Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-02-07
Tribune's Special.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
Jesse D. Bright will be expelled from tn
Senate, but probably not till Tuesday, a
there will be long executive session on Mon
day.
The commissioners now engaged at St
Louis in examining he acts of the Western
Department have written here for authority
to require Gen. McKinstry to render his &C
counts, without which they profess them
selves unable to proceed with the inquiry.
| The postal receipts for letters carried d.,
ring the last quarter of 1861 are but little les:
than during the same period last year, when
the mails went all over tie Union, the cost O
which is three millions less.
a new development in regard to the Nor
gan purchase of vessels for the Government
has just been made. 1t appears that befo {
the Savannah steamers were sold the owners
agreed to give certain broker per cent. il
he would sell the property to the Govern
ment. He sold to Morgan, to whom he paid
q per cent. The broker now sues the own
ers for his per cent. The owner contests
the claim, insists he is not 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 per
cent, an exorbitant price. The matter will
be exposed in court.
.s-.t4 Times Dispatch
| Private letters received in Washington
from persons abroad confirm the impress sion
that the Governments of England, France
and Spain mediate an carly recognition of
the independence of the Confederate States.
This recognition, it will be pretended is made
in the cause of humanity.
1t is now confidently asserted that there
are not ten Republican Members in the
House who are prepared to advocate the i'm
mediate and unconditional emancipation Of
slaves. All hopes of legislation favorable to
this class of politicians is abandoned, and
the Administration programme of preserving
the Union and Constitution and enforcing
the laws is said to be omnipotent in the
House. rs 4.re' '.ia -
,,.. ,.-e Herald's Dispatch
A descrter from the 1st North Carolina
cavalry, who gives his name as N. I. Emmett.
confirms the statement of previous deserters
as to the condition of the rebel troops and en-
trenchments about Manassas. The term of
enlistment of over so, 600 men, he alleges. OK.
pires at the erd Of this mon h. Of this num-
Der not one tenth will re-enlist, and if an at
tempt at coercion Is made he prophecies des.
perate and bloody resistance. ..,,l
The President, Secretary of War and
Quartermaster General have been in consul
tation with parties from the West, TO-DAY. in
regard to the frauds in the Quartermaster's
Department at Cairo. Frauds in the way of
contracts are said to exist which will be in
vestigated to the fullest extent.
The Investigating Committee find that va
rious parties in Philadelphia claim from the
government for army supplies of different
kinds over 100000. Specimens of some
Of the goods for the payment of v hich Dor.
lion of this enormous sum is demanded were
brought here BY the committee, and is posi-
live evidence that the laws have been de-
frauded.
Messrs. Cosode and Odell reported the re.
'ult 81 their Investigation to the Secretary of
War to-day.