The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-12-18
><.GLlNG REGISTER ES6
.,xnAr MORNING, DEC ls' 1865.
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ToM WASHINGTON GG1l(S
.yuutsrfsit Treasury Notes
ctN HoWARD's REPORT.
rIooss of Hon. Thomas Corwin,
,-,IsI Convention with Columbia
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,nnterfeit Treasury Notes
GEN. HowARD's REPORT.
illness of Hon. Thomas Corwin'
,,,tsI Convention with Columbia

suarase IN the Disirics Of CO.
~,is-Back Pay OF Discharged
,.Iiiers-Jef Davis
- YORK Dec iG.-The Hera Ids
.cH..,ugton y special says call has been
- for q general election in that Dis
70 be held on the 2lst inst, to OBJ.
- manifest from the voting commu-
, n lie placed before Congress, to
- how repugnant the passage of the
suftrage act is to the people. .
Y. aosting population of Washing
6snartment clerks and government
y. -..an; whose families are residing
49, sIs COB ,iderably incensed at the
incubation contained in the May
HsLte message to impose a poll tax
20 dollars on all such residents.
n. Berald's Fortress Monroe cores
dent saws JEFF Davis is turning his
,.ntiou more than ever 10 the concern
'iMs soul He has recently been Wis
.; IN his old spiritual adviser, the
..ror OF St Pauls Church, Richmond,
-ro passed an entire day at his prison
religious reading and conversation,
ana administering to him the sacrament.
n, Worlds Washing ton dispatch
,opf,lns tie following The Secretary
ot The Treasury today decided not to
.5rtplte the January interest on the
hand, Of more than the whole amount
Of intsrst payable in gold, which is
bout 3l500OO 900.
c Huntington, Vice President of
r. Central Pacific Railroad, yesterday
.,5.ved from the Treasury Department
lNV in bonds, Oh account OF the
,,uld division of that road, which has
teen completed.
The Herald's Washington dispatch
~. the settlement of the back pay and
accounts Of discharged soldiers will be
much facilitated by sending their dis
chayge papers direct to the office of Col
Pau.llg, paymaster i'll charge of the
District of Washington. By this means
tbe long delay occasioned by soldiers ac.
counts to the Second Auditors office will
he avoided. This is understood 10 be the
case where tne applicant is living.
The want Of a regular mail service be
tween this country and Columbia has
long been felt 10 be very injurious to our
interests in that quarter, The conse-
vance is that our trade is declining
e;Te, while that Of England is rapidly
-Creasing because there are several lines
Of steamers, which carry regular mails
5etween the Columbian ports and the
English Postmaster General DennisOu,
ware OF the diEcdlty, prepared the draft
oi a postal convention which was sub
mitted to Gen. Talzar the Columbian
minister in August last, which with the
exception of two articles, was fully ap-
proved The draft in question was ac-
cordingly returned to Senior Talzar on
The first nit. with a suggestion that
certain notifications be made therein
The 18th of the same month note was
addressed to the Department by that OF
lcer. stating that in consequence OF his
recall from the post of Envoy Extraor-
dinary to this country it would be im-
possible Tor him to continue the nego-
tiation of the postal convention and that
be had forwarded the communications to
him of the first of Sept. to his govern
ment, aud that as the notifications
therein suggested were accepted, he
trusted that the postal convention would
be speedily ratified.
General fitzpatrick leaves here to-mor-
Tow, and will depart on his mission to
Chill on the Ist of January
The Tribunes Washington special says;
@. Brown commissioner of the Freed
---'s Bureau in Virginia, has submitted
.Jtucral Howard apropositiOn concern
=. the transfer of Ofnegcoes from Virgin
"a to unOccupied government lands in
Florida The result of a conference be-
tween him and a Legislative committee
Will probably be submitted TO Congress.
General John Eaton, late superinten-
dent OF the Freedmen's Bureau tor the
District of Columbia, has resigned, and
proposes to establish for himseIfin Mem
Phis, Tennessee, loyal journal to be
called the Memphis Post.
The government detained a vessel at
Boston destined for Europe, and another
Al Delaware Breakwater, destined for
india via Brazil, for the purpose OF tax
.1s out the Government annual reports
20 OH foreign representatives and naval
officer.
The Times Washington dispatch says;
Secretary Stanton left that city last even
ng Tor trip North
General Grant has issued orders to
commanders OF posts where powder Is
stored 10 take precautions for its preser-
'ation The close OF the war has left
immense quantities of powder ia the
hande oithe government
hon Wm a Darling. of New York,
On " ednesday last offered the following
resolution IN the House. with view OF
providing pensions to the surviving rep
Nsentatives ii hundred day men 1t
sas omitted il the press account of the
FOcesdings
Resolved, That the committee on Mil
a. Affairs be directed to inquire into
.ItS :ropriety Of allowing pensions to
L@rviving representatives OF soldiers
SaLed into the service OF the United
Sstes for a period of one hundred days,
y " who died while in the service said
Committee ~ to report by bill or otherwise.
Ahe Worlds Washington dispatches
sy Representative Eggleston, of Ohio.
WI introduce in the House, on Monday,
: Oil to repeal the charter of the city
u " Washington and place the Municipal
eoSsrnment in the hands OF three Com
Alssioners. as was the case many years
ago
lie Cabinet Was in sessiOn yesterday
ven Grant was ia attendance at their
celebrations
Ihe Posts special dispatch says
Speaker Colfax returned to the Capital
his morning from Baltimore.
Ihe Judiciary Committee of the House
aas agreed to report bill tomorrow
Gnking out the word white from the
charter OF that city.
The Coro~,a,..:Hli- MI n.