New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.
TEIF. WAR.

There wss intense excitement Yesterday in This
CITY. in ccn.eqaerce of startling news from Phla-
delplia, 70 the effect that StOnewall jackson was
about to cross tie Potom4c Leesburg and march
upon Baltimore with his s,erectyped force OF forty
thousand men, 1t would be refreshing 20 know
If there ever was q tine When Jackson had more
or lees than just forty thousand men. II the num-
Der has varied since the Spring Of 1861, we do
not remember the occasion. 1t was soon ascef
tanned that lie positive assertion sent here was
only a baseless runor IN Philadelphia; and the
public recollectiug that English mail steamer
was to sail from Boston at noon soon begsn to
reckon and guess that Ills sensation dispatch
was manufactured to order ior the European market
in fact, Reuter- telegram in embryo This opinion
gained strength as the hours passed by and The Wild
story was not corroborated, aud by the time it wss
well OUT Of Boston harbor il all It's exaggerated pro-
portions not a MN of average loyalty in New York
believed word Of it. Except tits story, We had
nothing at all from PoEe's army during the day
nothiog so ste as cur OWE correspondence published
in Yesterday TRIBUNE. Our letters this morning
from " as hington and Alexandra, crowded with
highly interesting details Of the laiss, movements.
Tie excitement at Cincinnati aud Louisville IL
unabstci. aud the people are making extraordinary
cxcrions for defense. The Rebels are from -OvO
10 S1Co1 strong, and are reported to Ie at Boyie's
Station, 81 miles from Cincinnati. They are "a
peeied 70 arrive opposite the Notifications Thur
l.. I ,..,ril oil. en-
aui Home Guard companies are ready for service.
Mi Gen. Wright Las declared martial law in Jeiier-
sou County, The cotton brokers are removing their
cotton across tie river, and citizens are removing
their vo!uables fearing thai tie Rebels will attempt
10 capture the city.
From ST. l. us we learn that steps having been
taken for conhscatDg the property Of TIusen Polk,
formerly Unreo ates Senator, the Chief of the
Uniod States Police has been ordered to seize the
same, both real estate and PERSONAL and take III
ven,ory thereof. Polks property is estimated to be
worth 100000 The old Merchants Exchange. in
the same city, hes been closed; the Association Was
thoroughly disIoyal and its property viii be cOnis
Gated. Gov. Gamble has made q requison oil tie
Banks sud Savings Institutions for $4,000 to buy
arms The Banks furnished the money.
Among the great news az truel of yesterday,
Union troops IL consequence Of attack in force
by Biecknrdge. The news puIports to come in a
letter from Bat ROUGE, Aug. Il, via New Orleans
the fire having burned tlIee days, must have be-
gun o. the lith at the latest. Bat have at this
port New Orle.Ie news TO the 2ith, which states
that on the 2O,l--inree days after the alleged total
destruction Of tie place the Rebels sill trying
to take Baton Rouge.
-The PhHqdolgiio H9u r, which started ihe
rrmor that Souewal Jackson was going to cross he
Potomac, had in he Pane article the rta;e.nen, that
Gen. Pope Lad ordered the corps Of Gen. keyoo to
hold Germantown, near the WaTren,on road, and
that he attacked there and tough, till dark Tie
fac; il, KeyesS corIe is ye. al FoAiels Monroe.
Such is Philadelphia news,
Col. MUndy's kentucky Regiment had severe
fight near Woodbury. Tenn. OH Thareday with
Forests guerrillas. Egit Of the latter killed,
thirty wounded, and fifteen taken prisoners Our
loss wac one killed ard five wounded. The greiTillas
are committing great outrsees in Dekalb County,
aud are sending UniOn G.en South.
AL doubt 10 to the fate Of DE brave Gen.
Kcarney is oyer--he Vas killed BY shot in the
hip from a concealed Rebel H.. money watch,
rings, all but his pan'aloons and boots were stolen.
The tti,ving villains could rot stea his glorious
fame. 4 full account # TIC and occasion Of
ais death is given in our Washington dispatch.
The War meeiir. IN the Brooklyn City Hall
ParL, stouiped from Monday to Wednesday even.
in was largely attended. l. add,essed by
several 10, uar speakers, and much erlbusiasm was
dispiay "a.
Major SgIsgue L. S. DisluIting aud Mustering
officer announces Tat he VIII continue - pay the
following bounty to recruits Tor the old regiments
Premium, S4i bounty, s2j, and sl3, being months
pay N advance.
The X IN County Board Of Supervisors have
sulso.izrd tie appropriation Of $4,000 ior the re-
l.f Of tie families OF coiantesr OF the $2iO,UVo
bounty appIr. .asoL, s3i go remained TO the ceai
Of tbs Committee.
-Poindexfer, tho notorious leader Of guerrilla
band IN Missouri, caught on Monday night,
twenty miles from Hudson, the Hannibal and dis
sour Railroad. while lie asleep in house. lie
has been Condemned as spy, and will suffer death
a-Ceps Cor,oan and Busted are q, Albany, con-
.ultna with the Governor. Volunteering il going
nm rapidIy throap hout the State. The drsf. 10 sx-
pscted 10 begin about the 10th Of his month.
1T is said that immediate and thorough inquiry
u To be made into tie for the late failures in
Cur army operations in ViggDis and tbat the officers
at fault will be exposed ~ punished May IL be 30
GEN EISAL NEWS.
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