The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-12-19

| the Edge6eld and Kentucky railroad .wrlva mil.
| above Springfield, TaDnessee. '''-'
The weather Is moderafing and heavy rair, fl
| rising. = -f' '-f''N'
Louisville telegram says that a Cautain I,y;,,es
water Is Pursuing jesse, Newcastle. xsntuelv
and hopes to catch him. It adds:
Colonel johnson telegyraphs that the rete, fse,,
raj Lyons advance is moving on Russellyilla n;
main force, twenty-five hundred strong, is at ElL
| ton. -
About as good asassy OF tho -talegrams ~ one an
nouneing the defeat and driring of the left wing
Hoods army BY some gunboats Here it is:
l. Acting Rear Admiral Lee reports to the Nav
! department. under date of December Sth, tha
4 Lieutenant Commander Fitch defeated and drov,
| the left wing of HOODS army from the (Cumber
land . river on the 4th instant with heavy loss Il
the rebels, including several prominent officers ant
also recaptured two transports from the enemy :
| Nobody was hurt our side
| THE DISCHARGE OF THE at. ALBANs RAiDEEs-
1 FIERCE RESOLUTIONS IN THE YANKEE SENATE
| FERocIous ORDER FROM GENERAL DIX
| The discharge of the st. Adams raiders In tbs
Canadian courts has raised indignant outc1y
throughout Yankeedom, and given rise to some
| bullying, which England will find it ha,d to stand
General Dix has issued an order, in which he SAYS
commanders the frontier are
therefore, instructed, in case further acts of de-
probation and murder attempted, whether by
marauders or persons acting under commissions
from the rebel authorities at Richmond to shoot
down the perpetrators if possible, while in the COM
mission of their crimes or if it be necessary with
view to their capture, TO cross the boundary be-
tween the United States and Canada, said commando
are hereby directed to pursue them Wherever they
may take refuge, and, if captured they are under no
circumstances to be surrendered, bta 10 be sent to
these headquarters fort trial and pssnishment by
martial law.
The following is sly suggestion to the Vermont
ers that burning town or two in Canada might not
be a bad way TO get
1t is earnestly hoped that the inhabitants of our
frontier districts will abstain from all acts of retail
alton on account of the outrages committed bv
rebel marapders, and that the proper measures of
redress will be left to the action OF the public au-
thorites.
In the Yankee Senate, Mr.. Chandler, Of Michi-
gan, offered resolution inQuiring into the expe-
dency of raising army corps to protect the Ca
madam frontier, and then the following preamble
and resolutions, all of which lie over:
Whereas, at the commencement of the present re-
belion, the United States at peace with all the
governments of the world and upon terms of COM
ity and good will with Great Britain and Whereas
that nation, before the arrival on her soil of our
minister accredited to the Administration of Pres
dent Lincoln, precipitately acknowledged the rebels
ocsen without which recognitionit would have been
regarded and treated piTatical by other powers ;
and whereas, she then proclaimed perfect neutrality
between republic with which she had entertained
friendly relations for upwards of half century and
its reasonable subjects; and whereas, numbers Of
her subjects, with the knowledge of her rulers, COM
menced fitting out British fastsailing ships load
ed with munitions OF war, for the purpose of nun
ming into our blockade ports to the rebels, thus
furnishing them the means Of organizing and con-
tinuing the rebellion, and without which il
could not have sustained itself six months;
and whereas, in addition to the above, and with
the knowledge of the Government, British subjects
and members of Parliament engaged in the manu-
facture of piratical English ships, ownedby British
subjects, manned by British seamen, and sailing
under British eoeg for the RurPSe Of h de
peaceful merchant vessels sailing under the United
States flag; and whereas, many private and un-
armed American ships have been burned and de-
stroyed by these pirates from English ports, thus
causing great loss and damage to the citizens of the
United States; therefore,
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be in
structed to make out list of each ship and cargo
thus destroyed with a fair and separate violation
thereof and interest thereon at the rate OF six per
cent. per annum from the date of ca re or de-
struction to the date of presentation md that he
be directed to demand from the British Government
payment III full for all ships cargoes destroyed
aforesaid.
A New York letter on the same subject says:
1t is reported that bearer of dispatches from
Washington to minister at the Court Of st James
went out in the Cunard steamee China to-day, and
the surmise is, among parties who usually betray
knowledge of State secrets that these dis
patches cover a sharp commentary upon the release
of the Lake Erie and Vermont brigands from Mr.
Seward. This impression, together with the news of
the passage through the House, to-day, of the SEN
ate bill appropriating million of dollars for gun
boats ON the lakes, has given rise grave appie-
tensions to our relations with England, and the
gold spectators are operating accordingly.
General Dix's order concerning the future treat
ment of the raiders, should they be caught ON our
borders, is heartily responded to by the public and
is understood that copy of twas sent out by The
China.