The Portland daily press., 1863-01-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Telegraph Line between WASH
ingtOn and New Orleans.
International Agricultural Exhibition.
Air Line Railroad between New York
and Washington.
Reports on Slavery Emancipation.
The Mcdowell Court Of Inquiry.
WASHINGTON. Jan. IL.

WASHINGTON. Jan. ii.
The committee on Naval Affairs have, ac-
cording to resolution passed unanimously OH
Monday, commenced an inquiry into the prac-
ticability of connecting all our naval and mill
tary stations between Fortress Monroe and
New Orleans by submarine telegraph cables.
&. w. Field, Esq, of New York. now here, has
presented to Government an offer from the cell
ebrated firm of Messrs. Glass, Elliot d Co., of
Loudon, to manufacture and submerge cables
connecting all points between Washington and
New Orleans. They are to be paid only on
the successful completion and delivery to the
Government of three lines in good working
order. In other words, they take the entire
risk of manufacture, shipping across the At
lantic, laying down and working the lines, &c.
The importance of such an arrangement for
telegraphing, is admitted by all parties, both
AS matter of economy and actual military
necessity. Hence there seems to be no doubt
that Congress will, without unnecessary delay,
make appropriation for that purpose. The
firm of Glass, Elliot d Co. last year laid cable
for the English Government of l ,535 in length,
which has been in perfect working order ever
since.
The President has submitted to Congress
mes sage, with an accompanying note of X.
Schlieder, Minister from the Hansiatic Repub-
lie, relative TO an international agricultural
exhibition to be held with the cooperation of
the German Agricultural Society, at Ham
burg, commencing on the l4th of July next.
The Minister is anxious that the triumph of
the American agricultural genius and art, so
signal in the case of the reaper and mower in
London, may be repeated at the first national
exhibition of Germany. He says that European
governments have agreed to remit duties on
articles exhibited at the Hamburg fair to be
reimported,a and suggests that similar aids most
requisite still for American exhibitors. A
grand show of American products is assumed
to be necessary to show the continental ma
tons our ability to compete with them in ayr
cultural as well as industrial implements.
The military and postal railroad from this
city by air line to New York, as proposed by
the bill OF Representative Fenton, makes the
capital stock s10,000,O00, s5,000,000 of which
are TO be raised by thirty year bonds of $1,000;
the first 81 100000 to be paid to the corpora
ton when it shall be shown that S2,000,000
have been expended in good faith. The guage
to be uniform, and the track double. The
highest rate for first class passengers two and
half cents per mile, and the maximum rate
for freight 5 cents per ton per mile.
The Judiciary Committee of the Senate
have reported back the Missouri emancipation
aid bill, recommending amendments to make
the remuneration twenty instead of ten mil
lions, the bonds to bear but five per cent. in
terest, the maximum allowance for each slave
500, and the limit for the entire extinction Of
slavery to July H. 1876, with proviso that an
act of emancipation shall be passed by the
Legislature and the exclusion OF slavery for
ever thereafter from said State.
The report of the commission consisting of
David r. Goode, II. King and John NJ. Broad
head, appointed in pursuance of the act of
emancipation in the District of Columbia,
made their report to the Secretary of the
Treasury to-day They have reported favor
ably upon 900 petitions, rejected entirely 30
petitions, and in part q petitions. The whole
number of servants for whom compensation
has been awarded is 29S9, and the entire num-
Der of servants from whom compensation has
been withheld is III making a total of BOO.
The Senate to-day, in executive session, con-
irmed the nomination of Robt. w. Taylor Of
Ohio, as First Comptroller of the Treasury.
In the Mcdowell Court of Inquiry to-day,
Gen. Pope was cross-eXamined. He detailed
his movements and plans for his several army
corps to pursue on the 9th, 18th and 10Th OF
August, and also the movements of Jacksons
and Longstreets corps, against which he was
principally contending. His testimony show
ed that Jacksons escape was the result of a
failure of the division of General King to
hold its ground on the night of the 2Sth, as he
ordered it to do. He averred his belief that
General Mcdowell had discharged faithfully
his whole duty when connected with the army
of Virginia, and deserved the unstinted thanks
of the country on that account.