away from the high-roads, indeed, as Mr. Tyler said, explains the difference between Southern and Northern Revolutionary campaigns.  The English forces never marched a day’s march inland in the Northern States, excepting the three marches of two days or three, when they came to Bennington, to Saratoga, and to Trenton,—­three memorable stopping-places.  But in a country where the “laboring people” did not bear arms, they went to and fro, for months, as they chose.  The Southern militia was small in numbers, and not trustworthy.  The troops whom Lafayette relied upon, “the best troops in the world, far superior, in equal numbers, to the English,” were his two thousand Northern men of the Continental line.  Lord Cornwallis reunited all his forces at Elk Island, about forty miles above Richmond on James River.  His own head-quarters were at “Jefferson’s Plantation.”  He proposed another blow, on the stores collected in Old Albemarle Court-House, behind the mountains; and on the 9th of June he ordered Tarleton to march thither at daybreak, but recalled the order.  He seems to have preferred waiting till he could attack “the Marquis,” as they all called Lafayette, to advantage, to risking any considerable division in the mountains.  And as he lay, the road by which he supposed Lafayette must come down from Raccoon Ford to protect Albemarle would expose him to a flank attack as he passed the head of Byrd’s River.  It was at this time, that, in a despatch which was intercepted, he wrote, “The boy cannot escape me.”  Lafayette tells the story with great gusto.  “The boy” found a mountain-road which crossed farther west than that which he was expected to march upon.  It had been long disused, but he pressed through it,—­and at Burwell’s Ordinary, in a neighborhood where our troops will find villages with the promising names of Union Town and Everettsville, he formed, on the 12th and 13th, in a strong position between Cornwallis and the coveted magazines.  Cornwallis affected to suppose that the stores had been withdrawn; but, as he had given up Fredericksburg that he might destroy these very stores, Lafayette had good reason to congratulate himself that he had foiled him in the two special objects of the campaign, and had reduced him to the business which he did not like, of “stealing tobacco.”  For whatever reason, Cornwallis did not press his enterprise.  With a force so formidable and a leader so enterprising before him, he did not care to entangle himself in the passes of the Blue Ridge.  We shall know from General Banks’s column, by the time this paper is printed, what are the facilities they afford for cover to an enemy.  Leaving the Albemarle stores, therefore, and the road to Greene behind the mountains, he retraced his steps down the valley of the James River, and, passing Richmond, descended as low as Williamsburg, the point from which we have been tracing Lafayette’s movements.