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y for their own consumption. It is distressing to hear of such wanton destruction. This will teach us a new lesson when we again visit the fertile valleys beyond the Potomac. The force which visited this section was cavalry alone, numbering about eight thousand. The main body of their army has not advanced much farther than Harrison burg, according to the best accounts. I never felt more forcibly the real evil of war than on yesterday, when I visited the residence of widow Grattan, near Mount. Crawford. The house was entirely deserted, and had the "weird sisters" of Macbeth held their nocturnal revels in it for months, the destruction and wanton waste of property of every description could not have been surpassed. Every drawer and every closet was ransacked, and the contents torn up and scattered in every conceivable manner over the floor. I saw nothing which seemed to be uninjured. Empty jars, lately filled with preserves, lard, &c., were scattered about the