drainage and ventilation, in the quality or pre- I
paration of food, uncleanliness in tents and
quarters, insufficiency of clothing, the situation
of camps with reference to malaria, &c., &c.,
&c.

Six inspectors are now employed. At least four times as many are required. Their travelling and other expenses are estimated at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum.

will contribute to the relief, health, and comfort of the soldier in the field.

In connection herewith, I beg leave also to call your attention to the communication addressed to me by the Assistant Surgeon-General of the Confederate States, hereto appended. I cannot too earnestly urge upon you the importance of an early and generous response to the call thus made upon you. Let an agent be appointed in each county to receive and forward all articles to such points as the necessities of our troops may require.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my

2. Inspectors are also needed at the general hospitals, to see that the volunteers are provided with every care and comfort that can be obtained. The Commission also supplies these hospitals (to the extent of its means) with sun-hand and caused the great seal of the State to dry medical and surgical appliances, extra hos- be affixed, at the department in Nashville on pital clothing and bedding, and various other this 23d day of August, A. D. 1861. articles not issued by Government, and employs [L. S.] additional nurses and dressers.

3. The Commission prints and circulates among the volunteers (both officers and men) rules to be observed in regard to sanitary points, and advice as to the means of preserving health while in the field.

It is in the daily receipt of stores of various kinds, clothing, bedding, &c., which are distributed from its office in Washington.

Funds are required to meet the expenses of their transportation and storage.

For means to carry out these objects the Commission relies wholly on the liberality of the community. It does not apply to Government for funds, because its moral influence and power of usefulness would be destroyed by any real or supposed connection with political agencies; and also, because it could not expect to obtain from Government means sufficient for the work it has undertaken.

GEO. T. STRONG, Treasurer. 68 Wall Street, New York, August 23, 1861.

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GOVERNOR HARRIS' APPEAL.

Isham G. Harris, Governor of the State of Tennessee, to the patriotic Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of said State:

By the Governor :

ISHAM G. HARRIS.

J. E. R. RAY, Secretary of State.

Doc. 4.

GEN. WOOL'S ORDER.

HEAD-QUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA, &c., FORTRESS MONROE, August 24, 1861. General Orders, No. 4:

I. Many of the inhabitants of Elizabeth City and County complain of depredations having been committed on their property by soldiers stationed in their neighborhoods. All such persons, or others residing within the pale of this command, engaged in farming, cultivating their fields and gardens, tending their flocks or herds, or bringing provisions or supplies to the several camps or posts for the use of the troops, and pursuing peacefully their ordinary avocations, and who do not communicate directly or indirectly with the rebel forces, and who may comply with such orders as may be given them, will be protected in their persons and property. Any violation of this order by either officers or soldiers, or any parties interested, will be severely punished, and those who force a safeguard, on conviction before a court-martial, will be punished with death.

lows:

56. Whoever shall relieve the enemy with money, victuals, or ammunition, or shall knowingly harbor or protect an enemy, shall suffer death or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a court-martial.

II. The attention of all who are embraced in this order, and of all citizens whose business brings them within the limits of this command, Whereas, The approach of winter admon- whether by land or water, is called to the fiftyishes us of the necessity and importance of pro-sixth and fifty-seventh Articles of War, as folviding warm and comfortable clothing, blankets, &c., for our large and gallant army of patriotic volunteers, who are nobly battling for the maintenance of our rights and independence, and the defence of our altars and our homes; and a state of war renders it difficult, if not impossible, to draw our usual supply of winter clothing from other markets, we must therefore rely upon our own resources, which are doubtless ample, when fully developed, and which, it is confidently believed you have both the will and the power to develop.

I, therefore, appeal to the patriotic women of Tennessee to set about the work at once, of manufacturing all the jeans, linseys, socks, blankets, comforts, and all other articles which

57. Whoever shall be convicted of holding correspondence with or giving intelligence to the enemy, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a court-martial.

III. No officers, soldiers, or citizens will be allowed to go out or come in, by the pickets, without orders from these head-quarters. Persons arriving at the pickets and wishing to come inside, will be detained until their busi

ness can be made known to these head-quar- | by a crowd of more than one hundred armed ters, and proper permission given. This does men, who had appeared upon the road out of not apply to persons bringing provisions, who are already provided with properly-signed passes.

IV. No citizen will be allowed to pass beyond Mill Creek Bridge, or to any of the camps, without a pass from these head-quarters, or from the provost-marshal of Fort Monroe.

V. The provost-marshals, commanding officers, and officers in charge of guards and pickets, are directed, as far as possible, to prevent any violation by officers, soldiers, or citizens, to arrest the offender and immediately report the circumstances of the case to these headquarters. By command of

C. C. CHURCHILL,

Major-General WOOL.

First Lieutenant Third Artillery, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. General Wool requests the Captain of the steamer Georgiana to make the contents of the above order known to the persons employed on his ship. By order of General WOOL. C. C. CHURCHILL, A. A. A.-G.

Doc. 5.
LETTER FROM GOV. THOMAS OF MD.
Ex-GOVERNOR THOMAS, of Maryland, gives
the following account of the attempt of the
Maryland rebels upon his life:

the bushes near the spot where the ties had been placed on the road. We all escaped uninjured, although twenty or thirty shots were fired before we were out of reach. There were no persons on the train as passengers, but an old black man, two aged white men, and myself. This whole nefarious affair was, I have no doubt, contrived against my liberty, if not my life, by spies resident in this place, who notified their allies in Virginia that I was to pass on the railroad this morning. And nothing saved me but that coolness and presence of mind which prompted me, under Providence, to see and guard against the danger prompt as electricity.

Please hurry on the arming of our volunteers in Frederick, as I am doing here, that we may be ready for spies within and traitors without our State. Yours, respectfully, FRANCIS THOMAS.

Doc. 6.

THE RIOTS IN CONNECTICUT.

NEW HAVEN "PALLADIUM" ACCOUNT. LAST Saturday evening, August 24, the telegraph brought word that the office of the Bridgeport Farmer had been "cleaned out by a mob, that a "peace" flag had been taken down in Stepney, and that two or three men CUMBERLAND, August 24, 1861. had been killed at New Fairfield. In conseDEAR SIR: As an incident of to-day may be quence of these reports our reporter proceeded misrepresented, I will communicate to you the to Bridgeport on Sunday, to gain such facts as precise facts of the case. I left here this morn- possible regarding the deplorable events. As ing at half-past six, for my home, in the rail-nearly as he could learn, the following is a road train. Ten miles from this place the cow- brief outline of the proceedings at Stepney and catcher of the engine ran against a pile of eight Bridgeport: railroad ties, which had been carefully placed Notice had been given in Bridgeport that a across the track. Fortunately six of the ties "peace" flag was to be raised at Stepney, ten were scattered right and left of the road, and miles north of that place, on Saturday afterthe train continued to run for about five hun- noon, when a "peace meeting" would be addred yards, when it was stopped by the resist-dressed by Schnable of Pennsylvania, a wellance to its progress produced by the two re-known stump speaker in the last presidential maining ties, which were so situated that one end rested on the engine and the other ploughed along the road. As soon as the cars halted, the engineer and fireman leaped off, and soon removed the two ties, while the baggage-master was out to see what had occurred to arrest our progress. All this happened in almost an instant, and before I had paid much attention to what was occurring.

At that moment the baggage-master exclaimed, "There is an armed man on the road behind us." This caused the thought to flash across my mind that this accident had been contrived, and I called the conductor to the platform on which I stood, and directed him to put the cars in motion by pulling the bell-rope. The conductor seemed at a loss to know how to act, but obeyed my directions, and as soon as the train began to move we were fired upon

campaign. E. B. Goodsell, ex-postmaster of Bridgeport, and G. W. Belden, lawyer, of Newtown, were also advertised to speak. A large number of the citizens of Bridgeport, including many of the returned volunteers, decided to take part in the meeting, and for that purpose procured five or six large omnibuses, besides other vehicles, and proceeded to Stepney, where they found a pole with a large "white rag' floating at its top, and a platform for speaking. The crowd immediately surrounded the pole, and one of the volunteers climbed it to let loose the secession banner, that the Stars and Stripes might be run up instead. Our reporter was informed by several eye-witnesses that, as the Unionist went up the pole, one "General" Curtis levelled a cocked pistol at him, and another unknown person a gun. Both these men were knocked down and their weap

try into the city being greeted with loud and
continued cheering. [We learn of only two
persons at all seriously hurt at Stepney; we
were unable to obtain their names. Both were
of the tory party, and both were carried from
the ground by their friends. One was struck a
very heavy blow upon the head with a club by
a Union man whom he was pursuing, and who
retreated backward some distance before he
struck; the other attacked the rear wagon of
the homeward procession, when he was kicked
in the face by a man in the wagon, and when
last seen was apparently insensible.]
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE "FARMER" OFFICE.

ons taken from them. Quite a "scrimmage" | trailing in the dust behind them, and their enfollowed, and seven or eight more pistols were taken from secessionists who drew them, but not a shot was fired on either side during the affray. The "peace" flag having been hauled down, the glorious old Stars and Stripes were run up amid loud cheering. Calls were then made for the speaker, but none appearing, P. T. Barnum, Esq., mounted the platform. Pistols were again drawn by the secessionists, and threats were made that if Mr. Barnum spoke he should be shot. He was immediately surrounded by a number of returned volunteers, who with revolvers in hand, promised death to any one who should fire at the platform. Mr. Barnum then called for the speakers advertised, promising them in the name of the Union men a fair hearing, provided they uttered nothing treasonable. They were not forthcoming; but, in answer to some remark of Mr. Barnum's, Schnable, who was standing unmolested in the crowd, cried out, "That's a lie," when he was somewhat severely kicked, (so our informant stated,) and disappeared for the day.

A regular Union meeting was then organized, with Elias Howe, Jr., in the chair, and P. T. Barnum, Secretary. The following resolutions were adopted, the "Star-Spangled Banner" was sung, and the meeting adjourned:

RESOLUTIONS.

Whereas, We claim for ourselves, in common with our loyal fellow-citizens, to hold sacred not only the liberties of our country, but the peace of our glorious old Commonwealth of Connecticut;

Resolved, That as good citizens, and a law and order loving people, we deprecate and utterly condemn all those public exhibitions, falsely called peace meetings, but really intended as secession demonstrations, as insulting to the honor of our glorious flag, disgraceful to our country; and

Resolved, That we will discountenance all attempts of traitors, open or disguised, to repeat the said public demonstrations, and call upon all Union and liberty-loving men to place the ban of public scorn and reprobation upon all concerned therein.

Resolved, That in the present crisis of the country there are but two parties-Loyal men and Traitors-those who sustain the Union, the Constitution, and the National Government, and those who oppose, either in open rebellion the enforcement of the laws, or aid and assist the enemies of the country by sympathizing with secession, or through falsely called peace meetings.

Resolved, That, until this war is ended in the complete suppression of this wicked rebellion, we will stand by the old Stars and Stripes; and hereby pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to defend it to the last.

The return of the Bridgeport party was much like a triumphant procession of a somewhat disorderly character, the fallen secession banner

Upon the arrival home of the Bridgeport party, with the white flag as a trophy, an excited concourse of people surrounded them in front of the Sterling House, on Main street, rending the air with shouts, and apparently ready for any desperate enterprise. Directly in front of the hotel, Wall street runs to Water street, and at the corner of Water and Wall streets stands the four-story brick building owned by Mrs. Ferris Hurd, and occupied (above the lower story) by Pomeroy & Morse, proprietors of the Advertiser and Farmer newspaper, and of quite an extensive job printing establishment. It was but a few steps, therefore, that the mob were obliged to take when voices in the crowd shouted "To the Farmer office."

A body of four or five hundred persons, followed by thousands of spectators, immediately moved down the street. The affair was, apparently, a deliberate one, there being little of the hurry that would be ordinarily manifested on such an occasion. It was known that the office had been guarded for several nights and days, and, as it was supposed that armed men were at the time within the building, a vigorous resistance was anticipated. It was even believed that preparations had been made some time before for throwing a flood of hot water from the boiler, situated in the second story, upon any body of men who might assail the building, but no one was found within to resist the rioters after they had forced the doors.

Once within the walls, a scene of destruction occurred that almost passes description. The invaders, maddened by the obstinately and unnaturally disloyal and traitorous course of the doomed sheet, left nothing whole that could be disposed of. Type, job presses, ink, paper, books, all the paraphernalia of a printing estab lishment were thrown into the street, and two presses, too large to get through the windows, were broken in pieces by aid of a large and heavy lever. The crowd even ascended to the roof, and tore off such of the signs as they could reach. The only arms found in the building were a loaded rifle and some two hundred and fifty heavy clubs, turned from shovel handles and fitted with a cord to go about the wrist. A room was found containing a number of "bunks" arranged like berths, one above the

other, which contained bedding, and had evidently been recently used. The appearance of the building on Sunday morning, windowless and rifled, was dreary in the extreme.

The active riot ended on Saturday night, but the streets were thronged on Sunday by excited groups of men, and Nathan F. Morse, the junior partner in the concern, was vigorously groaned when he appeared on the street.

FIGHT AT NEW-FAIRFIELD.

On Saturday afternoon, an even more fearful riot than those at Stepney and Bridgeport was under way. It seems that a number of tories at New-Fairfield had a white flag up, which certain Union men in Danbury determined to take down. Some thirty or forty of them, therefore, repaired to the location of the obnoxious rag, taking an American flag with them to put in its place. They surrounded the pole for this purpose, when they were attacked by a party of tories, some two hundred strong, and a general fight ensued, the weapons being spades, axes, and clubs. Being soon overpowered, though not till after a hard fight, the Union men fled, carrying away with them Andrew Knox, John Allen, and Thomas Kinney, of their party, all very badly cut about the head with spades. The first blow struck was by a "peace man, who inflicted a fearful blow upon one of the above. Of the tories two were probably fatally wounded, (one report, and apparently authenticated, states that the first one named is dead, and the other beyond recovery,) named Abraham Wildman and Gorham. The Union men of course returned home to Danbury, and the "peace" flag still waves.

THE HATTERAS EXPEDITION.
REPORT OF GEN. BUTLER.

U. S. FLAG SHIP MINNESOTA,
August 30, 1861.

Major-General John E. Wool, Commanding
Department of Virginia:

barked on the transport steamers Adelaide and
GENERAL: Agreeably to your orders, I em-
George Peabody, five hundred of the Twentieth
regiment New York Volunteers, Col. Weber
commanding; two hundred and twenty of the
Ninth regiment New York Volunteers, Col.
Hawkins commanding; one hundred of the
Uhion Coast Guard, Capt. Nixon commanding;
sixty of the Second United States Artillery,
Lieut. Larned commanding, as a force to oper-
ate in conjunction with the fleet, under com-
mand of Flag Officer Stringham, against the
rebel forts at Hatteras Inlet.

o'clock P. M. We left Fortress Monroe on Monday, at one The last ship of our fleet arrived It may be mentioned as of interest, in connec- afternoon. Such preparations as were possible off Hatteras Inlet about four o'clock Tuesday tion with the trouble in Fairfield County, that for the landing were made in the evening, and a "peace" flag was taken down in Easton on Thursday of last week, and brought into Bridge-made for an attack upon the forts by the fleet, at daylight next morning dispositions were port; and that preparations were making in and for the landing of the troops. Bridgeport on Sunday, to proceed to Hatterstown (in Monroe) to-day, (Monday,) to take down another.

Doc. 7.

GOV. GAMBLE'S PROCLAMATION. THE power of the civil authorities being insufficient to protect the lives and property of citizens of the State, I, Hamilton R. Gamble, Governor of the State of Missouri, do hereby call into the active service of the State, fortytwo thousand men of the militia of the State, assigning six thousand as the quota for each military district, which is the same as a Congressional district. The force thus called into service, will be, as far as possible, a volunteer force, and will consist of ten thousand cavalry and thirty-two thousand infantry. If the number volunteering should exceed this requisition, the excess will be held as a reserve corps. If there should be a deficiency, it may become necessary to resort to draft. The Adjutant

west gales, a heavy surf was breaking on the Owing to the previous prevalence of southbeach. Every effort was made to land the troops, and after about three hundred and fifteen were landed, including fifty-five marines from the fleet and the regulars, both the iron boats upon which we depended were swamped in the surf, and both flat-boats stove, and a brave attempt made by Lieut. Crosby, of the U. S. Army, (serving with the army as postcaptain at Fortress Monroe,) who had volunteered to come down with the steam-tug Fanny, belonging to the army, to land in a boat from the war steamer Pawnee, resulted in the beaching of the boat, so that she could not be got off. It was impracticable to land more troops because of the rising wind and sea. ly, a twelve-pound rifled boat gun, loaned us Fortunateby the flag-ship, and a twelve-pound howitzer were landed, the last slightly damaged. Our landing was completely covered by the shells of the Monticello and the Harriet Lane. I was on board the Harriet Lane, directing the disembarkation of the troops, by means of signals,

the beach, and signal was made from the flag ship to cease firing. As the "Fanny " rounded in over the bar, the rebel steamer "Winslow" went up the channel, having a large number of secession troops on board, which she had not landed. We threw a shot at her from the No" Fanny," but she proved to be out of range. I then sent Lieut. Crosby on shore to demand the meaning of the white flag. The boat soon returned, bringing Mr. Weigel, with the following written communication from Samuel Barron, late captain in the United States Navy: Memorandum.