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of McClellan, who has advanced to within six miles of Poolesville. A dispatch says that the Federal cavalry had "captured" Barnesville, about seven miles from Frederick. A force of from 5,000 to 20,000 Confederates were reported to be at New Market, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, about nine miles from Frederick. They are said to be under the command of Gen Fitzhugh Lee. The Confederates were entrenching themselves at Monocracy, and had blown up the bridge there. They had entered York county. Pa. The report from there says they are in "a state of great destitution, and shoeless." Their intentions are thus described in a letter from Baltimore, September 10th: They were to invade Pennsylvania with a force so strong as to make resistance on the part of the Pennsylvanians troops unavailing; to proceed to Harrisburg and capture that city; to destroy, if possible, the Pennsylvania Central Railroad; to strike for the town of York, Pennsylvania, and to destroy the railroad leadi