Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-26
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FROM WASHINGTON:
MINISTER TO GREECE.

MINISTER TO GREECE.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 2E.-The President has appoint
ed Capt. Nicholas Smith, of Kansas, Minister Resi-
dent to Greece to reside at Athens This is the first
appointment of a minister to that country.
JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT.
The Senate to-day confirmed Charles B. Darwin, of
Iowa. q be associate justice for the District of Wash
lngf0n Territory and aeorge j. Clarke, postmaster
THE MANUFACTURES OF THE CITIES or THE U.s.
The Secretary OF the Interior in response to reso-
Of the United States with the statistics of their man
ufactures. including those having ten thousand in
habitants and upward. IT includes l02 cities begin
ming with New York and ending with Newport, Ky.
The total capital employed is $4lT, I29.254. Hands
emrIoyed males, 4lo.92q; females l47,0OO Value Of
s caSa 81 5 II" 9Sss 4Sf stands emSo9f g On RS
females, 24,72l. Value Of product, Sl59, ,3S9
Philadelphia employs capital of $l5,3ls8s5. Male
SlS5,s797T. Cincinnati is third in order. Product
$46,O0,COG Capital, Sl1.G000o0, Gn round numbers
Boston-:Product, $3e,o0O,000 Capital. Sl3.00OOOO.
81 10000; Baltimore. $2l ,O0OO9O San Francisco
Q0O Louisville, Si2,0O6OO6 Richmond, $1,000 900
PittsbHEg 81 goo 600 New Bedford 81 0Og QOO Chi
cage, 81, ,eOO0o0 New Orleans, O0O Manehes
ter, SlOOOO Trey, $4,000 900; Rochester $lOOOOOOO.
u THE SALE OF POSTAGE sTANPs on CREDIT.
The object of the law authorizing tie sale of post
the Postmaster General to the Chairman of the Sen
ate PostOthce Committee Is tc enable the depart
ment to circulate the stamps through the States
lately in rebellion He says that this cannot be done
to any considerable extent for the reason that the
law only authorizes the safe Of stamps to postmasters
for cash. and that there are many Places where there
are no qualified persons who take the cath to fill
the rostofice nor persons of sufficient to
bic them TO PURCHASE stamps for cash. There are
many persons who cannCt take the oath. who can
not furnish good bonds, ana th1s accommodate a
very great demand for stamps. He indicates his in
tent9n Il the bill passes to app4hnt as far as Pr1e
United States. WhIte the compensation proposed is
small the penalties provided nre severe, as in the
case OF receivers and custOdians Of pgblic money.
lie says further, it is believed that measure o the
ble revenue to the department but will tend to pro
mote feeling of contentment and subordinatiOn
among the people Of the Southern States and at the
same time protect the Department against loss.
MUSTERED OFT.
The following list of volunteer organizations which
have been or are ordered to be mustered cut of
mulgated by the War Department.:
California Cavalry, Native Battalion.
Indana-Twentieth Infantry. First Heavy Artil-
lerT.
lowa-TveIfth Infantry, Independent organization
Maine-Eleyenth Infantry.
MasSachuSetts-Twent fourth Infantry.
r, New Tork-Eighty- eighth, Ninety sixth. and One
Hundred and Ninety third Infantry.
Nevada-COmpanes D and b. First Cavalry
Pennsylvania eighth Infantry.
Washington Territory-Company Z. First Infan-
try this completes the muster out of the resinent.
Forty ninth, Fifteth Fiftythird Sixty fourth Sixty
sixth, Sixty eighth Seyentieth Ninety One
Hundred and Eighth, One Hundred and Tenth and
Cavalry. Battery F, Second United States Colored
Light Artillery consolidated with the Third United
States COl0red Heavy Artillery and not mustered
out as heretofore reported.
The Eighth fllinoia; Infantry and Seventh Ken
lucky Infantry still lii the service the order for
the muster out having been rescrin5ed
COLORADO AND NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Senator Evans, Of Colorado. says that the telegram
from W. j. Harding cQlored citizen of Denver.
hicln n1
several false impressions: First, that the colored
people voted in Colorado prior to 1864; the clause
citizens of the United States in the franchise law
not haying been construed to include them, the col
ored poopie did not vote.
Second, that he; as Governor was instrumental in
depriving them of the privilege. Whatever charge
was made in the law, it was without reference to
negro suffrage, that question not hay been raised,
and no practical change made in that respect.
Third, that ths State constitution makes their ey
cluson perpetual, that Instrument provides ready
mode of amendment this and all other of its pro
except present exclusion from office voting. He
thinks that Harding is being led by designing men to
defeat the admission of the State.
The following extract rom private letter from
Harding to former citizen of Colorado dated Janu-
ary Ith, 1861. is significant:
notwithstanding my opposition to the admission
of Colorado, hope, sir, that you may realize your
most sanguine hope the admission of Colorado which
will add another bright star to the galaxy of States
Would to God she had given equal rights to all men
then her brightness would have OutshOne all the
rest"
TAXATION ON FARM PRODUCTS.
The Commissioner of Internal hev enue received
a communication from farmer containing inqui-
ries whether produce sold in 1861 which had beer
assessed in 1863 liable to taxation. In reply the
Commissioner decides that there is no provision 0!
law tor eXemptng farm produce from tax when sold
account Of their having paid tax already and il
the second place, it is. clear that in majority o
cases it is apparent the fact that the second tax Is
paid, consequently the tax will be assessed upon thu
value of the year sicrop.
CONSCIENCE MONEY.
The Treasury Department to-day received from ,
lady residing in this District Sl60 as "conscienc,
money. In the letter transmitting the amount, sht
represents that the amount was received as cOmpen
sation for slave realized in accordance with
of Congress- and that she cannot retain it on accoun
of conscientious scruples" Sl26 also Forwarded
by John E. Stocker, formerly of the 10th Massachu
setts volunteers that sum having been oyerpaid hin
on his final settlement. $3.50 have been received from
former employee of the Government, who cOnfesse
that while engaged in the Norfolk (Va.l navy yard
he abstraced artc belonging to the United States
worth $50 During the past year conscience
money" varying from one cent to a hundred dollars
in the aggregate amounting to 500 COO deposited
in the vaults of the Treasury.