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

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| few days. to visit Washington on business.
| Washington CORES pondent Of a Baltimor
paper says go l4rations on the Potom lc TO
| the protection OF navigation Will soon b.
| ueces s'sry, inasmuch as the ice boats destined
for the supply OF this city with This essen tial
| requirement lave been captured by the Con
1 fedora ties. F."
| According to the Washington Star, q con
| siderable number of reg linen tai and compa n,
officers are daily resguiDg. The reason IS
ooubtiess, that they have seen quite enough
| Of service, although the Star ascTioes IL u
| other causes.
That there BAG been much insuhcrdtnatio,
| among the Ressians at Newport News, /:
true. In the New York First Regiment il
Amounted TO nearly mutiny. Gen. Butler
went there few days ego to put IN end TO It,
and had large quantity Of liquor dies troyed
The Vermont Regiment at Newport News
was TO leave for home on Sunday last The
small force remaining probably led to the
evacuation OF the place on Monday. The
ankees .dou otiess look upon this movement
| a. ProVidential escape from annihilation.
The Wilmington Journal says that sundry
Federal steamers have been " ying around a.
lately along The North Carolina coast. None
of them have yet dropped in. The boys
would rather have little ia teTchange CT civil
i,ies with them than not.
Gen. Fremont has arrived at Cairo with q
neet OF eight steamers, containing four rsgi
ments and some detached companies, which
were landed at Birds Point. BLACK Repub-
llcan authorities say there is row force CT
5000 federais there.
News from General Banks "Army of the
SHENANDOAH IS unimportant One OF the
mos; lmpoT tant items Is that Il Federal and n
rebel picket snet md way in the river, ex-
changed 4 Baltimore Sun iOr u Richmond Ea
quirer, and, atter taking "a friendly drink -
together, exchanged cahteenS.
lhe ge-iorioTs" doubleday, now with
General Banks, tried the range and accuracy
OF mis- riiied seige-guns the other day, and
toond the - range almost in.erininnb.t. Gnu
their accuracy astonishiag."
Detachments of Yankees are daily detaiIe,
70 WORK Oh tue rHIiTCild and bridge at Ear per S
cry. According 10 their own accounts, 4.
viii shortly be passibe; but their accounts.
are Seldom, II ever, worthy of belief.
The New York World labolition) represents
tina. recruiting goes Oh sio WY III mat city and
SLate. l4incoiai may yet have 10 resort to n
dratt 10 tii APP his army, Which will cause q
sihmpeae OF Yankees III the remote corners OF
t1e earth. The new eleven regiments nau
not, st last acc QUITS, Q tuil company apiece.
The New York Times is compliments Iy to
hArry AagraW. nov Il prisoner IN Virginia
II says " Ii the rebels will only hold gu 70
MIN / viii pa saving to the United States
He Is oi!e OF the Pennsylvania soldiers Ct for
tune, VINO engineeced the sWindiing beet con
tract, and VINO has had more jJbs orkeG
through tnan any oJher man."
A regiment o. Z0Hayes is now being form al
III Tennessee iOr Jae army OF The Confederate
States, to serve duiiEg thu war. The rest
nIsnt Is 10 De armed with rifles and s;i ore bay
onets, and uniformed in the regular Zoua v.
costume OF the French. l. is Ic Re command
Ell by Colonel J. q. Asglade, who WAS TO,
several years connected with that service il
| Europe.
In the late advices from Fortress Monroe. i
| is stated that ~ educated German, a priyat.
belonging 10 the Tenth New York Regimen
| has been Unrest tea There for :. holding cores
| pondence with the enemy" A letter TO Gene
| Eal Lee Was found on has person. Ambition
| tor advancement is supposed to have been hi
princi pal motive. His letter contained III
| revelations OF importance concerning the For
| tress.
| The irdiana volun teers engaged in the West
| ern Elrgtaid raid and the Rich Mountaiy
| affair, have returned home, and but precious
| few viii ever go back. Many of them hav,
| been heard to declare that their casua'ie
| were Ten times as IT n represent ted in til,
| dispatches, and that the Georgia boys wer,
| IS brave rs lions, and nothing hut OverWhelm
| ing numbers won the day.
! Mrs. Mariwether, of Guadalupe county
| Texas, has three sons in Col. H F.. McCnl
| loch's regiment, whom she equipped st he
| own expense. She says iurther son il
| ready 10 take the place or either of the thraa
| should any acc den@ befau them. She ais,
| Informs Mr ireland, the Con iederate LoaI
agent Of Seguin, thai she VIII give ever,
pound Of cotton she raises 10 the Oonfeaera.'
|
| self to see that all is saved.
| Gen. Beauregards watch stopped durins
the great battle OF MANASSAS Gu,.~termAs tel
| J. Vi. Hatch visiting Richmo I'd s :on af e.
was requested to deliver the watch 10 t
watch nGker tor repairs. GA examining it
| the artisan found nothing thu matter beyond
q jlr or shock and ,mmad tteiY SET IL % Ding
Ga delivering The watch 10 General R.aure
gsri, Col. Hatch remarked, General You
| wc.tch, like yourself, cannot run under fire )
| The Charleston Courier has information
| which authorizes the belief that traitorou.
! COMMUNICATION has been haS with the block
! a6iog fleet from some points of The coast be
| tween Charleston and Savannah. y sinai
sioop WAS recently ov"rnaultd contaiuin:
| five hundred chickens and other supplies, e~
| identity Intended foT 4 Lincoln market The
| crew Of the siOop escaped III q small boat int
g. creek.
! The Charle SION Courier asks if arrange
uiauts cannot be mad. for IA distribUtion @
! the prisoners now il Richmond through tn,
Southern States The States having pani
tentiaries might take scme and have them pu
| to work and others could be dis .rihu Ted il
| small groups to avoid trouble in guarding anC
| TO remove from some citizens of Virginia ia
| opportunity of making therns .lves nspicu
Gus for os'eatatious beuevoience exclusively
! directed towards our enemies.
Says the New York World although III,
Rhode Island battery is reported safe, TIA,
officers have failed to ind il, though search
ing all the afternoon"
Hon William II. Stiles, who recently came
| 10 Virginia private in the raabs CT III,
Etowah Guards, has been empowered b.
President ID avis 20 raise. "a regiment III Geor
gia, for III mediate service.
The Fredericksburg News learns by "pr
waite express that our forces won anothe
glorious victory aboye the CHAIN Bridge, 81,
miles from Georgetown, on Thursday, las
week. Why Old not The private express
bring the detai.sY