The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-05-03


The appointment of Mr.. Smythe as collec-
tor OF the port of New York, is said to be
pleasing to the merchants, particularly those
who were not in sympathy with the govern
ment during the war. s. S. Cox, 1t is report
Cd, hrst laid his application and recommends
tions before the President. Neither of the N. Y.
Senators, and no member of the House of
Representatives will acknowledge any agency
IN the matter; and the great majority desired
the appointment of Mr.. Depew. 30
IT appears that Senator Davis's recent
speech advising the President to recognize the
Senators and Representatives from the ebel
States combined with the democratic members
from the loyal States as the true Congress.
has not yet been printed in the Congressional
Globe. Monday Mr.. Howard sent to the desk
a copy OF the remarks of Mr.. Davis, as taken
down by the official reporter of the Senate. in
order that they might go upon the record
The manuscript having been read, Mr.. Davis
declared, That's my principle still. MAIN
tam that IS the true principle of the Constitu-
tion." To which Mr.. Howard replied, ssI am
sorry to hear the Senator say so. 1t is is rev.
pulmonary, unconstitutional, treasOnable."-
No action was taken on the matter.
MAxIMLIAN's CHANCEs.-A Paris letter
writer says: "It has transpired in some cir
cles here that Baron Salliard has returned
from his visit to America to assure the Empe-
ror that Macmillan has not single chance
OF establishing himself in America, that he
has there no friends but those from Europe.
and that the only power which can make any,
thing OF Mexico is the United States"
SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION ON THE
NEW BAsIs.-A Washington dispatch saws
the Committee on Reconstruction estimate
that the number of representatives from the
late rebel States will be reduced to thirty by
the change in the basis representation made
by the second section OF the amendment. A
calculation made on the basis of the census
and Presidential vote of 1880 shows that Ala
bama, Georgia. Mississippi, North Carolina
and Virginia will lose three members each:
Sou h Carolina four Louisiana and Tennessee
two each, and Arkansas, Florida and Texas
none; or total loss of twenty-three. If these
States should exclude negroes from the right
OF suffrage, Kentucky would lose two, and
Maryland and Missouri one each. The COM
mlttee seem to have been able to make some
what closer calculation in order to reach an
aggregate reduction OF thirty members.
INTERNAL REVENUE DECISIONS. The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue has de-
clded that all expenses for insurance upon
property, and all actual losses in business. NAV
be deducted from the gross income of the year:
but losses sustained after December 81, 1866.
cannot reduce the income for that wear. Loss
es incurred in the prosecution of one kind of
business may be deducted from the gains in
another, but not from the portions of incomes
derived from fixed investments, such as bonds,
mortgages, rents and the like. The assessor
should also be careful not to allow the deduc-
tlon OF amounts claimed to have been lost in
business, when in reality they should be re-
garded as investments or expenditures, as
when merchants expend money in farming or
gardening, for recreation or adornment rather
than pecuniary profit.
Persons travelling about the country as
agents OF manufacturers, or dealers seeking
orders for goods as agents for one person or
firm only, such as salaried clerks, or men
hired by the month, should not be required to
take license as commercial brokers'
All parts of decision number one hundred
and fifty-nine inconsistent with this order are
revoked.
The BATTLEFIELDs OF VIRGINIA
officer Of the War Department has returned
from an inspecting tour of the battle-Aelds Of
Northern Virginia. Along the line of The
Orange and Alexandria Railroad. from Alex
andria to the Rappahanock, about thousand
graves OF United States soldiers were discov-
cred, and in Culpepper alone upwards of
three Thousand were found. 1t is in
tended to remove all the remains lying
north OF the RappahannOck to the cemetery
at Arlington, and to locate ahational cemetery
somewhere In Culpepper County for those
buried south of thai river.