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ighest assurance that the "Army of Northern Virginia" will maintain its glorious prestige. As in Pennsylvania and Maryland recently, so once more on the soil of Virginia, made more classic and historic by their deeds, will they come cheerfully and fully up to every and all requirements of their leaders. This is not the language of common-place compliment, but what is patent to one who has the opportunity of observing it every day, The reverse at Gettysburg, though by no means a defeat, and Meade's negative victory, by which he saved his army from annihilation, and too badly crippled to accept the gauge of battle at Hagerstown afterwards, and the deliberate withdrawal of Gen. Lee across the Potomac, all attest the never flinching determination of the rank and file of our army, and the unbounded confidence reposed in them by their able leaders. A little over 300 prisoners were started to-day on to Richmond. Most of them are Milroy's "weary boys," who were "picked up"during and a
Yankee raids. --Now that Meade's army of hirelings is again on Virginia soil and said to be advancing in this direction, it is highly important that the entire militia of the adjoining counties should be thoroughly organized and equipped, ready at a given signal to assemble and chastise those hands of raiders that will surely be sent out to destroy railroad communication and devastate the country, if not to sack and burn Richmond. Without the aid of any portion of Gen. Lee's army the militia are abundantly able to repel any assault that the Yankees are likely to make on works of internal improvement, and if every man will but do his duty Yankee raids for the future will do but little damage.