Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-28
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NEW KOR X,

Proposed Reduction Of Covernme nj
| Taxex-Some Statfstics-The Veteran.
| ary Corps-The "boys,, want to ssO
hOme-OHcers don't-Soda water + Oun
tains vs.. the Internal Revenue-som e
things s'Going to be did '.--Somet him G
| About the Rebel Ram Stonewa1i-Com-
mOd0re Craven..NO Insurrec tion In
South Carolina-The Report fs al
! Bosh-Gen. Grant gets a Telegraph
from Gen. .LOgan-1sen.L.tob L. to be 1nW Wash.
| 1ngton OH the LIST OF Decem Der AMI
| decide about the Mexican Mission-Ex
RG0v. Lubbock Released from Fort Del
aware, a wiser and bet ter man.
NEW York, Nov. 27.-The Times Wash
! ingtsn special dispatch says: y prominen
! member of the Senate Finance Committee has
announced his intention Of urging upon Con
gress the reduction of Government taxes fully
one hundred millions OF dollars. He alleges
that the revenue, after this reduction shal
have been made, will be sufficient to pay the
expenses of the Government, besides leaving a
large sum to be applied to the public debt.
Brig. Gen. Duncan will assume command O
all the colored troops in the vicinity Of Wash
ington. IN
|
Department, the fact is dscove cred, that in the
| fiscal years ending June, respectively in 1862,
| 1863 and 1864, notwithstanding that we had
| over one million OF men in the field and these
| Withdrawn from labor, we exported to foreign
countries two and three quarters times more
wheat and eight times more ham and bacon
than in 1853, 1859 and 1860.
Nearly all of the privates in the Veteran Re-
serve Corps have voted under the late order OF
the War Department to leave the service, and
all in one regiment have been mustered out ex.
cept four men. A large number Of the officers,
| however, remain in the service. Most Of them
are utterly incapacitated from following the pur-
suit of their former business avocations as found
from the official reports now coming 10 the
War Department ard other sources. These,
of course. desire to remain in the service, and
in order 10 make place for them in the regular
army if it shall be determined to merge vet.
eran reserves into that organization, an act is
proposed to be submitted to Congress, TO be
enacted into "a law, which will provide for the
admission Of the veteran reserve officers and
| to retain their present grade and rank as near
AS can be upon certificate, from board Of
examiners of competency and fitness for their
of War fayors this plan.
Capt. S. L. Phelps, of Ohio, for twenty-five
years past of the q. S. navy, was on Saturday
appointed by the Postmaster General special
agent for the Government, to accompany the
Pacific mail steamers. under the contract few
weeks ago entered into, and look to the inter-
ests of the United States in the execution of
H. hotu 40 Mail nd
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~epded, in April last, the Gov
'ernment owned and used for military purposes
$50 locomotives, A, 200 cars and 10, 900 tons Of
iron. All the locomotives have now been sold
but 80, and there are about LOCO cars yet in
hand. Some have been sold for cash at auc-
ton and some on six months and two years.
time to Southern railroads. All will be sold
! before January lst
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
| received communication from several pro-
| prietors of soda water fountains, demonstrating
against the tax Of SIX per cent. levied according
| to law on all manufactures of such beverage
They claim that as ti:ey do not charge their
fountains with carbonic acid gas, they not
| liable to tax, and ask that the amount already
llevied be remitted. The Commissioner has re-
| piled 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 person to charge them, they
are regarded az manufacturers or producers.
The Worlds special, speaking Of the trial Of
the Stonewall for the ediiication Of the Farra-
gus Court Martial, says Her speed was ten
/ miles An hour, which is by no means her max
imum She seemed to be very formidable.
; Her ram projected twenty-five feet from her
| bow, and lies eight feet under water.
/ After the trial was completed, the general
| impression seemed TO be thattCommodore Cra-
| ven exercised sound discretion in not attack
ing her. !. Had the Nagaras, guns failed to
have made any impression on the four inch
plating of the Stenswall, the result would prob
| ably have been the sinking oil the Niagara by
the Stonewaii q ram: "'
The Stone wall is to be halled.into the stream,
and gun of the Niagara's caEbre is to be fired
| at her at distance approximating that between
her and the niagara at the time. Commodore
Craven declined to attack her.. -ESzsz.tg
! NEW YORK, Nov. H27.-The Herald'ss dis
patch says - "A petition. signed by many lead
| ing New York merchants and importers,
| recommending the appointment of Horny G.
Smythe, Of the Central sNatepal Bank. to the
| Collectorship, was on yesterday presented to
4 the secretary OIL 00tcsAllOu
| on behalf of the sgpeIs,< and was. by the Sec
rotary, referred to the President for his ecnsd-
erati0n: -, ...ss
! The Heralds Charleston, s, c., correspond
| ent says Brig. Gen James Beecher Cowdy
| of the second sub district OF Sohtii Carolina,
writing from Granville. S. c., to the News, of
this city, substantially denies that there is any
truth in the reported insurrccton in the Barn
well district The report grew out Of the kill
ing of ru1ian named McKew, planter. OF
Bamburg, by negro boy, ii is supposed, whom
McKew had whipped and badly cut up with a
| knife,
The Worlds Washington special says Gen
Grant received a telegram yesterday from Gen
Logan, who is at his home in Illinois,. lie
states that he will be in Washington about the
| lst of December, when he will decide wha,
cou rse he win pursue respecting the Mexican
mis- ssion. Before this Information was received
a communication was sent him from the De-
partn,ent of State desiring to. know at once
whether he accepted the appointment or rot.
| New YORK, Noy. 2T.-The Fort Delaware
correspondent of the Herald says that ex- Gov
ernor Lubbock was eieased last Friday morn.
ing. leaving that rebel reformatory institution
as thorough Union man as he was formerly
rebel. .-...-..- ~
4 --' LOUIS WILLIE.