The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-08-03

orc ssed the Camberiand siver on the 25sh ule,
and moved npon Richmond, KY, for tbs par
pose, j. was supposed ef creating diversion
IN favor Of Morgan, Ut wi.ese capture hs Lar
not bsen advised. 4 dispatsh from Cincir
natl, dated The 2S.h, says:
A spaciai Dispatch to the Cemmerr,a, from,
Lexington, Ky, says the rebels This morning
attacked our foreea at Rich nond, consisting Of
a small detachment nnder Gel Sanders After
sn hours severe lighting, olr troops were
compelled 10 fall back TO the Kentucky river,
badly cut up. The rs bel force is estimated a.
, 500 men and Elk guns. They are supposed
TO he the advance of Brsgg,a army. At the
latest edvices our troops had fallen back with
in Ave miles of Lexington, the enemy closely
following.
Martial law had becn proclaimed in LexinQ
ton, ard ali the sble bodied citizens between
Is and ~ ordered to report for duty. L. il
thought that tie >citv can be held against the
rebel force Of over 1000, moving in ncrth
arly direction via Crab Orchard
The Gasetts.s Lexington dispatch sass The
excitement has 4suhsiisd The rebels came TO
The Kantueky ysiser, n Clay e FAIRY. Ssatsrs's
co IN Hisnd 10 aaarsy @assetia, slt troops from
IIickman's bridge insuso the safety Of Lex
insten. Generals Carter and GiIoerss com
nands are in the rear of tie rebels.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Gov CurtiD, of Pa, is atont to purchase
twenty acres of the battle fisld a. Gettysburg
Pa, as buria! ground for the Yankees who
tel. there.
The drafs In Ohio is to he commenced in
8 few dass In Philadelphia, "Wednesday
among thoss drawn were Morris Harding OF
the Phiiadelphia fsqasfes aud five telegraph
operators.
The bcunties now paid by the U. s Govern.
ment are 500 to new recruits sEd $500 10
veterans. Every single man will be entitled
to 81 per month from the State, and the fsmi.
lies of married men and widowed mothers of
single men dependent on chem for support, to
81 per month besides the monthly pay from
sne Government.
been nominated for Congress in Ashland tKy)
District to ill the vacancy occasonsd by the
death of Crittenden.
The New York Express establishment has
been placed in the hands of reeeivsr, enc Of
its editors ard prppreiors taIr Clark beng
utterly and irreprsssibly dissaiisaed with it's
disloyal tone and attitude. and insisting on
partition of interests.
The steamer Imperial, the first boat through
from Nav Oriaane, arrived at s., Louis on the
29sh. The merchants greeted her with a ma
tionai saia;s. TIVE CLEANERS left for New Or
leans the same day.
Maj GRANVILLE q. nalisr .tls q. g. Infantry:
Cap&, II, z. Murceii, llth Il. Z. Cap ps Wu1 Fl
B Ask, i9sh Ohie, and Liers. M. g. eifva, l6,h
Oaio, have been dismissed IRON tho u. s. ar
nay fof "repeaed uttaranees softrsasonable and
disloyai stn iments, and ahe last one for psb.
fishing ''nigaiy disoysI letter"
Mr. Whiting, the S,liei,or of the United
States War Department, is generally believed
to have gone abroad for the purpose Of aiding
the Government agents there in the collection
Of testimony in reference to the construction
Of Wa. vessels for the use of the Ccnfsderatss.
'Tha National Committees of tile Douglas
and Breekinridze Democracy ara TO hayo q
nesting, either AZ Milwaukee or Detroit, be
tween The i15h and 23t If nsXt month to ~
ranss pfoRfsGnle for the approaching Presi
dentiai e4sap8'9u
Taa pew sson clad passe1c was towed up
to the bar of Charleston, s. e., on the 25tH
al... ana laan stealaes in.
A IaLssa iasses aays that Hevarai Of tho
!eass wealtt.y ard inasasntiai oiti9arsa 5x inr.
folk and viciat ss.ve lata., taken The oati oi
allegiance to our GnTernmsut, and are sarving
on lnries &c.
Yne biockade.rnnning steamers Msrfimeo
and Lizzie, which ran out of Wilmington, N.
g., last week, were captured.
Gold was quoted i'll New Yefk on the >9ah
u!t al ~ !