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or knife of the men, who were stationed in all directions — Here we counted 23 killed and some wounded. We then burnt the ranches and started back to camp. "On the 8th of June we had another fight, killing seven. Some of the boys are out now, and I have not heard from them. Extensive preparations are making for celebrating the 4th of July in all paris of the State, promising more universal respect for the day than was ever before witnessed in California. Col. Lippett drilled in Washington Square, San Francisco, several companies of his volunteer regiment. They have no doubt that they will be called on to go East, and if the Government does not send for them, with the funds for transportation, they have little doubt that the steamship companies will give them full passage to New York; or, if that expectation should prove baseless, it is a sort of general suspicion that Sam Brannon will expend $10,000 to put a California regiment within two days march of Washington.
ek, when the latter will at once close the trap into which the St. Nicholas has been taken. She can be of no service where she now is and should she attempt to visit the waters of the Potomac again, the Pocahontas will, of course, send over a compliment, with an invitation to the crew to accept "Uncle Sam's" hospitalities. Yesterday there were no Southern troops at Vienna, though their scouting parties were hovering around the village. Preparations for Moving. A letter from Washington states that contracts have been made that will be filled inside of two weeks, for eight hundred baggage wagons and three thousand horses. These teams will move forty regiments, or 35,000 men, in addition to those already there, about enough to convey 40,000. Another letter says: Army officers declare that it is impossible to make a decided forward movement until more wagons have arrived. By the 15th of July the builders have contracted to furnish one thousand. Quartermaster Ge
arred their way into authority, with no symbol on their flag but the Constitution in flounces, and their first act, upon obtaining the control of the Government, has been to rend it into fragments and trample upon every one of its provisions. No wonder that the leaders of the Abolition Society have announced that the ceremony of "burning the Constitution" will "this year be dispensed with!" They have made it as obsoleted as the laws of Lycurgus. The Executive chair, once occupied by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, and Monroe, is desecrated, and a tyranny established tenfold worth then that which compelled our ancestors to throw off the yoke of George III, and the acts of whose advisers throw the memory of Lord North and his compeers into the shads. They have gone through the Constitution, article by article, and, violating every oath of office, perjuring their souls beyond redemption, dishonoring the very they hear, and making them, like that of Arnold, the symbols of