.c South tho onlj eh mco foi tio jnu^en i tion of tio lihci tic^ of the Noitb i^> tint such i dcfoit in t'icinid 5 b of tho Pievden'i.il contort uon'd lead to a, comrneiciil [nine and a funjiii a^itition of jiopnl n pi, ions, out of wluoh would spiny .x civil wai ii the Koi th Then it is .\i ijticil the South im»ht extoit the lcco^mlion of ita independence fiom th.lt powejfnl Noichem puty which in such an c\ cut would ccil'Mi'ly .vise to pi event the hiithei ilisinto qiation of tio Jtcjmbhe But Fcdeiil \lHOl3' will not buiii^ ] <A edeial success, and the child will become a youth, the youth a raiii, ami the man £;iou giey witli tho l)'udcu of VO bcfoie tho Smilli will le.am submission. Tho South cm be.v defeat The r[uo--Uon is if tho iSToithcin ben id without political coin ulsion It \\ oul'l scoin, fiom the plight of C'Oiici il Giant , fiom lu-. niacfciMty foi tlie last eight da>s , fiom the fc.aiful 10-jios hi- had enduiod, fiom the undines of Oeueial Loe to confiont ami foil him at any point upon which he may select to hml hi-, li^io is , fiom the \vll known though sticnuonsly domed net tint the 0 )nf 0 lei xtc-> ine\tiy bitt'u line lnllieced at le.i-t thiee tunes tlie dam.igo they hi\ a ■suslunel, xml fiom the f.ict equally oiuinoiij, but mot so stoutly contested, th it a si.^i of Tiiclinxond \ ou'd consume the ■juirrnci and Gi.i'it's aimy .ilon^ v il'i )t by the di^oisc, .mil f'j\c-> of an C'icimpiH3iit amou_ the the swamps of the (Jhick. ihuanii}*, that Vn-, gioat eju^stiou nny li.uo ,1 spocdici aus\\ "'i thin uirTt people anticipated a month ago, .mil th it Gi bit's defc\t, leticat, oi \. itii liaw il, is not oily imminent fiom dxy today, but will ba followed by compile Itions fai giavoi and inoie peulou < tUait dfctended tho diaw 11 battles of McGlellan anil Meado, 01' tha 10 WlS'Jr> Of PojlO, DlU'lSulc, a'\d [ToolvCl. The maieatio'is tndiy ,110 tint Giant will tiy ■anotlici change oj! bx-ao, xiuliisk iiiothoi gi oat battle, b" r ')ie losoiting to the last C\.ti unity of .1 oie^'o, JNlr, Stiiiton's cuit di s]> itches 'c.id lo tho lnfeio'ieo tint tho movement ha-, alieidy oiimucucod, .and the gmided leltoisof the Now VSIK and I'hilidclpbia joiuiip.ls name the Jame-> Unei as the new stating point of lu^> much enduung auny It is, pcihap 5 , sufhcicnt eiitici=Ki upon this mox cnicnt to ■-ay that tlicie aic but few mi'itny men 111 tho Noith who ilo not consulei it fi u'giit v/ith much gieitc. dangei than any winch tho aimy has jot oiuomitcied, and no f 1 lends of the South who do not fciveutl', hope that nothing will pie\ont Gcucial Giant lioni at cmptinej it. I temfoi cements contlnnc to ha foiwanloil, bn' tltey aie cluelly law leciiuts ,vA ciuigi vuts who have not becu '■ix months m tho countiy — lucn who doulitloss do not hack coinage, but who have not ■icqimcd the luabits of discipline 01 the piofessional pudc of tho tuamod sohboi An I how evoi nunieiou'. these leintoicements may be, it is notpiobablo that they inoiu th vii half lill up the successive depletion' which the aimy of the Potomac h is snfleiod dining the last, five weeks. Tho fn^ljiiful loss of lite in cvoiy battle docs not account for moiG thin 50 01 30 pel cent, of the 100,000 men who hive disappcaied fiom tho effective foicc of the aimy <-vice the passage ol tho llapidan. To these have to be added the wounded who fell in fan fight under the shol and shell ol the rncmy, tho pusoneid, the desoitois, the thicejoir Voli'iiteois v/ho<o loim has ex[aicd tho tatteied and attenuated loinnxnts of whose once complete icguncnts continue to inaicli thiongh this city. Hut wholhci lemfoiccd in wholo 01 in pait, Gencial Giant has but little supenoiity in mu.ib'j; 1-' over1 -' over Geneial Leo; while tho latter lus .111 immense >xdvantac,u not only in position but in evoiytluug that goes to elevate Ujtt looialc and 111cicaso Uio heioism of an aimy Jp anticipation of. the next Uattlc, news of which •a l^oni ly c\pectod, the milil.uy hospitals of this city bavobeci. c^iod of eveiy man fit to hear 1 cmoval to Jus home 111 the 1101 th 01 wo,b, and all ptopaiatious made to loccivo fiom C.OGO to 10,000 men Bxltimoie has not the accommodation foi the w gnndci] to bo found at Washington, which a gentleman just aimed fiom that city dnsonbes as being one h igo hosj)itil, but such accommodation as it has 11 kept in constant icqiiuibioii. The hovpit'ls mo sitiiatctl in yauow par^s of

the town, and tax. to tlicii 1 utmost the professional lesouices of the place I visited one of them a few day-, ago, immediately after a cleaiance j had been made of the most advanced cases of convalescence, and saw :is much human snffciing in the space of half-an-lumr as [ cue to see again in a life time Ton hoifci— one of them aln go hotel, aitu.itcd on one side of Oxmdon-sticot, and six, mcliuliii'4 a piaiofoilo inanut ictoiy, ducctly opp > site — l 7avo been lined fiom llion ownei^, by tho Government, connected oic with tin* other, .md foim the chief mihtaiy hospit il of Balbimoio. The wauls ,uc clem and any, and cvoiy possible adjunct of health and comfoit is pi ovided foi the wounded Such as lem.unod on the diy of my visit -wcie foi the most pai b fatal casos of whicli the smgeons, ]iad bub faint hopes Tlieio wcio men who hid lost logs md aim 1 !, uul men who woio awaiting ie S1 onedly and many of thorn unconsciously— the inevitable .imputation that might 01 that might not save their lives, and who scorned to have lost all mteiest in the w.u and the woild, and in evci grilling .11 omul them, s.uc pothaps in the fuendly eaio^or some sympathising iim->c, who .smoothed their pillows 01 otroiod thorn then 1 dunk or then medicine Thoio wi-io some who had the ciowns oE then lio.ul "3 cm led o(T by fi I'^nionts of bnistm" shells '"md yet sinvivcd ; 5,01110 shot through the lnnj>s and ccitani to die, bub yet th uikmg by a look any° lvind-h( iilml snii*eon wlio ventuicl to toll Uiem, .i£?nnsb his convictions tliat thcio was yot liopo , othois whose laws had been toiu away, Rome shot in the foot, some in the h ind, some thtou^h the shonldoi, and some 111 the head — the ball in one instance not bcni-j; nicicifiil enough to Lake life, but to leave insanity behind it. The 1001ns wcio taste fully ailoinpd with the Fodcial tlaa, with vases of ilowcrs, and sometimes vuth .irjuanuins, 01 W.iidian cases ot foins, and the walls liunct with poitiaits, among which that of Tcnny Lind w.is the moit cons|)ioiions, and appaued 111 oveiy 100 m These s»ifts woio coutiibuted by the nmses, .ill of whom weie NoilliPin and puncipally Now Bugland ladies, who had lead of ITloiuice Nightingale, and, mspiicd by hci cvimplc, ha I devoteil then time, then kindness, then caie, ami then money to the lebef of sufieum; humanity, and the elevation of the common hospital to the eomfoit and the dignity of a homo.