Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-15
Affairs az NgashIngforI.

! WASHINGTON. Oct S.-A special to the Post say
BrigadieF General Graham has been ordered to ap
pear before Judge Merriek to-day for contempt o
Court 1t Is alleged that he forced soldier into Tx
ranks after he had been discharged BY the Court
a private Of one of the Pennsylvania regiment
was killed by the accidental discharge bf muske
this morning.
The cavalry and sRsiIlery regiments are marching
20 Capitol Hill where they viii be relieved to day.
| Everything is quiet along the lines.
The powerful rain last night made ha roc in some
! Of the camps.
The commissioner of Indian afTairs, Mir Dale, has
returned from his official visit to the Indian tribes
in Kansas and Nebraska. He was TeeeiTed By them
with giaaness They sought every opportunity to
| express to hil their friendliness to the United
/ States. He eonTersed with the returned Kansas
officers who took part in the battle Of Springfield.
and they informed him thqt no separately organized
Indian forces were with the rebels on that occasion
but that comparatively few of the half breeds
only were in the ranks of the emmy.
The efforts OF the rebels to array The Indians
against the United States 50 far the Commission
er could lern was attended with 0nly partial sue
cess. The Indians, as class, are disposed to be
friendly, but those who are in hostility have been
| coereed to the course by the rebels No doubt is
entertained that it would require percussion to
raise large Indian force in Kansas and Nebraska,
70 operate against those who may be brought into
| the field By the rebels.
sps;iaI Dispatch to the New York Tlibane.
WAsHIGTON, Oct S.-The report of a large rebel
force despstched from the Potomac army westward
is unfOgnded.
DetaehHeqts FROM tie Sickles brigade, which
have been securing Lower Maryland Ia3ort the
dominant sentiment Voluntarily rebeliOus. Not
more than three Union flags were SEEN
Gen. Scott's order, Issued ten daYs ago, for the
release Of Col. Blair is not yet carried intO eject
He is still confined in the barracks at ST. Louis.
G. W, Cole, type founder, formerly of Brook
lyn, lately OF Richmond. left the latter city two
weeks since under JEFF Daviss proclamation or
dering off foreigners, and has arrived here He
LETT 1000 troops at Richmond but only guns
mounted. Three four hundred negroes were
building numerous forts. 81 Hospitals were fuH.
OF florida regiment Jog strong only $40 an
swered at roll call There are regular nails to AID
from Baltimore, New York, and other places North.
800 pounds Of agate type had just arrived from the
North and passed as stove plates from the hethO-
dist Book Concern.
John II. Lister, a native Of Connecticut, and re-
Gently Citizen Of 5FOokyn, one SiOst, and other
NoFtherners were engaged in altering 400 musk cts
a week and manufacturing sewing machines.
A nnnber Of informal nschines had been placed
in the James river There Is company manufac
turing them in Richmond.
spsslaI to the New York Herald.
Doctor Homeston and SHolm, Of the Fourteenth
prOollya Regiment, who we're taken prisoners at
Bull Ran, arrived here this evening, Yia Fortress
Monroe, from Richmond. They were released on
parole, and came with the fityseven wounded
prisoners They give most deplorabia account Of
the condition Of our wounded and Of the uIannsF in
which they have been treated by the rebels. Ac>
ecrding TO their anOOuRts our prisoners have suffer-
ed all the toFments Of TIE damned, and the wonder
is that any Of them are now alive IL now sppears
that the IS wounded whom they released, were |
cases which the rebel doctors could not cure, and
therefore they wers pePuftt.d toreturr home .
The re bel tSOvern14eat had learned s0rasthi1g re-
gardipg the pfobab expedi Jon South. ItProdnced
the greatest excitement throughCH. The Cub and I
Cotton States. II vas believed that vast numbers 4
OF the troops nav in Virginia would be called tg /
the respective States where thlse attacks were ap
pretended
There was & great scarcity Of provisions and
also medicines. Our wounded frequently bad TO
go without in many critical cAses. Tss eosee, and
sugar we're almost impossible to procure for love
or money.
The question Of a successor to JEFF DAVIS was
being egitated throughout the South, and the gen.
ersl belief was thaf a II. Stephens wousd be agreed
upon. The feeblestate Of Davs's health was used
Is an argument against hin-. In The event, hoWev-
er, Of permanent restoration TO heslIh, il is he