Posted on 01/26/2024 6:34:34 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON. Monday, Jan. 25.
TOO SPECULATIVE BY HALF.
J. SMITH HOMANS, formerly of New-York City, was dishonorably dismissed from employment in the Treasury Department, for a speculation out of a Welch boy, a sort of private secretary to himself, as editor of the Banker's Magazine, where he got appointed, at a salary of $1,200 a year. The lad was given to understand that his pay was but $600. His natural outcry at accidentally learning that his protector and superior was pocketing every month $50 of his earnings, reached Secretary CHASE'S ears, and led to the instantaneous unsheathing of the sword of justice.
GEN. GANTT's VIEWS.
Gen. GANTT, of Arkansas, will issue an address to the Southern people, urging them to lay down their arms and return to their allegiance under the President's Amnesty Proclamation, and declaring that, as Slavery is dead, there is nothing left for the South to fight for.
SENATOR BAYARD AND THE OATH.
The Senate will pass the resolution requiring its members to take the oath, and Senator BAYARD will take it, and then Senator BAYARD will resign.
CHIEF OF THE CAVALRY BUREAU.
Gen. WILSON, of Gen. GRANT's Staff, has been appointed to succeed Gen. STONEMAN as Chief of the Cavalry Bureau. Gen. STONMAN assumes command of the cavalry in Gen. GRANT'S Department.
THE TAX ON WHISKY.
The whisky men are becoming desperate over the passage of the bill in the House increasing the tax on that article. The dealers pronounce it an expost facto law, and declare their intention to contest it in the Courts if it passes the Senate in its present shape. One New-York firm, which last year paid over $500,000 taxes on the article, and the largest dealers in the West, besides innumerable smaller dealers from different parts of the country,
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From Washington: Passage of the Test-Oath Resolution in the Senate – 2
Kentucky and Tennessee: Affairs at Chattanooga – 2
From Fortress Monroe: Gen. Butler’s Return – 2
From the Mississippi – 2-3
Movements of Gen. Grant – 3
Interesting from the South: Reports of Refugees – 3
Longstreet vs. Foster: Circulation of the President’s Amnesty Proclamation – 3
Editorial: Rebel Designs in East Tennessee – 3-4
Editorial: Rebel Enlistments in England – 4
The Battle of Antietam – 4-5
Speech of Hon. Montgomery Blair – 5
A Deserted Monarch – 5
Mr. Barnum’s Lecture – 5
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