The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-02-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Congressional Proceedings
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS.
General Land Office Business.
Prizes for PenmRnship-A swinilei
Observation-Disclosures 40 En- ngland

New YOHK, Feb 1.-THE Tribune
Washington special says; United State
Minister to England, Charles Francis
Adams, will probably return home 1t il
supposed his place will be filled by Mr
Malloy now Minister at Vienna, or Mr.
Marsh, Minister to Italy Either O.
these vacancies would probably be tillet
| by Governor Curtin
During the week ending Oh the l0tl
| inst, the disbursements of the Treasury
Department amounted to S4 ,407 ,932 81
During the same period the Department
issued certificates of Indebtedness to the
amount Of $4,000 and redeemed old
ones to the amount OF 100000 The re-
ceipts from Internal Revenue last week
amounted to the large sum of SAIL
lI5 60. The tota! national bank curren'
Cy issued last week, was Sl,T56, $50. The
total amount issued up to date is S213,.
ll6,3s0.
Recent returns 10 the General Land
Office show that at Detroit, Mich, 5,9S1
acres were taken up in the month OF
January, portion under the provisions
Of the homestead law and 4 part con
sisting Of cash land sales and the residue
in bounty land warrants At La Crosse,
Wis, $3.50 acres We're entered III the
same month under the homestead law,
for actual settlement AT MarysVille,
Cal the cash land sales for December
amounted to S3,OO7, and at Oregon City,
Oregon, 1881 acres were taken up for ac-
tual settlement under the homestead
law in the same month
The Tribune's Washington special
says great indigua ton is felt by the par
lshoners Of DR.. Sunderlands church, in
Washington, because the trustees con-
sented to the use Of the edifce for the
lecture of Fred. Douglass.
The Tribune's Washington special
says: The sum OF $500, in prizes,
which was offered by number of gen.
tlemen ofN y, City for the best speci.
mems OF penmanship of soldiers who had
lost their right arm in battle, was award.
ed by the committee appointed TO de-
eide upon the merits OF the contribu.
tors, to fourteen left armed men
A book is to be published which Will
be composed of the best OF these contri
buttons, and the Rev Dr., Bellows, Pres
ident of the. Sanitary Commission, has
written to Ma. Gen. o, A Howard, re-
questing him to furnish an article for
the volume,
A swindle, concocted by = partner oI
New York brokers' firm, was yesterday
exposed by Washington detectives The
party called at police headquarters re-
Gently, representing that his firm had
been robbed of 1900, in United States
bonds, and believed the criminal parties
were in the city. After brief investi.
cation the detectives concluded that
they were being missed, and telegraphed
for the other member Of the firm, who
duly arrived IN town and was confront
ed with the complainant, whom he
charged with the abstraction Of missing
bonds, The result was the production
by the artful dodger OF = 900 OF the sto-
len property
The Posts Washington special says,
The Ways and Means Committee is con-
sidering the tax on whisky aud cotton,
and the income tax a report will be
made very soon on these three points
The Freedmen's Bill having passed
the Senate and House Will be sent to the
President to-day
The friends OF Hon. Van DycE here are
very certain that be will be appointed
Collector Of New York, within few
days,