The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-02-06
T ELEGR APHIC.

o; 80 tioOoiy uoI iii 1uesudy
rs there will be long executive session
on Monday
The commissioners now engaged at St
Louis in examining the accounts of the
Western Department. have written tc
Washington for authority to require Gen
McKinstry to render his accounts, without
which they profess themselves unable to
proceed with the enquiry.
The postal receipts for letters carried dur
ing the last quarter of 1861, are but little
less than during the same period last year,
when the mails went all over the Union
The cost of transportation is three million
dollars less.
A deserter from the 1st North Carolina
cavalry gives his name as n. T. Emmett,
and confirms the statement of previous
deserters as to the condition of the rebel
troops and entertainments about Manassas,
The term Of enlistment Of over so, 900 men
he says, expires at the end of this month.
Of this number not one ten,h will re-enlist,
if an attempt at coercion is made, he proph-
estes desperate and bloody resistance.
The President, Secretary of War and Q.
M. General, are in consultation with par
ties from the West, in regard to the frauds
in the Quartermaster department at Cairo.
Frauds in the way of contracts are said to
exist which will be investigated to the full
est extent.
The investigating committee find that
various persons in Philadelphia claim from
the Government, for army supplies of var
Gus kinds, over sixteen million dollars
Specimens of some of the goods, for the
payment of which this enormous sum is
demanded, were brought here by the com.
mittee, and is positive evidence that the
laws have been defraudsd Messas. Covode
and Odell have reported the result of their
investigations to the Secretary of War.
The Richmond dispatch admits that the
entire force of the rebels in the field is but
250,000.
Private letters received in Washington
from persons abroad, confirm the impress
sion that the governments of England,
France and Spain, mediate an early rec
ognition of the independence of the Con-
federates. This recognition, it will be
pretended, is made in the cause of hu-
manity.
1t is now confidently asserted that there
are not ten Republicans members Of the
House who are prepared to advocate the
Immediate and unconditional emancipation
of slaves. All hope of legislation favora-
BILE to this class of politicians is abandoned,
and the Administration programme of pre-
serving the Union and Constitution, and
enforcing the laws, is said to lie omnipotent
in the House.
A prisoner of war, named TAYLOR, of
Cincinnati, has arrived at Washington by a
flag Of truce from Richmond. He says
that General Beauregard has left for Ken
tucky, taking with him $4,000 men from
Manassas, and that JEFF. Davis is to take
command in person Of the troops at Man
assas after his Inauguration as President,
on the 22d of February.
The greatest panic prevails at Norfolk
and Richmond in regard to the Burnside
expedition.
When the Ericsson left Hatteras Inlet,
the weather was too rough to land troops,
and Mr.. Taylor says he was accompanied
by detective to Norfolk, who was very
watchful not to lei him carry any papers
away with him. From this it is supposed
that they must have obtained some import
ant information.
1t was understood at Richmond that Gen.
Beauregard would reach there on Saturday
on his way to Kentucky.
Intelligence from Southwestern Missouri
indicates that several days may elapse be-
fore the occurrence of anything important.
Commodore Foot being in want of men for
the gun-boat service, Gen. Halleck has
issued a general order, in which command
ers serving in this Department, are ordered
to take immediate steps to ascertain what
men in their commands desire to be trans
ferred to the gunboat service. Care must
be taken in selecting, and preference be
given to men best fitted for such service.
The men selected are ordered to report to
Lieut.. j. W. Braek kett, U. S. A.. St. Louis,
by whom they will be enrolled and shipped.
A list of men furnished from each COM
mard, in writing in each case, the company
and regiment, is to be sent to headquarters,
that orders directing such transfers, may be
issued without delay.
So far, about one thousand prisoners on
each side, have been exchanged, nearly five
hundred Of whom were connected with the
army of the Potomac. The system of ex-
changes adopted by our Government is full
ly rcciprocated by the rebel authorities.
NAroLEoN AGAINST PAPER MONTY
Napoleon, the First Emperor, carried on
lis gigantic wars without depreciating the
currency of France, by simply adheriog to