Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-28
EROAI WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27,-Advices from East
Tennessee state that the Knights OF the Gold
en- Circle at camp Boone, near GAINESVILLE, are
preparing an expedition with ten thousand
men to lay waste the country from Cumber-
land Gap, through East Tennessee and Ken
lucky to the Ohio river, and along that river
to Pennsylvania.
Fort Pickens has just been supplied with
thirty heavy guns, munitions, and three thou.
sand shells.
Through the agency OF traitors, General
McClellan's plan for making reconnaissance
in force, which would have resulted in cutting
off the rebels this side Of Fairfax, was betrayed
to the enemy /; hence their recent stampede
Major General Hunter leaves for Chicago
to morrow, to command the Illinois volunteers.
On Sunday rebel battery fired fifteen shells
into the new camp of the twenty-ifth New
York regiment, near Balls Cross Road. Rein,
forcemeEts were sent, when the enemy retired,
j. g. Leybold and L. w. Walker, newspa.
per correspondents, were arrested yesterday,
charged with reasonable correspondence.
Samuel j. Anderson, late deputy sheriff,
and once clerk of the United States house OF
representatives, has been arrested as a CORE.
spondent of the rebels. He is friend of AL
exander H. Stephens. Reasonable letters
from the south were found on him.
The navy department is satisfied with the
presented in reutation of the charge against
his loyalty his own affidavit showing the al
legged letter to Ills son to be a forgery.
The secretary OF the treasury has Just issued
a circular of instructions to collectors and
other officers of the customs, calling their
attention TO the act of congress further to
provide for the collection of duties Oh imports,
and tor other purposes, approved on the 18th
of July last, and to the proclamation of the
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made in pursuance thereof, both of which are
annexed In view of this act, and the procla-
nation, the secretary directs and instruets the
officers of the customs to use all vigilance in
preventing commercial intercourse with the
inhabitants of the states i'll insurrectlon, eX-
cepting in the special cases in which it may
be allowed by license and permit as therein
set forth. The instructions OF the 81 OF May
and the 18th of July last, heretofore in force,
will be regarded as superseded by the more
comprehensive provisions of the act and proc
lamaton. The collector and other officers of
the customs, will report all seizures made I'M
der the proclamation, to the proper district
attorney for such proceedings as the law and
facts may Justify in each case, and as frequent
ly afterwards as may be convenient, report
their views in relation TO the commercial in
tercourse contemplated, and the permits proper
to be granted or withheld. In the forms ac-
companying the weekly returns required by
the circulars of the 9th of August last, to be
made to the treasury department. collectors
and other officers of the customs, will be care
full TO state what permits are 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 9th and
subsequent sections of the act commonly
known as the force bill
Flag officer Montgomery, commanding the
Pacific squadron, in writing to the secretary
of the navy relative to the expiration OF the
two years service of officers and men, says
"For my own part, neither expect nor desire
days respite from active employment, dur
ing the continuance of our present struggle
for the maintenance of our national honor and
the integrity of the Union. 1t rests with the
department to determine my sphere OF duty,
either on this or the other side Of the CONT
nent"
The following officers have been ordered to
duty as the staff of Gen. Robert Anderson
They are to report at Cincinnati on the Both
inst Capt Green, assistant adjutant general;
Capt Hancock, assistant quartermaster; Capt.
Symonds, commissary OF subsistence Capt
Prime of the corps of engineers, 1st Lieut.
Michlen of the typographical engineers, and
surgeon Cuyer of the medical staff.
Major Woodruff, OF the corps OF engineers,
is ordered to report Immediately to Gen. Dix,
to relieve Capt Prime
Orders have been issued to attach the
second regiment of Fire Zouaves of New York
to the Sickles brigade The selection of a
colonel is left to its own officers. 1t is under
stood that at the request of Gen. Mcclellan,
to day, the president has directed a commits
sion to be issued TO Brigadier General Sickles,
thus conferriny upon him that rank.
The following named officers have been
appointed in Major General Hunters staff
Capt. Fry, assistant adjutant general; Capt
j. w. Turner, commlssary of subsistence; and
Capt. Shaffer OF the volunteers, Lieut.. Edward
Smith of the fifteenth infantry, and Lieut.
Stockton of the fourth cavalry, as aidsde
camp.
A board appointed for that purpose have
lust completed the examination Of The propos.
ais for and drawing of fast screw propeller
steamers, in answer to the invitation OF the
navy department to some sixteen or eighteen
ship builders and constructors of marine en-
gines The invitation was in consequence of
the representations Of many persons that
much faster vessels than any in the navy
might thus be obtained. Such steamers were
required to move at the rate of fourteen miles
an hour. OF these ship builders and engine
constructors only two parties responded to this
requirement, and even what they proposed
was not satisfactory to the board.