The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-07-31
NEWS SUMMARY

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RESTORING THE MAIL SERVICE IN THE SOUTH.
The Postmaster General is gradually restor.
ing the postal service all over the South On
Friday morning the mails left the Washington
post Office to be conveyed directly through 10
Richmond and Petersburg. Contracs have
just been made for service by railroad from
New Orleans to Canton, Miss, and from
Canton to Jackson, Tenn. =
The following order was issued on that
day:
Until otherwise ordered, mails for At
lanta, Augusta, Macon and West Point, Ga.
Montgomery, Ala, and for points contiguous
to these several places and between them and
Chattanooga, Tenn, may be forw Arded to theft
ing been detailed for service on the several
roads aud placed in charge of the post office,
wherever there are military posts
Other heads OF departments are engaged in
restoring the civil machinery, in accordancs
with the proclamations of the President ap
pointing Provisional Governors.
INTERNAL REvENUE DECISIONS
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that interest paid TO depositors by
savings banks is considered dividend within
the meaning of section one hundred and
twenty of the law. and the tax of five per c. mt
should be withheld thei sfrom and paid the
government. He has also decided that al
Undertaking on claim by a third party under
New York, statue" is joint agreement, aud
| is :sutject to stamp duty of five cents
APPLICATIONS FOR PARDON
Another heavy instalment of applications
for pardon was received at the Attorney
Generals Office on Friday last. Amoug the
number was that of Brigadier General W H
F. Lee About eighty acquisitions are lily
made on the State Department flom the At
torney Generals Office.
1t ia reported 10 Washington that Mr.. Dill
the editor aud pub Usher of the Memphis Ap
peal has obtained 81 pardon.
AMNESTY oATHs.
amnesty oaths are pouring into the Der art
ment Of State from all quarters of the South
ern States. Two boxes containing over seven
thousand we're received from Georgia few
| days ago. and two others containing about
| twice as macy arrived at the same time from
| Richmond, Va. The clerical labor of regis
teripg and filing al that are received is alone
immense, ard but Ii tie prog ess can be eS
pected until appropriations are made and the
| force Increased.
| THE RAILROAD BETWEEN sHRvEP oRT AND Mars
SHALL, TEXAS.
| On the 9Th inst,. a delegation of the Board
of Directors of the Southern Pacific Rail- Dad
Company arrived in hieveport for the pur-
J pose of comforting with General .Veach in le-
| gard 10 the com oletion of The road between
that town and Marshall, T. xas.
WAsHINGToN, July %, 1866
| The Chronicle has received letter fr Im
New Orleans embodying the following ex
tract from ne written by gentleman con
oected with the headquarters Of the nion
| force at Carksville, Texas. 1t s dated July
| H. and is as folows;-
| am lyi at the mouth of the Rio Granie,
| opposite to the Bagdsd. The Mexicans und r
Maximillian guard the opposite side and
our troops this. The respective pickles r.
not forty rods apart. There is a good dsal
ofuufriendly feeling between the two armies,
ard they cannot long'refrain from blows. One
the 4th of July our officers went over, an /
many rows occurred. l heard this morning
that General Brown, the commander at Brown
| svills, rday had an interview with Jua-
req, and promised him the assistance If the
| United States troops and had ordered the
| Fourth Indiana to cross The river General
| Steele, the department commander, went up
by despatch boat to counteract the order if
possible. But even if he succeeds things can =
not long remaia as they are.
THE LOSS OF THE QUINNEBAUG.
MoREHEAD Cry, N. c., July 26, 1865.
1t is now known 10 certainty that there
were about thirty lives lost together with
about ten or twelve horses, by the calamity
to the Quinnebaug, just outside of this har-