The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-02
WashInrton SnncInIs-

NEW YoRK, June 3O.-The morning
papers have the following special dis
patches from Washington:
The total receipts from Internal Rev
enue customs, miscellaneous Sources
sales of public lands for the fiscal wear
ending, will, it is stated at the Treasury
Department, foot up over five bundled
and fifty millions of dollars. Receipts
from Internal Revenue as estimated
will be S3l5, 900, 600; customs Sl7u OOO, 600:
direct tax about s.. 900, 900; from miscel-
Ianeous sources S6j, 900, 600, and from
sales OF public lands $500, 900.
The report that the military bills of
the House and Senate were in the hands
of Conference Committee is untrue.
The continued ill health of Gen. Joe
Hooker; from a severe attack of paraly-
sis, has decided the War Department to
relleve him in command at New York,
and he Will be granted a long leave of
absence. Gen. Jno. Pope will succeed
Gen. Hooker in command of the De-
Partment of the East. Gen. Hancock
VIII succeed Gen. Pope in command,
and John NJ. Schofeld, who has lately
returned from Europe, will be sent to
Baltimore.
Twenty-Five clerks were discharged
from the Pension Office to make places
for partially disabled soldiers and 20
more will be discharged tomorrow.
The retired clerks are said to have been
selected from those who have been
longest in the employ of the Govern
ment, some of whom had held their
places hye ten years and even longer.
There Will be another slaughter of in-
nocents tomorrow Forty or fifty as
sistant quartermasters and comnis.
SarleS VIII be mustered out of service.
The Rosseau-Grinnell Committee
nave concluded the taking of testimony
IN the case and are preparing report.
The friends of Grinnell fell confident
That Rosseau will be expelled, while
the friends of the latter are equally
Sangulne that nothing beyond reso-
Intlon OF censure will be recommended.
The committee has wisely kept its own
conclusions and all reports concerning
its future action are purely, speculas
ton.
The Blaine-Conkling Committee have
not yet concluded summing up the tes-
timony, which is voluminous. The
general character of the forthcoming
report is asserted TO be in justice Of
Conkling and damaging to Gen. Fry.
Parties infested in the Omaha, or the
main line of the Pacific Railroad, are
here pressing the President to Veto the
bill just passed, allowing the Kansas
branch to run due west.
The Conference Committee on the Tax
Bill will hold their first meeting to-
morrow and the indications are that
they will nix the duty on cotton at 81
cents per pound.
James W. Duncan, late of the Con-
tederate army, one of the Anderson
vile notorieties, and recently tried by
a military commission at Savannah,
Ca, has been sentenced to be confined
at hard labor 10 years, at Fort Pulaski
for murder, in violation of the laws of
war.
Hon. E. B. washburne Is improving
slowly, but will not be ready for active
work for at least a week. This will
prevent the Memphis investigating
committee report from being made be-
fore the close of the session.
The Times special says the reports
concerning changes in the cabinet are
unfounded. Neither Mr.. Speed nor
Mr.. Harlan has even remotely suggest
ed to the President desire to retire.
The Herald's special says it Is stated
on good authority that prominent Radi-
calls have determined in caucus to call
Convention of Radicals for new rep
resentatives which will determine upon
platform antagonistic to the Presi-
dent.