WASHINGTON, April 5.
The Senate military committee reported against the confirmation of Blenker, Stahl and [De Anna] as Brigadier Generals, and in [favor] of Cadwallader as Major General and [Capt. Grover] and C. O. Van Allen [sic] as Brigadier Generals.
WASHIGNTON, April 6.
The War Department has issued an order appointing D. C. McCallum military superintendent of railroads; Anson Slayer, military superintendent of all telegraphs in the U. S.; E. S. Sanford, military supervisor of telegraphic dispatches and army intelligence – all the foregoing with rank of Colonel in the volunteer service, and will be respected and obeyed accordingly.
Edmund Ellis, publisher of the Boone Co., Mo., Standard, was called before the military commissioners at Columbia, Mo., on a charge of publishing information for the benefit of the enemy, violating the laws of war, &c. The commissioners found him guilty, and sentenced him to be kept outside the lines of the State of Missouri during the war, and the press, types, &c., of the printing office to be confiscated to the use of the U. S. The Secretary of War has approved the sentence, and issued an order that this form of procedure be adopted in like cases by commanders of all military departments.
A dispatch of April 5th, states that the gunboat Carondelet ran the gauntlet of Island No. 10, and is now available for Gen. Pope. She was fired at, but was not hit once.
There is authority from the war department for saying that the dispatches from Fort Monroe, dated 3 o’clock Sunday P. M., had been received. A reconnoisance had been made towards Yorktown.
The headquarters of our army are now about five miles from Yorktown. There had been some cannonading, but without injury on either side.
Tribune’s Special.
NEW YORK, April 7.
Wm. H. Russell, of the London Times, has engaged passage to England on the China on Wednesday next.
Assistant Sec’y Fox, Mr. Grimes of the Senate naval committee, and Mr. Sedgwick, Chairman of the House naval committee went to Fortress Monroe this, P. M.
Pleasure touring and sight seeing at Bull Run and in the vicinity of Manassas are not yet safe.
A private of the Lincoln cavalry is said to have been shot dead yesterday upon the former field, and one of the Harris cavalry was shot at long rifle range from the cover of a wood two miles from the Junction.
Soon after the publication of Mr. Montgomery Blair’s letter to Gen. Fremont, in which the writer criticized somewhat freely the President, the Postmaster General tendered his resignation, but Mr. Lincoln refused to receive it, and it is said that the relations between this Cabinet Minister and the President were never more kindly than at the present.
Special Dispatch to the Herald.
It has been ascertained that the rebel leaders are grievously disappointed and disconcerted by the change of programme of the army of the Potomac. They had [hourly] information of the preparation for the transportation of Gen. McClellan’s Army, and supposing that the whole army of the Potomac was to be withdrawn from this vicinity, had arranged a programme, for the bold dash across the Potomac above Washington and a foray upon the Capital through Maryland. Gen. Jackson’s command was to lead this enterprise, and to be supported by Smith and Johnston’s forces. It was not expected that the rebel sympathizers in Maryland would raise the standard of revolt there and aid the execution of the project by the destruction of railroads and bridges, and the isolation of Washington from reinforcements of Union troops. The rebel leaders reckoned without their host, and were taken by surprise on finding Gen. Shields when the attempt was made to execute the first part of their programme. – The repulse of Jackson, and the formation of two new departments in Virginia, under command of Gens. Banks and McDowell, convinced them that no vulnerable point has been left unprotected.
The Maryland sympathizers, who were emboldened to insolence at the prospect of this bold feat of the rebel army, have become disheartened, and are leaving by scores. Numbers have been arrested in the attempt to escape south, and others who were known to have organized for the occasion are seeking avenues southward in large parties.
WASHINGTON, April 7.
The mails for California, Oregon and Washington Territory are now transported overland from St. Joseph, Mo. – to which place correspondence can be sent from any post office.
A telegraph dispatch was received in this city yesterday, announcing that General Mitchell with the forces under his command, had reached Shelbyville, Tenn., and had been received with great enthusiasm by the inhabitants.
The following in regard to the Merrimac has been received at the navy department. When she ran for Norfolk on Sunday, 9th March, in the evening, she had several feet of water in her hold. One shot from the Cumberland riddled her, and one shot from the Monitor, through her port, dismounted two guns.
The Monitor put a ball through the boiler of the Patrick Henry, which killed two men and scalded others.
The steamer Freeborn has arrived up from Liverpool Point, bringing some additional particulars of the skirmish at Stafford C. H.
Gen. Sickles’ troops captured some 40 horses belonging to the enemy’s cavalry and a number of small arms and mails in the Stafford Post Office, in which are many letters, some of which will probably be of importance to the government. Six prisoners were also taken, who were brought up on the Freeborn and sent to the old capital prison.
As the crew of the Freeborn, were getting off the horses and other property captured, the rebels opened a heavy fire upon them from a thicket, but on the Freeborn returning the compliment with a shrapnel, the enemy hastily disappeared.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 8, 1862, p. 1
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