New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-10-20


THE BATTLE-FIELD or MosocAcY'
So chatting Of gold and progress smoking the wnno
- the Companyf cigars those who preferred touching
-, nrrcb or the claret, or biting a sandwich wo
,limbed the first great grade flashed down from Mount
at tse cutting OF PARIS Ridge. and stopped Of the
battlefield OF Monocacy.
II was one of the fret battle the capitalists nad
Waited and as they stood upon the ground Mite moro
than year ago gashed and stamped and ragged Win
au.ty blankets aud wildly csreerng like morass ID
storm with batteries In antithetc galop. columns he
Tor skeer teams and whlppers and aids etching pc
tures Of insanity against the sky they tried to recai
nil in this billy stretch Of quet countrywide win inc
River Monocaoy coming down from Frederick ana
cattle near by nosng at Che thistles
Here on the 9th Of July, the sparse columns OF LIZ"
Wallace who looks at II all now With scarcely sSus
fed Identification, ranged themselves, with their backs
70 the capital and stopped for half day the sweep OIL
invasion The whole region was In terror foragers'
who were cutting the throats offarmers sheep were jest
ing of the pole faces Of the farmers grs they heo inc
broad Countylof Frederick with ashes and horseshoeS
they ed their blood thanked beasts upon the hay
and Numbered into Villages to present the
NJ the torch or contribution. None know their des
nation N they themselves confessed Ill their object ana
termination wcro only rulnI they had twice peioIc
crossed into the North for conquest fo,ed In ths moro
manly work, they cpnyoked every energy Oh ue
structveness. With Early, and Breckinriuse'
and Ill., they marched at daylight from freaerieA,
leaving II almost beggared and quite pafaiHeu
with fear and under the yep OF their breakfast 'aF
eres in three depoyed columns they made passage
OF the river. Gorged with plumber, lat WIN o'oou
nsolent in the consciousness Of the paiior the! hau
made, the vast strength Of the enemy wrapped inc
little division that resisted them as river hoWs rounu
a stone; Hanked b. odds the right. stormed on the
LETT cot to hepessncss By reverse yoleys IN tho rear
oblioue at last rolled upon and overwhelmed by the
whole resistess whirwind % battle, the Union neg
ment sank into the earth and there remained but the
fugtyes Gyug in the night ike the spirits oil the sa
10 cross the triumphant ere Of the Rebel eenp'hres'
The bells Of alarm ringing IN baltimore ana -
months ago and this high plain was sprinkled lhdls'
erimlnatey with the sleeping yctors aud tie deaa ue
tenders alike in their several reposes save the folding
of the ashes here and there the cold appeal OF the eye
balls Tie directors the editors the generals tho
rich strangers stopped awhile in silence and said tha'
the woods wec purple ard the far hills very blre.
sTE8L AID GOLD.
propose tc say nothing OF any spontaneous rcccp
tons or speeyhes thoi may lave been made, here OF
elsewhere The suggestions Of the place were better
than the popping Of champagne eorks. the Laughing
sally or the rrerured and sandwiched sentiment Aiei
ell the panic disorder and Gsou OF this last hro"
Of the great conspiracy have cited II, with hardly
the first surf,ce OF grass rcinruci 10 tie fields nor AL
the farmers yet returned 10 tue sites Of tae dwellings,
the trains until late indifferent 10 switch or station pa
rushirg o. with troops and teams TO 90 wars trans
portat!ou and tie domestic animals that brayed here
and there sin awkward on, OF curb.hE and tie soan(
OF QuG1termasers cursesWith these and Other as 10
cent episodes to make "a wonder FIVE had country Of
no these rich gentlemen seeking 20 hide their monel
where /. world bo tho safest, aud make the mo''
bountfal returns preferred the United siaiesl shai
the tine ever conc when e'er four yeaT OF desperate
war. American capitalists will visit EnsiaDd iou
months after the OF peace. 90 invest AfO 0yt""
II anything could equal the confidence Of these
thought ii might BE- the unconscious assurance Of th
Baltimore and ONO directors In suggesting this long
imported road as eligible speculation.
1 HARPYRs FEERY.
The handsome train sped directly in tho shelves o
Catccin Mountains the dreary post Of the Point
! Rocks. The canal-loag ruin. with disagured dam
ard locks blown up a1d bridges whose piers were on
the scars q burns-walked Gagrishly. II broken
spirit AZ the wheels Of tie mery-hustllns train on
VIC counted the bare sites Of riaepiis and bsiterie
across tho Potomac, for which there % requi
stion. Finally South Molntain--s great bouquet u
Autumn colors-iadol behind. and We rolled Int
Harpers Ferry.
The visitors had been talking OF It's Tt.nlniseence
for long while prior 20 arriving As the head Of d
a party d;smouuied, he said,
And this Is John Browns town."
The old man who planted his body at the oonluenc
Of those two gracious rivers had made the Valley Forg
{ more widely known han many city. The visitor
some Of whom had the place anterior 10 tho
compared by the aid OF their hosts. the Harpers For
the present to that OF the past Dofolation still d
yided the town with industry. 1t was place use
insult and abandonment that Il looked quite hasgard
here and there where shop was newly opened o
team drove up 70 the depot with the earliest butter
send 20 Baltimore 1t broken place. beref Of Il
massive srmory. smelling OF powder 30 often scarce
out Of itself that IL did not know itself; but the
the place betrayed all this than the nature Of tb
Place The spot too mild for the iconoclast
civilization OF 10 deface II greatly; the beantfu
bridges they burned grown anew there Wa
fresh whiewash Of the cottages train rattle,
up and there were passengers dsmountng, and a boz
; cried
"Yers yer Nov-York TRBUSEp
1t seemed tome tda Iarpors Ferry. meant In The tut
nomenclature and designation Of nature for shrine
had reached that dignity before the booming OF thi
war before Tie ashes of its burned armoy fell before
stonewdll to overthrow the yiaducs and I'll ii,
river with rails and bridges, rad into flying trains tl
7 menace Of his Shells IL the oommemoraton ex
pressed by tho earliest inquiry u all the visitors
I "Take US to the Engine housei"
II GOSSIP WITH THE Towgs-rEOrLE.
Sir Morton Peto and other OF the capitalists, had
chat with old villager who had held bis GROUND