The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-02-10

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asking Congress to place . territorial governs
meht over Virginia
Reports are received from Utah that the
Mormons contemplate the abandonment of that
Territory, and a wholesale emigration to the
Sandwich Islands. It is said that Brigham
Young, has purchased or secured the refusal Of
two of The Sandwich Islands for future coloniza-
ton by the Mofmons. The motive for this is the
growing popular and official opposition to the
system of poygamy.
"A new hotel has recently been opened in
New Orleans which boasts that it neither seeks
nor desires the patronage of Northern gentlemen
An army officer, who found that he could not
secure the attendance Of walters, complained Mt
the Office, and was blunily told that the servants
had orders not TO wait on United States officers.
The recently revived excitement regarding
an apprehended Fenian attack continues, and
even intensifes, along the Canadian border, and
the inhabitants OF each frontier town are mo-
mentarily looking for the dread onset The mi
litia remain under arms, and at Sarnia and
Windsor trains are kept ready to move off with
troops at moments notice.
1.-The Washington correspondent Of the Phi
ladelphia Ledger says -" Your whiskey deal
ers and manufacturers may set ii down as GER
tain that there will be no reduction in the tax
upon that article as suggested in the report OF
the tax commission. The ways and means com
mittee are almost unanimously opposed TO such
reduction, and the steadiness Of the market, in
the face of the proposition, is pretty good evil
dence that holders have no fear of a sudden de-
cline Of one dollar per gallon in that popular ar
tcle." b5sfat adit..t3 ~
There was handsome increase in the re-
ceipts of internal revenue during the week just
closed-the total footing not far from $9,OOO,-
900. Compared with the previous week, this is
gain of A. 700, 900. One reason for the increase
is said to be because of the suppression of many
fraudulent practices at the South, whereby the
revenue on large quantities of the products oil
that region found its way into the private peck
cts of officials instead of the vaults of the Treas
ury.
The Military Committee of the House has
voted to report bill creating the grade of Gen.
eral in the army Of the United States. The pay
is to be an increase of Sl3O per month over the
pay of the Lieutenant General under existing
laws.
A letter from gentleman in IIayti, giving
an account of the visit of Secretary Seward tc
that republic, during his late West India trip
says that the interview between him and Presi
dant off vi III crso Nd
lasted for about two hours. On the departure o.
the Secretary, salute in his honor was fred by
the Haytien war steamer Galatea.
The United States Consul at Honolulu in
forms the Department of State that about lO(
seamen captured on an American whaleship by
the pirate Shenandoah, and landed on the AS
cension Islands, had reached Honolulu on thei
way TO the United States. -
The Treasury Department at Washington
has discovered twelve distinct counterfets on thu
fifty cent fractional currency. tt
Hon. f. II. Webster has been unanimousl,
confirmed by the United States Senate as collector
of customs for the port of Baltimore. A
A bill has been introduced in the Pennsyl
vania Legislature to punish any one who shall
write or cause to be published false notice o
marriage. t.r. -.t..t.t-t
Evening sessions Of the House of Represen
tatives will be held hereafter to furnish oppor
tunity for the members 10 ventilate their senti
ments on that fruitful topic--the President
Message Good arrangement
Louisiana is an amiable State under tn
new ordersof things. The True Delta says tina
in one parish sixty persons are under arres
charged with killing negroes.
Nearly all the three-cent currency has beef
redeemed, and no more of it will be issued.
3 During the rebellion, it is stated, officially
that over seventeen thousand courts-martial wer
held. ,..r- ~ s.rf 81 ,i-e I
"A portion of the galleries Of the Senat
Chamber at Washington has been set aside TO
the colored spectators. Je ~. 3pAT4l
All the merchants of Matamoras are trumpin!
up claims to be presented for losses in Bagdad
believing that the United States will pay then
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The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
that on and after March 1st, 1865, all Southern
manufactures in possession of the manufacture
shall be held subject TO the present rates Of duty
No exception is TO be made in any case on &C
count ofthe date of manufacture a-,a,