Gen. Lee's army — later from the North.
The only intelligence we have heard of reaching the city was from an officer of the Signal Corps stationed on the lower
James, who had been fortunate enough to have an opportunity of reading Northern papers of the 6th.
This officer telegraphs to the War. Department that there journals state that not one word had been heard from
Gen. Meade's army since the 4th, and that they contain nothing whatever with reference to the great battles which have taken place at
Gettysburg.
The same officer alluded to telegraphs that the papers of the 6th speak despondingly of the situation of
Gen. Banks in
Louisiana.--From
Vicksburg they had no later intelligence than that contained in their issues of the 4th.
Among the rumors which got loose yesterday day was one to the effect that
Vice President Stephens had been informed at
Fortress Monroe that
Lee's army was in full retreat.