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The enemy Advancing towards Southwestern Virginia.

We have reliable intelligence, in a letter of recent date from a citizen of Southwestern Virginia, that the enemy has advanced with nine regiments upon Prestonsburg, Floyd county, Ky., and that Col. John S. Williams, the commander of the small Confederate force at that place, has retreated, probably to Pound Gap, on the boundary of Wise county, Va. Prestonsburg is only some 130 miles from Abingdon, and the design is apparently to get possession of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. Col. Williams had neither the numbers nor the arms to cope with a superior force, and his retreat was consequently a prudential movement. The intelligence here given entirely confirms a recent statement in the Louisville (Bowling Green) Courier, of a projected advance upon Prestonsburg. The necessity of vigorous measures is doubtless fully appreciated by our Government.

The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 7, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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