Washington News

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. – The Secretary of War orders that no further contracts be made by his department for any article of foreign manufacture that can be had at home.  This includes arms.

2.  All orders for the purchase of arms, clothing, &ct., in foreign countries are annulled.

3.  All persons claiming to have contracts or agreements for furnishing anything to the United States, are required within 15 days to give a statement in writing of its character, and file a copy with the Secretary of war.

4.  All contracts &c., for any supplies should be in writing and signed by the contracting parties, and if these terms are not complied with, said contracts, &c., shall be deemed fraudulent and void, and no claim thereon be allowed.

A dispatch from Heintzelman says that nine rebels were killed last night instead of twenty-nine, as previously telegraphed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. – The Ways and Means Committee find that they cannot report the tax bills for some time yet.

The opinion here to-day is that the legal tender clause of the Treasury note bill will not pass the House.

Postmaster General Blair has written a letter to a member of Congress in Defense of Secretary Welles.

Gen. Butler leaves Washington this evening for New England.  He declares that his expedition has not been given up.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 2