Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-02
From Washington.

worth of Illinois, formerly colonel of the Sth
Illinois regiment has resigned He is among
the number selected by the war department
from numerous appointees for confirmation
by the senate, but he resigned partly on ac-
count of ill health and partly because he is
elected member Of the next congress.
ROMANCING wIsEACRE-s STORY.
New York, March 1.-The Mercury's
Washington special says it is universally adj
mitted that the close of the session of con-
gresS will witness decided change in the poll
icy Of the government The president has
yielded to the advice of secretary Seward and
Thurlow Weed to proptiate the conservatives
and thus make the conscription palatabe.
The measures in view are, first, change in
the cabinet that will give Seward and his pol
icy a majority Of its members; Chase to bere-
tanned, or, it he retires, Robert j. Walker to
take his place. Second, restoration OF Gen.
Mcclellan to some command to smut the
mouths of his noisy disloyal friends. Third
some concession to the negro prejudces of
northern soldiers the blacks in the army to
be kept in subordinate positions. Fourth, the
radical republicans to take the back seat, and
moderate republicans and war democrats to
have the confidence and direction of the ad-
mnstration. Fifth there are to be no more
arbitrary arrests except in very fragrant cases.
THE BANK TAX.
The houses have compromised their differ
ences on the bank duty section of the finance
bill as follows -
All banks, associations, corporations, or
individuals issuing notes or bills for circula-
ton as currency, shall be subject to and pay
a duty of one per centum each half year from
and after April LIST, 1868, upon the average
amount of circulation or bills as currency is
sued beyound the amount hereafter named;
that is to say, banks associations, corpora
tons or individuals having a capital Of not
over one hundred thousand dollars, ninety
per cent thereof; over one hundred thousand
| dollars and not over two hundred thousand
dollars, eighty per cent thereof; over two
hundred thousand and not over three hundred
dollars, seventy per cent thereof; over three
hundred thousand and not over five hundred
thousand dollars, sixty per cent thereof; over
five hundred thousand and not over one mil
lion dollars, fifty per cent thereof; over
million and not over million and Il half dol
lars, forty per cent thereof; over million
and halt and not over two million dollpIs,
thirty per cent thereof; and over two million,
twenty-five per cent thereof.
In the case OF banks with branches the
duty herein provided for shall be imposed
| upon the circulation of the notes or bills of
such branches severaly, and not upon the ag
gregate circulation OF all, and the amount of
, capital OF each branch shall be considered to
be the amount allotted or used by such branch
and all such baakSi pdY
duty OF one-halfper cent each half year from
n and after April l, 1868, upon the average
] amount OF bills not otherwise herein taxed
and outstanding as currency during the six
S months next preceding the return herein pro-
vided for; and the rate or tax duty imposed
5 on the circulation of the association organized
: under the act to provide national currency,
&C., shall be the same as is herein imposed on
O.. the circulation Of all banks, associations, cor
porations and individuals, but shall be assess
| ed and collected as required by said act.
All banks, associations, or corporations,
and individuals issuing or reissuing notes or
bulls tor circulation as currency and after
April LIST, 1868, in sums representing any
fractional part of dollar, shall be subject to
and pay duty Of five per centum each half
year thereafter upon the amount of such
fractional notes or bills so issued by associa-
tons, corporations and individuals and all
banks receiving deposits OF money subject to
payment Ill checks or drafts, except savings
institutions, shall be subject to duty of one
eighth OF one per cent each half year, from
and after April LIST, 1868, ON the average
amount Of such deposits beyond the average
amount OF their circulating notes or bills law
FULLY issued and outstanding as currency, and
a list or return shall be made and rendered
Der 1868, and each six months thereafter to
the commissioner of internal revenue, which
shall contain true and faithful account of the
amount OF duty accrued or which should ac-
crue on tue amount of fractional notes in cir
culation, and an average amount of all other
circulation and of deposits for the six months
next preceding.
THE PRESIDENT AT THE CAPITOL
The president has occupied what is known
as the presidents room at the capitol, to-day,
to facilitate the public business by saving the
committee on enrolled bills the trouble of
travelling the length of Pennsylvania avenue
to procure his signature to them This is the
usual practice of the chief magistrate of the
nation towards the close of each session.
MR.. SUMMERS RESOLUTIONS.
The resolutions reported by Mr. Sumner of
Massachusetts, from the committee on foreign
relations, and concurred in even by Messrs.
Henderson, Davis, and Hicks of the border
states members, assert that the government is
engaged in the suppression Of conspiracy for
the establishment of separate government
upon the corner stone of Slavery, and for the
building up of a great slave power, and that
the only effect of mediation, arbitration, or
interference, would be to proong and intensi-
ty the struggle and add to its horrors. All
tendencies to foreign intervention are protest
ed against, and foreign governments and peo-
pies are called upon to note the struggle as
contest between freedom and slavery.
THE MINISTER FROM HAYTI.
The diplomatic representative OF the repub-
lie Of Hayti has arrived, and paid his respects
to senator Sumner, chairman of the senate
committee on foreign relations. He will re-
ceive from the government all the courtesies
usually extended to diplomatic representatives
DISCONTINUED SOLDIERS.
The first Pennsylvania reserves refused to
do duty on picket yesterday, over in Virginia,
on the ground that they have been in service |
since May or june 1861, have participated in |
the most hard tonight battles in Virginia, that
they are so reduced in numbers that no one |
regiment will number two hundred and fifty |
men, and that their request to go home and |
recruit has been disregarded, while the second |
Asy~Hampshire was allowed to go home.
T fHE ENROLMENT AND DRAFT.
knmediately upon the adjournment OF con-
/ gress complete enrolment Of the whole
lighting population will be made, and some
drafted men will be called into the thinned
ranks of our service.
UNION SOLDIERS CAPTURED.
Nearly one hundred Union cavalry were
captured Thursday, near Winchester. The
rebels first captured six Of our pckets, which
were retaken by the 18th Pennsylvania caval-