The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-01
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Late Wasningto Ita ns.
Congressional Proc oee3iags.
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Another Version OF the
Lat, Battle
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Killed at Key West, Fla.
Considerable Exc itement
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News by Atlantic Cable.
Washington liens.

WAsHINGToN, Jan. 31.-Th Sec
retary of the Treasury has issued a
circular to disburSing clerks and
proper accounting officers of the
Treasury Department. requiring that
all accounts presented by officers,
clerks, or other employees and De
partments, for mileage, or expenses in
CURED while engaged in official bust
mess, must in future have appended
thereto, the oath of the party, that
the distances charged have been ac
tually and necessarily travelled at
the date therein specified. and that
non9 of any such distances have been
travelled under any free pass on any
railroad steamboat, or other con-
voyauce, aud that the expenses chaTg
ed have been actually incurred and
paid.
No account Of such a party, unac
companied with the oath above speci-
fed, will be paid by any disbursing
officer of the Department, or passed
By the accounting officer
Gen. Ames called on the President
to-day, and presented him the official
records of the Mississippi Legislature,
the adoption of the constitutional
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Senators according to law.
The following General Order was
issued to day from the headquarters
of the Army:
FIRST. The Senators and Repre-
sentatives from the State Of Virginia,
having been admitted 10 their respect
i've Houses of Congress, the command
known as the First Military District
has ceased to exist.
Second. By the direction of the
President the States of Maryland
Virginia, West Virginia, and North
Carolina will comprise the Depart
ment Of Virginia, undcr command OF
Brevet General E 5. Canby, with
Headquarters in Richmond, Virginia,
and will form part Of the Military
Division Of the Atlantic.
Third. Commanding officers OF all
posts and detachments now serving
in the limits-of the new Department
will report to General Candy for in-
structious The companies of the
Eighth Infantry now serving In the
State Of North Carolina will be re-
lieved as early as possible and will
then report to Major General A. H..
Terry, commanding the Department
of the South, for orders.
The case of Frank. 2. Blair, Jr.,
pending for several years before the
United States Supreme Court, was
decided to day. The appellant was
debarred from the right to vote be-
cause he had refused to take the oath
of loyalty prescribed by the Consti
tuition Of Missouri. The Supreme
Court of that State sustained such
denial, which now stands In the Su-
preme Courts of the United States.
having equally divided in opinion.
The Committee on elections will,
tomorrow, consider the case of Van
Wyck against Green, of New York.
They have changed the former pro-
gramme, and will now let the poll
stand, endeavoring to settle the case
by excluding individual fraudulent
votes.
Mr.. Opdyke was examined before
the Committee on Banking and Cur
rency, to-day, on the general ques-
ton of the cause of the gold panic.
The Committee Of Ways and Means
to-day completed the Tariff Bill,
which they will report to morrow.
Tho Internal Revenue receipts to-
day were 81, ,288, 400, and for the pres
sent month $12,479, 900, a gain of
81 800, 900 over January Of 1869.
The following appointments Of Ca
dets to the United States Naval Acad-
emy were made to day at large: Geo.
Z. Emmons, son of Commodore EN-
mons, u. S. N; Henry Jackson Hunt,
Jr., son of Brevet Major General
Hunt, U. S. A; VIM. Beverly De
catur, son of Capt. Decatur, U. s. n. !;
Augustus @. Macomb, son of Briga-
dier General Macomb, u. S. A: The
odore N. Wood, son of Chief Enei-
neer Wood, U. S. N; Joseph L.
Turner, son of Commodore Turner,
U. S. N. J. G. Cauldwell. son of the
lato Capt. Cauldwell, U. s. v; Will
lie G. Clark, son Of Clark, u. S. 4. !;
Harrington; G. K. MeGunnegle. son
of the late Lieutenant Commander
McGunnegle, u. s. N; Alex Sharpe,
Jr, appointed from the District of
Columbia.