The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-29


We make the following extracts nom ihe Ri b.
mOnd Examiner OF the 18th Instant
InnpOrtssnJ from s0uthwcstern Virgimtn
Yankee Raid into ROgcrsviiIc, ,Nc.
BRIsroL, August 24.--Thrcc hundred Yankee
cavalry dashed inlu ROguTsvllle IN The Pit, and
eAptbTed the Hon. j. Hieskell, X. c. Shields
Colonel Walder, Captain Clay, ami nuet en-
IIiYates. They retired in the direction Of BE ms
station.
Forrest Attacks Memphis-The Yankee
General W"shbuFne Escapes in his
The following official despatch was received at
the War Department yesterday -
By TELEGRAPH PROM MOBILE, August -,
= lS6i.--The following de patch was received from
General Forrest, dated neruando, 2lst ~ a.
tncL ed Memphis a. iOclOck this morning, driylnR
the remy ~ his Notifications. We kl ID and
captured four hundred, capturing Ihen entire
camp with about three hundred horses ami m d les
MashbuTre escaped iu the darkness of the IN jrn-
ing, leaving his clothes behind. Ny loss IL
twenty killed and Wonnu5d.
IN. b. FoRREsr, VI jor-Goueral.
I'D. II. MAUKY, Major General.
ErUm Petersburg.
There was no news fromPetersDurZ yesterday,
except thc Iecor that all was qoet tkare, ~ also
a.oue the entire line Of the Army vi Northern
Virginia.
FROM The Valley.
There is no hing Of special interest from tbs
valley. Our !ruupS aIe Mt ChlIlG9tOwn, au {
Sheridan holds Harper Ferry, while his cLyAlry
nDGer AYeriil guard the upper fOTl5 Oi tho
TStOmac.
We have confirmation of the report thlt Mo,soy
hung thirty Yankees whom be caught barO,n2
private residences in Clark county.
Ihe situation hs Mobile.
We Lave Mobile paper, to the lStn instant
The rews Is without special interest
The enemy vessels have gone entirely out OF
sight. Confederate flag oftru,e boat hld
gene down, bus n what erraud had not tran
tpired.
l. is reported that the prisoners tlken at Fort
Gaines will b. exchanged and may be expected
home ia few uays.
There ID uo later news from Fort Morgan Il
n believed mat the enemy Is working away M H.,
Lai Of this no Information had been received.
Tie Mobile papers say the p ace will ba sloutly
defended and, IL II u be hoped, preserved.
CAN THE ENFHY's FLEET GET Up To MOBILE?
The ost vial question connected with the de-
Sensc OF Mobile is, can the enemy's h0es ret up 10
the city 2 ] he following 1actS aui figures from
the Uniscd States Coast Survey will throw some
light IN the subject -
10 proceed un 20 Mobile is only practicable for
vessels drawing not morI than eight feet wA'ur.
When OPPOSITE Alabama CITY steer n. "a degrees
W. for Stewards Pavilion, NEARLY nile We. Jt
ChocIaw Light;) when the Lower Stake bears n,
srces y. steer for i, passing y close aboard
Cn your port hand. Therce 10 the Upper aad
Wreck Stakes steer n. ls4 degrees f.. keeping
thl N also close aboard on your port hand. From
Wreck Stake steer " u degrees T.. tor Turn
Slako; hanl clio around Turn stake, and wnen
u and FOwleT's are IN range steer n % degrees
W., Keeping this range astern un.il you get near
the Gboctaw Point shore AZ the entrance Of Mobile
river then haul up 10 the NOTthwnrd, keeping
the Mobile side OF the river close ahuaT1.
Vessels drawing more than twelve feet mus.
anchor ia the Lover FL ct; vessels OF twelve fsct
may proceed 10 the anchorage of the Upper Fleet,
crossing the Middle Ground IN not less IN N
fifteen feet, passing Point Clear, three miles dis
tant, on the staIbuaTd hand, and anChOrug uii
Al bamn City. midway between the cast and vest
shores OF the bay, in twelve and half ieCt water,
blue mud.
Dog river bar on tho chart, is about four aud a
half miles from the centre OF the city. The
nearest point OF the Upper Fleet, nearly nine
mics. The depth from Dog river bar up ~ the
city is eight feet and under SO say the Mobile
papers.
TID LATEsT-TliF FLAC or TRUCE.
The dag Of truce above alluded 20 arrived Of
noon, in charge OF Captain Guardy, of the Yankee
steamer Port R0yal lt was met by l.ieuEenlui
James Nee. Baker. The flag brought number
OF letter nom our prisoners, aud also Il commu-
nlcation 20 ColOpel Watts, our agent here for the
exchange of prisoners.
IL also reports that at the last accounts Admiral
Buchanan's wound was doing we'll.
This is all that we can learn of the purposes ol
the flag.-liO5ile Tribune.