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rom 800 to 1,000 men, were sent over to protect the transportation of grain from Butt's Mill, on Shenandoah Island, and Col. Ashby, with 550 men, 200 of whom were militia, met and drove them back with considerable slaughter. The action commenced at were checked by a detachment of artillery, supposed to have been Doubleday's battery, stationed on the Maryland Heights Col. Ashby now withdrew his troops to a point behind the hill, for the purpose of protecting them from the shot and shell, which f fight as volunteers, and two of the number were wounded--one (named Bell) desperately, and his life despaired of. Col. Ashby's success would have been much greater but for a lack of cannon, and very few of the enemy would have escaped from the n the second anniversary of the John Brown raid, and in the very locality of that notable event. Rev. James B. Averick, captain of Col. Ashby's regiment, who reached the city yesterday afternoon, is bearer of dispatches to the War Department.