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thk snre s> mmm§ m® o>© vn^g &(§® m The Baltimore County American of April 18, 1862, in its editorial leader says: "Elsewhere in our paper today we reprint an excellent article from the editorial columns of the Baltimore American on the subpect of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, a bill for that purpose having passed both the Houses of Congress. At the date of this writing we know not what might be the fate of the bill, but we can only hope (perhaps it is hoping against hope) that the President, remembering his pledges in the past and the high estimate in which he is held in rh: border States, may veto it." No More Dreary, Weary Wash Days We Serve You Right Regal Laundry AVAIN OFFICE GILHOR *no MOSHER STS. BALTIMORE SUBURBAN DELIVERY I-K-X-X-K-I-M-I-X-K-I-K-X-X^ CARLIN'S /T!K, I NOW OPEN! Greater and Grander Than Ever With Plenty of Fun And Frolic For All Bring The Family And Spend A Glorious Evening. From this editorial it will be observed that the strongest Union papers vwere just as much in favor of slavery at that period as the most rabid Confederate paper's. There is a summary of the annual report of the Baltimore County School Commissioners which will be interesting today. We give a few items: Total number of school, 100; total number of pupils entering school m 1861, 7085; average number of paying pupils, 2635; average number of free pupils, 1037; total number of male teachers, 77; total female teachers, 20; amount of salaries paid teachers, $31,996 -42; average salary of teachers per annum, $352. A letter was received from Sergeant James H. Wilson, of the Second Maryland Regiment stationed at Newhaus, N. C. He gives a description of passage of the troops down the Atlantic coast and through Pantico Sound to their present location and says they enjoyed it very much, bat some of them were awful seasick. They were received into General of the election of Past Grand Grafton M. Bosley, of Towson-town, as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. In this issue is a graphic description of the scenes on the great battlefield of Shiloh or Pittsburgh Landing, taken from the St. Louis Republican, it was a great battle and will no doubt interest our readers since it ts from the pen of an eyewitness; "On Thursday it was impossible to move without caution, as dead men were lying thickly everywhere for miles—sometimes a dozen in a space of as many feet. No such scene was ever before witnessed in America. The opponents lay as they had fallen, often the bodies heaped upon those of the other. Wounaed men, mangled horses, crushed bodies, extended so interminably it was impossible to pass through them, and the visitor would finally be compelled to turn and retrace his steps. Rains had soaked the ground and covered it with pools of water, and sometimes the wounded could be seen crawling on to the dead and lying there to keep off the damp earth. Mary had died in that position, and not a few of the deaths were caused by exposure. Physicians were busy, laboring nobly, but instruments became blunted and useless, and surgeons dropped with fatigue at their posts 'before a fiftieth part of the work had been done. Numbers were drowned by being unable to crawl away from the positions where they had fall Buniside's Division, who highly'en, and in which the water rap-complimented them on their ap-jidly collected. Your city readers pearance and promised them l^ean form some idea of the carnage work before long. Mr. Wilson by picturing a walk as far from was from Phoenix, this county:* St. Louis to the Fair Grounds A local item announces that among dead and dying, stretched Bowen's omnibus now leaVes away out of sight on either side. Towsontown at 7 A. M. and re- The woods, far beyond our picket turning leaves Baltimore at 4.30 guards, are being now explored, $*******#«*««*«*«*w****** P. M. Another item states that some scoundrel entered the yard of Wm. T. Pearce, Esq., of I)ulany\s Valley one night and took from a pole the stars and stripes. Tha editor says: Some of the secession gentry of that vicinity will have quite a good chance of testifying at Fort McHenry should they be found meddling with anything so sacred to Union men as the Flag of our Union. In the issue of April 25th the editor further condemns the Act of Congress abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, and says: Now while we condemn the Act, so far as it relates to the District ofc' Columbia as unwise and impolitic at this time, we assure our readers that from the best authority in the land we have it, that no one in Congress ecept probably a few fanatics, has the most remote idea of interfering in any way with the slavery question in the States, unless it be in the shape of a simple recommendation to be accepted or rejected by the people of eacn State. And in another editorial the editor blames the secessionists as much as the Republicans for the passage of the bill, saying: "If the secessionists had not left their places vacant to take up arms against Ibis country \h>-v could have defeated the bill A local item gives an account and hundreds of injured, abandoned by the enemy on their retreat, brought in. Every house between here and Corinth is a hospital. We visited several of them, and found the floors covered with poor wretches, lying in pools of blood, their arms or legs torn off. Days passed without any nourishment, and in half the .cases death outstripped the physicians, and was coming to their relief. Certainly a greater scene of wide-spread misery never existed. The first day or two the air was filled with groans, sobs and frenzied curses, but now the sufferers are quiet; not from cessation of pain, but mere exhaustion. We frequently, a little to one side, where first the ambulances, afterwards the dead carts, had failed to find them, came across the bodies of men who had bled to death. Around them the grass Ours is a service of respect, where memories are hallowed and true love and esteem emphasized. iAS.F^NS&50Nl FUMeRAL DIRECTORS* '* //fl-W. MT. BOYAL AVE. Baltimooe, mo. was stained with blood, and often their hands were grasped convulsively on a few leaves, with which they had endeavored to stop the lifetide, until growing fainter and fainter, they had given up in despair and laid, back to die. One poor fellow, a boy, who could not have been over fourteen, was lying against a tree, a knife in his hand, with which he had carved the letters 'John Dan—.' The N was but partially finished when death had compelled him to give up the gloomy task of carving his own epitaph. The terrible destruction caused by cannon balls was evidenced; in a sight of three bodies mangled by the same shot. The latter, a twelve-pounder, had struck 9 fourth man while he was evidently in a stooping posture, hitting immediately on the top of the head and driving the fragments of the skull downward into the body, the shot remaining half hidden between the shoulders. I saw in three houses near our pickets, and two miles from the battle ground four wounded rebel captains and thirty or forty privates. Beauregard, as he retreated, bore back with him his wounded, leaving them in houses, barns and fence corners by the way. It is thus they are scattered over so great a space. One of the officers was being carried to a wagon as we stopped, and in the height of delirium waved an arm above his head, cheering imaginary companies on to attack. "It will be a week before all can be collected and taken care of, as the further our pickets go the thicker they find them. Now that the battle is over it becomes a subject of wonder that the loss on both sides was not even greater. For two days the bullets flew without cessation, and passed like a storm of destruction through the woods and camp. We were unable to find, over the entire area of hudreds of acres, (where the sternest firing took place, a single tree that was notj scarred. Some had thirty oi< forty bullets imbedded in them, while shot and shell had covered the ground with limbs and trunks.'' There is an advertisement of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad: "On and after Monday, April 7th, passenger trains for Philadelphia will leave President street depot daily (Sunday excepted) as follows: Express train 8.30 A. M.; express train at 1.05 P. M.; evening mail at 5.20 P. M.; express 7 A. M.; on Sundays at 7 P. M. only. All trains connect with New York except the 5.20 P. M. train. A freight train with passenger car attached leaves at 8.40 A. M., stopping at all stations and leaving Havre de Grace for Baltimore at 6 A. M. Notice—All. colored persons must give bond before entering the cars." I. Sturgis Davis, of Towsontown, serving in the Confederate Army in Ashley's Confederate Cavalry, has been promoted from Lieutenant to Captain for bravery displayed at the battle of Winchester. Dr. Moses M. Merryman was arrested by Government officers and taken to Fort McHenry. Dr. Merryman had a large practice in the county and died at "Hay-fields" a number of years ago. .?..,?- -»A ,»A A A ¦?m^m^/m^AAAAAAAA/- a. -*- A. >. .?. In the issue of May 9th the American took a very rosy view of the war situation, and editorially said: "We have the greati-fication of informing our readers that from recent occurrences the rebellion may be said to be already crushed out." The editor was probably so optimistic because of a dispatch of General McClellan after the encounter of Yorktown, as follows: "Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secy, of War:— '' We have the ramparts of the enemy. 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