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Latest from the Potomac.--Running the Blockades.

--From the Fredericksburg News, of Saturday evening last, we gather the following particulars of affairs transpiring along the Potomac:

Small vessels continue to run the blockade daily. Three barges, with provisions for the army, arrived at Alexandria yesterday morning, in tow of a steam tug, having passed the batteries during the dark hours of the night before. One of the barges lost her deck load in Chesapeake bay, and one of the others lost also a portion of her cargo. They report that the Confederate batteries (Cooke's) sunk, day before yesterday, a large schooner which was ‘"running the blockades."’

The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. January 7, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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