The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-01-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
Prize Money Paid to Navy Officers
Applications for Pensions.
Extra Bounty 10 Soldiers
Loss of Titles in the South.
Ci,ims for the Capture Of Beoth-Dei'
es,rion of Indians-Frauds by Dis
bursnE Oficers-The Old Capitol
PrisOs
Applications for Pensions
Extra Bounty TO Soldiers
Loss of Titles in the South.


Secretary of tie Treasury, asking that
deposits of disbusing officers of the gov.
ernment be exempt from taxation, Gen.
Spinner has given his opinion that de.
posits OF disbursing Gicers of the United
States with national Iauks designated as
repositories are subject to tax like other
deposits, which are SUBJECT to taxation
on the ground that the lRnks have the
benefit of such deposits.
The Worlds dispatch saysi w Webb
is recovering.
General Grant and staff are It vii.
mington, attending the wedding IF Gen
Wilson.
Gen. Terry is at Washington.
The Times Washington special saSs:
Colonel Winthrop is examining the dot
uments in relation TO claims for the cap.
ture of Booth 1t is expected the matter
will be decided about February lst
Major ]. A Burbank, Indian Commis
sioner, and delegation of five Iowa In
diaps and three Sac and Fox Indians
arrived here this evening from Nebraska
They are here for the pur pose of consul
tation as to the terms of treaty entered
into in 1861, and for the purpose of hav.
ing it renewed.
The Herald's Washington special gives
the amount of prize money paid differ
ept flag officers of squadrons and COM
manders of vessels during the rebellion.
The largest single amount OF prize money
paid was to Lieut.. VIM. Budd, for the
capture of the Memphis S38,3l8. The
capture of the Albemarle, by Lieut..
Cuching's picket boat netted the boats
crew 81, 1884 Vice Admiral Farragut re-
ceiyed S55,443i Rear Admiral Lee and
Porter received over 100000 each; Du-
pont Sl5S, ,476, and other Admirals sums
varying from $4,000 to S473. Sums
awarded to other officers vary from So4, :
| 900 to $500. The enlisted men have been
paid sums varying from $l3 to 81 300
| Nine and one half millions of dollars of
prize money has been paid thus far
| Six hundred captures remain unadjusted
which will swell the aggregate to Sl5,'
100000.
The Worlds Washington special says:
There Is a steady falling off in applica-
tions for pensions, both for widows aud
invalids. They were about 1900 Of each
last mouth, being decline Of nearly two
per cent menth for few months past.
when the army disbanded last Summer,
the applications for three months ranged
from 1000 to 5000 per mouth.
The I'd Comptroller announces that the
advertisements of claim agents, that sol
diers other than veterans, are entitled to
extra bounty are untrue. He adds that
no extra bounties have been authorized,
nor can they be without further legisla.
ton, and it is very important that sol.
diers should not part with their discharge
papers.
The Heralds Washington special says;
A convention of Collectors Of Customs is
to meet in Washington City on Monday,
the 9Th inst, to deliberate in reference
10 some necessarv change IN existing
custom laws.
1t is reported hat military board
has been constituted by the war depart
ment to investigate certain transactions
of government disbursing officers who
have operated in Kansas during the last
wear or two. That immense frauds upon
the public treasury will be unearthed in
the course Of the labors of the board, is
very probable Certain prominent civil
authorities of the above State arc said to
be notoriously and disreputsbly identified
with these populations.
The records OF Major Russell, Provost
Marshall of Washington, show that since
June 1865 to the present time, the cases
of some thirty-eig6t thousand prisoners
have been reported at that office. Out
of this vast number the Old Capitol
prison shows upon its record that 1t has
housed for longer and shorter periods,
six thousand I've hundred prisoners OF
wal, four thousand i've hundred real
snd faucied offenders against the State,
and two thousand five hundred dsaerters
and bountyjumpers
The contemplated increase II the reg
ular army Crews daily in favor here
Those who three months ago considered
seventy FIVE thousand too large q number
now favor augmentiug il to nearly twice
that force The Military committee will
probably introduce bill fol its increase
early next week
The Tribune's special says the ram
stopewall will soou leave bef moorings
IL the Potomac and anchor at one of the
vhGryes OF the city, fOl the purpose Of
being visited by those deeirOus OF seeing
dsg,
. -. TribuDev Washington dispatch
5ap;as ., <Ettplt lnal StuOl nOLioIo " de
cnt % bv the -sGeh and Austrian Mipis'
eu. y! tho tt Praoid."ts reception OF New
Years, but vice versa Hs turned the co!a !
shoulder to them, and says ne was 'T..
daily received by the President at"e y
most OF the other diplomatists presenv,
especially from those from the South
American States
The Heralds Washington dispatch says:
To obviate the difficulty now prevailing
in many localities in the South, occasion
ed by the loss OF titles and papers rela'
ting thereto IN the transfer Of lands,
the gSusral land Office has ordered its
agents throughout the southern States TO
carefully collect all vestiges and rem
uants of the records of their office and |
forward them TO the commissioner at
gton, that new plots and other
archives sppertainiug TO tie lands may
be supplied as far as possible New maps
are being got up with all possible dis;
patch. At the time of our invasion OF
the South, many sdventurers attached
to the army secured many valuable pa
pers and records relative TO certain large
estates in the hope of owners onerine
heavy rewards for their rest Grafton sllei
the close of the war IL Is the nope OF
the Commissioner of public lands to De