The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-28
Rithmmn Dispatrh.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUG. Is, 1851

WEDN ESDAI MORNING. AUG. 2s, 1851
cerrsspondsnce of ths Richmond Dispatch.
a L49v's Opinion or Car Jnpaasrs-x Vfs,o
cf them IL. oad about Atenandrfa.
SaTrsDAT, Augusta
the battle day, as i heard tae incessant
boom of the csun0n. T. gag awfuI---a day !
Can never forget. Mother was very despond.
ing. bat can uathtuuy say my iaith in our
men never wavered, not even when an officer
told us that he had received q dispatch say.
irg that Ruu Run was taken ans. the s.arand
Army vas marching .sn Manassas. Not
81 en- when late a: night t was told that Ma
nassGa was taken and &c e9G Southerners had
laiI. down their arms Ny indignation pass-
& 81 6OlD&s Fl 1ais. Tie first thing hes I'd
the O21t 1ssC<oiDe was that =ae Eeslerais yvere
CQuIsa- 0o21a the road, The COME iers.es in
lri.e J And 50 they continued to come all
Day, twenty or thirty at . slime, sometimes
Is7-er bat early in ths morning it was one
!. Continual stream of broken down, be.ter,
1aI1isned Tnea. They declared that for two
days they had had nothing 70 eat or drink.
and We AL On the hiii sent them every
ayr ll&ole Thing III the house: and mother had
ccase I3ati5 aa1 sem - them, and what do
ycn think. they actually tsought was to sell,
/ Ahey ysss-S trsauSg in the same way IN toy.
eysEy one Opening their hearts and hands to
broken down, conquered Zoe. / certainly
never saw sucA afor lorn set. Some had even
thrown 81 their shoes and Jackets To see
oEa With n Bn&paack WIS z rarity, and very
few were armed Some were perfectly infu-
iiated, aid awore they would pay US South
eclisrs fof IL II they ever got i chance; but
En9at CT them seemed TO De insp pired with
pretty wholaso,ae feaG Of Buli Run, ana nave
! 40 desire 70 return. ono old 1rshmaE who
was asked Sy so.ne one as be came hobbling
by, gcpm5iiGg GS "tHem biz batteries, - "Why
they didn't tahs them?" replied naiyslY
enosgh---''F Faith, sir, ana We couldn't Theyis
hssz building them batteries and digging them
n.
IL 'ezn cad behind 'e1n. and coUld ye expaot
5he min take EN- = Some awo-e ven.
geaace on Congress, and were for starting
t5Ent 81 to Washington. They rushed in SUCH
sWa1IGs that TIE draws of the Long Bridge
W~4e Kept open ali day and night, and all
t~GYei stopped eeCWean here and Washingio ion
! Tnis dismay extended 10 the ofiicers-proba.
b.y heggn with saaza too; Eli seemed 20 be dis
h6sIL L ID. But the Ge1t day, such change :
Saying, "it wasn't much OF beating; they'd
soon remedy H." &c.. and telling ali sorts of
abonl {ad5ls Ass about the cruelty and bar.
naTt:y o. cur nl-n- 1t gives NE an utter con.
tempt for the w1oie crew 10 hear how they
ani,se each otneT-the soldiers their o,ii-
ceGs. the Fc4.n Feers; lhe regulars, and
ail yitai. iatc E1oDcweIi. -IoOlsilau, who
has su p6Tseled him, is expected to do great
things. bat they giorjrv them an Eatii they
ges d whipping, aLo Gaen quetiy drop theIn
ur Soea- o1 tooTB With contempt. Better
9d0r3 TIE ystSr1 III The UdTtnagsuiaEs kill
ali who ere not VictoTions; It is not n h more
conteU. ;3tiose than taeir present course, and
perhaps, T1ight have sa!utary aGec1, as fear
seems % nave SeeH tha motive power which
nas governed p good many il has undoabt-
edly oced them co ~ &e one good run. as
hGaTd some one say, the Yankees went up
s.voWedLy to see the Virginia races but yre
will give them the palm and allow ourselves
beaten N Tnnning. glory over them now,
flT an GickeHad cut with their hornbast and
o"&G- Bat the day they came back ! really
felt heartily sorry Tor them, and never thought
o. e<ohng-thoush ! have had many
and many OF them tell me to nv face
gnoWing thot / was Soathern, that the
SonthorDaT3 were G{! c0J51~G8. [ told them
Whenever they SAID this, that it did not speak
.ary hIgniy Iof theiT 0Tavecss, to come down
IN such hoT1es 10 light an enemy who in
their opinion, were all towards and numeri
e3ily inferior. The way IL which Iney ginss
ever their defeat is contemptihIa Before the
iight we we've r0l1 that 80. .000 had marched I'D
20 Manassas, aEo that We had only 80 900 ana
o0pj0 geE no 1n"rf now they swear they had
pottaoTe tban 80 600, some say IL 900. and thai
vsa lad yo.0G0. How they reconcile these
statements cannot SEE.
-aGg@ft 15tA - am homeless sanOut getting
th!5 &c you, nut stil Writs. The New York
sth leave 70 day, at which We are really
very Lauob grieyed. IL is The reg iment sta
ticneo 81 the SaIninary--the OH aers. st least
the Colonel, NJ i9r, Sc, aayo been ysry 10 !.
lita, and nave their men under excellent dis
eipLiN8. we have had O guard stationed At
oar Fa+e 70 keep the strasglers cpt Dy which
we had he"n very much annoyed To.da
u
EFounC5 told taeT1 tdi5 was private pr0paIty
aud enlarged o1 its ;ncapac ties Tor sue ps1r-
pose &C Sioqueiit)y, ina tiag finally went Oft
tut no further th6D the Bishops Held aeross
The -2Sd WaeFe ta2y have pitched their tents
"A. we SIT on the porch v.c cSn near the neigh
Ing ~ t"e,r 50TFes and the rattle Of llefc
s-bres. Ii tle oofoiEiEg fields ,,ac.. are en-
{ IN ped Two or three reg ,U7ents; at MIR. LOCK-.
woods another troop OF cavalry; in DIR. Spar
/; row s field another, 2GJ al Tao Seminary still
another, hesldas one or two regiments OF
more 2eg.'nents, / don'i know which.
General kearnev commands d BRIGADE ont
uere and has his headquarters at the
seminary, SO you see VIC ire quite sur
roundea py th8 military. | wish every Zine
lock III theo1 :aG- this Confe0eratss would
come down on them. II would be snch fun
30 nave them chased from under our very
noses. AL this is, rs you may imagine, very
uncomfortable. IS the reads are Spl OF Sol.
Iiers and F0cie Ot them ere Very iIapertinent;
ailC Ii Town II is no better. Ladies are lie yer
sean o. tl9 streets now / can only say how
long! h0w long Report says they have
rined the fort, AID know they are throwing
mp err baAlma ants in the road by Nanc!use -
/ ppoSe, OF course. we know all about this
! however. j would give everything 20 ba
j away frori these horrible wretche@. The only
friends l have se-n were Ihrea OF our men
who came in with 8 fiag OF truce-Lieutan
ant Etmonson, and priYate9 Meek and Nc
Chesnsy. Several saw them before, but
wssn I met them in the road, and though:
they were prisoners, it almost broke my
\ heart, Tce Officers at the seminary where
tney wsre staying were kind enough TO allow
us 10 send them refreshments, an opportunity
yYn!ca assore yon we ayaiied ourselves OF.