rebel troops were marching from Romney to attack the Federal forces and burn the city.
An intense excitement was produced, but up to this time they had not made their appearance.
A letter received from Cumberland states that the telegraph wires and poles on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Martinsburg to Harper's Ferry have been carried away by the rebels.
It also states that the delegates to the Wheeling Convention from Berkeley and Jefferson counties have been imprisoned at Charlestown, Va.
It is not yet known what movement is contemplated from this point.
Recruits from the surrounding counties to the Virginia Union Regiments are largely on the increase.
Is Leesburg Invaded?
From the following, it would appear that the ambitious Col. Stone has not yet occupied the town of Leesburg:
Conrad's Ferry, (East Side,) Montgomery County, Md., June 17.--To-day the enemy have been practicing upon us, (to no purpose, however,) from three or four six-pounders pl
of the South.
He had been a Douglas man, but when the news came from Pennsylvania and Indiana he became a Southern man, and was no longer a party man.--This was the time for all men to come forward and enroll themselves in the cause of the South.
The Lieut.
Walker, of the Army, whose resignation at Augusta was bruited abroad, is in business there, and has not been in active service for several years.
The importance which attached to the fact, therefore, was sensational.
The Charlestown (Va.) Democrat (the town where John Brown was hung,) comes to us with its columns in mourning for the result of the election.
Of Virginia's position it says:
If we submit, our position in future in this Confederacy is in effect that of mere provinces having no voice in the government; mere colonies, governed, too, by our bitterest enemies.
If we submit, we are in no respect in a better condition than a conquered people.--But we will never submit to be so governed — never, never!
We
f them.
The companies fled, and the house was completely demolished.
The Quaker City also had a short engagement this morning with a large number of dragoons while cruising in Lynn Haven bay near Cape Henry. Commander Carr picket up a man named Lynch, a refugee from Norfolk, who represented that the master plummer of the Navy-Yard was ashore, and wished to be taken off. An armed boat sent for the purpose was fired upon when near the shore mortally wounding James Lloyd, seaman, of Charlestown, Mass.
A few 32-pound shells dispersed the attacking party behind the sand-hills.
Lloyd died this afternoon.
Adolph Vincinnes, of Col. Duryea's regiment, died yesterday of a wound received at Great Bethel.
A member of the Naval Brigade was drowned yesterday, while bathing.
The body was recovered this morning.
The three Confederate prisoners mentioned in the report of yesterday have been released, by order of Gen. Butler.
My informant says they were not even required to take
From Charlestown, Va.Gen.Patterson's report — gross Misrepresentation — another skirmish — assassination, &c.[special correspondence of the Dispatch. Charlestown, Va., July 5, 1861.
Our citizens have been greatly disappointed during the present week at not receiving the Dispatch regularly.
It is eagerly sought here, and read with great interest.
Its failure to reach us is a matter of much regret.
You have doubtless been apprized of the engagement on Tuesday, at or near Halnesville, in Berkeley county, where a portion of the gallant Fifth Regiment, of Virginia, under Col. Harper, encountered a large Federal force, under Gen. Patterson Gen. Patterson's report of this engagement (as published in the Baltimore Sun) has elicited no little amusement here, where its untruthfulness is so well known.
Gen. P. says his men "routed and put to flight ten thousand of the rebels," when the truth is that only about four hundred and fifty of our men were engaged.--That this lying repo<
"I would call your attention to the fact that you have not in your account of the fight at Falling Waters, on Wednesday last, done justice to the Continentals, of this place, under Capt. Avis, who led the vanguard in the action, making a gallant charge on the enemy, doing great execution.
Too much praise cannot be said of Capt. Avis for his conduct in the battle.
Captain Avis was Captain of a company of Virginia volunteers in the Mexican war, and is somewhat noted as the jailor at Charles town during the John Brown raid.
"The town of Winchester is said never to have been more healthy than at present." The following comes to us through the medium of the Northern Associated Press:
A skirmish — army movements, etc. Washington, July 8.
--There was a skirmish last night between the pickets of the Eighth battalion of the District of Columbia Volunteers, under Major Gerhardt, and the pickets of the Confederate forces on the other sale of the Great Falls.
The former
Patterson's headquarters.
--The Charlestown (Va.) correspondent of the New York Herald wrote, on the 17th, the following about the occupation of "the rebel" Andrew Hunter's house:
"The headquarters of Gen. Patterson are in the house of Andrew Hunters the leading rebel of this county, an accomplished and able lawyer, who prosecuted John Brown.
Hunter ran for the Virginia Convention last January, as the rebel candidate, and was badly beaten.
In May last, he ran as a candidate for the next Legislature of that State, and was elected by an overwhelming majority.--There was such a reaction between those two periods that the vote changed from 1,200 for Union in January, to 274 in May.
"Mr. Hunter has deemed it convenient to leave with remarkable quickness, upon the approach of our column."
Our opinion is, that Mr. Hunter's leaving did not display the "remarkable quickness" of the "grand army," on the retreat from Stone Bridge.
Items about "The Grand Army."
--A correspondent of the New York Herald, who accompanied Patterson's column, wrote as follows from Charlestown, Va., a day or two before the great fight:
In consequence of complaints from numerous commanders that their men were without shoes, clothing, &c., and could not be now supplied, as the time for which they had been sworn in was nearly expired, General Patterson visited the different brigades, and plead earnestly with the men to stand by him, for the love of their country and the honor of our flag, for a few days longer, but failed to gain support.
Three members of the New York Ninth Regiment yesterday arrested Lieut. Harlett, of the Rebel cavalry force, while secreted in a house here.
This officer is said to have commanded the troops that fired from Harper's Ferry upon Col. Stone's brigade when passing opposite that point.
The jail where John Brown was imprisoned, and the scene of his execution, are constantly visited by our
A hard case.
--The editor of the Charlestown (Va.) Free Press says, in his issue of August 2d:
On no other spot than Charlestown are the citizens more peculiarly situated.
They are, in fact, between the devil and the wide ocean.
If you get up early in the morning to go to your daily occupation, you are met at your threshold by a sentinel, who cries out, "Vere you go? " If you answer, about your business, a bayonet is presented, and an exclamation, "Go pack — go in the house." At every cross-road, almost, you are hailed and detained.
How long will this infernal interference prevail?
Alluding to the invasion of Charlestown by the Hessians, the editor says:
"The field upon which old John Brown and his confederates were hung, was visited by thousands of the army, and a locust tree under which, some waggish boy said, 'John Brown made his last speech'--and which, by the way, was not within a hundred yards of the place of the gallows — was chopped down, and pieces
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.McDonald's Cavalry Regiment. Camp near Charlestown, Va., August 22d, 1861.
I propose communicating a brief detail of the movements of McDonald's Regiment of Confederate States Cavalry.
I must first say, however, that though this is termed McDonald's regiment, the justly celebrated and distinguished Turner Ashby, the Lieut. Colonel, is the soul of it. The men of the regiment repose the most explicit confidence in him, and are devoted to him.
The regiment is composed of the very bent material — of young men of the first order of intellect — the sons of Virginia's first and noblest citizens — brave and gallant to a letter.
Ashby is a noble representative of their character — is the very soul of chivalry — and they are proud of and delight to serve under him.
On last Saturday a detachment of this regiment, under the command of Ashby, left Winchester about 2 o'clock, and took the road leading to Harper's Ferry.
There were
Death from snake Bite.
--A correspondent of the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal, of the 14th inst., writing from Rockfish, Duplin county, says that on Saturday evening last while maddying the water in a small pond for fish, Mr. Franklin J. Dempsey was bitten by a snake and died in about 40 hours afterwards.
A sporting man named Matcus Cicero Stanley was arrested in New York on Wednesday night, by the order of Secretary Seward, on a charge of treason.
He was sent to Fort Lafayatte.
Mr. Scott Jones, a member of Col. Ashby's cavalry, was shot on Monday week, says the Charlestown (Va.) Free Press, by one of the Federal plunderers at Harper's Ferry.
He will recover.
Lucifer matches are now being made in Charleston, S. C.
