The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-04-26
IT. TELE CIR A PHI.
The National Revenue Bill
o gHissTT -Te}qed9S
Freedmen's Bureau in Mis-.
soul j and Arkansas.
- BOD HG
More Volunteer Officers
Mustered Out.
Steamboat Disaster.
Hevy Gale on Lake Ontario
Arrival of Steamer from
Europe.
Steamboat Disaster.
Hevy Gale on Lake Ontario
NEWS VIA NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, April Z0.-1ne Itn1eS4
special says: The Internal Revenue
bill will probably be reported to-mor-
row. Since the bill passed through
the hands of the Committee, the fol-
lowing changes have been made: The
tax on candles has been fixed at per
cent, and all solid iron at three dol
lars per ton.
The Tribunes special says: The
amended Bankrupt bill is ready to be
reported to the House whenever an
opportunity offers. It's principal al
teration consists in rendering it's prac-
teal execution less cumbersome and
expensive. 1t is thought that the
changes made will obviate its diff
culties and insure its passage.
Speaker Colfax gave it as his opin-
ion to-day, that Congress could not
take its recess before the first of July.
The Secretary of the Treasury is
considering his proposition of putting
a 5 per cent. long loan on the market
as a means of meeting our rapidly ma
turing obligations. Such has been
the successful arrangement of our
finances, and the faith of the Ameri-
can people in the national securities,
that such loan is thought to promise
success by many of the best financiers
in Congress. The Secretary has all
the required legal authority, and it is
understood to be only a question of
expediency which now claims his con-
siderati0n
The numerous detailed statements
. o. taWhaf the RecenstrHction Com
nnittee will III will not report arc t0r
tally untrust worthy although they
@may emanate from member of that
Committee.
New YORK, April 25-The TriB-
!. Nae's-special says the Assistant Com-.
missioner Of the Freedinen's Bureau
of the States of Missouri and Arkan-
sas, in the last report says that it is
an indisputable fact that very much
of the cheerful industry of the freed
men, is owing to the confidence they
have in the military authorities and
in the Bureau to protect them in
their civil and personal rights. Under
the law there the testimony of ne
gro cannot be received in any court
against white man. When, therefore,
Justice demands the admission of such
testimony. the cases are tried by a
court of this Bureau, and when negro
testimony can be dispensed with the
cases are turned over to the civil
courts.
General Howard to-day received
from Sir Morton Peto and Arthur
Minnaid, Members of Parliament the
English capitalists who recently visited
our country, a contribution :. of
ESQ each, which they requested be
applied to the relief Of destitute and
suffering freedmen of the Southern
ColonelJ B. Kinsman, who has
been on the staff of General Butler,
has been ordered to visit Texas to
investigate the management of the
Freedmen's Bureau. :
Ten Qurtermasters one Commits
sary; three Aides -de-camp;a two Pay
masters; one Assistant Adjutant Gen
eral and one Assistant Surgeon were
to-day honorably mustered out of the
2 military sefvieeaby an order from the
War Department. ,
BUFFALO, April 25.-The bark
Tom Young and the schooner Star
light, both laden with lumber are
ashore at Fairport, Ohio. "a
The schooner Montana is ashore 18
miles east of Niagara River, in Lake
Ontario y