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! MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Maryland, Sept. 2, 1861
/ At the latest advices from Leesburg there wert
supposed to be about 900 Confederate troops there
| II has been ascertaned, however, that the C0n'ed
crates are busily engaged in throwing up entrench'
ments at the junction of the Little Falls road witt
| the Alexandria and Leesburg turnpike, ana that
nearly all the negroes III the northern part or AR
| fax county are employed on the W9rk. Above
Leesburg there are no large bodies OF Contederaes
but their pickets line the river shore and guard the
/ ford and ferry.
An eyewitness states that the affair at Conrad's
! Ferry, week ago, was as follows: A party o.
Union scouts crossed the river took two prisoners
| in arms aud four horses. Reaching the river, on
their return, they succeeded in getting over two
horses, when they were attacked, and compelled to
let the prisoners go. The next day battery ap
peared opposite our entrenchnents, and commenced
shelling No battery being there at the time
our men responded with muskets and rifles. On
the arrival oil battery the Conlederates beat
a retreat.
Three days subsequent to the above exchange oi
courtesies large camp of the SecessiOnists was
discovered to be within range OF our rifle batteries,
and near Leesburg. An active bombardment soon
caused the Confederates to leave their quarters
Tor safer post on mile at least farther from the
river. Our artillerists they threw shells from
their rited guns over and beyond the town of Lees
burg.
Information given by negroes induced search
Yesterday south of Poolesvile for arms, supposed
to be intended for Maryland volunteers in the Con-
federate cause. The search successful. Some
twelve or fifteen complete sets OF cavalry equip
ments discovered and retained by our scouts.
Residents Of the neighboThood assert, however,
that the equipments belonged to a company of
Home Guard cavalry, which was raised last winter
to guard against the rising of the negroes that the
company was outftted bg the State, but Owiog to
the distance from the place of assembling at which
many of the members lived, the company dis
banded before Gen. Patterson took comm nd of the
Department. The Captain and some of the other
officers now in Virginia The company was
named the Poolesville Light Dragons Two men
supposed to be active SecessiOnsts were captured
at the same time by scouts from the 29th Pennsyl
vania regiment, Colonel Murphy. Two complete
SITS OF cavalry equipments and the same number of
magnificent horses were taken bv the same party.
eral Butler the North Carolina coast
crived here this morning, and bad sn inspiriting
effect on our troops
POOLEsvILLE, Sept. 2-Intelligence from the
Virginia shore is to the effect that from opposite
the w hite House Ford near the mouth of the Sen
eca river down to Arlington Heights, the COned
crates have heavy pickeis, and daily expecting
reintor cements to enable them to extend them to
Conrads Ferry. There are at least 600 to 700 now
along the line.
On Friday. l 900 Mssissippians, as a guard,
reached the vicinity of Fairfax Court House with
60 pieces of artillery. The force opposite Wash
ington is estimated by the Conederates at l25 900,
with heavy reinforcements daily arriving. They
say an attack is to be made on Washington the
present week.
simultaneously with the attack on Washington
demonstr ations to be made (according to the
same authority below, near the mouth Of the Oc-
C quan, and above, at Edwards, Nolau's or the
White House Ferry