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t when they learn that they are called to the rescue, that there is a principle at the bottom of this thing, they will unitedly put their shoulders to the wheel. It is a gross and clumsy piece of machinery, this of war-making, and it takes long to start it, but its momentum, when once it shall be started, will prove to be irresistible. The rebels at Gloucester Point. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes from Yorktown, under date of July 29: During last week, Gen. Van Alen, in command at this post, received information from contrabands and deserters that the rebels, under Col. Hayes, were advancing on Gloucester Point with a force of two thousand infantry, artillery, and cavalry, and that they had made Gloucester Court-House a regular military station as well as provision depot.--This information was at first discredited, but contrabands continued to come in terribly alarmed, telling corroborating stories, which forced us to heed them. We resorted to cert