Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-08-28
The Rebels Seize POpe's Bag
gage, but Leave McDOWell'S.
GEN'L P0PR'S COMMISSION
OAPTUREDI
REPORTS OF ENGAGEMENTS |
Part Of Jackson's Forces Cut to
PieoesI
CABINET MEETING...THE GRl.
SIS OF DANGER PASSED!
THIS MORNINGS REPORT.
REBEL TENDERNESS TOWARDS GEN.
MCDOWELL.
WAsHTNoToN, Aug. q.


WAsHTNGToN, Aug. p.
The Tribune's correspondence gives the
following extraordinary statement rela-
tive to the tenderness of the rebels towards
Gen. Mcdowell:
The attack of Stuarts cavalry upon
Catlets Station seems likely to prove as
rich a mine of correspondence as the one
by the same daring officer to the rear of
the Peninsular army Among the trophies
carried off were S40,0 900 in cash belonging
to the Quartermaster department of Gen
Pope's army, and his own commission as
Brigadier General and Major General. The
latter was, however, rceaptured by one of
our soldiers, who found it in the saddle-bag
of a rebel trooper, which was left behind
in the hurry of the departure.
A Captain in the Purnell Legion in Col.
Simpsons regiment, lying hid in a house
by the railroad track, heard Gen Stuart
give positive orders to spare Gen. Mellow
ellis staff baggage train, but to seize Gen.
Pope's, and destroy what was not of pub
lie Importance The order was implicitly
obeyed. Although the wagons of Gen
erals Mcdowell and King were close nt
hand they were not disturbed, but every
thing in Gen. Pope's was turned out, his
official papers sorted out and carried off,
and his letters from his wife, and other pri-
vate individuals, strewn over the ground
or torn into bits,
The Fredericksburg correspondence of
the Tribune, dated Sunday, says musketry
firing was heard this morning
A contraband came in yesterday, and re-
ports that our troops were licking the reb-
al nj hot dnd Rhfrfoav,
guns. A lieutenant Of cavalry came in
last evening, and corroborated the contra
bands story, but says the number Of guns
captured was sixteen, and that when
Stonewall Jackson's forces reached the
Rappahannock at Bennetts ford, some l8
or 20 miles from here, part of Mellow
ellis forces we're on the south bank of the
river He says they secreted themselves
under cover Of the woods, and that Jack
sons forces passed them and attempted to
ford the river While in the attempt, Gen.
Pope troops opened destructive fire, and
at the same time McDowells men threw
themselves on their rear, thus bringing
them between two fires.
This officer says this portion of Jack
sons forces, he can't say how many, were
utterly annihilated, and that the river was
red with rebel blood.
These reports l give you for what they
are worth. The story is believed here, and
also that fighting is going on, and that
the above will turn out to be true.
! Our pickets in front of the town have
been doubled during the past two days,
and every precaution to ward off sur
prise has been taken by Burnside.
Herald's Washington dispatch:
The condition of affairs in Maryland is
not satisfactory to loyal Union men. II is
I well known that the rebels there are open
/ ly organized in every county in the State.
| There is reason to believe they are fully
/ prepared with arms, and only waiting an
opportunity to raise the blood-red flag Of
rebellion. The military authorities are
strongly urged to require the disarming
Immediately Of all who will not take the
oath of allegiance.
The Times dispatch says:
The Cabinet had meeting to-day. The
| general feeling over public affairs wasde-
cidedly more hopeful than for some time
past. The President is understood to have
said that the crisis is past, and the point
of danger turned. The recent political ar
rests are justified on the ground that the
course of the parties arrested was such as
to discourage enlistments. The Govern
ment does not intend nor desire to be IN
derstosd as intending any obstacle to the
| free criticism ofpublic men and measures.
Its policy in suppressing the rebellion, is
regarded as legitimate subject of popular
discussion, but the rebellion itself must not
be defended, nor Government measures op
posed to the prejudice Of the recruiting
service