was the foe? Who knew whether we had won oi 
lost? 
The question was quiokly to be decided for os. A 
sadden swoop, and a body of cavalry rushed down 
upon onr columns near the bridge. They came from 
the woods on the left, and infantry poured oat behind 
them. Tyler and bis staff; with the reserve, were ap¬ 
parently cut off by the quick manajuver. I, in gain¬ 
ing the position I had just left, there witnessed the 
capture of Carlisle's battery iu the plain, and saw an¬ 
other force of cavalry and infantry pouring into the 
road at the very spot where the battle commenced, 
and near which the South Carolinians, who manned 
the battery silenced in the morning, had doubtless 
all day been lying concealed. The ambulances and 
wagons had gradually advanced to this spot, and of 
course an instantaneous confusion and dismay result¬ 
ed. Our own infantry broke ranks in the field, 
plunged into the woods to avoid the road, and got up 
the hill as best they could, without leaders, every man 
is killed, and not Utah Joe Johnston; that the enemy 
retired from the field simultaneously with our army, 
believing they were beaten; and that Beauregard 
Congress —Extra Seiydon. 
Senate,—M r. Wilson, from the Committee on Mil 
itary Affairs, reported back the bill to provide for tb< 
transportation of arms and monitions of war to th< 
loyal citizens in the rebel states, and to provide fm 
the expense of organizing them into regiments, Sic 
I he bill makes an appropriation of $ 2,000 000 
Passed. 
Mr. Sherman, from the Finance Committee, re- 
ported back the bill to refund duties imposted by 
States. Passed. * 
redemption of debt incurred. Ad 
majority. The bill was passed. 
Mr. Stevens, from the Committee 
Means, to whom the direct tax and 
hill was yesterday referred, reported 
unable to devise any provision whicl 
tutional, and at the same time carrj 
instructions of the House. 
The Senate's amendments to the 1 
ment of the Baltimore Police, and ma 
, tl0ns for facilitating the coinage of g 
* «>« He manufacture cr p» rc l„.e ,,f a„ 
taken up and passed, considered and adopted 
K.nance Committee, Mr. Dawes, from the Committee 
p ° r . thC payment of reported a resolution that Mr. Shiel 
8eat as » member from Orego 
offered a resolution who now 
vur uwd Hoys, the N. Y. 13cb. 
Wk cannot close our report of the disastrous 
affair near Manassas, without making reference to 
tbe glorious stand assumed and maintained by the 
Rochester regiment, known upon the government 
roll as toe “ 13th N. Y. Volunteers.” It is true that 
shortly after their arrival at Washington, numerous 
complaint* were made by them in reference to various 
matters, and it is likewise true that considerable 
ground existed to base such complaints upon. To a 
gTeat extent these difficulties were removed before 
marching upon Ball's Run, arid the men moved for¬ 
ward fully resolved to perform their entire duty. 
They had established a reputation for drill aDd 
soldierly conduct while in camp, and a position wan 
awarded them which would inevitably test their 
courage, stamina and effectiveness. How did they 
deport, themselves when the struggle came? Let us 
examine the record: 
The New York Herald says:—"From the details 
which we publish, it will be seen that our troops 
conducted themselves bravely throughout tbe en¬ 
gagement during the day, several of the New York 
regiments, including the 69th, 79th, mb and Fire 
Zouaves, behaving with the greatest gallantry, until 
wearied and overpowered by fresh troops, they were 
compelled to follow tbe retreat which an unfortunate 
>ve could get at them they were driven back and put 
to flight.” ’I bis remark was not mine, as was printed 
yesterday, but was made by the men who had been in 
the thickest of the fray. 
If these few words are worth printing, 1 hope, in 
this hour of anxious interest, that my motive, both 
in interpreting and relating these circumstances, will 
not be misjudged. If in the least useful, it is, I sup¬ 
pose, the more satisfactory if personally identified. 
Only for that reason I add my name. Let us do jus¬ 
tice to our brave men; learn wisdom by experience; 
and with firm faith in the God of Justice, look for¬ 
ward to an early and effectual remedy of what may 
prove to be a useful disaster. 
on Elections, 
is entitled to a 
n > instead of Mr. Thaver 
occupies it. 
ry Mr. Sedgwick, from Committee on Military Affairs 
p P0 . r ^' 3 the biU ’ which was P asse d. authorizing the 
• I resident to appoint commandants of Navy Yards 
on from commanders as well as from captains, 
to _ 
tli Affairs n t Washington. 
Z the present session, the House called 
Of ;, r r ent t0 corarnnnicate - if not incom- 
patible with the public interest, copies of all corres¬ 
pondence with foreign powers relative to maratime 
rights, and also copies of correspondence respecting 
the existing insurrection. The President respectfully 
n declines to furnish the information, from motive! 
d of public policy. 9 
11 Tbe Recretar - V of War has no information as to the 
emp oyment of Indians and negroes in a military 
capacity, by the so-called C. 8 . A., and has so advised 
lt ,n responBe to their resolution upon that 
! . J hC W ' lr Apartment is getting its eyes open. All 
' r ^ n acc< WnK regiments, written since the battle 
of Bloody Bun,” contain the following language: 
. J onr regiment is accepted, with the distinct un¬ 
derstanding that this Department will revoke the 
commissions of all officers who may not prove com¬ 
petent for command.” 
; Th . G 8e ^y of War has accepted a regiment of 
cavalry chiefly raised in St. Louis. Tt numbers 1,200 
I me , Dl 18 armed with Sharpe’s rifles, armyrevolvers 
and sabres. It wag recruited by Col. C. A. Ellis 
formerly a Texan ranger under tbe famous Jack 
Hayes, and is to be commanded by him, under tbe 
name of the First Missouri Rangers, The Colonel 
who is here, has promptly reported for orders, and is 
to be mustered into the service on the first day of 
August. y 
The Administration entertain no fears of an im¬ 
mediate attack on Washington. There are now 
aronnd Washington 35,000 men not in the late battle 
our defeat^ l01 ^ 58 m " Ch bf,tt0r than before 
Mis. Hindale, whose husband is a member of the 2d 
rer C n ^ w ?i T nt " 0W ° n the Vir « inia 8ide - ba« re¬ 
turned to Washington from Manassas Junction. She 
was at Centerville during the engagement on Sunday, 
and waited there for the return of the soldiers, look¬ 
ing for her husband but failed to see him. She sup- 
posed him to be a prisoner at Manassas. The enemy 
captured her and conveyed her thither. They em¬ 
ployed her as a hospital nurse. On Thnrsday she I 
procured a pass from Gen. Beauregard and his con¬ 
sent to leave. She walked to Alexandria, where she 
arrived this morning. Her husband is not a prisoner 
but safe in camp with his regiment. 
Mrs. Hindale reports as being in the hospital at 
Manassas a large number of our wounded troops. 
The enemy say they have as prisoners over a thou¬ 
sand of onr men. She brines verbal m **UCO fTOO f.AMS 
The Panic-A Civilian’s Views. 
Mit. G. P. Putnam, of New York, 
recent disastrous battle, and writes to t 
Post his views thereupon. These wil 
worthy of perusal as showing that a false 
has been sent abroad by indiscreet teleg; 
tors, lie says: 
The few lines so hurriedly written by 
office at the last moment for Tuesday’s 
without any revision, appear to have 
many, whose inquiries show that, the first 
lamentable and so disgraceful, had caused 
depression, and even dismay. The uecnl 
. ana every inch a man. 
When the proclamation of the President sounded 
Rochester called for Prof. Quinby to bead its regi' 
ment. He left University, home, wife and eight 
children. We wore closely associated for three years. 
It seems to me that I should have felt, ‘I will not 
run. I will no with the Thirteenth >» 
House.— On motion of Mr. Blair, a Committee of 
Conference wag ordered on the disagreeing amend¬ 
ments of the two Houses to the bill to Increase the 
present, military establishment. 
Mr. Porter reported a bill dividing Kentucky into 
two Judicial District* and abolishing the present 
Districts, and as amended hy Mr. Blajr, of Missouri, 
abolishing the two District Courts in Missouri, and 
creating one Court in their stead. In the course of 
the debate Mr. Crittenden opposed tbe bill, saying it 
wag an abuse of tbe power of Congress, and an inva¬ 
sion of the Constitutional mode of the removal of a 
Judge to effect such an object by the abolition of the 
Court, as now proposed. The bill passed by ayes 79, 
nays 50. 
Mr. Elliott, from the Committee on Commerce, 
reported a bill which was passed, authorizing the 
President, by and with the advice of the Senate, to 
appoint consuls at any of the foreign port* where he 
may deem it advisable to prevent piracy, at a salury 
not exceeding $1,600 per annum, such offices to 
we might add almost indefinitely to the foregoing, 
but it is needless. The boys fought heroically, and 
assisted in covering the retreat with the spirit of true 
soldiers. When the condition of onr soldiers is 
considered, their performance seems wonderful. 
Taking up the line of march at 2 o’clock Sunday 
inorniug, engaging the enemy at 7 , battling all day 
long, and retreating to their entrenchments Monday 
night, which were reached between 7 and 8 o’clock 
Tuesday morning, requires an amount of endurance 
and patient perseverance which a month since would 
not be awarded to Volunteers. Yet all this they 
General Johnston, and Alabamians, Mississlpians 
and Marylanders, under Brevet Brigadier-General 
Bee. Tbe Maryland line fought Bide by side with 
tbe Alabamians, and after tile battle, were com¬ 
mended for their cool impetuosity and resolute 
courage by Generals Beauregard and Bee. The 
Lieutenant-Colonel of General Hampton’s legion 
( 8 . C.) was killed by a shot in the head from the 
battery covering the 79th Now York regiment. 
The Memphis Arjjms reports a loss of 3.000. Gen¬ 
erals Barlow of Georgia, and Bee of South Carolina, 
were killed: 
The Richmond Whig of the 24th, says that the 
battle of Bull’s Bun opened by throwing out heavy 
artillery and small field pieces at 8 o’clock A. M. 
The force of the enemy can never be ascertained. 
Our force was 20,000 men, who never fought more 
Major Gen. McClellan’* Command. 
The following list comprised the troops under 
command of Gen. McClellan at the date of the bat¬ 
tle of Carricksford. He has now been transferred to 
the column at Washington, and has been succeeded 
by Brigadier Gen. Rosecrans. Gen. R. has in Vir¬ 
ginia upward of 30,000 men, besides reserves in Ohio 
with whom he can instantly communicate by tele¬ 
graph : 
AT RKVKKI.Y, LACltKI, HILL, AND BUCK HANNON. 
Headquarters of Major Gm McClellan and RrimuH* 
anu laaen some 1(00 or 400 prisoners. The number 
of our killed and wounded cannot as yet be ascer¬ 
tained. It is estimated at 600 killed and wounded, 
while that of the enemy is several thousand. The 
Oglethorpe Light Infantry was cut to pieces, and 
Ilallou s fine regiment of Georgians was nearly anni¬ 
hilated. 
By the cars last evening, President Davis returned 
from the battle. Tn response to tbe calls of the im¬ 
mense crowd who had gathered to greet him, he 
alluded to the grand absorbing topic of the day. 
Ibe enemy, he said, with the taxes they had been 
imposing on us for t wo years, had fitted out an army 
on a magnificent scale. They had come over to 
' j r fi' n,a w Rh plenty of arms and ammunition, and 
with ambulances fitted np in such a style of luxury 
as though they were still taxing the Soqth. They 
had 600 or 600 army wagons, and provisions iu 
abundance. In the campaign they bad over 80,000 
men, the finest parks of heavy artillery and light 
artillery. Of course they left everything behind 
them they could throw away. The train has brought 
in 100 prisoners, and there are 1200 more coming, 
including G5 officers. The probability is that the 
enemy lost 10,000 men. Onr casualties will notex- 
did not accomplish the object of their mission. Mr. 
Burch, who took them to Bull’s Run, haB returned 
and reports that all the dead are not yet buried, and 
the slaughter on the Bide of the enemy is greater by 
far than they themselves represented. 
Unofficial information has been received here that 
the confederates contemplated the planting of bat¬ 
teries on the Potomac at points to command the 
channel, as a part of their general programme. At 
Aquia Creek they have five guns upon one battery 
and three upon another, and while an excursion 
party from Washington were in that vicinity Satur¬ 
day, a train of ears filled with troops is said to have 
| come up from the station there, and by wav of amuse¬ 
ment or experiment, a few ineffectual shots were fired 
at a distance of three miles from the boat. 
Tbe Post-Office Department haa issued the fol¬ 
lowing: 
Postmasters will take notice that all prepaid letters 
to soldiers m any regiment iu the United States 
service, and directed to them at points where they 
have been stationed, may be forwarded, whenever 
practicable, to any other point to which they may 
have been ordered, without further charge thereon 
for forwarding. J. A . Kahwon. 
Assistant Postmaster-General. 
The entrance of Gen. McClellan upon his duties 
as Commander of this military department, has in¬ 
spired troops in and around Washington with re¬ 
newed military enthusiasm. He has already visited 
the medical corps of the army. Passed. 
Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Military Affairs, 
reported the Senate bill, authorizing the President to 
accept 600,000 volunteers. Passed. 
Mr. Brigham, from the Committee on Judiciary, 
reported a resolution, which was passed, requesting 
the President to communicate, if in his judgment it 
is not incompatible to public interests, the grounds, 
reasons and evidence by which the Police Commis¬ 
sioners of the city of Baltimore were arrested and 
detained as prisoners at Fori McHenry. 
Mr. Stevens, from the Committee on Ways and 
Means, reported a bill appropriating $100,000 to pay 
the police organized under the United States author¬ 
ities in the city of Baltimore. 
The House went into committee on the bill to pro¬ 
vide an additional 
revenue for defraying tbe expenses 
of maintaining the Government and defending the 
public credit by the assessment of a direct tax and 
international duty. 
Mr. Conkling moved that the bill be re-committed 
to tbe Committee on Ways and Means, with instruc¬ 
tions to amend it so as to provide that tax on real 
and personal estate provided therein, be levied, 
assessed and collected in the several States and Terri¬ 
tories and District of Columbia, in same manner as 
the State and Territorial taxes are by local law col- 
- 1 , Adopted. 
lected therein, 
Mr. Stevens, from Committee on Ways and Means, 
reported Senate bill, supplimentary to the loan act, 
with an amendment authorizing tbe Secretary of the 
Ireasury to fix tbe denomination of Treasury notes 
below $50, which be may exchange for coin, bearing 
interest of 7 per cent, per annum. If this amount is 
necessary in order to negotiate a loan, tbe aggregate 
amount of Treasury notes not to exceed $ 250 , 000 . 
Duties on imports, tea, coffee, sugar, spices, wines, 
liquors, and all such excise and other internal duties 
and taxes as may be collected, are pledged for 
