Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-30
washington News aud Gossip.
WARRINGTON, January 81, 1862.
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SOLDIERS BOUNTY MONEY.
By an act Of Congress of July %, 1861,
500 was authorized to be paid TO the widow
Of each officer and soldier who was killed or
died in the service of the United States.
Also, by another section OF the same act, a
similar sum of $l00 was directed to be given
to each officer or soldier who should have
served out his two years time of enrolment;
or If sooner discharged by the close of the
war. Congress, in the hurry of legislation,
made no appropriation for these objects.
Over $70,000,0 900 will be required. Demands
are now constantly made upon the Govern
ment for this bounty. Of course nobody gets
paid.
DEMAND TREAsuRY-NoTBs,
The issue of demand Treasury notes to the
extent of $l00 900, which shall be receiv-
able for all Government dues, except import
duties, and be legal tender between man
and man, may be regarded as fixed purpose
of Congress. This week will see the measure
matured. The fault is in limiting the issue
to an amount not adequate 70 the public ne.
cessities; but that limitation can and will be
removed by future legislation. 1t was against
the issue OF these demand notes and the legal
jzlDg of their tender in payment of debts,
that the Bank Presidents struggled, and have
delayed legislation TO this date. They de.
sired notes that should run two, three or
more years, bearing mite of interest This
interest, the public who used the notes as
money, would take no account of bat banks
and capitalists, that finally funded and col.
lected them would, and receive as a mere
gratuity-for no outlay of their money would
have earned the interest.
The banks and capitalists have lost their
point. Demand Treasury. notes, bearing no
interest, will be issued, and they should, and
no doubt they will be, declared legal tender
in payment Of debts.
JUST APPROPRIATION TO OUR RETURNED
PRISONERS.
The War Department has ordered that
heneeforward all Union soldiers released
from rebel dungeons shall, upon their arri-
val here, receive, in addition to full pay,
commutation of rations for the whole time
OF imprisonment. A soldier will lose nothing
pecuniarily by falling into the hands of the
enemy.
REMOVAL OF ILLINOIS CAVALRY.
Colonel Farnsworth's Illinois Cavalry,
having suffered greatly from sickness at
their former encampment near Clouds Mills,
applied for change of location. General
Mcclellan granted the request on condition
that the removal should cause no expense to
the Government. To insure this they we're
sent TO Alexandria, where General Mout.
gomery quartered them upon rebel residents
hitherto treated as If loyal. The regiment
now occupies fifty or sixty dwelling houses,
two printing Offices, and the basement of
church belonging to the Methodist Church
South. The rebels, on their involuntary de
parture from their residences revealed them
selves in curses loud and deep against the
Government.
THE SMALL POX
The talk Of the prevalence of the small pox
in the city greatly exaggerates the facts
There are not and have not been fifty cases
within the city limits, if those in the infec-
tious hospitals are excluded. A person
familiar with the facts assures me that there
is less of the disease in the hospital than
there was at one time in June last when
hardly any one in Washington knew that
there was such hos spitsl. The alarm, how
ever has been fruitful of business to the doc.
tors, who have been constantly in demand
with their lancets and vaccine. The ounce
of prevention has been so vigorously applied
that the practice of shaking hands has salmost
fallen into disuse through the fear of irritat
ing the sore flesh.
GENERAL CAMERON LEAVING.
General Cameron is serenaded tonight,
and will leave Washington with his family
to. morrow.
THE CHARGES AGAINST GENERAL BENHAM.
1t is not true, as repeatedly announced in
the press of the country, that the charges
against General Benham have been laid
aside by the Commander in Chief, and that
General Benham has been ordered to return
10 duty. As before stated in this CORE.
spOndence, the case was only suspended
because the witnesses on both sides embraced
long list, all of whom are important Off
GERS and can not he spared from the field of
active operations. In the mean time General
Benham was ordered to be released from
arrest, but not TO return to duty.
NATIONAL ARMoRY.
1t is said that the number of petitioners in
the matter of the establishment of a National
AImory west of the Allegheny Mountains,
nearly reached the number of one hundred
thousand.
SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
The Committee on the District of Colum-
bia have decided to report adversely in the
matter OF abolisbiug slavery in the District
Of Columbia. The two main features of the
adverse report will be inexpediency and uu-
constitutionality.
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