The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-11-24

The Worlds Washington dispatch says
twelve hundred and fifty men have bsen mhs-
tered out of the Veteran Reserve Corps, lehv-
ing only one hundred enlisted men in that
Department Two hundred officers are try
ing 70 hold on to their commissions until Con
gress authorizes the continuance of the Corps
Gen. Carl Schurz, in his report to the Pres
ident, stated his belief that If negro suffrage
should be enforced in the South at present.
it would require large standing army.
The forthcomining report of the Comtais-
sioners of Internal Revenue will recommend
abolishing of proprietary revenue stamps, and
all other stamps. except those used for legal
documents.
The testimony in the case of Capt. Petit
vas closed yesterday.
The report of ihe Commissary General of
Prisoners, nearly concluded, contains Vast
amount of matter relative TO the number of
prisoners taken on each side during the war.
The Auditor ofthe Treasury issued ircu-
lar requiring southern postmasters 10 pay up
al balances due the Government at the break
ing out of the war.
Twelve Thousand dollars was recently re-
ceived from the post Office at Mobile.
Secretary Stanton has determined not to
publish the list Of officers TO be mustered out
till after Congress meets.
The Tribune Washington special says Pay
master Boardman, of New Hampshire, sent
| out to the Stonewall. died with yellow fever
at Havana
Several reconstructed rebels filed claims at
the Treasury Department for balances due
before their participation in treason.
Application was made at the Navy Depart
| ment yesterday for the appointment ola young
| Virginia secessionist as nidshipman.
The Times special says the number of ap-
plications for pardon On file are 10000. The
| number granted does not exceed s.00o-none
| now being granted.
| Hon. Schuyler Colfax consented to deliver
| lecture before the Press Club ofphiladelphia
| next Monday evening. Subject-"Across the
Continent
The Herdlfs Washington dispatch says
| Gen. Grants report of military operations
since his appointment as 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 She
nandoah to escape, is one of undisguised dis
gust and hostility. Att agree that they must
| be given up to our authorities under the Ex
tradition Treaty. No doubt is entertained Of
our ability to prove from her log-book that
she took many prizes after informed of the
| close of the war.
| The interior of the Capitol is completely
and elaborately prepared for the approaching
session, and desks for the southern members
| have been replaced.
| Contracting surgeon of the Mary Walker,
| having failed to secure majors commission
ia the United States army, the President di-
rected that he be presented the usual medal
| for meritorious and faithful service. Her
friends will ask Congress for more intreisic
testimony 1t is stated that all executive and
miscellaneous documents of the thirty seventh
and thirty eighth Congress have been prin-
ted.
| The Times Washington dispatch SAYS the
second comptroller of the Treasury, made the
| following decisions: Officers discharged, to
take effect from particular date, and do not
receive notice of their discharge till some time
afterwards and who, in the mean time. con-
tinue in duty, come within the second para
graph of General Orders No. l03, of 1864 re-
lating to resigned officers, and are entitled to-
pay to the date on which such discharge or
notice was received. An officer holding Q
comission on the third of March, 1865, and
continuing in the military service of the Uni-
ted States, until August 18th 1866, was rem
dered supernumary by the consolidation of
his own regiment with another, and In con-
sequence discharged, held that as he was not
QlScuofReu IIOul Tue bcIFlcc uIutF ANY OIucts
Of the war department for the reduction of
the army, he is not entitled to the three
month pay proper, provided by the act Of
Congress Of March Sd 1865, inasmuch as he
has not served to the close Of the war, within
the meaning Of the law.
The Tribune special says reconstructed re-
bells in Washington, do not disguise their fears
that the bad faith of many of their pardoned
brethren in the South, will seriously effect
their political aspirations and interest The
loss Of the executive confidence which they
odmit they deserved, occasions serious appre-
hersions, and the more information they OBJ
tain Of the sentiment of Northern Congress
men when it becomes apparant, they have
no chance of admission in the next Congress.
Mr.. Thomas Conway, late assistant COM
missioner of the freedmen's bureau, Of Loui-
siana, has been rendered by Gen. Howard,
the supenntendency of all freedmen schools
in Tennessee and Kentucky.
RIcHNoxD, Va, Nov. %.
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