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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Late Northern, News. (search)
of London, are about contracting with the United States Government to lay submarine cables along the coast from New York to New Orleans. In the U. S. Senate last week Senator Wilson sent to the Clerk's debt, to be read, a letter which was addressed to him by General Meigs. The reading of a few sentences produced such a commotion that it was stopped, and the letter withdrawn by Mr. Wilson. The letter was very abusive of Senators who had expressed suspicious of Meigs's loyalty. Senator Foster, of Connecticut, introduced in the U. S. Senate a resolution looking to legislation to import from Europe persons to supply the void made in industrial occupations by enlistments into the Union armies. Several of the gamblers who were taken before an Ohio court, on a writ of habeas corpus, were taken to Cincinnati on Thursday, by a military guard, Lincoln telegraphing to pay no attention to the writ of habeas corpus. They next day paid over the amount of money won by them from Cook
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
e on Military Affairs inquire into the expediency of continuing the pay or soldiers and seamen discharged, from service on account of wounds received in engagements with the enemy, until the expiration of their term of service — agreed to. Mr. Foster, of Ala., offered a resolution that the Committee on Quartermaster and Commissary Departments be instructed to ascertain (as nearly as practicable) the number of able bodies young men who are new engaged as principals and agents in each of thosperson shall be enrolled who has a substitute in the army, furnished in accordance with order heretofore issued by the Secretary of War. Other amendments were offered by Messrs. Foote of Tenn., Graham of Texas, Chambliss of Va., and Lyon and Foster of Ala; which the Chair decided would go to the committee with the bill, in the event the motion to recommit prevailed. The vote was then taken on the motion to recommit, and regulated — ayes 34 noes 24, on a division. Mr. Miles, of S.