The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Petition for the Trial Of G. G. Clay.
THE SEAISLAND PROPERTY.
Caleb Cushing's English Mission
DEFAULTING POSTMASTERS.
The Verdict in the Wirz Case.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26tb.-The Herald's
Washington special says the delegates to
the late State convention of Alabama,
united in memoralizing President John
son to order speedy trial of Clement e
CLAY, and in the meantime to release him
on parole from the rigorous confinement
to which he has been subjected since his
arrest. The memorialists state that they
have not made this application from any
motive of sympathy with the past polit-
ical course of Mr. Clay or for the part he
took in the late rebellion, but that on
the contrary, many of them have uni
fOrmly condemned his efforts to incite
rebellion and secure success to the revo-
lutionary movement. They ask this on
his behalf, because his implication in the
unparalleled and atrocious assassination
of Mr.. Lincoln is regarded by them as ut
terly impossible and unsupported by a
shadow of credible testimony. The
President has the matter under advise
ment and the probabilities are that the
prayers of the memorialists will be
granted
The report of Superintendent Sells, of
the Southern Indian Superintendency,
was submitted to the commissioner OF
the Indian Bureau of the Interior De-
partment yesterday. 1t says that the
bitterness of feeling caused by forays of
white bushwhackers into the territory
of the Indians formsa great obstacle to
the negotiation of favorable treaties with
them. These bushwhackers carry on a
regularly organized system of wholesale
cattle stealing by which it is estimated
that the tribes have lost over three hun
dred thousand head of cattle valued at
between S4,0O0,00O and $4,000, 900. Nine
teen thousand Indians are now being
subsisted by the government in this su-
perintendeney.
A special to the Times from Washing
ton the 25th, says: An influential body
of citizens of the States of South Carroll
ma and Florida, accompanied by some
northern gentlemen, of high official po-
sition, called upon the President to-day,
and urged him to rescind his order with
regard to the Sea Island property and
freedmen. The resembling of the order
is also recommended by Governor John
son, of Georgia The President declined
to interfere with the order, at all events
eral Howard, who is now under the or
ton of Freedmen's affairs upon the Sea
Island. In the course of the interview
the President stated that he was opposed
to the plan of the colonization OF the
Freedmen, believing that by contact
with the whites their intellect would be
developed and sharpened, and their con-
dition in all things improved.
An examination of the officers of the
Veteran reserves disclOses the fact that
two per cent of them are disabled from
wounds; four per cent. from disease, and
four per cent. from accidental fractures,
&c.
The board to examine officers for col
ored troops, recently sitting in Washing
ton, has been dissolved by order of the
War Department. and new board Or
ganized, which will meet in Baltimore
for the examination of candidates for ap-
pointment of officers of tue United States
Veteran Volunteers, lst Army Corps, and
United States colOred troops
The sentence of the court martial in
the case of Assistant Quartermaster A.
L. Thomas is to-day promulgated. He
was sentenced to be cashiered. but the
Secretary of War, in consideration of
previous good character, allowed him to
resign.
A special to the World, dated Wash
lngton, Oct 25, says: Hon. Caleb Cush-
ing leaves for England, in next Mondays
steamer, on special legal mission con-
nected with the State Department. Thus
far his business is kept confidential, but
it is very clearly surmised that it has re-
ference to an adjudication of the claims
for damages made by this government
on Great Britain, for the depredations of
the Alabama on American commerce. 1t
is believed that the government has ac-
cepted the proposition of Earl Russell to
appoint a commission to settle such
claims.
The rumor that Wirzf is to be hanged
on Friday is false 1t is believed that
the charge of conspiracy has been aban-
doned in the findings, and it is the inn
preston generally that the prisoner has
been convicted on the other charges and
sentenced to be hung on such day as the
President shall designate.
A special to the Tribune, dated Wash
ingtOn, Oct. 25th, says three hundred and
seventy-one thousand four hundred and
five dollars and ninety cents is due to the
Government from the defaulting post
masters of the Southern States, which
thew retained when the rebellion broke
out. They are now being called on for
the amounts. The Virginia postmasters
are most in arrears, owing 800, ,9O4 AZ As
all their securities were required to have
real estate, it is believed that the larger
portion of this sum will be recovered. In
1861, their refusals to pay the sums were
often abusive and arrogant now their
tone is apologetic and poverty pleading,
The verdict in the Wirz case is guilty.
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