The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-08-08

We nave received Northern papers to the 9TH inst:
There Ia nothing Of importance from MeCleiam's
army regiment crossed Tho river and destroyed
the houses and cvelled the trees on the opposite
side which had screened the Confederate art .erv
on the night of the last attack. The CoDiede rate
'lashes are going on veiy. They have captured
Canton No, aud q quantity of armss They are
also reported to have a Federal force surrounded
at Bloomfield, Missouri. The Governor of New
York is to issue lis defamation for draft.
Ing in few days Among those killed In
McCiellans camp by the artillery attack was
of the provost guard at the Sedtn Mansion. The
Confederate firing Was too hig. TO do much damage
The Norihern account of the attack On tho Arkan
sas acknowledges it to have been q dead failure
Liens..Coi. Elicit himself volunteered to run into
her with the ram Queen" with a picked crew
lie kept HIS word, and got his ship torn ali 10
pieces, not having dinted the iron plating OF
his antagonist TIE ia lure has caused much bitter
recriminaton among the COMMODITIES Of the
ases.
THE BAYoNET VOTE IN BALTIMORE.
The election for he second branch of the City
Council took place in Baltimore on the lst. There
were only 5000 % votes poied, and Of coarse the
Federals had it all .heir own way A letter to the
Philadelphia Iaqairfr thus accounts Tor he slim
vote:
II ia supposed not loss than three thousand Union
mechanics and workingnen ont of the city.
very many OF them employed by the Government
at Washington, and in its various departments else
where.
There are, possibly, three 10 four thousand good
loyaliss il the army Two of the largps, aud most
popuious Union wards iii tie city held 10 election.
Their representative i'll the Second Branch being
had 10 occasion 10 resign. These would have
yelled the vote probably 10 six thousand De
duet, then, thousand being absrnl-yes. seven
thousssnd--say six thousand who did not vote AT
aii--count Yesterdays vote AT SIX thousand-would
give, in close contest, tweaty thousand Union
votes in the city Ii the issue were sQuarely put
between Union and dsuuion, proposition TO
sustain The Government destroy it to break mp,
geographically. our country or notin other words,
TO let the South sccede and bc acknowledged as an
independent Government, taking with her Mary
land and what else she demands-l doubt il three
Thousand votes could be bad Tor II il the whole
city.
imagine our City Council, or the second branch
thereof. just elected, will, on Monday or Tuesday,
pass the bounty appropriation bill, after which time
persons who have been holding back for the pre-
miusn OF -lCU Will come forward and unite them
selves with the army. Ii Maryland5 quota cannot
he raised in this way within reasonable tiuie,
drafting will undoubtedly be rosarted 10, by hci.
,nc;ins we can get rid OF a tarpropoitioi of our
Secession brethren. They viii make excellent sol
dIers after little training, with bayonets III front
ana in the
Ii generally believed unless they greatly change
their tone and adopt more respectful course to
wards loyal citizens cease sarcrinG, &c., that the
oath of allegiance or the alternative oi going to
Dixie, will he soon pnt to many OF our most rabii
and indiscreet sympa,hzors with treason They
are N nervous apprehension.
THE QUESTION: srTTILD ABOUT GrFIIILAs IF