The Baltimore
Gazette, of the 30th ult., was received last night.
The Agent of the
Press Association has furnished the following summary:
We have previously mentioned the fact that the
Confederates were making an attempt to occupy
Malvern Hill and
Harrison's Landing for the purpose of rendering
Butler's position at
Bermuda Hundred insecure, if not untenable.
We now learn that, on Wednesday,
General Grant threw two pontoon bridges across the
James river, and sent the Second corps to the northern side of that stream for the purpose of counteracting the designs of the enemy.
The Federal troops made good their landing, but were immediately attacked before they had time to organize.
They succeeded, however, in driving back the opposing force, which consisted only of skirmishers, and in capturing some fifty or sixty prisoners and four pieces of artillery.
The remainder of the skirmishers fell back on their supports, who occupied some strong works built there some two years ago.
From the Upper Potomac.
The correspondents of the New York
World and
Times concur in stating that there is no apparent design on the part of the enemy to enter upon a new raid either into
Maryland or
Southwestern Pennsylvania.
The losses of
General Crook at the second
battle of Winchester are estimated in killed and wounded alone at one thousand men.
The
Gazette says, in its issue of the 29th, that the military authorities desire that no mention whatever shall be made hereafter of anything relating to the operations on the
Upper Potomac unless the information bears an official character.--It therefore refrains from publishing the various telegrams which appear in the
Washington,
Philadelphia and New York papers.
The condition of
Missouri is represented to be deplorable at the extreme.
Many counties in that State are overrun with guerillas, and a war of retaliation has commenced which has led to the most fearful atrocities.
The Paw-Paw militia, of
Platte county, organized and armed by
General Rosecrans for the defence of that section of the
State against the guerillas, have for the most part made common cause with the latter.
General Rosecrans, by authority of the War Department, has called for nine regiments of six months volunteers for the protection of
Missouri against guerrillas or invasion.
The latest official dispatches from
Major-General Sherman's army state that he was steadily drawing his lines closer around
Atlanta.
No tidings had been received of the cavalry force under
Stoneman, which was sent out on the 14th to cut the
Macon and
Columbus all road.
Financial.
The latest quotation of gold in New York on the 29th was 232ΒΌ. On the 28th it declined at one time to 216.