The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-10-07

~ News ~ New Ysrk.
New YORK, Oct 6.
The Times Washington special says an err
roneous impression prevails with the public
as to the number of pardons thus far granted
BY the President. Some estimate it as high
as q, 600. We have ascertained on official
authotity that the number up to and inelud-
ing the warrants signed this day is but 2, ,658
Among those lately pardoned is l.. Pope
Walker, the first rebel Secretary Of War,
and the man who gave the order to open fire
on Fort Sumter. 4fs
The Secretary of War has before him a
communication, signed by prominent persons
and Representatives in Congress from all the
States, protesting against the mastering out
of all the twenty-four regiments of veteran
reserves now in the service. They ask that,
if it is intended to reduce the troops to the
necessities of peace establishment, the vet
eran forces now scattered throughout the
country, and anxious to be mustered out. be
retained, thus leaving in the service only the
regular army and the veteran reserves, which
combined amount to ffty-seven regiments.
Most of these regiments need men. They
Also AK that permission be granted to the
Veteran Reserves to recruit their regiments
up to the full number. 1t is assigned as one
of the reasons for retaining these troops that
most of them have received during the late
war snch bodily injuries as unfit them for the
ordinary business avecations, and az they
promptly and periodically volunteered to put
down the rebellion Ut its commencement,
they should be retained in the service, and
especially as il is now known that q regular
force will be required equal to that of the
regular army and the veteran reserves com
bined. Secretary Stanton has the matter un-
der advisement and waits for consolation
with Gen. Grant on his return to this city
The commissions have been executed and
approved for the following newly appointed
receivers and disbursing agents:
Milton Barbour, at La Crosse, Wis; Jos
Rowe, Chillicothe, Ohio; Jos. Cushman,
Olympia, W. T.; VIM. Miller, Montgomery,
Ala: d. c. Bloomer, Council Bluffs, Iowa !,
A. Eaton, Stephens Point, Wis; VIM. Boah,
Indianapolis, Ind; John Kirkwood, Little
Rock, Ark; Henry Warren, Oregon City,
Oregon. The last two named are designated
as United States repositories.
Among those in attendance at the White
House to-day seeking pardon were Robert
Ould, late rebel commissioner. Gen. Peck
and Gen. Pillow obtained an interview with
the President and thanked him for the Exec.
tutive clemency. NJ. G. Levant also had An
interview with the President, and as rumor
has it, in behalf of Gen. Beauregard
Especial to New York Herald.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.
In regard to freedmens affairs, ona of the
Assistant Commissioners who has lust COM
pleted a tour throughout Western Alabama.
represents that the negroes are in the main
industriously at work, but that crops are poor,
and II is thought that they will not be sufi.
clent to sustain the population, and the great
er part OF the inhabitants are indisposed to
cooperate with the Freedmen Bureau Off
GERS, and refuse to consider the results of the
war as decisive.
1t is declared that there is but little low
atty among the majority of the the whites, and
that they regard the oath of allegiance as q
mockery, to be broken whenever convenient;
though returned rebel soldiers are mentioned
as exceptions in these respects.
The Light House Board is constantly di-
recting the re- establishment along the south
ern coast of Light Houses dest royed by the
rebels during the war. Large appropriations
will he required TO put the coast in the condi
ton it enjoyed prior to 1861. Nearly every
Light House from Cape Henry down the At
lantic and Gulf coasts, with exception Of a
few in Florida, were destroyed by the enemy.
the structures being torn down and the leases
broken or carried away.
The General Land Officer has offered the
following questions raised under the Home
stead Law, and presented for ruling since
1862:
FIrst-Can pre-emptor file his deearato-
ry statements upon tract of land previously
entered under the homestead law?
Answer-He can, If his declaratory state
ments are accompanied by the affidavit that
he had actually made his settlement prior to
the date of the homestead claimants.
Second-Can two or more parties enter the
same tract under the HOMESTEAD law2
Answer-They cannot. The tract should
be awarded to one applicant. If two or more
apply for the same tract at the same time, it
should be awarded to the party making the
highest bid for the privilege Of making the
entry, and the sum thus bid should be credit
ed to the United States in the returns as an
excess, with . memorandum of the fact.
Ihird-Can party enter under the home
stead iaw tract upon which a pre- emptor
has filed his declaratory statement
Answer-He can, if he files his affidavit that
thereis no pre- emption settlement upon the
same, and makes his entry subject to the pre-
emptors claim, in case such claim should be
established after notice to and hearing of the
parties concerned.
Especial to New York Tribunei
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.
The proceedings of Military Commission at
Cincinnati before whom G. ST. Ledger Green
fel was recently tied on charges of conspiring,
violation of the laws Of war, to release the
rebel prisoners confined at Camp Dsuglas
near Chicago, and conspirtng to lay waste the
city of Chicago, was promulgated by the War
DEPARTMENT to-day The prisoner was found
guilty and sentenced by the Commission to
be hung, but in consideration Of the recon-
mendation of the members of the Court, and
the success of the Government in suppressing
the rebellion, President johnson commuted
the sentence to Imprisonment at hard labor
for life at the Dry Tortugn.