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From The Cor. Of The N Y EypresS
Horrors of Guerrilla Warfare.


WESTON, Va. August 10.
1t is horrible warfare; but what are we to do 4?
II we take ride ont into the country, some con-
cealed enemy cracks away at our bodies or heads
with Squirrel gun" and If we escane il is he.
cause the aim is bad, or the mountain heipht too
great for fatal execution. Every man who has vet
been killed or wounded along the woods beyond us
has been shot from elevation. The Overhapging
rocks and hills afford breastworks secure than
any which could be erected by the hand of man,
while our volunteers are exposed to open roads
closely walled passes. Count the brsties upon the
back Of a hog, and you may form some idea of the
almost impenetrabie hi-sides between which oar
troops compelled to march, exposed to MUIR
derous fire from both sides. An open foe can always
be met with equal weapons but our brave voIun-
teers, ignorant of the country, fight against odds
through the hills, ravnes and passes OF Western
Virginia. They trudge along unmolestiDg. and are
shot down in their tracks. They seek the enemy,
and find scarcely Footprint.
company OF the 23d regiment went to Glenve,
with Government train, with orders to make
detOur via BulltOwn, and sc0ur the country. When
four miles from Builtown, the guard was fired
into from an overhanging rock. The only evidence
OF the proximity of an enemy the report Of their
guns, the smoke of the powder, and the rafting Of
the balls. Not human being, beyond the Union
troops, was to be seen. Three men were wounded
one behind the ear, another in the back, and
thlrd In the leg Every shot ranged downward.
The boys instantly charged up the hill. The fash
OF the powder showed where the shots came from,
but half hours search revealed no enemy. They
had fired and fed through the bride paths.
Items.
The Lynchburg, Va, papers say it is impossible
to forward all the freight passing to Virginia from
the West and South. large portion OF it is daily
shipped by the James River and Kanawha canal.
A third Texas regiment is en- route to join Nc
Culloch in Missouri.
Governor Moore, in the New Orleans Picuyne
calls on each family to contribute blankets for the
soldiers.
The Savannah Republican says the Confederate
authorities, within week, would complete their
detences so that no Federal fleet enter har-
Dor inlet, land troops on the coast OF Georgia
The Vicksburg Vhjg advocates the manufacture
Of cotton seed oil for burning, the blockade having
deprived them of material for light.
The Charleston Courier says that iron clad
steamer, named the Randolph, 155 tons has been
purchased at Savannah for the coast of South Ca
rolina. She makes from thirteen to fourteen knots
per hour.
The Little Rock (Ark.) True Democrat of the
I'D inst, says it learns that the Missouri State
troops, under command of General Price, left
Springfield for Camp Walker on the 10th, and
that Ben. McCulioch and his forces had gone to
Camp Scott
A second battalion of cavalry has Just been Or
ganzed at Knoxville Tenn.
The Richmond correspondent of the Memphis
ADpedt says there is much sickness among the Con-
tederate troops in the neghborhood of Manassas,
and that the water is full Of Virginia red mud, and
ice extremely scarce at ten cents pound.