A Raid On The Enemy's Capital.

March 1, 1864, was the date of Kilpatriok's attack on tho defenses of Richinoiid with 500 troops and a single batfcery. AJÍ tlnngs considered, bis was the boldest raid of the war. After passing around Lees army ou the Rapidan, Kilpatrick sent a detaobment under Coloiiel Ulrio Dahlgren to cross the Jumes river, theu conntermarch and recross by the bridge into Richniond it 10 a. in., ilarch 1, at which hour tliü main column, led by the general, v.onld attack f rom the nortli. Through the ignorance of a gnide Kilpatrick missed the road and arrived at the fortifications on Brook pike at 1 p. ru. throo hours late. A telegraph operator at ono of the stations passed by the raiders sent a message to Riehmond alarming the garrison, and Küpatrick found his road blooked by infantry and artillery behiud an earthwork commanding the pike and a barricade across the road. Nothing daunted, the Fifth New York cavalry advanced as skirmishers, followed by a storming column of 500 men, led by Major Williám Patton, Third Indian'a cavalry. The enemy was forced back beyond a knoll, where Kilpatrick planted his guns to shell the city. When all was ready for a grand advance, heavy columns of Confedérate infantry and artillery were seen marchiug forward to repel the raiders. (Joiivinced that Dahlgren had failed to cross the bridge and spring the attack in the rear, Kilpatrick retired seven miles from the city and bivouacked for the night. The attack, incomplete as it was, oost the raiders 60 killed and wounded. Dahlgren had been unable to oross the James and turned back. His column ran into a ainbush, and the leader was killed. The región was alive with euemies, and Kilpatrick's band had to cut its wav out down the sula.