Second. The minimum standard of height for | one thousand two hundred strong, drove him recruits is fixed at five feet three inches, instead back, killed forty, took seventeen prisoners, of five feet four and a half inches, as heretofore fifteen horses, and returned at two o'clock this established. Third. Every officer of the army will immediately report his address to this office, and thereafter every change of address, no matter whether permanent or temporary. Fourth. All volunteers in the service of the United States will be mustered for payment at the end of the present month, and at the end of every two months thereafter. One copy of the pay roll will be forwarded to the adjutantgeneral, two given to the paymaster of the district, and the fourth one filed with the records of the company or detachment mustered. By order. L. THOMAS, Adjutant-General. Doc. 194. ZOLLICOFFER'S ORDER, NO. 3. BRIGADE HEAD-QUARTERS, morning to Bird's Point, with a loss of one killed Our forces under Gen. Prentiss are operating ST. LOUIS "DEMOCRAT" ACCOUNT. The rear-guard of the victorious Twentysecond Illinois have just returned to camp, under command of Capt. Abbott. We now foot up our entire loss: killed--Capt. William Sharp, Company A. Wounded-LieutenantColonel Ransom, slightly, in the shoulder; Capt. Johnson, slightly, in the leg; Private Schumacher, severely, in the arm; and five others of Company A, slightly wounded. The stroke was a bold and decisive one. Information having been received on Mon THE General in command, gratified at the preservation of peace and the rapidly increasing evidences of confidence and good-will among the people of East Tennessee, strictly day morning that the enemy were assembled enjoins upon those under his command the in considerable force at Charleston, Capt. Abmost scrupulous regard for the personal and bott and a portion of his command were sent property rights of all the inhabitants. No act out in the fore part of the day for the purpose or word will be tolerated calculated to alarm of reconnoissance, and also to prevent the enor irritate those who, though heretofore advo-emy from burning the trestle-work on the railcating the National Union, now acquiesce in road near Charleston. He encamped within the decision of the State and submit to the one mile and a half of the town, and passed authority of the Government of the Confederate States. Such of the people as have fled from their homes, under an apprehension of danger, will be encouraged to return, with an assurance of entire security to all who wish to pursue their respective avocations peacefully at home. The Confederate Government seeks not to enter into questions of difference of political opinions heretofore existing, but to maintain the independence it has asserted by the united feeling and action of all its citizens. Colonels of regiments and captains of companies will be held responsible for a strict observance of this injunction within their respective commands, and each officer commanding a separate detachment or post will have this order read to his command. By order of Brig.-Gen. F. K. Zollicoffer. Doc. 195. BATTLE OF CHARLESTON, MO. ST. LOUIS, August 20, 1861. To Colonel E. D. Townsend :- the day in observation and occasionally chasing the enemy's cavalry, who were scouting about the country in squads. They succeeded in informing themselves as to his strength, and returned to their camp, evidently contemplating an easy time in bagging him when night train arrived with six companies, about three should come. About nine o'clock at night the hundred men, under command of Col. Dougherty. He was informed by Capt. Abbott that the enemy's strength at Charleston was 1,000, and also that he had received reliable information that they would make an attack upon him that night. "We are going to take Charleston to-night," replied Col. Dougherty. "You stay here, and engage the enemy until we come back-we shall not be gone long. Battalion, right face, forward, march!" And on we went, Company E ahead, Company A next, and so on. Double quick" was given, and the two front companies only responded. Arriving at the suburbs of the town, we ascertained for the first time that the four rear companies were detached. A few minutes delay and we were ordered forward without them. The pickets fired upon us, and we followed them in. We dispersed the cavalry, capturing twenty-one horses and rushed on, the bullets whistling round our heads like hail, but we shooting down and dispersing the enemy. We charged furiously on, carrying every thing before us. linois Volunteers, and Lieut.-Col. Ransom of the Eleventh Illinois Volunteers, started on the Cairo and Fulton Railroad with two full companies, A and B, of the Illinois Twenty-second, and some thirty or forty of the anxious boys for fight, who stole away from their companies to share what might be coming, for Charleston. Col. Dougherty, Capt. McAdams, and Capt. | Dougherty of the Twenty-second regiment IlJohnson as leaders, companies A and E, one hundred and twenty-five men, alone engaged the whole force. At the Court House the enemy made a stand. Here Lieut.-Col. Ransom, of the Eleventh Illinois, who had volunteered to accompany the expedition, inquired of Col. Dougherty what should be done next. "Take the Court House or bust," was the emphatic answer-and we did take it. The volleys from the windows passed over our heads, or fell at our feet. Those that did not escape from the windows were killed or taken prisoners, and when we emerged again from the house the enemy were to be seen fleeing in the dim distance. We leisurely retraced our steps. At the railroad track we met the detached portion of our regiment, under Lieut.-Col. Hart. They had passed straight forward without turning off, and were just returning to our assistance. They had fallen in with the flying enemy, and killed sixteen of them. All returned to Capt. Abbott's encampment with twenty-one horses and eighteen prisoners, having been less than two hours absent. Here Capt. Jackson was ordered to remain with his command, and the rest of us seated ourselves upon the cars, and moved proudly back to Bird's Point, which we reached in good time, and without accident. We killed about sixty or seventy of the enemy, and probably wounded twice that number. There were some fearful contests-some hand-to-hand fighting. The enemy were impaled upon the bayonet, pulled from their horses, knocked over with the butt of the gun or of the pistol, and so bold and impetuous was every movement that the enemy fled in confusion. Several guns, revolvers, and bowie knives were taken. Ábout two hours after we left our cavalry entered the town, but no enemy was to be seen. They, however, succeeded before morning in capturing a camp of cavalry above town, and brought into camp forty horses and thirty-three prisoners. Gen. Pillow is now in our neighborhood, and a lieutenant among the captured says he will call on us with twenty thousand men in a few days! Another of our prisoners says that he made a speech to them yesterday, and promised them that they should take breakfast in Cairo this morning! The prisoners look bad. About one-third of them appear intelligent-the balance have about half sense, and have certainly been induced to take up arms against their Government by the misrepresentations of the designing. N. Y. "TRIBUNE" ACCOUNT. CAIRO, Ill., August 20, 1861. Times are somewhat exciting here to-day. Our boys are at work, and were well paid for their labor last night and to-day. It has been known for several days that the secessionists were occupying Charleston, Missouri. Yesterday, about four o'clock P. M., Colonel The train carried our little band to the destroyed bridge, about four miles from Charleston. Here they were reinforced by two companies of the Illinois Eighteenth regiment, and commenced their march at double-quick time, which was kept up until they arrived in sight of the camp of the enemy. They were encamped in the Court House and a church and other buildings; the secession pickets gave the alarm. Col. Dougherty ordered a charge, and a bloody fight quickly followed, which resulted in a loss of forty killed and fifty or sixty wounded on the side of the rebels, and one killed and several wounded of the Union forces. A total rout of the rebels took place, and Col. Dougherty returned to Bird's Point this morning with fifteen prisoners and eighteen horses and many other trophies of war. The two companies of the Illinois Twelfth failed to take the right road, and were not in the fight. The Union forces engaged did not exceed two hundred. The rebel prisoners represent seven different companies, and from the report they give of their respective companies, show their forces to have exceeded five hundred; some of them say they were two thousand strong, but this is thought exaggeration. They were badly uniformed, and were armed with muskets, shot-guns, rifles, and Arkansas tooth-picks, with a few revolvers. I omitted to state that Lieut.-Col. Ransom was among the wounded on the Union side. He was urging his men to the charge, when a man rode up and called out: "What do you mean? you are killing our own men." Ransom replied: "I know what I am doing; who are you?" The reply was, "I am for Jeff. Davis." Ransom replied: "You are the man I am after," and instantly two pistols were drawn, rebel fired first, taking effect in Col. Ransom's arm, near the shoulder. The Colonel fired, killing his antagonist instantly. The Capt. Noleman of the Centralia Dragoons continued the chase, and returned this evening with forty prisoners and as many horses. These were rebel dragoons. We took them without the loss of blood. Capt. Noleman had only about forty men under his command at the time. The victory is complete. The prisoners were brought to this place this evening, and sent to the guard-house by Col. Oglesby, who commands at this point in the absence of Gen. Prentiss. We have here about sixty prisoners and a greater number of horses. The horses are said to be good ones, but the prisoners, from their looks, will have more to eat than they have been accustomed to, but they will have to perform labor on the breastworks, which will be a wholesome exercise, to which, I have not the slightest doubt, they are strangers. | mander of the world, to whom belongeth powSince Gen. Fremont has assumed command in er, which none is able to withstand, we comthe West, every thing moves like a nation in- mend to Thy Gracious protection the persons tending to sustain itself. He has sent hither large numbers of horses, mules, and wagons; cannon and ammunition are abundant, and, in fact, there is confidence and energy in every department. nation. That this great fast may be duly observed by the churches in this diocese, I hereby set out and appoint the accompanying special service to be said on Thursday, Sept. 26; and I earnestly exhort the good people of my spiritual jurisdiction, that, in word and deed, they humble themselves before the Lord God of Sabaoth, and entreat Him, for His dear Son's sake, that He will look mercifully upon our land afflicted with civil war; that He will pardon our manifold transgressions; that He will guide and strengthen our rulers; that He will protect and bless our armies in their efforts to reestablish law, order, and peace; and that in His time and way, He will graciously restore to our beloved country the spirit and bond of brotherhood. Affectionately, your Bishop, WILLIAM HENRY ODENHEIMER. After the collect for Ash-Wednesday, shall be said the following prayer: "O most mighty God, terrible in Thy judgments, and wonderful in Thy doings toward the children of men, we, Thy sinful creatures here assembled before Thee, do, in behalf of all the people of this land, humbly confess our sins, personal and National, which have brought down Thy heavy judgments upon us. of Thy servants, for whom our prayers are especially desired and who are enlisted in the Army of the United States, and the whole army in which they serve. Let Thy fatherly haud, we beseech Thee, be over them. Let Thy Holy Spirit ever be with them, and shield them by thy merciful Providence in the discharge of their duty, that, passing through all temptations and perils, they may return to their homes to enjoy the fruit of their toils, in the restoration of peace and the establishment of order and tranquillity amongst us. Protect and bless, O Lord, all the members of their households; assuage their fears, encourage their hearts, and comfort them with Thy grace and heavenly benediction under any afflictions Thou shalt see fit to lay upon them. And grant that those Thy servants, and all of us, being duly impressed with a sense of thy goodness toward us in the past, may have cause to bless Thy name for the continuance of Thy mercies to us, and may ever express our thankfulness by a holy trust in Thee and obedience to Thy laws, through Jesus Christ our Lord." Doc. 197. GEN. HURLBURT'S ORDER. To the Mayor and Authorities of the City of liver up to the military authorities of this Bri- If the guilty persons are not delivered up as required, and within the time herein specified, the whole Brigade will be moved into your county, and contributions levied to the amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) on Marion County, and five thousand dollars ($5,000) on the City of Palmyra. By order of Brig.-Gen. S. A. HURLBURT. Under directions of Brig.-Gen. JOHN POPE, commanding in North Missouri. S. M. PRESTON, Assistant Adjutant-General. Doo. 1971. TREASON OF THE NEWSPAPERS. GENERAL W. S. ROSECRANS, commanding the "We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against Thee. Do not abhor us, for Thy Name's sake; but be merciful unto Thy people, whom thou hast redeemed, and be not angry with us forever. Pardon us, O gracious God, for Thy mercy's sake, and restore order, tran-Army of Occupation in Western Virginia, in a quillity, and fraternal unity amongst us, through the merits of Thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." General Order, bearing date the 20th inst., "invites the aid of the press to prevent the enemy from learning through it the position, After the General Thanksgiving, shall be strength, and movements of the troops under said the following Prayer: his command." "Such information," he con"Oh, Almighty God, the Sovereign Com-tinues, "is of the greatest service to the ene my, and deprives the commander of our own forces of all the advantages which arise from the secrecy of concentration and surprise-advantages which are constantly enjoyed by the rebels, whose press never appears to BETRAY them." in print, semi-editorially and semi-officially, without any suspicion of breach of confidence in the relator. These things are profitable to the newspapers that have embarked in it. It is enterprise; and enterprise always meets with reward. The people want news more than they want victories. They can excuse, nay, reward, the newspaper which betrays as a matter of business, while they have nothing but bottled up vengeance for one that happens to differ from them in matter of opinion. We confess that we have sometimes lost all solicitude as to the fate or existence of petty spies and informers, retail dealers in smuggled butter, revolvers, percus General Rosecrans is an humorist. He invites the tongue of rumor, the trumpet of common fame, the very embodiment of gossip, the thing which is nothing if not clamorous, to aid him in holding its peace--invites it. Why does he not go forth into some of the valleys in the vicinity of his camp, and invite the echoes that inhabit the neighboring hill-sides to be kind enough to intermit their performances? We can imagine them replying to his solicitations:sion, and quinine, while this huge system of If we cease to tattle, what are we? Who will know that we exist? How shall we know it ourselves? How can we? Are we not vox preterea nihil? Take away the voice, and what remains? giving aid and comfort to the enemy has been going on, not only unrebuked, but encouraged and applauded. General Rosecrans closes his order with a pregnant fact. They do these things differently in secessiondom. The rebels know betterhave more conscience-more love for the cause in which they are engaged. Their press "never appears to betray them." BETRAY is the word. General Rosecrans puts it upon the right ground. Ile calls treason, treason. It is treason on the part of the Government in permitting it-on the part of every officer that tolerates it-on the part of every newspaper that embarks in it. Fifty millions of dollars would not compensate for the loss that has accrued from this practice, to-day. It has retarded the progress of our arms, given daily encouragement to the insurrection, constantly served to inform the rebel leaders where to strike and when to retreat, and has, in the simple fact that it has been permitted, done more to discourage friends of the Government, and throw a doubt upon its ability to come up to the mighty task that lies before it, than any other circumstance that can be mentioned. General Rosecrans invites. It is time he did something more than invite. He and his superiors and predecessors should have commanded, and enforced obedience, from the day that active operations began. Except the rebellion itself, there has been no engine of mischief to our cause, that will bear a comparison to the newspaper press. We have put ourselves to trouble about spies, arrested men that looked suspicious, and let them go again; had visions of individuals seeking the rebel posts with letters written in cipher in their pockets, or women with plans of camps hidden away in their stockings, while a thousand newspapers from Boston to St. Louis have been each doing the work of an hundred spies-furnishing daily to the enemy the latest possible information of every movement, the size and position of every regiment and detachment, and the actual or probable policy and designs of its commanding officers. It could not but have been apparent to every man of military capacity that the war could not be carried on in the face of this minute and persistent espionage; that it was the occasion of perpetual loss and danger; that, in fact, it was placing not only each column, but the cause of the Government in daily jeopardy. What have the rebels wanted of spies, when they could find daily in the columns of a New A bill entitled an Act to increase the Corps of York, Philadelphia, or Cincinnati newspaper more reliable intelligence of the very things they wanted to know than hundreds of spies could collect and transmit? Yet these things have been tolerated; nay, they have been encouraged. Every officer from Commanding General to Corporal, has seemed to think it desirable to have the correspondent of a newspaper at his elbow, to sing his praises, put him right with the public, and be the convenient vehicle to transmit to the world a knowledge of his exploits. The very Commander-in-Chief of the army invites the editor of a New York journal to dinner, and develops to him the entire plan of a campaign, which, on the next day, makes its appearance 66 -Cincinnati Press. Doc. 198. INCREASING THE ARTILLERY CORPS. Artillery and for other purposes. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That there be added to the Corps of Artillery, Confederate States Army, one lieutenant-colonel and two majors, with the pay and allowances authorized by existing laws for their grades respectively. SEC. 2. That the President be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint, in addition to the storekeepers authorized by the fifth section of the Act of May sixteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, "for the establishment and organization of the army of the Confederate States," as many military storekeepers of ordnance, with the pay and allowances of a captain of infantry, as the safe keeping of the public property may require, not to exceed, in all, four storekeepers, | ity. Our brigade was encamped at Locust who shall, previous to entering on duty, give Lane, not less than five miles from the scene of bonds with good and sufficient security, in such action. SEC. 3. That the President be, and he is hereby authorized, whenever, in his judgment, the interests of the service may require it, and when officers of the army cannot be assigned to these duties, to appoint one or more superintendents of armories for the fabrication of small-arms, whose salary shall not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, with allowance for quarters and fuel, at the rate fixed for a major in the army. And that the President be also authorized to appoint two or more master armorers, with a salary not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum, with allowances of quarters and fuel at the rate fixed for a captain in the army. SEC. 4. That during the existing war, the President may, as commander-in-chief of the forces, appoint, at his discretion, for his personal staff, two aides-de-camp, with the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel of cavalry. SEC. 5. That hereafter there shall be allowed one additional sergeant in each company in the Confederate States, making in all five sergeants for each company, who shall receive the same pay and allowances as provided by existing laws for that grade. Doo. 199. SKIRMISH AT HAWK'S NEST, VA., A CORRESPONDENT of the Richmond Enquirer states the following in reference to this affair : Gentlemen: In your issue of to-day I note the subjoined Yankee telegraphic despatch : "CINCINNATI, August 22, 1861. "A skirmish occurred at Hawk's Nest, in the Kanawha Valley, eight miles beyond, on the 20th. The Confederates, some four thousand strong, advanced to where the Eleventh Ohio regiment had erected barricades, and were driven back with a loss of fifty killed and a number wounded and taken prisoners. Our loss was only two slightly wounded and one missing. Our forces captured quite a number of horses and equipments." I have just returned from General Wise's command, having left there on the night of the 20th, and after the skirmish was over. Our forces consisted of parts of three cavalry companies, amounting to about one hundred men, and the enemy numbered at least six hundred. Colonel Croghan, of our brigade, drove the enemy back to Hawk's Nest, taking two prisoners, and doing other damage not known at the time of my departure. Our loss was one killed and three wounded. General Wise was present during the action, and as cool and self-possessed as though no eneiny were in the vicin D. B. PHILLIPS, C. S. N., Med. Dir. of forces under Gen. H. A. WISE. Doc. 200. GOV. ANDREW'S PROCLAMATION. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, BOSTON, Aug. 20, 1861. '{ To the Citizen-Soldiers of Massachusetts:— Again, in a moment of public danger, your country calls you to the post where the heroic soldiers of April hastened with generous alacrity and sublime devotion. Two regiments encamped at Lynnfield, two at Dedhain, and one at Worcester, are yet incompletely recruited. They will march immediately. Whether few or many, they will march,-armed, uniformed, and equipped,-on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of the present week. dred men; the Eighteenth four hundred; the The Seventeenth regiment needs two hunNineteenth three hundred and fifty; the Twenhundred men, in order to fill their ranks to the tieth five hundred; and the Twenty-first two maximum number allowed by law. honor, the dearest sentiments of patriotic love Citizen-Soldiers of Massachusetts! Duty, and devotion, call for your brave hearts and unconquerable arms! JOHN A. ANDREW, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. Doc. 201. GEN. MCCLELLAN'S STAFF. HEAD-QUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 1861. IN compliance with General Order No. 15, of August 17, 1861, from the head-quarters of the army, I hereby assume command of the Army of the Potomac, comprising the troops serving in the former departments of Washington and Northeastern Virginia, in the Valley of the Shenandoah, and in the States of Maryland and Delaware. The organization of the command into divisions and brigades will be announced hereafter. The following-named officers are attached to the staff of the Army of the Potomac : Major S. Williams, assistant adjutant-general; Captain Alex. V. Colburn, assistant adjutantgeneral; Col. R. B. Marcy, inspector-general; Col. T. M. Key, aide-de-camp; Capt. N. B. Swetzer, First Cavalry, aide-de-camp; Captain Edward McK. Hudson, Fourteenth infantry, aide-de-camp; Captain L. A. Williams, Tenth infantry, aide-de-camp; Major A. J. Myers, signal officer; Major Stewart Van Vleit, chief quartermaster; Captain H. F. Clarke, chief commissary; Surgeon C. S. Tripler, medical director; Major J. G. Barnard, chief engineer; Major J. M. Macoinb, chief topographical engineer; Captain Charles P. Kingsbury, chief |