New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-17

bold horseiu from getting safeiv across with AL bis
valuable booty. You have tho shame al deisis ioiA
before ths is written. Aroand our 'grand Amy
sweeps this dsshing maraid'r, ana hut ogeo .nou-
sat, men, encircled by bin, are unable 70 say Nay.
He ia followed by plcatantOu; LAT WHO voc iaucr
IL making II miles the Rebel makes 81 oadod With
p,under. tool aud escapes. There IS. u dam, a
. VIM in his movements that IL admirable. One II
reminded of che Moss TIooi ors Of old, and ot Ma
Ron men of the Revolution i, il Tins release from
Tho ordiuary forms of clumsy warfare .bat defeats
ue. as the French end indians WHIPPED Brad lock,
when he tailod 10 hstcn 10 Washington advice
What "ails" our annyf Who can tell WI era
proper caution, slownese, and discipline end, hnd
oId-foyyism end red-'apesm begin
\ pecuIiahy cad Gaze OF crime came TO Eight here
lat evening" Gen. O. O. Howard, commanding the
ID Division in this COPS has bad in his employ for
sixteen months young man named John Ihnlsn,
whom lie brought from Malne with BIN when lie
was Colonel, and whom be hss kept WIN bIn ever
since ss Orderly and private body.servaDt 1aniish
has been ntrusted with all the Generals personal
effects has slept in the tent with him. and has
eni we'd hi, eaire confidence. Asds from his regu-
lar pay, Gen. howard has paid his mess bills, and
given him money from time 10 time. The fellow,
owing 10 the careless manner In which camp mail
matters ere conducted, had access TO the mails, both
those that went oct and .boSe that came IN. Lette
expCcted-known to have been snt--haye been, for
some ime past, frequently missed, while drafts and
checks cent home have never been received. SIM,
where the amy was concerned, 10 suspl-
oion OF robbgy was entertained, I'll yes-
ier1iy afternoon q man was seen by private
soldier oIening and destroying number OF iei'ern
in one Of the numerous 'ayines that abound here
The mail agent bong told of IT, inlms distely Gus.
pected 1aniien, because that very afternoon he
iTar tshl ha offered TO take him 20 house OF i'll
fame, sayi That he had money enough to pay. Tor
both. The agent had seen HIM quite busy abon
the mails a.d reported the iscts 70 Gen. Howard
II -, ha a
calledin aid recognized lantish, who was searched
Some go or go were found ur0n him in Treasury
potea bilia aud postage stamps, and two express
receipts showing than he bad recently sent home
neIly s-0O. lie was, OF course, at once put under
arrest TO await bis trial.
What greatly adds to the enormity of bis crime II
that great proportion Of this money was undoubi-
edly taken from the letters OF poor sOldiers who
were sonding homo small of money to their
families. Only two OF three letters were found
uron him. bat one 81 there was from private IN
Capt, Temp kinss Battery, and had been riicd OF g.
which the wit nolosed to his sweethesit or SISTER
there were only Christian names given IN the let
lerl nnd which Of couise viii bc quite Lore 10 both
sender and intended recipient. The enyel'pe was
gone. THIS letter VIA dated only the day before
yestehiay. TIE Drs express receipt for money cert
home ia dated some folr weeks back. 1t is believed
that the soldiers here would 0ll Taniish II they
could get at him.
A private belonging 20 tie 7,h North Carolina
Regiment this morning srayed within our Dues ana
was captured. lie bad been living sick m the neigh-
borhood OF Sbepherdstowu, and was directed tow
ard CharlestOWn by wrong road, Which lcd 70 his
capture lie If quite ~ iutellil en-; man, ont brings
no information except TIE old stor that Lee army
is in the neighborhood Of Winchester stretching Out
in either direction from that point.
rec no reason 10 doubt a recent ais7ateh from
your correspondent " a. -. r., regarding tue
Probability OF 4 movement so0n. Sili zee nc sign7
Of IN imrnedifie advance. ".