Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-03-09
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.
From Washington.


NASHISGToN, March 4.
TIE PRESIDENTS REPLY 70 sEcRETART CHASE.
1t is stated, on high authority, that the
Presidents reply to Secretary Chase, on
the subject Of the Pomeroy circular, con-
clUdes 10y sayinghe (LincoInl IS not aware
of any facts which render Chase's candi-
dscy incompatible with his relations IS a
mem6er-of the Cabinet.
PARDON 70 DEsERTEKs AND RrHAwArs.
II is proposed TO introduce = bill in
Congress authorizing the President TO Of
fer pardon TO the thousands of deserters
from b army and runaways from the
draft. now In Canada. on condition of
serving out their time. and to lose all
right of citizenship If they do no return
alter a certain time.
coyFIscArIoy OF REBEL PROPERTY.
Judge Underwood is making about one
hundred DEGREES of confiscation a month,
holding his Court alternately at Alexan-
dris and Norfolk. Property amounting
TO about a million dollars Is thus passed
monthly from disloyal 20 loyal hands,
The title 70 real property passes under
the decree in accordance with the prin-
eiples laid down by Judge Underwood
months ago.
THE NEW BONDS.
II may positively be stated that the
new loan bonds will draw five per cent.
interest. The 6rst Issues will be ten
%forties, under last years laws. but subse-
quent issues will probably be hvs-forties,
under the law signed Yesterday.
TRANSFER OF SAILORS FROM TBE ARMY 70
THF NAVY
The War Department has issued the
necessary orders, under the Enrolment
Act. for the transfer OF sailors from the
army 10 the navy. There are twenty-five
vessels OF war waiting in port for crews.
GRANTS DIVERSION TO TUNNEL HILL.
General Grant, in a dispatch, yesterday,
! confirms the report that his movemen to
Tunnel Hill caused the enemy to recall
two divisions. then under orders to march
against Sherman.
TIE wHIsKEY BILL PASSED.
The Senate, having receded from the
third, fifteenth and sixteenth smend
ments to the Whiskey Bill, it has passed
It imposes tax of sixty cents up to the
lst Of July, after which, only twenty
cents tax, as in the old law. Stock or
hand is not taxed, but spirits, heretofore
imported from foreign countries, mus
pay an additional duty of forty cents pei
} gallon. These in~oongruities rendel
T another bill necessary, to secure an in
: creased tax after the lst Of July, and t.
? correct inequalities between domestic anc
! foreign liquors.
AN ENABLING ACT.
= Some merriment was created by tn,
passage, in the Senate, of a bill to enabl,
I the Captain of the American schoone,
$ Highlander, to accept a watch from tn,
I British Board of Trade. The subject wa
I presented to Congress in a message from
I the President. transmitting 8 letter from
the Secretary of State, which was referred
TO the Committee on Foreign Relations
and reported back by Summer, with
Il. After its passage, Foster discoveries
= that the clause of the Constitution, unde
I which the bill passed, did not apply t
|. private citizens; accordingly, the vot
| was reconsidered, and the bill laid on tn
{ table.
: TRANSPORTATION CN THE CENTRAL RAILROAD
/, a communication from the Secretary @
: War shows that Government has paid
since February "a, 1852, to the Illinoi
Central Railroad, for transportation c
troops and property, 100000.