New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-13
Rigid Examination of Their Officers
THE ASSESSMENT ON SUGARS
FINDINGS BY COURTS-MARTIAL

TIE REPORT ABOUT ADMIRAL FARRAGCT.
The statement that Admiral Farragut has asked TO
be relieved, and lie to be succeeded by Admiral Dahl
gren, il utterly without foundation. Admiral Far.
ragut has not made the request alleged nor would
the Department lie willing to spare the old war
horse from active duties IL Admiral Dahlgren
leaves the Bureau Of which he is now chief for
sctve service anywhere, it will DO in the waters Of
South Carolina, and under Admiral Foote. Should
he 60 thither it will not be for time to
ORDNANCE EXPERIMENTS.
Experiments are going on vt the Navy.Yard with
a view TO determine how heavy charge the Dahl.
sren ll.ipch and 15-inch guns with which our
Monitors are armed, will bear. When the attack
was made upon Charleston. both, and particularly
the latter. had no, been fully tetted and prudence
was deemed the better part Of yalor
FNLIsTING CoLORED SOLDIERS.
The War Department to-day granted authority 10
Col WIN. Birney to receive recruits for colored reg.
iments in Philadelphia, where working committee
has been formed for the purpose, who promise two
regiments when organized under officers who have
passed before the Examining Board They will be
placed in camp OF instruction near Washington,
with tie District regiment, Of which the fifth com
psny, not regiment, as the telegraph last nigh, made
it, is well under way. 1t ,pI,sumsd thai Colonel
Birney will be made bngnder after BIS brigade
shall be filed Thus far about eight hundred appli-
cations for commissions ia the L. s. oolored troopr
have reached the Examining Board, OF which Gen.
Caicy il President. Some Of these applicants
men Of high Intelligence, and hold high civil poi.
tops; Que IL Professor 81 Civil Engineering IN
Northern college. The Board pssses every srpl-
can't through q searching examination, with view
to giving bu, the bee, men commissions. Some APP
ply ing io, colonslees, among them Col Turner, Of
the Firsi regiment raed here, receive appc n,neu
ss second liz uenanls and number have failed alto
gethor
TIIT COMMAND OF TIM DISTRICT or IOWA.
Tie military distinct OF Iowa, under command a
Major.Gen. Pope has been constituted ~ As 10 IN
cude all the territory within the STATE of Iowa, eX
cept the village OF sioux City, aud pat under the
command Of Bug.-iien. Is. ;. Roberts, Will head.
qnarterr at Davenport. Lieut.. 81. Norton Nih ILL
NOR Volunteers, Las Lecn APPOINTED ald-de-oAmp 10
Gen. Pope
THE TAX on SUGARS.
The question relating to sugars has not yet finally
been determined. II there has been any error in The
i, not attributable to tie oficer Of the revenue al
New.Or!eans, who acted under Instructions from
the Office =, Washington. With those Instructions
tho iu,imaticn, are that the presen, Com,nissoner
may not agree.
THE TAX on RECUT PILES.
Recutting Of old flea is held TO be manufacture
and i, liable 10 three per cent tax.
GENERAL HOSPITALS DISCONTINUED.
The general hospitals at Prairie du Chen aud Fort
Smelling have been discontinued.
ORDER OF DISMISSAL RENTED.
The order dismi,sing Lieut.. 7. +. {. Dodd' I'D
Indiana Volunteers from the service, has been re-
mitted by the PRECEDENT
SENTENCES DECLARED IMPERATIVE.
The sentences Of Courts Martial, that Lieut. Hugh
II. Noryell should be dismissed, and that Jacob
Teruhy, Andrew Shafer, and Hugh Shaw should he
shot. have been declared imperative by the Presi-
dent.
THE AMOUNT REQUIRED FOR PENSIONS.
The Commssioner Of Pensions has estimated tina,
IL the war continues year longer, and pensions arc
granted in tho same proportion as during the past
wear tha, the payment of these pensions viii draw
an onnD, FUN OF seven millions of dollars from the
treasury.
To the Associated pre's.
WaniyGros, Friday. June 1869.
CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE BOSTON MAYNARD.
Chief Engineer Sewell has been detached from
special duty al Nsw-York and ordered TO the Boston
Navy. Yard az Chief Engineer
FINDINGS BY CouRTS-MhRTfAL.
The following are the findings Of several General
Courts Martial held within the lines Of the Army OF
the Potomac:
c,,, Albert g Carie 29th New.J.rey Volunteer" for
with tn. enemy, to be dismissed nom INC SCI
sseopd.Iieut WIN. II. Deberase. 2,, wJer'ey Vols,
Cor cow.fdice aud i,behk0r IN pesrnce oil 1hc enemy 10
Ill mud allowances due or TO become que
10 10. di,aIm-d and the Insignia OF ma Tshk toih ''0n ~
shoulders and 10 be puehcIY IeP'imanuea 90 a. bsv
or no a1y Office ent In tho service o. tho oneu
states aud this sent nee 10 he Published "a e t1e
per. OF Hudson anu Mercer Counties Ne"''ci'o'' ""''
regiment was raised -, la, I.,,..
Co. 9Th Pennsylvania Voiuntsors one ,of 80
dny ana the oth. being drank while on knu, 70 DC
also Fire, Lient. Benjamin T. french, JOIN Ne"
Vol Volunteers. for similar o9ense ,,,-.... ,..,
Private John =. Woods, 18Th Indiana Eoluohe's, 'ou.
guilty OF ao'ef"0n 'eH'"''' W w Wv"
InusketTy.
SALE OF CONFisCATED COTTON.
All abandoned or captured cotton received OF col
ec,.d by the specal agents Of the Treasury Depart
mept under the act approved March IL 1868, IN the
Mi,sis,ippi Valley, above the operations Of Grant
army !, 10 be sold a. public auction in NJ. Lous
and Cincinnati alternately on the fret ana thlfd
Mond.ys OF each month, the fret sale 70 take p'hce
q, Cincinnati ep the 18th instant