The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-11-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Smuggling on Canadian Frontier.
Contracts for Mail Service.
The Storage of Petroleum.

Washington dispatch says the Secretary
of the Navy has determined to send
abroad considerable portion of our sur
plus naval force to cruise about, and visit
the principal commercial ports frequent
ly, if Congress will make appropriations.
The President has appointed Hon.
Chauncey NJ Draper Minister to Japan,
Winder, Duncan and Z ee, are the only
prisoners of note in the old capitol
prison
The Worlds Washington dispatch
says there are rumors of changes in the
Cabinet, but it is not probable that any
will be made until after the meeting of
Congress-
The Times Washington special says
the findings of the commission to which
was referred the adjustment of the re-
ward offered for the capture OF the assas-
sins and conspirators, will not be made
public until approved by the Secretary
of War
The Worlds Washington dispatch says
that reports just received at the Treasury
Department from agents stationed along
the Canadian frontier, show smuggling
to be still carried on very largely. Large
numbers of arrests and seizures are made
constantly. The inducements are so
great that if one half gets through par
ties are amply remunerated. An agent
who arrived here to-day says that the
smugglers have been unusually active
during the last two or three months.
Fuller, who used the name of Senator
Harlan to obtain large amount of mon
ey belonging to the National Republican
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capitol for several mouths, has been re-
leased without trial.
The Times special says: Hon. Freeman
Clarke, comptroller of currency, is en-
gagged upon his report. He will recon-
mend the removal Of the National Cur
rency Bureau to New York, and Mr.. Nc
Culloch, who made the same recommen-
dation when comptroller last year will
probably renew the recommendation III
his Forthcoming report aS Secretary OF
the Treasury.
Yesterday the government refunded
the first money from the proceeds of the
sale of cOniiscated property. in pursuance
of section seven of the act of March Sd,
1865. The case in which money was re-
funded is one in which the claimants and
former owners of conhscated property
showed they were loyal citizens and sup
porters of the Union Notwithstanding the
| fact of the abandonment of their proper
ty at the breaking out of the rebellion.
The property is located iii Alexandria,
Va A large number of like cases are
pending
The Herald's special says: Yesterday
was the time for receiving bids for con
tracts for the mail service OF Virginia,
West Virginia, North and South Carolina
and Florida, that have expired, an q the
formal awarding of contracts to parties
whose rates had been accepted IS under
way. The contracts about to be cOnsum-
mated for service in the above States
will 90 into effect on the first of January,
1866, and expire i'll June, 1867. The BIDS
made for this service have been largely
in excess of the rates formerly in vogue
for the same routes.
The Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued circular notifying all collectors OF
Internal Revenue that he regards 1t but
a lust precautiOu that whenever appllca-
tions are made for storage of petroleum
or its products within the limits OF any
town or city, the collector of Internal
Revenue should forward to the depart
ment q statement that the warehouse Is
so established that it will not i'll case of
fire endanger other property or the lVes
of people living or doing business III It's
vicinity.
Nathaniel H. M'Lean, former Assistant
Adiutant General TO Gen. Burnsldes, ana
who was ordered to the Pacific coast two
wears ago, us he alleges, to prevent his
testifying against Hunt then about to
be court martialed in Cincinnati, is pre-
paring to bring the case before Congress
and promises to throw much additional
light upon that interesting TRANSACTION.
The Times Washington special says:
The statement that the Secretary OF the
Treasury intended to discharge all fc-
male clerks in his Department is erro-
neuuS.
The leading hotel in this city has rals-
ed its prices to five dollars day. tor the
snecial benefit Of Congressman.
Governor Parsons left for homo ycster-
day morning, with two hundred pardonS
for citizens of Alabama.
Admiral Porter will soon publish re-
plv to General Banks structures on the
conduct of the navy iii the Red river
campaign.
Colonel Henry Paige, late Chief Qaar
termaster on General Sheridan,S stan, mas
been ordered to Arkansas for duty.
The Times special says: Antonio Rosa
who was convicted at the October term
of the United States Circuit Court OF the
Eastern District of New York OF coun-
terfeiting fractional currency, and sen
fenced to ten years Imprisonment was
today pardoned by the President.
TN,
The Tribune's special says: The Presi-
dent was more than usually annoyed by
importnnate reconstructionists yester-
day He remarked that he had tried TO
overwhelm the South with pardons ana
kindness, but from recent events he De-
gan TO think them incapable OF apprecl-
ating magnanimity.
Several efforts have been made to force
a belligerent construction upon the ac-
ton of the Navy Department, IN order
inc off certain United States ships OF war.
The facts are that suudry naval vessels
have been ordered out upon foreign ana
domestic stations, the same as IN years
before the war, instead OF allowing thehl
to rot in our yards. cc,
The Grand Jury of the District OF Cor
nmbia have fouud true bills against Gen.
/. c.. Baker, chief detective OF the war
Department, on the charge OF false im
prisonment of Mr.. Jasper K. Cobb 1or tne
neriOd of five days, and for robblng Lucy
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