The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-26
NO. 16.



WAsHINGToN, Sept. 19.-R. F. Morely ,
pennsylvania, has been appointed General Maj
= ager of the Military Railroad routes, in place {
Col. Thos A Scott.
Corporal HoughIand, of Niles, Michigan, CO
Z, I'd Michigan Regiment, was shot this morn
ing while on picket duty, to the left of Bailey
Cross Roads. The ball penetrated one shoul
der and passed out of the other, striking pri
vate who stood behind him in the arm Hougl
lands injury, though severe is not likely t
prove fatal. The rebels of Alexandria have fin
opportunities to communicate with theirVirgini,
trends by passing down the river in boats be
yond our lines
Special Dispatch to the N. Y. Herald.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 19.-All reports abou
Gen. johnson crossing the Potomac are un
founded. There is much alarm at Martinsbure
and Winchester about Gen. Banks crossing the
Potomac with 81 900 men. The rebels had sen.
TO johnson for assistance. Reliable accounts
from Winchester state that the railroad between
Strasburg and that place is not being built as
reported, and that the rails taken up near Mar
tlnsburg are to be used for laying the line from
richmond to Manassas. 1t has hitherto requr-
ed three days for the transportation of troops
between those places.
NEW YORK, Sept. l9.-The Heralds dispatch
from Washington says the difficulty relative to
zen. Fremont has been caused by the int rfer-
ence OF the Blair family, Postmaster General
Blair, and Col, Frank P. Blair, Jr 1t is from
them the charges have emanated understand
the real secret Of the hottiity Of the Bairs is
that Fremont would not permit them to dictate
to him, and would not lend himself to combi-
nation OF contractors from New York, Philadel
phla and Cincinnati, and elsewhere, who had
the patronage of the Post Master General, some
ten days ago. +. p. Blair, Jr, demanded that
S3,OOUOOO worth of contracts should be given
to that combination, and Gen. Fremont's re-
spouse was, that his duty was to oppose all enc
niles OF the Government, whether Southern trail
tors or Northern schemers.
Upon inquiry at the head arters of the
Army OF the Potomac, l have ascertaiued posi-
lively that no orders. general or special, have
yet been issued by Gen Mcclellan relative 10
The fugitive slaves, so that all the reports and
comments on that subject which have appeared
in the papers are, to say the least, premature
Nothing has yet occurred requiring action on
his part on that subject.
DARNESToWN, Md, Sept. l8.-I understood
to-day that Gen. Mcclellan would arrive here
to-day, on his way to review the army of the
Upper Potomac.
On Saturday last scouting party crossed
the Potomac at the mouth of Seneca Creek and
penetrated the country in the vicinity of Lees
burg. They saw three regiments of infantry
NAA WV ASS@o"iS uoSe
regiments-they were Informed by negro--
were Mississippans, while fourth regiment
from that State had mutinied and disbanded
lnforma ton has also been derived that there |
were other large bodies of rebels in that sec
ton, and if salt, coffee, &C., were not received
general distress would ensue both to the army
and families The scouts saw not living thing
except the negroes in the country, The wheat
had been harvested, but the corn fields were
drying up. From the best information obtain
ed, there is but little doubt that Gen. Johnston's
army now apparently moving in detail opposite
Washing ION, fully reaches if it does not exceed
The highest estimate given by the rumor. Nei-
her is it impossible that Johnston will endeav-
D. to cross The Potomac in the neighborhood
u Monocacy, with view of attempting to reach
trederick to protect the Legislature while they
PASS the ordinance of secession, trusting to the
we'll known Secession sentiment Of Baltimore
md the lower counties of Maryland 10 raise TIE
standard of rebellion and to divide and weaken
the Union army.
Either this movement or the abrupt abandon
nent of the whole line of the Potomac appears
Inevitable.