Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-04
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Yesterday Afternoons Report
WASHINGTON PERSONALS.
j. Watson Webb Recovering.
GEN. GRANT AT WILMINGTON.
General Terryat Washington
MCREASE0FTHE REGULAR ARMY
THE PROJECT FINDS FAVOR.
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SPEECH OF GENERAL PALMER
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
Wool Growers Convention.
THE PROJECT FINDS FAVOR.
SPEECH OF GENERAL PALMER.
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
Wool Growers Convention.
Washington News.
What the Specials Say.


NEW YoRK, January "A Washington
dispatch says: An application having beer
made by a western National Bank, to the
Secretary of the Treasury, asking that the
deposits of the disbursing officers of the
Government be exempt from taxation, Gen.
Spinner has given his opinion that deposits
Of disbursing officers of the United States
with National Banks, designated as deposi.
taries, are subject to tax, like other de-
posits which are subject to taxation, on the
ground that the banks nave the benefit Of
such deposits, the same as individual de-
posits.
The Worlds dispatch says J ". Webb is
recovering. z
General Grant and staff are at Whining
ton, attending the wedding of General VII
Major General Terry is at Washington.
The Times Washington special says
Colonel Winthrop is examining the docu-
ments relative to the claims Of the reward
for the capture of Booth. 1t is expected
that the matter will be decided about Feb.
first. f1gi
- b Indian Affairs. s,
Major ]. A. Burbank, indian Commits
sioner, and a delegation of five Iowa In
dams and three Sac and Fox Indians, ar
rived here this evening from Nebraska.
They are here for consultation as to the
terms of a treaty entered into in 1851, and
for the purpose of having it renewed.
Prize Money.
The Worlds Washington special gives a
list of the amount of prize money paid the
different flag officers of sqnadrons and com.
manders Of vessels during the rebellion.
The largest single amount Of prize money
paid was TO Lieut.. VIM. Rudd for the cap
ture of the Memphis, being s3S,31s. For
the capture Of the Albemarle by L~ieutensnt
Cushing the Wrecker boat netted the boats
crew $l,934 per man. Vice Admiral Far
ragut receives $55,443. Rear Admirals Lee
and Porter receive over 10000 each. Du-
pont S5S,476, and other Admirals sums
varying from $50, 600 to 1878. The UNI
awarded to other officers vary from $4,000.
to $500. The enlisted men have been paid
sums varying from Is cents TO $1,000. So
500, 900 prize money cave been paid thus far.
Siz hundred captures remain anadjusted,
which will swell the aggregate to $15,0oO,-
600. ~ p.
New YGRK, January 3.-The Worlds
Washington special says there is a steady
falling off in fhe applications for pensions,
both for widows and invalids. There were
about two thousand of each last month,
being a decline of nearly two per cent. a
mOAeA " z AOAhAo Poob WHO'LL bAO dAAAJ
disbanded. e.
The Second Comptroller announces that
the advertisement of claim agents that sol.
diers other than veterans are entitled to
extra bounty, is untrue. He adds that no
extra bounties have been authorized, nor
can they be without further legislation, and
it is very important that soldiers should not
part with their discharge papers.
The Herald's Washington special says
a convention of Collectors Of Customs is to
meet in Washington on Monday, 6th inst,
to deliberate concerning some necessary
in existing custom laws.
Immense frauds perpetrated by Govern
ment disbursing officers in Kansas during q
year or two past are shortly to be %inYesti-
gated.
The records of Major RUSSELL Provost
OF washington, show that since
June, 1865, to the present time, the cases of
$4,000 prisoners have been reported t
office. Out of this vast number the Old
Prison shows upon its record that it
housed for longer n shorter periods
900 prisoners of war, $500 real and fancied
offenders against the State, and $500 desert
ers and bounty jumpers.
The increase Of the Regular army grows
daily in favor here. Those who three months
considered $4,000 to large q number,
now favor augmenting it to nearly twice
that force. The Military Committee will
probably introduce a bill for its increase,
early next week.
The Tribune's special says that the ram
Stonewal will soon leave her moorings in
The Potomac, and anchor at one Of the
wharfs in the city, for the purpose Of being
by those who are DESTROYS Of seeing
her, An