Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-02

THE OAmPAIcN IN vnKcINIA.
Rumored Ds.IEns Of me Enemy.

HUNDRED DeGtgns OF ahe Enemy
From the Richmond Dispatch, Oct. ID.
Amoug the numerous rumors that reach US of the
designs of the enemy are few that are entitled to
any consideration. There were nevertheless, some
reports Ii circulation yesterday of information re-
ceived by the Government which assumed shape
of reliability. Il is stated that q committee Of
Northern capitalists has Vi tied Washington repre-
sentine that the people are impatient of delay and
that unless an onward movement is shortly made
the 'sinews of war" must be withheld. It has, ac-
cordiDg to current report been decided TO push the
campaign forward, and to this end Brigadier Sick
les is to be furnished with ten thousand men and
stationed on the Maryland shore opposite Transport
to cooperate with the feet which is to open fire on
our batteries. Meanwhile, 35 600 men are to be
landed at NOminy Cliff, il Westmoreland county,
! Va, and while these forces are engaged in aa at
tack upon our works on that line, Mcclellan is to
make q grand forward movement from Washington.
1t is supposed that by this plan they will draw the
attention Of johnson and Beauregard towards Ev-
ansport when they count it an easy matter to make
a successful attack upon the rear OF cur army
by an advance OF McCleGsns main force. The
information is said to have been brought by CON
fdential agent just from Washington. and the cir
cumstsnces lead to the belief that it is entitled to
credit.
The destination of the Federal feet which has
sailed from Hampton Roads continues to be a sub
jet of much speculation. Our telsgraphic sdvices
inform us thIrty-six steamers and one transport
went to sea from the Roads yesterday morning
Prom the Richmond Examiner, Oct. 30.
For the pact few days the widest rumors have
been circulated in the city of war movements of the
most terrible and astounding description. Some of
these rumors have betrayed the most contemplate
ignorance of the logic of falsehood, while others
have been surrounded with such circumstances of
psusibiity and have come with such apparent di-
rectness from well informed sources, as to find be-
levers even in the most careful and intelligent
quarters.
1t was repor ted, for instance on Monday. that
GO, 900 of the enemy had crossed the Potomac below
Aqua Greek; and so positive was the dispatch Civ
irg this infOr7- al ton that it communicated
through third party to the War Department az
certain intelligence 1t is needless to add that the
event of this formidable incursion Of the enemy is
yet purely imaginary and subject CT specula-
ton in the future.
Among the number and variety of war rumors
which have obtained general circulation on the
street. that of the departure Of the enemy's fleet
from Hampton Roads is a. last confrmed and fully
adsnenticatsd. AR official dispatch to the Govern
ment states that the fleet had put to sea.
We would remark one circumstance in the origi-
nation Of the wild reports that so often agtAte the
community which circumstance Is appreciated by
the Government. ard has provoked its utmost vigi-
lance for its protection against designing false
hoods II is not unfrequent that these reports are
decOys Of the enemy, originating with the stories
of professed deserters and selfsstyied refugees
from Washington city. Their stories are Just so
much trash in the estimation OF the Government,
no wever they may be imposed upon by credulous
public through other channels. As instance Of
these decoys of the enemy, learn that the Yam
kse Lieutenant lately captured in open boat off
Newport News. who called himself nephew Of
Gideon Welles LincOlns Secretary of the navy, and
professed to have deserted from Old Point, dis
covered TO have on his person full details OF the
plan of the enemy to land force at 1Orkto wn, DC.
The decoy. however, did not succeed, and the "sen
toni story spolt By taking Of the bearer
of the important and valuable information az a
spy.
A another example of the sensational, we have
int Ii renee Of the story of mnisssry, arrived
yesterday by the cars. who reports 20 have left
Washington late last Sunday, and to bring the
most important advices in papers, Gin his boots" Of
the enemy's movements and the most intimate de-
signs of the Lincoln Government. The accounts BY
the private express are that the Evan.port bat cry
is be taken all hazards; that the Lower Pot D
is to be crossed by immense forces at designs
ted points that fIsncisl committees Of New York
have made an advance movement of the army of
the Potomac sine qua non of future negotiations
for the sneWs of the war, &c, &c. The party who
br ngs this very sensational information AID who
apparently eujlys such unlimited confidence of
Abraham Lincoln and his geneI ais has been seat to
the care of Gen. Besuregard. OF course, this won
derfulicommunicatIon Of the very latest Intelligence
deserves no ere die beyond the street corner and
has been treated with no notice by the Government
beyond committing the bearer of the astounding
ne to the disposition of our Generals the Potc
mac.
Amid the multitude of rumors current yesterday
We ascertain no important facts of stirring events
Col Wigfall arrived here last evening frsm the
neghborhood sf Transport. All entirely quiet
there and on the line of the Lower Potomsc.