The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-02-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Congressional Proceedings.
AFFAIRS In TENNESSEE.
Promotion of General Officers
INCREASE OF THE ARMY.
The Once Of Collector of Cnstoms-
surmises About the Meeting Of Gen.
erals-German Eniisfmenis by Mas.
sachusetts. .....- --


surmises About the Meeting Of Gen
erals-German Eniisfmenis by Mas
sachusetts. -.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3l-The Worlds
Wash ington special says: 1t is said that
| if the bill for giving General Grant the
rank of full General becomes law, ii
will be followed by another bill confer
ing the rank of Lieutenant General upon
Sherman aud Sheridan. Admiral Farra-
gut will be likely made full Admiral,
the vice-admiralty in the navy being
equal to the grade of Lieutenant Gener-
al in the army. 80. .
General Thomas gives very cheerful
account of affairs in Tennessee, quite the
opposite of the tone of Governor Brown
lows letter to Speaker Colfax He win
probably be called on to give evidence,
before the committee on Reconstruction
The Tribune's Washington special
says: On Monday next ffty-fye new
money Offices are TO be opened, including
Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Mo
bile and many other. important places in
the South and in the territories,
1t is stated that one hundred and fifty
clerks are to be discharged from the
Treasury Department to-day
The Herald's Washington special says
that rurner was current in Washing,
ton yesterday and for time received
considerable credence, that Secretary Of
War Stanton had positively resigned his
position and would Yacate it to-day, but
the report appears to have had no relia-
BILE foundation
The Worlds Washington special says
The House Military committee are still
engaged in maturing the bill for an in
crease of the army, and expect to report
it to the House at an early day There
is no reason to suppose that there will be
any conflict Of opinion between the mil
itary committees of the House in regard
to the number of men Of which the re-
organized army is to consist General
Schenck, chairman of the House commit.
tee, favors the lowest possible standard,
even below fifty thousand, if possible
The committee on Elections will to-day
| decide upon contested case between
Voorhes and Washburne, of Indiana,
A private letter from Austin, Texas,
dated January 9th, states that the State
convention meets on the seventh Of
July.
The Herald's Washington special says
the conference of the senior Major Gen
erals of the regular army now progress
iag here, is causing the most extreme
speculation as to the results to be attain
ed Among the most practicable of the
views vet advanced is the supposition
that the officers are summoned here to
give their united views concerning the
southern country they have traversed,
and as to the necessity for garrsoning
the south with troops, than for council
touching the immediate affairs OF the
army. This proposition is the most
creditable, from the introduction and
passage of q resolution in the Senate to-
day asking the President to transmit
Major General >Sherman's report of his
that Mr.. Johnson is principally desirous
of obtaining the opinion OF the generals
and that Congress will adhere to its
original ideas delegatingisub-cOmmittees
from the Joint reconstruction committee,
to make trip of observation through
the excluded states.
The Times Washington special says
the receipts of the Internal Revenue
from the lst day of January up to this
evening amounts to $780, 900
The Herald's Washington special says
The House committee on Commerce have
y proposition before them to reduce the
enoluments OF collectors OF customs to a
reasonable figure Under the present
system the salaries and perquisites reach
the enormous sum of from fifty to one
hundred thousand dollars year 1t is
proposed TO abolish the offices of sur
vevor and naval officer, which offices, it
is said, are very lucrative, being nearly
equal to collectorships
The action of the military court
martial, recently in session at Boston, in
| regard to alleged kidnapping of Ger
men emigrants in Boston in the summer
of 1864 and the subsequent forcible en-
| hstment of the latter is very unsatisiac-
| torv to the Prpssian minister, at the in
stance of whom the court was appoint
ed 1t appears they ignored entirely
the remonstrance of Baron Gerrott and
the different foreign Consuls at Boston
The court was also silent respecting the
mode in which the emigrants were
swindled out of sixteen hundred dollars
each. The city received about nine
hundred recruits by the means adopted.
The result is, that the Prussiau Govern
ment and other German States will pro
hibit the making OF any more labor con,
tracts and will otherwise impede emf
grafton to this country The attention
of Congress will be called to the mat
| ter
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