New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-03
SENATOR sTARKES DIsLOYALTY.
TIE BUTLER EXPEDITION.
Special Dispatch to The n. Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1862.
TIE GOVERNMENT FINANCES.

The signature of the last of the authorized
$50 00O,0 600 Of Treasury notes viii be made
on Wednesday next. The number Of days 1t
will take to pay out every dollar of this issue
can be counted on the fingers of mans hand.
Meanwhile the vote on the Legal Tender bill
waits the maturity OF the tax scheme. This IS
in charge Of Mr.. Morrill, Of Vermont, the
Chairman of the Sub Committee of Ways and
Means 10 which the Tariff and Excise were
ready to report is not known. In July last
the Revenue bill, containing over eighty see
tions, was matured for presentation TO the
House in ten days. Letters continue to be
received from tie most eminent bankers from
Albany, New.York, and Boston, approving of
The Legal Tender bill as q war measure, wise
as it is inevitable
THE ABOLITION or SLAVERY.
The Progressive PARTY in SPAN Is jubilant
over the news that our Congress has decrced
the radical abolition OF Slavery as war
measure, and a measure OF ciyiizs,ion. The
papers of the LIBERAL Spanish press received
here by tie last steamer contain ia hali.inch-
long paragraphs what they call the GLORIOUS
news" Of the final emancipation Of The slaves
in the Rebel American States, at once an i'll.
struction to our Congress and reproach.
TIE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION.
A private letter from an officer IN tie Burn
side Expedition expresses the hope tina. enough
transports can be got over the inner bar 10
carry brigade TO tie point Of debalkatioD a
force amply sufficient to hold it. The trans
ports could return for tie other bripades.
The writer alludes to tie wretcheduess Of
the little harbor full Of bars aud shoals, mud
with a miserable anchorage" in which for up
ward Of week vessels Lad been /" continually
running into each other and getting aground,
in which latter case they are pretty sure to
become total wrecks as there arc no adequate
means for saving them OF their careOes.' After
speaking Of the other vessels, Whose hoes ~
already known, the writer adds, I" Tie steam
shin Suzanne, which arrived from Annapolis
wa Fortress Monroe, on the 10Th, parted her
chain cables the same day, and at night was
ruu on a shoal 10 save her. In the morning
she was hard and fast, begged, and Der bed
Mate starred. She couldn't be started, she
couldn't be hanled off, and she viii lie total
loss without doubt. The sand has formed
around her 50 that nothing can get TO her to
take off her cargo. An attempt will be made
to camel over some of the Transports, four Of
the Erie Canal boats 10 be u'ed as cemes."
The facts with regard to the purchase or
ff az lulis uge1
ports in the burnside Expedition, aud some
vessel. Of questionable character employed in
the Port Royal Expedition, Will be brought
out in the reply Of the Secretary of War to
Senator Grmess resolution, adopted in the
Senate last Thursday, and not hitherto pub
hsied in fun, as follows:
bered 1bs, the Secretary Of War be directed, furn,h
senae astaeneut Ia tabular 70 slowing TIE uauo
Of each ,e,e chs,d chartered Tor the OF the Nsf
D.tsae,t ,c. the H. dsy OF April last when thus char
tered Of purcbocd Of whom by what sseD Of he Govern.
uent, shch vessel. were built 81 VII unnsge aud
ters were "a rctd what fysr # itslrCtiou such
vesses subjeced before they chartered Of pur'
pfoDfty deyed 10 confequei Their OF also that
he aoi the senate ~bat vessel, ave under charter BY
, a. ,sbsre the, are. hen cLarts ed Tor what
p3ip.se by wn0rn. alG al What fate
GINS. LANE AND HUNTER.
Tie facts touching the conflict between Gems
Hunter and Lane are these: The understand
Jog that Gen. Hunter was to be recognized by
Gen. Lane as his superior was assented 70 by
Gen. Lane, who SAID that he had all conf
dence in and respect for Gen. Hunter, aud
would gladly serve uDder him. The President
granhed Gen. Lane by appointing tho staff he
asked Tor, and expected be- would himself ar
range with Gen. Hunter TO be detailed to the
command Of the expedition to the Gulf. The
Ire'ident will be gratfed to have Gen. Lane
'a"e command OF the expedition, providing 1t
can DC done consistently with the public inter-
's'' and The appreciation of the Major General
commanding the depar men,.
The Hon. Mr.. Conway Of Kansas solicitons
'or 'ne success Of Tie expedition, had an in
'eNiew yesterday with the President, who
confirmed the above facts. From tier sources
We learn that the President aud Secretary
"Ianton tay they don't know how matters
s'and now. Senator Pomeroy will introduce
a resolution Of inquiry tomorrow, by which he
hopes to get at the truth One thing is ccf
tam whether Gen. Lane OF Gen. Hunter com
mands the expedition, it viii be- conducted
upon Anti.Slavery principles Gen. Hunter
surprises even Kansas men by his Abolition
utiernnces. lie desres tins war to be non1-
nslIy and really a war for Freedom, ard 90