Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-01-21
Springfield, Ill.,, Jan, Is,
From, Washington.
Pecial Dispatch to the Chicago Times


Washington, Jan. II.
The House Committee of Ways and
Means have decided to report bill to issue
OF SlOO,O0O. 600 OF Treasury demsni notes,
making them legal tender, and making
them convertible into twenty years six per
cent. bonds.
The course of Marshal Lamon, in refu>
sing permits to C,ngressmen to visit the
city jan, was severely commented on IN
the Senate to day, he being denounced as
an imported satrap' and wandering
brigadier"
Nearly all the republican Senators
have demanded his immediate removal.
The bill which passed the House. abol-
lshlng the Thanking privilege, excludes all
newspaper exchanges from free transmits
sion by mail.
1t is probable that the Senate will pass
II Immediately.
Mr.. Stanton was confirmed to day as Sec
rotary OF war, with but two OF three dissen
ting votes.
IL is alleged, on reliable authority. that
the President has rendered TO Secretary of
the Interior Smith the vacancy on the Su-
preme Bench for the Western District. in
place of the late Justice Mclean tut the
Secretary has not yet accepted, aud holds
the subject under advsement.
HIS probable successor, in case of &C cent
ance, Is not known.
Generals Mcclellan and Marcy are 10
greatly improved health to day.
The Patent Office is in receipt of nuner-
Gus applications for cotton seed.
The President to day submitted to Con.
gress the correspondence between the Aus
TRAN Minister and Mr. Seward in rtlation
to the Trent affair.
In Count RechLuerg's letter to Cheyaiier
Hulseman, he characteriz S the seizure Of
Mason and Slidell as Illegal, and SEES moth
ing Objectionable in Eng!and's demands
Mr.. Stewards reply is of the same teuor as
his other letters on thie subject.
The War Department has received intel.
lgence tbat dispatch from Col. Garfield.
dated Paintsville, 9Th inst confirms the
report OF his dispersion of Humphrey Mar
shalPs force. His whole army is fying in
confusion.
Washington, Jan. II.
Inc Preside mt submitted to Congress to
day the following documents relative to the
Trent affair:
Count Reichburg, the Austrian Minister
OF Foreign Affairs, writes to CheavaIier
Hulsmann, the Austrian Minister at Wash.
ingtOn, as follows:
The difference which has superyened
between the governments of the United
States and Great Britain in consequence AZ
the arrest of Mason and Slidell by the cam
tain of the San Jancinto, aboard the Brit
lsh mail steamer packet Trent, has not fail
ed to nix the most serious attention of the
Imperial Court.
Inc more Importance we attach IN
friendly relations between the United States
ana England, the more we must regret an
accident which has cause to add so grave
complication to situation already bristling
with so much difficulty.
without having any intention to enter
here into the question of right, We never.
tneiess cannot but acknowledge that aceor
ulng TO our notions of in formal law. ndon-
tea by all persons, and which the Amer;-
can government itself has often taken as the
rule OF Its conduct, England could not in
any"ise,in the present instance, retain from
recismatIon against the atfront given to her
nag 10y asking proper PREPARATION for irO
Inc Count considers the request. redp,.
ed to form, of the Court of st. James as
not offensive TO the Cabinet a. washington
ana hopes the authorities will deliver u9 the
prisoners. ~ 'Ae
ahe Count says that Austria ia eonaIIv
pound In friendship to preventive grave
disturbances which the eventuaIity Of war
could not tail to bring, not only on each ona
OF the contending parties, upon the 49,
OF the world generally. -A''
secretary Seward retlied to Cbavol;o-
linlseman by inclosing him a conv of H.
correspondence passed between this oov.
and France. -Hs'anu
, Mr. Seward adds-frst, that the Un;,.a
are not only incapable for momen.
Di seeking to disturb the peace of The world
put are deliberately just and friendly ~
'"e,r intercourse with all foreign power,
Secondly, that they will not be nnfaith
'ui 10 their traditions, and as an advocate
u u me oroadest liberty in the application Of
,ne principles OF Intentional Law to the con
luet OF maritime warfare.
The United States, faithful to their sen,;.
nents, and at the same time careful of Their
J. liticai construction, will sincerely rejoice
tue occasion which has given rise To this
correspondence shall be improved 40 "a 70
'o 9I revision OF the law Of nations, which
sHi render more definite and certain the
tights and obligations of States in time of
var. o Va
IT, Washington, Jan. IL.
The friends of Cameron are very indie.
ant at the terrible onslaught made upen
lim, IN the Senate, in EXECUTIVE session