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The war news this week is extremely meagre. The situa-

tion on Morris Island is unchanged. General Meade pushed a reconnaissance in force across the Rappahannock on the 1st August. The Confederates retreated fighting on Culpepper, when they were reinforced, and in their turn drove back the Federals, when the Federals were reinforced and the Con- federates once more retired on Culpepper. The fighting was severe, and nothing came of it. General Meade's army is now, it is said, stretched from Stafford Court House, on Acquia Creek, along the north bank of the Rappahannock, the cavalry sometimes scouring the country between the Rappahannock and Rapidan.

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