Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-14

amount OF war material to the United
States, to be delivered in New York, paya-
BILE entirely in the bonds of the U. S. Gov
eminent.
The following letter was issued from the
Navy Department on the 9Th inst, address
ed to flag officer GoldsborouRh:
SIN lit is not unlikely that some yes
sells may make their appearance at Old
Point or in that vicinity for the purpose of
trading with che army and navy forces
without authority to do so. None should
De allowed without PERMISSION from the
War, Navy or Treasury Departments; and
should you discover any who have not such
permission you will seize them and send
them into port for adjudication.
am respectfully
Your ob't serv't
GIDEON WELLEs.
Secretary of the Navy.
By orders recently issued, it is the duty
OF commanding general in the field or q
department to make arrangements for the
safe keeping and reasonable comfort of
his prisoners. He will give no order re-
leasing or exchanging prisoners, except
by Instructions from the Secretary of War
Butt cases admitting of no delay the Gener-
al will act upon. his own authority, and
give any order in relation to his prisoners
promptly reporting his proceedings to the
War Department through the Adjata=t
General. A general depot for provisions
will he designated by the Secretary of War,
to be under the command of the Commis-
Sary General of Prisoners. but leaving it
discretionary with the General command
ing departments or in the field to send
their prisoners thither.
WASHINGTON, April 12-The following
note has been received by the Military Cow
ernor of the District of Columbia from tue
War Department General:
Il is the request of General Mcclellan
that no permits be given, for the present,
to ship suffers stores to places occupied by
his army. You will please act accordingly,
and stop all shipments. Yours, truly,
[Sigaed,1 EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
To Brig Geul. WADswoRrH.
The city is being fast cleared of the bo-
gus army officers, who have infested the
hotels and Promenades of Washington, for
some time past. Counterfeit Colonels, Ma
jors, and line officers, by the scores, have
been arrested and confined in the Central
Guard-house, where they were released,
shorn of their feathers. The uniforms of
these men is generally a cloak for rascal
ity.
Charles Griffin, an express driver, has
been confined in the Central Guard house,
charged with forging n check for twenty
ave dollars, in the name of Captain Steele,
affixed to n false account for services. The
check was passed on Captain Dana. Grif-
fin has been handed over to the civil au-
thorities.
The Provost Marshal has adopted a new
method ofpatrolling the streets of The city.
1t consists in having the cavalry and in
fantrY accompanying each other in their
tour, and thus be able to render aid one TO
another, in case any difficulty occurs in
making arrests.
WAR DEPARTMENT., April IL. Col Aus
tin Stoyer is hereby authorized to grant
passes to the editors, correspondents, and
reporters of newspapers to enter the lines
of the United States Army, upon receive
ing satisfactory proof that the person APP
plying for such pass is loyal, and his writ
ten parole not to publish any information
in regard to military operations that will
give aid or comfort to the enemy. Per-
sons holding such passes to be subject to
such rules and regulations rs the General
commanding may prescribe.
WASHINGTON, April ia report from
Gen. Wool to the Secretary of War at s
o'clock p. M, states that all is quiet and the
weather fine. The last despatch received
at 8 sop. M, is to the following effect
To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War /:
The Merrimac has not made her appeUr-
ance to-day, her object think is to simp-
ly prevent any interference with the rein
forcements being made from Norfolk to
Yorktown. New deserters came in last
evening from the rebel camp who reported
constant reinforcements to the rebels from
the direction of Richmond and the Rap.
pahannock. tH
[Signed1 + Jxo. E. Wool.
Maj. General
The Committee. on the Conduct of the
War have, completed their examination Of
witnesses in regard to the alleged atroci
ties Of the rebels at Bull Run, and will
this week make personal inspection al
that place, and soon thereafter present theiI
report. Members of the COMMITTEES say i
is true, according to the testimony of Gov
; Sprague and many others, that in som,
cases the graves which contained the bodie
of our soldiers were opened, and the bone
of the dead carried off TO be used rs trink
cts and trophies for secession ladies to ap
pend to their gnard chains, &C., Will
skulls were used for drinking cups.
Those of our dead inferred by them wer
placed with their faces doWnWards, and Il
. repeated instances buried one across an
! other. The barbarities in respect to ouI
dead is not it is, further said by the sam
authority, exceeded by anything in the his
tory of the last four thousand years, tn
deails being savage practices. The Com
mittee under the resolution of enquiry Al
receiving testimony from Pea Ridge, show
v ing incontestibly that there our dead wei
t not only scalped by the rebels Indian u
y lies, but in other respects Outraged, II
: brains of the wounded too, being beate
l. out by clubs, thus confirming the prevfo,
a newspaper reports.
In order to secure, as far as possible, Il
8 decent intermeut of those who had falle
Of or may fall in battle, it is made the duty
Ie Commanding Generals to lay off lois