Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-07-09
Our next President and ice.President are
therefore to be chosen by the following:
From the Cleveland Leader.
The Maryland Raid.

| The Maryland Raid.
We have the report not very well verii-
ed, of formidable rebel foray in the Shen'
andoah Valley with threatening of Mary
J land, This section is favorite ground for
rumor, and 1t may be quite as well to
await something more definite. So far as
advices 60, it amounts to a considerable
force of ESel's men getting near or into
Martinsburg A day or two will bring the
truth 1t is not probable that any large
force of Rebels can be spared from Lee
long enough to do much damage.
WASHINGTON July 9Th, 9, P NJ
The general expectation is that this
raid will be practically over by tomorrow,
and that it will then be seen to have failed
in everything but its horse-stealing.
The War Department takes things very
composedly, and has from the FIRST expressed
no apprehension whatever.
The inhabitants of Maryland and Penn.
sylsana arc os usual in q dreadful state Of
excitement. The news Of the appearance
of the rebels caused no little excitement at
I Frederick All Government property and
the sick and wounded we're removed OF
once from the hospitals. The excitement
ct Hogerstown on Sunday night and Mon
day morning was intense. The merchants
were intently engaged in sending their
goods into the interior of Pennsylvania,
over the Hagerstown & Chambers Railroad
which was still in running order, in conse-
ouence of the severe losses heretofore sus
tanned by the merchants of the town, and
in anticipation of the possibility of another
h. 81; g bo TIof nd
Washington coun banks have removed to
Harrisburg for safety. The mlers of
Washington county, and there are large
numbers, also sending their -four out Of
harms way.
BALTIMORE, July 6.
The Evening American has the follow
ing review of the situation
An intelligent agent arrived this morn
ing from the vicinity of Harper's Ferry
and states that it is now definitely ascer-
tanned that the whole force Of the enemy
does not exceed 5000 men, of whom less
than one thousand are cavalry, and tae
balance infantry. They are concentrating
in aud around Harper's Ferry, aud are
} sending cut foraging parties to forage on
the people robbing them Of their watches
and money.
There was some skirmishing going on
between our troops AID the rebels across
the river, and occasionally shot aud shell
, were being thrown at them from the Mary
land Heights.
The fight of General Mulligan with the
advance of the rebels at Leetown is spoken
of as most gallant. He successfully re.
: pulsed them several times.
General Sigel moved towards Shephards.
town with his immense wagon train in
front, the protection of which was deemed
Of more Importance than the risking of a
general engagement. Nota wagon fell in
to the enemy's hands, and nothing was left
behind at Martinsburg, except some oats
which were set on fire before be left The
impression when our informant left, was
that the rebel force will retire before to-
morrow night, as general Hunter will he
in their rear by that time with an ample
force to overwhelm them, if they rem lin
longer.
The principal object OF this raid has
proved unsuccessful unless it be the damage
they have done to the railroad and canal,
the collection of conscripts and the plan.
dering of the inhabitants.
They have not attempted to leave the
line of the Potomac, except to rob stores
} at Point of Rocks. and destroying some
canal boats near Hancock.
What damage bas been done to the rail
}, road has not as yet been aseertained-they
n have not, probably, retired much beyond
! Martinsburg. There is no truth in the
r statement that rebel force has been to
q Boonsboro and Hagers stown or that q raid
' has been made on the railroad west o.
s Cumberland. General Wallace is o-oper
/ alng with Sigel, and has secured the entire
!, protection as far as Frederick, which il
e now safe.
D. The following is the latest from the Up
Ie per Potomac received up to this hour,
J. Pm.
It Some excitement was caused at Frederick
8 this morning, by the fact that a slight skir
/ nisb had occurred between our pickets ant
D a small squad of rebel scouts, about bal
e way between Frederick and Point OF Rock
: resulting in rebels retiring to the latte
place.
D From movements perceptible among th
If enemy at Harpers Ferry to-day, it wa
Is supposed that Hunter was pressing then
@ 10 their rear.
b Nothing definite could be ascertainet
u but there is every reason to believe tha
a. Hunter will be heard from to some pur
,t pose before long.
"a The safe arrival of Gen. Hunters force
! at Charlestown, Western Virginia, is an
:. nounced. ejudge from his dispatch tha
.. the story of the capture and destruction O
q our batteries was humbug. 1t is no,
y asserted that Hunter lost not q pound Q
army property. His losses in men will no
,f exceed 1000 in oil; the enemy's loss wa
: greater Our dispatch hints at new NOV
=, ment.
Ie Mr.. Fessenden was to-day sworn in a
De Secretary of the Treasury. Elk Secretar
1t Chase introducing him into the Office an
D. presenting him to the different heads {
ID Bureaus. The new Secretary had littl
,e conversation with them. and affairs passe
e off very plesantry. Chase is to remain
+. week or two to get him well started