The news from the army yesterday is unimportant there being no change in the position of affairs to record.
It is still believed that a fight must take place at no distant day. There have already been several skirmishes along the lines, indicating.
It is believed, the near approach of a decisive straggle.
On Wednesday last
Gen. Hampton's cavalry captured a picket at Stafford Store, consisting of a Lieutenant and five men. Their names as we have learned them, are
Lieut. J. H. Hoffman,
Corporal A. P. Kelley,
Privates Thomas Rainer,
J. B. Campbell C. Cook, and
John Mason — all of them members of Company F, 1st New Jersey cavalry.
Cook was captured on the 20th of August last, on the
Rappahannock, by
Gen. Robertson's cavalry, so that this is his second trip to
Richmond.
Passengers by the train from
Fredericksburg last night report that a skirmish occurred on Wednesday afternoon between a body of the enemy's cavalry and a detachment of the 10th Virginia cavalry
Col. J. Lucius Davis, in which some fifty of the enemy, with their horses and equipments, were captured.
This occurred near
Port Royal, in Caroline county.