New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-15
A Gossippy letter.
From Our Special Correspondent.
EIGHTEFSTH AMY CoIrs

ARMY OF POTOMAC, Friday, June 10. 1854,
No movement Of Importance has taken place
since nv last letter with the possible exception Of
airy operations whose details have not yet been promul
gated and the quiet which then beginning il now
deepening. Last night almost unbroken by any
disturbing sounds Artillery has almost ceased firing
on both sides. and only occasional muskct shots ring
through the woods the stiffness sometimes being a. per
feet az though there no war 10 suffering no con
tradcton Of the peacefuDess Of nature Casualties are
few The row Of thrty.Seyen mounds near tie corps
hospital may may have grown to forty since Wcdnes-
day In the hospital itself the Of wounded accu'
nulae slowly most Of the occupants being sick Fear
fl az the fighting Of this campaign hts been. and bloody
as was the charge by which The Eisliecnth Corps
proved the day of It's arrival its right 20 be Dnn-
bered among this army o. tried and true, u is yet an
uncomfortable fact that insction especially in hot sun
and sand decimstes an army much as battles The
lives Of the men may not be Lost but the drain fro the
effective strength Of an army is constant
Even by comparison with Other military fields OF Vir
ginia the present locality il dfeary one We are Is
miles from the water base and except al general
beadq quarters mails rarity. and n newspaper a
thing TO he fought for and afterwards hnmbed TO pieces
when strays into camp. The smiling clover which
was near tie white House has parsed from sight ~ tie
westward march, giving place TO intermnabe wastes
aud miles of desert road, which the sand deepers
daily To and fro pass the wagons at MI hours Of the
day aud night, and a cloud Of hot choking sand focis
above the road and sweeps against horsemen and pee
TRANS II is the ghasiy and binding mis OF the poem
only il is tangible and present. There II but little
the vicinity and The sky is hot hfas' even The
ring around last nights mooni being longer sign 10
this wicked general on Two miles on the road cast
ward mill pond Of considerable sine lies IN hollow
where the road makes sudden descent and sweeping
curve and here Is all have noticed yet that suggests
sccpcrv either by resemblance or by contrast ~ Nca-
York and New.Yngland, ard your mills which are
despair 10 language as sunsets to tie palette 20
think Of you and June, both lost 10 me for this year
The pond Las its nil and was formerly a place CT
vaue and extensive resort water privileges arc rare
In Ills section and The army cannot burn or drink
ND the pond it will be useful hereafter II drove hut
two sets Of stones which are lying ont OF doors ID"
gearing displaced below the main floor, but the iio
wheel turns. now fast slow, as tie men play with
the gate and In liz Turning makes Il dripping "ii'h
fphtens borsos as hey descendibe hill and yet is Tho
most romantic thing in the neighborhood.
OF conrse no rood Of ground he discovered which
has not been FOUGHT over Approaching the front The
las. mile or 80 leads ever recent battle-ground mere
and there O tree hangs over. cut by she'll and one
large round topped osk has half Of it, top sashed
away possibly by on AK only one large limb shows
plainly where shot struck IT, The road - stre"n-
almost paved with carcaes OF horses and mules moss
of which destroyed by hard army usage Tor poT
ton Of the road White House they seemed to inc 70
average one TO every twenty feet. AZ first unDured
they now partly covered with loose dit IN lille
mounds which dot the roadside. But Their BODIES are
not all concealed and when they are the hoos ana legs
prorudc. and flies gather and fatten. ana tue mr. j.
poison and on passing one rider or fooDan in'oln'
tarily shrinls from the foul blow which will srike his
senses from one or the other side. II Is al sand
plowed ground, green bacbberres, young peach trees
with small tantalzng hard mutt water melon patches
which deTde us because cannot wait for tie con