New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-20
FROM WESTERN VIRGINIA.
The Great Rebel Raid la Western Eir'"
1t. Extent, Success. aud Periin""' -
ats Present Proportions and Tfe"""-
inn Attitude.

sfsu Our special Contspcnfeni .
MaHrtS.nuEo Va say j! 1874
The recent guerrilla iorAy uuder Jone and WIDER
eo6p.rating with ImLoden aud jenkins ~ western
Virginia # less bold and brilliant tian s.oheH"n
ulop to tue gates Of Richmond Las 'ef'aihIy proven
more deliberate aud dimagng-S' much more pfoh''
nbe than the Union raid 1t more extensive pro-
tractsd and alarming.
The original dash fre.n the Valley 81 Virginia,
through Greenland zap, aud along aud aoross the
H.l,,no,e and OMo Railroad, by WAY If Alinmont,
OAKLAND Cranberry Summit, Kingwood, Newburg'
and Cnafton--thence to Morgsntown, capturing MI
tia threatening Pit,sburg aud throwing all South
We,t.rn PennrylvAnis into panic, and 20 SOUTH
yardly again gobbling up" Mulligans detach
ments at Fainnont, aud blowing up both The hnt
bridges there then crossing the North" eStern |lf
uinia road destroying more brdgesi hnd inaliy
sinnino between Keniy's brigade on the ebst aud
Gen Kobers's on the west, and escaping scot free III
Tie direction of Ph,nppi-all this was accomplished
by les. ihan 800 cavalry, lmboden IL the same time
making successful decentralization with infantry 1T
Beverly driving forces there IN the direction OF
Pmhppi, cOmpt Hug the obstruction Of consdera-
bic quantity of stores, and capturing much camp ma
teiial beside nearly 900 head Of cattle.
In this ioray, which now appears to have been
merely initial, these rough-riders trayersed after
rrkinR the Baltimore aud ONO Railroad, the Coun-
ties of Allegheny, In Maryland, and Preston.
MonOnghsia las lar vs. the Pennry wanna hne), Ma
non Isylor, Tucker, Barbour Randolph, aud Up
shur, III Virginia Al Greenland Gap they partly
disperssd, partly captured Union party OF ~ men,
which met them with most spirited resistance. Al
Al,smont they cut the telegraph, and captured n
train Of coal cars. Passing thence through the
ades they destroyed the railroad bridge OF timber
and iron over The loughOgeny, near Oakland. Al
Cranberry Summit they divided their forces and
pushed westward in two detachnents. Ono Of
! apfntU ~ al
Kiogwood, in Preston County; the other made
d.tour 20 tho soulh ward, below Rowlesburg, and
Alter some unsuccessful skirmshinB with MAJOR
Showalters battalion. detailed 10 guard tho famous
yaduct over the Cheat River they crossed the rail.
road again al Newburg, twelve miles west Of
KowlesDurg and there demolished the Company y
extensive workshop, asd the engine houses erected
TO accommodate the relay engines required on the
Cheat River grades. Near NewbufR, 90 miles west
of Cumberland, they destroyed IL bridge over khc.
coon Creek, ana Immediately pressed on toward
Grafton psce OF great railroad Importance, as the
point of junction o the main som vi The Baltimore
aud OHIO Road with the Parkersburg branch, Nh j
the seat a extensive hine-shops aud engine
houses together with handsome hotel erected ny
the COMPANY. But Grafton wss defended by the
stauch Col Mulhgan f. Lexington Mulligan who
showed " formidable an array that the discreet
rieyers gave him. nautical pai lance, wide berth
IufniH now to the other detachment which, from
Cranberry Summit, struck off 10 the north-west,
through kingwood, we lind them st SoiBan'oWh
ia Mono,ghalla County where presently they We're
Ioned b5 their fellows irom Newbury ana oralton
As tho entered MOrsantown, on Monday al z
o'clock they were met by the Mayor with Nag oi
truce Who surrendered the place 70 them. lhcy re-
maine, there four hours, ana then retired 10 hyhn
rome tx miles south, where they eneamptd. ny
this tine rumor had msgnIted their force 10 = JOY
NIL Avalry. On Monday night they Te.'n.u "
Mopanown, aud captured al lcas, my noiIes,
10. iher with IA considerable quantity OF portable
o. Sforts but no children were ihoieneu
oriIurmed. On Monday evening they retred again
IA camp at Bloomfield, nine mileo south oil mOrtnh
twn, whence they Bent out iorIginS pAi'ies' WI"