A private letter ta Boston from one of
the prisoners at Richmond says that the
writer with six others is confined in a sin
gle cell-cloven feet by seventeen.
It is rumored Feat a prominent membor
of Gen. Bank’s it iff has disappeared with
important papers. ,
On the 15ib of this month an estiinatd
was made of the sickness in the army, and
it appeared that Gen. Bank’s Division was
the healthiest by a considerable per tent
age.
The Savannah Republican says the
SumteGivas J.(L captured but wrecked off
Trinidad.
Gen Prentiss, in command at St. Jo
seph, Mo., has announce! that every seces
sionist shall either take the oath of al?o-»
gianeo or be set at work oil the fortifl •;»-
lions.
A S ivann ih paper of tho 4th says tho
federal? have entirely evaluated Tybei Is
land.
The government has decided positively
on tho policy of filling up the number of
the regiments iu the field to 1,040 men.-—•
If it shall be necessary they will break up
the imperfect regimental organizations now
in progress, taking the rank and file, and
leaving tho officers. The government has
no notion of putting into the field an ar
my of officers, or of putting them into the
treasury either.
Five companies of tho 7th infantry art 1 '
to be stationed on the northern frontier
and will probably garrison the posts of De»
troit, Fort Niagara, Fort Ontario, Sick*
ett’s llai bor aud Rouse’s Point. 00l C-
A. Waite, of the Ist infantry is assigned*
to the command of a district embracing
tho above named posts.
