The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1863, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 9827. MEADE’S ARMY. The Cavalry Fight at Falling Waters. OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM GEN. MEADE. Gerrection of the Rebel General Lee’s Ac- count of the Affair. GEN. KILPATRICK’S REPORT OF THE FIGHT, Ren Ran me at Palling Waters. The he ‘omen j Ait OVFICIAL DESPATCH TO GENERAL HALLECK. ‘HRADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, e August 9, 1863. ‘Major General Hatixck, General-in-Chief, Washington:— ‘My attention has been called to what purports to bean ficial despatch of General R. E. Lee, commanding the @onfederate army, to General S. Cooper, Adjutant and In- fapector General, denying the accuracy of my telegram to you of July 14, announcing the result of the cavalry affair at Falling Waters. Thave delayed taking any notice of General Lee’s ro port until the return of Brigadier General Kilpatrick, ebsent on leave, who commanded the cavalry on the @ecasion referred to, and on whose repert from the field my telegram was based. I now enclose the official report ef Brigadier General Kilpatrick, made after his attention Ihad been called to Generar Lee’s report. You will see that he reiterates and confirms all that my despatch averred,and proves most conclusively that General Lee as been deceived by his subordinates, or he would never, Am the face of the facts now alleged, have made the asser- ‘tions his report contains. It appears that I was in error in stating that the body @f General Pettigrew was left in our hands, although I @i4 not communicate that fact until an officer from the ‘eld reported to me he had seen the body. It is now escertained from the Richmond papers thit General Pettigrew, though mortally wounded in the affair, was taxen to Winchester, where he subsequently died. ‘The three battle flags captured on this occasion, and sent ‘te Washington, belonged to the Fortieth, Forty-seventh and Fitty-@fth Virginia regimonts of infantry. General Leo ‘will surely acknowledge these were not Jeft in the hands ‘ef stragglers ‘asleep in baros.”” Respectfully, yours, GEORGE G. MEADE, Major General Commanding. G@ENBRAL KILPATRICK’S KEPORT OF THE FIGHT. Mauanquarrens, Tip Division Cavarry Corrs, WARRENTON JuNcTION, Va., August 7, 1863. } Bo Colonel A. J. Aurxanpan, Chief of Staff of \Cavalry @orps:— Corowm—In compliance with a letter just received from the headquarters of the Cavalry corps of the Army @f the Potomac, directing me to give the facts connected ‘with my fight at Falling Waters, I have the honor to state that at-three o’olock on the morning of the 14th ult. I Dearned that the enemy's pickets were retiring on my frent. Having been previously ordered to attack at @even A. M., I was ready to move at once. At @eylight I had reached the crest of hills occu: pled by the enemy an hour before, and at a few minutes before six General Custer drove the Fear guard of the enemy into the river at Witiamaport. Learning from citizens that a portion of the enemy had wetreated in the direction of Falling Waters, I at once ‘moved rapidly for that point, and came up with the rear q@eard of the enemy at balf-past seven A. M., ata point two miles distant from Falling Waters. We pressed on, @riving them before us, capturing many prisoners and ese gun. When within one anda half milesof Faliing ‘Waters the enemy was found in large force, drawn up in Aime of battle on the crest of a bill, commanding the road = which I was advancing. His left was protect- @d by earthworks, and his right extended to the ‘woods far on my left, The enemy was, when first geen, in two lines of battle, with arms stacked. ‘Within leas than one thousand yards of this large force a second piece of artillery, with its support, consisting of wafantry , was captured while attempting to get into posi- ten. The gun was taken to the rear. ‘A portion of the Sixth Michigan cavalry, seeing only ‘that portion of the enemy behind the earthworks, charged. ‘Zhis charge, led by Major Weber, was the most gallant ever made. Ata trot he passed up the hill, received the fire from the whole line,and the next moment rode Qbrough and over the earthworks, passed to the right, eabring rebels along the entire line, and returned with a Jess of thirty kilfed, wounded and missing, tociuding the @allant Major Weber, killed. I directed General Custer to send forward one regiment ea skirmishers. They were repulsed before support could Be sent them, and driven back, closely followed by the webeis, mtil checked by the First Michigan and a squad Fon of the Eighth New York. ‘The Second brigade haying come up, it was quickly ‘thrown into position, and after a fight of two hours and ‘‘birty minutes routed the enemy at all points, and drove him towards the river. When within a short distance of the bridge Geseral Boford's command came up and took the advance. ‘We lost twenty-nine killed, thirty-six wounded and forty missing. We found upon the field one hundred and twenty-five dead rebel4, and brought away upwards of fity wounded, A large bumber of the enemy's wounded were left wpon the field in charge of their own surgeons. Wo captured two guns, three battle fags and upwards @f fifteen hundred prisoners. To General Custer and his vrigade, Lieatenant Penni foo and bis battery, and one equadrontor York cavairy ,of General Baford’s eon @ue. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. KILPATRICK, teers ,command|ng a division, Brigadier General of Vol News from the Front. ver 12, 1948, a dew rebel camp wae yvered on Pony Mouata Rear (ulpeny nh jeved the reve @ame from Lue # of the Rapidan. ' William T. Howei!, of Philadelphia, for a long time | hief clerk to the Chief Quartermaster of the Army of | the Potomac, has been rewarded for hin at and Adelity by the appolutmont of captain in tho sane de partment Prtyadier General Patrick, Provost Marshal General, has obtained a short leave of absence to attend to private Dusiness, it being the first time since hy entry inv the Volunteer service he has been absent from his arduo 8 duties. Dopaty Provost Marshal Sharpe acts In bis stead, No tnovements of a general character havo transpired for some time in the Army of the Potomac. ‘Tho woather is intensely hot, the earth i# dry and parched, and man and beast are glad to seek the cvoling edades. How Re (From the Washington Star, August 11.) A refugee who has arrived in Washington from Rich. mond states that Gen. Lee Ras made an appeal to Jeff, Davia not t execute his order with reference t Captains Gawyer and Flynn. He»fownds his pica upon the fact that it endangers the life of bis sen, and that the Ghreatened retaliation was not provoked by the enemy. Davis ined revoking the order, on mecount, as he aid, of the public preesure mm ite favor. men gre the reat service be pad rendered the government, and pri vately announced his intention of resigning if the threat n ebonid execution. This glory, whether true oF not, is one afloat in Rich- mona ‘the refugee left there. Arrivalof the Alpha at Halifax, Haimax, August 12, 1968, ‘Tho steamship Alpha, from St, Thomas on the 34, via THE WEATHER. Ena of the Heated Term—Laus Deo— Numerous Cases of Sunstroke. ‘The epell of warm weather got its quietus on Tuesday last, immediately after the splendid storm of rain, thap- dor and lightning. Yesterday there was a very marked difference in the temperature. The air was cool and pleasant, while the mercury was unable to rise to any- thing like the scorching altitude at which it remained during the “heated term.” The bighest point reached yesterday was eighty-eight degrees, and the mean was about eighty-five degrees. During Tuesday night the wind changed from the southwest to a nortnerly point, and the morning and evening of yesterday were rather billy, when compared with the sweltering condition of things that prevailed forty-eight hours previously. It is quite likely, therefore, that the dreadful heat is at an end for the season, and, notwith- standing the many cases of death by coup de soleil, the public bas Re congratulate itself on escaping 80 cheaply. The ail fea Of tid fhicdiea! oro‘ession was that the heat would continue for a week longer, and inat we would then certainly be visited by some epidemic, which would sweep off thousands to untimely graves. That such has not been the cage we may ¢: Nain gratias, and sing the praises of old Bore, i. ape the rescue just in the nick of time. FATAL SUNSTROKR CASES, The following additional deaths from sunstroke—the result of Tuesday’s extreme heat—were reported at the Coroner's office yesterday :— 1—Joseph Carroll, a native of Ireland, aged 63 years, residing at 5943, Greenwich street, 2—John Reeside, a native of Baltimore, aged 30 years. 3—An upknown man at Bellevue Hosnital. 4—An unknown man at 507 street. 5—Simon Hayes, a native of Ireland, agea 60 years, ‘gcsioha Grandy, found dead at tne Bmigran ran foun at the it depot, Castio Garden.” sa T—Wm. Chadwick, a native of Ireland, aged 24 vears, residing at 375 Cherry street. ‘8—Bernard Brady, a native of Ireland, aged 36 years, — i hee bem T em yaircne street, la ennedy, @ native of England, aged 30 years, residing at No. 585 Pearl street. 2 10.-Jobn ¥. Wright, anative of New York, aged 37 Years, residing at No. 31 Pell street. 11—An unknown man, uboutud years old, at Vandyke's Hotel, Catharine street. 12—Richard Grant, a native of Ireland, aged 75 years, residing at No. 28 Oak street. 138—Cornelius Tassy , a native of Ireland, aged 35 years,, residing at No. 82 Mulberry street. 14—Lewis Remor. a native of Germany, aged 44 years, residing at No, 263 William street. 15—Patrick Harley, a native of Ireland, aged 44 years, founa dead at Bellevue Hospital. 16—An unknown man, at Bellevue Hospital. 17—An unknown woman, about 35 yeara of age, found er “ Baron. Hospital, ea j—An unknown man,about 40 years of , found dead at Kellevae Hostal. seit 19—An unknown man, found dead at Pelleyue Hospital, 20—An unknown woman, about 25 yesrs of age, found ded at Bellevue Hospital, 21—-Ricbard Welsh. a returned volunteer, aged 21 years, found dead at Tenth precinct station house. 22—Charles Doll, get years, residing at 342 Wai 24—An unknown soldier, at the Fifteepth precinct sta- tion house. Deceased is supposed to have been a trum- peter in the cavalry service. TOTAL SUNSTROKES IN AUGUET. The following recapitulatory table shows the total number of fatal sunstroke cases which have occurred in this city during the month of August Yor the week ending August INTERESTING LETTER FROM CITY INSPECTOR BOOLE. TOTHE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, In your paper of Tuesday last a suggestion was made that the City Inspector exhibit a comparison of the deaths of last week, from some pf the most prevalent diseases, with a corresponding period of previous years, also togive the meteorology. Agreeable to the intimation, I most cheerfully furnish the information desired, with other facts appertaining to the subject. ‘The following table gives the number of deaths occur- ring (from some of the diseases most fatal at this season) in each week, for the last ten years, corresponding with the one ending Avgust 8:— 1864 | 1°96) 1866) 1857 | 1858) 1859 bie ai 1962/1963 Diarrhora...| 65) 46) 29) 27] 43] 54) 19) 30) 30) 66 Desentery | 44) 36! 27' 14! 27! 30! 16! 8 8) 20 Gh. saetum) ¥h4) 114) 178} 118) 196) 198) 132) 154) 19%) 180 Ch: morbus| Si) 8) (2! 2] 7) sl 6! 6! onl a2 Conve inft..| {1} 36) 32) 90) 35) 44) a0) Bs) 42] a7 Infim bowels) Li) 6) 6) 22) 13) be] 2) Qe) 14) 13 natrok en, | =| spe] ep of el] oh oe Heatetects.| —| —| —| =| —| —| =| -| -| @ It will be seen that there were actually less deaths Inst woek by cholera infantum than there were in 1858 and 1869, When the vast increase of population by births, &e., is taken im consideration, there has been no increase from the usual causes, but an actnal decrease, It is therefore just to attribute the excess in a very great degree to the intense and continuons heat of the entire week; and no stronger proof can be given than ts pre: sented by the large and unprecedented number of persons sunstrock, being one hundred and twenty in asinglo week, to say nothing of the large number whose deaths were indirectly produced by the same cause; and by re fer>ing to the weekly report it will be seen that there, were no new diseases developed, the causes of deaths being invariably the sume na i# usual at this eeason of the year, when free from epidemies and contagiocs diseares, The fatsl consequences of the beat extended to damb ani m: single week. The following isthe temperature for the last seven years, doring the first seveo days of August, at two 'elock P.M. 1858. 1859. 1800. 1861, 1862. 1963. August Too... 60. 2 7% #7 92 8 “ ‘ 70 84 «689 «88 OH 67 1% 9% 8 88 mo x2 98 OT % 8B 8 RD 86 4 $2 8 8 St fe ORS % 86 88 #7 8 #48] That tho temperature of the air infuences health tsa fact vot ied (cold as well ax heat). For jilantration, in London the mortality roxe in the second week of Jany ary, 1860, to 1.968, in consequence of extreme cold. The annual age for t romonding week in the ten previous years was 1.20f=an increase of 708. In this case cold was producyive: of a much greater tumber of deaths In proportion ® the population than heat in this city in any one week of the present heated term, which is the uot protracted one that has oc masy years, bel g now twenty fiv tompe nt ral hours towe op can enter , Without exper The city, during seme ea result in the just four n atly be ¢ red 10 the perpetoal beat of & rusce, the continuance of which so depressed ” . etbar 5 © nA acclimated or ai ict h ent comritotional direares, and tho-e who are hi lly weak, mont seffer, and y tie fromm the direct reguils of the cousnat condition of the ov« My determined porpose is to leave nothine undone, as far ae my department is concerned, that will in any way contribate to the eanitary condition ‘of the elty, and add to the besith and comfort of the entire community. Rev epectiully, ¥. 1. A. BOOLE, City Inspector, cxtee.—-The following letter has p heer in the mem y. nobility, aod as such is characteris: Lerten rrow Greve been rece nt It bears an mir of tru: ticof the author New Yous, Anguat 1, 184g, My Dean Geevmnat—-Yours of the 25th was received to day. I ehall jotn the corpe the very first day will permit stomp at prosent ia very pai storm approacues, or du last long Tt hax not yet # that I can be measured for quired sufficient hardn tor than & vor any bot a park road. In I these impediments wit be removed, unlems now to be forsseen. | expect to be with you, for a trial at losst, between the 15th and 20th Of August’ You cannot exaggerate my eagorneas to be among the noble men who have done se much for the cause,and to whom [am indebted for so much of the mi repute and flattering honors! enjoy. | wish to live dio with them, (heir fate and mise mur! always be ble; their bonor, welfare, pride and pleasures ore and parcel of my existence. two hundred and three horses having died ino ~~" NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1€ IMPORTANT FROM CALIFORNIA. Apprehended General Uprising of the Secosstonists. ‘San Faancisoo, August 11, 1863. ‘The State is full of rumors of @ contemplated rising of the secessionists. Consequently there is an vmensy feeling im the public mind. Un the 6th instant an affray occurred ‘@ Viealia, a small town in Tillare county, between the secessionists and the soldiers stationed there. One of the Jatter was killed. Several of the former were wounded. Thirty-six shots were exchanged. Tillare and the adjoining counties in the northern Part of the State contain numerous secessionists. At Visalia great excitement prevailed. Some Union citizens, who erganized as a Home Guard, and others Pursued the parties who had fired at the soldiers, The house of the man who shot the soldier was burned down on the night of the 7th, which exasperated both Unionists and secessionists, each aecusing the other of the deed. al General Wri the military commander at fap Fran- tiaco, telegraphed that all the spare arma ainong tho edl- dierd at Viealia be distributed among the loyal citizens, and despatched troops of cavalry from Owens’ river to Visalia, ttt e. a day Fufnore are current of secessionist outbreaks in Santa Clara and Satano counties, north and south of the Day respectively. Both counties contaii a large seces- sion element. The reports are discredited; but their ready circulation creates alarm, — -e-shy Bey 4 General Wright tolegraphed somo days since to Wash- ington for the government immediately to begin the new defences of San Francisco, eosting about one hundred thousand dollars, but has received no reply, Last night the City Supervisors voted the city’s guarantee of re- payment to any person who would advance two hundred thousand dollars, to enable the General instantly to com- mence proper fortifications. Sailed on the 8th, Boanerges, Captain Dunn, for Hong Kong, with three hundred and forty-five thousand dollars in treasure and a cargo of wheat, flour, potatoes and lum & valued at three hundred and seventy thousand lars. Cleared on the Sth, Helen Nicholson, Captain Holliday, for Shanghae, now waiting for acrew, with one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in silver bars and a cargo of lumber and flour. Arrived on the 11th, Crescent City, Elwell, from Phila- dalphia, Sailed 9th, Huntevill Movements of Admiral Farragut. Admiral Farragut was besieged yesterday by all the Prominent photographers and portrait painters in town, and in his good natured way he accommodated as many ‘as he conveniently could. Assistant Secretary of the Navy G, V. Fox arrived in town yesterday. and called upon the Admiral and pre: sented him with another letter of congratulation from the Navy Department. ‘The, Admiral will not go to Wash- ington for rome time to come. He goes to the Navy Yard to-day to grant leaves of absence to his officers, and then he will go up to bis country seat to obtain some rest. It is rumored that the Common Council and the Cham. ber of Commeroe are devising plans to give the Admiral ‘an ovation deserving of his services. They had better wait until this heated term expires, and then give bim a ‘Dumper. Commodore Fi s , Staman, for Coquimbo. se Navy. Commodore Heury W. Morris, who arrtved home in the ‘was second in command to Admiral Farragut, and has come North to recruit bis health, after an absence Hartfor of nearly two years from this city. We regret toan nounce that his health is very much impaired by his where, since the capture of the city of Now Orleans, he has acted in the active service on the Mississippi ri ;and by bis zeal and watch capacity of Deputy Admir; fulness, and the presence of his sbip,the Pensacola, that city bas, in a great mersure, been kept under sutjection and protected from threatened raids of the rebels. Commodore Morris in a native of New York, and en. #tate, of which he is also a citizen, on the 2lat of Augost. 1819, rying twenty-one guns. guns, then stationed in the Mediterranean. This brings us down to the year 1826. During the next two years be is recorded as being absent from the service on leave. On the 17th of May, 1828, he wan commianoped a lieutenant, and joined the active service. He continued to do bis daty in various positions until 1838, when, on the Ist of January of that year, we fod him*awaiting orders. On that day bis name stood No. 144 on the list of lientenants of the United States Navy. On the Ist of January, 1830, be is recorded an being absent on leave. His ame then stood No, 122. Dorfng the latter part of that year and the whole of the years 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844 and a portion of 1845 he was engaged at the rendezvoust and on other duty in this city. fle had rapidly riven up the Indder of rank during these years: for on the Ist of January of each of the years jast mentisned his name ts recorded as slanding at the foltowing numbery:—1840, No, 114, 1541, No, 107 ; 1842, No, 47; 1843, No, 42: 1844, No. 37, 1845, No. 28 thu, in six years, he had risen’ eighty-six steps up the ladder of promotion. Turing the latter portion of 1845 he was appointed to the commend of the store: bip Sontharmton. then belong ing to the African squadron. He still held that command the beaiuning of 1846; mn ordered tt New York. During the been unemployed, ax that tin he had passed to the bond of the list of lieutenants, and on the 12th of October, o promoted to be Navy. On the 1 16 Hint 1851, bie name $9, and onthe fame day in 1862 at 88. syusime that year be was ngain anpelnted to the rendezvous at New York, this timo with the Thig position he held femmand of the post 63, when the coumand of the sl guns, then belonging to t en tw ban, ain transferred to the Med n he is recorded on the 1 captain under pundron, was ¢ station he wh: qunaron. of wh as be © fl m. AG thie tim panders. ¢ on the iiet io Juiy, 1 Ne York, and be Navy Departnest on nome at thie commen recorded on let of J ft three bed United sta avy, On year he was prom tained «w the ¢ Zor toe time stood b’ the 2th Ler of th a comple tin; awaling until bu o special duty, he is next re: which appears to bave been the ev mand of the P 1861, while brary nded as KeCond Princip! officer at t of Commander Walke, held tn the Lyceum rd at Prooklyo was buHding at the Washington Navy Yai ring the latier part of 186], Captus Motrin took partic pains in superintending ber cor struction, and while doing so he wax often brooght in contact with Président Lineolu, who also was much versel. The Fenracols is @ steam sloop. ries twenty.cour guns of he mbored that when the vonsel was com # of the Potomac were jined with el batteries. This blockade the Peusacia eaicly and securely ron, the vessel at the time being un der the command of Captain Morea and the p This brilliant ¢ ment, which hag been for some time pr lym of great anaé@ty te both Union men ind was accomplished on the morning of the 12th of ry, 1862, After heing at anchor in Hampton * time, the Pensacria was ordered to join the Gulf blockading squadron, and seR sail for that pur pore ‘The Pepaacola srrived off the Parsee at the time when the Richmond. Harvord and the other vessels of the fighting eet rendexvonsed there, and alter some difcat ty crosmed the b id proceeded up the river, taking « mort brilliant part in passing Forts Jackeon and St. Phi lip. and tn the attack upon the Chalmette batteries When Admiral Farragut went op the river |t became to leave an able and experienced oilicer in the seaward portion of the squadron a# well ax unquali ted aden and abuity with 3? ave 53 > if : “ af 0 i i 8k Ere f For some time after tha! date he was at the Navy Yard at Brooklyn; but during the latter part of 1820 he was ordered to the corvetteCyane, © vexsel-of-war car- From this he was transferred to the sloop-of-war Ontario, of eighteen guns, He was next ordered to the frigate Constitution, of forty-four ring that year he was | * during the whole of | amander in the United | INTERESTING FROM RUSSIA. @ur 8. Petersburg Correspondence. Sr. Perersnone, July 26, 1963. ‘The Russian Not—Their Warlike Purport—A Miltion of Men—Todleben ab Cronsiadt—1he Emperor ona Tour of Tmapection— Wanted, @ Commander-in Chicf— Pamphlet om the Polish Question, dc. ‘The answer of our government to the notes of the three Powers appears to have taken the European public by sur- | prise. To your readers it will have been lens unexpected, as my communication of’ the 9th instant must have pre- pared them for it, although, to confess the truth, I did not believe Prince Gortschakof would have assumed quite #0 | decided @ tone, and in particular that he would have ad. | dressed the great arbiter of Europe bimself in language which the latter can neither forget nor forgive, There can be no doubt that the focus of the Polish inaurrec tion i¢ in Yaris, and that it is the moral (and | Partly the material) assistance of the French | Cabinet which hos alone prolonged a stroggl so Aigastrous and damaging to both parties engaged in it, But pédple don’t like to be told wuch things openly. 1 | ‘said in my Jast letter that the answer of our government | meant war, upd now, that wee jer in which it is conveyed are known, there can be uo further illusions on that sub. ject. ‘Fate,’ as Napoloon declared in 1812, ‘drage Rus. siaon, and her destiny must be fuliilied.”? When the troubles im Poland first broke out told you théy would Jead to the severest crisis this country had ever passed ‘ough, the Crimean war not excepted, and my predic ih écomplished to the very letter. Wo are ia face of a coalition much more formidable than the one we bad to contend with at that period; for we shall not only have France and England, not to speak of Turkey, against us, but shall be threatened in the north by Sweden, and are likely to find an active instead ot a passive enemy ip Austria, while our internal position is much less favora- ble, and the present Emperor, with all his good qualities, is far from possessing the indomitable energy of his | father, Whether it was possible to avert the conflict by accepting the propositions of the three Powers, unreason- | able and impracticable as they were, is an open question; Dut the general optoton here is that it would only have | been humbling ourselves to no purpose; that all conces- sions on our'part would have led to fresh demands on the part of our adversaries, and that we should doally have been driven into war, after incurring useless igno- miny in our efforts to avoid it. In the meantime government is doing all it can to pro pare for the terrible ordeal we are about to be subjected to, A new levy of recruits hax been ordered on the xcale of ten men to every thousand ef the male population, which is to commence in October and be completed by the end of the year. This would add at least three bun dred thousand men to our military force; but of course they would not be avatiable till the spring, when, with the three hundred thousand raised some months ago and the four hundred thousand of which the regular army consisted at that time, we shall have nét fir from a mil- lion of men under arms, exclusive of the civic guards or militia that Dave been organized in’ Moscow and several other towns, and will be extended throughoet the ompire, Deducting some two hundred thousand for the gar- risons of the Caucasus and the long live of frontier from the Caspmn to the Ameoor—for which, however, in proportion to its extent, not many regulars are wanted, as the service is eniefly performed by the Cossacks of Astrakban, Orenburg, Siberia and Transbaicalia, who are not included in the above calcula- tion—there will be not much under eight hundred thou- sund left to occupy the western boundaries of the empire, from the Gulf of Bothnia to the Black Sea. If, on the other band, hostilities should commence this fall, our forces in that quarter will not be near so formidable, and will hardly exceed four hundred thousand, and a strong reserve must be left at Moscow or some other central point from which they can be directed to those points last few years, and by which we are enabled to transport . | troopme:in aefew days from Niji-Novgorod, on the Volga, to the Baltic and the Vistula, wM be found extremoly useful, as they have been already during the Polish in sarrection; but the want of such means of communica tion in the south and southwest will make itself more severely felt than ever. As yet, the chief concentration of troops—bes ides Po- Jand apd Lithuania—has taken place in Finland, where a fortified camp has been erected, at Tavastehuus, which in connected with Helsing’ors by the only railroad in that province. ‘The works of Sweaborg have been greatly strengthened, and a line of batteries is gradually stretch ing along the whole seaboard of the Gulf of Finland; but the assertions of @ Swedish journal that the fortific tions of Bomarsund are in course of reconstruc tion is quite unfounded. Tae unelonenees = of these cutlyiug works was too fully reoognized in the campaign of 1864 for such an error to be persintet in. It ts the defences of Crenstadt to which the greatest attention is paid, and under the personal superintendence of Todleben and his assistant, Zviereil, every exertion ts made to render them impregnable even to the jron- sheathed fleeta of the present day. The forts of Veter | , Mevsobikoff, Rusbank, &c., are couverted into so many Ma. lakets. The northern ehannel, which constituted the weak polut of the fortress, bas been eutiroly blocked ap, and it seoms imporsible that any hostile force will ever be abia the gauntlet of the hundreds of guus of the heaviest | torn: calibre and most approved conatraction which ine the only sccesribie entrance. The Emperor in | tends starting a day of two for Finland and Fathonia, to imayect the fortifications going and stimalate the loyalty of the troops ant bitants by his proseace n He will be accor anied by the Grand Dukes Alexander, Vladimir wnd lex seldeat son, the Cwaurevitoh, in travelling In b f Ruseia—and escorted by part of the Raitic . foe'ading the heavy « 4Xles Gover Arima ral and Dot Tetated at thetines, | Atia n the first py postttitien with tha we towers, and which arrived at Cr fom noe. At Revel the Em rwill be iby his brother Nichalas, who commands the military a while Ge Ww a f distinguished for his acti oot t Lnecemeary to recnro placing the chief command of at! a frontier In the hand when Katuzott wa t t anti the die y do Toliz had caused mach misc field of metections orn inate tod is extremely lire Prince ‘bese rank, no loan than hie m: jo him to ech @ post, is dying at Grafeoborg vi the only other generals of suMcientiy high stan tary talent tent a tt for it are Count Laders, who m not yet recovered | from the effects of the wound received inat yeur | | at 14, 204 Mowravioll (Njoolan Nicolnieviteh— | not W be confounded with bis brother Mi el the Governor “a Lithoania) In the n of many, KBrulof would make a better command hief than either of the two last meotioned officers, the former of whom is peventy-shros snd the recond 6 veoty yeara of age; bat he is only a liewtenant general thought impnaaibie wo prom:(6 bim over (be heats and it PRICE 1T HREE CENTs, Poles te get ponsession of the western pro. vinces of Rusia (Lithuania, White Russia and the Ukraine) aod the natnral wish of all partios W wee the kingdom of Poland enjoying its autonomy and Civil as woll as religious Nberty. If the pretensions of the Poles a8 to the former point are supported by public opin fon in England and Europe a general war will miturally ensue, and mobody can foresee ite iesue. If, om the oon- trary, those wild pretensions are not backed by Europe, the Poles will evidontiy ftnd it more convenient to put an end to their inurrectionary state, as being nselens v0 them, and then & would be easy to rettio the Polish ques- tion ww regard to the kingdom of Voland; for Russia de sires the autonomy and civil aud religious liberty of Po. land as much, and probably more, thas England or any other Power in Europe,’’ A roport is just spread that our Ambassador at Vienna, Mr. Ralabin, has been recalled, and that Paren Bravnow @ Baron Budberg will alvo receive orders to quit their respective posts at Loudon and Paris, leaving their coun- sellors of legation, Mossrs. Louginof! and Chickerin, as charges d'affaires in their stead. If this rumor should be | confirmed the state of things ig serious indeed, and wo may have a crash even sooner than was caloulated upon, ROS: “CR ANS? ARMY. Mr. W.G. F. Shanks’ Despatch, Decuxnp, Tenn., August 6, 1863. THK REVKLS DRAFTING TH MINERS, A half dozen Irish refugees who have been working in the mines of Fast Tennessee have arrived hore from Chattanooga, accompanied by two or three dererters from Bragg’s army. The latter aro Tennesseouns, and are hold until their antecedents can be inquired into, It {9 suspected that their naines can be found in Buoll’s list of desorters, as many of their fellow deserters’ names are found there. ‘The Irishmen are to be allowed ‘to go North. It is evident they have not been in the rebel service save as miners. Buckner is now drafting these miners, previously exempt from military duty, and bas already organized a brigade for various duties in East pnecseo; among others the duty of gathering the im- ieee Crops of that region. iy HRAGG SUPERARDED BY Fou, ‘These men unite in saying that fragg h&s been super- seded in the command of the Army of Tennessee by Lieutonant General Leonidas Polk. The report is not credited by those best acquainted with the character of Bragg and bis rebel masters. The late reverses of Bragg have very little weight with the rebel authorities at Richmond, who are fully advised of his condition. They recognize that they have inueh to be thankful for that Bragg got bis army out of Tennessee at all. His unpopularity with his troops results feom @ military virtue, which the rebel authorities are very ready to recognize, It is the virtue of strict discipline, and has made of the rebol Army of Tennessee @ most mu perior and formidable command. To relieve Bragg weuld be & benefit conferred upon us gratuitously, for which we could not be too thankful, particularly if such « mintake were followed by the second error of giving the command | tosuch a man as General Polk. Polk is bis natural suo- cossor, there being but one officer (Lieutenant General James Longstreet) between Bragg and himself, Bragg is the junior general and Polk the senior lieutenant gene. ral (except Longstreet) of the rebel army. Lemanrep has & command in the Kast, and bence Polk w WG ceed Bragg. Bot there is little probability that Bragg-has been relieved or that Polk has been placed in commend. REUEL GUNERAL MAKIN. There is no positive information that Hardee has gone to Jotinstoo’s army and that his command in Bragg’s ‘army bas devolved on Ambrose P. Hill. Such statements have been made, but they are not confirmed. Hill is the Jonior lieutenant geveral of therrebel army. HEYUGKEN GONG NORTH The Irishmen to whom I have referred are to beal- lowed to go North. The: in a moxt deplorable stare as ciation. aro ali, despite the hot weather, attirgs in beavy winter clothing, very thread- dare, most pro! are evidently haying no change N yallthey have Shirts and in the confederacy, these refugeek rechildren an fe able bodied hatutuck.'” one infirm old man were ment but conscription—by skulking in the moun- tains. They had beon conscripted, they said, and ted taken the first opportunity to toto the mountains. me that be bad lived in a cave, dug by himeelf in the mountains, for nearly eight monthe, winter and summer, and that bis wife—a young, delicate woman of not 0 eighteen years of age—had broaght his food to hima distance of nearly two miles He made bia cave comforts able during the winter by daily building a fire withta it, and whea the ground become heated and dry he Could sleep tn itwith some comfort. While at Decherd he saw « regiment on dress parade It was quite a large one, probably numbering tour hundred and fifty or ave hundred men, He called my attention to it, and asked if we had many regiments as large as that. J told bim that jt was only a battahon—Dalf a regiment. Ho expressed considerable surprise. and remarked that Hregg had pot *® regiment in bis ariny a large ae that. and few that were half as large, ‘¢ Why, them fellers.!’ he said, © could surround one of ovr reaiments easy.” These people, like many hundred others, have no money, avd are sent North, generally to Indiana and {liinois, at gov- ernment expe se. A® a general thing they retinyuish no porsersions here, being poor, laborirg mon, who have lwed on rected ‘property, Very few persons with any landed property are \eaving, except on compulsion. MAJOR GRNFMAL Gt. THOMA. Genera! Thomas. who haa his headquarters in the vicin- ity, has been slightly indieposed for some days, bat jn. forms me this morning that be ts feeling much better Onlone! Flynt, bir /djotant General, aud Genersl Negiey, have been urging Geueral Thomas to make a shore vinit home to New York city. He bas not been absaot from bis command since (he war began, All effrte to induce him. ty take ® me recreation have eo far failed General Necloy ineoee!y made -appiication for » toave for him: bat General Thome ie not likely to take advantage of it obtained GENPRA) WOOK AND THR LORURTE GAR Arran During the Uip to Pridgapart on “onday last, Licatens ant Colonel thruatin, General MeCoek's ameirtent edjatant statement oo mine in the I i during the late ndvan ma. 1 e ta aitork ope the rebels at p hed rhe | thond o i 1 t | Part ano fe he wr truchona t » ‘1 | # that Mek ork w ‘ ' ” e ” , t “ r ot ‘ 1 ® wae expected of Coneral Me ook, far ' ‘ nied the ron bie cominaniostions, No man is word t ¥ hen myrelf, the more artiowlariy aa tb bat oreavion Wo wom vetavorably of him heretofore, and shall very gindly and hastily prize ogeom sny opportanity | ebro any evideuere which may aopesr of the Feil], activity, energy of ober miliary traits of General | Me Coroners’ tog | Mt wo Levee Ante Morte ' Ranney was ot Wo bold | yeaterday tn the cue of Patrink land, aged twenty reve corner of Ninth svenee and Thirty sixth atlock ings the first and not even m pair of the where their presence is most required. For this purpose | latter. There are algo many others going to the North - | the railroads that have been constructed during the | and to Kentucky. On the train yesterday a family of tered the navy ax a midshipman, appointed from this pont The hve younger, men hed ll been in the rebelarmy ab times; t had served moxt of their term—not of epliats get Iconversed with one of them, who told fo many of hin seniors night of the 10th inet., by mene person onknows. hen arms afe reported to reasoning becomes uselen*, | injured man in bit declaration statee that b and, the efforts Of the Ruswian preset to enlighten the jure | row with come eo eokvown, When the letter turned pean puble O@ the Polish queition are partiontariy a», | Upon hit and siabbod Bin Le, a. Infloting be = severe ; wounds that ihe wil not recover, The freon owing to the difference of Annguage Quite lately, how | Pie ca the libtreatment Of the easatianl's cog hy & over, 8 pamphlet wae pablinhe! here in Engh, whieh if } friend of the wounded imam, who gave the amine! « kick 4 hed appenred ettive, teizht pert vo terval | 19 1DO Prewnce of le owner. Hime words eneond, and | oy: gy Do cam ect Nge tion Corrigan Unrestened & have the dog killed by the police, ; co Sony Mean eblertained, 00 the Ub/e | whieh bronght on 8 general melee, in which the aw 1% endesvars = shew that the Poles, in | drawn aod the injured min reeeived hin woonds an | claiming the western provinces of Hneria, clair the 4o No clue conld be Mtatoed to (he dewuty | | minton of 8 country in which they form only one-tenth of the population (1,270 680 out of 10,800,000), and where two-thirds of the inhabitants belong the Mowian ns tonality aed the Greek Chureh Instead of asnerting the | principle of natbonalities, therefore, the Polee ere fghbing against it and Striving te aphoid the yway of an arimtocrs te minority ever popular misses. They etragaie, mot for the liberty and Setonomy of Polich wrrivoriet, bat for the rece ent OC MET OT ICG Deongiog to olher mationalitier From thee promine, which sre diecamed st mach Comewan Wiha beh 9a cant vow terday upon the bedy of John Cemmon, at pier No 16 North river river tn 5 mall bon m the Tih inet. in company with three friends, when one of the Pavumis ferry hosts came and ran them ewe. The party were ait saved | the exenplion of Coreneea sack Hnwoe tine y | wage foul on the | over © tm | “0 in Maryland, owort 12, 1eeg 2. W. Crintett bee nied toe uate emer the pe 4 ane mee @ te sit deukiod Ba f dew ing wertaions —/' Tim publee ment io make « dif ‘ference between the Dacemed, it appeared, was creasing the | ” MPORTANT FROM CHARLESTON Arrival of the Flora at For- tress Monroe, Hoavy Bombardment on Fri- day Night. Probable Commencement of the Grand Attack, ae key ae Tho United Btates transport steamer Flora, W. A. Booth commanding, arrived at Fortress Monroo on Taes- day, three days from lore Hoysl, 8 C. She put into Hampton Roads for coal, and |x bound to thie port She reports that on the night of the 7th inst., white off Charleston, heard heavy and rapid firiog from Fort Bum- ter and Morris Inland. ‘The sky wae lighted up with bureting shells. Mr W. - oe "a Despatch. Forties Monnon, August 11, 1663, The United States revenve steamer Flora, W. A Hooth (formerly of the yacht Henrietta) commanding, left Port Royal on Friday, tho 7h inst, At eleven P.M. of the same day passed Charleston har bor avd found @ terribie bombardment of our night working parties in progress. Fort Sumter and tho Dattertes on Morris Island were playing on the #uppised position of our forces with terrific fury, The cannonading ‘was continuous, and shells coursed through the air iv all directions, illuminating the sky with the buen of fire, and by the terribie thundering of beavy guns, and the burst ing of shells, formed a scene of terrible grandeur uunur _ The Flora left tho partics #tiil engaged and the sky brit “liant with rebel sbelis, The result of vhe affair or the damages on either side are unknown, On the Sth, when off Cape Lookout, was boarded by the blockading gunboat James Adger. On the 9th, when thirty-five miles north of Hatteras, it wan found necessary to haul fires, blow off steam and watt for tea hours to ro pair the boiler, Arrived in Hampton Roads at three o'clock P.M, of the 10tb, and Jad oysgidg of the guard ship until permissing could be obtained to ran io and ro pleoieh ber coal, Captain WL. James, Post Quarter master at this point, supplied this deficiency. INVERESTING FROM FORTRESS HONROB. Mr. W. H, 8a Despatch. Fortues Monroe, Augast 11, 1663. 4 AWRIVAL OF THR WHETERN WORLD. ‘The gunboat Western World arrived bere this morning from Beaufort and the blockading fleet at Wilmington, having to low the new prize steamer Kate, from jicaurort, ‘Thin vessel is minus her gues and mechiery , abe having been run ashore under the guns of @ rebel battery when close pressed by one of our cruisers, The rebels noc ceeded jn taking owt her machinery, but we obtained posseasion of her before she could be destroyod r A RUE RAM “ sate While the Weetern World wan visiting the blockading fleet of Wilmington a rebel ram came down to tho mouth of the Onpo Fear river and figed two shots, either in de- flance or simply for practice, and then cuslly took her d ft 4 then iriure, The morning previous to thie occurrence Mant states that thie same slear ine down ba the boldest and most threatening mapper, cauring po lite consternation among our veasols, who’ were forced to weigh and prepare for the worn in common prudence. MOVRENTS OF ADMIRAL LEE, On Saturday atiwo o'clock P.M. the Western Work took on board the Admiral of the fleet (8 P Lee) frow Dis flagship, the Minnescte, off New Inlet, and conveyed bim t Beaufort, where be went by rail to Newborn. The foliowing are the OFFICERE OF TR WHATEKN WORLD. Ensign and Brecutive Surgeon— On wnid Werner. Paymaser—1® W. MoCoiley. Ensigna— Rufus R, Donnell and — Tole. Boamd Awutant Engineer——St. Cir, VRWELA IN FORT AT WRAUTOKT. The following named veasels are reported at Resufort N. C., ab the time the Western World leit, Augunt ¥. ROO Nee, 4 Minnehaha, Chesapeake. J. F. Farland, trookhaven. Jobo “woup, | biladelpoia, Burrows, Philadelphia. Acquilia, Philadephia, Brave, Now York. Florida, Now York. St. Louis, Bomton, Alliance, Philadelphia, Kobert & Delan, i hiadelphia, Mary ©, Bani, Philadelphia, the. biladetpbia, mies, J.P. Methuell, Philadelphia, Mollie New York Wiliiate Krever, Philadel, bie 8 B Alico Active, Mbiine AL FRO AND MTAre wre yesterday tr rh ing, by the arrived bere toarmer Adela He Ww rm reuls for how born to ean ne and of the Righteeth otmy corpe o con broke mevidated With (he bighieasth Wit beadquarte wbern, N. € THE INDIAN WAR IN THE WEST. Cuwrace, Aogont V2 et Ad etch from Ot Paul saye Dr. Short tan oat re turned from the idaho gold mines, Me re ‘ ‘ Dartle Dotween the pamencer stexmers sb-eyeport end Campbell aud ch » ‘ low Fort Unter wenty og ne were ket and a» iant © rea dtwo wounded. T : “ bud two howirers,and were bast ¢ he werate robe ky ¥ouo wiih, He Unik bERE a FAY HE SOUTHWEST Movements gt Arm Otic 2 the Mile ‘ woh ot the . to the Btn ona gs € July Ge Geoeral Herron and t ’ , landed on the ennt Stes ‘ nr * “ ° . é by our ee ow = « Vieotlak, yellow fever have exrerred i Now Or. besite of , mee youre “re A very arhentthy, typhotl fever ows a Te) the Vou Meal wel afl artived from Helens on the ne morning. Reprrie are it terme teas bee wilt pinned oh hie pont, ite pine of Gen. Hurih.t, 4 for Mew Orieune, An nee an Ate Temerred from the trannit aere trede oth that port fe anticipate’ ovine Gay WPF Gemernily obmerved by our an ree pearly al (helt bows being chee The Sabbath Con Ramet a The Mabbe’h Convention belt two Semtene « 4 , large attendances vend inc orend interest Perker, of New York. delivered an te tte reintiome be ibe Kabtath Dr Now Tork, read & paper oo the phim 4 White College, reat « ¥. Dodge reported rewmiovene im fore Categ 5 vetier cbwer Tec of Ube Ae bate