The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-02-08
special - me New Yssk Papers.
fHerald.s Dispaech.l

wAsnlreros. Feb. s---Ths only oven. yester,
day vas the assumption OF bic command By Gen.
.. =. AeAshers who. accompanied BY General
Shields, took command Of the Irish brigade
amidst great enshusiasm. Gen. Shteldsnddress
ed the troops In most effective terms.
Capt. 0rildn's battery did some splendid
shooting to-day at Minors ain. They fred .
dozen rounds With scharpnel shell from two IA
FOUNDER Parrott guns as tree sixteen hundred
and every shot struck within . few feet of the
tsee.
CThbuns,s Dispatch.
kumoc grows into belief that Secretary Stan.
ton will speedily take In fact. - be has com.
menced, 70 reform the conduct Of the war, which
usage and departmental law give him the right
to do.
The scene at the close Of the expulsion Of
Senator Bright was dramatic. There was des
peratS decisiveness In the No with which Bay
ard answered 20 his name. When Carlisle, Of
Virginia, voted No the duttsr Was signi6cant and
loud-he had been counted only among the
doubtful. The Californian, McDougal, and n.
Simmons were ct frst absent, but not moment
too SION they came In. and g votes decreed
the law thas In the American Senate hereafter
no TRAITOR shall have . seat. when the result
was announced the gallery burst Into applause,
but was checked Instantly. Bright then bundled
up the portable property on his desk, turned his
back upon the court which had tried him, went
to Secretary Forney's room and drew his pay
TO the last cent, and with defiant stride passed
into the public Land Oommissioner's room where
bis wife awaited him In her presence the 90.
tors costume fell. The ruined politician sat
down, haggard and crushed, and contemplated
the wreck he had made Of his fortunes.
Mr.. Arnold was authorised to day to report
fully the views Of the Lake aud River Defence
Committee on the Notifications Of the frontier,
and the arming aud equipping Of vessels for the
lakes. Their recommendations will be thorough.
It is said Governor inorganic nomination as
Major General will be rejected BY the Senate. If
It is confirmed it 10 apprehended every Governor
Of every free State will claim this rank and emol.
uments
The New York Timcs' Paris correspondent
states a.secret document from JEFF. Davis had
been furnished the Governments of France and
England which gives .ull details Of the military
and commercial resources of tho Confederacy,
and which points out in detail the advantages
which France would derive by aiding in the es-
tablishment of the new Government. In its de.
tails Of military resources France is expected to
zee that the Confederacy IL able to resist the
North forever, which entities them to recogni
ton, while In its commercial details are seen
the enticing phantom of free trade and CONNER.
cial riches.
The Times Washington Correspondent says
that Representatives Vailandigham, Pendleton
and Corning, with Morrill,, both Conklinge, Hor.
ton, and few Others, held meeting this ?. ",
and agreed to comprise ell their proposed amend.
nents of the demand Treasury Note scheme In
one bill, with the view to making stronger
combination against the bill Of the Committee
Of Ways and Means, which the Administration
has endorsed a. Indispensable to maintaining the
Government and carrying on the war.
Tho vote may DO close, but the chances are
decidedly In favor Of the legal tender clause.
The Hon. John A. Parker, United States Con-
sui, at Honolulu, has arrived here, with impor.
tant information for the Government. He says
Agents have been sent to England to hypothi.
cate the entire group of the Sandwich Islands
to Great Britain.