Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph

McClellan's Advance.—The advance under Gen. Stoneman reached Cold Harbor on the road running to Richmond by way of Newbridge on the 19th where he found the enemy to be in force. He drove their pickets into within two miles of their main body and encamped for the night. Everything indicates that the rebels intend to defend Richmond with all the available force they can bring forward. Congressmen and Representatives from every Southern State are there encouraging their troops by their presence, and counsel to a determined resistance to the advance of the Union troops. Richmond papers of the 16th have been received. They contain a correspondence between the Virginia Legislature and Jeff. Davis in relation to the recent movements of the rebel army. He states that he had never entertained the thought of withdrawing the army from Virginia, and abandon the State; that if in the course of events the Capital sh'd fall, the necessity of which he did not see or anticipate, that would be no reason for withdrawing the army from the State. The war could be successfully carried on and maintained on Virginia soil for twenty years. The rebel General John B. Floyd has been appointed Major General of the Virginia forces, with authority to raise a force of 20,000 men. New conscripts for the defense of Western Virginia. The engagement on Thursday at Drury's Bluff, seven miles below Richmond, between our gunboats and the enemy's batteries on James river, produced a great panic among the people of Richmond. They acknowledge a loss of six killed and seven wounded.