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tomac began to agitate street corners and bar-rooms. First of all, the Highlanders, New York Seventy-ninth, made themselves a first-rate military nuisance by bursting out in open revolt, and dividing their regiment into "orderly" and "outrageous." They had two grievances, as follows: 1st. They had not been permitted to elect their own Colonel, as was their expectation and their right. They protested against the interference of the President, who, in appointing Col. Stevens, of Washington Territory, had given them a commander to whom personally they did not object, but whom they did not choose. 2nd. They had been promised by somebody that they should have a month's furlough, but the War Department ignores the matter, and protests that somebody has blundered.--The fact is that the "Highlanders," disgusted with their officers, since the death of Col. Cameron, and their most efficient Captains, have become turbulent and threatening. The consequences have been that it ha