New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-23
THE auS1RAsAHD QUESTION YET uaSErTLEO
Strange RumOr Respecting COL Bakers
Orders.
MORE TROUBLES IN THE MISSOURI DEPARTMENT
GEN. CURTIS SIGHTED AGAIN.
Special Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribune.

The Secretary of the Treasury has not made
any draft on the last loan negotiated with the
New.York Banks, and does not at present In
tend to. Some of the details of the arrange
ment yet remain unsettled.
OPERATIONS OF GEN. SMITHS DIVISION.
The expedition from Gen. Smiths Division
yesterday pushed on the Vienna road toward
Fairfax as far as Flint Hill, driving in the
rebel pickets there, and returning at late
hour with 100 wagons of corn and hay.
REBELS BUILDING A ROAD.
Yesterday contraband brought into our
lines report that the rebels were building a
new road from Germantown to Flint Hill.
Gen. Porter sent out scouting party to-day,
consisting of two squadrons of Cavalry, who
went far enough to ascertain the correctness
of this story. The new road upon which the
rebels are busy at work, is to the right of
the old one, which is more direct and in good
condition.
THE HOUSE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.
The House Investigation Committee, OF
which Col. Van Wyck is Chairman, is 10 ses-
sion at Harrisburg. Its business there and at
Philadelphia win probably consume the residue
of time before the meeting Of Congress. There
will be two or three weeks Of work here 70
do afterward so that the Committee viii not
be prepared to report until after the Christmas
holidays It has been in session fhy-six days
already, and has saved the country a good deal
of money. II was upon its recommendation,
fortified by abundant testimony, that the re.
cent regulations of Government touching the
purchase OF arms were adopted. BY ITS ener-
eetic action in causing the arrest Of the guilt
party, $1,000, which a shipbuyer had DER
charged Government, being over 80 per cent
of the whole amount OF his purchase, were dis.
gorged, and the culprit narrowly escaped u
criminal prosecution. OF its labors in New
York and st. Louis the public already know
something.
THE DEMAND NOTES.
The issue of the demand notes has reached
about sis, 000 600. The re-snles Of 1880 notes
TO the public has absorbed within few millions
the first fifty millions taken by the Banks.
The expenditure for the public service averages
more than million and half a day.
THE CONTRABASDs AT THE NAvY-YARD.
The 80 contrabands brought to the Navy
Yard remain there, awaiting the action Of Gov
eminent in reference TO them. Some definite
line of policy in regard to all fugitive slaves is
demanded, and great trouble las already arisen
from want Of IL.
VIRGINIA POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.
The Post-0ffce Department is making ar
rangemeuts for re-establishng POst-Oilices in
Accomac and Northampton Counties, Virginia.
MILITARY INSTRUCTION IN SEw-JERSEY.
The Governor of New-Jersey will recommend
an appropriation of s., 900 to institute military
instruction in the State Normal School The
Rev. Mr.. Harris Of Hoboken, West-Point
graduate, will take charge of the department,
and personally drill the pupils. The War De-
parsment will lend to the School the unused
muskets of the old pattern at West Point, and
present to it specimens Of shot, shell, and sim
liar material.
GEN. VAN RENSSELAER, PROMOTED.
InspectorG General Henry Van Rensselaer, will
tomorrow be appointed Brevet Brigadier-Gen-
eral in the regular army.
INSPECTOR or CAVALRY.
Gen. Hayelock has been appointed Inspector
of Cavalry, an Office which he filed in the
British Army.
ANOTHER GRAND REVIEW.
All the regulars ON this side of the Potomac
will be reviewed on Tuesday at ] o'clock on
the plain east of the Capitol. The whole force
will be under command OF Gen. Andrew Porter,
the Infantry under Gen. George Sykes, Artil-
lery under Col. Henry j. Hunt Cavalry under
Lieut.. Col. VIM. II. Emory.
LIEUTENANT RUSSELL TO HAVE COMMAND.
Lieutenant Russell, who burned the privateer
Judith under the Rebel guns at Pensacola, ar
rived here to-day. He will be appointed to the
command of one of the new gun-boats.
A r,Irnor is current in the army that the orders
upon which Col. Baker acted at Balls Bluff were
forged by some rebel, for the purpose OF drawing
him into a trap.
MORE CHARGES IN THE MISSOURI MIR0GLIo.
Gen. Samuel II. Curtis has preferred charges
against Capt. Chauncey McKeeyer Gen. Ere
mont's Assistant Adjutant General, OF insubordi-
nation, dsrespect to superior officers, and conduct
unbecoming an officer and gentleman while in
st. Louis. when il was under command Of Gen.
Curtis. The INSTRUMENTATION complained OF con-
sisted in usurping authority giving orders and
countermanding those of Gen. Curtis, his supe-
ror, under the false plea that he was acting under
Gen. Fremont's direct authority; the disresPect,
in speaking contemptuously Of Gen. Curtis and OF
othor superior officers, especially volunteers, aad