The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-05
FOURTH EDITION
VERY LATEST NEWS.
WASHINGTON.
Special Dispatches to The EOeniag Telegroph.
WASHINGTON, February 8.
Prize Money transactions,

Prize Money transactions.
The following is a statement OF the transac-
tions of the Prize Money Division of the Fourth
Auditors Office, Treasury Department, for the
month ending January 81, 1866
Number of claims on hand January .,.,,,,. 1850
Number received during the month. ............1492
Number settled during the month, .,,.,,,.,,..14 .1447
Number on hand January 81. 3l..,.....,...,.,...8s 1904
Prizes are now ready for distribution TO the
crews of the United States steamers Massaeh,.-
sets, PdtdpscO, WiSsdhicfon, Princess Rogal
and Chocard the captors OF the Rebel steamers
Persia and Alabama.
BOunttes for NOn-C0mmfspIOuedO Omcers
The Second Controller has decided that non
commissioned officers mustered out on consoli.
daton of regiments before the reduction of the
army commenced are entitledto the installments
Of bounty which had accrued while they we're
in service.
The Union Pacific Road.
The Commissioners of the Union Pacific Rail-
road from Omaha have reported favorably on
the construction Of the first forty miles, and 4.
@. Durant, Vic ?-President Of the Road, has re,
ceived from the Treasury Department $Si0,OOO
in Government bonds, the amount due on the
section referred to.
sOuthern Testimony About Freedmen.
letter from Mr.. Reed, Of New Orleans, TO an
officer of the Treasury Department says that in
some ofthe parishes the freedmen are fleeing for
their lives; that they refuse to work for their
former owners, but are seeking Northern men,
for whom they are desirous to work on any
terms; and that when employed by such men
they work faithfully and industriously. They
say that their old masters oppress them the same
as formerly.
Rebel Drafts for Collection.
General Spinner on Saturday maile1t to Europe,
for collection, three captured drafts of 600 each
drawn by Colonel Harrison, of JeK. Davis mills
tary family, to the order of Secretary Trenho. m
and by him indorsed, upon Brown, Sfir,Iey &
Co., the Rebel bankers of Liverpool. Several
captured English drafts have heretofore been
sent forward for collection, but Returned with
the Endorsement of mo funds" AS the Govern
ment has knowledge that ttnese are good, the
action OF the Liverpool bankers is awaited with
special interest.
Heavy Indemnity Paid.
1t is Currently reported in diplomatic circles
that the wife of the Italian Minister has recently
been paid S50,OO0, by order of the Quarter.
master-Genersl, for property destroyed before
her marriage, and while she was Southern
| sympathizer and resident of Natchez, Miss.
| Military Rendezvous Discontinued.
The Military Rendezvous at Burlington, W.,
has been ordered discontinued.
| The National Academy OF Sciences.
| At the session of the National Academy oi
Sciences recently held in this city, the follow,
| ing officers were elected:-President, A. d.
! Bache; Vjce-President, Joseph Henry; Home
Secretary, Walcott Gibbs; Foreign Secretary,
| Louis Aressiz: Treasurer Falrman Rogers:
Council. NJ. c. Meigs, B. A. Gould, Y. L. LIE
Conte and W. D. Christy.
| UNiOn Soldiers Reburted.
The bodies of the Union soldiers who fell in
the skirmishes near Falls Church in 1861, are
being disipterred for reburial in the Soldiers
Cemetery at Arlington.