LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 51, 24 October 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

HOME NEWS OFFICE, Wednesday, August 26, 1863. We have intelligence this morning from America to August 14 :

General Lee has a considerable force between the Rapidan and the Rappahannock, and holds all the mountain passes. It is anticipated he may send a portion of his forces through one of .the gaps to Gainsville or Manassas, in order to attack simultaneously the front and rear of General Meade's position.

A considerable Confederate cavalry force is in the Shenandoah Valley. General Meade has published a report from General Kilpatrick, refuting General Lee's official denial of the accuracy of Meade's report of the engagement of July 14, at Falling Waters. A new Confederate camp has been discovered at Pony Mountain, near Culpepper. A vessel which passed Charleston on the night of the 7th August states that Fort Sumter and the batteries on Morris Island kept up a terrific bombardment on the Federal position. A combined land and naval assault on Charleston was appointed for the 13th August which the Federals are sanguine will result in the capture, of Forts Sumter and Wagner, and of Cumming's Point. Deserters assert that the Confederates have removed guns from Sumter and have mounted them on James Island. The Confederates are actively at work on James Island, with preparations to defeat the Federal plans. Federal reinforcements of colored troops continue to be sent to Charleston

Orders have been sent from Washington, permitting commissioners to visit the army and take the votes of the lowa troops for the State elections.

The' World' thinks the reported determination of the administration not to listen to terms of settlement without the total extinction of slavery, nor to hold any intercourse with the Confederate government to arrange a preliminary peace, proves that the administration is determined to delay settlement until after the Presidental election, as, if the South returned to the Union before that time, the fate of the Republican party would be sealed.

Considerable excitement has been caused throughout California by a contemplated rising of Secessionists. An affray has occur red at Vasalia, in the northern part of the State, between the soldiers and Secessionists. The citizens were arming, and cavalry was sent to Vasalia. Secession outbreaks are also rumoured to have occurred in Santa Clara and Salono counties, north and south of San Francisco Bay The fortifications of San Francisco are to be commenced immediately. The Judge Advocate-General has furnished the governor of New York with a report upon the conscription and enrolment, showing that 12 districts which have voted the Democratic ticket are required to furnish more conscripts than 16 Republican districts, polling double the number of votes. The report says: —" It is a partisan enrolment, de-

signed to take out of the city the greater part of the Democratic majority, and as far as the draft has proceeded, the names drawn were mainly Democratic. This fraud was certainly perpetrated Without the knowledge of the President and the Provost Marshal. A general and irresponsible cabal outside must be looked to for the source of this iniquity. If justicte is not done it will remain in history as a gigantic politioal fraud." The * New York Herald' says :~" If a riot and anarchy should arise out of the quarrel between President Lincoln and the governor of New York, the country will hold to a rigid reckoning the two actors playing political parts so full of peril to domestic peace and the very existence of the nation."