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ems to us outsiders.--Military and naval science is not learned in a day, nor are great Generals manufactured out of militia men. It would be little better than murder in the first degree to send troops to fight a field battle under militia Generals.--In guerilla warfare, and behind earthworks or cotton bags, which will probably be the principal mode of fighting in a war between the two sections, militia Generals will do very well, with the advice of some educated Aid, who has graduated at West Point. But in any great operations, requiring other qualities besides more bravery, the people have a right to demand that they shall be led by educated and scientific officers. Let military matters be left to military men. It is one of the favorite calculations of the enemy that Southern men will not be willing to enlist in the rank and file, that every man with a clean shirt will want to be an officer, and that few will be inclined to submit to the rigor of military discipline. We see
Important from the Peninsula.probable evacuation of NewportNews. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 6 --It is believed here that the Federals evacuated Newport News on yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock. A large fire was discovered in about that locality, and it is thought that the Federal burnt up all their hospital buildings, stables, &c. They removed their horses in vessels on Sunday. [Passengers from Yorktown, who reached this city by the York River cars yesterday afternoon, state that it was reported at West Point and Yorktown that the Federals had evacuated Newport News]
and Mr. J. Grimes, a merchant of that city, yesterday, on the same charge. Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Greenhow, recently arrested here by order of the War Department, are permitted to remain at their own residences, where they and their surroundings are of course under the surveillance of military guards. A similar guard is stationed in the house of Mayor Berret. Washington is to-day full of a rumor saying Mrs. Wm. M. Gwin, wife of ex-Senator Gwin, of California, was arrested at West Point, N. Y., by order of the War Department. We have not been able to verify the fact, however. We hear that a lady who resides beyond the lines of the Federal troops on the other side, was arrested in Alexandria yesterday, and over seventy letters, directed to various persons in the rebel lines, were found upon her. The replies to them were to be directed to Lewis Milburn, apothecary, Alexandria, Va. Arrest of Mayor Barrett. The arrest of Mayor Barrett and his removal hence produc
at Henderson, Kentucky, and Newberg, Indiana, have been taken by the rebels. At the latter place one Unionist was killed and two hundred and fifty sick soldiers taken prisoners. The rebels also took two hundred and fifty stand of arms. Miscellaneous. Wm. H. Aspinwall, of New York, has presented his check for $25,290 to the U. S. Government, that being his share of the profits on purchasing arms from Europe. Gen. Vicle, Military Governor of Norfolk, Va., is on a visit to West Point, N. Y. The U. S. postage stamps, to be issued as a "circulating medium," are as follows:--The five cent are chocolate color, with the head of Jefferson; the ten cent green, with the head of Washington; the twelve cent black, with like head; the twenty-four lilac, with same head; the thirty yellow, with head of Franklin; the ninety blue, with portrait of Washington as a young General. The stamps differ from the old ones in the fact that the figures are in the upper corners. One hund
eace. Major General Reno. Gen. Jesse L. Reno, U. S. A., who was killed on Sunday at the Heights on the Hagerstown road, was born in Virginia in 1825, and was consequently 37 years of age at the time of his death. He was a graduate of West Point of the class of 1846, in which year he was commissioned as bravot Second Lieutenant of Ordnance. In the Mexican war he was greatly distinguished for gallant bearing and meritorious conduct, and while still a 2d Lieutenant was honored with the brave ranks of 1st Lieutenant and Captain, which he won at the battles of Cerro Gordo and Chapultepec, in the latter of which he was severely wounded. On his return from Mexico he was appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics at West Point, which position he held for six months; and for eighteen months afterward he was Secretary to the Artillery Board, during which he was engaged in testing heavy ordnance and compiling tactics for heavy artillery. Various employments succeeded, in
Gen. Sherman, that 35,000 have been lost to the Federal colors since that day. The Confederate retreats are always at first disorderly routs. But after a while the Federal officers remonstrate at having their work represented as so easy, and a second version appears describing them as in the highest degree orderly, and the resistance as being most desperate. Different flashes of official light show the same transaction as a victory and a defeat. There was "Gen. Franklin's victory at West Point," which loomed out as a victory under a transient gleam, but retired from sight to come out as a defeat under a later illumination. It is quietly admitted now that Franklin's force ran at creditable speed to their gunboats. Above the hurly-burly and through the darkness we can see, however, a few things distinctly. We know that the Stars and Stripes are at New Orleans, and that there is a General there so intolerant of the saucy tongues of American ladies, that he answers a scornful phr
sult by their judgment and valuable suggestions. In the panorama of Commanding Generals which this army exhibits, of course we are to expect that Gen. Meade will one day be relieved. In that case, either Hancock or Warren may succeed him. Banks is also spoken of. Warren, though mentioned as a first-class engineer, and an officer generally capable, having a small command, and being circumscribed in his sphere, is little known beyond the limited circle of headquarters. He graduated at West Point, and commenced the war as Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th New York. Hancock, on the contrary, is known and admired by the army at large, and more especially for his magnificent management of the 2d corps during the Gettysburg fight. Though long a brilliant division commander in its organization, he had but recently taken command of the corps, and astonished the officers by his original and splendid generalship. In addition to his military genius, Hancock is strikingly polished and courtly