The Portland daily press., 1862-08-27
LATEST BY EVENING PAPERS.

Important from Gen. Pope's army-GueriIia
raids upon his supply trains--MeCle to
join Pope. ifffl&
NEW YORK, Aug. 26
The Tribune Rappahannock correspondent
states that the greatest crisis of the war oc-
Cured between Thursday forenoon and Satur-
day night. 1t is passed and we are safe-
Washington is saie-our army Is safe-the ma
ton is safe.
Gen. Pope's artillery is now guarding the
line of the Rappahannock, and Fitz John Por-
ter, with very heavy force, joined Gen. Pope
on Friday evening.
A host of regiments have Joined and are
joining him now by way of Alexandria, and
you may now look for the grand movements
of the war within 30 days.
Gen. Burnside has massed large army at
Frederiekburg and Gen. Pope is nearly or
quite as strong as Lee and jackson.
Gen. Mcclellan is freed from the net which,
whether self woven or not, held him in its
meshes on the peninsula. Some stir was caus-
ed in camp and thousand times more In
Washington.
| find by sudden raid of $50 guerillas upon
CattelIs station, under cover OF the night, 20
supply trains were destroyed, and their con-
tents injured by the rebels. A hundred pris-
oners and many horses were taken. Ali the
private papers and letters of Gen Pope, copies
of dispatches and reports memoranda relating
to the campaign and to the army, copies of tel
egrams all dispatches received from the Presi-
dent, Halleck and the War Department, orders
issued to Generals of the corps and divisions,
all maps and Typographical charts containing
information Of the greatest value; in word,
the whole history and plan of the campaign,
the number and disposition of troops-all are
revealed to the enemy by this disaster Ii Is
taking the rebel General into the confidence of
Gen. Halleck, and may render it necessary to
change the whole campaign.
The Washington correspondent of the Tri-
bune says relative to the important capture of
Pope's dispatches and baggage, that the whole
might have been saved and the attack repulsed,
if there had been pickets or even sentries about
the camp, but there has not been guard
mounting at head quarters since Gen. Pope
took the field;- piece of careessness for
which he has paid heavy penalty.
The Washington correspondent of the Times
states that the main portion of Gen. McCle-
lan's army has reached Alexandria, and will
soon join Gen. Popes army.
The Warrenton junction correspondent of
the Herald, writes as follows
Military critics profess to believe that our
forced advances to the Rapidan were prema-
turely made. Jackson disturbed our figures
somewhat at Cedar Mountain, and possibly de-
ranged our calculations; as consequence he
aud his coadjutors assail us now within 30
miles of Manassas, and with the largest army
the rebels have ever rallied, east or west. We
all look hopefully for the coming of General
Mcclellan. Gen. Burnsde's troops are here.
II the new levies were ever needed it is at this
time. Gen. Pope is still held to be equal TO
any emergency The crippled but indomitablc
Banks is still with his command, and General
Mcdowell has an opportunity to wipe away a
bloody recollection within cannon shot of Bull
Run. Our retreat from Culpepper was mas
terly thing and it is not believed to be marked
by the loss of so much as an old boot or a
terly art of advancing rs well?