The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-11-28
New YoRK. Nov. 27.


The Times' Washington special dispatch
says prominent member of the Senate Fl.
nance Committee has announced his inten
ton to urge upon Congress reduction of
government taxes fully one hundred millions
Of dollars. He alleges that the revenue, after
the reduction shall have been made, viii be
sufficient to pay the expenses Of the govern
ment, besides leaving . large sum to be ap-
Piled to the public debt.
Brevet Brig. Gen. Duncan will assume com.
mand of all the colored troops in the vicinity
of Washington.
In making up the statement Of the treasury
department, the fact is disclosed that in the
fiscal years ending June respectively in 1862,
1888 and 1864, notwithstanding thst 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withdrawn from labor, We exported to foreign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 hams and bacon than 1858, 1859
and 1860.
Nearly all of the privates in the Veteran
Reserve Corps have voted on the late order
of the War Department to leave the service,
and have been mustered out. In one regi.
ment but four men remain. A large number
of the officers. however, remain in the ser
vice. Most of them are utterly ineapacitated
from the pursuit Of their former business, as
found from the official reports now coming TO
the War Department and from other sources.
Those, Of course, desire TO remain in the SER
vice, and it is ordered to make place for them
in the regular army, if it shall be determined
to merge the Veteran Reserves into that or
ganizadon.
An enabling act is proposed to be submit
ted 10 Congress 10 provide for the admission
Of the Vete mn Reserve officers, retaining their
present glade and rank, as near as can be,
upon certificates from board of examiners
of competency and fitness for their positions,
|, is understood the Secretary of War favors
the plan. srs4x ey ~ sd s
Capt. S. l.. Philips, Of Ohio for twenty -fiye
wears past of the L United States Navy, was on
Saturday appointed by the Post Master Gene
raj spe: :ial agent for the Government to
accompany the Pacific mail steamers, upder
the contract few weeks ago entered Into,
and look TO the interest of the United States
in the execution of the agreement between
the mail company and the Government. Capt.
Phillips will leave Boston on the 9Th of De
cember, for England, thence TO China, and re-
turn BY the Pacific route.
The 1ribnae's Washington dispatch says
when the war ended in April last, the govern
ment owned and used for military purposes
| $50 locomotives 1000 cars, and 10000 tons
| of iron. All the locomotives have been sold
but 81. and there are 1000 cars yet on hand.
Some have been sold for cash at auction, and
some on six months and two years time to
southern railroads All will be sold before
January first.
The commissioner of Internal Revenue
has received a communication from several
proprietors of soda-water fountains, remons
trating against the tax of six per cent lefied
according to law, on all manufacturers oil
| 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 remitted.
The commissioners has replied in effect that
they cannot be exempt from the specified TAX
of six per cent, and that whether they buy
their fountains already charged or have a
| n person TO charge them, they are regarded
as manufacturers or producers.
The Worids special. speaking Of the trip
of the Stonewall, for the edifcation of the
Farragut court martial, says her speed was
ten miles an hour, which is by no means her
maximum. She seemed to be very formi-
dable. Her ram projectep 25 feet from her
bow, and is eight feet under water. After
the trial was completed the general impress
sion seemed to be that Commodore Craven
exercised a sound discretion in not attacking
her. Had the Niagara guns failed to make
an impression on the four inch plating of the
| Stonewali, the resul. would probably have
been the sinking Of the Niagara by the latter $
ram. The Stonewall is to be hauled into the
stream and gun Of fthe Niagara calibre is to
! be fred at her, at distance approximating
| that between her and the Niagara, at the time
Commodore Craven declined TO attack her.
RALEIGH, n. c., Nov. 81.
| The Legislature met today. The Lower
House organized by slecfang s. T. Phillips,
of Orange county, Speaker. There was nc
election of Speaker in the Senate. Messrs.
Ferrebo and Smith were voted for.
| ST. LorIs, Nov. 81.
| Col. Bravo, of the Liberal army in Mexico,
bearer of dispatches from Jusrez to the L. S.
Government, arrived at Kansas City last Fri.
day, and left Immediately for Washington
Colonel Bravo states that the Mexicans have
25 600 troops under arms, and $4,000 more
can be put in the field as soon as means are
raised, which will be done speedily.
| NEw YoRK, Nov. 27.
| IT is reported that a case of cholera has
occurred on Greenwich street, in this city.
Wall street is dull and there is but little
speculative feeling,
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