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th. The New York Herald, of June 19th, has been received. Its columns are quite bare of news, though it is interesting at all times to peruse the Yankee fictions and exaggerations concerning the move ments of the war. As a specimen, we commence with a paragraph from an article headed. The situation. The War Department has received a dispatch from General McClellan's headquarters, announcing that Colonel Averill had just returned with his cavalry, from a reconnaissance to the Mattaponi river, after a band of those guerrillas who have been causing some annoyance to the rear of our army. The guerrillas had vanished before Averill's troopers arrived; but he succeeded in seizing a large number of wagons laden with supplies for the rebels at Richmond, destroyed a vast amount of grain, in tended for the same point, captured several prisoners and demolished a bridge. The same dispatch states that Col. Gregg has made a reconnaissance to Charles City Court-House, recovering some m