Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-24
Latest from San FranciscO, Cal.
Heavy Rains aud Great Floods
throughout the State.
Negro Riot In Western Florida.
Election OF Jenkins as Governor Of
3ia Florida.
Bitter Feeling against England In
Washington.
Negro Riot in western Florida.
New York Specials.

New York Specials.
New YoRK, Nov. 23.--The World,
Washington dispatch says: 1850 mer
have been mustered out of the Veteran
Reserve Corps, leaving only 500 enlisted
men in that department Two hundred
officers are trying to hold on TO their
commissions until Congress will autho
rize q continuance of the corps.
General Carl Schurz in his report to
the President stated bis belief ifnegroe
suffrage would be enforced at the South
at present it would require a large
standing army.
The forthcoming report of the Com
missioner ot Internal Revenue will re-
commend the abolishing of propr;e ory
revenue stamps and all other stamps
except those used for legal Documents.
The testimony in the case of Captain
Petit concluded yesterday. Il
The report of the Commissary Gen.
eral of prisoners, nearly concluded, con-
tain a vast amount of matter relative to
the number OF prisoners taken by each
sides during the war.
The Auditor of the Treasury has issued
q circular requiring Southern Post
Masters to pay all balances due the
Government at the breaking out of tha
war. Twelve thousand dollars was
recently received from the post Office at
Mobile. aa.6
Secretary Stanton has determined not
to publish the list Of officers TO be
mustered ont all after Congress meets
The 1r5bune's Washington special
says that Paymaster Boardman, sent
ont TO the StoneWall, died with yellow
fever at Havana
Several reconstructed rebels file their
claims at the Treasury Department for
balances due them before their partici-
patton in treason.
Application was made at the Navy
Department yesterday for the appoint
ment o. q young Virginia secessionist
as midshipman. ea5
The 1imes's special says the number
of applications for pardon on file is
about thirty thousand. The number
granted will not exceed eight thousand.
None are now being granted.
But few members Of Congress have
yet arrived.
Hon Schuyler Colfax has consented
to deliver lecture before the Press
Club of Philadelphia next Monday even
ing. Subject: "Across the Continent.
The Heralds Washington dispatch
says:
Gen. Grants report of military opera
tions since his appointment as Lieuten-
ant General, will probably accompany
the report of the Secretary of War, and
be published with that document
The feeling against England, in Wash
ington, for allowing the officers and
crew Of the Shenandoah to escape, is
one of undisguised disgust and HOSTILE
ty. All agree that they must be given
up to our authorities under the extra
dition treaty. No doubt 10 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 Capitol is COM
pletely and elabonately prepared for the
approaching session. The desks for the
Southern members have been replaced
Sergeant Major Walker, having failed
to receive Majors commission in the
United States army, the President has di-
rected that he be presented with the
usual medal for meritorious and faithful
services His friends viii ask Con-
gress for a more intrinsic testimonial
II is stated ell executive and miscella-
neous documents of the 37th and 38th
Congress have been printed.
A Military Commission is said to be
ordered for the investigation of the en-
listment of Prussian subjects by the State
of Massachusetts during the war, with
power to sit in Washington and Boston,
to accommodate the Prussian Minister and
Massachusetts officials respectively. 1t
is understood the Prussian Government
has demanded an explanation from the
United States, and the former expects
to establish the fact that fraud and COM
pulsion was practiced on the Emigrant
Commissioners sa zti-f ass8
The Times Washington dispatch says
the second Comptroller of the Treasury
has made the following decisions: Of
6cers discharges take effect from a par
ticular anterior date, who do not re-
ceive notice of their discharge until some
time afterward, and who in the mean
time continue on duty, come within the
second paragraph of general order l03,
of 1864, relating to resigned officers,
and are entitled to pay until the day on
which such discharge or notice was re-
ceived. An officer holding a commits
sion on the Sd of March, 1865, and con-
timing in the military service of the
United States until August 18th, 1865,
was rendered supernumer by the
consolidation of his own regiment with
another, and in consequence discharged;
held: that as he was not discharged from
the service under any order Of the WSv
Department for the reduction of the ar
my, he is not entitled to the three
months pay proper, provided by the
Act of Congress, March Sd, 1865, in
asmuch as he has not served to the
close of the war within the meaning of
the law. ->-aa-.ss.
The Tfibttne's special says recon
strueted rebels Washington do not
disguise the fact that the bad faith OF
many of their pardoned brethren in the
South viii seriously affect their political
prospects and interests The loss Of
Executive confidence, which they admit
| they deserve, occasions serious appre-
tensions, and the more information they
1 obtain of the sentiment of Northern Con.
gressmen the more apparent it becomes
they have no chance of admission intC
the next Congress.
| Mr.. Thomas Conway, late Assistau
! Commissioner of Freedmen's Bureau o
Louisiana, has been rendered by Gen
Howard the superintendency Of al
| freedmen's schools in Tennessee ant
Kentucky. ,srH.t.