lesville.
Nothing is ascertained to confirm it. The rebels fired twenty shots from Ball's Bluff at the steamer Flying Cloud, plying on the canal between Georgetown and Harper's Ferry. "Nobody hurt. " The steamer has returned to Georgetown.
At this moment, when the passage of the upper Potomac is threatened by the rebels, all minds subscribe to the necessity of a railroad hence to the Point of Rocks, whereby troops could be suddenly thrown to every exposed point.
Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1862. --The Washington Star, of this evening, says:
Last night telegrams and other information reached Washington, saying that the rebels had crossed the Potomac in the course of the afternoon at two points, one above and the other below the Point of Rocks.
Up to noon to-day we have been unable to learn that these accounts have been confirmed by the dispatches from military officers detailed to the duty of closely observing the movements of the enemy on and about the river.
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Further from the North.
We continue our extracts from Northern papers of the 17th inst.:
Captured Confederate letters — Beauregard's plans for the Western Campaign.
The following letters were captured some time ago by Gen. Buell while in process of transmission for file to Brigadier-General Thomas Jordan, Assistant Adjutant-General of the Confederate army:
General Beauregard to Adjutant General Cooper.[Confidential] Mobile, Ala., Sept. 5, 1862.
General: Under the supposition that on the restoration of my health I would be returned to the command of Department No. 2, I had prepared, whilst at Bladin, Alabama, a plan of operations in Tennessee and Kentucky, based on my knowledge of that part of the theatre of war; but hearing that my just expectations are to be disappointed.
I have the honor to communicate it to the War Department, in the hope that it may be of service to our arms and to our cause.
It was submitted by me to Gen. Bragg on the 2d inst.
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