Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-25
REWARDS FOR THE CAPTURE OF BOOTH.
THE REWARDS FOR The CAPTURE OF BOOTH AID
OTHERS.
The following order was issued to-day

OTHERS.
Ihe following order was issued to-day:
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Adjutant Generals Office.
c - Washington, Nov. a, 1865.
General Order No. l66.-Ordered lst; All persons
Booth, Lewis Payne, G. A. Atzerodt, and David E.
Herold and Jefferson Davis, or either of Them are
notified to file their claims and their proofs with the
AdIutant General for final adjudication by the Spe-
GIa commission appointed to award and determine
fJanuary next after which time no claims viii be
received.
~ 2. The rewards offered for the arrest of Jacob
WIN, Il. Cleary, and John II. Surratt are revoked.
BY order Of the President,
E. D. TOWNSEND. L. 5. Adjt Cen
CIRCULAR.
The following circular from the Quartermaster
General will be read with interest:
QUARrERMAsTER GENERALS OFFICE
WASHINGTON, d. c. Nov l6, 1865
All officers of the Quartermaster's Department are
hereby notified that from and after the 1St of Decem
6er next no charge exceeding one hundred and fifty
dollars Sl5O per MONTH for the services of any clerk
in said department, will be allowed.
one or two experts. who have been employed by
breSt On I authority OF the Qgartermaster General will
And nothing in this circular must be considered as
Justityng or auhor zing increase of the salary of
than Sl5O per month.
By order of the Quartermaster General.
Ben. C. CARD,
Colonel Q. NJ. Department.
VACANCIES IN THE ARMY.
Many vacancies in the lower grades of the regular
army, and among the field and company officers of
the Neteran Reserve Corps exist at the present time
The order heretofore issued by the War Department
providing for examining applicants to fill the va
an order has just been promulgated directing the
regimental officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps to
forward to the chief mastering officer of this Depart
ment duplicate muster rolls and descriptive lists of
all officers and men who elect to remain in that ser
wee It is beheved that an order will be issued to
remit the Veteran Reserve Corps and to resume the
examination of candidates to fill existing vacancies
These measures will afford the means Of providing
for many. ex-officerS of volunteers of merit and
ability, who are anxious to re-enter the military
service. 1t will be remembered that, of what called
the Regular Army. the terms of Q regiments of in
fantry, battalions each regiment OF artillery and
regiment of cavalry. will. by law. expire one year
after the end of the rebellion. Hence legislation will
become necessary in regard to these branches of the
military service.
VETERAN RESERVES
An order has been ssued directing the regimental
officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps to forward to
the Chief mastering Officer of this Department du-
plleate muster rolls and descriptive lists of all officers
Chief Medical officer of the Department is also d.
rected to detail competent medical officer to exam
inc all such officers and men, and to forward report
with the muster rolls and descriptive lists. What
disposition will be made with the officers of this
Corps who desire to remain in service, has not yet
been announced.
BOUNTY FOR VETERANS.
The War Department has decided that no claim for
veterans bounty will he entertained unless the claim
ant has heretofore been recognized and borne on his
company rolls such veteran In of claims for
unsettled clothing, the sworn statement of com
mqnding officer of the company to which the claimant
belongs. sustaining the claim, must be filed.
Colored soldiers applying for bounty should state
whether they were mustered as free, or before
April 49, 1861 enrolled and subject to draft at
the date of enlistment, If the claimant be an officer
he must state when last paid. and, if possible the
name OF the paymastcr who paid him.
ARRIVAL OF THE REBEL RAN sroNEwALL
This formidable iron plated ram arrived from Ha-
vana this morning, under of the L. S steamer
Rhode Island, Commander Alexander II. Murry, lin
charge of the eXpediton) and the L. S. steamer Hor-
net, Lieu Commander George Brown, L. $. n, the
Febiger.
In coming up the river. the Rhode Island got
aground off Buzzard's Point, and the Stonewall
came to anchor off Giesboro but will up to the
Navy Y ard at high tide.
When off Smiths Point, Chesapeake Bay, New
York schooner attempted to cross her bow. but
either mscalculated the speed Of the Stonewall
not aware of the presence of her ram, and was
struck by the latter sinking her almost instantly
The engines of the Stonewall were Immediately re-
such is her momentum from her weight of metal.
the collision The crew OF the schooner were saved
THE RUSSIAN CATTLE PLAGUE.
The Secretary of State has received a letter from
Minister Clay, dated ST. Petersburg. Oct 10Th. As
some attempts being made to deny the existence
of the cattle plague in Russia he quotes extracts
from the Russian GGzete of Moscow in proof of the |
The superadtural people regard that as useless at
tempt Some of the larger villages scarcely retain |
the tenth Of their original number Cattle perish by
of the cattle plague does not anSwerto the raging
in England, in all respects but climate and other
surroundings greatly change the symptoms and char
acter of the disease. is well known and notwith-
standing the denias OF the Russian authorities who
are much interested in the export of cattle talIow
hides and wool Mr.. Clay is still of the decided opin
ion that the disease was carried from the Baltic Rus
sian ports to England.
PATENTS IN THE Seeded STATES.
The President has decided that no patents shall be
issued to any person in the rebeous States until
they are properly reconstructed.
CONSCIENCE MONEY.
The total amount of conscience money received at |
the Treasury Department for the year ending with
June last was S20S16. 1t was received in sums vary
ing from 50 cents O S6ll