The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-17
Promised Cotton Tax.

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pound on cotton A report of the commit
| tee appointed to- investigate that subject was
made at a. meeting held last Thursday, and
the conclusions which they arrived at were
that during the last five years, the produc-
ton of cotton had greatly increased in India,
Egypt and Brazil. and these countries are
/ likely to enter into successful competition
with the United States; that India cotton,
mixed with one-ifth or one-tenth American
cotton, produced the requisite quality in the
standard fabrics, and as the actual cost of
| raising, transporting and selling cotton will
be from thirteen to fifteen cents pound, the
price of the article will not bear this TAX
! Statistics were also produced which showed
that the cultivation of cotton in India had
increased during the last few years from thir
| ty to fifty per Gent. per annum. The state
ment was also made in the report that the
proposed tax was discriminating one. and
tended to make the South poorer and the
| North richer, and was a drawback on that
part of the country striving to regain its lost
footing. A resolution was passed, declaring
that in the opinion of the Chamber Of Com
merce the duty on cotton ought not to be in
creased beyond two cents pound.
Cholera ON the HeIvetia.
New YORK, May 14-The officers of the
steamship City of Paris report that the
cholera broke out on the steamer Halvetia,
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put back to Liverpool.
The Military Commission to Investigate the Nor
| folk Riot.
! The Board of officers convened in this
city finished its labors and closed its session
on Saturday afternoon. The proceedings
were secret throughout, and the decision ar
rived at will not be promulgated until re-
viewed at army headquarters, but we are en-
abled, from our observation of the anxiety to
elicit the truth shown by the officers compo-
sing the Board, and from our knowledge of
their character, to assure our citizens that
upon the Evidence furnished an impartial YER
dict will be rendered.
1t is much to lie regretted that there was
not a more general disposition upon the part
of our townsmen to volunteer to the Com
mission whatever information they were pos
sessed of, but we believe enough was obtain
ed to guarantee such report by the Board as
will fully exonerate this community from any
responsibility for the bloody scenes of the
riot.-N0yolk Ti1yinian, 18th.
Cash On Hand.
The following is statement of the amount
of funds in the cash vaults of the Treasury
on the 18th inst:
! United States Legal Tender Note $26S00O
| National Bank Notes, 92,3SO
Fractional Currency of all de-
nominations, i AVG, 1856
Gold, SOsOG0
Silver, $500
| Cents, 500
Reserve Fund Temporary Loan, 10000, GOO
Reserve Fund surplus issue Uni
ted States notes, 37,93s, 4e5
Reserve Fund surplus issue Comp.
Int notes. s4,G71 800
Comp. Int. notes in Redemption
division, 1850, 900
| Mr.. Seward sent his protest, which has
been published, against Austria's sending
troops to Mexico At the same time he wrote
to our Minister, saying that if troops had
already started, nothing could be done there;
but if none had already gone, he (Motley)
was instructed to withdraw in case any troops
should depart after his protest had been pre-
sented, and before their reply and our re-
| spouse should have been received.
Ex-Goy. Wise's Lecture.
Hon. Henry A. Wise delivered lecture in
the Baptist church, Washington street,
Alexandria, Friday night, for the benefit of
the female orphan asylum of that city, to
crowded audience. Mr.. Wise indicated his
intention to stand by Virginia; that he
would not move one step from her soil that
| he had taken no test oaths, and no power on
earth could make him take any. He had
always obeyed the Constitution of the Uni
! ted States, but when the United States called
on him to suppress instruction, and Virgin
! ia to repel invasion, it became conflict of
sovereignty, and he not individually re-
sponsibie for obeying the call of his State.
On yesterday meeting was held in
Tarboro, n. c., for the purpose of organizing
the Tarboro and Roanoke Railroad Com
pany. The company was chartered by the
Legislature of North Carolina some years ago
but has never been organized. The South
er11er says that large delegation of the mer-
4~1l-
ent and participate in the meeting.
The Gettysburg Monument.
HARTFORD, Conn, May 12.-The Cournnt
of this morning announces thai the contract
for constructing the Gettysburg monument
has been awarded to its designer, James G.
Patterson, Esq, of this city. The monument
is to cost $4,000. Mr.. PATTERSON designed
and built the Worth monument
Splendid Horse for Gen. Grant.
A magnificent horse arrived here to- day,
which was sent by the Mexican Gen. Carva-
jail as present to Gen. Grant. The horse is
descendant from pure Arabian stock, and
is the same that Gen. Caravajal rode through
all his campaigns.
CrinOine Certainly going out Of Fashion.
PARIS, April Give can safely,say that
crinolines are disappearing, but will not to-
tally disappear before the end of sumner
1t is evident, by the daily decrease of ex-
pansion and pyramidal cut of our skirts, that
we are in period of transition bordering
on the pure and indebted style empire
without any English STEEP whatever. AS
to how we shall walk, which seems to be the
most trying enigma to Partisan ladies, it is
supposed nature will lend us guiding hand,
as she has ever done under similar trials
Letter in NeD York Herald
Important Order.
We learn that Maj. G. 1. Wickersham, AS
sistant Superintendent, Sub District of Will
mington, of the Freedmen's Bureau, has re-
| ceived instructions, through Col. Whittlesey,
Commissioner for North Carolina, to issue
rations, hereafter to all INDECENT poor, white
q s well cnlnred lie has also recciued in.