New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-25

In the Senate The whole number OF bills reported 20
both branches Of Congress 9 and OF Joint reSou
lions eo2 Of which SIS bills and l2o Joint resolutions
were reported to the Honse and $40 bills and ~ joint
resolutions came to hight in the Senate Eighty House
bills and 80 Senate bills to say nothing Of resolutions.
hang Ere between the two Houses one Of these bills is
House bill to establish an Admiralty Court in the
Eastern District of New-York Another is the act 10
establish Bureau OF Freedmens AfiairA which was
passed BY the House and materially amended by the
Senate passed. and sent back to the House the Jth
of June, referred TO the Committee on Emancpatipn
the Senate amendments reported upon adversely ana
~as finally postponed TO December 20 1864.
GIN. HUNTER AND REBEL CITIZENS
Msjor-Genera Hunter has given the "secesh''
citizens bis Department until Monday night to decide
II they will take the Oath Of Allegiance or accept the
the alternative Of being sent TO military prisoni the
women who are still rebeious to be sent into the Rebel
lines AS Hunters Department extends up TO the
Monocaey in Maryland, many Sccesh citizens OF that
region are doing their best endeavors to have the order
modified 90 far as sending the women South is con-
cerDed 1t might be ndcious to modify the order so as
to include the whole State of Maryland.
DECISION IN VIEW OF PENSIONS.
The following decision Of the Adjutant-
General, made appeal from the decision Of the
Medical Directors. Department of Missouri. in refusing
10 furnish "a complete record Of sick, wounded and
deceasod officers aud soldiers. hes been published by
the Medical Department for the information Of surgeons
in charge Of hospitals
The principle involved Is this No information must be
given by any officer in the United States service to any person
claim against the Government for pay pension or Other sCS
snees except be sveu as the seTa o Tow, 70
incormaon Of ,ci and wounded officers and may be
freely giye 10
bare fact Of desth may be communicated relatives but not
dates or any circumstances which would be required to b.
used ia prosecuting claims The prrties interested must
satisfy the accounting oe Of me Ired'vry that they are
Legal claiments and then this Office will obtain and GIVE
officers all the evidence to perfect the claim
These miles guard the Government Is well as ~"
(nl claimants, against Frauds
OUR FORCES RETURNING.
The 9Th Corps. and a portion of the 18th Corps
returned here today from their pursuit Of the Rebels
which. as announced in THE TRIBUNE of last Wendes'
dav has been abandoned The 9th Corps did not go be-
yond Smokers Ferry.
CONTRACTING WITH THE REBEL GOVERNMENT
A person is now under process of trial before
the Military Commission of which MAJ Gen. Doubleday
president sitting in this city charged with contracting
10 furnish the Rebel Government with forty millions o.
dollars worth Of goods the contracts for which, signed
BY the Rebel authorities. were found upon his person
II from the terms OF the contract that the goods
or Havana whence they were be trnnshpped to Rebel
ports by blockade and the payment therefor
10 be returned in cotton by the chsnnel The de-
PENDANT pleads it is understood that he executed the
contract for the purpose Of obtaining safeguard out Of
Dixie. He was arrested in Washington
IN MEMORY OF OUR GALLANT DEAD.
In honor of the memory of some of the gal
lont dead belonging to tie 18th Army Corps who hayo
"a Con Dufiar
has ordered that the redoubts and batteries on Lis lines
shall hereafter be known as follows, viz
Redoubt on Spring Hin i. named Redoubt cOnverse after
Major joseph Ii. Converse. I'm Conn Vols Assistant In
Redoubt on Cobbs Hill Signal Tower, 10 named Re
doubt ZsbIiskie sner Col Abrsm Zsbrisse 9th y j. Vols
Battery No =: named Battery BurPee after Lieut. Col l.
The squsre redoubi in Of the line between Batteries
battery No, /. named Battery Walker, AFTER Major VIM
Battery No / named battery Pruyn sner M'i Charles
The square rsdoubt in front Of Battery No is named Re
doubt Dntton AFTER Col A. H. Duton 2l Connecticut Vols
Battery No. Sis named Battery England, shef LienicOL
T. $. England 18th New. York Vols.
Battery No 4i' naned Battery hsrsha AFTER Lieut. COL
Hram Anderson, SD New ors Vols
mcsn Tss0 ssr col 1n ohD Nee n New YORK Vols
Battery No. is named battery Perry sNer Lieai'Col
Bsttery 10. /. naued RedOubt Drake s,er Col j. C.,
Drake, ll2th New-1ork hOls
Tbs redebt front Of Battery No is named Redouo
Carpenter after Lieut. Col r. T. Carpenter ll2h New'io rk
Volunteers.
The battery IL rear Of the Curt, Horse heretofore known
the Water Battery named Battery Spohord alter Lieut.
Col w. Z. Spoford, llth Maine Volunteers.
The battery Grow Ns; is named Battery Sawyer after
Major Chrros w Sawyer 9Th New Hsnp.hre Volunteers
The lO0pounder Parrot battery At the Curtis House Is
named Dstey Psr.On. arc: Firsi Lieut. 4 K HaF;sn' 4
Vermont Volunteers A. ID. c., on Cen. W. T. H. BrooN's
stsf.
The ioinch nortsr battery Cni Of the Curtis aGug
named Battery Wilcox after Cspt r. r. Wilcox 2Itb Mas
sschusetts Volunteers, Acting AsSnt Oh
Gen. Stennsrds staff.