The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-01
FOURTH EDITION
President johnson PardOns
a OOunterfeiter.
The Whereabouts Of Miss A.
e. Surratt.
our special Dispatches.
WASHINGTON, March l.
Executive CIemancy.

WAsHtNGToN, March l.
Executive CIemSnCy.
Yesterday the President pardoned John Boals,
of Michigan, convicted of having counterfeit
fractional currency in his possession with the
intention Of passing it, and sentenced to five
years imprisonment.
Miss ABnie e. surrAtt.
The story aaoat that Miss Annie Il. Surratt has
entered convent is not true. She is living with
the family OF Captain Ben. Gwinn, in Prince
Georges County, Md.
Obituary.
General Howard received to-day, from his
Assistant Commissioner in Florida, intelligence
of the death Of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Harry
NJ. Stinson, who was recently detailed to report
to Colonel Osborne for duty on his staff, Colonel
stinson served gallantly during the war, receiv-
ing a shot through the lung, which was the indi-
rect cause of his death. He entered the service
as privete in General Howard's regiment, the
Sd Maine, and for meritorious service was pro,
NOTED as an agent to the Freedmen's Bureau,
where he rendered valuable service up to the
time OF his death.
Tho Paris Exposition.
Mr.. ]. C. Derby United States Agent for the
Paris Exposition of 1867, has been in attendance
on Congress for several days, to explain to men,
bers the necessity of prompt action if an appro-
| priatiom is to be made as the utmost limit OF
time for applications of space is near at hand.
Senator Sumner and Governor Banks, thepChair
men of Foreign Relations in each House, having
! the subject in charge, are urging prompt and
| favorable action. More than 1900 articles from
| all the loyal States have been received by the
General Agent at New York.
The Imternal Revenue Laws.
The Ways and Means Committee have bill IN
readiness to report to the House, in which seve-
! raj very important amendments to the internal
revenue laws are proposed. Everything in
| Schedule A of the present act is to be stricken
| out and exempt from taxation save bilhardi
| tables and carriages worth $500 and over. The
| present tax upon coal is to be removed. The
! tax on incomes is to be so far modified as to
| raise the amount exempted from 5000 to $1,000,
| with $500 additional alo wed on rentals or home
steads. On all amounts of incomes above $1,000
| uniform tax of five per centum is to be levied.
But the most important provision of the bill is
| the levying of a tax OF five cents per pound on
| all cotton brought to market. The Committee
| are justified In their conclusion that this will
| net an enormous revenue, and at the same time
! prove less onerous than almost any other tax
now levied. The Committee are unit in these
new features of the bill, and, so far as the sent
Inents Of leading members have been canvassed,
their adoption by Congress is deemed quite
certain. t.-.. .-
A False Report.
Brigadier-General G. H. Howard, Assistant
Commissioner OF the Freedmen's Bureau for the
District of Columbia, in the following statement
gives the lie direct TO the silly and uniounded
paragraph in the Herala of Monday lasts
The only grounds for the astounding announce
ment of the New York Herald, OF the re-opening
of the slave trade by the Freedmen's Bureau, are
the operations of the employment Office in
securing places, on written contract anywhere
in the United States, tor the unemployed desti-
tute freed people in this city. Sixty-three were
sent to Mississippi last week, after seeing their
employer and making fair agreement for good
wages Some have been sent to many OF the
Northern States in the same manner. fee OF
one dollar for every man, and fifty cents for
females, is charged to pay current expenses,
such as printing blanks, etc, The salaries of the
agents in 70 way depend upon the fees.
G. II. HOWARD, Brevet Brigadler-G General,
Assistant Commander, D. G.