The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-10-05


The. intelligence yesterday from all
points At a distance from The city was
cheering We give brief sketch of the
situation
riIE NANkEES DEFEATED IN SOUTHWEST
ERN VIRGINIA
The advance into Southwestern Nir-
gina by the enemy was made i'll two
wards Bristol, and consisted of four regi-
mentS two white and two negro), under
the command OF Acting Brigadier General
Carter. a notorious Tennessee renegade.
The other came from Kentucky, through
Cumberland gap, and numbered eight
thousand men, under General Burblidge
They were to form junction in Taze
well county, and then move OH Saltvillc.
On Friday, however, before getting to
the Virginia line, Garter was attacked
by General vaughaail four miles from
Carter station, on the East Tennes-
see and Virginia railroad, driven to
the station, and there routed The
column of General Burbridge halted
at Richland, in Russell county, Virginia,
on Friday, and there waited the arrival
OF Garter. As he did not, for the best
oil reasons, arrive, Burbridge moved for
ward OH Saityille, after previously start
ing raiding party Of five hundred
cavalry to 90 around to Wytheville and
cut the Virginia and Tennessee railroad
at that point. He arrived at Saltvillc on
Sunday, ana at noon assaulted our works
about three miles from the town The
assault was blooIily repuised, and, after
q brief interval, was renewed with still
more disastrous repulse He then re
tired at night, leaving about seven hun
dred killed and wounded in our hands.
Our loss was fifteen killed and seventy
wounded. The following official dispatch
from General Echols was received at
General kelnpel's Office yesterday:
"saLnIl,t, October 3, laGi
" 10 Mt,o.- GrAs.ed Ktale,.
We whipped thc ,i.-Iny BADLY here yesterday,
taI e has retired II confusion, leaving hls dead
ana wounded IL out Llnds;iiiion2 them brig ldier-
general and t good marry Officers IheE, were two
three regiment. ol negro troops, which were badly
Cut up The reserves and detailed mel. acted apyn-
dlily The enemy ; force was about SIX thousand,
as neaI We could estimate W. are al hot ruI-
suit. JoHS Eonot-, Brigalier- General F."
The following is the dispatch Of Gen
eral Lee to the War Department
HADauARrEEs ARMY NoRTHfkH VIkoIyIA,I
October T. 1851.
Hon. Secretary u TdT.
General Bre,knridge reports that the enemy
attacked Saltsille Oh the 2d instant ANA received Il
bloody repuiao.
"Ihey retired during the night III great co1ifu-
aons apparently the direction oi SANDY tiycr
leaving most OF THEN dead and wounded III oar
hands.
/" Itc l. pursuing them.
An cf our troops behaved we'll
"R L. LEr"
, The party which started for Wythe-
Vile got as far as Tazewell Courthouse,
and have not been heard from since
The defeat of Burbridge, coupled with
the failure OF Sheridan to reach Lynch
burg, are two disasters which will make
marked change in Grants plans. Had
Sheridan reached Lynchburg, and Salt.
vile been captured, the Virginia and
Tennessee railroad would have consti-
tuted a line of communication for getting
supplies through Cumberland gap, which
would have been most advantageous to
the enemy, and which would have greatly
facilitated the grand plan Of thanking
General Lee. by way of the south side,
and cutting the roads leading south from
Richmond.
THE ADVANCE or GENERAL PRICE INTO
MISSOURI
If General Price continues his march
upon St Louis with the rapidity which
has already characterized his movements
the city will fall into his hands There
are three railroads running out Of the
city, and all three have been cut The
most important, the North and Mis-
souri,, by which the city could receive
reinforcements, was cut at Centralia by
our cavalry on the 28th, and two passen-
ger trains captured. On these trains
were a score OF soldiers, whom the fright
ened passengers that escaped and re
turned TO the city reported, as usual,
had been murdered The Pacific Mis-
sour road was cut at Usage Oh the same
day; and upon the ST. Louis and Iron
Mountain railroad General Price himself
is advancing On the Goth, his cav
airy was at DE Soto station, twenty
four miles from st. Louis, and his army
was at Potosi station, ten miles this side.
The "citizens were hurrying into the
town for protection. General Rosecrans
has no regular troops to defend st. Louis
with, and its capture will be easy il no
time is given him to receive reinforce
ments by way of the river. The Yam
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