The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-12-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
The One Hundred Million Loan.
Oontraband Articles to be Seized.
AFFAIRS IN TEXAS.
Investigation of ths Christmas Riots

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wishes or needs a loan of one hundred
million dollars, aside from the regular
revenues of the government, as has been
currently reported.
An order was issued yesterday trans
ferring the headquarters of the depart
ment of Tennessee from Knoxville to
Memphis.
The Secretary OF War has issued an or
der forbidding the examination of any
non-commissioned officer of the regular
army for appointment to Brevet Lieuten-
ant who has not served at least two
years in the regular army.
The Worlds Washington special says:
The Secretary of State has directed the
United States Attorney to keep a vigilant
watch Oh all vessels sailing for Mexican
ports and seize all cOntraband articles
The parties in New York employed in
this business allege that they have car
rier route entitled Maximillan's Express
Company Some facts will shortly be
made public showing dp the matter
more definitely.
Some days ago the necessary papers
were filed in the Treasury Department
showing that forty miles of the second
division of the Kansas road had be Ell
completed, and application was accord
ing made for the six hundred and forty
thousand dollars OF bonds Since the
above the representations OF another i'll
terest have presented themselves at the
Treasury Department, and notified the
Secretary that the bonds called for are
in tlleir possession, and ask that the
bonds be issued to them and not to the
Kansas and Leavenworth party The
ments relating to the subject, and will
render the decision in few days.
The Secretary OF the Treasury and the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue have
adopted new regulations relative to
draw backs upon shipments to British
provinces, In case goods a.e TO be ship
ped from port, OF transported through
a frontier port to any of the British
provinces, where the drawback claimed
in any one shipment does not exceed the
sum of fifty dollars, the exporter will
file his entry in triplicate form at the
Custom House at the port of exporta-
ton in the same form and manner as
prescribed for shipments made to other
foreign ports in the amended circular
dated May lst, 1865, one of which en-
tries will be transmitted to the collector
or other officer of the Custom House at
the frontier port through which the
goods are to pass, and he will examine
the packages to ascertain if they agree
in all respects with those described in
the entry If the packages are found to
agree the officer of the customs will per
NIT them to be sent forward without de-
tention to their place of destination, and
will execute on the back OF said entry
certificate that the packages OF merchan-
disc described in the entry for transport
alton to Canada, or other British provin-
ces, have been duly inspected in that
port and delivered for expectation as
aforesaid. The exporter will then pro.
ceed in preparing the balance OF his pa
pers, in accordance With the instructions
of the above mentioned circular. of
instructions, charging each OF said firms
to suit the altered circumstances OF the
case. The bond will be cancelled If the
exporter shall produce within ninety
days from date thereof certificate, un-
der the hand and seal of the Collector,
or other chief revenue officer OF the
Canadian, or other provincial port that
the goods, wares and merchandise de-
scribed imported into the province
therein mentioned, and duly entered at
the Custom House, and that the duties
imposed by the laws in force in the pro-
vince have been paid or secured.
Merchandise intended for expectation
with the benefit of drawbacks, under
the Internal Revenue law, may be
forwarded through those frontier ports
through which imported merchandise
may he exported consistently with law
full regulations, and no other II the
merchandise be shipped direct by sea
from the port OF expectation, or if ship
ped direct from frontier port TO port
in the British provinces, the regulations
prescribed in the amended circular of
instructions dated May lst, 1865, will be
absorbed when the drawback claimed III
any one shipment exceeds the sum OF
fifty dollars A consul certificate will
be REQUIRED. in addition to the ship rev
enue officers, for the cancellation of the
bonds in all cases These regulations
will be enforced on and after the inst of
January.
The Heralds Washington dispatch
states that General VIM. j. Strong, In
spector General on General Howard's
staff, returned to Washington yesterday
from three months tour in the South
west. He reports the affairs IN the lnte-
rior of Texas as being in deplorable
condition. Much destitution exists
among the blacks and whites. The
blacks are willing to work, but the whites
are not in a condition TO employ them
The latter also universally complained
of bad treatment and violation of such
contracts as had been agreed 10, and bit
fer hostility to the government ana gen
eral lawlessness prevailed. So great was
their ignorance that the whites scarcely
Enew Gbe war was ended, and the blacks
thought themselves yet slaves
When President Johnson's brother was
accidentally wounded by the discharge
nf his pun. a number of surgeons were
applied to for professional treatment
Each one refused his services upon the
Ground that he was the brother oil the
President. and 'he was Obliged TO SEND
nearly one hundred miles for protes
sional surgeon, and died solely for want
of surgical aid.
The Worlds Washington dispatch
saws. The presence efClarence A Seward
in This CITY removes the rumor IN clrcu
lation some time since that Congress
ional inquiry would probably be made
concerning the alleged fact OF his oelhg