Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-08-23

ba1f cork and with hammers on the nipple
Thcv nil want rifles, and treat the smooth
borcs very rudely in order to get rid oil t'e'n'
,,ry Am WAR MATERIAL STILL on By THE WAY
SIDE.
Thence the wayside was frequent IN camps
here was q battery Of artillery parading Ia =
fcld containing three sorts OF pieces-l%o
parro. riled guns, which arc made OF wrought
;ron with 4 thick band shrunk over the
hreeeb: W brass field pieces and two hoWilz'
orc Each gun was drawn by six horses,
o,ite as good as the average in our own bate
rT;es end better than The generality OF those IN
| detrimental parks. There are the horses d q
wv Irv troop. or company, as the Americans call
them, revealing in the shady groves; now q Pio'
ccssion of commissariat wagons, covered WIN
t;}ts like the old fashioned Yorkshire stages,
ioJorcd with pork and -four; again . crowd
found q cart filled with lager bier, from ~hich
the Dutch folk are filling themselves at i've
cents Il mighty becker. Mounted otucrLes,
always at gallop Or canter, alternate WIN
mounted officers At the same rates along tnc
road. One camp belongs 10 tho New 1orN
Seyrnty.ninth, 4 regiment nj ScotchWct, put
not Of IEishlanders like the stalw":!h leiio""
whom Douglas md Taylor led III inc 1rilnea
and Iiindostan; near them vas L regiment %
Wisconsin, AMI further on, inside q very strong
and well made earthwC,li, wheel! they nave
thrown up with immense labor, the SiSly-ilhlth
rne;,nent Of New York, who did not parade
forr tb,, Prince Of Wales. The work IS 4 re-
dnubt. with hasti0ns and dry ditch, closed hY
ualisade4 .ni stockadcs, and mounts, should
th;nk. about twelve guns, twenty'l"'T or ihIF'
ty. four FOUNDERS. II was TOO hot TO nuke 2
very minute inspections; the tents wtre packed
close, and there were signs inside that when
the regiments move 4 good deal OF baggage
and boxes must be left behind.
This work, which dominates q height over
looking the road to Alexandria, is supported
nv a similar and more extensive lleldw9rh,
covered at the flank and gorgshy 4 morasS ard
,it,., stream, which intc!irc;s The road, aid
can be turned into 4 wet ditch; and The woods
have been fe!!cd OH the slopes Of the hill, so rs
to obstruct an asssailling force material s..
These works may be regarded in the !!ght o!
an extensive tete depoEt on the Nirginlan &tdr
Of the Lang Bridge; and the force no% avIII'-
hlc for their immediate defence mus: be taken
| to he al least 5000 luen, with three liGlh Ga:'
terics in addition Ia guns Of position, w'i''!!
cannothe less than twenty pieces, besides some
| dc,"rl.cl GUNS and iIo%itZer;. Arlington
IIo;s.,:s was included in the visit, but enough
has hsen said Of the camp already, and so the
party returned to Washington. 1t needs not
10 lie said tia. the destruction 81 property
about the camps is considerable. Fruit trees
are stripped. gardens are ruined, forests are
cut down, field are %tramplca, the crops are de-
scrtad-in scmc the plough lying abandoned,
rs il was left bT the scceS;i0n!5t owner. An
other OF the ready modes Of dcicnce known to
the Amcrtcans may not be omitted. Along
the road Ut several places noticed block houses
made of stout logs, pierced Tor mlrskI!ry in swo
roys. and covered with some incombnS;ibic
msterisl on llic roof. The little garrison call
resis! anything but Iirr AIN! regular artillery
when they lave 'rlwn up their steps AMI
closed the door, whici! is nn The accnTI ''!"ry.
These wooden forts arc square in shape, anu
are very strongly built Of steum 81 trees. On
arriving in the city, We learn that there has
beer en- interesting discussion in Congress, and
that the opposition has received L very severe
defeat on 4 motion hostile TO the government.
\ thunder storm preceded by I dust storm,
aud followed by Il tornado worthy Of Eoliilrrn',
closes the day.
Major Genera! Fremont, who IL i!rrc 10 re
ceived Instructions, will proreed to lake up
| his command If the Western Misaissippi Ills
tire! 10 lnorTo@, End | am informed that on
Friday morninga general advance will be made
Cor short march towards the eEerny'i position.