The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-09-26
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re-crganize and prepare them for scrviee.--
Hereafter commissions are TO bc given by
the Governors, who may, during the organ.
ization of a regiment, authorize the Adiu-
tant Quartermaster--whc absolutely ncccs.
sary, the medical oiliccrs-to be mustered
in.
Last night our left wing was mcpaccd by
a considerable rebel force, which burned
several grain ricks and DESTROYED other
property belonging to Union families.
letter from Halifax, found ON board the
Susan Jane, captured at lIatteras Inlet, as
surcs Charleston correspondent that the
people of Nova Scotia all sympathizc with
the South and wish the blockade to be
broken.
The whole story about Fremont is still
untold There is Il question of courtesy
between him and Mr.. Lincoln, on account of
extravaganza in the management of his De-
partment. The President, when advised of
the forthcoming proclamation, desired him
to withhold until the Cabinet could consult.
1t, however, appeared the next morning.
Fremonts activity has been very great. He
is still cncrgctically prosecuting the war;
The officers have been detailed bv Wcllcs
for the ilotila, and sailors are being educated
here as gunners Last week Cen Fremont
telcgraphcd for sixteen uino-iuch guns, and
thirty thirteen inch mortars. The former
reached hun from Pittsbmg in three days.
The latter were manufactured and delivered
at the rate of five II week. These mortars
throw shells weighing 2l0 pounds, which
strike with power equivalent to forty tons.
Civilians and some military men high in
authority, still consider an attack imminent,
but the prevalent opinion among old officers
of the army is that the rebels will not ven
ture it, unless in the madness of dcspery-
ton.
Estimates of the rebel army range from
one hundred thousand to one hundred and
ninety thousand.
Bya general order, the commanding officer
at llatteras Inlet is authorized to accept the
services of North Carolina Volunteers. not
to exceed one regiment. The commanding
officer has not yet been determined ON. The
appointment of Gen. Reynolds has been
countermanded. He is how hcrc in com
mand Of a brigade.
general court-martial at Alexandria has
condemned thirty-two soldiers to death, for
mutiny, sleeping ON, or deserving OF, posts.
Gen. Reynolds. in command at Cheat
Mountain, telcgraphs that the rebel forces
have left that vicinity, and conjecturcs that
they are marching this way.
The Surgeon of the Maine Fourth reports
u hundred Of its men arrested for msubord.
nation.
In England and France our cause was
more injured lay the depression after the
Bull Run affair than by the defeat ITSELF
Ministers to other States write of their
sympathy with us. England and France
refused to accept our adhesion to the priya-
tcering prohibition of the Paris Conference
because coupled with stipulations that wo'd
bind them to treat jeff Davis privatccrs as
pirates.
Gen. Sickles has taken seventy or eighty
prisoners in the lower counties Of Maryland
He captured near Port Tobacco last night Il
splendid harouche and pair of horses, with
their owner and another man, and plenty of
letters from Washington to Virginia. The
carriage was one Of the regular rebel mail
wagons.
WAsuINGToN, Sept. 1S.-Gen. Mitchell left
for Cincinnati to-day, to raise fifty thousand
men.
Strother and Pendlcton, the venerable
Union Nirginians arrested at Martinsburg
and carried to Richmond have been released.
There is slight expectation anywhere now
of an attack by the rebels, whom the arrest
of the Maryland rebel legislators and our
strong Notifications and forces at all points
have somewhat frightened. 1t is rumorcd,
however, that Johnston, with column of
forty or fifty thousand men is moving to the
assailable points up the Potomac, as if with
a design of crossing.
Tire rebels are fortifying the hills around
Washington and several hills south of Mum
sons.
On Monday night scouting party of he
tween fifteen and thirty Of the Fourth New
York encountered three rebel companies
opposite Seneca Mills, but escaped with a
loss of two or three. In the morning the
rebel camp was shellcd until it disappeared.
This morning in picket sLirmish south OF
Alexandria two South Carolina cavalry were
wounded.
The President has made the following
appointments for new Kentucky brigade
about to take the field: Major w. S. Word
General. First Regiment, John IT, Word of
Bowling Green, Lieutenant Colonel james
b. Carlisle, Major. Second Regiment. T.. d.
lIobson, Colonel John Carlisle, Lieutenant
Colonel VIM. II. Hobson, Major Third
Regiment, Wade Valcgas, Colonel; Z. G. Ed
wards, Quartcrmastcr; J. d. williams, Com
missary.
Gen. McClclan's Body Guard is to be
raised to a hundred and ifty-eight, and their
uniform to be changed by his wish.
Gen. Stone shcllcd the rebels out of
camp partially entrenchcd, at Goose Creek,
this morning. with 20-pound riiicd cannon.
They had felt secure against bis 6-poundcr
of short range.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2l.-Senator Baker,
who refused Il Brigadicr-G -Generalship has
been appointed Major General of Y Vohntcers
Simon Il Brown of Illinois, Assistant Quarter
master; VIM. Blanchard of Washington, Con-
sui to Melbourne,
The First Massachusetts Regiment has
seized at Upper Marlborough, Md, two wag-
on loads of arms and military clothing on
the way to Virginia
Twenty or thirty soldiers and one Colonel
were arrested i'll the house of Marble alley
last night.
The POstoftice departement is issuing two
million postage stamps daily.
Mujo Van Vlict and Major Barry of Nc
Cellars Staff have been made Brigadcr-
Generals.
A grand review of McCalls division, en-
bracing thirteen Pennsylvania, regiments,
was held this morning by Gen. Mcclellan
and Staff. Prince De Joinville and Balti-
more Donapart were present the last unnotic-
ed.
WASHINGTON, Sept 22.-Capt. I.ingerfel-
ter of Oregon, of Bakers California Regi-
ment, while out with five men scouting bey-
ond the lines last night, was killed by the
rebels in ambush Sergeant Haines caught
him failing, and shot the assassin. The
picket returned for tho body pistols and
sword, but they had been stolen
Major Valentine Brown of Garbaldis