The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Amount of Davis Treasure,
PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS.
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New YORK, Sept. 20.-A special TO ths
Times from Washington 18th says Jen
Davis treasure, brought here IN charge
of a treasury agent, has been counted IN
the treasurer's Office and found to consist
of s37 900 in gold coin and $4,000 III sil,
yer coin, mostly Mexican dollars, old
coinage, and 80 bars of silver Total
value slightly over 100000.
Some doubt existing as to the course the
Government would adopt as to the lpay-
mept of the Pacific railroad bonds, the
President of the bank Of the Metropolis In
this city addressed note to the Secretary
of the Treasury on the subject, and to-
day received the following reply:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Sept. IL.
SIR:-Your letter asking whether the
obligation of the Government to pay at
maturity its bonds issued under the acts
of July lst 1862, and July ID, 1864, to
aid the construction Of the Pacific rail-
road, is absolute or contingent upon the
due performance of the railroad corpora
tion of its obligations, is at hand. From
an examination Of the terms of the acts
and the various provisions therein made
in respect To the issue Of these bonds,
am satisfied that the faith of the Govern
nept is pledged to their redemption in
the hands 0f my lawful holder aud With
ont regard TO whether the obligations OF
the railroad company are ultimately full
j lod OF not.
| remain, &c,
H .M'CULLOCH,
Secretary of Treasury.
10 j b HUTCHINSON. Esq, Washington,
DC.
The Herald's Washington special of
the 18th says the whole number Of negro
troops mustered into the service since
the commencement of the war. is in round
numbers 10000. The deaths and casu-
alties among them greatly exceeded the
proportion among the whites, and
amounted to over $4,000. Sixty thousand
Of the remaining l30, 900 have lately been
ordered mustered out i'll the several De-
partments, and these only are entitled to
rate under the laws and regulations gov
erning the service. This small number
distributed among the several States
would not be an element OF calculation in
any of them.
1t is said eX-rebel Vice President Ste
phens now confined at Fort Warren is
soon to be released and will return to
Georgia to cooperate with Ex-Governor
Brown and others i'll the reconstruction
and restoration of that State to the
Union
Gen Schoield is still in the city but
expects to leave for Europe about the
first of October He goes ostensibly on
leave of absence, but the impression pre-
walls that he is charged with some sort of
mission to some of the foreign govern
ments.
The friends of Gen. Joseph S. Fuller
ton are pressing his claims for the Office
of Postmaster of st. Louis. Gen Fuller
Ton is a citizen of that city, and previous
to the war was engaged in the practice
OF the law He is known as among the
most efficient of the Assistant Adjutant
Generals of the army Hewas for along
time attached TO the 4th corps, and since
the disbanding of the army has been as
signed to the Fceedmen's Bureau in this
city as Assistant Adjutant General.
A special to the Tribune, from Wash
ington, says: Cen How ard of the Freed
mans Bureau, intends to make a thor
ough personal investigation into the af-
a;irS Ofthe freedmen of Virginia, and for
this purpose leaves here within a day or
,wo After returning to Washington he
viii Journey through all the Southern
states for the same purpose.
Aa unofficial letter recently received
lrom an officer of the Freedman's Bureau
1T Sheridan, Miss, states that of 22,77O
destitute people subsisted by the Gov
cruneut but 10 are negroes
Another private letter from Mississip
m SAYS that most of the n''itia, now
beng organized in that State, express
then determination not to be mustered
under any other but the State flag, the
stars and Stripes not excepted The
same letter also states that regularly
.rEduized gang, composed of eX-rebel
soldiers has recently been formed at
Nitksburg for tie purpose of embarrass-
,Lg in every way possible the action OF
Government officers in the State.
Two young Virginians, who were re
..utly discharged frem the Union army,
l,jurucd to their homes in Green county,
when they were informed they would
certainly be assassinated if they remain
I'd, by eN-rebel soldiers
Biz. Gen c. B. Fisk, Assistant Com.
missioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for
the State Of Tennessee, Alabama, and
Georgia, has recently been addressing
the people of Tennessee on lie policy of
The Government relative 10 Freedmen
affairs. He recently addressed the in.
habitants offspring Hill, Tennessee, on the
same subject, after which he was pre-
scented with resolutions, endorsed by d
large number Of prominent citizens, in
which they heartily indorse the action of
ihe Government, and express their in
tention of faithfully carrying out the
wishes ofthe Government in respect to
the Freedmen