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LETTER FROM DAVISVILLE.

Correspondence of the Bucks County Intelligencer.

DAVISVILLE, August 30, 1861.

Messrs. Editors :—While the stern yeomanty of our country

are braving death “ in the imminent deadly breach” to preserve

our nation’s honor and integrity, the gentler portion of human-

ity are not unconscious that they possess the power of doing a

good work in this time of our national distress.  This is par-

ticulary true of the ladies of Davisville, Hartsville, and Rich-

borough, who have conceived, and are executing, the idea of pre-

paring a lot of shirts, drawers, handkerchiefs, wrappers and

slippers for the use of the wounded and sick in the hospitals at

Washington.  This humane object has met with a liberal re-

sponse, they having collected some $75; and on Wednesday last,

about seventy ladies assembled in a large barn of Gen. Davis’s

to ply “ the swift-flying needle” for the soldier’s comfort.  About

60 pairs of shirts and drawers have in all, been made up, as well

as a lot of the other above-mentioned articles.

These ladies more particularly those of Hartsville—are get-

ting up a large box of dried beef, preserves, jellies, and other

delicacies that can but be relished by those occupying the sol-

dier’s pallet.

The “ Camp Meeting “ in the vicinity of the Trappe com-

menced on Wednesday of last week and closed to-day.  The Camp

consisted of about 100 tents (unusually large for this section of

the country,) and the attendance, which has been unusually

large, reached its culmination on Sunday, when some 7,000 per-

sons were present—presenting such a medley of qualities, char-

acters and sentiments as is seldom witnessed.  It has not at all

been disturbed by that rowdy element which too often infests

such places.

I learn that Dr. Markley, a highly successful practitioner of

Montgomery Square, having received an appointment of Assist-

ant Surgeon in the Navy, has sold his practice to Dr. A. Styer,

at present located at Line Lexington.

On Thursday, meetings were held at Johnsville and this place,

for the organization of a company to join the regiment forming

under Col. W. W. H. Davis, and measure were taken indicative

of the speedy accomplishment of this purpose.

It is the intention of this part of the county to make the

? Union demonstration at the Bear an imposing one, as it

is also of the lower end.  Let Bucks turn out in her might,

and give such a shout for “ Truth, Law and Liberty” that the

cavilers of an extinct party schism against the efforts of brave

patriots to save us from a slave oligarchy, will dare no more to

connive at treason!            More anon.           AJAX.