... be cut, and for a few hours, at any rate, the Capital isolated from the country. We had need to make haste, or it might be difficult to join Hooker's army. It was not to be a solitary trip. Samuel Wilkeson , the well-known brilliant writer on the New-York Tribune, lately transferred to the Times; and U. H. Painter, chief Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, a miracle of energy in such ...