C.-Statement showing number of destitute American seamen, &r.—Continued. 6: Crew of wrecked schooner "Velocity," from Honduras to Key West, on board British schooner "Exchange," for passage, $300; board while at Honduras, $28: total.. 4: Part of crew of ship "Intrepid," wrecked in China seas, board and subsistence 94 days, (total number of days 376,) at 50 cents per day: total C.-Statement showing number of destitute American seamen, &c.—Continued. 4: Seamen of the brig Ella Reed," board and sub- 25: Persons, master and crew, of lost ship "Roscius," board and subsistence 6 days, (total number of days 150,) at 75 cents per day: total... 38: Officers and crew of the American ship "Palestine," board and subsistence 23 days, (total number of days 874,) at 75 cents per day: total. 8: Captain and crew of the American brig "Eolus," picked up at sea and brought to New York; board and subsistence 10 days, (total number of days 40,) at 75 cents per day: total Total number of seamen .. Total amount Respectfully submitted to Hon. John C. Underwood, Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, November 16, 1861. GEO. B. SIMPSON, Recording Clerk. D. Statement showing the amount expended in arresting American seamen in foreign countries charged with the commission of crime on American vessels, together with the expenses attending the examination of the same by the consul, and the expense of sending them home for trial, with the witnesses, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861. Circular to collectors, surveyors, and other officers of the customs. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 2, 1861. On the 19th of April, 1861, the President of the United States, by proclamation, declared the ports of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas under blockade, and on the 27th of the same month, by another proclamation, declared the ports of Virginia and North Carolina also under blockade; since which proclamation this department has received reliable information that attempts are frequently made to furnish arms, munitions of war, provisions, and other supplies to persons and parties in those States in open rebellion against the constitutional authorities of the Union. It becomes my duty, therefore, to instruct you to cause a careful examination to be made of the manifests of all steam or other vessels departing from your port with cargoes whose ultimate destination you have satisfactory reason to believe is for any port or place under the control of such insurrectionary parties. Ex. Doc. 2-11 and to compare the same with the cargo on board; and if any such manifest be found to embrace any articles of the description before mentioned, or any such articles be found to constitute part of the cargo, you will take all necessary and proper measures to prevent the departure of the vessel, and to detain the same in your custody until all such articles shall be removed therefrom, and for further proceedings according to law. You will also make a careful examination of all flatboats and other water craft without manifests, and of railroad cars and vehicles arriving at or leaving your port laden with merchandise, the ultimate destination of which you have good reason to believe is for any port or place under insurrectionary control, and if arms, munitions of war, provisions, or other supplies are found having such destination, you will seize and detain the same, to await the proper legal proceedings for confiscation or forfeiture. In carrying out these instructions you will bear in mind that all persons or parties in armed insurrection against the Union, however such persons or parties may be organized or named, are engaged in levying war against the United States, and that all persons furnishing to such insurgents arms, munitions of war, provisions, or other supplies, are giving them aid and comfort, and so guilty of treason within the terms of the second section of the third article of the Constitution; and you will therefore use your utmost vigilance to prevent the prohibited shipments and to detect and bring to punishment all who are in any way engaged in furnishing to such insurgents any of the articles above described. You will, however, on the other hand, be careful not to interrupt vexatiously or beyond necessity, by unwarranted or protracted detentions and examinations, the regular and lawful commerce of your port. You will report forthwith whether any, and if any, what, additional measures may be necessary, in your judgment, to carry into full effect the foregoing directions; and you will report to this department, from time to time, your action under these instructions. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. N. B.-Among prohibited supplies are included coals, telegraphic instruments, wire, porous cups, platina, sulphuric acid, zine, and all other telegraphic materials S P. C. No. 2. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 12, 1861. SIR Referring to the circular instructions of the 2d ultimo, prohibiting the transmission of munitions of war, provisions, or other supplies to parties in insurrection against the United States, you are now further instructed to exercise the utmost vigilance in arresting and detaining all merchandise, of whatever character, the ultimate destination of which you have satisfactory reason to believe is for insurgents against the United States or for places under their control. If you are satisfied, either from the nature of the articles, or otherwise, that any merchandise, wherever destined in name, is in fact destined for persons or combinations in actual insurrection against the government of the United States, you will cause the same to be seized and proceeded against for forfeiture. If, however, you are satisfied that any merchandise, transmitted for States or places under insurrectionary control, is not intended for actual insurgents, and has been shipped or forwarded without intent to afford aid and comfort to such insurgents, or otherwise to violate the law, you will simply detain such merchandise, and notify the shippers or forwarders, or their agents, of such detention, and state the cause thereof. If such shipper or forwarder personally, or by agent, shall satisfy you that the merchandise so arrested will not be sent to any place under insurrectionary control, but will be either returned whence it came, or be disposed of in good faith for consumption within loyal States, you will restore possession of the same and allow such disposition thereof to be made as the parties in interest may desire. You will regard all States in which the authority of the United States is temporarily subverted, as under insurrectionary control; but any portions of such States in which the laws of the Union and the authority of the federal government are acknowledged and respected, will be considered as exempt from any interruption of commerce or intercourse, beyond such as may be necessary in order to prevent supplies going to insurgents or to places under their control. It is the intention of the department to leave the owners of all property perfectly free to control it in such manner as they see fit, without inteference on detention by officers of the federal government except for the purpose of preventing any use or disposal of such property for the aid and comfort of insur gents, or in commerce with States or places controlled by insurgents. No. 3. S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury. Circular instructions to collectors and other officers of the customs, TREASURY DEPATMENT, August 22, 1861 The attention of collectors and other officers of the customs is called to the act of Congress entitled "An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved July 13, 1861, and the procla mation of the President of the United States of August 16, 1861, made in pursuance thereof, both of which are annexed. In view, therefore, of the act aforesaid, and the proclamation of the President of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, I hereby direct and instruct the officers of the customs to use all vigilance in preventing commercial intercourse with the inhabitants of States in insurrection, except in the special cases in which it may be allowed by license and permit as therein set forth. The instructions of May 2 and June 12, 1861, heretofore in force, will be regarded as superseded by the more comprehensive provisions of the act and proclamation. The collectors and other officers of the customs will report all seizures made under the proclamation to the proper district attorney for such proceedings as the law and facts may justify in each case; and they will also, as soon as practicable, and as frequently afterward as may be convenient, report their views in relation to the commercial intercourse contemplated, and the permits proper to be granted or withheld. In the forms accompanying the weekly returns required by circular of the 5th August, 1861, to be made to this department, collectors and other officers of the customs will be careful to state what permits are asked for the shipment of goods, by whom asked, and the grounds on which the applications are based. The attention of the collectors and other officers is especially directed to fifth and subsequent sections of the act. S. P. CHASE, |