The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-06-03

graphic Dispatches, &c.
Our arrangements to be placed in possession |
of the very latest news Of importance trans
piring at the North having been successful
we are enabled this morning to lay the fol-
lowing interesting intelligence before our
readers. Much of it is taken from Journals
and correspondents favoring the Federal Ad
ministration, and may therefore be considered
as partial to their cause.
There is every indication of comb ined
movement on Harper's Ferry, and also 4
prospect of an engagement at Manassas
Junction where General Lee is reported to
be in command of 5000 or 1000 Southern
troops. From the Washington Star of last
evening we copy the following
GEN. M'cLsLLAyDs COMMAND AT HARPER's FERRY
Gen Nc Cleiland available commaud-the
portion of it so far mobiized-is at least 15-
900 strong and in & week 1000 more troops,
being prepared for service i'll Ohio and West
ern Virginia and Pennsylvania will be ready
to join him. Our impression is that his des
tnation is Harper's Ferry, and that he will,
arrive before that point just when Gen. Pat
terson's command arrives before il on the
Maryland side, and Gen. McDowells COM
maud has closed down and cut Off the retreat
of tne Con fetIerate troops at Harpers Ferry
to Richmond by rail.
MANASSAS JUScTIoS-GBN. LEE,
We have reliable information that for the
last two DAYS no work has been done the
intrpnchments that had been commenced by
the Confederates at Manassas Junction. They
were hardly more than half finished when
the work upon them was thus stopped: The
only solution of this change IN the plans OF
the Southern commanders that occurs to our
mind at this moment, is that they con EN-
ujate the a abandonment of Harper's Ferry
The possession OF Manassas junction Is ne
cessarv to the protection Of the rear of their
forces there.
Our latest information from Manassas
June ton is that Gen. Robert +. Lee has
rived there, and is in command OF the Confed-
crate forces at that pa T..
MOVEMENT OF DISTRICT VOLUNTEERS.
On Thursday night. about s o'clock, the
Fifth b ,ttalion ID. g Volunteers, under com
mand OF Lieut.. Col. Everett, were ordered To
meet at the Patent Office for special duty -
Arrived there, the battalion formed i'll line
and were marched over towards Georgetown.
| The men stated that they had orders 10 pack
| up for a long tramp some SAID SIX days; 9th
ers supposed they were TO go over the Cham
| Bridge into Virginia, and form the advance
| guard of a larger body of troops, which IL WAS
thought was about 70 move on Manassas
| Junction.
! THE ARRESTS.
Francis Markoe, one of those lately arrested
| on charge of treason, has been released on
giving 81, 900 bail. A. Il Addison has been IT,
| leased on taking oath OF allegiance, and CIV
! ing bond for his loyal condn James FLEET
been remanded until Gen. Mansfield determ
| ines his case
| Lewis q. Robinson was arres ted by a guard
| from Capt. keliey's company OF the ID &.
| Volunteers and a hearing before justice
| Dom and Capt. Starr. He was dismissed
upon taking the oath of allegiance.
AFFAIRS AT HARPER's FERRY.
The Louisville Courier has letter dated
Harper's Ferry, May %, from which ex-
tract the following
Gen. Johnston assumed command yester-
day and Immediately set to work reconnoit t.
ering the surrounding country. That Gen
eral i intends to hold this place may be in
terred from the fact that he has brought his
family with him His accom- piished wife is
the daughter Of the late Hon. Louis McLane
and a sister of Hon. Robt. NJ. mcLane, of Bal
timore recently minister to Mexico.
You will see by reference TO the map of Vir-
ginia, that if the reports be true concern Ing
the seizure of the Manassas Gap Railroad by
the Federal troops, that We are com plete ly
hemmed in at Harper's Ferry We have N,
me nus of access to Richmond, nor the interior
of the State, and within rifle shot of us is the
| frontier, while there are thousands OF the en-"
nv in a half days march. Here, then, We
must stand, and when the time comes, cut oul
way out of this trap. But we are not at al
dishesrtened appalled, by these circum-
| stances
We are, of course, on the qli ufre for An at
tack here as the movement upon Virginia wa:
10 be m ade simultaneously from Washington
| norfolk, ana Harper l. tTTy. L uiTuIy
that we will give up our quarters and caTnF
grounds without some show OF resistance
This will he no Alexandria victory.
Major Whiting, very able officer, has as
, sumed charge of the engineering branch OF tn
service at this point.
, MOVEMENTS AND D0ISG5 OF FEDERAL TRooPa IL
1 WESTERN VIRGINIA.
The spondent of the Wheeling Intelli
gencer of Thursday, supplies the followin
additional intelligence of the movement c
the United States forces from the Ohio rive
toward Grafton:
At Warrington we learned that Stephe
Roberts the leader of the secessionists at Clio
yer's Gap, seven miles west OF Manningtof
was shot and instantly killed by a squad G
: | Capt. Hayes men, who have possession c
! | that post. 1t appears that the squad wer
n scouting on Tuesday morning, and came acros
> | Roberts and two other men, all armed In
@ | lieutenant in command OF the squad caiie
3 | upon the Secessionists TO halt, but instead q
: doing so, they wheeled about and fired upo
y | the soldiery. The fire was returned, an
y | Roberts was killed, though the others took I
I their heels and made their escape. The Mimi
!, ball pas sed entirely through his body. Capt
. | HAYES has succeeded in aires ting several Sc
!. | cessionists about the Gap, who are suspect e
| of having hand in burning the ratlroa
q bridges. The captain has them confined In a
i. old barn, which Is well guarded.
y The Union sentiment and the Secession ser
. timent goes altogether by neighbornoods. !
I some precincts there are no Secessionists a
= all, and in others there are no Union men.
n On Tuesday afternoon the Henry Ola
,r Guards and the Rough and Ready Rifles,
the Wheeling Regiments, and two com PAM,
;, OF the Ohio Sixteenth, left the camp al
marche up 10 the town of Falrmont, a d
d lance of Is miles They succeeded in takiI
IL possession of the town peaceably and at la
20 | accounts were guarding the bridges in Il
N vicinity The burnt bridges are being spec
4; lily repaired by q large volunteer force tro
er this city.
h. As we passed Cameron, Virginia, upon o
m return we found the Union men bringing
te the Secessionisls from the country TO mai
Sc them take the oath of allegiance and swe
Z, 10 support the Constitution OF the Unit
re States
ne Just as we were leaving the camp at
a burnt bridges, yesterday, about 300 of
Ohio 10th were ordered 10 march. TIL
ed were soon ready and nder way. They sta
Ia ed in the direction of Fairmont, and il
tn thing happened TO them. they reached II
-. place yesterday afternoon.
~ GEN. BUrLER's COURSE APPRovgp-sLAvEs c,
" sIDERED cosTRABAsD.
y, Secretary Cameron has sent the follow
ny letter to Gen. Butler:
M "WAsHISGros, May 30, 1875
:, SIR: Your action In resi- ect to the negr
~ who came within your liner from the ser,
ne Of the rebels Is approved The Department
II: sensible Of the endorsements which u
ne, tions IN a state by the laws Of which sisv
,re Is sanctioned The Government cannot res
TO o obi ne nr can IL refuse the psrorm
rug Among these Federal obligations, however. q
nd, aud dispensing armed combinations formed
srn the purpose Of overthrowing Its whole coast
TO tional authority.
md While, therefore, you will perpit no In
in ference by the persons under your com n
oil With their relations Of persons he'd 70 scr go
w, other haud, long any state vii mn vi