The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-13
LATER FRcm THE NORTH.

We are indebted to the courtesy of a dis
tinguished officer of the army for copy of
the New York Herald of Saturday last, the
oh inst. We give summary of the intel
ligence 1t contains;
the RAID IN MakytANp-ygv y.NKrps IN A xoa
AMOUR THE sTRsnorH rHs cofrkpERA ArEs--
the WORK or DESTRUCTION BY TIRE REBRLs
The Herald contains fun complement of dis
patches about the "Taid" into Maryland, but does
not seem TO be any 4he wiser AFTER publishing
them II Is in rather bad humor over the fsgey
state of aifiirs, and says;
The rebel raid into Maryland and Pennsyivania
Is the most contemplate warike 6zzIe or The pro.
foundest and most formidable sltaiegic military
movement oi modern times Sum ming up all the re-.
ports concerning II Of the last tw en- ty four hours
II IL an Invasion by few sirIgg log squads OF
horse thieves, tntent only upon plunJer; and IL
IS, on tue q her hand, bold dash Of two thirds Of
the rebel army from Richmond, under the con-.
man OF General Lee himself, resolved upon the
capture OF Washington, Including Old Abe and
ms Cabinet, by flank movement by way OF
Bllumote.
VAN that we can undertake to voueh for coseeTn.
log this mysterious rebel Invasion IL that Gen ST.
gel, by a body ot rebels supposed to be several
thousand strong, was Gfghtened away ireil Mar
tinsbars To uarper's Ferry, and from thai place
across the Potomac to the Maryland Heights,
overlooking The town, where he supposed 10
bt httuIGs tndt Il snlaii feBel sVu3u has Deen tie
monstFatins for ten or fifteen miles below, along
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal AID the railroad
that aodSier squad Usling forward for the ci y oi
Frederick, has been checked and fepn!sed by Gen
VA lace that other detachments of these terrible
raiders, alleged 10 have been there, have disap
peared from Hagerstown and Chambcrsburg; that
Gen Lee Is still in the vicinity Of Richmond; that
Gen Hunter is somewhere up the Shenandoah
valley, inddsttiously searching for the enemy bnt
whether all tSe rohel forces concerned In this
movement aeain-t Washington amount TO fifty
thousand men or fifteen hundred we canndt, from
the abundant Information before US, determine,
nor tell The reader where they are, where they
have been all this time, what they have accom-
piished, ar whither bound.
We congratulate The Administration that Wash
inston may be considered out Of danger, and we
entertain the hope that this iavisible invading
rtbal army ot iotly or htty thousand men, more
ar less, a. the may be, VIII fail to g0bbie up
the column ot General Hunter liz its retreat. We
hope that Secretary Stanton win soon be sufi-
cienty recovered TO resume his war bulletins TO
Gcnefal Dix, including some reliable account Of
this terrible rebel raid.
' In another article IL characterizes the raid as
''ihe final Fl uits of the Presidents interference
with Gen Grants campaign, and of the conse
quent blum defS and mismanagement," p Gni says
Had Gen Grants original plan bceu properly
carried out no such advance this could la ye
been made; for she number of men allotted to the
valley column could under proper commander,
have done all that was 10 be done, aud have he Ii
iiic VANITY usO3 uut OF one OF tl6
Presidents incapab es 10 that command disleiDted
the whole plan, and put matters In such bad state
that an able commander, when appointed, coui not
get them In proper position in TIME to prev. mt dis
astcr. The country has therefore for third time
10 thank the biunders of ,he Administration for i
rebel Invasion of the loyal States and if this
rebel column shall collect an immense quantity
of supplies, aud get that precious plumber safely
within lees liues, that will be most important
aid and comfort given TO the. enemy at q critical
moment by the bIunders of the Admins tration.
Aside from the possibility that this force on the
Potomac may get TO Richmond with its plumber
we ate not at all disposed u deplere the move
ment IL necs ssaiiy involves some loss to loyal
citizens; bat we can endure that In view Of the
fact that il may b re an advantage elsewhere. We
are Inclined to regard the announcement that Lee
has sent a corps to the Potomac the announce
lnrRt in other words that Lee has committed
blunder by a dangerous division of his forces. lie
is In presence OF a man able TO take advantage of
such an error, and We venture 10 hope that this
movenen, may break up the apparent status south
oi Richmond, and give an entirely new impulse to
ur operations there.
hsto the political effect of the raid, the Herald
thinks that every time Southern army comes TO
the Potomac il strengthens the Administration.
because il sinp'iGes all questions and issues tina.
are before the people. II boi's al, politics down
10 the two facts Of the public enemy on ont, hand
aud the Government on the other, and every one
stands by the Government, of course. In its
"situation'' article II says:
The facts are ascertained that the rebels with
drew from before Frederick on THURSDAY Etrht
that General Wallace Is strongly nfurcrd that
the safety ct that place Is secured, and that The
position which Gen aigei took on MARYLAND
Heights, after he ran away from Martinsburg, Is
above all chance of being mo!cs,ed by the rebels.
uaYpeT's Ferry has also been evacuated by the reb
ci forces 1hy have also withdrawn from Green
castle. Some ni our dispatches say that the enc
my were 10000 strong, and consisted Of infantry
aud artii cry, as well as Cavalry Oilers report
that they Were entirely composed Of cavalry, and
numbered not more Than 800 However that
may be, they did considerable damage, and levied
heavy contributions upon the people at Hagers
town, Chambersburg and Greencasle.
e. ! hey did not destroy much OF the Baltimore
and OHIO Railroad as was at first reported, proba-
bly, not more Than ten miles west from Martins
burg, and some important bridges They had
tired from Hagerstown iast evening, and the ex-
citement was abaiHg there. Gen Couch has
taken Beas sufes 10 arrest the panic of the inhabi
tants BY ordering that all vehicles and horses shal
be stopped at the bridge across the eusquehanna,
or before they reach there.
The raid thus appears to be nearly played out,
as far as recent reports represent il.
The press kilograms are, as usual, vol luminous,
but confused. A new column of raiders, under
Gen imboden, who crossed at Wiliamspori, en-
tered Hagetstown about O'Clock on the morning
OF the Sti ihst The raiders who entered ii the
day before having left by the Boonesboro' road y
The raiders didn't seem TO reg ard the 500 coo
and the outfits paid by the town to the other
raiders, and their conducti Is thus described in a
Telegram from oham bersburg
They are ransackiHg the town and committing
all manner of depredations and have burned
several private dwelling houses. How large
force occupies the town is not stated
The greatest excitement prevails all over the
cocntfy and the people are leaving their homes
and taking the cars for Carlisle and Harrisburg
In large numbers.
When the citizen of Hagerstown paid the $780,
900 that the first party demanded, they were pro-
snised that themselves and properly should be pro-
tected bat the scGundres are piundering ana de-
stroyns their houses in direct opposition 10 their
promises.
No,wItbstanding the $40 600 the Inhabitants had
paid for projections, imboden insisted on burning
Islief 4 Co.'S warehouse unless the citizens would
nay him si501 more, which they did.
Happily for the unfortunate citizens Of Hagers-
tosa, rle v0raciGus imbodcn left after staying In
the place about four hours. lie took The Shafps
burg road
a ,eleg,aa from Philadelphia, dated the sth,
says:
A dispatch, dated two miles north of Hagefs
town, ten II to day, states shet one hundred and
eighty picket gueii las, from Imboden's and Nos
by's commands, entered HageIstown al O'Clock
where tn were robbing the stores and had fired
the eBgi house, fhurstons warehouse, and two
hundred ions Of Government hay. They also in
tended tU burn Zeiia Co.'s warehouse and
threatened to burn the town. The lurntabIe of
the rail- rad had not been touched yet The rebels
were eavlly laden with p!under.
The rebel General McCausland, with his brigade,
tIn.