The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1862, Page 4

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We to-day publish further particulars relative to the recent battle at Cedar Mountain. Among other things it will be remarked that the rebels have begged per ion to bury their dead left on the field, plainly showing that they did not gain a victory. The resume of the operations of the Army of Virginia since the commencement of the month will be found very interesting, as also the sketches of some of the officers who have suffered from the conflict. Later news shows plainly that the rebels have retreated, and that General Pope has taken posses- Bion of the ground formerly held by them. The non-connection of the trains south of Balti- More last cvening prevented the arrival of our special messenger from the scene of the recent conflict under General Pope. We are therefore compelled to omit the full description of the bat- tle, usually furnished by our special war corres- Pondents, until to-morrow. The tidings from Northern Missouri are more flattering to the Union forces. Colonel MoNiel is apparently too much for the guerillas of that State. Porter’s band of rebels are reported to have deserted him and to have become scattered, several falling into the hands of our troops. General Morgan, Governor of the State of New York, bas announced the quota of the State, for the draft call, to be 59,705, of which 12,518 forms the portion allotted to the city and county of New York. General Buckingham, Assistant Adjutant General, has officially stated that “whatever volun- teer force above its ratable proportion shall be offered by a State, any time before the draft is ac- tually made, would be accepted by the War De- partment and credited upon the draft as a propor- tiorable reduc * With regard to county or district proportions, the State Executive alone can act. The same General calls upon the various Governors to enroll the militia immediately. Another order announces that recruits for old regi- ments wili be counted as part of the new levy, and the State credited therewith. The Judge Ad- ‘vocate's order will also repay careful perusal. Recruiting for the volunteer call appears to be very brisk. At Oswego it appears that fine men hhave to be refused, asthe regiments are full. In Kentucky the militia and cavalry are already en- rolled. on. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The anti-slavery war meeting announced to take pl it Dr. Cheever’s church was held last even- fing inthe schoolroom attached to the building. ‘Phere were not ovet forty persons present. The proceedings were marked by the utmost tamoness. Dr. Henry Hart, who receives some $2,500 for the purpose, very diligently defended the rights of the slave. He contended that emancip*ion is the only panacen for the evils now afflicting the coun- try,and hoped that the war would not be ended till every slave be free. Dr. Cheever was not pre- sent; but another gentleman, unknown to our re- Porter, presided. The meeting was devoid of interest in every way, and the only contraband present very heroically resigned himself to the arms of Somnus during the most interesting part of the exercises. Thirteen persons were yesterday arraigned in the Brooklyn City Gall, before Justice Boerum, of the Second district, Brooklyn, for creating a riot and attacking Watson's tobacco factory, on Sedg- ‘wick street, on Monday, the 4th inst. So much time was consumed in the examination of three witnesses that our report is necessarily short. Those witnesses proved the throwing of brickbats at the factory by an excited crowd, who also in- @alged in some very inelegant expressions; but all three having reached the scene after the disturb- ence commenced, we are yet in the dark as to who began it, The case has been adjourned to this day week. The Thirty-third regiment of Massachusetts, to ‘which are attached two companies of sharpshoot- ers—making in all over twelve hundred men—will Jeave Lynnfield to-morrow for the seat of war. Gen. Jim Lane’s “ one or more brigades,” to be @aised in Kansas, and Gen. John B. Floyd's “ten thousand," to be raised in Virginia, will probably take the field on cach side about the same time. ‘The Inst news from Dixie was to the effect that No more territory was to be given up. Simce that time over a dozen towns have been oceupied by Union soidiors in the heart of Virginia. The unter i and unwashed democracy go by Giferent naines in various localiti In Ohio lighammers,”’ in Miinois “butternuts,” in Kan- ns “jayhawheors,” in Kentucky “bushwhackers,” and in Tndinna “ copperheads,"? Indiana has three or four regiments above her quota of the fret call, and it is thought that Michigan will fill ber quota of both calls without Arafting. Nine thousand firs! 6 Austrian muskets have been sent to Ohio for the new volunteer regi- ments, Considerable new wheat has already reached the mills at Rochester, and is being converted into flour. A silver pitcher and two goblets are to be pre. sented to Gen. W. 8, Rosecrans, by the members of his staff, at Wheeling. Rey. Mr. Payne, of Rocheport, Boone county, Missouri, who was recently reported to have been robbed on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad of He had dropped the package, and it fell into honest $42,000, has recovered the whole amount. hands. The prompt measures of the government in ar- resting skedaddlers will materially lessen the va- lue of gold. Skedaddlers are informed that the Clifton House, on the Canada side of Niagara Falls, is full. Not only the hotel building, but all the out houses connected therewith, contain es many lodgers as can be stowed away. The One Hundred and Seventh New York regi- ment of volunteers, raised in Chemung, Schuyier and Steuben counties, will leave for Washington on Wednesday. The Postmaster at Philadelphia bad the oath ad- ministered to every man in his employ on the 8th inst. A large number of applications were made at the State Department in Washington on Friday and Saturday, for passports, all of which were refused. The citizens of Chicago who are exempt from draft will form themselves into a Home Guard. The government contract for 160,000 pairs of army bootees, deliverable in thirty, sixty and ninety at prices ranging from $1 87 to $2 20 per ir, was awarded on the 8th inst. The contract was divided up among some thirty-four manufac- turers of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The government also last week contracted for a large amount of foreign lead, to arrive from abroad, to the value of over $400,000. According to the °City Inspector’s report, there were 568 deaths in the city during the past week— an increase of 111 as compared with the mortality of the week previdhs, and 150 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 2 deaths of alcoholism, 3 of diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 105 of the brain and nerves, 2 of the generative organs, 13 of the heart and blood vessels, 115 of the lungs, throat, &e.; 6 of old age, 12 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 5 premature births, 241 of dis- eases of the stomach, bowels and other digestiv organs; 32 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 4 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 28 from violent causes. There were 423 natives of the United States, 8 of England, 88 of Ire- land of Germany, and the balunce of various foreign countries. The stock market was irregular yesterday, opinions being somewhat divided with regard to the character of the battle at Culpepper. Governments touched par, on the belief that the battle had been purposely brought on by Pope, in order to discover the whereabouts of Jack- son; but aiierwards they and the general list were low” ex, on rumors of a vent of later news, The market closed dull. Money was very easy on callat$a4. Exchange inactive at 12434 8 12634. Gold rose to 114, but closed at 1134 a 113%. The banks show a fu: ther © Of $2,451,743 in depo- sits, $672,959 in loans, and $558,579 in specie. The cotton market was firm yesterday, while sales were confined to about 100 bales. Though pricos were nominal, from the paucity of gales, yet we quote them stiff on the basis of 474¢¢. a 48c, for middling up- lands. Flour was heavy and gales moderate, closing at a deciine of 5c. a 10e. per bbl. for most deseriptious ‘Wheat was firm for prima red and other good shipping qualitics, while inferior grades were heavy and dull. The transactions were moderate. Corn was rather firmer and in fair demand. Prime shipping lots of Western mixod were mude at full prices. Pork was less buoyant and solos moderate at $11 25 a $11 37}; for mess, and at $10 for prime. Sugars were quiet and steady, with sales of 360 a 400 bhds., included in which were 160 New Orleans and the remainder Cubas, both within the rango of 8. @ 9c. Colle was quiet. Holders were unwilling to accept the terms proposed by pyyrchasers. Freights closed heavy and lower, especially to®iverpool, Wheat, in bulk and bags, was taken as low as 104d. a Vid.,and flour at 3s. To Londoa flour was rm 1OMd., . GA. % and wheat at 13d. To Glasgow dour was at a wheat at 13344. N The Battle of Cedar Mountain—Ge fal is Pope's Position—Push Forward’ Reinforcoments, * The late fight of Cedar Mountain, half way between Richmond and Washington, though an indecisive affair, may be set down asa sub- stantial Union victory. It was not a general engagement, but rather the prelude to the great battle which remains to be fought between General Pope and Stonewall Jackson. The results are bighly creditable to General Banks and his orps @’urmee, upon whom devolved the heat and burden of the fight. Against the superior forces of the enemy, in a strong posi- tion, and in ambush, a more reckless officer than Gen. Banks would have pushed his troops to certain destruction, and under a less skilful and clear-headed leader they would have been ignominiously put to flight. It will suffice that Gen. Banks, against very great disadvantages, maiatained his ground, and that the enemy, under a flag of truce, bas asked permission to bury his dead. Considering the strong position on the moun- tain side held by Jeckson, and the heavy forces under his command, it is perhaps fortunate that this collision with the advanced corps of Gen. Banks did not occur until late in the afternoon; for it appears that all the forces of Gen. Pope within saving distance would have been unequal to the general engagement which this fight, if opened in the morning, would have precipi- tated. We think that Gen. Pope has opened his campaign very skélfully. He has drawn together the bulk of his troops on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge, and has moved them forward from the front and rear of Washington so far down towards Richmond as to cut off Jackson from another raid into apd down the Shenandoah valley, and to compel bim to guard the road to the rebel capital while menacing our own. But here the question arises, will Gencral Pope as he stands be equal to a struggle with the whole army of Jackson, including the rein- forcements hourly coming up to him from Rich- mond? We have great faith in the ability of General Pope to avoid an unequal and disas- trons battle if not strong enough to seek an immediate general engagement. But Stonewall Jackson is an able officer. and, with the dis- covery that bis army is compeicat to defeat that of Pope, it will be difficult for the latter to avoid a battle beyond a day or two. The rebel leaders are well apprised of the value of speedy action on their part, and that if they are to save their sinking cause they must strike without further loss of time. If they can defeat General Pope they are encouraged by the idea of a triumphal march upon Washington; but if they wait until he is reinforced to any extent they know that their cause is lost. What, then, are we called upon to do? It becomes our duty immediately to push forward our reinforcements to General Pope by regi- ments, by battalions, by companies, by squads of thirty, twenty, or even ten men, when we have them in readiness, Let them be pushed ! forward to-day from every available point. | General Pope will know how to provide for , them. The gaps in his regiments and compa- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1862. nies will absorb thousands of men, and, though sent in broken doses, they will be counted in the quota of the State to which they belong. So let them be pushed forward at once, even in tens and twenties where there are no larger squads in readiness. Let us give General Pope at once an army which will enable him to make an end of that of Stonewall Jackson, and we may yet, before the expiration of August, hear the glad tidings of General McClellan’s occupation of Richmond. Sedition and Disunion at the North— Wendell Phillips and Horace Greeley. The disunion orators and the organs of treason and sedition at the North, leagued together fora common object, continue to ply their vocations with impunity, and are still giving aid and com- fort to the secession treason at the South. We recently adverted to a sketch of the speech of Wendell Phillips at Abington on the occasion of the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes of the British West Indies. We have now received the full report in the Boston Liberator, and find it infinitely worse than the abridged version. It is preceded, too, by @ speech from Garrison, and another from a Rev. Mr. Conway—the same man who tried to get up a revolution among the Germans in the West to supersede the authority of the President and make Fremont dictator, when Mr. Lincoln put down his foot and removed the Pathfinder from the command of the army in Missouri. Conway now turns up in the East, and he says Mr. Lincoln is a tortoise with an elephant on his back—the elephant being the army—and that it is impossible for him to go faster'than his nature will permit. Te got the shell upon his back because he was born in Ken- tucky, creation having stopped in that State when it got to the tortoise. He goes on to say it any man expects to make of Mr. Lincoln a leader who will free the country, he gives him fair warning that it is impossible. He says the man he wants to see in the Presidentia! chair is Fremont, with Hunter as Seeretary of War. Wendell Phiilips responds, and, adop the epithet of Mr. Conway, he says “the President may be honest—nobody cares whether the tor- toise is honest or not; he has neither insight nor prevision, nor decision.” “As long as you are keeping « tortoise at the head of the govern- ment you are digging a pit with one hand and filling it with the other—filling it up with the lives of your sons and the accumulations of your fathers. * * * Idonot believe in the government. I agree entirely with Mr. Con- way.” Such is the audacity of this Danton. But he does not stop even here. He goes on to pray that the rebels may succeed in bombard- ing and capturing Washington, in the hope that Lincoln might not survive it, and that even Hamlin might become President. He says tho abolitionists are to “pray for such blows as will arouse the mass of the people into systematic, matured, intelligent interference in the action of the government. * * I do not believe there is in that Cabinet—Seward, Chase, Stan- ton, Welles or the President of the country— enough to make a leader.” He calls on his fanatic followers to pray God to humble the nation by one blow, and to put despair into the hearts of the Cabinet. He even hopes that the President of the United States may be seen flying on horseback from his capital, in order that he may “return to that capital on the arms of a million of adult negroes, the sure basis of a Union that will never be broken.” Who isto be the leader of that army? Some black major general? By no means. It is none other than John C. Fremont, the Cromwell indicated by Conway to supersede “the tortoise.” Hore are the words of Phillips:—“What we want is some stunning misfortune; what we want is a baptism in blood to make the aching and bereaved hearts of the people cry out for Fremont, for an idea, at the head of the armies. Meanwhile we must wander off in the desert, wasteful mur- derers. Every life lost in that swamp is mur- der by the Cabinet at Washington. Every dol- lar spent is stolen from the honest toil of the North.” Thus, according to Wendell Phillips, Mr. Lin- coin and his Cabinet are wholesale robbers and murderers of the blackest dye, and his generals are as bad, and they ought to be overthrown by revolution—by “systematic, matured, intelligent interference by the mass of the people.” Tiere is an open proposi- tion for meeting rebellion and revolu- tion at the North. If such sentiments and language are not calculated to prevent en- listments, and are not in direct conflict with the order of the War Department, then words have no meaning. But it may be said that these speeches were made before the appearance of the order. The same is true of the placard printed by the publishers of a Harrisburg pa- per; and yet they have been securely lodged in the prison of the Old Capitol. So much, how- ever, cannot be said in extenuation of Horace Greeley, who yesterday published sentiments identical with those of Conway and Phillips. He says “the ominous silence of our govern- ment, Halleck’s Order No. 3, the cowardly ax sassination of a number of unarmed blacks by our soldiers at Norfolk (which is a cowardly lie of the Tribune), and @ hundred minor in- stances wherein our army officers and soldiers have done. the work of the rebels, give color to the statements that the Unionists will sell the negro slaves to Cuba, will kill them, starve them, work them to death,” &c. Again, in the same article, he says:—‘We have generals who hate and deepise the poor downtrodden vic- tims of generations of bondage. These we see Glearly can get little good out of them.” The object of these attacks is evidently to bring the army and the government into public con- tempt, and to prevent enlistments, because the President will not issue an emancipation proclamation. The conspirators, by these libels on the government, expect either to overthrow it or compel it to proclaim the blacks of the Southern States free and equal to the white man, which Greeley main- tains “would give an immediate reinforcement to the Union armies equal to a hundred veteran regiments and fifty well served batteries.” Now, here are the same sedition and disunion sentiments as uttered by Phillips and Conway, except that Phillips and Conway talk in an open and frank manner, and Greeley in a sneaking, dastardly, insidious fashion characteristic of him. The poison is the same in both. Phillips and Conway administer it without adulteration: Greeley disguises it with admixtures to de- ceive his victims. All three ridicule and insult the President and his Cabinet and generals. Last fall Greeley contended thai the South, upon the principles of the Declaration of Independence, | had a right to secede; and he publishet a song against the Union flag in which he called upon the people to oull it dgwa “as arag” and a flaunting lie.” He is now laboring day asd night in the same direction. How long will the people have to complain that only the radical disunionists are exempt from the opera- tion of the orders of the government, and that abolitionists and niggers may say and do what they please with impunity? Senator Wirsow’s Posraumous Derence.— The Senator from Massachusetts should have resfed satisfied with the mortuary disposition that we had made of him. Dead men, but es- pecially defunct politicians, are not expected te vindicate their past actions. If, however, they will get ont of their coffins and canvass the opinions of the world in their regard, they must make up their minds to hear things that are not pleasant. Thus, the communication which we published the other day from the Massachusetts Senator has elicited much in the way of comment that might not have been ut- tered if he had remained quietly where we had put him. Even the republican organs deal un- sparingly with bis explanations. Referring to the impropriety of his bringing in Senator Fes- senden’s specch to bis aid in the enlistment con- troversy, one of them says :— If any man in the Senate should have known the true numbers and condition of the Union armics it was Senator Wilson; and Mr. Feasenden, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, could have relied on no one if not on Senator Wilson for his grossly exaggerated ideas of the number ot soldiergin the field, “If we give to Senator Wilson, then, the full’benefit of his asseveration that he was deceived, and that he thereby deceived Congress aud the country, and was instrumental tn the adoption of measures that weakened the army and well nigh destroyed the nation the question comes up, who is guilty of the deception $ and is Senator Wilson, who is s0 easily dereived, a fit man to be chairman of so important a committee of Congress ? This is pretty bard; but it is surpassed in se- verity by what follows. Commenting on Mr. Json’s statement that bis “opinion and ac- tion were based upon the report of Secretary Cameron, the assurances of Paymaster General d and the estimates of Quartermaster neral Meigs, that we had from seven hundred to eight hundred regiments and seven hundred the same journal adds:— beon a suspicion (hat a stupendous con- aucing the gover: ment was covered up in rolls, flied ia the War Department, but eu which uo men ever answer in the ys be had “the assurance)" of ral of the United nd men wore 1 s. Now, Paym thousand men. re k 48 101 re frequeutly said not Cortainly we migut lay something of ¢ ns f seven hundred thousand men to Cabinut gasco- ney to pay off should 5 ces” of cer performing that duty. Will Senater Wilson ymaster Larned anticipate the public demand, and iu the discrepancy that is so manifest aud so start- 2 in cost to the government between the numbers reported and thore actually in the field was about thirty millions of dollars a mouth; and tris margin ts too wide (0 have escaped honest olservatun Jur a dav, much less for months. Nothing that we have said of Senator Wilson’s conduct on this question has approached the above in its sweeping imputations. Nay, when he came forward with a letter endeavoring to reconcile his speeches, we regarded it as an act of repentance, and dealt with it accordingly. The organs of his own party, however, appear to think that if he preserves his character for consistency he proves his official incompetency, while, if he loses it, he on the contrary estab- lishes his fitness for his position. We leave the contradiction to be settled between them. The Senator may well s&y, “Defend me from my friends.” Tue Josie Journats on Bank MaNacewent anv Frxance.—The World, a journal that came into existence by robbing the government, and became notorious by its managers palming off on the soldiers straw hats and linen panta- loons—all boys’ sizes at that—for regular army uniforms, is now zealously at work endeavoring to destroy confidence in the financial system of the government, and thus indirectly assist the treasonable designs of Jeff. Davis and Company. The financial system inaugurated by Secretary Chase, and approved by Congress, is an easen- tial portion of the plan of the government to put down the rebellion, and is its strong arm in this great contest to sustain itself. If public confidence in that is destroyed, and general distrust created, the administration will be weakened in its most vital point, and the rebel- lion made successful for the want of means to prosecute the war. It is equivalent to attack- ing the war policy of the President, and ona par with the negro and “ wet blanket” articles of. the Tribune, Post, Boston Liberator, and other abolition sheets. : If there was any result to their efforts it would be to embarrass the government; but, fortunate- ly, of the handful who ever look at that sheet, no one, except it is the secession sympathizers in our midst—who have been bears ever since the war commenced—ever heeds its clamor or endorses its ideas on finance. Fora leng time past it has Been advising our bank directors how to manage their institutions, and now comes out with @chapter on foreign exchange. The idea of a coneern that is obliged to turn and twist in all directions—first adopting the “pious dodge,” then robbing the government, next trying amalgamation, in order to keep itself alive—attenspting to advise our prosperous and money making banking institutions what to do, is certaimy refreshing even in this hot weather. In this light, what must we consider its efforts to dictate a financial system to the administration to carry a country so extended as ours, with all its varied interests, through a war like the one in which we are now engaged? Its financial ideas, like the straw hats and linen pantaloons, are all “boys’ sizes,” and, from their reception by our bank officers and the adininis- tration, we conclude that our bank and govern- ment officials so considered them; and this, we opine, is the cause of its escape frem the en- forcement of Secretary Stanton’s recent order. Evivences or THe Drsrerate Conprrtoy oF Jarre. Davis anv His Associatss.—The refusal of the rebels to give up our officers in exchange for those sent to them under the cartel recently agreed upon is a violation of good faith which proves more than mere want of principle. It shows that their leaders believe their cause so near a collapse that they are unwilling to part with the hostages by whom they expect to save their necks at the close of the rebellion. In their attempt to drive McClellan from be- fore Richmond they made their supreme effort, and the additional six hundred thousand men that we are about to put into the field annthi- late all further hopes of a successf\i! resistance. By holding our officers prisoners until they are compelled to sue for peace, the traitors who have been the main instigators of and leaders in this war hope to secure their personal immu- nity. Under no circumstances will the nation consent to exempt them from the punishment which they merit. Instead of attempting to carry out any further exchanges of prisoners with them, let the government strain every energy to bring the war to a speedy close, It is by fighting, and not by negotiating, that we shail soonest effect the Lberation of our offigere ‘Tue Evxouistt Inon-Craps.—It turns out that the large iron frigates built by the English Adntiralty have proved so unseaworthy that they will have to be lightened considerably of their plating before they can venture aay dis- tance. For this reason the Warrior, which be- longs to the Baltic fleet, has not been able to join the squadron. The English have to leara a good many lessons from us in the art of con- structing and managing iron war vessels. Should they be negotiating with France and’ Russia for a forcible intervention ou this side, as their tory organs pretend, they are likely to get more from us in that way than will suit their stomachs. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. ' WAR GAZETTE. OFFICIAL, porate Notice te Soldiers Absent From Their GENERAL ORDERS—NO. 100. War Deragtwent, Apsutaxt’s Genmnat's Orrice, Wasminaton, Pirat—So much of General Orders Ne 61, current series, as relates to the extension of sick leaves of absence is need hereafter be made. The order of the President, dated July 81 (General Orders Ne. 92), explains absenfo of surgeons’ certificates of disability required by existing orders, and regulations must be the army but also to the commander of the regiment, or in case of a staf officer to the commanding Geveral. beyond the time of their leaves, will not be allowed to draw pay until a court or commission, which will be determine whether there was suflicent cause for their absence. They will accordingly provide themselves with bility, certified by the proper medical authorily, as re- quired by existing ordera and regulations. on account of dise:s¢ contracted before they entered the service, will be Immediately musteret out, Those who wounds or disease contracted in the line of their duty, will be reported to the Adjutant General of the army tor fit for full service; for this class of oilicers Com rovided pensior Coumnissioner of Pensions, who is jndge of the sufficiency of evidence in support of such claims, aud who furnishes hen an officer returns to his command, after having overstayed hig leayo of absence, he may be tried mission may de appointed by the cermmanding officer of his division, army corps or army, as the case way be, to was absent from proper cause; and if there should be found to be such proper cause, he will be entitled to pay, sion shal be sent to the Adjutant General of the army for the approval of the Secretary of War. Such commission sioned officers. Sirth—When troops are serving ip army corps or an cate of a regimental or brigude surgeon till the same has been approved by the medica} director of such army certiGcate until he has made a personal examination of the applicant, or received a favorable report from a medi- amination, and if when such personal examiuation it shail be found that the certificate of disability was given giving it will be reporte! (o the Adjutant General of the army in order that he may be dismissed from the serviee. army corps or separate army, applications for leave may be made to the Adjutant General of the army; but, ex" will be granted unless the applications be accompanied by a certificate of the same character as that described Eighth—In all cases of personal application for leave of absence made to the Wer Department the applicant wilt this city. By order of the SECRETARY OF WAR. Corpse on Leave. }, August 11, 1862. } hereby revoked, and no application fer such extensions what may be considered good cause for the forwarded not only to the Adjutant Genera: of Second—Offcers absent from duty without leave, or ordered on their return to their post or command, shall a fuli description of the nature and cause of their disa- Third—Ofticers of volunteers who are absent from duty have been absent more than sixty days cn account of rge, in order that their places may he filled by —Apptications for pensions must be made to the nd regulations relating thereto. by a court martial for this as a military offence, or a com- investigate his case and to determine whether or not he during such absence, The proceedi: of such commis- will consist of not less than three nor over five commis army, no leaves of absence will be granted on the certifi. corps or army, and no medical director wi!l endorse any cal officer appointed by him to moke snch personal ex- without proper cause, the name of the medical officer Seventh—Where officers are not serving in a division, cept in very extraordinary cares, no leaves of absence in Ceneral Order No. 61. be examined by a medical officer assigned to that duty io ED. TUWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. Organization of Voluntcers in the Dis. trict of Columbia. ‘War Deparrwent, WAsuixcion, August 11, 1862. _ Ordered, first—That Brigadier General Wadsworth be ‘and he is hereby authorized to raise and organize one or more infantry regiments of volunteers in the District of Columbia, to serve for three years or during the war; under the rules and regulations of the War Depart" ment. Second—That the volunteers so raised and organized shall be entitled to and receive the bounty authorized by the act of Congress in the same manner as State vo- lunteers. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. GENERAL NEWS. Wasmnotox, August 11, 1862. SUPPLEMEMTARY ORDER FROM THE WA DEPART- MENT. ‘The following additional order has been issued in re- lation te those parties endeavoring te leave the country before drafting takes place: — Tn default of giving bail the parties arrested are to b taken to the nearest post or military dopot and placed» once on military duty. THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC AND THB DRAFT OF TROOPS. Intelligence has been received here that the Army of the Potomac is rejoicing over the recent orders for six hundred thousand more troops. It is regarded by eff. cers and soldiers on James river as a proof that the gov- ernment is now in earnest. It was never doubted that the people were. The now order bas infused into the whole army a bopefuiness and confidence which it never before felt. They had seen that when the rebels began their conscription our government stopped recruiting, and that when the rebels concentrated their forces ours wore divided. This was dispiriting. The Army of the Potomac was melting under the influence of diseases contracted in the swamps of the Chickahominy, the supports promised and expected were withbeld, and decimated by disease and battie the little band of heroes were left to stand by themselves the bront % the battle with five times their numbers. Now they lee; that the government 1s caring for them, and they will soon be able to go forward and accomplish their destiny, It is regarded a8 unfertunate that areserve of two bua dred aod Gfty thousand men was 008 kept in preparation to fill up the corps which were in the fleld. Eveo vow nearly one third of the officers and menareabsent 3 they can be brought back, and tho regimente filed upr the Generals are confident thoy can bivowac tn Richmend in @ fortnight. CAPTURES ON THE POTOMAC. ‘The Freeborn arrived at the navy yard yesterday afternoon bringing twenty. five prisoners, five satiboass, @ number of cances and a lot of merc bandise, which were capsured on Friday and Saturday pights’ last, near Biack- eston’s Islands. On the boats they found about 200 bushels of wheat, @ large num be sf sacks of salt, sixty thonsand segars, three chests of tea, boxes of boots and shoes, handkerchiefs, pins, needles, thread, &c. ; quini morphine, opium and other medicin trunk contai Ing percussion caps, @ lot of gray cloth for rebel officers uniforms, &c, These prisoners have been engaged in regular commerce between Maryland and Virginia, taking over salt, &c.,and bringing back wheat. ARREST OF MRS. COLONEL PIPER. On Saturday last the wifo of Colonel T. s. Piper, of the rebel army, was arrested at the Navy Yard, aud is now in the custody of the Provost Marshall, At the time of ber arrest several letters from her husband were seized, ARRIVAL OF PRISONERS. Among the prisoners brought to the city on Saturday night and lodged in the Old Capitokwere Thomas R. Love, David Fitzhugh and Williams, of Fairfax Court House, for refusing to take the oath of allegiance: and Colonel Chorles Lee Jones, late of thin city, and Major Alfred Moss, @f Fairfax Court House, aid to Gen, Ewell, both taken prisoners by Dayard's eavairy, near Orange Court House, EUPPORT FOR THE FAMILIES OF VOLUNTEERS, ‘Tnetead of calling upon the clerks in the Departmentat, ‘yoluuteer, they haye been galled upon to coptrigute tq ee a % a cL LO, fund for the support of the families of volunte-ts in this district. About thousand dollars was raised for this purpose in the Post office department to-day. Ali the government employes are expected to subreribo liberally to this fund. 4 BANKING ROUS® OFOsED. Am alleged bogus banking copcerm, denonvimted the Mercantile Bank of Washington, D. ©., which hes beem patting in cirewia¢ion a large amount of small notes, was closed to-de by Cone! Baker, the chief government de fective, by authoriy of the goverumeat. ARRIVALS FROM NEW ORLPANS, Among the arrivals a’ Willards to-nig8vare Hon. Re- verdy Jobnson, just retarned from his mttsston to New Orleans, and Judge ©. Rose \ius, aad Dr, D.% Gitiman, of New Orieana VHE CORPORAL AND SHE PRESTDERY. While sue army lay befor e Yorktown the rebels had g small work which cause much as@oyance Lo ouw work mea, and Generai MeClellaa ordered @ dash to be made upon it, with 4 view to ascertaia its strength and itseur- roundings, ead, i possible, wo carry and destroy the work, Accordingly @ company of sixty men was de- tailed from one of our bravest reginaynts for this despe- rote undertaking. On the might appointed—for it bo@ been determined to make a ight atta k—the men wors drawn up io frons of the camp, fe a colt, drizzling raim, awaiting the order to march, whem « private of another company came up tothe captain amd said, ‘Captain C. | there ts one mam in your company who bis a0 file closer, can’t I go?’ The captain @:pressed his willingness, provided his own captain would consent. ‘This was soon obtained, and the volunteer was in his place in the ranks. The attack was made; the rebels driven from their work, but not without loss, for one- third of the brave men wore left on the Geid as the rest rushed forward upon the enemy. Our frieed escaped, and upon his return was presented with @ corporal’s che- vrons. Through all the fights about Fair Onlss be was one of the foremost, aud at last received a ball which entored bis wrist and passed up into his elbew, shat- termg the bone and tearing the fee in @ horrible manner; yet not a murmur bas beer heard from him. He was sent toone of the hospitals in Washington, and is now able to go about with his arny im spléoters. Disabled from the use of a mustet, and sti anxious te sorve his country, be applied fur a furlough to go to bis native State and raise a company of volunteers, hawing one arm left, with which he could wield a sword; bat red tape could not allow it, and instead of mecting with aay sympathy or encoursgoment, Order No. —, prohibiting furloughs, was thrust at him, and he was told if the Governor would commission him be would be discharged. The Goveruor will not commission unleas ho raises the men, and thus the poor fellow is kept in the hospital tilt such time as the surgeons choose to discharge him as @ disabled soldier, A this was a case not within the meaning or intent of the order prohibiting furloughs, afriend who had known of his bravery and daring ap- plied to the President to ask his interference. ‘The Presi- dent expressed deep sympathy for him, but declined'te cut the red tape which binds our government together. He said, the Corporal’s case is a hard one, and reminds me of a story told by Judge B., of Iilinois, of the officers of some county town tn Ireland, who met and resolved: First, to build a new jail, second, to build it out of the old ong; and third, to keep the prisoners in the old jail till the new one was built, And thus the couhtry loses the services of as brave @ soldier as she has in her ranks, anda true man is kept caged in the hospital while pant- ing to be ix the field. INDUCEMENTS FOR VOLUNTRERING IN THE NAVY. As the military draft is goon to commence, it is rea sonably supposed that men familiar with the sea, such aw New Englaud fishermen, will prefer to enter the navy, especially as strong indyeoments are presented in the form of prize money, of which recently lang? amounts have been procured. Among the latest captures is the Memphis, worth $500,000, by the Magnolia, with @ crew of only seventy men, After deducting three-tweatioths for the commanding officer of the fleet and of the capturing vessel, the remainder will be ap- portioned among the officors and men. The law also provides bounties for the destruction of the euemy’s vessels in action, The papers of the Memphis were received at the Navy Department to-day. ‘Among them {3 a note addressed to Captain Cruikshanks, commanding that British steamer, by Nathaniel Lovin, of Charleston, accompanied by the gift of a chair, which the writer says adorned the breakfast room of George Washington. This chair will probably be sold with the other effects of that vessel at the port of New York. ACTIVITY AT THE RECRUITING STATIONS. The news from ail the loyal States shows a great impe- “tus in recruiting. Iu counties where volunteers were coming into the ranks at the rate of only five or ten per day, they are now coming by fifties and hundreds. It is believed that the whole of the three hundred thousand volunteers called for will be made up ‘by the 16th instant, without a resort to drafting inany State, except, perhaps, Maryland. COMMUNICATION WITM VIRGINIA. The communication with Virginia from here is stilt kept up by the Chain Bridge. The farmers and market people thus make sales and procure supplies, using passes granted by the military authority, and undergoing the ordeal of sontries and gyards, RECRUITING UPON FALSE PRETENCES. The following correspondence relates to an ingeniow device of parties of a neighboring State to raise recruit in Pennsylyania:— Assistaxt Apsvrant Grxmnat’s Orrtce, August 11, 186% Brigadier General Bucntxemast, War Department: Geyunat—Has any authority b iven by your depart ment to raise a “Bucktail briga of Peonsylvants troops? Very respect(ully, THOMAS M. VINCENT, Assistant Adjutant Gens Major Tomas M. Vincent, A. A. G.:— Mason—Authoritics to individuals to raise troops have for along time been refused, and | may safely say that no authority of the kind referred to bas been granted. Certainly cot to my knowledge. C. P. BUCKINGHAM, Brigadier Gencrai and A. A. @. Wan Derantuent, August 11, 1861. PROMOTIONS IN THE OLD REGIMENTS, A strong feeling prevails in the old regiments agaings officers who are absent from their regiments and em, ployed in making arrangements to promote themse! es above their more meritorious comrades remaining in the field. THS GALE OF POSTAGE STAMPS TO SOLDIERS. By epecial orders just issued from the War Department the attention of sutiers and all others concerned i di- reoted to the section of the act of March 3, 1855, whieh provides that it shail oot be lawful for any postmaster or other person to sell any postage stamps or stamped en- velopes for & larger sum than that indicated upon the faco of such postage stamp, oF for any larger eum tham that barged therefor by the Post Office Department, and that’ any person who shall vieiate this provision shal! be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, Shall be fined im apy sum wot lees than ten dollars or mer® thao Ove hundred dollars, The Fanerai of General McCook, Cincinnati, August 12, 1862. General McCook’s funeral was an imposing affair. The attendance was large The Statement of the Philadelpbia + Press, that the General was shot while kneeling begging for mercy, 1s denied by Captain Bont. The oral's Ade jutant says be was kueeling, assieting the driver to ma- oage the frightened horses The Jura En Route to Quebee. Farner Port, Auguat 11, 1862. The steamsh'p Jura passed this point at forty-five minutes past oue e'clock this morning, en rou: to Quebes. ‘The Jura reporta that she passed, off Cape Chatte, as six o'clock yesterday evening, the steamship Nova Seo- tian, bound to Liverpool, Reoresino ov tik Nicaragua Rocre.—1t will bo seem tbat tho route to California and Oregon, via Nicarsgna, is to be reopened in October next. The steamship America, of the M. O. Roberts line, wilt sail for San Joan doi Norte on the 26th of that month, and after connecting with the Moses Taylor, at San Juan dei Sur, the paseongars wilh be conveyed direct to Sau Francis, Coxpvct ov Post Orricm Osviciaus 1x THe Pameaea Cot. aon Movewent.—Mr. Maurice Lewis Sarguol, of No. 49 Nasean strect, having occasion yesterday to purchase one dollar’s worth of three cent posinge stazaps, sent bis boy’ to discharge this duty, and gave him e five dollar logat | tender, Tho , having stated his message, was re, fused the qnmutity of stamps he applied for uniess he took the whole five dollars. We areata lors to under stand why the partion referred to at the Port OMler should not have ¢omplied with the request of Mr. Samuel, and be the iret to set an example in the present coinaye moves Arrivals Departures, ARRIVALS. BacoA—Brig Faustina—W Smalley, O Vives, Pont av Piatt—Brig Porto Plain—Mr Lithdow, Mr B fe Villanrie BrAvront, NC—-Stentaghip Empire Cit Anaistant Quartormastera clerk; Capita army ptain Nonans aud servant, U 8 Ry Biovens; also two Sisters of Mercy, and 11 oRlor® ‘Vuited States eyorcship Marcia Groeutoat, ' ‘aptain Lorin ewart, Unite