, 1862-06-14
TEEhs(lLThkY BEPAnTNA | NAlENTS
Rumored Capture Of the
Monitor,
RESTORED REVELATIONS FOB
RECRUITING.
RULES FOR ABSENTEE
OFFICERS, &C.
depreciation Of Property in Human
Flesh,

WASHINGTON, June 10, 1869
The rumor set a1oat by the rebels. ID Wash |
ingto on that the Monitor was captured had its
foundation in the capture by the Reliance, Of |
our 1otiila, on James River Of schooner
named Monitor.
The Government has seized several semi
secession churches here for hospital uses.
They are: Trinity, DR.. sylc, rector; Ascen-
sion, DR.. Pinckney: Epiphany, Dr., Hall-three,
then, are Episcopal, the fourth is Presbyterian!
a report has just reached US here that
guerrilla party, numbering $50, dashed into
Narrcnton last Monday and captured twenty
two sick soldiers in one hospital and twenty
five or thirty stragglcrs. Small guerrilla par
ties were seen to-day in the neighborhood Of
Brentsyii1c, and Major Du11ie, Of a1cDowers
body guard was cent out to capture them.
The Senate today adopted the amendment
to the naval appropriation bill abolishing
spirit rations on board Of ships Of war on
and after next September The question re-
storing the naval academy to Annapolis was
discussed in the Senate for tllree hours.
+ The section providing fur the repair of the
buildings there was adopted, and 6 majority is
r,anifest1y inclined to put the school back
th=re. 1t is known that the Naval Commit
tee Of the House is opposed to this, but stony
efforts to cutyotc them will be made. The
Senate sits tomorrow. The House adjourned
Till Monday.
Gen. burnside wes here yesterday, and start
ed on his return to North Carolina in the at
tcruoon. lie reports fayorably Of the coudi-
| tion Of things on the Peninsula, and thinks
Mcclellan should be in Richmond in few
! days. He makes long explanation Of Gov
| Stanly's action, which is apo3ogetic and in
d1catiye Of less pertiuacity in ill-doing than
was expected. He says that stanly is thor
oughly pro slavery. He don't speak very dis
couragingly Of North Carolina.
The following general order from the Adju-
jutant Generals office, newly arranging mill
! tary departments has been published.
The department OF Mississippi is eS,
tended so as to include the whole Of the States
Of Tennessee and Kentucky. AL officers on
duty in these States will report to Major Gen
cral Hallcck.
The Mountain Department extends east
ward to the road running from Wil1ia1nsporI
to Martinsburg, Winchester, Strasburg, Ear
risonhurg, and Staunton, including that place
thence in the same direction southEard unit
it reaches the Ridge chain of Mountains
| thence with Blue Ridge to the southern boun
dairy Of the State Of Virginia.
Tic Department Of the Shenandoah is eS
} tended eastward to include Piedmont Distric
; ard Bull Mountain range.
,, Important general orders have been issued
One restores the volunteer recruiting service
| and orders invalid and disabled officers to tha
duty, aud orders to their regiments absen
soldiers fit for duty. Another autohrizes til
! ! Governors Of States to give them certificate
for transportation. Another orders captains
report the Kind aud efficiency Of arms used b
e tLer companies. Another discharges medic;
officers held as prisoners, the principle bein
recognized that medical officers should not
i held as prisoners Of war.
S Another order recalls to duty all absent 0
fcers able to travel-those fit for active Sc
!. vice to their regiments, others to Annapo1
or Camp Chase, Ohio-and lays down stri
l. gent 1egulations upon the whole subject
:, absences.
g Another order provides for the disposal
ir rebel property captured By the provost ma
q shal-thc same to be turned over to the CHI
!; Of staff, to be used for the public service, AZ
&c strictly accounted for.
5, WASHINGTON, June 13.-A Baltimore s1a,
T. trader, who is largely engaged in tie traffic
ID lullsn flesh, testified before the cmancip
tion commissioners yesterday. that slavcs i
1e running away so fast that their value sensio
4 depfeclates. Il bureau of emigration is talk
y Of here, with Eli Thayer at its head.
s~ WASHINGTON, June 13,-For several d;a
10 Fast secession ru11lors have prevailed that t
Monitor and two other Of our vessels b;
to been captured by the enemy above Fort D,
Is, ling, and the names Of distinguished gent
nc men are unauthorizedly mentioned in TIL
re. support, but there is such positive iaforu
nd ton as shows the reports 10 have not even
zet is impossible.
,w WASHINGTON, June 13-Eo further n
ni- ticu]ars Of Gen. Shields engagement la
he been received at the War Department. CT
Burnside vas yeEfefday yt tsnder5d 3so+ a. ssren
ere cccdiDely Obliged to them for their kindne
to but declined the compliment.
Lord Lyons had an audience with
"a ra11urc for Europe. He will be absent seyr
3 weeks. The President offers by rroclamati
nearly 4oo, goo acres Of land at public sale
Oregon in October.
Tie circuit court yesterday, in the mat
OF John and VIM. jackson, claimcd as fta
i 5 its former decision in refusing to admit te
nlony Us to the loyalty Of the claimant, |
permitted the admission MS to whether
slaves had been actually engaged in aiding
vas rebellion. The fugitiyes were returned to
claimant. The counsel for the slaves clai1
! that the court should return the fugitiyes o
at the rcqnisition Of the Governor Of Ma
land. but the court decided against the poi
.-,i Adj Gen. Thomas WAS tr2nsacting busin
:tea .. as usual yesterday at the War Departme
5c ,1.- fof e+o4a,
M Mae!' be had been suspended from Office. It is
a1u, known to his most intimate friends tn
oat. court Of inquiry, Us reported at 4 distance
at ENGAGED III Investigating any Of his Off
II transactions.
. Of 4 gentleman from Fredericksburg di,
iooe S states that Then the bridge across the Raj
ne1 hammock vas swept away By the food,
, tne other day, the secessionists Of both sexes
ny EGubled on the bank and manifested their
cca- light hS cheering and waving hats and Il;
ave kcrcnefs. Yet no one was arrested
Uuion citizens complain bitterly that the
n. tecsiou given rebel property is denied to th
ON. and that avowed rebels are treated wit
6a much tenderness as to make the lot Of
att1e Doubleday went out, he took for bis. b
made quarters the house Of a rebel who had
was sorE in the rebel army; but Gen McDo
~ to Instantly ordered Gen. Doubleday out
; id placed gnard to protect the h9use; no.; s
i iun- The RichMond EtdAa1'ser OF the 9TH inst
: the votes It's editorial columns to deploring
t Re fact tlat there i touud no lnd1Tld1al
TINE per,tc and "taTy OF nrlDg W Inc ~retcned
iii OF ills 1Erasion las orought on Hm, as 70
emily stitute what may be an lgnomlnlous su
Vile. for glorious marfyrdom. Ihls IS 1nte
,dscd doubtless as an INCENTIVE TO assassinatle
will the United States officers who have taken
nd at | session OF rebel teErltor}- Inc paper Is
b aud cd on bali sheet and Is striking eVider
e; or the Impoverished conolLlon OF aHalfs IN
Z the mond-
lalled New YORK.. June lS--The New
= aud Tines dispatch sa7s an order Will be Is
vIcin- probably today, modliyng the regula
hang governing brigade surgeons, by placing