The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-02-03
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FROM WAsHINGTON-
rSpecial to the Tribune.
Washington. Jan. 3

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Washington, Jan. 81.
Probably Bright will be expelled from
the Senate, but probably not until Tues
day, 40 there will be long executive
session on Monday.
The commissioners now engaged at ot.
Louis in examining the acts Of the West
ern Department have written here for
authority to require Gen. Mck'nstry to
render his accounts, without which they
profess themselves unable to proceed with
the inquiry.
The postal receipts for letters carried
during the last quarter of 1861 are but
little less than during the same period last
wear, when the mails went all over the
Union. The cost Of transportation IL
g, 900, 900 less.
A new development in reference to
the Morgan purchase Of vessels for the
Government has just been made. 1t ap-
pears that before the Savannah steamers
we're sold the owners agreed to give o
certain broker two per cent. it he would
sell the property to the Government. de
sold TO Morgan, to whom he paid "a pei
cent. The broker now sues the owners
for his two per cent. The owner insists
that he is not bound to pay, and declares
he can prove that plan was framed by
some parties 10 fleece the Government in
the purchase Of these ships, by making
! FIVE per cent, an exorbitanl price. TIC
| matter will be exposed in court.
Times Dispatch.I
Private letters received in Washington,
from persons abroad. confirm the impress
sion thas the Governments Of England
| France and Spain mediate an early re
ccenition OF the Independence Of tht
Confederate States. This recognition i
will be pretended is made in the cause o.
humanity.
II is now confidently asserted that there
are not ten Republican members Of th'
House who are prepared TO advocate thu
immediate and unconditional emancipa
ton of slaves. All hope Of Legislation
/ favorable 10 this class Of politicians il
abandoned, aud the Administration pro
gramme of preserving the Union and Con
stitution and enforcing the laws is said t.
be omnipotcnt in the HOUSE,
Especial to Herald.
! A telegraph dispatch received here to
day from New York announces that thu
banks OF that city have appointed com
mittee to examine the City Bank, whicl
is broken.
The President has submitted to Con
gress the correspondence in reference t
the Spanish bark seized by a United State
cruiser and brought in as prize. Nose
Taylor, who was appointed by the Gov
ernmeu. apd accepted by the Spanls
Minister AZ referee, ha. awarded s2lD 10
damage, TO be paid By the Government t
the master OF the bark.
| A desertcr from the lst North CAROLYN
Cavalry, who gives his name as n. l. En-
NETT, confirms the statements OF preyiou
deserters as to the condition of the rebe
troops and entertainments about Manassas
Che term of enlietment of over 80, 90
men, he alleges. expires at the end of thi
month. OF this number not one tent
will re-enlist, and IL an attempt at coel
cion is made be prophesies desperat
and bloody resistance.
The President, Secretary of War an
Quartermaster General have been in cor
sultation with parties from the West Il
day, in regard to the frauds in the Quarte
masters Department at Cairo. Fraud
in the way Of contracts are said to exis
which win be Investigated tq the fplle
!, extent,
: The investigating committee find tn
various parties in Philadelphia claim fro
the Government, for army supplies Of d
: ferent kinds, over Sl6,0O0,00O. Spec
mems Of some of the goods for the pa
!. ment of which portion Of the enormol
> sum is demanded we're brought here BY Il
Committee. and there is positive eviden'
: that the Government has been defraude
Msssss Covode and Adel| reported Il
result Of their Investigation to the Sc
!. rotary Of war.
. The Richmond Dispatch admits tn
! the aggregate force Of the rebels now
: the field is but 25O, 900.
: PROM CALIFORNIA.
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