The Portland daily press., 1862-09-25
BY TELEGRAPH,
TO THE
Portland Daily Press.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Dismissal Of Captain Preston.
A r. r. T. S Il S
CAVALRY RECONNOISANCE.

WASHINGTON Sept. "a.
A private dispatch from the vicinity OF the
headquarters of the army Of the Potomac, this
morning, represents matters there very dull
A number of nurses who were captured on
the Bull Run battle field and taken to Rich.
mond, have returned, having been released on
parole.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
decided that but one license is required for a
person who practices medicine, surgery and
dentistry. Also that ship building is not a
manufacture, nor liable TO taxation as such
most of the materials being the results of pre-
vious process, are assessed as manufactures.
considerable number of the wounded who
have been for some days past in the Capitol
Hospitals, having become convalescent, left
here this p. NJ. for New York.
BY direction of the President. Capt. S. NJ.
Preston, Assistant Adutant General U. S.
Volunteers, is dismissed from the service of
the U. s., for having offered to discharge a
soldier and collect his pay for percentage on
the amount.
SO much of General Order No. 125 as dis
misses Capt. John S. S. Perry of the 106th Pa.
volunteers is revoked. So much of General
Order No. 125 as directs the dismissal of Can't.
j. o. Patten, of the 33d Ohio volunteers. has.
by direction of the President been revoked
Capt. Benz. p. Waldo, Commissary of Sub
sistence volunteer service, is hereby dismissed
for habitual absence from his post and gross
and wilful neglect of duty.
A special commission, consisting of Generals
Hunter, Cadwadalder and Augar. and several
other officers, with Col. Holt as Judge advo-
cate, will assemble here tomorrow for the
consideration of such business as may be laid
before them
1t has already been stated that Gen. White
is here under arrest. He has asked an investi-
CATION concerning the surrender of Harper's
Ferry.
Coils. Dutascy, Trimble and Ford arrived
from Annapolis also under arrest in connection
with the same subject.
Col. X. B. Price, of the I'd Pennsylvania
cavalry, commanding a brigade of cavalry, and
two pieces of artillery, started Saturday even
ing upon reconnaissance from our front on
the other side of the river, as far as Ashby's
Gap of the Blue Ridge, which he found guard
ed by the 9th Virginia cavalry. under com
mand of Lieut.. Col. Green. At Aldie he
found the pickets of that regiment, which he
drove back TO Ashbys Gap. sixteen miles,
This gap is situated where Loudon Farquier
and Clark counties corner. There he engaged
the enemy, whom he dispersed, killing four
and wounding twelve that fell into his hands.
and others who were carried off by their re-
treating comrades. He lost one man, Captain
Perkins, of the lst Vermont cavalry. detach-
ment of which distinguished itself in the af-
fair. Among the prisoners are Lieut.. Colonel
Greene, the rebel commander, and two rebel
lieutenants, who. with the others, were duly
brought in this morning.
About two hundred rebel prisoners of war
are TO leave the old cSpito prison here this ev-
ening or tomorrow morning.
Governor Stanley, of North Carolina. arriy-
ed here to-day.