The Portland daily press., 1866-03-23
From WashilsGt07a.
WASHINGTON, March %.

"a. WASHINGTON, March %.
The three or four hundred combinations by
the Senate of I'd leutenants in the regular ar
my were exclusively composed of men who
had served during the late war.
The Postmaster General has ordered the
extension of the route from San Antonio to
Fort Clark through El Paso, making the en-
1tire distance of 100 miles service once week
and back. o. as@
The Treasury Department is still applying
itself to the suppression of frauds in the col
lection of cotton in the Southern States.
Many agents have been relieved and there are
to be no seizures or detention OF cotton or
other property as captured or abandoned I'M
less by special written direction in each case
from the general agent or, direct from the
Treasury Department. 1t is known here that
the Confederate Government. cotton has Leen
removed and that Of private parties secretly
substituted, thus perpetrating double frauds
on this Government and ON innocent individ-
uals .
The President sent an immense bulk of
documents to-day to the House, covering
Mexican affairs from 1854 to the present time.
Nearly all has heretofore been published.
The Speaker to-day laid before the House
report of the operations Of the National
Academy of Sciences during the past year,
from which it appears that the Committee on
Weights, Measures and Coinage are in favor of
adopting decimal system and that in their
opinion t e metrical system of weights aud
measures, though not without defects, is, all
things considered, the best in use.
y To-day Senator Nye's bill was introduced
for the relief of certain contractors for the con-
struction of vessels of war and steam machin-
cry. 1t appropriates to Larrabee, upon the
| Iasco, S11 ,709; TO j. W. Lawrence, upon the
Agawam and Pontoosuc, SIT ,221: to Curtis &
Tilden, upon the Massassoit and Osceola, $S,-
PSI; to Paul Curtis, upon the Chicopee, $4,-
12S; to \. d G. S. Sampson, upon the Mattale-
settle, $4,015; Mr.. j. Limerson, S16,441; e. A.
Upton, $tS,576; +. G. Linebrer, S14 ,473; ID. S.
Menchen, $1,000; Z. I'll. & w. M. Cramp, ST.
800; j. j. Abraham, S12576; Whitman 6
| Stoeaker, $5,041; Globe WoIks of South Bos-
ton, 59,577; Portland Locomotive Works, $780,
S67; the Alaire Works, S50,23S; Neptune Iron
| Works, $780, 63; South Brooklyn Steam En-
| CINE, SS1 ,235; Poole & Hunt, S44,0 OILS; Attain
tic Works at East Boston, $41 ,027; Gardner &
Locke, S31 1876; and other sums to various
builders of war vessels. aa
The commission consisting of Gen. Salgar
| for Columbia, and Col. Thomas Biddle for the
| United States, with Sir Frederick Bruce as the
umpire, met yesterday and to-day tu hear the
arguments of Mr.. Carlisle for Columbia, and
| w. S. Cox, S. S. Cox and Hon. Charles Eames
for the claimants, in the privateer cases grow
ing out of the Spanish wars with the South
| American States.
As many applications continue to be made
| for copies of Mr.. Bancroft's Grafton on the
death Of President Lincoln, it will be of inter-
est to learn that several months will elapse
before it is published, as steel plate likeness
of the deceased is being prepared to accompa-
ny it. 'ZEEg
The Committee on Ways and Means have
this week had several meetings on the loan
bill, but as yet have come to no determination
on the subject.
A report has generally prevailed among the
members OF Congress to-day that the Presi-
dent will veto the Civil Rights bill.
Maj. Gen. Thomas has, in accordance with
tue request of the late committee on the Con-
duct OF the War, prepared narrative of all
the operations of the army of the Cumber-
land. This will finish the history Of the wal
under the auspices OF that Committee.
The narrative makes 1900 fools cap pages
and was on Tuesday placed in possession OIL
the Chairman. ~,