The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-22
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IOWA LEGISLATURES.
Especial % the Hawk.Eye.]
Dra Noywra N.cch ~ III

IOWA LEGISLATURES.
Especial 70 the Hawk.Eye.l
DIES Morxxs, March rs, 1862.
The Assembly has passed a joint resolution au-
thorizing the Governor to send three physicians
outside of the General Assembly to Sugar Greek
70 look after our men who were wounded in the
late battle there.
A dispatch from Judge Baldwin, Council
Bluffs asked the immediate appointment, which
was complied with. TIL. s.
Specials "a tho New York Papers.
Tribpne's Dispatch.l
NEW YORK, March l5.-The President nomi
mated yesterday for Brgadier General John
Craig, also Robert G. Buchanan to be Inspector
General.
The War Department has authorized Gen.
Halleck to superceje Major General Grant I'm.
less he should ask to be relieved, ON account of
bad conduct Mt Fort Donelson and elsewhere.
Secretary Fox, who is in Washington, re-
ports the Merrimac badly injured in the two
days fight. She had a hole bored in her hull
by the Monitor. She was leaking very badly
when she put back. The Oumberiand's broad.
side in first fight injured her SO badly that she
could not then attack the Monitor or Roanoke,
although they were both aground He thinks
that the Monitor, now that she is afloat. can
handle the, Messimac. She is so slow and un.
wildly. He considers it.utterly impossible for
the Merrimac to go to sea- as she would imme-
diately founder in an ordinary gale.
The Merrimac's shot was bunked away by q
ball from ll.inch on the Minnesota
Capt Buchan was wounded by a shot from
rife-man on board the Cumberland, the ball
going through his thigh.
, Mr.. Fox says the crew of the Minnesota as
well as that of the Monitor, wish to gee the
. Merrimac come out again, but It is not likely
that they will be gratifed
Commodore Stevens of the steam battery has
obtained permission from the Secretary of War
to make use of the 10 inch gun at Fortress Mon
roe, to be placed upon his steam propeller Nam
gantuek, 10 be used in the defence of New York
harbor, and to attack the Merrimac, in the
event of her appearance.
The Herald's Washington dispatch says Gen.
Mcclellan reviewed division of the army in
the vicinity of Manassas this p. m, and as he
reviewed the lines he was greeted by the most
vociferous cheers and enthusiasm
man this evening from village on the Orange
4 Alexandria Railroad, 81 miles from GodysvilIe
came into the camp Of the Ira Harris cavalry
He states that there were forty thousands rebel
troops in town when he lett and that they con-
tinued to come in and hurried on under the i'm
preston that the Union army was in pursuit of
them. Gen. Johnson and other rebel officers
were dining when he left.
He states that the road from Rappahannock
to Manassas is strewed with muskets, knapsacks,
haversacks blankets, and provisions flung away
in the retreat, and that numbers Of of soldiers
lay fainting and exhausted by the roadside.
The Times Washington dispatch says the
steamer Achilles, while passing the rebel bat.
teres at Acgua creek last night, was fred at
six times, indicating that there are some rebels
yet l0unging on the Potomac. None of the shots
took effect.
Gen. Hooker was of opinion ct nine o'clock,
to-day, that the rebels had not abandoned Fred.
ricksburgh.
Herad's special
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE relatives of
Capt. Franklin Buchanan, who commanded the
rebel iron clad steamer Merrimac at the late
fight, have written to his relatives in this city
from Baltimore, that he is dead, and bis body is
TO be brought TO the old homestead on the East.
ern shore of Maryland orntcrment.
movement is on foot relative to the i'm.
parchment of all those judges who have in any
form, shape, or manner aided in the inter-
ests of secession. A member of Congress has
now in his desk resolutian, which he will offer
at the first opportune moment to instruct the
Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into this
matter OF general impeachment, and report at
an early date by bill or otherwise.
Tribune correspondence
Delegations from great number Of business
interests are here, suggesting modification of
the tax bill in its favor Changes have already
been made in committee in making the tax spe.
ci6c instead of ad valorem. To newspapers.
making the advertisement tax three instead of
IF
gross Tobacconsts, reducing it on leaf and
stem, and raising ii on the manufactured, The
tax proposed.on umbrellas AMI parasols change
from specific to five per cent. ad valoreyn Om-
nihuses, entire freedom from the tax on passen.
gers. 1t was shown that it would be fatal to
them in competition with the horse railroads
The tax has also been stricken off from the
manufacturers OF Hour. This was done by del
egstion OF the Rochester miliers, who showed
that itwould be fatal totbeir business. All along
the line affected BY the reciprocity treaty. the
tax would enable the Canadian millers to under.
sell us in our own markets.
Sominations.of Daniel l.. Siekles and Halter
Gum OF New Hampshire were made.
Ten. Lockwood's nomination is suspended
The limits OF the Department to which Gen.
Hunter has been appointed has again been in.
correctly stated. II may not be improper to say
that it comprises the States of South Carolina.
Georgia and Florida. Gen. Sherman will be re-
tanned in the Dep9rimeE under Gen. Hunter.
Also, Capt. w. II. Beck OF the 18th Infantry.
formerly OF Chicago, Illinois
To-day Senator Sumner will introduce bill
repeating an act originally passed in 1912, pro.
viding that thenceforth no person by reason of
color shall be disqualified from employment in
carrying the mails.
Hon. Richard Fancbette, of the 18th N. Y.
district, has obtained the signatures of about $50
Senators and Representatives to A memorial TO
Congress, asking that better fations be served
out to the army.
Especial to Poet
WASHINGTON, March 1S-The Naval Commit
tee formally voted in favor of the appropriation
sufficient to complete the Stevens battery and
fifteen million dollars for the construction of
iron clad steamers.