The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-12

| reached this city yesterday. we placed IN
| possession of files of late Northern papers,
from which we make mp the subioined sum-
| mary. We give the Northern accounts OF
| war movements for what they are worth.
FROM FoRrsEss MONROE.
The Black Repu blican correspondent of the
Northern Associated Press comm nicates the
following
| FokrSRss MosRoR, Aug. 6.-General Blu tier
returned TO Old Point this morning. Moth
ing has yet TRANSFERRED as to his remaining
here, but 1t is understood that the Federal
| army at Fortress Monroe is TO be greatly in
| creased.
The General has spent the afternoon at
Newport News, experiment ting with Hotch.
| kiss shells.
HAMPTON will be pied on the arrival
of the first regiment from the North. I'VE
| thi nix that is somewhat doubttull
Lieut.. Crosby, who conducted the success.
| fut ex petition 10 Accomac and Northamptop
| on the Eastern Shore, will lea e Old Point III
the morning With an effective force Tor a SINH
| lar pt.rpose.
The sailing frigate Savannah is being lowed
up the ROADS, and will proceed to Newpor.
| News TO relieve the Dale, now ordered to sea
The crew OF the bark l.inwoed, OF New
| York, thirteen in number, have Just arrived
| on the q uaker City. The bark was wrecked
! on Cape Hatteras. They were picked mp Off
| Cape Henry.
near the Capes, "a small boat con tanning ten
| shipmaster and seamen, who had escaped
| from Fort Oregon, North Carolina.
They give some startling intelligence of the
| dcirgs on the North Carolina coast 1T Hat
| teras Inlet there are three steamers and II pilot
| boat prisateering. One OF thera, the Cor
| don,' ran the blockade at Charleston and Of
| the whole coast up 10 Hatteras Inlet ten days
| ago, since which time she has captured brig
" VIM. Ii McGilsery,' of Bangor, from Oar
| denas, with mOlaSses, and schooner "Protec-
tor, irCIn Cuba, with fruit.
| The names Of the privateers are the "oor-
don, the "Cohee," side-wheel steamer for
merry running between Old Point and Nor
folk steamer Marion, formerly Wilming-
| ION tug-b boat, and schooner york." Norfolk
pilot boat. All OF them are armed with r1ied
| cannon. Those from Norfolk We're taken
down the canal to Albemarle Sound. New
bern, North Carolina, is tho headq uarters OF
/ these pirates.
Ten gun boats are being colioc ted and mount
| ed at Norfolk, TO De taken down the canal
| crews for them are now being shipped at
| Newbern. The bark Glen, of Portland, with
| Government coal, was captured IA week age,
| and taken into Beaufort, y. q.
| The refugees state that the Confederate les
| scare regard the coast as blockadsd a all,
and consider the Quaker City the only vessel
doing any efficient service against them. Dur
iDS all this time, several gun boats have been
| quietly anchored at Old Point.
| The frigate Wabash has arrived from off
| Charleston, 10Y coal and water. having been
relieved b y the Roanoke She recaptufed the
| s. hooner Mary Alice. Of New York, which had
been taken by the piraucal sChr. Dixie. The.
| prize crew are now prisoners on the Wabash.
from Wilmington to Liverpool, with turpeu-
tine and rosIn, and sailing under English
| colors.
Tne Wabash accdent tally run into the gun
| boat Seminole, but did liz lie damage.
The following paragraphs from the
Washington Star, of Wednesday evening:
Rua0REp sKIRsIsH ACROSS THE RIVER.
The city has been tull of runors o-day ola
| skirmish last night across the river, IN which
| secession cavalry charged upon our pickets,
and that a number OF the enemy were killed
, and TWO OF our own men, and three wounded.
| p TO the time OF going 10 press We cannot ob-
| tain any veritcatlon OF the Tumor.
ooSFBpBRATg AMY.
| Some OF The Federal troops encam ped about
| two miles North OF Georgetown, are said TO
| have sean Il cons darabie body OF troops tsome
| thousands encamped yesterday on the VIZ
| ginia side, and supposed to he 4 part OF John
| sons command. These latter seemed to be
| about two miles from the river, and about one
| mile and IL quarter above the Falls, exactly
| opposite an alleged fording place. The ford,
| which is iii passab BILE Tor wagons or artillery,
| has 10 be approached from the Virginia side
, | through narrow dtnle cut through the
| abrupt hills at that point, and the ford tsef is
by no means wide. 1t WAS also noticed that
, axenen seemed to be III work telling trees be-
tween the troops and the river.
ALEXANDRIA aBsAcgD-EA&B EEws.
The following specimen Of news is from the
Washington correspondent OF the New York
| Herald, OF August eth:
| 4 gentleman who has been recea tly compeii
| ed to leave Vienna, states that the rebels have
| about ten thousand men at that point and
| FAILS Church, and that they are menacing an
attack upon Alexandria.
He says that he has mingled freely among
| their troops and confirms The statement that
| they had over one hundred thousand at Bull
Run and Manassas on the 21st ult The esti-
1 mate made of their killed III that engagement
I is twenty seven hundred, exclusive OF
j wounded. They admit hat the slaughter on
q their side was double what it was on ours.
, | He reports thai the wives of rebQi soldiers
state that their hus bands are engaged in mining
2 | the road between Fans Church and Fairfax
/ | Court House, and that they intend 10 connect
, | the mines with sna ! walls filled with explo-
sive material and That their main batteries in
4 the direction OF Manassas Junction have not
e yet been discovered by our troops
, From another source it is learned that ever
| since the occupation OF Harper's Ferry by the
| rebels, force of from one thousand to twelve
hundred men has been engaged 81 Richmond
III the manufacture OF rtied cannon and ordi-
| nance OF various caiibres. They ale said TO
! have turned ont an immense number OF can
| non,
SENATOR MAsoN's PROPERTY.
From a Philadelphia letter in the Balt
more SIM, dated August 9TH, we copy the
| following
: Yesterday, Mr.. Chew, of German town
applied 10 Judge Ludlow for an injunction
10 prevent Senator Mason, of Virginia, from
, | taking money cut OF the estate III which he
| Is IN terested iocate IN this county. IN ask
[ ing for the order, Mr. Chew said apply
| to your Honor tor an order to prevent James
NJ. Mason from taking out of the jurisdiction
| of the court funds which the trustees have
| inves ted under order OF lile Orphans Court.
Already very large sum has been taken out
OF the State by that very remarkable traitor,
and have no prospect OF ever getting retri-
, ! button. If the balance of the funds is taken
| away" Judge Ludlow suggested that a ci.a-
ton might issue, and notice could be made by
| publication. Senator Mason has ten days in
| which 10 appear and answer.
NEW PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
} Henry J. Ray mond, OF the New York Times,
| who is now IN Washington and enjoys init
mate relations with General Scott and other
military men, makes the following sugges-
ton in Il letter to his paper
| Let a civilian, then, make one suggestion to
those who hold in their hands the lives of our
| patriotic soldiers and the honor OF their coun
tFys flag. His suggestion is this:
? The rebel army ought not TO be attacked in
, | its present position for the simple reason
that II now occupies, of all others which lis
engineers could select, the very spot Ia which
| IL can be most veniently and certainly
surrounded, ani ultimately captured.
| The rebel c mp at Manassas is protected on
| three sides by considerable streams, and on
| the fourth side, though at some distance of,
| by mountain ranges, The passes OF which are,
| of course, held by their forces.
Il Thus, on the north side of their position is
Bull Run, u name now familiar TO every
| reader
| On the south side of the Junction is Broad
| Run, a stream quite as large as Bull Run.
| On the east side Is the OcrCq uan River,
, formed by the confluence Of Broad RIM and
Cedar Run, and receiving Bull Run ss q
| tributary.
Now, between these three streams, and thus
/ than 1.a