and cross the mountains at Conrad's Store.
Gregg's division of Yankee cavalry pursued him, but failed to catch up with him. Finding themselves balked in their efforts to overtake and capture Rosser, the enemy turned his instruments of malice, as usual on their route, upon the noncombatant citizens — stealing their negroes, carrying off their corn and meat, and destroying several tanneries filled with leather at Sperryville, in Rappahannock county.
They followed Rosser as far as Luray, in Page county, across the Blue Ridge.
Here they destroyed two large tanneries, a fine flouring mill, and some Government workshops for the manufacture of harness.
From this point Gregg returned to his old camping ground, near Warrenton.
But for the high water and bad weather, General Rosser would have been able to have accomplished much more.
The only change in the situation on our front is the fact that the enemy advanced one of his infantry corps as far out from Culpeper C. H. as Mitchel
The coming campaign.--all Dixie in fine feather.
--A correspondent of the New York World, writing from Luray, Page county, Va, March 28, furnishes the following:
The first days of spring find all Dixie in fine feather.
From the fiasco of Kilpatrick and young Dahlgren near Richmond, from Mr Lincoln's shocking experiment in Florida, from Palmer's disastrous repulse at Dalton, and Sherman's magnificent fizzle, they gather glad auguries for their arms in the coming campaigns.
While we are just entering upon a season of political distractions, divided councils, jealous Generals, voracious speculators, and a wrangling press, they bring to the struggle an united people, harmonious journals, and an army stronger than ever before, and eager for the trial of conclusions — stronger not in numbers perhaps, for it cannot exceed two hundred and eighty thousand of all arms, but in the stuff of which it is composed, in equipment, in supplies, in discipline, in tried leadership, and espec
