NEW YORK, April 8. – The New York Tribune’s correspondent,
writing under date of Washington, April 7, says:
We learn from the Richmond Examiner that Trusten Polk and
Waldo P. Johnson, who were expelled from the United States Senate, are both in
Gen. Price’s army.
The Richmond Examiner learns that the rebel House of
Representatives have decided, by a vote in secret session, to repeal the
tariff, and establish free trade with all countries except the United
States. There are said to have been only
seventeen votes against the proposition.
The slaves of James M. Mason have decamped from Winchester
in a body, and made their way to Philadelphia.
It is currently reported also that one of Mr. Mason’s daughters has
become hopelessly insane in consequence of the serious family misfortunes.
A dispatch, April 7th, to the New York World states: A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
arrived to-day from the Rappahannock. He
reports all quiet along the lines of our advance guard having reached
there. The rebels have destroyed the
magnificent bridge over the river, and the smaller bridges along the
route. No signs of the enemy are
observed on the opposite bank of the river, although they are supposed to be
lurking behind the hills.
Scouting parties of rebel cavalry are said to be roaming
over the country, plundering and destroying all property within their
reach. It is thought that they consist
of organized bodies of the farmers of the vicinity.
The Herald’s dispatch says:
The committee of nine on the emancipation question will probably consist
of Messrs. White, of Indiana; Lovejoy, of Illinois; Bingham, of Ohio; Roscoe
Conkling, of New York; Pike of Maine; Allen of Massachusetts; Edwards of New
Hampshire; Kellogg of Michigan, and Hickman of Pennsylvania.
General Sickles has been relieved from command of the
Excelsior Brigade, by order of Gen. Hooker, commanding the division, on account
of the rejection by the Senate of his nomination as Brigadier General.
– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 3
