, 1861-06-26
Especial Correspondence Of the Ghicaco Tribune.

the Day. :"
Especial Correspondence Of the Chic.so Tribunal
WASHINGTON, June = 1851.
Yesterday may be set down as the WARM
Friday. Letter-w1iting was out Of the quss-
ton. It Was all one could do to open his eyes
to look at an Ice wagon, aud to sigh for IN
Ice boat in the arctic regions. A some little
approach to this, went over to the Smith
sonIaD, and looked OF the dress which Dr.,
Kane wore, and tried to imagine, by contrast,
how cool 1t must be up thera But It was too
warm to make any notes, even Of that, fur
robe. Thinking would do something to see
how our soldiers could stand 1t to fight on
euch day, seized d scythe, which WINS hung,
as Daniel Webster's gcyt the Was hung-on the
fence-and "cut s#ath"- imagining that
every head Of the tai, rank grass was
"secssh,n and rejoicing to see 1t fall. But
few people had the courage to look
ct the Thermometer, OF the animation
to raise their eyes so high Is 1o3 dega
in the ehadeI Our soldiers were several
Of them sunstruek, but not half a. many es
were struck by the miserable whisky which is
pa1med off upon them. / saw one such poor,
unfortunate, who, under the virus Of the poi
sonous stuff, Was loading bis gun, aud had got
the cap on, threatening to shoot the first fel-
low that opened his head His Captain came
along and ordered him into quarters, where
upon he Ras going to shoot the Captain; but
his officer gave him little sword exercise On
the side OF his head which best new idea
therein, and two fellow soldiers led him of TO
barracks. But the most OF our soldiers are
,17fn nf H0 ff$u 5f1nrH 10 ri
got; and there they we're notpressed with much
service during the hot day. The Inst twenty
four hours has seen si1 regiments come tosweu
the Thousands at this great camp, end they have
scarcely know that six Thousand or more had
been added thus, aud twelve thousand during
the week. This is mora than during any
week before since that great proclamation Of
the 18th Of April Was the trumpet call to the
resurrection Of the patriotism Of our fteemen.
cannot call the names Of ell this regiment of
comers, the 14th New York, the 5th Of Maine,
the 38th Of Eastern New York, the Rhoda
Island Lat, and the Rhode Island End, which
has returned from Williansport to their old
camp near this city. The New York regiments
come one from Utica, and the other from al.
bany region The Oneida boys have many
We1ch among them, and two chaplains- .
Welchman who has written song, the bur
den Of which ia that they will ssshampoo''
JET. Davis and give him PARTICULAR hss. A
sword wo1n BY their Qu2rtermaster was car
RED in the battle of Balaklaya, where it got
wound Of honor on its scabbard from q bali.
The first Rhode Island, which is the newly A.
rived one: has the gallant Governor with quite
suite Of friends to herald It, among whom ls
Bishop Clark, Of the Eplscopate Of little
Rhody. he is one Of the many bishops Of
that church who have gone in thoroughly for
the war, and whose zeal will not be- abated
o17t hoY hfy II ;. 1,%& -t
Bishop Otey, Of Tennessee, to the Secretary Of
State. There is much similarity between the
tWo Rhode Island regimnts, the Inter having
rather fewer numbers, but the same uniform
and half dozen Of those splendid James'
riaed cannon: 80 much admired where intro
Of the 2nd Regiment vas telling
me yesterday Of their forced march
frcm Wi11iamsport, when under orders
from Gen. Scott to come on to Washington.
They lett ut Z o'clock in the morning, rested
| two hours at Eoon, and reached Frederick, I
thing It was, where they took the cars ut two
o'clock at night, havirg marched, route step,
IS miles. It was fortunate that this Was not
attempted the next day, which Was the hot
| Friday There was little bit Of Bpst be-
| tween Col Burnside and Gen. Cadwalader,
just before the Col started on his return as
above; It taeems that he had been assured that
| the ratfons for his men would be forwarded to
them, In which they had been disappointed.
Gen. Cadwallader give Col. Burnside an order
to proceed on towards the west. The Colonel
| did not wish to go till provisions should reach
him. On this, issue was Joined, TIL the Gen.
era1 finally became peremptory, and said F" As
your General, and higher IN command, I order
you 10 proceed" Col Burnside drew from
his pocket d dispatch which he had Just re
ceiyed from Gen. Scott, ordering him back to
Washington! This settled the question of the
"higheet in command" The order and the
forced march, argue that Gen. Scott Was in
earnest about the need Of more troops here
and The same thing is very apparent from tie
arrival Of SO many more regiments this week.
| and from the dozen or mere that are en- rQutt
Six are now On the rail,
Any one living here, aud listening to the ru
no1s Of war that are coming in from the Vlr
ginia side every day, Or made this side Of tbs
fiser, will be at no loss to account for this
Eew zeal in Gen. Scott, especially Is 1t &C
counted for by the fact that the two great ar
mics are getting nearer and nearer, till nou
the rebel flag can be seen only two mlles
of from our advance line; and Ee know nol
march, or within two hours by rail OF
Thursday night, there were many who sat NJ
all night in this city, waiting to hear the enc
my's gunsl To-day the boys are crying stht
Evening S4r, 10 0o Secession troops at Fair
ont like one hundred other ofthe rumors, aui
like the story told Thursday of the attemp
TO blow up Long Bridge-all mere cAaafd
But am strangely inclined to think tina
Beaurega1d must give his men something des
perate eoon; and that be aud Davis will tak'
lines the Sd or 4th Of July, in order e pre-
vent the meeting Of Congress. They wcu1t
thus delight too, In stealing Lfncoln's thunle
by deyoting that day to their schemes, insteas
| Of its enurtng to give any eclat to the mee!in!
Of Congress, But what hare they to do will
l HnF Tr,1r -,
fame II, as they have aways! do not fear th
result Of any attack tie rebels can nuke o.
us, They may have more men, though thi
doubt. But We have the Heights now arme
TO the summit BY the long growlcrs, and tn
Potomac River Is no small thing in the Wa
:. Of their getting into the city from the Vii
4 ginia side. And IS to the meeting Of Cor
greee, it is said that In the Revolution, 1t QUO
mtt On horseback In New York city.
necessary, it can meet again in the saddle
and as there are likely to be few Wigfalls an
other Southern ,boozy heads among then
they could al keep their perpendicular, If
have had another interview with our haut
came yourg" Buckeye' who was in the ba!tl
cr, assault rather, at Vienna. I hare also ses
the Captaiu who lost the most men, aud :he
! both state that there was some killing done b
| cur eide. As in evidence, they say true
borne By five South Caro]iniane, came Int
; their csmp four miles from Vienna, an
!. | brought one Of our wounded soldiers wit
, them. They were very gentlcmanly men, an,
among other things, said "We cannot bur
your desd and tend your wounded, for ,pe hd
!; enough Of that TO do for our o,ra nsen-''
On Thursday the music at the President
| grounds WAS first essayed, and then final
made, by the Highlander's Bind. say essa
!. ed, for they fell into the poor attempts :
: music which so many Of our operate imitatol
;; are making, when they seem to be intent Q
show not to do it." The uIghlauders Ii
time lad been fortunate In finding some pa
tAloone, and their dress and address were We,
fine. But it was not till they we
fnportuned to play some Of their 9sote
airs, like "Annie 1aurie'' and "Bona
Dundee" that they took any bold at all Of tt
Q people. Not even the President and his lad
Q and her sister, Mrs. Grimsley, paid them Il
- poor compliment Of looking Id that direcsio
: All through the grounds the hundreds Of We
dressed gentlemen aud ladies wandered liz
). lessl5 about, or we're talking Of going, or .
= tusllT leaving. AL at once the good sense
:, the Scotch came up, and striking into me-
' ley Of their own sweet tunes, they took Il
: people, as old BnDyan sayB, first t'by the "a
and then by the heart" All eyes were
= | cour6e intent The President rose up and Il
= tened, ana the whole audience were In II
| tures. So much for PaaJirgtmu that has
! tune in It. As you Will discern, have no p
tlence with this modern fashionable agon
!, which could be e1temporized by anybody,
4 well As by Its German authors, and thcIr In
~ tatorey No wonder the world Is taken BIZ Il
n negro minstrelE, and still go crnzy for Dixie
- our soldiers even singing It when crossing Il
..f Potomac breast high. What Ia wanted, Is son