S BUE1 
with 1.200 cavalry, and will doubtless intercept 
the flying Sioux’ Little Crow, their principal 
chief, and instigator of the Indian hostilities, has 
been killed, and hi- son captured. Indian hos¬ 
tilities east of the Missouri may lie considered at 
an end. John- Pope, Major-General. 
not be attempted. The chances of knocking 
Fort Sumter to pieces are better; indeed it is 
generally believed that that fort will speedily 
fall. If it falls, our forces cannot occupy it. as it 
will b« battered to pieces. Even if we shonid 
take Forts Sumter and Wagner, the other forts 
have got to be overcome, and the rebels, who are 
as busy as bees day and night, are erecting bat¬ 
tery after battery on the way to Charleston. The 
military force is not deemed sufficient, and will 
have to be largely re-enforced before the finale i? 
consummated. The public at once should divest 
themselves of the idea that any startling news is 
coming from Charleston at present 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, 
wounded and missing, including the gallant 
Weber killed. I directed Gen. Custer to send 
forward one regiment as skirmishers. They 
were repulsed before support could be sent them, 
and driven back, close!', followed by the rebels, 
until checked by the 1st Michigan and a squad¬ 
ron of the 8th New York. The 2d brigade hav¬ 
ing come up. it was quickly thrown into position, 
and after a fight of two bourn uud thirty minutes, 
routed the enemy at all points, and drove him 
toward the river. When within a short distance 
of the bridge, Gen. Buford’s command came up 
and took the advance. 
We lost 15 killed. 20 wounded and 40 missing. 
We found 160 dead rebels and brought away 50 
wounded. A large number of the enemy’s 
wounded were left on the field in charge of their 
own officers. We captured 2 guns, 3 battle flagB, 
and upwards of 1,500 prisoners. 
Very respectfully, your ob’t serv't, 
J. Kilpatrick, Brig.-Gen. Vole., 
Commanding Division. 
Brig. Gen. Custer, commanding a brigade 
under Gen. Pleasanton, with a small force of 
cavalry, on the 15th inst. came up with Moseby’e 
guerrillas, commanded by the notorious parti/an 
chief in person. They fled before our cavalry, 
leaving 12 prisoners in our hands, who were 
turned over to Gen. PleasaDton. Gen. Cnster 
was within un ace of capturing Moseby himself, 
but the guerrilla escaped under cover of a dense 
wood when our forces were close upon his heels. 
Gen. Cnster feels confident that ere long the 
whole of Moseby’s gang, including their chief, 
will fall into our baud?. 
A portion of Longstreet’s corps has occupied 
Fredericksburg, but the indications are that no 
attempt will be made by the enemy to hold that 
point. The rails of the Fredericksburg and 
Aquia Creek railroad have been all tom up by 
the rebels and sent to Kichmond, together with 
every other species of property in that section 
available for military purposes. The railroad 
bridges, depots. Ac., have been burned, and the 
whole country between the Rappahannock and 
the Potomac is swept of everything. 
The latest intelligence from the contending 
forces in Virginia, received this (Tuesday) A. 
M., is to the following effect: 
The activity of our cavalry sent in pursuit of 
Moeeby has checked his operations, and the 
section between Washington and the army is 
now comparatively free from guerrillas. 
The Baltimore correspondent of the N. Y. 
Herald, in reference to rebel re-enforcements, 
says my informant, never at fault hitherto, places 
the niirnlter of these le-t-nforcemenls at .‘10,000, 
which makes Lee’s present strength 125,000. 
These are all old troops. Gen. Lee is believed 
to be receiving some conscripts, which will soon 
swell his number to 150.000. The main body of 
this vast army is massed on the line of the Rap- 
idan, with General Lee’s headquarters at Gor- 
donsville. The new cavalry squadrons are being 
drilled and exercised in the Shenandoah Valley. 
It is believed also that Gen. Lee is organizing 
some new batteries of artillery for artillery drills 
with target practice, and that they take place 
daily at. the same point where these new cavalry 
squadrons are being exercised. The guns are 
brass pieces and are so bright that they look like 
new. There are 12 of these batteries at one 
point in the Shenandoah Valley. 
The lllmol* State Pair for ISO—John P. Reynolds. 
^Just Published .1. W. Dauifhaday. 
Nnrserv Stock for fftli-— E Ketcharo, Agt. 
Cider Mill Screw?—Con-in? k Co. 
Osage Orange Plants—Thomas Meehan. 
Special Votlce*. 
Brinkerhoff's Churn—Jacnb Brinkcrhoff. 
VICKSBURG PAST AND PRESENT 
A correspondent gives thefollowing picture 
of affairs at Vicksburg: 
In 1861, Vicksburg had two railroads. She has 
none now running west, and her eastern railroad 
connection is a mere military affair, with track 
worn out and no rollingstock tospeak of. At that 
time there were services every Sunday in five 
elegant churches, with large and attentive con¬ 
gregations. All except the Catholic Church 
are now greatly injured by shells, and by being 
occupied for military purposes. There is no 
longer any such thiDg here as regular or stated 
religious services, and two-thirds of the inhabi¬ 
tants do not know when Sunday comes. Then’ 
in 1861, there wasalarge public school building, in 
which some five or six-hundred pupils were in¬ 
structed. beside numerous smaller private schools, 
which were well sustained. 
During the past fifteen months the children of 
the town have studied only the science of military 
and laziness. There is not now, I believe, a 
single man or woman in the place who is mak¬ 
ing, or is thinking of making, an effort to teach 
a child to read. There were then many palatial 
residences, with splendidly ornamented gardens 
and walks. Now there is just enough of them 
left to indicate how pretty they were once.— 
Then there were two large fonnderies and ma¬ 
chine shops, employing hundreds of hands, and 
turning out a vast amount of machinery for 
steamboats, mills, gins, and factories. Now, ont 
of this army, there is not even a blacksmith shop 
in the place. Then there were two hospitals in 
the place—tbe United States Marine Hospital 
situated below tho southern boundary of the city, 
commanding a fine view of the river, and the city 
Hospital, an institution under the charge of the 
Mayor and Council. Now nearly the entire city 
is a hospital, and you cannot go amiss for a grave¬ 
yard. 
Then there were in Vicksburg three daily 
newspapers—all well sustained—an infallible 
test of enterprise and prosperity. The Whig has 
been burnt up. The Sum has set to rise no more, 
and the Citizen has become alien—its proprietor 
a silent foreigner, who suspended because wall¬ 
paper could no longer be procured. Brokers, 
banks, Masonic and Odd Fellow Lodges, hotels, 
public reading rooms, billiard and whiFky saloons, 
stores of every kind, and all tbe machinery for 
supplying civilized wants, disappeared with the 
newspapers. The only merchants now here are 
sutlers. The only mechanics are extra duty men 
belonging to tbe army. A lady cannot go shop¬ 
ping. There are two reasons—she tias no money 
and there are no shops. Negro women vending 
very dark looking gingerbread and consumptive 
pies, represent the commercial portion of the 
community. 
Stye Neujs €ou5ntser 
— Gen. Sickles and Staff are at Saratoga. 
— The great Austrian Exhibition is to take place in 
1866. 
— Union majority in Kentucky in sixty-nine counties is 
41,654. 
— It is estimated that the Morgan raid will cost Ohio 
$1,000,000. 
— Rev. Dr. Newman has resigned his Professorship in 
Union College. 
— Over 85,000 emigrants have landed on our shores 
since April 1st. 
— There are 112 “ poets ” in Vermont, of whom Mont¬ 
pelier has nine. 
— A destructive maggot is making way with the onion 
crop on Cape Cod. 
— Cars have just been put on the horse-railroad from 
Albany to West Troy. 
— Iron pavements in New York have proved a failure 
and are being fast removed. 
— Tourists swarm on the Rhine this season, and the 
Yankees are unite numerous. 
— The letter-box and carrier system has just been in¬ 
troduced into Poughkeepsie. 
— A Mr Ramsey committed suicide in Washington 
from fear of the conscription. 
— The payments for May and June sent the diffe ent 
armies amount to $29,530,060. 
— Magnesia has been discovered on the west shore of 
Lake Mcmpliremigog, Vermont. 
— A South American steamer carried 2,000 lbs. of gin¬ 
ned cotton to England from P&ragua. 
— Six hundred bales of cotton arrived at New Orleans 
during the week ending on the 31st ult. 
— At Saratoga last week the heat was more oppressive 
than it has been known for forty years. 
— On the 9th inst. 1,200 conscripts sailed from Boston— 
800 for Alexandria and 400 for Newbern. 
— All but four of the signers of the Declaration of 
Independence were, it is said, " Free Masons.” 
— Peabody, the banker Croesus, has signified a desire 
to give Yale College $100,000 for a geological fund. 
— During the year 1862 about 4,000,000 pounds of 
chewing and smoking tobacco were manufactured in De¬ 
troit. 
— In some districts not over one-tenth of those drafted 
pass examination, and in others about one-fifth or one- 
sixth. 
— The Washington Star says:—“Perhaps a thousand 
conscripts a day are already joining the Army of the Po¬ 
tomac. 
— Diphtheria is devastating Western Illinois. The 
people in some of the towns are panic stricken in conse¬ 
quence. 
— In the last ten years there have been built in the 
West 3,656 miles of railroad, at a cost of nearly $253,- 
720,464. 
— Over 400 bushels of blueberries have been sent to 
the Boston market the present season from Meredith Vil¬ 
lage, N. H 
— It is said that sickness prevails to an alarming extent 
in RU-bmoDd; while medicine and medical attendance are 
very scarce 
— A serious drouth is said to prevail in Southern Vir¬ 
ginia, while in many parts the intense heat has blasted 
ihe cereals. 
— There has been a long drouth in the islands from 
Barb&does to St. Croix, and the planters are apprehensive 
of bad crops. 
— The Collector of Internal Revenue has been appoint¬ 
ed by the WarjDepartment receiver of tbe $300 commu¬ 
tation money. 
— The proprietor of the Troy Times claims $10,499 58 
as the amount of his losses by the destruction of his office 
by the mob. 
— A piano forte manufacturer of Boston has just fin¬ 
ished a • nperb instrument for the new palace of the Pres- 
ilent of Chill. 
— The Provost Marshal of Pittsburg bad a deserter flog¬ 
ged at the w hipping-post recently, and was in danger of 
being ly uched 
— Jas. G. Blaine, editor of the Kennebec Journal, and 
member of Congress elect from the third district of Maine, 
has been drafted. 
— Mr. Joseph Campau, one of the oldest and most 
wealthy citizens of Michigan, died at Detroit on Friday 
week, aged 98 years. 
— Claims for property destroyed in the great riot in New 
York, have already been made to the amount of a million 
and a half of dollars. 
— The New Y'ork Common Council have a proposition 
before them to raise $2,600,000 to aid in procuring substi¬ 
tutes for drafted men. 
— The Provost Marshal General has decided that sub¬ 
stitutes between the ages of 18 and 20 will be accepted, 
with consent of parents. 
— It is intimated in certain quarters that Gen. Hooker, 
who has gODe West, will be placed in command of the 
Department of Missouri. 
— A *' reliable gentleman ” from Richmond states that 
Jeff Davis' Proclamation calling in absentees and desert¬ 
ers remains a dead letter. 
— The commutation money paid by dratted men will 
amount, it is supposed, to some forty or fifty million dol¬ 
lars throughout the country. 
— There were no less than 100 cases of sun stroke in 
New York on Monday week. This is the largest number 
ever stricken duwu in one day. 
— There is an ice famine in Philadelphia. Bntfour 
dealers in the city have a supply on band, and their stock 
will be exhausted in a day or two. 
— A raft contaii iag a million feet of lumber was lately 
towed across Lake Michigan and consigned to some of the 
largest lumber yards in Chicago, 
— Vogel, the German traveler lost in Africa, is exciting 
nearly as much sympathy ai did Sir John Franklin, who 
met his fate in the Polar regions. 
— A squad of extortionate sutlers at Morris Island were 
compelled to disgorge, and work twelve hours in the 
trenches in front of Fort Wagner. 
— The Savannah Republican says that one day last week 
fonr hundred dollars were paid by an individual in that 
city for a twenty dollar gold piece. 
— Mrs. Jas. Rogers of Somerville, Mass., forgot her two 
sons when the enrolling officer called, and is put under 
$1,000 bonds for trial in consequence. 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Kentucky. — The Cincinnati Commercial 
baa a special dispatch from Lexington, Ky., 
which says:—Reports from the front indicate 
that all is quiet on the border. A refugee from 
East Tennessee reports that Forrest's mounted 
force is to rendezvous at Kingston or Concord. 
A rebel brigade under Armstrong has arrived at 
the former place. General Burnside arrived in 
Lexington yesterday. The movement of troops 
in that direction is very active. 
Missouri.—C ol. Caleb R. Wood, commanding 
6th Artillery Missouri State Militia, telegraphs 
to headquarters as follows : 
I’lNKVii.LK, Mo., Aug. 10.—Coffee attacked me 
to-day. He was completely routed with over 
thirty killed and wounded. We have a large 
number prisoners, all of his ammunition, wagons, 
commissary stores, arms. Ac. lie scattered all 
of bis command, except 200 with himself. A 
large force is following him closely. My horses 
are so worn down that they cannot move further 
until rested. Capt ilireip just in reports that he 
killed 35 and wouuded a number. 
Tennessee.— It is reported that the guerrilla 
Richardson has returned to West Tennessee to 
carry out the conscription. It is said he has in¬ 
structions to conscript all light colored negroes 
between 13 and 45 to serve three years as sol- 
diem at tbe expiration of which time they w ill 
be manumitted, but receive no pay for service. 
The efforts to enforce the rebel conscription in 
Western Tennessee have been pretty effectually 
broken up by the vigilance of Gen. llurlburt's 
army. 
Mississippi. — Vicksburg is being put in a 
complete sanitary condition. Rations are still 
issued daily to upward of 10,000 inhabitants. 
A reconnoisance by Maj. Worden, of Gen. 
Ransom's staff, to Wbodville, 70 miles from 
Natchez, destroyed 5 locomotives, 43 platform 
cars, and destroyed a rebel cotton factory at 
Woodville, and also cotton and f'goods to the 
value of if 2(10,000. 
Alabama.—A company of citizen h$ou1s of f>0 
men, organized in Northern Alabama in June 
last, are resisting the rebel conscription, and 
have thus far resisted every effort to capture 
them. They report to Gen. Dodge.'at Corinth, 
that their numbers are daily increasing. They 
have either captured or driven out every officer 
sent to that region to enforce, the conscription. 
Letters from privates in Bragg's army report 
that he is retreating to Atlanta, Georgia. 
A considerable number of deserters who have 
retained their arms are in the mountains near 
Fikeville, Alabama, and are organizing with tbe 
citizens to resist the conscription. 
Indian Territory. —The N. Y. Herald has 
the following : 
Fort Bi.iwt, Lviuan TmniTORy,) 
August 2d, 1803. j 
A battle is imminent at this point. Since our 
victory at Honey Springs, Cherokee Nation, on 
the 17th ult., the rebels have been re-enlbrced by 
the returning to the old buttle ground of Cooler's 
force of 4,(100, augmented by Campbell's Arkan¬ 
sas Brigade. 2,500 strong, and also Bailey’s 
Brigade, about 5,000—In all about 12 500. and 
about 12 pieces of artillery. The Union force 
here is but 2 500 efficient men. The 13th Kansas 
infantry and a battalion of the (i|h Kansas cav- 
alrv, in all soo men. are making forced marches 
1'roiu Fort Scott and are expected here on Thurs¬ 
day. Alkiut Sunday night Gen. Blunt will cross 
and attack. The General says he will make it a 
tight or a foot race. In attack lies our only 
safety. We cannot stay without being sur¬ 
rounded, and we cannot retreat without disaster. 
We believe iu Blunt and victory. 
Or all the flags th8t float aloft 
O’er Neptune'* gallant tors, 
That wave on high, in victory, 
Above the SOUS of Mars, 
Give ns Me flag—Columbia's flag— 
The emblem of the free, 
Whose flashing stai* blazed thro’ oar wars, 
For Truth aud Liberty. 
Then dip it, lads, in ocean’s brine, 
And give it Uiree times tliree, 
And fling it out, 'mid song and shout, 
The Bonner of the Sea 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 22, 1863. 
Tho Army in Virginia. 
Information received on the lGtb inst. says 
there has been no change in tbe relative posi¬ 
tions of the two armies, as far as can be at pres¬ 
ent known; but there are some vague suspicions 
that tbe rebels are about to attempt a flank 
movement on our left. Rumors have reached 
our army tbut the enemy are in the vicinity of 
Dumfries with a large force, but this is denied at 
headquarters. However it may be, we are ready 
for them in that quarter. The following has 
been issued by Gen. Meade: 
11ka tiqt'AUTKKrt Army op thp Potomac, ) 
August 13th, 1S63. j 
The numerous depredations committed by citi¬ 
zens. or rebel soldiers in disguise, harbored and 
concealed by citizens, along the Orange and 
Alexandria railroad, ami along our lines, call 
for their immediate punishment. Under the 
understanding of the government, every citizen 
against whom there is sufficient evidence of his 
having engaged in these practices, will be ar¬ 
rested and confined for punishment, and placed 
beyond tbe lines. The people within ten miles 
of the lines ore notified that they will be held 
responsible for their persons and property for any 
in jury done to the road, trains or depots and sta¬ 
tions by citizens, guerrillas, or persons iu dis¬ 
guise. and in case of such injury they will be 
impressed as laborers to repair all damages of 
this manner. In order to stop such depredations, 
it will become the duty of the undersigned, in 
the execution of his instructions, to direct that 
the eutire inhabitants of the district of the coun- 
trictof the country along the railroad shall be 
put across the government line, and their pro¬ 
perty put to public use. 
George G. Meade, 
Major-General Commanding. 
The depredations having continued, and num¬ 
bers of citizens suspected or known to be impli¬ 
cated in these transactions, they have been 
promptly arrested. 
The following has been received at Washing¬ 
ton: 
HKAOqc ARTEIiS ARMY OF THU POTOMAC.? 
August 9th, 18(8. > 
Maj.-Oen. H. IU. Halleolc, General-in-Chief 
U. 8. A.: —My attention has been called to 
what purports to be an official dispatch from 
Gen. It. E. Lee, commanding the Confed¬ 
erate army, to Gen. S. Cooper. Adjutant and 
Inspector ’General, denying the accuracy of 
my telegram to yon of July 14th, announcing 
the result of the cavalry affair at Falling Waters. 
I have delayed taking any notice of Gen. Lee's 
report till the return of Gen. Kilpatrick, absent 
on leave, who commanded the cat airy on the 
occasion referred to. and on whose report from 
the field my telegram is based. I now inclose 
the official report made by Brig -Gen. Kilpatrick, 
to whom my attention was called by Gen. Lee. 
He reiterates and confirms all my dispatch, and 
E roves most conclusively that Gen. Lee has 
pen deceived by his subordinates, or he would 
never. In the face of the facts now alleged, have 
made tbe assertions his report contains, 
It appears that 1 was in error in stating that 
the body of Gen. Pettigrew was left in our hands, 
allhough I did not Communicate the tact until an 
officer from the field reported to me that he had 
soon the body. It is now ascertained from the 
Richmond papers that Gen. Pettigrew was mor¬ 
tally wounded in the affair and taken to 'Win¬ 
chester. where he subsequently died. 
The three battle flags captured on this occa¬ 
sion and sent to Washington, belong to the 47th 
and 45th Virginia regiments, infantry. Gen. Lee 
will surely acknowledge that these were not left 
in the hands of stragglers and asleep in barns. 
Respectfully, yours, Geo. G. Meade, 
Major-General Commanding. 
Headu'aktkes 3n Division, Cavalut Coiirs,) 
WARItV.VTO.V .JCVCTjltN, Va , AugustJ. 5 
To Co l, t. J. Alexander, Chief of Stic}'of Cav¬ 
alry ' Corps:—In compliance with a letter just 
received from the headquarters of the Cavalry 
Corps of the Army of the Potomac, directing me 
A _ a 1. , j ' i ii «... Vi * t 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
The Emperor of Russia has ordered all French¬ 
men employed on the railroads or in any other 
capacity on the public works of that country, to 
be immediately dismissed and sent out of the 
empire. 
The rebels are burning cotton far aud wide in 
Northern Mississippi. They swear not a bale 
6ball be left for federal confiscation, and it is 
believed Ihut in less than thirty days Mississippi 
— proud and once prosperous Mississippi — will 
be a desolate waste, a vast plain of smouldering 
ruins. 
Jacob .Strawn, the great Illinois farmer of 
Jacksonville, has collected one hundred cows, 
donated by himself and neighbors, which are in¬ 
tended for our hospitals at Memphis. 
In repairing one of the forts at Vicksburg 
which was blown up by onr sappers and miners 
large, numbers of dead rebels have been found 
who met their death at the explosion of the mine. 
Gen. S. R. Curtis has turned over to the quar¬ 
termaster of the United States tbe camels that 
were imported into America by order of Jeffer¬ 
son Davis when he was Secretary of War under 
President Pierce. They have been ordered to be 
sold at public auction. 
It is supposed that the negro soldiers taken by 
the rebels at Port Hudson were murdered after 
their capture. None were found alter the sur¬ 
render. either among the prisoners or in the hos¬ 
pitals. 
A number of the prominent and intense jour¬ 
nals in the South actually declare that the loss of 
Vicksburg and Port Hudson, instead of being 
disasters, are advantages to their cause — inas¬ 
much as they will no longer have these places to 
defend! 
A correspondent with the army of the Poto¬ 
mac, says:—“ The field of Antietam has lost all 
trace of last year's desolation, and smiles with 
golden wheat, scented clover and luxuriant corn. 
A close examination may perceive a torn tree, 
but that is all. A little 30 X 30 church or 
school-house still stands, perforated with balls, 
and inwardly defaced by the rude drawings and 
inscriptions ot soldiers, both rebel and Union.” 
Accounts from Liberia state that the biennial 
election resulted in the choice of Hon. Daniel 
B. Warner as President, and Rev. James M. 
Prest as Vice-President of the Republic. Mr. 
Warner is a man of unmixed African blood, was 
born in Baltimore in 1815, went to Liberia in 
1S23. and has not since been out of the country. 
He is a man of ability and integrity, a success¬ 
ful merchaut, aud has acceptably held several 
prominent public positions, among others that 
of Secretary of State. He is now serving his 
second term as Vice-President, and was lately 
acting as President during the absence of Mr. 
Benson. Liberia is flourishing, and its prospects 
were never better. 
Department of the South. 
Tub N. Y. Herald's Morris Island corres¬ 
pondent. under date of August 7th, reports our 
position stronger and safer than ever. The 
morale aud confidence of our troops are unex¬ 
ampled, although the rebels keep pouring in 
shells from Wagner, Sumter and other fortifica¬ 
tions. The protection of our troops is so com¬ 
plete that our casualties are hardly worth no¬ 
ticing. 
Capt, Paine, of the 100th New York, with nine 
of his men, were captured by the rebels on the 
night of the 4th, while ou a scout near Light 
House Creek. They made a spirited but an un¬ 
successful resistance to superior numbers. 
On Sunday week there was a terrific engage¬ 
ment between the gunboat Ottawa, a monitor, 
and the Ironsides, and onr woik9 on Morris 
Island, and the rebel forts. The rebel guns were 
finally silenced. 
A boat belonging to the Ironsides, when upon 
picket duty Wednesday night week, was run 
down by a rebel steamer. Part of ihe crew were 
drowned, and the rest were saved by one of our 
boats. No prisoners were taken by the rebels. 
A letter to the Hew South, dated Morns Island, 
Aug. 4, says the troops seem not to suffer at all 
from the climate. 
Iu Gen. Gilmore’s marque are three flags 
which have been captured on this islaud, one 
belonging to the 21st. South Carolina. 
Our lines have been steadily advanced under 
a hot fire from the enemy, with scarcely a casu¬ 
alty. Not one has been reported for two days. 
Our advance is now only about 600 yards from 
Fort Wagner. Our batteries and the fleet allow 
the enemy but very little rest. 
Occasionally there has been very sharp and 
continuous firing, and on one or two occasions 
the Wagnerites have responded vigorously for a 
few moments, as if enraged at the effect of our 
shells; but the principal shelling is from Sumter, 
Fort Johnson and its outworks, and Battery 
Gregg. 
The following letter has been received from 
the Times Newbern correspondent: 
Tbe Unionists in eastern North Carolina are 
to hold in a few days a great mass convention 
for ihe purpose of invoking our Government to 
send a sufficient force into this Department to 
occupy Raleigh, Wilmington and Weldon, in 
order to fore® the rebel army to abandon Virgi¬ 
nia, and thus restore these two great States to 
the Union at once." 
The N. Y. Tribune's special Bays an officer just 
returned from Charleston confirms our previous 
estimate of its strength. He says it is next to 
impossible to batter down Fort Wagner; the 
men keep under bomb proofs upon which our 
shots have no effect, and the only way to capture 
it will be by direct assault, which at present will 
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. 
Mr. Shannon, agent of the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment, who went to England several months ago, 
has returned to Washington. His mission was 
entirely successful. He secured the conviction 
of some counterfeiters of United States notes. 
Three thousand ten dollar notes have been 
printed and the plates destroyed. This is the 
only attempt that has been made to issue such 
paper in England. Specimens brought hither 
are tolerably executed, but easily to be detected 
in this country by the poor quality of ink and 
rudely engraved likeness of President Lincoln. 
Correspondence from the Isthmus states that 
Mr. Partridge, our minister to Salvador, had got 
into difficulty with that government about the 
claim of some American c itizens upon property 
seized from Don Jose Gonzales. The Salvado¬ 
rians refused to give up the property and refer 
the matter to our government. Gonzales, whose 
property was seized, is alleged to be a traitor. 
The Post-Master General has ordered that 
mails for all places on the Mississippi River, be¬ 
tween Cairo and New Orleans, should be sent 
via Cincinnati. From Atlautic ports mails will 
continue to go by sea, unless otherwise directed 
by tbe writers. 
The following has been received at the head¬ 
quarters of the army here : 
Milwaukee, Aug. 15. 
To Major-General HaUecJe, General-in-Chief :— 
The following dispatch from Gen. Sibley, dated 
August 7, has been received : 
We had three desperate engagements with 
12,200 Sioux Indian warriors, in each of which 
they were routed and finally driven across the 
Missouri, with a loss of all their subsistence, Ac. 
Our lues was .-mail, while at least 150 of the sav¬ 
ages were killed and wounded. Fifty-six bodies 
have been found. H. Sibley, Brig. Gen. 
Gen. Sibley marched from Fort Pier for the 
Big Bend of the Missouri, on the 20th of July, 
VA* IUV MM. A HI J A TUV A UM'UIUV.1 U II \TV I I i-, IJH 
to give the facts connected with my fight at Fall¬ 
ing Waters, I have the honor to stute, that at 
3 o'clock on the morning of the 14th uIl, I 
learned Ihut. the enemy's pickets were retiring on 
my front. Having been previously ordered to 
attack at 7 A. M.. J was ready to move at once. 
At daylight, t had reached the crest ot the hill 
occupied by tbe enemy hu hour before. At a 
few moments Uefole (5. Gen. Custer drove the 
rear guard of the enemy into the river at Wil¬ 
liamsport, 
Learning from citizens that a portion of the 
enemy had retreated in the direction of Falling 
Waters, 1 at once moved rapidly for that point, 
and came up with the rear guard of the enemy 
at 7:30 A. M., at a point two miles distant from 
Falling Waters. We pressed on, driving them 
before us. capturing many prisoners and one 
gnu. When within one and a half miles of 
Falling Waters, the enemy was found in large 
force, drawn up in line of battle on the crest of a 
bill commanding the road on which I was ad¬ 
vancing. His left was protected bv earthworks, 
and bis right extended to the woods far on my 
left The enemy was, when first seen, in two 
liueB of battle, with arms stacked. Within less 
than J.000 yards of this large force, a second 
piece or artillery, with its support, consisting of 
infantry, was captured, w hile attempting to get 
iuto po’sition. The gun was taken to the rear. 
A portion of the 8th Michigan Cavalry, seeing 
only that portion of the enemy behind the earth¬ 
works, charged. This charge, led by Major 
Weber, was (he most gallant ever made. At a 
trot he passed up the hill, received tbe tire of the 
whole line, and the next moment rode over the 
earthworks, sabreing the rebels aloDg the whole 
line, and returned with a fcloss of 30 killed, 
