Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1862-02-05
THE LATEST NEWS.
WASHINGTON, Jan 80.

field of Bull Run TO obtain the romans
of Col. James Cameron and bring them
| to Pennsylvania.
C.B Waite has been appointed JUS
lice of Utah Territory.
A dispatch to tho Times says the
House Committee on the Pacific Railroad
met to-day and determined to report a
bill, but withou, recommending its pas
sage or rejection.
Gen. Stone arrived hero to-day for the
purpose Of appearing before the Com
Inittee on the conduct OF the war. 1t is
supposedthat he Will not return to Pools.
vile, as he has expressed wish to be
relieved OF his command.
The Heralds dispatch says that Gen.
Heintselinan is to be placed in command
of n now grand expedition to the South,
the details IF which are a. yet kept So
| cret. - -
The President and Gen. Mcclellan
are in expectation Of important military
! movements in Missouri, Kentucky, and
Gen. Hunters proclamation to his
troops that he will command the expedi-
ton across tho plains in person, is hailed
here by military men as all omen of sue
, cess.
Gen. Lanes expedition, about which
so much has been said, was only in the
imagination of Gen. Lane himself. and
was never authorized by the President
or Gen. Mcclellan. Gen. Lane, whom
commissioned by the President. was in
formed that he would act as subordi-
:,ste officer to Gen. Hunter, and not in
dependent of him..
The Times correspondent on board
the steam transport Catawby, which ar
rived at Annapolis on the 2s;h, has some
interesting particulars relative to the
sinking Of the second fleet ut Maffit's
Channel, ono Of the entrances to Charles
ton Harbor. Operations were delayed
by the stormy weather until Saturday,
when the vessels were dismanted and
sunk in the same manner as those in the
main chanpel.
The tenor of foreign dispatches re-
ceived at the State Department are peace
full.
The steamer Heck, of Philadelphia,
ran the blockade of tho Potomac last
night, without receiving shot from the
rebels. She was loaded with stores for
the army.
| A schooner loaded with salt cleared
for Washington the othor day, from Bal
timore. She went, however, to tho rebel
camp at Aqua Creek, having first sig
nailed the rebel batteries not to fire upon
her.
The new post office bill will soon be
introduced in tho House, altering post
age on letters to two cents, and deliver
ing all letters free of charge in cities.
The House committee on Territories
have under consideration a bill to regu-
late and govern the rebellious States as
Territories.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
| .Speeialto Tribune Jesse D. Bright
will be expelled from the Senate but prob
ably not till Tuesday as there will be q
long executive session on Monday.
The commissioners now engaged at
St. Louis in examining the account of
the Western Department have written
here for authority to require Gen. Nc
Kirstry to render bis accounts without
which they consider themselves unable
to proceed with the inquiry.
The postal receipts for letters carried
during the last quarter Of 1861 are but
little less than during the same period
Inst year, when the mails went all over
the Union. The cost of transportation
is So, 900, 900 less.
A new development in relation to the
Morgan purchase Of vessels for the gov
eminent has just been made, 1t appears
that before the Savannah steamers were
sold, the owner agreed to give certain
broker two per cent, if he would soil the
property to the government. He sold
to Morgan to whom he paid two and q
half per cent. The broker now sues the
owner for the two par cent. The owner
contests the claim and insists he is not
bound to pay, and declares lie can prove
that plan was formed by some parties
to fleece the government in tho purchase
of these ships by making five per cent
an exorbitant price. The mattcr will be
exposed.
A dispatch to the New York Times
SAYS. that private letters received in
Washington from persons abroad, con-
firm the impressions that the government
of England, France. and Spain mediate
an early recognition of the independence
of the Confederate States. This recog-
milton, it will be pretended, is made in
the cause Of humanity.
1t is now confidently expected that
there are not 20 Republican Members of
the House. who are prepared to advocate
the immediate and unconstitutional
emancipation Of slaves. All hope of
Legislation favorable 10 this class of pol
iticians is abandoned, and the admin
istratiou programme of preserving the
Union and Constitution, and enforcing
the laws. is said to be omnipotcnt in the
House.
The opinion at Richmond was that
the Merrimac was a failure.
Four Federal vessels are now on the
alert to capture the pirate Sumter.
| Several Federal vessels are lying idle
in port for want Of seamen; 1000 are
now needed by the navy. Com. Foote