New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-18
Resigning Officers Not Taken Back.
MsjOr-General for California
CAMP OF INSTRUCTION NEAR NETWORK.
TIME FOR ACCEPTING REGIMENTS.
PROOF OF FAULKNER's TREASON.
Special Dispatch to The n. \. Tribune.


| No more per cent Treasury notes will be
issued. The engrayers promise to have the
| 7 $40 per cent notes ready at the end of next
week. They will then be Immediately paid out.
but of no denominations less than $50.
FOREIGN TARIFFS.
| The customs tariffs of the principal commercial
nations Of Europe are now undergoing thorough
examination by William Elder The results will
be made available for Congressional use and in
due time made public. Already has Mr.. Elder
demonstrated that the Golden treaty between
France and England to which our FreeTraders
have 90 impudeply appealed is as thoroughly
protective of French industry against English
| competition in the French market as the Morrill,
tariff Justly aims to be for us. The Zollverein,
also, is seen to guard the industry of 100000
of Germans more ehectually than any tariffs
| America has ever bad.
HIGHT OF SOLDIERS.
| The minimum standard for enlisted men in the
| Regular Army is reduced to FIVE feet three in
ches. There is no standard for volunteers.
IMPORTANT TO REsIGNING OFFICERS.
Annexed TO the General Order which constitut-
ing the States of Kentucky and Tennessee a
separate military command, are the following
important orders:
General officers of volunteers will not be permitted
select their aide. de.camp from the officers Of the
Regular Army.
All general and staff officers who have come into the
service Of the United States under the call OF the Pres
dent for three months volunteers hereby mustered
out OF service.
Ofieers of volunteers who resign their commissions
Ia int he n tha mi lied
States as officers OF other volunteer organizations
The last regulation will blight the prospects Of
many who thought that they could hide the dis
grace of DESERVING their regiment under new
commission.
CALIFORNIA MAJOR. GENERAL.
Henry Wager Halleck of California was made
q Major. General of Volunteers to-day He is
New Yorker by birth, and graduated at West
Point in 1889. lie is the author of several mil.
itary works, was brevetted Captain for gallant
conduct and mertoricus services in California in
l347, was Secretary of State under the Military
Government of California, under Gems. kearney,
Mason, and Riley, from 1917 to 1oi9, and Chief
of Commodore Shubrck's STAFF during portion
of the same time 1t is said that to him mainly
CAMP NEAR NETWORK.
Egbert l.. yiele of New-York has been up
pointed Brigadier-GeRe aud will be put in
charge of camp Of rendezvous and instruction,
TO be established near New-York, probably on
Long Island, possibly on Staten Island or in
We,tchester County. Mr. Viele IL an army
officer and resigned in 1853.
OTHER ARMY APPOINTMENTS.
Oliver ID. Greene of New-York, Assistant
Adutant- General; Charles j. Sprague Of Cali
fornia, Morgan and Martin of Wisconsin, I'D.
ditional Paymasters. Lieut.. Col. Nugent, Capt.
Kelly aud Lieut.. McManus of the Sixty-ninth,
are appointed Captains in the 18th Infantry, aud
join the regiment at St. Louis.
CoSIMIssARIEs OF SUBSISTENCE.
George NJ. Adams, VIM. w. Burns, John
Kellogg George Bell Michael p. Morgan, John
w. Turner, John y. Hawkins, A. Parker Porter,
Michael p. Small, Thomas c. Sullivan, Guilford
j. Bailey.
CORRECTION OF TIME.
The statement that tho time at which the ac-
cepted New-YCrk regiments must be ready, ex-
pred yesterday, aud that, consequently, they
must be consolidated under State law, was in
correct Regiments are accepted, to be ready at
different times A number, the German Rangers
for one, have had extensions. Moreover, by the
new general order, they can be mustered into
service man by man.
THE CASE OF MIR. FAULKNER.
E1.Minister Faulkner was indeed arrested as
a hostage for the return of our Congressman and
others, but proof of his treason is already in hand
and the State Department holds the clue to over
whelmng evidence of his guilt. Letters which
he has written since his incarceration, containing
grave misrepresentation Of his arrest and its
causes, were not allowed to go to their destina-
ton.
TIE INSTRUMENTATION.
Twenty more of tho 10Th are confined, few
Of whom may, with tho thirty-seyen published
yesterday, be tried by court-martial. Vim. Lee
and Jas. Thompson are handcuhed at the guard
house with the thirty.seyen. One Matthew Kelly
of Company 7, vociferates threats. He has thrice
attempted to escape, and once got of his irons.
Others are we'll behaved.
To the Associated Press
WAsHIYGroE, Saturday, Aug. II, 1861.
Ex-Minister Faulkner is not, as has been stated,
merely detained as hostage for the return of Messs.
Harris and Magraw, who went TO the Confederate