, 1862-12-09
FROM THE SCUIH,
WHIT THE RICHMOND PAPERS
IEiEETO SAY.
Movements On Mobile, Charleston
Wilmington and Suffolk.
Rumors Of ActiYe Work Ahead.

FORTRESS MONROE, Dec. 7.-The following
is taken from the Richmond papers Of Satnr-
day. Tic Dispatch says reports from Fred
ericksburg yesterday were that pretty severe
skirmishiilg occurred in the neighborhood of
Port Royal Yesterday morning, but with what
aspect Of affairs is represented to be such Us
TO indicate & battle. The columns Of the enc
my have been moved to the front, and much
activity is observable along their lines.
Gen. Walker teltgraphs from Poccatrligo
that a feet Of twenty Federal vessels sailed
from Hilton Head on Friday last. George
town and Wilmington, n. G., are the points
aimed at. Our troops everywhere arc put
under marching orders, to be ready for 4 move
on the shortest notice.
Several large vessels passed Charleston bar
for Sunday, going southward. It is thought
they have gone to aid the Gulf squadron in an
attack on Mobile. Five additional vessels
were off Charleston bar on Sunday, and four
bloekaders off Stono Point.
The dispatch also says the Yankees at Suf-
folk were last week reinforced BY one full
brigade and one battery Of tield artillery. The
Yankee forces ut Suffolk and in this vicinity
are estimated at 80 900 By their own men, who
STATE this force is to march against Peters
burg, while the force at Newberu, North Car
oliia,, is to operate simultaneously against
| Weldon.
The Examiner SAYS the rebel Navy Depart
ment has issued pcremptOry orders for the
! mounting Of formidable piece Of ordnance
| on Drusy's Bluff, where Fort Darling stands,
| thc novel construction of which his excited
the attention Of military meu for some time
past.
An interesting correspondence has recent
! Is passed between Henry A. Wise and General
| Keyes relative to the treatment Of lunatics in
| the asylum of Virginia. Wise assumes tC
believe that these unfortunates were cruelty
treated By Union officers, and makes Il very
pathetic complaint Of the same Reyes re-
| plies that no harm Was done or intended tC
| be done to inmates OF the asylum; hut on thu
I contrary, every comfort was extended to then
by our Surgeons and other officers
MooREHEAD CITY, N G., Dec. 3.-At Beau
fort, Oh the I'd inst. Gen. Banks was no1nlna
ted for the next Presidency by Eastern Nortl
Carolina, in Il Free Labor resolution, at a iarg
and enthusiastic meeting Of native North Car
olinians. The Union troops who belong Il
this organization strcnuously insist upon tn
vigorous and prompt enforcement OF the con
iiscation act passed by the last Congress.
Gen. Banks Texas expedition is the them
Of considerable comment III Southern paper
recently received here.
FORTRESS MONROE, Dec. THE Kchm0n
Dispatch Of Dee. 9Th has the following items
Reports from Fredericksburg Yesterday ar
| important. It is stated that Burnside Ia
been superseded in command Of the Yanke
! forces, and that fighting 10. Hooker has take
his place. Burnside will have no cause to re
grct this change, if the radicals insist upo
an early advance.
4 dispatch received yesterday states tha
the partisan rangers Of Col. 1mboden had
skirnish with the enemy near New Crecl
Hampshire county, few days, in which Brig
Gen. u. L. Rose, Of the Federal forces We
killed There are no other particulars.
The Fincastle Express learns from gentl
t1eman from Lewisburg, that one day ID:
| week, through the ea1e}essness Of our scout
the Yankees captured los Of our cavalry, {
many horses and destroyed the camp epuil
| age Of tho forces
NEW YoRK, Dec. S.-A Fortress Monrt
| dispatch to the Philadelphia Press, 6thz sa,
that division, commanded by General En-
ry, sailed South from here last night 15s de
1irlation is to reinforce Gen. Foster in Nor
| Carolina. The rebels threaten to prevent hi
advancing, By way Of Weldon, to Suffolk II
| reinforceMen1s consist Of over 4 600 men.