The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-22
Specials 10 New York Papers.

NEW YORK, Aug. l5.-The If1OM1ee'
dispatch says: The number of colored
troops actually in the field is between
% 600 and $4,000. Fifty additional regi-
ments are partly organized and speedily
approaching completion. The estimate of
one hundred thousand being in the army
by fall will, it is thought, be fully sus-
tained.
NEW YORK, Aug, l5.-The 71ibu,,e's s
Washington dispatch says: Prominent
Western men, among them Gov. Tod,
called on the President yesterday and
urged the immediate organization of a
mounted force to operate in Tennessee
The interview was renewed to-day. The
greater importance is attached to the ex-
pedition, as General Rosecrans deems such
a force essential to the success Of his future
operations.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE Tfibune's spe-
cial says an officer just returned from
Charleston, confirms our previous state
ments. He says it is next to impossible to
batter down Fort Wagner; that the men
keep under bomb proofs, upon which our
shot and shell produce no effect; that the
only way the fort can be carried is by di-
rect assault, which will not at present be
attempted. The chances Of knocking Fort
Sumter to pieces are better. Indeed 1t was
generally believed there, that the fort Will
speedily fall. fit falls our forces cannot oc-
IL,
Even should we take fort Sumter and Wag-
ner, the upper forts have got to be over
come. The rebels, who are as busy as bees
day and night, are occupying battery after
battery on the way to Charleston. The
military force is not deemed sufficient, and
will have to be largely reinforced before
the final is consummated. The public may
at once divest themselves of the idea that
any startling news is coming from Charles
ton at present.
Herdlds special.]
Affairs remain quiet in front. Picket
firing has ceased entirely, and both armies
seem to have settled down into state Of
lethargy. There is no large force of the
enemy north of the Rappahannock, though
a sort Of picket line has been established
form United States Ford to Aqua, via.
Hartford Church and Stafford Court House.
This line is very weak and offers little or
no resistance to our scouting parties.-
Most of the prisoners captured from the
enemy profess desire to take the oath Of
allegiance; they all express themselves as
being tired ofwar and utterly discouraged.
The degree OF destitution in the rebel ar
my exceeds that of any previous period.
No information has yet been received
that Lee has been reinforced to any consid-
cradle extent. A lot of conscripts and con-
valescents are arriving from time to time,
but it is not believed that any portion OF
the Southwestern army has joined his
forces in Virginia.
The activity of our cavalry sent in pur-
suit of Moseby, has checked his operations,
and the section Of country between Wash
ington and the army is now comparatively
free from guerrillas.
A Baltimore correspondent of the Her.
aid says: Ny information, never at fault,
places the number of reinforcements at
10000, which makes Lees present strength
125, 900. These were all old troops. Lee is
besides receiving some conscripts, which
will soon swell his numbers to $4,000,
main body. This vast army is massed on
the line of the Rapidan. with Lees head
quarters at GordOnsville. New cavalry
squadrons are being drilled and exercised
in the Shenandoah Valley. 1t would seem
also that Lee is organizing some new bat
teries Of artillery, for artillery drills, with
target practice, which takes place daily at
rons are being exercised with guns and
brass pieces, and if not new are SO bright
that they look new. Twelve of these
batteries are at one place in the Shenan-
doah Valley.
The Captain OF the brig Mourtainsey, re
ports that on the Sth inst, in lat. 40 lon. 81,
he heard heavy firing for about two hours.
Harry Talton, one of the murderers OF
Col. O'Brien, was brought before the Su-
preme Court to-day on writ OF habeas
corpus. The writ was dismissed and the
prisoner remanded.
Brig Gen. Revere of the Excelsior Bri-
gade, has been dismissed from the service
for marching his brigade three miles from
the action on the morning of the battle Of
Charlottesville.