WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. – Numerous applications continue to be made for permission to trade at the several captured points on the Southern coast. None of them have been granted.
Information has been received here that the iron-clad gunboat on the Erickson plan is thus far satisfactory to the official inspectors. A trial trip to Fortress Monroe is contemplated.
The President’s son, William, aged 11 years, is so ill as to preclude the possibility of recovery.
A very large number of Army and Volunteer appointments were confirmed, including Captains, Lieutenants, Adjutants, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, &c.
The promotion of General Grant to the Major Generalship, gives him a superior command to Brigadier Gen. Buell, in the same department.
The Secretary of State, says he sees indications of a satisfactory reaction in favor of the United States in Great Britain, as well as on the continent.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 3
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