The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-31
IMMENSE REDUCTION
M
Prices of Clothing,
q M. GUTMAN & CO.'S.
FROM WASHINGTON.

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Times special says 3 The removal of
General Ord is. explained by the fact
that it has been made at the suggestion
of General Grant, who, while opposing
any change in the other districts as IN
furious to the progress of reeonstruc-
ton, has been of the opinion for soiEe
time that both the military and civil
administration in the Fourth District
would be improved by change OF COM
manders. The President acceded to
General Grants request, and included
General Ord in the order If removal.
He proceeds at once to California, to
relieve General Mcdowell, who will as
sumo command of the Fourth District
on his arrival from the Pacific coast.
The change will require abont two
months time to ACCOMPLISH it.
Icannot state the particular reasons
which have led General Grant to desire
the removal of General Ord, but those
who have closely watched the admins
tration of the latter, have probably not
failed to observe certain pecdliarities
and Inconsistencies of action, indi-
eating that the scope of command was
rather beyond his calibre. The state
of affairs in his District at the present
time is not regarded as very promising.
There is excellent reason for believing
that the reports of destitution which
are coming up from the South, pariicu-
! larly from General Ord's department,
are exaggerated. So far the most re-
! liable information gees to show that
the restitution is rather prospective
than present. 1t may be greater
before spring, but just now it Is not
alarming. With the blacks it has been
largely caused by the action OF the
planters in discharging their hands at
! the close of the season, in violation OF
their contracts, and in some cases dis
missing them because they voted theRe-
publican ticket.
General Howard stands ready TO use
portion of the funds of the Freed I.
mems Bureau in relieving any actual
distress by the issue of rations, and 1t
is probable that General HancOck's re-
quest to employ the unemployed blacks
| in repairing the recent breaks in the le-
wees and to issue ratiOns to them will
be compliedwith.
Thaddeus Stevens has so far recoY-
cred from his recent indispOsition that
he is engaged ia the preparation of a
speech in favor of the Alaska appropri-
alton bill. He insists that his health is
not as poor as either his friends or enc
mics think it.
The statistics elected by the Ways
and Means committee in its investlga-
ton Of the whisky frauds, show that the
Government has collected only eighteen
cents, instead of two dollars per gallon.
These statistics were based on the data
furnished by the records of the Reve-
nue. Bureau and did not include any es-
innate for tie losses which the Govern
ment has sustained since last June,
| since which time it is well known that
receipts have continually decreased, and
| it is probable that the detailed state
meut of the amount of Revenue derived
from this source called for by the House,
will show that less than nine cents per
gallon have been collected during the
present fiscal year. ..
Senator Henderson has prepared q
substitute for Senator Sherman's finance
bill which ho will present to the Senate
as soon us an opportunity offers. He
will also propose at an early dag COM
pl.te system for remodeliDg the entire
revenue department of the government
! ON basis which " ill make it indepen-
| dent in its action aud not subject to pO-
| litical influences and which will like
wise involve the reiiIling of every office
in the department.
The Herald's sp cial SAYS: II has
transpircd that number of leading
Conservatives have proposed to the
| Legislatures of the States which have
/ recently went Democratic to repeal their
resolutions, ratifying the fourteenth ar
| tiCl- Of the Constitution. II New JeT-
sey, Ohio and California were to do this
| it is believed the article could not be
F., grated upon the Constitution.
General Howard proposes 10 meet the
cases of distress in tho South by lib
eral applicatiOpof the surplus funds I'M
der his control, rs head of the Freed
meus Bureau in the case of some South
Carolina planters. who had no money to
commence operations for raising cotton.
Last year General Howard, though not le-
gally authorized 10 make such DISPOSE
tlUn of the bureau funds, advanced q
sum of eighty thousand dollars, taking a
lien on the crops. The entire amount was
Inundated, and General Towards ben
ctcent cOnTSe vas greatly appreciated.
In the case of the Mississippi planters,
who lost everything by the river inun-
dati0n; it is proposed to ad0pt q similar
cOnsiderate plan of action, and to relieve
immediate distress among the working
people it. is suggested 10 establish depots
of provisions at points convenient to
the districts in which the greatest want
prevails.
Secretary McCulioch has prepar-
cd Il statement showing the amount of
money, SC, during the war. From this
statement it will appear that forty mil
lions of dollars were advanced by the
States. That claims FOR about thirty
millions of dollars have been adjusted
and that of the remaining ten millions
of dollars claimed about seventy per
cent. will be allowed by the United
States.
4 Tribune special says: Notwith-
standing the abrupt termination Of the
correspondence between Secretary Sew
ard and Lord Stanley on the Alabama
claims. it is understood that the new
EGglish Minister, Mr.. Thornton, comes
empowered with full authority to lie
open the question with view of effect
ing, if possible, an easy and amicable
adjustment of The difficulty. o.
The public debt statement will not be
ready until the 5th- of January. The
exhibit will be more favorable than
that of the last month, except in the
item of the gold balance, which will be
lower, ewing to the payment of the
thirty million dollarsroin interest, due
on January LIST. The Secretary would
have retired the four million dollars
per month for the last month and the
! present one, had it not been for the ac-
ton of the HonSc in suspending his an
! thOTity to DO 40, = 5lE C3l 9lA
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From Fsichr,end. > -. -. 4
RICHMOND, December 30--Exagger-
ated accounts telegraphed from this
city, relative to the expected rising of
negroes of the South side COMMITTEES have