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• circuitous routes. We were eonseqrTivrA7,,\.
to intercept him. arla.Hin arrivedfiro,soiiii4z!vw,
station, where his advance, consistwg..gliikt,g4k Vit-:
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gades, became engaged with a forcsfut,4iiike:l;,if 4'!''''
rior in numbers posted behind the rako A_,ff.., 4',PAz.
ment. The particulars cf the action hVv44tA\-eiii'Zt..„/
reported, but the brigades were repulsed aWthe la., S
and five pieces of artillery, with a number et pri-
soners, captured. Before the rest of the troops
could be brought up, and the position of the enemy
ascertained, he retreated across Broad Run. The
next morning he was reported to be fortifying
beyond Bull Rau, extending his line towards the
Little River Turnpike. The vicinity of the in-
trenchments around \Vashiugtou and Alexandria,
rendered it useless to turn his new position, as it
was apparent that he could readily retire to them,
end would decline an engagement unless attacked
in his fortifications. A further advance was there-
fore deemed unnecessary, and after destroying, the
railroad from Cub Run southwardly to the It ippa-
itannock, the army returned on the 18th to the line
of that river, leaving the cavalry in the enemy's
front.

STAMPED ....51.

(11,LUTEleS TELEURAMS.)
22
QUEENSTOWN, NJA,. .

The rop:1 mail steamship Canada, from Boston
on the 11th, and I-Illifax on the 131, arrived here
at nine a.m. to-day, with 120
passengers and
77,300 doll. in specie.
She landed five passengers, and all her mails,
consisting of 98 sacks, and proceeded at 9.30. All
well.

The Canada experienced severe easterly weather
lroughout her passsge. _

The Canada brings-no later news via Halifax,
telegraphic communication between that place
and New York having been interrupted.
NEW YOrtli, Nov. 10 (Afternoon).

The cavalry of the latter advanced the following
day, and some skirmishing occurred at Buckland.
Gen. Stuart, with H
direction, thus trnuouvseedxpfroosmingAtihti,us
,s division, retired
slowly towards Warrenton, in order to draw the
u
him near Buckland. As soon as Gan.
Auburn ink
eanneamrye
airn
Stuart heard the sound of Gan. Lee's guns, he
attacked tothGaete. d
turned upon the enemy, who, after a stubborn re.
sistance, broke and fled in confusion, pursued by
Gen. Stuart nearly to Haymarket, and by Gen.
Lee
to Gainesville. Here the Federal infantry w,e, en-
countered, and after capturing a number of theta
during the night, the cavalry slowly retired before
their advance on the following day, when the move,
meat of the army from the Rapidan vnanaonced.k -
Gen. Imboden was instructed to advance down the
valley and guard the gaps of the mountains on our
left. This duty was well performed by that officer,
and on the 18th he marched upon Charleston, and
succeeded by a well concerted plan in sur-
rounding the place and capturing nearly the
whole force stationed there and all their stores and
transportation. Only a few escaped to Harper's
Ferry. The enemy advanced from that place in
superior numbers to attack General Imboden, who
retired, bringing off his prisoners and captured
property, his command suffering very little loss,
and inflicting some damage on the pursuing column.
In the course of these operations 2,436 prisoners
were captured, including 41 commissioned officers.
Of the above number 434 were taken by General
Imboden. A. more complete account, with state-
ments of our loss in
killed, wounded, and pri.
soners, will be for garded as
soon as the necessary
official reports have been received.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Official John Withers, AR.
E. LEE, General. A • . General.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (Evening).
Aloney continues tight. The
money market exercises a marked depressing infl
ence upon stocks, which are again lower. New
York Centrals, 133; Illinois Shares, 1171; Erie,
102 x; 6 per Cent. United States Bonds, 108'
Gold, 45:8-t- per cent. premium, showing a decline of
per cent. since yesterday. Exchange on London
—Bankers' bills, 160. Cotton dull ; middling up-
land, 841 c.

General Lee has retreated beyond the Rapidan.
General Meade is still pressing forward ; his army
has reached Culpepper Court-house.
General Buford's cavalry has occupied Culpepper.
The object of General Meade's movement is to
divert the Confederates from operating against
General Burnside. The latter is reported to have
been superseded by General Foster.
Rumours are current that General Burnside has
met with a disaster.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (Evening).
A body of 9,000 Confederates is on its march
to attack General Blunt, who is proceeding with
1,800 cavalry and an immense supply train to Fort
Smith, Arkansas.

Gem Meade's movement to the- Rappahannock
completely surprised the Confederates. Nearly all
their force on the north side of the river was cap-
tured.

The Southern journals anticipate an early en-
gagement in Chattanooga. They consider Grant's
late movements in Lookout Valley have counter-
acted the advantage Bragg gained at Chickamauga,
and may enable Grant to winter in Chattanooga.
A portion of Federal General Sherman's forces
is reported to be advancing from Tuscalouse on
Selina, Alabama.
The Confederates who are operating against
Burnside have'occupied London, Tennessee, 23 miles
from Knoxville. It is rumoured that an engage-
ment has taken place between this force and Burn-
side, resulting unfavourably to the latter.

The Confederates have been defeated in two en-
gagements in Western Virginia.
Gen. Banks' expedition, consisting of 17 trans-
ports and three war vessels, left New Orleans on
the 27th ult., it is supposed for Sabine Pass.
President Jeff. Davis made a speech at Charles-
ton. He believed Charleston never would be taken.
But if captured, he desired the city should be a mass
of ruins. If Charleston was beleaguered on every
side, reinforcements would be sent in proportion to
the strength.
It is semi-officially announced that Mr. Seward
has received information that the French Govern-
ment has stopped the building of Confederate iron-
clads in French ports.
Mechanics and other large bodies of working men
in New York and in Boston have struck for higher
wages, stopping the construction of Government
vessels, and injuring other branches of trade.
The steamer Panama, from Mexico, has arrived
at New York to coal. She has Marshal Forey on
board, who has gone incognito to visit the Falls of
the Niagara.
Southern journals assert that the prisoners at
Richmond receive proper food.
The steamer Mail has been captured, and has
arrived at Key West.
The schooners Herald, Martha, and Jane have
been captured.
Richmond papers of the Gth contain the follow-
ing telegrams : .

THE OUTWARD AMERICAN MAILS.
QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 22.

The royal mail steam ship Scotia arrived here at
7 p.m. to-day, embarked mails, passengers, and the
latest telegrams, and proceeded for New York. All
well.

ATLANTA, Nov. 4.
The Yankees maintain possession of Racoon Va.
.ey, having been heavily reinforced. They she

our forces incessantly. The Yankee advance has
reached Florence. We occupy Loudon, which
places us within 23 miles of Knoxville and behind
the defences of the enemy. The enemy are rioting
near Huntsville, committing great depredations.
Bragg can muzzle the telegraph, but he cannot
the mails. The enemy have gained important ad-
vantages within the last 4S hours, which, unless
they are counteracted, will place the question of
subsisting his army at Chattanooga beyond all
doubt. The commander at Rome has received a
telegram from Selma, Alabama, stating that
heavy force of Yankee mounted infantry had
reached Tuscaloosa en route for Selma. They
come from Tupelo by the same route that Bragg's
army came by last summer.

General Grant is said to have telegraphed to the
War Department that two of General Burnside's
advanced positions have been assailed and captured
by the Confederates, who made prisoners of parts
of two regiments that were holding possession at
the time.

The Richmond papers contain the following
Headquarters, Army of Northern
Virginia.
General S. Cooper,—ln advance of a detailed
report, I have the honour to submit, for the informa-
tion of the department, the following outline of the
recent opeyations of this army :---With the design
ith Om Federal
of bringing on an engagement w
Cot-
army, which encamped around Culpepper
crossed
Court-
house, extending to the Rapidan, this army
that river on the 9th inst., and advanced by way of
Madison Court-house. Our progress was neces-
sarily
concealed roads, in order to avoid the observation
slow, as the march was by circuitous and
of the enemy.
Near that place the commands of Stuart and Lee
united on the afternoon of the 11th, and after a
severs engagement drove the enemy's cavalry across
morn.
the Rappahannock with severe loss. On th,t)
ing of the 12th the army marched in two C( l
1 umns,
with the design of reaching the Orange and. Alex-
and inter
remained to hold our andria Railroad, north of the river, rupt..
in Generalreatoof infantry, he ene ay ;
Fitz-Lee, with his cavalry division and
south of the Rapidan. General Stuart, w;thour lines
ton's division, moved on the right of HanaP-
a detachment
With a portion of his command .h the column.
ad-
vance of the enemy near James e attacked the
and drove them back towards city, on the 10th,
Cu
body arrived near that place on.l Pepper. Our main
discovered that the enemythe 11th inst., and
he 4
the Rappahannock-, ruining retreated towards
or e,e3troying his stores.
We were compelled to halt d '
day to provision the troops, ur mg the rest of the
General Stuart continued to but
the cavalry under
u s the enemy's rear
ed to pr.( :s.
guard towards the R
Federal aPpahanno di. A large force of
cavalry in the
Rapidan after meant it ne had crossed the
our
repulsed by Gene movemen is begun, but was
Brandy Station. General Fitz-Lee ein d pursued towards
After a skirmish
at jpfr with some oft, he Federal cavalry
--ersonto
Warrenton w 1:31 we reached the Rappahannock ar
the passaa Springs in `the ;afternoon, where
be of the river was disputed by
cavalry and artillery. quickly
The en.culy was
driven off by a detachnmat of our cavalry,
aided by a small force of info ,retry and a bat-
tery. Early next morning (the , 13th), the march
was resumed, and the two col, vans reunited at
Warrenton in the afternoon, who 1 another halt was
made to supply the troops with provisions. The
enemy Ml back rapidly along the , line of the rail-
road, and early on the 14th the pursuit was con-
tinued, a portion of the army m oving by way of
New Baltimore towards Bristol station, and the
rest, accompanied by the main b clay of the cavalry,
proceeded to the same point by
.Auburn Mills and
Greenwich. Near the former 7 ?lacci a skirmish took
place between Gen. Ewell's af !vane& and the rear.
guard of the enemy, which Was for ^ d ,eback and
rapidly pursued. The metres
.c of the ent. 'my was con-
ducted by several direct • , ii 1
t•ara €) road, 0
march 1' while our
troops were compelled, 4,-,
- h
Y ( I,lfnCilit and