Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-04
Geographic slelus.
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, August 3O-The Times cores
pondence says
This morning the rebels made demonstration
il force with three pieces of artillery, against
pickets stationed at Falls Gross Roads. After
retreating short distance troops returned the
fire and finally compelled the enemy to retire,
when they resumed the possession of their former
position. One private of Michigan regiment
was slightly wounded.
Military authorities think the present move
ments of the rebels have no significance except to
keep their men actively employed to prevent de-
moralzing and dissolution of their army until they
are prepared for grand movement one is
made against them
Capt Whippie of the engineers accompanied
Mr.. Lowe on his aerial reconnaissance yesterday,
and saws they observed nearly 900 men at work
throwing up entertainments on Monson's Hill,
Bowen, Falls Church and Fairfax, distance of
seven miles They concluded the enemy must
be in large force.
The State Department will not issue passes TO
any one to pass from the loyal into the rebel
States.
Since the passage through Louisville was
stopped the demand for passes has been very
large Most of the applicants are women who
have been living at the North.
The general order issued by Adjutant General
Thomas calling attention to the 57th article of
the act called for the government of the armies OF
the United States, has a more sweeping applica-
ton than is generally supposed.
1t is intended to apply TO all persons, both in
and out of the army, and to newspapers here and
elsewhere throughout the North. Under it it is
intended to prohibit the publication of movements
connected with raising of troops, the transporta-
ton of munitions of war, the transportation of
men and the fitting out of vessels.
Mr.. Bates left Washington this morning for st.
Louis. In his absence Titan s. Coffin, Esq. has
been commissioned as Attorney General.
The Worlds dispatch saws:
number of leading finauciers, including the
Presidents of some of the New York Banks, are
now in the city, urging upon the President certain
changes in the conduct of the war. They pro-
pose that the Government shall attempt to force
the rebels to abandon their threatened attack upon
Washington, by making covnter attacks upon va
rious points in the South.
The Secretary of the Treasury is gratifed to
know that toe success OF the national loan does
not depend upon bank corporations, but that the
people alone are able and willing to subscribe all
the money that is needed. 1t will satisfy the pub
lie and increase public confidence in the Govern
ment to state that the Attorney General has de-
cided that the loan is not taxable either by State
or local authorities
Senator Wade, before leaving Washington, was
authorized by the General Government to raise a
regiment of cavalry and battery of artillery for
the war.
/ The Tri5une's dispatch says:
letter from St Louis stotes that there is no
doubt that the re lels intended and expected to be
| in full possession of st. Louis before now and
that August Doth was the time fixed upon for the
active cooperation of secessonists in that city.
Nothing could have prevented the plot from sue
ceedng had they been victorious at Springfield.
Gen. Lyon knowing this, sacrificed himself and
saved the city a second time by his victory, for
such it was in fact. Our friends have gained time
and are safe.
! Advices received at the War Department con-
firm the report that the Kioways and Camanches
from whom Government last year withheld their
annual presents on account of previous rascali-
ties have united their fortunes with the Southern
Confederacy. The principal rendezvous of the
tribe is near Fort Bent.
The Herald's dispatch saws:
1t is estimated by men entitled to know, thai
there are $4,000 OF the rebel army between Har-
per's Ferry and Edwards Ferry, awaiting an op
portunty TO force a crossing into Maryland, and
willing to take the chances there of an insurrec
ton of the malcontents, that will enable them tc
transfer the conflict to that State, and place
Washington between two armies. In the mean
time hundreds of Maryland secessionsts arr
gathering upon the Eastern Shore for the purpose
of carrying out the programme of cutting off di
rect communication between Philadelphia ant
Baltimore simultaneously with the passage of the
rebels across the Potomac at little town in Tai
bolt county.
These arrivals have amounted TO "a many a
fifty per day.