The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-09-04
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WEDNESDAY, Sept $, 1862
House met at IL O'Clock. Prayer by Rev. Mr.
DAsHIrLL. Journal of yesterday read.
Mr. PERKINS, Of La, offer ed resolution request
ing the Secretary OF the Navy To furnish Congress
with Navy Register similar in form to that in
use under the late Government of the United
Siatea, Including statement 81 the position held
III ihs IN By ne different officers now
in the Confederate service. agreed to-
Mr.. CuRRlS, of Tenn, presented bill making
an appropriation FOR the payment Of certain in
terest due the branch Of tue Bank of Tennessee
at Memphis Referred to Committee Gu Claims.
Mr.. Il. NJ. BRUCE offered he following resola-
ton, which WAS agreed to:
Rssolrsd, That the Committee on Foreign Affairs
be- and Is hereby, directed to investigate aud con-
slider the proprety and eSpediency of Immediately
suspending ;s proceedings under the seqtiesraiion
laws except the seizing and preservation of prop
erty belonging to The Northern Republic or the
citizens thereof.
Mr. READ. of Ky introduced 4 bill authorizing
the President TO accept sixty thousand additional
troops from the States Of Kentucky, Missouri and
Maryland Referred TO Military Committee.
The SPEAKER presented memorial from the
Board OF Visitors of The Virginia Military Inst
tute. which, after being read was referred to the
Military Committee.
Mr. GARsFTT, of Va, introduced the following
resolution which was agreed 10:
Resolced, That the President be requested to Iii
rect the heads of the several bureans in the Mar
and Navy Departments to inform !his House wheh-
er their acquisitions on the Treasury have been
promptly met and ii not, the reasons assigned for
the delay.
Also a resolution that the President be request
ed 10 inform this House what number ofsctiZens
Of the Confederate States have been arrested by
military authority, and are still under arrest how
long such persons have remained in confinement,
and what measures have been adopted to secure to
them speedy and impartial trial. Agreed to.
Mr. kENSER, OF La, from the Committee OF
Ways and Means, presented two Senate bills which
req3ired the House 10 go into secret session, and
md Il that the House go Into secret session, with
q view to take up these bills.
The motion prevailed and after some time spent
with closed doors, the House again resolved itself
into open session.
The special order Of the day, being the bill to
provide for filing up existing companies, squad
rons bsttalions. and regiments and to increase the
Provisional Army. was taken up Various snbsti
tutes and amendments were Submitted, and the
House addressed by Messrs Niles Bonham, Gal
tber. and Crockett; but without coming to any
definite action upon the subject the House ad.
journed.
IIt is probable that several days win be con-
sun,ed in the consideration Of this bill. When It 10
perfected and passed by the House, we will pub.
lish it for the benefit Of those interested
THE NEW REBEL STEAMER "No. 290.'--Aecord.
ing to the following statement, furnished by the
London correspondent Of the Dublin EcsatnS Mail,
the new "rebcl steamer '.Eo. $50. which has Just
given the Tuscarors the slip, il an iron-e)ad and
very formidable vessel
She can steam from l6 to IL knots an hour; is
perfectly seaworthy; Tor all practical purposes Ia
vulnerable, and will prove to any vessel she may
encounter as formidable an antagonist as our own
Warrior the boast Of the British navy This Ia the
aNo $50" as to whose whereabouts Union cruisers
have with reason be raYed such anxiety. 1t had
been known for some time that large and power
fni iron vessel a. constructing at the dCckyard Of
Messrs Laird Birkenhead; but monsters Of the
deep are SO mn.b the order of the day at that es
Establishment that one troubled bis lead much
about this new production, or cared to remark the
arest thickness nf the plates which were being
ussd
a the very last moment the Federal authorities
scen 10 have had their suspicion aroused. for the
Tusarora was dispatched TO keep Walcn n me
nei ehborhood Of tho dock where she lay, and the
southsrn coast Of Ireland las also strictly watched
mo egO'' meanwhile, apprised OF all thai was
going on, dropped down the river quietly one day,
and steamed ont into the bay, nominaiiy ior ner
tsial trip-with party OF ladies' and muslciansrOn
board Instead, however, Of returning 70 moor,
iues al Dirkenhead, where she would have oeen
keept in lurance vile by the TuscArorR she quietly
landed her paassngsrA avoiding CoTs, ssefsora. @
Ac in the ueighborhood of which she smlght have
heard Of something not at all to her advantage
.Ho 2y0' steamed round by Londonderry ana
Donegal and was joined OF the west coast Of ire-
land by the steamer which had prsysonsly sallsd.
hayiue on board the armament Intended lar The
'Jronsidsa"
MORTALITY IN FAMILy. The Drew family.
,,hich has become well known 10 the public ON aes
count OF tho talent possessed By IT. member anu
,vhieh. Ike that "a the Booths sKaAuy, Kaipbles,
ana WaiAcks, has been chiefly directed 70 tho pro-
fssnion Of the stage. has sxpsrisnesd saa . mpr-
taiifv ar,on9 its male nlemben ~. John uesW,
who ~ = claimed TO BE- tho most cotFset
" ~ Aav a. Jsiah chareeles, disd an - 4lM Of
Hav Iest Is PhiAdslphla. His hrotAss - esafd
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