The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Military Orders in Virginia,
TAX ON SOUTHERN COTTON,
German Americans Abroad,
The Canadian Authorities and the
81. AIbans Raiders.

fRv Union Line, cor. Monroe and Water Sts.l
New YORK, Sept 25,-General Terry
| commander of the Department .; virgin
| ia, has Just given the people of tiat State
| a yery forcible reminder that martial
| law still prevails there by the issuing
| If two orders making provisions for 10y
| Il proprietors to receive their property
| confscated by the rebel government, and
by quitting a stop to all legal proceed,
ings instituted against national officers
for acts done in the performance OF their
official duties. Hereafter while martial
law continues to prevail, the General an
nounces that any person connected with
the institution of suits of this character
will be arrested.
A special to the Times from Washing
ton, oath, says: The Secretary OF the
Treasury and the Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue, have now under consldera-
tion circular which will be.issued in
day or two, to be directed to the govern
ment tax collectors, with view OF re-
lievipg the holders of cotton in the
Southern States 1t is found that these
cotton holders are generally. unable to
raise the money to pay the Immense iaX'
&C., required by the act OF july 1904,
to be paid before shipment to the gov
ernment agent, in the nearest locality or
district 10 which the cotton may be
found, and it is also found impracticable
and sometimes impossible for these cot
owners to come North and obtain the
requisite funds by hypOthicating their
staple. The law as heretofore construed
seemed to present an insurmountable OBJ
stacle to the shipment Of cotton to the
northern ports before the government as
sessment should he paid, but the Secre-
tary of the Treasury with the aid of the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has
it is believed, discovered plan by which
owners may ship theircotton to northern
markets and pay the government charges
in those ports. If this plan be carried
out it will release and send to the north
ern markets an immense amount of prop
erty, which is now tied up in the South
by reason of the former strict and tech
nical construction of the law
New YORK. Sept. 25-The difficulty
arising out of the arrest in Prussia OF
Germans who had become American cltl
zens for the non performance OF the mil
itary service required by the Prussians,
continues to excite attention. MIR. Bis
marks organ declares that the constltu-
tion imperatively requires eve y subject
of Prussia to perform military duty and
cannot be altered at pleasure by the exc
cutive authorities. Assuming this state
ment to be correct, the only way to re
lieye naturalized American citizens from
the obligations which they are consider
ed TO be under towards the land of their
birth. would be the conclusion OF trea-
tv between the United States and Prus-
sia to that effect. Hitherto osuch persons
have generally been released from the
compulsory military service to which
thew are subjected, but only after a
great deal of trouble and out of special
regard for the United States Government
in its representation and not In virtue
of their rights as American citlZens.-
The Herald's Berlin correspondent be-
lieves that if q convention to this effect
were submitted to the Prussian Legisla-
ture it would be passed by an immense
majority, as the Liberal party are eX-
tremelyl desirous of being on friendly
terms with the great transatlantic Re-
public.
NEW YORK, Sept. pa correspond
ept at st. Albans, Vermont, of the Her
aid contradicts a report which has been
generally circulated, to the effect that
the banks Of that place have had refund
ed to them by the Canadian authorities
all the money stolen from them an the
10Th of last October by the rebel raiders.
He saws that the total amount stolen
was over $4,000, and that of this only
$4,000 have been returned by the Cana
dians. 1t is said that Secretary Seward
has made demand on the British Gov
erDment for the restoration of the re-
mainder, on the ground that before the
raid took place some OF thu Comedian OF
ficials were aware that it was contem-
plated, aud that they assisted the scoun-
drels in making their escape, and threw
all possible obstacles i'll the way of their
arrest and punishment, The correspond
ent complains Of the bad faith generally
of the Canadian Government in the
matter.
A meeting of the Board of Regents of
the Virginia Military Institution at Lex
ington, was held on Thursday last, when
ex.Gen. Curtis Lee, son of r. E. Lee, and
formerly member of jeff Davis staff,
was elected to the professorship Of ap-
piled mechanics and military and civil en-
cineering, and Major Blairs, another ex
rebel officer, was chosen professor OF nat
ural philosophy.