New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-17
CHEERING ADyICES FROM EUROPE
What the Rebels Of Manassas are About
THE RasTlAHs PAST THE POTOMAC BATTERIES
THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR.
Special Dispatch to The n. Y. Tribune


TIE AMENDMENTS TO TIE LfSN.-TENDEV BILL.
The Seuate's amendments to the legal-tender
bill excite regret. and produce Encouragement
in the Ways and Means Committee. The
leading friends of the bill in the House ap.
preach the debate tomorrow, determined to
adhere 10 their views without change. 1t will
be referred to the Committee Of the Whole,
where she oppjrtuai'y fer asrouch-and-tumbe
6gb. will be unrestricted The debate against
The amendments will be opened by Mr..
Spaulding, with demapd for the same cur.
rency for BANKERS and soldiers. In calculating
tie public debt which viii be- rolled up by
July, 1861, aud for which by the Senate s
amendment, gold viii every SIX months have
70 be bought BY se'lrg more bonds to pay the
interes. with he has come IL The result tLat
II viii be SOC, 100000 in five months from
now, 81, 200 100000 10 July, 1863, end one
year thereafter $lSU0.OO0oO0. The claim
agents VIII take care that it fOots Up
$1,000, 600.
TIE TAX AND EXCISE BILL.
The rough draft of the tax and excise bill
sill be printed il three days end placed in the
committee room of the Why's AID Mems.
Amended and foally in shape, it will 10 re-
ported to the House. At least ten days will
elspse before it gets there.
TIE TARIFF.
Work upon the tariff by Morrill,. sub-ccm-
mittee has fairly begun. 1t is possible that it
may come in with the tax bill
SECRETARY STATIONS DEVOTION TO MS
DUTIES.
Tie people can appreciate Secretsry Stanton's
devotion to the war; from the fact that, 10
dispatch certain business, he has within tive
weeks stayed three doys and three nights in
bis Office, having his food brought TO him in
basket, and using SOFA to recllDe on, IN the
intervals Of clerical preparation OF papers. At
the last reception at bis house, il Conversation
with three Brig. Generals, be publicly said
"You must hgtt. If we are defeated, 1t can
DOT be helped. IL victorious, so much tue bet.
Ter But you must tight" 1t is this spirit
which has animated the war in Tennessee and
Carolina. which will 5000 crush the enemy
opposite the Capital, save the nation from bank
yuplcy, and restore the Republic.
TIP HATI-NihOffiAN MELpDkhmA.
The Judiciary Committee Of the House will
to.mono~ continue their inquiry into the plot
Of the Watt-Wik, fian Delodralna. Several
Correspondents Of Tie Ueratd have been sum
ooped, whose testimony, it is whispered, viii
not agree q. all points with that gwen by the
Chesdier and the Gardener, with respect to
SIZE Message.
TELEGRAPH TO THE AMO0R RIVER.
Senator Latham will to morrow introduce
Dill for tbe survey of telegraph line from
San Frsncisco to the northwest coast, over.
land. via Behring's Straits and Asiatic Russia,
30 the mouth vi the Amor River, W. proposed
byMcDonald Collins. The scheme 10 to connect
tbe American system Of telegfapbs, from
point in Missouri, with the line Dow beng
constructed from Kszan 10 the Amor. When
finished. the line will bring IN Geographic uH'ob
ehe whole European and American systenls,
ard belt the world. The Military Committee
ssAs for an appropriation OF $4,000 aud two
small vessels, ia order 10 uIese the preliminary
survey. The enterprise viii 10 under the d.
rec;ion Of The President, and other nations
will be invited to participate IN it
PROM EUROPE.
The State Department has received cheering
dispatches from our Ministers ia Europe.
They all sgTee that Foreign Powers, however
Gesiious that tie war may be closed, will not
intervene at present. a stay OF proceedings Is
granted, some say for SIX months, and some
for sixty days. If at tho expiration of this
term OF grace the rebellion does not appear to
De upon its last legs, France and Eogiand viii
De heard from. 1t is believed by competent
judges il Lotdon that Parliament will ,sby al
decisive majority, vote down toe motion 10
recognize the Southern Coniederacy, which
will be vebemently pressed by its friends.
Tburiow Weed is expec ed here in March.
WHAT THE REBELS AT MANASSAS AnE ABOUT.
No reports from blanas.ss base reached the
public for weeks. Wcll-iniormed civilians have
tary men 10 DO butled behind tue iorthcations
AT Centrey.iIe. has been greatly depleted, aud
large fractions Of IL sent to resirt Generals
Buell., Sherman, ana h Irnside. 1t Is no.
known thai any attempt to discover tbe pre-.
else facts has been nude by our Genefalr.
TIE HARRlET LANE PAST THE POTOMAC
BATTERIES.
The Harriet Lane has IA ely passed oil tie
fotonac batteries. How many shots were
nred at her, Gen. Hooker's Telegram does not
state. One struck tho top OF her very hg!'
Nheehelte, inAictlrs trivial dnuole.