The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-31
THE REBELLION.
Sharp Skirnish Near
Bailey's Cross Roads.
Two Hundred Rebels Defeated
by a Union Picket Guard.
New Rebel FOrtiflcatiOns in
Process Of Erection.
The Enemy Endeavoring to Transfer
the Seat of War to Maryland.
a Battle on the Upper Potomac
Hourly Expected.
Situation of General ROSencranS' Com
mand in Western Virginia.
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Additional Particulars of the
Fight at Summersville.
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IMPORTANT NEWS FROM MISSOURI.
Seizure of Cne Hundred Thousand Dollars in
Specie by the Rebels.
yalmyra Taken Possession of by
the Enemy,
&C., DC, &c.
Additional Particulars of the
Fight at Summersville.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM MISSOURI.
OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON. August 30. 1851.

WASHINGTON, August 80, 1861
BHARP sKIRMIsH NEAR BAILEY's CROSS RoAps-Two
HUNDRED REBELS DEFEATED BY rnE UNION PICK
ETs-EFFORTS OF THE ENEMY TO BRING ON A GENE
RAJ ENGAGEMENT.
General Mcclellan received intelligence this morning
that sharp skrmish took place this morning on the
other side Of the river, Bailcys Cross Roads be
tween body Of about two hundred rebels the picket
GUARD Of General Richardson's brigade. The evident in
enton Of the rebel skrmishers surprise the Union
pickles, and either take them prisoners, kill them, o.
Drive them in; but boys although less in number
charged handsomely upon tho rebels, and killed some
took some prisoners and stampeded the This daring
the part of the rebels is taken as evidence of
determination by them to bring general engagement
General Mcclellan is ready for them.
THE POSITION OF THE HOSTILE ARMIES.
The relative positions Of the two armies remained up
night The same yesterday The rebels are throwing
PIP immense earthworks both sides Of Munsons Hill
On the Lesburg turnpike, one mile from Baleys Cross
Roads The hill referred to is of cleared land and the
my make secret OF their movements. Their cavalry o
whchthoy have several hundred that locality ma
neuvre over the hills and sometimes venture small
tachncnts to within half mile the Union pickes
For presumption several of them shot to-day The
Temporary rebel rife battery alluded to in my des
patch yesterdayocated at the south side of Munsons
Hill aid used to their working partics-was kept
play antervas to-day At time when one OF the Union
pickles killed of the rebels who had the temerity
to cxpse himself the turnpike the rebels got terribly
wrot and opened their battery with great vgor upon tn
empty buildings at Baileys Cross Roads, in which they
supposed our troops sheltered.
Therebels are throwing up works at place about three
miles rom Bulls Crossing The extent of these works
no able to state but it is said the rebel sodiery
h considerable force at that point.
During the entire day brisk skirmishinr has
up between the pekets Of the two armies but with No
delnit, result
The Union officer captured by the rebels Sunday
last ner Baeys Cross Roads, Captain Fish, OF the
New York Thirty second regiment, and not the Thirty
first regiment, as previously reported.
Private Lorenzo Cronk of Company D. OF the New YORK
Thirty eighth regiment who reported as among tsiis
Of the captured Bailey Cross Roads Tuesday last
returned to camp the following day. having escaped from
his captors and concealed himself in tree until o
portunity offered for him to return to his camp.
Sergeant Fairfield and privates Van Dusen and Tyler Of
the regiment, still in the hands of the enemy
THE DESIGNS OF THE REBELs-PRoJECTED PASSAGE
OF THE POTOMAC AND REVOLUTION IN MARYLAND
ACTION OF TEE MARYLAND REBELS.
Under the whip and spur of necessity to do something
the rebels pushing forward erecting defensive works
Immediately in our front, banging away with their ar
lery all the houses within our lines that reach OF
their Missiles merely for the purpose OF disractng
tention from the movement Of heavy column towards
the Upper Potomac with q view Of crossing over int
Maryland at some point just below the Point Of Rocks
They expect to find fewer Of troops in that direction
than any other location, and be enabled to throw
INTO Maryland sufficient force to form nucleus for its
secessionists, and inaugurate civil there.
1t is estimated, by entitled know that there
are seventy five thousand Of the rebel army betwee
HarpeTs Ferry and Edwards Ferry awaiting an oppor
tunity fosce crossing into Maryland and willing t.
bake The chanc e. there OF instruction Of the macon-
tents that will enable ,hpm to transfer the conflict
that State and 10 place Washington between two rebel
armies.
In the meantime hundreds of Marylani secessoniss
gathering upon the eastern Shore for the purpose Of
carrying out the programme indicated several day
cutting or direct communication between Philadelphia and
Baltimore simultaneously with the passage Of the rebels
across the Potomac Under various excuses numbers
men have procured transportation the bay in small
boats for the purpose of joining this expedition AT the
little of Easton, in Talbot county these arrivals
have amounted to as many as fifty per day.
The rebels are in such a condition that they are
compelled either to attempt TO advance to retire
from the Potomac. Tho resources Of this region
exhausted, and they cannot much longer subsst
their immense force the Virginia side Of the
fotoHec lheF must et!ier AVIAN themselves OF the
riches of the splendid agricultural district Of Western
Maryland, or fall back least upon the Rappahannock
Their desperation will make lively times along the Poto-
mac in a few days, and perhaps in a few hours.
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE REBELLION.
The sensation despatch of the Trt5ftte that informa
tion had been received from Mr. Adams our Minister at
the Court Of St. James, that England intends forthwith to
recognise the Confederate States so called as SEPARATE
IaNd Independent Power, and which announcement was
ku,h -taveS denied in this correspondence in odav,s
Bysltu,. is nevertheless believed by some to have cma
mated from private letter CT Mr.. Adams The idea is
as sch state Of affairs in England could
not have been kno,n u Mr. Adams without being com
municated by him to our government, unless
Mr.. Adams neglected his du..0' ana as 1 stated
yesterday, no such information wh@sYeF mas oeen