The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-11-22
From Washington.

Aldermen have passed the resolution
from the Council that in the event of
any bill being introduced into Congress
for the admission of colored men Of The
city to the right of suffrage that the
Mayor be and is hereby authorized ts
call the council together within two days
notice for the purpose of taking into con.
sideration measures for holding special
election to obtain the sentiment of the
people on the subject.
1t may be stated in this connection
that many of the property holders OF
Washington are anxious that the corpor-
| alton charter shall be surrendered
and the government of the city placed
in the hands of board of commissioners.
appointed by the President of the Unit
ed States, as at its early history, their
object being to quiet the agitation of the
suffrage question as well as to secure
economy and greater benefits in the ex-
penditure of the money collected from
them by the present system of taxation.
To-day's Chronicle contains an article
in defence of Gen. S. G. Baker. chief de-
tective of the War Department, saying
that Notwithstanding the terrible outcry
against him he still has the confidence of
the department to which he is attached,
adding, Gen. Baker does not fail in any
instance to report his acts to his superior
officer, This he is bound to do, and we
are sure the War Department, which is
better advised of all the facts than any
of Gen. Bakers traducers can be, has
not yet fonnd occasion to censure him
for any of the things which have been
so magnifed and DISTORTED by portion
of the press The Chronicle also says
Gen Baker has not committed a single
person to the old capitol for more than
two years and that he has not been au.
thOrized to do so since the latter part OF
1868.
New YORK, Nov. 81 The Tribune's
special says: Judge Advocate Chipman
has resigned his position in the army and
will practice law in Washington.
Aprivate letter states that most of the
colored troops in Texas are to he muster
ed out This probably accounts forsend-
ing regular regiments to the Rio Grande.
The successor to Senator COllamer, OF
Vermont, will probably be VIM Hebard,
of Chelsea.
The Secretary of State yesterday issu
ed an order prohibiting any member of
the press from entering that Department.
1t is reported that the order was induc-
ed by the publication of an inaccurate
and blunderng statement regarding the
department..
Intelligence has been received at the
Freedmens Bureau that a certain Judge
in Anne Rundal county, Maryland, re-
Gently sentenced a colored woman to be
sold into slavery for twenty years.
The Worlds despatch says letters re-
ceived from Corpus Christi, Oct. 23d,
states that it is very sickly among the
troops. Gen. Russell, commander of the
post and more than half his officers are
down with bone fever. The pressure for
transportation is so great that it is doubt
ful if his brigade will be removed for
muster out till the early part of Deccm-
Der.
There is no foundation for the state
ment of Washington papers that the Sec,
retary of the Treasury will put forward
a new loan.
The Herald's Washington special says
the Presidents conservative friends de-
clare that ex-Speaker Colfax's speech is
in opposition to his policy and assert
that the President favors the admis-
sion of the Southern Representatives, to
Congress without the test oath.
The daily receipts of the Internal Rev
enue has fallen off about half million
of dollars.
There are about three thousand appli-
cations for Second Lieutenancies in the
regular army.
The Times special states that eSten-
sive claim frauds, involving half mil
lion of dollars, have recently been nipped
in the bud by Second Auditor French,
whose attention was called to them by
an honest claim agent in Philadelphia,
to whom they were conf led Tor ceileo-
ton.