The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-13
TO-DAY'S WASHINGTON NEWS.
Special Dispatches to Evening Telegraph.

WARRINGTON, September l3.
No Army News.
The City Point boat brings no army news.
Governor Andrew and Governor Smith, of Yer
mont, arrived to-day.
sheridan,
There is nothing new from Sheridan.
The Victory I'm Maine,
A despatch from Congressman Blaine to Mr..
Stanton says Names Union majority is larger
than that of last year. and that all the Union Con-
gressional candidates are elected
General MarstOn Ill.
General Marston lies dangerously i'll at Viii
sons Landing.
VaIIandigham.
A private despatch received here to-day states
that Yallandigham considers all is lost. Rightly
interpreted, this means that all is safel
Union Meeting.
An enthusiastic meeting of the Lincoln and
Johnson Campaign Club was held last night and
measures were taken for active demonstrations
during the campaign
Taxes I'm North Carolina.
Messrs. French, Potter, and Sholes Tax Com
mi,soners for North Carolina, are receiving their
instructions from the Treasury Department and
expect to leave for that State next week.
Forrest at Mobile.
Information has been received here that the
notorious guerilla Forrest has turned up with his
command at Mobile. This will prevent his cap
ture by Sherman.
Veteran Corps.
Men will not in future be enlisted into the
Veteran Reserve Corps unless they have served
two years in the Army or Marine Corps, and are
unfit for active field service.
Paying Soldiers First.
Contractors are pressing their claims upon
the Treasury, but the Government is determined
to pay off the soldiers before all others. This
causes a temporary delay in the payment of
acquisitions.
General Fremont.
Information, deemed trustworthy, is received,
to the effect that General Fremont has placed his
letter of withdrawal in the hands of his friends,
who will make it public at the proper time, and
that before long.
Land Sales.
A certificate of deposit just received at the
General Land Office shows that during the pre-.
sent month, the Receiver of Public Moneys at
Marquette, Michigan, has deposited sll4, 1852
on account of sales of public lands.
Engines for GunbOats.
The whole force at the extensive machine
shops in the Navy Yard, heretofore at work upon
large guns are now exclusively employed upon
engines for gunbOats, very ane double engine
being now in hand.
From Grant.
Colonel Bowers, Adjutaut- General of Grants
staff, arrived at IL O'Clock last night, twenty -four
hours from the Army of the Potomac, on short
leave of absence. Everything was quiet around
Petersburg. The army is reported in capital
spirits and condition. The Gamer on which
Colonel Bowers came was nearly founderod in
storm.
Missouri
A delegation Of influential gentlemen from
Missouri are now in the city, who think they will
be able to harmonize all local differences between
the Claybacks and Radicals Of the State. They
have had an interview with the President, which
has been most cordial ana satisfactory. The
executive branch of the National Union Com
mittee is now in session here, completing the
work of organizing fer the Presidential canvass.
Changes in the Ordnance Bureau.
The delay Of the War Department announcing
the late changes in the Ordnance Bureau grows
out of claim made by certain officers TO be pro-
NOTED to the position of chief, who have been
oyerslaughed by the proposed nomination of
Major Dyer. II is understood that the War De-
partment has decided adversely to the claim, and
that the orders recognizing that bureau will at
once be promulgated.
Cotton Trade.
Parties who arrived from New Orleans by the
last steamer are endeayorng to obtain modif-
cation Of the policy of the Government in regard
to the cotton trade in Rebel districts. They
allege that parties would dispose of their stock
to Yankees, and thus weaken the basis of the
Confederate loan. Secretary Stanton is, how
ever, firmly opposed to the business.
Fort Sumters
Colonel Dana, of the 143d Pennsylvania Regi-
ment, who has just returned from under fire al
Charleston, reports that he was assured by par
ties who had been out to Fort Sumter, that it was
rapidly settling, and in very short time it was
believed the water would enter the lower tier of
embrasures. 1t is a fact well-known TO our en-
gineers that this fertilization was erected upon
quite a thin point Of sand, which strata of sand
rested upon . soft, PulPy mass Of debris.