The movements around Richmond.
The only information we have of the enemy's movements north of the city is that brought by the trains over the
Fredericksburg road which arrived last night, for the first time for nearly a week past.
They report that they could hear nothing of the
Yankees, either at
Hanover Junction or South Anna bridge, and that the roads — the
Central and
Fredericksburg — are now unobstructed.
From the
Junction the
Central train brought down a man who represents himself as a deserter from
Dix's army.
He says that the enemy are still in considerable force in
King William Co., where he left them, and that they are committing many depredations.
In order to avoid arrest, he traded his Yankee uniform to a negro for a cornfield suit, with which he made his way through the
Yankee lines.
He says that
Dix's whole force has not at any time exceeded fifteen thousand, about ten thousand of which were infantry, and the remainder artillery and cavalry.
The
Fredericksburg train brought down 17 Yankee prisoners, captured in the neighborhood of South Anna bridge on Sunday morning. They were a part of the force that committed the depredations at
Ashland on Saturday night.
A citizen of King William, who has been exiled from his home since its occupation by the band of marauders under
Dix, went on a scout to that county on Monday last, and obtained some interesting particulars of the whereabouts and movements of the
Yankee army of plunderers.
His statement is that their headquarters are at Mangohick Church, and that their squads of thieves are scattered throughout the county, taking whatever they can find, and destroying what is not convenient for them to remove.
They are also endeavoring to incite the negroes to insurrection, promising them offices in company organizations as a temptation to quit their masters.
The gentleman to whom we allude learned that one of his own negro men had been tendered the command of a company as an inducement to quit his home.--The negroes, under these influences, are said to be very insubordinate, and some are even boasting of their freedom and ability to maintain it.
