New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-29
TIE WAR NEWS.

Gen. Hooker, after the last serious delay
caused by the storm made all haste to get
ready once more, and his arrangements were
completed last week. On Monday morning at
daylight the movement began, the Seventh and
Eleventh Corps and the Cavalry Corps taking
the lead. How far the grand movement has
progressed we can only infer from the time
which has elapsed; but if no unexpected
OBJ struction has interfered, the crossing ought
by this time to be far advanced.
Yesterday was the most heroic day which
New-York has witnessed since %, 900 troops
marched up Broadway upon the close
of the war with Great Britain in 1915. We
welcomed home yesterday two Of the regiments
which saved the honor of our arms at Bull
Run, and have ever since been Drawing
war and it's horrors-not simply classic,
Casarean war-but modern conflict, where
all tine ingenuity which sbolishes time
aud distance is inyOlved-where shot
kills as surely at mile as ut yard, and
the enemy is felt up to death before he is
seen. 1t was impossible for the greatest
deyotee of the nil admirdri doctrine not to
be stirred to the innermost fiber OF his
heart, in witnessing the simple and sublime
march of these men up Broadway. They
were as severe in their outside gear 10
Diogenes in his tub. Their clothes matched
their faces. They bore the marks Of exposure,
service. conflict. No holiday colors were
III nil dirpn maj in
brightness, but rent, or torn to sbreds All
was the symbol of effort, courage, achievement
of manhood ia its gandest forms, under ter
rible perils. Whether it was the score Of gallant
buclers who sent forth their strains in unisons or
sOnoreus third the drummer boys who killed
the time which led the heroes on eternity;
the undemonstrstve rank and file, or the
mounted officers dofing their caps to the cheers
of the bystanders, and to the waving of hand.
kerchiefs from windows-there was but one
family type in the men: they were all as
Demosthenes in the eloquence Of heroism.
We had but one regret for the occasion. The
citizens had no certain information as to the
hour when the troops would arrive. Had there
been perfect understanding on this point,
Broadway would not have contained the
rush of spectators eager to do homage
to them. A hundred thousand admirers
above and beyond those present would
have lined the sidewalks and cheered their
brothers. We perceive q statement that the
returned soldiers are angry because they were
not permitted to carry their arms and had to
,,,tb ,hnla nT ba,
We are safe in affirming that if the military
authorities at Washington had supposed that
the order to that effect would have given
ofeDse, it would not have been issued.
There lie a sort Of general scare all along
the Virginia border from Harper's Ferry to
Wheeling but thus far we have nothing to
warrant unusual nervousness. Wheeling papers
speok of Rebel raid upon Beverly, West
Virginia. driving our forces back to Buckhannon;
the Rebel pickets were said to be at Philippe,
SO miles north of Beverly. The Rebels appear
to be irregular forces under Imboden. Ii is
added that they have cut the telegraph at Oak.
land (On the b. d o. Il. r., near the West.
ern line of Maryland), and were committing
depredatons on the railroad. The special posi-.
ton of our forces under COL Latham was not
known, but they were supposed to be some.
where near BuckhannoD. A dispatch from Har-
per's Ferry states that it is understood there
that the Rebel Gems. Jones and Imboden, with
some force it is not said how great are at
Moorleld, probably on their way to New
Creek, to destroy the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road in that vicinity. A Rebel force of about
a, 900 men, under Gen. Boyd, left the vicinity
of Winchester early last week. aud il is thought
have gone westward for raid on the railroad.
On Sunday morning the force that appeared at
ROwesburg during the night were at Altamont,
this side of Oakland, and committed some dep
relations there, seiziDg o locomotive and train,
which they started away with, declaring their
intention to 20 to Oakland and Rowlesburg.
There are various rumors of marching on
Wheeling, invading Maryland, &c, but they
have no authentic shape as yet. On our side
it i, said that all necessary preparations have
been made to meet any probable danger.
Richmond papers Of Monday have some
telegraphic items of interest. They claim a
small cavalry victory at Birmingham, Miss,
on the Oath, saying that 10 Union soldiers
were killed. Gen. Dodge, with Union force
of 1000, was near East Tuscumbia on the
25th. The Rebel Col. Rode was opposing him,
but retreating. A slOop loaded with cotton
was beached and burned in Wassaw Sound,
near Savannah, on the 23d. Tullahoma ad-
vices to the 25th represent all quiet,
but indicate that a movement is probable;
the Rebels say the Unionists dare not make an
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