mentioned may rely that no effort shall be lack¬ 
ing on the part of the General commanding to 
secure their promotion. 
Should any officer neglect (heir men. or evince 
the least disposition to shrink any moment from 
the responsibilities off heir command, they will he 
likewise reported and held amenable to the seve¬ 
rest penalties pronounced by military law for 
misconduct in the presence of the enemy. 
Should private soldiers distinguish themselves 
while officers become liable to censure, it would 
be treason to the country not to compel an ex¬ 
change of places. 
The attention of all officers is earnestly called 
to article .'17 of the revised regulations for the 
army, in relation to the troops on board trans¬ 
ports — paragraphs 861 and 803 of this article be¬ 
ing of particular importance. 
By command of 
Maj.-Gen. D. Hunter. 
An order relieving Gen. Naglee from duty at 
Helena Island, and ordering him to report to the 
Adjutant General, was also promulgated. Gen- 
Ferry has succeeded Gen. Naglce. 
Gen. Hunter has also issued an order drafting 
all able bodied negroes for garrison duly except 
those employed by Quartermasters and other of¬ 
ficers. to be under command of Gen. Saxton. 
A refugee who arrived within our lines on the 
14th, from Charleston, Bays the rebels have about 
Distinctions, however, should always be made 
in regard to the character of the people in the 
district of the country which is occupied or 
passed over. The people of the country in 
which you are likely to operate, may be divided 
into two classes: 
First . The truly loyal, who neither aid nor as- 
gist the rebels except from compulsion, but who 
never aid the Union troops when it can be avoid¬ 
ed. This class should be subjected to military 
requisitions, tint should receive protection from 
our arms. It may, however, he necessary at 
tiroes to take their property, either tor our use, 
or to prevent it from falling into the hands of the 
enemy. They will be paid, at the time, the value 
of the property, or fully Indemnified hereafter. 
Receipts should be given for all property not 
paid lor. 
Second, Those who take no part in the war, 
hut. belong to the class nf non-combatants. In a 
civil war like that now waged, this class is sup¬ 
posed to sympathize with the rebellion rather 
than the Government. There is no such thing as 
neutrality in a rebellion. The term applies only 
to foreign powers. Such persons, as long as they 
commit no hostile act. umi confine themselves to 
their private affairs, are not to be molested, nor 
is their property to be subject to seizure. They, 
however, arc subject to forced loans on military 
requisition, and tlieir houses to be used for sol¬ 
diers’ quar ters, and to appropriations for other 
military usage. Subject, to these conditions, the 
non-corn bat ante ot a district occupied by one of 
the belligerents, are entitled to the protection of 
the occupying forces. But while entitled to such 
protection, they incur serious obligations, differ¬ 
ing in some respects from thoBe of civil allegiance, 
but. equally binding. 
For example, those who rise in arms against 
the occupying army or authority established by 
the same, are rebels, or military traitors, and in- 1 
cur the penalty of death. They are not entitled 
to be considered prisoners of war when captured. 
Their property is subject to seizure and confisca¬ 
tion. Military treason of this kind is broadly 
distinguished from the treason defined iu consti¬ 
tutional and statutory laws and made punishable 
by civil courts. Military treason Is a military of¬ 
fense, punishable by the common law of war. 
Again, persons belongingrw such occupied ter¬ 
ritory, and within the military lines, can give no 
information to the enemy of the occupying pow¬ 
er, without authority. To do bo, tier party forfeits 
not only all claim to patriotism, but subjects him¬ 
self to be punished either as a spy or military 
traitor, according to the character of the particu¬ 
lar offense. Our treat men t of such offenders has 
hitherto been altogether too lenient. A more 
strict enforcement of the laws of war, in this re¬ 
spect, is recommended. Such offenders should 
be made to understand the penalties they incur, 
and to know- that these penalties will be rigidly 
enforced. 
Third , Those who are openly and avowedly 
hostile to the occupying army, but who do not 
bear arms against, such forces, in other words, 
while claiming to be iron-combatants, they repu¬ 
diate, tacitly or impliedly, penalties incurred by 
other occupants of ibo occupied territory. Such 
persons not only incur a!) the obligations incur¬ 
red by other non-combatants of the territory, and 
arc liable In the same punishments tor Offenses 
committed, but they may be treated as prisoners 
of war. and be subjected to the rigors of confine¬ 
ment, or to expulsion us combatant enemies. I 
am of the opinion that such persons should not, 
as a general rule, he permitted to go at large 
within our lines: to force those capable of bear¬ 
ing arms to go within the lines of the enemy, adds 
to his effective forces. To place them in eonfine- 
AFFAIBS AT WASHINGTON. 
L.IST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
The following officers have been appointed by 
the Secretary of War to examine and report upon 
tactics for our colored troops, which Mr. Stanton 
inRtmcted Gen. Casy to prepare:—Brigadier Gen. 
George Gordon, President Col. George L. 
Willard, 12th New York Volunteers. Major 
Frederick Townsend, Eighteenth United States 
Infantry. 
The following regulations contain thesnbstance 
of the recent act of Congress in relation to the 
purchase of gold and silver coin. 
First-All contracts for the purchase and sale 
of gold and pilver coin, or bullion, and all con¬ 
tracts for the loan of money or currency secured 
by the pledge of deposit, or other disposition of 
gold and silver coin of the United States, if to be 
consummated after the period of three days, must 
be in writing. 
Second—Such contracts must be in adhesive 
stamps, equal in amount to i of 6 per cent, of the 
amount named in the contt act, in addition there¬ 
to stamps equal to the amount at Fix per cent, of 
the amount of the contract for the time specified. 
Third—A renewal of the contract will be sub¬ 
ject to the same conditions. 
Fourth—No loan of currency or money on the 
security of gold or silver coin of the United States, 
or npon any certificate or other evidence of de¬ 
posit, payable in gold or silver coin, can be made 
for an amount exceeding tbo par value of the 
coiu pledged or deposited. Gold or silver coin 
loaned at the par value thereof, is subject only to 
the duty imposed on loans. 
A committee of the Chamber of Commerce had 
aninterview with the President on thelllh ult, at 
which they urged him to make arrangements 
forthwith to issue letters of marque and reprisal 
under the recent act of Congress. Their argu¬ 
ments are understood to have made a strong im¬ 
pression upon Mr. Uncoln. A contrary view 
was, however, subsequently urged by Senators 
who were* prominent in opposition to the passage 
of the law. They represented to the President 
the danger of foreign war in case lie should do 
what was asked of him. The subject is under¬ 
stood to have been before the Cabinet. 
Thomas Brown, who was sent as a special 
agent of the Treasury Department to the Pacific 
to investigate various questions that have arisen 
on that coast, has presented an elaborate report, 
accompanied by a large massof testimony. It is 
understood that the evidence which Mr. Brown 
submits, going to show that Robert Slovens, Sup¬ 
erintendent of the Mint at San Francisco has ap¬ 
pointed, or retained In office, dishonest or vicious 
men, is so strong that he will probably be remov¬ 
ed. The report, although it does not impute to 
Ira. P. Rankin, Collector of San Francisco, mal¬ 
feasance in office, makes disclosures which may 
lead to his resignation. 
The President has issued the following procla¬ 
mation to soldiers, absent without leave: 
Executive Mansion, March 10th.—In pursu¬ 
ance of the 20th section of an act of Congress 
Country Regidrncp for Sale—A. C B.irtle 
F™nfe^®Xco Pal,n, ' r * *•*«***•«• 
Kpreivn Crapes for Vjneries-Klltt-aueer k Barry. 
Wool Crnwor* Meeting Committee. 
ChiWW0 ^ L - Shepherd - 
Tree* ’ Tree* 1-W Brown Smith. 
The Oporto—E W "re Sylvester. 
J ,mr7\v«o! !l?e an ' t K ’" row Trec SD ‘ 3 1>iaot Protoctor- 
J-j" ton BlarUberrv—S C Smith. 
Wipe! Win,:!—K Wore Svlvestei- 
to W a Day—T .1 Bcstor. 
Native Kvorip-eeii.Tamer A Root 
IUluoi |!eep—U M BiM ridge. 
Clinton Crane Vine-- Gen Root. 
Seeds I Seed* ! -Heurv Daw tt Son. 
A First mars Farm forSale-Robt N Moore. 
Situation Wanted—A D Farmer. 
Os all the flax a that float aloft 
O’er Neptune’s xaltant tars, 
That wave on higlt, in victory, 
Above the sons of Mam, 
Give us (hr (lag—Columbia’s flag— 
The emblem of the free, 
Whose flashing star* blazed thro’ our wars, 
For Truth and Liberty. 
Then dip it, lads, in ocean’s brine, 
And give it three times three, 
And fling it out, ’mid Bong and shout,' 
The Banner of the Sea. 
<l1)c 3fcuis Condenser 
— Mrs. Jeff. Davis, it is said, was born on Long Island, 
in Suffolk county. 
— The military libraries of the garrison in England are 
to be reorganized. 
— The appropriations by Congress for the session are 
stated to be $948,237,000. 
— Gen. Sigel has resigned owing to longstanding diffi¬ 
culties with Gen. If&lteek. 
— John F. Potter of Wisconsin, has declined the posi¬ 
tion of Governor of Dakota. 
— The rebels in Richmond are offering the liberal sum 
of $1,800 each to substitutes. 
— Capt. Ilirnm Paulding has been confirmed by the 
Senate as Rear Admiral on the retired list. 
— Gen. Dix has issued an order revoking permits for 
merchandise to be shipped to Norfolk, Va. 
— The last report of the Illinois Central Railroad shows 
n revenue of upward of a million of dollars. 
— Eighthundred and forty-three bales of cotton reached 
Cincinnati on Monday week from Memphis. 
— A company with a capital of $5,000,000 has been 
formed in Paris to cultivate cotton in Algiers. 
— Eleven divorce cases were granted at the recent term 
of the Superior Court for Windham county, Vt. 
— One hundred and twenty of the rebel prisoners at 
Camp Douglas have takeu the oath of allegience, 
— Another battalion of cavalry is coming from Califor¬ 
nia to join the Massachusetts California regiment. 
— The average monthly receipts of the places of amuse¬ 
ment in Paris arc 1,743,000 francs—About $348,000. 
— The sound of the recent explosion at Dupont's pow¬ 
der mill, in Wilmington Del., was heard 125 miles. 
— B. S. Todd, of Dacotah, a brother of Mrs, Lincoln, 
was not confirmed as a Brigadier General by the Senate. 
The Surveyor General of California reports the total 
wheat yield of that State, for 1SC2, to be 8,805,411 bushel*. 
— The span of the proposed Covington and Cincinnati 
suspension bridge across the Ohio river will l.e 1,064 feet. 
— Over six hundred thousand persona visited the gar¬ 
dens of the London Zoological Society in London in 1862. 
— The number of furloughs granted at the furlough of- 
flee in Washington averages two hundred and fifty per 
day. 
— Eighteen Pennsylvania colonels have lost their live* 
during the present war—sixteen in battle and two in 
camp. 
— The President has signed G2 public acts, 33 private 
acts, and 42 joint resolutions, passed at the Session just 
closed. 
— New York ice merchants are actively engaged in cut¬ 
ting ice on the Kennebec river at Gardiner, Me., and other 
points, 
— 'Die Confederate Senate have adopted a “Cavalier” 
for their seal, because “Cavalier” means “ Knight or Gen- 
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ MARCH 21, 1863. 
The Army in Virginia, 
A Dispatch from Headquarters, 6th Army 
Corps, near White Oak Church, Va., Bays:— 
There are unmistakable preparations now being 
made for a speedy movement of our army. Our 
transportation Is now being cut down to facili¬ 
tate our movement in the coming marches, and 
officers are warned beforehand that all superflu¬ 
ous baggage must tie sent home, while those who 
hold commissions iu the line have been notified 
that their wedge tentB cannot be transported Ibr 
them iu future, and that in the coming campaign 
nothing more will be allowed than a shelter tent, 
such as the men have, which they can carry on 
their backs. The last tact alone is sufficient 
forewarning of the trials, troubles, discomforts 
and severities of the next, campaign. 
A dispatch from Falmouth on the 13th, says 
that an official report has been sent to headquar¬ 
ters of the discovery of negro cavalry pickets on 
the south bank of the Rappahannock, below 
Fredericksburg. On the 7th Inst., a corpora! of 
the 2d IT. S. cavalry reported to Lieut Thomp¬ 
son that he had discovered negroes doing - picket 
duty on the opposite side of the river. He took 
the Lieutenant’s glass, went to his post, examined 
again and again, and made the same report. 
Lieut Thompson, in company with Lieut. Noyes, 
of the same regiment, then went to the spot, and 
passing over a corduroy road through a marsh to 
the edge Of the river, plainly saw, with (lie naked 
eye, uegro cavalrymen to the number of so, with 
belts and accoutrements, apparently doing duty, 
half and half, with white soldiers, who seemed to 
lie regularly distributed with them. The officers 
were within 100 yards of them, and only used the 
glass to render t heir examination more certain. 
The negroes were regularly stationed on post, 
the same 
with railroad iron. Another iron-clud is ready 
to launch, lint the rebels lack the necessary mar 
chincry. Several thousand negroes are kept busy 
daily in strengthening the defences of the city. 
He thinks the city impregnable from the water 
approaches. 
Our navy has been somewhat active, as the fol¬ 
lowing list of prizes indicates: 
Tlie prize steamer Adela has arrived at Fort¬ 
ress M.mroe from Key West The prize steamer 
Virginia, a bark, and a brig, with 27 prize car¬ 
goes on board, have sailed for New York from 
Key West The steamship Peterhoffhad arrived 
at Key West, having been captured by the 
Vanderbilt. 
Dispatches from Admiral Dupont mention the 
capture of the schooner Belle, of Nassau, by U. 
S. steamer Potomaka, in the blockading service. 
She purported to be bound for Port Royal, but 
there was found among tlie papers in the baggage 
of Richard II. Ecels, the master, a written agree¬ 
ment between him and the *wner, that ho Was 
bound to run the blockade. The cargo consisted 
of coffee and salt. 
The steam gunboat Royal City has arrived at 
New York from Port Royal via Charleston. She • 
comes to repair and receive now boilers. On the 
9th inst., off Cupe Fear, captured tbo British 
steamer Duro, after an exciting chase of six hours. 
She had a cargo of400 bales of cotton, and bound 
from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Nassau. 
She was ordered to New York for adjudication. 
The steamship Ericsson arrived in Baltimore 
on the 12th, from Pm t Royal 8th, with the mails 
and dispatches for the Government, in the hands 
of Chief Engineer Stimers, who was on board the 
gunboat Passaic during Hie attack on Fort Mc¬ 
Allister. The Monitors are all back to Port 
Itoyal in good order and condition. A torpedo 
was exploded under the Montank, and although 
it. raised her a foot out of the water, no damage 
was done. The bombardment lasted twenty 
hours, but tlie boats could not get near enough 
to the Fort to dismantle it. The distance was 
1,400 yards. 
the whites. The matter has been 
communicated to the authorities sit Washington. 
There cannot be the slightest doubt of the facts 
as reported. 
The N. Y. Herald's special states that the ex¬ 
pedition which started a few days ago to traverse 
the neck of land between the Rappahannock and 
Mattapony Rivers, returned on Sunday 
month. It was composed of a detachmon 
first Maine cavalry. The topographical 
r I* ii mup uuu nival JUIU. UIHKlyJll, 
The foregoing remarks have reference only to 
the military statutes to military offences under 
the laws of war. 
1 hey are not applicable to civil offenses under 
the Constitution and general laws of the land. 
The laws and usages of civilized war must be 
your guide in the treatment of all classes of per¬ 
sons in the country in which your army may 
operate, ami yon will be permitted to decide for 
yourself when to act with rigor, and when best 
to be more lenient You will not be trammeled 
with minute instructions. 
Yours, &c., If. W. Hai.lkck, 
General-in-Chief. 
Mississippi. — The Cincinnati Commercial's 
advices from Vicksburg report all quiet. The 
river is very high, and the back water has 
broken through the levee, filling the canal, and 
rendering work on it impossible. Tlie river at 
Memphis was within 14 inches of high water 
mark, and was rising two to three inches daily. 
The following dispatch settles all doubts as to 
the destruction of the Jndianola: 
D. 8. Mjbs. Squadron, Yazoo River, March 10. 
Eon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of Ihe Eacy :—I 
have been pretty well assured tor some time that 
the Indianola had been blown up, in consequence 
of (he appearance of a wooden imitation Monitor, 
which the enemy sunk with their batteries. The 
Monitor was a valuable aid to us. It forced away 
the Queen of the West and caused the blowing up 
of the Indianola. 1). D. Porter. 
Coin. Miss. Squad., ami Act. Rear Admiral. 
The following is an account of the affair from 
the Vicksburg Whig (rebel) of tlie 5th inst: 
“We stated a day or two since that we would 
not then enlighteif our readers in regard to a 
matter that was puzzling them very much. We 
allude to the loss of the Indianola, recently cap¬ 
tured from the enemy. 
Movements in the West and SOuth-West 
Tennessee,— An officer of Gen. Granger’s 
staff arriv ed at Franklin on the 10th inst., from a 
conference with Van Dorn’s rebels under a flag 
of trace. The rebel officers acknowledge a loss 
in the late fight of 180 killed, and 400 wounded. 
Our total loss was 1,406, of whom 120 were killed 
and wounded, and tbo balance taken prisoners. 
The rebels had a force of 10,000 engaged, consist¬ 
ing of cavalry, artillery and infantry. Qur force 
was 3,000. The rebels acknowledged they were 
poorly fed and mounted and nearly whipped. 
Our pickets were driven in yesterday and the 
enemy is believed to be in force three miles dis¬ 
tant. A battle, Ibr which the right wing is well 
prepared, is imminent. 
A special from Memphis to the Cincinnati Ga¬ 
zette gives a report of a fight on the Yazoo, in 
which 7,000 rebel prisoners were captured, and 
recon- 
noissances were made by Capt. Wilcox, of Gen. 
Reynold’s staff. All the court houses on the 
neck, and all the ferries on the Rappahannock, 
for 80 miles below our lines, were visited. 
Another smuggling nest was broken up, and the 
smugglers captured, as were also several rebel 
officers. A valuable Jot of medical stores, con¬ 
traband goods—such as boots, shoes, caps, blan¬ 
kets. Ac., and a number of horses and mules, 
were token. Several boats, engaged in carrying 
goods across the Rappahannock, were destroyed, 
and a largo warehouse, filled with wheat and 
corn ready for transportation, was burned. 
A Norfolk letter says Ihu recounoissance of 
Col. Dodge from Norfolk, has proved an eminent 
success. He marched 110 miles, visiting South- 
field. Churchatuck and Blnekwafer Bridge. He 
met the enemy at Windsor, near the latter point, 
drove in tlieir advance upon Ihe main body, then 
attacked them on the flanks and forced to return 
to the Biackwnter. The fight lasted only forty 
minutes. 
The rebel General Longsfreet’s headquarters 
are at Petersburg, Va. ile has 18,000 troops 
12 miles this side, between there and the Black- 
water. It is said they do not intend to make an 
attack. 
EWS PARAGRAPHS 
Deserters throughout the North and West 
had better pack their knapsacks and hurry back 
to the Rappahannock. Gen. Hooker is about to 
issue an order giving them just twenty days iu 
whicli to save themselves from the fate to which 
he has made up his mind to subject deserters. 
It is said that the Secretary of the Treasury 
has ordered that no more twenty-five and fifty- 
cent postage notes shall be issued. The reason 
of this determination is said to be that extensive 
frauds have been detected against Lbe govern¬ 
ment In these denominations of the postage 
issue. 
A Washington correspondent informs us that 
there is a chance of the Monitor being retained 
in the Navy, although she is now at the boltom 
oi the deep. Mr, W. H. Fairbanksof Washington 
has made a proposition to raise her for $75,000, 
if the Government finds her whereabouts and fur¬ 
nishes tugs. 
About 150 tuns of Connecticut river tobacco 
have recently been shipped from and above Hart¬ 
ford, through the agency of a Springfield man, to 
a house iu New York, torthe French government. 
The average price paid has been about seven¬ 
teen cents. 
A Journal in Georgia, called the Southern 
Union, has proposed to reconstruct theold Union 
of States. The Atlanta Confederacy pitched into 
if, and in the course of its article asserts that 
“there are fewer abolitionists in Massachusetts 
than reconstruetionists in Georgia.” 
to Fort Donelson with various reports. The 
rebels are reported well armed. Our forces are 
ready for any emergency. 
A Memphis dispatch to the Cincinnati Com¬ 
mercial confirms the reported surprise and cap¬ 
ture of Richardson’s guerrilla force, near Coving¬ 
ton, Tcno. Their camp was destroyed. Gen. 
Looney’s camp at Wesley was also surprised by 
Col. Lee, and a large portion of his force was 
captured, together with Gen. Looney. M. J. Sand- 
ford, Capt Wright, and Lieut. Williams. 
The following letter, dated Headquarters of 
the Army, Washington, D. C., March 32th, has 
been addressed by Gen. Hallcck to Gen. W. & 
Kosecrans, Murfreesboro, Tenu.: 
I have just received Maj.-Con. Reynolds’ letter 
of belli n uy 10th. with yoiir endorsement, of Feb¬ 
ruary, IStli. The suggestions of Gen. Reynolds 
and Gen. I Iminas, will) regard to a mure rigid 
treatment of disloyal persons within the lines of 
your army', are approved, No additional instruc¬ 
tion Horn these headquarters are deemed neces¬ 
sary. 
ou have already been urged to procure your 
forage and means of transportation in the coun- 
We were loth to ac¬ 
knowledge she had been destroyed, but such is 
the ease. 
“ The Yankee barge sent down the river last 
week, was reported to be an iron-clad gunboat. 
The authorities, thinking that this Monitor would 
retake the Indianola, immediately issued an order 
to blow her up. This order woe sent by* a courier 
to the officer in charge of the boat. 
“A few hours after, another order was sent 
down countermanding the first, it having been 
ascertained that the monster was nothing but a 
coal boat. But before he could reach the India¬ 
nola die had been blown to atoms. Not even a 
gun was saved. Who is to blame for this piece 
of folly?—this precipitancy? It would really 
seem that we had no use for gunboats on the 
Mississippi, as a coal boat is magnified into a 
Monitor, and a boat that would have been worth 
a small army to us blown up!” 
i out loyal auvices ol the 18th contain an 
order of Gen. Hunter for a forward movement: 
GENERAL ORDERS NO. 16. 
HKADyPARTKRS DlTPAHTU KXT OK THK SOVTII ) 
Hilton Head, Fort Rotai,, MajoU 5th, 18(53. ’ j 
Soldiers of the Department, ul' ihe South: After 
long ami weary delay, due to causes over which 
no one iu this Department had Control, we have 
at length ihe cheering prospect ot active and 
very important service. 
Soldiers of the Tenth Army Corps: You are 
stimulated, by every annmlemiiou of honor to 
vie with the soldiers of the Department of North 
Carolina, who have been sent by the Govern¬ 
ment to take part with you in the dangers and 
glories of Ihe operations llow pending Officers 
and men of the command, you are adjured to the 
performance of every duty. All wtio earn dis- 
Unction, ho matter lmw humble tin ir position 
have my word that tlieir services shall be ac¬ 
knowledged. and the acknowledgment pressed to 
their advantage. 
Commanding officers of divisions, brigades and 
regiments, in making their reports to these head¬ 
quarters, will give tlie name of every non-coin- 
missioned officer and soldier of their commands 
v ho 1 1 as attracted their observation as behaving 
Willi special gallantry or good Conduct, in order 
that the iiaoiesofall M|Ch may be published with 
honor at their own homes, and all who arc thus 
The Hatch Oil Refinery, at Erie, attempted 
to pass off three hundred and tweuly barrels of 
oil without paying the Government. It, was 
shipped, overtaken, and confiscated. Value $7,- 
000. The refinery itself, valued at $10,000, was 
also seized by the collector. The case is sub¬ 
mitted to the authorities at Washington. 
