Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-08
NOON DISPATCHES.
End OF TIE LANE EXPEDITION,
THE BERDAN SHARP-sHOOTERS
Mexican Affairs in the United
States Senate.
Son OF Chancellor WalWOrth Ar
rested for Treason.
Stanton TO Take Charge Of the Armies
Except that Of the Potomac.
New Railroads in the South.

WASHINGTON, February Am error in
Representative Conway's resolution, as
printed to- day, renders it necessary to say
that his call on the President was for the
names of all persons arrested under the
order Of any executive officer without legal
process, and confined in any of the Forts or
other prisons of this country, exclusive of
persons taken as prisoners of war,
ITribunes Washington Correspondence
The difficulty in General Lane case arises
from the facts that be is almost the iunior
Brigadier General, and in Department
commanded by superior officer, and that
to give him a separate command would in
volve the necessity of manufacturing a lot
: of senior Colonels into Brigadiers for his
especial necessities.
The difficulties in Colonel Berdan's Regi.
ment will be settled by a removal of the
Colonel, the armiug of the men with Colts
rifles and revolyers, and sending them to
the front.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs
had Mexican matters under consideration for
two hours this morning. No conclusion
was reached.
New interest has been awakened by the
victory at the National Bridge, and the
friends of Mexico are sanguipe that some of
the plans for her assistance by US will be
adopted.
Senator Latham is preparing report from
the Military Committee, authorizipg sur
vey TO establish telegraph communication
from San Francisco, Uia Behring's Straits, to
the mouth of the Amoor River. The meas
ure will be pressed on Congress with urgency.
Senator Harris, from the Judiciary Com
mittee, made today a resolution that Mr..
Stark, OF Oregon, is eRtitled to his seat. be.
cause the Senate has no power to investigate
the question of loyalty until he has taken
his seat,
Times Correspondence
The Senate Financial Committee had an
informal meeting to day, for the purpose o.
| considering the House Treasury note bill
Enough was said to show there is consider
able opposition to the legal tender clause
They finally ordered the bill printed, and i
will come up for final action at their meet
| ing tomorrow.
Owing to the sickness of Mr.. Covode. tn,
projected interview with the President il
relation to the Lane Expedition will not TAX,
| place to-day and probably never will. Sen
ator Pomeroy had an interview with hin
on the subject, but the President was unable
| to see any way out of the difficulty. He ex
/ ptceoted General Lane to have arranged mat
| tiers with General Hunter on his arrival a
Leavenworth. He rsiterated-while he wa
willing that General LaGss should have
command of IL, 00O or $1,000 men, ne had M
idea Of his outranking General Hunter, O,
any way interfering with his command
This is er:idently the end Of the Lane Expe
dition.
This evening a son of Chancellor Wal.
worth was arrested at the Kirkwood House
in this city, on the charge of treason. His
trunks and papers were seized, but not yet
examined.
The various rumors to the effect that Sec
retary Stanton is to assume the active man
agement of the army, leaving to General
Mcclellan the command of the Army of the
Potomac only, has this foundation only: A
week since the staff of General Mcclellan
were notified to be in readiness for q move-
ment across the river. They made every
preparation for so doing, and Major E. NJ
Green, of their number, went to New York
for the purpose of purchasing certain per
sonRl supplies for their use. In consequence
of the state of the roads they have
not yet been ordered over, but they
are ready to go, and when they 90
General Mcclellan will turn over to the
temporary charge of Mr.. Stanton the control
OF the entire army, with the exception oil
the army Of the Potomac. 1t will be remem.
bered that when General Scott went tc
Mexico he pursued similar course, thus
leaving himself free to attend to the more
important matter in hand. Mcclellan and
Stanton are on the best terms.
Especial to the New York HeraldI
The President of the American Telegraph
Company leaves Washington for New York
tomorrow morning. Frequent aud salts.
factory interviews with the Secretary of War
have convinced Mr.. Sanford that the meas.
ures adopted by Government in relation To
the transmission of telegraphic dispatches are
imperatively demanded by the public wei.
fare, and interfere with neither the private
rights of citizens nor the interests of the
Telegraph Company.
NEW YORK, February Southern news.
papers, received here, state that the rebel
leaders are devoting much attention to the
subject Of new railroads jeff Davis recon.
mended to Congress in secret session the
completion of the Mississippi and Alabama
Road go as 10 connect Selma, Ala, with
Meriden, in Mississippi, and Congress pro-
posed to appropriate $l5OOeO for that pur.
pose.
The New Orleans Picayune also notices the
fact that the road from Mobile to New Or.
leans Uid of Jackson and Meriden, has been
completed, and remarks it is most oppor.
tune, as the Yankees have possession of thC
Sound, and may destroy the coast line a
any moment.
A million Of dollars, it is said, has beer
estimated by Mr.. Davis to construct rail
road between Danville, Va, and Greens