The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-09-22

emy dashed up 10 their very lines, when they
we're Tecetyed with . mnTceroHa nTe, leaving
several killed and wounded on the held, and
sixty prisonen Ii our hands. Only for the
twelve guut on tlsis side our cavalry could
have easily passed over, sweeping the right
AZ write this the front Of our infantry
line is within two loiies Of the river. The
trains are heard running into the Rapidan
station, evidently loaded with troops and
Ammunition from Richmond.
The enesny's cavalry force is estimated at
about two thousand-certainly near that
Their cavalry is well cut up
HEADQ's ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
September 1S-ls n.
Yesterday afternoon rain storm cob
menced, accompanied by thunder and light
mig. increasing in fury during the night, and
this morning the RippahanBock aud Rap
idau rivers are rising very rapidly, AID the
small streams in the country are becoming
impossible. Under the circumstances, il
win be ilupossible for thcaEmy to move for
ward, as the roads have already become so
soft as to preclude all kinds OF land trans
portafion. Tie prospect is that the rain,
which Is set down as the equinoetiai storm,
will be unusually severe and protraeied.
z. S.-The wind is blowing 4 fearful haf-
ricane. aud the rain l.; falling iu torrents.
The editor of the .Stas, who lett Gut
peper yesterday, says in his paper Of to-
day:
On Wednesday night the Union line ex-
tended ffom Stcyensburg through Cnipepef
C0urtsHeuse to the 6tene Ao1.tain House,
four miles north CT the Court House. fta-
terday morning the 1iue was changed, the
army having ADVANCED to close proximity Y
To the Rapidan river, where the rebel corps
If a = it,ii and Ewrli are believed to he
now strongly fortified
The army uf the Potomac never Was IN a-
line a condition as il is nj this nloment~-sa
HEALTHY, so cleanly clad, SO well supplied, aii,
with So much. elaa. 1t is worth to-day in s
hard fight twice asinuch as it ever was before
the battle of Gettysburg.
A letter from Parnestawn, Nd, on the up
per Potomac, dated to-day, says: Early yes
iertlay morning from 200 TO 500 rebel cav
airy, said to be a portion OF Whites com
mand, crossed the Potomac between Watt
branch ali.l Muddy creek, aud started to
wards the crossroads, two miles from ths
river. where there had been a rendezvous O.
Scott's Nine Hundred. Gen. lIeintzelman
who had arrived there on tour OF inspec
ton. pursued them up the tow-pa!h OF fhi
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, pressing theu
SO hard that they were compelled TO rccros:
the river below Edwards's Ferry.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Yankees have dates from Charleston
to the 18th inst One OF their rumors il thai
the city had been destroyed after three days
shelling.
The occupation of Little Rock, Ark, b,
the Federais is confirmed.
The first bale Of cotton raised in Louisiaii:
under B.nks's free labor system, was sold ii
New Orleans, OH the 18th, ut O7 = cents pc
pound.
Gov Andrews, of Massachusetts,, has bcel
on visit to Norfolk, Va. He reviewed TIVE
negro regiments there.
Four Yankee prisoners who escaped from
Bell Isle on the 9Th inst, arrived III Fortress
Monroe Oh the 10th, clothed in CJniederat'
/ uniforms.
The most stringent martial law is to be en-
forced throughout Missouri. Dr. Cf-swfors
T.. Smith, OF Saline county, has been orderes
to go South, and i15 OF his negroes takei
from him.
Alfred Stanley, brother Of the Ex-Militar,
Governor of North Carolina, has been III
rested by Gen. Foster for Secession symp'
| tLies.
The editor OF the Alexandria Gazests hs
been notified that his paper viii be stoppr'
| il he persists in calling the Legislature a
| Richmond ''tlep Virginia Legislature"
| Maine has given Cony, tRep.,) for Coy
ernor, al Overwhelming majority.
Among the reports in the Northern paper
| are the following: That Gen. Joe Johusto
has been placed in command OF the Arm
| of Northern Virginia in place Of Gen. Le,
| who has gone to Tennessee; that three d
! visions Of Lees army have gone to Bragg
| and that Lougstreet has gone there too.
The Heru'I, in An editorial, says:
The probability of a war with England c
| with France, or with both OF these Powei
combined, is now the general and absorbin
topic OF conversation, aud even exercises
considerable infiuence upon thespeeula'iol
| in Wall street
Gold was quoted in New York ON tie lst
Of 1864 a'3s.