(including contractors and their employees) of
the classes specified in General Order No. 77, A. and I. G. Office
(current series). To this end he will direct the several officers
in charge of arsenals, workshops, depots, etc. to turn over to the
nearest enrolling officers, by lists showing their ages,
occupations, and residences, such proportion of their employees
(including contractors and employees under them) of the classes
above referred to as will constitute in the aggregate one-fifth of
the whole number in the said classes, according to returns in his
office of Sept. 30th, 1864. Duplicates of such lists will be sent
to the Generals of Reserves of the States, and triplicates to the
Chief of Ordnance. Three days are allowed for the execution of this
Order after its reception at any post or station of the Ordnance
Department.

"II. The Chief of the Niter and Mining Bureau will, in like manner,
turn over, on similar lists, one-fifth of all men of the classes
specified in General Order No. 77, employed in iron, lead, copper,
and coal mines, and all service appertaining thereto, whether
directly under officers of his Bureau or by contractors. Duplicate
and triplicate lists to be furnished as above directed in the
Ordnance Bureau, and will in the same manner turn over one-fifth of
all such men now employed in the Niter service.

"The period of three days, under the same conditions as above
mentioned, is allowed for the execution of this order.

"III. The list of persons directed in the foregoing sections to be
turned over to the enrolling officers will be prepared at once on
the reception of this Order, and will be furnished to the said
officers within three days, as above prescribed, by the various
officers of each of the above Bureaus, having men under their
charge, and every assistance will be rendered by the latter to the
enrolling officer to carry out the intention of this order.

"IV. So much of General Order No. 77 as relates to men employed in
the two Bureaus named above is hereby suspended, and the foregoing
Orders will stand in lieu of all requirements under the former.

"By order. S. COOPER,

"_A. and I. General_."

OCTOBER 22D.--Cloudy; rained last night. 2 P.M.--Cold, and prospects of
snow.

The news of Early's disaster, and