Still Later from the North.
The Chronicle, of the 16th, says editorially that it is now safe to say there were periods between Saturday and Monday morning when the rebels might have dashed into Washington and effected its capture, if not its occupation.
The Chronicle also says that the rebels are so flattered because they have put Washington and Baltimore in terror that they will not hesitate to repeat the experiment.
The Chronicle says, editorially, that Sherman has crossed the Chattahoochee, and that Johnston is inside of the fortifications at Atlanta, and that it is not probable that Johnston, who failed to arrest Gen. Sherman in fortified mountain strongholds, will be able to detain him long before a down in an open country accessible to approaches on all sides. The danger is, it says, that Johnston will give up the place in despair and destroy such of his munitions and supplies as cannot be removed and retreat further to the Southwest, in the direction of Augusta or Savannah. In continuation, it says, it is probable that Sherman will anticipate any movement of the kind, and cut off every facility of retreat by the destruction of the railroads.
Gold is 250.
