New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-26
QUE KILLED In MARYLAND ABOUT 1900
5000 REBEL DEAD BURIED BY Us.
ANOTHER DRAFT 70 TE ORDERED.
Special ni.n,tca to III. y. Y. Tribrnc.

authority, that the President INTENDS 10 lsSu. Olueis
for an additional draft, in order to bring the number
Of men in the field up 10 a million. Ii this be 50, it
is for the Governors Of the loyal States 10 say
whether these orders shall be executed according TO
their tenor. 1t il the Governors who have delayed
the enforcement of the previous draft and they alone
can make orders Of this description eleclual. Upon
them, too rests the responsibility Of taking measures
20 fiji up The old regiments. 1t is believed that both
those matters have been under consideration in the
Convention of Governors Al Altoona.
THE SCHEME FOR COLONlZlNG THE SOUTHERN
STATES.
Hon. Eli Thayers scheme for the colonization, by
ermed men, of tue Southern States meets with much
favor from the President, Secretary OF War, aAd
the other Secretaries, has been discussed several
times in tho Cabinet meetings, and will probably
coon receive formal official sanction. The project
oonternpstes expedition by 10000 colonsts, en-
listed for SIX months, and supplied with transport,
ton, subsistence, arms, and General by the Gov
eminent, whose business il shall be "hod, Occupy
and possess the public lands of Florida ana otDer
la1ds belonging TO Rebels and seized under the IL
Of the last session q COngIe Tor the nOnpay mtnt
OF the direct tax" Nj. Thayer promises if alto" cd
cary on; bis plan il its entirety, to bring Florida
into tue Union as Free State by the Ist OF + bru
airy next. Texas and Virginia are already talked Of
States to be subjected 10 the process This,
like the proclamation of this morning will be auo-
iher step in the path OF more vigorous policy which
tie Administration in Its proclamation oi freedom ad-
verified that II should benceiorth pursue.
TIE CABINET AND THE PRESIDENTS PROCLA-
NATION.
~ .Ia- 81 ~.
.hR, two # not three of tho Presidents Ministers
II consulted Beforehand, vo.li have pronounced
against the eNpedency Of is.uug the Presidents
Proclamation OF freedom, but co not believe as
we intua,ed yesterday, tina, more than one or two,
at tie utmost, if any, said anything expressing dis
approval Of it at tue meeting on Monday. IL was
probably thought too late then, 70 make opposition
the President bringing the paper before the Cabinet
as an accomplished fact awaiting simply a hde
criticism from them Of its phraseolOgy, and the AZ;
.sstaton Of the Secretary OF State. We feel sure
now that every member, since no one resigns, gives
hi. cordial support to the principles ef the Procama
ton, those who had opposed 1t hitherto feeling thar
il is too late to cavl 10 crlticise. This, we be-
Ieye, will be the way in which the majority Of
those who doubted it's eXpeGieucy beforehand viii
now ACCEPT the act Of the President
TIE POSITION or ATTORNEY GENERAL BATES
II ia not % he Inferred from the retcence OF At
torney General Bates respecting the Presidents
PROCLAMATION, in bis speech last night that ne Is
opposed 10 the policy embraced in it, but rather
that bio notions with respect TO the propriety OF
DISCUSSING in public measures witch have been
under consideration in celiue', are little old
fshoned |. may be that be would not if Prcsi-
dent and i may be that hot member OF The cabinet
would have done precisely The thing which Mr.
Lincoln do The shot which Mr.. Bites would
have directed at the Rebel magazine might not have
been preiaeed by paper bullet. lie would have
preferred 10 oct before speaking Would have
cent armies into those parls Of Rebel States which
,go mos. densely populated with slaves, ard given
his Generals such orders that tie institution would
have disappeared az the armies advanced.
Tup NoNIS ALTON OF GIN. WADSWORTH.
The nomination of Gen. Wordsworth Governor
of New-York was fully expected here, aud gives
general satisfaction. When the Emancipation party
comes (, Washington to get a thoroughly Anu
Slavery Governor for the Empire State who il an
upright man 10 boot, there spogress Several del
e.atons from New-York representing various inter
e,ts have already waited upon the Governor, whose
election ia reearded rs certain, the only question
being with respect to bis majority
REPORT rs TO THE REBtL FORCE IN THE FIELD.
clergyman who has been spending some month.
10 Richmond prisons, having been captured on the
Peninsula wk!le giving spiritual consolation to oar
wounded aud dying soldiers, brings back with him
very arge estimate Of The Retel forces in the field.
The officers whom he net told him the preposicrous
story that not Ices than 800 000 had marched under
Lee and Jackson upon Washington. The conscnp-
son, as lie judges from various circumstances which
came under bis observston is being enforced thor
tUghy and reentlossy, and emb. acer AL ases from
ID, and even II, up TO e. years.
OUR WOUNDED.
~ wounded and invaded have been sent to-day
from Frederick 10 Philado! pha. THIS makes nearly
1000 already dispatched from Frederick.
OUR LOSSES IN DEFENDING MARYLAND.
SurgeOn-Gen. Hammond las returned from the
battlefield of the Antietam, where he has been
looping, at Gen. McCellans headquarters. lie
thinks tina. the whole number OF Union killed will
con. within 200, and, Judging from careful in
specdou Of hosprsls, add OF ifts Of tho.e brought
OF odges that the wounded will not exceed 5000.
THE REBEL LOSS.
Major Davis, Assistant luspec,Or.GeDeral, in
formed him that be himself had caused to DO buried
'VOO R.tel dead left Oh the field by their dieconl-
h'ed comrades; from which, and other data, he
ssnmstes their wounded 10 be al least 10000.
OUR CAPTURES.
d.. Hammond saw, part Of the fruits Of our
victory, 81 standards which We captured froa. Rebe
regiments lie reports that there are also among
our spoi $1,000 or 30 900 small arms, mostly thor.
F"by NE easny along the line Of their retreat.