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'r gust, made in pursuance thereof, both of which
/ | annexed.
d In view of this act and of the proc camation, the
Secretary directs and instructs the officers of the
r customs to all vigilance in preventing CONNER
4 | cia intercourse with the inhabitants of the States
j. in insurrection excepting in the special in
= | which it may be allowed by license and permit, as
" therein set forth.
The instructions of the I'd of Nav and of the 9th
% of July last, heretofore in force, will be regarded
o as superseded by the more comprehensive provi.
o sons of the act and proclamation. The Collectors
and other olhcers OF the customs will report all
seizures made under the proclamation to the proper
District Attorney tor such proceedings as the law
and the facts may justify in each case; and they
will also, as soon as practicable, and frequently
afterwards as 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 9Th
OF August last, to be made to the Treasury Depart
ment.
Collectors aud 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 satisfi d with the abun-
dant proof which Commander Porter has presented
in refutaten of the charge aga ainst his loyalty his
own affidavit showing the alleged secession letter
to his son to be forgery.
Military Orders and Appointments.
WAsHTNGGoN, Aug. 27.-The following officers
have been ordered to duty the Staff of General
Robert Anderson. They to report at Cncin-
natl on the 3Oth inst:-Csptain Greene, Assistant
Aduant General; Captain Hancock, Assistant
Quartermaster; Captain Symonds. Commssary of
! Subsistence; Captain Prime, Corps of Eugineers;
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. Sick-s'
brigade. The selection of a Colonel is left to its
own officers.
1t is understood that at the request of Gen.
Mcclellan, to-day thu President has directed COM
mission to issue to Brigadier General Sckles thus
| conierrng upon him that rank.
| The following named officers have been appointed
on Major General Hunters staff: Captain Fry As
! sistant Adjutant-General; Captain j. w. Turner,
| Commissary of Subsistence, and Captain Shaffer
or the Volunteers, Lieutenant Edward Smith Of the
| 18th Infantry and Lieutenant Stockton Of the 4th
cavalry. as ads-de camp.
Fast Screw-Propellers for the Navy.
board appointed tor that purpose, have Just
| completed the examination of the proposals for,
ana drawings Of fast screw-p~opeller steamers in |
| answer to an invitation of the Navy Department
TO some sixteen or eighteen ship builders and
! structors OF marine engines. The invitation was |
IN consequence OF the representations of many per-
sons that much faster vessels 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 shipbuiders and engine. construc-
tors, only two parties responded to this require
hen', and even what they proposed was not salts |
| factory to the board.
Presidential Appointments.
The President to-day appointed NJ j1r Barry, of
the United States Army, Brigadier- General of
Volunteers; Lieutenant-C Colonel John F. REYNOLDS
United States Army, Brigsdier-General; Thomas |
j. Gaut, aid to General Mcclellan, with the rank |
OF Colonel; Joseph Kirkland ard Arthur Mcclellan,
aids to General Mcclellan, with the rank of Cap
taius. There First Lieutenants to be ap-
pointed, and the Second must be by promotion.
R'mored Arrest of w. w. COrcorRn, the
Banker.
1t is currently reported that ". W. Corcoran 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 caucuscs 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 eaupage Of |
the three months men under General Patterson.
General Banks headquarters at Poolesve,
twenty miles above, and his entire supplies
hT srossa B By h yd9 Of R9Sky The
Captain Tansin.
| Captain Tansil, 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 a daughter of Major Bender, Chief |
! Clerk of the Ordnance Department. The Captain |
only arrived III 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 ambulances have arrived !
! here.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
Correspondence of the associated Press.
FoRrEEss MoNRoE, August 26 The steamer
! Philadelphia hes arrived from Washington with |
! 80 mutineers belonging to the regiments there,
! wear inn he
! Tortugas. They have been sent temporarily to the
| Rip Raps.
! A flag of truce arrived from Norfolk this morn
! ing with three ladies and number of prisoners |
| captured bv the Confederate privateers. As the |
| object of sending the flag of truce at this time
! deemed to be rather inquistive, General Wool de-
cided to detan the flag until late to morrow.
1t is high time that end should be put to this
constant intrusion of the enemy to obtain informa-
tiou. Whenever they think aoy important move
ment IS on foot here, they are sure to be on hand
/ with flag of truce.
The steamer Ben Dsford or S. R. Spaulding,
| loaded with troops distance up the
Roads, and then proceeded to Washington
The steamer Connecticut has arrived with $50 |
sailors, Of whom one hundred are intended for the
Potomac fleet, and the remainder for coast and |
gulf squadrons. She also has cargo of ice and
| provisions. She will carry the l59 mutineers just
! from W ashington to the Tortugas.
Captain Davis has been made Provost Marshal of
the entire Department Of Virginia He yesterday |
arrested the of the schooner Chirg arora from
| New York. General Wool has sent them to the |
Rip Raps. Seven spies have recently been dis
covered here and placed in confinement.
The much talked of expedition from Old Point !
has sailed, under command of General Butler. 1t |
consisted of the frigates Minnesota and Wabash, !
| the sloop-ofwar Pawnee gunonats Monticello and |
Harriet Lane, steamers Adelaide and George Pea
body, propelers Fanny and Adriatic, with large |
number of schooners, barges, etc. The Quaker |
City will follow in few hours The vessels car
ried one hundred guns and about 4 900 men.
Several powerful gunboats remain at Old Point
and Newport News.
ColoneIs Max Weber and Hawkins take part in
the expedition.
From NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF the
Southern Letter Express.
| LOUISVILLE, August 26.-The Adams Express |
Company having discontinued the sending of let
ters to the South, those now received and arriving
| from the North will be returned to the senders
| A flag was presented to-day at camp "Joe Holt"
to Gen. Rosseau's brigade, entitled the "Louisvie
LEGION by the citizens of Louisville. There was
an immense concourse in attendance.
The Memphis appeal says it is informed that
General Lee had completely surrounded General
Rosencrans in Western Virginia. and would proba-
bly, capture him.
The Knoxville Register says: Congressman Mel
is scared that he won't answer, and he will
have to visit Richmond again before getting all
right"
The Atlanta Coufederacy insists that landlords
must reduce their rents, as business is stagnant,
and property largely deprecated. The Richmond
Despatch says that Kanawha Valley is worth
military expedition on account of it's salt alone.
The Mobile Register of the 23d strongly urges
that the South should not let the bonds of the new
Confederacy sink below par in any part of the
, Southern Confederacy, and asks the Mobile mer-
, chants to take them at par a duty.
The Richmond correspondent of the Memphis
Appeal says that French agents were in that city
buying tobacco and that this fact is significant of
the future purposes of the French Government.
Rosseau's Brigade. which had been ordered to
repair 10 ST. Louis, has received a counter order,
and will remain at camp Joe Holt for the present.
, From Gen. Banks Column
HYATTsrowN, August ga general court mar
ta for this division has been organized, of which
: Col. Biddle of the lst Pennsy ylvania Rifles, is
$ President and Major Majelton of the I'd Pennsyl-
vania Reserve, is Judge Advocate. 1t is not
known that any officers of high rank are to be
raigned.
telegraph line from ashington to this point
q was completed on Saturday. The work has COM
menced at Ienallytown Tuesday last, and run
distance OF about thirty miles in little over four
e days.
IS The surgeon of Colonel Gearys regiment on Sat
urday took his sick to the general depot at Fred
: erick 1t is stated that Col Gearv anticinated an
n attack from the Confederates The surpeon re-
/ ported that be heard heavy firing near Poolesville
J, supposed to have been between General STONES ad
s vance guard and some of Johnston's force He fell
: in with General Stone, who, with a full battarv
g and the Tammany regiment, started for the scene
d I of action The mail messenger from PooesvilIe
s also reported having heard firing in the same d-
rectiou and believed that fight was going on near
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