The Portland daily press., 1862-10-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
Consultation of N. Y. Liquor Dealers.
MILITARY ORDERS.
Order Relative to Sharpshooters.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 8.

WASHINGTON, Oct g.
The Solicitor of the Treasury has given
second opinion concerning the removal of
goods from their mandatory prior to the LIST
OF Sept. BY this opinion all goods actually
removed from the premises where they are
manufactured are exempt from taxation. BY
the word premises" is meant not only the
buildings where the manufacture is carried on,
but also storehouses connected Herewith and
used for the purpose of storing the manufac-
lures The opinion will be printed and dis
tributed Immediately.
The consultation of q committee of whole
sale liquor dealers from New York, held yes
terday with the commission of the Internal
Revenue, was for the purpose of having regu-
lations established which will facilitate the
moving and selling OF spirits in bond for ex-
port. Several propositions have been submit
ted, but as yet no conclusion has been reached.
Carpenter Leonard Wentworth, U. S. A.,
ordered to the jamestown, cannot be found
According TO the act of Congress. July last.
the Western gunboat fleet has just been trans
ferred from the War to the Navy Department.
All the vessels now under construction or re-
pair by authority of the War Department, are
TO be completed and paid for under the author
ity of that Department, from the appropriation
made for that purpose.
The War department is informed that certain
general officers OF the volunteer service, on
being relieved from their commands or trans
ferred from one command to another. have
occasionally carried off with them the soldiers
employed as clerks or orderlies at their former
headquarters. a recent general order says,
not only had they no right and should have
known better than to do so, but was wrong in
their snperiors in command, nor will it again
be permitted. All soldiers SO separated from
their regiments will be Immediately returned
to them, and the commanding officers of all
regiments from which men are thus irregularly
detached, shall, if the latter be not returned
within reasonable time, promptly report the
facts to the Adjutant Generals Office for the
further action of the department.
According to other army orders lust issued
no officer will hereafter be relieved from his
command, and sent to report in this city. with
out the authority of the War Department
When the subordinate officers are guilty of
military offences, or are negectul or incoInpe-
tent it is the duty of the commander to have
them tried for their offences, or examined in
regard to their incompetency by proper
court or commission. and this duty cannot be
evaded by sending them to Washington
Hereafter officers SO sent TO headquarters will
be Immediately ordered back, and those who
sent them will be deemed guilty of disobedi-
ence of orders.
No person shall be mustered into the service
of the u. 5. as a member of the corps of
sharpshooters, unless he shall produce the GER
tificate OF some person duly authorized by the
government of the State in which the COM
pany is raised, that he has in five consecutive
shots at two hundred yards, at rest. made a
string not over twenty-five inches, or the same
string of hand at one hundred yards, the GER
tificate to be written on the target used at the
test.
The State prisoners TO be exchanged left
here this afternoon, under the superintendent
of Maj. Schenck; Mr.. Wood, who has charge
of the old Capitol Prison, accompanying, to
negotiate the exchange.