Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-27
From Washington.

Farm Products Liable to Taxation.
WAsH1Ssrox, January 25th.-The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
received a Communication from q far
mer inquiring whether farm products sold
in 1854 which had been assessed in 1858 are
liable to taxation. In reply the Commits
siUIIer decides that there is no provision of
law exempting farm products from taxation
when sold, on account Of their having paid
a tax already. And in the second place it
is clear that in q majority of cases it is only
apparently the fact that second tax is
paid and consequently the tax will be as
sessed upon the value of a years crop.
Money Remitted.
The Treasury Department to-day received
from lady residing in this District Sl6O in
conscience money. In the letter transmit
ting the money she represented that the
amount was received as compensation for q
slave released in accordance with an act
Of Congress and that she cannot retain it
on account Of conscientious scruples-
S126 was also forwarded by John E.
Stocks, formerly of the 4Oth Mass. Vol, that
sum having been overpaid him IN his hnal
statement.
$3.50 has been received from former en-
ployee of the Government, who eonfesses
that while engaged N the Norfolk Navy
Yard he distracted articles belonging to
the United States worth $3.50.
sz5 Confirmed.
The Senate to-day confirmed Charles B.
DOWNS, of Iowa, to be Associate Justice for
the District of Washington Territory, and
Geo. G. Clarke, as Postmaster at Los Ange-
los, California.
Report of the Secretary of the Interior
The Secretary of the Interior, in response
to resolution of the House, communicates
list of the ties of the United States, with
statistics Of their manufactures, including
those having 10000 inhabitants and
upwards 1t includes 1O2 cities, beginning
with New York, and ending with New
burgh, Kentucky. The total capital en-
ployed is $417, 7,129, ,234. Hands employed,
males 4lO,g20; females, I47, 900; value Of
products $s,749,34S 81.
New York stands first in order on the list
Capital, $61, ,212, ,757; males employed, 6S4,-
O35 females, PATTI; value Of productions,
$3.50, ,107 1853.
Philadelphia employs a capital of s73,-
3l7 ,SS5; male operatives, 6S,350; females,
80 ,633 value of products, SI35,979,777.
Cincinnati third in order. Products
s46.OOO,OOO; capital Sl7OOO,OOO in round
numbers.
Boston-Products $50, ,OOO, 900 capital s13,-
900, 1000. The other principal cities
produce as follows; Brooklyn $S4,O0O,oGO
Newark, S22, 900, 600; st. Louis, $2l ,O0O,O 900
Baltimore, 81 ,OOO,0OO; San Francisco, Sl9,-
100000; Lowell, SIs,0OO,O0O; Providence,
SI5, ,0OO, 900 Louisville, S12,0O0,OOO; Rich
mond, sl2, 900. 600; Pittsburgh, Sll,OOO,oOO
New Bedford, 81, 100000; Chicago, 81 ,OOO,-
900; New Orleans, SIC, ,000, 900 Manchester,
S1O,OOO,OOO; Troy, S10,O0O,O 600; Rochester,
SlO,O00,0O0.
Negro Suffrage in Colorado Territory
Governor Cummings, Of Colorado Terrific
~, talAsrapha To SanatOr Sumner about a
petition Of the colored citizens, calling his
attention to the fact that the Legislature al
its first session, in 1851, passed law estab-
fishing q qualification of voters making nc
distinction on account of color or race, but
the session of 1864 passed law dePriving
negroes and mulattOes OF that right.
Governor Cummings says; 81 invoke
your earnest attention to the subject, and
hope, for the honor of the Territory, you
will promptly take action to erase this
odious record from the statute book.
| deem it proper 70 say, also, that the
legislative Assembly owes to the enlight-
ened sentiment of the country to take into
consideration the condition Of the cOlOred
people with regard to public schools under
the law of 1861, offering them equal polltl-
cal privileges with others: They come here
in considerable numbers, to an equal if not
greater extent than any other class Of i'm
migrants. Evidences oftheir industry, fru-
galitv and thrift seem numerous in Denver
some of the finest property in the town be-
longing to them. They are subject to the
tax laid for the support Of public schools
Ill . LII. o11 not allnUpd tn At
tend them. In consequence Of their ex-
clusion from both public and private schools
some of these people have been compelled tC
send their children to the Eastern States to be
educated, while paying taxes for education
in this Territory, but all are not able to in
cur this expense, and as a necessary conse-
auence, many of their children must grow
up in ignorance.
/ submit, without argument, the fact thai
the eolored people in Denver and Varlou;
parts of the Territory are taxed to pay iol
educating white children, while their OWL
children are excluded from the public
schools, and your action will determine how
long this humiliating spectacle shall be
presented to the world. Justice to the liy-
ing and gratitude to those who died that ths
nation might live forbid the state Of things
against which these petitioners protest
should longer prevail. only perform my
duty in calling your attention to these sub
jects, for the responsibility is with you.
Women Arrested
Three well dressed women detected, q
the Executive Mansion, clipping piece
from the cArtains of the East Room, a
souvenirs, were arrested and taken to tn
police station house. Such thefts have beer
SO frequent that an officer is constantly il
attendance.