WASHINGTON, April 9. – The Secretary of War has submitted to
Congress a communication on the northern coast defences, enclosing an elaborate
report from Edwin S. Johnson, of Conn., well known as a practical civil
Engineer and connected with the Joint Commission of 1817 and 1819, for running
and marking the north eastern boundary line.
Mr. Johnson recommends the passage of Senator Morrill’s bill, and the
adoption of the policy of placing in the hands of the President the necessary
power to accept loans of money from the several States for the public defences,
and therein provided. Among the modes of
defence contemplated are the use of railways and floating ball-proof batteries,
in addition to the ordinary system of fortifications.
His report is the result of a careful examination of the
matters in question, including a long list of documents, based on a thorough acquaintance
with the philosophical, geographical and topographical feature of the country.
James T. Pike, Minister to the Netherlands, in transmitting
to the State Department, a copy of the tariff and revenue system of that
country, concludes his dispatch as follows:
“It will be observed that there is no direct tax on personal
property, or on _____, as such taxes are believed to stand in the way of
industrial and commercial developments, and to operate to expel capital.
“The decisive successes of the Federal Government in
Tennessee, have produced their natural effect on this side of the water. When Charleston and Savannah shall have
fallen, and our gunboats traversed the Mississippi, all interest in the affairs
of the conflict will cease in Europe.”
About two weeks ago, Com. Foote, in telegraphing the Navy
Department, said that Gen. Pope intended to make a transverse movement, which
would astonish the secesh on Island No. 10.
The fulfillment of this predication is already known to the country.
The Senate was several hours in Executive session
to-day. It confirmed several military
appointments of low grade and Sam’l Brown of Ohio, to be Attorney of the
Territory of Colorado.
– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 3
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