The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Freedmen in Georgia.
AN IMPORTANT ORDER.
General HeWard's Mission.
The Alabama Congressional Deleza-
rion-Caleb Cushing's Mission TO
England.


French, who has recently travelled eX-
tensively in the interior of Georgia, ad-
dressing nearly $4,000 freedmen, and ma
nv thousand planters. rs to their rela-
tive duties, is here. He reports great
destitution among many thousand freed
men, especially among those sent into
the State for safe keeping by their form
er owners on the surrender of the rebel
army. Many citizens are glad that sla-
very is done away. The excess of freed
men above the ability of the planters to
employ OF support, is causing great en-
barrassment aud threatens serious trCu-
BILE unless relief in some form be furnish
ed. 1t is recommended that hOmesteads
in the public lands of Florida might re-
lieye many thousands. Several men,
high in authority here, are understood to
favor this plan. The freedmen, gener
ally, plead for schools Chaplain French
has been recommended, by order of the
President, at the joint request of Gener-
ais Steadman, Larkin and Gilmore, and
ordered to report to General Howard
He goes North to represent the wants of
the freedmen.
The receipts from Internal Revenue on
Saturday amounted to SI,0S3,4S0 &c.
The following important order relative
to the mastering out of the veteran re-
serve corps was issued on Saturday. The
order apparently contemplates the reten-
ton either in the military or civil ser.
vice of all who desire it, where disabil-
tiles entitle them to the favorable con-
sideraton of the governments:
WAR DEPT ADj'T GEMS OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 70, 1865. J
General Order, No. l55:
In view of the very numerous applica-
tions for discharge, by members OF the
veteran reserve corps, department COM
manders will cause all organizations of
that corps within the geographical linn
its of their command, to be paraded be-
fore general, or general staff officer, as
soon after the receipt of this order as
practicable. Any general or general
staff officer on duty within the limits of
the department, whose services can be
spared, may be detailed for this purpose.
The officer will question each officer and
enlisted man so paraded rs to whether
he wishes to be discharged or to remain
in the service, and will make out sepa-
rate lists of those who wish discharge.
and of those who wish to remain in the
service. Each list will then be read be-
fore the officers and men, who will have
an opportunity to correct it, 50 that 1t
will be true expression OF their wishes
on the subject The officer will visit all
those who may be absent from the pa
rade, and lin similar manner obtain
their wishes and enter their names on
the proper rolls.
The rolls of officers and men who wish
to be discharged will then be handed
over to the commissary of musters, who
will at once muster out of service those
whose names are on tho rolls of such as
desire discharge. He will obtain from
regimental officers the necessary data and
complete the rolls of those who desire to
remain in service so as to exhibit their
rank and degree of disability. These
rolls when completed will be forwarded
to the Adjutant General Names OF Off
GERS and men belonging to different COM
panies or regiments will not be borne on
the same rolls. In any of the above
cases the rolls of those who wish TO re-
main in service as well as those who
wish for discharge will be made on the
prescribed blanks for muster and dlscrip.
tion rolls and will contain full informa-
tion according to the form of the blank.
Department commanders will see that
the order is executed with promptness
By order of the Secretary of War.
ISignedl E. d. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General
Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont, states that
Congress will await the report of the
special commissioners who are now
taking evidence OH the workings of the
Revenue system, before legislating npon
a. nfth ha fav
probably throw the revenue question
over to the latter part of the session, as
the revenue Commissioners will not be
ready to report for a month after the
opening of Congress.
Caleb Cushing's mission to England
is on business connected with our claims
for damages by privateers. He is pre-
pairing an elaborate argument upon the
subject and arranging numerous claims
that are being sent into the State De-
partment. The President is fully deter
mined upon asserting our claims for re-
dress.
A special to the Times, from Washing
ton 29th, SAYS: General Howard's mis-
sion to the Sea Islands was to investigate
affairs there, not to settle them. Many
of the negroes there have accumulated
property valued at from $500 to Sl5, 900,
and Just settlement of difficulties will
be no easy matter.
A special to the World, from Washing
ton 29th, says: Governor Parsons, of Al
ALBANIA, states that Alabama will have a
full congressional delegation before the
meeting of Congress
President johnson has under consider
alton the pardon of Wade Hampton.
In anticipation of the Forthcoming
mastering out orders, several Generals
are rendering their designations
The Herald's special intimates that
Justice Chase will resign.
The Tunis Embassy will tomorrow
visit the ferti6cations, and a So lutte will
be fred in their honor. At night they
will receive the officers of the army and
navy at their hotel.
Clarence Ritinge, a clerk in the State
Department, we'll known and apprecia.
ted for his gentlemanly character and
scholastic attainments. has been appoint
ed Secretary of the U. 8. Legation al
Lima. Peru. :,
There has been no arrangements made
as yet for the trial of JEFF Davis.
A letter from Texas says that directly
after the war the people of that State
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