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CA?£ WAY OCEAN WAVE. ' ' I'At'EiSLANO N.J. ! J. 8. LEACH, - ~ Editor, • P*kU,hrr -u.l Pnprl'lor. ONE DOt. I. AH PER ANNUM'. ! Thursday, July IB, lBfil

WAit NEWS! There has been*considerable fighting; ; i since our last issne. The hostile nr- i mica ere coming closer together, ond < w the. excitement and strife waxes warm, liar-rare, truly, is the' worst kind of fare, end yet those who are sitting at homo in ?n "old armchair," cannot realize the hardships^! he trials, or the anxieties of war, as rnnch as one who is -armed to the teeth, upon the tented field, and eager for the fray " According to acrouiit* given below, it would , appear that -Missouri is going to be a great lmitle ground. kMrendy there has been as much, if not t&n, fighting upon her soil than in Vtrgihih. \V« have an account of an important engagement at Carthage, In .the southwestern part of Miasouri, between five or six thouMind of the rebel forces, and some twelve or lift eeii hundred U. S. troops, under Col. Heigel. Tb« battle was several times rene.rfl at illfTereot points, wilh great severitr. At one time the eueiny attempted tu I cut nnr forces off from their b.rgoge train, bat ibey fell back, fighting as the? retreated. until they reached the train. The engagement occupied several hour*, in all. Our force*" were finally soccesslul, notwithstanding the superiority of numbers on the other si'Tu." The loss 65 the reoeleioe was heavy, the mo** moderate accounts say 200. Oar m**n captured S5 riderless horses C5 shot guns, sud a great number of nvolrers and bowie-knives W« hare no <-i net account of the loss on onr side, t^uugb it was much let* than the other. \ Carthage, the scene of the late battle in Missouri, is in the extremo southwestern corner of the Slate, iiuly fifty miles from the Arkan<us line.

Sixteen hundred rebel cavalry, under Gen. Harris, attacked ,&«!). United .Jitalcs , * i roups near Monroe station, thirty miles ^ from Hannibal. Mo., on the Haimibl* and ^ St. Joseph ratUoad, on Wednesday nuwlw i!( nud were repuKed with the loss of four ; ^ killed, five eaptnrod ond several wounded. ; The Cnlt-*d Kioto troop* also took seven ^ Inner. Our men pursued tho enemy, were ^ again r Hacked and again victorious They ( then took up a position and seut for rem . forcemeots. and while thera were surroun,;,.d l>y the wneiny, who being all cavalry ' bad the advantage of them. After a short ^ lime, three companies arrived to the relief of Colonel fimilb. who entrenched themselves. The rebels, now 1200 strong were j grouped over the prairie, out of reach of I Col. Smith'* rilles. Tney had two piece* J ( of artillery, which were bronght U> bear. Imt the distance was sa gre-«t that the balls almost spent before reaching our lines. Col Smith'* artillery was of longer range, and did considerable execution. Tire fight lasted until dnsk. noil the last shot from our , side dismounted one of the euemy'* 'guns, .lust at that moment Governor Wood, of Illinois fell on their rear with tho cavalry | aent from v^uincy ou Wednesday, and com t pletelv routed them, taking la prisoner* one gun and a large number of horses About 20 or 30 of tba rebels were kHted. | Not one man on our sitHs was killed, although several were sevpijly wounded. ^TAt Hich Mountain, western Virginia, on ; Thursday, a battle took place between two ; thousand rebels, under Col. Pegram. and j strongly ontroncl»?d, and a detachment of j Ohio and Indiana regiment*, under General ( ltosoucranlx, the latter having to march , seven miles and cut a rood through the «ood*. The fight lasted an hour and a j hair, and resulted in a loss of sixty or the , enemy killed, a large number woundeo. and j mauy prisoners; some of the latter officer*. The enemy retreated precipitately, leaving ! behind them six guns, a (arge number of I horn-, wagon* and camp equipage. The , Im* on our side was about II kiHed ami 35 nr 40 wounded. This account it confirmed bv the official report of Gen. McCleltan. Farther accounts, by official report from Gen. McCMIku ata!" that Col. Pegram, , the rebel commander, had sent to McGlel Una proposition of surrender of himaelf and the remnant of bis force, probably some tAO, profewin- great penitence. and prom-i-ing never again to take up arm* against j the Federal government. They are ptob- i nbly. ere this, prisoner-, waking, aa Gen. McC remark*, sow* WO ff> 1000 prisoners KIlMUBil

«*d by hangar. Gen. McC. that the . * . r,cmy lost, in killed and wounded, at least • c 150. 1 ™ — u Near Laurel Hill, in western Virginia, j ■ on -W rdncttfay,- a ak irm tab - took phtctr bc- 1 - ' leeenaome Ohio and Indiana troop*, ofj. i General McClellan'e outposts, and a Geor- i c gia regiment, in which the latter, after snf- ' f ! Irring seriously, retreated in disorder, and I ( J could nor i>« brought up to the *cralch . J j I « 1 ". I,

Still another decisive engagement occ-r- ; i red un Sunday, at Carrack'a Ford, between < ^ the rebels and a division ©r McClellau's j ^ c.luon, in which the rebel commander. 1 ■ Gen. Garnett, and about-flfly others, wer,. ^ killed, many wounded, nod several hundred taken priioners. »od tho whole rebel force totally rooted, with a loss of nearly everything—cannon, inuaket*. ammunition, provision*, tents, clothing and camp uqupage. Only two killed and two wounded are reported on our aide. Those fee's are gatlii eretl from Gen. McClellan'e official report. I j. Ho says that he considers the euemy atini- ! ■ biiated in Western Virginia. Ho has his j , i 1000 prisoners, as noticed above. In the j several eogagement*. in that vicinity, the ' | -numy hava loal 200 killed, whilo our loas i I is ouly 13 killed. our tbif to philadelphia. On Tuesday of last week, stealing away „ j from the cures, toils, crows and lout* of |. : our sanctum, we soon found 'ourselves on | . boa/d the fino bay steamer, Geo. Washing- .. ton. Copt. W. Whilldin, steaming away „ i for Philadelphia. Some say there is nothing in a namo, and perhaps, there isn t. but : no confess we have a decided partialify for • the name Geo. Washington, even when ap1. j plind to a steamer. Nor have we at.y de- \. ! cided antipathy against the steamer which ' bears the name, or thn good-natured, jovial u | commander. Capt. Wliildin, at well as eve >. ry employe or the steamer. Everybody's j on bosid knows how to make travellers feel . at home, and tie man, Woman or child who \ can't feel at home on board the Washington h ought to stay at home with hi* or her mothI er. And this i* certainly u gieat desidor in ' atom in travelling. Who doe* not know it in I nr has not felt it? It would seem, however, in from our experience and observation, in : the connte of our' peregrinations, that some

steamboat CupUlns, railroad conductors (| i and stage drivwe entertain the revetse ^ opinion, if «c tc*y Judge from their indira- j h lions of moroseneas. which makes every I (| one fcul rather as ir they wen. going to the _ f gallows, than on an exenrsion of lifo busi- ^ ; or pleasure. c Well, a very pleasant trip we bed. a fine j breese, a plenty of room, a social chat wilh j i the Capt. clerk pilot &c.. and a good din- t | ner in tho bargain, arriving at Arch »t. j ( wharf at about 3 P. M. And. by the wny : f : ir the traveller want* lodgings and eatings. | { ' on bt» arrival, be has only to step op to j I the Arch st. House, where he will Ond our , good filend Charlie Lock*, -looking ami act- ! i ing just as pleasant as over, at least we j found him so. i Here, in the city of brotherly love, wo j 1 ! sprnt more than two days, trying, in tho first j ' j place to collect a little money— hard work ' ! v. e hear you say. aud so it was— and, in the | : second place, trying to spend a good deal, i 1 which still harder, for the vory obvious j ! ' reason that We hadn't it to ajmnd. One or i ! ■ the most marked featntes of affairs in Phil- j I adclpbia.ws Tar a* we observed, was the j ; very frequent repetition of the two littlo i | monn-syllables — "To Let"— posted on the j ' aterei and houses all oves- the eily. And we. need make no other comment on the j | times. Those two little words, so oft re- I ; peated. spoek volumes, and the country is j ' reading the leseoe, to its eorrow. THE TIMES ON THE PEESS. j Some people entertain a very erroneoos ! opinion in regard to the effect of the time* ' on the pecuniary Welfare of rewspapers. I We have oDen heard it said, that the pob- j jtiebera were coining money; but nothing can be more erroneous. This impression | ! seems to bo founded upon the supposition j | i that people ere so eager to gel the news. J i that the anbecription liata must be greatly : j increased , and Ibis, at first sight, might j | appear plausible ; but when it is recollcc- \ I ted that many people are thrown out of em- , I ploymanf. being scarcely able to procure ' the necessaries of life, and cannot spare | tb« money for newspapers, it considerably ! altera the face of things. Then again, those papers in the North, which have here i 1 tofore circulated in the Sooth, are almost ' en'irely cut off in that quarter; and even ; " i bills due to tbem cannot be collected. Km in our small business, wo have several of this class And then again, it ahpold be remember- j 1 ed. that the subscription is bat a small pro- j portion or the Income of a newspaper, in j a most case* scarcely paying for the paper ■ and actual labor, aiido from the labor of

. writing iec The greatest source of in- j ' come of a paper i* its advertising, and [ I these times are "playing smash" with that ti 1 branch. Then, again, in tba ca«o of the '■ j dally papers, they mull have paid corres- > ' poudeut* iu almost every place of interest i tl ' ii J tiesides, «be telegrapbiag' of the news ; o | cost them ua enormous sum. And the j 0 I abova remarks in regard to advertising, are P equally trae in regard to job work, in llio«e , ^ ' offices harifig job offices con- ; e uecled with them. So that, when the mat- c j ter is fully understood, it must be! acknow- a ; (edged, that the newspaper pabliahers, in- j | stead of "coining money,'*" are coining p"v- »' I erty, by their hard labor. The truth W. lew « | branches of business suffer more ; and we ; ' | have abundant proof of this, dn^be fre* : u j qnent notrcea of the dueontinaaiJsc of i 1 ; newspapers all over the couutry. and the !« I consolidation, in n ouy cases, of two into ! one. and the dimithed sixe of a very large ' number. If any one doubts our reasoning. I let them try it ; we will giv« any one tho , 1 chance who wishes to enter into such a 1 money coining business. i j ~~ davis' pihate8. 1 , i A number of the last arnved mails hi ing : u* intelligence of diflernt northern vessel* » being captured by Privateers, aliat Pirate#. Ueelly thry are making greater progress r in their piratical move than wo had at first j 1 expected ; for it teemed to u* that tho gov- , f eminent would ba-e bad enough navy-vet- ' seU on the water* to hold these pirate* in ' I check ; but such ha* uol been the case, an * a privateer, called the Jeff. />"< " . accotv •V : ding to last Saturday's papers ha* sU'lei '* j *ome six vessels, among which Is the brig II i John Welsh, which I* considered to be one | ir j of the fastest failing and best built crefl* ■ tbat Hosts. Our pilot* tell us she w ill make : a handsome privateer. The only regular '* war vessel that the South now liu#. is out ll j tOAca- She was formerly a largo packet steamer, and wa*<w1?fced ut New Orleans '• long before the storming ot Fort Sampler. | mid there converted into a war-Steamer. " About two weeks ago. while the Meaniei j 'n Itrooklyn was enforcing the blockade off the V.ISSippt. an Knglisb ship atlrupted to 1 run the blockade, and the Orooklyu aUrted 'l ) in chase or her. While she was gone, this r' llavia' war vessel, run tile blockade, and iv I at this time far out to Sea. We have seen

the photograph of thi« man of war. and »!i« ^ looks a* if she would do much damage to > n commerce. Her name, is Sumpter. lti«|c j hoped that the Federal Government w ll j b ! not allow an armed U. rf. voas.l to remain j ! inactive is our" |«rls. bat that they will » them all cruising after these fiendish 11 craft of the "so-called Southern Confcd- ' eracy. They must bo put down. We learn, rinca the above was written, c ; that the privateer Sumpter ha# arrived at « Cienfuegot, Cuba, with afx prises. This is r j sorrowful new#. It will not do to hava our j commerce this reined. the proceedings of congress. The extra sesvion hn» been more active ^ in doing business than former session'. ^ The friends of the Union feci it is now no ^ • time for talking, but that it i« a day for ] j working. And truly this is tho right foeb _ ! ing- > j We say let the necessary bill* bo passed , j by Congress, and then li t cannon, musket i i and sword do tho talking nn.1 work, until J jail em-mica of this Republic, shall be i humbled, and made to obey the Gousti. j tution and Laws, a* thry. now stand A* j wo expected, there are some traitors in Congrers, who now attempt in every po*f i j bio manner to cmbarass tho Administration, j They desire to serf the President impeach- | ed for his acts when onr Country was al moat boing overpawered by traitors. Tbey j desire now to see the -loyal eoldicr* who are on the battle field to assert the power and strengthen the arm* of the Nationdispersed. and sent to their home*. And they desire to see the armies of Jefferson Davis capture Washington city ; take our rulers prisoners ; and sway a despotic scep- '■ i ire over the whole land. But. thank Hear. 1 I en, their desires will never bo realized, for ' j we have a large working- majority in Con- ■ | gress. and a united Northern people, with r a divided South. l i On Wednesday of last week, a bill pass- ! rd the Senate," authorizing a loan of $500. j - 000,000, and calling out 500.000 volumom 1 instead of 400.000 aa recommended by the 1 President, to suppress insurrection. The Honie 1ms also passed the volunteer bill — • A resolution psnsed the Senate, The same ! day, to -expel tho Senators who ere now- in 1 ! open rebellion to the government. A bill 1 j passed refunding the money charged as ' doty w arms, imported by the lojol Slates. ' ' Thejtrmy Appropriation bill which pass1 ed the House on Thursday last wppiwpriai-e - |F 101.000.000. The Navy Appropriation . j bill appropriate* g3T00OJ)<K). a' The 8»st« Journal, a furious rebel now .« r 1 paper in BV ton * kaa bcuu lupprcsucd by I i otdcr of Gen. Ljon.

floyd. the thief. John B. Floyd, the gun Stealer, turns out h« have been also a cartridge thief. ; N\ hen j ^ General Bwtler look command of Fortress | n( Monroe he found himself with "abnut three I ^ thousand men at bis orders. To the list »f j ordnance supplies of the fort he found 1 .5,- j w 0QP cartridge*, which was the amount re- ■ ported to be stored there by Floyd while I Secretary of War. But when the dp* A eommandcr. preparing for an expedition. K camu tu look up las stores. 1 e foaud. in. I #1 stead of 1 75.060. only about 4500 cfirtridge. j " | Or course, witb a bullet and a half to j si each man. an army is not likely to do much; j 1 and this accounts not only for Gen. Bui" i * i ler's 1-mporary inactivity, but alio for the j d ! activity of the rebi-I*. who took up daring J 1 j position* in perfect safety, knowing that ; a our troops had no ammunition. When the Montgomery pirates come to , i | erect a monumet.t to their founder, he will | fl ; probably be represented in the act of run- j 1 1 uing off with a bundle of United Stales , muskets under each arm. and bis coal pock i i j ets full of cartriges. j * j Meantime how Floyd and his confeder- j 1 I ate* must laugh in their sleeves at those j 1 northern journals which fling hard words \ \ at Gen. Butler because bo d;d not advance | ; on the enemy. summary of the* weekly news. ' i The numerous friends of the gallant Col. , i Kelly, who was wounded at I'bitlippi. will ! j I,,. glad to learn that he eX|wcl* to be able j 1 ,K. resume, ut lea-l partially, if not wholly. f\ hi# military duties in u short ume. His , i , strength B»Cfen»e« daily, lie i< able l<> : ; walk out, and j> (jat becoming himself i j again. i j Tlr,« Southern Methoilist Kpi«Copnl i ■! Church is so financially einbarasaed that; r the druft* against the M issonary Society j t ' are uuwble to he met. All appeal has been ! L j reronlly issued. CalllngUpUll tllfl 1? lltlfStll tO-l-r i raise immediately forty thousand dollars to . paj a bank debt. Their notes against the . . bonk C.inreril nr.- protested, i ; ' It is cnnfiilenlly Stated that lion. Ju«ejJ»-j" rj Holt, of Kentucky, still a re.iiUprt or, U ! Washing I on, will he off* red Ibrf post of . d ! Justice or the Supreme Go'irt of the Uui- « ' ted Stales, Vacated by J*ie death of Justice i „ | At Moiitrval^ofl Thursday night, j .

earltiqiiake oc^wtred which lusted m-vobi! miuiiles. It wus felt al various other ph>. ces, where chimney* were thrown down and kj building* shattered. IT appears, from calculations at the Psstj Office Department, that the yearly income | Iruui jmstase in the Sewaded .St^twsamoun- ^ | ted tu only SDM.O" while the expensn ofj \ tra; sporting the mail in the same .Slates! exceeded this mm by S3 00I.MKJ0. which is 1 now saved to the Government liv their SUS- j J pension in those Btate*. Mr. Russell, tho correspondent of the London Timet, uaa t-eeu iii Washiagton for som-J days past, resting aDer his .Southern . lour. He lias enjoyed the elegant hospitalities of General Scott. We Iru-t he has-been enlightened, by this time, as to" the resource* and the resolution of the j Federal Government. If he i* liulf as j tralon* to do jn«iiee to n great people, I btrocaling against a nest of arrant mallg- > nan is. a« lie was ;>• j"t f»rlh the power of; these hitler, lie wilt counteract many of thai injurious impression- created by hu effas- ' »ions in the Loudon Time*. - James Guy. son-in law of ax-Ssuator ; Mason, ba^b-eii arrested a» iv spy. He j had uhont him, when arrested, a bundle of • letters for prominent citizen# of the south, j and plans of all the fortification, about j Washiogtoo. Lieutenant Chapman, late of the United State* navy. i» endeavoring to get up a piratical Beet at New Orleank, consisting of about seven small v«ea-!a mounting seven, teen gun* in all.. Whether he will be able , to get out to sea is uncertain, aa his only . chance iv to catch our squadron uappiug. We imagine he i* not very sanguine. 1 Gen. Bragg is exceedingly uneasy before r Fort Fickeos. feanng an attack Irom the ■ nations! forces, lli* said he has sent to Richmond for 4000 troops to enable him to main'sin his position. Perhaps he will get r them ; but *c are ot opinion thai the pro- " pie about Richmond will never Terl less in i clined to send away 4000 men than just now ; and then, would it not be unhealthy down thore in dog daya ? Lieut. Crittenden, eon of Hon. John J. * j Crittenden, denies, in a card in the Demo- * | ,-rtM, that he lias joined the rebels. " The Mobile Tribune save that the ram of e 400.000 .was due the troops at I'ensacola oo - the 1st. e The New York Times' Paris correspondent gives currency tij the very improbable ! story that the leaders of the southern rel belli on have offered to nti« of the Bom- j * • partes — • Captain Bonnpart, of the Anier- j 1 Scan branch of that family— the position : ^ ' of militnvy dictator uf the southern conj fed» ;«cy. This may do for a sensation ru- * j mnr, biit there i» very little probability of 6 j its truth. I The report that tho Secretary of the '■ j Navy had issued an order to recruii none y • but native Horn citizens for the navy. | proves to be untrue. I

The Virginia Legislature, at Wheeling, elected as Uni'ed State* Senators. ^ John S Carlisle, in place of Hunter, unf W. T. Willey. in place of Mason. It has elected various State officers, and the gu'vernnusnt U-now in fall operation, and its recognition is gradnally extending o.-er western Vijginia. The United Slates razee Savannah, sailed from the battery las'. we«k fur the Atlantic division of tho blockade. Beel She takes a mail for Fort Pickens, whither she will proceed direct, and a number of' marines to reinforce the guards of the squadron. Captain Watson. United States who commanded the marine guar J at Pensacola whvn tho flag was hauled goes out in her. The Savannah is j tuns burden, carries 26 gnus, 300 men,. ar.d a marine guard. She was razeed after j her return from Brazil, in 1S57. where, as a frigate, she cruised for three years, j.fljhqpthe wide pennant of Commodore W.j D. Salter or New Jersey. Tho Sooth Carolina troops are terribly ^ ii. fueled with Up* meatle*. The d sea»w | alsu appears to be spreading in all the I Rebel camps. Mayor Brown of Baltimore has sent in to the City Government a roe*»'age, the purpose uf which appears to be to whilewash- : Ma/»hal Kane ond bis police. It is of no consequence. lien. Lyon has ordered the Missouri rir , er blockaded, and boats hound down are now stopped al loiavenwnrth. On Sund >y noon an attempt was made fir blow up the U S. fleet, off A quia creek, by mean* uf floating infernal machines, but it ■ failed. (wood Bargains! THE PEOPLES' OHKAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM ^ FERRY STREET. f Oppositq Kuorh Kdiunntla* Store, Cape Islanjk'where may tie found, one of the i- ^rfiibl extensive and select nasortineuts of ( SEASONABLE GOODS ,1 - * .

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