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to particularize. Hamilton has two hundred men ready, and we do not care to mention how many thousand self armed volunteers the railroads will bring forward during the next 24 hours. Most of these men are sharpshooters — dead shots — and there will be enough of them to make the Kentucky hills fairly swarm. Let the rebels come. It would save trouble, time and expense, in fact, if they would favor us with a visit. The Line of the Potomac. [Washington Letter in Philadelphia Press Sept. 5] If there is anything in human skill, artillery and destructive ordnance, I do not see how Washington can be taken. Wherever you look forts are seen. They command every hill, ford, bridge and ferry. From Bladensburg to Alexandria, from Alexandria to Chain Bridge, from Chain Bridge to Bladensburg, is one complete and unbroken line of defences. It would be as difficult to cross the Potomac within range of any of these points as it would have been to evade the flaming sword of the gua