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*• Bai.timoke, Saturday, Oct. 22, 18154.“ If you are cuorgeticyuu will he aide to get the within votes all Arranged for the 8th of November. I should have (lone more to them, but 1 have tint time ; they are all on the square, the same as the Blacks got theirs. Neither would bear close scrutiny. Kd. Donahue said send them on to you, and I have done it. Yours truly, Democrat.“ I*. S.—They arc all soldiers; cam pa-ny and regiment. All O. K. The rest I have nothing to sav. If you have no use for them, send them back.“M. J. Ferry,“ No. 85 West Fayette-st., Baltimore”(Jen. Met a H V sXenJI oClel la it.McClellan's Reflections Refuted,Major-General George A. McCall, who commanded the division of Pennsylvania Besorvcs during General McCIcIUd’s Peninsula Campaign, has published a .ongthy document, fully atid satisfactorily refuting the charges agaiust the Reserves, contained in th“ latter'* official reports of the buttle of Wilson’s Farm, or Glendale, as it is variously called. The Pennsylva-; nia Reserves, as gallant and as faithful a corps as was in the army, has by this report of General McClellan, been nn-] justly aspersed, and although his attention has been called to tjie fact, and proofs of his errors tendered, he has up to this time refused to do justice to this division of the army, as well as to his own character us an impartial man.The following is the Philadelphia Inquirer* summary of General McCall’s report, and we commend it to the careful attention of every friend of the Pennsylvania Reserve*:The first complaint ngnin«t GeneralI Oi McClellan is that he has*reported that j the Reserves were attacked at that battle above live o’clock in the afternoon. •• and gave way in less than an hour.” The I tact is that they were attacked at three o’clock and held their possition until after dark, more than four hours. That the attack was made at three o’clock is shown by tha reports of Hooker and Sumner, and acknowledged by Gen McClellan himself in quotations from the reports of those officers. In regard to the division giving away at all, the statement is pronounced false by General McCall and General Meade. The division held its ground, and it was its stubborn resistance alone which permitted the concentration of the army in its rear during the night. The original report of Gen. McClellan admitting that two of his leg-imoots supporting a battery, were compelled to give way. whilst his centre was still engaged, which engagement continued until the rebels wera repulsed. The lagiment* which had given way were in formed and the battery was recaptured ;! but t’t« -riving way of two regiments is I not the giving way of a division of fifteen regiment*, and the officer who could have assumed that it was. in the face of the well known stand made by the remaining thirteen regiments, could not have had his wits about him, or was deeply prejudiced agaiust the troops which ho aspersed.General McClellan irwhis ignorance or malice, asserts in another part of his re port that certain regiments of Slocum's division were sent to occupy McCall’* tlc*er ted /tot it ion, thus insinuating that.i_______i—l i .1:______by Kearney, or any other officer. It was, in fact, a new position.The gravest complaint against General McClellan is that he asserted in his final report of the seven days,’ battles, made at Harrison’s Landing, that of the twenty-live guns lost during th»»sc days, twenty-one were lost by McCall’s Division ‘‘giving way under the onset of su|*rior number*and yet General McClellan, in another part of his report, says that twenty-two guns were lost at thchattlo of Gaines Mills, nineteen beiugtakenby the enemy, and three being run over the bridge and sunk. Gen. Barry. Chief of Artillery, certifies that the guns lost by McCall’s Division at Gaines Mills, were hut -a very small portion of the whole number lost there.” It is admitted that Randall’s battery was lost by McCall at New Market Cross Road, hut they were recaptured. They could not he removed for the want of horses, forty of these animals belonging to the battery having been killed. The guns remained all night outside of the enemy’s pickets, and could have l*ecn brought in. hut. General Hcintr.clmnu refused permission to Captiun Ihtndnll to bring them in because •• it might bring on another battle. The rebels did not take possession of them until after eight o'clock the next day, they being abandoned and not taken by the enemy in battle. This was not Gen. Me''all’s fault, because before that time he w.h a prisoner.The matters thus presented by lt;Ion. Me all are of importance to the rlt; i nation of I'cnnsylvaniu troops and the honor of the State. Gen McClellan is convicted of having wilfully stigmatized the reputation of those bravo soldiers without couse or exertse. as Gen. McCall clearly shows. The facts are so plain that the position of tlie General in chief, cannot he defended by honorable men. The question naturally arises, if (ion. McClellan* reports, in .t matter of o much importance as this, is shown to,be false prejudiced and tuiju-t. hlt;w miK'h reliance cun ho placed upon ..ny of h *•.-Hi tal reports.”A lAV A l V liKTlNli lf L \ VS. IjImI afiaiiMcsMKT down f.n triad nt Oecetnoni iVnii. i ■ ■*, rouituenc-mg the iith day uf iMM-emin-i.riRKT walk.John M'l. Higlilin, Adm r.offcn.M M i.rnle,(lor d, vs Jiuiu-- Downey,Janie- Oilllt;-«|i|f, j-aWr ifthe Mlllondown oil c«». »• Dmitri- Ifojlo, y.The county of llt;utl«r, v» .ii-Mjn Oi.iiiimii,Mor.lic.il J.-hi-. v. II, II. Sliiytor,Anriamoa A Kolilmuyer. v* \\ in. t;, Adom-AT. Moor*,JmiIhIi AirllU, v* Admit* £xprw« oUloe,William 10irk, v« MUirk,at, «l,SDCOXD WKLK. roiiinionwinillli of I'ciinn,Uni. 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