The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-16
From Washington.

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and many other Republicans are
going to start for Connecticut, to
stump that State for the radicals.
Party is stronger with them than just
policy or principle.
The advices from New Hampshire
are, that the letter of the Postmaster
General, Ind the going home of the
clerks of the Departments to vote, is
construed by the.people as wish of
the Administrator for the success of
the radical Abolition gubernatorial
ticket.
The speech of Thaddeus Stevens is
understood to have been subject
OF defiant comment by the President.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has addressed letter to the
collectors of the twenty-t third district
OF Pennsylvania, stating that inspec-
tors cannot retain for their own use
that portion of the spirits taken from
the cask or package in order to ascer-
tain the proof This is not only
wholly unauthorized; but is looked
upon as q positive fraud upon the
Government and dealers. The col
lectors are instructed to adopt such
measures as shall effectually put a
stop to this practice.
The Assistant Commissioner of the
Freedmen's Bureau, informs General
Howard that the number of helpless
poor in Arkansas and Missouri that
will be dependent on the Govern
ment for support during the next
three months will be about 4, 900.
In obedience to instructions from
the War Department., the military
districts of Northern and Western
New York have been discontinued.
The Redemption Bureau last week
stamped as counterfeits Ais fifty-cent
notes, S3 twenty notes, 27
ten-cent notes, l ffty-dolIar note. and
l ten-dollar note Total, $292.45.
The receipts from internal revenue
last week amounted to over So
100000.
The Comptroller of the Currency,
last week issued as circulation of ma
tional banks 81, 123,96O.
Commissioner Sergeant, of the
Customs Bureau, is informed that the
late blockade-runners contemplate
going into the smuggling business,
and that thirty-fve vessels have been
fitted out for that purpose. 1t is ex-
pected that they will attempt to land
goods on the Florida coast. Mea-
sures have been adopted, calculated
to interfere with this illegitirnate bu-
siness.
The Old Capitol Prison is to be
thrown open tomorrow to the public,
when the curious will have an oppor-
tunity of inspecting the cells of the
many noted prisoners who have been
confined there at different periods of
the war. The picture of Wirz, pen
cilled by his own hand, still remains
on the wall of the cell occupied by
that unfortunate.
A subscription paper is now being
circulated i'll the District for sigma
lures to the proposed new line of
Potomac steamers to run to the lower
Counties of Maryland and Virginia.
A clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment, named J. W. Hasbrouck, who
is Secretary to the National Equal
Suffrage Association, has been dis
charged.
Thomas w. Edwards, Esq, of Lou
doun County, Virginia, having been
charged $3.50 by the bureau agent,
who handed him the order restoring
his property, General Howard re-
lieved the gentleman from duty.
Good!
According to careful computation
by members who are interested in
sustaining the Presidents policy of
reconstruction, there are but fifteen
Republican Congressman who can be
depended upon to vote against radi-
cal measures as they come up.
The Judiciary Committee of the
House have under consideration, and
will probably report next Tuesday, o
bill empowering the President, or
any military commander who repre-
sents him in the late rebellious States,
to reinstate loyal men in the posses
sion of lands which they were de-
prived of by rebel confscation during
the war, as everybody knows the Con
federate Government indulged pretty
heavily in confscation against those
who were known to favor the Union
cause. Since the war, many of their
DEGREES have been reversed, and the
former owners reinstated in posses
sion of their property. The object
of the proposed bill is to keep the
loyal owners in possession by the en-
ployment Of military power until the
Southern country has become so far
settled that the questions can be tried
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