Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-01-26
From Washlngion.
Washington. Jan. %


Washington, Jan. %.
Tx Attorney General Black to-day ten
dered his resignation as Law Reporter of
the Supreme Court of the United States.
40 effort was made yesterday in execu,
tive session, to take the nomination Of Gen.
Schoteld out OF the hands of the Military
COMMITTEE aud bring it before the Senate,
1t was withdrawn, with the understandings
that the COMMITTEES should act upon it at
the next meeting.
The special committee on railroad to
New York met to-day, not having received
the information called for from the War
and Post Office Departments, it adjourned
until tomorrow,
Mr.. Cox, of Ohio, will introduce a bill
next week, taxing holders of GOLD, and bills
of exchange, foreign aud otherwise, 2 per
cent. per month.
The fact that Gen. Grant solicited. by
telegraph, the impeachment of Gen. Scbo-
feld in place Of Gen. Foster, who is in
East Tennessee. was exclusively in your
dispatches of Wednesdays date, Its con-
frmation failed TO reach you last night, ny
mistake in delivering your dispatches =
Gen Scnefeld. accompanied by sone Of h S
staif, LETT yesterday 20 assume command at
! Rockville Tenn.
1t is not positively decided that Rose
Grams goes to Missouri. though every in.
diea ton points to that conclusion now.
The Senate Finance Committee have a
bill before them requiring The actual trans.
fer II gold when purchascd,ies of saiss
Gu margins. Heavy penalties are prescrib
Ell for vi fi!ion oftte hay.
The Ways and Mems Committee have
tFpeIt! ed IA hprr mn mora a l.,
bacca eud petrolcn taxation.
New Y,rk. Jan. %
Tho Washington rrsuial to the Times
Gen. Butler left tc.day for Fortress
Monroe hopeful Of being able to release our
| prisoners at Richmond within month
+ He will not recede an inch from the high
I ground he has taken with the Confederate
/ authorities.
IAN officer of Gen. Banks command
| writes to a friend here that, before the st
OF June the whole country west of the
| Mississippi will be clear of rebels in arms
Large quantities Of cotton come within cur
lines from the plantations in the interior Of
Texas.
a memorial from Wisconsin. strongly
signed, will be presented to the House soon
praying for the impeachment Of Judge OF
the United States Supreme Court for brih-
cry and c7rruption upon the bauoh of his
Circuit, in 1861, 1862. and 1868.
1t is stated positively that the Presi.
dent has determined to retain Mr.. Barney
as Collector Of New York, aud sustain hin
against the warfare for his removal.
Ii is rumored that Con. Sebofeld has
been ordered to relieve Gsp. Foster in Eas
! Tennessee"
The World'S dispatch says:
Tho number Of refugees now passing
through tho military lines is very large.
A gentleman from Mississippi saws thai
the rebel CONSUMPTION is being enforced
but the conscripts desert about as fast az
collected .....-
Late arrivals, from within the rebe
lines, at New Orleans, report that TIE re
bellion cannot stand much longer. Th
currency has become worthless. The plan
ters hide away everything Of value from
rebel impressment.
"Rumor says that Gen. L9ngstreet re-
Gently made tender Of an i'm portant char
acter to Gen. Grant, involving no less thar
the surrender of mis- force. An official wa
detailed, rumJr, SAYS, to hold an interview
wan b'AII hhu rs CO uPOu lcIulS. COGt
terms were offered that he declared that
rather than accept them, he and his ueopl
would fight to the last. cannot say how
much truth there Is in the story"
The Herald's Washington special say
positively: 49,
General Schofsld has been ordered t
relieve General Foster for the pres
ent.
Legislation on the goll question ha
been Abandoned, the Secretary of the Treas
ury not deeming it expedienr to FecommenC
further restrictions"
+ The TriduRe'S special from Washington
says:
Trustworthy information has bern re
ceised by government that the feeling
South is decidedly in favor of an exchange
of prisoners.
'Rumor says that the British Ministe
will direct the Consul at New York 60 lll
I-beiore the House Committee document il
his possession which will direct iuvestigA
ton into Iberaots Of parties not new REM
nent in the Custom House frauds, tlocksdt
running, &C."