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THE ADAMS SENTINEL AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. SOLDlERt ATIONAL CIOTEM of Military and CiViO Procession. CJf President Lincoln. 1 ThtlrSday, the 19th was a great day i4n thevbistosy'bf Gettysburg--second only in ihrerest to the eventful first, second and ihiril days of July last. influx of strangers commenced cm Monday, and the trains became heavier fand heavier as the day of consecration ap- jroiched.

On Wednesday, Wednesday highland Thursday morning, trains arrived every iew hours, celling the crowd to iai- fray dawned on With an tin- clouded sky, giving assurance of lovely streets swarmed With peo- ple from -alb sections of the tJnion, the number estimated lit from twenty to forty thousah d. Every available spot on the streets was occupied, The throng of ladies and gentlemen, the large lurn-out of military in their best trim, the flags floating in the breeze at innumerable points--all contributed to up of a picture of rare and exciting interest. About ten o'clock- the litoe of the pro cession. was formed, and moved forward to thegrolinds of the Cemetery in the lolltfw- 1 Marine Band. Second Uaited Stites Artillery.

United States Regular Caralry, "from Carlisle Barracks. Conch and Staff. General Stahl and Stair. Twentieth Peimsylinnia Cavalry, one hundred and twenty in numbcf, under command of of Ph.ladelphin, and Staff. Battery United States Regulars.

Staff. Band bEFitth New York Heavy Artjllerj. Fifth New York Heavy Artillery Regiment, tinder command of Colonel Jlurrj. The President of the United btates, attended by Vice President Secretary Sewsrd, of trjfc State Department; Usher, of the Department of the Interior; Secretary liVelles, of the Nary Department, and Postraas- ter-General Blair, escorted by Ohief Marshal liYard H. Laraori and Marshals and Mar- Brigadier-General Wright, General DoublednJ-, and Brigadier-General Gibbon, attended by their Staffs.

of the different StRttfl. Uniltd States Sanitary Comraisiion, nutnbcN Ing twenty men, under command of Dr. Bewail. Oda Fellows' Lodge, JfR 124, of Gettysburg, numbfrringtiro hundred and fihy men, with the Gettysburg Ecampment of the same Order. I Hanover Lodge, I.

0. 0. No. 334, one hundred stroag, with Odd FUlows from other places. I Delegation, consisting of members ol Councils of Baltrmoie and Civil Officials.

Birgfield's Bind) ot FncUUj and Students oi "iht Collcgu and Seminary. fce-yeral hundred vation--within the fiery and blooty lifls of these munitions of looking back to the dark dfajs of fear and trettib'iug, and to the rdptute of relief thstt came after, we multiply btir thanksgiving, and confess our obligations to renew and perfect our personal and social consecration to Thjr service and Klory. Oh had it not been for God For, So, our enemies, they came unresisted--mul- titudinous, mighty, flushed with victory aud sure of success. They exalted on our mountains--they revelled in our Talleys-they feasted--they rested--they slept-they awaked--they grew ttronger, prouder and bolder every day. I'hey spread abroad they coPceutrdted here they looked beyond (bin horizon to the stores of wealth to haunts ot pleasure and to seats of power in our Capital aud chief cities.

They prepared to cast the chain of slavery around the form of freedom, and to bind life and death together loreven Their premature triumph was tbe mockery of God aad man one more victory and all was theirs. But behind these hills was heard thc feebler march of a smaller but still pursuing host. Onward they hurried day and night for'their country and their God--footsore, wayworn, hungry, thirsty, faint--but not in heart--they came to dare all, to bear all, and to do nil that is possible to heroes. At first they met the blaat on the plain and bent before it like the trees, but then, led t.y Thv hand to these hills, they took their stand on these rocks and remained a' firm and immovable as they. Id vain were they assaulted.

All art, all violence, all QbVperation failed to dislodsre them Baffled, bruised and broken, their enemies recoiled, retired and disappeared. Q-lory for this rescue Bat oh, the slain! la the freshness and fullness of theif Joung and manly life--with such sweet memories of father aud mother, brother snd iister, wife and children, uiaiden and friends; from the coasts beneath the Eastern star, from the shores of Northern lakes and rivers, from the flowers of West- era prairies, frotn the homes of the midway and the border, they come here to die for us and for nankind. Alas how little we can Ao for i We come with humility of prayer, with the pachetic doquebce of veneiable with the tender beauty of poetry, with the i tedder beauty of poetry with tbe plaintive i tribute of our Chief Magistrate, at-d with all this honorable attendance but our best hope is in Thy blessing, oh, Lord our God Bless us, oh, our the bereaved, whether absent our sick and wounded soldiers and sailors all sick and Wounded soldiers and sailors--bless all our rulers and people-bless our Army and Navy Bless the efforts to suppress this Rebellion, and bless all the associations of this place, duy, and scene forever. As the trees are not dead though their foliage Jsgone, so our heroes sre not dead, though their forttis have fallen---with tbeir proper personality they are all with Thee, and the spirit of their example is here. It fills the air, it fl'Is our hearts, and long as time thall last it will hover in these skies and rest on this landscape.

And the of Oiir own land and of all lands will panned through the nation on Ihe 4th oi CLOSING July, when the of the fall ot Vicks- At the conclusion of the oration, which burg and the repulse of Lee's army was flashed through the hod, Mr. Everett proceeds to give a. long, minute and vivid description ol tho battle of Getlysbdrg and fhe evcnU that immediately preceded and followed I The orator then discussed the rebellion, I and the pernicious doctrine ofStates' Rights which Jed to it, and argued that the only mode by which to end it is by a rigorous prosecution of the war. To those who ssy that the Union cannot bo restored, because of the exasperation produced by the war, he said that there wus as much the beginning of it ss there is now. He added the present day is any discrimination made by the Confederate press ia die affected scorn, hatred and contumely with which every shade of opinion and sentiment in the loyal States is treated, the bitterest contempt is bestowed upon those at the North who still speak the language of compromise, and who condemn those measures of tbe Administration which are alleged to have rendered the return of peace hopeless.

Mr. Everett proceeds then to consider the great rebellion in England in the 37th century, the Thirty Years' and Sevan. Tears' Wars in Germany, the various Italian wars, the French civil wars, all of which have not prevented the respective countries from becoming greater and more united than ever. Tha oration coucludcs as follows 'Ihe people of lo)i! America will never take to their confidence or admit airain to a share in their Ueverument the hard-hearted was listened to with most content attnutioo, the following hymn, composed by lion. C.

B. French, nai sung by the Baltimore Glee Club, in a manuer that elicited the admiration of all grotind-- This spot, nhere, in their graves, We place our Country's braves, AV'ho fell in Freedom's holy cuuse Fighting for L'bertieb uud Lavta -Let tears abound. Hero let them rest -Aud Summer's heat and Winter's cold, Shall glow and Irsste this mould -A thousand yoars shall pans uw.ij -A Nation still shall mourn his clay, Which iionr is blest. Here, where they fell, Oft shall tbe -widow's tear be shed, Oft shall fond parents mourn their dead, Ihe orphan heie shall kneel and weep, And maidens, whexe their lovers sleep, Their woes shall lelk Great God in Heaven 1 Siicill all this sacred blood bu shed tshill thus mourn our glorious dead, Oh, shnl) the end be wrath and woe, The bnell of Freedom's overthrow-A Country riven? It will not be We trust, Oh God Thy gracious Po-rrcr To aid us in our darkest hour This be our prsjer "Oh Father save A people's Freedom from its giave -AH praise to Thee!" Speech of the Pres'dent. The President then delivered the following dedicatory remarks men whose cruel of power has brought LX' bCOTe an a se ven years ago our fa- this desolating war upon the land, but there tberg brought fortlj upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedi cated to the proposition that all men arc created equal.

Now, we are is no persona! bitterness felt nveu against them. They may I've, if they can to In wantonly causing the death of so many thousand thev may live io safa whether obscurity beneath the shelter of the Gov- fchat Dat on; a other nation so conceived ernment they have sought to overthrow, or and go Dedicated, csn long endure. We they may fly to the protection oi the gov- are met on a erfelt battle-field or that war ernments of Europe--some of theu are al- we are met to dedicate a portion of it as the ready there, seeking, happily ia vain, to fina rest Dg acc those who here gave obtain the aid of foreign in furthe- thfc Hveg that that Daflon live ranee c4 their own treason. There let them Js ahoKether B5 and pro er that we stuy- 1 he humblest dead soldier, that lies shoul( 0 hj But, in a larger sense, we edd and stiff in his grave before us, is an canuot ded i catei we carjDOt consecrate, we object of envj beneath the clods that cover jj- ls grO utid. Tht brave men, living him, io coir-parisou with the living man I and dead; who strug ed here, Dave conse- wbo is willing to grovel at the foot of a ror- crate( fer above our poor powcr to add eign throne for assistance in compassing Qr dctract The world will little note cor long remember what vrc may say here but it can never forget what ruin of his country.

But the hour is coming and now is, When tho power of the leaders of the th he bollion to delude and inflame must cease. Ic 3 for the rdther to dcdi Ihere is no bitterness on the part of the I oated hg re tQ thc un fi she W0 rk that they masses. The people of the South are not haye far SQ carried on r- Ap going to wage an eternal war, for Jhe jt)lause -j rat her for us here to be fraterflal war which will fall country which is vouchsafed to us by Heaven, tbe richest, broadest, the most beautiful, the most magnificent, aud the most uapsciouB of it great destiny that has ever been given to part of tha haasan race. Aud 1 thank him for the hope that when that cuuse in lemoved, simply by the operation of nbolfchiog it as the origin of the giant trensou that is with out justification an 1 parallel; we we shall be thenceforth united, shall bu upon the I nnd we should feel less tender than the good who bandaged their piteous wounds and less inspired than the orators aud poets who shall pronounce their glory "Thu hot shell shattering iu fall, The bayonet's rending Jloro st utl ci'cd death--butsoaroh the spot, No traco thine eyes can lee No altar, and they need it not Who leave their clrildrcu fioc Thus wrote of auoter battle-field one of our owa poets we uiay accept bis feel- aot his words. Tiaces of this great only one country, hating only oca hurtle must indelibly remain.

Au altar one ambition and one di-atiny. will riso worthy of tbe grandeur of the Than we shall know that we are not cne- struggle, worthy of the future of the uatiou, tnie 1 but that we are friends aud brothers. The dead will rest in sanctuary, and Get- Then we shall kuow that this Uuion is a reality, and we shall mourn, I am sure, with sincerity, equally over the grave of tbe misguided, whom we have consigned to his last resting-place, witli pity for his error, and vith the fame hearlelt grief with which we mourn over his brothers, by whose hand, raised in defence of his Government, that misguided brother perished. vie part to-morrow night, lot us remember that we owe it to our country and to mankind that Ibis war shall have for its conclusion the establishment of tho Chase's report Nov. 17, 1868 Af which is yearly fioiahed, tysburg be forever a shrine of pilgrimage.

aSSr-Crowds, unable to hear the prayers and speeches, wandered iu every direction over the battle-ground. A party under General Gibbous rode over the Broad Top hill, where therebels made one of their fierce assaults. One visitor to the battle-ground Ho has authority lour rode a horse which General Leo himself! un dr ed millions of thu description of legal Lad confiscated, in the vicinity, and used dcrs bean fivo seDt will give, it is t-aid, a very eucouraging exhibit of the condition of the national finaDcea. No financier will pretend (hat it is possible to carry OD the lor several years longer withoutentailiogupoa tbe country au enormous debt and great financial difficulties, it is'out of the powcr ot Mr, Chase, or auy other man, to furnish money lor years to come without trouble, but the condition of the finances at 'he present time such PS to give encourageraent to all loyal hearts. Ihere is not the alighted diffi' culty (apparently) in obtaining 8 the money needed to carry on the war or another year and, according to aome of ou? highest military authorities, the war will end with 1804.

LEOAL-TFNDEK NOTES. Mr. Chase will not issue any more tender notes except of the kind bearing in. during the battle. Hundreds gathered up, to boar with them tbe spirit of Gettysburg to every quarter of the State, relics more conclus.oa tne establishment ol tho princi- thno oralions The lnemor 0 pie of Democratic government; the Mmpla flQd i a it re8 principle tUt whatever party, whatever or- ij; i 0 orollnd tion ot the prevails by constitutional suffrage in an election, that party is to be respected and maintained in power until it shall give place on another trial and anotuer verdict to a ciiffeient party or a different portion of the people.

It do not do that, you arcdrifticg at once and irresistibly to the very of the destruction of your Government. But with that principle, this Government ofourj, the purest, the best, the wisest and happiest in the world, must be, aud so far as we are concerned, practically will be, immortal. Fellow-citizens, good night. Mr. Seward was warmly applauded at the conclusion of his address.

sivenesa of the hallowed battle-ground, will never leave them. This will satisfy all his wants during tha next year. The Secretary has no power to 1 issue notes except for the national banks, The tnemory 'of a enou l1 le al tenders, without interest, to replace tbe notes which have been, destroyed, and it is said by his friends here that he will not ask Congress give him further authority to issue notes without interest unless it may be to a small amount, ia times of dangerous stringency in the money market. Tbe notes bearing five per cent. President WDS serenaded twice during the evening, and bis appearance excited bursts of enthusiasm showing the strong Le has upon the affections of the people.

lie made but a few remarks, but they were characteristic of the part and honest President. Carriages fsrent States and the eurrounding cou wretched pretexts by which this rebellion jj edluat ea to the great task rematnins before is sought to be justified. The bonds that ug a rom these honored dead we taka unite us is one people, a substantial corn- ncreasP devotion to that cause for which ninnity of origin, language, belief and law they heie nave hist full measure of de- (tho four great ties that hold the societies ot votion tbat we re3olve tbat men together,) common national and polit- thoga dead sl)ah not have Ta 0 ical interests a common history a com- A a i That aat on a ll, under i i a gloriaaa -ncestry; a com- 0 7 havo Ja new 0 ff I 2 0 and mon interest in this great heritage of bless- that Governincnta of the le, by the ings the very geographical features of the and for tfae sball not perish country the mighty were that cross the continued ap- hnes of climate, and thus facilitate the a -j interchanee of njturjl and industrial PTM- the cererflOD cs wcre concluded, ducts while tbe wonder-working arm and confirm theif devotion to fa- I 'i procession time indicated, 10 o'clock, A. M-, and ed over the route previously arranged. By the time tho Piesident, accompanied by the diffeient members of the Cabinet, entered tne Ometery grounds, the stand erected in the centre of the same was aur- fmnded by at least twenty thousand citizens, several thousand of whom Were congregated immediately ia front of the stand, tbe immense crowd being nterspersed with chief marshals, aids, and officers of different grades.

A cordon of soldiers Ws placed in the form of a circle outside of the crowd congregated near the stand and ehtifely sur- roundingit, heyond which thousands of citizens clustered in surging tnasses, endeavoring to get a glimpse at the stand, hygEeV. I- Stockton- 1 The Rev. Thos. H. Stockton, Chaplain of the TJnited States Senate, thenjfose and offered following most impressive pray- tr our Father, for the sake 8f Thy Saviour, inspire UB with Thy Spirit, 1 feud sanctify US to the' right fulfillment of thejJatles of this occaston.

to aedicate this new historic eSotfe a Cemetery. If all I' departments of the which Ihou bast ordained over our here i represented--if all classes, relations and intereEts of our blended brotherhood and stand sbterally and thoroughly apparent in Thy presence, tfe trust it is because 1 JTkon hast called us that Thy "swait" and that Thy designs may be embodied in practical result of toe uitalcu- r- lable and imperishable good. I aOj with thy Holy Apostle and with I of all aabds arid ages, we unite i yiessed be Gcd, even ofourjilotd Uesris Christ- 0 the KtEerot mercies and of all comfort--Who us in all tribulations, that behle to comfort then! which artf ic "tTonblC) by the comfort wherewith w6 (ourselves'arc flomfjir of all angtls, in fellowship 1 'with all sympathy with all of Thy works, in reference of Thy Ways, and in accordance Wordjf "We lore and magnify etperfcotiiSD', Thy creative glo- redeerotng gracej Thy providential 7 richer and ,5 fairer'developmcniSvOf Thy supreme uni- ail, whole ideal is i Thy image ta Thy image ic- esptcially in behal! of our -own wlloiie' 'history lias.beed "position is mis- is so whose ftttUre ia no thank' the able patience of Thyco'iti passion, thi'exoeediog loti'ng Had ItfeiSVs Cslvary and i the the Thvoue-- ol in all-subduing we gratofullj prolong WMjnfiee, and on-this ttut of this moat alo- pravef the most profound silence pre- very many wore affected to tears, touching pathoa of fhfi venerable divine, the occasion and the was at once most affecting, aad not a few eyes not accustomed to weep ware bathed in tears, The President evidently felt deeply, and with the venerable statesman and patriot, Hon. Edward Everett, who was by his side, seemed r.ot ashamed to let their syin- I pathetic tears be seen. I Kever has it been our privilege to behold a more grand and imposing scene than i Was now presented to the eye.

Standing upon the platform, the whole battlefield lay spread out like a panorama before tha beholder. In the distance the surrounding hills where, on the memorable days of July, stood the Rebel invaders, dimly seen through tbo November mists, on either hand and beneath us the very heights so heroically defended by our gallant troops against the fierce assaults of the Rebel bostsj the graves, of the fallen, the throngnig multitudes surrounding the stand, the glittering bayonets of the troops, their flags and banners draped in mourning, all made up a picture which foriiupressiveness could scarcely be excelled, and which language caii but faintly represent. At the conclusion of the prayer the band very appropriately performed the grand old hymn of Luther's "Old Hundred." following is an abstract of the oration of Hon. Edward Everett: ME. EVERETT'S ORATION.

The oration opens with an allusion to the law of Athens, providing that" funeral hohors, tha public expense, should be given to thc remains of those citizens who foil in battle. Special honor was bestowed upon those who i'eli at Marathon, because it "depended upoh the event of that 'whether Greece should live, They alone were entombed upoh the spot which they had forever rendered famous. Their names were inscribed upon the monumental tutnu- laS which covered their ashes; und although the columns' eneath the hand of barbaric Violence and time, have long since disap pefired, the venerable mound still marks tbe spot where they fought and He recurred to the events of the three days OD which depended the life of this august, republican Union nnd the invitation from the Executive of'the great central State of Pennsylvania, second by tbe governors of other loyal States, io pay the last tribute of respect to the A brave man who, on the 1st, 2d and 3d days of July last, laid down their lives fur their country on these' hillsides and the plains spread out before Us, and whose remains gathered ioto the cemetery which We consecrate'this day. JHe spoke of what would have been tho consequence to the cdiiaTry if thoso who fieneath our feet had- failed thoso oire it to them that not merely the fields of Petfnsylvania and Marylohd were redeemed from the presence of the invader, but that our beautiful capitals were not Riven up to threatened plunder--perhaps ashes --Washington by the enemy, and a blow struck at tho fiejrtof the nstion. After an allusloa Io the thrill of joythat walls which separate the East and tho West, compellinc your own Alleghinies, my Maryland aud Pennsylvania friends, to ig doors to the travel these bonds of union arc of perennial force and energy, while the causes of alienation are imaginary, factitious, and transient.

The heart of the people North and South is for the Union. Indications, too pltiio to be mistaken, announce tbe fact, both iu the East and West of the Statei in rebellion. In North Carolina nnd Arkansas the fatal charm at length is broken. At Raleigh and Little Rock the lips of honest and brave men are unsealed, nnd the independent press is unlnnbering its artillery. The fceary masses of the people are yearning to ace the dear old flag floating again upon tho capitols, and they s'gh for the return of the peace, happiness which they enjoyed under a Government whose power was felt only in its blessings.

And now, friends, fellow cittizens of Gettysburg nnd Pennsylvania, and you from remoter States let mo again invoke your benedictions, as we part, on these honored graves. You feel, tho igh the occasion mournful, that it is good to be here. feel that it wns greatly auspicious for tbe cause of the country, that the men of the East nnd the men of the West, the men of nineteen sister States, stood side by side on the perilous ridgea of the battle. You now feel it a new bond of union that they BhaU lie side by side till a clarion louder that which marshalled them to combat, shall awake God bless the Union it is dear to us for the blood of those men shed in its defence. The spots in which they stood and fell these pleasant heights the fertile plain beneath them the thriving village whose streets so lately rang with the strange din of war; the fie'lds beyoud the ridge, where the noble Reynolds held the advancing foe at bay, and while he gave up his own life, assured by his forethought and self-sacrifice the triumph of the succeeding, days; the little streams which wind through the hills, on whose banks, in after times, thc wonder- Gnv.

of 15x-Gov Jotd, of ing ploughman will turn up the rude weapons of savage warfare, and the tearful missies of modern artillery; the Seminary ridge, the peach-orchard, Ootaetery, and" Wolf Hill, Round Top- little Round Top hu mble names henceforward dear and famous--no lapse of lime, no distance of space shall cause you- to be forgotten. "The whole earth," said Pericles, as he stood otef the remains of his fellow-citizecs who had fallen in Uie first year of the Pelopones sian war, earth is "the sepul chre'of illustrious' men." All time, he might hare added, is the millennium of their glory. Surely I would do no injustice to the other oble achievements of the war, which have reflected friic'u honor on both arms, of the service, and have entitled the armies and thp navy of the United States, their officers and men, to the warmest thanks and the riohert rewards which" a grateful people can pay, but they, I ani sure; -will join us in We bid farewell'to the dust of tlese martyr-heroes, that wheresoever throughout the civiliied world the accounts of th'is great warfare are hnd'dowti to the lateitjperiod of recorded time, in the 'of our common country, there will he no briphler psgo A than 'that which relates ike dutllet of aud escorted the President to his lodgings, where he was subsequently visited by a large number of persons, aod more than an hour was the victim of slaking' that must have tested his good nature to the Utmost The President returned to Washington in a train, which left Gettysburg about 7 o'clock. A Dlvge then sung with fine effect, after which the Benediction was pronounced, and the throng of people dispersed and returned towards the town. The celebration was complete, and not the slightest accident occurred to mar its success.

Amenn the distinguished personages here were, understand, nine Foreign Ministers; ExSecietary Cameron; Gov. Curtin, Auditor General Slonker, Surveyor Genetal Barr, State Treastiier Adjutant General Ruisel, of Governor Seymour, of Tod, of Ohio; Governor -Vcf 1 Ohio Gov. Morton, of Indi.in, Wright, of I i a a Gnv. Md. Ex-Gov.

Pieipont, Vii- ginia--and many others of lessfr note. President Lincoln and party left late in the evening in a special car. Gov. Cm- tin and the Ileads of Departments left later in the night. Other trains followed, taking away thousands of passengers.

On Friday morning the crowd of persons, notwithstanding the departures during the night, was still great, nearly all of spent the day visiting the various points of interest on the battle-field. Thesp, nearly all, left on Friday evening and Satu.iay I morning, when the town settled down into its old-time quiet. The military arrangements, by Gen. Couch, were admirable. Marshal Lamon also performed his part well, as did D.

Wills, the Agent of Gov. Curtin. Capt. McCurdy had the railroad as efficiently worked as was possible. of the Occasion.

The lion WM. II SEWAnn, Secretary of State, was serenaded at his lodging 3 in the Square; and acknowledged the coniplimeut, by making a brief follows Fellow-eilize'ns--I am now sixty years old and upwards. have been in public life, practically, forty years of that time, and yot this is tho first time that ever any people or community so near to the border of Maryland was found willing to listen to my voice. And tho reason was that I saw, forty years ago, opening before this people a grave-yard that was to be filled with brothers falling in political combat. I knew that the cause that was hurrying the-Union into that dreadful etrife' was Slavery, aud when 1 elevated tny- voice, it was to warn the people to remove that cause while they could by constitutional means, find so avert the catastrophe of civil war which has fallen upou tho nation.

I am thankful that you are willing to hear me at I thsnk.tny God. that I believe this strife ia going to end in the removal of that which ought to Jiavo been removed by peaceful nnd by deliberate counsels thank 1 uiy God for the hope that thiti "ia the last i the close of the afternoon, an in- occurred which mubt evor bt' insrp- erablefrom whicbdeserves a place in the story of the war as a noble representative fact At request of the President, a conmiittee wailed upon the brave old man, John Bums, who fuueht in three of our wars, it is said, and who, at the battle cf Gettysburg, dressed himself in his Suodny clothes and went into the fight, which he did not k'ave till he had received three It need hardly be told how a patriot of the people, the honest pntfirpatricc, Father Abraham, received this brave and venerable man. The greeting was extremely cordial--the ''God bles? you, old man," of the nation in the person of thc President. Arm in arm with the President and the Secretary of State, John Burns went to chnreh iu the evening Cheering to the President, in his great office, must be this simple event--most cheering to the jears of "brave John Burns," Tn this touchiue; incident, perhaps, more than any other, Gettysburg was truly dedicated. According to announcement, at 5 o'clock p.

Col. Anderson, Lieat Governor elect of Ohio, delivert-d an able address in the Presbyterian church. The building was filled to icpletion by au and highly respectable audience The Pretident of the Uni'pd States and suite, with several of the Governors of the States, occupied seats in the pulpit. The orator was introduced by ex Governor Dennison, of Ohio, and commenced his oration by a general reference'to the occasion which hod called together such a vast assemblage. The address was a bold and able exposition of tho causes which led to the present war, the issues involved in the contest, and thc iru- portance.of its determination.

It that original first human conflict between freedom and despotism which was to end in tbe triumph of one or thc other. In the interval before thc procession, thoiibnnds travelled off to the battle-field, visiting the Cemetery Hill, Culp's Hill, the Round Top ruotintain, and the fields around the Taneytown road. The ground in these vicinities is yet strewn with remains aod of the fearful struggle-- raffed and muddy knapsacks, canteens, cups, haversacks, threadbare blockings trodden in the mud, old holsters, bajonet sheaths, and here and there fragments of gray and blue jackets--mournful arid appeatiug menieDfor-s of the civil strife whose victory would be shreds and tatters, like these rags, were it not so uobiy purchased for so glorious a cnuse. Hides and skeletons of hordes still remain upon the ground. Grave marks of unrecognized he- foes were io "very quarter of the field, and rows of graves'ranged along the line of thc stonf or 1 which had afforded shelter to the sharpshooteis.

A ravine, up which the rebels had charged towards a i i i was vet The Govern5rs, generally conspicuous their individual character, were more or leas congregated aa loyal Governors, like loyal States should be, nnd formed at one interest, sad made legal un- time very interesting group. Governor doubtediy be issued in sufficient quantities (Jurtin, straight, tall, clear-faced, was pi o- to pay the debts of the after bably the handsomest gentleman of the p.ir- t.H* from the duties, internal tar- ty Seymour, with his quick gentle- ation, and sale of 5-20 boads are exhausted, manly bearing, and blaud and polished manners, might claim to divide the honor. John Brougb. is truly represented in hia name--a corpulent, farmer like, homespun Western man, with a full rosy countenance. It deserves mention, at perhaps thc most edifyng and remarkable incident of the scene, that tbe courtly Governor Seymour and the rough Ohio Governor greeted each other very cordially.

is Vallan- d'gham T' asked Governor Seymour, witb dry pleasantry." In Canada," said Brough, laconically. These two representative G-ov- erno 's afterwards seen walking down the lino of the road engaged ic friendly dialogue. What they baid is left to spec- ulat cannot be reported but Mr. rough did not quarrel, wnd Governor Seymour was apparently satisfied. The Patriot Eemains- The following is a list of the remains already interred io tho Cemetery, with thc represent: Maine 17 New Hampshire 4 Vermont 19 1 Rhode Island 4 Massachusetts 139 ConneetisuJ Vt Mew York 153 Jersey 22 Pennsylvania 100 Delaware 14 Mixrjlund 1 24 Indiana 8-1 Illinois Michigan 48 Wisconsin 21 Minnesota 24! Yirpinin United States Ix.fautry, (Kegulars) 19 Unknown 582 ARREST AND The Frederick (Md.) Esanniner states that Col Maulaby, of tbe Finit PoJomae Home Brigade, has preferred charges of contempt and disrespect, ss well as of violations of tbe 32d and 89tri article of war againxt Capt.

Walter Saandcrs, and of mutiny and sedition against biro and Lieut. D. H. Kolb- jointly. Upon these charges Captain Saun- aud Lieutcaaot Biolb will probably tiled by court-martial.

The- djfficnlties, it seems, originated at the poljs'in Frederick ou the day of the Isifr eleetioa, and had reference to the srrest of farloughed d'er and ar alledged attempt to ressae hint from the custody of CoL 1,188 ie campaign of the Amy of the Cumberland will not be closed without a decisive and bloody strusgle tor the pos- of Chattanooga and East Tennessee, It is said that thc Western 'and Atlantic Railroad is being worked to its full capacity ic bringing reinforcements to General Bragg, and that the road from Chiekatnaurja Station for eight miles south is lined with Rebel camps. On Monday the batteries on Lookout a i played vigorously on Hooker's camp, Moccasin PoinS aud Chattanooga, but the fire was neither accurate nor effective, no damage being done. The strength of General Hooker's petition, and the ease with him, have probably led the enemy to abandon their OT- ppctcd attack. Our batteries on Moccasin Point nrc said to have tbo liebcl camp in the Chattanooga Valley, on ihe cast side of Lookout complete range. No IN Indiau- apolis Journal publishes two columns of extracts from the Indiana county papers, of which show that enthusiasm for volunteering iu that State- rsaahed very high pitch.

The counties- are -paying 1 a bounty of S100 in addition, to tha-t offered by thc government, and in sosss cases- increasing the pay of the $10 month. NEW The high prica of coal is suggestiog many ei" pedients for economizing its use. Harper, of the Philadelphia city pioposea a eommitee to- inquire into the? feasibility of warming houses from a central source, and supplying the citizens witb hs.it as gas is now supplied. The committee' to make the inquiry into the matter was appointed, NEJKO- KH.I.ED A colored war killed ou Cumberland Valley near Newville, a day or two ago. He was ltoy; the- track.

The engineer saw him when about two hundred sarrla off. a foaflQ it impossible to stop train. The rregro was literJly cut to pieces. It supposed he was intoxicated and hail fallen across the track, as a- brokea bottle fonu-d by his s-icler JSJ-On- Tuesday ten deserters were brought to Frederick, and after taking the outh of allegiance, were discharged. Rebels have at lait commenced their threatened attack on Ivnoxvillc, Tennessee, but General Burnside expresses confidence that he will be able to drive them back.

He has massed his army, and is awu.t'.ug the approach of the Some heavy skirmishing took place on the Kingston road, about four miles from Kooxville, on Wednesday, in winch Gen. Sanders, commanding our advance, was wounded, and compelled to fall back about a third of a mile to a stronger portion. We lost about one hundred men Jn killed and wounded. so indicative and so eloquent, Had i task uTcall back im im- the despatch from Washington informs us that one-half of Lee's army has gone to Hanover Junction, in the diieotion of Richmond, and tho other half has gone Lynchburg, with the view of rein- ng the troops sent against Barnside, or covering their retreat in case of a repuhe. Washington despatches renew the report part of raw's forces arc moving and the still fiercer defence and ot the determined and inexorable men whose resistless bravery was victory ordaia- a who proved that if thc rebels fought wall 'm the South, the loyal soldiers fought even better in the North.

Melancholy bat glorious vestiges 1 Here fell our braves, sometimes stricken down like grass, wathcs, still with their fsct to the fo3, or irregular strewn about whore death was sown in every field and furrow. Here they dropped down dead or dying, to the infinite of our physical universe, not more than so many uparrowa falling but.to the moral- progress of tho world representatives, causes, and martyrs. These mon, it is said, die without name, and make no sign but here they gave their sign masonic, death grasp, and the whole world is in the secret. They aro distinguished in the great appellations of Victory and Freedom, and their name is Legion. They died saints and martyrs in a certain senee, hfis left us rich relics--only battered canteens, ragged blouses, torn haversacks, and wretched shoes.

Think of how they marched under burden of eight days' supplier, overloaded with knapsacks, and blankets a hundred of miles in hot pursuit of the think' of how they fought, and full, and won-- is nothing definite regarding the operations there. Another lot of 330 paroled prisoners, a moat wrrtciied and teriiblc condition, arrived at Annapolis irom Richmond on Wednesday. Six of the starved creatures uicd on the passage. An illustration ot their sufferings is given in despatches from Washington, whiuh sifttrc that the carcases of dogs arc ddly devoured by- our faoiifhcd A CARD, To ftjwr by a Tory nlmpto remedy after haTlnf fercd with a scvcrb lung nffvetton, nod that dread tUarene, to kttowu to To nil who deslrn It, bir win a copy of the tieriptloa (free of charge), irlth thu fur jiropnntiR and Unirtft tho which they 4ml tui-e core for Conauu.plJon, Althma, Iroochltb, Coujhr, Coldn, Ae. The only of In tbe PrwriptUn to boncnt thu in formation which he conccltes to orcry fuffemr will try bU 5t will tent them nothloR, and may Wwilnft wlKhine tho prwcrlption vlllblnu EDW.

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A despatch 'frcm New York "snysi that the Array of trio 1'otomncThss advanced, and now occupies Madison Court House, and that the- Rebels are, retreating- Wadison Court House--the of Madison county, Virginia--is about seven- ty'miles from Bichmond and fifteen from Culpcper Court House, where the latest despatches located General Meade's headquarters. I I I 3 water, relaxed bowels who, sick stomach adults or children, it wil givo immcoiale our bravo soldiers it las proved of incalculable benefit. Those hftvjig friends in the army cannot send them amoip necessary article tham "Dr Swayna's Bowel Crdial." Prepared only th, above five $1. by Pr. Swayne Son, 330 Sixth, Philadelphia.

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