The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-12-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Congressional Proceedings
Soldiers Discharge Papers.
Our Relations with England.

ail who voluntarily took the oath of al
lepiance to the Southern Confederacy.
The colored mems petition, asking for
.uffrage in the District of Columbia, is
ready for submission to Congress. 1t
has over 1900 signatures
Tomorrow the government sells. at
Alexandria 2,500, 900 feet of lumber, $500
IONS of railroad iron, and POO car wheels.
The Worlds Washington dispatch says
the question of the admission ofthe Ten
nsssee Representatives elect will be
broupbt up in the House to-day.
The Tribune's special says written in
vitations have been issued convening
the New York Republican congr gressional
delegation at the house of Henry j. Ray
mond on Tuesday evening, to unite up
on candidate for the collectorship
Ali vessels and trains of cars bound to
the United States are now, in accordance
with the law. duly inspected and sealed
bv the American consuls resident on the
north side of the st. Lawrence, and the
commissioner is of the opinion that the
nrecaution will, in very great measure,
nreyent smuggling operations on the
canadian frontier in the future.
Spsguators are busily engaged in dit
tsrsDt parts of the country buying up
the soldiers discharge papers for which
thew are paying from 800 TO 5000. In
Massachusetts, $500 have been paid, and
N Ohio 5000 fla sufficient number can
be purchased, the lobby will endeavor
10 force Congress TO pass law giving
bounties to all soldiers who have not had
them. and equalizing those who have,
hoe
Major Wyncoop, lately in command OF
lOTt Lincoln, to give safe escort to mes
.engers from Black Kettle and Little
Raven, the Chiefs of the Cheyennes and
Arapachees indians, to the north of the
Platte river, to meet and consult With
that portion of their tribes who for some
time past have been alienated from them,
and Who are considered hostile to the
government, in order to convince them
of the necessity of entering INTO rela
,;ons of amity with the United States
aOS the propIiety of their reJolnlng their
respsctive tvlOea nohper Oh runneis
have already been sent ont by the Chiefs
mentioned and a. they never returned,
tbe commissioner believes from repre-
ssntatiOus made, that they were waylaid
and murdered on the way by United
States troops who have come to regard
every Indian as their enemy During
the war a large number of the Cheynnes
and Arapachoes went south and joined
The kiOwas, and it was with those that
the late commission, under General San
bern, formed the late treaty at the mouth
of the Little Arkansas River
The Heralds Washinton special says
that the Pension Bureau has lately de
cided to cOnfne its action until hnal dis
position is made OF all cases below the
number OF fOrty-tive hundred.
The ladies' employed in the Treasury
Department propose to petition Congress
10 increase their salaries.
Chauncey NJ Depew declines the posi-
tiou ot Minister to Japan.
The Times special says about four
hundred editorials on the Presidents
message from as many journals have
been received at the White House; about
nuety-niue per cent of these HEARTILY
endorse the Presidents past aud COM
mend bis proposed future policy
The case of United States against Gov.
Pearce. OF Boston, arising out of and
involving the history of the great Floyd
lhuu.Cul dCLCDbluCCl VIII SoiAiS uP 'A'@
week mthe United States court OF claims
Gen. Caleb Cushing Is counsel In the
case.
The Times special says: Gen. Banks
visited the President on Saturday and
gave hlm tue assurance of his hearty CO.
operation i'll carrying out the measures
proposed in the message.
Reliable official information has been
received by Gen Howard which exoner-
ates Gen Wilson in his management OF
the freedmen in Wilks county, Ga. The
most outrageous couduCtl toward
Freedmen has followed the removal OF
the military IN the county named, and IN
other pGrtsiOf the State, and Hon. A. NJ.
Reeves Judge of the District Court IN
Wllks county Ga asks, at the request OF
the Freedmen and respectable citizens,
that the military be sent back, and Gen.
Steadmau has ordered troops to that
county
representatives, OF and commission IN
behalf Ot tue State OF Missouri arrived
at Washington Oh Saturday evening
with Instructions To present to Congress
the claims OF that State fol four millions
otdollars alleged to be due her tor ex-
peudItures on account of the govern
menI during the war
lhe lolnt commission for the settle
Mehl oil claims between the United
otareS oi America aud the United States
u Coiambia have disposed ef 81 cases,
OF aoout one-third of all the cases on the
doC6et Nearly all of them result in
Judgment for the claimant
The Worlds Washington special says
the State Department received by the
Ast steamer ton Europe an important
Trsgatch from our Minister in England,
tt-He IS very strong leasOu to believe
nat England will back down from her
Wsltlsn onthe Alabama, and at once
sUnsent to Just and equitable adjust
asnt OF the questions in dispute. The
SSempet OF the last dispatch from the
S'ale Department, which emanated from
'ne PRESIDENT himself, was calculated to
open THE eyes ofthe English government
gentleman writing from England to q
gentlemen i'll this city, by the last mail
remarks that the Queen Is our friend
snd she will rot allow Earl Russell tc
IsSe any position that will cause es
Management between the two govern.
Ments
The celebrated Albany bridge cas-,
comes up in the Supreme Court thi
week, and will be argued by Daniel S
Dickinson
DR.. Mehahy, reading Clerk of tn
House of Representatives who has beel
seriously i'll, is gradually recovering
loa g.