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port that they were entirely composed of cavalry, and numbered not more than 5,000. However that may be, they did considerable damage, and levied heavy contributions upon the people at Hagerstown, Chambersburg and Greencastle. They did not destroy as much of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as was at first reported, probably not more than ten miles west from Martinsburg, and some important bridges. They had retired from Hagerstown last evening, and the excitement was abating there. Gen. Couch has taken measures to arrest the panic of the inhabitants by ordering that all vehicles and horses shad be stopped at the bridge across the Susquehanna, or before they reach there. The raid thus appears to be nearly played out, as far as recent reports represent it. The press telegrams are, as usual, voluminous, but confused. A new column of raiders, under Gen. Imboden, who crossed at Williamsport, entered Hagerstown about 8 o'clock on the morning of the 8th inst., the raiders who