Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1862-08-04
News from the Northern Army.

News IRON the Northern Army.
lFRoM THE New YORK TRIBUNE. jury %
OFFICIAL WAR BULLETIN. EXECUTIVE opnrp
WAR DEPARTM'N, WASHINGTON. .Jrry %.
FIRST, ordered: That military comman-
ders within the Statee ofVirginia. South Caro-
Ina Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas in an orderly
manner, seize and use any property, real
or personal, which may be necessary or con.
venient for their severals commands, for sup
plies, or for other military purposes and that,
while property may be destroyed in wanton-
ness, or malice.
Second That military and naval comman-
ders shall employ as laborers within and
from said States SO many persons of African
descent as can be advantageously used for
military or naval purposes, giving them rea-
sonable wages for their labor.
Third That as to both property and per-
sons of African descent, accounts shall be kept
sufficiently accurate and in detail to show
quantities and amounts, and from whom both
property and such persons shall have come, |
as a basis upon which compensation can be
made in proper cases, and the several Depart
ments Of this Government shall attend to and
perform their appropriate parts toward the
execution of these orders. |
By order Of the president.
EDWIN n. STANTON.
Secretary of War.
From the Washington Evening Star, July 23d
VERY IMPORTANT REGULATION.
The following general order Of Maj, Cen.
Pope was issued to-day
HEADoUAkLERs ARMY OF VIRGINIA, 4,
July %. 1862.
General Orders No. Ii.-Commanders CT
army corps, divisions, brigades and detach-
ed commands will proceed immediately to
arrest all disloyal male citizens within their
lines, or within their reach in rear OF their
respective commands. Such as are willing
to take the earth Of allegiance to the United
States, and will furnish sufficient security for
its observance, shall be permitted to remain
at their homes and pursue in good faith their
accustomed avocations. Those who refuse
shall be conducted South, beyond the ex-
IRENE pickets OF this army, and be nestled
that If at any point, in rear, they will boeon-
sidered spies and subjected to the extrcrr ig-
or of military law. If any person hsvin :
taken the oath of allegiance, as above specif-
ed, be found to have violated it, he shall be
shot, and bis property seized and applied to
the public use.
All communication with any person what
ever living within the lines Of the enemy is
positively prohibited, except through the mill
tary authorities and in the manner specified
by military law and any person concerned
in writing or in carrying letters or messages
in any other way will be considcrca and
treated as a spy Within the lines oft Bnit-
ed States army.
BY command Of Major Genera poRE
GEoRGE d. RUGeLEs, Col and Chief q AF
From the Baltimore Sun, Jnly 24t
STRINGENT ORDERS FROM GENsKAL PoHF
WASHINGTON, July 28-Major Gexa
Pope has issued orders to the mner2t
erals commanding divisions in thu go
corps requiring them to seize all hQ
~srles iRthairy gicie:tyy neutrality-suspicious.
county, not absolutely needed by the inhabi
tants of the surrounding country. The,
are also directed tn seize all stores not ALSO
lutely needed for the maintenance or subsis
tence of the inhabitants.
THE COMPLETE LAT OF MCCLELLAN
ARMY.-Despite the efforts in the North to sur
press everything tending to show the losse
and destinations of McClellan's army, we fin
admissions in some of their papers that full
Confess 10 Tie lehTlul SlauSllcEltlS VI AiS "
in the recent battles before Richmond, and il
complete defamation by the campaign on tn
Peninsula. For instance, what could MOI
plainly admit the losses of Mcclellan and tn
shattered condition of his army than ii
following paragraph from the Boston Her
aid:
The deadly miasmas of the Chickahomir
swamps and the fearful seven days fgl
with the Confederates have made wide gal
in the ranks of McClellan's army, and as mar
more are still enfeeblsd by disease, that reg
ments now are scarcely more than compani
in the number of men.
There is still a telling of confidence
their general among some of the officers al
men, but many of them have lost their 70
mer faith in his prowess, and one Office hi
in rank remarked thatif they had all the m
in the world they could not reach Richmol
under McClellanS lead. Indeed, any no
of reaching Richmond from that direction /
fore spring, and even with one hundred tho
sand additional men, seemed not to be ente
tanned.
The Newark (New Jersey Journal say
Is it not a singular circumstance, that VIII
we can count to a man the loss sustained
the recent battles upon the peninsula by
Confederates, we know nothing concerns
our losses? Retreating from an advapc
foe sorapidly that we are compelled to lei
our dead and dying in the enemy's han
our troops are reported as knowing to a tr
ton the number of men killed of the enen
Have we any kind of shell or ball th
whenever it strikes down a Confederate,
ports the fact within our camp ? If not, h
IS it that we obtain so soon the Conieder
loss, while it has taken us months to asc
tained our own? That the confederates
heavily we can very well believe, but t
a pursuing enosny should lose more than
pursued is an absurdity. We saw a C