The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-08
To-DAY's WASHINGTON NEWS.
Special Dispatches to Evening Telegraph,
WAsHISGToN, August 8.

WAsHINsroN, August s.
Pay OF COlOred Soldiers.
The War Department has issued an order in
the case of colored soldiers which directs that all
enlisted, freed on or before April 49, 1881, shall
be mustered for pay accordingly, and be paid the
difference between the amount heretofore re-
eeived and the full pay allowed white soldiers
during the same period; the question of freedom
have e asceraned by the oath of the soldier taken
anytloonnection with such other trustworthy nfor-
everytion as can be obtained. This order is issued
sucb Her provision of act of Congress approved July
:, ThlS64.
Z he d senate Postmaster.
lnvadolonel II. o. Kent, Postmaster OF the Senate,
make .Seen removed by the Sergeant-at- Arms, and
nroSnccs a Assistant Postmaster appointed to fill
Union part. cy.
necessary a,raI wright's order Revoked.
Ferts numNer assigning General Wright to COM
SSarvS p, 3 the troops north of the Potomac has
been revoked.
Gold Trading Forbidden.
General Banks has forbidden the traffic in gold
In his Department, except upon tho condition
that the purchaser deposit the gold purchased
in the Treasury Of the United States at New
Orleans, for which deposit the seller and the
purchaser will be held alike responsible and
which may be drawn by such depositor from the
Treasury upon presentation to the Assistant
Treasury OF the Provost Marshal. General of
satisfactory explanations Of che purposes TO
which it is to be applied.
Prize Cases.
The following prize cases have just been ad-
Indicated by the Fourth Auditor, and are now
ready for payment Prize schooner Scotia, cap
tured by the U. S. steamer Connecticut; prize
schooners San Juan and Prince Alfred captured
by the U. s. steamer SuIquehGnRa.
Plantation RatiOns.
BY order of General Banks the weekly ration
of each laborer on the plantations in his depart
~ ment will hereafter be as follows -
Five pounds pork or bacon, eight pounds
beef; five pounds fresh ground corn meal; two
pounds -four or soft bread; one pound beans OIL
peas; nine ounces sugar; one gill vinegar; one
gill molasses; one halfounce adamantine or star
candles; four ounces soap; three ounces fine
salt; three pounds of potatoes or other suitable
vegetables
half Iations, for which no charge will be made
and the sick shall be furnished With coffee, tea
rice, or other suitable farinaceous diet
LAborers must be invariably paid in Uniteo
States currency, and the money counted out Z
the laborer in tho presence Of an officer, duly
authorized by the Provost Marshal of the parisi
In which the parties reside.
a. Employers who sell articles of merchandise Il
their employees will not be permitted to charg
them more than ten per cent. advance upon tht
net cost of the articles.
a.H.t... A New Name.
The station on the northern shore of the jane
river, now known as Wilson's Landing, has beeI
christened "Fort Pocahontas" by Genera
u Butler.
National Banks.
The First National Bank of Fairhaven, Massa
chusetts, capital S24O.OOO, George f. Tripp
President, Reuben Nye, Cashier; Second Ma
tional Bank of Galenburg, Illinois, capita
$4,000, David Sanborn, President, Albert G
Reed, Cashier; First National Bank of Nom
Pleasant, Ohio, capital S5O,OOO, William Price
President, John Burns, Cashier, have been estat
Ished since both of July.
Appointments
General Butler has appointed David c. G. Fiel
Financial Clerk of the Department OF Virgini
and North Carolina, relieving II. II. Bennett.
Revenue Decisions.
r The Commissioner OF Internal Revenue ha
decided that
Lawyers conveyancers, claim agents, phys
clans, surgeons, dentists, cattle brokers, hors
dealers, and pedd.ers, under the new law, thoug
associated in business, must take license ind
yidually, and cannot be licensed as firm. Wher
persons belonging TO either class have take
license as q firm, such license, with the approv'
of the collector, may be transferred to membC
of the hrm, and the others must take ne
license.
alicense tax as dealer, manufactures, apothecarI
cOnfectiOner, eating-hOuse keeper tOb tccOuis
cattle broker, builder, contractor, or insuranC
agent, because Of his annual receipts being LEI
than the sum which determines the liability a.
m cordiDg 20 the act, il will devolye him 60 sho
20 the satisfaction Of the Assistant Assessor thi
rs his annual snles or receipts do not exceed th
sum, and the Assistant Assessor may demand
him statement In writing Of his actual aud est
mat d receipts. Ii he shall fail to satisfy the A
sistant Assessor OF the amount Of his receipts
Ralps no AgsistnDf m pnala NhatpV
examination may be in his power, and asse
the license tax as in his judgment may appel
juht. II be should be Enabled 20 obtain ey
dence sufficient to justify him in making an a
sessment, it will be his duty 10 report the case
the Assessor, who may proceed under the IA
section of the act TO elicit the necessary ey
dences, on the basis Of which the assessment ma
be made.