The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Wirz Investigations.
TESTIMONY OF BOSTON c0RBETT.
The Andersonville Records.
ABOUT JEFF. DAVIS TRIAL.

Captain Wiz Oh the Dead Line-Au
dersonville Prison Records Lost
The President and Secretary Of Wa
Favor the Trial Of Davis by Civi
Court-Knoxville. Tenn, and Nor
folk Mentioned as Places of Trial
IncOme Receipts.
(By Union Line, cor Monroe aud Water Sts.
NEW YORK, September THE Herald''
Washington special says: 1t is under
stood that Wirz to day (3lst) placed in
the hands of his counsel yoluminous doc
nmentary evidence to prove that in es
tablishing the dead line within the An
Jacksonville prison yard, and shooting
prisoners who crossed it, he in the first
instance acted under direct orders of the
rebel General Winder, and more latterly
by the emphatic orders of j A. Seldom
rebel Secretary of War.
The commission now trying WirZ de-
cided to reject the testimony OF Sergeant
Boston COrbett, which appeared in the
record of the court two days of this
week, on the ground that he is mono
maniac upon the subject of the Ander-
sonville cruelties
The records of the Andersonville pris-
on, captured by General Wilson, are miss
ing. One of the clerks Of the Quarter
master Department, who accompanied
the expedition, aud in whose hands the
records were last seen, has been placed
under arrest by the military authorities
until he can give satisfactory account
of the disposition he made of them. It
is thought by some that the records were
stolen instead of being lost, for the pnr-
pose of preventing them being used rs
evidence against Wirz.
Mr. Kennedy, late of tho Census Bu-
reau, is conditiOnally offered the Presi-
dency of the United states Telegraph
Company, at Il salary OF $4,000 per an
mum.
The Times Washington special says
both the President and Secretary ofWar
are decidedly in favor of trial by civil
court, and at the earliest practicable mo-
ment, of jeff. Davis The chief difficulty
has been to find proper tribunal. The
President looks with favor upon Knox
vile, Tenn, where Davis committed the
overt act of treason by melting insurrec
ton i'm his speech to his army. In case
he is tried before Chief Justice Chase,
Norfolk, Va, will be selected, This is
what Davis friends desire. TIL, state
ment that the grand jury of this district
found bill against Davis for construc-
tive treason does injustice to the intelli-
gence of that jury and the legal mind
that drew the bill. The Indictment was
for overt act.
1t may be further said, that whenever
and wherever the trial does take place,
General Butler, in conjunction with the
Attorney General, will take q prominent
part as public prosecutor. The whole
matter has been under consideration at
the recent Cabinet meeting, where ques
tions of mode and place were so far deci-
ded as to believe the trial an event near
at hand
The income receipts to-day are far
ahead of those of any other day. They
amount to $2,431 1881, which is$420, 900
ahead of any former days work. The en-
tire receipts for July and August amount
to S55, ,7sl ,OO9.s4, and there is reason to
believe that the sum will be advanced to
100000 by the first of October