Monday, March 5, 2012

Washington News and Rumors

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. – Col. Garfield, now in eastern Kentucky, has been nominated as Brigadier-General.

Secretary Stanton has prepared from official reports full lists of all privates who have distinguished themselves, that they may be promoted.

It is rumored that Stephens has resigned the rebel Vice Presidency.

Gen. Bishop Polk is said to have recently written a letter advising emancipation as a last resort of the South.

On Mr. Trumbull’s motion, Gen. Grant has just been unanimously confirmed Major-General.

This morning’s Republican says that the private soldier who told of Gen. Stone’s communicating with rebels, on one occasion, was, a few nights since, furiously attacked by a midnight assassin, who burglariously entered his room. – The assassin was obliged to yield to superior force.

The Capitol will be illuminated on Saturday with gas from basement to dome.

A bill will to-morrow be introduced into the Senate repealing the Black Code of the District, whether embraced in Maryland laws or city ordinances, and putting blacks on the same footing with whites as regards trial, punishment and giving of testimony.  It will be accompanied by a thorough analysis of the infamous code.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 3

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