The West Virginia journal. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1864-1877, 1866-08-29
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tho! Treasury spartmapt-being tssp roesSds
Of salo Of tho pirate Shenandoah. Il
General James Nsglec, . hero Of tie
Mexican and tho late war, died last xeek It
Pottsvillc, Penn. 'ssGftt
Tho loss by tho frc'at Jersey City on tho
10Th, is estimated At 100000 Thirtee9
lives wore lost and eighteen vessels destroyed.
GENERAL GUSTAV has bccn appointed 70 :
Lieutenant Colonelcy in the regular army, in
return for his services At ~PhilAdslphia. e
The receipts Of internal revenue from the
LIST qftply to tho ed Of August was $751;
100000. H. "a 81 ~, ....,
There is to bs convention Of soldiers and
suilors Of tho apti:J ohnson persuasion, At
Pittsburg, on tho 24th Of September. r
General Sheridan hos rsyokcd Con. Bsird's
proclamation Of martial law ip Now Orleans,
and restored tho civil authority ~ it existed
before the riots. .
UNDER orders from tho War Department,
tho issue Of rations by tho Frccdmcn's Du.
rrau will lie stopped after tho lst Of October,
except to persons in hospitals and asylums.
A special to tho New York Herald an
nounccs TINT Secretary Stanton will not re-
sign until he has given to Congress an nc
count of the operations Of his Department
during the late rebellion. ......."
Tho stampede Of loyal men from North
Carolina continues. Tho telegraph reports
two hundred and twcnty-scYcn Of them on
q single train, bound to Indiana, in pursuit Of
pcacc. Great is tho President and his policy!
Colonel Wynkoop, Special Indian Agent,
has returned from the Smoky Hill region, and
denies reports Of Indian outrases on the road
to Denver md Santa Fc. lie thinks the III
dians will continue quiet" unless general
war breaks out in the upper country
The work on tho great suspension bridge
Mt Cincinnati still progresses very rapidly
The cables arc complete in every detail, ind
the work Of putting on the iron bands ind
s,iSpendcrs to which to attach tho bridge.
way proper, has been commenced.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue d..
reefs that whenever all Assistant Assessor
seeks or accepts n nomination to an elective
Office the fact shall be taken to indicate that
he no longer desires to hold the other posi-.
ton, and his successor will be Mt once up
pointed.
Since the removal Of tho military from
CIinch county, Georgia, the colorcd people 0rc
being treated most shamolully. judge u.
King, of TINT county, sentenced colorc'l
woman to receive sixty.thrco lashcs because
she quarrrlcd with white woman who had
made scandalous charges against her.
Two bottles were picked up at tho mouth
of Bayou Tcrrbonnc, on tho 10Th, in tho Gulf
Of Mexico, containing papers, as follows:
No. l." Ship Flying Eagle, May 81, 1866.
Lost ull masts, and in hopeless condition,
with six feet Of water in hold, [Siyncd] CrA-
gan."
No. 2.-Much faded, in pencil, "United
States ship powhltan, Chinese coast, October
10, 1851" ... .......
As tho net Of Congress increasing tho pay
Of the enlisted men Of the army and marine
corps was, by it's terms, limited i'll its opera
tons to the continuance of tho war for tho
suppression Of the rebellion, tho recent pcaco
proclamation OF the President, announcing tho
restoration Of pence reduces their pay to tho
old standard Of eleven dollars o month.
There is official authority for denying the
Statement that tho Secretary Of the Treasury
has given instructions that no money shall bc
paid out Of tho treasury under the provision
Of the latc appropriation INV for additional
bonntics to soldiers. As noon rs the rcgula-
tons governing tho payment shall bo agreed
upon by the Commissioner, they will be fur
nishcd to the Treasury Department; and not
until then will bc presented for the decision
Of Il c Secretary the question whether tho
law carries with it an appropriation for the
object specified. .;,u,1.-... -
MORE or TIE NEW ORLEANS MASSACRE.
We have the following additional account
Of this terrible slaughter FROM the Now Or.
leans Tribune Of thA17th:
Our list SO fur US completed, up to tho
present moment, shows total Of 1897 Killed
and wounded among the friends Of tho con.
vcntion. Gen. Baird has prepared an
official report Of the whole affair, which was
forwarded by General Sheridan to General
Grant on Friday General Baird charges. in
this report that tho butchcry was prcconccrt.
cd by Mayor Monroe Attorney General Her.
ron, and scveral othor lrrsons. -. .aa
Official information. IL headquarters shows
that tho statement Of Lieut. Gov. Voorhees,,
that AZ policemen md several citizens wcrc
either killed or wounded, is m unmitigstod
falsehood. Ono policeman died Of sunstroko and
about three were badly wounded. Ono .citi.
zen, rebel, was killed accidentally by the
police. On tho other sdc, tho record will
show tho slaughter to be over ono hundred
Union men and tho wolnding Of about 900
These are facts. I have it,from undoubted
authority that Gen. Shoridan's telegram oi
the first Of August was perverted for political
purposes Among tho sentences withheld
was ono that he (Shcridan) SHIELD Mayor Jno.
T Monroe rngrDnahio FIR tho numbers cnm.