WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. – The Nomination of Gen. Grant to be Major General was sent into the Senate to-day. He will be confirmed.
President Lincoln’s boy is still in a critical condition.
The bill which the territorial committee of both Houses are maturing, will organized the rebel country into free territories, on the principle that by the rebellion these States committed suicide and that with them their local laws and peculiar institutions have died.
Mr. Faulkner said in a speech last week at Martinsburg, that rebellion was a failure and advised his hearers to make the best possible terms with the government of the United Sates.
Congress has passed a joint resolution instructing Commissioner French to illuminate the public buildings in honor of the recent victories.
On Saturday evening an illumination of private buildings will probably be requested as a means of distinguishing loyal from disloyal citizens.
In a speech in Stark’s case, Carlisle of Va., to-day foreshadowed a pro-slavery policy in the treatment of the rebel States, saying the Senate must receive persons duly accredited hereafter by the Legislature of Mississippi, even if they have been in arms against the Government. It is coming to be generally hoped that Carlisle will thus be obliged to give his seat back to Mason.
Secretary Stanton has recently said that the victory at Fort Donelson is due to Gen. Halleck who planned, to the President who recognized, and to Gen. Grant who executed the campaign.
Noah L. Wilson, President of the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad is here and says the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is expected to be open within thirty days.
Very few private flags have been displayed in Washington for our late victories.
An order was issued to-day at the request of the entire Indiana delegation to terminate the furlough under which Capt. Hazzard of the army was allowed to serve as Colonel of the 37th Indiana Volunteers. He is charged with tyranny to his troops.
Schuyler Colfax has sent $100 to Quartermaster Pierce at Paducah to be expended for the relief os soldiers wounded at Ft. Donelson.
Capt. Carven in command of the Tuscarora is not like other captains who have pursued rebel privateers. If he catches the Nashville he will blow her out of the water, avoiding a capture if possible.
A subscription is on foot at Alexandria among the women for the purchase of a flag to be presented to Farnsworth’s Illinois Cavalry regiment.
The bill reported from the Naval Committee of the House, framed after consultation with Assistant Secretary Fox, provides for ten grades of naval officers. Five Flag Officers, eighteen Commodores, one hundred and forty-four Lieutenants. Commodores, Lieutenants and Masters’ boards to recommend for promotion or retirement. Flag Officers to be appointed only if they shall have received the thanks of Congress upon the President’s recommendation for services in battle; after receiving some honor the temporary appointment is to be made permanent and men and officers advanced; appointments to the naval academy will be two by each Congressman from the five best scholars in his district, and ten at large each year by the President from orphans of soldiers or sailors who have died in battle; senators are to appoint for any rebel districts, each in proportion to the quota of troops from his State, from orphans of soldiers or sailors killed in battle.
Senator Harris introduced a bill to-day making rebels outlaws so far as civil rights are concerned. The fact of the plaintiffs treason to be a complete defense in bar of any action.
Mr. Trumbull’s confiscation bill is the special order in the Senate tomorrow.
Gen. Grant will not be confirmed as Maj. Gen. until his official report of the battle has been received.
The Senate District of Columbia committee to-day summoned no witnesses to investigate the truth of the allegations in deputy jailor Duvall’s letter relative to barbarities practiced within the jail on an alleged fugitive slave.
Col. McConnell of the inchoate and considerably mythical 3d Maryland regiment of volunteers has at least been mustered out of the service.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 3
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