The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-11-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
yrtering out Of Veteran Reserves
Enlistment of Prussian Subjects
rNPoRTANT DECISIONS.
FINLAND and the Shenandoah
,-..orol Carl schurz's Report-Souih-
,ru ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF the
uobPns Corpus.

HaUSI-
yrw YORK, Nov. 23.-The Worlds
r,shjucton dispatch says that twelve
,.n5red and fifty men have been mus,
..,oJ ont of the Veteran Reserve Corps
INC enlv one hundred enlisted men
..bqf department. Two hundred Off
-, are irving to hold on to. their COM
,,'s,ions until Congress authorizes the
',ntipuance of the corps.
General Carl Scllurz in his report to
IL, President, stated his belief that if
,a,r, suffrage he enforced in the South
d, 1rp,art. it will require large stand
ngarmy.
The forthcoming report OF the commits
,;oner of internal Revenue will recon-
r.srj the abolishing of proprietory Rev
.nre stamps, and all other stamps, except
hose used fuI legal documents.
The testimony in the case of Captain
Pint was concluded yesterday.
The report of the Commissary General
.fnri,oncrS. nearly concluded, contains
rast amount of matter relative to the
nnmher of prisoners taken by each side
during the war
The Auditor of the Treasury has issued
circular requiring southern POstmas-
tl,oply up all balance due the Gov
rromegt al the breaking out OF the war.
twelve thousand dollars has recently
bqqD received from the Post Office at
Mobile
Secretary Stanton has determined not
npublsh list of officers to be muster
ed ont until after Congress meets.
T..1 nLl,
says; Paymaster Boardman, OF New
Hampshire, sent out to the. Stonewan 8,
died with yellow fever at Havana. "A
Several reconstructed rebels have filed
claims at the Treasury department for
balance due before their participation in
treason.
Adjudication was made at the Treasury
department yesterday for the appoint
meut ola young Virginia secesslonlst
as midshipman.
The Times special says the number of
applicants for pardon on ME IS aoouV
10000. The number granted does ho'
exceed 5000. None are now being grant
ed
But few members of Congress have yet
arrive d.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax has consented to
deliver lecture before the Press CLUB OF
Philadelphia next Monday evening
Subject "AcroSs the Continent"
Tie Heraldis Washington dispatch
saws Gen. Grants report of military ope
ratiOns since his appointment rs Lieu
tenant General, probably accompany
the report of the Secretary of War and
be published with the document.
The feelings against Eng gland in Wash
ington for allowing the officers and crew
of the Shenandoah to escape are of un-
disguised disgust and hostility. All
agree that they mnst be given up to our
authorities under the eXtraditiou treaty.
No doubt is entertained Of our ability to
prove from her log book that she took
many prizes after being informed of the
close of the war.
The interior of the capital has been
completely and elaborately prepared for
the approaching session. The desks tor
southern members have been replaced
Surgeon Mary Walker, having failed
10 receive Majors commission i'll the
United States army, the President direct
ed that she he presented with usual
medal for meretoIious and faithful ser
vice Her friends will ask Congress for
a more intrinsic testimonial
1t is stated that all executive and mis-
Ctllancous documents Of the thirty-sev-
cnth and thirty.eighth Congress have
been printed.
4 military commission is said to he
ordered for the Investigation ot the en-
li>tment of PruSSian subjects by the State
of Massachusetts during tho war, with
power 10 set in Washington and Boston
10 accommodate the Prussian Minister
and Massachusetts officials respectively
Il is understood the PruSsian govern
ment demanded an explanation from the
United States, and the former expect tt
establish the fact that fraud and com
pulsion were practiced upon emgrantS
The commissioners are Major Genera
Hitchcock. Mat Smith and Seth Williams
The Times Washington dispatch says
The Second Comptroller of the ITea surN
ha, made the following decisions: ON
Gers discharged, TO take effect from {
lgrricular anterior date, who do not re
vClye notice OF their discharge until some
time afcrward. and who IN the mean
tine continue on duty, cease within the
second paragraph of General Orders No
iG3 Of 1854. relating to resigned officers
and ale entitled to pay to the date IL
which said discharge or notice was re
celycd An officer holding q commission
on the Sd of March, 1860, andcOntinulng
IN the military service of the United
States until August 18th, 1865, was Ten
dercd Supernumerary by the conselida
dation OF his own regiment with another
and ia consequence was discharged. II
NNed that as he was not discharged the
Service under any orders of the War De
E%Mrut for the reduction of the army
~' is not entitled to the three months
pay proper provided by the act OF Con
Sie>S ol March Sd, 1868, inaSmueh as h'
mas not served to the close of the war
within the meaning of the law
lne lroUne : special says: The rebeb
III W aSmngton do not disguise their fear;
that the bad faith of many of their par
Hone1 brethren IN the South will serious
y ahect their political aSnirations anG
INTERESTS. The loss Of ,yscutiye conf
"enee, which they admit they deserved
occasions serious apprehension. and tn,
more information they Obtain of the sen
.'.'Ie"'S "i northern Congressman tn,
more apparent it becomes that they hav,
no eualCe OF admission into the mex
Congress. eN
nj thomas Conway, late nssistan
SI IIilhlsSloner of the Freedmen's Bureau
II Nou'siana, has been rendered by Gel
frooSd foMard the superintendeney of all tn
eTuhlen sch Oolsiu Tennessee and Kel