Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-17
From Washington.


personal Stat, who were ordered TO &C.
company him 10 Trenton. His technical
personal staff are said ia official circles, to
be his two aids, Lieut., Col. SweitEer aud
Lieut.. Col. Duane, or his additional aid A.
A. G. Lieut.. Col. Collamer. Under this
reading of his personal STAFF, three or four
other officers are absent With him from the
field without orders to that effect.
Il is believed here the arrests referred to
above mean little more than peremPtOFy
orders to the two officers in question TO re-
turn at once to their positions in the army.
HEISTzLEXAN AND WADsWoRTH.
The Star also says; it is believed around
US that the gallant and able HeintElemau
is about to be ordered to take the field.
Wadsworth is to have a command in the
army.
ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSION.
This afternoon in accordance with Gus
tom, the refuse of workshops of the dis
trict armory, which is about fourth of a
mile from Pennsylvania Avenue in q direct
liue, where fixed ammunition is prepared,
was destroyed by FIRE, on the grounds be-
longing to that building.
1t happened thAtSsome packages of cart
ridges were among the refuse aud conse-
Quently the explosion was Of such a char
acter as to frightfully alarm those iu,the
immediate neigbborhoOd. The cry at once
spread through the city that the buildings
had blown up. For time there was ap-
prehension of loss of life, but there was
nothing more serious involved than the ex-
tensiVe breaking Of window glass by the
concussion. Both of the armory building
aud the hospitals on the same public
reservations the shock was distinctly felt.
In Peunsylvania Avenue several panes of
plate glass were shattered.
IMPORTANT NAVAL INSTRUMENTATION
OF BRITISH sCHOoHERs.
The Navy Department received yOlumi-
nous dispatches from the Gulf to-day, sta
ting among other things that the U. S.
gunbOat Sagamiral, on the 25th, captured
the English schooner Trier, of and from
Nassau, New Providence, with a cargo of
one hundred bags of salt aud miscellaneous
articles.
On the 23d. the same gunboat captured
the English schooner Francis, OF and from
Nassau, with salt, powder, guns, &c.
The U. s. schooner Rachel Seaman, on
the 9th ult., captured off Sabine Pass, the
English schooner Dart.
Thesteamer Kensingtou recently captured
the British schooner Adventure, while at
tempting to run the blockade off the
coast.
SOUTHERN SBws-A VALIANT RESOLVE.
The Savannah republican of the 9Th,
says:
'It has generally been resolved on both
by the the army and our citizens to defend
that city, and to yield possession to the in
vader only when its walls shall have been
battered down and nobody left to dispute
his entrance"
CONFEDERATE CONTEMPLATING.
Two men were brought to Savannah, Ca,
charged with altering aud passing counter
felt money Of the Confederate States.
TRouBLE ABOUT THE NEsRoEs IN GEORGIA
H. W. Mercer, Brig.-Gen. Commanding,
issues an address to the planters of Geor-
gia, saying that ne has received from sew
eral counties in the State, requests and de.
mAnds that he should return to them negroes
now working upon the Qualifications Ut Sa-
vannah. II is his sincere aud earnest de-
sire to do SO, but he thinks it an Injustice
to those. who have sent their negroes AZ
his first call, that they should be compelI-
ed to bear the whole burden aud heat of
the day, while many others who are the
among the wealthiest Of the land look
calmly on the danger of the city aud state
without contributing a single laborer from
their hundred or thousands to their defense,
Let those citizens whose vital interests are
at stake and who have done their share to-
wards the common veal rouse uP,and COM
pei these baCksliders. and especially the
rich among them, TO do their part.
As soon as those who have not ecntribu-
ted send him a sufficient number to fill
their places, he pledges himself to send
back 90 their masters the negroes who are
a. SrnBk TTnHil Nhfa hn A0Ra
eOmpels him to retain them.
THE GOVERNOR THREATENING TO IMPRESS
THEN,
Governor Brown renews the call for re-
groes TO complete the Notifications around
Savannah, aud If not furnished prompt
ly they will be impressed.
INTERNAL REVENUE DECISION.
The!Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
made the following decision in regard to
the term money earned by officers in the
service Of the Government, namely:
Payments made to officers in the service
of the Government by way of reimburse
ment for actual expenses Of which an ac-
count is rendered are not subject to a re-
ductiOn of the 3 per cent. tax, but when
the monies are received by such officers by
way of Communication and no account Of
actual expenses is rendered, the tax must
be assessed upon the amounts so received.
REBEL PRIsoNERs SENT SOUTH.
Gen. Sherburne, Acting Assistant Ad.
jutant General on Gen. Wadsworth's staff,
left this afternoon per the steamer for
Fortress Monroe, having in charge between
l75 and 200 rebel prisoners of war to be
exchanged. This morning they were all
permitted to perchase such uecessaries and
comforts for their own use as their several
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