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From the latest Northern files received we copy such items as our lack of space will admit. The following is the latest intelligence from Sheridan: "Harper's Ferry, September 21, 1864. "To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Washington. "Reliable news from the front. Our army was crossing Cedar creek yesterday at 3 P. M. No fighting. The following list of rebel generals killed and wounded is correct: Generals Rodes, Gordon, Terry, Godwin, Read, Johnson and Fitz Lee. From all I can learn, the prisoners will approximate five thousand. The indications are that the rebels will not make a stand short of Staunton. They are evidently too much demoralized to make another fight. John D. Stevenson, "Brigadier-General." The schooner Mary B. Smith, which arrived at Several on Saturday, reports: "Spoke, September 7, latitude 44,40, longitude $7.50, fishing schooner William H. Lovett, of Marblehead, who reported that twenty miles to the eastward saw four or five vessels on fi
ll the war news to its date: War Department, September 20, 9 P. M. Major-General Dix, New York: The following is the latest intelligence received from General Sheridan: "Harper's Ferry, Virginia, 8 P. M., September 20--Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: The body of General Russell has arrived here.--General McIntosh, with a leg amputated, has just come in. He is in good spirits. "Several officers from the front report the number of prisoners to be in excess of 3,0tinues well with us." The reports to-day show that the draft is progressing quietly in all the States. In most of the districts vigorous efforts are continued to fill the quota by volunteering before the drafted men are mustered in. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Return of Grant to the army of the Potomac. A telegram from Fortress Monroe announces the return to that place of General Grant, en route for City Point, and states that he proceeded up the river with Major Mulf
ave been captured; whereas, we lost but three pieces.--The man who makes this statement, it is to be recollected, is Sheridan — the same man who claimed a victory at Trevillian's depot, after having been more shamefully routed than any general of the war who stated that his whole loss on that occasion was less than two hundred, killed, wounded and prisoners, whereas, four hundred and eighty-seven, taken in that fight, were actually at that time prisoners in this city; and who telegraphed to Stanton that the object of his expedition had been completely accomplished; whereas, that object was to destroy the tunnel and unite with Haunter, and he was routed and turned back before he had gone half way. It is stated by others that General Early lost, in all, about two thousand five hundred men, of whom about five hundred were reported missing, and even this we believe to be an exaggeration. The Yankees appear to have paid dearly for this success. Their loss, according to Sheridan, is two t