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ILITARY BUDGET. ——_.—___ man’s bead on his lap. After taking his fri Tue Loxvon Truzs Lerrens ynox THE Sourn. to the hospital, he thought the time had come NG STAR. ‘The special series of ‘Letters from the South,’? MUSERENT. ‘What Mr. Arneld Harris Thivks about It. The Baltimore Exchange (secesh) of this morn- es ‘i dir 1188. try an escape, as in the confusion there were nj now being published in the London Times, are | ing says : QPP FELLOWS’ Ha WASHINGTON CITY: We won| sadhchind tp Provock, Micshat ox | Bchody Gut. MOUE tis gun Gnd Wacstod roel nok etuae ty winner menece Russell, LL.D,| Weare to copy the following letter CONINUED SUCCESS! WRIDAa 4 - Avgust 23, 1861. | Porter to state that citizens of Alexandria can, for | Wtd, up aravine. After getting a consi Barrister-at-Law, but by Mr. N. A. Woods, the amakive Gebel Minsir Go papee at BITRA ATTRACTION! the present. receive passes from Brigadier General }| distance from the battle-field, he threw away hi} gentleman who esccompanied the Royal Prince Sm aerae ‘of Col. Cameron : Senivace san Rabeieanane a UF" The new Dollar Weekly Star, fuller than | W.B_ Franklin, eommanding there, to come up | Un and cartridge-box. The uniform of the ball fn his Americcn tour, and embodied his corres- Ricumonp, July 29, 1961. caupaeee. pot ever of Metropolftan news and gossip, and choice | to Washington and return home. talion was cotton pants of the mixed color k: pondenee thereabout ina volume. At lesst,such | Drax ——: You will tee all sorts mabe pee 7 THIS (Friday) EVENING gone Mterary reading, is now on our counter ready for GENERAL M’CLELLAN’s STAPF. 8s pepper-and-salt, and a red shirt. Under thii js the statement of the Liverpool Post, by way of ol Le ai prchended on the battle held ‘key and i 7 ; delivery to the public. Embraced in its enter- H ters Army of the Patemes red shirt Johnson had a checked cotton correction after attributing the first ‘(Letter from sh yon to ray the true version given, and at The continued success of Youve has in- taining contents are the following articles: Vashington, August 20, 1961. 5 He now changed these, by putting the ch the South” to Mr. Russell. the same time have the fac’s herein mentioned . oes ‘sity. ‘They will tree a new * moat lattice, bysn vvtable mani Prat | OtNeral Onder, No.1 wnat death i he wee ereested rw’ dcerter = i] 7" The steamship Sonquchanaa e now a the | Bebiobed Angrom ard, myweif wes nat WkcR | programs every neh this week Heel Joke ‘of a Chicago Fire Zecave tick: ko In accordance with General Order, No. 15, of | st#nt death if he was we Tr. Naiex Szrmove 1x New Acts. Deore open at 7 o'clock, performance oommere| ™RGmisioe TWENTY FIVE CeNTs 2 OC D. Englishman's Philadelphia navy-yard ready for sea, and await- ing orders, her broken shaft having been re- placed by a new one. She carries twelve 8-inch broadside guns, three traversing guns, one rifle 12-pounder, and two boat howitzers, 12 and 24- pounders. U7 Gov. Morgan, of New York, bas issued a proclamation urging ell good and loyal citizens to use all means in their power to sustain the credit of the State and of the national govern- ment, as well as furnish an ample response to the late call of the President for men to crush the rebellion. U7” Wednesday afternoon, asa North River boatman while grappling for an anchor near New York city, hauled up the skeleton of a human be- ing with a rope and stone attached to the neck. Upon reaching the surface the rope broke, taking with it to the bottom all save the skull, which heard the firing all day on Sunday, and tra away from it in a northwest direction. At nigh he took two shocks of wheat and made a bed, which he slept soundly, and was awakened the rain on Monday morning. He shortly a! wards reached a Quaker settlement in Loudou)| county, where he found a haven of rest, bein; Kindly taken care of for some weeks. Bein; anxious to reach his home, he left Loudoun oj| Friday last and came by way of Harper's Ferry t¢ this city, where he is waiting for a pass to enabl him to go over (jp roads without interruption, bh having no funds to defray his expenses by rail Mr. Johnson says he did not receive one cen of pay whilst in the Confederate service. H says that Loudoun county is devastated, as if! had been overrun by locusts. The horses ani ‘wagons have all been seized, and the grain an¢ of the American war, Rus- | August 17, 1861, from the Headquarters of the a —- id he jonten Times. Army, I hereby assume command of the Army of gbly interesting and important milli budget; comprisi serving i = ae bo eg = Springirla, Me < ftom a Workington ) e jeath of eo yon; of Bull Run; The condition ofthe army hospi. | Northeastern Virginia, in the valley of the She- tals; Tressury Extension; Young Men’s Chris- nandoah, and in the States of Maryland and Del- tien Association; Arrivals of Confederate pris- | aware. oners; Melancholy suicide at the Netional mand Bote | of the new Police Commission- | _T»@ organization of the com oti er ers, and refusal of Mayor Berret to take the oath | 80d brigades will be announced hereafter. of allegiance: Examinationsat the jail; Meeting | The following named officers are attached to of the Board of Trustees of Public Schools; the Staff of the Army of the Potomac: Dispeattion of the mutineers of the regiments; | “Major S, Williame, Anaistant Adjutant General. Executive, military, and departmental appoint-| Captain A. V. Colburn, Assistant Adjutant Loran Plenee thts removals; ane rs in | General. ortress Monroe, Cairo. Missouri, and Western yt .B. inspector 1. Nitginie; Movement ia Fairfax’ and along the Pasay ries t= noe tions down wer ee een Captain N. B. Sweitzer, ist Cavalry, Aid-de- Latest telegraphic dispztches from all reerters; camp. —— perenne, aes cece pe Aertoed Captain Edward MoK. Hudson, 14th Infantry, | 3 oy ee: ning after the battle, and proceeded to fax Court House, where on Tuesday morning, we waited the arrival of the advance of the Confed- erate army; sought out the commanding officer, told him our business, and requested bim to for- ward a written application to it us to cross the line He forwarded it to uarters, and bat Dhetrone a thir aw A My. It bangs refusal of our request, we mi sent as pelesapenae Richmond. aK ON LUARDS Bw no Ty ‘Troprn ing the Ei eyeiaca Pa bernn oF evarmmne” the wag S* ecTAc) ES LOST.—' mor near the 22d s ANDUM 8 precad are hovel ‘will not openly and manfully ask for their other Prieoners on sny terms. I bave no complaints to make, though [ have been a prisoner several days. One thing is certain, that if | had known that Government at a bad determined to carry on this war ling to the old ssvage principle of no exchange of prisoners, no flags of of reosiving tue shove note. reward i will be paid upon with several columns local news, general intelll Aid-de-camp. other provisions carried off, barely leaving tem| was secured. bap ee I pri en gg pe yn out, even leaving the book and papers at this office, euts St” J 4 he le —— : ¥ faces wn et Pneeele, 8 geet waacosun. vag righ aes, where lott at! artes religous D> Last Tuesday morning the wife of Prof. with me on the trip to the battle-field and over it two days after the fight. I wish sll the North who have sent forth their best men to invade the South, could have witnessed the scene. In my bumble opinion no more fighting would be done. For miles before we reac! the field dead wile pata tortie revwra to Bask > Yard This is just the paper above all others for per-| Majo: A. J. Meyer, Signal Officer. Sons sojourning in the National Metropolis to Major Stewart Van Vilet, Chief Quartermaster. scad to their friends at a distance Price only | Major H. F. Clarke, Chief Commissary. @hree cents per copy, or $1.00 per annum; postage Surgeon C. 8. Tripler, Medical Director. Mitchell died very suddenly in an apoplectic fit, Her husband bad just departed for Washington toenter upon his duties as Brigadier General, when she was stricken down, and continued in- wavy rinp. Arrival of the Yankee, and other steamers—Rifle gun Practice, $c. Last evening the steamer Yankee (flag ship bodies were strewed along the road; five in one stam: 5.6.B Ch: Ineer. came up to the Yard for repairs, having injured} sensible until ber death. spot, three in another, two stalwart Zounves in Srepald by stamps when so srranged. rae T (ao mie Guha Tap daca her rudder on a shoal off Pocomoke river, a weel 17> Tha Union Defense Commilice of New | full uniform. swollen to the size of Faleta’ and Spirit of the Merning Press Engineer : or two since. The command of the fidills York bave made a report, stating their expendi- tures at $988,298 24; ald of regiments $531,709 37; arms and ammunition $226,599.24; ald to families B230,000; leaving $11,602 of the $1,000,000 not ac- counted for ffi the report. ————— ee U7~From J. Shillington, Odeon Building, and from Hudson Taylor, 334 Pennsylvania avenue, we have early copies of Harper’s Magazine for September, a number of extra attractions. Also, from Shillington, we have the superb September number of the Atlantic Monthly. blacker than Othello. Close by, a young and fine-looking officer just bresthing his had been there two days without help | The Southern army first buried its own deed, but, in the meantime, sent all through the woods bi ing for the wounded, and behaved with the ut- most kindness to all The reports of barbarities to the wounded are all false. The sleughter was immense. | passed through one small field where 400 Northern men were buried that day, and the men were still at work by moonlight. We were confined twenty-four bours in the same prison with thirty-three officers Among them was Col. Corcoran. They have no chance of release until the Government at W ashi: recognizes the Confederacy as @ belligerent in the fullest sense. That this must come is inevi- table ; not only a belligerent, but a very pune. cious one atthat. Some of these officers told me ‘The Intelligencer argues that if, according to Captain C. P. Kingsbury, Chief of Ordnance. act of Congress, the President should by procia- Brigadier General George Stoneman, Volunteer ‘mation close the ports of the seceded States, there service, Chief of Cavalry. ‘would be no relaxation whatever of the blockade Brigadier General W. F. Barry, Volunteer ser- The Hepxdi:can aszerts that, ss soon as the war vice, Chief of Artillery. is over, Norfolk will be taken possession of by Gzo. B. McCietian, northern emigrants, who have been heretofore re- Major General U.S. Army. Pelled by the institution of slavery. “CLAIMS” TO MILITARY COMMANDS. - “ eat 2 3 According to some of the newspapers, three or THE NEWS HERE. four gentlemen are being urged on the Executive A Szxsarion is Newsrarrrvom —We've an | fF @ppointments to Brigadier Generalships, on ‘army of professional writers for the press in Wash- | tb ground that they have been more successful ‘Ington—perhaps a hundred times as many as are | han others In raising volunteers for the war. to be found in any other city in the world of like | While we by no means alm to detract from the population. The occurrence of the slightest un-| Public gratitude to which they are entitled for devolves upon Capt. Rowan of the Pawnee, row flag ship of the squadron. The Yaukee also brought up a couple of the launches recently sent down with 12-pound boat howitzers for service it the bays and fnlets. Last night she picked up darkey, endeavoring to cross the river ina skiff near Potomac Creek, and brought him up to thy Yard. He states that his master, in Maryland ordered him to go over and work on the batterie on the Virginia shore; and also that there ar about 700 Confederates in the vicinity of Aqui: Creek. The Yankee this morning discharged he heavy guns and was hauled up on the ways,when she will have a new rudder put in at once. The vessel isstil! in good order otherwise, and will i Pe cawwens penis tecceten os them away. BaNieey. Gx! wa,” i” On Wednesday Messrs. Thomas J. Carson, msebitieen: weiss k : William N. Pegram, and Walter M. Kelly. Merchants of Baltimore, were arrested at Harris that they were tired of fighting for a Government soaa jain the otiina nqsta burg upon the charge of being Confederatespies. who gave Mem three chances, for, deaih, vie: to WANTS. 3 i. . a in jail. ri th tobe to die if wor usual metter in public affairs naturally sets the | Such paisa os at that they by no The Mount Vernon also came up last evening, ey are now in ja! went led om e Held. to venene adh — " ANEED, NN DIATELY, : Rive in motion, and the public places ef the city | Means serve to make it plain that they are there- from Fort Washington. All are well at the For.| J” Two new steamers are being bullt !n Eng-| Chance forlife, and thet fe ren and escape from W aa SA bs. Ra Swarm with them, {n consequence, for an hour or | fore better qualified to make the best Brigadier | '1 4. good spirits Jand for the U. 8. Government, which are to be| the battie-field. For hanged they will be toa | 9823 St___Merohant Tailors. a avenue, fo, as the bees gather on and around the hive at | Generals. What the service urgently requires is, plaféd with steel of four inches thickness, ren. dering these vessels shot and bomb proof, and protecting the boilers 17> Farmers report the appearance of frost in the vicinity of New Bedford, Mass., on Tuesday night, in sufficient quantities to be scraped by the hand [> Five members of the New York Seventh regiment left New York yesterday for Virginia, where they are to be engaged as drill instructors of new volunteer regiments. The propellers Tigress, Capt. Luke League, and Edwin Forrest, Capt. Thomas Tolley, of Baltimore, arrived last night, having been char. tered by the Government to serve in the transpor- tation line. The J.T. Pusey.“Capt. John Hona, of Philadelphia, also came up; the owners being desirous of disposing of ber to the Government, for the same purpose, and was this morning lay- ing his case before the authorities. The Tigress towed up two schooners captured some timesince by the fleet, and since used as coal tenders to the flotilla. Quite a number of visitors were at the battery this morning, witnessing experimental firing with a new rified six-inch cannon, ‘under the super- vision of Capt. Walnright. These guns require five pounds of powder, and throw a shot weigh- ing ebout seventy-three pounds. The practice this morning was simply to test the carriage, &c., the range having already been established, 2s in the case of that of the Ice Boat, which threw a ball from the yard over on to the Virginia shore, a distance of 7,000 yards. These splendid guns are belng manufactured with great rapidity, four now occupying lathes in the machine shop from which the engines for the Pensacola were recently turned out. All the lathes in the ordnance de- the beating of @ tin pan. Last evening, when it | the best brigadiers sbtainable. became known, per telegraph, that the usualday’s | Nine-teaths of the company and regimental off- ‘bundles of New York papers destined South had | cera who behaved 0 Sbockingly at Bull Run ob- been seized In Philedeiphia by direction of the | talned their several commands upon the principle Government, the hive swarmed aa bardly ever} of having succeeded in inducing their men to Defore, and buzzed, buzzed, and buzzed over the | enter the service ; and nine-tenths of the officers of wonder until it had been turned, twisted and | the for-the-wer regiments who bave resigned “transmagnified” into sll inconceivable ehapes— } since the battle, obtained their positions Precisely some comical, and others hideous, and all of | on the same principle. if it be prudent to clothe bugely elaborated proportions. ® man with the responsibilities of a Brigadier To-day, however, the mystery Is unfolded. Generaish!p because he has raised many men for The putborities responsible for the Proper con- | the service, it is but just to select our Major Gen- uct of the war for the restoration of the Union, | eralson the ground that they have raised more Bave at length come to comprehend the fact that] men than most of the applicants for brigadier- they may no longer safely permit the country’s | abips basing their “claims” on such a plea And, enemies with arms tn their bands to be openly | if one aspirant can be found who has raised vastly wided and abetted by ite enemies with pens and } more men for the war than any other aspirant for type in their hands, worth more to their cause (in | command, of course he is entitled, by parity of ‘the way of raising recruits, money, and Popular } reasoning, to demand that Mejor Gen. McClellan Sympathy for their treacherous schemes) than an} shall stand aside and permit him—the most euc- edditional srmy of fifty thousand well appointed § cessfal ratser of volunteers—to be commander-in- troops So, they have determined hereafter taf chief of the department of the Potomac. Protect the public Interest against thepreat danger} If our officers, great as well as small, are ‘thereto, involved in the treacherous use of the J to be made on such principles, all our battles may public press in the present crisis. Orders werd | be expected to be Bull-run affairs. given to prevent the circulation of notorious traitor New York newspapers where their treache- certainty, uniess the Savannah prisoners are ex- changed. Of this I bave no doubt My regards to all friends We arg well treated; it ie so with all the prisoners here. Yours truly, A. Hanns UP'Selt is selling at six to seven dollars in Richmond at present ee Se Svenue, ANTED TO RENT—A mod sized f W ‘sied DWELLING HOUSE. aiken OM M.,"¥95 6 street, eu 23-2 URNISHED HOUSE WANTED, with Fu ht rooms Riaece Rox 850, © Offer, ne terme and location. ANTED—A MAN to work farm—ore WwW that is sor ustomed ta tt Soatect beeen eos, al! kinds of forea ork Moawst 500 a nly need . A merried man © 5 cleried. “Adlrese “X YZ," at this omec. ity 23 “Fet E> | Gy Nomce To TAX-PAYERS. Cotiector’s Orvicr Washengton. August 8, 1831 The taxes for 1931 have been fixed at filty cents On the one hundred dollars. A discount of twenty per cent. is allowed under the law for prompt pay- at. mse cin and due hills, or certificates of indebted- of thie Corporation of the derominstion five rs,” are alons receivable in the payment of WL AM Di ‘ON “sre “ Lone E METROPOLITAN POLICE Wasutnxcton. Auguat 19, 1961. Se ANTE! —A lady of Baitumore wishes to Mette At peer EE eu é otwil be called npon at their residences reosive cash for the came. Address “A. G.,”” Star Office. for ten dara, au2l-iw* a DL ES al NTED—A DIN Bo Foom SERVAN WA: ndpreterde hia asi sh ol other need apply. Also,a COLOK B ears old. Apply at EMRICH’® Eur: pean louse. corner of Hieventh street and the ‘Avenue. W AEE aR a 17 Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, has declined a public dinner tendered him by the Common Council of New York. {> Yesterday,Grafton Bandell was arrested in Baltimore end beld.to bail for court on the charge of participating in the 19th of April riot. Notes —All mp “Met opclitan ° p mere be gn ioe the* Police Com issioners,”” be Bosra, tween the hours cf * o'elosk mi. clsiock . ‘ook ®. m. 0’! nm sutil Monday, the 28th instant; efter whish, 5 sepijcetion wx reoeived, J.F. BROWN, order of the Boar¢ : Fe retary. Persenal. ++++ Hon. W_ D. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, and Lieut. Hali, of Samter fenown, are at the Wil- lard Hotel. Frem Fortress M FPortasss Monror, Aug. 2) Wool held a grand review and i inte of c u OUSERERPING ARTICLER, Pereins leat, De ae baving & curpias ce i zu jos * 498 wevonth. between G sod Hi sis, AFFAIRS DOWN RIVER. pection this Bu 20 6t Acting Seo G, for which we are payii oe s fee tices, pes ce seule es i'w thelr The sch . He examined every musket belonging OMPANY “A,” U. 8. ENGINRERS.— — ry might do most mischief—in the Border States - raed the Viegnnt fom New York, was | partment are full, and bright guns, from the neat eetbe miteeae Fil Intelligent and aste baled mecbenios | ®autuce to cive us & GRIPFITE, = fired upon from the Virginia shore coming up the $ 4 ified The misunderstanding as to the two yearsand j will be enlisted to fill ti Ompany to the max and all the New York raof six-pounder up to the buge r! cannon, occupy ni yea i ‘6 i 150 fr ‘at No. je 1s-tf No. 3! et, aac Pepersof yesterday coming | Potomac on the 2ist, from a place called the Dip- | ait the available space, notwithstanding the three months men; which has caused so much | imum fixea by inw—i50 men. aire - in this direction were found to be so packed toi tel, owned and occupied by Elias B. Hooe. This hy oe 242 G strest Pry from $13 to $3 per mon'h, gether as that it required time to separate the baridesx food and clothirg- aul? tf trouble, is now passing away, and those guilty of Point is opposite Sand int on the ehaff from the wheat. So the whole were detained | ba. sea” 7. Pete cnt fae ber daily leaving the yard. Outside the shops} jnsuvordination in consequence of such misun- ee AUCTION SALES. workmen are fitting up nine and eleven-inch shell derstanding sre now for the most part willing to THE UNION EBAYE MEETING U N aight in Phfladciphia—and after taklon eet Side, 294 eo. miles, shone, tha carriazes are already nearly | teturn to duty. = = id Bivekosommencing st Cotcicck prueed | By GREENS WILLIAMS. A. = from Quantico i me mu ‘were | completed. i Se — to be contin ‘ap hour. Stran| as well EXTENSIVE SALE ot x the bundles of the Day Bock, News, and a traitor | tired. It is sald a battery 1s erecting at Chappa- Boxnino Noxvoix.—aAt a council of war re- | citizens of ail denominations are invited to stick Itcees Furxircne, so-called religious weekly, the rest were duly for- a THE LATE CORN-VED STAMPEDE—WHAT BROUGHT | cently Leld 1a Fortress Monroe, a plan was Pro- | Sud take part im these social meetings. mai &C, at Avctios.—Ux SATURD y ‘wamick, a short distance above this point, where IT ABOUT ed and discussed for the destruction of the cit shall ell, in front of ow ‘warded this morning to their several destinations. | the river is from 1 to 14 miles wide. > ley 4 : 4 We have every reason to believe that orders [Special correspondence of the Star.) of Norfolk, by firing it in two hundred different ——————— mE moings.__mai_ eae SAY, STRANGER, WHERE Az® 2 96 Seventh street, at 1° o’ciock w. m.,a In: laces. General Butler, sfier careful considera- fo5 SNE? You soem to be in Genera! assortment exorlient Mah have been issued to prevent the circulation in the ch a ae Nuan Fauts Cuvacu, Fairfax Co , Va., Aug. Fon expressed himself in favor of the suggestion, Palen 1S Aj tof Gletkin tL arnitare Also. 50 b.xes b mails of those papers, the Journal of Commerce | , C2Pt!m George Gibson, Eleventh Regiment of | 03, 1861.—We have just learned the cause of the and ‘it was communicated to the War Department | ple say he les & very nige Assortment, and cee ate aricles, whch wo and all other New York journale notoriously | [ftY, bas been attached to Gen. McClellan's} sudden stampede and consequent instant with-| at Washington. With what result the Troy | he sells them so oheap Note.—The inst “Terms oash in specie notoriously | stat, and bas been ordered to report to Major Van | drawal of all of Beauregard’s troops from east of | Times, which is authority for this story, does} Of the stranger, he was running up it GREEN & WILLIAMS. Avots, striving to aid the purpose of achieving the per- eg Ps singing out “SWITH, No, 460.” $$$ Sait WILLIAMS. Auots._ saneak destrastion of the Uaion. Vitet, of the Quartermasters Department, for | Fairfax Court House, that took place a few nights | 2° #9Y- special service. We understand that he is to su- The country at large will hail this energetic perintend the fesuing of clothing, tents, ete., to action with joy; because long since aware that | Pr’ the troops at present concentrated here. He the grea‘est element of the strength of the disunion has bad much experience in this business In cause, was the immunity with which {ts active future he will be found at Maj Van Viiet’s office, supporters out of Secessia have been permitted to A NARROW EecaPE ani pemmrary fads se earner he ont, We learn that the baggage of Mr. —— Gtlmor, Secessia the newspaper that ventures to speak of Baltimore, (the owner of the building known ago, a8 you published. It seems that two of bis night scouting partier, both pretty numerous, who were out, one from the force of near three thousand at Vienna, and the other from the force at Fairfax Court House, accidentally came into collision in the dark, and both fired away for some minutes with hearty good will, as each mistook the other for United Br J. C. MoGUIRE & CU.. Auotioneers. Hifivean avo dorernots Rint N EN ee * iA Atcriox On WEUNESDAY MORNING. A ‘ust 28, at 1 o'clock, at the residences of Com. inggold, U. 8. N Sv nue, between 14th aad isth we Farnitare and Eiaedovess Green Wik Covered French Lounge and Arm Chairs. {[7"General McCulloch was married three or four = since, and a characteristic story 1s told of him when his first child, a boy, was born, that he insisted, to the creat horror of his young wife, in having the youngster christened **Buffelo Hump,”? in honor of a particular friend, an old Indian chief of thatunique name The general isa thin spare man, of yreat muscle end activity, and is now about forty-seven years of OR SALE—A fine Kentucky HORSE, Inquire 6 rae Cavalry Stables, Treasury Building, = - their School (o- Boys and Girls, amber 20, at No 400 Vassaohure ts avenue, near Tenth st Altention will |-e given to ail the ordinary branches of an Eng:izh Education. aus 3 i t WASTERN 1! ANDS IN EXCHANGE FOR —————————— YHE MISSES FISHER viek REOPEN ear osewood Marble-top Center Tarlo, Whstuot, ueGitnies Hews} Wes dllowea oka fated pata age. TAL NEAR THE Fr SDERAL cari- DoaaghWirdow Cutaisa, 8k Suadee Cornice above {ts breati in favor of the cause of the Uni asthe 5 followed and over- | Sta roops. Both, however, got away as soon on Od A exchance Ene Fermin, ic . is piplonies instantly suppressed. Saltau 5 taken near Port Tobacco, it being understood by | as possible, and hurried whence they came to] MEcHaNics Missxp.—It is humiliating to see ee e Wiggs fer ry tte 7 BePrevey Chains. nap cnpagteasigeeieces —eanpe the authorities that he was sending it secretly into | give warning of the approgch of the Union army Sena, tack ie Mba Sivest, wick Wee laid | Wa hington City, August 25, 186i. au 23-cobw Mxorliee ares ply and Venetian Carpets, Oul- Muss Wixots Ruvivics—Our old protege, | Secessia, proposing to follow it in person. In it | in large force. The retreat was at once ordered, fenisied. chat teh yams oie ihe ooo FiGkSE, WAGON, AND BARNESS FOR Hat Tree, Hall Chairs,” Miss Windle, the well Known authoress of so} was found his full secession uniform, a magnifi- | from Vienna and the Court House, to a defensible SALE—Wi!' b+ ‘so'd at & enerifice, (the owner having no furth:r use for them,) ® good Work Mare, Second-hand Wagon: acd Harness. The mare is warranted. | T. DRURY’S Word and Coal Yard, Ps. between I7th and 18h ste au NOTICE. many works (by Mrs. Gore) bas turned up again, | cent affair—as he is great on display. Last night Of course our readers bave not so soon forgotten | an effort was made to capture him in Baltimore; the gifted Miss W. and her felicitous literary | but the bird had flown. achievements,—her charming ‘‘Letters from the ARRESTED. Spriags,” fer instance,—portions of which struck Mr. James Donnelly, of Georgetown, D. C., the readers of Blackwood’s Magazine as identi- charged with serving in the ranks of the enemy that no person hereabouts can make a car adapted to the trans tioneof pussengers. If suitable cars cannot re peceoep oda A not pat a ict Jonesy ons on the route, an et ride? Richmond Waige or I? There F En tS Vases pe Waloat Martie t Roe ae aud Orpamerte, point two miles back of the latter. The mistake Extension Diving Pabie, Site Migand ‘Rout Fables, “roel ‘was not ascertained until after they reached that point. On the next day they returned in the same force to the suddenly abandoned advanced posi- tion, minus « few of their lately very sick, who @ied on the swift and rough night march back ie Dresaing = reau and Waashstand, ‘De fet Sets Fine Curled Hair Mattresses, Bolsters and Pil- an evident scarcity of ammunition among the rebel troops at Yorktown, if we may . B'eukets - Comfor te, cally 28 good es column after column of that] in the battle of Bull Run, having ventured to re- | towards Manassas. poatiea ins are lie gus caer epartegeecr| it me : a Hatem od ofrireraton Cooking @ megazine;—or, egain, her remarkable “Life in| turn within the lines (to Georgetown) of the AFFAIRS AT THE JUNCTION. t 1s found on examination that a soldier has lost a Tai ADAMS’ BXPRESS ONT ANE: Together wit “assortment o: Ki Re- Washington,” whole chapters of whieb proved | Union army, was duly arrested last night. He ie (Special Correspondence of The Star.} cartridges, one, Aoline Fp eager ote Advantage: for the Safe nnd Quick Beeeeaeg | tuiaites. Farni in of the bert to be word for word the same (2s we did Misé] now in the new military prison at the corner of] Annapotis Junction, Aug. 22.—Yesterday, a| jy dane to ccronenias ‘ammunition both for smal | Heavy F eights Peokaros, Valuable, Money, &6. | quality and nearly new. n—aty rent; inquire ‘Windle the justice to point out at the time) with | Pennsylvania avenue and Thirteenth street 1n this very largeand beautiful flag was presented to the | arms and heavy guns. ye a sf fae Avctionsers, ebspters in Mrs. Gore’s novels, of ten years ante- | city. If It is proved that he really was in the bat- | battalion of Pennsylvania troops stationed here, part From ard arrive in Washington twice daily aud MoGUIRE & CO., Ancts, eedence, showing conclusively*that perfidious | tle on the side of the enemy, he has run a risk of | by the Union ladies of Prince George and Mont. | ,,U7~ 4 party of missionaries left Charlestown, | ” All Exprersos are in charge of ¢ Albion in its envy of American genius could being executed for a spy. — to anticipate thus unfairly what our AREEST OF SECESSIONISTS. ai fellow countrywoman was going to write. On Monday night last, about 11 o'clock. thirteen Other discoveries of this sort thickened upon the | in number of the Seventh Massachusetts Regi- readers and (idem) admirers of Miss Windle, and ment, arrested two brothers, named Nolans, near ‘with ell their appreciation of her talents they | Rockville, Md., by order of General Wileox, bas pera ing arin ve reading | well known as secessionists snd men of influence. a yIndle came to} Thy were brought into headquarters com- grief and paled ont from the literary sky. But ee aes ae “ Mess., on Saturday, for India. Jt consisted of Rev. J.B. Vinton and wife, Mrs. J. M. Haswell, and Miss Jane M. Dawson, who go under the auspices of the Baptist Board; Rev. W. W. Hicks and wife, Rev. J D Brown and wife, and Rev. D. W. Thomas and wife, who go under the aus- ces of the Missionary Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church. gomery counties. The ceremonies were very in- teresting. James Creigh, Esq., made the presen- tation speech, and Capt. McPherson the reception speech. A large number of persons were Present. The Union men of this neighborhood are staunch and unwavering. The troops are upon the most plensant relations with the people. relrable Messencers. All Pack: fr The Soldiers carried at “ong ral r the #o-oalled “Confederate State-”” and all Articles “ Contraband of War” will be Rurvexp. mptldas & BARNARD, Auctioneers, B ten, Ara ane aE RUPE te France of ho FUN Butlelag Sei eiaot af Beri Sapo of vide suse fit ogi eines. Tirugtea fo City. Dee sessuecee aya sia taal ares Ph M , arriving in U? A Hartford paper rema: In reply toa great many of our exchanges who have the ques- | © pixpr leave Galtimore st ¢30 A. Mand P. tipster briek dwelling now she looms up in yet stateller proportions and TO dic cette ova | Revenplteenil pass Peroweri dep paint Ome aoe ic legy Mamie nated yet 7 tie Beamaredmaaeeaess Ai vonraryelar stat Of purehtser. Gusyet Seu domp.tabohepenenne There is now at the Central Guard See in this ba pecs the oath of allegiance. 2 | Over wave, of the free and the h of the Wea ington ar 33 “ Neaniaan May iy Saagues 1 MAT Est Preston sible secesh sympathizer, with * proclivities,” city a man by the name of Augustine Jobnson, rummell, of Baltimore, teken with the brave ?” i es perpen aderng) yt reight contraband goods seized some daysago, bas been we, and as sach, according to the Alexandria who was formerly acitizen of Steubenville, Ohio, removed to Fort McHenry. t where he has or had » few months since a mother Eis intacn fe mitary are ‘Bel wat] tose arn vag” Tn het men P experiences have ni of the most potcschmrathan Ah oes wo Covent | able kind, as will be seen on reoding the foiee, the > re lon bave got fete Ing narrative of his adventures during that time. parties in posses! He is quite intelligent, and gave us this morning le aft era Goode atiled for and delivered Yee of bixtra § P. McLAUGHLIN, ent Adame’ A Washin; ots ‘us? 28. ngyEabrese Company, af — Ne ice ie Bohol of the Board of we would say, that up to date, it do.” oAELAADMRA Linea Sin Se tlt {> W ben the Siamese were having their paint- ings taken for the Emperor Napoleon’s rs at Versailles, many of them had to be represented in the picture in profile. They were very indignant at this—assered that they had two eyes—and only Exvpine tux EMBaReo—North Carolina Tur- pentine vd Way of Bermuda.—The British schooner Princ: from Bermuda, with 8 cargo of 507 barrels of day CJ rite of turpentine. It is sy; that 5 sp’ pe: - repens thie car. Is of this city, Bot received by the u "Mt nay. ne AR consented to be taken with one eye visible upon | gust for the sup) igped @ecrepe. The man who won a girffe—or ‘0 Was run over orth Bermuda, | the artist giving them his certificate that the t-Bocks for aah i By J. C. MoGUIRE & CO... Auctionsers. slepttnt_olch es intra eae y cw | ped seen! of he 'moving ction by |e pees args bas Kec loed ty | ecdlng Was pinoy em under prod | ne hala sank mates FUUSY Wott SOcras ar Sa y t- cl fe Pr nq eeeecene “ . b femporary history to bave bad a time of it; but from which we condense the {oll ra vs -* | cargo ‘The vessel has nomanifrt Eeaiseertons [7 The “ Lapstone Ra: ” je the name of chia is wel qudntitien oe Ss pecgeenry infront ot . ioe ‘Rooms, eae kali aane dette a one compared | sent: Bs wohe tenpeation tote sort of Iannis eel: | Neto coun moons aetty ac eee Above will be tarniehed with slick st tes bots | Head — d maiden on their bands. _—s Early last spring be embarked on a flat-boat for | merce is neo th eae, when ities Hgenticmen’ having’ ol gous’ to the ween, eee ao iy —-- Hy “won ey ae involos of Tia W. comprising — Meantime she gets 2 first rate notice. Him of New Orleans, where he arrived after a tripabound- that spirits of turpentine hes recently been ad- rebels bave been obliged at last to put arms into} su 1S-MWF fe the Amociated Press at Alexandria, a gallant, | OF sro asin dep yaaa ie on the river. | {arcing stg,thia market at the rate roti wie | Chanicnts 1 1% Denrly-despieed. “ greeey.me- Lovisyiig arr WATER, serceptiie sain we have to presse ener | On te 25 Any of Apri last he and many other | {t wes three montbe age ‘The speculation in thie U7 Private letters from Gen. Fremont speak of | ali yetrenke Wine meat? i ‘every paper in the country to publish and pay for] vice ‘To distiageish tose Northern verve tens even more “apd an what some in ibe sat hineln this weet estcug mtest She: acta as bie bie slag eats ~rniltecad Ais elaborated trash enumerati : - Syaly ee een actaes Bis. > vere x anata the aa from the chivalry thelr heads were closely shaved, mercurial stock of the Stock Exchange. — MOOR Gays last week the. fomanea oe ssp lamge secretary, reads his letters, &c ,—which Bo. ke. By the way, we sce that a cotemporary | 4° ttt they might be easily spotted. It was Mr aoe ane more than what 1 wives would be glad to Bd __J. ©. Mo@UIRE & OO. Anocts, Jobnaon’s fate to fall into the ist Specta: e — pekaad asbande. ~ Eres anak sf to Weltaneur” se) Lace New Ocieune, Majer Whee onan 70 of ninety cents! I The New Bedford Stondard understands fy MARSHALL & PAGE, Anotionsors. = “Legend of the Wilderness.” More care should me that a proposition is entertained by the govern- Ss A b! After much suffering for want of proper food and vance has taken place in it, which is to be submitted to shall eeiiers ar Be szercleed im her case. A similar misprint | clothing, the battalion foued thenane ree in fact in nearly all de. | ent : . pepe we stall velit prbic " wight make her Miss Swindle, . es at Ma. it of that cit ae ee ee ens mani of ele in this ci-y, ‘the nasses Junction, Mr. J. suffering more than his keep ebconee our | to be fiited and manned at that port for the bloc! following dis cred pee fe | Cusescar Cuance—The following Genes comrades because he was suspected on account of 5 Penalty needs to he eding cerxice. onon: ebanges were made yesterday in the office of the bts northern birth. We omit an account of many be re- painful incidents and come at once* battle ss jon om parekieieeag3 ag of “Stone Bridge,” or «Bull Boa! Secor Fee te so ird-class clerkship, salary $1,600; a -eaicienas tape tel he oe ck His destina- Carolina regiment under cover of the ve been arated by an open space from the arse oa g entered ty, also under cover. Major Wheat advanced bis poaltaee! 4 men into this open space, and was fired on by not that he will re- fused unexpected attack from friend’, the Dattalion wavered, and s deadly fre was then f Governor Leveken, os nae the poured in by the Federal troops, Major Wheat i loth Deing the first to fall. The low of life by that ptr fire wes terrible. Near Mr. Johnson two. bute 2,429 men and other northern meu. One of them, David Vance, ‘Arwick contributes only of Philadelphia, was instan ed. The other, on of § comrade and warm friend of Johuson’s, an Illi. 7 nolsiany named James H. Hutchinson, was shot decided last under the eye. He was in such agony that John. ‘under fon him from the field = long way to the Web G2) OIA ee bat Ft + mE-T eo} e ,