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Local Sammary. »Y, S, VTO )th, il«- travellers Directory. Central.—7 a. m ,, Steamboat Express; 12,10 m., iN. Y,Express j 5 p. m., 0 ,5 0 p. m. NlgW Express. Hudson Rirer Railroad..^Loave Troy for New York. Express Train, 4^45 ; 8,40 .a m.,' 8,30 j 9,15 p . m. Reiiisolaer and Saratoga Railroad leaves Troy 7,35 and 9,45 a, m.; 12,20 m.j 5,15 ; p. m., Express. Troy & Boston R.ail Road Leaves Troy 8 a. m. for Montreal Ogdensburgli, Boston; 12,30 p. m., Express for Montreal; 4,45 accomoda tion for Rutland; 10 p. m., Sleeping Cars, Ex press for Montreal, OgdenslmrgU and Boston. Troy and Lansingburgh Rail Road. 5,45 6,15 6,45 and 7,15 a . m ., and every 15 minutes aft er, until 8 p. 3t., and tUon at 9 .and 10 v. m ., last car down passes PUmnix Hotel 10,10 p . st. Mails arrive daily a t 7 A. M. and 1,45 p. Close a t 1,15 and 4,45 P. M. Office open Sundays, from 9 to 10 A. M. Army Correspondence. G aixs F arm , V a .; I u the Field. ) June 11th; 1804. S F r ie n d N o lan :-r- YbUrS bearing date> M ay 25th, came to hand y esterday the 9tii, By the tone of your .letter I see you are not awarC of our present position. W e left Bermuda Hundred May 19th oh transports for W hite Heii e Landing b u t our Brigade (noW alas it scarce ly deserres the name of a Brigade,) was landed a t W est Point, 17 miles from White House Where there was supposed to exist a band of Bush Whackers; the day was ex-, trem ely warm and the troops in heavy marching|orders. Our Begt. and the*l3th, Indiana were deployed as Skirmishers and a t the command advance, continued the march in the direction of W hite House Landing scouring the woods swamps and Kivers, from the rivers edge to a mile or two in the interior o f the country, ’ Finding but a few Johnny farmers and some dozen niggers, all o f whom of course were Union folks, but they were sent to the r e a r. In Ihis manner we reached W hite House some time in f - e night, tired enough I assure you. T h e 30th,was spent in drawing rations, and on the afternoon of the next day, the 3 1 st, w e inarched towardsCoal Harbor .Long and weary was that march, a lt night march- liig until 3 o'clock A. M. o f the first. W e tested for tvvo hours and then continued the inarch onward until we reached this farm Which is two miles from Gains Mills (where McClellan retreated,)Our Brigade h e re hal.- ed in a piece of wood. Cos. I. and A. were throw out as skirmishers from our Begt. The troops drawn up in, line of battle to hwait the result. Betw.cen the woods in Which we lay and the one oppo.-ite to us was an open field the breadth of three vil lage books ; this field slightly sloping to ward the woods opposite, tlie b atteries shell • ing the woods for some time, failed to' dis lodge the rel^. Col. Drake, drew up his line, altering the position of its f ront so as to conform with - the direct line of the woods,where lay our Kebellous brothers in two lines of rifle pits secured by the densi ty of the timber, the deep voice of Colonel Drake, (now stilled in death) ordered the Bayonets fixed for a charge. Col. Me- Conihe, imparted a few words o f c h eer and confidence to his idolized 169th, telling them that the c h arge to be made would re quire cool but desperate fighting and how much he relied on our well known valor, (these were his last words to us as a Begt). T h e charge was ordered,and with one wild about, away a t double-quick flhw the little Brigade. All the weary march,was forgot ten,across the open field we felt volley after volley thinning our ranks. High abov6 the roar of battle sounded tlie voide c f Col. A ld e n ; the brave the gallant Alden, for ward, keep c'ose up, victory is oitirs, keep together my good men, do o r die now or never, cheered us on to the jaws of death,, W e reached the wood and i^ith one almost super-human effort the whole line plunged into the Rebs. first line of pits, 'scattering death to a ll opposing thejonw ard course. T h e foe broke and ran for their second line. • Pon’t;8t6p to load,charge them cries Baldy Smith,cliarge them hoys,damn them,charge Here the right of the line took the sec- g a g e i Fresh troops c am e up and we gave Way to them. Gradually they inspired with success and soon h e ld the entire line. The; second line was ours, h u t what it cost. G reat God look down in pity on the hundreds o f widows and orphans m ade in th a t ' short time! The' Right was rallied again; O.what^ a remnant of the once lucky figure stood there. Three times that night did the rebs, charge to regain their lost position b u t were repulsed. I was wounded in the, shoulder (a d eep flesh wound,) on first ent ering the open field, but continued in the charge u n til the Right took the second line, when our noble Col. Alden was wounded, L ieut. V. Sanford begged my a s- sistancs to get him off the field. T rendered, all the assistance. T'he Regiment back to the Original Woods after leaving Alden. Maj. Colvin reformed the regi m e n t in an orchard to the rear of the woods, anJ I was sent to rally the men to the position indictated. W hile on this duty I was m e t by L ieut. P. B. Eaton of Ara- k e t’s s'aff, v ho told me Col. McConihe’s body was y e t on the field, 1 started to g et it, off, but found some men from the liattgfy engaged in liringing it. A fter they had got it into the woods Lieut. Eaton charged mo with the body, to get it Anther to the rear at a 11 hakards. This I promiseit to do let follow what might, and I should Have stuck to his corpse u ^ der the fire of thewholo cursod confederacy. It'w a s now quite dark, for the charge commenced a t 6 o'clock P. M., but with w h at assistance I could com mand I got a stretbher and ptoceeded to the hospital. D r. Knowlson in his grief did not forget his duty, “ Serg^,” says he, “ pobr John is dead, but the living require my a tten ion,” I took him to the clviplain, who, after his Sorrowing surprise h ad eiided requested me to assist him ( I should here mention that as I was going but bf th6 woods f saw our right in line of battle again moving across the field for ilie bloody conflict). This made me anxious to g e t back as ! had left m y gun with ihe Co. but sa cred to my dead charge I could not in hou- leavo h'm then; so after a short tim e the chaplain got assistance and I with him as far as the 6th army corps Hospital. Tliere he, Rev. Mr. Chapman, got permis sion to take the body past'the rear gu .rd to tlie wagon trains. Tliis being done, and the An interesting letter from a member of the Griswold Oavplry. R ebei . HospirAL, Stanton, 'P a , ) June 8th, 1864. j D e a r P a r e n ts - Here I am flat oft my back, with my shin bone broken b y a k ick from a horse on S uht , ,day last. We had a battle with the johnnies and whipped them most awfully, killing and wounding ten rebels to our one. I went over the fluid after the battle, We drove them three miles, . The, dead and wounded were, soattered all along the-way. The rebs had breastworks b uilt of'‘rails, which our men charged. We captured A whole Regiment, the 45th Virginia. ; I saw men with their heads blown clean off and others with arms and legs off. WekiUed their Gen. Jones, and captured 57 commis sioned officers and 1500 ptiaonets. Wo were joined\ at Staunton Va, by General Averill, and are the first Union army that ever got so far up this way. We now hold the place having destroyed all the stores. The rebs will parole us. There are about 500 Union men an d 700 rebs iiere in the hos- I was on my own horse, when n horse in front of mo kicked u p behind and hit me on the shin. ‘ > I am engaged in the commissary department. A. S baxah , Jr. 53^ATnong the curiosities and improve ments of the age; there is one thatis far in ad-, vance of the]restj and that is the photographing business! Wd were never so forcibly romind- od of the improvements that are daily being made .xs we were When we visited Mr, E. 3. Sterry’s Excelsior Photogmph Gallery, at 54 Broad street, Waterford.. All along the h a ll memory of that rUythioal inaividual, oldeit hihabUant. has therebson snoU an aValanohe of chaplain promising to remain with.him, I\ criminal business as- during the past weekj left for the legiment. My wound now, the e x citem e n t had subsided, began to be very painful. I stopped a t tlie hospital and Dr. Knowlson dressed it, assuring m e that |® ”Xhenew Directory for Troy, Lansing- burgh. West Troy and Green Island, for tlie present year is now being distributed among the subscribers. An accurate work of this kind is a great convenience,and every business man at least, should have a copy. They are; well printed and bonnd up in better shape than; any previous edition we have seen. Urico; only $1.50. re passed through, its walls were hung pioturictures, with p and as we entered the reception room we were surprised at its perfect magnili- cBuoe! Here lEc walls W6re liiing with the •choisost pictures of the art and as you approached them to get a bettor view of tfle : Everything passed off qi works of tifis successful artist, you would be ^ “ l«,n.<Sdc, la Africii’ik. temiited to speak to them, and wonder why Valuable Standard Books, FO R INDlVItDUAUS AND FAMIUEfll ’ FBBI.ISHXD BT FoMer and WellSj 308 B r o a d w a y , N. TT. iu E I l i C sti t battle of 1. Russeil,' of! I^ ^ P eksosai .,—-At the recent Cold Harbor, Brig. Gen. David A. Russell, of! Salem, Washington Co., commanding the 1st division of the 6 th Aimy Corps, was wound ed in the arin and liis aid, S. 'W. Russell, jT , had his horse shot from under him. Gen. K. is a brother of Hon. Wni. A. Ru8.soll, former ly Inspector of State Prisons. (CTThe New Steamer “ J. E. Whipple,\ af ter a fair trial, has been finally accepted by our Trustees. We learn that Capt. Campbell’s Company is to be increased from 30, to 48 members.— Under the law 60 men are allowed to each fire Company. B^ALARaE FLEKOB.—^We learn from the Wasbington.Connty Poit, that a fleece shorn from a two year old buck belonging to Jas. Harper, of Coila, a few dayaago, weighed 161-2' The sheep was well washed, and the fleece is prouonncod an extraordinary large 83F*We Invite nttention to the long and in teresting letter to be found elsewhere in this paper, from James ,H. Straight, of the 169ih Regiment, Capt Furguson’s Company, many friends will be glad to know th« is “ maBtef of ilio situation.” taT T h o ladies and gentlemen of color of the .‘‘garden\ and vicinity, had a terpsiohorean sqiyo at the Butior House oh Monday evening Everything passed off qnietiy liiid pleasant- you received 'ilo' answer.; Mr. Sterry ciaims to have advantages superior to many otliers in the same bnsi- is,, andjthatndjthat hoo is preparedrepared to givee a picture ness a h is p to giv a pi that cannot bo surpassed. We can truly say that Mr, S. is mitster of bis profession. ig^VYrtAT’s ra*MA#Ti;k.^Not within the lemory of that m ythical inaividual, the ofdcit y a r A t the recent fire of MoClenahaiiS store, aovernl Autographs, Jewelry and other valhable property was carried off from tlio Butler House by some Imys. The propei ty has been recov ered and the boys arretted by officer Seaman. p n tlp i tjth e ic ; and center still hotly en- it would want m uch c are or, it would give me much trouble. H e ordered me to go to the Hospital quarters, and would not listen to my going again to the Regiment, so I took his advice and a drink of whiskey, and was soon in the land of dreatns. T h e next morning the doctor dressed my wound, now growing very troublesome, and I started to find m y regiment and my gun one o f which I found,the regiment, just as Capt. Furguson was woundedi I then proceeded to the hos pital with him. His wound was found to be conturion, a buck-shot striking the buttons on his coat aiid inflicting a sore bruise on his back, n e ar the hipi T h e skin was n o t broken'. H e is a t p resent a t hospital at Fortress Monroe. 1 remained a t hospital wtiich is b'ut one and a half miles from the front, until an or der came to send all that w ere slightly wounded to the Landing nhich is sixteen miles distant in a direct road. T heyhave e s tablished a c onvalescent camp, the medical director o rdered m e off, b u t I dodged hini and went to the woods,and for chree days I had to w atch him and the post Surgeon, for I wished to join m y Co, which had no to command it but Sergt. Tompkins, who was n o t very well a t the tim e of o u r engage ment,but w eut in like a hero as h e is, Sitz- e r was poisoned on the road and his eyes swelled slmt,so there was no one to relieve i poor Tompkius.My wound now getting bet- ter,rireported.for duty the 8 th,but was rep rimanded severely for my imprudence and ordered' to keep still for ten days or a fort night, but I still rem ain with my Co. doing what I can, such as making, details and the like. I am in hopes to be able to load and fire my gun b y the tim'e’the E e g t is engaged, Please read this to nay fathei shoulder will not p e rm it m e to Write again to day b u t will as soon as possible. Y o u rs affectionately^ J a S.'H. S traight . One of the “ first floor” magistrates states that ho issued fourteen wiirrauts in ono day, and another that he issued seved upon other day of that week. AUogethor we sup pose there have beeh thirty arrests made within the past fortnight, A police court is a very handy place to drop into, after the labors of the day are over, for who has nothing else to do. [j^Q u ite an excitement has grown out of our artioio of Saturday last in reforenco to the shooting affair on Oongresa street. The person mentioned as having been fired' at, claims that lie was the one who fired .the pistol, and that he did n o t consider that was doing anything out of the way. doqtprg disagree, who shall dooide ?\ Perhaps a coroners jury will have to pass upon the case |3'*W'e learn that three maohuiistS'two of; tliem residing in Adamsvilie and the other in Troy, and who are employed at a ma shop on Green Island, wet® poisoned, a few days .ago,' It is suspected that sdme fiend'had placed arsetfic o'r Other poison in their dinner kettles, while they were a t work. Fortonately tlia V have aliI be appropriate to the perpetrators of such recovered, Lynph iaiy would' Among tho recent now cojhets to beautifal village, wa are pleased* to number ,our very gentlemanly and agtaeable County Clerk Edwin Brownell Esq. recently of .Troy. always thought our friend h ad a Jikipg .for the “Garden,\and we greet his arrival among us; with satisfaction, He occupies the residence formerly occupied by the late John Tracy, on State street. |3 ^ T h e dry spell still oontinnes. Cisterns are giving out, vegetation is rapidly drying up, dust is the order of the day. Strawberries ex ist only in memory, and everything edible in in the vegetable line is commanding fsbaions, prices. A good refreshing showqi at this time, would'be worth its weight in gold. Onrrrish .is that it. may obme soon and abundantly. la r j a in e i Kirkpatrick, o t' Lansingburgh we! are pained to leam, has.been wounded so bad- jyHhaf iijS'leg was ainputal 0 di'',',| ; I ^ T h e Bbai'd of SuiiervUcji-s met a t tbeir rooms on Thursday and on motion of Mr, Banker, passed a resolution offering $300 SnbslanHally bound men® W orks of H on . H orace M a ir. in.cludin'g County pro rata, uu.der the next call. |3g'“The Troy, Whig, oi Thursday says: \Four hundred thousand soldiers letters will be sent north from the Washington Post Office, to.flay and to-morrow. Their weight is up wards of six tons.\ PiiBENOLOGV, Proved. Illustrated and T he N ew SEi.F-.NSTRtJC'roii, in P-renolo- Piivsic^,L P erfection ; or, tlie P b iloso. gfisasss N ew lamiSTRATED F am ily G y m . „ the mosltrapro^'^^^^ |0ff“lMPROTEMEXT.—Mr. Thos. Mills is pre paring to erect a new brick barn on the vacant lot formerly owned by Mrs. Francos Grimes, on tho corner opposite No. 4 Engine House on River street. igff'Ptc-Nio.—Wo understand that the Brush-Makers are to have a grand Pic-Nic, some time, next .month. They will make it a season of great enjoyment to all who m.ay at- LLUSTBATEDRuEAt M an D^LB. E lectric . “ \ - ' ' “ ' • ' H f Street Commissioner HawEins, is re moving tho remains of the once “ famous” Plank Road, through o nr village, and applying a coat of gravel to the bed of the' road. C ^ R unaw AT.—Yesterday, the team of Mr. James Alexander, of North Troy, (Batostown,) mode a fine display o f their locomotive power through John street, towards home. f^ P r o v o s t Marshall Charles Hughes slated to a gentleman of Lansingburgh, on Thursday, that in his opinion, a draft would be ordered in July for 200,-000, men. I ^ V e learn that Mr. MoClenehan intends to rebuild his store as soon, as his loss is aser- ’ the Companympany in whiol tained and adjusted by he WM insured.' Co in w the recent casualties of the 125tb, iwing wounded. CoJ. rilliam Rafter, in tBe Among th Regiment Were the folloi Crandell in the face ; William Rafter, Qoixo F obivabd .- -Tho new addition tb' the PhiEnix Hotel is rapidly going u p ; Us walls have already reaohedthe third and last story, ^ ^ T h e Steamer Berkshire recently burnt: on the Hudson.is to be raised. (trSubstilotes at liew York, bring $600 and. upwards. I ^ T h e Thermometer a t 1 o’clock stood a t 100 degrees in, the pbade. Hah them t< T he R ight W ord in t h e R ig h t P lace . HVDRpPATIIIC F a MILV PHSSJCIAM. A - hysiology overwritten. Price $1.6fl iHiLDREN; thcir Hydfopathio Manage ment in Health and Dispaso. A descriptive and Practical Work, designed os aguidoliror famnias end Physloians; with numerous, oases desotibed;, ■ By Joel Show, M. D. lim a . 432 pages, mnilin' tioo $1 60. ■ C ombe ’ s M oral PHiLosoPHY, d r thq du ties of Man oonsidord in his indlridnal,, domeil- tie andsooinl oaiiaoltios. By Goo. Combe. Jle- prffitodfroni the Edinburgh ediflon,. with the
