New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE WAR.

The President has issued an order that, until
further ORDERS citizen liable to be drafted into the
militia shall be allowed to 60 to foreign country,
and that any person liable to be drafted who shall
absent himself fr In his counsy or State before such
draft is made, will be arrested by any ProyoS-Ma
shall or other United States or State officer,
wherever be may be found within the jurisdiction Of
the United States, and conveyed to the nearest mil
ary poet or depot, and placed on military duty for
the term Of the draft. The President also suspends
the writ Of babeas corpus, far these delin-
auents NAV be concerned. This order is already
being carried OUT passports were refused yesterday
by the State Department, and at Oswego, a number
Of persons were arrested while starting for Canada.
We have better news from Missouri. The loyal
people Of that State are determined upon the extinc
ton of gueuiss and are going to work IN earnest.
A number of the rowing Rebel murderers have been
hung and the rope is noosed for more. In one in
stance the papers of guerrilla captain were cap
tured, and among them WAS commission from Jef
Davis to raise partisan rangers guerrlas to operate
in Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois
Gen. Hooker remained ut Malvern Hill until
O'Clock on Wednesday night, when he fell back to
bis eDcsmpment, leaving strong guards at Haxalls.
TIE rebels moved down from Richmond thl ee
roads, concentrating their forces near Malvern.
They thought our whole army was moving toward
Richmond when our movement wss merely recon-
noissance in force.
There is little doubt that the Rebel city of
Richmond is in a condition of starvation il not of
pesence Our returned prisoners represent the des.
ti.utios as terrible. Families formerly wealthy
destitute OF food rave the coarsest and meanest TO
A. A. A. -,
the extent Of plague, is sweeping away hundreds.
AN important and sweeping order was issued
yesterday from the War Department directing the
arrest and imprisonment of any person who may be
engaged by act speech, writing, in discouraging
volunteer enlistments, or in any way giving aid and
comfort to the enemy, or in any other disoya prac-
tice against the United States.
The assassination of Brigader. General Robert
Me, ook has created great deal Of feeling in Gin
.ino.t,. and measures Will be taken to avenge him.
His killing y, 's simply murder, an art now reduced
to science by tde Rebels
Senator Chambers sp,r ech on Gen. McClellans
strategy does not TO have ,topl> ei'i'S'meh's
in Michigan. That State has nearly fes ar quota
under the first CALL and promises to raise tho second
levy without drafting.
"A story is current at Cincinnati, that Rebel
force of $1,000 infantry with proporionate artillery
and cavalry, at Knoxville, Tenn expecting to
march into Kentucky at an early day.
Our Memphis correspondent states that the siege
Of vcksburg has been, for the present at least
pended. The difficulty has been the lack Of suft-
Glen. lapd force 10 cooperate with the feet.
--GeorgeE Z. Iersey of bingham, Mass, was ex-
eeuted yesterday for poisoning Beisey 1Irrell e. ,
girl 10 whom he was engaged to be married He
confessed his crime.
The telegraph fayors US with the usual mass Of
unimportan, items from the Southwest. They arc
hardly worth the we give them.
Interesting letters from Missouri, North Caro-
lima and Georgia are printed on the third page Of
this mornings edition.
Volunteering is very brink in Pennsy vania and
by this day it is believed that the States quota will
be filed.