The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-25

'oihitioh 'hNcitiIehs from between the two
armies represent that ia the course Of last
night ail the troops that were nj I,eesburr
took their departure thence, going by "A road
reading little north of west os Though pro-
eeeuans 20 me hanassa railroad at the near
est point. AS yet this account has not been
ferihed, though we regard it's truth as being
exceedingly probable.
DOUBTFUL
me New York Taass and Tribune are trying
10 persuade themselves that the IN ain body OF
neasuregafo army has already retired back
OF hianass;t, and is now engaged In for tifying
me line OF the Rappahannock river from
the vicinity of Fredericksburg to the imm edi-
ate oase OF the Blue Ridge, near FauguieT
white Sulphur Springs II this We're so,
win It's right resting on the Potomac at
Aqua Creek and Transport, it's front wsuld
stretch about fifty miles. That fact shows
the notion OF those papers is ridiculous.
Here 1t is well known that Manassa June.
tion continues TO be the enemy's base in this
quarter. The probability that their effort TO
block the navigation of the Potomac NAV su-
p"rinduee the landing of n considerable Union
force below 10 smoke the rebels out of their
threatening batteries, has doubtless been pro
Vided against as far possible by concen-
tfatlng heavy body OF troops on the lower
portion OF the Manassa line. We do not be-
heNe mat they nave now much force either
north or east of Fairfax Court House their
last concentration being south and west OF
mat point TO meet the possible result Of their
riNer-olockadIng game. That is from the
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with but little more than a guard from the
Court-House through Flint Hin, Vienna, and
Ieesburg, TO the Potomac near the Point of
Rocks.
DESTROYING THE ROADS AGAIN
Scouting between Fairfax Court House and
Vienna yesterday disclosed the fact that
Beauregard has again broken up the roads
between those points, as before McDowell's
advance to Bull Run. He has also INSTRUCTED
them in the direction of Leesburg All these
Obs tvuCtIDDS lnvyFypr
DIR. BOYLE.
Our former fellow citizen, Dir. Cornelins
boyle, remains Tor did remain up to the Ist1
Provost Marshal at Manassas Junction. with
the rank of Major in the army Of the State OF
Virginia.
col. KERRIGAN.
This New York city officer, who has been
under arrest Tor some time past, was TO day
brought over the river, under a guard to he
placed in charge of Provost Marshal Brir
Gen. Porter. He is charged last with sener-
atlng insubordl nation.
THE SITUATION Down THE RIVER.
Three tugs and one steamer went down
from the NaYy-Gard last night Two of the
tugs passed the batteries without being
freu on. Inc steamboat would not make the
attempt, and the other tug ran into a propel-
Ter coming up, and disabled her. The tugs
that had passed the batteries then lowed bac K
two loaded vessels coming Up, which Wer4
fired At, but not struck.
NouhLsI batteries Gu the Maryland shore
seem 70 be needed, rs well as :. force of pick-
cts and guards 10 apprehend those on the M
rEiand side who are engaged i'll sigEaIinL,
Tie enemy as our vessels appear in sight
Also TO prevent the passage of the river at
night, near the batteries, in small boats To
communicate with the enemy.
VESSELS ARRIVING UP--FIRrNg FROM TIE cox
FEDERATE BATTERIES,
There are at the Nayy-Nard this moruine .,
Inc loiio"lhS vessels, which came up the Pc
tomac last night: The Government steam 81
Cpur de Lion, which towed IN the Govern
nent sioop Granite; tthese vessels passed the
batteries at I:30 u. NJ and Were not fired on j
The tug Murray, which lowed up to George
town the schooner John FORSYTH, with Gay
for the Gov, rnment, and the tug Pnsey which
also toWed 10 Georgetown a large schooner
loaded with hay for the Government: (thesn
tugs We're in company, and about twenty
shots We're i1red at them as they passed the
batteries in the darkness, but neither the mos
nor schoOners were struck) Besides tI,.sp
vessels, the following are known to have
passed the batteries, all without iuiDrv and
some of them are now here The steamer
City of Richmond, Can't. Kelly with povydar
and other Government stores the side wheel
steamer Columbia, from Baltimore: a large
wood schooner, one or two other scho0nprs
aud several smaller vessels with oysters and
river produce.
The Cu'ur-de- Lion spoke the PaWppa in the
Chesapeake bay hound down The Pawnae
was not al all disabled by the shots she re-
ceiYed
A great many vessels are still ~ Smiths
Pint, waiting a chance to get up Ancrg
these are the steamer Annie T. HAYS with
300 bushels OF potatoes for the troops, the
schooner Cham heri&in, tre schooner Kate
Callahan, with coal, and tA.. schooner Mary
Miller, with lumber tur the QuarterlnaSter's
Department.
The Wyandank and Alger have left the
yard with stores. The Mount Vernon went
down last evening, but Captain Mitchell
deemed it prudent to return to Irdian Head
without passing the batteries. The Harriet
I.ane lett the yard this morning at seven
o'clock.
The new battery at Timber Branch mounts
The Yankee has on board a large.sizpd ri
fled she'll which was fired from the battery \,
Inod erFy, lbetWeen Transport and Ship
ping ioipt.j 1t went through barn on the
MARY iaud shore, and penetrated several feet
.nto "a bank Of earth.
HORSES, MULES, hay, AND OATS.
About twenty five thousand horses and
Three thousand mules have been recei we'd nv
me Rttartermaster IN Washington since the
commencement OF the war. IN Wcdppst!ay
Il. rie were on hand twelve hundred wagons
ana one hundred and thirty three alnbuiauces
q portion of these being in use and the rest
ready iof immediate service. On the same day
there We're ten thousand one hundred and for
Iy-four horses and twenty seven mules in use
"r kept as spare. For the last three weeks the
forage master has received one hundred and
NY lOiiS u nay ana eight thousand bushels
OF oats per week. The issue has been very
near the same.
STEAMER HUGH JENKINS DISABLED.
The tug Robert Leslie, which left the
Washington Navy Yard on Thursday night
ran INTO the steamer Hugh jenkins. bound
down, hear Mount Vernon. The Hugh len
kins was struck about ten feet from the bow,
and was completely disabled. She had on
board troop OF cavalry, with the horses -
she was Immediately run into shoal water on
10 II Nh.
yard for scow to take the horses oil For
tunately no one was injured.
GOVERNMENT ARMY SUPPLIES
Inc Nauonal IRtet'4geHcr says the following
shows the amount of subsistence stores on
hand in the. Government warehouses on the
18th of the present month:
FORK, 5000 barrels; beef, 5000 barrels beet
tongues, 200 barrels; bacon, BOZ, 900 pounds:
hams, 10000 pounds flour. IL 900 barrels:
hard bread, 30o0,G50 pounds; beans, 000
bushels; rice, 100 pounds; hominy 10 000
pounds; rlced barley, 10000 pounds; green
coffee, $4,000 pounds; ground coffee Il, 900
pounds; tea, 1000 pounds; sugar. 1900 ooo
pounds; vinegar, 10000 gallons; candles.
10000 pounds; soap, poo. 900 pounds; salt
10000 bushels; desccated potatoes . 900
pHun df: desiccated mixed vegetables Il 0aN
pounds: pickles. 27S kegs; dried apples 30 Goa
pounds split peas, 1000 bushels; mclaseeg
5000 gallons; potatoes, 1000 bushels.
The following shows the prices paid by the
Government for the specified articles;
Pork fie per barrel, beef sl5 per barrel.
beef Tongues Tl6 per barrel, bacon 10 cents
per 10, hams z cents per pound -four 81 ~
per Dbl, hard broad cents per pound beans
81 per bnshel, rice : cents per pound HON
my p cents per pound, riced barley u cents
per pound, ground coffee 20 cents per pound,
green coffee IA cents per pound, tea ~ cents
per pound, sugar s. cents per pound, vine.
gar l2t cents per gallon, candles 2G cents per
pound, soap cents per pound, salt cents
per pound, desiccated potatoes ii cents per
pouhu, desicc2ted mixed Yegeta bles - cents
per pound, pickles 50 - per keg dried apples
D. cents per pound, split peas 81 per bushel,
molaeses 81 cents per gnllnn DO Ia toes so cents