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from the front. In the city active arrangements are being made in anticipation of an emergency, which it is confidently believed is only barely possible, not probable, to occur. The Leagues are being armed and the defensive works strengthened. The Government needing more horses immediately, the authorities are confiscating all able bodied horse flesh, especially the fast, blooded horses of the disloyal. A dispatch from Harrisburg says that at 11 o'clock last night (7th) Hagerstown was still burning. Advices from Gettysburg state that the town was in a state of great excitement night before last, and that the rumored advance of the enemy caused a great stampeded. It is now certain that the rebels occupy Frederick City, but their future destination is only a matter of conjecture. Unofficial version of the defeat. Baltimore, July 9. --The city has been full of rumors to-day of disaster to our forces under Gen. Wallace, at Frederick. As near
hia Railroad, to burn the bridge over the Susquehanna river. At last accounts the bridge was not burnt. It was reported that the rebels had struck the Baltimore and Washington Railroad at Laurel Factory, but the Chronicle says it was not believed, because telegraphic communication was still kept up with Baltimore. The firing heard at Harper's Ferry on the 10th was unexplained. The Chronicle supposes Gen. Howe was getting in the rear of the Confederates. The rebels burnt many buildings, public and private, in Hagerstown. A special dispatch to the Chronicle, from Baltimore, says the opinion was prevalent there that the real movement is against Washington. The rebels were at Rockville, Maryland, sixteen miles, northwest of Washington, on Sunday evening. Dispatches from newspaper correspondents at Grant's headquarters, on the 9th, say the invasion of Maryland is believed to be insignificant, as the Richmond papers make no mention of the forces engaged in it.