From The Indian Country

Now York, Aug. 11. The HeraJd has the following, under date Fort Blunt, Indino Territorv Aug. 2: A battle is Timinent nt thig point. Since our victory at Honey Springs, Cherokee nation, on the 17th uit., the rebels have been reinforced by returning to the o)d battle field. Cooper's force of 4,000, angmentecl by Cabellé Arkansas brigade of 2,500, and Strong and Bailey's Texas brigade, ol about 500 - in all, about 12,500 and ten pieces of artillery. The Union iorce here is but 2iG0Ö efficiënt men. The Thirteenth Kansas Infantry and a battallion of the Sixlh Kansas" Cavalry, in all eight hundred men, are tnaking forced marches from Fort Scott and are espected here Thursday. About Sunday next Gen. Blunt wil] cross and attack. The General suys he wil) make a fight or a foot race. In attack lies not only aafety. We cannot stay without beiug surronnded, and we cannot retreal without disaster. We believe in Blunt and victory. Chicago, Aug. 12. A special frora St. Paul says Dr. Hoyt just returned from the Idaho'gold miues, reports that in a battle between the pass' engerson tho steamer Slieverport and Robert Campbell, and the Indiaus, a hundred miles below Fort Union, on the Missouri lliver, twenty-eight of the lat ter were killed and n number wounded. Three whites were killed and two wounded. The boats were on a sand-bar. They had two howitzors and were barricaded with bundies of buffülo robes. Hoyt reports all the Iudiuns this eide of the Ilocky Mountains hostilo, aud thinks the cxpeditioo of Captain Fisk will fail. A letter from Sibley's expedition, dated James River, July 21, says a battle was expected with the Indians within two days. lt seemed to be the design of Mi o Indiana to loave the prairie and draw our forces into the hilly country of the Missouri, where tliey would give battle. JESr'Fred. DouglasB hns been to Washington and paid bis respect to President. Lincoln.