Sigel Takes 2000 Prisoners

Njcw York, Aug. 25. A Ttappahannock correspondent of a Philadelphia paper states that oa tho morning of' the lst ihu rebels opened a buttery uu our centre and coutiuued furiously to tlirow shot and shell for soveral houis. A üttle higher up it was discovered that the enemy had duiing the night erected a bridge over the river. At ibiè poiut the most brilliant and successtul ati'uir of the war is reponed to have oceurred. Iu the vicinity of this bridge was one of Gen. Sigel's batteries, on which the rebels opeued a brisk tire, to which, for a timo, our battery leplied with spirit. In a littlo while our fire slackeued, ind thon oeased, the battery having been appnreutly süenced or wilhdravrn. ïhree rebel regiments now rushed across the bridge, and Sigel uffered no opposition - Everything t-eemed favorable, but tho s :cue soon changad. No sooncr liad ihoy crossed thau Sigol opened his battery on the bridge. Tkü fourth shot coinplutcly demolished it, aud at tho íame timo a deadly fire of musketry assailed the rebels ín front. Their retreat is cut off, and there is no hope left for them. A t'ow shots frora our battery, a charge, aud they are ours. Not a man escapes. - Nearly two thousand are said to have been capturcd, aud about 400 killed and wounded. ïhe euemy having failed on this, they hurled forward their forces with impetuosity, aud struve to outflank Sigel by crssing at Frenche's Ford. but Gen Pope ordercd up Banks and Keno to the aid of Sigel, and the enemy was again repulsed, and moved higher up the river. How the next attempt of the enemy succeeded I have not yet learned.