The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-30
FED ERAL TELEGRAMS.

The following are the latest kilograms
which appear in the Northern papers, the
accuracy of which we do not vouch for:
INsTsuoTIoEs TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS.
WAsHINaToH, Aug. 27.-The Secretary of
the Treasury has just issued a circular Of in
struction to collectors and other officers of
the customs, calling their attention TO the act
OF Congress further to provide for the collec-
ZION OF duties on 1mpor Is. and for other pur-
poses, approved on the 18th CT July last, and
to the proclamation of the President of the
United States of the 18th of August, made in
pursuance thereof, both Of which are an
nexed.
In view of this act, and of the proclamation,
the Secretary directs and instructs the officers
OF the customs to use all vigilance In pre-
venting commerclal Intercourse with the in.
habitan Is Of the States in Instruction, ex-
cepting in the special cases in which it may be
allowed by license and permit, as therein set
forth.
TDs 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be regarded as superseded by the more COM
prehensive provisions of the act and procla-
nation. The collectors and other officers of
the customs will report all seizures made
under the proclamation to the proper District
Attorney, for such proceedings as the law and
the facts may justify In each case; and they
will also, az soon as practicable, and ms fire.
Quently afterwards as may be convenient re-
port their views in relation to the commercial
Intercourse contemplated, and the permit pro.
ICTI0S
accompanying the weekly returns required by
the circular of the 5th Of August last, to be
made to the Treasury Department.
Collectors and other ofdcers of the customs
will be careful to state what permits are ask.
ed for the shipment of goods, by whom asked,
and the grounds on which the applications are
based.
The Secretary especially directs the atteu-
ton of collectors and other officers to the
fifth and subseq uent sections Of the act COM
monty known as the force bill.
COMMODORE PORTER.
The Navy Department is satisfia ed with the
abundant proof which Conn ancer Porter has
presented in refu of the charge against
his loyalty, his own affida sit showing the al
legged secession letter to his son to be forgery.
ARMY MATTERS.
Several hundred army wagons have arrived
here from Harpers Ferry, with the camp
equipe3e of the three months men under
General Patterson. General Banks head.
above, and his entire supplies are carried by
negroes by the way OF Rockville. The West
ern Railroad IL still in Federal possession.
CAPT. rANsILL.
Captain Tansill, the resigned officer of Ma
rines, who has been sent to Fort Lafayette,
esteemed here. His wife Is a daughter Of
Major Bender, Chief Clerk Of tho Ordnance
Department. The Captain only arrived in
Boston on Thursday last from the Brazil sta.
ton.
sICKN8Ss AHoHa THE TROOPS.
Typhoid fever has appeared in the Govern.
msnt hospitals, and nearly all the sick and
wounded soldiers have been attacked by the
disease.
Four hundred army ambulances have ar
rived here.
FROM GRE. BANKS coLuxH.
HyATTsrowx, Aug. 2o.-A general court-raar-
tial for this division has been Organized, OF
which Col. Biddle, Of the LIST Pennsyivania
Rides, II President, and Major Majelton, ofthe
1t is not kaown that any officers Of high rank
are to be arraigned. k+
A telegraph line from Washington TO this
point was completed on SATURDAY. The work
was commenced at Tenallytown on Tuesday
last, and run q distance Of about thirty miles
in little over four days.
The surgeon Of Colonel Geary's regiment on
Saturday took his sick TO the general depot at
Frederick. 1t II stated that Dol. 0eary anti
ctpated "a attack from the Oonfoder1tes. The
sargeon reported that he heard heavy firing
near Poolssville, supposed TO have been be.
some Of yohnston's force. He fell In with
General Stone, who, with Q full battery and
the Tammeny regiment, staxtsd for the scene
Of action. The mail messenger from ,Pooles.
VILE also reported having hsayd Airing In the
Same diIectton. and believed that fight was
gotrg On near EdwArds' Ferry; but MP to this
present writing your correspondent has bseA
a1atr.
LA1xn ynoM nlssouRI.
Ksoxux, Iowa, August =, 1aei.-A private
az Colonel MoOTo's regiment arrived here
from Athens. No.. last aight. He states that
Ooaonel 6yoen WAs- appgoeching nat place
WITH force vastoeely egttnatod s non At.
go han1Rs4 = tAsss iAo3sAad. ne ustsa'