The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-07-20

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Congress convened. as per appointment on
the 4th. In the House $50 members answered
the roll; in the Senate. 40 answered. Grow
was elected Speaker in the House. Iii the
House on the 9th, Mr. stevens reported d bill
providing for national l0nn or S25O,OOO. 600
IA dispatch from Washington or the 10th. says
the bill which passed the House that day
authorizes the Secretary Of the Treasury TO
borrow within twelve months Of the passage
Of the act, $40 O00, 900 payment To lie secured
BY duties on tea, coffee, sugar, spices, wines
aud liquors and other duties and taxes The
Senate bill taken ND on tile nth. authorizes
the employment Of volunteers for the suppress.
sion of insurrection. The bill as amended
makes on appropriation Of $500, 10 10. 600; and
enables the President to accept volunteers not
exceeding five hundred thousand. ss
Attorney Gen. Bates has prepared a lengthy
opinion concerning the power Of the President
to suspend the writ III hdJeds corpus, special re-
ference being made to the Merryman case
The action Of the President Is fully endorsed
in the document d.
1t was certain that after the discharge Of the
three months troops, there would still be an
available force OF L, 600, which added to the
regular army will amount to $50, 900 officers
and men. ... # s
The total amount required for the army,
added to the appropriation made for they
ending with June 1861 for the force now in
the field $lS5, 500, 600 The estimate 81 tie
navy is slso large. 8is n ii.
The Secretary Of war had decided to detail
d the officers captnred in Texas, and discharged
on parole, for duty at Forts kearney and Lara.
Inie; this duty will not conflict with their
oaths. Government intends To send a sufficient
force TO these points and others along the over
land route to fully protect the mails and the
property OF citizens A considerable force OF
volunteers are to come t0 Salt Lake! IL
Affairs in Missouri are assuming more
troubled aspect. s@i MI Vi d 81.
Coy jackson secretly called d session Of the
Missouri Legislature to meet al Sarcoxie,
seventy miles southeast Of Fort Scott, for tho
purpose Of passing an ordinance OF secession
Fugitives from jasper County were hourly
arriving at Fort Scott, and report terrible
state of affairs inthat section, ii is reported
that DE-. Wilson, DIR. Ulman, and other lead
ing uIlion iner, have baen hung s
al lights reported Is have taken place On
Friday the 5th inst near Carthage. Jasper
County, between the State troops under Gov.
Jackson and Gen. Rains, numbering from ten
to thirteen thousand, and fifteen hundred
Federal troops. under Col. Seigel. During the
action the Federal troops were reinforced by
two hundred Union men. III. 81 .=s I. %
Another account from Fort Scott. dated
July It'll, b M. says --aA citizen .of this
place has Just arrived having left Sherman
Jasper County, Missouri, Ct daylight this
morning he states that after leaving Car
image, Vol. selgel encamped two miles SOUTH
east 81 me town, where ne was acked IN the
night and ms, command badly cut up. His
lossis yariously estimated at flom three hum
dred 70 one Thousand, and that OF the Seces-
sionists from one to two thousand killed and
Wounded +es s .s s3
Col Blair, with three thousand troops from
Springfield, Is said 70 have Joined Seigel. Major
sturgls Is north OF the Usage, and Gen. Lyon
at last accounts, was ut Warsaw on his way
south. s. II
On Friday the 10th, Ben McCullooh and Gen.
I Price arrived at Neosho, twenty miles south of
Carthage with five thousand men guard
Of two hundred left there by Col. Scigei, was
surrounded and taken prisoners, One account
says that all were mnrdered; while another
states that but o small number Of them were
Killed 1. b. I: ". .5l@ Z @:..@'
McGulloch sent forward two thousand men
to assist jackson. He expected FIVE thousand
additional troops from Arkansas. %s z.