The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. (TERMS cas! inaacance. Honey senedy mait will he at the rich of the sender. Nonelbut Bank bills current in New P4LD. oo cents yer copy. $7 21 RALD, every Satur iy," 5 Luroyesn Esition Grnsean to anny po sews, solirite! fron any quater 0 libertly paid fur, g@grOuRr FoRnian PaRticursRLY RequmsreD To SkaL aut Lercers ND PAck- tuken of anonymous correspondance, We donot ery slays advertionnents. tn. MRALD, and in the AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. NIBLO'S ¢ RODEN, Broadway.—Dz. Ditworta—Maare TrumretT— TRAPKAE, No. 84 Broadway.—Oxinos Biossoms—EiLey O'CoN NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Scatr Huwtess ~Link ap ApvenruRES OF JACK SHEPPARD. BOWERY THEATRE, —MACARTEY, Pxer 0’ Dir—Giasce at New York. "REMORNE GARDEN, Fourteenth street and ERA, BALLET, PROMNADK CONCERT AND NIXON MUSEUM. Broadway.—Gex. r—Lesnxxp SAL, Harry Fantty, hours. Ma:D of Munsrer, afternoon and 585 Broadway. —Ermrorian kDDED Koom. WOOD'S MIN EL HALL, 5ié Brosdway.—Eraroriax Sones, Dance’ Non Anay. TRE AND MUSIC HALL, Canal . Dances, Boriesauas, &c. GAJETIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway,—Dgawixe Boom Entertanaeyts, THE SITUATION. ‘The arrival of General Pope and the location of his headquarters near the house of Mr. Wallach, editor of the Washington Star, is announced from Culpepper, Va. The enemy, under Jackson, are reported at Liherty Mills, west of the Central Rail- road on the Rapidan river. A skirmish between our pickets and a body of rebel cavalry occurred on Thursday, at a place called Wolftown, some eight or ten miles from Madison Court House, on the Stannardsville road. A battalioh of the Second Pennsylvania cavalry was sent forward, who charged upon and drove the rebels beyond the Rapidan, killing two and wound- ing several. Our special correspondence from Culpepper gives a highly interesting account of the recent cavalry expedition to Orange Court House. Rumors continue to be circulated in General Pope's army that the rebels have evacuated Richmond; but, although pretty generally be- lieved, they do not seem to be substantiated. It ig said that among the causes of the evacuation of Richmond are the exhaustion of the country north of the James, the infectiousand pestilential atmos- phere, and the superior advantages of the James asa line of defence. It is also stated that they intend to maintain an open railroad connect’on with the valley, via Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Gordonsville, to Staunton, to the last mo- ment, as a reserve for supplica. The news from the West to-day is not very im- portant. From Nashville we learn that an attack upon Col. Forrest’s rebel forces was made by Wynkoop’s cavalry, near Sparta, on the 7th inst., - in which thirty rebels were killed. Our troops withdrew and joined Gen. Nelson, at McMinnville, It was rumored at Nashville that Gen. Buell had taken possession of Chattanooga, but the news was not officially confirmed. The guerillas fired into a train at Columbus, wounding twenty pas- sengers and killing a brakeman. The recent order of Secretary Stanton, forbid- ding the departure from the country of persons liable to draft for military service, was the cause of considerable excitement in this city at the wharves of the steamships Etna and Saxonia, which left this port for Europe yesterday. The Superin- tendent of Police, Mr. John A. Kennedy, having been appointed special Provost Marshal for this police district, the police consequently now com prise a provost marshal’s guard, and in this ca- pacity they arrested all American citizens liable to draft who attempted to go on board these steamers without a passport. A full account of the scenes which occured on the occasion will be found in auother column, We publish in to-day’s Herat, under the proper head, highly important and interesting news from the rebel capital, compiled from Richmond papers of the 4th, 5th and 6th inst. The papers of the first named date contain two important orders— one a general order, under the signature of the rebel Adjutant General, establishing retaliatory measures to meet the execution of President Lin coln’s confis om order, that is being so rigidly carried oat by General Pope. This order is par ticularly directed against General Pope and his jcers, to whom the rebels promise, in the event of their capture, close confinement and the denial of all immunities of civilized warfare, The communication from Jeff, Davis to the Command- er-in-Chief of the Union forces relates to the same subject. The Richmond Dispatch of the Sth, inst. pub- lishes in full the debate on Mr. Lindsay’s motion iu the Lnglish Parliament to acknowledge the nationality of the rebel confederacy. Tt also con- tains the London Zines’ cowincents on the same. The Dispatch stylos the telegraphic despatch sent from Baltimore to Cape Race, and thence to England, alleging the defeat of McClellan's army, as the ‘“Thunderer’sflast canard.” Tho Lynchburg Republican publishes a bogus despatch—which it publishes in @ spread head and double leaded article—purporting to have been copied from that old fogy sheet the National Intel- ligencer, of Washington, announcing the resigua- tion of Secretary Seward and the refusal of the Governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Connecticut to furnish any more troops for the Union army. The Richmond papers abound in advertisements offering rewards for runaway soldiers. ‘The returns of the North Carolina election re- ceived up to the 2d instant put Vance’s major- ity for Governor of North Carolina at 1,467. The Potereburg Lxpress of whe 4th inst. says:— “Tt is reported thatthe enemy landed in large force on the 2d inst., at night, on the south side of James river—one column disembarking at May- cock's, and the other a few miles below. May- cock’s is seven miles below City Point. The federal force is estimated at from six to ten thou- sand men, infantry, artillery and cavalry.” Brigadier General Prentiss, Union prisoner, has been removed from Atlanta to Madison, Georgia. The European news by the Scotia, off Cape Race, is to the 3d of August, two days later than the advices of the Jura, published in the Hezatp on Saturday. The most important y~'»t of the intelligence is that the United States. ..umer Tuscarora, which arrived at Queenstown on the 31st of July, had caused a new English trading steamer, supposed to be laden for Nassau, N. P., and had really left Queenstown with a war cargo for the rebels, to put back to "Holyhead, where all her freshly shipped crew deserted her. A highly important portion of the news by the Scotia is that Earl Russell himself has justified the “vigilance” of the United States war veasels in the waters of the Bahamas. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Scotia, from Liverpool on the 2d and Queenstown the 3d of August, was off Cape Race yesterday (Saturday) morning. Her news is two days’ later than the advices of the-Jura given in the HexaLp yesterday morning. + Consols closed in London on the 1st of August at 93% a 94. Flour had a declining tendency. Provisions rated dull on the Ist instant in Liver- pool. The Liverpool cotton market of the 1st of August was reported by the Jura. The arrival of the United States steam transport Star of the South, Captain Woodhull, brought us the valuable correspondence which we published yesterday from Hilton Head. There still appears to be a doubt relative to the success of the rebel ram; but Admiral Dupont is determined to be on the lookout for its sudden appearance. Governor Olden, of New Jersey, by proclama- tion, has forbidden recruiting in that State for any regiment or company organized in any other State. We have a few more returns of the soldiers’ vote in the North Carolina regiments for Gover” nor of the State. As far as received, they foot up as follows:— Vance, Johnson, Regiment. conservative. rebel. Twenty-fourth. 341 36 Twenty-sixth. 420 qT Forty-second. 411 93 Fifty-third.. 260 63 First cavalry, First company.:. 90 Total . 5. 0ssiensced ese o Majority for Vance,... This vote would seem to indicate that the sol- diers are tired of the war. The ‘‘rebel partisan rangers’ that now infest the State of Missouri it is said number over four thousand, and are divided among the different party leaders as follows:— McBride’s robbers, from Arkansas. Coleman’s gang. . Hawthorne's men. Porter’s party..... Poindexter’s horse Cobb’s banditti... Up. Hay’s squad Underwood's jaw! Reeve's gueril las. . Quantrel’s bushwha: yn ing lican wheelhorses across the river, set yesterday. afternoon, to rise no more. W. A. Taylor, Dr. J. B. Johnson and Benoni Wheat, the three most prominent secessionists in Alexandria, Virginia, have been arrested, and are now confined in the Old Capitol prison in Washing- ton, where they will be held as hostages for Lewis G. Close, who has been in prisonin Richmond since the lst of June. On the 1st instant the sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals in and around Washington num- bered 6,158—a decrease of 915 (nearly a full re- giment) since the report of the week previous. The heat yesterday was the most intense we have had during the present summer. Several cases of sun stroke occurred, as will be seen by our report in another column. The sufferings of the perspiring inhabitants of this city bordered very much on the terrific. About five o’clock in the evening all the indications of an ap- proaching shower appeared. The clouds gathered together in derkening masses, and, after threaten- ing for about an hour to burst upon the city, finally discharged their aqueous collec- tions upon the dirt covered streets, greatly to the relief of our suffering citizens. The rain was very heavy while it lasted, but was not of long duration. A few flashes of lightning and peals of thunder accompanied it: The storm was, onthe whole, quite welcome, purifying the gir and rendering the temperature a little cooler. Government stocks were better yesterday; but the railway list was generally a fraction lower, partly from sales to realize profits. Money was easy at 4*:per cent; exchange dull at 12444 a 125; gold 1129¢a X. ‘The cotton market yesterday was firm, but not active, The sales embraced about 600 bales, closing stiff on the basis of 473<c. a 48c. for middling uplands. Flour was duit ‘aud beavy, and closed at a decline of 5c. a 10¢. per bbl. , ‘and for some grades the fulling off was reported at as much as 1éc., while sales were moderate. Wheat was heavy, and declined from le. to 2c? per bushel, while sales were less active, Corn was heavy, and declived about Ic.a 13gc. per bushel, closing at 56140. a 57c. for good to prfme shipping lote of Western mixed. Pork was friner, especially prime, and in good demand, with sales of mess at $11 37} 2 $1150, and good prime at $9 8714 a $10. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 500 600 hdds., including 300 New Orleans, common to fair quality, with ja the range of &c.29c. The remainder consisted of Cubas at unchanged prices. Coffee was quict and saics limited, while prices were unaltered. Freights were heavy for grain, and engagements moderate, while four was steady and rates wero unchanged. Evcuisu Miuirany Avruoriries on McCier- Lay’s Tactics.—The London Army and Navy Gazette thinks that McCleilan is now in a better position for offensive operations against Rich- mond than he previously occupied on the banks of the Chickahominy. Such was the opinion that we pronounced of this strategical move when the news of it first reached us, Facte are daily confirming the wisdom of the judgment that dictated it. With an army nearly three times as numerous as ours massed io front of him, and time pressing for the fulfill- ment of the plans that induced the rebels to withdraw their troops from other points, McClellan has paralyzed for weeks this im- mense force and rendered it afraid to attempt | any movement of consequence. In the mean. while he has been enabled to repose his men after their fatigues, and is gradually filling up his decimated regiments from the recruiting offices in the different cities. In a few weeks more the new levies resulting from the draft will enuble the government to send the veteran troops scattered at other points to his assist ance. Next to winning battles, the strategy that turns to the best account adverse circum: stances is that which is most to be admired. General McClellan has by his masterly move- ments not only defeated the well planned com binations of the rebel leaders, but the traiior, ous obstacles thrown in his way by the aboli- tion fanatios—both oqnally intended for big dostruction. = be i te Bad NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1862. | Whe Recent Spec! Orcers from the War | Department. The recent orders of Seeretary Stanton, in | ous warning, the invisible power which restrains regard to the arrest of those persons who at- | tempt to escape the draft, or who speak or write anything to discourage enlistments and aid the rebellion, are undeniably necessary, and are by no means too arbitrary and strin- gent for the crisis. ' truly loyal and patriotic, except in the most beneficial manner. Loyal and patriotic men will not speak or write anything to discourage enlistments and aid the rebels, and conse- quently Secretary Stanton’s order will not trouble them. Loyal and patriotic men will not be such cowards as to attempt to escape the draft by sneaking out of the country or into another State, and consequently Secretary Stanton’s order will cause them no annoyance. It is only traitors and disloyal citizens who have anything to dread from these orders, and what they dread all loyal men must welcome and approve. The freedom of speech and of travel, which are the birthrights of every American citizen, are not violated, therefore, by these special orders. It is only when a man talks treason that he is to be arrested. It is only when a man changes his location, with the evident purpose and intention of evading the draft, that he is to be punished with impressment. Ordinary travel is to be stopped no more than ordinary conversation; but the extraordinary travel which has resulted from. the promulgation of the order for drafting, and the extra” ordinary style of speech-making in which North. ern secessionists and abolitionists have recently indulged, certainly called for the decisive ac- tion of the government. Only afew days ago Wickliffe wanted the war stopped until the slavery questi@n was settled. Only a few days ago Wendell Phillips wanted the war stopped until the emancipation question was settled: The Albany Argus” discourages recruiting by calling,this an abolition war. The New York Tribune discourages recruiting by calling this a pro-slavery war. The corrupt organs of the se- cession democracy hinder enlistmonts by at- tacking the financial policy of the government, and by announcing that negroes are to be placed in the field with white soldiers. The “treasonable organs of the infernal republicans hinder enlistments by assailing the President and his generals, and by declaring that negroes should and must be put into our armies, or the cause is lost, These are the two classes of per- sons whom Secretary Stanton silences. Loyal men stand upon the platform of the President, regarding this as a war not for slavery or for emancipation, but for the Union; believing that this isa government of white men, and that white men alone can sustain it; urging and in- sisting that the war shall stop for nothing, but shall be vigorously prosecuted to a speedy and triumphant conclusion. For such men Secre- tary Stanton has no terrors and the laws have no penalties. But in order to make this war “short, sharp and decisive,” as McClellan promised it should be, more men are needed. The government has called for three hundred thousand more volunteers, and they will probably be prompt- ly furnished by the time appointed. In addi- tion to this immense force, however, three hun- dred thousand more soldiers are necessary to give the rebellion a coup de grace. To wait until these soldiers can be raised by the tardy processes of recruiting and enlistment would not answer the purpose of the government, which clearly intends to overwhelm the traitors by a sudden and terrific avalanche of armies. The President has decided, therefore, to order an immediate draft for the men required, and he foreshadows his design in calling out. so many troops by announcing that their work will be over in the brief period of nine months, It is to the personal advantage of every citizen of this country that the war shall be speedily concluded, and the government has at last re- solved to finish it ata blow. Only the machi- nations of domestic traitors and the efforts of cowards and shirkers to escape or evade the draft can prevent sucha result. The govern- ment understands this, and hence these special orders of Secretary Stanton, one of which, like a sharp lash, drives back the ignoble and unpatriotic refugees who are trying to got off to Europe or to cross into Canada or to flee into some State where they are un- known, while the other, like a strong muzzle, stops the mouths of those who talk and write practical treason. What Joyal man will refuse to serve nine months to sustain a government which has served him so well for years? What loyal man will object to see traitors silenced and abolition and secession renegades brought back and forced to do their share towards end- ing a war which they have done so much to cause? In two weeks from the 15th inst. the draft will be over, and Secretary Stanton’s necessary restriction upon the movements of a portion of our citizens will be removed. The benefits de- rived from these orders will never be removed. Had not some such orders been issued the North might have degenerated into anarchy, A few treasonable papers, politicians and ora- tors had taken advantage of the seeming luke- warmness of the government to discourage en- listments and weaken the confidence of the peo- ple in the President, the administration and our generals in the field. F?om some of our ports persons calling themselves men, but lacking every attribute of manhood, were leaving the country to eacape the draft. Meanwhile, our armies needed reinforcement, and the rebels were emboldened by our apparent pause and hesitancy. The enervating lassitnde which seemed to have seized upon the govern- ment was taken advantage of by the disaffected minority here at the North to assume a factitions importance and taik and | write thomselves into some sort of consequence: | Panios are contagious, and no one knows how soon the abolitionists and the secession sympa- thizers might have deluded a few simple people into forcibly resisting the draft. A temporary but depressing languor seemed to hang about the nation and to be breathed in with the air. But now, in the energy recently displayed by | the government, we have the tonic which will brace and strengthen us. The North will now be united, loyal and energetic. We shall soon suppress all domestic traitors, and be prepared to conquer those in arms. In a month we shall crowd the field with armies numbering together a million of men. In a month our fleets of iron-clad vessels will control all our waters. Then, indeed, will the war be short, sharp and decisive. No rebel flag will wave on any sea, except with the flag of our Union above it. No rebel soldier will hide himself in any corner of the country where a Union bayonet shall not reach him. Day by day, mouth by | month, the silent suows fall upon the Alps, the eun melts and compacts them, the tempest hard- | learned that it is only in the case of persons of ens and cements them, uatil, suddenly and w'th- | whom the authorities have positive knowledge that they willact, and not upon any random rule; that persons in the bona fide pursuit of their ordinary avocations will not be interfered witb, but only in instances in-which there is G00d reason (o suspect that the parties are ab- sconding from the performance of the military duties which may devolve upon them, Persons under or over the age will not be stopped, and the order is not meant to be oppressive to the business community or to those who do not really remove from their residence with the intention of evading the law. The Rebellion and the Question St ial ropean Intervention, In our European correspondence it is stated that the latest mediation rumor in Paris is that Russia has proposed to France and England to lead off in behalf of an armistice and a treaty of peace between the government of the Union and our rebellions Confederate States; that Russia, in behalf of these objects, is to make to our go- vernment and that of the rebels an offer, and that, “if It be accepted, France and England will remain as mere lookers-on while matters are being arranged, but that, if not accepted, then, within a month afterwards, Russia will retire, and an active armed intervention on the part of France and England will ensue.” This beautiful schome, we dare say, is purely imaginary; but we are admonished that “it is positive that negotiations between the three governments have been in progress for the purpose of inducing Russia, standing in the position of a very friendly Power, to offer services (to the United States) which, it is well known, would-never be received from either England or France.” Hore is a reason which gives a strong coloring of plausibility and consistency to the report. But we suspect that if any negotiations or diplomatic sound- ings of the character indicated have been going on, the object has been, on the part of Louis Napoleon and Lord Palmerston, to ascer- tain how far, in this matter of intervention, if attempted, the neutrality of Russia may be reliod upon. The sympathigs of the Ozar in behalf of the maintenance of the Union of these States were so promptly, frankly and pointedly expressed in his letter through Prince Gortschakoff to our government, and these sympathies, and the great political con- siderations upon which they rest, have been so recently reiterated in the reception of our Minister, Mr. Cameron, at St. Petersburg, that England and France know that, if moved to intervention, they cannot safely undertake to interfere in our affairs without consulting Russia. Having no fears, however, that Russia will consent to be a party with France and England in this thing of intervention or media- tion, we doubt not that this reported scheme of a triple alliance will end in smoke. With regard to England, the late Parlia- mentary explanation of Lord Palmerston set- tles the question for the present, and we shall provide for the future. The cotton famine presses very heavily upon the three or four millions of operatives dependent upon the English cotton factories; but Lord Palmerston appears to have made the timely discovery that his shortest route to the cotton bales of Georgia and Alabama is by way of Washing- ton. The recognition of Jeff. Davis, as Mr. Seward has informed her Majcsty’s government, will be war; and in the presence of our Union the avalanche loosens its hold, and swift death and destruction thunder down the mountains, So, for long days and months, the Union has been amassing and concentrating its forces; 80 these orders of the War Department, if pro- perly and rigidly enforced, will consolidate and unite the North; and when, in a month’s time, the Union avalanche is loosed, we shall soon hear no more of the foul rebellion which has so long disgraced the country. The Retaliatory Orders of the Rebel Government Against Generai Pope and His Officers. The late stringent orders from our War Of- fice, defining the execution of the Confiscation act, passed at the last session of Congress, es- pecially the orders and measures adopted by General Pope and his officers since his assump- tion of the command of the Army of Virginia, have stirred up the wrath of the rebel govern- ment at Richmond to unmeasured denuncla- tions of our mode of warfare, and to a special decree of outlawry against General Pope and his officers. This decree (General Orders, No. 54) and the explanatory letter of Jeff. Davis (published in yesterday’s Huratp) assume the convenient character of a virtuous indignation, but which, measured by the standard of truth and even handed justice, only betrays the exhaust- less impudence and recklessness of the lead- ers of this rebellion. They say that, as the war has hitherto been conducted on the part of the United States, it has been marked by “savage cruelty against an unoffending people,” amd that we are now converting this warfare into “a campaign of robbery and murder against un- armed citizens and tillers of the soil.” This is the genoral charge; but it is levelled especially at General Pope and his officers, and particu- larly on account of the arrest by them of a number of rebel citizens, to be held as hostages against the assassination of our soldiers by se. cession bushwhackers. The “orders” in question declare that Gene- ral Pope and his officers are thus disqualified and not entitled to be considered as soldiers, and that accordingly, if captured, or any of them, they will be held in close confinement, and that, “in the event of the murder of any unarined citizen of this confederacy (Southern) by virtue or under pretext of one of the orders hereinbefore recited, whether with or without atrial, whether under the pretence of such a citizen being a spy or hostage, or any other pretence, it shall be the duty of the command- ing general of the forces of this confederacy to cause immediately to be hung, out of the com- missioned officers (General Pope and his sub- ordinates) aforesaid, a number equal to the number of our own citizens thus murdered by the enemy.” This is the rebel decree against General Pope and all the commissioned officers of his army; and in regard to it we dare say that the Gene- ral and the officers concerned will be rendered only the more vigilant in watching the move- ments of the enemy, only the more difficult to capture in camp or on the march, and only the more terrible in the decisive trial of battle. But how are we to treat the brazen effrontery of the rebel leaders in denouncing their right- ful government as guilty of “savage cruelty,” “robbery and murder,” “infamous bar- barities,” &c., when the blood of thou- | army of a million of men, and our rapidly in. sands of their innocent victims, slain | creasing iron-clad navy, a war from England under almost every form of savage | with the United States for Southern cotton and violence and torture, is crying to Heaven for vengeance? The commonest complaint from our soldiers—from Virginia and North Carolina to Arkansas and Missouri—bas been, that while standing guard over rebel property they have been liable to be shot down by rebel bush- whackers. Many good soldiers have thus been slain. It has been discovered, too, that inno- cent secession “tillers of the soil” by day are soldiers by night; and it was the experience of General Pope among such innocent characters in Missouri that frst induced him to try his peculiar repressive measures. They were emi- nently successful against the stealthy guerillas and nocturnal bushmen in the West, and the same pains and penalties appear to be working very well among the same customers in Vir- ginia. These guerilla operations, which have been recognized as within the system and “usages of war’ adopted by the rebel gov- ernment, embrace all the treacheries and all the atrocities of Indian hostilities, including bands of Indian confederates, and the scalping of our soldiers, killed or wounded in battle. It was only the other day, in Tennessee, that the Union General McCook, while passing along the road, sick and in an ambulance, was slain by rebels in am- bush—absolutely murdered—and with this intelligence, and from the same quarter, we were informed of the discovery of four mur- dered Union soldiers hanging upon the same tree. The catalogue of such rebel barbarities, particularly in our border slave States, would filla large volume. These “savage cruelties” are not only excused, but organized and encou- raged by the chiefs of the rebel government at Richmond; and yet they prate to us of “plighted faith” and the “usages of war.” In view of these melancholy facts, who can say that Gene. ral Popé has not discovered the most efficient method of dealing with those lawless instru- meats of this rebellion, who are “farmers by day and soldiers by night?” free trade is suggestive of too many risks and dangers, here and in Canada, Ireland and England, to be seriously thought of for a mo- ment. Lord Palmersion’s advocacy of non- intervention is thus amply justified without bringing into the account the American bread question, the anti-British designs of Louis Napoleon on this continent, and the grand idea of Russia of an American balance of power. But we are told that Louis Napoleon is the Power most to be feared as an insidious, ambi- tious and designing ally of Jeff. Davis; that the French invasion of Mexico, and the French squadron of iron-clads reported en route to Vera Cruz and Tampico, may suddeniy be turned into an offensive and defensive coalition with Davis and his confederates. All such con- jectures and theories as these, however, are preposterous. Louis Napoleon bas too many other red hot irons in the fire to risk the burn- ‘ing of his fingers in a movement to support this Southern rebellion. His finances, just now, are hardly equal to the task of sustaining him in his Mexican enterprise, and the manufactur- ing districts of France are not in the condi- tion nor in the mood for additional taxation. The Frengh Orleanist princes, late in the staff of General McClellan, are now in England, and their adherents across the Channel are neither contemptible in numbers or influence nor in- different to passing events. Garibaldi, dis- gusted with the delays of French diplo- macy, is stirring up the people of Italy to cut the Gordian knot of Na- poleon’s Papal protectorate at Rome; and in this small cloud there may be the clement® of a continental tornado. Russia has recog- nized the kingdom of Italy; and in this Gari. baldi may recognize a check upon Austria, in the event of an Italian armed movement against Rome and Venetia. These drawbacks to intervention, we think, will suffice to maintain the present neutrality of Louis Napoleon in regard to this civil war of ours. What he might do, with a “happy ac- cord” with England and Russia upon American affairs, and with Italy snugly tied fast by French diplomacy, and with the revolutionary elements of France all prosperously employed: we cannot undertake to say; but while Palmers” ton and Napoleon distrust each other; while Russia, upon the question of an American balance of power, is on our side, and while Italy is in commotion and France is uneasy and unsettled, and when our government has de- clared that it wants no foreign mediation, and will tolerate no foreign intervention, we can entertain no fears of an alliance between Louis Napoleon and Jeff. Davis. 80 we dismiss this whole subject of interven- tion. The great Powers of Europe have their hands full of their own affairs, and long before they will be relieved of their European embar- rassments the last pretext for intermeddling in ours will have passed away. Finally, in pre- paring an overwhelming foree by land and sea for the suppression of this rebellion, we estab lish the doctrine of Europ non-intervention. Tae Sensation Yestarvay.—Great excite- ment was caused in this city yesterday by the order of the War Department probibiting any person liable to be drafted from absenting himself from his county or State before such draft is made, under pain of being arrested and put on military duty for nine months, the period of the draft. Great numbers of people had made arrangements to go on business to Europe, some on trips of pleasure there, and many to go as commercial travellers to other States, or to go to the watering places and summer resorts. But this order spread conster- nation. The excitement was increased by the fact that all the steamships going to Europe and the West Indies wore visited during the day by the police, and many persons were ar- rested in default of passports. Even alicns were needlessly scared; for they might have provided themselves with the cer- tificates of their’ consuls; and the words of the order plainly declare that only persons “liable to be drafted” shall be = prevented leaving; and an alien is not] bipocrthenny orn voras wirm liable to be drafted. Several persons called bie int tinh ve omaPrno. afer hid " i >, Conn, Angrmt 5 onus for information. We sent to the offlce | a recticut hae four Fegiments in the feld Mn have three more this week, makius hor full quota of three years’ men. ‘She can raise seven regiments of niag momths’ mon, if alg od (0 GRR HIND Yyh Ae ag ing, of the Superintendent of Police and to the Marshal’s office to ascertain in what way it was imtanded ta'qairy the ardge into exgcution, Wi Wasuuvotom, August @, 1862. PROBABLE EXTENSION OF THE TIME FIXED FOR DRAFTING. ‘The impetus given to volunteering, under the influence Of the order for drafting three hundred thousand addi- tional soldiers, is remarkable. No doubt now exists that the call for three hundred thousand volunteers will be mot without resort to drafting any portion of them. Under theve circumstances it !# not improbable tho time fixed for drafting the remainder of that eall will be ex vended a few days, porhaps to Septembor 1, in order to compiete the organization of regiments begun under the call, and fill them exclusively with volunteers, The spirit of volunteering manifested during the last few days has made it a subject of serious conbideration whether the order for the draft of three hundred thou. sand should not be modified so as to admit volunteering instead, exeept where a draft shall be found indispen- sable. Already the Governors of some of tho States have requested to be allowed to fill thelr quota with volunteers within given time, and to order a draft only in such localities as may be backward tn fling thete quota. ‘This arrangement will probably bo made. ‘The recent orders to prevent the evasion of military duty are designed to operate on two classes of persona, viz.: Those who contemplate leaving tho United States for the purpose of evading their military duty, and those who leave thei rown State or place of residence and go into other States for tho same purpose. The object ts to compel every citizen of the United states subject to military duty to bear his share in supporting the government. Instructions have been prepared and will be issued on Monday to Military Commanianta, Marshals and polico officera respecting the mode of oxo- cuting the orders, so as to interfere as little as possible with individual pursuits and business, and limit the ope- ration of the order to cases of evasion. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES NOT SUBJECT TO DRAFT. Hote, as elsewhore, there has boon quite an oxcitoment to ascertain what classes are exempt from militia duty. A wrong idea has prevailed that the government em- ployos are subject to be drafted. There are in the Su- preme Court reports only threo decisions on this subject. ‘They all concur that clerks and other employes of the government, holding official positions by letters of ap- pointment by Cabinet officers, are not liable to militia duty. “ RECRUITING AMONG OFFICE HOLDERS, ‘The meetings of the clerks in the various departments for the organization of a battalion have proved failures: not because of any want of patriotism, or any disposition to skulk from danger or duty, but on account of the pre- vailing impression that ambitious individuals, who would themselves be the last to take the fleld, have devised these meetings for the purpose of making themselves conspicuous, as ardent supporters of the governmont, without incurring any riskor braving any peril. Many of the most intelligent and patriotic among the govern. meut clerks argue that the duties now devolved upop them are ossential to the maintainance of tho goyernment and the support of the armies in the field, and ridicule the idea of gentlemen expecting to retaio salaries of twelve or eighteen hundred dollars a year, while they are per- forming services which the government can procure at @ cost of only thirteen dollars a month. In the meantime, in some of the départments, the organization of military companies for a home guard, to be ready for any emor- gency, is quietly and unostentatiously progressing, with- out interference with clerical duties to be performed. In the State Department it is understood that an opportunity will be afforded for a display of patriotism, by allowing all who choose to volunteer, with the promise that they may rosume their offices after their term of service, and intimating that cach one who remains in office shall fur- nish a substitute in the army. This suggestion will pro- bably be acted upon in tho other departments. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOUNTY FUND. ‘Tho war spirit is fully aroused in this District. Contri- butions to the bounty fund are beginning to flowin. One of the committee received yesterday a contribution of five hundred dollars from a merchant of this city, who desired his name should not be divulged; but, although reckoned a man of moderate means, makes this offering ‘to the cause of the country as a sacred duty, SOLDIERS RELIEVED FROM HOSPITAL DUTY. — The following order follows up the recent general orders to send back to their regiments all officers and men fit for duty:— RNERAL ORDERS—NO. 21. , Hwapgcarters Mitiraky Dustrict or WasHINGToN, Wasurxaron, D. C., August 7, 1862. All soldiers now employed as nurses, cooks, attendants, or in any other capacities in the different who are uble to join their regiments, will be relieved from such duty and sent to their regiments. Conyalescents will be selected tor such duties, and no others, and these convaleecents will be relieved as soon us they have sufll- ciently recovered as to be fit for active duty. a, com- mand of Brigadier General WADSWORTH. Joun P. Susnnorwe, Assistant Adjutant General DISMISSED FROM THE ARMY. Some of the newspapers have erroneously published Major General Richardson, instead of Major J. H. Rich- ardson, of the Seventh Michigan Volunteers, as having been dismissed from the service. Lioutenant Bareut Vanderpoel, of the Fortioth New York Volunteers, has been dismissed. EFFECT OF GENERAL POPE'S ORDER TO FORAGE ON THE ENEMY. The cffect of General Pope’s order to forage on the ene- my has been to clean the whole country in front of his army of everything liablo to be seized under the order. Horses, cattle, grain, forage, bacon, provisions of all kiads, and even sheep and poultry, have been swept away and carriod beyoud the reach of our advancing forces, compelling them to rely exclusively upon their own supplies as they progress over a completely devas- tated country. THE ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL M’COOK. The murder of General MoCook, the news of which was received simultaneously with Jeff, Davis’ infamous order inrogard to the treatment of captured federal officers, has produced a deep feo!tng of resentment among the people here, and will go far towards exciting in the army and among the masses such a desire for retaliatory measures as will change the whole conduct of the war, and make it one of bloody extermination. . ARREST OF ALLEGED REBELS. Yoeterday morning one of the Georgetown police of- cors arrested Thomas Forney, on a charge of being a rebel and with having lately left the “Cornfed” army. He'wa9 delivered to the mititary authorities. Last night @ guard arrested Thomas Jenkins on th Navy Yard Jonkins is a blacksmith, and formerly worked in the Navy Yard, but left or was discharged about the time the oath of allegiance was administered to the employes, and yesterday afternoon he got into a dispute with a neighbor, in which he used some secesh sentiments, which caused bis arrest. DEPARTURE OF MR. CHITTENDEN Hon.-L. E. Chittenden, Register of the Treasury, left to-day for Vormont, for a few weeks’ respite ftom official dutios, that havo been more than qaadrupled since the breaking out of the rebellion. John A. Graham, Chief Clerk, has been appointed Acting Register in the absence of Mr. Chittenden. SENATOR WILSON’S RECENT LETTER. The recent letter of Senator Wilson has occasioned much amusing comment here on his effort to wrigg!e of ‘the hook upon which he was impaled. DEATHS OF SOLDIERS. ‘The following deaths of soldiers are reported:— ‘ Ber cemataainy Tastee fon Vincenne Forge, Company B, Pennsylvania. G, Eighty-fourth Penn- TANT Fiske, not described. MISSOURI MILITARY APFATRS, Dr. O'Reilly and Messrs Vogel and Blow, of St. Louis, have arrived hero as delegates connected with the future military operations in Missouri. MOVEMENTS OF HON. HORACE MAYNARD, flon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, was sorenaded fow nights ago at West Randolph, Vt., and mado a strong war speech urging rapid enlistments. Ho has appoint- ments to speak in all tho leading towns in Vermont. TOE ARREST OF HARRISBURG EDITORS, Tho facts attending tho arrest of tho publishers and editors of the Harrisburg Patriot and Union, are construed hore as a complete settlement of the question ef the acceptance of nogro regiments into the service of the United States. Their offence was dis» cournging oulistments by Inviting the organization of @ company of negroes. The arrest of these partics is indl- cative of the opinion of tho leading military authorities altogether adverse to the enlistment of negro soldiers. No nogro will be recotved as long as white éttt- gens can be found to fight the battles of the country.* THE PROCERDINGS OF THE WAR MHBTING. ‘The proceedings and speeches made at the recent war meeting at the Capitol are to be published in pamphict form for general circutation. ‘ ARRIVALS IN TOWN. { ‘Anumbor of members of Congress from different parte of the Union are hore on military business, Hon. Casgiya M. Clay is amgog other prominent visitorg