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so, have undertaken to accept the resignations of and otherwise discharge from the service of the United States officers commissioned or appointed by the President in the volunteer staff of the army. All such discharges are irregular, and, unless confirmed by the President, void of effect. None but the President can discharge an officer appointed by himself; and as he has not delegated this power to any General, no General must attempt to exercise it. By order of the Secretary of War. L. Thomas, Adjutant General. Escape of a Confederate prisoner from the Federal Prison at Washington. From the Washington Star, of the 24th inst., we copy the following: This morning, between two and four o'clock, W. J. Raisin, formerly in the rebel army, but late a political prisoner, arrested for disloyal acts on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, managed to escape from the Old Capitol military prison, by lowering himself from a window while the back of the sentinel on duty near by was