The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-10-18

We have received the New York
HeralA of Saturday, the 10Th instant.
We give below extracts from it;
AROUND RICHMOND-SILENCE ABOUT THE
REPUISE OF TuURSDAY-RETALIATIO BY
BUTLER.
1t is quite significant that the Nerald
has not one word in ii about the bloody
repulse which the Yankees sustained
before Richmond on Thursday nor do
its readers know that there was fight
on that day. 4 letter from before Pc
tersburg says:
An important reconnaissance made on last
Tuesday night from u,lr Cztlcme left hy two hun
leI ana fifty men ut the Thirteenth Pcnnsy ylyanll
cavalry, under MaJ1l Mctabc They passed the
enemy cavalry risketS without bong discoyciet
aud proceeded b Stony Creek and EUwdnty eta-
iuS, the latter OF which places Is two miles beyond
the extreme right of the rebel army, The eEredi-
ton successfully returned, after making colotdi a.
bic capture and gaming much valuable luiotH"-
ton, 1t l@crttairci that the Iei"ts have, on
the extremity OF their night wing, al stony creek
suycll thousand cavalry and infantry, strongly en-
trcuehed.
Some dcseltcrs from our lines below
Richmond having made oath before Beast
Butler that eighty Yankee negro soldiers
were taken out of Castle Thunder and
carried down to work in the trenches,
has sent the following letter to Commis-
sioner Ould
HF.buU ARTEEs DEPARTMENT 0F NIRGISIAl
AND NoBru CAHuLIsA,
ARMY OF IHE jams, October II, lS6i
Sir: | enclose herewith an affidavit showing the
employment ol one hundred anu ten ltoj Unltt Il
State c,iored soldiers by the military officers o tie
Confederate forces III the trenches near Font Git
iler-a practice justified by no rule OF war or ctain
heretofore made by the Confederate authorities
| have ordered u like number Ui the Officers and
soldiers captured by Us preferably, a5 many OF tie
Virginia reserve forestry whom tlns outrage Is
being done-as l have captmed) INTO the canal at
Dutch Gap, and put them at hard labor, ana shall
continue to add to their nunbel nht lnls FFacIiee
is stopped
have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obehent servant,
BENJAMIN L. BurLEE,
Maior-General Commanding.
To Hon. Ra,ert Onld,
Agent Of Exchange, Richmond, Va.
THE ONS--PENNSYLyANiA STILL IN
DOUBT.
The Pennsylvania election seems to tie
still in doubt A dispatch from Harris
burg, Pennsylvania, on the 18th, says
that returns received there secure the
State to the Democrats on the home vote
by about ten thousand majority. The
Herald says: =
The election returns from Pennsylvania last night
showed additional Democratic cams. Inc I'eiiio-
crats have gained "A congressman i'll the run dis
trlct Oh the home vote by thIrtyeght IiaJoilty -
The Republicans have gained in the Twelfth DIS
tiict if the official vote sstnS the reported hid
toty in two counties Of the district This docs not
make any change iii table, but leaves 1t twelve
Democrats and twelve Republicans. The additional
Democratic gam Is nearly aiX hundred, making the
total gain over last years vote, sixteen tto'thtia
three hundred aInl toIty three. Ii the bliance
Of the counties gain III the proportion, the
Democratic maJority OH the homo vote wtii DC De-
tgecn five and six thousand.
A telegram from Philadelphia says:
R;ndall's (Democratl majority, 5,lG7. Second dis-
trict-O Neilfs Unionj majority, 1, ,l69 THIRD dis-
trict-Myers's (UnionJ majority, l,io3. Fourth
From information received here ttils morning u
i. absolutely impossible to determine how the State
has gone until the reception of eacisl returns
Both parties claim small lnajortes, but unexpected