...ld have offered up urgent and sincere prayers for peace, instead of the savage cry for war and blood. And this is but one of ten thousand cases with which our city abounds. Here is what Thos. F. Meagher , of the 69th New York Regiment, says about the vandalism of the Federal troops at Germantown, when on their march toward Manassas: "That house is on fire," Father O'Reilly, our chaplain, hurri...