The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-09

ana narrowly escaped fatal results, he has
Deem engaged in pertectinS machinery by
winch the motion of the can be better
regulated, and an ascension made with more
safety.
stiil Later.
We received yesterday New York papers OF
Thursday, and Baltimore papers of Friday
last, which give later reports of war move
ments rs reported at the North.
FROM GEN. BANKS COLUMy
The latest accounts from Gen. Banks col
nnn, through the Northern Associated Press
are GATED Montgomery county, Maryland,
Sept. Cd. The letter alleges that there are
! 1000 Confederate troops at Leesburg that The
toniederates are throwing up entertainments
at the Junction of the Little Falls road with
! the alexandria turnpike, and thataboye Lees
burg there are no large bodies of Southern
troops, though their pickets line the river
| shore and guard the ford and ferry. An s.cve
witness lFcderaD states that the affair al
Conrad's Ferry, a week previous TO the 2d
was follows
A party of Union scouts crossed the river.
TOOK TWO prisoners in arms and four horses
| keachlng the river, on their rpturu thew
succeeded in getting over two horses when
| they were attacked and compelled to let the
! prisoners 20. / he next day n battery an-
! pttrcu opposite our entertainments, and
| commenced Smelling us. No battery being
| there at the time our men responded with
| muskets and rifles. On the arrival of a bat
terry The Coniederates soon beat a retreat
| lhree days subsequent to the above eX-
! change OF CUitrtekps u large canD of the 60 -
, crssionists was discovered to be within range
! OF our rifle batteries, and near Ieesburg
| An active bonn ba rdment soon caused tha
! tonfederates to leave their quarters for n
! safer position q mile ut least farther from the
river our artiilerstS say they threw shells
from Their rlfied guns over and beyond the
| town OF Leesburg.
The correspondent goes on to say:
Information given by negroes induced y
search yesterday south of PooIesyiIlp for
arms, supposed to be intended for Nlaryland
| Volunteers IN the Confederate cause. The
| seaTcn was successful. Some twelve or fifteen
complete sets Of cavalry eQupm is were dis
covered and retained by our scouts Resi-
dents of the neigh borhood assert however
| that the equipments belonged to a companV
! Of Home Guard cavalry. which was raised
| last winter to guard against the rising Of the
| negroes that tho company was QUILTED by
| the state but owing TO the distance from the
| place OF assembling at which many Of the
members lived. the COMPANY was disb,ndpd
| before Gen. Patterson took command of The
| Department. The Captain and some Of the
othtr officers are nOWln Virginia. The COM
! pany named the Pooles,iue Jipbt
| Dragons, Two men, supposed to be active
| SecessiOnlSts, We're ca ptured a the same time
| by scouts from the 29th PENNSYLVANIA regi-
| lnent, Colonel Murphy. Two complete set.
| OF cavalry equipments and the same number
| OF magnificent horses We're taken bv the same
! party.
Poor EsvILLE, Sept. 2.-Intelligence from
| the Virginia shore is TO the effect that from
| opposite the White House Ford, near the
| mouth OF the Seneca river down TO Arlington
| Heights the Con fedcratcs have heavy pick
cts, and are daily expecting reinforcem cnts
to enable them to extend them to Conrad's
| Ferry. There are at least six hundred To
| seven hundred hp
| On Friday, one thousand AlssissjDianS rs a
guard, reached the vicinity of Fairfax Court
| House, with sixty pieces Of artillery. The
| force opposite Washington is estima ted by the
| tontcderatesa at one hundred and twenty five
| thousand, with heavy reinforcemeuts daily
| arriving They say an attack is to be IN AIDE
| on Washington the present week
| Simultaneously with the attack on Wash
| inSton demonstrations are to he made flc-
| cording TO The same authority below. near
| the mouth Of the Occoquan, and above,
| and at Edwards, Nolan's or the White
| House Ferry.
| "IMPORrANT FROM NORTH CARoIINAr
Onr North Carolina friends will read the
| following Federal assertions with surprise:
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Respectahle gentle
| men who have arrived here from North Caro-
| lima, by Il circuitous route, say that the Union
| prospects iii that State are of the most tncou-
| raging character. The acting Governor is a
| TeHable Union man. Secret leagues OF loyal
| citizens exist III every county, which are
| rapidly increasing in strength, and already
| lumber one half of the voting population of
| the STATE. provisional State Government
viii be put in operation in q few months
| Two tull briSades OF loyal men have been en-
| rolled fer the Union cause.
| Inc leagues made extended arrangements
| Tor elecung member of Congress from every
| district, and four were known to have been
| elected on The 2lst Of August The latest
| news is mat the entire eight are elected, zach
| having received Il large vote. They are among
| the best men in the State, and viii insist upon
| a vigorous prosecution of the war. Their Ger
| thcatts OF election will bear the signature Of
| the Governor and the broad seal of the State
| Since the engagement at Hatteras Inlet and
the capture OF the forts there, the North Caro-
| lima troops have been Withdrawn from Nir
| sinia Many OF the troops are dissatisfied
| with the war, and those who entered the ser
| vice for short term refuse to continue i'll the
| Confederate employment.
| Upon this extraordinary news the Baltimore
| Exchange remarks
| When it is remembered that Mr.. Charles H.
! Foster, q New Eneiander, who edited a paper
| for short time iii North Carolina, but who
| ieIt the State many years ago, and is now in
| Washington claiming 10 have been elected
| member OF Congress at some election that no.
body else ever heard OF, it is easy to surlnise
! the purpose OF circulating the above.
There need be no astonishment at the asser-
tons of Yankee whose own wife has de-
nounced him through the newspapers and de-
from such an migrate
| LATER FROM MISSOURI
A Federal dispatch from Hannibal, Mo-
| Sept. 8, saws:
Corporal Dix, of the 81 Ohio Regiment
| While ont scouting with five men at kiTks-
| Yillr, last week, was surrounded in a farm
| HOUSE while ut dinner, b. d party of twenty
| i've occes,l oais3s, WHO demanded Il surrender.
| He refused, aAd The SecessioHists made an at
| tack, when a severe fight ensIed, bat the
| feuerallsIS maintained {htir position in the
| house, driving their assuilnIs from the
/ ground with = loss OF seven killed and four
| wounded. Corporal Dan was killed, but none
OF the other OF the Ft4erallsts Were mart.
| Under the same date we have the following
from Quincy, H.:
Gen. Pope left here last evening TO take the
| field iii Missouri. The Coniedcrates have torn
| up the railroad track and cut down the tele
| graph poles between Hunnewel and Shelle ma ,
on the North Missouri Railroad Martin
| Green WIS between these places yesterday,
with force OF two thousand well armed men,
and had two pieces OF artillery. Gen. Hurl-
burt is reported TO be west of Sheileua, With
| twelve to fifteen hundred Illinois troops.
LATER FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
| FORTRESS MONROE, Sept. IA flag of truce
| this morning conveyed 10 Craney Island a
! number of ladies wishing to go South A flag
| of truce from Norfolk also brought down the
| Yesterday. They report that the North Caro-
| lima Coniederates are tsrribly exasperated on
| account Of our recent victorious demonstration
| on their coast
| from Norfolk down to sswslIs Point exists
| only in imagination.
| HRoN ToRT PIekRxs.
The United States gun-bOat Wyandotts
Commander baldwin, arrived ~ New York