Washington telegraph., 1865-07-26

WAsHISGToS, July An order will
soon be issued mastering out of service
about $50 Maj or and Brigadier Generals,
principally those who have not been in
active service for a year or two past.
The easy berths hereafter are to be Civ
Ell to officers who served in the field IN
til the end of the war.
1t having been officially reported to
the Freedmen's Bureau that large NUN
Der of dest tute refugees have been trans
ported South against their int ~ !, u
places where it is extremely difficult to
procure food, aud ia most cases impossi-
BILE TO do so, except when provided hv
military authority, Gen. Howard has or-
dered that hereafter no transportation be
granted TO such persons, except when hu-
mality evidently demands it. and TIN
only by the express orders of himself
New York, July The steamer Man
haitian, from Vera Cruz June 2sth. ria
Havana July Sd, has arrived The Span
ish troops evaouating San Domingo are
continually followed 10y refugee San Do
mingoans, who are afraid to remain IN
the Island.
The revolution in Hayti was making
headway. Although G.ffrard takcs his
place at the head of his troops. lie has
suffered several reverses. Many Domin-
leans have taken arms against him.
Gerarico had been in state of siege. and
was re-occupied by the Government
troops after desperate fight, tn. rebels
being obliged to evacuatc.
Mexican news is to the effect that Max
amilian will socn issue decree c.dinr
Durango and Sonora to the French as
security for the war debt due France
The Herdld'S London correspondent
recently visited the Great Eastern at
Sheerness and saw dispatches sent through
the whole length of the cable. Dc -an-
ty. who managed the old cable comes out
on the Great Eastern as chief Electrician
of the expedition.
| The Worlds Washington special saws
the Secretary of the Treasury has pro
dueed reliable estimates of the quantity
of cotton west of the Mississippi The
figures submitted to him add up about a
million bales. Partial returns Of tie cot
ton west of the Mississippi have been re-
ceived, from which an estimate somewhat
exceeding million bales has been made.
he cretary is confident that the effect
from the exchanges fthe vast values re-
presented by this cotton will aid his ef.
forts to restore currency to sound basis
The H7ald's special says: Sterling
Price, the rebel Missouri General, will
probably 20 to Mexico, to engage in sill
yer mining, with his brother-in- law
Dabney Gooth, of Brooklyn, New York,
and others, who are extensively inter.
ested by recent purchases in valuable sill.
yer mines in that country.
The Tribnne's Washington special saws.
"Reports have recently been received, of
feelings Of dissatisfaction among tbe
troops formerly of the Army of the Poto.
mac, and now of the provisional corps.
encamped OH the south bank of the poto-
mac, and which threatens 10 create seri
Gus disturbance, unless averted bv n.ces-
sary measures. The men complain first.
Of non-payment; second, of severe daily
drill; and third, that the quality of the
rations which they are now receiving is
very inferior TO those while in active ser.
vice."
Owing to the liberation Of prisoners
and discharges. the number Of applica-
tions for pensions in the month. of June
was greater than ever before since the
war began; $4,000 pensions have been
granted, $4,000 to invalid soldiers, and
$4,000 to widows, mothers and minor
children.
The Department of State has been Of
ficially informed that the Spanish Cos
eminent proposes issuing orders to the
Captain General OF Cuba to deliver ID the
United States Government the insursent
Ram Stonewall. now al Havana.