NEWS FROM WASHINGTON: The New Legal Tender Notes Nearly Ready for Use; Arrangements for Trade in the Southwest (3/29/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 3/29/1862

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WASHINGTON, Friday, March 28.

THS LEGAL-TENDER NOTES NEARLY READY.

The new legal-tender notes, authorized under the recent act of Congress, are expected soon to be ready for delivery to the Treasury Department, and will be paid out early during next month.

Secretary SEWARD was absent to-day, on an excursion to Harper's Ferry.

Cars are now running to Manassas, and the road is open four miles beyond.

The President to-day nominated Gen. CADWALLADER as Major-General of Volunteers. He will take the field at once.

The President has pardoned JAMES GILL and WILLIAM WITHERILT, who were convicted by a District Court of Florida, of "resisting the master and pilot of an American vessel in the lawful exercise of their command thereof," and sentenced to seven years' confinement in the Penitentiary of the District of Columbia. They have already suffered three years' imprisonment, are British subjects, and clemency has especially been besought for them by Lord LYONS.

FRANCIS GALLAHER, Esq., of Baltimore, a prominent lawyer there, and well known in this city, was killed at the battle of Winchester on Sunday last, while fighting for the cause of the Union. He was a noted Democratic politician, and at the time of his death held a commission in the First Maryland Regiment.

The Senate Committee agreed, yesterday, to reduce the tax upon newspaper advertisements, proposed by the bill before Congress, from five per cent. to three per cent., and decided to establish an ad valorem tax of three per cent. upon paper, instead of the proposed tax of three mills per pound.

Last evening, a train from Harper's Ferry, brought to Baltimore a lot of contrabands, estimated at over one hundred in number, en route, for the North. They were mostly from the region about Charlestown and Winchester.

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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News from Washington: The New Legal Tender Notes Nearly Ready for Use – 2
The War in the Southwest: A Reconnoissance on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad – 2-3
News from Fortress Monroe – 3
From Island No. Ten: Cannonading Heard in the Direction of Point Pleasant – 3-4
News from Winchester: Affairs at Strasburgh – 4
Honors to the Dead – 4-5
Defences of New-Orleans – 5-6
Editorial: Our Iron-Clad Defences – 6
The Dead of Manassas Plains – 6
Editorial: The Expected News from New-Orleans – 6-7
The Rebel Forces in Virginia – 7
The State Government of Tennessee – 7

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One of the biggest advantages the North had in its Greenback fiat money over Confederates notes was that the North accepted Greenbacks in payment for taxes, while the Confederacy would not accept Confederate dollars.