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Increase of bounty to Volunteers.

--The following order has been received in New York from the War Department:

‘ "It is ordered that out of the appropriation for collecting, organizing, and drafting volunteers, there shall be paid in advance, to such recruit for three years or during the war, the sum of $25, being one fourth the amount of the bounty allowed by law, such payment to be made upon the mustering of the regiment to which such recruit belongs into the service of the United States."

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