New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-09
Appearance Of Alexandria-The Great
BIundcr In the Recent Campaign
Movements Of Jackson-The Patients
in ahe Hospitals.
From Our Special Correspondent

From Our Special Correspondent
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Sunday, Sept :. 1862.
Alexandra to-day presents a very different ap-
pearance from that which il presented last Sunday.
One short week has made great change. week
ago to-day this city the great absorbing point Of
interest. All eyes were turned toward it, and many
Of them painfully. All news furnished from mere
WAS looked for and read with deep interest. Our
great armies had not then fallen back beyond Cen
treyille and vast re-enforcemens were moving up
to their assrtance every one predicted that jackson
and his for thousand" were in tight place. and
that he woud be surely baggtd if rot utterly ami
Inflated. Ii any predicted that the forty thons
and" would drive back our grand armies who must
have numbered over one hundred thousand men, to
their intrenchments and for ifca,ons before Wash
ington, who would believe him Aud yet tins is
exactly what has happened, and why because
some one had Numbered" One Of the greatest mil
tary bunder believe that ever happened war that
of which the poet sings about the Z" five hundred
but the future poet will have TO sing of greater
bunder about the A" hundred thousand who, under
the command of Pope, gave way before Jackson's
" forty thousand"
Every soldier believes that we had more troops
than the Rebels; every soldier believes our men
fought better; but every soldier knows that it was
not they who lost the battle but the incompetent
commander. who had our troops scattered and ia
long narrow lines and not within supporting distance
Of each other instead of massing them as Jackson
had messed his troops and bringing ulass against
mass when tie superiority OF our men would
soon show itself by routing the Rebels. But every
one LOWS that when solid mass of troops engage
detached lines victory must IN most cases be theIs.
This city, which, one week ago to-day, WAS over
flowing with troops and baggage trains, and crowded
TO excess with artillery and ammunition wagons,
ambnances and carriages mixed mp in dire confu-
sion, and which move hitler and tlither IN long
columns along the streets and rs they rolled heavily
along cansed reverberation cquaed only by the
noise OF the caaracts Of Niagara, is now deserted
and quiet and lonely. The railroad depot where
this time last Sunday hundreds of cars were loaded
aud made up in long trains ami where nothing could
be seen bur iron horses by the Dozen some Harvesting
and others waiting impatiently, with muIItndes OF
soldiers doctors and nurses Is to-day deserted. As
| walked through the depot an hour ago, all was
still as death. One lone locomotive stood on the
track singing subdued song, beside her song
nothing was TO DO heard, i'll the country outside
the depot:
The bees dreamy chihne
Two hundred cars were destroyed by the Rebels
at Manassas beside eight of the very best ocoIno-
tives that were ON the road. The locomotives were
only slightly injured and are no doubt by this time
in Richmond
The public eye rests no longer on Alexandria, but
low Yspdsys W and down Ihs Upper Potomac, be-