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GAP£ If AY OCEAN WAVE. 1 CAPK1KLANI1 N. /. S. LEACH. Editor, j PlkUthtr and Proprietor. ONK DO I. LA K P K It ANXtJMI j Thursday. Julv 2, 18fi2 CAM KAY AMD ATLANTIC R. R. There ii one circumstance oounected | with the Cape May and Atlantic Rail road, which ebonld not he lost sight of, and which we have not noticed "Before It ic tbU ; the charter was grante-? during the session or the Legialntnic of 1853, and granted on the condition that if the road wm not completed within ten years, the charter should become null and void Not hating the charter at hand at the time we write, we are not able to stale at what particular time of the session it became i law ; bat not lator than March, aqd probably not later than February ; and consequently, if not completed by February or March next, the charter becomes null amfcid. Henco the question arises : Is there, from present indications, a reasonable dqaree of certaiaty that -that road can/ keVompleted before that timo? 1'erhaps some may say, that at the next session of the Legislature the char- 1 ter may be extended. Well, those who j build upon such a hope, will find that ' may-bet are very uuiertain stock in a in- ! ter In a conversation with ono of the j directors of^ the company, hot a few days since, he stated that their was no j hope of sny extension bf the charter, j sad consequently that the road ninst b« j finished before the expiration of the j present limitation of that instrument, or i not at all. Of course he had every isF confidence that it would be completed due time. But, as we have asked in a former article, where, from anything that bow appears, L the money ta come j from, in that short time, to complete the work ? Bnt one of the directors toid j as, as we stated last week, that $250, • ! •00, from o.»e source, was sure, though j he did not name the source. U'e have \ since beard, however, that it was from ; Mr. Drexel, of Philadelphia. But we beg leave to ask whether Mr. Drexel } has bound himself to furnish thatamonul of money ? Now Mr. Drexel is a shrewd broker ; and when he advances « quarter of a million dollart fop u road flH Cape May, will some one please tell us ; of it: It would be an item worthy of '; wxtensive notice. la regard to this route, in comparison witWihat by Miliville, we have a word: to say. As we have often otated, the ' very large majority of the people of; this county prefer the latter, as it will batter accommodate them, and will bu a better paying ronte. Now we arc aware that the pc<^>le of the Upper. Township, especially far a few miles, around Taekahoe, hate a preference for the other roate — to ffgg Harbor City— , far the very obvious mm * that it would ran, ii* completed, wore in their j immediate vieinity ; and, course, [ . their preference is not te bo wondered at. We do not blame tbera for it. Bat though they prefer that route, w« oak them whether they ha& any reasonable ground to hope that the road can poaaibly be completed before the expl- I action of the charter. Fcr onr own part, we can see. none whatever ; and ! W* rente re the prediction, that its warmest friends will find, in the end. j that wa are correct in oar opiaion, and, I consequently, that whatever time and! money ibey may expend wtU be lost. } Mb aril a carefal consideration of this ! •object. j L, BB*Up to Jam 2)th, 1.90* peraons are' reported to hare takan the oath of alio- j giasce. at Momphia. sine* tha oecapation of that rit»by the Fadaral few**. Railroad Acwrwnrr. — On Wwfaeoday | i ** """ 1 CvlUfrt- far vent Apply a: this oflke. |

THE -OEORIODX FOURTH" | 1 "Tha Fourth of Jnly f there is a pecu- , ! liar wacrednes* in *!a» va.-y sight and sound ; (of those words—a thril.lng interest, to every true American, whir it word* cannot j ripress. and whirl, most be experienced, us nope bat an Amcricau can exi>er:euco , I it. to be appreciated. A kind .ot bal» of Jf'cry gathers eronnd it. such a* gathers j aronnd no other day of the' annual circle, favn only the Sabbath to the true chrisj tian. And this feeling of peculiar sacred- j ness and interest arises not from any pe- ; culiar characteristic of the day, of itself oontidered ; for. really, there is on that day no peculiar bslminess of the atmosphere. ; or geniality of "Old Sol's" rays, though ' (bat may b« the iinprrMiou npon the minds of Americans, llat this feeling arises from j the peculiar, solemn and important event ' | which ushered it into universal observance among Americans, and the succeeding events connected with those which thus ' ushered it in, at recorded in the early his- ^ tory of our country's strogg^i for indepen- ' deuce, a*, also, those which have marked ' oar history from that time down to the f present, in the growing greatness and glory , of oar "land of tha free." On that day, as it annually returns, our minds naturally revert to ""IC" at Indepen- ' dence Hall, that revered old edifice in the j 'a City of Philadelphia, when and where sat ] in solemn conclave, the wise heads and brave beartt of that generation, delihcrw- > ting apnn a nation's fotare career and dvsti- I . I nv. which wit then juvt springing into a ' , sr [mi rate political existence. t j With but a liule of the ideal, to call ap I | tha memories of the past, as recorded in ' _ j history, and paint them before the mind's 1 ' 1 eye, there is something trnly grand, in wit- ' ; nesting the grave deliberations of that hand ' j of patriots, as, rising above were present, , personal interests, they finally come to the 1 1 solemn conclusion, in thu fear of the God ; . i of nations, that in view of the past, the r | present and the futare, these then feeble . j coloniee ought of right to lie free ; and, . rising in* Godlike manhood, declare that' conclusion to the world, in face of the I frowning British Lion; to attain which. ' thry pledge their lives, their fortunes and ! - their sacred honor, thus losing sight of self, s | in tha Interests of the future nation. Ah ! I I who that prises the liberties we have en- - joyed, does not love to awaken in his soul , ' such memories aa these, and dwell upou f i them, till he is almost lost in patriotic rev- ( ' taria T And who does r.ot lot a to houor the ! 1 names of tbuse patriot sires, who dared to ' beared the roaring Lion iu his 'den? ' But the pictnre, nay, the reality, does not 1 1 stop here. 'I'nal little band, «li, mi tho j I j day we celebrate, eigllly-six years ago, but i - set the boll in motion, which has been overs H tolling on, ainl ever increasing, until we | I j hod become the greatest end -ho fiei-st r; nation of Ibo earth. We love to truce j I onr history down through tho snbsc- | qnetit years of Rangninary snaggle, until | ' the routing Lion was compelled to cower I j before lb« towering Kagle, and retire to ! i his lair. Trne, there is a solemn painfulr .iters, in calling.up these scene; of toil, I privation and blood. Thero is something : i j which almost makes as recoil, as we pictnre j . j before onr minds the bloody Geld, the dead- j . | ly strife, and the thousands of corpeee left j ( in the track of hostile armies, aud the many ] , , lender, social and domestic ties thus rent asunder, to l>e reunited only in another' I world ; but still there U a pleasure, a poin- , fnl pleasure though it be, to contemplate ' : the patriotic drfVotion that dictated ail this, ! and led those raverednsircs te voluntarily I ' brave such hardships, perils and death, that futura generations might pluck the , ambrosial froil of Libertj's fair tree, a* we have done. " * ( And then, there is a pleasure in content- 1 plating tha gigantic strides to greatness " | and prosperty which we have made under , 1 j the shade of tbst tree of Liberty, planted in J I ! the blood of our patriotic fathers, and «n- 1 i ' tered by the tears of oar eqoatly patriotic ! , j mothers. Who does not love, on that nat ! tal day of tha aation, to forget the passing j I j caras of the xarione pnrsoits of life, and us- | semhle wbreo that immorlai instrument | j — the Dkclacatiox or Ikoetksdiock— is ; tfsd t and where the huomiug cannon, I martial tmeie, pal riot i« speeches, and last, , j though not least, the titan and Stripes _ ! floating to the he* bivtel of boavea, rv I mind us of nil these scenes of the post, | reaching up to the present ' ! Bet, while we took at these thioys, and - r i i^°ry in the past, at pnsent a shade comes v ' ever ear mental vision, and tha day we sov I easily celebrate possesses a solemn inter. i , eet. sech as the prevent generation never . j b.r«« to.-. 1. tto B«Ul ot ... career , . ! o' treason has been stretched ferth, seeki ; inj to Uut tto froit. nay to aproot the 1 vesjr eaored old tree of Liberty iteelf. Tir- • iwg of mtraint, the aristocrat or to-day ' J would vi a-b the very iudelgeat mother that

| has nursed him ; and. jn roiisvi|%euc>-, vrv ' . now find oarselvrs re enacting the bloody ; scenes nf the old ({evolution, in propor- . i lions increased with our increased nnmeri- j j cal strength ar.d greatness. Oh !' what vol- _ en nity gathers around the celebration' of j : this day, for thia year and the last, when! w« reflect, that while we thus congregale, n.ore than a million of ottr brother* ! I have been called Iron. I 'endearment* ol bame. and have array evIMIicinselvcs fur j deadly, fraternal cdutiict ; thu oifaqo »tnke i j dow n, and the other tu dafend. our N^iau | '! Scaxowd B«xxt:a"pud all of which it is | ; the fitting emblem. Hot, in the infest nf I ad this, w hile onr heal Is a ye saddened wilb j I lie knowledge that to aiany hare sacrificed , ] their lives by the diseases incident to camp ! j life, or ptiared out their heart's .blood on ! [he battle field, the love of liberty still liv«*tn the loyal American heart, and has j nrede this sucrificu a willing oye. in imita- ; tnlion of thu revered nires of the last cen. > tnry ; and while wa now hallow the memo. j ry of the latter, let na cherish and honor ; . I the former. SERIES OF R. R. MEETINGS. Last week, we rcfereil to n necouil series of railroad meetings, to be held [ , by tho "individual" representing liiini self a« the president of the Cape May . j and Atlantic Railroad Co., commencing I June 25th, ot Egg Harbor City, to be j1 ' ' continued along the route to Cape Is- { Inud, attended or course, by hit nsuinl , ; retinue, lti connection with the notice ( 1 of this scries, as published in the I P/iUimPu Ituptirer, was a long article I I signed by laid "individual." in which * is set forth, in glqwing colors, the sueI cess of the former series, by the same ■ , party, from which we copy the foiiow- ' lu«: . t "As ragardv Taekahoe. there seemed to ' ; lie bnt onu united and resolute aentiincnt ; ' ' ull, all wure enc in heart and one in mind ' for the immediate accomplishment of li e L work. The real and nrdur manifested by * them wa< nubounded. (loshen Was well J | repjeaenlel by its rural population ; ar. ; live andlhrif'y hustmndmeu, truly alive to ' j t\«ir best iiKoresi*, lom-nd to suo the day when thu cart would glidn ovir thu road ' through the fertile ferms. bearing the rich | products of their soil to a ready market. ' ; Thu fisher .Wen along the inlets were uli-o there, and all si-emi-d to outvie ojcIi other ' ; in the strife a* to liovv tlu-y tnighl best aid ' in U» vpoedy construction. At Ihu Court I House, Cape May. no less cnthiisi mm and * ; interest were displayed by the pimple, in ' I declaring their wishes for a similar result. I I On Cape Island some little apposition had r [to lie encountered by antiri^ation. but, ' after the intelligent anil we > disposed citi- 1 I ; xons hud in ineit.ing aswmbh-d. and heard * \ the plan* aud proposition* of tkie Company " I fairly discussed, they also became n party ' ' to the general excitement that pervaded . r ! the whole lino through which we passed." As to the truthfulness of the above statements, wc leave the people of the ,' several localities to answer. Wo Imvc . keen told by reliable citixeiis of tbe ■ j Gonrt House, that only about n dozen , I I peraons were present, at the meeting ' there, half of which wero boys. Wo : j are well aware that the people of that r ! neighborhood have no confidence in the ^ | whole c ncora, or tho parties liohiin^ ; the meetings. So far as relates to Cape f 1 Island, a move untruthful rcpreicutation , coaid scarcely have been made. The Atlantic Democrat copies the ar- : licle from which the above is no extract, at and the do^of s loosl notice coiling " 1 attention to it, says: ' ' '"Wa give tbesa matter* as naws items r i merely, but will say that tha road which is ' I being graded from Kgg Harbor," of which ono mile Is already finished, i* net uoder 5 , the auspice* of Mr. Dongberty." 1 1 Why doat that paper, or the real of- . . ficers of tha railroad company, (if thero I i arc sny) through it, come out and opens i |y deny that the said "individual" is Icj gaily elected president of said company, ' ' as htj is cuostantiy represeottug hiujself, 1 : they having denied it to a few individuals? What are tha people expected to think, whets they see tuck advertised meats, in one of tlu> leading daily paI I persin Fltilvdclphia, with that name at- - I tachcd as president of the company, '. wiuionl a word of denial through tbe r • press; and he all the time going to and rifi-o( holding matting*, and soliciting 4 ' subscriptions ? Why it is very evident. J . what coneimion the public will arrive a . at, via ; that tha whole affair, frotft bev ' ginning to end. is a humbug ; npd the t conclusion is a fair ouc.

AFFAIRS BEFORE RICHMOND- , 'At tho tiam we write, affairs begin to;, , asinme an important on J interesting aspect ' | ill the region of the rebel capital. Quit"; a spirited alliiir took place there on We4- ' roday of last wick. Hen's Kearney nrd I | Hanker advanced their divisions with a i ! view of occupyiag a new position. Tb»y j i mat wilb a sunt liatcrmiord resistance ty j 1 I the encuiy, which lasted several boors, bit • he *ra« finally compelled to give way before ! i the overpu wring courage "f our m«r. Tie ' ' rebel camp lit front of Hooker's divisisn I j was captured, and ocgapied by nor nun. I f I So far a* we have any accounts, our loss iff" " i sopposed to be about 200 in k-lled, wocuI | deJ anil missing, and that of tha enosiy , i fully ognal to ours. The ground fought lor i i was a swamp of thick underbrush; beyond | | which is an open country. lien. McCleilan wns on tbe field during1 . j the whole day superintending the more- j . ments; and sprak* in the most- complimoi- : . I tary manner of the gallaolry of onr troop : I r atd say* that the result of tbe action was j [ all he could desire, having gained all tha*. * ! wa* intended. Tho Seventh New Jsrieyl j l'eginieul was in the fi<lil ; bat we believe i \ there were no casualities among our Cape- j ' i May -men. who are in that regiment. In this connection we will mention tho | ' I impression we have , had for several day*, f i that, pwwihly, our gallant army might eel- 1 . jfebra'.e the "Fourth" in the rebel capital. . , Wouldn't it be a grand celebration ? I | THE FIGHT AT JAKES ISLAND. ! ! Fuller particular*, from nor side, of the j j: fight at James Mat.d, near Charleston, S. ! , 1 V.. h»v* lu-en [uiwjv'-d. The ulfuit" happen- ' ( e»l on the IGth of June. Our forces consisted, a* far a* we have been able to learn, of the foiiowing regiment*, or part* of reg. j ' intents; viz.; one Masmrhnsstts. two New ' " Yolk, ore t'onaectieut, one Uliode Island,' j one New Hampshire, one I'er.nsjlvania ' > ! anil two Michigan, uqd perlui|i* others, j : After four hours' Imrd fighting, our troop* j I were repulsed. The lovs wa* heavy on ! » luilli sides, according to rebel accounts j !' From our side our ins* i« reported at 84 I killed, 3r.fi wounded and 124 missing. The i - most severe losses were in one Michigan-) > and one New York regiment". Tliey , l' w.-re the only tegimrnts xa Inch reached the 1 : front. They drove tho rebel go»n«r»froni i i I heir guns, and some of I hem uven peuetra- 1 • ted the enemy'* works, but, other regiment* » 1 Taiiiug to come up to support' them, they r bud to retire, after Indd ng the enemy's bat1 i tery twenty niinute*. t The di*|mtrh containing the account nJ So j J , stales that Com. Ihipont a**eri* that tw it . can tuku Ghnrlasluii with five g....d gun- . buy ». Il« will runjM|Fort tiumpter und ; J ; the other teriS wiilWb * l«K °r than , | two boat*, and with ttie remnining ones ' • ' shell the city. THE; WHITE RIVER AFFAIR. \ The I xpeditiou up White Itiver, Ark., ^ which wc noticed last week, proved highly ! successful. Ill opening a pa**ag« by steam- i '■ boat* tit where (son. Curtis' forces an', in ' e that stjiMr — f-tui accident to our gunboat b fihpvMound CitWwas distreuipg. the scald- 1 t ; oil men iutttping into the rivirT. and the reb- ; I i els most barbarously mokfficui while drug- , , | ling in the water, in that scalded condition. r ; But fortlii.t accident, tho ca*ualtic» would : have been bat trifling on our side. - The gutiboats.'weic aided by a land force, ! under command of Col. Fitch, who landed p 'lelowr tho batteries, and come in on- their ( i rear. At a signal agreed on. whon Col. F. e | aproached tint batteries, tlia guiilioats a '■ ceased firing, that they might nut lire into onr own men, when CoL Fitch's command ,, i made a dash upon the batteries, capturing ; them, with none killed, and very few woun- ' | ded. It was jo«t at the time the hoati " ) ceased firing that the shot from the bnltei ries struck the Mound City, which eansed • | the distressing casuality. j, ! ARKTCHAN0XX. . j lly a recent otder from the War DepartI ment, tho departments of Generals Frer ! mont, Banks and McDowell, in Virginia. ' | have been consolidated, under tbe coin- " mand of Maj. (ill, I'ope, and is called tbe ■" army of Virginia, coin pored of three corps, under ths cootwands respectively of r, Freiitont, Banks and McDowell. Gen. r, j Fremont, in consequence, has naked to be [. relieved of his command, assigning as his (j ; reasog, that he is thus placed in a position 1 sabordiuate and inferior to tfaosa heretofore 1 held bv him. By another order ha has '* consequently been relievad, agreeable to his raquesl, and Brigadier Genera! Rufos King assigned to his place. j CffB- B. Thompson, or tbe Metropolitea Hotel, Washittgion, i>. C., will accept K j onr thanks for savaral copies of tha New lU j Orleans Picayune, of reoeni dates. The ® ' quality of tho paper on which some oClbem pun printed shows bowr hard poshed tiny 'V 1 are in Rrbetdoin for that article, if being about tbe tame a. wa as# fur wrappers.

IMPORTANT NEWS. I THE GREAT BATTLE BEFORE i RICHMOND COMMENOKIh j Tuesday evening's mail brought as I very impurtiint news from .VlcClellmti's j Army. The ball bos been opened, and , j the great battle before Richmond began. The right wfag of our array has retreated soute 8 miles,, from Mcchanicsvillc across ibo Chicknhominy. The rebels attacked them on their retreat, and the I fighting was kept up ports oi (our days. i Thero la a mystery about this naiookatl' for move. It is thenght, however that it was the plan of McClsllsn, and that lie is going to concentrate all life army' on the left wing, and make a grand move on Richmond. At lost accounts fighting was going on along tbe whole li:.e, A rcmsrknhle period is at: hand. Before another week, we think. RichI mond will be taken and tbe rebels annihilated, or else onr army will L« badly whipped. ^ OCR NEW YORK LETTER. - New York, June 26th, 1862. | Drab Wavk: — We hare just had a flying I visit f. ota President Lincoln. He left | Washington Tuesday evening, in a special train, Tut West Point; accompanied by Gonerai Mcl'ullum, Military Msoager' oT ! Railroads in tbe U. S: The time beiween" Washington and ibis city was nme hours. I Ordinary U. It. time is twelve to thirteen hours. ( The President, alter spending a ! ilav in consultation with Gen. Scott; returni i eJ oil 'I'tiur-day, ia a .special train _ which , ' conveyed liiiu from New York back to .'Washington in seven hours — tbe quickest > . time on record. Gow .Stroll accompanied the President from Welt Point te (Jersey I'ity. Hpon arriving there, at the depot, tin- crowd would not' let the "Execativc" i paRi veih-uit a speech. After repeated" t calls Mr. I.iuctiln stepped to the platform j and inndi- a few remarks in la* n*aa! mild , ; urn) unassuming vrayv He informed his hear- , i era tiiat his "visit was not thel'Wanhiagtoii ; was in danger, or any calamity immediate- [ ' ly |u-ndiiig, neither was it tu ruake or un- , | mako any general*; bat, Seerevsry .Stanton. ,.i you know, holds a pretty tight rein on the | press, so that I 'icy shall not till more thnn , j t Hoy ouslil to ; aniDI'm afraid If 1-bhsb too ( ' much he miubt draw a tight rein on tw." Aiiiiilu hearty cheers lie re entered the , cars and fiew toward* 1>. t». t.eu I'ope. late of Halleck'* army, now ha. command of the three Divisions with which rebel tit ouc wail Jackson has been , playing "tag" *o long, vi.r: Frentout'*, SlcDowelt's, ami liatiks'. It* it to be hoped' . that tien. Pope will be tsa sBCcessfnl as ho j j lis* [irovvd to he in his We«t«rn cainpatgn; , The appointment gives ^■unerst vatifoctiouI I here. The Karttan A Del.ia are Bay-R. IC iutd intended to ran a i • atinuens connection, for travel and freight, frota New York and Philadelphia, via Camden, connecting with f the Atlantic City rood." Bamor say* that' 1 the road is completed and it to commence " running, on Monday next, -bnt as the rbail* I . i< being built. In part, out oi tbe line al- '" ' lowed in tlu-ir charter, in which case, they '* will probably meet with some uufurseeu !* i pren-niion. '• I um glad to learn frets your coluras* ^ that the Cape Inlanders »re going to have a boat connection with I'hilada. thin sntn- , mcr. Tb«« steamer "Beaton,*' one of the '' late CajM May boats, i«. and has Ireen, for r nearly a month, lying ot a dock iu Jensy- " City. Whether the (i'ov.-rnaferrt Is stilj, 5 using her, or whether tbo enterprising 0 agent of this stesmboat company is going ^ 1 to re invtate her or. the old route, or net, 1 f j cannot say. j Gold, ttii* mornine. '* quoted at tea per * j cent premimn; and if'U ond'silker t^lrtin- ' in s to ri*a 1 am afraid of "shin-plastera."' ' d The ahi[vmeut<i of specie to Huglaodarevory heavy. Y'ours. as ever. 1 - ELLSWORTH HOUSE, S. ! ('X I'll ISLAND, N. J. i- ! 'I 'he Nihscrlher laforas the imhlle tbst he has 1 • osw Hotel. *t thseowMr •( WamMBgto- - e I ton sr.it Uress Strrrl*— which he rail* the " j wnsTH Hoi'tr."— where he will he hstw>" te liistie u : |irrin»nrnt or trnaslrnl sue*'"- From p»«t espr,r rtearc he I eels »stt«Bed that he am jtis — llsfautue tn these who 1st or him with theU pslroosn.— I. He hs»s,ri>«imm1«lloB [orSitoaiSerai TSisMfi si, ; iwr els, or »4 per week. Good UabUag for heem 0 is also pftn Wed. Is . A BAR.— A Itrst-rlsos bar-soeai has slsa ImA ; I wen 0)|cnrd. It Is tuppllrt with eserllsnt wtsrs n ; sod llquort. ^ : JOHN S. COKSON. « I TJMOf HY~AND CLOVER. HAY '* mr-atm mm. mm m. Xeic» The subscriber offers for sslc s lot of . | st'reaiOK Tinothc ond G lover Hat " i Csli sod buy it. II . ' . OK*. IHLOmETH. ;!• PURE CIDER VINEGAR. CtVESAt JIAtlKKL* of WltK OA9PM.V1B— m OKSAB, of Home Maaulartarr, for ,*10 ky the .utecrther, at the farm ol W. I! MUler, lower } • TownsMp. The vtnessr wrmt amde an the fltnw, ir tsU m*x N- rriimt vn s, juire.-- W S JOII.N JOHJWDON. .•air *, i tn-