Mobile Advertiser & Register

June 9, 1861

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Intelligence.

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The Fairfax Fight.—From the Richmond Dispatch of the 4^th, we take the following additional intelligence as to the Fairfax fight, of which we have already had accounts:

A passenger on the Central train, who left Manassas Junction yesterday morning, reports the Southern forces at that place to be in high spirits and patiently awaiting the attack soon to be made on them by the 40,000 Hessians of Lincoln’s army. He says that an old gentleman counted the U. S. Cavalry as they marched on Fairfax Courthouse, Saturday morning, and that they numbered eighty-five. On their return there were but fifty-eight in the party, and five stragglers passed afterwards, showing that twenty-two had been either killed or taken prisoners. Seven dead bodies had been seen, and one of the wretched hirelings had crawled into the Confederate camp, badly wounded.

The same gentleman reports that on Saturday last the railroad bridge at Martinsburg was fired and burned by the Southern troops, as a matter of precaution against a rear attack.

Yesterday afternoon it was reported on the streets that another skirmish had taken place at Fairfax Courthouse; but as we could trace the rumor to no reliable source, and the passengers on the cars had heard nothing of it, we are quite sure the rumor is unfounded.