The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-13
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| WASHINGTON, August l2.-The designs of the
new envelopes are evidently superior to those OF
the old issues, and are in the hands of posmas
| ters for sale.
| Some of them will carry 40, "a, 20 and ~ cents
worth Of mail matter-the larger denominations
being adapted to the demands of express companies,
The new postage stamps will be ready for distrbu-
| tiOu towards the close of this week.
The recent Postofice order prohibiting the trans
mission of envelopes with scurrilous scandalous
matter printed or written them, is intended to
| cover such as that of Massachusetts, quack
| brought to the attention Of the Department, he
having selected that mode to indecently advertise
! his business
/ The order does not, as many soldiers and others
suppose, prevent the passage through the mails of
envelopes with patriotic and Union devices de-
| signs.
| There were about sixty bidders for supplying
| the Postoiiice Department with locks and keys,
some of them exhibiting each five or six different
kinds.
An entire change of them is designed, owing in
part to many of the old pattern being in the posses
sion of the disloyasts.
The Commission on this subject have made their
report, but the Postmaster-General has not yet
made his decision.
The following named Consuls have just been ap-
pointed:
At Glasgow, John S. Prettyman, of Delaware; at
Smyrna, Professor C. D. Cleveland, of Pennsyl
vania
The order of Col. Davies, dated Alexandria,
having in view the severe punishment of troops
Alexandria, is not only timely, but meets the
nest commendation of every lover of justice and
Union in this vicinity.
Col Lason, of the New York Horse Artillery,
at Camp Low, New York, arrived here this
morning, and will leave this afternoon, having
received from the War Department an order for
the immediate mastering in his regiment. Col.
Latson is entrusted with the duty, in connection
with the Quartermaster in New York, of collecting
and forwarding to their respective regiments here
and elsewhere, those whose time of furlough has
expired, and others who are absent from other
causes.
A number of the most distin nguiehed army officers
of Europe, particularly in England and France,
have rendered their services to the United States,
but it is not known that any of them will be ac-
cepted.
There is good authority tor saying that there is
no truth in recently reported conversation be
tween Lord Lyons and Secretary Seward, in the
matter of sending special messenger to England
with an account of the Bull Run battle. Whatever
Lord Lyons may have transmitted on that subject |
was through the ordinary channel
The Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr.. Fox, |
has returned from the North, whittier he went on |
business connected with the Department. SO far |
about seventy-ve vessels have been purchased and |
thirty chartered, or larger number of ships than
previously composed the Navy. They are general
Y of light draught, intended rather for coast than
for sea purposes-much attention having been paid
to swiftness in making the selection.
There seems to be no doubt that Mr. Wood of
New York, will be re-appointed Commissioner of
|
act on his nomination for that office.
WASHINGTON, Aug. .-Garibaldi has rendered
his services to the Federal Government. The cor
respondence in which the offer was made and ac-
cepted took place between the American Consul
at Genoa and Secretary Seward He has accented
the rank of Major-General.
Official Account of the Destruction of the
Priyateer Schooner York.
Commander Goldsboro, OF the gunboat Z nion
to the Navy Department some in
he no do ruotio
by fire of the privateer schooner York, off Cape
Hatteras lighthouse. The other privateer cap
tured he says, proved to be the schooner George
Baker, taken by the United States schooner South
Carolina, on the Coast of Texas, and bound to New
\ ork,. recaptured by the privateer schooner
ork seventy-hve miles northeast of Cape
He has placed prize crew on board and brought
her to port. Her piratical crew, four in number,
are in irons on board the Union. He had board.
I'd the Baker the day before. She was, he says,
by Mr.. Abbott, with prize crew of
i've men from the South Carolina, and that they
are prisoners to the Confederates.
Messrs. Magrav and Harris.
WASHINGTON, Aug. IA citizen of Washington
las received letter from H. S. Magraw, who was |
captured on his way to Bull Run to recover the |
nOnd, and written several days after his capture
t states that he is at present imprisoned in to-
'acco warehouse, under guard, the chief of whom ;
S Mr.. Todd, brother of Mrs. Lincoln. He saws he
well treated, but kept in close confinement. He
ays they are determined to mete out to prison
rs the same treatment that is given to their prison
RS by our Government Strong efforts have been IS
made by influential Southern men to obtain their ,
elease, but the Government will not swerve from
hfF 6 fs rs COCA i reason assigned for
heir arrest is that they within their lines i'm
properly. The answer to this in Washing gton is
hat Mr.. Harris was not invited to enter upon the
mission by the Government, and is viewed as a
ebel; hence, should not be imprisoned by his own
renus.