Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-10-23
OUR MILITARY BUDGET.

THE ARRANGEMENTS FoR rHE FuNtlIL OF cot
oSEL EDWARD . BAKER.
Headquarters ProcisiesaI Brigsds.
Washington, Oct. I'D, 1881 4
The duty Of making the necessary preparations
for the funeral Of the late Col. Edward ID. Bs-
ker, Of the California volunteer, having been
assigned TO the Brigsdier General Commanding
the Provisi opsl Brigade, near wsshington, by
the Major General Commanding tue Army of the
Potomac, the following order Of arrangements
has been adopted for the occssions
oRDKR OF TIE PRoctssIos.
Funeral escort In Column.
Regiment Of Infantry.
Brigadief General Silas Casey aud Stsn.
The Clergy Of the District and ofkcistng Clergy.
Colonel McCary, tn. Col. A Johnson,
Brig gu Hooker, hs@''s' Brig Gen Burnett
The relatives and friends Of the deceased.
The Thirty-sixth Regiment PennsvlvsnIa Volun-
teeu and Fourth Rhode Island Volunteer,
with side arms, In undress uniform.
The General.in-chief Of the Army, and stsr
The General staff Of the Army.
Ofhcers OF the Army.
oficers of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Survivors OF the War Of 1912
OF the Cabinet.
The Chief Justice and Associate Justices Of he
Supreme Court. and District Judges
OF the United States.
The President and Secretary Of the Senate.
Senators and Ofhcers Of the Senate.
Foreign Ministers and Suites.
M embers and ofhcers Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives
Justices and 0fcer Of the Court Of Claims:
Members Of the Sanitary Commission, Societies
and Frsternities.
Citizens and Strangers.
ROUTE or MARCH.
The funeral procession viii proceed down 18th
street TO Pennsylvania Avenue, up Pennsylvsnia
Avenue, to the Congressional Burying Grounds.
Capt. John Hall, Commissary OF Subsistence or
the staff Of the Brigade, 10 charged with the duty
Of forming the procession aRreeably to the above
programme, assisted by Col. J. w. webb.
By command Of Brig. Gen. Casey.
HENRY w. SMITH, Asst. ADJ, General.
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.
The President has Just made the following
military appointments. viz:
Lieut.. Col. ]. A. Hsrdie TO be A. ID. c. 70 Gen.
Mcclellan.
DR.. u. F. APPEL to be Brigade Surgeon Of Vol
unteers; also, Drs S. s. Cox, J. Hames, g. Grant
and c. b. Chapman.
earle A. Woodruff to be Second Lieuiensntcf
ID artillery, U. s. A.
Ed. d. Muhlenberg to be First Lieutenant 9th
artillery.
DR.. J. G. Kennon to be Bhgsd. Surgeon Of
Volunteers.
DR.. VIM. A Bradley, Jr., to be Assistant Sur
geon U. s. A
DR.. VIM. II. Mussey 10 be a Brigade Surgeon
Of Volunteers; also, Drs. C. w. Jones, Geo. Burr,
w. M. Chamberlain, Robt. Raskoton, g. L. Pan
coast, Nathl. r. Mosely and F. III. Gross.
VIM. III. Scheler, to be an Assistant Adjutsnt
General, with rank Of Captain Of Volunteers, TO
serve on Staff OF Brig. General J. J. Wood.
Frederick Knefer, do, with same rank, 10
serve on Staff Of Brig. General Lewis Wallace.
Carol III. Potter, do, with same rank, TO serve
on Stsf Of Brig. General c. d. Jameson.
James C. Montgomery, do, with same rank, TO
serve on Staff of Brig. General John Newton.
Nathan Reeve, do with same rank, 10 serve
on Staff Of Brig. General J. N. Palmer.
Walter 3. Parker, TO be Second Lieutenant Of
4th infantry, U. 8. A.
BLANKErs-QuARTERMAsTK DEPARTMENT.
The entire country, doubtless, appreciate the
energy Of Q uartermaster General Meigs, and the
earnest solicitude on his part to provide for the
wants Of the Army and for the comfort Of the SOL
diers.
We understand that the blankets ordered from
Europe In August by him are arriving, twenty
nine thousand Eve hundred having already reach
ed New York. They cost the United States
forty cents pound-weighing i've pounds.
Costing, therefore, two dollars apiece.
THE REBEL Loss.
Ere we go to press this afternoon we learn that,
from spies and struggling prisoners taken Yester-
day near Leesburg, IL 10 generally believed
in the commands Of Generals Stone and
Banks that the rebel loss in the engage
ment day before yes terdsy was far greater than
ours; and that among their killed 10 Gen. 6usavus
w. Smith, the chief commander Of the whole
rebel army Of the Upper Potomac.
NOT SERVED
Up to p m. to-day, no attempt had been made
to serve the writ upon Gen. Porter, which the
Circuit Court yesterday decided to issue against
him, for contempt Of its authority.
LATEST.
Up to 2x p. m. to-day nothing of,ciaI whatever
had reached the War Department nom the vi
cinity Of the late engagement That 10, since last