New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-19

others connected with the Quartcrmaeef's Depart
ment embarked Oh the steamer Long Branch. The
Signal Corps were also on board, ten. hcliei'an
ba wing given special order TO THAT effect There is
some talk of promoting the officers Of the Signal
Corps 10 Captains III The regular army. H.T.
The Evacuation Of Iarrison's Landing
McClclinn's Pians-KIis Anxiety to
Move ngaimst Observation-Disclosures near
suffolk aud NorfoIL-Prisoners ut Rich
niorid The Rnlis.
foRTREss MONROE, Aus. II, 1862.
The head Of the great feet down the James River,
that left Harsons Landing simultaneously with the
column that took the land route down the Peninsula,
began to arrive here yesterday morning.
All day yesterday tie roads were filling NJ with
the immense fleet, embracing every conceivable
kind of craft, PR sen,ng. ar it turned the point OF
Newport News, grand, though melancholy sight.
Melancholy, because it filled the mind with the
recollection OF the great Apd proftefs events and
scenes since we saw the army of the Potomac, the
graudest the continent ever beheld, land here last
Spring. aud commence It's proud, confident even
defiant march mp the Peninsula; beeausc 1t brought
TO mind the bloody contests II hac seen the tens OF
thousands slain the tens OF tbou,aads more wasted
by disease; the untold human sufering The bio iest
page il modern warfare because It overwhelmed
tic mind with the contrast Of what hat army was
with it's promises, I;s hopes and the expectations
reyosed in il, and what il DJw ID, what II has done
wha. il as failed 10 do, what II II now dOiDg-
returning with less than halt liz numbers, along the
route il went, by winch it advanced almost every
mile OF which If marked by Gnenunerated graves
Of fallen heroes SO ends the campaign OF the
Peninsuia-so comes back the army Of The Potomac !!
Bat q comparat vcly small share Of the army has
come by Transports and none have been oisembaIked
Id ,t~t.n IN n tall mr.
pau.e 20 recruit their health. No pnblie proclama
lion has vet been made OF the destnaton Of tie
army or or Rnv part. The principal PORTION OF II,
which is on the march will not halt until II reaches
Yorktown. As TO what will follow, the general
belief il that the most of The men will be- embarked
in transports ard follow those aiiOat into one Of
the rivers OF Virginia. with the view Of co operating
with Pores army.
1t seems 10 be generally understoo3 that con-
sidenble force will be lett on the Peninsula.
A vast amount Of baggage and properly hrs been
unloaded at Hampton, which now, ~ IA the sprieg.
has become depot. The bridge over Hampton Creek
il being repared with as much expedition possibls
ard many things Indicate that the lower end Of the
Peninsula is TO be nnneronsly occaP,.d.
Long be fore this is read tie eutfe army will have
moved away from Hanison's Landing, on its way
down the Penins ola tie head Of the column perhaps 1t
lie hating place, the this aide Wiiamsburg-no
enemy pursing. Gen Sumner commands The rear
guard. Last evening IL was Understood that no had
seen since the movement commenced aud il Ia prob
able that the Rebels will not know Of the with
dra wal in time to pursue.
To-day IA strong Dorth-easterly wind keeps the
Transports in the Roads. Its abatement will be the
signal for their leaving.
Gep. Burnsids came and went yesterday. In some
wy or ogher connected with the movement
Between 3 and ?. m, Coils. Corcoran, Wilcox,
and their COMPANIONS III long imprisonment, arrived
from the james River. OF course every body well
coined them warmy-0 fact Of which the reader has
already been telcyr pbically informed.
The steamers Atlantic aud Baltic, at an aggregate
expense OF abonI - 500 daily, both lying here,
where they lave been for nearly or quite two weeks,
doing nothing except TO 'erve ss extraordinary
illustrations Of the manner in which good many
things done in the way Of spending money USE
lossly by the Government.
During the iast few days there have beer several
alarms In the neglborhood Of Suffolk and Norfolk,
which have served Ms tie bans Of absurd stories Of
intended attacks. The only real ground for them is
that IN irregular band Of cavalry numbering about
200 have occasionally been seen IN the neigbbor-
hood VI Suffolk bat no shots have been Tired, except
by cowardly sentintls who fancied few boys All
army of the enemy, DO pickets driven IN. thongh
.o,pe may have ran through fear that they might be.
Tn to the last advces Ill quiet IN Suffolk and
Norfolk.
Commodore Wilkes is here visiting his family,
who are at the Hygeia. Hospital Hotel:
An immense number Of cuicebled, though not
Thoroughly lHNaUutu, sNdI VI tic
uriating IN he cool breeze, which operates with
magnetic influence on their reduced systems.
The msbost did not leave to-day, aud henceforth
IIarrisons Landing to be point OF interest.
A considerable fleet Of gunboats are still up the
james River where it il probable they will remain,
though the withdrawal Of tie army will release a
portion Of the fouls for other fields Of service.
An officer who has just returned from Richmond,
where lie confined as "a prisoner, Informs NE
that the officers belonging 10 Popes army captured
in the recent battle between Jackson and Banks
have been put in solitary confinement on bread and
water. There they will probably remain, subject 70
the programme laid down by JEFF. Davis Ia bis
recent retaliatory order.
I nm assured instances are not wanting whore
Union officers captured by the Rebels have preferred
10 remain in the bands Of their captors-in other
words. they have turned traitors. What acts Of
treason they committed before they found lodg.
ment ia the hands Of their friends there 10 no know
ing Nor is there any telling how many more OF the
same Kind there may be sill i'll the army.
Tie ran fever appears 10 have subsil and very
little i. aid on the subject. The time when the
rams build ng in Richmond were 10 make their APP
farauce has gone by anu new revelations concerning
30 have failed to reach us. G. d. b.