Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-31
Correspondence of the Memphis Appeal
Plans and PurpOses'of the Rebels Before
Washington.
RICHMOND, October II, 1861.

RICHMOND, October II, 1861.
The Army of the Potomac has fallen back
from Fairfax Courthouse sure enough. The
main body is now at Centerville. This is
just what | gave you, as news, yesterday
that such a movement had been ordered
They will fall back further yet. They will
keep falling back. They will conjugate the
compound verb to fall back in all its moods
and lenses. Or, rather, l might say, in every
mood except the potential. Nobody has the
least idea of what it all means-that is, no.
body about town. The President, who keeps
his own counsels, and the bright eyed little
Secretary of War, who doesn't whisper q
word of the business of his Office even to the
partridges he eats for dinner, may know, but
all else are ignorant. That the army will re-
tire as far as the old lines of their intrench-
ments at Manassas Junction, have learned
upon good authority.
Meanwhile the town is wild with rumor5
The Yankees, we are told, are moving in a
strong column under General Banks upon
Harpers Ferry. There was report to-day
that they we're landing at Urbanna, on the
Rappahannock. Also, that another heavy
attack was about to be attempted on the
EVansport battery, and that an effort
would be made to put troops ashore to take
it in the rear. In addition to this, great
activities are reported at Fortress Monroe.
enty Tifled cannon have been received there
within few days. 1t is impossible to get
at the truth of any one of these rumors.
Probably there is just enough of foundation
for them to justify us in believing thatseveral
feints will be made in the East, while
powerful army will be thrown into Ken
lucky. The great struggle will be in that
State for the present If might venture to
suggest the reason for the backward move
in Eai I
signed to release a considerable portion of
Johnston's army for operation in another
quarter, leaving Beauregard's command to
defend the border against an advance of the
Yankees, which it could successfully do,
should the odds be ten to one in favor of the
invaders.
One of the Armstrong steel guns brought
over in the Bermuda passed through the city
yesterday. 1t is a tremendous piece of ord
nance, and excited great attention as it was
drawn through the streets. Numbers OF new
Enfield rifles, with the saber bayonet, made
their appearance this morning in the hands
of soldiers to whom they had been distrib-
uted. 1t is beautiful and very dangerous
looking weapon, which the Yankees may
soon become acquainted with at the other
end.
A large amount of real property has been
entered on the books of the receiver for Sc
III Juo Vi
belonging TO two sons and a daughter of
Hon. William @. Rves. Three bodies of
land, of eight hundred acres each, which
were settled upon them by their father, are
embraced in the list. The sons and the
daughter all married at the North, where
they resided for the greater part of the year,
though William @. Rives, jr., has built
beautiful residence at Cobham, on the line of
the Central Railroad, which he inhabits at
stated intervals. Francis r. Rives, Esq,
who was at one time Secretary of Legation
at London, and who has risen to some emil
nence at the bar in New York City, has al
ways claimed a citizenship in Virginia, and
has manifested a special interest in the ex-
hibitions of the State Agricultural Society.
The sequestration is now in course of adjudi-
cation before the receiver, and, under the
peculiar circumstances Of the ease, it is hoped
that the property may be saved to its owners
upon their removing TO Virginia as place
of permanent abode.