The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-01
OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 81, 1851.
AFFAIRS ALONG THE UNION LINES.
Accounts by telegraph up to four O'Clock this afternoon
report al quiet on the entire line Of the Potomac.
General Mcclellan, accompanied by the Due de Char
tres left headquarters at hapast four this afternoon
md proceeded to Virginia The General and aid return
cd between ten and eleven tonight Everything is re-
ported as quiet in front and the right and left
Colonel sweitzer Of General McClellan's staff returned
to-day from inspection OF the troops Of Major
McCals DIVISION and reports them in excellent condition
To-day the pickets of Gen. wadsworth captured pr
yae Of South Carolina regiment about three miles be-
yond Falls Church. t& N%A<
AFFAIRS ON THE LOWER POTOMAC. at
There have bcen no arrivals to-day from the Lower
Potomac The Cnur de Leon started down tonight with
coal for the flotIa
FIRING FROM TILE EEBEL BATTERIES ON THE LOWER
POTOMAC.
Dispatches from General Hooker's division, on the
Lower Potomac that Wednesday afternoon about
dozen shots fred at intervals from the rebel bat
tories at Shipping Point the Lower Potomac. Nest Of
the balls went into the One ofthc struck within
three four hundred feet OF Mr. Poseys house. Of
Budd's Ferry There were vessels In sight. Tho
rebels appeared to be getting the range Of their guns
Several small boats observed crossing Quantico
creek After eight O'Clock at night three guns were
fred, supposed to be for signals.
battery has just been discovered in course Of
erection The west side Of Quanco creek the high
bluffs about halfa mile above Shipping Point. ~
Adespatch from the HERAIDs correspondent, at Bsdds
Ferry that the rebels the Lower rctonac
continue active. several shots fred Wednesday
from the rebel batteries Shipping Point Gen. Hooker
Gen. Sckies each made the shorc
at Budas Ferry, and the fire from the rebel batteries
may have been directed at them. SO the shots went
wide Of their mark One Of the shclls which did ex
plode found to be asixy four pound conical shell
1t is certain that the enemy posted in full force
Virginia sde the Potomac, above and below Ship
leg Point Several other rebel regiments have arrived
within tho last twenty four hours.
The rebel steamer George Page, and the captured
schooners Fairfax and Mary Virginia. are s shut up
Quantico creek.
Before daybreak this morning two schooners, Ba'ti
oyster vessels ran the rebel blockade and passed
mp the Potomac to Washington They were not fired
upon from the rebel batteries
Everything is quiet in tho vicinity Of shipping
Point.
There seems to BIO no doubt that the rebels have large
number Of aboats Occoquan creek manufactured at
Fredericksburg, designed for crossing the Potomac
EEcoNNoIssANcE ALONG THE SHORE OF THE LOWER
POTOMAC.
A reconnaissance was made yesterday by Gen. sckes
and staf, accompanied by squad of Indiana cavalry
along the shore OF tho Potomac ebout forty mics from
Washington when they fred on ty rebel battery
on the Virginia shore. One of the shots fell shcr and
another passed over them.
TIE ARMY.
The following appointments and promotions have just
been made by the President
Justin Dimock to be Colonel Of the First regiment Of
artillery
C. II. McNaly to be Captain in the Third regiment Of
cavalry.
James R. Kemblc, to be First Lieutenant in tho Third
regiment Of cavalry.
Horace Brooks to be Lieutenant Colonel in the Second
regiment OF cavalry.
Edward wlkeson to be First Lieutenant in the Second
regiment OF cavalry.
In addition to the commissioned officers promoted
second eutcnantces heretofore announced the fol
lowing parned:-
Acting Sergeant Major phetus Quartermaser scrgcan
Frederick II Brown, and scrgcan.s Henry B. Freeman
Samuel j. Dick, James P. Galloway, Thaddeus 8. Eirk
land and Joseph Mcconnell, ali Of the above of til,
Eighteenth infantry Also Sergeants Robert p King
James Semple Of the Fifteenth infantry. They re.a
in these regiments.
The following order has just been promulgated by b,
War Departments
GENERAL oRpERs-yo. 93
WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJuTASr 6f1g;eAps O7TcE,
WASHINGTON, oct. 81 1851. / +
1.-The bounty Of one hundred dollars granted TO Tho
widow or heirs OF deceased volunteer by the sixth
lion Of the act authorize the employ of vo.un
teers approved July 22 1861 and which the second An
dor has been directed to place 10 the credit Of e said
decedent tho final settlement q his account, viii b
charged TO the ftyve million dollars for tie pay 81 the
second and third volunteers, appropriated by the ac
making additional appropriations for the support Of thu
army, approved July IL, 1861.
H.-SGch commanding officers of volunteer regiments
raised in conformity with direct acceptauccs from S
War Departments as have not Glready done so, will o.
prepare and transmit to the Governors OF their
spectfve States complete muster rolls Of their
commands as nt present organized
- IThe attention of officers Is called to paragraph 90
@ the Revised Reg laons. in which they forbidden
70 give Or take any reccpt in blank for public money
property.
BY order. T.. lVoIAS, Adjutant General.
ARRIVAL OF GEN. sIyLEv An-o COL. FRANK BLAIR.
General sibcy President Of the Western Union Tcle
graph Company and one of the orgnstors OF tho Pacn
telegraph preset, is in town.
Colonel Frank p Blair, of Missouri arrived n Wash
ington to-day.