[from our own Reporter.]
Fredericksburg, April 23.
--I have received the Washington Chronicle of Tuesday, 21st inst., and send you a summary of its contents:
The following is the last trap laid by the Yankees to keep their troops in service:
Headquarters Army of the Potomac, April 20.--Officers in relation to enlistment offering in were published to-day.
General Orders No. 41.--First the companies and regiments which re-enlist shall retain their company and regimental officers.
The regiment will have a full will be sent home at public expense "the case of the furlough being two years or nine months, is the case may be, from the case of the original muster into the service of the United States." (What does that mean?) Second.
Where regiments in a body decline to re-enlist, the officers and man will be mustered out at the respiration of two years or nine months from the date of their muster into the service of the United States Arms, &c., will be turned over to their division ordinance office, and transportation and them home.
Third, When than half re-enlist, the proportion of officers to .
There was an immense Union League demonstration in Baltimore on the 10th.
Resolutions were adapted in favor of any measures to suppress the rebellion, and asking the Government to slavery in the State.
were collected to Governors Cannon of Delaware and of Maryland. "Though all things perish, the Union and this country live? [ must be a lunatic ] They favor arming negroes with space as musket as the President thinks best.
General Schenck is endorsed.
(He is ordering woman South in order to help on the starvation among traitors.)
In New York also, on 20th, there was a grand Union League performances at Fifth Avenue Hotel.
General Scott very feebly presided for one hour.--Among the speakers were Van Buren D. S. Blankinson, George Bancroft, Raymond H. B. Staunton, etc.
The steamer Barrow, with 70 bales of and 12 barrels of turpentine, a blockade runner from St. Mary's, bound to Nassau was out by her crew in a sinking condition on the 10th of April.
The prize schooner Antelope has arrived in New York.
The New York Legislature have appropriated one million dollars for harbor defences at New York city.
A from St. Louis dated April 20 save that General Cabell with 3,000 and four pieces of artillery 2,000 Federal at before daylight Saturday morning and, were repulsed, and retracted in disorder.
Col. attacked the rebels at Colina Tenn., seven and destroying their camps.
