Northern papers as late as the 16th are received but contain little intelligence. The following is Sheridan's official report of a skirmish that took place in the Valley:
Near Berryville, September 13--7 P. M.
This morning I sent General Getty's division, of the Sixth corps, with two brigades of cavalry, to the crossing of the Summit Point and Winchester road, near Occoquan creek.
Rodes's, Ramseur's, Gordon's and Warton's divisions were found on the west bank.
At the same time, Generals Wilson's and Martindale's brigades of cavalry dashed up the Winchester pike, drove the rebel cavalry at a run; came in contact with Kershaw's division, charged it and captured the Eighth South Carolina regiment, sixteen officers and one hundred and forty-five men and its battle-flag, and Colonel Hennegan, commanding a brigade, with the loss of only two killed and three wounded.
Great credit is due to Generals Wilson and Mackintosh, and the Third New Jersey and Second Ohio.
The charge was a gallant one.
A portion of the Second Massachusetts reserve brigade made a charge on the right of the line, and captured an officer and eleven men of Gordon's division of infantry.
Our loss in the reconnaissance is very slight. P. H. Sheridan, Major-General.
[This is the capture of a picket post of about one hundred men of Kershaw's division, which has been mentioned.] The Peace Democrats of New York city held a meeting at the Saint Nicholas Hotel on Saturday to take action upon General McClellan's letter, and to consult upon the best means of organizing a peace party, and of selecting a peace candidate for the Presidency. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Mullaby, editor of the Metropolitan Record, who was then chosen President. The Day Book, the News (through Ben Wood), the Freeman's Journal, were all represented. Bitter feelings against McClellan were openly manifested, and he was denounced for having broken his pledge to the Democratic party. Messrs. Shell, Singleton and Chauncey Burr were among the prominent speakers. S. T. Lent, of New York, presented the following resolution as the sense of all those present: Resolved, That the call be addressed to the Jeffersonian Democrats to meet at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the course of the present month, for the purpose of appointing a candidate representing that branch of the Democratic party which the letter of General McClellan completely ignores.