The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-17

THE SITUATION.
From Western Virginia the news is still very en-
eDuraging. General Lee with q very large force
03tacked General Reynolds troops at Cheat Noun
@in, but after long engagement was success
0ly repulsed, with heavy loss. The Unionists
eghting behind intrenchments suffered but little;
and when, after the engagement, the scouts were
sent out they found the rebels had retreated seve
raj miles. General Cox's body of Kanawha Valley
Union troops had advanced some distance from
Gauey Bridge towards Lewisburg, and Generals
Wise and Floyd were in full retreat eastward.
General Rosecrans was at Camp Scott, directing
the arrangements of the advancing forces
The news from Baltimore is very important. A
few more of the rebel members of the MARYLAND
Legislature were arrested yesterday by the Bati-
more police, and every effort is being made to
secure the whole of them. AS it is, there can be
no quorum of the legislative body, therefore the
State cannot now be forced out of the Union
against the will of the citizens, majority of whom
are still loyal.
The rebel army before Washington are still re-
ported quiet, with the exception of few trifing
shots exchanged between the pickets The steam
er Satellite arrived safely at the Washington Navy
Yard, notwithstanding the assertion of the rebel
newspapers that the banks OF the river are COM
peteIy lined with their batteries so that they can
close up the navigation of the me at any moment
they please.
The reported proclamation of the Captain Cen
eral of Cuba continues to occupy the attention of
The State Department, notwithstanding the denial
Of ~ea"ial knowledge thereof hori~S 49, - l..
the Spanish. Minister. Potter's Investigating Com
Nttee is still prosecuting its inquiries relative to
he loyalty of the Government employees. A few
bore cases of disloyaty and treason have been re.
ported by them.
The intelligence from General Banks column is
interesting. smart engagement took place on
Sunday afternoon opposite Pritchard's mills, three
miles above Darnstown, between the rebels, about
four hundred and fifty strong, and five companies
of Union troops. The contest was very spirited,
and lasted two hours resulting in the complete
rout of the rebels driving them out of every house
and breastwork they had occupied, with loss of
about ten killed and number wounded. The
Union loss was only killed, arising, doubtless
from the superiority of range of their guns.
From Fortress Monroe tidings have been re-
ceivcd relative to the constant change of the re-
bel forces at Sewal's Point at last reports number
ing only five hundred. scarcity of provisions in
the county is doubtless the cause. A number of
United States vessels are reported of Old
Point
Intelligence has rerched St. Louis that General
Price, with his rebel forces, had attacked Lexi,
ton. With what result had not been ascertane,
From Leavenworth, Kanzas, intelligence has
been received of an engagement between Colonel
General Rains, with between two and tire
thousand rebels. The latter having several pieces
of artillery and superior numbers, proved too for
Indable for the former, who had but one howitzer
Notwithstanding these disadvantages the Unior
men kept up running fight while slowly retreat
ing causing serious loss to the rebels. Nightfa
setting in Colonel Montgomery made good his re.
treat towards Leavenworth.
Able McMaster, the editor and proprietor of the
F'ee"'ons Appeal, rebel sheet of this city, was
arrested yesterday, and sent down to Fort Lafay.
cite, for the benefit ofhis political health.
vessel, said to have run the blockade at Gal.
weston, reports great amount of distress prevail
ing throughout Texas. A privateer mounting four
guns -six-peunders-was reported as having ar.
rived at the port of Minititan, Mexico, about the
beginning of the present month. The privateer
Sumter was reported at Surinan on the 2lst ult.
threatening to fire the town unless she was sun.
pied with coal and provisions, of which she stood
much in need
The Anglo-Saxon, of Father Point brings news
from Europe to the 9th nst.-one day later. The
plan of working on "short time in the English
cotton mills, as means of outstanding the stock
on hand, as well as preventive of glat OF
manufactured goods in foreign markets was adj
vancing in public favor in Lancashire. The Lon
don Times now regards the conquest Of the rebel
States by the Union army as next to impossible
and their submission as highly improbable, and
tinks that the war has rendered travellers more
~ liberty in Venice than in New York. The
JtnseS anticipates, as sequence Of this state OF
taings, that the form Of the American government,
Oil be changed Cor some system less democratic
than the present.