The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-28
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-The Secretary of the
Treasury has just issued circular of instructions
to Collectors and other officers Of the Gus
toms, calling their attention to the act of Congress
further to provide for the collection of duties
imports and for other purposes, approved the
18th OF July last; and to the proclamation of the
President of the United States of the 10th of Au-
gust, made in pursuance thereof, both of which
are annexed.
In view of this act and of the proclamation, the
Secretary directs and insructs the officers of the
customs to all vigilance in preventing CONNER
cal intercourse with the inhabitants OF the States
in instruction, excepting in the special cases in
which it may be allowed by license and permit, as
therein set forth.
The instructions of the I'd of May, and of the 18th
of July last heretofore in force, will be regarded
as Superseded by the more comprehensive provi-
sions of the act and proclamation. The Collectors
and other officers of the customs will report all
seizures ade under the proclamation to the proper
District Attorney for such proceedings the law
and the facts may justify in each case; and they
will a!so as soon as practicable, and as frequently
afterwards may be convenient, report their
views in relation to the commercial intercourse
contemplated and the permit proper to be granted
or withheld, in the forms accompanying the
weekly returns required by the circular of the 18th
of August last to be made to the Treasury Depart
ment
Collectors and other officers of the customs will
be careful to state what permits asked for the
shipment of goods, by whom asked and the grounds
on which the applications are based.
The Secretary especially directs the attention of
Collectors and other officers to the fifth and subse
Quent sections of the act commonly known as the
force BILL
Commodore Porter.
The Navy Department is sati-f d with the abun-
dant proof which Commander Porter has presented
in REPUTATION of the charge against his loyalty his
own affidavit showing the alleged secession letter
to his son to be forgery.
Military Orders and Appointments.
WAsHNGroN, Aug. 27.-The following officers
have been ordered to duty the Staff of General
Robert Anderson. They are to report at Cincn-
natl on the 30th inst Captain Greene, Assistant
Adutant General; Captain Hancock, Assistant
Quartermaster; Captain Symonds, Commissary of
First Lieutenant Michler of the Typographical
Engineers: Surgeon Cuyler, Medical Staff.
Major Woodruff, of the Corps of Engineers, is
ordered to report Immediately TO General Dix to
relieve Captain Prime.
Orders have been issued to attach the I'd regi
ment Fire Zouaves of New York, to Gen. Sckl-s'
brigade. The selection of a Colonel is left to its
officers.
it is understood that at the request of Gen
Mcclellan, to-day the President has directed COM
mission to issue to Brigader General Sickles, thus
comforting upon him that rank.
The following named officers have been appointed
on Major General Hunters staff: Captain Fry, As.
sistant Adjutant-Genera Captain J. W. Turner,
Commissary of Subsistence, and Captain Shaffer
OF the Volunteers, Lieutenant Edward Smith Of the
10th Infantry, and Lieutenant Stockton Of the 4th
cavalry, as aidsde camp.
Fast screw-Propellers for the Navy.
board appointed tor that purpose, have lust
completed the examination of the proposals for,
and drawings of fast screw-propeller steamers, in
answer to invitation of the Navy Department
to some sixteen eighteen ship builders and con-
structors of marine engines. The invitation was
in consequence of the representations of many per-
sons that much faster vessels than those in the navy
might thus be obtained. Such steamers were re.
CURED to move at the rate of fourteen miles an
hour. of those ship-builders and engine.
tors only two parties responded to this require
ment, and even what they proposed was not salts
factory to the board
Presidential Appointments.
The President to-day appointed NJ j)r Barry, of
the United States Army, Brigadier- General of
Volunteers; Lieutenant-C0lone John F. Reynolds,
United States Army, Brigadier-Genera Thomas
j. Gaut, aid to General Mcclellan, with the rank
OF Colonel; Joseph Kirkland and Arthur Mcclellan,
aids to General Mcclellan, with the rank of Cap
tains There are no First Lieuteuants to be APP.
pointed, and the Second must be by promotion.
Rnmored Arrest of w. w. Corcoran, the
Banker.
1t is currently reported that ". W. CoreOran has
been arrested for treason by the Provost Marshall
he has been supposed to be warm friend Of the
Confederate cause and to have had caucuses at his
house, where traitors would meet and compare
notes and congratulate themselves upon the sue
cesses of their friends. He has now, if his arrest
is correct, been checked in his career.
Army Matters.
Several hundred army wagons have arrived here
from Harper's Ferry, with the camp equipage of
the three months men under General Patterson.
General Banks headquarters now at Pooesvile,
twenty miles above, and his entire supplies are car
By By s hf G The
Captain Tansiu.
Captain Tansiil, the resigned officer of Marines,
who has been sent to Fort Lafayette, has always,
previous to his arrest, been much esteemed here.
His wife is daughter of Major Bender, Chief
Clerk of the Ordnance Department. The Captain
only arrived i'll Boston on Thursday last from the
Brazil station.
sickness Among tho Troops
Typhoid fever has appeared in the government
hospitals, and nearly all the sick and wounded
soldiers have been attacked by the disease.
-Four hundred army ambuances have arrived
here.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.