The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-14
News from New York

NEW YORK, June 13.-The morning
papers have the following specials from
Washington
The Postmaster General positively re
fuses to increase the pay of the New
England Railroad for carrying the mails,
inasmuch as he considers they are now
paying all the receipts will warrant
while such enormous sums are lost in
carrying mails over the South.
! An Assistant of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, making tour through South Car
olina reports the supply of labor mad
| eQuate to the demand, hnt whoro SUP
sistence is not wanting, labor will be
quite as productive as in other parts. 1t
is estimated that nine thousand bushels
of corn and one hundred thousand
pounds of bacon and provisions, for
every three months, in addition to that
now in the hands of the planters, will
be required to supply the necessary
labor until the harvesting of the crops.
These supplies the planters have neither
the cash nor the credit to purchase, and
unless relief comes from the govern
mont, many of the plantations will be
abandoned by the freedmen, who will go
in search of employment where they
can get sufficient food,
A canvass of the House was made to.
day, and counting some members who
are expected to arrive to morrow morn
ing, it is estimated that the censtitu.
tional amendment will pass by about
III or ll6, or nearly five to one
The House Committee on Banking, TO.
day agreed to report an amendment to
the National Bank act, to prevent any
bank having over 100000 circulation
and to reduce to eighty per cent. the
circulation of all banks with over half
million dollars capital.
The Senate Finance Committee are
considering proposition to allow State
Banks one year more to wind up or con-
vert their charters into National Banks.
Under the present law, those who are
are not wound up by July, are liable to
Il tax Of ten per cent.
Information has been received at the
Office of the Light House Board, that the
light house at Bay Point, Port Royal
harbor, was entirely destroyed by tor
nado which visited that vicinity on the
29th ult
At an informal meeting of Senators
today, it was decided to close the pres
ent session of Congress early in July
The following appropriations have
been made for the continuation of har-
Dor and river improvements in the vari-
Gus States: New York, $3.50 9,509 Michi-
gan, S9367l; Wisconsin, S270,7 Ohio,
S256, ,996; Illinois, S95,704 Indiana, So,
600; Oregon, Sl50,000. There is also a
general appropriation for the improve.
ment of Western rivers amounting to
1925 900. .
Lawyers, Claim Agents and others,
from Boston, Cincinnati, Nashville and
Louisville have for the last few weeks
flooded the country with circulars noti-
fying officers Of the late war that they
are entitled to $500 extra pay for COM
mutation and allowance for servants
between May, 1864, and March, 1866. We
are authorized by the Paymaster Gen
eral and by the Second Comptroller, to
say that the law allows no such extra
pay, and that all such statements are
fraudulent and intended to deceive the
public
The passage of the Niagara Ship Canal
bill in the Senate, is likely to be with
drawn, Mr.. Morgan's amendment requir-
ing the sanction of the State of New
: York,
Tho treasury department has received
a copy of circular that has been gen.
orally distributed throughout the coun
try by an establishment in New York,
J in which they state that for $50 in cur.
rency they viii procure for the parties
S55 in the new five cent coin. This is a
transaction atswindling, Ithas already
been announced that as soon as the coin
is ready for distribution, quantities in
S5 packages may be obtained by address
ing the director of the mint at Phila
delphia.
Generals Stsedman and Fullerton
have submitted their report of the op-
erations of the Freedmans bureau in the
military department of South Carolina
and Florida. They highly commend
General Scott, the Assistant Commis
sioner in South Carolina, for the wise
policy that pervades his system OF gov,
erning the freedmen They recommend
the discontinuance of the employment
,, of citizens in the bureau. In several
cases of the evils of agents being inter
ested in the working of plantations
= they finally recommended that the Sea
Island lands given to the negroes by
: General Sherman's order, be returned tc
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