Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-08-08
WAR NEWS.

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in consequence Of some misunderstanding on
the part of the mortar boats The assault
was made by the combined hotillas Of Com
modores Davis and Fafragut, which BY agree
ment, opened fire simultaneously upon the
upper and lower batteries, whilst The eunboat
Essex and the steam ram Queen of the West
attacked the Arkansas, with the intention of
capturing her and towing her out. The
Essex attempted, we are told, to run into the
Arkansas, but the latter swung round and
the Essex only grazed her side. Finding her
self unsupported, the Essex then dropped
down the river Tie Queen of the West then
made dash at the Arkansas, butt so doing
strained her own works badly. Failing 10
crush the Arkansas, she also retired from the
contest. During the engagement the Essex
received several shots and had one man kill
ed and two wounded The Queen was also
shot through several times"
The Confederate account of the same en-
gagement differs very materially from the
above. According 10 a special dispatch TO
the Grenada Appsal the attack upon the AR
kansas and the batteries was repulsed with
the loss OF five boats sunk or disabled
special telegram from Washington to the
New York Hfrdid reports 90 on good authori-
ty," that Secretary Seward has written to the
French Government, strongly demonstrating
against the presenceof SO formidable French
fleet as that Which is now assembling in the
Gulf Of Mexico. Being under the impression
that 50 tremendous All armament in American
waters may possibly he destined to operate
against the United States, Mr. Seward, it is
said, asks of the French Government an ex-
PLANTATION on the subject
SATURDAY, August From Leavenworth
we learn that from some unknown cause the
expedition which left Kansas for the Indian
country, and which was reported to hove al
ready achieved several successes over the
Confedera,es, had been compelled to retreat
TO the Neosha river, Fifty miles south of Fort
Scott
In Tennessee skirmish took place on
Thursday near Brownsville, in which the
Federal troops were at FIRST successful. but the
Confederates being subsequently, reinforced,
recaptured 'wenty-nine Of the men that had
been taken prisoners, and also fourteen horses
According TO the correspondent OF the Phil
I adelphia Inquirer, rumors ofan alarming char
acter, in regard to Gen McClellan's army,
were freely circulating in n York on Thurs
day last These rumors, we are told sac
CURED some color Of probability from the
! fact that the Government agent was charter
ing all the steamboats, in the harbor, suitable
for voyage to James river and back There
is certainly NANTES; feeling Of uneasuess
on the subject The New York Times Of yes
terday editoiialiy asserts that the situation
of Mcclellan, +" most certainly looks unfar-
tunate il not precatious that the enemy is in
rear, aud is also moving heavy bodies IN front
of him on the opposite side Of the James river
I and that above him, % either bank is studded
with forts and batteries next TO impreguabe,
Wills; below him, the Confederates hold both
sides Of the river for some distance--how far
we are not told" The Times argues that it
would be quite impossible for Mcclellan to
i4.lt inl, fro
sition even with largely augmented force;
and that such being the case, only one Of two
alternatives remain" either that he be at
once reinforced By at least one hundred thou
sand men, or that bis army be removed from
its present impracticable situation, strength
eued by recruits, joined to that Of Pope and
take up Il new and more feasible line Of ap-
proach to Richrnund.@ The correspondent
Of the New York Express, writing from the
Peninsula, mystcriously intimates that Gen
Mcclellan may possibly do something surpris-
/. ing before long; and if he should do so.
people at home may rest assured that il is
part of a-plan Of action which will either re-
suit in the fall Of Richmond or our own over
wheming defeat"
in the valley Of Virginia some fifty guerril-
las succeeded 10 capturing, on Wednesday
last, regimental train and two suffers wa
gons, between Port Royal and Winchester.
The Federal cavalry guarding the train es-
capped.
Senator Carlisle made a speech at Clarls-
burg, Va, or Thursday Of last week, in which
he is said to have denounced the Government
rs being now completely in the hands Of the
abolitionists In conclusion be said If
this Union is destroyed who can for moment
doubt where the interests Of Virginia will be
1t can never be with Yankees.
The Providence, Rhode Island, Journal, IN
an article commenting upon the recent change
in the tonc Of the Northern papers boldly
declares that the war has Enthusiastically
demonstrated ,hc fact that the South cannot
be subiugated, no matter how unanimous or
how earnest The North may be in accomplish
ing this RESULT that the radical Republican
| editors are getting ready to wholly abau-
. don the Union cause as hopeless, and that
- they look upon separation as a certainty
and believe that We are now lighting for a
boundary"
Ex-Governor Hicks who has been rendered
BY President Lincoln q commission as Bfiga-
der General, respectfully declines the honor
on the very sensible ground that his accept
anee Of such an appointment might possibly
result in the slaughter OF he brave nea who
might follow him 70 the field"
hoNuAY, August 4-0n Friday last the
Confederaies entered the town Of Browns
vile, Tennessee, captured several persons
who were engaged IN buying cotton at
that place, took iFom them one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars, and burned
J four hundred bales Of cotton Some five
hundred Federal cavalry reached Brownsville
the same evening and pursued the Coniedef-
aies, who retreated A slight skrmish sub
sequentiy occurred on the Hatchee and Fork
cd Deer rivers, and it is said that a number
, Of Rebels were taken prisoners" report
was current that General VillepQne WAS ad-
yancing on Bolivar. Portions OF the Mobile
and Ohio railroad we're torn up near Hunts
Vile, and the telegraph line destroyed
In northern Missouri land Of guerrillas
numbering one hundred and City men, enter
ed the village Of Canton, plundefed the stores
Of rites, &c, and killed thc owner Of one Of
The warehouses
Great anxiety prevails with regard TO he
condition OF affairs In Kentucky. A commit
tee irom Ohio Headed b. Ex-Governor Denni-
son, waited on President Lincoln, on Friday
last to represent 70 the latter 4" tie situation
along the Kentucky border, and the imminent
danger ia Kentucky itself" Il is feared that
the seccssionisis will endeavof 70 control the
election for county officers, which takes place
in lhat State to-day and that they viii also
bring Outside pressure" 70 bear upon the