Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune

The difficulty in Gen. Lane’s case arises from the fact that he is almost the junior Brigadier General, and in a department commanded by a superior officer, and that to give him a separate command wound involve the necessity of manufacturing a lot of senior Colonels into Brigadier Generals for his especial necessities.

The difficulties in Col. Berdan’s regiment will be settled by a removal of the Colonel, the arming of the men with Colt’s rifles and revolvers, and sending them to the front.

The Senate committee on foreign affairs had Mexican matters under consideration for two hours this morning; no conclusion was reached. New interest has been awakened by the new victory at National Bridge, and the friends of Mexico are sanguine that some one of the plans for her assistance by the U. S. will be adopted.

Senator Latham is preparing a report from the military committee, authorizing a survey to establish telegraph communication from San Francisco, via Behring Straits, to the mouth of the Amoor river. The measure will be pressed on Congress with urgency.

Senator Harris, from the Judiciary committee, made to-day a resolution, that Mr. Stark of Oregon is entitled to his seat, because the senate has no power to investigate the question of loyalty until he has taken his seat.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, February 10, 1862, p. 1

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