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HAMPTON'S ( I Unexpected Snrp tembei Netcs an Sear C'ojrgin's Point, on tBe James iver, less than five miles east of City t and opposite to Westover, was a e herd of cattle belonging to the of the Potomac. From infor , obtained by trusty scouts jjnpton ascertained the exact loca oDof these!beeves and the disposi on of the Federal troops *n .the vi lify, sod decided that he would cap ^ the herd. To accomplish this it cald bc necessary to make an incur in thc rear of the Federal army u t0 within almost rifle shot of City Lt. N'ow City Point was the head acre and base of the Army of the Here Gen. Grant and bi? liury family were "at horne'; to liions but did not look for a call ?m Hampton. It was supposed to is safe as Washington. The good opie at Boston would have been no !re surprised by a raid made to car iway Plymouth Kock than was the jeral army by the rummaging of larder under thc very nose of ?dquarters. It was no wonder that ?r nerves were badly shaken, and i they certainly were. The uuex [ted bad happened to them, lo the morning of September 14 opton moved out upon the expedi ifrom his position south of Peters He took with him W. H. F. Redivision, Rosser's and Dearing's ides, and 100 men from Young's D&novaot' s brigades. .Proceeding theasterly down the west side of jun ty Creek on a swift march be juacked quietly for the night at Vinson's Bridge, and making au start next morning, and bearing jly north reached during the day (k's Bridge, on the Blackwater x:. This detour brought him round left flank of the Federals, nearly south of Cog gi n's Point, and only it ten miles from where he intended reak through their pipket guards, bridge at this point had been dc jred, as he was aware, and he Be the place for crossing the river Ithis reason, as he would not be ed for from that direction. In a hours a temporary bridge was con eted by the engineers, the horses Dtime rested and fed, and by mid t the river was crossed and the h resumed. North of the Black T about nine miles, near Sycamore eh, was the largest detachment deinem y nearest to the herd of e, which was about two miles for l?n. To the right and left of this ; were smaller bodies of FederaU. {lampton determined to attack the st force first and scatter ife, and of the smaller detachments, thus Hiting concentration. To Bosser accordingly assigned the central k. after ft??omn??8?i!Dtr which he i proceed to appropriate and carry I the prospective beefsteaks. To ?L F. Lee's division was entrusted ask of driving away the force to \it and holding the roads leading City Point from whioh i nter ce was to be expected. Dearing place his brigade on the right fcamore Churoh, and when he J the firing there was to dash Jato Jemolish a post about three miles I Fort Powhatan, on the James and hold. the roads leading to ort to prevent attack from that value] amel] jycles )e nu o'clock a. m. Bosser attacked, dettes were driven in, but the ody. a regiment, the 1st District lumbia cavalry, rallied behind des.in very good style. How Rosser lost' no time, but made ork of them, annihilating the nt, ail not killed, wounded or making off in every direction, mg consternation throughout ighborhood and exaggerated ac of the numbers of the raiders, n as W. H. F. Lee's and Dear opie keai?. the firing they com their part bf the programme, ing or riding down everything et. They then held the roads, ted, thus preventing assistance tent to .the central post, and ?way or took all the couriers hey could lay hands on. Ros t forward a detachment to se e cattle, which they quickly erpowering the guard of 120 d the herdsmen. Many horses *o taken, eleven wagons, three d the beeves amounting to 2, hree camps were humed, a rabie quantity of valuable and blankets carried off and stroyod. All; this was ao essy bat it was thoroughly done, in fis-like manner; without undue yet without loss of time. ?og had been well arranged to theflB^d and was carried out vrith B'istake. The troopers became occasion amateur cowboys, and rn?, too. The cavalry, tue maid-of-nll-Work, ^filling the the military' household, were r storming a battery through ,Qd brush; on another driving The Federal herders of the roved very useful and served :ATTLE RAID. .rise for jVTeade in Sep % 1864. <i Courier. their new masters as well, and appar ently as readily, as if those .had been their original employers. Wheo the oxen would become troublesome, show ing an inclination to stray into the fields and make delay, the herders, cracking their long lashes, sounding like pistol shots, would quickly bring them back, though it must be con fessed a trooper always rode alongside with a handy weapon to insure loyalty. But everything ran smoothly and the sight would have gladdened the heart of a Highlaod chieftain of the olden time, but bis best "lift" would have been insignificant compared to this. Such a mass of cattle kept together would have been uowieldly, perhaps impracticable, to manage, but by breaking them up into detachments, with intervals between eaob, this dif ficulty was avoided. Completely successful in executing bis plans, Hampton commenced to withdraw by 8 o'clock &. m. While all this was going on in most cheerful manner for the raiders the greatest consternation and bewilder ment were prevailing at Federal head quarters. By prearrangement with Lee at the hour at which Hampton at tacked a demonstration to distract at tention was made along a part of the line of the army, the infantry driving the enemy's pickets into the fortifica tions weat of the Jerusalem plan* road, and bodies of troops were moved about as if for a general attack. At the same time Butler, with his cavalry division, began to make himself very disagreeable to the troops in his vicin ity. It seemed from all this as Gen. Lee was going on tue warpath in earnest and that Hampton's cavalry raid was only intended to distract at tention from this, whilst, io fact, just the reverse was true. So Federal headquarters made the wires hot with telegrams abd couriers were seht galloping for dear life with dispatches. Meade's "household troops" were kept very busy that day. Gen. Grant was temporarily absent at Harper's Ferry consulting with Sheri dan, then in the Shenandoah Valley, but he had a very "unpleasant quarter of an hour," and several of them, en receipt of excited telegrams from Meade and from his chief of staff, Humphreys. And poor Kautz, suoh of his cavalry as had been met by Hampton having been demolished and sent scurrying in all directions, was sadly shattered in nerves and worrying unlucky Meade with messages and queries, in the replies to whioh one can almost fancy he hears the General swearing. Many of these telegrams and dispatches are preserved in the published records d? &he war ofScc. } They are entertaining reading even at j ibis late day, for, being sent on the spur of the moment, amidst all the ex citement and exasperation, when there was no time to weigh words, they ex hibit the true state of mind of the senders. Like spoken words stored hot in a phonograph and now released, they seem very different from official dispatches prepared carefully after all the hurly-burly is past and blood ia cool. Meade evidently believed Lee was' advancing in force, and was much .worried at the absence Of Grant at suoh. a trying time, involving so great responsibility. Kautz sends a mes sage that he has information Hamp ton's force is 14,000 (!) strong. Sharpe, deputy provost marshal, says it is Hampton's entire cavalry corps. Trusty citizens report an immense force. Meade ?stimates-6,090. Hum phreys, chief of staff, informs (Kautz that he cac reinforce him With ? di vision ' of infantry and -a battery of artillery, but by that time the bird is flown. Sharpe and the rest fear the capture and destruction of all the immense stores at and around City. Point and put their heads to gether to ar rai-ge to have gunboats rushed up to cover City Point with artillery. The alarm really became almost pathetic. But Hampton pursued the even tenor of his way. Having procured pice beefsteaks at a convenient market without the trouble of payment, he in tended to take them safely home to cook. He retired towards the Black water River, and before reaching the stream had reunited all the portions of bis command, and then quietly crossed. Rosser was sent forward from thore to hold the Jeruselem plank road at a point about thirteen miles south of Petersburg and east of the Weldon Railroad.- Here he. was at tacked by- Gregg ?nd Kautz with their cavalry, btlt easily repelled them. " So he held the road, and the cattle were sent two miles in the rear to the south, and were safely got across the Nottaway River, at Freeman's Ford, and all brought "home.'' When Hampton had made sure that the cat tle abd other spoils were safely ont of reach of recapture., lie turned his at tention to cutting off a goodly portion o? the Federal cavalry, but by the tim? he had made dispositions to get in their rear for this purpose, it was found they bsd retreated, and this plan was, therefore, abandoned. So weary, but jolly, his men returned to the bivouac on Kowanty Creok. That night, and for many a day afterwards, there wtre plenty of sardines, aod other canned foods, pickles, and many things esteemed luxuries by poor fel lows, who had eaten nothing but bacon and flour, and too little of them, for months past. These were picked up by the men in thc burned camps, thc regularly captured property being turned over to the proper authorities. They had marched one hundred miles in three days. Thc prisoners captured amounted to 304, and Hampton's losses to 10 killed, 57 wounded and 4 missing. In writing to Gen. Grant after the affair is over and the beeves irrevo cably lost, Meade is evidently still very much disconcerted. He has dis covered by th'' time, that it was only a cattle raid, and not part of a general attack, and gives the best excuse he can think of for the loss, with tears in his voice. He attributes Hampton's success and safe withdrawal to his force, being 6,000 men, and he says his own troops were only 3,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry available, but in fact, to arrive at this estimato of 6,000 for the Confederates he has used the multiple two. The estimates greatly and drolly varied, from Kautz 14,000 (I;) according to Major Van Renselaar 5,000; Humphreys says three brigades of cavalry; Sharpe the whole cavalry corps, and so on. Grant in a dispatch to Meade calls the captures "a rich haul," and so they were. Those 2,468 beeves were a Godsend to the army, "Hampton's steaks," as they were termed, and th rifely used, lasted for many a week. They were fine large oxen. It is amusing to discover now, from the tell-tale dispatches preserved, how nervous during the rest of the cam paign the troops were who guarded the lines near City Point, especially in the vicinity of Sycamore Church, where Hampton had broken through. They were always hearing strange noises at night, suggested by former unpleasant experiences. Sometimes it would be phantom bridge builders spanning the Blackwater; at others the tramp in the dark of ghostly horses and the clatter of sabres. Altogether they had a very trying time of it, like children in bed in the dark, and their officers were greatly disgusted by some prompt retreats of their men from imaginary onslaughts, and were thus betrayed into using naughty words. On Gen. Hampton's return to his quarters he received a note from Gen. Lee, in whioh he writes: "I have received your report of the result of your operations, and beg to express my high appreciation of the skill and boldness you have displayed and my gratification at your handsome and valuable success. You will please convey to the officers and men of your command my thank for thc courage aod energy with whioh they have exe cuted your orders, by which they have added another to tho list of important services rendered by the cavalry dur ing the present campaign." The information about the herd of beeves, upon which the expedition for its capture was arranged, was ob tained from Sergt. Shadbourne, of the Jeff Davis Legion, a scout. He accompanied Rosser's leading regi ment as guide, and Was foremost in the attack. Sergt. Hogan, in charge of Butler's scouts, was also with thc expedition, and did excellent service. One scout was killed and three wound ed in the fighting. The scouts of the army did not constitute a distinct or ganization, but suitable men, volun teering for this duty, were detailed from the different commands. The position required not only coolness, courage, -zeal and intelligence, but special faculties born in some few j men. 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So far as its resemblance to a miuer of the land is concerned the shell knoivn as pholas is thc most remarka ble, as it is not only a wonderful miner, but also carries a light, bright and vivid, that seems to serve as a miner's lamp, and that has some in teresting properties, cue of which is that it shows in the water and in a vacuum, and, while clear and distinct, emits not the slightest heat. The pholas is a richly chased shell about two inches in length, and has the power of boring holes in the hard est rock as well as ia clay, but, unlike other miners, the pholas never comes out of the mine. Hy some means, possibly by its rasping foot, possibly by some seoretion that dissolves the stone, it gradually wears the stone away and slowly and imperceptibly enters, not in an undulating course, for a few inches. Having reached a place of safety, thc miner begins to enlarge its lead or tube. This con tinues as the shell grows, until finally, if the pholas was capable of appreciat ing its surrounding, it would realize that it was a prisoner for life; that it had bored into the rock and there grown larger than the tunnel through which it entered. Thc object of this miner is not to obtain riches, but to find protection and security in its granite cell, and with its light gleam ing at night no better imitation of a human miner can be imagined. Almost as remarkable is the mygel lus. The pholas is incased in a shell almost flint, but the mygellus is very delicate and in all probability forms its tunnel with the aid of some dis solving secretion, lt penetrates the rock or object which it selects and gradually throws out a tiny tube whioh is merely an extension of the shell. In some instances this tube is a foot in length and a marvellous example of the tube maker's art. It is said that a distinguished engineer obtained bis idea of a tunnel from this shell. These shell minersare not especially destructive. They bore very slowly and usually attack stone: but thero are other miners which are inveterate enemies of man in their efforts to destroy wharves, piers and vessels, chief among which is a little crablike creature-Limnoria-that affects piers and bores into the hardest lumber, penetrating it in every direction ; un til it presents the appearance of a honeyoomb. So persistent are thefce miners on the California coast that it is necessary to repair docks and piers once or twice a year. In tropical waters an equally de structive ocean miner is found in the teredo, that penetrates the hulls of vessels and woodwork of all kinds. As it procesos it encases its tube with a lime-like secretion, and in some in stances the entire framework is eaten away and replaced by the pearly de posit of this miner, that constructs a tube as carefully devised as the arch of the human miner. 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