The mortality was immense on both sides. In this area are included five dwelling-houses; Upon ours the returns will show about six all of which we visited bore evidences of the hundred killed and twenty-five hundred wound- storm which raged about them. Many were ed. Upon theirs about fifteen hundred fell killed in the yard of the house of Mr. J. De dead, and forty-five hundred wounded. We Dogan. A bullet-hole in a chamber door recould have had as many prisoners as ten thou-mains a memento of the battle. His family sand, but what good would it have done to escaped just as the battle joined. take them and feed them? -Richmond Dispatch, July 29. VISIT TO THE BATTLE-FIELD. A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer says: The writer of this, on Monday last, 29th ult., passed over the scene of the battle of the 21st, near Bull Run. It was gratifying to find, contrary to rumors which have gained some eirculation, that the dead, not only of our own army, but also of the enemy, have all been decently buried. In the whole area of that terrible onset, no human corpse, and not even a mangled limb, was to be seen. The earth had received them all, and, so far as the human combatants were concerned, nothing remained to tell of those who had fallen victims of the shock of battle, save the mounds of fresh earth which showed where they had been laid away in their last sleep. But it was on the hill south of the turnpiko road, where the enemy's furthest advance was checked, and where the final issue was fought, that the inwrapped dwellings showed most plainly the fury of the fight. A house here, late the abode of a widow lady-Mrs. Judith Henry-was riddled with cannon and musket shot. Hissing projectiles from the cannon of our enemies had passed through the walls and roof, until the dwelling was a wreck. It is a sad story that we tell. This estimable lady, who had spent here a long life, illustrated by the graces that adorn the meek Christian, was now bed-ridden. There she lay amid the horrid din, and no less than three of the missiles of death that scoured through her chamber inflicted their wounds upon her. It seems a strange dispensation of Providence, that one whose life had been so gentle and secluded, should have found her end amid such a storm of human passions, and that the humble abode which had witnessed her quiet pilgrimage should have been shattered over her dying bed. Many of these mounds gave evidence of the pions care of surviving comrades. Enclosures were built around the graves, and branches of evergreens cover the spot. Sometimes boards mark the head and foot, on which were carved Yet, even amid such terrors, Heaven vindior painted the name and fellowship of the de- cated its laws. When the combatants had receased. Sometimes boards nailed to a neigh-tired, the aged sufferer was still alive, and she boring tree told that the ground adjacent contained the fallen of a certain regiment or company. Numerous dead horses, scattered over the area, show where the batteries of flying artillery were captured or disabled, or where some officer was dismounted. The prostrate fences, too, served to mark the track of the battle. Where the infantry crossed they were broken down so that a man might step over, and wide gaps showed where the artillery carriages had thundered along. The ground, too, tramped by the feet of rushing men and horses, evidenced where the struggle had been fiercest. Of relics of the battle, already but few remain. The field has been searched and gleaned by daily crowds of visitors seeking for mementoes. A few bullets that had run their errand, some fraginents of exploded bombs, a haversack and a few other things, were all that an extensive ramble brought under our view. Canes cut from the battle-field are also considerably in demand. The enemy's column of advance, as shown by the battle-ground, presented a front of about one mile. Their onward march from the point where they encountered our advance bodies to the limit where they met our full line, and the full battle was joined, and the fate of the day decided, was about a mile and a half. A parallelogram of about a mile by a mile and a half, therefore, covers the scene of the great conflict. lived long enough to say that her mind was tranquil, and that she died in peace—a peace that the roar of battle and the presence of death, panoplied in all his terrors, had not disturbed. Noble matron! The daughters of the South will emulate your virtues, and the sons of the South will avenge your sufferings! The heaps on heaps of the enemy that were piled around your doors when you died, are but the earnest. A hundred yards to the right of the house of Mrs. Henry lay five horses in a heap, and near by another heap of as many more. Here a portion of Sherman's battery made its last advance; just as it reached the top of the hill, our riflemen, approaching it in another direction, reached it too. At once they poured in a fire which cut down horses and men, and made the pieces unmanageable. The gallant boys followed the fire with a bayonet charge, and the guns were taken. It was here that Lieut. Ward fell. The cannon were taken and retaken several times in the furious fight; but the horses had been killed, and they could not be removed or used. On the left of Mrs. Henry's, distant about a fourth of a mile, is a neat house belonging to a colored man named Robinson. A cannon-ball drove through this also. Between these two is an orchard of small trees, where Hampton's Legion fought and suffered so severely. Their graves are here. One of them, which covers the remains of a near relative of Hon. J. L. ། Orr, is marked by a broken musket planted as | Manassas. You have created an epoch in the a head-stone. Away on the extreme northern verge of the battle-ground is the pine grove in which the Georgia regiment met the enemy's advance. The gallant band there withstood the enemy's columns until nearly surrounded. They then retreated, not from those in the front, but from those who were closing around them. In this pine grove there seemed scarce a tree that was not struck by the enemy's balls. A number of Georgians fell here, and their graves are close by. In the grove was pointed out the spot where Lamar fell. In the rear was the dead charger of the lamented Gen. Bartow, killed under him, himself to fall soon after. But the Georgians suffered not their heroes to fall unavenged, for they piled the ground before them with the slain of the enemy. BULLETIN OF JOHNSTON AND BEAUREGARD. HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, MANASSAS JUNCTION, July 28, 1861. Soldiers of the Confederate States: One week ago a countless host of men, organized into an army, with all the appointments which modern art and practiced skill could devise, invaded the soil of Virginia. Their people sounded their approach with triumph and displays of anticipated victory. Their generals came in almost regal state. Their Minister, Senators, and women came to witness the immolation of this army and the subjugation of our people, and to celebrate these with wild revelry. history of liberty, and unborn nations will rise up and call you blessed. Continue this noble devotion, looking always to the protection of the just God, and, before time grows much older, we will be hailed as the deliverers of a nation of ten inillions of people. Comrades! Our brothers who have fallen have earned undying renown, and their blood, shed in our holy cause, is a precious and acceptable sacrifice to the Father of Truth and Right; their graves are beside the tomb of Washington, their spirits have joined his in eternal communion. We will hold the soil in which the dust of Washington is mingled with the dust of our brothers. We drop one tear on their laurels, and move forward to avenge them. Soldiers! We congratulate you on a glorious triumph and complete victory. We thank yon for doing your whole duty in the service of your country. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, G. P. T. BEauregard. Doc. 8. NORTHERN PRESS ON THE BATTLE. LET no man to-day whisper the thought of abating a jot of our vast undertaking. Taught by one reverse, the nation will rise above its misfortune and press on in its just and holy cause. The people who have poured out their blood and treasure so freely will be kindled to new efforts. Even the army which is now reIt is with the profoundest emotions of grati-cruiting its strength and renewing its courage tude to an overruling God, whose hand is manon the banks of the Potomac, will burn for a ifested in protecting our homes and your liber- chance to strike one more blow for the honor ties, that we, your generals commanding, are lost at Manassas. The colors have only been enabled in the name of our whole country to shot away from their staff; to-day they shall thank you for that patriotic courage, that heroic be nailed to the mast, from which they shall gallantry, that devoted daring, exhibited by float forever; and the day shall soon come you in the action of the 18th and 21st of July, when they shall be borne in triumph by a vieby which the host of the enemy was scattered, torious host from the Potomac to the James, and a signal and glorious victory was achieved. and thence on to the gulf. Our present misThe two affairs of the 18th and 21st were fortune will disclose to all the true secret of but the sustained and continued efforts of your our weakness, and will teach all that the adpatriotism against the constantly recurring colvance for which some have so long clamored ors of an enemy fully treble our numbers, and is not to be accomplished at a single effort. this effort was crowned, on the evening of the With a full knowledge on all hands of the na21st, with a victory so complete, that the in- ture of our undertaking, and with such further vaders were driven from the field, and made to preparation as must now be made for this fly in disorderly rout back to their intrench-grand enterprise, we can doubt its final success ments, a distance of over thirty miles. They left upon the field nearly every piece of their artillery, a large portion of their arms, equipments, baggage, stores, &c., and almost every one of their wounded and dead, amounting, together with the prisoners, to many thousands; and thus the Northern hosts were driven by you from Virginia. Soldiers! we congratulate you on an event which insures the liberty of our country. We congratulate every man of you whose glorious privilege it was to participate in this triumph of courage and truth, to fight in the battle of as little as we can doubt the justice of the It is our duty, as it is our wish, to derive from the calamity every lesson it is fitted to inculcate and enforce. It must necessarily tend to bring all things connected with this controversy down to a much more serious standard. We are now fully engaged in a war, and with men who, it is evident, can and will fight. To conduct this war to a peaceful termination, which is the end of every war, so as to save our own honor and to preserve the Government of the country, a much higher and more manly tone of principle and sentiment is to be encouraged, than has actuated too many of those who have so confidently as sumed to be the leaders of public opinion and feeling. Fanatical partisanship will not serve the public welfare. But we see no reason to despond of the great cause of the country. Any defeat, and especially such a defeat, at the beginning is prejudicial to the right cause, and encouraging to the wrong. But it has neither exhausted our strength, nor our confi onded by pressure of politicians at Washington. Accomplished military men have shook their heads at all this, but they have constantly said things were going on splendidly, and the right result would come if the people would not be impatient and would let the veteran general' alone. This has not been the case. The forward movement was precipitated. The result is before the astounded country. Dearly bought is the experience, made up of Pelion on Ossa of the horrible, and all that remains is to profit by the awful lesson. -Boston Post. After driving the rebel armies three miles dence in a good cause. The day of disaster is beyond Bull's Run, our troops have been comof all others that in which lessons for our fu-pelled to fall back. This is occasioned by tho ture guidance are to be learned and contemplated, and it will be our own fault if we do not find in this unexpected turn of affairs wiser and juster means of accomplishing those ends, which alone honorable and truly patri otic men have in view. -Boston Courier. In the valor of our outnumbered and exposed troops, we see assurances which immeasurably overshadow the incidental mishap which followed. The Capital is saved. Our determined soldiers, made wiser and more eager by the sacrifice of their brethren, are rushing forward by thousands and tens of thousands. We still have our gallant and competent leaders, who will set an immortal seal of vengeance on this transient success of the conspirators. Let us, then, calmly review all the events of the one day of trial. Our duties are paramount, and, thanks to heaven, our hopes still go hand in hand with them. -Boston Journal. It was confidently expected that when the standard of the law was raised, and our precious citizen soldiery were consigned to the care of the constituted authorities, a force so mighty would meet the enemy that serious disaster to our troops should be impossible; and the material for an army seemed to be such that, however anxious, three months ago, the country were for the safety of the Capital, the opinion became general and fixed that a defeat now was out of the question. But, all along, here at the North, there has been a continuous depreciation of the numbers, the resources, and the quality of the Confederate army; and the press that have kept on this strain, especially the sensation press of New York, have been insanely urging a forward movement to Richmond. This has been sec junction of General Johnston's army of twenty thousand men with Beauregard's main army. This gave the rebels between eighty-five and ninety thousand men to oppose our troops, which number less than fifty thousand. The rebel force was too great to withstand, and General McDowell has fallen back upon his intrenchments at Alexandria. The junction of Johnston with Beauregard it was General Patterson's business to prevent. It is not right to blame a commander without knowing all the circumstances which controlled his actions, and we must remember that all blame of subordinates falls at last upon the commander-in-chief. Nevertheless it is impossible not to see that the army corps of Patterson has not performed its very important share in the general attack, and that in this way only is the temporary retreat of our main army brought about. Meantime, in the general anxiety, we must remember that the strong fortifications which General Scott wisely erected opposite Washington will give our troops a rallying point, where they will make a stand. -N. Y. Evening Post. What the losses of the insurgents were on this occasion, we have not yet been advised; but it is likely they were very serious, if not as great as those of the Federal troops. It is possible that, instead of remaining much longer there, they may retreat at once to the Junction, as they did after the Great Bethel affair. But the conduct and spirit of our men, we feel certain, will not suffer from the fact of their making a retreat under the circumstances. Fresh accessions will be made to their numbers, and, with their present knowledge of the ground, they will return with fresh energy and determination to the work of putting down the rebellion. And the people at large will rally with still greater devotion to the Government, -Philadelphia Press, July 23. the Constitution, and the Union. In the Revo- that city was commenced before we had conlution, our troops were terribly cut up on Brook-solidated a sufficient force to render its downlyn Heights; yet that calamity proved the fall certain. salvation of the country, since it developed the masterly Fabian system of tactics subsequently pursued by Washington. -N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. To the brave man defeat is only an argument for new effort. Our banner, which has been trailing in the dust, must be lifted up towards the stars. Overwhelming numbers have repulsed our army, after it had conquered an equal force entrenched behind earthworks and masked batteries. Our retreating columns have fallen back to Alexandria and Washington, leaving hundreds of our brave fellows on the soil where they fell so heroically. But why recount the disasters of yesterday? What is to be done? Every thing. The capital must again be defended. The ground which has been lost, must be regained. Victory must follow on the heels of defeat. Not an inch more must be yielded. The ranks must be filled up. The fifty thousand must be made a hundred thousand. For every regiment that has been broken up, two must appear straightway. Let no man lisp the word discouragement. Let us begin to-day. Let not an hour be lost. Let the Government say when and whence it wants men, and they shall be forthcoming. Such at least is the spirit of Rhode Island. -Providence Journal. Doc. 9. SOUTHERN PRESS ON THE BATTLE. OUR telegraphic despatches this morning tell a glorious tale for the South. It is not the bulletins of our friends alone which announce a grand victory for the armies of the South. It is confessed in all its greatness and completeness by the wailings which come to us from the city of Washington, the head-quarters of our enemies. It is told in the groans of the panic-stricken Unionists of tyranny, who are quaking behind their entrenchments with apprehension for the approach of the avenging soldiery of the South, driving before it the routed remnants of that magnificent army which they had prepared and sent forth with the boastful promise of an easy victory. Frem Richmond, on the contrary, come the glad signs of exceeding joy over a triumph of our arms, so great and overwhelming as though the God of Battles had fought visibly on our side, and smitten and scattered our enemies with a thunderbolt. Such a rout of such an army-so large, so equipped, and so commanded--was never known before in the wars on this continent. Whole corps disorganized, regiments cut to pieces, ar"What if the day be lost? all is not lost." tillery captured in whole batteries, and a mighty It cannot be lost while we have confidence in body of disciplined men converted into a panicthe justice of our cause, and faith in Heaven. stricken mob-such things have not been read We seek not for the mere prestige of victory; of, except on that smaller scale where the diswe are warring not to decide the skill of rival ciplined troops who bore Scott into Mexico engenerals, and the comparative prowess of countered the races of semi-barbarians, who Northern and Southern soldiery; we are seek-parted before him like sheep before a charge ing (with sword, it is true) to win back the blessings of peace in a Constitutional Union. -New Bedford Mercury. The disaster at Manassas Junction, while it will inspire the most profound regret and disappointment, will not cause the abatement of one jot of heart or hope as to the final result. If it shall put a stop to the idle gasconade and depreciation of the rebel power, in which we have all been too prone to indulge, we shall have bought the lesson dearly it is true, but it is worth learning at almost any price. -Salem Gazette. It is idle to seek to disguise that we have met with a great disaster, but one for which, under all the circuinstances, we should not have been totally unprepared, and which only proves that even our soldiers cannot achieve impossibilities. We have paid an awful penalty for the error of underrating the strength of our enemy, and attempting, with too small a number of men, to drive him from his stronghold. We have suffered our zeal to outrun our discretion; and in deference to the strong popular sentiment which demanded an early capture of Richmond, the forward movement against of cavalry. It is the same iron race which took Scott upon their shoulders, and carried him into the capital of Mexico, which now bars his way to Richmond with a wall of steel and fire. The leaders may clamor for new and greater efforts for the straining of the resources of the people and the gathering of large armaments, to be precipitated upon the South in the desperate hope of retrieving the fortunes of a day so deplorably lost. We will not venture to say to what extent rage, disappointment, baffled cupidity, and thirst for revenge, may carry a deluded people; but the confidence of the South will rise high, that no continued and often-repeated struggles can be entered upon in the face of such obstacles which have been found in the courage and constancy of the Confederate army, and the genius of its illustrious chief. In every corner of this land, and at every capital in Europe, it will be received as the emphatic and exulting endorsement, by a young and unconquerable nation, of the lofty assurance President Davis spread before the world on the very eve of the battle, that the noble race of freemen who inherit these States will, what ever may be the proportions the war may assume, "renew their sacrifices and their services from year to year, until they have made good to the uttermost their right to self-government." The day of battle shows how they redeemed this pledge for them, and in adversity as in victory, it is the undying pledge of all. -New Orleans Picayune, July 23. THE GREAT VICTORY. The battle annals of the American continent furnish no parallel to the brilliant and splendid victory won by the Southern army on Sunday last over the hired mercenaries and minions of the abolition despotism. With an inferior force, in point of numbers, we have driven back to their dens the boasting invaders of our soil, scattering them before our victorious arms as leaves are scattered before the autumn wind. The details we publish in our telegraphic coluinn leave no doubt that we have put the enemy to utter rout, and struck him a blow from which it is impossible for him wholly to recover. The victory is the more significant, from the fact that it is the first general engagement between the opposing forces. That the President of the Confederate States was himself in the thickest of the fight, exposed to all the perils of the battle-field, is another circumstance that adds to the joy of our triumph, and swells our triumphant note of exultation. All honor to our brave and gallant leader and President, to the brave Beauregard, the gallant Johnston, and our chivalric soldiery. We have driven the enemy back from our soil, we have mowed down his men by the hundreds and by the thousands, we have cap; tured his batteries, and sent him howling and panic-stricken from the field of the fight. The blow, in its moral and its physical effects, will prove of incalculable advantage to the South ern cause. The first regiment of the enemy that crossed over from Washington-the Zouaves of Ellsworth-have fled from the field with only two hundred left of the entire regiment. Retributive justice has overtaken the first of the enemy who put their feet upon the sacred soil of Virginia, and from six to eight hundred of them have been cut down dead upon the land which they insolently dared to invade. Many a brave Southerner has had to fall, too-but our loss, we are confident, is small in comparison to that of the enemy. Our brave boys fought with heroic courage, but they fell in the holy cause of defence against aggression, and it is sweet and honorable to die for one's country." To the God of Battles let the heart of the whole South yield its tribute of praise and thanksgiving for this most signal and brilliant victory. --New Orleans Crescent, July 23. The dead bodies of the hirelings lay in heaps on road and in field. We conquered gloriously. The enemy fought bravely and well, but their valor could not resist the courage of men under the inspiration of a grand and holy cause, and they have been utterly routed by half their number. Our joy at this signal work of the Divine favor is tempered by the heavy loss we have sustained in the death of those who have taken the first step in a career of glorious usefulness. We bewail the death of noble spirits. And other names may be added to the gloomy list. We forbear to write them down until the mention of them can be accomplished with a fitting tribute to their virtues and valor. We would rather, at this time, rejoice and give thanks that more of our gallant sons have not fallen upon that bloody field. It is these strokes that forbid the exultation in which the importance and splendor of the victory prompts us to indulge. And the death of those noble men causes us to realize our increased obligation to Him who ruleth in the armies of heaven and earth, and to fall down in adoring gratitude, and give the honor of the success to the God whom we serve. His right arm won the victory for our arms, and to Him would we ascribe the glory. -Charleston Courier, July 23. have the shadow of death round about, and the While we rejoice for our success, many homes voice of weeping, the wail of widowhood, the sharp cry of orphanage, are in our land. We have bought our victory dearly, paid for it the purchase-blood of the brave. ly, the gallant heroic, for our Bartow, and Bee, While we drop a tear for the noble, the manlist of glory's children, and while we mourn and Johnson, and Stovall, and the whole long with their families and friends, let us thus bo nerved all the more to strike, strike again. -Atlanta (Ga.) Sentinel, July 23 Doc. 10. ENGLISH PRESS ON THE BATTLE. THE NORTHERN ARMY AT BULL RUN. ica are behaving after their defeat in a manner THE people of the Northern States of Amerwhich is somewhat unaccountable. They do not seem at all inclined to lessen its importance. They do not affect to conceal that they have been totally and disgracefully defeated, that enemies' deficiencies were unfounded, and that, their opinions of their own merits and of their instead of a short and brilliant campaign, they must either prepare for a desperate war, or give up their scheme of subjugating the South. And yet this national calamity and this grievous shame do not seem to affect them as they even take a pleasure in the sensation caused by would affect an European community. They their unparalleled defeat. Excitement is to all classes a necessary daily dram, and, if they have it, it matters not whether it is bought by success or misfortune. Then the people have so little realized the meaning of war, and they have such confidence in their own energy and for |