The national Republican., 1861-07-15


will achieve rs much for Willards.
TIE COMMITTEES ON SECESSION CLrRKs.-The
Committee on secession clerks, and other EN-.
ployees still under the Government pay, John
F. Potter, chairman, Is now in session at the
Capitol; room No. 6, where information should
at once be lodged against every one now in
such employ, not true to the Union.
~ Garnetts forces are on a line Of retreat
which leads to Romney and Winchester. IF
they are not cut Of BY the national troops
concentrating at Rowleysburg, they still cannot
escape, If General Patterson feels himself able
to advance upon General Johuson, and take
possession Of Winchester.
~ Without meaning to say that Gen. Pat
tsrson has not doue great many good things
since the war commenced, we must say that he
has done one good thing in forbidding any re-
ports from his camps by letter or telegraph.
Nothing has come from that quarter for weeks
past, but stupid lies Of all sorts, descriptions oi
battles which were never fought, sxsggeratiopu
Of the eneuy's force, predictions Of an imme.
dists advance, and unsooountsbls statements
that General johnson was surrounded, bis rear
being all the while perfectly open. General
Patterson was not day too 5000 IN silenoing
these ridiculous chsttseers.
~ Where all have done 90 we'll, it seems
ipvidious 10 select oat one for special prsiss,
but nothing less than that would be doing jus.
tios to ex Congressman Garnet. His ssces
sion associates have all performed prodgies in
running, but he has eclipsed them all by run
ming before he came within sight Of q battle.
he approached near enough 70 Beverly to
learn by rumor that q fight had taken place
there, or was then in progress. Instantly his
horses head was turned, and he was on his
"oinding ,cay." He did not become gene
raj with any intention of fighting, and as mat.
tsrs seemed TO be taking that unexpected turn,
be was OF in q twinklng. He may be headed
Of, but be will never be caught by any pursuing
force. His wind is too good for that
TELEGRAPHINo ARMY MATTERS FROM WASH.
INGroN.--" Washington, July TO- The cores
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which they voted to comply with the request o.
Gen. Scott, that no telegraphic information
should be given Of the movements Of troops."-
From a dispatch by one Of them.
Very kind and patriotic on the part Of the
correspondents. "Voted to comply" is good.
The best reason for Gen. Scott's order is that
the public mind had become so much disturbed
by the paid.for lies, the destitution of truth,
and the vague rumors telegraphed from Wash.
ington, that the Government avaed itself of
its supervision Of the telegraph, to stop the
sent that the Government cared for, but the
endless and scandalous succession of lies.
p6r Brigadier General Harris, who was in
command Of the rebel forces which we're rout
ed by Colonel Smith, at Monroe station, on the
Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, in Missouri,
is q native of Virginia. He is a political ad.
venturer, and, in politics, has been everything
by turns, and nothing long" In the session Of
ls47 and lS4s he was sort Of hanger,on and
secretary Of the Missouri delegation in Con-
Congress, through whose influence he was ap-
pointed to second leutenancy in the tenth
regiment Of iuiantry-oue Of the ten regiments
organized for the Mexi al war; He subse.
quently married Commodore Porter's daugh.
ter, returned to Missouri, identified himself
with the Know.Nothing party, was candidate
for Secretary Of State on the Know Nothing
ticket, was defeated, became editor of paper
in Hannibal, where he resided, and was elected
to the Legislature of Missouri, from Marion
county, on the Bell and Everett ticket, at the
Last election. He was the protector and advo-
cate of the Infamous military BILL and the
leader of the rebels in the House of Represent,
atives in Missouri.
FLAo PREsEErATIoN.--A committee consist
ing OF Major Carter and Messrs. Ogden and
Wards, from Newark, New Jersey, are in town,
the bearers Of splendid banner for the New
Jersey troops. 1t is II token of the sympathy
of the New Jersey residents of California, who
6ud it impossible to be in the field With their
brethren who have volunteered in their coun-
ry's defence. The Gag was sent to Governor
Olden, with the request that he would present
il to the troops, with the injunction that they
ahould follow the example Of their fathers in the
revolution, by carrying it TO victory. The
formal presentation will probably take place ON
Tuesday ~ g0ss Runyon'