One of the Connecticut Light Guard Shot!
Alexandria, June 16. — A reconnaissance of the Loudoun and Hampshire railroad was made to-day, two miles beyond Vienna, which is fifteen miles north of Alexandria. The train was under charge of Col. Powers, accompanied by the first Connecticut troops, under the command of Brigadier General Tyler. On the return of the train, when two miles this side of Vienna, a man fired on the train from ambush, wounding George Busbee, of the Connecticut Light Guards.
As General Tyler was standing beside the wounded man on the open car, the shot was evidently directed at him. The train stopped as soon as possible, and the woods were scoured, and the neighboring farm-houses searched, making a circuit of a mile. Two men, named respectively Walker and McMills, were arrested in the house of the latter. All the evidence that could be obtained tended toward criminating Walker, who, with the other prisoner, and negro witnesses, was brought to Alexandria.
The train was within three miles of nine hundred rebel troops, and four miles from Fairfax Court-House, where it is understood there were twenty-live hundred troops, besides recent arrivals. There is a report that three companies of secession troops arrived at Fairfax Court-House this morning.
The National Republican, Washington, DC