[Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.]
Washington, July 3, 1803.

The following has just been received:

BATTLE-FIELD IN SIGHT OF GETTYSBURG, Pa, July 2d.—Yesterday’s battle here instead of being only a very hotly contested heavy skirmish, as was understood at the time at Torytown, and as stated in my dispatches from there, prove to have been really almost as hotly a contested fight in proportion to the number engaged, as the war has get furnished. A glance at the partial lists of casualties to officers furnished herewith, is sufficient to establish its severity. Practically the fight was between the let army corps on our side, and Ewell’s corps of rebels, with two divisions of Hill’s.