Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-10
Highly important from Western Virginia
Gen. Reynolds Drives the Rebel
Lee from his Hncampment!

Lee from his HncampmentI
WASHINGTON, October 9-Lewinsville will
be retained, as we'll as the other positions
taken by our forces to day. A portion of
the troops under Brigadier- General Porter
advanced and occupied Minors Hill, to the
right of Falls Church, and commanding that
village and Barrett's Hill, which latter is
now in possession of the rebel pickets. Nc
Clellan and staff, accompanied by Captain
Barkees Dragons, crossed over the Chain
Bridge at an early hour this morning, spend
ing the whole day in making reconnoisssnces
of the new positions taken by the Federal
troops.
About FIVE o'clock, yesterday, Captain
Barney, of the Twenty-fourth New York,
advanced three miles beyond Falls Church
on the Leesburg Turnpike, with ten men,
where he surprised picket guard of eight
of Colonel Stewards cavalry. Three of them
were killed and one taken prisoner. They
also captured FIVE horses, equipped, thirteen
navy pistols, four sabers, one carbine and
one telescope. The horse killed was a white
one which has been often seen by our pickets
and is believed to belong to Captain Powell,
OF Stewards cavalry. The capture took place
within half mile of the enemy's encamp-
ment.
No official returns are obtainable, but the
impression is that the Peoples Ticket has o
majority in the Philadelphia camps.
Especial Dispatch to the New York Tribuus.l
WASHINGTON, October 9-There is reason
to believe the report from New Orleans Vid
Richmond, announcing the presence of
National vessels at the Head Pass of the
| Mississippi. They are doubtless acting uu-
| der instructions given long since, and en-
gagged in protecting the men building
batteries on each side of the river above the
! ~ har fba Eue fhS wi for he
purpose of effectually blockading them all.
! The guns to be mounted are probably the
twenty eight nine-inch Dsblgren, which were
| ordered for Pickens, and not being required
there, were put ashore at Tortugas.
The Mississippi will be effectually closed
by these batteries. Twenty vessels could not
! do it so well.
| iourned to. day. The first report includes the
names of two hundred and thirty-seven en-
ployes, against whom evidences of treason
was presented.
Tomorrow the second report will be pre-
sented, giving two hundred and thirty fiv'
more.
Investigations will probably be renewed
at the commencement of the session Of Con
gress.
Five Colonels stand ready to comma nd fiv
regiments of Illinois cavalry, to be raised. o
which acceptance is pressed upon the Wa
| Department by Governor Yates and Others
The Department is willing to accept one
and the others as infantry. The cavalry
regiment of Colonel Barrett is accepted, tC
serve on the Indian frontier. The Iii
noisans are also pressing the claims of Chi
cago for the Western arsenal.
Brigham Young has lost the Uintah Val
ley, one of the most fertile in Utah, afte
having announced his intention to settle i
with Saints. The President, by an orde
dated October, has directed an Indian reser
walton to be made there.
The Secretary of War and Adiutaut
General left this city for st. Louis oil
Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, October 9.--The HeraIF
dispatch says if there is any desire for fgh
in the rebels it is very likely they will b.
gratified tomorrow, not only in front butuI
and down the river.
Deserters from the rebel camp and our scout
corroborate the opinion that the rebel arm
is not disposed either to advance upon ou
lines or to accept the proffered battle. Th
enemy is not discoverable in strength i
front of our works south of the Potomac.
, The dispatches to the War Department to
day are more encouraging than heretofore i
regard to the movements of General Ere
! mont in Missouri.
WASHINGTON, October 9.-The New Yor
l Timess special says Commander ChauncE
8 arrived here this evening from Hatteras l
: let. He reports that on Monday the rebt
e organized an expedition to attack and reca
n ture the forts occupied by our forces. T.
n expedition consisted of six steamboats, al
about three thousand men. The steame
were loaded with heavy rifled cannon al
1t mortars for throwing shells. The attack W
l. simultaneous, but Intellectual The for
y fred shells and were assisted by the vesse
q of the Inlet.
t: After time the rebels retired, though n
ID before two or three steamers had been sun
{ going down with all on board JudgiI
s. from the crowded appearance of the ve3se
n it is estimated that aboutseven hundred mi
le were drowned, besides large loss must ha
K been sustained from the bursting of o
shells and the plunging of our shot, as I
n guns were served in most mastery maun'
% WASHINGTON, October 9.-At six o'clo
II this morning the division of General Smil
r at the Chain Bridge, advanced and took ?
sition near Lewinsville. After waiting thI
hours, inviting an attack, our skirmisht
e advanced and took possession of the tow
v the rebels retreating.
a New York, October lO.-It was Colon
Of Braisted, of the First Georgia regiment, W
ct was killed near Hatteras Inlet.
os Colonel Brown, of the Twentieth Indial
nt states his loss in killed, wounded, &c, I
IN less than seventy. In retreating the enel
,is captured the military stores and consid
able number of arms, knapsacks and ter
The regiment had no other weapons IL
D. muskets.
ed The rebels rendezvous is Roanoke Isla
in about twelve miles from the scene of acti
les and we'll fortified. 1t has been determi
w at Fort Monroe to use all exertions 10 a
p- ment the strength Of our forces on the NO
| Carolina coast,