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en mounted on horseback, from the rapidity with which they move, and the facility with which they disperse and throw their pursuers on a false scent, afterwards rallying, and assailing distant points not threatened before, must always be hard to head. We must, we suspect, be content with checking them on their expeditions, guarding important points, wearing them out by rapid pursuit, breaking down their horses, and killing or capturing the raiders, as far as we can. Gen. Hampton, and the two Lees, assisted by Mahone, seem to have done as much as we could do, and if there is disappointment, it is because the hopes of the public were too high. If we could kill all the horses, we could take all the men; and scorner so, if we could kill all the men, we could take all the horses. Neither of these is possible. The passage of the 200,000 conscription law, without the exemption clause, alluded to in another portion of this day's issue produces neither surprise nor alarm. It confirms t