The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-25
By order % the SecretarY of Wan.

Z. d. TOWNSEND, A. A. q.
Brevet Major General Thomas, Adtu-
tant General of the United States army,
will shortly ask to be placed on the re-
tired list, and will take up his residence
IN Louisiana on a cotton estate, which
he has purchased there.
Advtces have been received here from
the election in Florida, which took
place on the 10th inst. Alight vote was
polled not exceeding 5000 in the entire
State, and the delegates elected to the
State Convention are mostly of a strong
Union character, and strongly endorse
the policy indicated by Governor Mar
rim. Judge Burnett was elected dele
gate from Jacksonville district,
Strong efforts are being made to in
duce the President to release ex-senator
David L. Yulee, of Florida, from Fort
Pulaski, where he is now confined. Mr..
Yuleeis President of the Jacksonville
and Tallahassee Railroad, a man OF
wfde influence in the political and ma
terial interests of the State, and his re-
lease is greatly desired by the people OF
Florida, in order that he my exert
himself for the restoration of business
prosperity in that State.
"A delegation from Florida is here
urging the suspension of the order OF
General Howard as to the occupation Of
the sen islands. They want the freed
men kept there temporarily till all ar
engagements can be made for their
transmission to the State of Florida,
where their labor is much needed by the
planters.
Tho Herald's Washington special
| says:
Col. John w. Fairfield, of Loudon
county, and chief of tho rebel Gen.
Longstreet's staff, who received special
pardon from the President short time
since, has procured the necessary docu-
ments to secure the restoration of his
property in the above county, now held
by the Freedmen's Bureau and which
is known as the Monroe estate.
Since the execution of Champ Fer
guson ut Nashville, certain parties here
who are familiar with Col. Moseby's
war history, are interesting themselves
with view of bringing the latter to
what they call Justice. They allege
that AIoseby, although u rose colored,
gentlemanlYs sort of a william. was gull
ty of guerrilla atrocities which would
have made Champ Ferguson blush
They claim to have names of eX-rebel
officers among the listof witness where
with to prove inhuman crimes upon
the Virginia partisan.
In consequence, perhaps, of the rnis-
ing of money and other organized eff
forts to prevent the mastering out of
the veteran reserve corps by the next
Congress, it is said the authorities have
fully decided to dispose of the corps be-
fore thut body meets. General Fry and
other friends of the corps seem to have
over reached themselves and to have
precfpitated, by their own conduct, the
very action they desired to prevent.
Mr.. Stanton's answer to n recent appli-
cation for n commission in that CORPS
was, that before the commission could
be made out and forwarded to the ap-
plicant the corps would cease to exist.
General Grant is also understood to fa-
vor the muster out of all troops ex=
cepting the regular army. If this shall
prove inadequate to the exigencies of
the FUTURE Congress can increase it
from time to time. "A controlling rea-
son of the Secretary of War and General
Grant is that the prlvates of tho veteran
reserve corps unanimously desire to
be mustered out, andythe officers unan-
imously oppose it. AS the latter's dis
fnterestedness is not above suspicion
their Recommendation have less weight.
The death sentence of the Indian
chiefs Medicine and Little Six, I'M
plicated in the Minnesota nlassacres OF
three years ago, has been suspended by
the President, in Difference to the re-
mOnstrance of Bishop Grace of that
State, to tho execution of the sentence.
The original records and testimony
taken in the premises, are therefore re-
ferrcd to the Commissioner of Indians
Affairs, for the further substantiation
of the guilt of the chiefs.