New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE. WAR.

Very full particulars of toe late important move-
nierss she skirDisheS, fighting, and maneovering
sloug tie RappahaLnock are printed on our first
page this morning. They are carefully gathered
mostly on the ground-by our own correspondents,
and may lie relied upon Gs TAI: statement OF lead
ing facts II is now known thas FROM "Wednesday
last up TO Saturday aft,rnoon there had been
almost constant fighting all along the Kappa
hammock from where tle Orange aud Alexandra
Railroad Crosses up TO Sulphur Springs, and ,herce
eastward to WaITentpn and Catletts Station. Ga
Wednesday shere only single ssiunisl, the
Rebels driving back piekcs, but retiring before
cavalry charge. On Thursday, five Rebel Rsgi-
nents had a contest with S.ci'S advance,
and sufeie, pretty severely. On friday they got TO
work in earnest, and tie fight ragged holly all day
along the river, the enemy trying 10 cross. They
did not succeed. On he coatragy, part Of S.ols
men crossed, bnt did not endeavor to hold position.
On Saturday AN artillery dee! began at O'clock,
and lasted nouiy sl day the enemy still working up
along the river 70 righ flank The Lass Of life
is of course unknown bat it be very large on
either side, as there few close encounters.
The prisoners on either side cannot be very Dumei-
GUS; 200 taken by our army have arrived At
WaHbing,on The bodies; dash Of the enemy
Catletts Station, where they succeeded in
capturing Gen. Popes papers and money
They will doubtless get much valuable information
iron the documents, but scarcely il tiiae to 10 Of
great services 70 them. Want OF space oompe.s us
ts stop short, and refer the reader 10 Our ieaer for
further particulars.
We print on the third page of this mornings
issue the otoiarepor of the guerrilla Gen. Morsans
doings on his fcray Int, kentueky. Ii does not
sppear that he has scli=ved any great work after
all. The most interesting paragraph is that where
he tells how be destroyed railroad over which d
train was soon IA pass, intercepted ielegrdphie
dispatch asking if the road WAS clear replied hineeh
that it was and requested tie train TO hurry up,
posted tvo bowiizeTs TO lire into tie ears the
moment they off tine track, and then waited in
expectation seeing 800 people cooly mardercd by
his honorable mode Of warfare. The hend was dls-
appointej-no train came. Napoleon would have
shot such devil rs MorgGn without even the for
mality Of a drum-head court-martia.
There are now fifty regiments Orgsnizod in the
STATE Of New.York Thee lack 1900 men to ill
them to the maximum nuuiteS, but it is calculated
that they will be .illel during the next ten days.
There will then remain 900 deficiency on the Grsi
call for 3oO,o00 volunteers. These, with the j9,0N
New. York 8 qu,ta on the call for 10000 con-
scrip;s-will leave 5000 men 10 be raised in the
Stale. ahc State has furnished 5000 or i0,C01 for
the old regiments. Il ihese allowed oii-e,,
the ruGber to be DRAFTED viii be- much dcereased
We lem FROM Fortress Monroe that iresi. roo?s
e.e daily arriving ard hundreds who have been
sick arc returning to their re,nen,s. TIE Leah Of
the army there is Improving TIE MA NeT-fork
arrived Oh Sunday night to relieve ttc ~ New
Yorl Militia, whose time IL up; but the eillan, boys
If the .,?1, learning fhs there ruDsis o. AZ
advance by the Rebels, offered to remain un'ii the
10, OF September. Gen. Wool thankfully acee. ted
their services.
--Cssgius ". Clay is al Lexington, ky., AID
funOI saws hat be is Ia lie gwen Az Important com
rnsnd ly Gen. y allace. Maior-Gen. Wrigh;s heal-
Quarters il at Cincinnati; Gen. Boyle il still ai
Louisville; Gen. No-on commands at Lebanon and
Lexington with Gems Jackson, Craft, and Maun-
son; Gen. Ward also remains IN Kentucky.
On Friday nigh, guerrilla party fred iuto :.
train Of five ears near Catletts Station, between
Manassas junction and Wsrrenton -Four persona
were aterward missing, bu it Is not believed that
any were killed. The passepgers escaped by lying
Oh lie floors of the clrs.
PROM ST. Louis Il is stated that Gen Rosec'aus,
with 80 GOO or 10 900 ncu started from Corinth on
"Wednesday toward the tOuih-~esi, with prcspeci
of having a brush with the Rebels under Price at
Tupelo, Miss, on the Mobile and ONO Railroad.
Corinth is still strongly protected.
A dispatch from Tfeu,on states thai The 18th
New-Jersey Regimen, left yesterday The other
three regiments. completing Jerseys complement
under the first call sre full and waiting for marching
oriels Recruits are coming in rapidly for the nine
months service. New-Jersey is doing nobly.
Gen. Neson has ordered the improvement Of
slaves 10 repair the railroad near Lexington, Ky.
Slaves Of Rebels were taken almost exclusively, and
their traitor owners are i'll dis,ross for hands u
gather crops.
A War Mas Meeting is 10 be held in the Park
tomorrow afternoon, al which Gen. Corcoran and
others VIII speak.
Interesting letters from correspondents at
s.. Louis, Cairo and Key West, are printed On the
second page Of tile mornings issue.
The tine for BEGINNING to draft in Maine has
been extended so the 10Th Of September, by order Of
Gov. Washburn.
GENERAL y EWS.
Tile Hibsrnan, which arrived Oft Cape Race
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