Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-01-16
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
Harrisburg, Jan. s, 1862.
Important from Washington.
A. G.. CURTIN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 1862.
The necessity for making $3.50, 100000 of
Treasury notes legal tender in payment of
all debts, public aud private, presses upon the
Government The exercises ofits highest pre-
rogatiVe must be brought into requsition to
save the war and save the republic. The
wise and equitable scheme prepared carefully
BY the Committee has bee2 pronounced consti
tutional by two very pains taking members of
t-Thaddeus Stevens and Mr.. Spaulding; and
the Auditor Generr has, in a written opinion,
pronounced it to be lawful. OF its necessity
there can be no question.
TAX ON RAILROAD PASSENGERS.
The committee OF Ways and Means have
agreed to impose tax upon railroad passcn-
gers of one.fouTth Of cent per mile.
AUSTRIA ON THE T2ENT AFFAIR.
The State Department is in receipt Of a dis.
patch from Count Rechberg touching tic
seizure of Mason and Slidtll. Austria, kindly
but positively, and without entering into the
argument, declares the proceeding not in ac-
cordance with international law. No other
Continental Power, except France, has yet
spoken, but similar dispatches from Prussia
and Russia are looked for by an early
steamer.
THE MILITARY COMMITTEES BILL CONCERNING
SLAVES.
Mr. Frank Blair's Tax Collection billmakes
the taxes uncollected in Rebel States lien on
all the lands in the States, if not paid within
sixty days after the Presidents proclamation.
The title to these lands is to vest absolutely 10
the United States. Loyal citizens can obtain
reconveyance within two years.
Property Of every description belonging to
persons in the Rebel States, who refuse to
make written statements of their income, is to
be forfeited to the Government
Three Commissioners shall be appointed with
salaries of $4,000 year each, with two clerks
each at 81, 900 year, whose business it shall
be to lease the land of rebels till the close of
the rebellion, upon terms that will take care
Of the slaves, and, under the Presidents direc.
ton, to sell the same at public auction.
From the passage of this act all transfers of
property by rebels or their abettors are null
and void.
Slaves seeking refuge in our camps or cap
tured by US, shall be forever free The com.
missioners can also free them upon claim to
have benefits of this act.
Emancpated slaves are to be under the
authority of the Commissioners, who may assign
IhSLA w Va al ldUDI lOI HhRcS'
The Commissioners are required moreover to
apprentice the liberated slaves to loyal proprie-
tors of land and to mechanics for terms not
exceeding FIVE years when over twenty oil eyears
old when under. for terms expiring with their
majority.
The President is authorized to acquire lands
in Mexico, Central America, South America,
or the Gulf Islands, and to colonize all the
liberated slaves, with forty acres to each man
and eight acres to each head Of a family
The expense of their removal to be deducted
from their earnings while apprenticed, orwork-
ing for the Government
The bill obliged the Government to coonze
in the same way slaves that State Legislatures
may liberate, and also to send at public ex.
pense such free negroes as may want to 60 to
this colored country.