Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-06-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
w..u,rnror. Sunday, June IS

AN INVESTIGATION.
A commission ia now in sess on in the oiiice OF
the Commissioner OF Indian Ansits, lnVesIigatlng
lie aif.irs and official mat ers OF Sommlssloi 90
Dole preparatory 10 turning over tue oiee ~ sn9
Acting Commissioner. The investigating Board
consists Of Judge Edmonds, AsslS'an' SECRETARY
Otto, and John Wilson.
THE FoHrIFlcArIoEs or EEw YORK.
General Barnard Chief Engineer OF the army army
of the Potomac, has been ordered 70 New l3 s'
10 inspect and report on the condition OF Tue Ior
ti0cations there. Gen. Barnard leaves for New
York Immediately.
THE NEW ENGLAND FoRTiFIcATioNs.
Board of Engineers, composed OF Gen. Zen
ham. Colonel Alexander. and others, has been Or
dered TO convene INN ,dlately at Boston' 70 eX'
anime and report upon the condition OF the new
England coast and its Notifications from cape
Cod 10 Quaddy Head.
GEN. cusTgRs HORSE ONCE MORE.
In n former despatch. we stated that there was
no foundation in truth to the statemen. in some OF
the papers, that the Secretary OF war had given
an order TO the pretended claimant Q. neI' Ios
tet's celebrated horse, to tase tue animal wher-
ever found etc. The tone OF the paragraph re.
fsrred To- did great injustice to one OF HE Dra'(st
heroes OF the war inasnuch as II lett the inference
that Gen. Custer had forcibly seized ana Illegally
held the morse. We are enabled TO stale upon au.
thority the facts as TO Gen. Clusters possess on OF
the animal. The latter is the well-known Don
.JuanIr valuable hlooded horse, who ran against
"Tsr River" aud heat him. During the Sheridan
raid last Winter Gen. Cuslei's command haiiei Ut
BJydt0n Aecklcnbu,g county Va. Were Tins
horse among several other animals was i0und.-
The horses were seized regularly, and hsnded over
to Capt. Lion QuartermasIer. Ihey were APP
nroisad by A Board consisting Of Col. Pennington
and Capts ord and Earl--DOn Juan being APP
praised at sl45 At that price Gen. Custer he.
ceiyed the horse. and he was accordingly charged
10 him, so that he legally owns Don Juan, and
the Secretary of War has no control over the
animal whatever. The pretended owner if there
be any such, has not made Application - Mr.
Stanton for the horse.
THE CASE OF HENRY @. BURNETT.
i has been stated that the rebel Senator Henry
c. Burnett, Of Kentucky, s gone to that Stale
20 adyoc ,te tic adoption Of the new Cons titu-
ton The truth is that he has gone 10 Kentucky
urder military guard, to be turned over TO the
civil authorities for Trial release, as the civil
government may deem proper.
PosTxAsrERs FOR NORTH cAEoLiNL.
The Post1r as,er General has made the following
appoinlm .nts of PostmAstsrs for NOrta Carolina
WILMINGTON, William A Poisson; Greensb 70,
Jonathan D White Go.dIborough, John Robin
son, Elizabeth City, Mrs. harth, Jane Mllroyi
Hisbororgh, Charles j Frazier; Salem, 7
ander NcAlpin; Newbern, q w Mason.
FURTHER APPLICATIONS FOR PARDON.
The following named persons have applied for
aud received the Presidents pardon under TIE
proc amation of the 10th OF May; + NJ Bruce and
II w Bruce, ( Kentucky; English, Arthur n
Mari, l. y Crenshaw and Asa Snyder, OF Rich.
mond, Va; Il nenue, Jr., Of Lynchburg; John
Il Edmunds acd Thomas Edmuuds OF Halifax
county; p NJ Thomp%oo, of Williamsburg; Francis
L Smith OF Alexandria
Attorney General Speed, having examined he
c SEES OF the following EaDed prSoI 8, has recon-.
Inerded 10 the Pres dent that they be pardOned.
The are mctch tEts OF Richmo u. each RCr,h
over S91IO0 ard were members OF the Ambulance
Committee John Eude.s, John Purcell, Juha
Dooley, Charll j. hii.Ock. l.. W. Gil Zebrook,
Il II. MauTy, }. l.. Appeson, j. II. Montague,
Z. II. DebrilI, j. w. Mctance, z. A. Payne, Wm.
q. Payne, Charles II. WynAe, Iho. W. boswell
Geo $ Palmer and Chas I. Woithiui.
The President informed geLtleneu on Satur.
day that lie had ii ally detsIm neI TO grant par
doas to prominent rebels 10 exceptional cases
only.
NATIONAL BANKS.
Daring the past week 81 National Banks have
been established, with total capital OF $40 6.S
IN The whole Lumber now in oper ton is
3s4. The amount ofNatipnal Back currency lie.
Aued during the week was - c67 l2J making the
present circulation Sl43,C64 SD.