Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Yankee villains--schooner Burat--boats stolen — Beenes Slaughtered — camp Ruggles.
Port Conway, Va., June 21.
If there were needed any evidence of the unprincipled character of the Northern people further than that all along exhibited by those highest in authority at Washington, it is furnished in that lawless system of depredation which has been pursued for some weeks past upon the defenseless borders of our State.
There is said to be ‘"honor among thieves,"’ but there seems to be no restraining principle of any sort among the highway robbers and merciless cut throats detailed from the ranks of Lincoln's mercenaries to do the ‘"small work"’ of the campaign.
These lawless villains, by the very expertness with which they commit their deeds of outrage and petty larcenies, show that such work comes in their regular line of business, and that their employees at headquarters had special reference to qualification in their selection.
On Friday last, six of these vile miscreants came ashore from a steam-tug at Currioman, in Westmoreland county. Three of them stood guard while the remaining three proceeded to plunder and destroy the property of defenceless citizens.
Their first act was to board and burn the schooner ‘"Enigma,"’ property of W. R. Polk, of Montross.
They then took possession of several small boats, seins, and other articles that were lying about or near the shore, carrying off the most valuable, and destroying such as were less worthy of transportation.
Their next act was to skulk through the bushes to the field of Col. Wm. H. Sanford, and slaughter three beeves, which, with the aid of their companions, they carried off. Col. Hutt, upon receipt of intelligence that they had landed and were committing these depredations, summoned a company of militia, armed with muskets and shot guns, mounted them and proceeded to the river.
But he was too late; the rogues had secured their booty, and made good their escape to the steamer.--An arrangement has since been made to give these Yankee free-booters a more formal reception upon their next visit.
Grape vines grow plentifully in the neighborhood of Currioman.
Our troops at Camp Ruggles, in King George, are in excellent health and spirits, and impatient only of the delay of battle.
The enemy hang about the shore near the encampment, and waste their ammunition in senseless firing towards our tents.
They are toe cowardly to land, and think perhaps to frighten our solders by these random shots; but they only serve for amusement, and to relieve the monotony of camp life.
Rekab. 