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has had the effect of keeping them quiet ever since. Some surprise has been expressed that Grant has postponed so long the grand attack which it is known he is preparing to make on our positionwhere in the North except in New Jersey and Brooklyn city, and that conscripts are being sent to Grant at the rate of at least a thousand a day. Such accessions to his army are worth waiting for. If d perfect an armed force as was the Grand Army of the Potomac when, after its re-organization by Grant, it marched into the Wilderness last spring. When the draft has done its work, and Butler either completed his canal or given it over as a failure, Grant will resume active operations. Then we may look out for at least two powerful assaults upon our lines--one below this city and the othll be put in the foremost ranks, where they will have the greater certainty of being killed off. Grant were, indeed, a bungling manager if he did not do this. But whatever the next ten days or a
es in that State to-day. We will have to wait for later advices to determine what the truth of the matter is. All that we have had, with the exception of the above from the World, has been from Lincoln sources, and may yet prove to have been a sample of the war-lying of the Yankee nation. Stanton's War bulletin. The following is the war bulletin of Stanton: Washington, October 12, 8:40 P. M. Major-General Dix, New York: Dispatches have been received to-day from General Grant, General Sherman and General Sheridan, but no military movements since my last telegram are reported. The following details of the cavalry engagement last Sunday are furnished by General Sheridan: "I have seen no sign of the enemy since the brilliant engagement of the 9th instant. It was a square cavalry fight, in which the enemy was routed beyond my power to describe. He lost everything carried on wheels, except one piece of artillery, and when last seen it was passing over