Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1862-08-21
Latest News From Washington.
Release Of Colonies Corcoran, Wilcoc
and others.

and others.
WASHINGTON, August 16. "A dispatch
from Fortress Monroe announces that
/ Colonels Corcoran and Wilcox, and Lieu
tenant Colonel Brown and Major Rogers,
reached Fortress Monroe this afternoon,
and expected to start at once for Wash
ington. E...-.. .rr.
Three hundred and twenty officers
have been exchanged. Among them is
Lieutenant Colonel Kane. A steamer
will leave Fortress Monroe tomorrow
for Aiken's Landing to bring away one
hundred and thirty officers that have been
confnc in Richmond. ...
ARREST FOR DIsCoURAGING ENLIsTMENTs.
Information was received to-day that
Edison B. Odds, of Ohio, Formerly Dem
ocratic Representative from that State, J
has been arrested for dicouraging enlist
ments and other reasonable practices,
and is confined in Fort Lafayette
EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
The exchange of prisoners is still pro-
crossing at Atkins Landing, on the
James River, through Adjutant General
Thomas. 1t is now confined to officers.
ARMY ORDERS.
Var Department, Uashinn,On C'ty,
ID. e., august IA, 1862 Ordered: -
1st. That after the 18th of this month,
bounty and advanced pay shall not be
paid to volunteers for any new regiments,
but only to volunteers for regiments now
in the field and volunteers to fill up new
regiments now organizing. but not yet
full
2nd. Volunteers to fill up the new
regiments now organizing will be receiv'd
and paid the bounty and advanced pay
until the 22a day of this month, and If
not completed by that time, the iuconr-
plete regiments will be consolidated and
the superfuous officers mustered out.
3D.. Volunteers to fill up the old regi-
mcnts will be received and paid the boun-
ty and advance pay until the 1st day of
'eptember.
4th. The draft for three hundred thou
sand militia, called for by the President,
will be made on Wednesday, the Sd day
of September. between the hours of
o'clock, A. NJ, and O'Clock p. NJ,
and continued from day to day. between
the same hours, until completed.
9TH IL the old regiments should not
be filled up by volunteers before the first
day of September, a special draft will be
ordered for the deficiency.
9th The exigcnccs Of the service re-
quirc that officers now in the field should |
remain with their commands, and no Of ,
ficer now in the field, in the regular or
volunteer service, will under any circunl- /
stances be detailed to accept new COM
mand
BY order of the President:
EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Var Department., Washington city,
d. g., august IA, 1S62.-Ordered: -
9Th 4 hat in filing all acquisitions for
militia. the quotas of the several States
will be apportioued, by the Governors,
among the several counties and (where !
among the subdivisions of
counties, SO that allowance shall be made
to such counties and subdivisions for all
volunteers therefore furnished by them
and mustered into the service of the |
United States, and whose stipulated term
of service shall not have expired.
EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
Secretary of War,
ARRIVAL OF TROOPS AT WASHINGTON.
Washington has again resumed its for
ner military liveliuoss by the arrival
and departure of troops.