The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-08-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Applications for Pardon.
NEGRO TROOPS In VIRGINIA.
CAPTAIN WRIT AND JEFF. DAVIS.

II Sources OF the Appl1c0thOub IoE = sr'
don-Governor johnson on the Par.
| doning Business-Gov. Pierpoint Be'
| coiumend. ahe withdrawal Of NeErs
| Troops from virginia-Caps. Wiriz
| to be made a witness against Jen
Davis-Indian Affairs.
| lBy Union Line, cor of Monroe and Water Sts
NEW YORK, Aug 19-The Times Wash
ington special says applications for par
don still pour in by the hundred every
day About 400 were received today
Gov Sharkey sends them up from Missis
sippi; Gov. Pierpoint from Virginia
Gov. Parsons from Alabama, and Gov
Holden from North Carolina. From Geor.
gia come fewer than from any other OF
the Southern States. Gov. johnson does
not believe in the efficacy of pardons as
strongly as some of his brethren, He
thinks reflection, meditation and true re-
pentance better than the amnesty oaths
and lip service loyalty Neither does he
believe that the appointment of Provis-
ional Governor confers unlimited powers,
nor that it authorizes him to usurp the
functions conferred only by the con-
stitution, and until the constitu-
tion of the State of Georgia strictly con
firms with the constitution of the United
States and the proclamation of Emanci-
patton he will not fill the local Offices in
the State
Twenty Virginians of the $40 O0O class
were pardoned to-day
Major John B Castloman and Lieuteu-
ant VIM. E Mumford, of the rebel army,
arrested last winter as spies within our
lines and confined at indianapolis have
been paroled by the President to leave
the country Immediately.
Fayette MMullen, of Virginia, mem
Der of the rebel Congress, arrived here
yesterday, armed with letter from Gov
Pierpoint to the Secretary of War, re-
commanding the withdrawal of the col
ored troops from that State because they
are highly obnoxious to the loyal Vir-
ginians Mr. MMullen will have an in
terview with the Secretary today. The
order for the withdrawal of the said
black troops has not been issued.
A special to the Herald, from Wash
ington 9th, says: An opinion has been
confidently expressed to-day by parties
competent to judge, that the Govern.
ment will not undertake the trial of
Wirtz, but will cause that person to give
States evidence in the approaching trial
of jeff. Davis, whereby it will be proved
that the rebel President was the direct
and prime instigator of the cruelties prac-
ticed upon Union prisoners, and the man,
berless other atrocities which We're from
time to time committed in defiance Of the
usages of war 1t is known that Wirtz
has expressed his desire to make impor-
tant revelations as to the extent that Da-
Wis was implicated in the outrages of the
Southern prisons.
kilograms were received from Major
Gen. Pope to-day, at the Indian Bureau,
containing a communication from Gen.
Sully, conducting the military expedi-
tion in Dakotah, announcing that there
is no doubt that a permanent treaty can
now be secured by the Government with
tho Sioux and Cheyenne tribes on the
upper Missouri river.
In addition to the above, Gen. Sully
remarks that in that quarter inhabitants
are apprehensive that the coming winter
will be one of great severity, and it is
feared that troops will suffer even more
than they did last season. All efforts
made to produce garden vegetables for
the use Of the camp were futile, by rea-
son of the ravages of insects.
A special to the Tribune, from Wash
ington 18th, says: The President has Or
dered the remission of sentence in the
cases of large number of citizens for
selling clothing to soldiers, aiding and
abetting in deserting, &c, and directs
that they will Immediately be released
from custody and furnished with trans
portation to their homes.