into the open prospect, a gallant charge on one Rule 
and a retreat on the other, and we Raw plainly that 
our columns were gaining ground, and steadily pur¬ 
suing their advantage by their gradual movement 
which continued toward the distance and the enemy’s 
center. 
Wo indeed heard continuous tidings of heroism and 
victory; and those in the trees above us told us mora 
than we could discover with our Hold glasses from 
below. We heard that Hunter had fairly rounded the 
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 Mis- 
fussippians as tliuy tied from their first battery, and 
were forced Into the open iicld. Then we saw our 
own 60th and 70th corps, animated by a chivalrous 
national rivalry, press ou to the support of tho more 
distant column. Wo could catch glimpses of the 
continual advances and retreats; oould bear occa¬ 
sionally the gons of a battery before undiscovered; 
could guess how terribly all this accumulation of 
death must tell upon those undaunted nun, but could 
also see — and our cheers continually followed the 
knowledge —that our forces were gradually driving 
the right of the euemy around the second quarter of 
a circle, until by 11 o’clock tho main battle was raging 
at a point almost directly opposite, our standing 
place — the road at tho edge of the woods whore it 
had commence! six hours before. 
hill at tho distance of a mile and a 
[From Mason’s Normal Singer, by permission.] 
Cheerfully 
?nf) 
th notes of joy we 
vors, 
1. Como Autumn, crowned with ripened grain, 
r r c r j 
CCS strike the chime, The 
Our hearts and voi 
vors 
« Who said that the stars on our banner were dim 
That their glory had faded away? 
Look np and behold ! how bright throngh each fold 
They are flashing and smiling to-day. 
A few wandVing meteors only have paled 
They shot from their places ou high; 
Bat the JUcd and the ti-ur. still Illumine the blue, 
And will, while old nges go byt” 
2 . Tho harvest sun. how bright at noon 
His richest radiance throwing 1 
And, Oh! how bright the harvest moon, 
As she with joy is glowing, 
And fain with us would strike the chime, 
Tho harvest time, tho harvest time. 
3. Our land is broad, we’ve every clime, 
And all some gift possessing; 
And all enjoy tho harvest, time. 
That makes each gift a blessing; 
Then let our hearts and voices chime, 
The harvest time, the harvest time. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 3, 1861 
THE WAR’S PROGRESS 
There was a 
half. From its height, overlooking the whole plain, 
a few sholl had reached us early in the day, .uul an it, 
was nearer the Manassas road than almost any other 
portion of the field, more of the enemy's reinforce¬ 
ments gathered about Its ridge than to the aid of the 
beaten rebols in the woods and valleys. Hero there 
was an open battery, and long lines of infantry In 
support, ready, for a wonder, to let our wearied fel¬ 
lows see the fresh forces they had to conquer. As 
the Sixty-ninth, Thirteenth, and Seventy ninth wound 
round the meadows to the north of this hill, and be- 
the road apparently with the intention 
a column comiug down from 
ve, and for a moment believed 
Division, and that it had 
g tho enemy’s rear. A 
Hut soon the look-out 
boro secession banners, and wo 
other rebel General, was 
united 
BRIGADIER GENERAL SlEOKL.—FRANZ SlEOEI., 
who has been doing such noble service for the Union 
in Missouri, is thirty-seven years of age, and a Ger¬ 
man by birth. He is a graduate of the military 
school at Carlsruhe. lie entered the regular array of 
Baden, and was advanced to the post of chief adju¬ 
tant in 1847. His sympathies with the first revolu¬ 
tion in Southern Germany lost him his commission. 
He was appointed General-in-Chief in the beginning 
of the second revolution, May, 1848, and led the for 
lorn hope of the liberal party with great energy and 
zeal, lie came to America in 1860; was a Professor 
in Dr. Onion's Academy, and married Dr. Dulon'B 
daughter. He received a call to a professorship in 
St. Tiouis, where he soon became distinguished by 
his great military talents, and on tho first call of the 
President for troops to defend the Government 
against the machinations of the rebels, he Instantly 
entered tho field, raising ft regiment of German troops 
in St. bonis. The regiment choRe him Colonel, but 
for hlB courage, zeal, and display of military skill, 
President Lincoln made him Brigadier General: 
Brigadier General Robknckanb. — This officer, 
who ho gallantly won the battle of Rich Mountain, is 
to succeed Gen. McClellan in command on the 
upper Potomac. Gen. William S. Rosencranb is a 
native of Ohio and a West Point officer, having 
entered tho Military Academy in 1838. He was bre¬ 
veted Second Lieutenant of Engineers in July, 1842, 
defence to itself. Tho key to the whole position is 
precisely that point which Gen. Beauregard chose for 
his center, and which ho has fortified so strongly that 
in the opinion of military men, 5,000 men could 
there hold 20,000 at bay. 
The position, in fact, is fortified, in part, by Nature 
herself. It is a succession of hills, nearly equidis¬ 
tant from each other, in front of which is a ravine so 
deep and bo 
at two i 
men can 
of these 
3. The following named general ofheers wil he 
honorably discharged upon the expiration of their 
terms ofsorvice, as set hereinafter opposite their 
respective names, viz.: , „ ,, , 
New York State Militia—Major-General Bandford, 
August 18, IBGl. . A 
New Jersey Volunteers- Brigadier-General Iheo- 
" Ohio "Volunteers- Brigadier General J. D. Cox, 
July 30, 1861; Brigadier-General J. N. Bates, August 
27,‘18451. „ , _ , 
Indiana Volunteers—Brigadier-General 1. A. ojor 
ris, July 27, 1861. 
4. Burgeons of brigades rank as surgeons only. 
6 . Officers mustering out volunteers will charge 
he preferred fighting as a private under his old mono, 
in whom he had more confidence than hiinsell, but 
yielded at last and proceeded to Illinois to assume 
the colonelcy of tly? Jttgers. 
Con. SWOTm ok TUB 2d Rhode Islani*.—C oloimt ^ _ _^ 
John W. Slocum, of the 2d Rhode Island regiment, | dore Runyon, July 30 , 1861 
who is reported among the killed, was a young and 
accomplished officer, having been for a time At West 
Point, and having also seen service in Mexico. His 
age was about thirty-five years, and he was a son-in- 
law of Gen. James, late Benator from Rhode Island, 
and inventor of the new arms beariug his name. 
Coi. Ri.ocum entered the service for the present war 
as Major in Col. Bonx side's regiment, tho 1st Rhode 
Island. When a second regiment was called from 
gan to cross 
of scaling it, we saw 
the furthest perspecti 
it ho a portion of Hunter's 
succeeded in completely turnra 
wild shout rose from us all 
saw that its ensigns 
knew that Johnson, or some 
leading a horde of fresh troops against 
right and center. It was time for more regiments to 
ho scut forward, and Keyes was ordered to ftdvanco 
with the First Tyler Brigade. The three Connecticut 
regiments and tho Fourth Maine came on with a will; 
the First Connecticut was posted in reserve, and the 
other three corps swept up the field by the ford on 
the right, to aid the struggling advance. 
All eyes wore directed to the distant hill top, now 
the center of the fight. All could see the enemy’s 
Infantry ranging darkly against the sky beyond, and 
the first lines of our men moving with line determin¬ 
ation up the steep Mope. The cannonading upon onr 
advance, the struggle upon the hill top, the inter¬ 
change of position between tho contestants, were 
watohed by us; and as new forces rushedjln upon the 
enemy's side, the scene was repealed over and over 
again. Tt must, have been Imre, I think, that the 
Bixty-uiutn took and lost u, battery eight times in suc¬ 
cession, and finally were compelled, totally ex¬ 
hausted, to resign the completion of their work .to 
tlm Connecticut regiments which had just come up. 
The Third Connecticut finally carried that summit, 
unfurled the Stars and Stripes above it, ami paused 
from tho fight to cheer for the Union cause. 
Then the battle began to work down tho returning 
half of the circle which the enemy described during 
tho day, driven before the desperate charges of our 
troops, until they reached the very point where 
Tyler's advance oommotioed the action. Down the 
1 hill, and into the valley thickets on [the loll, the 
' Zouaves, the Connecticut and New York regiments, 
with the unconquerable Rhode ^Islanders, drove the 
' iioiitiiiuiiilv enlarging but always vanquished columns 
j thickly wooded that it is passable only 
points, trad those through gorges which fifty 
defend against a whole army. It, was at one 
points that the Washington Artillery were 
at first encamped, and though only half the battalion 
waB then there, and wo had only one company of 
infantry to support us, we slept as soundly under the 
protection of our guns as if we had been in a tort of 
the amplest dimensions. 
Of the fortifications snperadded here by Con. Beau¬ 
regard to those ot nature, it is of course not proper 
for mo to speak. The general reader, in fact, will 
have a sufficiently precise ideaof them by conceiving 
a line or forts some two miles in extent, zig-zag in 
form, with angles, salients, bastions, casements, and 
everything that properly belongB to works of this 
kind. 
The strength an«l advantages of this position at 
Manassas are very much increased by the tact that 14 
miles further on is a position of similar formation, 
while the country between is admirably adapted to 
the subsistence and entrenchment of tro»ps in num¬ 
bers as large as they can easily be manoeuvred on the 
real battle field. Water is good and abundant; for¬ 
age such as is everywhere found in the rich farming 
districts of Virginia, and the communication with all 
Hull’s Hun nnd Hie Country About. 
The present war seems destined to give notoriety 
to many points, which would otherwise have been 
known only to the few who chanced to reside in their 
immediate vicinity. Such a spot is Bull's Run, and 
wo take the annexed description from the N. Y. 
Commercial . 
From Fairfax Court House to Warrenton the dis¬ 
tance by turnpike is a little over thirty miles in a 
direction nearly west by south. This road rnna 
nearly parallel with tho Orange and Alexandria Rail 
road, only from four to six miles further west. The 
village of Centerville, containing one church and 
about two hundred and fifty Inhabitants, is situated 
seven or eight miles beyond Fairfax, and three or 
four this side of Bull’s Run. It was while the division 
under Gen. Tyler was ^treking along a turnpike a 
little to the left of the Warrenton road, i. c. between 
Centerville and Manassas Junction, that tho alfsir of 
last Thursday took place. Tho principal part of tho 
battle on Bunday was fought higher up the rivei 
though the extreme left of our array extended as far 
east as the line of the Orange and Alexandria Rail¬ 
road. 
Bull’s Run is a stream between thirty and forty 
miles long, discharging its waters Into the Ocoquun, 
a tributary of the Potomac. It divides the counties 
of Eairfax and Prince William. The first named 
does not flow from the mountains, but collects its 
waters from the rolling and woody country lying to 
the right of the turnpike. This road crosses the 
II II„„ » near the middle of its course. In tho sum- 
•Ool. Cameron op tub 79tit New tonic. — l.oi. 
James D. Cameron of the 70th (Highlanders) regi¬ 
ment of New York, who was killed, although colonel 
of a New York regiment, was a Pennsylvanian, hav¬ 
ing been born and having always resided in that 
State. He was a younger brother of the Secretary of 
War, and when the New York Highlanders were 
organizing for Bervicc, they oleeted him, as one of 
the Clan Cameron in this country, for their com¬ 
manding officer. This was tho first military position 
ho ever held. Colonel Cameron was over fifty years 
of age. He was like Ills brother, the Secretary of 
War, originally a printer, hut since he came to man¬ 
hood he lias been engaged in various public works. 
Of late years he has resided at Milton, Northumber 
land count . lie leaves no family. 
The Irish on the Death Roll. 
Under the above caption a late issue of the Dub¬ 
lin Nation remarks: 
Of five thousand molt who marched from New 
York in one week for the war in the Bouth, three 
thousand were Irish. From nearly every city in 
America, the scene of similar departures, wo hear of a 
like proportion of.the Irish element in the battalions; 
for whenever there is danger to he braved or courage 
to be displayed, the Celtic exile is found in the lore- 
most ranks. Let England be troubled as she may for 
her cotton bales, it may be truly stated that Ireland 
will be. more deeply, more mournfully, affected by the 
disasters in America, than any other country in the 
world. The lives of her exiled children will bo 
offered Jn thousands. Many a mother’s heart in Ire¬ 
land, long cheered by the affectionate and dutiful let¬ 
ter und the genoronx offerings Of filial love, will ho 
left lone and widowed by the red bolts of war. 
Many a firesido from Dunluco to Castlehaven will be 
filled with mourning as each American mail arrives. 
F.ven already it has begun. Already, light as is the 
reckoning of dead, Ireland has paid the largest 
penalty. It was only a day or two ago we were told 
that three young rnen had been killed by the burst¬ 
ing of a gun at Fort Sumter. Wo now find that of 
the whole garrison which defended the fort, the 
greater part were Irish; while of the three killed at 
tha sallvnoit. two were Irishmen! One of these was 
Captain In 183G; lie wasbrevetted Major "for gallant 
and meritorious services in Florida, to rank from the 
day on which was fought the battle of Okeechobee, on 
which occasion he acted with the greatest gallantry 
and coolness,” Dec. 25, 1837. He served with dis¬ 
tinction in the Mexican war, and was brevetted Lieut. 
Colotiol "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the 
severe conliicts of Monterey,” in Wept, 1846, on the 
first day of which lie was wounded. In 1862, he was 
promoted to a full Lieut. Colonelcy in 2d infantry, in 
which lie has since served. True to his country and 
his flag, with over forty yeara’ military experience, 
he has been worthily promoted to a Brigadier Gene¬ 
ral, and has gallantly led his brigade in the advance 
of Gen. Patterson’s army in entering Virginia, taking 
the post of honor, and performing the ohief part in 
defeating the five rebel regiments between Williams¬ 
port and Martinsburg on the 2d of July. 
Major Hkinsei.man. —During the recent battle at 
Manassas, this gallant officer lost an arm, a casualty 
which will doubtless deprive us of bis services. In 
a rebuke to those editors who have been crying "On 
to Richmond” through every issue of their journals, 
Thuklww Weed relates the following incident:— 
“Some years since, while in Mexico, a bush-house, 
containing all the ammunition of tho regiment, 
caught lire. The danger was imminent. An officer 
commanded the men to rush through the flames and 
bring out the powder. But the men hesitated, while 
the flames spread. At this critical moment, Major 
(then Captain) Heinselman appeared, exclaiming, 
"Boys! follow me!” and rushing himself into the 
magazine, was the first to emerge with a keg of pow¬ 
der in his arms. The men did follow, and the work 
was acooraplished. 
Another word of this gallant officer. Borne weeks 
since, when the field officers for the new regiment 
were about to he designated, wo were dining with 
General Scott, and aeked to say a word in behalf of 
an officer we thought entitled to promotion. " Who, 
sir?” inquired the General, “Major Heinselman,” 
and as we were about to add something more, the 
veteran interrupted, “ not a word, sir—I am respon¬ 
sible for Major Heinselman'9 promotion.” This 
was Bternly but kindly said, when Colonel Stone, 
who was present, related the magazine incident. 
Colonel Heckeu.— In the "Faderiand” Decker 
was, at one period, Siegel’s superior officer. When 
our difficulties began, hearing of the movements of 
his aforetime brothcr-in-armf, he left his pleasant 
home in Illinois with his son, and both entered as 
privates in Single's regiment. This prompt and 
patriotic movement of the German population fired 
? the emulation of their fellow countrymen in Illinois, 
who immediately organized a Jager regiment in that 
State, and sent for Hecker to become their com- 
j niander. At first Hecker declined, declaring that 
stone bridge known to bo mined. A blunder, in that 
the last reserve was sent forward at all. it should 
have been retained to guard the rear of the left, and 
every other rogiinent on the field should have been 
promptly recalled over the route by which it]had ad¬ 
vanced, ordered only to maintain such positions as 
rested on a supported, continuous line. Gen. Scott 
says, to-day, that our troops had aleady accomplished 
three day’s work and should have rested long before. 
But McDowell tried to “vanquish the Bouth in a single 
struggle, aud the sad result is before us. 
As it was, Capt. Alexander with his Sappers and 
Miners, was ordered to cut through tho abatU by the 
side of the mined bridge, in tho valley directly be¬ 
fore us, and lay pontoons across tho stream. Car¬ 
lisle’s Artillery was detailed to protect the work, and 
The IJiutle of Manassas. 
The report of this battle in the N. Y. World is 
the most graphic and vivid among tho many thus far 
sent out by the press. We extract such portions of 
the description sb relate to movements from tho hour 
of noon uutil^the retreat of onr troops occurred: 
The Heat of tue Contest.— It was now noon and 
the battle commenced in tho fierceness of its most 
extended fury. The batteries on the distant hill 
began to play upon our own, and upon our advanc¬ 
ing troops, with hot and thunderous effect. Carlisle 
answered for ns, and Sherman for Hunter’s Division, 
while the great 32 -ponnder addressed itself resist- 
lessly to the alternate defenses of the foe. The noiHc 
of the cannonading was deafening and continuous. 
Conversely to the circumstance of the former engage¬ 
ment, it completely drowned, at this period, the 
volleys of the musketry and riflemen. It blanched 
the cheeks of villagers at Centerville, to the main 
street of which place some of the enemy’s rifled shell 
were thrown. It was heard at Fairfax, at Alexandria, 
at Washington itself. Five or six heavy batteries 
were in onerution at once, and to their clamor was 
Discharge of Olllceis. 
On Saturday our dispatches announced the 
transfer of Geu. Battcrson’s command to Gen. Banks. 
The following is the official order for the discharge 
of Gen. Patterson and other officers whose term of 
service has expired 
War Department, I 
Adjdtant-Genekal’9 Office, / 
Washington, July 11), 1861. ) 
General Orders No. 46: 
1, Major-General Robert Patterson, of the Penn¬ 
sylvania Volunteers, will be honorably discharged 
from the service of the United States on the 27th 
inbt when his term of duty will expire. Brevet 
inst., when his term of duly will expire. 
Major-General Cadwallader, also of the Pennsylvania l 
Volunteers, will he honorably discharged upon the 
receipt of this order, us his term of service expires 
t0 ^Major-General l>ix, of the United States forces, 
will relievo Major-General Banka of the same service 
in ids present command, which will in future be 
.ailed the Department of Mainland, head quarters at 
Baltimore. Upon being relieved l.y Major-General 
Dix. Major-General Banks will proceed to the valley 
of Virginia, und assume command of the army now 
under Major General Patterson, when that Depart¬ 
ment will be called the Department of the Shenan¬ 
doah, headquarters in the field. 
