From Washington

WASHINGTON, March 31.

An order from the War Department calls attention to the very great carelessness shown by many detached officers, in not keeping the Adjutant General’s office advised of their movements and addresses; and directs the attention of officers commanding regiments, and all commanders of military departments, &c, to the exceeding importance of the information derived from reports and returns, which can in no other way be obtained.  The Secretary notifies all commanding officers that these orders must in future be particularly obeyed.

C. Butler, of Ohio, has procured an order from the War Department to have our scattered dead, who fell at Fort Donelson, removed and buried within the walls of the fort.

The House committee of the whole has acted upon 77 sections of the 109 of the tax bill.  The former embrace of the general provisions of licenses, manufactured articles and products, auction sales, carriages, piano fortes, watches, billiard tables, plate, slaughtered cattle, hogs and sheep.

The Senate confirmed the following nominations to-day: Stephen S. Harding, of Indiana, Governor of Utah; Wm. Slade, of Ohio, Consul at Nice; Delavan Bloodgood, Surgeon in the navy vice Chase, who was placed on the retired list, besides a number of assistant surgeons; also William C. Wheeler, Francis C. Dade, William G. Staum, Wm. J. Saunder, Mortimer Kellog, A. J. Kiorsted and John Green, as Chief Engineers in the Navy.  A number of promotions and appointments in the Marine Corps were confirmed, including Major Delaney to be Colonel, and Major Wade Marston to be Lieut. Colonel; Abram T. Nye, of Cal., register of the land office at Stockton; Frank E. Leno, of Mo., Assistant Adjt. General of Volunteers.

The Secretary of the Navy received a dispatch from Commodore Dupont, dated off Mosquito Inlet, Fla., March 24^th, giving a detailed account of an affair at that place, by which the Lieutenant Commanding Budd and Acting Master Mather, and three men were killed.  It appears that about forty men, in boats, went up the inlet, and were fired on from an ambush, by which the above mentioned were killed and several wounded.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 2, 1862, p. 2