Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-10

stead of so much per pound on all to-
bacco, on tobacco manufactured purely
from the leaf, the tax is forty cents per
pound; on smoking tobacco forty cents;
on tobacco manufactured from stems, etc.,
thirty-tve cents per pound. After July,
1866, there shall be levied tax OF ten per
cent. on all State bank circulation; and
from the first of next May Savings banks
are taxed on-half of one per cent. on their
deposits. On petroleum the tax was
finally fixed at one dollar per barrel OF
thirty gallons. No drawback IS allowed
whatever when petroleum is exported.
The ninety-fourth section of the old reVe-
nue. law is so amended that an increased
tax Of twenty cents is levied on every ar
ticle of the schedule therein named. ms
includes all kinds of manufactures, and
the old law, with this twenty per cent.
added, will be the new standard OF taxa
ton. The stamp tax is SO amended as to
make every written instrument void with
out its proper stamp. The following
faiied to become incorporated IN the ne"
law, being lost by the wide disagreement
OF the two Houses, viz: a tax OF one-ha.f
of one per cent. on sales; the tax on cot
ton was stricken out, the Senate conterees
refusing to concur unless drawbacks were
given on the manufactured articles. Both
Houses agreed to the appointment of
Commissioners to sit during the recess to
examine into the subject of taxation.
Rebel Intelligence.
New YORK, March THE Richmond
Examiner of March 4th denounces the
execution of Bealth, the guerrilla and spy,
and says threats were made in the streets
of Richmond to hang any Yankee officers
on parole who might be found at large.
The Sentinel says the rebel Secretary OF
the Treasury would be glad to receive do
nations of money, bonds, plate or other
valuables, to enable him to pay the
soldiers.
The Enquirer pronounces the whole
financial system OF the Confederacy defec-
tive, and proposes q reduction of the pub
tic debt to specie value, saying that it
involves no reputation.
The rebel House of Representatives
adopted a resolution to adjourn on the
Sth of March.
A Richmond paper of February 2Sth
says: The Yankee prisoners have all
been sent from the camps near this place
to Northeast Bridge On. c. for the pur-
pose of being exchanged. Many others
from Greensboro and Salisbury have pass
ed through here for thr same destination.
All the Federal prisoners in North Caro-
lima are to be exchanged, we learn, at
Northeast Bridge. We presume the ex-
change will be completed in a few days.
Packet Sunk aud Loss Of Life-Fire
| at Cairo.
CAIRO, March 6.-The Memphis and
Vicksburg packet James Watson, laden
with Government freight, and a large
number of passengers and eighty-six SOL
diers, sunk twelve miles below Napoleon
Arkansas, on the morning of the ID.
Over thirty lives were lost, including
Adams Express messenger, twenty SOL
diers and several ladies and children.
| The officers of the boat were mostly saved.
The steamer and cargo are a total loss.
Nine buildings were burned last night,
involving a,loss of $l50,OOO.
Movements Of Gen. Thomas' Troops.
CHICAGO, March IA Nashville letter
of March I'd, says: Nearly every day for
the past two weeks two full regiments of
new troops, and sometimes three, passed
through this city. The precise destina-
ton of this new army is not known, but
it is believed to be for the purpose Of aug
menting Thomas army, to check any
movement which may be made from the
direction of Richmond. Gen. Thomas
has returned from Eastport, Ala, where
he has been to arrangefor the future move
ments of his army.