the capacity of a supernumerary will, under any circumstances, be permitted to receive pay and allowances from the government, and Paymasters, making payment to such supernumeraries, will be held individually accountable for amounts so paid. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: General Orders, No. 127. WAR DEP'T, Adjutant GenERAL'S OFFICE, The Army will learn with as much regret as the Secretary of War feels in announcing it, the death of the late Paymaster General, Colonel B. F. LARNED, who, after a long and painful illness, departed this life on the afternoon of the 6th instant, at his residence in this city. One of the veterans of our last war with Great Britain, Colonel LARNED entered the army as Ensign of the 21st Infantry, on the 1st of October, 1813— served with distinction through the War, and was Brevetted Captain for gallant conduct in the defence of Fort Erie, where he commanded a company. Retained as Paymaster of the 5th Infantry at the reduction of the Army in 1815, he was made Deputy Paymaster General during the Mexican war, and, on the demise of the lamented Towson, succeeded him as Paymaster General of the Army. From that date, until overtaken by his last illness-a period of eight years— he continued to discharge the onerous and responsible duties of his office, with intelligence, ability, and rare integrity. Already an old man when the rebellion broke out, had he simply consulted his own feelings, he would gladly have retired; but well knowing that his services were now become more indispensable than ever, and unappalled by the gigantic labor, before him, for eighteen months he resolutely persevered at his post, in spite of failing strength and the entreaties of friends that he would spare himself, until, after having thoroughly re-organized his vast Department, and just as he was beginning to see things working in it to his satisfaction, his overtasked powers gave way, and, sacrificed to his sense of duty, the life which he had vowed to the service of his country, ebbed lingeringly and prematurely away. A man of the most genial disposition, attractive society and unsullied lifea sincere Christian above all-Colonel LARNED was deservedly respected and beloved by all who had the happiness of knowing him. May the Army, which has reason to be proud of such a son, never cease to imitate the virtues of which he was so worthy an example. The necessary arrangements for his funeral will be made by the Military Governor of the District. As an appropriate tribute of respect to his memory, there will be fired at every military post, on the day after the receipt of this order, nine minute guns, commencing at meridian. The national flag will be displayed at half staff from the same hour until sunset of the same day, and for thirty days the prescribed badge of mourning will be worn by the officers of the Army. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders,} WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, September 7, 1862. The following orders are published for the information and guidance of all No. concerned : WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., September 6, 1862. Ordered, That the Department of the Northwest, including the States of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, the Territories of Nebraska and Dacotah, with the troops raising and to be raised in that Department, be, and they are hereby, placed under the command of Major General JOHN POPE, who will proceed forthwith to his command, establishing his headquarters at St. Paul, MinEDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. nesota. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders,} No. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, September 12, 1862. I. The President directs that the First, Second, and Third Corps of the "Army of Virginia," announced in "General Orders," No. 103, be hereafter designated the First, Eleventh, and Twelfth. The several Army Corps will . now stand as follows: The First, Second, Third, and Fourth, as arranged in "General Orders,” No. 101, of March 13, 1862, from the Headquarters, Army of the Potomac. The Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth, as announced in "General Orders," No. 84, of July 22, 1862, from this office. The Tenth as announced in "General Orders," No. 123, of September 3, 1862, from this office. The Eleventh and Twelfth, the same as the First and Second Corps "Army of Virginia." II. By direction of the President Captain Lloyd Beall, 2d U. S. Infantry, is hereby dismissed the service. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 130. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I. The attention of all officers, and especially of commanders of Departments and Army Corps, is called to the absolute necessity of reducing the baggage trains of troops in the field. The mobility of our armies is destroyed by the vast trains which attend them, and which they are required to guard. This evil requires a prompt remedy. Officers will hereafter be allowed to carry into the field only the ordinary mess chest and a valise or carpet bag. No trunks or boxes will be permitted in the baggage trains. Privates frequently carry carpet bags and boxes in the regimental wagons. This must be immediately stopped. Inspectors, quartermasters, and wagonmasters will see that such articles are ejected from the wagons and cars wherever found; and regimental and company officers who permit these abuses will be reported, through the proper channels, for dismissal from the service. Commanders of Departments and Army Corps will direct frequent inspections to be made of baggage trains, and especially of officers' baggage, and see that this order is strictly enforced in their respective commands. II.—Another cause of the increase of trains is the carrying of sutlers' goods in regimental or quartermaster wagons, under the guise of quartermaster and commissary stores. Hereafter, any officer or wagonmaster who permits this abuse will be duly punished, and the sutler whose goods are so carried will be placed without the lines of the army, and his appointment revoked. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL HALLECK: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 131. WAR DEP'T, Adjutant GeneRAL'S OFFICE, Washington, September 16, 1862. By direction of the President of the United States, the following officers are dismissed the service: First Lieutenant William J. Godwin, 10th U. S. Infantry, to take effect September 13, 1862. Surgeon Lyman H. Stone, U. S. Army. Additional Paymaster H. S. Gatsmer, U. S. Volunteers. Military Storekeeper Charles Weston, Ordnance Department. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 132. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I.-Ordered, That Medical Purveyors be required to give bond in the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. II. The following regulations have been adopted to govern the allowances to officers under sections 1 and 2, Act of July 17, 1862, "To define the pay and emoluments of certain officers of the Army:" 1. When forage in kind cannot be furnished by the proper department, officers entitled to forage may commute it for the number of horses specified in section 2, upon the certificate of the quartermaster, when there is one, or of the commanding officer, when there is no quartermaster, that forage in kind cannot be furnished. When the officer is on detached duty, his own certificate to the fact, with the additional statement that there is no commanding officer or quartermaster serving with him, will entitle him to the commutation. 2. Officers on leave of absence are not entitled to forage or to commutation therefor. 3. Officers of the army and of Volunteers detailed for duty in the Engineers or other branches of the staff, are not, as a matter of course, entitled to pay, emoluments, and allowances of cavalry officers. But, when ordered by the proper authority to be mounted, and when so mounted at their own expense, they are entitled. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders,} No. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I.-So much of "General Orders," No. 125, as directs the dismissal of Lieutenant John Simpson, 99th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and Lieutenant S. L. Christie, Aide-de-Camp, has, by direction of the President been revoked. II.-Satisfactory evidence having been submitted that Captain Sol. J. Houck, 71st Ohio Volunteers, did not advise the surrender of Clarksville, Tennessee, and that he signed the card justifying the surrender under a misapprehension of its contents, the President directs that so much of "General Orders," No. 120, as cashiers him, be revoked. III.-Additional Paymaster James Mann, is dismissed the service, by direction of the President, for absence without leave and neglect of duty. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders, No. 134. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, September 19, 1862. The prisoners of war, except commissioned officers, who were delivered to Lieutenant Colonel Ludlow, Aide-de-Camp to Major General Dix, at Aiken's Landing, James river, Virginia, on the 14th and 15th instant, are declared to be exchanged. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. General Orders,} No. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, September 19, 1862. I. By direction of the President the States of Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and the bordering Indian Territory, will constitute the Department of the Missouri, and will be commanded by Major General S. R. CURTIS; headquarters at St. Louis. Alton, Illinois, is attached to the Department of the Missouri. II.-Western Virginia is attached to the Department of the Ohio; Headquarters at Cincinnati. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. General Orders,} No. 136. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, September 22, 1862. I. So much of "General Orders,” No. 125, as directs the dismissal of Captain J. V. Patton, 73d Ohio Volunteers, has, by direction of the President, been revoked. II. By direction of the President, Captain Benjamin P. Walker, Commissary of Subsistence, Volunteer Service, is hereby dismissed, for habitual absence from his post, and gross and willful neglect of duty. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. General Orders,} No. WAR DEP'T, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, I. By direction of the President, Captain S. M. Preston, Assistant Adjutant General U. S. Volunteers, is dismissed from the service of the United States, for having offered to discharge a soldier and collect his pay for a per centage on the amount. II. So much of "General Orders" No. 125, as dismisses Captain John J. Sperry, 106th Pennsylvania Volunteers, is, by direction of the President, revoked. The following Proclamation by the President is published for the information and government of the Army and all concerned: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States, and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed. That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all Slave States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the governments existing there, will be continued. That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States, and parts of States, if any, in which the people |