Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-02-14

attack Fort Union. An express had been
sent TO Denver City for achievements, and
the Colorado troops would probably march
Immediately.
Martial law had been proclaimed in the Ter
ritory, and all ab!e-bodied men drafted to
serve in the militia. All mules, horses and
ammunition in the Territory had been seized
for the use of Government.
The Indians in the Territory are reported
troublesome. L.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock was to-day ap-
pointed Major General. He is grandson
of Ethan Allen, Of Reverend" fame and one
Of the Praise God Barebone's" kind, being
equa ly effective in praying and fighting. He
has the highest reputation for military capac-
| ity. Gen. II. is already veteran in the ser
vice, having been Colonel If the I'd infantry,
and having ranked as brevet until within the
past two or three years, since when he has
been in private life Gems. Abercrombic and
Montgomery We're his Lieutenant Colonel and
Major, res ectively, in old time. lie has been
urged for this appointment for months.
The new rcnton train CT insists of a number
of large tat-boats with wheels under them,
easily transported, and an immense amount Of
lumber upon train W. CONS built expressly for
that purpose, independent of the train. Col.
Mcleod Murphey made India rubber boats.
Messrs. F,nton and Dawes, of the Van
Wyck Committee, 60 to Harrisbursh, to-mor-
row, to fcrrit out fraud in contracts.
| The House has not, as stated, acted on
the $4,000, 900 Treasury Note Bill 1t was
introduced in the Senate, and threats Of post
oning action on it in the House untl the
Senate acts on the $l0O,00O,0UO bill are
IN ade by enthusiastic friends Of that measure.
| Efforts to discredit the well-authent,cated
fact that Gen. Mcclellan is to be re uced to
the command Of the army of the Potomac
are futile. 'Ion," ofthe Baltimore Sun, this
morning, confirms my statement to that eff
feet
| The nomination of Gen. Sigel as Major
row.
Maj. Gen. Ethan Allen Hitchcock was con-
6rmed to-day.
DR. Ives one Of the principal editorial wri-
ters of the N. Y. Herald, who has been here
temporarily for the purpose of recognizing
its Washington Department and acting him
self as its chief correspondent, was arrested
ro-day by order of Secretary Stanton, and
sent to Fort McIIenry. He is suspected Of
beng rebel spy. lie has brother in the
rebel army. The Doctor was himself former
w Jesuit Priest and Professor of Biblical
literature in the Catholic College at Milwau-
kie. saturday Ives gave breakfast to Nc
Clellans staff and threatened the wrath OF
the Heraki against the War Department un.
less he had news Immediately on its arrival
and in advance of all other papers. The i'm
mediate occasion of the dismissal of Han
seom, the previous correspondent, was his
calling the White Hoose party social blum
der, greatly to his (Bennett's) wrath.
A court martial in Gen. Stones case will
soon be ordered.
Senator Wilson to-day introduced bill
providing that all contracts or orders which
have been, Or m y be made, by any Executive
Department of the Government. or by any
bureau acting under authority of such De
partment, for military, naval or any othel
COVER nment supplies, shall be required to bt
executed to literally and strictly i'll accordance
with all terms in the conditions on such con
tracts or orders and that on a failure so to dl
they shall the eby abr"ga,ed, and that al
contracts or orders which may be hereoftel
made by any Department or bureau for any
government supplies shall BE- made only witt
parties actually engaged in the bus ness o
;ranuf. turing or fu n,>hirg and dealing IN ar
tlcles of the k nd contract for or ordered
and that no contract or order made a. aforc
said sAall be transferred by the party or par
ties to whom such contract Or order may b,
gwen to any other party or part es, d tina
any such ,ransf,r shall cause an annulmen
Of the contract or o. der t. ansferred.
49,. ill IL, pr,~ A,1Io
son and Denver, with many commissarcs anC
quar- termasters, were confirmed to-day. TIE
paymasters were refe rred back to he Mill
,ary omnt tee, with a view to the reduc
ton of their number by rejection. Gems
Asboh, McKinstry and Wade, recommended
by the Committee, were not acted upon.
Senator Wilson'S bill. e>tabll hing a ma
tional foundry and mandatory of cannon
of which he We notice day, locates thu
former on the Hudson river, south Of Yves
l'o.nt, and the Latter in Pennsylvania, proba
: bly, at bloomfield.
Maj. General Hitchcock is now living il
retirement at St. Louis. He has beon tele
yraphed to take immediate command a
Cairo He was Assistant Adjutant Genera
to Gen. S, OF, and Brigadier General Breve
IN Mexico, but offending jeff Davis wa.
forced to resign. He is not slave catcher
His appointment vas urgently advocated by
Mr.. Collamer. He is spoken Of as one .
the greatest military m n OF the country.
The Finance Committee Of the Senate re
ported the Treasury Note Bill tn morning
with important amendments in the legal ten
der clause. They reported because they ar
equally divided-Fcssenden, Shannon ssanC
tearce voting against it, and Sherman, How
and McDougal for it, The amendments pro
vile that the interest on al public debts shall
be payable in coin. and the receipts from Gus
TONS, sales of pub ic lands, and confsca ion
are devoted to the payment Of interest anc
the creation Of sinking fund also, that thu
Secretary of the Urea :ury may, in his d'scre
ton, sell government bonds from time to tim,
f. r what they W II bring, and that persons
depositing gold or treasury notes wi h thu
Assistant Treasurer, for more than 80 days
shall receive five ptr cent. interest.
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 10.
Capt Hopkins, Of the Missouri cavalry
captured Maj. Jenning and 29 rebels, Lately
: Rev. Mr. Capstene, one OF Prices Chapains
captured at Milford, and lately released or
pa ole, offended many loyal Methodists by
taking part in religious exercises at Mr. Jar
rims Church yesterday.
Two regiments of cavalry-the ID lows
and I'd Michi an-are under orders for For
Henry.
Several steamboats, are preparing to leav'
for Cairo with nun. tons aud military stores
Several of the prisoners confined in Nc
Dowell's College attempted to escape by Sc
creting themselves in vario parts Of tina,
bu lding, but after the return of the tro ,ps
from conveying the main body of the rebels
on board Of the bite Cloud, strict search
was made for some six that were missing
and they were found in the waterloo ct anc
fished up in not very odorous condition.
The Democrats Ro la letter says Price