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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
as been ordered to-day. The following order was to-day issued from the post-office appointment office: "It appearing to this department that vicious persons are engaged in transmitting through the mail envelopes having printed or written upon them scurrilous or scandalous matter, it is ordered that postmasters stop all such matter as soon as discovered, whether at the office of mailing or elsewhere, and for ward it at once to the dead letter office at Washington. [Signed.] John A. Kasson, First Ass't Postmaster General." Confederate war vessel sunk. Philadelphia, August 7. --The U. S. Steam gunboat Flag arrived at Fort Mifflin this morning with thirty-six rebel prisoners, taken from the rebel war vessel "Petrel," formerly the U. S. revenue cutter Aiken, which was seized by the secession authorities of South Carolina, at Charleston, last winter. The Aiken fired at the U. S. frigate St. Lawrence off Charleston, probably mistaking her for a merchant vesse