, 1862-06-11
IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEASURES,
INCREASE OF ARMY
SURGEONS.
a NEW BATCH OF PAPER
MONEY.
SHIPMENT OF CONTRABANDs
FOR HAYTI.
The Proposed Exchange Of
Ruckner.
IMPORTANT POSTAL INTEL
LIGENCE.
Loss Of Mails on the Overland
Route.
ARRIVAL OF REBEL PRISONERS
FROM FRONT ROYAL.
y.UF Fhrn 3~n Tn*H trpr rE%A II
A. NEW BATCH OF PAPER
MONEY.
SHIPMENT OF CONTRABANDS
FOR HAYTI.
The Proposed Exchange Of
Ruckner.
IMPORTANT POSTAL INTEL
LIGENCE,
ARRIVAL OF REBEL PRISONERS
FROM FRONT ROYAL.


WASHINGTON, June 10, 1862.
Stanton is strongly opposed to negotiating
the exchange Of prisoners on the conditions
provided BY rebels through Major Stone, and
asserts that some members of the Cabinet are
favorable. The great stumbling block is in
the Kcntuckiaps, who insist that Gen. Buck
ner should be exchanged for Prentiss though
the result be the stoppage Of Ill exchanges.
Mr.. Brown Of Rhode Island has introduced
into the House joint resolution appropria-
ting $50, 600 additional per cent. appropriation
for the purchase andssproTiding suitable arn1a
ulcnt for Fort Adams.
Mr. Arnold Of Illinois has introduced into
the House Senator Fosters bankrupt bill. Mr..
Thomas OF massachusetts reported this morn
ing from the Committee on Judiciary, bill
making it mlsdcamenor, punishable With
imprisonment from thirty days to thr1e
years, or fine from 800 to $1,000,
knowingly 10 misrepresent, with the
view Of procuring contracts for turn-
isbing supplies ofGovernment, the quality Of
such supplies, their materials, cost, their pro-
ducts or market value, to be guilty Of fraud il
the execution Of q contract for supplies, or,
biting the ageEt OF the government, to collude
with contractors in the defrauding Of the gov
duced by Col Fox.
| The Committee on Wars and Means will
| probably recommend the issue of $3.50, ,0oO, 900
| rso1e Ct Demand Treasury Notes, sa5, ,000, 900
/ in bills under five dollars.
| Senator Wilson introduced, to-day, bill
| identical with that which the House voted
down, approprating S775, 900 for the purchase
Of tie Douglas Hospital, formerly Minnesota
Row. Referred to tile Military Committee. =
SENATOR Wilson also reported back from the
Military Committee his bill providing for the
| appointment Of twenty additional surgeons
and lao assistant surgeons, to continue in Of.
fec during the rebellion.
Major Silas B. Turner of the engineer corps
has been nominated brigadier general. Hc
is considered an excellent officer, was breyeted
three times during the Mexican war and was
at Fort Pickens lately.
The F. Wright lately sailed from here fol
Aux Cages, Hayti, with over 100 colored emi
! grants. They are mostly contrabands
though some are Of those lately
freed in the District. About hall
arc active young men; tie remainder families
With women .ud children. They are mostly
Intelligent, and all Of them are highly pleased
with the idea Of going to country where
there arc no whites. They have school books
tcstamenfs and clothing in abundance, and
were already studying the alphabet under the
tuition Of the more educated.
Over 200 have gone from this county with
in year.
Secretary Stanton goes North tomorrow
to be absent week.
| WASHINGTON, June 10.-Information has
been received at the contract Office Of tht
post office department, which leads to the be
lief that all the mails dispatched from tht
East to the Pacific coast by the overland route
via St. Joseph and Placeryille, between the
trst and t~enty.third Of april last, haye beer
lost or detained by the depredations Of the
Indians at some point east Of Salt Lake city
and that the malls sent from the Pacific tt
the East by the same route, between March
twentieth and April twenty-seventh, have also
met with a like detention and from the SAINT
cause. This information is given that cor
resrondcnce within the dates mentioned may
be duplicated. Mails are for the present dis
patched from New York for the Pacific BY
steamer via Panama on the 1st, sth, 10th ant
rcctcd to go over the route from st. JOSEPH
for the purpose Of recovering the missing
mails, if practicable.
WASHINGTON, June 10.-Jo6eph H. Bradlc,
has brought suit against Gen. Wadswortl
for false imprisonment. This grows out 0
| the military guard, who had proceeded to thl
jail and forcibly released female, alleged tt
be slave, from civil custody, the particular
concerning which were published at the time
I The owner of the slave has entered q sui
! | against Marshal Lamon on his bond for on
! | t4 e.,s@ s..
| the value Of slave.
The Committee on the Judiciary have au
t | thorized the report Of SENATOR Harris bill
. creating provisional governments, which will
, Of course, supcrsedc the military govern
mcnts.
The following nominations were made to
day forlhrigadier generals; Colonel Henry o
: Ferry, Michigan; Captain Albln u. Howe, 1t
:, Artillery.
ming Aba's special dispatch from Washingto
q says the rebels tire urging an exchange Of Ger
I Buckner for Gen. Prentiss, and promising tn
rtlease Of Col. Corcoran, and to make an cqu:
exchange Of prisoners, if Buckner is given uI
a WAsa1SGToS, june 10.-The President ha
. sent message 10 Congress, saying that it
9 desirable that such legislation as may be ncces
. sary to carry the SeWard-L yons treaty, for th
e Suppression Of the slave trade, into etfec
- shall be enacted as soon as may comport Wit
the convenience Of Congress:
NEW YORK, June 1o.-A Washington telt
gram says the Ways and Means Committe
will report TariG bill Tuesday.
,e WASHINGTON, June 10.-A special dispatc
y to the N. 7. E1ening Hxt says that the Dauie
d Government has made formal propositio
@ through its minister here, to take all negroe
- who escape from their masters, and remo1
&c them to st. Croix free of charge. 1t then pr
poses to put them under an apprenticeship
three years, permitting them to receive req
J. lar wnges. At the expiration Of their appre
Il ticeehip it Is proposed to free them uncond
= tfoDalJy.
y. The correspondence has been sent By Il
~ State Department to the House Judiclll
4 Committee.
t. WASHINGTON, June 10.-Rebel prisoner
If principally Of the Georgia Tigers and L.
u Virginfa, captured at Front Royal, we
d | brought here to-day, and uansferred to tt
is Provost Guards, by whom they we're escorts