The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-02-20

PErRoLEux.-2,3 ss, 800 gallons Of Petroleum
valued 81 ,367,74 were exported from Philadel-
phia to foreign ports during the month Of Janua-
ry, 1865.
The pork packing season at Louisville and
vicinity was closed, with the following foetings
Louisville, 76,o32 hogs slaughtered; New Albany,
5000; Jacksonville, 7,l33; total for the three
cities, 81, 255.
A letter from Galveston says that the amount
of cotton coming out of that port, including old
cotton and the last crop, will reach 15e 600 bales.
A communication has been sent to Congress
by the Treasury Department, showing that from
April lst 1865, to February lst 1866 twenty
million dollars Of all kinds of taxes hare been re-
ceived from the Southern States.
William B. Astor owns ], 500 houses in New
York. One little house, which, two years ago, be
rented sor $500, was put at 81 500 last year and
this year he charges s2,j00.
On the 18th, Treasurer Spinner commenced
paying in cash all war and navy warrants amount
ing TO SIC, 900 and under. and al Quartermasters
and other disbursng officers checks under IS, 200.
All claims amounting to more than the sums men
toned will be paid one half in cash and one half
in certificates of Indebtedness, in accordance with
q recent regulation of the Treasurer. As only
about one third as many certificates are being is
sued as formerly, the Treasurer ia induced TO be-
lieve that those now in the market will coon come
up to par value.
Tables prepared for the report of the Com
missioner of Internal Rhvenue show that the re
ceipts of internal for the year ending June
80, 1865, we're s2ll,l29,529 H. of which the
amount collected through the Collectors and As
SCISSORS was $ls3,lI2,so4 CO. The expense of col
Letting this sum was $4,769 s66 81.
The whole number of national banks now
stands at sixteen hundred and thirty, representing
an aggregate capital of S407 ,S5s, 203.
The House Committee on Banking are report
ed to be in favor of adopting some policy whereby
the national banks will be compelled to change the
present system of allowing said banks to hold in
terest bearing notes for the redemp
of their liabilities.
-Sx-sevenths of the entire revenue from
stamps, which exceeded eleven millions in 1865, is
reported to be derived from the use Of check and
receipt stamps.
The stamp tax on matches will yield, at the
present rate of production, the large amount of
nearly three and half millions of revenue for the
year. The receipts per annum from this source of
revenue, are estimated to approximate hereafter
twenty millions of $50 900, ooO.)
There win be distributed this week by the
Treasury nearly eleven millions of currency in
payment Of the interest $500 000, 900 of seven
thirties.
The N. Y. Tip,es has the following:
"a gentleman who arrived in this city last ey en-
ing, direct from Texas, by the Galveston steamer
and whose means Of information are un SURPASSED
assures us that the cotton crop of that Stat. for
the present year viii exceed SOC, 600 bales . >
II other cotton growing States do half ~ we'll al
Texas in proportion to their industrial strsaeth1
the cotton crop this year will be more than double
the ordinary estimate of the amount Then comes
the general tumble"