The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Pacific Railroad Route;
U.S.. SANITARY COMMISSION.
Southern Men in the Cabinet

III
Boat Burning on the Western Water
-DishonOrable Dismissnl-The Lee
FamiIy-Relensr Of Pay master hoi
The Burch Habeas Corp". Case
Trial Of JEFF. Davis.
[By Union Line, cor. Monroe and water sts'l J
NEW YORK, Sept 23.-The Tribune1
special says: Since the washing away O.
Pacific Railroad company's bridges ovel
the Kansas river, the President has re
voked his acceptance of the forty mile:
saidito have been completed, and has or
dered a re-examination of the road by the
same commission. Secretary Harlan rec
commended several months ago that the
commission consist of Col. Simpson, OF
the engineer corps, Gov. Crawford, OF
Kansas, and the Hon. Z. d. Scott, soi
Terre Haute, Indiana. They will IL l.
dition to a thorough inspection make a
full length map Of the road.
The active operations of the US. San.
itary Commission, which, during the
war, was of such incalculable value to
our soldiers in the field and in the hospl-
tai, will cease altogether by the first
proximo, with the exception of its bnsl-
ness of collecting soldiers claims, which
will continue as long as the necessity
for it's continuance exists. The commits
sion will, on closing its business of dis
bursing, turn over to;the Freedman's Bu-
reau a large amount OF its remaining
stores for distribution among the dest-
tute colored people Of the South
The President recently said to an emf
nent person that in the event of reor-
ganization of his cabinet, he should not
object to the selection of a thorough
Southern man, believing it would
strengthen the general desire for concil-
iation.
It is not the Hon. j. Richard Barrett,
formerly member of Congress from Mis-
souri,, who is implicated in the govern
ment boat burning OH the western waters,
as has been stated, but James Barrett,
formerly of Springfield, Illinois, and now
supposed to be in Canada The latter
Barrett has been notorious leader of
the Knights of the Golden Circle at the
west, while the former has been a de-
termined Union man, and for the past
wear q resident of New York city. j. w.
Bell, chief counsel for the boat burners
now on trial, is here endeavOring to in
luce the authorities tOpermit jeff. Davis,
Mallory, Seddon and others connected
with this incendiary and diabolical
scheme to be sent to st. Louis, for the
purpose of testifying in the case
The Secretary of War has ordered the
dishonorable dismissal of First Lieuten-
ant O. Vanderyort, l92nd New Ynrk Vol
unteers, for making or allowing false
entries over his own signature on the
muster rolls of his company.
The Virginia colleges are now in the
hands of the Lee family. R. E. Lee is
President Of Washington College, and
his son Geo w. w. Custis, has been ap-
pointed Prof of Engineering in the Lex
ington Institute. The board of visitors
appointed by Governor Pierpoint are,
with two exceptions, original rebels.
Paymaster Holt, arrested and held
upon charges of malfeasance in office,
has been released, investigation proving
his entire integrity.
Nearly one hundred and fifty rebels
were pardoned to-day.
The East Tennessee and Virginia Cen
trail Railroad will be in running order
from Knoxville to Lynchburg in few
days.
81 The Herald's special says the Burch
family, arrested by order of Gen. Baker
fer stealing and branding government
horses, and in whose behalf Judge Wylie
issued writ of habeas corpus, have not
vet been disposed of before military
court. The President set aside Judge
Wylie's writ not so much to take these
men out of civil courts as to deny pre-
cedent which it would, if established,
open the prison doors to Wirz or any
other criminal who might choose to! avail
himself of the writ.
The statement in the Washington col
uran of the New York Tribune that Col,
VIM. Thorpe is entitled to the credit of
ferreting out the rebel incendiaries and
steamboat burners on the Mississippi
river does great injustice to the late Col.
Sanderson, of Philadelphia, to whom it
really belongs. Col. Sanderson was at
the head of the detective service in the
Department of Mississippi, and died at
his post from excessive application to
business. Col. Thorpe was only steno-
graphicreporter to Col Sanderson and
was never chief of the secret service
there, as stated in the Tribune.
The Worlds special says: 1t may be
safely asserted tnat nothing positively
definite has been determined relative to
the trial of jeff Davis. The new rumor
that it is to take place in Richmond
about the middle Of October, is merely
gratuitous. The President has only gone
so far, it is believed, as to declare that
when it does come off that it shall be be-
fore civil tribunal. There is very ex-
cellent authority for declaring that two,
if not three, members of the cabinet are
opposed to giving JEFF. Davis any trial
whatever They prefer, it is intimated
that he should leave the country forev'
err