Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-09-03
SOMETHING ABOUT MOsBY.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, AUGUST 90 1868.
To tie Editors Of The National Intellgsncer:
In the earlier part of this rebellion the daring exploits
of Asbby spread far and wide, ind this gentleman
not trained soldier, but good rider and brave man.
won for himself the reputation of peuz csUaier that
upon the Of his death apprecative
tagonist said of him
Il give the lands of pelorains,
Dark Musgrave were alive again
1t fitting that the rebellion getting faint and
low that such fame Ashbys should be succeeded by
something less lofty in character and am but certainly
Mosby has stern bodness and adrotness which ent him
to no mean regard Mosby knows how to profit by the
condition of persons hngs around him. and has been
of great service to the rebels There is no doubt 10 the
mind of the writer of this that the attack upon Mroy al
Winchester and the earlier movements of Lees army 10
that direction in accordance with information fur
nshed by Mosby. who had been all the previous winter
hanging upon lines, accommodating the dences, and
occasionally stingipg the Union forces The prssent
poyment of this leader of band varying in number
the purposes he seeks to accomplish may require from
fifty to hundred and fifty is the punder of suffers and
wagon trains the furnishing Of horses to the Confede
rates contracted and paid for by Government BY
dividing his force into squads Of m twenty and send
ing them in different directions he gains sort of ubiqut
character, for hear of hs presence the
ngb at places twenty miles apart but be has fix d rem
devious has eucamped for the pact week chiefly on
the Cook Ftzhugh farm and its vicinity, at points about
equlc isant from the tunpkes each side men are
dressed in gray have Il rent cnored wooen hats, will
black feather, aud have red morocco holsters They
carry no sabres and mye with none Of the jingle and
catter of cavalry Mosby has taken little pains
impress upon the citizens of Fairfax that he designs no
harm to them their property and has given up
horses taken by his men from ctzrns by this
ming forbearance be purchases immunity from Union
men, while OF he is ente by all the
lists Under these circumstances he r., Is pretty much al
home within sight of the Capital He has his emissares
in Georgetown and Washington (he is sad to have been
in the former place recently and knows when to look for
Government trains He got some rers rsshnents for his
few ghts since Bsiley's Cross Roads and
rendered twenty dollar Con in payment but
being INSURED that worth nothing here be took
back and gave the ia green-hack, remarking
to the recipient that if he would up into his coun-
try he could buy grain with the other You will observe
that there scrupl, about skng pay as was the
with Balie col Jarye when Rob y produced his
sporran but only that the money, however by,
was no use"
1t somewhat ostentatiouslY published short time
since in of your city papers that to be
taken To rid the county Of this ard hs gang
has been since punderIng trains and lining his
tnue to do until opposed by equal to him 10
erey and sagacity After all his ravages to take Mosby
would be nearly famous to take Charleston" aud
the latter is likely to happen from present appearances
sooner than the former CHI IT,