THE GREAT REBELLION: Appointments of Major and Brigadier Generals Confirmed by the Senate; AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI; Editorial: Spies in the Armies (8/4/1861)

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WASHINGTON, Saturday, Aug. 3.

Prince NAPOLEON, accompanied by the French Minister, Count MERCIER, Capt. BONFILS, Lieut.-Col. RAGOU, Lieut.-Col. PISANI, and Mr. MAURICE SANDS, visited the White House at 12 o'clock to-day. The party were met at the President's by the Secretary of State, who presented the Prince and his suite to President LINCOLN. The utmost cordiality was manifested, and the presentation and reception seemed to be mutually satisfactory.

At a later period in the day the Prince visited the Capitol, and was introduced to many Senators and members of the House of Representatives.

This evening, the Prince and his suite, the French Minister, the members of the Cabinet, Gen. Scott, Gen. McClellan, Hon. F.W. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State; Messrs. Nicolay and Hay, Senator Sumner, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and Mr. Foote, President of the Senate, were present at a dinner given by President LINCOLN.

While the Marine Band was playing in the President's grounds this evening, the Prince and his suite were observed enjoying the music, in company with the President, on the balcony of the White House.

It is Gen. J.J. VIELE, of Troy, who has been recommended for a Brigadier-Generalship, and not Lieut. EGBERT L. VIELE, of New-York, as some of the papers of your City persist in stating it.

Hon. BAYARD CLARK, of New-York, is to be made a Brigadier-General, with authority to establish a school for cavalry instruction in Westchester County. Mr. CLARK was a pupil in the Cavalry School of Paris, with HARDEE, now Brigadier-General in the rebel Army, and graduated with the highest honors. He is also a graduate of West Point.

The steamer Coatzacalcos will leave to-morrow for New-York with MARSHALL O. ROBERTS and a crew.

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The Great Rebellion: Important News from Washington – 2
Affairs in Missouri: Thirty Thousand Men at Jefferson City – 2
Loss of Rebel Officers at Bull Run – 2
Western Indian Troubles – 2
Editorial: Spies in the Armies – 2-3
Editorial: A Carnival for Croakers – 3-4
Mr. T. Butler King Again – 4
Confederate Bonds – 4
Defenses of New Orleans – 4
How the Confederates Get Soldiers – 4
Gen. Beauregard’s Force – 4
Confiscation of Property – 4
The Way to Do It – 4

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"Confiscation of Property – 4"

For those who claim Civil War was not "all about slavery", this article should remind you that slavery was indeed very much on the minds of both Union & Confederate governments.

Long before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, in early 1861, the Union Congress passed laws authorizing confiscation & freedom as "Contraband of War" slave property of Confederates, when those slaves came into Union army hands.
In this article the Confederate congress contemplates what retaliations against the Union are proper & necessary.

We'll see what they report back, but the fact is Confederate seizures of Northern freed-blacks were part of every Confederate invasion of Union states.