The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-12-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
rb, Statement of the Public Debt
s1s to be Introduced IN Congress
p.nort of Comptroller of Currency,

VOL to the Tribune says: The state
NJ ofthc public debt to-day will show
AJI, 5-,rsase of s, 800, 900 for the month of
aSorpmber The amount of indebted
s"sss certificates issned during Novem-
reach 81 900.
'csneral Howard has anumber OF officers
.,%stribute the supplies distributed by
y. SSitary Commission and the Com
..arv Department among the destitute
.,rtbern freedmen.
Major Samuel W, Tuttle, of Governor
r.ntops staff, was lnthe city to-day and
"a an interview with the President,
.rI,s, pleasure he is awaiting previous
,nbisdeparture on important business
,mDected with the Government
,necial to the World says: Chaun-
NJ Drpew is here with his Albany
.cdorsemcnt for the collectorship.
The National lntclligencer says: Sena-
Sherman will introduce billat the
,,.niuc of Congress for equalization and
rsi1ction oftaXatiOn.
,pecial TO the Times says: Senator
sherman will introduce bill at an early
i,v nroviding for the reorganization of
tho civil departments OF the Govern
-s,1 10 reduce the clerical. force, and
1cTease the salaries of the remaining
cItrk,
special to the Herald says: Owing
,og press Of business, and near approach
i congress, few pardons have been
Uan,ei during the week.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was a
,bort one most of the members returned
after one o'clock to to their departments
10 finish their reports.
A list of about forty brevet officers in
the commissary department. will soon be
,,ned General A. b. Cohan. chief of
connissary and his assistant have both
been brevettcd Major Generals in the
regular army. 4lIl--f- (
General Grants views in reference to
anmcrease of the regular army will be
communicated to the military commit
tees OF Congress at the proper time. No
one is at liberty to foreshadow his views
in regard to that matter. He is in favor
ofreducing the army to the lowest point
compatible with the public interest.
Next 70 the Secretary ofthe Treasury
report that of the Comptroller OF the
Currency will be the most important,
Showing as IL Will, in detail, the exact
amount oE each kind OF CuUreucy III CHI
cnlation. The public viii be surprised
70 find that the grand total is much lar
ger than seems To be generally supposed
Fhereport willcontair commentators
that are deemed Vial 10 the financial
interests ofthe country
Certain parties are travelling through
the northern STATES. as is shown by a
communication received by General
Howard appealing 10 the benevolent for
contributions. by representing that there
are twenty thousand OF more destitute
freed peOple i'm this district who are ac-
tually suffering toG the necessaries of
life These statements are false. The
freedmcns bureau support but three
hundred freedmen. .Ft"
Col Beiue, Of New York. who was for
some time the efficient Provost Marshal
of this city was to-day appointed Depu-
" Cuited States Marshal for the District
Of Columbia Il
COL Burnett, Judge Advocate, was
mustered out OF service today.
An order from Gen Dent. commanding
the garrison of Washington, dissolves
the court martial of which Brig. Gen~
Dewitt Va. President, and relieves all
the veteran reserve officers oi which it
was composed The court Will probably
beSOOu reformed with u detail of officers
from llmcurh's = corps OF some of the vol
untccr regiments OH duty here, when
several important cases of fraud in the
QuartcrmaStcI'S Department concerning
a Lao, trin
DIS>alyiug these court martials destroys
the last hone Of those veteran officers
excepted in the late order sending home
al who were not actually on duty of
some kind
The 9th and oth regiments of Han
cocks corps on duty in Washington re-
port drscrtion during the month of No
Nember of two hundred and fifty eight
Colonel Withers, OF Mississippi, for,
meIly General PcmbertonS Chief of Ar
'..cry. reports his efforts to induce Bos-
ION capitalists TO embark III cotton grow
lg and other Southern speculations as
very successful
Mr. Mcpherson, Clerk OF the House of
representatives, has completed the roll
st OF the members Tie has excluded
IleTetrom the names of the representa-.
tive, from all the States heretofore de
layrl.u inSurrection The number of
representatives. ON the IOll list is about
III MeSsrS Harrison and Peton. from
AIpama, and MeSSrS. Stubb and
N'SurI from North Carolina, are here
N,l their certificates claiming seats
4.eg, appears to Ice no opposition IN
'st tRepuhhcan ranks 10 the reelection
aNotaN rs Speaker and Mcpherson as
Clerk
41e Washington special says. The
postmaster General yesterday mailed
yyOge' OF his report to the journals of the
Hse cities of the country, i'll order that
,-y ~, document may be put into type for
E'"cauon on the day OF Its delivery to
,-SIesS The report occupies but thir-
}-gt>, pamphlet size, and is not so
G-.;l ,'S1I as last years report by about
We lime since the Quartermasters
t,,yya''nent directed that the sale of
n-SPoItatlon material he discontinued.
Az. ~ ..'guissary department has in effect
~yS1U The same course III respect to
sP"es ior troops and has commenced
nos;suIIlOIating NJ New Orleans and other
a.. "a" convenient 10 Texas. Inspectors
GOV SAD sa:u to he looking closely into the
an5~,uyh and and quantity of transportation
IN n%%unauce .% stores aud directing repairs
conaa. rn cases where they are needed. In
yEt y.ec'on with General Grants proposed
nos;,! 10 Sheridan, these facts show dis
''on ws., TO keep the army of the South
-. III condition for active service at
TTSSle9t's TSl notice.
pigb, quo Republican caucus met last
AIsul, and was attended hr sixteen rem