Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-06-12
RICHMOND WHIG.
MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 12, 1865.
MISCELLANY.


| Richmond for the present.
One hundred and forty thousand blank
parchment discharges, for soldiers, have been
printed at the War Department.
A large number of negroes, who followed
the Army of Georgia to Washington, have
made application to return to their former
| homes.
! More than 800 claims for damages by the
war have been filed at Washington, amount
ing to over S50, 0,G00.
1t is estimated that upward of . 1000 steam
engines, for oil wells, have passed over the
Atlantic and Grea; Western Railroad.
Gov. Watts, Of Alabama, who was arrested
few days ago at Macon, Ca, has been re.
| leased from arrest, aud has returned to
Montgomery.
Gen. Forrest is now on his plantation at
| Cohoma, Miss.
There are upward of three hundred South
| erners in Halifax awaiting the development
OF events.
Mr.. John G. Nicolay, formerly Mr.. Lin.
| coins private Secretary, is in Washington,
| arranging to leave for Paris, where he will
assume the duties Of American Consul.
Mrs. General Sherman has presented Gen.
| Grants war horse to the Chicago Sanitary
| Fair, to be sold for the benefit Of the fair
| The horse was presented to Mrs. Sherman by
Gen. Grant.
The Columbia rs. C.) ihGnir complains
that the State is overrun by robbers and
house thieves, preying upon what subsistence
| and property has been left to the unfortunate
citizens.
Large quantities of cotton and tobacco are
being brought 10 light in Montgomery, Ala
| bama, and brisk trade is being opened.
Steamers are running regularly between
there and Mobile.
The local columns Of the Memphis papers
still record troubles between colOred troops
and parolcd Conlederates. The military au-
thority is doing all in its power to quiet the
turbulent feeling CT the parties, but as yet
without marked success.
Somebody left at the express Office in New
| London, one day last week, a small package
with the direction Jefferson Davis, care of
Hon. A. Johnson, President of the United
States, Washington, D. c." The package
was duly forwarded.
1t is stated that the difficulty between Ger
erals Sheridan and Warren, growing out of
the removal from his command by the former
at the battle Of Five Forks has been salts
factorily explained, and the Generals are now
| friends.
| Howell Cobb is reported to have remarked,
when he heard Of Gov. Browns arrest,
eyes, d-n him he'll go TO Washington a
prisoner, and be sleeping with Andy Johp-
| son in less than fortnight"
Mr.. Frederick A. Sawyer, who has been ar
| pointed as the Collector OF Internal Revenue
| in South Carolina, is a native OF Boston,
| Massachusetts,, ana for some months has been
| Superintendent OF Public Schools at Charles.
/ ton.
| A letter from q well-informed person in
| the old North State, living near NeWbetn,
states that over 500 negroes, most OF them
able bodied, have died from hunger, cold and
| neglect within the las. few months, at and
near that neighborhood.
| In tho Washington city election last week.
| the conservatives voted in greater strength
| than since tho war began, and elected the
ticket which they preferred. They polsd
| large majorities against all who participated
| In the recent meeting for the banishment
FROM the city OF those who left during the
war,
There are now about three thousand Con.
federate prisoners on Hart's Island, near
New York city, They have comfortable
barr acks, and are furnished regular soldiers
ratiOnS. They are allowed TO go to the shore
10 ash, bathe, 30. Visitors are not allowed
| on the island'
The Washington Chronicle contrsdict,, on
| the authority of the President, tho report
| that there were differences between him and
| Secretary Stanton. On the authority of Mr.
| Stanton himself, the same Journal states that
| the most friendly relations exist bet geen tho
| Secretary of War and the President.
A Doctor of Divinity, of Springfield, Mas
| sachusetts, went to HolyOke to preach last
| Sabbath, and one of the newspaper men went
| to Northampton by the same train. They
changed carpet bags by mistake, and when
| the minister looked for his sermons he found
a bottle of whisky. The newspaper man
SAYS that when his bag was returned to him
the whisky was considerably reduced in
| quantity.
The United States Telegraph Company,
whose wires already extend over 1000 or
| g, 900 miles in the Atlantic States, have con-
tractcd with thoroughly reliable parties TO
build two wire line OF telegraph from St.
Louis and Chicago to San Francisco. The
| lines from the Eastern cities named to Den
yer City and from San Francisco to Virginia
CITY, are to be finished this Autumn, and the
whole line is to be completed in the Autumn
followi G.
Morse's American Geography has been ex-
cluded by authority fIom the public schools
of Upper Canada, because it is calculated
to impress on the youthful mind the idea that
the United States of America is the only
country in the world merting particular des-
cription, and that other lands are merely
pendicles and appurtenances of that great
nation, while the pictorial illustrations Il axe
evident the bravery of American troops and
the cowardice of their opponents"
Official returns in the War Department
show that the deaths in the army since the
war broke out, so far as heard from, with the
estimate made for those returns not yet
handed in, will aggregate about three huadred
and tlceaty.fue thousand These are the
deaths alone, and of the Federal side only
| When we estimate the wounded in the ratio
of three for every one killed, which is less
than usual average, we see at what fearful
sacrifice of life and limb the nation has pre-
served its existence.
The Navy Department has determined
upon removing the Naval School from New
port to Annapolis. The September term OF
the school will open there.
Colonel Thomas Green and wife, after a
careful investigation by Judge Holt and Col.
Burnett, we're promptly released from prison
on Saturday last by order of the Secretary
of War, and relieved from all suspicion of
connection with the assassination conspiracy
Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas has given a bril-
liant entertainment in Washington, the first
public reception since the death of Mr..
Douglas.
Previous reports to the effect that Presi-
dent Juarez, of Mexico, had issued letters OF