New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-07
A REVIEW OF NEW YORK TROOPS
AoauirTAL OF COM. POOR.
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Special Dispatch to Tho N. Y. Tribune.
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that State their allotment, as it falls due. By
another section, the President is authorized t.
appoint three persons from each State, to serve
without pay, whose duty it shall be to visit The
troops from their respective States and Obtain
the signatures of soldiers to allotment rolls.
CoURT-MARTIALs.
Senator Wilson wlll also introduce bill OF
Monday investing Division Commanders with
power 10 order court martials, ohd make theiI
decisions final in oil cases not involving the
At present, only the Commander of Depart.
ment has power to order court in the most
trinng c.se. This is the first step toward 0
more thorough organization Of the army.
POWERS OP DIVISION COMMANDERS.
An effort will be made to confer additional
powers upon Division Commanders, such as
that of Issuing orders and granting applications
Of comparatively unimpOrtant character, with
the view OF making each Division as complete
within itself as is practicable. AS the law now
atand., almost all the business Of the army OF
the Potomac must be transacted at Gen. Me-
Clellan's Headquarters, his authority being
requisite in the most trlllng matters of detail.
Delay is thus ubayoidably Occasioned, and an
unnecessary emouDt Of work thrown upon o
few pair of shoulders Under the new arrange.
ment ouly affairs OF some importance will be
attended to at the General Headquarters, qucs-
tions Of less consequence being finally disposed
of in the Divisions where they arise. This
will. of course, Decessitatc tho commissioning
Of Division Stats. Should the army be organ
lied into corps darmee, which will be done
eventually, intermediate tribunals will probably
be- constituted at their respective headquarters,
which will leave only the grayest questions for
Gen. McCellan's perfonsl consideration.
TIE CASE OF GkN. PATTERSON.
Gen. Patterson has called for n Court of In-
curry into tis conduct in tho campaign of last
spring and Summer.
RpsIFw ~ GES. M'DowEIJ's DIVISION.
The Governor Of New-lork will tomorrow
receive military konors due to his rank as
Major. General. To give hun an opportunity Of
seeing us many of the troops of his own State
az i. possible in one day, the division of Gen.
Mcdowell will be paraded 10 review before
him at 10 O'clock; that of Gen. Blenker at IL,
and Con. Frankns at 2 in the afternoon.
SLEEPING sESTREs.
The high military crime of sleeping on the
post in front of the enemy has brought another
officer into peril Of bis life by a oourt-martial.
Lieut.. Hare, of the New-York 3Ist, was
brought over to-day aud placed in close con-
iinement, charged with this oiiense while on
picket duty.
THE CASE or COMMANDER POOR.
Commander Poor, tried for allowing the
Sumter to escape from New.Orleans, when he
was in command Of the Brooklyn, blockadiog
that port, was acquitted by tho Court, and the
sentence has been approved by Secretary
Weles.
TIE CASE OF COMMANDER SCOTT.
The naval court-martial in the case of Com.
lnander Scott, late of the Keystone State, for
leaving his station without leave, has reported
10 the Secretary, who has not yet passed upon
its finding
TIE CASE OF EX-SENATOR GwIN AND OTHERS.
Me.srs. Gwin, Benbam. and Brent submitted
their case TO the State Department to-day,
which has as yet arrived at no conclusion
touching the proper disposition to be made VI
them.
sTOPPAGR or MAILS TO MEXICO.
The two Inst malls from this country TO
Mexico, via Havana, were stopped en- route.
II is supposed that the Spanish authorities have
detained them.
SCOUTING EXPEDITION.
Two large scouting parties went out this
morning, one from the right aud the other
from the left wing, aud returned tins evening
without seeing an enemy.
RECONNAISSANCE.
Gen. Sedgewick, who commands brigade in
Gen. Hcpizelman's Division, marched with il
fantry, cavalry and artillery, amounting to three
or four regiments, as far us Bono Hill, on Ac'
cotiok Creck, where 500 Of the rebels cavalry
have been posted for the lat three OF four
days.
Gen. Hancock, of Gen. Smiths Division,
with three or four regiments, marched toward
Fairfax Court House, and then marched back
again. They found indications that the enemy
had been over the road within twenty -louf
hours.
REVIEW.
Gen. Mcclellan and stall reviewed Gen.
Keyes division near Columbis College to-day.
After the review there was division drill. ,
ARRIVAL OF GEN. FREMONT.
Gen. Fremont has taken apartments here on
+ street. between Ninth aud Tenth.
SOLDIERS MAKING THEMSELVES CoIroRT.
ABLE.
The l4th Massachusetts, Regiment has butt