The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-17
GENERAL EARLy,s ARMY.


THE PAINFUL ENlIuMENT ENGsI-Na ~ Many
LAND AND PENSsyLyiNlh-IuEN MOVEMENTS or
THE UNION FOHCES-EARLE's RAID EEARLY
BROUGrT 10 \ CLOSE -THT AFFAIR A. EcOEE-
PIELD-HosEBY AT WORK, ETC.
From hc RichWoR1 EldHHs", .sur'7
Sympathy is aroused By the accounts which
come through Yankee papers, Of the painful ex-
element existing % few ddEs ar. IA NrylI1l
and Pennsylvania, both among The pe9ceabi5
inhabitants and the Union troops and militia
which are supposed to DC projecting the country.
To read Of the severe march,ngs and counter
marchings Of these latter. when We remember
that the Thermometer ranged 50 high, and that
many OF them are of a full habit Of body, eXcites
pity, and pity is akin 10 love. The worst OF il
was they did not in the leas. know where 70 60 10
lind the Rebels.
They were only anxious Il would seem, 20 ind
those Rebels 20 meet them once on = far Held, IN
which case they would have prayed God 10 have
mercy on the Rebels souls. Somehow during
those several days when General Ear,ys men
were in Maryland and Pennsylvania, the rOgues
could never be found, although we are told that
the moment they crossed the Potomac, az Spring
run thirty thonsand Federal soldiers were at
once marched 10 Frederick, arriving there on q
Sunday evening. But on Monday morning,
learning that Early and BreckinrldSe had crossed
at Falling Waters, near WilliamspOrt crossed,
which way they could not tell, they rctracel
their steps to the ferry, and commenced march
mg up the valley OF the shenandoah. Butagail,
before they had got well in motion the orders
were cOuntermanded, and they TecT0sseI the
Potomac, and marched straightfO for Washington
At Washington, however was no rest for them,
and they were instantly sent back T. Frederick.
No wonder the army correspondent adds :-'Ihe
commands are iearfnlly worn out" But the most
singular thing is, that In all these long aud toll
sCme MARCHES they could never meet with Early
and Breckinrdge," nor, indeed, gain any certain
tidings Of their movements. This was surely
strange enough, inasmnch as L appears by Other
accounts in the same Yankee papers that General
EaIIV all this while UpaepfulIV lfthrpEhtpp
wheat" in the valley, While those thirty thou
sand ardent Federal troops were so labOriously
tOing over dusty roads, IN the sun, and drop
ming down by hundreds with fatigue and
hardships as they eagerly rushed in search
OF the Rebels everywhere where the Rebels
were not IL would seem by this other account
that General Eurly was addcting himself
10 the sweet pleasures and gentle tolls Of an agri-
cultural and pastoral life, threshing out his wheat
under the shade OF trees In sequestered wales,
and the Rebel sword was turned into a reaping
hook, and brigades that had often .reaped har-
vest Of Yankees were now sweeping down the
yellow ears in sYaths, toiling not too ardently,
but like any Arcadan SSFains, while hayersaeks
and blapltets were placed In the shade near some
gushing spring INC place OF their evening Icpast
and repose Some are detailed to pull fodder
( fclret opu0 for the fair herds that come wend-
ing their way with musical ringing of bells from
pastures beyond the river; Tor Early has now
abundant swarms of cattle and sheep dotting the
rich green glades which stretch around him for
with bees and while one regiment is on duty
milking the COWS and churning the butter,
another is despoiling the industrious insect Of
its stores of honey and wax Truly Georgical
and buooliCal scene altogether.
EARLY's RAID NEARLY BROUGHT TO 4 CLOSE.
We may, perhaps, collect from the latest intel
ligcnce ", hiCh has reached us that General Early
has nearly brought his rural and pastoral pursuits
10 a close; that long trains Of wagons are now
ascending the Shenandoah valley at leisurely
pace, collecting as they go the new-threshed
heaps OF golden treasure; aud that innumerable
professions of fine cows and beeYes are moving
southward slowly, laying the stubble fields bare
as they adyancej for not too much hur ried must
be the milky mother, while Confederate reapers
threslers, and droyers resume their warlike array
and await the appearance OF those aYenglng hosts
witch are searching for them with such headlong
fury. General Early has laid aside his pastoral
crook, and his outer pipe no Longer makes music
under the greenwood tree. AS to tho thirty or
forty thousand terrible Yankees who thirst for his
blood, we would take the liberty Of advising them
to 50 w not fpsiDg him. let them garry On ths