New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-31

wire slain.
TIE n. Y. FOURTEENTH ENGINEER CORPS
The engineer corps Of tue NJ l. four'eeu'I
started b meward to-day. The Regiment has
been reduced to about ESQ., and may 90 homo TO
recruit.
REMOVAL OF MULES AND HORSES
To the grief of all who love Gun 10 Washing
ton. the mt ona mule academy is now removing
from the ne gaborhOcd of the Observatory grounds
"a Bladl psburg Seven thcusand Of these long
cared quadrupeds were bought by Government
for S1l9 so per head, all &c wild as hawks, and
utterly urbroken. The depot for the bOrses put-
chased BIS Government will alsO be at Badens-
lstter, del Since toe middle Of July,
9,e4O horses, 3,G37 mules. 2765 wagons, and
l, 100 ambulances, have been received here.
INDIANS JOINING TIE REBELS.
Advice5 received at the Wsr Department con.
firm the report that the Kiowas and Coma ches
from whom Government have ths year withheld
then usual presents on account Of previous rms
calities, have united theirs fortunes with the
soutbern Confederacy. The principal rende7'
vous of the tribes il near Fort Bent.
TIE ALLEGIANCE OF PENSIONERS
The oath of allegiance required by the Pension
Office which lie to bo taken by all persons who
execute tic vouchers, including widows, eIecu-
tors guardans conservators, or Committees on
L,uatics, has reference TO pensions already due,
as well as 70 tho'r.,et 70 accrue, but does not
apply to persons owing allegiance TO foreign Gov
erulueuts. The pension agent at New-fOrk 10
directed 70 require all pensioners living IN New
York City, Brooklyn, WiliiamSburgh, aud Jer-
scy City, to present themselves at tic agency 10
receive their pensions, excepting only those VII"
from sickness or other satisfactory cause are un'
able to comply.
THE APPLICATIONS FOR OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
TIE rush for appointments as Quarterumsters
ard Assistant Quartermasters might as well hold
up. H. Is estmated chat an additional army OF
6Ol00 men Will have to DO called into the field
t. find employment ana pay for those already
commissioned. So also Of applicants for West
Point Cedetsnps. Ooe bushel OF letters from
people seeking appointments are now stored IN
the War Department, labeled "To be answered
in 1862"
REBELS BROUGHT TO THE EAVi-YhtD-IIk NM
THIas POINT AFFAIR.
The RssoluUe this afternoon brought up TO the
Nayy.Yard three Rebels the captain, seaman,
md n passenger Of the schooner Remittance,
loaded IS lib tobacco, captured by the Yankee oil
Port Tobacco. Tue prisonera, according to
negro ea,ioi of the Remittance, boated Rebel
Officer from Maryland to Virginia. The Re'OIutc
also brought up four contrabands escaped from
King George Court House Virginia, who say
that the Rebels admit that eight Of the men who
.,pa,ed our TIRES boatmen at Matthias Point
were / He'd IN the engagement; that there were
no large guns ut Msthis. Point, aud that the
Rebels are suffering or lack Of provisions
A short time slDce q scow. load of bacon was
umueQl d from MsrygGd. They also lack mill
tary equipments. Negroes, both slave and free,
are forced into the Confederate army. Some
;c,n Voluntarily The slaves on both sides Of
tho potom@s hope and pray for our suoeees,
and when able. Wi work foe IL.
TIE SECOND FIRE ZOUAyEs.
The I'd Fire Zouayes received hearty cheers
On their march down the Avenue to join their
brigade this evening.
PATRIOTIC LETTER FROM a MASSACHUSETTS
SHOEMAKER.
Tee Secretary OF the Treasury haze received
the following liter, winch shows how the people
or the Old Bay State ressrd the war. lts tone
Of earnest hearty put iotISm makes it worthy OF
being printed in letters OF gold:
Z" am n shoemaker Of limited meane, but want 20
Iepd Government this hHadred dObays, to assist 1t
little IL maintenance # lie anthonty-iis eki'tehre.
The reas II | rend it 10 you rather than invest II
her. i. " 4pt 10 yive Uncle Sam ill the prohi 10
oo.t wait any interest OH il. All want IS, that you
.bonld send ne IA Government NOE, wonihLk 10 pay
me ar carr 500 on o'nHGd, a1y tuc after the 2o'h
ora us, IS1 L. without interest. II times are har1
with tire GOyerOment "e", wiii make PoocH
aafe ent from tis. IL you arc not empowered TO M
YEA the money H. Tie wy, invee IT m I'll. next WY
that viii be most q, olhble 20 the Go, erHmout'
HLOrG LIFE 30 UACLE SAN
"May the bles irg OF God make our en'rte 70 save
our otlovsd county pue'e.sful.
"Nott rcsprrtfiiy yours
"P. San early return viii prevent apprehension
that Ibis Gid not reach you. Pby-ical disability alone
prevents my assisting - Y"lan'eei.
AN ExrLsSATioS.
Mr.. Russell in bis last letter TO The London
Times says:
81 went Tito the private department OF Tie Post
OAi,e the other uy, odnd there 90 tienh 1n'l-
IL epyaged IT, sOri,g lct,cs At desk Ire last nme
.aw Gim Was at Gipner with tie Commissioners OF
the Confederate ST.. es at Washington, aud was
rt,e edr, rissd Ia in now in the sanctnm 81 Tho
Dol. Ofc1 within few feet Of Mr.. Blair, Of the
gre azul Of Adolf ionirY: -.
Sii he Il MI jrss Looking over the letters here 70
,;t ont s,re Coz our Suti triendr and forward
them to tuer oWnerp ad them, and if the eAcei-
/. nj and Gcu E gentleman did not ago forward any
li,tls scraps OF Jews could collect, am in error"
Tire facts in tie case are os follows: Mr..
RusselI Was in the City P0st-Ofiice, not the Cen