The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-07-21
Exit! the Raiders.

The rebels who for number of days,
Of late, played sad havoc in "My Mary
land" and who even attempted to capture
the National Capital by surprise,-to tie
intense alarm of we staid loyal Northerners,
= have all evanished, gone whence they
came, skedaddled The raid, or invasion,
or whatever you choose to call it, is there
fore practically at an end, and we are at
liberty to breathe free once again. The
following paragraphs from the National
Intel1igencer of Friday will show the stu
alton of affairs around Washington at that
date
The military demonstration made by an
unknown force of the enemy on the out
skirts Of the National Capital, within the
last few days, has come to an end. This
demonstration did not take the form of
anything like an ''attack on the city," ex-
cept in front of Fort Stevens, where some
skirmishing declared the presence of a
hostile force on Monday and Tuesday last
The number of the enemv'S force at this
point, or at any other, was utterly un-
has been subsequently developed that at
this locality it never much, if at all, ex-
ceeded FIVE or six hundred men. We
have received information to this effec.
from officers who have traced the marks
of the encampment of the besiegers since
their evasion during the night of Tuesday
last, after the reconnaissance which, late
IN the evening Of that day, was ordered
by General Wright for the purpose Of
feeling the strength of the enemy. 1t is,
moreover, confirmed by the testimony Of
persons who have come into the city since
the seige was raised
Some slight demonstrations were made
by the enemy at two other points on our
northern aud northeastern front, but the
number engaged in them, or in the dash
made on the railroad between Washington
and Baltimore, on Tuesday last, is, of
course, unknown, though, from the power
ty of their achievements, these co-opera.
tive detachments must also have baen
small.
The reconnaissance on Tuesday evening,
il front of Fort Stevens, resulted in a
smart brush with the beseiging party, who
were easily driven by the small body of
our troops sent out on the scout, until
darkness put an eud to the pursuit. Our
troops lost about three Hundred men in
killed, ded, and missing, in the at
tack. The insurgent loss was not so great,
from the paucity of their numbers in the
engagement. They left upwards of nine
ty of their wounded at the house of Mr..
Blair, and few of their dead on the field.
At day-break yesterday morning the
enemy was no longer visible, and so, for
the present, ends what viii. pass in history
as the ''two days seige Of Washington"
which terminated as mysteriously as 1t
began. We shall be able to clear up the
mystery in day or two, till which time
we reserve further comments on this sug-
gestive subject.
The location, number, and distribution
Of the other forces engaged in the inya-
sion Of Maryland, during the siege OF
Washington, are unknown to us, and We
presume equally unknown to our military
authorities. Further information on all
these points may probably be elicited by
the pursuit of the enemy, which is now
being pressed by the experienced and
gallant troops of the 9th Army Corps.
We regret to state that before decam D.
ing from the CITY the Graders" burnt the
country seat of the Hon. Montgomery
Blair, the Postmaster General, and rifed
the mansion of his father, Dir. Francis p.
Blair, abstracting, it is supposed, the pa
pers and correspondence of this gentleman
covering period of forty years.
The latest news represents the raiders
in rapid retreat southward, laden with a
profusion of stolen booty, with our forces
in close pursuit.