Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-03-25
OUR MIIITARY.BUDoET.
THAT WESTERN TRIP.

THAT WESTERN TRIP.
That JED Davis should be about to go out
West, at this time, an announced by special
telegram by two Tennessee secesh Congressman
70 the Memphis Appeal, may be regarded, II
strikes rs, a. but an announcement In advance Of
his belief that he will soon have to evacuae Wiz
ginia with his bogus Government at his heels!
Nothing could more surely serve to affict his
followers In arms with panic thatwould utterly
destroy the possibility Of their making even a
show Of defense against the operations OF the
army Of the Potomac, than his act In leaving the
threatened city Of Richmsnd just now. No pleas
Of the importance Of his presence in military
point Of view In the Mississippi valley, as he
knows well, would counteract the effect Of his
contemplated Hsgi,a, with Manassas just evac-
uated by his army and Jackson signally beaten
by the force under shields-his whole army in
Virginia being at the same time notoriously ope-
rating on q backing-o t-retreating-policy.
Under these circumstances 10 must be that he
has already determined to leave Richmond, bag
ments to absquatulate.
PURSUIT.
According TO our antici pation ex pressed yester-
day, the combined forces OF the rebels, Jackson,
Smith and Long street, that esssyed 10 return and
Aght shields on Saturday and Sunday last. again
turned tall In the course OF Sunday night, run
ming away in the direction OF Strasburg. Al
daybreak yesterday morning shields started 10
pursuit Of them, and must have overtaken them;
at least their rear a. an account Of the loss Of ten
Of mis- men In the diminishing Of the pursuit has
reached here by telegraph. Up 10 noon to-day
the Government. had received nothing further
concerning the status OF affairs in that quarter,
except that the pursuit was continued through.
out yesterday. II Is anticipated here that Gen
shields must hsve gained signal advantages over
them during the day, ~ he 10 believed TO have
been In every respect more than match fof
them.
THFIR HOPKs DASHED.
Our 90 remarkably eredulous feIl6w-citizsns-
the socesh sympsthisers Of the District Of Column
bia-were well nigh In the clouds yesterday over
the belief that the rebels had ventursi smother
attack on Gen. Shisidsat Winchester on that day,
and defeated him signslly. In answsr 10 in1ui-
ries on the part or some Of them seeking to verify
that Impression, We assured them, ia vain, that
ne such Information had basn received bv>tte
thrir information must have come onIy bT i'm
s1insry telsgrsphie wiIss.
To-day they are doubI,sss satisfied thst we
were correct and they in error. May thsJ "ieaIn,"
an well as nlive."
TIE PErsOSREs IAKKS.
gen. Shields, before starting out from Win.
chester Yesterday morning, teiegraphed here to
ascertain where to send, for safe keeping, three
hundred prisoners b. had taken on the day be
fv.~-S--A-y--s- "a L. sA...G... estate 49,. -
sides thousand stand Of small arms, two cannon
with their caissons, and large quantity of other
campaigning "traps," three hundred prisoners
fell into his hands on that day. Two hundred
and twenty-five rebel dead were also left on the
seld to he buried by our men.
AcoRRRcIIos
A slip OF the pen yesterday made us intimate
that Il Is the purpose Of the Secretary Of War to
cause the publisher Of the Boston Courier 10 be
tried before the special court martial about to be
assembled In Washington to consider the charges
against certain Newspaper men for promulgating
In the shape OF news, Information likely to aid
the purpose Of the rebels to defeat the armies of
the Union. We should have substituted for the
CorieT the name Of the Boston Journal.
AID FOR sICE SOLDIERS.
The field for the efforts Of the Sanitary Com.
mission, which has already shown so much be-
neyOlenCc and humanity, was never so vast as.
now. AL the hospitals Of the army of the Poto-
mac are left by their regDpents and divisions.
The medical department ofthe army Of the Poto
mac at Washington is taking the field, so that
transportation and supplies are not readily OBJ
tanned. At and nesr Langley the hospitals con
tain q number Of patients who need looking after
sick men are scattered about the country and de-.
serted camps, and some were taken sick on the
march, and stopped wherever they could be
sheltered Cannot the Sanitary Commission widen
their circle Of operations and look after these sick
soldiers The medical corps Of the army cannot
possibly do IL under the present exigencies The
country will duly appreciate anything that may
be done In this direction
PAPERS TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE MAILS FOR
TIE IMPROPER PUBLICATION OF ARMY MOVE
NEnTs.
Postmaster General Blair has Issued the follow
ing notice 10 the Postmasters In the United
States:
The Secretary Of War now regulates the trans
mission Of information by telegraph affecting the
conduct OF the war. In order TO prevent the COM
municztion Of such information 10 the Rebels IL
10 also thought necessary by the Secretary OF War
70 put restrictions on the publishing OF facts OF
this character, however derived and the aid of
this Department. 10 requested for this purpose.
\ on VIII therefore notify publishers not TO pub
lish any fact which has been excluded from the
telegraph, and that disregard OF this order will
subject the paper % be excluded from the malls
(siZned) N. BLAIR, Postmaster General