Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-07-28

some houses stole all the horses they could nnd pandeed
bey appear generally TO have worked ia jolly sort OF
way-as though they had keen appreciation OF the ao
that they doing big thing had frightened the border
and the upper Potomac into shameless righteousness ana
were holding Washington by the throat tor the time being
But these country people were not OF the sort 10 whom
manhood is well developed and their stories needed 70 Do
taken with great range OF allowance The clerks OF tho
various Depar completing their organizations
Members of the Union League hlther ana lhther
il announced the afternoon that that BODY would
take the field The ank and lean biposter was putting
out the circulars of the various officers OF the militia
Three or four gentlemen soliciting enlistments IN
volunteer companies of thirty days men There were
good horsemen the street. but hey gonera rodo
at more moderate pace.
AFFAIR AT SEVENTH STREET FRONT.
In the afternoon the rebels made considerable show OF
force and activity beyond Fort Stevens ana 10 the neigh
borhood of the Blair mansion The report OF the prece
ding day to the effect that the rebels had burnt proved
incorrect At this point if any where the rebels meant
to break the line of Notifications Several houses whcn
afforded shelter to their sharpshooters had been burned
ring the night by boys but there were one or TWO yet
remaining The sharpshooters annoyed u.s. Many men
had been shot by them To dodee those sharpshooter
and drive them away was the principal ehort OF the ate
noon The men were mpatient-they wanted to 90 OUT
and have fight and clear tho rebels out oil he WOODS
Generally they refused to believe that the enemy was IN
at bay said wiry lieutenant There was deal OF man
Guverng small scale for three or four hours by Whon
the rebels were driven back mile or without any Sc
rous loss There many spectators out there
one or two of whom hit BY the enemy should
feel that it lifelong disgrace to have Drother nv
while looking on" ssd little black-eyed lady to me ID
he were shot in battle, that would be an honor but
wound got while looking to see others fight would Dc
forever badge OF shame The President was out mere
also Mrs Lincoln, Secretary Wees. and three OF
four Senator'S The extra papers heraded the affair as
great battle while in fact the whole thing uch small
skrmsh that it only provoked the veterans OF many pat
ties Three four Major Generals and dozen or so OF
Brigadiers were on the ground and giving orders
EVENING VIEWS OF THE SITUATION.
The evening came down in soft and soothing beauty
eth be splendid occasion for night attack, SAID one
of our group And l be asplendid night TO repe an
attack" said another Don't overlook what splendid
night it is for marching away" sand the third Inere
and apprehensons but mostly felt that the danger mad
been magned Go out to Fort Stevens and stay three
hours did, and you'll feel as do-that the whole
thing is sham" said one There's too much fuss and
feathers said hslfdrunken soldier in front OF the Ma
| tiona Hotel early in the evening" " Damn It, say
there's too much fuss and feathers they don't let US
wade in :" He was altogether too drunk to " wade 10
with any steadness but his criticism might have been
sound nevertheless Whence the report OF con-
tempated night assault is more than know Perhaps
from the rebel spies and sympahlzsrs No one doubts
that the rebel force knew every thing done IN the CITY
very likely their spies penetrated the War Office Late
in the evening confirmation OF the report thaL the
railroad cut fifteen miles out from the city.
Was the joke becoming serious affair Most persons
still refused to believe that any thing very dangerous
would of it, but good many began to growl at the
authorities for allowing it to be carried SO far We've
got great army here Wallace has good body OF troops
at Baltimore under the brave Ord and Hunter has seve-
raj thousand some where toward Harpers Ferry
Why isn't something done 7" said more than one man.
With that judgment Washington went to bed
FOURTH AcT-wEDNEsDAY.
Went to bed to sleep undisurbed went to bed to rise
in the camnes and sweetness and silence of Wednesday
morning, and find the game gone-sll gone! Like the
Arabs they had folded their tents they had any and
like .ham they had stolen silently away Stolen away;
Leaving 70 ma the shame Of their presence n Maryland the
shame of their alright of Dsinnore the shame OF their
possession of the gateways of the Capa the shame OF
their midnight escape from twice their numbers stolen
away leaving the disgrace of but an hundred prisoners
the Disgrace Of bringing thirty thousand men here as de
fence against i've Thousand the disgrace OF proving now
little manhood we have in upper Maryland and lower
Pennsylvania Stolen away after ravaglng halt state,
riding round great city, sitting for two days 10 the
gates Of another great city snd bs sons
Capital Stolen away; rich in horses and forage and
provisions rich in and money ond sympathy Stolen
away leaving the heritage of shame and disgrace, oil
dead bodies and old rags and camp garbage Stolen away
leaving the consciousness that we had teen nsuted
aud Inundated and had not dared ask apology that We
had been oed in strategy beaten in battle oufwted IN
generalshp, outdons in srdacty, and utterly overhrewn
in the game OF war!
AFFAIRS IN THE CITY.
People readily believed the fact They accepted the
humiating story at Better than to have chung
to the belief that the rebels had not gomez Business
its old paths. Flour held at twenty-five dollars
per barrel but the gaspng and greedy grocers too
late, and it dropped to sixteen before night This is
CANNED BOtolBr az No Rrltteu
teeh while spoke of the result of the invasion Pro-
vokinpl, an Uered his fellow cts enough to make
man curse the day he born" Late in the afternoon
mail was got off, but night iand US yet reading the New
York papers of Saturday last Four days cut on from
newspapers and civilization Workmen were sent out
during the day to repair the railroad and the telegraph
For the FIVE bundreth time every body wondered what had
been done and said at the North since Sunday morning
The last letter received before communication was cut
from just starting for Louisiana In it is this SEN
teuce 60 bear my share OF the dangers and abors
Of plantation life in rebel times and rebel territory And
/ read it Sunday, rebel hordes marching
the city and next day there greater dangers for
me- but took long afternoon walk countryward than
for him in tho whole OF Tensas parish when he arrives
there.
AFFAIRS AT THE FRoHT.
ride the battlefield beyond Fort Stevens deve-
opd that there had been sharper fighting than at
first supposed Houses barns sheds fences trees every
thing bore marks of the conflict The rebels left their
dead and wounded upon the fed-donbtess they remsn
ed long safe to do So Negroes were sent
worry of feres the less sweetly because buried
by negroes the grain field where they fell Sixteen
IN grave, in another and yet four in another
while score more sleep sinRly 10 couples Doubt
less the bodies have not yet all been found. About
hundred wounded fell to charge. During the day
seventy live or eighty prisoners tsken-stragglers
and ruuaways.
CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER.
Chant chant, o people-cbsnt anew the old refrain,
" All is quiet the Potomac I" Sing aloud, sing aloud,
nston-~sug jublaniy once more, Washington is safe,
is safe I" SIDNEY.
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