The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
An Order from Sec'y Wells.
AFFAIRS 1NLoUIs1ANA.
The Garrison at Washington

Negro Testimony in Mississippi-Pnb.
lie Lands-P ardons by the President
-InternaI Revenue Receipts.
New YORK, Oct. 1.-THE order of Sec
retary Wells prohibiting collections OF
money for political purposes from work
men in navy yards is published: The
Secretary notices the attempt to justify
the practice by the claim that it has
heretofore prevailed under all parties,
but he does not consider the excuse OF
any validity and therefore orders an I'M
mediate stop be put to it. The navy
yards are to be kept free from political
manevering and no persons will be al
lowed to resort to them tor the purpose
of electioneering or to collect funds to
advance the interests of the candidates
for Office. The Secretary has also issued
acircular, which we have already MOTTO
ed, directing that hereafter all applica-
cations for the positions of master work.
! men must be made to the bureau of
wards and docks in Washington.
A'special to the Herald from Washing
ton, 10th, says: Some new complications
seem to have arisen in Louisiana affairs.
Provisional Gov Wells has made some
doubtful appointments in Gen Canby's
opinion, and he therefore calls for the
political antecedents of the appointecs,
before allowing them to enter upon the
duties of tneir offices Gen. Sheridan is
understood to approve his proceedings.
The President is reported to have sent
for Secretary Stanton on hearing OF the
4 =,
whether interference of the military COM
manders was by order of the War Depart
ment. Mr.. Stanton, by the same author
ity, disclaims any and all interference,
and left the onus on either Gen Candy
or Gen. Sheridan. According to the re-
port of the affair President Johnson is
determined to support Gov. Wells, and to
tolerate no interference with his legiti-
mate duties. ~ st11
The garrison of Washington is at pres
ent composed of seven regiments of the
veteran reserve corps, the 7th, 9Th, 10th, &,
18th, 14th, 18th and Oath; the 9th and
10th of United States infantry, and l95th
9th and 214th Pennsylvania regiments,
and the l94th Ohio volunteers, number
ing in the aggregate about 1000 men.
The 5th United States cavalry is on duty
at Gen. Grants headquarters. The duty
required of these troops is light, it being
no more than patrol of Long Bridge and
doing guard duty at tho White House
and the various stock houses where sur
plus government property is kept. This
property is fast being disposed OF at auc-
ton and private sale, the garrison will
ere long be reduced to merely an orna-
mental body of troops.
Provisional Governor Sharkey, of Miss,
on the 25th ult., issued q proclamation
in regard to the reception of testimony
of colorsd witnesses. The Governor says
that in all civil or criminal cases in
which the rights Of the negroes are in-
yolyed, their testimony may be received
in courts of the State, subject to the same
rules as govern the taking of the evil
dence of white persons. This was issued
after an agreement had been entered into
with Col. Thomas, assistant commission
er of the Freedmen's Bureau i'll Mississip-
pi, by which that officer consented to
transfer all cases affecting negroes from
the military to the local civil tribunals
A special to the Herald from Washing
ton says: Adjutant General Lorenzo
Thomas reports that the State OF Missis-
sippi alone is credited with furnished up
wards of seventy-nine thousand negroes
and ore thousand whites to command
them. They are represented to have been
raised during the yenr 1863 and 1864 for
service during the war.
Mr.. Remeno, the Mexican Minister,
has intelligence that President Juarcz
was still in Ell Paso as late as the 18th of
September. Ifforced to leave that place
he designed removing to Sonora, but in
no event did he contemplate giving up
the contest or quitting Mexican soil.
During the month of September $500
acres of public lands we're taken up at
the land office at st. Croix Wisconsin,
and upwards of 5000 acres wetc entessd
at the Office in La Crosse.
A special to the Times from Washing
ton 10th, says: The President to-day
granted 175 pardons, all to North Carroll
mans of the 100000 class.
The Cabinet session was brief aud at
tended by .Messrs. Stanton, Welles. Den
nison and Harlan. Messrs Seward, Speed,
and McCulloch are still absent
The Internal Revenue receipts to-day
reached but $679,9l3,14, They are always
light on Tuesday, but from the present
time to the close of the year, they will
doubtless show a considerable falling of.
The pardon of the members of the
| South Carolina Convention has been
signed by the President, and forwarded
| to Governor Perry for distribution.
The Posts Washington special, says
orders have been issued for mastering
out the Twenty-third corps, composed
exclusively of colored troops, now doing
duty on the Rio Grande.
Release Of Prominent Rebels by the
| .t%tSs President.
WASHINGTON, October 1.-THE fol-