The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1866-05-26
ABSTRACT.
DATES TO MAY 18Th.

s DATES TO MAY 18th.
The New Tax BiIl-.The CoIOrad d O
State Bill before the President
Bank FaiIures"-An Important Tax
Law I'm New York ..Great Fear En-.
tertained of it's Dfverting Trade
from the City..FataI Riot at Mem
phis, Tenn.--Thirty Blacks Killed
and all their Churches and school
Houses Burned--The Debate on the
Report of the Recommendation Conn
mittee--Great Opposition to Section
Third Chinese War.-Lower Cali.
fOrnia TO be Ceded to American
Capitalists-Austria and Italy Pre-.
. pairing for War-Prussia not Pacif-
icated Yet-EngIish hNews-JuIian,s
Resolution that Territories must
not Deny Suffrage to Negroes. Re-
ferred-Debate and Vote on Stevens,
Addition to the Postoffice Bill and
ON the Joint.Reso on Recon-
structiOn-Stephens has Arrived.
and is Trying to Revivify Fenian-
tsm-Mrs. Varina Davis with Her
Husband at Fortress Monroe-Res.
ignatiOn of O'Mahoney-Storm
Times in nessee-Meeting of
Republican Senators and Repre-
sentatives with a View to Striking
out the Third Clause of the Recon-
structiOn Constitutional Amend
ment-Stephens, the Head Center
of the Fenians, Trying to Harmon
iZe the Warning Sections of his
Adherents-ChargeO of Judge UNDER
wood to the Grand Jury Concern
ing Prosecutions for Treason. etc.
Wasfsheton, May :5th-The Ways and Means commit.
tee haveconsideraby reduced the tax bill since reporro
It and have therefore had the bill reprinted among the
changes the tax the gross receipts expresses and ~
graphs reduced from five to three per The bill for
the admission Of Colorado submitted to the President
Yesterday Considerable excitement has been caused by
the suspension of the Merchants National Bank govern
men depository which had continued receiving deposs
up 10 the last moments the circulation is $3.50 600 which
Is fuy secured the deposits of individuals $3.50 600
1elts OF government agents and dsbursng officers near
half million liabilities the Treasury Department i've
thousand the officers of the Bank attribute the aiure 10
the large amount loaned to Byrne Co. stock brokers of
Baltimore who have suspended the stock of the Bank is
oered at five cents the dollar without finding any pur
ehasers. f
New York, May 5th.-The Journal of Commerce.
says the week has been of excitement business is
slower on Wall street caused by the discovery that the
Legislature before adjournment imposed State tax of
Dne per cent on all brokers' sales foreign domestic
vines ana ardent spirits half of per on sales of
merchandise or produce imported three quarters of one
per cent on the sales of foreign produce: esta
ed that hundred millions worth of merchandise was
old last year through the brokers of this city, exactly
low much will be subject this tax we cannot say bt
he interest thus affected is immense and duly exeented
S cause an immense revolution in the trade of this
Metropolis Boston will be enabled to win back large
part of the tea trade and Philadelphia and Baltimore will
ttrct no incOnsiderabe portion of the coffee and sugar
rade since this State will amount TO a very beay
Timed at the commerce Of New York and we see no way
\ which il can be resisted evaded
Chicag", May 5th.-In the Senate the committee o,
Public Lands reported the 3D. in favor of granting
ands to all the construction of military road in Oregon
he Hos passed bill establishing biennial sessions of
ne Legislature OF washington Territory and doubling the
'ay of the members.
Chicago May 6th.-The Times >" Washington special
ayS the Freedmens Bureau has received dispatch from
Memphis, stating that the riot commenced iu an aray
between party Of discharged soldiers and SQUAD of
'olice Both parties at fault the latter for using
Xcessve violence and the former for resisting authority
ABOUT thirty colOred people killed during the three
lays. All the coored scboolhOuses and churches were
urned on Wednesday night all was quiet. The .Tri.
unes Washington special of the 5th says the Senate
nance committee have agreed to report Shemans loan
I'll without amendment The proposition that the vacant
lieutenant Geueralshp should be filed during SCOTS
ne was promptly rejected by the Senate the debate was
ighly eulOgistic
Washington, May 5th.-The House debated the recon- |
tructiOn report, nine speeches being made RAYMOND
xpressed gratlicatlon that the committee had submitted
ere such he approved the first reasserted the prpe
les of the civil rights bill which he had favored thor
ughy and heartily the second proposition had also been
eOre the House for its action but in form in which he
ould not then support it, form recognizing by npca
on the right of each State TO disanchse portion of its
zens on account OF race OF color on its present present
tion he would support it; the third section however
Ould if adopted by Congress- defeat the whole for no
ouern State would rafy it, and their people would be
Dol. they did while not willing to make these PROPOSE
condition precedent for Southern representation he
Raymond was willing that all except the third section
loud be passed by Congress and submitted to the States
ratification he expressed his belief that all the States
be affected should be represented did not hold
essential to the validity of Congressional action that thew
lould be thus represented Wilson, of Iowa called Raw
ond to task about some supposed inconsistency between
position on the pending measure and his position on the
vii rights bill which Raymond acknowledging the inter
It taken in his record by the gentleman from Iowa ex
ained to be inconsistency all Stevens gave notice
lat at three O'Clock tomorrow he would move the pre-
ous question, and ask a vote the ointresoluton
rong effort will be made to throw the third section
nd prominent Republicans tonight believe that the effort
i'll prevail:
Canton, China, March l3th-The Imperial army has
Otained complete victory fifty thousand rebels
opposed to be the residue of the army of the in
e northeast the conflict lasted two days and resulted
all the rebels Ing either slaughtered taken prso-
srs the imperial army was being disbanded.
New York. May 7h-lt is stated that negotiations have
zen concluded with the Mexican Minister in Washington
the cession to leading American capitalists of nearly the
tire peninsula of Lower California, Juarez receiving
)wards of million of dollars and retaining an interest in
proceeds of the enterprise The following uames appear
the negotiations: Ben. +. Butler j. Anderson w G.
argo, Jacob o. Lees, John Anderson G. Wilkes w K
ravers, Barlow, Francis Morris and Edward Sanford
Farther Point May 6th.-The steamer Peruvian has
rived with dates to the 9th ult. The United States war
Gamer Kearsage was at Lisbon from Sierra Leone nine
en- OF her crew were attacked with the yellow fever Oh
passage and fourteen died the Kearsge was kent in
net quarantine The bill abolishng the declaration of
nformty to the liturgy of tie church of England by fe
VS. OF colleges passed the House of Commons the h
against le6. The Gazette" of Bavaria asserts that
danger OF war in Germany is removed and the Paris
Constitutional accepts the as correct The att-
on of Italian troops Bologna has caused Austria to
ke precautionary is asserted that the EN-
had declared to Italy that he will in no way assist
lly in case of an attack -
London April 27h-Prussia objects to disarmng while
Austrian Government continues her army on the Italian
inter- . .r ..... = - Q
Halifax, May Ith.The steamer China mas arrived with
he obon+a