From Washington

WASHINGTON, March 1.

Letters from Minister Adams declare that friendliness for the United States is growing in England.  The Spectator and other leading journals are about to send correspondents hither, who shall counteract Bull Run Russell’s lying prognostications.

Flocks of New York reporters have just arrived at Willard’s, keen for coming battles.  They have had no chance, as yet, to draw the pen.

The Republican of this morning says:– From various sources we here the cruel and relentless treatment of Col. D’Utassy by Gen. Blenker.  He is in close confinement in an unhealthy military prison and watched by armed sentinels, as though he were a felon of the deepest dye.  The official charges allege that he was in some manner connected with the publication of certain articles in German newspapers.  A court martial for the trial of D’Utassy will be convened.

White cravated, tract distributing beggars are circulating through Washington.  One modestly asked Gerritt Smith for ten thousand dollars to-day.  He had not the change about him.

A dispatch from Gen. Lander’s Assistant Adjutant General says he was exhausted and worn out, and that for twenty-four hours before his death his pulse scarcely moved.  Probably his disease was hastened by physicians, the effect of an arduous march, and by mental anxiety.

Senator Hale to-day called attention to the report of the conference committee on the civil appropriation bill, concurred in heedlessly last Thursday.  The report introduces new matter in violation of parliamentary law, appropriating $2,000 for plate for the President’s house.  Mr. Hale therefore moved to reconsider.

Mr. Browning said the bill had already been signed by the President and had become a law.  This is known as the gold spoon amendment, previously rejected by the finance committee.  The conference which worked it through, was composed of Senators Perce, Doolittle and Clark, and Representatives Stevens, Walton and Train.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, March 5, 1862, p. 1