Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-11-30
Orr MILITARY BUDGET.
A couRr OF INQUIRY.

Capt Bell, Of Col Averill's Sd Pennsylvania
Will be made the subject Of an Immediate cour.
Of inquiry, we take ii for granted, on account OF
permitting his scouting CO mmand 70 fall into an
ambrscade last week, nv VIII. b ne los. e men,
under apparently wholly uui Unstable clrcum-
stances
The safety If the livrs OF our troops depends
greatly upon the pr0mpiaess with which stop
shall DC pu. to the occurrences shch as that to
which we refer above.
TRANSFERRED.
Second Lieutenants David Fl. Buell.. Stephen
c Lyford, John r Edie and Francis n Parker,
Of the Sd artillery, and Joseph p. Farley, Of the
I'd artillery, are transferred to the ordnance de-
partment, taking rank Ia the order named
GOVERNMENT srORE.HOUsE AT PORT ROYAL.
We have seen letter from Port r oval, In which
II lie STATED that General Sherman is erecting four
large warehouses, each above eco feet In length
by 40 feet in width, fer subsistence stores, &c
Also that the forces there are engaged not only
In strengthening their position but Ia building
barracks, &c for their comfort
sxrRHIsH.
Col Mex Friedmanns Dragons have been
| the enemy TIL Tuesday, when detachment, con-
sisting Of companies a and F, under Major Bot
eler (son OF our fellow citizen Chas w Boteler,
sen saw about seventy rebel cavalry, In two
squads, a quarter of mile to the right Of Hunters
MIL. They fred upon the Dragons and then
! lied, wounding two horses.
Major Buts,er with corporal with a private
while removing the 60 equipments from the wound
ed 10 SEES, were again fred upon by the returning
party of rebels who again led An immediate
charge az that point was impracticable, as they
were separated from bis command by a small
stream and fence. Major Boteler subsequent
| took prisoner half-grown boy IN the neighbor.
hood who wore the rebel uniform, but releas ed
hi. 7 small game
He tcoG from him, as a curiosity. twenty ii We
cent confederate note, giving him, in ex-
change, quarter Of dollar, which the boy ap-
! neared highly pleased iii receiving. Smalls quads
Of rebel infantry, about sixty In all were seen by
Major Boteler, whe gave his command volley
and disappeared in the woods, doing no damage
DEAD
| DR. Ale Wander, OF the Ist Pennsylvania reserve
cavalry, who was wounded In the late skIrrnIsh
near Evansville, died al Langley, Fairfax county,
| Va, yesterday morning.
AN ABSURD STORY.
Last evening Pennsylvania avenue was startled
| from its pTOprietY by story alleging that Gen.
Summers new division had b en-, IN the course
of the day driven into Alexandria by the rebels,
r,'u the vicinity or Springfield station, Its posi-
ton. There is no truth whatever in the story
Yesterday was remarkably quiet day all along
| our lines on the other side Of the Potomac.
CARPENTERS WORK IN THE Army
| ALEXANDRIA, Va, Nov. 3O-Editor Star Sir
An order has been issued here from the ouayts,
masters ONCE to cut down the Carpenters paw
here, In said department from forty dollars ~
thirty ds!i6rs per month Ii mas never baen the
case on government work before to require me-
ChaniCs 20 work for one dollar per day. Are lovsl
men here to be deprived of living because thew
are true to the Union. ONE OF THE MtN'