Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-24
NEW YO IL X.

Muster Out of the Reserve COrps-Opln
ion of Cen. Carl Schurz-Abolition o
Proprietary Revenue Stamp-Num
ber of Applications for Pardon-Feel
Ing In Warrington Against England
New Military COmmission-Anotile e1
Decision.
NEW YORK, Nov 23.-The Worlds Wash
ing ton dispatch says : l., $50 men have beel
mustered out of the Veteran Reserve Corps.
Gen. Carl Schurz. in his report to the Presi
dent, stated his belief that if negro suffrage wa:
enforced in the South at present, it voalll
require large standing army.
The forthcoming report CT tho commissione
Of Internal Revenue will recommend the abol
ishing Of proprietory revenue stamps, and al
other stamps except those used for legal docu
nments
The testimony in the case Of Capt. Petit
was concluded yesterday.
The report OF the Canmissary General 0
Prisoners is nearly concluded aud contains
vast amount Of matter relative to the number
of prisoners taken by each side during the war
The Auditor of the Treasury has Issued cir,
culars requiring Southern postmasters to pay
up all the balances due the Government at the
breaking out Of the war. Sl2: 900 has been
received from different post Offices.
Secretary Stanton has determined not to pub
lish the list Of officers to be mustered out till
after Congress meets.
The Tribune " ashngton special says: Pay
master Boardmaa, 0. New Hampshire, sent
out to the Stonewall, died Of yellow aver at
Havana.e
Several reconstructed rebels filed claims at
| the Treasury Department for balance due be-
fore their participation in treasoa
Application was made at the Navy Depart
ment yesterday for the appointment Of q young
| Virginia secessionist as midshipman.
The Times special says the number OF ap-
plications for pardon on file are about 1000.
| The number granted does not exceed 5000.
! But Nv members of Congress have yet ar
rived.
| Hon. Schuyler Coifax has consented to de
! liver lecture before the Press Club of Phila-
delphia next Monday evening. Subject, Across
the Continent.
The Herald's Washington dispatch says:
Gen. Grants report OF military operations
since his appointment lieutenant General
will probably accompany the report of the
Secretary of War, and be published with that
document
The feeling against England in Washington
for allowing the officers and crew of the Shen-
andoah to escape is one of undsguisel disgust
and hostility. All agree that they must be
| given up to our authorities, under the Extra
dition Treaty. No doubt is entertained of our
ability TO prove, from her log book that she
took many prizes after She was informed of tie
clsse Of the war.
The interior of the capitol has been COM
pletely and elaborately prepared for~t ap
preaching session of Congress. Desks Tor
Southern members have been replaced
Contracting Surgeon Mary Walker, having
failed TO receive q Maj iors commission, in the
| United States Army the President directs that
she be presented with the usual medal for
| mertorious and faithful services. Her friends
will ask Congress for more intrinsic ;estimo-
| NAL.
! II is stated that all the executive and misccl-
| lsneous documents OF Tie lhirty-seventh and
thirty eighth Congress have been printed.
| A Military Commissi on is said to be ordered
| for the investigation of the enlistment of Prus-
| sian subjects by the State of Massachusetts,
during the war, with power to sit in Washing
| ton and Boston, to accommodate the Prussiau
Minister and the Massachusetts officials re-
spectively. 1t is understood the Prussian
Government has demanded an explanation from
the United States, and expects to establish the
| fact that fraud aud compuS!on was prac-
ticed upon emigrants. Maj. Gen Hitchcock,
| Mat. Smith and Seth Williams compose the
commission.
| The Times Washington dispatch says The
| Second Comptroller of the Treasury has made
| the following decisions Officers discharged TO
! take effect from a particular date, who do not
receive notice of their discharge till some time
| afterwards and who in the meantime continue
| on duty, como within the second paragraph of
general orders No 1913 of 1864, relating to re-
| signed officers, and are entitled to pay to the
date Oh which such discharge or notice was
| received. Also, that an officer holding a commits
sion the Sd OF March, 1865, and continuing in the
military service of the United States until
March 10, 1865, and was rendered supernu-
merary by the consolidation. ..of his own regiment
| with another, and in consequence was dis
! charged, holds that as he was Lot discharged
from the service under any orders from the
| War Department for the reduction of the army
he is not entitled to three months extra pay
proper, provided by act Of Congress, March
3D., 1863 in;tsmUeh as he has not served to the
close of the war within the meaning of the law.
The Tribune's special says: The recon
structed rebels in Washington do not disguisc
their fears that he bad faith of many of their
paraopea brethren in the South will seriously
affect their political aspsatiaLs end the loss OF
Executive c0ntd .nce, which they admit they
deserved, occasions serious apprehensions; stnd
the more information they obtain of the senti-
ments Of Northern Congressmcn, the more ap,
parent it becomes that they have no chance Of
admission into the next Congress.
| Mr.. Thomas Conway, late Assistant Commits
soner of the Frecdmens Bureau OF louisiana
has been rendered by Gen. Howard the super
intendency OF all the freedmens : schools il
| Tennessee and Kentucky.