The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-08-30
Items of War News, &c.
Copied from the Milwaukee Press d Neus

Russell is refused pass over the Poto-
mac.
d. E. Sickles is authorized to raise an
Artillery Regiment and Regiment Of
Cavalry.
An Irish Brigade, 5000 strong, is to be
Immediately raised, to be commanded by
Gen. Shields.
An agent of the Southern Confederacy,
having in bis possession $4,000, with
which to pay Ben. McCulloch's rebel
troops, has been Gagged at St. Louis, by
Provost Marshal McKinstry.
Advices. from Kentucky state that the
Union men there are rapidly receiving
arms and organizing companies. -Four or
five regiments are now ready.
The fishing fleet of New York have
rendered the government their vessels and
forces to aid the the blockade squadron.
The 20 teamsters who struck for hi cher
ale still in confne ment, and will also live
on bread and water far some time.
The rebels are preparing to invade Mary
land, and intend offensive movements on
Cheat Mountain Pass All of their troops
have moved up, from Richmond to Manas-
sas.
Government is satisfied that Fremont
could not have reinforced Ly On without
danger to South eastern Missouri.
The privateer Sumter is still al liberty
and has taken two more prizes.
The Governor of Kansas has been au-
thorized to raise three regiments-one for
home service and the other two for duty
in New Mexico.
Deserters' stories about the rebel force
being 10000 strong are discredited.
Major Gen. Butler has been detailed by
Gen. Wool, to the command of the volun-
teer forces at Fortress Monroe.
From six to ten thousand of McCulloch's
army have left for the North. A small
force has reached Lebanon, on the Rolla.
road and are engaged in making reprisals,
and committing depredations on Union
men.
The British feet, now lying off the Amer
lean coast, numbers AZ vessels, with 497
guns and $3.50 men. There are, aso,si
French vessels, carrying 200 guns, lying
off the coast of Halifax.
Three Baltimoreans who had been over
the Potomac, were arrested at Harrisburg
and 100000 in Confederate Bank notes
found on them.
The steamer Seminole, from the block
ade off Charleston, has arrived. The Sem
mole brought up as prize the schooner
Albion, formerly a Wilmington pilot boat
from Charleston, with a cargo of coffee,
sugar and cigars. When taken she was
under English coIors. The captain and
nearly all the hands were drunk. She had
run the blockade aft Wilmington.
1t appears that the withdrawal of the
rebels from Fairfax Court House, was a
regular stampede. Two scouting parties
of the enemy mistook each other for Ma
tional troops. They attacked each other
and fought, and rapidly fled7after a few
rounds, carrying the news that Mcclellan
and his army were in pursuit. The con
sequence of the Intelligence was a hasty
fight by the rebels, who dropped their
sick along the read.
A letter from Savannah, says the Ogle-
thorpe Regiment of Georgia. lost SIT men
at the battle of Manassas.
From Washington the line of the Alex
andria and London Railroad is dotted
with Rebel camps. At Leesburg there are
5000 Infantry and six cannon. At Point
Favor, six miles below, are 5000 Infantry
and six cannon. Still farther on, four
miles beyond, are $500 Infantry, also, q
900 Cavalry in Loudon county.
A rev rebel battery has been discover
ed on the Potomac, ten miles above Aqua
Creek. A captured negro reports, that
there are five hundred slaves at work cree
Ting batteries on the river, and that at the
batteries near Acquia Creek, there are
several thousand troops.
The rebels have a report that the Com
mander of the British Gulf squadron has
received orders to see that British mer>
chant vessels be adequatey protected in
their ingress to and egress from the ports
of the South.
Four thousand rebels are reported to be
at Benton, No, fortifying the position.
General RoseDcranz, in Northwestern
Virginia, is considered to he in perfectly
secure situation, notwithstanding there is
a large rebel force within fifteen or twenty
miles of him.
There are now under guard at theNavy-
Yard, two hundred mutinous soldiers, from
different regiments, awaiting transport to
the Dry Tortugas.
At Danbury, CT, yesterday, the Peace
men, in attempting to raise peace flag,
got up fight, but finally succeeded in
raising it. Several were badly injured,
but none killed.
The New York papers that were lately
presented by the Grand Jury, are to be
prohibited passing through the mails.
The Baltimore papers are not hereafter
to be allowed to publish news that may
injury the government.
Russell, the correspondent of the Lon
don Times, has paid a visit to Gen. Banks
division. Uncomplimentary remarks were
made by some of the soldiers.
The office Of Democratic paper at