The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-15
BY TELEGRAPH,
TO THE DAILY PRESS.
Monday Morning, January Is, 1866.
From Washington.

tHOIlZlnS Cne tOmmlttee on Reconstruction TO
send for papers and persons, will suPersede
the original intention of dispatching a sub
committee to the South to obtain information
relative to affairs in that section. 1t has yet
to be acted upon by the House. The commit
tee are enjoined to secrecy as to their proceed
ings.
Special information has been received here
that the schooner Enigma, of Bath, Me-, was
wrecked at sea in about lat. 81, long. n w.,
on the 1st OF November last. All the men
were found to be in destitute and starving
condition, clinging to the wreck. One died
from exhaustion.
A large number of applications for pardon
were received at the Attorney Generals office
to-day.
River navigation was resumed to-day
There is much floating ice, which, however,
Is fast disappearing.
Gen. Howard has received letters showing
tnere Is great improvement in the relations
between the freedmen and their former mas
tiers in Georgia and Alabama.
The United States Consul at Nuremburg in
forms the Department of State that from and
after January lst, 1866, passports will cease to
be required of foreigners in Bavaria, except
ing in cases of persons seeking employment.
Those travelling with public exhibitions, ped
lers, musicians, and the like.
The convention OF Collectors of Customs
from the northern frontier, has completed its
work and adjourned. As result of their la
bors some important measures for the revenue
laws for the suppression of smuggling has
been recommended to the consideration of
Congress. 4ll a.l
The United States Consul at Antwerp writ
ing to the State Department, says, on the 18th
ult. Master j. b. Perry and seven men of the
barkentine Hattie Morrison, were rescued
from the wreck OF that vessel by Capt. Wyls-
was, OF the Dutch galiot Correlia and Susan
ma. The Hattie Morrison was shattered to
pieces by the severe gales of the 18th to Goth
ult., in lat. As N, long. 120, and was in sink
ing condition. When discovered, one man,
Edward Brown, had been washed overheard,
and the master and two other men badly in
jured.
A telegram was received here to-day, stating
that James Harlan had been nominated BY
Legislature for United States Senator for the
term commencing March 4th, 1857.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ii.
Official intelligence from chihuahua I'D to
the Sth of December have been received in
this city.
President Juarez, instead of being at San
Antonio, Texas, as represented, was resting in
quiet at Chihuahua. he writes to friend as
follows: 1.-The commanding officers of these
States 1.-THE frontier States) and political lead
ers have all expressed their approval of the
extension of my term, and have reason to
believe that the same will happen in the other
States of the Republic.
The French, it seems, had sent another ex-
petition to Chihuahua. Should this be in
great force, the Mexican government will
again abandon that city and go to some other
convenient point of the Republic. Il,
While the wooden manufacturing of the
country has doubled since the commencement
OF the war, it is shown by official figures that
In the four years ending June 80, 1865, the
wool shoddy and woolens imported make an
aggregate of one hundred apd thirty millions of
dollars, of which the manufactured wool
amounts to 287O00O00 pounds, S45,0O0,OOO
Nearly all Of the imports of wool under the
late tariff came in either at three or six cents
per pound, the duty averaging less than five
cents. The woods of Australia and South At
RIGA, which are fine merinoes, are invoiced at
less than "a cents per pound
Second Assistant Postmaster General Ferel-
ly will leave Washington tomorrow for various
parts OF the South in order to make better ar
rangements for mail facilities. - ~
A circular has been issued by brevet Major
Gen. Donaldson, Chief Quartermaster of the
military division of Tennessee, requesting Sur
geons, Chaplains, Agents of the Sanitary and
Christian Commissions, Quartermasters, Off
GERS and soldiers who have served in the army
at any time during the war, in Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia, hay
ing knowledge of the location of cemeteries,
places of burial or of the scattered graves of
any OF our brave soldiers in the States above
named, to send Capt. e. b. Whitman Assist
ant Quartermaster at Murfreeshoro, Tenn,
such information as will be useful to him in
identifying in all cases of burial wherever our
armies have served.
Captain Whitman has been assigned to the
special duty of visiting the battle grounds,
cemeteries, and places where the Union dead
have been inferred in that military division,
and to report thereon, with a view of the es-
Enlistment of national cemeteries and the
removal to these of the dead, on the plan of
those already in process of completion at Chat
tanooga and Stone River
The above is part of the general plan al
ready successfully inaugurated by Maj. Gen.
Meigs.
1t may be stated with reference to the re-
cent dispatch to the Mobile Advertiser, touch
ing the withdrawal of troops from Alabama
and Georgia, that in acting upon the applica-
ton of Gov. Parsons to withdraw them from
the former State, and to arm the local militia,
Lieut.. Gen. Grant has made the following re-
ply:
For the present and until there is full secu-
rity for equitably maintaining the rights and
safety of all classes of citizens in the States
lately in rebellion, 1 would not recommend
the withdrawal of the United States troops
from them. The number of interior garri-
sons might be reduced, but movable force
sufficient to insure tranquility should be re-
tanned. While such force is retained in the
South, I doubt the propriety of putting arms
in the hands of the militia.
An elaborate plan for the organization of
the regular army, drafted by Brig. Gen. James
S. Brisbin, has been placed in the hands of
Members of Congress.
1t is for an army of 100000 men, makes the
regiments ten companies strong, drops two
Majors in the cavalry and gives two 2d Lieut.
enants to company; increases the grades of
the army and provides for the appointment OF
one General-in-C three Generals, sixteen
Major Generals, and thirty-two Brigadier Cen
erals; also for Field Staff, Department
made according seniority, and the other half
according to merit, to be determined by boards
of examiners. 1t requires an officer to serve
two years in the line before entering the staff
OF the army, and makes West Point Staff
School, Any one who can pass the necessary
examination may enter the army as I'd Lieut.
enant.
The plan exempt officers salaries from tax
alton, and allows officers to be retired after Is
years servioe, and giving them the right to
hold civil office while in retirement. 1t incor-
porates the old regular army as part of the /
new army and prescribes the rules for uniform, 1
leaves of absence, furloughs and courts mar
tial.
A bill of twenty-five sections has been pre-
pared comprising the plan proposed, and an
elaborate document in pamphlet form accom-
panies it.
The American Bible Society celebrated its
hitleth anniversary this morning, in the Hall
OF the House of Representatives. Rev. d..
Vermilye, of New York, delivered discourse
on the subject of the Bible to a more than
usually large auditory at that place.
The threatening demonstration made on
senator Wade last Wednesday, was by man
well known to another Senator upon whom he
called short time after leaving MIR. Wade, but
not in the way of menace. The offender is
from Massachusetts, and has heretofore been
In trouble both here and elsewhere.
Last week the Treasury Department made |
the following redemption of U. S. securities:
Legal tender notes Sill 300; demand notes |
$6o,825; compound interest notes $6,73O, $40; |
fractional currency $13S, 300.