The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-02
News from New York.

The morning papers have the follow
ing special dispatches from Washington;
The total receipts from internal rev.
enue, customs, miscellaneous sources
sales of public lands for the fiscal yeal
ending, will, it is stated at the Treasury
Department, foot up over five hundred
and fifty million dollars. Receipts from
internal revenue, as estimated, will be
S315 100000; customs Sl70,000,000; direct
tax about 50 900, 900; from miscellaneous
sources S65,0OO,000 and from sales of
public land 100000.
The report that the military bills of
the House and Senate were in the hands
of Conference Committee is untrue.
The continued i'll health of GeneEal Joe
Hooker from a severe attack OF paralysis
has decided the war department to re-
lieye him in command at New York. and
he will be granted long leave of a6.
sence. General John Pope will succeed
General Hooker in command of the de-
partment of the East. General Hancock
will succeed General Pope in command
and john NJ. Schofeld, who has lately
returned from Europe, will be sent to
Baltimore. o.
Twenty-Five clerks were discharged
from the Pension Office to make places
for partially disabled soldiers, and
twenty more will be discharged to-
morrow.
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 five to ten years, and even longer
There will be another slaughter Of
innocents to- morrow Forty or fifty
assistant quarmasters and cOmmissaries
will be mustered out Of service.
The Rousseau-Grinnell Committee
have concluded the taking of testimony
in the case, and are preparing report
Grinnell's friends feel confident THAI
Rousseau will be expelled, while the
friends of the latter are equally san
guine that nothing beyond resolution
of censure will be recommended. The
Committee has wisely kept it's own con-
clusions, and all reports concerning its
future action are speculative.
The Blain. Conkling Committee have
nst yet concluded summing up testi-
mony which is voluminous. The gen
eral character of the forthcoming re
port is asserted to be in justice to
Conkling and damaging to General
Fry.
Parties interested 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
braEch to run due west.
The Conference Committee on the
Tax Bill will hold their first meeting
tomorrow, and the indications. are that
they will fix the duty on cotton at b
cents per pound.
James w. Duncan, late Of the Confed-
crate army, one of the Audersonyllle
prison notorieties, and recently tried by
q Military Commission at Savannah, Ga,
has been sentenced to be confined at
hard labor for fifteen years at Fort
Pulaski, for murder in violation of the
laws Of war.
Hon. E. b. Washburne is improving
slow. but will not be ready for active
work for at least q week. This will pre-
vent the Memphis Investigating Com
mittees report from being made before
the close of the session.
The Times special says: The reports
concerning the changes i'll 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: 1t is stated,
on good authority, that some prominent
radicals have determined in caucas to
call convention of radicals for the
new representation, which will deter
mine upon platform antagonistic to
the President.