The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-03-07
| FROM WASHINGTON.
Congressional Proceedings
THE CASE OF SEMMEs.
Extra Duty Pay Of Army Officers
THE FENIAN EXCITEMENT.
Irish Bonds in Great Demand.
THE CASE OF SEMMEs
1tra Duty Pay of Army officers
Irish Bonds in Great Demand.

New YORK, March 6.-The Tribune:
Washington special says: Charles II
Russell and Moses Taylor, of New York
have been added to the commission tc
select and report on 4 new post office
site in that city. .
The statement is in general circufa
ton, and published in the evening papers
here, that the President has ordered the
discharge of the pirate Semmes. Coun'
ter to this, the Navy Department, by
whose authority he was arrested, and is
now held, have no information on the
subject beyond the general rumor, and
discredit it's truth 1t is certain that a
strong pressure has been brought to
bear upon the President, and that he has
not declined to interpose his executive
authority 3
The Naval Committee have received a
communication from Admiral Porter,
insisting that our iron-clad vessels
should be taken out of water while not
in use, for the purpose of preservation.
This necessity was urged by an official
board as early es 1862, and is Of interest
i'll settling the yezed question as to the
relative merits Of salt and fresh water
in which to lay up an iron-clad vessel
Tha third Auditor of the Treasury has
issued circular concerning the extra
duty pay to non commissioned officers
and soldiers of the army, in which he
says that misapprehensiOn exists rela-
tive to the legality of paying the per
diem authorized by the army regulations
of 1861 The Auditor therefore decides
that extra duty pay cannot be allowed
except to enlisted men employed as
clerks in the military offices at Wash
ington, at the several geographical di-
visions, department headquarters, and
at the West Point Military Academy, to
whom such payment is not prohibited,
with the exceptions mentioned. No
soldier will hereafter receive extra duty
pay, and payments made by disbursing
officers in violation of this decision will
not be allowed to their credit in the
settlement of their accounts at the
Treasury Department
The Tribune's Washington special
saws: General Asboth, who came to this
country as the Adjutant Of Kossuth, has
been appointed minister TO the Argentine Q
Renublic instead of Yenzuela, as at first
IepOllc
The Herald's Washington special says:
Directions have been given to depart,
ment commanders to vacate all rented
buildingsas rapidly as the exigencies OF
the service will permit, and to collect
the troops remaining in their commands
into the regular military posts OF the
United States.
Two regiments of colored cavalry and
one battery of heavy artillery are to be
mustered out at the City Point this
week.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has been
asked whether British vessels sold under
decree in admiralty for seamen's wa,
ges and other causes, are, if purchased
by citizen of the United States, entl-
tied to an American register tie de-
cides that foreign vessels so sold are not
thereby entitled to registry
The Times Washington special says:
Intelligence has been received here by
the government to the effect that
Thomas Francis Meagher Secretary and
acting Governor of Montani Territory,
has issued proclamation for State
convention to bo hold at virginia Guy
March 2Sth, to form a State govern
ment.