Year: 1861

From the Washington correspondence of
the Philadelphia Inquirer of the 18th we
select the following


2 PROVISION TRAIN FOR BANKS Army.


A provision train went out to Gen. Banks
column this afternoon. 1t was one mile and
half in length, and made an imposing ap.
pearance. Several hundred army wagons
have arrived here from Harper's Ferry with
the camp equipage of the three months
men under General Patterson. General
Banks headquarters are now at Po0lsville,
twenty miles above, and bis entire supplies
are carried by negroes by the way of Rock
vile. The Western railroad is still in our
possession.


NEW DIsPENsATI0N WHEN THE WAR Is


OVER.


President Lincoln makes no secret of the
fact that when the rebellion is suppressed
he intends to make new dispensation Of
the immense list Of Offices in the gift of the
Government. He has freq uently said that
he longs for the time whom he can prove
his love for the saviors Of the republic by
placing them in Offices of honor and profit.


A PRISON FOR FEMALE REBELS.


The improperly, as we'll as inconvenience
of placing females arrested for treason, in
the common Jail, or in the prison of the
capitol was at once seen. 1t was deter
mined, therefore, to secure some suitable
building and appropriate it for that pur-
pose. Accordingly, the large house at the
corner of - and Fourteenth streets, was
selected and rented on Saturday for this
purpose. The premises consist of the man.
sion itself, and sufficiently spacious to con-
tain comfortably all the ladies who will be
arrested, and an extensive lawn and flower
garden, in which they will be allowed to
walk. The whole is surrounded by high
brick wall, which will at once prevent their
escape, and secure them from the imperti-
nent observation of the curious. The three
ladies already arrested are confined here,
and it is understood that they will have the
society of three more before night.
FEDERAL HILL IN BALTIMORE TO BE FORTS


FLED.


mentioned some days ago that the gov
ernment had issued orders for the fortifica-
tion of Federal Hill in Baltimore. Colo
mel Brewerton, of the corpse Of Topography
ical Engineers, was here last week and left
on Saturday with plans of the work. In
its general appearance, the work will re-
semble Fort Runyan, at the end of Long
Bridge. 1t will enclose the greater part
of the hill. The angles of the bastions
are so arranged that the guns mounted
on them can rake, by an enfilading fire,
all the streets by which the hillican be
approached. The bastiops themselves will
be of double the usual thickness. The par
apets will be sodded, and on the outer side
have more than the usual slope. The guns
used in mounting the batteries will be of
heavy calibre, and mostly of short range,
no rified cannon having yet been ordered.
There will also be some light howitzers.--
1t will be one of the most complete forti6-
cations in the North.


REPORTS FROM THE REBEL ARMY.


From gentleman who has been in Rich.
mond the last six months, and who bad
room at the hotel over that of JEFF. Davis,
we learn that their army is rapidly becom-
ing demoralized, that disease has taken a
deep hold upon them, and the men are eager
for an advance upon Washington, as they
were promised. He says that Davis is daily
told he must make strike or the army
cannot be kept together for thirty days; he
hesitates, although Johnston was for making
one on bis own account on our lines above
Washington, but was ex pressly forbid.


He says that Davis is under the influence
of liquor the whole time, though OCCASION
ally be will be calm aud discuss the chances
of defeat


Their greatest wants now are clothes and
shoes; the army is ragged and nearly bare
footed. They are depending upon the break
ing Of the blockade for supplies of both.
Nearly all of the uniforms were made of
very thin goods, and will not be fit for fall
and winter, now rapidly approaching. They
have very fine tents, or the proper matters