The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-08-08

NEW YoRK, Au,

| ue ASTONA o uioPoSSu, 0osCu w dbus
ington, 4th, says: s'Prince Napoleon,
accompanied bf tie Secretary of State,
and suite, to-day visited the camp on
the right back of the Potomac.
newspaper assaults on the Blaif
family have SO much aroused the Mary
land secessionists against them, that il
has been deemed necessary to place d
military force in the vicinity of Silver
Spring, the residence of F. P. Blaif. al.
for the protection of his property.
The Worlds dispatch from WASH
ington, says: "It is believed the rebels
have abandoned the intention of crosss
ing the Potomac, and are vigorously
concentrating their forces lower down;
establishing their line of defences be-
tween the east of the Blue Ridge at
Manassas Junction, and the lower Po-
tomac. 1t is certain that they are de-
ploying in large numbers along the,
river from Mt. Vernon southwark, and
information is received of an increase
in the number and strength of their
batteries on the shores. Navigation
may thus be threatened to such an ex5
tent as 10 render counter-action neceeI
sary.
The Zri6une's correspondent says
"The Sanitary Commission is procur-
ing information to be laid before the
public of the occupation and condition
of all living graduates of West Point,
with view OF having them brought
into the service of the country.
"Capt. Maury, who for the last ten
years has exhibited such a genius for
stealing the honor of others work,
who has been the pet of our govern
ment for years, Is now engaged in
planting submarine batteries in South
ern harbors to destroy Federal ships of
war;"
New YORK, Aug. 6.
The Washington dispatch to the
Herald, Aug. 5th, says: "InfermatioR
was received here to-day that letters
are constantly going South from w ash
ington, and Notwithstanding the pro-.
hibition of the Post-office Department,
the rebels have daily mail from Bal
timore. For several days past the city
has been swarmed with Baltimore Sc
cessionists. A Baltimore detective
who came here Saturday reports tn at
he seen lodging about our streets ono
hundred of the most violent rebel SYM
pathizers from Baltimore. They came
as spies or incendiaries, or with a view
to find access to the rebel lines.
"The exceeding carefulncss and
minuteness of the rebel reconnoisancers
in the vicinity of the Chain Bridge,
during the past week, have induced
Gen. Mcclellan to look closely after
that point. A sufficient force to guard
against any contingency has been
placed there.
Eighteen or twenty beautiful rifed
pieces, with caissons complete, arrived
here last night. These will more than
compensate for the guns lost at Bulls
RIM, but they are only an instalment
of the field artillery, of the most i'm
proved patterns, that will be attached
to Gen. McClellan's column. Our var
ious boundaries and arsenals can throw
out more of these arms in a week, than
can be built in the South in three
months.
"The Tariff bill, as passed, contains
about fifty-four sections that published
in the Herald contains seventy-six, but
is bogus.
GA Northerner just arrived from
Richmond says, at the time of bis de-
parture thee was great abundance
of British coin circulating in that city
1t was currently reported that large
amounts of gold had been advanced
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"At midnight the Senate is still in
executive session. All the prominent
army appointments have been con-
firmed, including Generals Butler and
Schenck, and Col. Emory. That of
Commissioner of Public Buildings, Col.
Wood, has not yet been acted upon.
"About thirty-five of our cavalry
skirmished the other day near Falls
Church, with a squad of the rebels.
Several were wounded on each side.
We have contraband statements that
two rebel regiments are encamped four
miles from Alexandria"
The Iribunes dispatch says: ga
person recently arrived, says General
Johnson expresses freely his contempt
for what he styles General Patterson'a
cowardice. The story about sixty
eight guns at Winchester is all fudge.
They had but fifteen guns, all told, at
any one point.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.
The following nominations for Brig
adler Generals, in addition to those
heretofore announced, were, it is said,
confirmed last night by the Senate
Hurlbut, McClernand, Schenck, Grant,
Baker, Lyon, Fox, PreDtiss, Anderson,
King, Sigel and Couch.
The principal officers of the new
army regiments were all confirmed,
while the reflections comprised only a
few of the minor appointments. Lieut.
enant Col. Emory's nomination was
also confirmed.
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