The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-05-21
DlSMISSION OF DESERTERS FROM
THE NAVY.
Gen. Crawford to Command the Penn
syIvania Reserves.
DECISIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE TREASURY.
OOrooran's Property not to be Con6scated
WASHINGTON, Nav 20.

WASHINGTON, May 20.
The U. 5. bark Roebuck captured on the
I'd inst, while attempting to run the blockade
at ST. Andrews Bay, Fla, the British schoon-
er Emma Amelia, OF So tons burthen, loaded
with wine, flour, &c.
letter from Nassau, dated May I'd, says
that since the 18th of March the following
steamers have made, or attempted to make,
voyages to the blockade ports Wave Queen,
Granite City, Stonewall Jackson, Victory,
Flora, Havelock, Emma, Ruby, Hero, St.
Johns, Margaret, Jesse, Mime, CALYPSO, Mich
olas LIST, Douro, Antonica, Giraffe, Thistle,
Gertrude, Georgia, Brittania, Pet, Ella, Annie,
Charleston, Dolphin, and others-26 in all
OF these, the following have been captured -
Granite City, st. Johns, Nicholas LIST, Ger
trude, Thistle, Douro Dolphin, Wave Queen,
Stonewall Jackson and Georgiana, and the
Nina has been long absent, and is supposed TO
have been lost at sea, thus disposing of eleven.
The names OF these vessels are often changed
which conveys the impression that the num-
Der engaged in the trade is larger than it
really is-thus the Stonewall Jackson was the
Leopard, the Victory was the Wayne and be-
fore that the Annie Childs, the Thistle was
the Cherokee, and the Hayelock is now called
the Beauregard.
is not so active as formerly, the price of reights
having become greatly enhanced within the
last two months.
There is authority for saying that all the
statements that Hon. II. J. Walker has power
from the Treasury Department to negotiate a
loan in Europe are without foundation, as are
also all the reports that any other persons
have been sent abroad by the Secretary of the
Treasury for that purpose.
DIR. L. S. Grunn, Deputy Surveyor of the
port of San Francisco, has been appointed
Collector of Customs for Puget Sound district,
Washington Territory, vice Smith removed.
Acting Ensigns Geo. A. Patterson, of steam
er Sumter, and G. A. Hodgdon. oi}steamer Sa-
vannah, have been dismissed from the Navy as
deserters.
Brig Gen. Crawford has been relieved, BY
an order from the War Department, from the
military commission, and assigned to duty I'M
der Major Gen. Heintzelman, for command Of
the division known as the Pennsylvania re-
serves. Gen. Seymour takes the place of Gen.
Crawford. The assignment was made at the
request of the Governor of Pennsylvania, in
consideration OF Gen. Crawiords former efiic-
lent services and fine solderly qualities. He
was with Anderson during the bombardment
of Sumter, with Gen. Banks in the Shenan-
doah Valley and Cedar Mountain, and while
commanding the first division after Gen. Mans
field fell, was severely wounded at Antietam
The following decisions have been made by
the Secretary of theTreasury, of questions aris-
ing upon appeals by impor,erstrom decisions of
Collectors, relating to proper classifcatiops,
under the tariff of July 1862:
The duty of 20 per centum on certain hat
ters fur was properly assessed as waste fur.
In case of secondhand gunny bags used
as envelopes for the transportation of linseed,
and in that service become worn, torn, stained
and in many cases entirely useless, excepting
to be made into other bags, it was decided that
an additional duty of ten per cent. attaches in
all cases, where goods, wares and merchandise
Of the growth or product of countries beyond
Cape Of Good Hope are imported from places
this side of it, unless their character, quality
and condition be entirely changed by manu-
facture or otherwise, the former distinctveness
of the article in question: namely, gunny bags,
is not merged in its new condition, but on the
contrary, is as fully preserved as was possible
in any change.
Cotton shirts not wove or made on frames
were properly subjected to a duty of five per
cent. advalorem. China clay five dollars per
ton. Cotton seed 80 per cent Mohar coat
ing and cloaking 35 per cent
The U. 5. Attorney for the District of Co
lumbia denies the truth of the published state
ment that measures are in progress for the
seizure under the confiscation act, of the real
and personal estate of Corcoran the banker
There is no evidence in his possession to war
rant such proceeding.
Goodsill Buckingham was to-day appointed
acting second Comptroller of the Treasury.