The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-08
Latest News from Washington.
Late Weather Report
ISpecial telegram to the Dispatch.


WASHINGTON, September 81 Il. NJ
Over the Middle States stationary barome-
ter, light, variable winds, higher tempera.
ture, and clear weather.
Press telegram
WAsH1SGToN, September II P. M-For
Tuesday, over the South Atlantic and east
ern Gulf States, slight changes in barometer,
easterly winds, cloudy or partly cloudy
weather, stationary temperature, and light
rains on the coast.
Over the western Gulf States, southeast
winds, stationary barometer, cloudy and
threatening weather. =.
Over the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys,
falling barometer, with winds yeeripg to
southeast. increasing cloudiness, with local
rains and stationary or higher temperature.
Over the Middle Atlantic coast, stationary
barometer, northwest winds, and possibly in
the southern portion stationary or lower
temperature, and partly cloudy or clear
weather.
The Transfer of the Army HeadQuar.
ters-Oficial Order.
WASHINGTON, September THE official
order confirming the Punishment Of the
general of the armies from the seat of Gov
erpment to st. Louis, is as follows:
Headquarters of the army, Washington,
Septembere5, 1874, General Orders No. A.
1. Pursuant to the provisions Of general or.
ders No. 10S, War Department, Adjutant
Generals Office, September Sd, 1874, the
Headquarters of the army will be established
at st. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th day of Octo.
Der, 1874, and all communications and re.
ports 20 these headquarters heretofore re-
uuired will be addressed accordingly.
9. The following officers will be transferred
from Washington to st. Louis-viz.: Colonel
w. D. Whipple, aide-de-camp and assistant
Acknowledgement; Colonel j. G. Mccoy, aide
de camp; Colonel J. c. Audenreid, aide.de.
camp; Colonel j. E. Tourtleotte, aide.de.
camp; Colonel j. III. Bacon, aide.de-camp
Colonel o. NJ. Poe. Of the United States En-
gineers, aide.de.camp, will remain in Wash.
ington, and all maps, reports of reconnois.
ance, and of explorations will be sent to him,
there to be compiled and transmitted to the
army headquarters.
8. Colonel W. d. Whipple will, about the
1st Of October, cause the records, library, and
furniture of the present offices to be carefully
packed and marked and turned over to the
Ouartermaster Department for transporta.
ton to the new headquarters.
T. The clerks and orderlies, seven in
number, now employed at the Headquarters
of the Army, will at the same time be trans.
ferred to St. Louis.
BY command of General Sherman.
(Signed) john pr. BACON, A. D. c.,
and acting Assistant Adjutant.- General
Resignation (?) of Whitley the Gov.
eminent Detective.
WASHINGTON, September 7.-Colonel Whit
lev, of the Secret service, and his crew have
resigned, and the papers in their cases have
been referred to the Attorney. General
This Whitley is he who put the Columbus
Ca, prisoners in boxes and the witnesses il
sweat-boxes. It will be remembered tina
several gentlemen of Columbus were taker
from their homes by this detective and sub
iecied,to indignities while charged with TIT
murder of person in negro bawdy-house
The Staunton POsfmastersbip. EzE
WASHINGTON, September 1.-THE commits
sion has been signed and received from Lont
Branch appointing Samuel n. Yost postmas
ter at StauntoD, Va.