Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-16
LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.
VERY LATEST FROM RICHMOND.
Five Days. Later Papers from the Rebel
Capital.

The New York Herald has received a copy
of the Richmond Dispatch of October 10,
from which important news is obtained from
the domirions of JEFF Davis. We select as
follows:
The steamer Northampton, which conveyed
the forty prisoners to Newport News, re-
leased on account of their disabled condition,
had returned to Richmond.
Henry O. Lynch, of the Thirty. sixth Ten
nessee Regiment, fell from the cars on the
Central Railroad on the 7th inst, and was
run over, severing his body in twain.
The theater at Richmond, the Dispatch
announces, is undergoing repairs, and will
shortly be opened under the management of
Prof J. H, Hewitt.
Under the head Of departures the Dispatch
has the following paragraph:
Among the recent departures from Rich
mond, registered at the passport office, we
notice the names of Sir James Ferguson, NJ.
p, and Hon. Robert Rourk, of England, for
Manassas, and General N. Saunders, for
Nashville, Tenn.
The following also appears under the head
of alien enemies
Since our last publication Of the list the
following persons, having declared them
selves aliens, have received passports to leave
the Confederate States: Henrietta Fellows,
Henry Russell, Miss L. e. Loveland E. b.
Lookings, wife and child, VIM. P. Montague
and wife, William Speeden, wife and two
daughters, Mrs Jane Sprague, G.. W. Van
dergrifl, Miss Sarah Wadsworth and Mrs.
Mary NJ. Zeigler.
Corporal F. G. Butler, of the Fourth Ala
bama Regiment, died on the 9Th lost, of
wound received at the battle of Bull Run.
The manufactures of Fredericksburg for
the war, in the way of cottons, woolens,
grape and canister, harness, leather, swords,
sabers, shoes, clothing, &C., are reported
greater than any other place of the same size
in the Southern Confederacy.
REBEL ACCOUNT OF THE ENGAGEMENT ON THE
POTOMAC.
The Dispatch publishes letter from its
correspondent with the Hampton Legion, on
the Potomac, under date of October Z. The
Legion is stationed on the Lower Potomac,
and were the troops that recently fred upon
our steamers. The correspondent says;
Since l last wrote you we have advanced
considerably toward the enemy, to what pre-
else point will not inform you, though
think the Lincolnites could, as they give it a
wide berth in passing. Suffice it to say, that
we built, working day and night, batery
in doub.e-quick time, and that one beautiful
morning last week the "stars and bars "
waved free aud fearlessly from a jutting
point of the Potomac, where little dreamed
the foe the night before a Southerner was
nigh. Several war vessels and innumerable
sail vessels were lowering around, and i'm
mediately opened upon our little battery of
three guns of twelve pound rifles, of the
Legion, aud one thirty two. The compli-
ment was not returned by Captain Lea until
the eighth shell fell around us, when we re-
Piled slowly and deliberately. Our guns,
especially the twelve-pounders made in Rich
mond, surpassipg the expectation of the Off
GERS, compelling the Yankee vessel to with
draw entirely out of range in about half an
hours firing. However, with mortars, they
kept up an irregular firing for two days, but
without doing the slightest injury to any
body or any thing.
banks of the lovely river, in hopes that the
enemy might be tempted to land and offer
battle, and finding that they have no such
idea, we have returned to camp.
WINTER QUARTERS OF THE REBEL ARMY.
This correspondent further adds that the
most dispiriting news which has ever reached
our camp is that we may probably go into
winter quarters on this side of the Potomac
than which nothing could be more disap-
pointing and Unsatisfactory to the Southern
soldiers, with the unmurmuring patience
which they have endured the diseases that
have decimated their numbers, and all the
privetion and wants of first campaign and
now that a benign Providence has rebuked
the disease, and health and vigor again re-
turned to our ranks, they can not appreciate
the policy which would keep two hundred
and fifty thousand Southern men-a number
sufficient to do almost any thing--inclosed
in ice and snow five or six months, to defend
Virginia alone. We have always had the
utmost confidence in our Generals, but if an
inactivity here shall encourage the North to
invade the Cotton States las it will) when
frost shall have made it safe to land along
our coast, and if the spring campaign shall
find us doing over all that has been done,
when a brilliant simultaneous movement
into Maryland, and thence to Washington
and Baltimore, would secure our recognition
abroad, and enable US to eat our New year
dinner in peace at home, we will begin to
think that somebody somewhere is no; The
right man in the right place.
Captain Spans Company of Germans, from
Charleston, has joined the legion, and the
South Carolina zouaves are daily expected,
when the legion will consist of nine corps,
the cavalry four, while the artillery has been
increased to one hundred and seventy-fiVe
members. .-.-.rFv ....
The rebel papers announce the important
news that the Federal Government has
stopped all communication between Wash
| ington and Baltimore. They sdrmise that
this has been done tooprevent any news OF
the movements about Munson's Hill being
| known in Baltimore.
FROM PENSACOLA.
A Pensacola correspondent mentions 9
| rumor that tive hundred thousand pounds o.
gunpowder would be received by General
Bragg on the 9TH inst.
ATTACK OF BILLY WILSON'S REGIMENT.
The following dispatch also appeared in
| the Dispatch;
PEKsAooLA, October 9.-An engagement
| took place on Santa Rosa Island this morn
ing early. Among the killed were two o
the Clinch Rifles, one of the Irish Yolun
teers natives of WarreDton, Georgia There
are several wounded and missing. Full par
ticulars have not been received.
| ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
MONTGOMERY, October 9-Governor Moor
has issued proclamation calling the Legis
latuTe of Alabama together on the 28th inst
in advance Of the usual time.
REBEL ACCOUNT OF THE MOVEMENTS OF GEN
ERAL RosECRAEs.
A report reached the city (Riohmond) yes
terday, October 8, that General ROsecran
had fallen back from Big Sewall Mountain
and was in full retreat pursued by Genera
Loring. This was believed by reliable gen
tlemen who arrived on the Central traiu
There is nothing new from the Potomac
The enemy has retired from Falls Ohurcl
after refusing an offer of battle.