The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-10-01
8g :Telegraph,.
TO THR REGISTER
FROM WASHINGTON.


The Habeas Corpus and the Naval
scrvicc-Ch argos Against General
swayne-The Public Debt-CiVii
Clerks I'm the Quarternn ster's De
partn,ent 20 be Dispensed wiih-The
Louisinna EIeciion-The Missouri
War Claim. -. s-.--- {
NEW YORK, September 30.-The Her:
AIDS special says: The Secretary of the
Navy has caused to be prepared legal
opinion, showing that, in the recent
conflict of jurisdiction In Pennsylvania
between the State Court and the Naval
authorities, to compel return to the
writ of habeas corpus, issued OH behalf
of a person who is in the naval service,
the local courts had no authority in the
matter. The Supreme Court, in several
cases, has decided that the State Courts
have no jurisdiction in n habeas corpus
over any one in the military or naval
service. 49,. -.- ..- -
Charges have been made against
General Swayne, at the head OF the
Freedman's Bureau in Alabama, on the
ground that he is running his office in
the interest of himself as a candidate
for the United States Senate under the
reconstructed State. His chief clerk,
one Keiffer, is the Chairman of the
State Radical Central Committee.
There is no reduction of the public
debt for September. A rumOr is cur
rent in semi-official circles that the fifty
millions of dollars of three per cents
would soon be issued. The gold reserve
of the Treasury will be maintained, and
the gold willns be sold hereafter UNI
less the Treasury is in need of currency
to meet its daily obligations. 1t is the
belief of Mr.. Culloch that the revenue
receipts will soon show large increase
from the tax upon cotton and whisky.
1t is reported that McCulloch is about
to commission a number of agents to
examine into the financial affairs of the
National Banks in the large cities, with
a view to ascertain the actual amount
of deposits i'll reach.
The Times special says: General Ord
has forwarded all o:der to army head
quarters, from which il appears that he
has directed the discharge from the
Quartermaster' Department in his dis
trict of all civil clerks whose places can
he supplied by enlisted men without
detriment to the service, and hereafter
no civilians will be employed except in
cases of absolute necessity.
The opinion is generally entertained
here that the result of the Louisiana
election held yesterday will be a majori-
ty of all the registered votes in favor of
q Convention, Notwithstanding the
news from New Orleans which does not
warrant such an opinion.
Tue last of the Missouri six million
dollars war claim was passed by the
Treasury Department yesterday, and u
warrant for the payment of the sum OF
one million dollars will be issued to
General Gray, the agent of the State, in
few days.
Peter Cooper, VIM. Cullen Bryant and
others are arranging to hold public
meeting in this city at an early date,
under the auspices ofau association tor
the advancement~of science aud art, to
consider the best means of improving
and cheapening transportation. On
this occasion the subject of an Atlantic
branch of the Union a. Pacific railroad,
or another line road from the Atlantic
Ocean to st. Louis, Missouri, is to be
discussed. Another improvement in
the form of an extensive canal to con-
meet with the railroad is proposed.