Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-04-02

MHaCkLAanous AND NKws frxMa.
Tie Secretary IT war - apSoinssd
Hon. JasspA Holt md Robszt Dale owsa
q special COMMITTEES TO audit and adjust
all claims GA che War Departments, In re-
spaet 10 oEdnanSe, azms and amanition,
shey Assto szsseh eus corznpsion in tina
procurement OF contracts, TO-, and their
decision Is to be final. Atsornsys are AK
eladsd from advocasing claims bsfws
them IkH 80 ~
Tsrvelars can 60 10 Nashville now with
out passes
nj the assaspapsF agsass u Fortress
Monsoe, except the agent Of the AssoSia-
tod press, have been ordered away by
Gen. Wool, for having failed to comply
with bis instructions respecting news
Wild Billy Price, desperate ehisf
> gaasilla band a aiissoasi ssbaa, ma
been taken prisoner.
Gen. Halleck has issued An order, that
guerrilla aghtars and aaraudsrs, when
taken prisoner, shail be hung.
Wsshington's Farewell Address waa
read In Philadelphia, on the I'D ult., from
the original manuscript, loaned by Mr..
Lsnox, of New York, for the occasion.
shAksspsaRe'S biFth-aay, april 2sd, ID
70 be celebrated in Hartford. 'a@'sSss
The Senate has confirmed the appoint
nent Of Bsigadier General Mcdowell,
whe oomsaaaded at Ball Run. a. Major
General Of Volunteers.
The French Minister has avaiLsd him
self Of Governments peraaission to make
q minute examination of the Stevens bat
terry.
The lrish easmsas, which has done
such noble Union service. in the war, says
the Boston Poss, will Gnqusstionably feel
battered n the appoiasmsat i'll Gen,
Banks, q shrewd politician, over Gen.
Shields, q SCARED warrior. L. this var
Or Caucus We are engaged in 3?
Afasnals In Observation-Disclosures
q woman in trousers-appeared IN one of
the New York City courts last Saturday,
~ astaEney for herself in divorce case.
All male lawyers who have not the ''gift
Of gab' in suparabaadance, may prepare
to retire from the profession.
There has been great rush Of visitors
TO Manassas, CsntssEills, and that Vicin-
isy, since tbs rebel evaeaation.
Attorney General Bates has decided
that disabled soldiers enlisted for three
years, OF during the var, are eatlEled to
invalid pensions under the act of July AZ
1861, and that disabled men of three
months volansssEs, under the Presidents
proclamation of April Is, 1861, are en-
titled to pensions under the acts Of 1902,
1916. Also that there Ia 10 law provi--
ding for pensions to the widows and or
phans who fall IN the present var.
There is said to be no doubt that a
number Of rebel gunboats have been built
on the james river.
Our loss, in the destruction of the Con-
gress and Cumberland by the rebels, is
about million and q half. About ST.
600 in specie went down In the Congress.
The Armament of the rebel steamer
Virginia tAsErimae) is said to be Of Eng
hsh make.
The appointment Of Daniel P. Tyler,
Of Norwich CT, WAC was In the three
monshs ssFVisa, and AT Bull Run, as a
General, has been confirmed.
6 Some rogue of taste has stolen from
the House of Odgen P. Edwards, Esq,
at Elizabeth. n. J. the original portrait
of Mrs. Allston, the beautiful and accom-
plished daughter Of Aaron Burr.
Ersstas Cook, of Kingston, who was a
candidate for justice of su-
preme Court, at the last election, has
suea the editor Of the Kingston Argus for
libel. The alleged Libel vas a charge
that Cook gamblsd, and the defendant
set up the truth in the defense.
The telegraph lines to Fortress Monroe
Was completed just ia time TO bring the
news Of the ending of the affair between
the rebal steamer MerTissac and the fed