Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-08-22
AFTERNOON DISPATCHES.

Fr0m Washington.
WAsHIsGroH. August 30.
Brigadier General Anderson loft here yesterin :
+ M, for Kentucky. His health is not fully r !
stored but he is snxious TO be in active duty, and
will ut once assume command Of his department.
ltierald's Despatch.
The court msrshal on tho case Of Col. MctIann,
OF the New Yoik 37th regiment, have found Ii. q
Col guilty Of the charges and he is sdepossd Of hi
Colonelcy, and broken Of his military rank.
Especial to the Times.]
Capt. Alex. II. Shel,z sails from New York :.
morrow for Europe. He is entrusted with an ill
pOrtant mission to ports of tngland and Franc.
and will be absent tor two months.
Especial to the Tribune
On Gen. McClcllan's order all the women ~
cs:Gps across the Potomac were sent away h t
night, save two hospital nurses for each regime.
johnson and Eeauregard have been relnforc i
by fron 10000 to 10000 men since the Bulls X II
battle.
1t is reported tonight that Yorktown, Norfolk K,
and hichmond hsd been almost denuded Of troop
whose ultimate designation WAS presumed to 80
Maryland and Washington, in the belief that it 4
the design to CROSS below and above the city Am-
pie precautions are taken.
The Potomac f,tlIa has been enlarged, and til /,
present force could be largely increased at shot
notice.
The Chain Bridge and forts above are for Il 4
present useless from the high rains, hut arc weil
guarded.
The Potomac fleet now consists Of eleven ", u
srmsd steaners,eac carrying Is men and Dai
green l2-pounder.
Commander w. D. Porter has not been sent
home in irons. He has been dismissed from has
Fcommand, but not stricken frcm the rolls.
Gov Hicks is hero to night lie has sppr
tensions of the result of any effort u capture
sscessionsts hst. st. L6na nnd ,sf q ii,
merou. enough, but disorganized and humbled.
Gov. Morton OF Indiana, there, says b..
field in three weeks, making the quota Of IT,,
State, 81 regiments.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81.
Post Master Genl. Blair, in response to an IN
quiry on the subject, says he has not now powe
to interdict nor suspend intercourse betw ween Ii
loyal and rebel states, by private express or oth,
wise. This power rests with the War and Trea
sury departments alone, and SO long rs these De
partments forbear to exercise it, ponde az
between the insurgents Of the South and the
friends end abettors in the North may be la~
fully continued. His power over the matter ex
tends only to the p-otection Of the revenues ot
his Del artment from frn.d and the conveyance
Of this correspondence over the POST Routes Of Il
United states, partly in the mail ALI. partly "a
private expresses, uDawfuly. fo concluo.s u
sayiDg, \ ou have doubtless observed that h, :
rresi ent 10 pursuance Of an act OF Congress, pa
sed at its recent session, has, by his pfoclanatc
Of the 10th inst, declared that all comsrciai in
tercourse between the iasur9snt Ststss, Of the
people ther eof, and the loyal States is unlawful
1t is presumed that instructions will be issued by
the Treasury department."
The continued alarms about the designs of IL 4
insurgents against the e pitol sJe new declare
BY gsnt'emen in high quarters - fabricstions oi
rebel emissariss. Opinlons, however, arc divided
upon this subject. Whatever may be tho truth
respecting it. the Administration wants 70 rein
force And b ready for active operations.
The volunteer, while left in the northern c,-
ties and towns. csn be organised here and read ,
for service immediately; hence the call made on
the 9Th inst.
dispatch received st headquarters, dated ST.
Louis, 10th, states that the commanding olhcer .
Cairo, reports 70 Gen Fremont that Col. DOhssty,
With 800 men, sent ont the day before ut O'Clock
from Birds Point, attacked the enemy at Charles
ton, 800 stroLg, drove him back, killed forty,
tooA ssventesa prisonsrs. captured fifteen horses,
and returned at two o'clock in the morning to
birds Point, with loss Of one killed and six
wounded.