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as only to engage the enemy stationed at the foot of Cheat Mountain, on the west side, not far from Huttonsville, while Col. Rust assaulted the fort. Col. Anderson advanced upon the enemy as arranged, and had engaged him, the firing being heard by Col. Rust's men. The result of it was not known at Gen. Jackson's camp Saturday night. The fort on Cheat Mountain is said to be a defence almost impregnable. Some of our men, Col. Rust himself among them, have approached it so nearly as to looCol. Rust himself among them, have approached it so nearly as to look over into it and see all that was going on in it and also the exact nature of the fortification. It is built on the summit of Cheat Mountain, in Randolph county, just where the road crosses upon a hill which has no level land on its top, but sudd This powerful fort or stockade it was thought might be surprised and taken, and it was for this that the force under Colonels Rust and Taliaferro left the camp of General Jackson on Monday, the 9th inst. That camp is in Pocahontas county, on Greenb