The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-22
TO-DAY'S WASHINGTON NEWS.
Special Dispatches to Evening Telegraph.
WAsHrNGToN, September %.
Fraun fIp Army.

The mail steamer Express, from City Point,
reports affairs unchanged in front Of Petersburg,
beyond an occasional artillery duel
Our cavalry has been doing considerable
scouting duty Of late, and occasionally has u
skirmish with Rebel scouting parties but with
ont any serious loss to either side. The ErproSs
brought up thirty five Rebel dcserters.
Illness of Colonel Andrews,
Colonel. j. =. Andrews, Paymaster General, is
lying very III at the residence of his daughter in
Baltimore.
Major J. r. Eaton has been appointed acting
Paymaster- General.
Sentences COMMITTED.
Sixteen deserttrs, tried by court-martial and
sentenced to be shot, have had their sentences
commuted TO imprisonment at hard labor during
the war, were yesterday sent to Fort Delaware.
Sent East.
Mary Kelley and Rebecca Smith, who have
been confined in the Old Capitol Prison, on the
charge of repeatedly aiding soldiers to desert, by
furnishing them with citizens clothing, were yes
terday sent to the female prison, at Fitchburg,
Massachusetts,.
Army News.
Intelligence from the army presents but little
news of interest. On Tuesday general salute
victory The Rebels replied, and the roar Of
artillery for an hour was deafening. Afterwards
a large fire was observed in Petersburg, probably
caused by our shells.
COIOred Artillery.
The lst Regiment Heavy Artillery Corps
dAhique, will hereafter be known as the 10th
Regiment United States Heavy Artillery.
DIshOnOrabIy Dismissed.
i
Volunteers has been released from his temporary
confinement In the Old Capitol, but is dishonor-
ably dismissed the service.
The Destruction Of Rebel Salt Works.
The Navy Department received to-day Admiral
Farraguts official report Of the destruction of the
Ben Loomls Bay salt works. Fifty-fye furnaces,
manufacturing 2OOO bushels of salt daily, with all
their appurtenances, were totally destroyed The
loss to the Rebels is irreparablc.
Care for the Wounded.
Surgeon General Barnes has made every pre-
paration for the succOr Of Sheridans wounded.
AS fast as possible all will be brought to Balti-
more.
RumOred appointment.
It is rumored that Hon. J. p Usher is soon to
be appointed United States District Judge Of
Indiana, and that Hon J. J. Lewis, now the very
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succeed Judge Usher as Secretary of the Interior
Department.
DeseFters.
1t is stated that over three thousand llsbol de-
serters have already ayailed themselves Of Grants
proclamation assuring them Of Union protection
and employment Numbers Of them pass through
this city daily. One of them mdde-aged man,
asserts that the Rebel authorities had conscr pied
his grandfather
An Invitation Not Accepted.
One Barnes, captured Fairfax county guerilla,
who was tried and convicted before the Court
Martial sitting in this city OF being a rObber and
murderer, and sentenced to be hung and whose
sentence was afterwards commuted to ten years
Imprisonment in the State Prison, and finally
exchanged by order Of the President, sent in
word lhe other day that he should be happy TO
meet any member Of the Court which sentenced
him outside the lines.
StraWs Showing which way the Wind
Blows,
A party who has been selling the portraits OF
our generals for the past two years in the army,
and who had heavy stock Of the Mcclellan
variety on hand was quite elatcd upon hearing
| Of that Generals nomination for the Presidency,
in the hope that he should be able to run off his
accumulated stock but he says the pictures don't
! sell as well now as they did before he was nomi-
mated, ana is quite disguised with the soldiers
want Of appreciation.