New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-31

within a radius of twenty miles, 40 you look down
into the great South Park Is miles ia length, from
that peerless standpoint the summt Of Pixies Peak.
or as you gaze iutO Jour garden from your Own
housetop.
The circle In your sweep Of vision, forty miles In
diameter is divided into four parts like the face OF
the compass-the Blue Ridge crossing it from North
10 south, tue Potomac from west to east.
Face toward the east. To your right stretches
the snmmit Of the Blue Ridge. Ioudon flights, only
CONTINUATION of these, seem distant hardly stones
throw You see no hint Of any break In the sum
nit, But they Are mile away, and the Potomac III
IL, deem hidden gorge rolls between. In the tents
scattered over them the troops Of the second Oil
vision Of the twelfth corps under Geary, VINO ~
Governor Of Kausas, in the days Of Franklin Fierce
made the acquaintance OF tho same Slave Power he
| is fighting now.
| Before sou winds the Potomac, its CLASSY surface
broken by shrubs rocks and islands; the canal fing'
ing its left bank like fapt iine OF silver; the villa
yes Of Weayerton and Knoxville, and The lonely
atone piers Of the destroyed Berlin bridge. Ttere
the river plunges into the green wooded hills and Is
Iosl 20 view. Ten miles away, near Polnt OF ROCKS
/ il reappears--a straight, smooth, flashing bar OF
light. To the left OF It Sugar Loaf Mountain; ana
still fnrhcr sweeping around toward tho north, aiu
hGzy bills bound he view.
AT your ieet es Pleasant Valleys smooth, gym
Metric trough, scooped out Of the moantaD-a great
furrow, FIVE miles in length and two miles across
from edge To edge. IL is full Of Camps-wbite VIA
ges of icns with their streets and squares snd BLACK
groups of bsteres but the scene IL pastoral rather
\ tbsn martial You look down Into the valley Of
white dwellings. with great, wellhli-d bsrDs Of red
brick mills; OF straw-colored plowed fields, dotsu
with shocks Of corn and Iuttios far up iuto he DARK
hillside woods; OF gresnsward felGs, NOTED "th
orchards shade trees and browsing cattle, threaded
by little shining stream dim haze rests Oh TIE
aguarded picture; aud the soft WIND sespi'
10 sing with WhiItieri
l "y., calm and paii-nt Nature keeps
! Her ancient promise well.
! Though DER her tlooui and GREENE swoep'
/ The battles breath OF he'll
And still she walls 10 golden hours
/ Through harvest happy fains,
Ard stili she wesr her fnit- and howes
/ Like jewels on her srIn'.
/ "s,ul In the cannon. pause we heI
Hor sweet Msnksdyins Islm,
l Too near TO God for doubt or fear
l She shares tie eternal caui.'
There are the regiments on dress paIadei long.
double lines of dark blue, with bright bayoneIs
flashing in the waning Sunlight Each, 90 II IS DIS
missed breaks iotO companies, which move on To-
ward their quarters by the hsuk-lOoking from here
like dark, Inonstrous antediluyan reptiles OF many
legs
Upon distant hllside, just on the edge Of The for
est ut modest group OF tents, arc Burrsides head.
quarter. You see, through your fed-s!ess, stand
ing in front Of them, tho MaJor-Generai himself )
the military man with limit TO his ambition, who
| refused to accept the chief command OF the army
Burnside. the isvori'e OF tbe troops IN his blue shirt
knit jacket, aud riding boo.s With LIS Inc, hxhA
face and bic full, laughing eye.
Further 70 the LETT in the midst Of the valley you
note a dense little village OF tents They are Nc
Clellan's Headquarters. At the time Of Stuart
mid they were OF tho other ado of she mountain,
away from all the troops. The dsshing Rebel
ia ,sed only five or elk mites from them but he did
not know what Il prize was within lis grasp. lie
next day headquarters were removed to their pres
ent location.
! In the valley, the sun ia setting; the shadows,
mile long have crept hal across 1t. Hero, on Tue
nights, We have IA longer iease OF DAY.
10 tie northeast Tises solitary church sIire,
cut off midway by an intervening nonntsin. IL 10
Middleiown, Md, IL miles distant. To the north
and west your eye sweeys around over level section
of country with thrifty iarm-houses and columns OF
rising suioke past Frederick, Boonsboro', Sharpe
burg and Wihiamsp0d, 10 the Potomac. South OF
IT, the coDrJ cuons buildings OF SbepherdsJown Mar.
tinsburg; ChaflcelowD, behind iis narrow irhge u
woods; our balloon Of observation high IN tho air,
but ttt far below you; aud 90 your eve reaches the
| Shenandoah, at the loot Of Ioudon Hight. dissI-
peAriDg toward the southwest.
| Nearer under your very feet, are Bolivar Hishts
looking not like hill, but broad lteau; crowned
with tie tents Of Couohs oorI-, dingcd by Their
/ long onnpsigns, like n Spring snowdrt through
which the dirt begins to siit. Leading to them Is the
steep stree. through the village OF Bolivar, which
here seems perfectly level theu Harpers Fcrry and
glimpses Of the Potomac, gOldenins IN zoe sunset,
with trees Toeks, and walls mifrored m its mellow
face. -
The sun difappesp; toe gold o. the western bills
turns to silver the evening air IL cold and piercing.
You descend the nights and reapse into the roatinc
Of daily life; but the picture you have seen is one
which memory paints IL fast coors. A. d. n.