The national Republican., 1861-07-27
Saturday, July 81, 1851.


Saturday, July 81, 1881.
No advertisements or notices. except to regular ad
rertisers will be inserted without payment in advance.
"a Brigadier General Phillip Kearney has
been ordered to report here for duty.
CoSrIRMED.-The appointment Of Col. W.
b. Lamon, as Marshall Of the District Of Co.
luubis, was yesterday confirmed by the Senate.
RE.EsTABLIsHED.--TheP Postmaster General
yesterday re.established the post Office at Har.
per's Ferry, Virginia, reappointing William NJ.
Brown (Unionistl postmaster.
APPOINTED AND REMovED.-Thos. E. Roach,
of Wilmington, Delaware, has been appointed
to a 81 400 clerkship in the Post Office Depart.
ment, pice Allen Goodridge, Of Michigan, re.
moved. {.
TIE Hon. ALFRED ELY.-We are happy to
BE able to relieve the fears Of the friends Of this
gentleman with regard to his having been
killed in the fight on Sunday. He was taken
prisoner, and is at Richmond or Manassas.
APPOINTMENTS AND REMOVALS IN TIE CITr
PosT OrrIcI.-Thomas E. Baden and Angus.
tus Edison have been appointed letter carriers,
vios D. Tolson and c. A. Dougherty, removed,
and William Hendley messenger, rice 8. T.
Tune, removed.
TIE LossEs.-From the best information
now at hand, we are inclined to think our loss
at the battle of Bull Run will amount TO about
300 killed, 700 wounded, and $50 missing.
The Confederate loss, in killed and wounded,
undoubtedly amounts to between two ana three
thousand.
FATENr OFFICE REPoRTs.-An entire new
system has been adopted in presenting the Re-
pert Of the Commissioner Of Patents. Full
specifcat,ons and descriptions ofin7entions are
given, accompanied by clear, beautiful photo
graphs. This will so increase the cost of pub.
ication as to forbid distributing them broad.
cast, as heretofore, but vastly magnify the use
fulness Of the annual report. Inventors will
see at q glance what has been done, and the
reports and plates will be suggestive to the in.
senious and intelligent.
- We trust the opportunity Of the present
moment may not be permitted to pass without
the establishment upon responsible and unim
peachsble testimony, and in deliberate and
aue form, the facts universally credited in our
army, respecting the dishonorable deceptions
practised by the rebel soldiery, in the late
battles, and the barbarities evinced by them
toward the wounded soldiery Of our army, who
fell into their hands. Though we cannot re.
taliste such practices, the world will accord a
full measure of justice to their perpetrators
and we have but to convict them in due form,
and to preserve our own honor unsullied at
whatever sacrifice.
D0-" Peace is what we want for the preser.
vation of the Union" exclaimed Mr.. Breckin.
ridge, in the Sens.e on Thursday. We agree
with NJ. Breckenridge in this. The restora.
ton OF peace and the certainty of peace for
ninety days would work vast improvement in
the views of the people of many regions of the
United States. But how is such peace to be
obtained? Is the United States Government
TO sue for it, at the hands Of rebel band? o.
is the Union to be preserved by permitting
disunionists to render it sssunder, in defiance
Of the popular will, even in what are called th'
disunion States themselves? If Mr.. Breckin
ridge were to find a place, which indeed nigh
prove quite congenial in the Congress of what i
called the Southern Confederacy," his ap
peal would be just, opposite, and we'll timed
But we cannot comprehend its pertinence al
addressed to the Congress of the United States
whose only aim is peace and Union.
"a The secrecy prscticed by the rebel con
spirators commends itself to imitation. 1t i
the right war policy under all circumstances
but is peculiarly essential to each army at th'
present time, however family we have hithert
attempted its observance. A fag of truce frou
the commander Of the Federal forces, with
message relating to the wounded prisoners the
hold, cannot enter their lines member Of ou
Congress, of qualified Union sentiments, ma
visit their headquarters on "private business,
tsrry many days there, and return to our capi
tai, with impunity; ard three gentlemen, 70
whom it is presumed the rebels have more re
spect than for our flag Of truce, ore permitted
70 visit them in like manner. We do not wisi
to quibole nor to cavil; but it does appear tc
Us that there is more Of confidence than O
wiGdon in this system of proceedings or il
these proceedings without system.
a LoNo DESIRED IMPRovExEv7.-Ihe Sen
ate yesterday passed bill appropsiating two
hundred and twenty Thousand dollars for thc