From Washington

Herald’s Special.

NEW YORK, April 1.

State resolutions are soon to be introduced in the Senate, asking the Secretary of State for a report upon the reciprocity and fishery treaties with Great Britain; and also asking for statistical information, respecting the imports and exports in detail, since the treaty went into operation; and the amount of trade between this country and the colonies, that Congress may have the information necessary to take proper action upon the tax bill as well as to determine upon the proposed action, regarding the treaty.

Col. D. Uttasey of the Garibaldi guards was put under arrest, by order of Gen. Sumner, last Saturday, charged with neglect of duty in permitting his regiment to plunder the residents in the neighborhood of his camp.

Special to N. Y. Times.

It is ascertained on examination, that Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Fox, as soon as it was known that the Nashville had run in a Beaufort, North Carolina, telegraphed to every gunboat of the Navy, that was available, to proceed forthwith to that port to prevent her escape.  All urgency was expressed in his dispatches, but by a run of ill luck not one reached its destination in time to do any good.

The prospect is excellent for the passage of the bill for the completion of Steven’s battery.  The amendment of the Senate referring the matter to the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy was merely meant as a token of respect to that department – it not being contemplated that the Secretary would veto a bill deemed so important.  The Secretary prefers not to have the responsibility implicitly placed on him by the language of the bill, and it is probable that he will request that the amendment referring the matter to him, be stricken out.  The department is anxious to have everything in the way of improvement of iron clad ships fully tested.

The following is an extract from a private letter from London to a gentleman in Washington, describing the debate in Parliament on the American question:  “Mr. Mason, who was on the Tory side of the House, did not at all like the way it went.  The members who were near him say he cheered when Mr. Lindsay, in the course of his speech, attacked Secretary Seward.  This puts him in an awkward fix.  When I remember his tyrannical, insolent bearing in the U. S. Senate, it was sweet revenge to see him solitary and alone.  During the debate only one or two men went near him.”

A gentleman just returned from the Rappahannock reports that Maj. Van Steinhousen and Capt. Camp, while out on service were surprised and taken prisoners by the Louisiana Tigers.

Lt. Col. Claynish and Capt. Kolnig, encountering a rebel scouting force, killed two of their officers, whose horses were brought into our camp.  Capt. Newstader was taken prisoner by the enemy.

Shots are frequently exchanged between pickets and scouting parties.  A reconnoisance was made yesterday, and 10 wagon loads of forage secured.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 2, 1862, p. 1