The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Pardons by the President
VETERAN RESERVE CORPS.
Affairs in Western Alabama.
Light Houses on Iho Southern Cost
Vhc Homestead Law-Miis"ry Conn.,
-, -, Cincinnati.
mission al Cincinnati

25.OOO. We ascertain on othc!al autLoIl
tv 4hnt the number up to and including
tIis dav is but 2655. Among these lately
hardened is L. Pope Walker, the 1lrst
rebel Secretary Of War, the man who gave
the order TO open ire upon Fort sumter
II is proper to state that the Cabinet
have declined to recommend the pardon
of any Of the excepted classes save those
coming under the 18th exception. known
as the 900 class.
The Secretary Of War has before hun
communication signed by prominent
Senators and Representatives III Con-
gress from all the States, earnestly pro,
testing against the mastering ont OF "a
| regiments of veteran reserves now IN the
service They ask that if it is intended
| 70 reduce the troops to the necessities OF
peace establishment the volunteer
forces now scattered throughout the
country, and anxious TO be mustered,
| be dispensed with first, thus leaving IN
| the regular service Only the regular ar
nv and the veteran reserves, which COM
bined amount to :? regiments Most OF
these regiments need recruiting They
| also ask that permission ne granted TO
the veteran reserves 10 recruit their regl-
ments up to the full number Ii is urged
| rs one Of the reasons for retaining these
troops, that most of them have received
during the late war, such bodily lnju-
ries as unfts them toI ordinary bu-
Siness avocations, md as they promptly
and patTiOtically volunteered 10 put
down the rebellion at its commencement,
they should be retained Ill the service,
and especially as ii is now known that
regular force VIII be required equal 10
that of the regular army and tue vete-
ran reserves combined Secretary Stan
ton holds the matter under adyi5ement
and consultation with Gen Grant, on
his return to this city.
A special to the Herald from Washing
ton, 5tb, says In regard to ireedmen's
| affairs. one of the Assistant Commission
ers, who has just completed tour
| through Western Alabama, reports that
| the negroes are in the main Industrious
II at work, but that crops are poor, and
it is thought that they will not he sufd-
cient to sustain the population The
greater part of the inhabitant5 are !ndls-
posed to cooperate with the Freedmen
Bureau officers, and refuse To consider the
results of the war as decisive 1t Is de-
clared that there is but little loyalty
among the majority of the whites, and
that they regard the oath OF allegiance
as a mockery to be broken whenever con
venient, though returned rebel soldiers
are mentioned as exceptions in these re-
spects.
The light house board is constantly
directing the re establishment along the
southern cost of light houses destroyed
BY rebels during the late war Large
appropriations will be required to put
the coast in the condition it enjoyed
prior to 1861. Nearly every light house
from Cape Henry down the Atlantic and
Gulf coast, with the exception OF a lew
in Florida, were destroyed by the enemy.
The General Land Office has answered
the following questions. raised under
the Homestead law and presented for ru-
ling since 1862;
First-Can a pTe-empter tiie his de
claratory statements upon tract OF land
previously entered under the Homestead
lav2
Answer-He can if his declaratory
statements are accompanied 10y his am
davit, that he had actually made his set
tlemeut prior to the date of the Home
stead claimant
second-Can two OF more parties en-
ter the same tract under the Homestead
law2
Answer-They cannot III, tract should
he awarded to one applicant if two or
more apply for the q" nj the same
time it should be awarded 30 the party
making the highest bid for the privilege
of making the entry, and the sum thus
bid should be credited to the United
States in the returns rs an excess with
memorandum Of the facts
Third-CaD a party enter under the
Homestead law tract upon which 4
prc-empter has fled his declaratory
statement!
Answer-IIc can if he dies HI a,adayit
that there is no presumption settlement
upon the same, and makes his entry sub
ject TO the presumption claim, in case
such claim should be established after
notice t. and hearing of the parties con-
ccrued
A special to the Tribune from Wash
ington 9th says; The proceedings Of the
Military Commission at Cincinnati. be-
fore whom G. st. George Greenfel was
recently tried on charge of cOuSpiTiug
in violation Of laws ofwaT toIelease pris-
oners confined at camp Douglas. near
Chicago. and conspiring to burn Wash
ingtOn and the city of Chicago. was pro-
mulgatcd by the War Department to-day.
The prisoner was found guilty and sen
! fenced by the Commission to lie hung.
! bat In consideration of the rrcommcn-
datlon OF the members Of the court and
the success OF the government in sup
pressing the rebellion, President John
sou committed the sentence to imprison-
at hard labor for life at the Dry Tortugas.
The bonds have been executed and an
proved il the following cases of newly
appointed receivers and disbursing
agents; Milton Barbone, at La Cross,
Wisconsin; Jas. Rowe, Chillacothe, Ohio;
Joseph CUshmau, Olympia, Washington
Territory; VIM Miller, Mon gomery, Ala
bama; Dexter c. Bladmer, Council Blnffs,
Iowa; Almanson Eaton, &,evcnsport,
Wisconsin; VIM Boozin. Indiana, John
Kirkwood. Little Rock, Arkansas; Henry
Warner, Oregon City, Oregon the last
two named are designed as depo>itaries
Among those in attendance at the
White House to-day seeking pardon were
Robert Ould late rebel Commissioner of
Exchange, and the rebel Gen Peck
Gen. Pillow obtained an interview with
the President aud thanked him for the
exec utive clemency.
Procession Of Colored Odd Fellows.