WASHINGTON, March 9. – It is understood that the Committee
of Ways and Means will have a new tariff bill prepared by the time the tax bill
shall have passed the house. It involves
changes providing for two or three millions additional revenue.
A large quantity of worthless army clothing will be returned
to contractors, thus lessening the Government loss.
Judge Watts, delegate from New Mexico, has received a
dispatch from Ft. Craig to the 14th and Santa Fe 16th. He is confident that no great engagement had
taken place, probably only of the skirmish and of the advance guards. The recent dispatch from Denver to Julesburgh
is considered unreliable, and must have been verbally communicated by Express
riders over a distance of 700 miles.
Judge Watts has other information, which satisfies him that the account is
exaggerated and partly untrue.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4
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