The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-06

Northern Accounts Of War Movements.


from which we make up the following sum
mary;
From FORTRESS MONROE.
FORTRESS MONROE, July 3l.-Lieut Crosby
lei / the or II ess yesterday expedition,
Win 5oo men and several pieces of artillery,
DIS triouted on board the propeiiers Cadwalla-
der, Fanny and AdrIaLic. Their destination
was up the bay. Tney have not yet been
heard from.
Professor La Mountain made an ascension
With his balloon this morning He attaned
| an elevation OF 600 feet, and was able to OBJ
serve II circuit OF thirty miles in diameter,
making IL reconnaissance " INCH may prove OF
some service.
the vicinity OF Hampton, which is in tru tn IL
deserted village. Hon. John Tyler's house
| Is occupied by large number of fugitive
slaves.
1HE LATEST FROM GEN. BANKs' CoLUMS-GEN.
JoHSsroS's MevkNEFTs.
SANDY Ho.k, August mo important
movements have taken place on the part OF
th.s Column. Additional forces have been
sent up 10 guard the ford At Harper's Ferry.
Scouts sent out on Tuesday night repor led
considerable bodies OF Confederate furagers
within SIX miles of the Ferry, when gives
rise To a suspicion of Il much larger body being
near US than Leesourg- Some think that
j johnston . army is on me move nOrthWard.
Three brigades of the Shenandoah column
nave already been formed. The nrst VIII be
commanded 10y Col. Geo. II. Thomas, the
third By Dol. Chas. J Stone. Other brigades
are now forming.
The Massachusetts 30th Regiment, at Ha-
serstoWn, Is expected here TO night. the SIN
Connecticut kes lment arrived here this morn
ing
There is much detection in Col. Manns
re- inent OF The Pennsylvania reserve.
large number We're Issing at roll call yester-
day morning, and yesterday ABOUT 500 refused
10 be sworn III. The mcn assign various
Cause Some say that they are not armed as
thFy We're promisei 10 be by their State au-
thuTitIeS, and hat they have Il scarcely OF
TODD, from the want OF manage ment and il
experience OF their cOmmIssariaL; but the
real cause Is believed TO d want OF conf
deLce III their officers, added to as piritions of
supofdina'es tor higher grades.
Col. Porter, OF Gen. Banks staff, at the
ms lance, 1t Is presumed, OF the COMMANDING
General, addressed them last night III Il paJrl-
oLlc STRAIN, but The Justification apparently
| sui exists. Ihis Is the only Know,. ms taIce
OF any di safec LIon i'll tits amy. The health
OF the coiumn Is good.
Scouts freq uentIy bring i'll evidences Of Sc
CossIon combustion Ill THIS section of Mary
lard, as well as Of frequent comm unicatiun
with The rebels of Virginia. SLringeut meas q
ures have been Instituted 10 stop eucn cor
respohdence, II II really exists also, TO break
up me organizations. Nothing Is positively
| Known outside the staff OF the enemy s move
ments.
SANDY HOOK, Aug. l. p. M.-About three
mildred or the dIsanec Ted men OF Col. Mann's
70 Jay oisrCbed and sent TO harrisburg under
guard The scene OF displacement was one
"a a., nui'iatioa to the men, being considered as
hSht punishment for their disaTectiOn. 1t
Is not known whether the remaining men viii
De attached TO some other regiment or sent
home to recruit, or be disbanded
Citizens OF Harpers Ferry report seeing Sc
cessionlst pickets at Charlestown III citlZens
dress.
Col Gearish's Pennsylvania Regiment was
inspected this afternoon.
MONSTER CASARD.
Under the flaming head of q "Bloody Bat
tie in Western Eirgina-Retreat of Gov.
"ise," the Associated Press reporters pub
lish the following;
PHILADgL PEIA. July 31.-The New York
papers received here contain dispatch from
Clarks burg, Western Virginia of a rumored
figat between Col. Tyler with a force of
i" coo volunteers, and Ex-Governor Wise, at
the mead OF 900 Confederate troops NJ Bell
ston. Six hundred Federal and !. 500 Con
tederate troops were killed and wounded, and
Gen. Wise was retreating.
Wherein the Baltimore South remarks:
These fellows have slain Wise and dispersed
his torces so often, that we wonder at their
assurance in speaking Of him us "stin in the
flesh" and capable of fighting battle and
making retreat. We have not been able to
Hlc beiislon either on the map or in the latest
tiaz9tteer If there is such place and there
somewhere on the road between Charleston
and LeWishuTg, along which Wise was at last
accounts retreaung TO effect q junction with
General tlovd, and the details of the Ia RI q
must be enormously exaggerated and mis-
represented to suit the Northern market
AS this is Wednesday, probably the New Y ork
papers cot the tale up for to-day's European
steamer.
The mania for lying affects all the Northern
war journals. Hence we are not surprised TO
find the subjoined paragraph in the Washing
ton Star:
Inc war Department is III the receipt OF
dIspdtcnes from western Virginia Coufr miug
In part current newspaper reports of General
iy!er alleged recent victory over the army
or Henry A. Wise. These dispa tches speak in
s7n'rdl terms OF our having gained consid-
elaoie advantage IN the affair, bnt Go not state
particulars coucarningi.. Another portion of
zen kosencraGZ' army, under Gen. Cox, is
on the way to intercept Wise's retreat
CRIES FOR HELP.
It's said that Gen Lyon, in Nj issouri, and
Gen. RoaencranZ, iii Western Virginia. have
both importuned the Government for imme.
date achievements. How the Government
is to supply them, is the quest ton, as Butler
Is calling for more men at Fortress Monroe ;
Banks is in similar need, and the ''ciefence of
the Capital must not be neglected
THB CONFEDERATE ARMY IN VIRGINIA.
One Of the New York papers has the fol-
lowing from Virginia:
Information has been received here OF a
reilabie character, that since the affair at Bull
Rnn the rebels have concentrated n immense
army In Virginia and have now an available
North Carolina, Tennessee MjSsissippi and
labama at once agreed to double, the quota
already levied upon them"
THB PET LAMBS
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Times states that the Zoua,,e.s, at Wash
inRton are 10 be sent home, Osten sibly to Fort
Schuyler to recruit, but in reality because
they alone of all the regim snts are so
thoroughly demoralized to render them
useless. They were paid off on "Wednesday,
noon.
GIN. SCOTT NOT DEAD.
The following order has just been issued
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARsY}
H"ShIagt0n, July 81, 1861. !
1t has been the prayer of every patriot that
the tramp and din OF civil war might at least
spare the precincts wi hin which rapose the
sacred remains of the Father of Lis Country:
hut this pions hope Is disappointed Mount
Vernon, so recently consecrated anew to the
immortal Washington by the ladies Of Amer
ca, has already been overrun by bands of re-
bells, who, having trampled under foot the
Constitu ton of the United Statei-the ark of
our freedom and osperity-are prepared to
trample on the ashes of him to whom we
are all mainly indebted for tn ose mighty
blessings.
Should the operations of war t, Ike the Uni
ted States troops in that direc tor, the Gene
raj in Chief does not doubt that each and ey-
cry man will approach with due reverence
and leave uninjured, not only the tomb, but
Also the house, the groves and walks which
were SO loved by the best and greatest of
men, WINFIELD SCOTT.
am. SCOTT REFUSES TO OBEY WRIT OF HABgAs
CORPUS.
The Purcell McQ uillan habeas corpus case
was again before Judge Belts in the U 5.