appoint new officers, for special and peculiar reasons? I trust Lieutenant Charles L. Chandler, of First Massachusetts, whom I long since requested, and commissioned in our Thirty-fourth, may be ordered immediately to join that regiment at Washington; it left here to-day. Give me him as favor, if no other.

JOHN A. ANDREW.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 15, 1862 - 6 p. m.

Governor ANDREW,

Boston:

I am highly gratified by your dispatch just received. The Thirty- third and Thirty-fourth Regiments shall go to Banks and Sigel as they desire.

EDWIN M. STANTON.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., August 15, 1862.

(Received 5 p. m.)

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Will you accept volunteers for nine-months" service in lieu of drafted men?

H. R. GAMBLE,

Governor of Missouri.

WASHINGTON, D. C., August 15, 1862.

Governor GAMBLE,

Saint Louis:

The Secretary of War consents to your retaining in service the surplus militia, at least for the present, that all preparations should be made for the draft, and the question of postponement will be decided hereafter.

H. W. HALLECK,

General-in-Chief.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 15, 1862.

His Excellency Governor BERRY,

Concord, N. H.:

Information has been received at this Department that the laws of your State do not exempt physicians, surgeons, and clergymen from draft. They will be exempt as in other States.

By order of the Secretary of War:

C. P. BUCKINGHAM.

WASHINGTON, D. C., August 15, 1862.

Governor MORGAN,

Albany:

The rule of the Department is that regular officers will not be permitted to accept volunteer commissions of less rank than a colonelcy.

H. W. HALLECK,

General-in-Chief.