HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS: Probable Battle on the Upper Potomac; Gen. Patterson to Attack the Rebels Yesterday or To-Day; BRISK FIGHTING IN WESTERN VIRGINIA (7/12/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 7/12/1861

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Thursday, July 11.

I am enabled to state, on the highest military authority, that a battle has either taken place to- day, or will to-morrow, between Gen. PATTERSON'S command and the rebel forces under Gen. JOHNSTON. Arrangements to this end have positively been made.

The debates in the House to-day developed completely the treachery of VALLANDIGHAM and BURNETT. They had a monopoly of avowed treason, but probably they have about, a score of men in the House who really sympathize with them.

In the Senate, to-morrow, Senators BAYARD, of Delaware, and BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky, will speak on the present condition of the country. They will both sustain the rebel side.

Congress, or the responsible majority, has determined the policy it will pursue. It has settled to give the Government all the power asked by the respective Secretaries; to vote one-fifth more men and money than was asked by the President; to declare against any compromise; in favor of a complete subjugation of the rebel States, and then to hold the Administration to a rigid accountability. In pursuance of this understanding, both Houses will push the business before Congress, so as to adjourn within three weeks of the time of meeting.

An effort was made in the Senate caucus this morning to go on with the nomination of a Secretary. The attempt failed, but the friends of FORNEY intend to press it again. It will probably not succeed.

The House Committee on Contested Elections will meet to-morrow for the purpose of proceeding to business. The first case to be taken up is that of BUTLER vs. LEHMAN, from the First District of Pennsylvania.

EDWIN STEVENS, of New-Jersey, is in Washington, with a working model of the celebrated Floating Battery that has long been constructing at Hoboken.

[the OlLine Rebel]

And me. :D

My mom is still here.

Unfortunately, my Reaganesque sister is not.