Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-01
JENSED, BRIGHTTO Be EXPELLED
New Development in the Morgan Pur-
chase Of Vessels.
ENGLAND, FRANCE AND SPAIN TO RE.
COGNIzE THE REBEL GOVERNMENT.
CONDITION CT RpnEL TROOPS
AT MANASSAS.
Fraud in the Quartermaster's
Department at Cairo.
The Burnside Expedition on
the Move
JEFF. Davis to Take Command
at Manassas.
CONDITION CT RppEL TROOPS
AT MANASSAS.
Fraud in the Quartermaster's
Department at Cairo.
TIE MBRRIMAC a FAILURE,
New York Tribnns's Special Dispatch !

w AsHNGToNi January 3l.-J esse ID. Bright
Will be expelled from the Senate, but proba
executive session on Monday.
The Commissioners now engaged at St
Louis in examining the acts of the Western
Department have written here for authority
to require General McKinstry to render his
accounts, without which they profess them
selves uIable to proceed with the inquiry.
The postal receipts for letters carried dur
ing the last quarter of 1861 are but little less
than during the same period of 1860. when
the mails went all over the Union. The cost
OF transportation is So, 600, 900 less.
A new development in reference TO the
Morgan purchase of vessels for the Govern
ment has just been made. 1t appears that
before the Savannah steamers were sold, the
owners agreed to give a certain broker two
per cent. if he would sell the property to the
Government. He sold to Morgan to whom
he paid two and half per cent. The broker
now sues the owners for his two per cent
The owner contests the claim, insists he is
net bound to pay, and declares he can prove
That plan was formed by some parties to
fleece the Government in the purchase of
these ships by making five per cent. an ex
orbltant price. The matter will be exposed
in court.
Times Dispatch.J
Private letters received in Washington
from persons abroad confirm the i'm pressious
that the governments of England, France
and Spain mediate an early recognition of
the independence of the Confederate States.
Ihls recognition, 1T will be pretended, is
made in the cause of humanity.
1t is now confidently asserted that there
are not ten Republican members OF the House
who are prepared to advocate the Immediate
and unconditional emancipation of slaves.
All hope oflegislation favorable to this class
OF politicians is abandoned, and the Admin
i'uation programme of preserving the Union
and Constitution and enforcing the laws is
SAID TO be omnipotent in the House.
New York Herald's Dispaoth.l
A telegraph dispatch received here to day
from New York announces that the banks Of
that city have appointed q committee To
| City Bank, which is broken.
The President has submitted to Congress-
the correspondence in reference to the Span
ish bark seized by a United States cruiser
and brought in as prize. Moses Taylor,
who was approved by the Government and
| accepted by the Spanish Minister as referee
! has awarded $2,791 81 damages to be paid
| by the Government to the master of the
| bark.
A deserter from the First North Carolina
Cavalry, giving his name as N, L, Emmett.
confirms the statements of previous deserters
as to the condition of the rebel troops and
lntrenchments about Manassas. The term
OF enlistment of over eighty thousand men,
he alleges expires at the end of this month.
VI this number not one tenth will re enlist
and if an atysmpt at coercion is made, he
prophesies desperate and bloody resistance
The President, Secretary of War and
Quartermaster- General have been il consul
tation with particles. from the West to day,
in regard to the frauds in the Quartermaster's s
Department at Cairo. Frauds in the way of
contracts are said to exist, which will be in.
yestigated 10 the fullest extent The Inves-
tigatiDg Committee fad that various parties
in Philadelphia claim from Government for
army supplies ofdfferentk kinds, over SIG, OOO,-
600. Specimens of some of the goods f0r the
payment OF which portion of this enormous
sum Is demanded, were brought here by the
Committee, and is positive evidence that
the Government has been defrauded.
Messrs. Covode and Odell reported the re-
suit OF their investigation to the Secretary of
War to-day.
The Richmond Dispatch admits that the
aggregate force of rebels now in the field is
but $50 600.
ST. LOUIS. February l.-Intelligence from
South-W estern Missouri indicates that several
days may elapse before the occurrence of
any thing important.
Commodore Foote being in want of men
for the gun boat service, General Halleck has
issued General Order in which commau-
ders serving in the department are ordered
to take immediate steps TO ascertain what
men In their respective commands desire to
be transferred to the gun. boat 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
Lieutenant j, W. Bricheit, United States
Army, st. Louis, by whom they will be en-.
rolled and shipped. A list of men furnished
from each command in writing in each case,
the company and regiment, is to be sent to
head quarters, that orders directing such
transfer may be issued without delay
MlLwAUKIE, Wis, February 1.-The fol-
annual report of the Milwaukee Chamber of
Commerce:
Receipts of wheat last year, 1854, 2O6
bushels; shipments of wheat, l6,682 875
bushels; increase of receipts, as compared
with 1860, S45, 408 bushels; increase of
shipments, 6 sl6 542. Value of produce by
exports 1860, $4,000 0OO 1861, $4,000, 600.
FoRTREss MoNRoE, January 81 - The
steamer Ericsson, is in from Hatteras.
The Ericsson brings nothing later, except
that the Burnside expedition was about 10
move 10 its destination.
A prisoner of war, named Taylor, of Gin
cnDali, has arrived here by "a flag of truce,
from Richmond.
He says that General Beauregard has left
for Kentucky, taking with him $4,000 men
from Manassas, and that JEFF Davis is to
take command in person of the troops at
Manassas after his inauguration as President
on the 22d of February.
The greatest anxiety prevails at Norfolk
and Richmond in regard to the Burnside
expedition.
Fort MONROE Janustv Al -Whan the
Ericsson left Hatteras Inlet the weather
was too rough to land troops, and Mr. Tay
lor says he was accompanied by detective
to Norfolk, who was very watchful not to
let him carry any papers with him. From
this it is supposed they must have obtained
some important information.
1t Wss understood at Richmond that Gen.
BeauTeeard would reach there on Saturday,
on his way to Kentucky.
The opinion at Richmond was that the
MefTimGc was a failure.