Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-08-08


dred thousand militia be Immediately called
by draft, into the service Of the United States
to serve tor niue months unless sooner dis
4 charged. The Secretary Of War will assign
/ The quotas to the States and establish reguia-
lions for the draft Drafting is to commence
4 in the several States on and after the 18th inst
In consequence Of the activity Of the guer-
rlllas along the line of the Upper Potomac,
the route between Front Royal and Winches-
ter has been abandoned for trains and travel,
except under strong escort. General Tyler's
brigade Of Western troops, reached Little
| Washington, Va, on Friday last to reinforce
The division at that place. under Gen Banks.
| Ihere is no confirmation of the report that
the new Merrimac, or rather the Richmond
as she is called at the South has made her ap-
pearance in the James river below Fort Oar
ling On the contrary, It'll now stated that
this formidable vessel will not be completed
for several weeks yet to come.
4 The New ork Posi- Of last evening publish
es letter from Fortress Monroe, announcing
that the Corps of General Burnside has EN-
barked on board Of the transports in the roads,
but the destination OF the troops is not made
public. The gunboats were also under orders
From Washington we are informed that for
several days it has been believed, in some
quarters, that Richmond has been evacuated
there being, says the telegram obviously,
reasonable suspicion that pestilence has
broken out in that city" Subsequent infor-
nation gives The lie to this rumor
The siege Of Vicksburg has been abandoned
The tfotila under Commodore Farragut passed
down the river on Thursday last, followed by
the land forces under General Williams. Their
destination was supposed to be Mobile, where,
It IS said, " their services are greatly needed7
AS necessary consequence Of this movement
the famous canal--that ''model Of engineering
stupidity, as it has been sarcastically styled
has of course been abandoned. Strange to
say, many Of the negroes employed upon the
work have been returned to their masters As
the negroes were being taken down the river
on board of the transport Ceres, for the pur-
pose Of being returned, the boat was fred
into at Warrenton by the Confederates, and
Vermont captain killed.
The New York World in commenting edito-
rally uponthe abandonment of the seige of
! Nicksburg, declares that lit is trfling with
serious things and with truth not to admit that
this is as great disaster to the Federal cause
as the loss Of "A heavy battle
The correspondent Of the New York 7ri-
6une, writing from Columbus, Kentucky, gives
a deplorable account Of the extensive and
greatly damaging operations of the Confede-
rate guerrillas in the military department of
1 W est Tennessee, and also in that of the Ohio
All Of their recent lcrays are said to have been
slngularly successful These have extended
( along both banks Of the Tennessee river, inclu-
eng the towns Difference, Waterloo and Sa-
vannah on the right, and extending from the
samestarting point to Chickasaw and the imme-
diate vicinity ofHamhurg and Pittsburg Land
ings. At Florence they captured the Federal
soldiers stationed at that place and burnt large
quantities OF quartermasters' and cOmmissary
stores which were there accumulated On the
Yrrr Iaftr- III IL
captured the transport steamer Colonna At
PASSPORT they repeated the performance per-
formed the day before at Florence, and below
the same town they captured a train ofnot less
than sixty mule teams, Just arrived from Cal
70 and onits way to Inka. The burning at
/ Grand Junction, Of four hundred and fifty
bales of cotton which had been bought and
! paid for by Northern spectators, closes, for
4 the present. the record of their exploits. Four
/ days were occupied in achieving these results.
/ Positive information has been received at
Hilton Head, South Carolina that formida-
bic steam ram has been completed at Sayan-
nah, Georgia. that she is Of light draught,
/ great power, aud heavily armed, and that the
/ Coniedefdtes were taking the necessary sound
ings, preparatory TO sending her down. the
river. Admiral Dupont was making every
preparation to receive ''the monster"
WEDNESDAY,, August e.-There are numerous
/ surmises ahoat in regard to the destination Of
the Burnside Expedition, but the Federal au-
thoritles keep the secret close, and, doubtless,
4 the commander OF the naval portion of the
expedition sails under sealed orders. Even
the letter-writers from Fortress Monroe are for
/ once discreetly silent. The mail steamer from
I the James river reached the Fortress az usual
bat has nothing to report either from the feet
or from the army Of the Peninsula
The latest telegram from Harrison's Land
4 ing states that large force Of cavalry, infan-
] try, and artillery left camp on Monday night
/ for Malvern Hill, but no report had been re.
c"lyed from the expedition up 20 last evening.
Tue ranks Of the Goth New York regiment,
stationed at Little Washington, Va, have
j been so fearfully Trimmed by sickness, that
/ General Pope is about 10 order the regiments
I TO Washington.
The evacuation Of Richmond by the Con-
( fedcrates, as reported from General Pope
I headquarters, is not believed at Washington;
/ but the correspondent Of The New York Her
+ aid credits TO secession sources runor that
I the Confederate army is now en- route to make
/ grand attack on Washington. The writer
! adds: -" 1t is known that ever since the seven
! days fight iu front Of Richmond, the Confed-
/ crates have been Concentrating there all the
( forces that could be raised in every quarter Of
I The South, and that it is believed to be the
Z purpose Of the Confederate Generals to keep
{ Pope amused with a show Of foi &C 10 his front,
| while an immense army is being thrown into
/ MARI land, and upon Baltimore and Wash
ington.