The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Order from War Department
THF ELECTION In FLORIDA.
The Veteran Reserve Corps.
Major General Thomas-Ex.SeBatOr
FnIee- Charges against Col. Moseby.

will in future consist of 740 privates
73 officers, Sc sabres, drivers not being
armed, and 6 revolvers for chiefs OF
pieces and caissons One of the mount
ed batteries of each regular artillery re
ginent will have four Napoleon guns
and the other four three-inch rif1ed Rod
man guns. The regimental commander
will designate to which battery each
armament shall be assigned.
The following order has just been is
sued by the Secretary of War:
WAR Dept, ADJ'T GEN'Ls. OFFICE,
October II, 1865.
General Order No l03. J
Hereafter no person shall be arrested
as a deserter for having failed to report
under any draft or tor any other non
compliance with the enrolment act or
the amendments thereto. Any and all
persons of this class now held will be
Immediately discharged.
By order Of the Secretary of War
Z. D. TOWNSEND, A. A. G.
Brevet Major General Henry Thomas,
Adjutant General of the United States
Army will shortly ask to be placed on the
retired list, and will take up his resi-
dence in Louisiana on cotton estate
which he has purchased there.
Advices have been received here from
the election in Florida, which took place
on the 10th inst A very light vote was
polled, net exceeding 5000 in the entire
State, aud the delegates elected to the
State Convention are mostly of strong
Union character, and strongly endorse
the policy indicated by Gov. Mormin.
Judge Barrett was elected delegate from
the Jacksonville district.
In consequence, perhaps, of the raising
of money and other organized efforts to
prevent the mastering out of the Veter
an Reserve Corps by the next Congress,
it is said that the authorities have fully
decided to dispose of the Corps before
that body meets. General Fry and 9th
er friends of the Corps seem to have over
reached themselves and to have precipi-
tated, by their own conduct, the very
action they desired to prevent Mr..
Stanton's answer to recent application
for a commission in that Corps was, that
before the commission could be made ont
and forwarded to the applicant, the
Corps would cease to exist. Gen. Grant
is also understood to favor the mastering
ont of all troops excepting the Regular
Army If this should prove inadequate
to the exigencies of the future, Congress
can increase it from time to time. A
controlling reason of the Secretary of
War and General Grant is probably that
the privates of the Veteran Reserve
Corps universally desire to be muster
ed out and the officers as unanimously
oppose it. AS the latter's disinterested.
ness is not above suspicion, their remon-
strances have less weight.
Strong efforts are being made to induce
the President to release ex-senator Da-
vid l.. Yulce, of Florida, from Fort Pu-
laski, where he is now confined. Mr..
Yulee is President of the Jacksonville g.
Tallahassee Railroad, 4 man of wide in
fiuence in the political and material in.
terests of the State, and his release is
greatly demanded by the people of Flor.
ida in order that he may exert himself
for the restoration of the business pros
perity of that State.
A delegation from Florida is here, urg-
ING the suspension of the order to Gen.
Howard as to the occupation OF the Sea
Islands They want the freedmen kept
there temporarily till all arrangements
can be made for their transmission to the
State of Florida, where their labor is
much needed by the planters.
The Herald's Washington special says
Col. John W. Fairfield, of Loudon coun-
ty, Va. ex-chief of the rebel Gen. Long
streets staff, and who received special
pardon from the President short time
since. has forwarded the necessary docu-
ments to secure the restitution of his
property in the above county, now held
by the Freedmen's Bureau, and which is
known us the Monroe estate.
Since the execution of Champ Fergu-
son; at Nashville, certain parties here,
who are familiar with Col Moseby's war
history, are interesting themselves with
a view to bringing the latter to what
they call justice They allege that
Moseby, although rose-colOred, gentle
manly sort of william, was guilty Of
guerrilla atrocities which would have
made Champ Ferguson blush. They
claim to have names of ex-rebel officers
among the list of witnesses wherewith to
prove inhuman cimes upon the Virginia
partisan.
The death sentence of the Indian
chiefs Medicine and Little Six, implica-
ted in the Minnesota massacres of three
wears ago, has been suspended by the
President, in Difference to the remon.
STRANGE of Bishop Grace, of that State, to
the execution of the sentence. The
original records and testimony taken in
the premises are therefore referred to the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs for furth-
er substantiation of the guilt Of the
chiefs.
Special to the New York Post WASH
ingt ,n; October Oath, Mr.. Mcpherson,
Clerk of the House of Representatives
says he shall not put on the list of MEM
bers the names of any person claiming
to be elected from State that has been
in rebellion. To do so he says he would
be deciding one OF the important ques-
tions before Congress, and to let III ~
Southern members at the outset to vote
upon the subject of their own recog-
milton would end the controversy In
their favor at once
New YORK, Oct 24.-The Posts spe-
cial says General Dick Taylor. JEFF. Da.
Wis brother-in-law, vainly endeavored to
ascertain from the President whether
Davis is to be tried soon. An impression
prevails, however, that the trial Will take
place at an early day.