The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-10
WASHINGTON.
Special Dispatches to The Bveauo Telegraph.
WASHINGTON, January 10.
The Trial Of (5aneraI l.. a. RaRraH

The Trial OF General Il. q. BRker.
The case of General L. @. Baker, charged
with false Imprisonment and robbery of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cobb, pardon brokers, was set for trial in
the Criminal Court to-day, aud large audience
was in attendance. In consequence of the alb
sence OF Judge Fisher, the case was postponed
until Wednesday.
1t is expected that the developments in regard
TO the pardon brokerage business will be decI.
dedly rich.
The Freedmen.
DIR. Reyburn, surgeonin-chief ofthe Bureau of
Refugees and Freedmen, reports the statements
in regard to destitution and starvation amongst
the colored people of the district without foun-
dation. The arrangements for affording relief
to the destitute OF this class are very complete
DOiDRs of Committees.
The Ways and Means Committee have dis.
cussed proposition TO change the existing law
relating to goods in bonded warehouses, and will
continue tomorrow.
Mr. McCulloch's bill is not yet taken up.
Toe Naval Appropriation bill was finished in
Committee this morning, and is ready to b. re
ported.
Excursion.
The officers of the Orange and Alexandra Rail-
road have invited the House Committee on
Freedmen's Bureau to an excursion over their
line, and it will be accepted,
Tie EuIOgy on Mr. Lincoln.
Mr.. Bancroft, who is now expected to deliver
the eulogy upon Mr.. Lincoln, was the first choice
of many members of the committee, prior to the
selection of Mr.. Stanton
Paying the Army.
About $14,0OO 600 have already been disbursed
in paying the army up to December 81. All Off
GERS and men who served TO that date will be at
once paid in full.
Pennsylvania Contested Election Case.
The case Of Koontz vs. Cofroth, in the Six
teenth District of Pennsylvania, was up in Com
mlttee on Elections this morning. Both the
claimants argued the case at length.
COlOred Schools iR Missouri and Ar
kansas.
General Howard is in receipt of the Novem Der
Report of the Superintendent Of Colored Schools
in the States of Missouri and Arkansas, in whlch h
he says that there are now in operation in the
former State 19 freedmens schools, with %
teachers and 1349 scholars; and that in Arkansas
there are IL schools, with. II teachers and l47S
scholars.
English Aid for the Freedmen.
1t is gratifying to learn that, Notwithstanding
the ill-naturcd spleen exhibited by the English
Government towards the United States during
the late war, there is at least one association
there whose benefactions in behalf of the freed
men of this country deserve special mention an d
commendation. The society referred to is the
Birmingham Association, which, since the close
of the war, has largely contributed towards the
relief of the destitute freedmen of the United
States. Their last invoice Of goods, mostly
clothing, amounts in value to over $1,000, and
the Secretary of the Treasury has notified the
Deputy Collector at New York TO hereafter admit
all such goods free of duty.
clerical Force of the Treasury.
The new Appropriation Bill contains some
important changes in the organization of the
clerical force of the Treasury Department, by
which virtual increase of salary will be con-
ferred on worthy men. 1t provides that there
are authorized to be appointed the following
heads of divisions and clerks, viz. I'm the Office
of the Second Auditor, seven heads of divisions,
at an annual salary of $1,000 each; twenty-one
clerks of class four, and one hundred and seven
teen clerks of class three.
In the office of the Third Auditor, eight heads
of divisions, at an annual salary of nineteen
hundred dollars each; fourteen clerks of class
four, eghty-six clerks of class three, and sixty
nine clerks of class two. In the office OF the
Second Comptroller, twelve heads of divisions
at an annual salary of nineteen hundred dollars
each nine clerks of class four, twelve clerks OF
class three, fourteen clerks of class two, sixteen
clerks of class one. The Bureau of Internal
Revenue is also proposed to be reorganzed in
two divisions, in such manner as shall more
literally compensate those clerks who are
| placed in positions Of great responsibility.