New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-27
GENEIt/AA NEWS.


There was serious disaster on the Erie Rail-
road yesterday morning about o'clock at Mount Hope,
station In Wayne County. Pa. % miles west OF Port
Jervis New Jersey, and lee miles from this city Tho
disaster was caused by the breaking Of switcbrod.
The entire tTain comprising eight cars was thrown
from the track Three men. engaged in saving wood
by the roadside the principal sufferers one being
Killed outright and the two others badly wounded. A
horse was also killed. but from reports that reach us
none Of the passengers sustained serious injury though
several cars were considerably crushed.
The Commissioner Of the Internal Revenue
ba, decided that inland and domestic bills Of ladng
not subject to stamp duties as SUCH Most Of them,
however contain an agreement contract, and when
Kueh il the case they require ave cent stamp for such
sheet or piece Of paper on which they are written
When they contain no agreement, and arc simply re-
ceips for the delivery of property, two cent stsp Is
suept II has also been decided that manufacturers
will not be held liable TO ad vaOrem tax on tho en-
tire value of the satiDet5 which they make from warps
but will be allowed heretofore to deduct the cost or
Value OF such warps before the tau is assessed
The records of the Treasury Department show
that from March 1863 up 10 August. 1865 abandoned
and captured cotton. vslued at t57440Oo was seized
By the Government In tie valley ftle Mississippi Vi
this amount e. coo have been paid in the Depart
ment; the remainder having been transferred to the
original owners Of cotton. wt,h TO that amount had
been improperly seized.
Thomas Quinn, the messenger Of the Green.
vIch Savings Bank while returning from the Green
wich Bank with tin box containing 5000 In small
bills was arrested by dressed in police uniform,
and an officer Of the Twenty-eighth Precinct on
charge Of being counterfeiter. The box was taken
BIZ the stranger who told the officer to take his pris.
oner to the StatiOn-House On arriving there tie
officer found that he had aided 10 the preparation Of
most ingenious robbery
In the Kentucky Legislature, yesterday, the
Senate passed resolutions poSponing the election Of
United States Senator, and extending the present
session. ..
Yesterday three respectfully dressed women
were detected at the Executive Mansion, Washington
clipping pieces from the curtains of the East Rooms
souvenirs They arrested and taken to the Police
House Such thels have been Of such frequent
occurrence that an officer is constantly in attendance
70 restrain such larcenies.
The steamer Dora Martin, from Shreveport
for Neworleans, struck q snag and sunk In the Red
River. She had 60 bales Of cotton on board The
boat is total loss. The principal part Of the cargo
will he saved.
The Colonial Reciprocity delegation are Sec
onded BY Revenue Commissioner Wells but have little
hope Of enlisting the House Committee Of Ways and
Means In the movement for extending the present
treaty.
The friends of Tennessee in the House claim
that there arc so Republican members who have sgni
eed their purpose to vote 70 admit the Represe natives
rom chat State 20 seats in the House az early day
The schooner Mary Jane, during q heavy
gale on the 10Th inst went ashore at Bagdad, Texas
There were no lives lost The vessel total loss
The freight was partly saved; both were insured.
A block Of stores on Dundas-st., London,
CIV, tho property of Messrs Matthews and Tate,
were burned gu Thursday night. Loss $4,000. The
goods were mostly insured.
The Governor Of South Carolina has addressed
leter 10 the President strongly urging the transfer
Of ali the lands now In possession Of negroes TO the late
owners OF said lands.
The Ways and Means Committee has not yet
taken action upon the Loan bin. The ReciprooiH
question was under discussion in the same committee
yesterday.
For the fiscal year ending June 80 1862 the
nins and branch mints Of the United States eoinea
sR,sls.a4s q, In gold. silver ard copper.
The Reconstruction Committee have SUD-
pehAsd Pa'sOn BrOwnlow to testify 10 affairs In Ten
'-'''S reference to RecOpAtruntop.