IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON: The Treasury Note Bill and the Senate Finance Committee; Arrest of a Herald Correspondent as a Spy (2/11/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 2/11/1862

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WASHINGTON, Monday, Feb. 10.

AMENDMENTS TO THE TREASURY-NOTE BILL.

The Senate Finance Committee reported back the Treasury-note bill of the House to-day, with two amendments: First, making interest on the Government bonds payable in coin, and setting aside duties on imports and other revenues for that purpose; second, allowing interest at the rate of five percent, on deposits of Treasury notes for thirty days or over to the amount of $25,000,000. The legal-tender clause will pass the Senate by a large majority.

IMPORTANT ORDER FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT -- ONE OF THE HERALD CORRESPONDENTS IN FORT M'HENRY.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 1862.

It is ordered that a person calling himself Dr. IVES, a native of a rebel State, whose brother was lately in the military service of the United States, and is now an officer in the rebel army, and who pretends to be a special representative of the New-York Herald for Washington, be arrested, and held in close custody at Fort McHenry, as a spy, and for violating the rules and regulations of this department, -- in this, that, on Saturday, the 8th day of February, 1862, against the public and well-known regulations for the safe transaction of Congressional business, he intruded himself into the War Department, and into the Chambers, where the Secretary and Assistants were transacting business with members of Congress, for the purpose of spying and obtaining war news and intelligence in respect to Cabinet consultations, telegrams, & c., for publication, which he knew was not authorized to be published; and having so intruded, he conducted himself insolently, making threats to an Assistant Secretary, PETER H. WATSON of the hostility of the New-York Herald against the administration of the War Department unless he was afforded special privileges, and furnished intelligence in the Department

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Important from Washington: The Treasury Note Bill and the Senate Finance Committee – 2-3
Kansas and New-Mexico: Martial Law Declared in Kansas – 3
An Important Arrest: Gen. Stone Charged with Treason, and Confined in Fort Lafayette – 3-4
Important from Tennessee: The National Troops preparing for Further Movements – 4
From Ship Island: The Command in Good Health – 4
The Merrimac – 4
Arrears of Pay Due Deceased Rebel Soldiers – 4-5
A Calculation – 5
Van Dorn and Price – 5
The Burnside Expedition: Bombardment of Roanoke Island – 5
News from Fortress Monroe: A Dispatch from the Rebel Authorities Relating to the Prison Embassy – 5
The Secretary of the Navy Neglecting His Duty – 5
Flag-Officer Foote’s Reply – 5
Bluster and Back Down – 5
Editorial: Burnside at Work – 5-6
Editorial: The Arrest of Gen. Stone – 6
Praiseworthy Resignation – 6
Where is Secretary Welles? – 6
Progress of Events – 6
Independence Day in New-Orleans – 6