Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-28
From Yesterdays I'd Edition
General News.


NEW YORK November 27.-The Times
Washington special dispatch says A prom
inent member Of the Senate Finance Com
mittee has determined to urge upon Congress
| reduction Of government taxes full one
hundred million of dollars He alleges that
| the revenue, after this reduction shall have
| been made, viii be sufficient 10 nav the ex-
penses of the government, besides leaviuga
large sum to be applied to the public debt.
Brevet Brigadier General Duncan will as
! sumo command of all cOlored troops in the
vicinity of Washington.
] In making up the statistics Of the Treas
urv Department the fact has been disclosed
that in the fiscal years, ending in June, re-
| sDeetiyeIy. in 1862, 1858 and 1865, notwlth-
| standing we had over one million Of men "A
the field, and thus withdrawn from labor,
we exported to foreign countries two ana
three quarters times more wheat and eight
times more hams and bacon than in 1898,
1859 and 1860.
Nearly all the privates in the Veteran
Reserve Corps have voted under the late
order of the War Department to leave the
service and have been mustered out In one
regiment but four men remain IN the SER
vice. A large number of the officers, how
ever, remain in the service, most OF whom
are utterly incapacitated from the pursuit of
their former business avoeatons, as tound
from the official report now coming IN to the
War Department, and these OF course de-
sire to remain in the service, and in order
to make place for them in the regular
army it may be determined to merge the
Veteran Reserve Corps into that Organiza-
tion.
An enabling act is proposed to be sub
mitted to Congress, to be enatced inlO a
law which will provide for the admission of
the Veteran Reserve officers retaining their
present grade or rank, as near as may be,
10, Of
ers of their competency and fitness for their
positions. 1t is understood that the Secre-
tary of War favors this plan.
Captain S. L. Phelps, of Ohio, for twenty
five years past of the United States Navy,
was Saturday appointed by the Post Master
General special agent for the Government,
to accompany the Pacific mail steamer Un-
der the contract entered into a few weeks
ago, and to look to the interest Of the
United States in the execution of the agree
ment between the Mail Company and the
Government. Captain Phelps will leave
Boston on the 9th of December for England,
thence to China and return by the Pacific
route.
The Tribune's Washington dispatch says
when the war ended in April last Govern
ment owned and used tor military purposes
$50 locomotives, 1000 ears and 10000 tuns
of iron. All the locomotives have been sold
but 32, and thore are about 100 cars yet on
hand Some have besn sold for cash at aue-
ton, and some on six months and two years
time, to Southern railroads. All viii be sold
before January first.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has received a communication from several
proprietOrs Of soda water fountains, remOn-
strating against the tax of six per cent, levied
according to law on all manufacturers of
such beverages They claim that as they
do not charge their fountains with carbonie
acid gas they are not liable 10 the tax. and
ask that the amount already levied be re-
mitted. The Commissioner has replied to
the effect that they cannot be exempt from
the specified tax of six per cent, and that
whether they buy their fountains already
charged or hire a person to charge them
they are regarded as manufacturers or pro
ducers.
The Ram StOnewaIL
The Worlds special, in speaking of the
trip of the StOnewall for the edi6cation of
the Farragut Court Martial.s avs Her speed
was ten miles an hour, which is by no
means her maximum. She seemed to be
very formidable. II ram projected TWEEN
ty-tive feet from her prov, and lies eight
feet under water. After the first trial was
completed, the generals impression seemed
to be. that Commodore Craven exercised a
sound discretion in not attacking her. Had
preston on the four inch plating of the
Stonewall, the result would probably have
beeu the sinking Of the Niagara by the lat
ter's ram.
The Stonewall is to be hauled into the
stream. and gun of the Niagara's calibre
fired at her, at distance approximating
that between her and the Niagara at the
time Commodore Craven peclined to attack
her.
The New York COIectorship.
NEW YoRK, November 27.-The Herald's
dispatch says A petition, signed by many
leading New York merchants and importers,
recommending the appointment of Henry
a. Smythe, Of the Central National Bank,
10 the col Ileetorship, was on Saturday pre-
sented to-the Secretary Of the Treasury, by
a delegation on behalf Of the signers, and
by the Secretary referred to the President
Tor his consideration.
Left.
LOUISVILLE, November 27.-General Bris-
3en's Colored Brigade left yesterday for
Helena, Arkansas.
To be Seized.
The Collector Of Internal Revenue re-
,eived a dispatch from Cincinnati TO seize a
boat with three thousand barrels of oil on
board, en- route to St Louis, on its arrival
lere.
One Thousand Dollars Reward.
CINCINNATI, November 27.-The Adams
Express Company through their Superin-
endent at Cincinnati, offer reward of one
thousand dollars for the arrest and holding
f Rudolph L. Dodge, who escaped from
all at Vicksburgh, Miss, On the night of
he goth, charged with robbing the COM
ANY.
Dodge is five feet and eight inches in
leight, of stout build, dark brown hair.
lark complexion, has heavy black nous
ache, blue eyes and pleasant address. His
PARENTS reside at Portland, Ne. He has a
wife in Chicago.
The Mexican Mission
The Worlds Washington speciaI saws
zen. Grant received a telegram Yesterday
rom Gen, Logan, who is at his home in II
inois. He states that he will be in Wash
ngton about the first of December. when he
will decide what course he will pursue re-
pecting the Mexican mission. Before this
Information was received, a communication
vas sent to him by the Department Of State
esiring to know at once whether he accept
d the appointment or not
From Nashville.