Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-08-22
OUR MILITARY BUDGET.

Washington down to Alexandria, whether by
bridge or boat. Alexendrians, therefore, will
save themselves much trouble by obtaining return
passes from the proper authorities in their own
town ere coming to Washington.
THE CONTESTANTS DEPARTMENT.
The would be spectators upon the Governmen,
\ In furnishing commissary's stores are Just now
moving heaven and earth to get rid Of Colonel
| Tayior, U. 5. A, Assistant Commissary General,
the acting head of the department. Col. Taylor
Is one Of the ablest and Host efficient officers OF
the service. end knows too much for them hey
! are urging the appointment Of some civilian In
his stead. The New York World 10 perhaps mos,
conspicuous In its efforts to Gust regular officers
from that branch of the service and get others In
| their stead. Mr.. Cummins. of the World unfor.
tunateiy has sundry subsistence accounts hanging
/ by the eyelids before the bureau which will be
| paid bv the United States as he presents them,
when he succeeds In getting civilians in the place
OF the present commissaries-hardly before. The
law Is positive on the subject. That branch of
the service must by law be under the direction of
an officer Of the regular service, al the promotion
In the commissarY's department is, by law, ac-
cording to seniority in 1t. II embraces an fne a
corps of officers, in all respects, az any corps of
| any service In the world.
THE HEALTH OF THE oLIGARcHy's TROOPS.
From undoubted information received here, In
addition to the camp measles, the small pox ra ges
virulently In nearly all the camp and other hos
pitfalls from Vienna to Richmond. For instance,
last week there were eighty three dangerous cases
| Of small pox among their total force Of three
| thousand at Vienna. From the best information
we can obtain, we believe that full FIVE thousa nd
or more Of Beauregard force are In the hospitals
There has been one or two cases Of small pox
here ever since the commencement Of the military
occupation OF Washington; never more than four
cases at time, and but a single death from the
| disease In that time Beauregard and Johnson
nave lest between three and five hundred men
from that disease
Nh. BOWMAN IN NORTH CAROLINA
1t will be remembered that at the Vienna affair
Mr.. Josiah Bowman, a resident at that place
humsnely brought In his own wagon to Alexan-
dria, the dead and wounded. Not long since we
also noticed his seizure and the detention Of his
little boy in the camp Of the Confederates. The
following extract from Southern paper may
perhaps indicate mis- whereabouts:
"A despatch from Weldon, n. c., Aug 9th
announces the arrival there Of Captain John
bacon, having In charge the traitor Bowman
2lst - y" WIG
The latter charge is a trumped up one, doubt
less.
The FORCE ON THE RIVER.
within the past week the available force
guarding the Potomac from It's mouth to Alex.
aadria has been doubled, quite. We state the
fact to quiet the nerves Of the New York press
that are having ''conniption ftsn daily over the
prospect that the oligarchy are about to cross a
large army over the river below 1t strikes MS
that 1t would be lucky for the cause of the Union
II they made the effort as they could not get half
OF 1t over before their means Of crossing the bal
ance would surely be destroyed
MAINLAND STAGE sIoPrED.
The LeonardtowD, Md, stage was stopped at
the Navy Yard bridge this morning, on It's wav
out, and brought back to this city. Contraband
articles, including letters to parties in Secessa
are said to have been found. Two of the occu-
pants Of the coach and the driver are under
arrest here, and the stage was allowed to 90 on
about = O'Clock p IN. with the remaining passen-
gers, accompanied by a mounted guard across
our lines.
THE VOLUNTEERS coURT-MARrIAL
was again in session this forenoon, In Aylmer' 5
building, near the Var Department They were
engaged on the Cases of the following privates Of
the second company Of the New York Seventy
ninth. Viz: Geo. Shovel, Geo. Turble. Geo
Bland, Bernard Daily, Alexander Irvine Patrick
Lynch, Patrick McGovern, and John McNahon
The charges against them are for insubordinatc
and mutinous conduct
NOT YET APPOINTED.
The Washington dispatch In the northern papers
this morning, announcing the appointment of
MAJOR w. >. Barry, u. :. A, Gen. Mc'Clellan's
chief OF artillery to be Brigadier General OF
Volunteers, is premature. He had not been an.
pointed at p. M. to-day, though his friends hope
he will soon be thus promoted. He is a very fine
| officer, and will doubtless make good Brigadier
PROMOTED.
| Lieut. Colonel Ripley, of that department has
been promoted to be the Brigadler General Of the
Ordnance corps; Major Symingt ton, Of the same
corps to be one Of its two Colonels and the fou,
Majors Of the corps to be its Lieutenant CoIonels
| except Mayor John F. Lee, who prefers to remain
IN the discharge Of the duties OF his position q
Major and Judge Advocate General.
DON'T TRAIN IN THAT COMPANY.
| correspondent writes US that Ross A. Fish
| Esq, formerly clerk In the Post Office Depart
| ment, and Lieutenant Of the National Rifles
| whom 1t was generally supposed had Joined hi,
fate and fortunes with the renegade Captain
Schaefer, SO far from being REBEL 10 at this tim,
| commanding Company f., First New York zeal
i fornle) Regiment.
L TAKING THE OATH.
The oath Of allegiance, and to support the Con
stituton and Government Of the United STATE.
was on Monday last administered to the Chief
and all the subordinates Of the Coast Survey OF
fee, by Justice Callan.
| RuMoRED MOVEMENT OF THE EyEMY,s roRcEs
An Individual reached here this morning from
the immediate vicinity Of Leesburg, and saw,
that very ,arge force is being concentrated a
that point jurt now. According to his story
which we doubt-all the army of Beauregard.
THE CASE OF COL. M'cUNN.
The court-martial In the case of Col. Mccunr
(of N. W found him guilty as charged, and sen.
| fenced him to be dismissed the service. w. bea,
APPOINTED.
Capt Joseph Dickinson has been appointed an
Assistant Adjutant General, Ito be attached 70
Gen. Hooker's staf)
NAVY YARD.
ATrtrdI OF Marines DEPARTURE of hs Und,r.
lcritsr-Rifs On. Practice
l Last night the steamer Baltimore came nm S,om
below, bringing up about two hundred marines.
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