Thursday, June 24, 2010

Washington News

WASHINGTON, April 30. – Wm. Cullen Bryant of Virginia, nephew of Gov. James Barbour, has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of Inspection of the P. O. Department.

The vote in the Senate refusing by four majority to refer the subject of the confiscation of rebel property to a Select Committee, was regarded as a test vote between the friends and opponents of the measure, and a triumph of the former

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

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