PIJBLLSHEU BY WHITE. & CO PITT•n oson DAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, IWO. • irrAnvarrrisess are earnestly requested in nand in Wit favors bilore ti r. rarlYls tlse dor a. practieable. Advertisentente not time tted fora spat. Zed time Will Invariably be eharted until ordered no t t -. • • - • : • • 1 A .t I. . . at hi annul airraciea la j !few Roth, Phil • ph* and Boom:, and la ants f aathararize a*. d to_recelta eabOripUozu sad klyartlaeln ED" PaThavrtzau. Aglaia Ammicale—Advertlas• men. and aubderiptions in the North American and Polled Mates Gazitte, Philadelphia, re/mired and Cot. wardgd &oat W. of:66e. 1372111L. SLIIimuointsacw.L.Ley.—Sabnyiptioa. for rids 'Warble paper, wiU be neural and forward wipe= this Mane. fl a razzols.exibmriptiolts and advertise. MOUS tor AN paper received and forwarded free of lbauire from this *Mee. ' ArTlUscernan DAILY liASErfi.—Advertisements erararded fro naweriptm Ude office.iona, for tins paper, wW be received arid DZINOO/i&2IC,WIIIG /TA= TICK= I 0 fi 1147 . 1. 13D niGA N , Of Rooks Comfy. rim 'arnrrom orunnun. HENRY W. SN YDER, (H a County. MIROO3OOO. JOSEPH HENDERSON, Of Min gton County. Ant 'masonle aid Wbt Nowalsoationo to Alleglasny County. • ----- woo Tlllrri SRC= 00.1.11112 A, TaOBIAS M. FLOWS, rot two. ram', Faxen rim comitt. neanAn iconairly, 111111110. H. JAMES CAROTHERS, L or wu...ma. asSitatilLT, MOROAN ROBERTSON, Pittsburgh. T. L. BIGIIAM, Lower 8L B. O. WALKER. Minabesh. JOAN ATCLUSIOW, Robinson. /MAYS RIPPE, Snowden. FILOSILLTI2IO A.TSO.Trf, FRANCia C. FLANEGIN, eimburth, angarnemu, EBENEZER BpYLES, North Fayette arDrrol, WM. FLYNN, Lower St Clair. ' ernrrrot, D. N. COURTNEY, 0610. RICRIPOIRLO RAIL ROAD - - The citizens of Washington Cottoty are very earnest in their endeavors to promote the succors of this project. Several of the principal citizens of that county have lately made an exploration, un der the superviiion of Jobnathan Knight, Eq., who pronounces the route a good one, well adapted for the conssrecnon of a mil road. The Reporter 4ivea a detailed account of the ex. plomtlons, and imp that two routes were proposed and examined from 'Washington to the Mononga hela river—one along the valley of Mingo creek, and the other along the valley of Pigeon creek.— That by Pigeon: ereM: is thought to be preferable, although the oilier is smoothie, or four miles short .r. Tunnels willbe required on both rooms. The distance from Washington to the rirweby the Pi geon creek route, would be 21 miles; by the Mingo creek, about 20 miles - Two romeo were alas explored west of Wals h:glop, to West Alexander, near to the Sou. hoe. One taken down Catfish, to Chartiers creek, thence op Leet'a run to the fares of Samuel Davis, thence steam Brushy run ..to Buffalo creak, thence down Buffalo to the Dutch Fork, thence up that fork to within a mile or so of West Alexander. • Hare a tunnel of some four hundred yards in lentil would be necessary to get across to the small streim tow. log at the fan of West Alexander. From this point to Wheeling, the rose would take the vol ley of the unseal running from West Alexander to ttin_ Ohio river, near Wheeling Another route from Washington to West Alexander passes Clays. ♦dls, and takes the valleys of two small runs not marked on the Map. This is four miles shorter than the other, with two tunnels. Mr. Knigitt 'estimates the entire expense of con structing the road from Greensburgh to Wheeling, 'including tunnelling, stations, itc.„ at about W 5,001/ per mile. Tqe distance from Greensburgh -to Wheeling would be abOnt S 3 miles, thus t From Grcensburgh to Morsogahela City, " Monogahela city to - Washington. 24 " Washington to West Ales:ander, 11 West Alexander to Wheeling, 16 At twenty' five thousand dollars per mile, the whole cost of the rail road, therefore, would be two ' The Reporter gives the following as the rela tive distances from Wheeling to Philadelphia and The demure:l'lmm Whee!Jinx m rbibbkiphi., bq the Baltimore and Ohio Hail Rond,will be 434 mile, dm:— I__ • Prom Wheeling to Curnberland , Cumberland to Baltimore, " Baltimore to Philadelphia, Total, 485 The distaiee from Weisehog to Balladelphia Via the liemptield and Omuta! Rail Roads o Pennsylvania, would be only 407—be eighty on miles shorterahan by the Baltimore and Uttio Ra Rood. Thatt-1 ; • FrornWheeliag to Greennburgh, 80 Giverobtegb to Harriabuntn, 220 0 . klarriabOrgh to Philadelphia, 107 Total, j 401 All this is ;very well, bat where is the sum of !we eultioni to atom from? Not from Philadelphia, fornhe has etchaOsted all her means in constructing: the Central Rail toad. Not (ran Wheeling, Cori she km not a dollar to spare, awl has mortgaged bey credit far mole than it is worth to the Baltimore and Ohio BOad. Not from Baltimore, for this road is a rival to her Own. Not from speculators, for they era too: cautious to invest their matey to so tincertatu a project, which has so many rivals, and winch is of an exceeding doubtful policy, except to the people of Werhlogtoo county on the direct line of the road. Can the counties of Washington and Wastmore land raise thri'moncy Aa to their ability we can not soy. _Their people are among the Most weal thy and prosperous in - Weatern Permaylvania, and can do a good deal. But we hardly think they will rainnthe money. There will be a diriculty et the very dart, at (irecarburgh, and ifthe cheap , e - est route it Chosen, the rood will commence at some dittancie thin ride of that place. Thu will alienate the people of that ancient borough. Oar good friends op at Weat Newton have exhausted tiefraparemeansin constructing the Youghiriche ny Slack Water, and as they me to have a Plank Road connection with Cumberland, their Interests will out lead them to look with favor upon a pro ma which will leyore both their Slarkwater and Pilate Read. /There will be very little got (rem Westmoreland flaunty. Weskit:stela county propane to mbecribe, in her ':Corporate impoeitY, two or there hundred shortened dollars. Before the tax payers vote for this, however, they wilt have to be assured that thcrili money enough revered to complete the work, or they will ppend their money for naught Considerable will he mired by private subscrip tion, bat when it Is tried ,it wilt be bond an up bill business. Tee prospect of raising the two mil liens is , very gloomy indeed. if otir Waabfkgton county friends will raise one VOCIITII Of Alla sum, we will snare them of this completion of a railroad of more real and de. ceded Interest to them, one which will build up their town, and mom greatly benefit the &Men§ of the whole county. We mean a road from that place to this city. Some remarks upon this, we abstar to our next. Porroctat..— A letter from Washington, of the tlth Met, Rays:—'• A epeeist bever of Aaspslch• na from the Meditemneas Naadroa. Raised in Washington this 001.01 In. lie reports Mr. Clay . Charge ■1 Lisbon, as baying demanded his pass• return to tbetoited Sinter; in two months. Ha in reported to bare withdrawn from his mission in coneerpence bf the offensive terms in which the offer of the Portuguese Minintry to pay ail claims except that in relation to the Octant Armstrong, were mashed." Tax CORM . Pinson= AT Mostrz.—The U.S. sktop of war Albany, Commandeillandolph, arri ved to the lower bay, at Mobile, on Friday week, `(aka Portiolooll, having on board the "Conroy prisoners ,* The Mobile Advertiser says : $4. We are told that they are to"be delivered to the U. S. Marshal for this &trim. Lieut. Rau• dolpb bee hod a nomination arab the DAUiet AU torney, and the prisoners iu nil probability will be here > g the course of the forty y are • good talking, iuralchy set °ripen, two In number. and wo are told - they feel wily grateful for the kiadness extended to them by the Goveracomat.— ,We are not advised oCtte final disposition that is to he mode of them. Toe Albant we understand, will return to Pen asociiii,a and as her 'smite is op, she will 'shortly saS txtratbaritiOr fireak, . . .... . • • -''.--; • ' Olififeatiale ilkeirlacieS;- - d. •1,-' ; ', ,- --"rlai Great striate I iii!fichieiwig e l'• The pier of pireirdai, copiiMlhth UPPutddllit ; ; ; ,f ;There a a very wrote .1;111107 ro =Au, ; :to mermen* the. Maytag paragraph from the Bten int 4 circumstantial accounts of groitbaifies, even beastly lingli,,,_, .. i... -—, -•••••-•....--i- , •-•-, ihmasof modem due. The cariosity a heightened Flitabtugh has now either to throw all her en. when the fight took place only akw days ago, and with all the Improvemeuts of modern warfare, enlist towards our enterprise (the Stabenville Had Hood) or hereafter be deprived ~ f the "Iles. . awe • sad •ef ArreHromf ennutimiesini•-14le--afv°l4l highly-c iiihzo PaoPl7. This °°fl:. eke - gnus women ref , insd grain grinning regume natty ix not unmixed, however, t o most mind. of Ow Smith laid Wits.' , , ' , with astonishment and pain, that abrade:l nations How it is possible the Post can endorse so gas and neighbors, ; for ; such ellighi rouse*, rush to Self elkunhvithe and Oitieottdoviolut to Sfitobtlrgh. - w ill embrim th eir hands to each other's blood.— passes comprehension. Can the editor of that pa- Tim battle, to Schleswig, while it will stand per ay, el au honest mot, that the statement In as one of the moot severe On record will, also the &bower:net is true. Ls it taro that Pittaburgh stand, as a London correspoodent truly remark. will be "deprived of the blessiop and benefits" of as a lasting disgrace to rho present stage of Arad rood Connection with the great commercial European civilisation, since (Chu been fought be. and grain IPOwiutretioun of the South and Wee ; tureen two petty stales--or nther between two anima she throws all her clergies towards the am i Imams of the people of one distria—with all the greaten of the Steubenville Sail Sole 11l the ; great powers of Europe looking on as psalm assertion not manifestly and slowly false! Does ' we re y ere. cot the editor of the Post know that the energies I The two armlea met on the 24th of July, at a cf Pidabutgft are now devoted to the construction place called Idatedt, about one boor'a ride from ofa rail road which will connect as with the great I the town of Schleswig, when some skirmishing "commercial and grain growing regions of the took place. The contest was renewed the next South and Wes," which will Unite us with Cleve- morning, the 25tb, apd Sifter a general copse land, Canton, Maaallion, Wooster, Columbus, mem, which lowed unintemiptedly for eleven Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Louisville? II ho hours, and in its early stages seemed likely to re. does not,he is lytoll3ll' ignorant of the plainest mat. out, In a victory by the Germans, the Danes be. ter of act. came liruntala of the field. The number, au the This i" not the firs time that such no effort to side of the Danes are mud to have been 40,000, disparage the Ohio and Peonsylvanin railroad, and while the Schleswig Holstein army amounted on deceive his readers has been nada by the Pan edi• ly to 90,000. To this disparity the result Was al. tor. He know ' that the vows of the Ohio and together owing. Alter repelling the attacks of the Pennsylvania railroad passes through a tier of 'Douro throughout the entire day, the exhausted counties adjoining and parallel to the projected 0...„„, ~,,,,, at length overpowered bye re. route of the Steubenville road, until the two meet, either at Mount Venom or Columbus, and that the serve of fresh troops. The losses ate, at present' matter of vague conjecture, but they have been trade of central Ohio and th e grew wen a " di- wadded at 3000 on the side of the Holsteiners, redly reached through one route as the other—the and at a still larger ; 2 , 22;het 02 the , 0 1 0 o f t h e Steubenville reed suiting one tier of counties be- tonsen this and Columbus, Lind the Ohio mod Penni Dane. The following is • minute and graphic account important mite:" another, sad we Ileek. 001 sex o f this fiercely contested battle, by an eye winces, important tier. He also knows that th e Ohio and the drocnption.will probably ad generai Pennsylvania mid affords advantages to Pittsburgh a " . . a . 2 20; " 2 which the other doer not, and could not give, in that it conneene us directly with Cleveland, and - ! readers a more want conception of ti i than eac h demiltions venally do. ' 111:13=1 with the Bellefontaine and Indiana Railroad, and w r i tit the Ohio and Indiana Railroad, and all lt naive net of marrieds which these will directly or in time connect. The Stenbenville road would mire us to Colombo, and Cincinnati, but present. us with no connections with the Lakes and with Indhum, and the great west mid north wrest, with- out Coming up on to the very line of our Western road, by a circnitous route—while the Ohio and Pennsylvania road takes cc directly to Columbus and Cincinnati, and gives us all the other important and extraordintry advantages besides. We should not have Motioned these corneae sons, did the Poet not systematieallY endeavor to injure the eharacterol the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad, by the vaunt perversions of actual toed We have no desire to Milne the prospects of the Steubenville Company ;we reel-no jealousy of imixivalehm; we would not throw a straw to its way, and have only advined. to it in defence ofPittsburgh interims, which are so frequently as. sailed by attacking an enterprise in which she has [scented a large amount of money, and in which her commercial and atanufsetaring prosperity to deeply interested. We yesterday had the pleasure of taking by the hand our old friend A. W. Bp:CIWAT, formerly of thus city, but who went out tia California with the Overland Emigration of lay year. He left Cali. fotnia on the first of July. He is in fine health, and speaks highly of the new Pacific State. He visits Plusburgh for the purpose of purchasitug,Machinery to 0111,21,0 r swap the gold bearing quart. rock, and espiets to return in October. The following article m reference to this gentleman and',the ob ject of bin visit, we take from the Ssenarnento City Transeripr of June "A„__WL-BrockwAY, of the firm of Penis Brockway, merchants of our city, leaves in the first of July steamer for the States. We lest that Mr. Brockway returns to the States for a few months for the purpose of ssuperintending the eolotioction of, and shipping the revisal, machinery for work ing emenstvely in thelqoarts gold veins of Califor nia. A company hoe already. been formed, in which some or the wealthiest cilium of Sacra. amnia and San Francisco are the stockboldcm.— The company hold a large claim on the grew Ma rlpoen orErernont Rock. We understand that Mr. Brockway has had experience in this kind of M I - in g , nod judging fiord re rich character of the specimens which he buts tirought with lam from the Company's vein, during n recent tnp to the south• ern muses, they have undontuoily a mine of great wealth." Tux Hort. T. M. T. hicKmuesit.—The Presi dent has tendered to our ledow townsman, Mr. M'Keettee, a seat in his Cabinet, as Secretary of the Interior. This; coming altogether unsolicited, is a lettering compliment to Mr. McKenna, but one that is richly deserved. For honesty, Inter. rity, prudence, and wet:mond worth, Mr. McKen nen hss no superiofiirtbe country. fie is the very man for a Cabinet conneellor, In the present oriels calm and dignified, yet eourtecras and ads b'c in hut general deportment; ciao and prudent in all his thoughts—firm and decided in his politi esl principles, with energy and resolution for era cry emergency—of enlarged victors ard a heart purely and fervently patriotic in every Impulse— commanding waveredl redeem and popes-sing the unbounded confidence of th e entire country. Mr. MeKennen's appointment will he hailed with sincere sttisfactice by the Whip of Penrieryla vacia add the Whig party throughout the Union. We believe there is nti men in the State whose appointment wool/ give as great satiefeation, or be so well calnolated to enlist a warm and cordial supton to the new ,fidmiaistrazlon. Mr. McKenna/I did not seek or expect the sp poinuitent and did not desire It. Ulm went to consult his own feelings alone, be would decline the notor thin voluntarily tendered him. Rut it is likely he will yield to the urgent aolicitattons of his friends and incept the appointment Rita Reporter. We rejoice to tee seml4:Mcial indication that Mr. McKennan will accept the position tendered to him by the President, and for which he was unanimously recommended by the Pennsylvaoia Whig delegation la Congeru. It gives as plea. sure to endorse the remarks of the Reporter, both as regards Mr. Mciiennan's fitness for the posi tion, and the emaciatel satisfaction it will give to the Whip of Penneylvaeca and of the Union. .Mora Faturan re New Yost.—The New York Dry Goods Reporter states that a 'large mane.. luring company of nun canisters failed that week, which is attributed to the want of remuner ating prices for woothrts goods, relatively to the high prices of wooL The New York Post, ofßats arday evening, nye A line produce house lo this city h repotted to bavo suspended payment to day. We have not ascertained the extent of their liabilities or wets. Toe retells decline in path la mentioned as the VOW We withhold the name cf the perties that they may not be prejudiced by a premature entwines , meat of tWs unhappy event. We we given to undentand that but for the re cent failure of Suydam, Sage de Co., the house would probably have gone through. CIiOLTILA Ustcrrrows,—The Fayette Whig of Tuesday contains the following items in rela tion to the titaness in that place: Since our tut Wow, there have been several death., and a huge number 111 Cab. 1 . 7091 the ep idemic which has carried mourning and sorrow Into so many families of our heretofore healthy vii. tau. Preston. to this visitation, Cholera was oakum° here, and whilst in every quarter around it 11 , 11 finding Sununu of victims, we blindly hoped that our proximity to the moans tains, puts air, and other advantages, would prove an impregnable barrier to its onward march, and that we would, as ui other years, escape the um. egas of this scourge of mankind. Thew must ho a canto for this volution- - a reason why the An. gel of Death - tarried so long =Dept us, and we invite the learned to ineeicize and science to solvetho mystery. Oar columns ate open. A Damao FAILILT. — A colored family, reaiding do Morgantown iweet, consisting of sat penons, have nearly all been swept away by Cholera.— a daughter, on Satoplay the hqsband, and o Sunday the mother and a grand child %Ter* ; tongued to the tomb. We sandalwood that the bole famdy were much addicted to IT:temper. awe, and subsisted altogether open vegetables. Five deaths from Cholera on Redstone, near Lrownwrille, one day lot week. We have not rned the names of the deceased. A dog be' 'dogleg to one of the families, this died, and the cause of his death wu cholera. The ctly of Philadelphia wee visited on Solar ! d y night last by at least hall • donee fires, all of a -all betiding*, and a disgraceful fight among the Simone was kept op during the eittire night. which was renewed on the occasion of a false alMeo on Sunday afternoon. Several of the riot. ore were severely injured by fire arm and bricks during the &Tray. The papers state that the pm. lice were chasing the zioiers about tong after day light, on Sunday morning, and succeeded in ar• resting quite ■ large number of them. AC&OItIEILS Gem Baize, Hondoras, to the 6th received at Now Orleans, state that a vessel bad arrived off Mole river, with ■ company of Els'gi iirt or Gellitlet emigrants, who intend seats there. It appears that a Mr. Litchi, having per. chased some 3200 acres or land, has succeeded to Bening a sodomy to join him, consisting of 20 mar• tied couples-20 men and 10 women unmarried —lO children above, and 44 under 10 years of age, truddos i total of 130 persona—whir, Insides Wag. morally good people, aro united closely by a solgices fa, saa vas ai• ft welt: THE WAR IN NotiLpeario. Defeat and Re of the Nehlestrlg UolllltClill Army. From the Tunes Commpondent with Ike Suhleowm Army. EctILMWM, July 41. The firat engagement between the Dane, and the army of the Duchies, since the commence. meet of hostilities, look place to day, about two miles and a hal( in advance of General Willieen's main position. a centre has been for some days at Idstedt, or lertstadt, and expecting n movement forward on the part of the Danes he yesterday occupied athickly wooded height, called Pophms, stretchlneiast of the. high road to Fleorburgh, and something more than two miles front idstcdt, by • body °rebuttal:us, but with no intention of hold ing it. It was known that. the Dane. intended to send forward pan of their farce to reconnoitre the ground. if not to attack the main body of the Hol stein army. This morning, at ansearly hone, the Infantry re., maining in the town of Schleswig, were sent on to the front; the last battalion 101 l the town. between eight and cone o'clock. By that lime it was repot. tedthat the Danes were advancing, and evert body was on thw alert. Tim General and hie stair Were some half mile farther forward than Hated% In the middle of the plain, to the right of the Ohaussee. A large mound, one of the many tu muli that are scattered over this part of the eons try, and are called Um 't Huns' graces," was the only elevation that commanded • good view c f the wood, directly In front, and open sad among] it the head quarters for the cme were placed.— The spot to a hard bones journey from Schleswig. I again made nse of the permission to iollow bead quarters, and arrived at the mound about ten o'- clock. All was quiet, though every moment the 'commencement of the firing war expected. The Danes had sent forward two or three gun. and • body of infantry sod riflemen ihroagli bereratedi and Stendrop, and they were advancing by the Maumee to Popho`x ; the woody hill that bound ed the horizon to the north wit the point to which all the eases Were turned. The watlliad been out since wren in the morning and by 11 o'clock the day had grown oppressively warm, though a smart breeze from the ea& cooled the air a lade. Most ofthe officers were amnia or lying on the heath with which the mound is cover. ed;rl scored( dismounted dragoon. and orderlies in attendance were walking their hones up and down the level field The tierierid was wandma hail way pp the mound with the officen laid arrived fromlhe front, and those who had nothing to do had lit their cruses and prepared for another hour of inaction. Somebody sug.gested a gin. Of urine Ilona a supply at hand, and we Were yin drawing the cork when the report of a cannon 'rola the end of the wood nearest the highest road brought us all to our feet. The head of the Danish column bad shown itself, and was diverging from the road toward the "moat the calls from the Elid&enn guns, of which there were but two, rntet have crossed the Chlatle obliquely but at the distance we could not see the Chateau itself, (here being some rising ground between us and it. The Danes returned the are Iran apparently an equal number of guns, mid for about twenty nine Wee the cannonade Ina very Wove; no great harm was done, thengla the panics were within gad shot range of each ether; we rood diginctly see the Danish cannon balls .drike the groundana throw up Maids of dust as they bounded along the light aii• dy soil. In the noontime the ermswors In the wood bad opened an trredidar fire on the Dani.ti skirtnisherr i but a.- the "alter attacked 1t,,,, them!, er side of the wooded ridge, and the ilobiteincr. were rowed to the wood itself, we could We noih• ing bat the smoke rising in white Mood.. at •very shot from between the dark green beech tree.. The cannonade ceased, and the chauswors, according to their order., withdrew here the Rimed toward 'us, firing.. they retired, but nut se ragd.Y. The gum were brought back to our left, Rod posted so as to sweep the halt raid northward; • squadron of rivalry that bad been wet forward,bir had not been engaged, took Up to position io front of us and to our tight, but the Danes made no et. tempt to 'Advance beyond the wood, and after an hour's silence the officers decided Mat nothlngmore could be done to day. Could the Danin hare been drawn forward ie the p'ain south cif - Bhopal:, and In front of the real main position or the Holsonners probably the action might have bee.. general Bat they advanced no further than the edge of the wood. 'The whole affair did not last more than half an hear. In that time the Holnemers lost 8 men, killed and wounded, as far as in the harry could be ascertained. EIZTEEI The prediction that all waterer for the day we.. not ver.tied. it wa reported in .5 .4.eswor at 3 o'clock that the engagement had been resumed and 1 rode out again to the monad or heed guar. tam at Idaledt, and on the way met with but ton many proofs that the fightieg had been more se vere than In the morning. in the carts conveying the wounded to the hospital prepared to the Schloss in Schleswig itself In order to incertato what Force the Danes had thrown Into the wood of • PophoLs and the Golds aliont Hellabek, • little village to the Weat of it, a Holstein battery endgame infantry were ordered forward, the ail. lago,oras cannonaded, and le a abort time the en. garment became mote serous, than was intend ed,owin,g.it is said to the Impatience of the troop.. But the Danet held both potations egaitiat the at• tack, and the Infantry were recalled. Thu second engagement was over abut six o'clock. The battery that commands the Tillage Or rather hamlet e t Hellighek was relieved, and I !Mahar.* with II on the road to Schleswig, R 4 far a the paint where It turned off to . min the hergade alike main body to wit oh It belong, The battery bad fited about 30 shots Into the valage, and had entrained no lona, the infantry having ventured in end about the wood, in and behold which it wan found the Danes-ad brought up a large force and Offered. more remote's.. They have lost more quo fiter time. the number that fell in the short of the forenoon. The wagons with the wounded are now Slowly arriving, and the high Sari for fora mile out of the town to morn peopled than the town itself. The inhabitante have gone out toward the scene of action to boar the lent In. telligence, and be earful to the sufferers If they Mini the women examine every MI, that passes, lemons they may recognise some one among it, burden. I believe every posaible arrangement hu been made for the wounded. More to the wait the Danes have advanced along the river Tteene toward Bailingstedt, and to 'Ms direction, cab, there has been a cannonade all the aternoon that did not quite cease till 7 o'clock. From toe sound it was evident there were heavier guns In action, and it in rued the Dann have some 18 or 23 pounders in their bat. teen. Hero, too, the outposts only bave been engaged. and the Danes have advanced no farther than North of Balliagatedt. The country in this direction Is open and level, and am the Holatemer• are weak In cavelry,lhey will probably not attempt any attack on the Dines there to morrow. tin every other pert of the line tire decisive battle is expected to commence et daybreag. The Date , have • superiority In force, It is calen'a , cd, of about 4000. The Holstetnera are In good anima, and the emcees any they are wool tied trendy on. der fire. No ono here appears to doubt that the D on e, moat bp beaten, but any anticipation of nail.tary vacate Ii vary hazardous. The general result. dike operation of to day is that the Danish force h.. advanced, nod his been allowed to occupy • post?n front, whence an in - ef , feetnal attempt we. • leeward made to remove theca. They have also advanced considerably on the felt gatik, wish some hard igkiticg. On the other handobe Holstelners lave lost none of their chlefpositions, all of the skirmishing having been in advance of Meat. tbmAtemo, Jetty 25. The general engagement eapected 'lief the skininth cram outposts ducribed in my last letter, took place this mantlesg. It was tang and obiti. ! catch , fought, was attended by great loss on both &des, and terminated with the total defeat of the Holstein arms under Gen. Williten, which is at this moment ;3 o'clock, P. Id l retreating through , the town to tolerably good order, to take op • po i riff= between here and liendsboug It wee known that the Men would begin the auack et daybreak, or won alter; bet they her : lamed tee pawl to the nght of the Haistelows, by en -irregular fire, tone after midnight, which kept the ova under aims, and, In some degree fa tigeed Mitre Image the battle Well commence.— The morning was cloudy; a bell past two a be ' VW to rain violently, and continued to poor with out interminiun till nearly nine. The weather was even cold, and all that had been muTocaung deal the day before vu converted into mad. At hall put two I rode oat toward Idstedt, on the high reed to Plasborh where the mute a( the Holstein etmy was i heed, heldire a rior,o of thickly wooded htil, and having in front a wide plain, apeteh.np away almost in a level to the North as 6r-as the Wlege of Flehgbeek, and Mr to Bolllngstedt, and the hole weer Treece, on which the :eit sang ot tho amp rested, in the neighborhood of Gamtnefund. .... A quarter of r. mile in advance of the ndge the !lobar-tan batttrate had been already placed, and awaited the atinck of the Danes, Ttey pushed forward their trot, infantry and chasseurie from their position hei ween lieligheek and 63111 re-wed t, in the direction nit the Gnaussee; and afar :.:m.- skirmishing opw.ed n teavy fire from their fivid piece• just at 3 o'clock ; toe Heletetners replied from their batteries, sod fcr neariy two boars it was a battle of rrtfllery alenc, the bathe sweeping the plain to the right nod left of the high read.— The Danish infantry, te. It advanced to heavy eel. MOMS, suffered severely Wiring thin time, when. fatly from a well nerved battery of 21 ;loonier., which, when they struck, ploughed_ complete'y through the rank. The infantry retired to form ' again, and the teethe both rides slackened on lb e pint; by this lime, 5 eelnek, the right of Gweitc Willisen'a position, at linter Stalk and Wedel aping, was attacked, but the Holstein ehassettre, who fought with the utmost determination throng_ out the day, held their gretted in the woods and enclosed grottoes against every attempt to dislodge them. They had ant to conlend with so heavy a cannonade, and thetnen are generally good marts. men. They at times even followed the Danes as i they retired, hot were frequently obliged to fell back an their former position ; if any Loma, they advanced during the action; later .in the clay a became apparent that the main at nob of the Danes was not intended to be ea that wine. To the extreum left, also, the Danes were re pulsed and driven to a conviderahle distance. Northward, and as the Llclrtion i.rodlcurs w evidently advancing, while the firing from ti'.' e e Danish centre nad abated, sanguine hopes wow entertained of the result. Bot they vii is pienta tore. The Danes advanced ureic, and iOr that', raged with mere fury ;than ever, the erohery in the plain on all points firing incessantly. Tae roar oftbe beaviercr noon, and the ruse and liss Of the balls through the air,. were the only snoods that fell en the ear; the irruguler filing of the etre men and infantry war like the rattle eta ley com pared to the elashrof an enormous steam twine. Another hour passed tech little movement of the troops, but A cOntanuol caution, d:. All that was viable, except thr gosh nod smoke of the gun, Were the, hotterio galloping across the 5.1.1 front point to point, apPearme fora free minutes en a Nee of the ground! or order the canopy cif smoke when lifted or dineu aside by thr wind. to the meantime, the mikal scene prevented I.y thv ito• mediate rear of atj army to swum w a s heconn o . ; more and more el plc, tolero ; gups pl Men, earn • leg or supporting 4 n'aistred.ril mouredc, or •ariviy able to irag IMO :if Ming; ethers miming Me dead, and laying ahem down will singular care, as if they were only asleep, and m:gft be awaken ed by too rough a motion. There wee a dtilwrory Orwayrin, is Carry the wounded back to Schleeerig, and. mar.-eve,, the peasants did notrebah the tack 01 4,11-g no ewe op to the sring. It required soineiltirg like threats from the soldierstn gel the Bwii, on taw call him, wbo, is any ‘ironwatances, caves lint slowly, under the percent ones, to move at all; but it was generally done at lest, though iv, the scarcity of vetneles there was, unhappily, no re. meet?. The wounded horses, &Hie edre is hope. less, are shut, and every now and thou the repent of a meretfcloonaket pirating en end . the ago nies of some poor entpul. is *nether et the many epodes of site 00e0 et that a spectrum has lei. sore to observe; they are but encodes, the went rush of battle goon on, perfectly reckless of life or auffewrig in any fermi At 7 o'clock, the effect of the firing begat tonne pear all over the aufd;_tcattercid huts and Wm nooses had been set on 'ire by the rooks, grin were burstaginnbeeded. In a Holstein battery, plarind to the kit el the Choctaw,. a yam der wag• co, etnack by • L ,nth, expliideil. and hi . leil !ow Wises and two men. I drire,erl a eralrlllern s tt ill ter attached to ilia mettery later in the doe, urnild he was deeect•lng to his outmode, time f iernarilar prod, or I roil, had the If of this pmr.t. Ile raid he had three guns ilainecore.l, as limo, sho• from under him, and a powder woion Mown up, within a quarter of an hoer. 1 limuillit Iris owe escape [night have been notri,dered o pe'de vi good look to lollop., tha oplairds. The tiritl. went on slit without apparent rerion, the Panes had not advanced neither on Me rig:, or hif, , • o d It was bee...odic evident that ins venue w,• Ow point on which all thew strength would i.e d lee • ed. To the ;eft the mere of each army had been negated on toe 0,1, ,•.1...! toa,trol ‘: or. 1-1,:166-. b. hot t amid the inooder of Ito Mtn, oa,fr • ft, rtfo . re Al 7 o'clock, otroo,, boo L0,,0;.1 5 en berao b:ft.ff,iiit to be re, mo.l of tO•of vroonoefl. to Me lAn'or ufcre trrate , l emwell ,4 7 teetr late oypoo