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he Northern Central Railroad since the first regiment, Col. Yohe, left that point, were paid off on Friday, their term of service having expired. They will return to Harrisburg in a few days and be disbanded. Yesterday morning the 5th Pennsylvania regiment, 700 men, under the command of Col. McDonald, arrived in this city from Washington and took the early train on the Northern Central Railroad for Harrisburg Pa., where they will be marched out of the service this morning. The Massachusetts regiment, stationed a the Relay House on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, are packing up in order to quit their camp. They, together with the New York 20th and other than the Pennsylvania regiments stationed around the city, will leave almost in a body on to-morrow for the North. The deficiency thus occasioned in Gen. Banks' command will no doubt be filled up with other troops who have enlisted for three years. The First and Second Pennsylvania regiments passed through this city y
of Massachusetts troops. --The steamer Cambridge arrived at Boston on Friday with the Third Massachusetts Regiment, Col. Wardrop, from men; those at the helm busy themselves with a new and trembling eagerness about the great business entrusted to them by a nation. Let a few more misfortunes happen, such as this last, and the corruption that lies at the root of the fabric of American statecraft, smiled upon or disregarded in time of peace, will be torn up and scattered to the winds, like the shreds of another Bastile, amid the shouts of an indignant people. It is time indeed, for the North to set its house in order, and to look well to what it is doing. If anything should happen to the veteran Scott, the command of the army will devolve upon a mere youth, hitherto unheard of, and quite inexperienced. The South appears to number among its commanders men of some ability, who understand the conduct of a campaign. They have evacuated the advanced position of Harper's Ferr
A Federal Congressman on the fight at Bull Run. In a letter published in the Baltimore Sun of Saturday, from the Hon. Wm. A. Richardson, member of Congress from Illinois, who professes to be an eye-witness of the scene of the engagement at Bull Run, he states that the action was commenced by Gen. Tyler, of Connecticut, at half-past 1 o'clock on Thursday--that the Michigan, Maine and Wisconsin regiments stood their ground bravely, while the New York Twelfth and Massachusetts regiments run with all their might, throwing away their arms, knapsacks, and in fact everything that impeded their progress. The men say that their officers lack courage and were the first to "take the back track. " It seems that the only regiments who could be relied on in their greatest emergency were composed of foreigners — the New York 69th (Irish,) and the 79 the (Scotch.) The writer gives it as his opinion that Manassas cannot be taken with 50,000 men in two months, and that the North has been greatly