WASHINGTON, March 28.
The Secretary of the Navy, by direction of the President, has written a letter to Lieut. Worden, earnestly and deeply sympathizing with him in the injuries he sustained, and thanking him and his command for the heroism he displayed, and the great service he has rendered in the action of the 10th of March.
An order has been issued for the restoration of the mail service between Boonville, Missouri, and Independence, which was suspended in December last, in consequence of the secession war. This important service runs along the South side of the Missouri river, through Lexington &c.
The Secretary of the Treasury has recently issued special licenses for commercial intercourse under the act of July last, which prohibits shipments from those parts of the United States heretofore declared by the President to be in insurrection. Without a written permit the licenses do not extend further than Nashville and intermediate ports. Nothing shipped under them is to be disposed of to persons in arms against the Government, or the furnishing of aid and comfort.
It is expected that the new legal Tender Note will be paid out by the treasury about the 1st of April.
Arrangements are nearly completed for establishing a line of steamers between Washington and Ft. Monroe, so as to secure daily arrivals – the trip to be made in nine hours.
At the suggestion and urgent solic[it]ations of Representatives McKnight and Patten, of Pa., and Fenton, of N. Y., who represented most of the petroleum or rock oil regions, the committee of ways and means consented to the striking out of the proposed tax on crude oil, and levying a tax of eight cents per gallon on the refined article, with a draw-back when entered for exportation.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 1
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