New-York daily tribune., 1866-01-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribune
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Friday. Jan 5. 1866.
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.


There has just been prepared for the sigma
{rre Of the President patent for some 5000 acres
selected under the Acts Of Congress of 1862 and 1861
along the line of the first section of the Central Pacific
Railroad, being that part which has been finished duly
squipped and put in complete running order. The
psiert or grant is elegantly embelished with the coat
farns of the United States, surrounded by the SYM
bos Of agriculture and commerce, and is accompanied
by map Of the Union exhibiting every State and Ter
oy and the line of route for the Central and Union
Pacific well as the proposed line of ron,e for the
Northern Pacific.
TIE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The question Of the issue Of the Government
bonds to the Kansas branch Of the Pacific Road 80
long pending before the Treasury Department. has
lust been decided and has ansmport mt effect upon
large class Of claimants The parties holding con
.truction bonds and claiming their ccnvcrtion into
Government bonds fail get them. 1ne law adviser
If The Treasury Department deciding that the bonds
olr.t be issued only the railway company under the
NV which does not relieve the railway company iom
tie obligation to convert them deciding at the same
time that 10 injustice is thereby done the holders OF
either construction land grant bonds as they are
fy protected because the company cannot issue any
frs. mortgage bonds under the act of 1904 until all
these outstanding bonds are retired.
VALUE OF NAVAL CAPTURES.
The total amount Of naval captures reaches
$50 OO0Oo0 in value onehah Of this goes TO Govern
pert and the other is divided among officers and sea
ep. in tie proportions already published The average
m man ia but sl2O whereas In the matter of bonniies
20 soldier tie average has been nearly $1,000 per man.
aud obort s,O0COLOJO have been expended in bounes
alone.
FIFTH UNITED STATES CAVALRY.
Four Companies of the 9Th United States
ysyalry have arrived in Washington They viii stay
here long enough to Thoroughly re after which they
vii u-oceed to the States OF North and South Carolina
fcr duty.
SEMMES.
The pirate Semmes has had his quarters
changed from the Navt-Yard TO tie Marine Barracks,
20 insure greater safety. lie will be immediately put
upOl his trial and doubtless convicted. although his
ultimate pardon is said TO be already assured
NEW YORK cOLLgCToRsHIP.
There has been a signfC amt influx Of prominent New
YORK po,iticars here within the past two days. Ru
nor hath that they are burdened with Coeciorshp
snxeties.
PERU AND OUR MONITORS.
This morning the Peruvian Minister and an officer OF
the Peruvian Navy visited the splendid Monitor,
Mantonomah now at the Yard for the purpose of n-
speetiug it. The Peruvian Government has already
one doubIeturreted monitor and her neighbor. Chill.
mas two building in England and the Minister from
Peru is anxious to purchase OF Monitors for his
Government.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Receipts at the Internal Revenue Bureau to-
lay we're reported TO slightly exceed s7O00oo
THE CABINET.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was of short du-
ration The latest positively asserted Cabinet change
is that Secretary Wees is to be superseded by Sena-
t0r Dixon.
LAND-OFFICE STATISTICS.
Under the swamp land grant Of 1550, swamp
selections in the former Jackson. now Ironton Land
District, covering AL 727 acres has been granted TO
The State of Missouri for which patent from the
United States has just been prepared with view to
transmission 10 the Governor Of tha. State.
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