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Handsome affair at Rogersville.

The following official dispatch was received at the War Department yesterday:


Narrows, via Dublin, Nov. 8.
--The following has just been received from Blountsville: "Our cavalry, under Brig.-Gen. Wm. E. Jones, and Col. Gutner, yesterday captured at Rogersville eight hundred and fifty prisoners, four pieces of artillery, two stands of colors, sixty wagons, and one thousand animals. Our loss two killed and eight wounded.

(Signed) R. Ranson, Major-Gen.

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