Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-09-12
FhOn NEW YORK.
NV YoRK, September u

NEW YoRK, September II.
Heralds Washington special:
No arrangement in regard to exchange
of prisoners has yet been made, and ne
gotistions are still going on.
Monday night the gunboat Teaserl over
hauled 5 deserters from Meads Army,
while attempting to CROSS the Potomac.
The men had been sent out as substitutes
but few days previous.
The inhsbitants on the Marylsnd shore,
report q great number Of this class are es-
eaping, some Of Wtom have been known to
swim the river on boards, distance Of
nearly three miles.
Deserters captured on the Potomac
Monday night, were sent to the army to-
day for trial by Cosrt Martial. 23J de-
serters arrived here under guard fron
New York last night.
Last night an attempt was made by
guerrilas to burn bridge on the Orange
and Alexandra, Railroad five miles from
Alexandria. The gang were driven off
and the flames extinguishej, not however
before considerable damage was done to
the struture. Trains crossed this P. n, as
usual.
An order has been issued from the War
Departments, prohibiting the sale Of ar
tisles from the Commissary Department to
inhibitants residing within the lines Of
the army. Now citizens are only allowed
TO draw soldiers rations, and these not un-
Ill they have taken the oath of allegiance
and had permission from the commanding
general.
The Richmond Dispatch of September
the 9th, says;
1t was rumored yesterday that a dis
patch had been received by General Coop
er, announcing the Withdrawal Of troops
from Wagner aud Sumter. We think this
highly probable as q gentleman who left
Charleston on Friday, says that the enc
my were at that time within rs yards Of
Fort Wagner, and Sumter is entirely in
ruins.
The same gentleman says that the Yankee
troubles have not yet commenced nor Will
Trey commence till they get into the hsr-
Dor. The universal belief at Charleston
was that sumter and Wagner would be
taken, bat that Charleston would not be.
Our informant expressed the opinion that
the Iron-clads would never get out of the
harbor, if they once got in.
Tribune special:
Il is believed by military men, whose
| means of information are of the best des-
cription, that Lee has within the last few
days received heavy reinforcements and he
meditates another aggressive campaign.
The weakness suown by the rebel armies
at other points is thought to strengthen
the probability that insurgents are gath
ering their forces for desperate effort
under their most trusted commander.
The taking Of Cummings Point batter
les brings General Gilmore's long PARROT
guns one and one.eighth Of a mile nearer
The City of Charleston than they were
when twelve Greek Ere shells were thrown
into the city.
Minister Adams, in his latest dispatches,
says he is still of the opinion that the rebel
rams against the departure Of which the
Emancipation Society has memorialized
the English Government will not per
mitted to sail. It was expected that one
would be ready in a week from the date
/ Of Mr. Adam letter, 80 that the question
is likely TO have been settled before this.
High officials here are less confident of
the determination Of England to stop these
piFaticsl crafts than Minister Adams ap-
pears to be.
A letter from Norfolk processes to give
dstsils Of plan which the rebels have on
foot for the recspture of that city. Itssys
the expedition against the city is to be
committed to General Longstreet, and sez-
eral Generals Of lesser light, who are well
acquainted with the topography of the
country. The forces are to be divided and
advance from three different points. A
large body Of troops will be at Suffolk "a
make feint and draw our troops therl
while an attack is being made upon tbs
city by another body advancing through
Princess Ann county, with a strong re
serve; the third party is to appear in thu
vicinity of Sewell's Point, while all this il
going on, to attack the troops stationed
north of the city.
A dispatch to the Times says there csI
scarcely be doubt that Lee 8 army is beinj
depleted to reinforce Beuregsrd and Bragg
Up to within week there was no positiV
evidence that this was SO, but it is now re
duced 10 a certainly. Our intelligence Il
this effect is corroborated by advices from
L. L. Crounse, who writes that Long
streets corps has been ordered west an
south, the larger portion of it going Il
Bragg, the balance, probably one division
to Charleston. Hoo1's division Of thi
corps moved from their camp near Frede
rieksburg on Tuesday morning, the Sth, I.
8 o'clock, and it is quite generally under
stood among their private soldiers it wa
, going to Charleston. A column Of l5,0 90
, TO 10000 men can, in one week, be easil,
thrown, by the Virginia s. East Tennesse
Railroad to Bristol or Greensville, in Eas
Tennessee.