--The
Petersburg Intelligencer, of Saturday, has the following intelligence from below.
The reported 30,000 Yankees at Newport News is not at all likely:
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Passengers represent that a negro regiment is now garrisoning
Craney Island, and that there are no Yankee soldiers in the vicinity of
Suffolk, except one detachment at
Wright's Mill and another at Bernard's Mill.
A patrol of Yankees visit
Suffolk every day. We regret to learn that
Mr. John W. Ames, late one of the proprietors of the
Bollingbrook Hotel, in attempting to visit his family within the
Yankee lines, a day or two since, was nabbed by the miscreants and sent to Fort Norfolk.
We were informed by a gentleman on yesterday that one of the
Confederate detectives managed to get, a few days since, within two miles of
Old Point, and on his return reported that he saw a transport land troops at Newport News, and heard a Yankee say that thirty thousand troops were at that point.
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