Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1866-01-11
NEWS OF TIEE DAY.

Washington, Jan Ar application hay
to the Secretary of the treasury, asking that
deposits of disbursing Officers Of the Govern
ment lie exempt from taxation, General Spin
ner has given his opinion that deposits of
lisblusing officers Of the United States with
National Banks designated as repositories,
arc subject to tax like other deposits which
are subject to taxation, Oh the ground that
the banks have the benefit of such deposits,
the same as individual deposits. rt ....
There is a steady falling off in applications
for PENSIONS both for widows and invalids =
There were about two thousand of each last
month, being decline of nearly two per cent
Il month for few months,past When the
army disbandel last summer the applications
for three or four months ranged from 1000
to G,O0O per month
| Tie Second Comptroller announces that
the advertisements Of claim agents. that SOL
diers other than veterans were entitled to-
bounties, are untrue He adds that no extra
bountics hav. been authorized nor can they
be without further legislation, and it is very
important that soldiers should not part with
their discharge papers.
The records of Maj. Russell Provost Mar
shall of Washington, show that since June,
1865, to the present time, the cases Of some
$4,000 prisoners has been reported at that
office. Out of this vast number the Old Cap
itol Prison shows upor its record that it has
housed, for longer or shorter periods, $500
prisoners of war. 800 real and fancied Of
tenders against the State, aud $500 dtscrters
and bounty jumpers
The contemplated increase Of the regular
army grows daily in favor here Those who
three months ago considered $4,000 too large
number nav favor augmenting it to nearly
twice that force. The Military Committee
will probably Introduce bill'tcr its increase
early next month. ....
The ram Stonewal will soon leave her
moorings in the Potomac and anchor at one
of the wharvcs of the city, for the purpose OF
being visited by those desirous of seeing her.
COTTON IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
.s- Washington, Jan. 3.
Letters from Georgia and Florida received
at the Treasury Department today, say that
the next cotton crop in those States will be
one half or more of what if was in 1861
| NlOSt Vi tue planters III DOUl DlittS HIc pre-
pairing their lands for the cultivation of the
great staple. The negroes however, refuse
to work for their old masters in many cases,
and the amount of lands to be planted is not,
Therefore, a very sure index to the number of
bales likely to be gathered next fall.
OUR IRoNcL4Ds.
James B. Eads, Of St. Louis, the well known
iron-clad contractor is in town, having recent
| ly returned from Europe, where he was in
structed to make for the Navy Department
certain Investigations into the qualities of the
send in the result of his observations in TIE
course of few weeks, as special report to
Congress. Mr.. Eads was treated with great
courtesy by the British naval authorities, and
is understood TO return with the conviction
that while our monitors are uncqualed for
harbor defense, the British ironclads would
make very shor. work with them in the open
ocean, For sea service the British have dis.
carded the revolving turret, or Canes cupoa
as they call it, and adhere to heavy broad
sides from freed casemates, thoroughly pro.
tected. Mr.. Eads regards our Monadnock as
the only vessel of the monitor class fit to be
brought out against the English ironclads.
F'. INDIAN AFFAIRS.
| The Superintendent of Indian Affairs for
the Territory Of New Mexico reports to Com
missioner Cooley that the Indian affairs in
that territory are now improving. He says
that the various tribes are now completely
overrunnihg the southern part of the Terrific
ry, and they even go into small towns in day
time and drive off the stock with impunity-