The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-02

IHf NEW LEVY FOR TRooPs.--ft will be seen
by the proclamation issued by Governor Nor
gan, and published in yesterdays HERALD, that
he mas authorized the enlistment of twenty
five thousand volunteers under the recent call
OF the War Department at Washington. These
twenty-five regiments are separate from those
which have heretofore been accepted by the
War Department, and are now stationed at diff
ferent points with their ranks half and two-thirds
full We may therefore expect some rivalship
between the several recruiting Offices, al
though the advantage appears to be On the side
of the Governor, as, under his call, the moment
thirty-two men are enlisted they are mustered
into service and commence drawing their pay.
In the recruiting and organization of this
new levy the Governor will not be hampered
by the late Military Board, their duties having
ended with the enlistment Of the thirty
thousand volunteers, or thirty-eight regi-
ments, for three years. The Governor,
as COMMANDMENT Chief of the militia of the
State will have full control, assisted by his staff
officers who will, from their experience in rails
ing the thirty-eight regiments, be able to exc
with despatch and in order. Its fair, therefore,
TO suppose, since there is to be responsible
head, that we shall not hear of complaints and
outcries such as were raised against the Military
Board. The State, in its financial sense has no
thing whatever to do with this new call. The
funds are furnished by the general government.
In fact, Governor Morgan is simply the agent of
the government in raising this force, making
himself officially responsible There is no doubt
that the business Of recruiting will be con-
Quoted in satisfactory and praiseworthy man
ner, The fact Of the numerous public censures
of the actions of the Military Board will 20 far
to make the Governor work zealously and en-
deavor to convince the public that none of their
shortcomings are chargeable to him.
SOUTHERN ACCOUNTS OF THE RECENT BATTLE
Whatever successes, great or small, may be
achieved by the rebel troops, it is certain that
they will lose nothing by the manner in which
Southern papers and bulletins tell the story
The preposterous Munchausenisms which are
published in the most matter of fact way, by
such journals as the Richmond Enquirer, take
the starch out of anything that can usually be
imagined this side of Mason and Dixon's line
The Enquirer does not hesitate to represent
that the federal troops outnumbered those of
the Confederate army engaged at Bull run,
three TO one, and that triumph was finally OBJ
tanned against the most I" desperate odds" 1t
concludes, therefore, that the Question of re-
lative manhood is settled forever" 1t may be
very agreeable to credul0us readers to have
their self love thus tckled. but the truth is ex-
actly the opposite of what the Enquirer has set
forth. The rebel army actually in action num-
bered close upon $4,000 men, we'll Offered,
we'll intrenched, protected by masked batteries
and abundantly supplied with artillery. OPP
posed to them was a conglomeration of badly
Differed regiments-with an aggregate in the
| field of not over $4,000 men-with no general
commanding-each one fighting on his own
hook and with totally inadequate number Of
cannon. Yet, in spite of these adverse circum-
stances, only an accident prevented the federal
troops from gaining a triumph, through dint Of
| sheer superiority in personal strength, and
logged, invincible bravery. The question of
| relative manhood" has been settled in every
| contest between Southern and Northern
soldiers The latter, with their iron strung
! nerves and hardened muscles, have conquered
| in each instance where mere brute force could
avail. Nay more, with two or three to one
| opposed to them they will bear away the palm
if they can only have good generals, colonies
they can trust, and an adequate supply of
artillery. Our eighteen thousand fighting men
at Bull run, would have put an end to rebellion
in Virginia, with the threefold odds against
| them, if they had had al open field com
mander like Mcclellan and heay Ter batteries.
|
! REPORT OF MEDICAL DIRECTOR Know nave
already published the official report, to Assst!n,,
Adjutant General Fry, of w. s. King, 'Sur>
geon and Medical Director U. S. A." con.
corning his operations at Bull run. We return
| to this diffuse heartless document, for the
| purpose of expressing our adherence of the
| vanity, puffery, and unfeelng verbiage with
which it abounds. But two facts are contained
| in it of Importance, namely, that "after the
wounded and dead were seen lying on the field
in every direction" DR.. King thought proper to
''send for ambulances," and that he extracted
! ball from the arm of Colonel Heintzelman
while he sat on horseback The remainder of
the report is confined to putting, praising and
congratulating assistants and ambulance drivers
Far more esteem would DR.. King have shown
himself worthy of, had be, with humane heart
bleeding over the sufferngs of our poor SOL
diers, deplored the absence of beds, blankets
bandages and lint, and Other appliances for their
| comfort, in which the army was SO culpably de-
icient. With the information in his possession
he could have probed wound painful to be
hold but which it would have benefited the
| public to have been told of, and TO have had
| exposed and healed. What share of blame
ought to fall upon DR.. King himself for neglect
we are not yet informed >,
W -
WHO APPOINTED GENERAL MCDOWELL THE