The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

and General Lee. Individual case; of atrocity o f
course there have been,,likely, if got hold of by
the Northern press, to point many an argument
from singular to universal, and to be represented as
the invariable rule of action for the rebel army.
One solitary case of rape has been reported, certain,
as the perpetrator has been caught. to be visited
with condign punishment, or, in other words,
with death ; two murderers of private indivi,
duals, an offset to many dozens of murders inflicted
with impunity by the Federals on Southerners.
Among them I may mention the case of Mr. Robert
E. Scott, of Fanquier County, in Virginia—a man
regarded on this continent very much as Mr.
Henley is in England, who, efferently to the de-
light Washington Cabinet, was ruthlessly
robbed °1 theedan
d murdered by some Yankee stragglers,
and likely to be signally avenged by General Lee.
But, with these exceptions, the damage done to
Pennsylvania consists in the seizure of many horses,
cattle, stores, waggons, and much forage, in ex-
change for which Confederate money has been paid,
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there has been none, save such as is • d comprise in
the plucking of a few cherries from the abundant
cherry trees which grow wild in this latitude, and
the occasional larceny of a few chickens. To-day a
spectacle was witnessed, the like of which, in my
belief, has never been exhibited
by any great cap.
tain during the last 100 years. General Lee wan-
dered a few yards away from his quarters, and ob-
served a rail fence girding a field, of which a few
rails had been pulled down and a gap into the field
opened. With his own hands, and unassisted, he
commenced repairing the fence, until at last Dr.
Cullen, of General Longstreet's staff, came to his
assistance, and together they made good the damage.
I am told that whenever he has observed them he
has, either personally or through his staff, ordered
the rebel blackbirds to desist from pilfering the
cherry trees.
In the meantime, General Ewell, in commend of
the 2d corps of the Confederate army, has swept on
to Carlisle, and thence has proceeded eastward to-
wards York, where he cut the railroad, which con-
nects Harrisburg and Washington, and I believe
encountered a few Pennsylvania militiamen, who
ara represented as having emerged from rifle-pits
as deep as a well, to discharge one round apiece at
their enemy, previous to surrendering, and being,
as is reported, contemptuously dismissed, minus
shoes and hats, by General Ewell. From York
General Ewell has shaped his course southward and
westward towards Gettysburg to join the army of
General Lee in its advance over the South Moun-
tain, and to constitute the left wing of that army.
It is understood that General Stewart is about to
join General Ewell, having made his way out of
Virginia, in the immediate neighbourhood of
Georgetown, a suburb of Washington, where he is
said to have captured 130 waggons, with six horses
or mules apiece, and 100 spare horses attached as
supernumeraries. The full details of his pas-
sage through Maryland, which is said to have been
extremely successful, have not reached me as yet,
but it appears that he cut the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, which now only runs to the neighbour-
hood of Harper's Ferry, and has joined or is about
to join General Ewell on the extreme Confederate
left, and is likely to be heard of again in the event-
ful campaign on the threshold of which we are now
standing.