Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-05

THE WAR FOR THE UNlONl
Claims OF Government to Sup
ply the Circulating Medium.
THE CONFEDRRATBs IN POSSESSION
OF ANNANDALE.
Twelve Forts in the Neigh
borhood of Centervllle.
II 900 Confederates at Lessburg, We.
Confederate I rOOps Clothed with sos-
ton-m ade Uniforms
General Order Of Gen. Halleck.
Colonel Farrar Appointed Pro-
vost Marshal.
THE CONFEDRRATBs IN POSSESSION
OF ANNANDALE.
1900 Confederates at Lessburg, VI
Confederate I rOops Clothed with eos-
ton-made Uniforms
Ieneral Order of Gen. Halleck.
SC. Sc. SC. SC.

WASHINGTON December Chief Justice
and Associate Justices of Supreme Court
paid their repects to the President to-day, at
the Executive mansion.
Especial Dispatch to the New York Tribune.l
WASHINGTON, December At is under
stood by financial people, that the forth.
coming report of the Secretary of the Treas
ury will present the banking system aud
Government policy in respect to them ia a
light that will fssten the attention Of the
country upon it.
The claim of the Government to supply
the circulating medium of all kinds will be
presented impresslvely, on the ground of
both principle and expediency, and on con-
stitutional right and financial necessity.
Especial Dispatch to the N. Y. Timssl
WASHINGTON, December A. Information
has been received this evening, that the rebel
forces are now in possession of Anindale,
aud their pickets are posted this side. They
have large force of cavalry. Information
has been received that there are twelve forts
around Centerville defended by field pieces
only. No heavy guns. Four regiments Of
the enemy have lately left Centerville for
men. The pickets OF General Smiths di-
vision were fred upon last night, at lie wins
vile, but no injury was done.
Last night deserter from the rebels
named Williams entered our lines. He is
an Englishman, and was taken out of his
bed at Charleston on the 4th of June, and
pressed into the rebel service. He was a
private in the Fourteenth South Carolina
Regiment, but has been for some weeks
servant of Beauregard.
He escaped on Monday last He was
dressed 10 new uniform Of blue, like those
of the New York soldiers and having tue
New York buttons. He says the whole regi-
ment was supplied with such uniforms only
a week since, and that the current report
was that they had been received in the South
from Boston. He states that there is au
abundance Of good shoes tor those of the
men who can pay for them. The pair he had
on he paid Sc for.
Ifspecial to the New York Tribuuel
The intention of Generals Porter and Nc
Call, Hancock and Wadsworth was to scour
The country from Vienna to Hunters Hill
No enemy was seen except two small parties
one of three men beyond Vienna, and Que of
eleven men nearly two miles beyond Vienna,
and one of fifteen nearly two miles beyond
Huntersville, to neither Of which could we
| get close. No enemy has been seen in the
region he visited since Sunday.
ST. LOUIS, November 5-General HallecIc
has issued lengthy general orders with
! reference to the affairs of this Department.
| the principal points of which are as follows:
Lieutenant-C Colonel B. G.. Farrar has been
appointed Provost Marshal and General of
Der artment commanding affairs of districts;
posts and corps are directed to arrest and
place in confinement all persons in arms
against the United States, or who give aid,
assistance or encouragement to the enemy;
ell property belonging to such persons
which can be used by thearmy will be taken
possession of for that purpose, and all other
property will be examined by board of
officers and sold according to the army regu-
! lations.
All persons found in Disguise as pretended
! loyal citizens, or under other false promises
within our lines, giving information to or
communicating with the enemy, will be ar
rested, tried and shot as spies. Persons not
commissioned or enlisted in the service of
the so-called Confederate States, who COM
NIT acts of hostility, Will not be treated as
prisoners of war, but punished as criminals
and be shot or less severely punished accord
| ing to the rules of war.
| In consequence of large numbers Of Union
| families and non.combatants having been
plundered and driven from their homes in a
destitute condition, and thousands OF such
persons are now finding their way into this
! city, Provost Marshals are directed to ascer-
tain the condition of persons so driven from
! their homes, ard under the military law ot
! retaliation, quarter them in houses and feed
| and clothe them at the expense of avoWed
| Secessionists, who, although they do not
| themselves rob and plunder, give aid and en-
couragement to and abet and countenance
such acts Of their fellow rebels.
| BBLTIMORE December 5.-lhe boat from
Old Point has arrived, but brings no news
No flags OF truce had passed.
| The detachment of the New York Fifth
Regiment returned this morning from tht
| Eastern Shore. Secession is deiunct.
WASHINGTON, December 5.-An army or.
der Just issued by the Secretary of War di.
re cts all officers and enlisted men of the vol
unteer service, now prisoners in the hands oi
the enemy, or reported as missing in action,
or may hereafter be taken prisoners or re-
! ported missing, be transferred to skeleton
regiments to be formed by the Governors OF
the respective States, and TO consist entirely
of such missing officers and men.
The vacancies thus oCcasoned in the regi.
! mems will be filled by the Governors of the
| various States to which the regiments
belong.
WASHINGTON, December g. Vice. Presi.
dent Hsmlin appointed Senators Fesseuden
and Trumbull regents of the Smithsonian
Institute, 10 fill the vacancies occasioned by
the death of Senator Douglas and the
treason of Mason.
Assistant Surgeon j. G. Herndon, of Vir.
ginia, has been dismissed by direction of the
President, from the army for deserting hii
post. Also, Major Lynde, for a similar rea
son, and for subsequently surrendering hi
command to an inferior force Of insurgents il
New Mexico.
Mastering officers, who have not alread,
done go, are requested TO send the rolls OF
which they have mustered regiments TO tn
Adjutant Generals Office, in Washington.
A Richmond paper of the Sd says Messri
Bell, Vert and Conrad look seats in Congress
to day, from Missouri.
A dispatch from Richmond says a granC
demon stration will be made on York Rive
by the U nionists to weaken the Potomac line
A large scow went over Niagara Falls on
Monday week. The -four and barley will
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