The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-02-03
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3I.-Jesse D. Brigh
will be expelled from the Senate, but proba
bly, not till Tuesday, as there will be lonl
executive session on Monday.
The Commissioners now engaged at St
Louis in examining the accounts of the
Western Department, have written here fol
authority to require Gen. McKinstry to
render his accounts, without which they
profess themselves unable to proceed with
the inquiry.
The postal receipts for letters carried
during the last quarter of 1861, are bat
little less than during the same period last
year when the mails went all over the
Union. The cost of transportation is So
OOO, 900 less
A new development in reference to the
Morgan purchase vessels has Just been made.
1t appears that before the Savannah steam
ers were sold the owners agreed to give a
certain broker two per cent. if he would
sell the property to the government. The
broker now sues the owners for his two
per cent The owners contest the claim
and insist they are not bound to pay, and
declare that they can prove that a plan was
formed by some parties to fleece the gov
eminent in the purchase of these ships by
making five per cent.-an exorbitant price.
The matter will be exposed in Court.
TTMEs DISPATCH.
Private letters received in Washington
from persons abroad, confirm the impress
sion that the governments of Eugland,
France and Spain mediate an early re-
cognition of the independence of the Con-
federate States. This recognition, it will
be pretended, is made in the cause OF hu-
mainly,
1t Is confidently asserted thai there
are not ten Republican members of the
House who are prepared to advocate the
immediate and unconditional emancipation
Of slaves.
II hopes of legislation favorable to this
class of politicians is abandoned, and the
programme of preserving
the Union and Constitution, and in en- fore
ing the laws is said to be omnipotent in
the House.
HERALD's DISPATCH.
A telegraphic dispatch received here to-
day from New York announces that the
banks of that city have appointed a COM
mittee to the City Bank which is broken.
The President mas submitted to Congress
the correspondence relative to n Spanish
bark, seized by United States cruiser
and brought in as a prize.
Moses Taylor. who was approved by the
government and accepted by the Spanish
Minister, as referee, awarded S2,79I 90
damages, to be paid by the government to
the master of the bark.
a deserter from the First North Carolina
cavalry gives his name as NJ. Il. Emmett,
and confirms the statements of previous de-
serters as to the condition of the rebel
troops in the entertainments about Manas-
sas. The term Of enlistment of over 80, 900
men, he alleges, expires at the end of this
month OF this number, not one-tenth will
re-enlist, and if an attempt az coercion is
made, he prophecies desperate and bloody
res stance.
The President, Secretary OF War, and
Quartermaster General, have been in con-
sultation with parties from the West, to-
day, in regard to the frauds in the Quarter
masters department ct Cairo. Frauds in
the way ofcOntracts are said to exist which
win be Investigated to the fullest extent.
The Investigating Committee find that
various parties in Phila delphia, claim from
the Government fof army supplies of va
rious kinds, over SIG, 100000 Specimens
of some of the goods for the payment of
which portion of this enormous sum is
demanded, were brought here by the Com
mit.ee, and is positive evidence that the
Government has been defrauded
Nessrs, Covode and Odel reported the
result of their investigations to tho Secre-
tary Of War, to-day.
The Richmond Dispatch admits that the
field is but 100000.