The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-28
The Cholera in New York.
More About Collector KING.
Late Mexican News.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2T.@The Times
Washington special says:
A prominent member of the Senate
Finance Committee has announced his
intention to urge upon Congress the re.
duction OF Government taxes full one
hundred millions. He alleges that the
revenue after this reduction shall have
been made, will be sufficient to pay the
expenses of the Government, besides
leaving large sum to be applied to the
public debt.
Brevet Brig. Gen. Duncan will assume
command of all the colored troops in
the vicinity of Washington.
In making up the statistics of the
Treasury Department the fact is de-
clared that, in the fiscal years ending
June respectively in 1862, 1868 and 1854,
notwithstanding that we had over one
million men in the field, and thus
withdrawn from labor, we exported to
foreign countries two and three quarter
times more wheat and eight times more
ham and bacon than in 1858, 1859 and
1850. i5i5 re- =
Nearly all the privates of 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. Alarge number of the officers,
however, remain in the service.
Most of them are utterly incapaciated
from the pursuit of their former bnsi-
ness ayocations, as found from official
reports now coming to the War Depart
ment. and other sources. These, of
course, desire to remain in the service,
and in order to make place for them in
the regular army, if It shall be deter
mined TO merge the Veteran Reserves
into that organization, an enrolling act
is proposed to be submitted 20 Congress,
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provide for headmissionIo the Veteran
Reserve, the officers retaining their
present grade or rank as near as may
be, upon certificate from n board OF
examiners, of competency and fitness
for their positions. 1t is understood the
Secretary of War favors the plan.
I Captain S. l.. Phelps, of Ohio, for
twenty-five years past ofthe o. s. NAVY,
was, on Saturday, appointed by the
Post Master General, special agent for
the government to accompany the Pa
cthc Mail steamers, under the contract
few weeks ago entered into, and look
to the interests of the United States, in
the execution of the agreement between
the Mall Company and the government.
Captain Phelps will leave Boston on
the 9th Of December, for England,
thence to China and return by the Pa
cific route.
The Tribune's Washington special
despatch says: a---
When the war closed in April last the
government owned and used for mill
tary purposes, $50 locomotives, 1000 cars
and 20, 900 tons of iron. All the locomo-
tives have now been sold but 81, and
there are about l. 600 cars yet on hand.
Some have been sold for cash ut auction
and some on six months and two
years time, to, Southern Rail Roads,
All will be sold before January LIST.
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nue. has receiveda communication from
several proprietors of saltwater foun-
tains, demonstrating 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 carbonic acid gas,
they are not liable to the tax, and ask
that the amount already levied be re-
mitted. The Commissioner has replied
in effect that they cannot be exempt
from the specified tax of six per cent,
and that whether they buy their foun-
tains already charged, or have person
to charge them, they are regarded as
manufacturers orprOducers. F-r
The Worlds special, in speaking OF
the trip of the Stone wall for the editica-
ton of Farragut court martial, says: Her
speedwas ten miles an hour, which is
by no means her maximum. She seems
to be very formidable. Her ram project
Gu . Ieet from ner DOW ana heS 3 Ieet
under water. After the trial was COM
pleted the Generals impression seemed
to be that Commodore Craven exercised
sound discretion in not attackingher.
Had the NiHgara's guns failed to make
any impression on the four inch plat
ing OF the Stonewall, the result would
probably have been the sinking of the
Niagara by the latter's ram. lThe Stone
wallis to be hauled into the stream and
a gun of the Niagara's calibro is to be
fired at her, at a distance approximate
ing that between her and the Niagara
at the time Commodore Craven decIin-
ed to attack her.