, 1861-10-17
FROM WASHINGTON.

--' WASHINGTON, OcIooeI 10, 1n0l. /
Secretary Cameron has advanced to the
States 20 per cent. on account Of their e4pen-
ditures fer troops called into service up to
month aso. as follows Indisna, s450. 600 !; llli-
nois, 500, GOO; Ohio, 100000; Wisconsin,
s2o5,Coo; Michigan, $4,000; Iowa, $4,000;
Pennsylvania, s6O6 900; Maine, soc, 900; Var
mont, $123 goo !; Massachusetts, s775, 600: New
Hampshire, 100000. --.
A letter from the Eastern shore Of Virginia |!
states that there are Ave thousand armed reb-
| els, with twenty-five cannon, in Accomac |
| county.
| The steamer Louisiana, cruizing off Chinco-
league Island, has captured q dozen schoon-
e1s without clearance papers, within q week.
She cent launches to capture arebel schooner,
but they were fired on from shere and one man
was wounded. The fire was returned with ef-
feet. The rebel shot burned q schooner.
The rebels in Washington county, Mary
land, aided By "peace" allies from southern
Delaware, have taken from the Georgetown
Delaware Arsenal, some muakets, and meanto
seize the remainder. They are flint locks, in
tended by the traitors for use in the Maryland
State election.
/ Paymsster Fletcher has left with funds to
= pa5 of the troops at Hatteras 151et.
Secretary Chase, to-day, drew drafts for
the Last installment OF the first fifty million
} loan. ....
, fMess1s. Mason aud Slidel sailed in the
: Nashville from Charleston at oil, 1t WAS only
! to the West Indies, where they were to take
! British steamer for Euro :,e. The Navy De
ps1tment has dispatehsG fast steamer from
| m
The Navy Department wholly dtsbelieves
+ the report Of their departure. Three vessels
!. are blockading Charleston, all OF which the
d Nashville would find it hard to escape. The
7 steamer spoken Of is thought more probably
q 10 be the lately arrived aud faster steamer Baz
/, muda, from Savannah, which only two vessels
'e guarded
e ,.Thomas q: Dudley Of New Jersey, has been
- eppointed Consul to Liverpool; Amazon
b. Mason, Of New York, Consul to Messilla-
of Nothing furthenfrom downlthe river,t day
~ Had any Of the several vessels which wen1
20 down this morning been attacked, 1t woult
n Lave been known before nov. The rebel
Il have no powder to spare The new batteries
- which it is now aseersained are four In nun
ber, commacd nearly five miles Of the chsu
m, mel, though located within three-qua1ters {
no no amile.
ln. B1i9adler General stcrens, having been aR
he signed 10 duty elsewhere, leaves Col. Taylo
a. a. of the New York 3sd as acting Brgadier &c,
Iaz eral and Captain Morrison. senior Captain
the Regiment, takes the Colonelcy Of the Ne
At York 18th. =
~ ~ This afternoon, On our outposts near Fal
II Church, Morrell Allen, of the New York S5t
5o~ n1o ri hr a mike
.s9, the bsll entering his groin. The shot n
srs. m fred from Barrett's Hill. Along the reb
der lines etrong pickets have been seen poste
81, to-day. From the Observatory at Uptor
'7"' Hill, this afternoon, q train of twenty-seTt
The wsgons, guarded by strong force of reh
re- infantry, 1ere seen passing along the Leesbu
ss see. turnpike, supposed to be foEaging party.
her Meior Chas. ". Barker, Of the McClell
Of Drsgconr, returns to Chicago, to-day, or
md weeks turlough, to recruit his second co
ats. pany from men already offered.
lth; John G, Miller, Of Chicago, reached he
nts, TO- day, having in charge as prisoner the
init Inait male Spy, Onderdonk, Of some notoriety
Western cities. It Is believed she has oe
E,ss the rebels much service.
1hen cen Andora,n and lady arrival in t
per- Ts,. .-o,,.r- ta =
tity, waited on by the Philadelphia Committee,
Willard's, and presented with the aeg
sword voted him by the city OF Philadelp]
The sword cost ore thousand dollars.
the E1ief presentation speech mas made BY Th
v, We Ipyler, to which Gen. Anderson respond
i al. b,it1y and, feelipgly, aud said that the
neu- ehould al1ays be used on the side OF just
sto % 10 Truth and Loyalty. The wa- We are enga!