The Free South, 1863-07-11

Slocnm's front, and over one thousand on the front of Gens. Hancock and Newton. The total number of the enemy's wounded left on the field is not less than three thousand. From the New York Hertld of July I. Perhaps the best evidence of the entire route of Lee is the number of prisoners which our troops are picking up in large ''bodies, amounting now to nearly twenty eight thousand, or almost the fourth part ft the aebel army. Hie troops of Gen. Lee are scattered in the mountains, and were endeavoring to escape towards Virginia. Since Friday ithere was no general engagement; but cavalry skirmishes in the rear of the enemyare continually proour cavgressing. JL 'fight was reported at Fayetteville yesterday, and another at Mercerburg, no doubt the operations of our cavalry on the enemy's rear, it is a remarkable fact ?hat the late seizure of horses made by the rdbels horn the fanners in Pennsylvania and Maryland has turned out greatly to their disadvantage. The animals, not being trained to the battle field, have become <o unmanageable as to render their riders almost helpless when attacked by airy. General Couch has pushed forward all his effective force to co-operate with the Army of the Potomac. His advance is already in contact with the enemy and

very resDecuuuy, * " " YotfWbdV&rvant, * . ^ D. D.* Porter, Acting Rear Admiral. Misebs Extinguished by Papeb Money. ?"Thepassion for wealth," writes Chas. Lamb, "has worn out much of its gros6ness by tract of time. Our ancestors conceived of money as able to confer a distinct gratification in itself, not alone considered simply as a symbol of wealth. The old poets, when they introduce a miser, constantly make him address his gold as his mistress; as something to be seen, felt, and hugged, as capable of satisfying two of the senses at least. The substitution of a thin, unsatisfying medium for the good old tangible gold, has made avarice quite a Platonic afi'ection in. comparison with seeing, touching, and handling the pleasures of old Chrysophilities. A bank-note can no more satisfy the touch of a sensualist in this passion, than Crusea could return lier husband's embrace in the shades. See the Care of Mammon in Spenser ; Baraba's contemplation of his wealth in the Jew of Malta;. Luke's raptures in the City of Madam. Above all, hear Guzman, in that excellent old Suanish novel. The Rogue, exna -

tiate on the ruddy cheeks of golden Haddocks, vour Spanish Pistolets, your plump and full-faced Portugese, and your clearskinned peices of eight of Castile,' whicln he and his fellows, the beggars, kept secret to themselves, and did 'privately enjoy in a plentiful manner.' 'For to have them, for to pay them away is not to enjoy them, to enjoy them is to have them lying by us having no other need of them than to use them for the clearing of the eyesight, aud the comforting of our senses. These we did not carry about with us, sewing them in some patches of our doublet near unto the heart, and as close to the skin as we could handsomely quilt them in, holding, them to be a restorative.'" De Foe's. ^ thieves have this sense of the reality of money. Children, old women, and some inhabitants of semi-civilized and unsettled parts, are the only hoarders left: a coin to them is appreciable ; a bond on extremely thin paper next to nonentity. Why is delirium tremens like a pinching boot? Because it is a tight fit. Why should a tippler never have a wife? Because he is sure to licker. 4

Ofcneral Archer and liis whole staff were ' captured. Two thousand four hundred cl the prisoners.arrived in Baltimore last night. Our forces in Wednesday's fight are + arqxjrted to have been only twenty-two thousand against fifty thousand of the enemy. Our loss was undoubtedly very heavy, many regiments having been badly cot up, and several having all their officers shot down. From the NewYork Times of Jbly 7th. Gen. Meade on Saturday issued a genAll order thanking the Army of the Potomac in behalf ot the country for the glorious result of previous operations, and announcing that its task was not yet accomplished. That task?the destruction, no far as possible, of the rebel army of Horthern Virginia?it is now moving to noeomplish. It was ascertained on Sunday morning that Lee had commenced liis xefaeat daring Saturday night, and it was noon found that he was endeavoring to xeach the Potomac, their reaijguard having passed through Emmettsburg on Sunday morning at daylight. Gen. Meade's headquarters were at Creagerstown, Md., about fifteen miles north of Frederick on Sun Sun* - * Sun* v _1.|_ .1

uur tasK is noi yei accompnsueu, ana tlie Commanding General looks to the army for greater efforts to drive from our soil every vestige of the presence of the Invader.. It is right and proper that we should, on suitable occasions, return our grateful thanks to the Almighty Disposer of events, that, in the goodness of His providence He has thought fit to give victory to the canse of the just. By command of (Signed.) Maj.-Gen MEADE. S. Williams, A. A. G. An enthusiastic believer was relating to a skeptic some spiritual performances to which he could testify, and among other things he said that, on a certain occasion, the spirit of his wife, who had been dead several years, returned to him, and seating herself upon his knee, put her arms I around him and kissed him as much to his gratification as she used to do when , living. "You do not mean to say," remarked the skeptic, "that the spirit of your wife really embraced and kissed you?" "No, not exactly that," replied; the believer ; "but her* spirit took pos- j f t n. > i i_ _ # _ # i J: I

Iiuv jl wramvuiia r .. ? says :? 44 Reliable information has been received here that the return of North Carolina to the Union is an event which may be daily expected. We have news from New Orleans to the 1st inst. The bombardment of Port Hudson was then going on vigorously. All the steamers in the service of General Banks we*? running up and down the river without interruption. ADDRESS OF GEN, MEADE TO AIS ARMY. ileai^raktkbs A rut ok PoTOMAO.) Near Gettvhbcbcii Jn.v 4. / General Orders No. 68.?The Commanding General, in bghalf of the country,, thanks the Army of the Potomac for the - glen. ioun th<yr*^ut ffperatioP.^Our enemy, superior in numbers, and flushed with the pride of a successful invasion, attempted to overcome or destroy this army. Baffled and defeated he has now withdrawn from the contest. The privations and fatigues the army has endured, and the heroic courage and gallantry it displayed, will be matters of history to be ever remembered. ^ ' a ' 1*1 . 1 "1

day, and yesterday tney were prooaDiv ai ^Frederick. The whole {Arniy of the Potobuk was in motion again yesterday, and entertained the highest hopes of capturing the greater part of the rebel force. In addition to the rebel pontoon bridges at Williamsport, their bridge at Dam No. 4 bad been destroyed, and other preparations had been made to prevent a crossing. Our cavalry was also active at all points. Gen. Kilpatrick, on Saturday last, it is reported, intercepted a retreating train of rebel wagons near Monterey, on the Hagerstown and Gettysburg road, capturing 900 prisoners, including 200 wounded i officers, 150 wagons and two guns?the rebels'being completely surprised and unable to make any serious resistance. The enemy are abandoning all their wounded on the retreat. They are leaving all Generals and Colonels as well as privates. The more we hear of the enemy's loss the more disastrous the battle becomes to them. On the 5th our troop3 *

m URJAY, JULY 11,1863. Weed* jand. Zook, killed, and Sickles, Bar- | low, Graham, Warren and Doubleday, wonndad. The price President of the rebel government, Alexander H. Stephens, and $r. Commissioner Onld, came down the James river on board the rebel gunboat Dragon, on Saturday, under a flag of truce, and requested permission from Admiral Lee to proceed to Washington in order to present in person an important communication from Jefferson Davis to Abraham Lincoln. Admiral Lee at once dispatched to Washington for instruction- A Cabinet meeting was accordingly held yesterday morning, and it was decided that permission should not be granted to these gentlemen to fulfill their mission, whatever it was, to Washington. The probability of the return of North Carolina the Union is foreshadowed by i *l>n Pni4cmAiit1i I'lV/ijui/l,! ftf HtP Q(1 wlllpll