Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-11-06

tesss ii ! 4 H., Gu ss;stds,, BAD lsasiSa DE kairs
faoonieht iet0 te foet. dawn thfcngh q sfatd sDd Ia
lent forest Of plnss, 10 which We passed, without dis.
turblng their fepose, thfee Confederate oavsrymen
asleep beside their drowsy and plcke.ed horses Dash.
Ing through O deep ford Of the Msttapony, we turned
the last Confederate pickets q short distance TO toe cas-
ward OF Bowllng Green, bsited our steed at q "town"
Of some balf q dexsn houses, known as "Lloyds," and
orcsed the red Rappahannock at three o'clock of the
afternoon 10 q ghsrry. That the ferry at this point vss
q regular b 1siness Ike aff.ir was evident enough Be
fore we reached 1. We met on the real seversl carriage
loads Of travellers, and two teams drawing heavy wagon
loads OF supplies, boxis of tea and dry goods just
"over" from Maryland. ;.
ferrymen put us ashore, We met a large parry Of Mary
lAnders, fresh from Baltimore. There were some fifteen
or twenty Of them, and greeting 10 IS Bahmoreans, they
Wers urgent Ia their REPRESENTATIONS Of the peril We
should incur 10 attempting 10 resch the Monumental
City. Wes,mcreland County, they told rs, was then full
Of three hundred, they said, was established in the b cart
Of the county, q few miles on and they Informed %
that, only the night before, they had arrested q negro
who, mis- aking them for Nationals from Fredericksburg,
bad come in TO denounce bis master a. q '.rebeL" THIS
negro they had secured, and were taking him 70 Rich.
mond.
We assumed q quiet and COZ lent air in talking with
thee people, which made US "masters Of the position"
and bsfo;e We left them ole Of tielr lumber had agreed
to take our buggy and hersc back to X chmond for Us
AtbAh hHo PSAt ~ NHSA W. aee ~" - ~ 80 St4
Auna, Of ring us In return the valuable information that
ct Ok Grove, on the Potomac shore OF Westmoreland,
We should fad the boat with two bottman, which
brought him over Lon Maryland, and which might prcb-
ably be made available for taking u the other way,
since we we're SO obstiuAtely bent on running into the
lions mouth.
A negro with q 10 pair Of horses and = handsome
New York built tstouche was in waiting 10 the woods
jest above the lAnding-and a drive Of ten miles brought
" 10 the email village Of Oak Grove.
H. sa Il - = q a eN.an a 80 fann1 nrR hnat
and after q short pariey the boAtmen agreed to land Us
10 Maryland. They would no. leave the creek till after
dA,k, for fear OF the "tuss," which they seemed TO hold
In q very Wholesome respect; aud when We husly s'art-
cd at dusk. the wini and the seq bad risen 80 high that
they feared to attempt the passage. or course We AZ
fecied no great d.sOppolntmcn: at this delay, and bivou.
aoksd on the sand tina! night at the mouth Of the creek.
A. daylight next morning we rowed back 10 lie cove
We had left, and we were once more landed on the Vu-
gi1ia shorel Fortunately, however, "a were not oblig.
ed to vs,t the town, but pissed the day on 9 deserted
plantation upon the clhi overlooking the Potomac,
where We we're Hospitality entertained, BY Q venerable
"upcls" and ''maumer," the sole guardians OF that still
and 8 ately place. The day was beautiful, the scene eI
qqi.itely Q In aud pictures qie-nor could the dim cor
sciousuess of poss be danger luik'ng In the rear diaturb
our enjoy nent.
We lay upon the cliff, watching the sals upon the river,
and the far gle IN of the National Gag IS /; waved In the
sht breezs upon the p ssing vessels, aud the distant
MrylAnd shore. With the n'gitfsl, We resumed our
az enpt 10 cTOSe, ana hter an e1ChlnB iOb " nearly
three hour, the ca rdnting quite high, 81 ppsd past tie
tlJekading line Of Na,ionsl vess.ls, plainly dkoernible
10 the number o six at different points along tie Mary
land shore, and drew In under the shadow Of Swans
Point Fsom this point the boatnau roWed US through
devious waterways, known 10 themselves better than, /
fear, they are TO our blockadins vesseis, into the wi.
oomIco rivsr-upon the banks OF which they landed ",
for v Ugh; miles from Washington, on the morning Of
honday, Angus. Is From this point to within ten
miles Of the Capital, We made our way on foot, the tho
roughly Southern tenpsr Of the country being sufi.
clenuy mai ifsst In the TACT that, While We met plumbers
Of vehicles tending toward The river, We we're unable TO
hud anybody who would act Us on our way TO Washing
N, the mere mention Of such q proposition, unGccompa-
MED ns IL was b, any document verifying our Stub
ern" claims, evidently drawing down upon rs the susPi-
cion and d. Ike OF tie county people. A; one place,
indeed, wh,r, W induced an old lady to supply Us with
q meal, she suba qaently informed Is that We had been
slsaiy announced in the village a. - couple OF FEDERAL
slles!"
Ny exporter &C indeed throughout this b,ief but later
esting "Trip oolvinced IN, that mott lag could haze been
easier than for the Co fsderstes to organ'zs along the
VI girh ind Maryllud lac & series Of secret commuri
cations, the Luubr and ,xsent Of which | fear the Gov
ernmont has hardly appreciated communication faei!-
iatCd and ~prot,cied by the deposition Of the people
who inhsbit the regions t%rAYerssd, highly important
in their rAtu' e to the seeded States, aud only to be
brokea up by a much more minute and wide-swssping
surveiilat ee than hsd been attempted q; the time when
passed Tho liles In August last