The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-08-07
Commissioner Rollins, of the Internal Reve-

Commissioner Rollins, of the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau, has decided that Savings banks
are subject to the tax of ten per cent on their
circulation after the LIST day of August, as
well as other banks or banking associations.
Dispatches from Los Angeles, Cal, state
that the United States forces at Camp Cady
had been engaged in desperate fight with
the Indians, in which three soldiers were
killed and one wounded.
The captain, crew, and passengers, Of the
ship Hornet, arrived at Honolulu on the 7th
of July, in longboat.
The cholera in New York had not seeming
ly abated for the twenty-four hours an tece-
dent to seven o'clock P NJ Twenty-nine Of
fetal cases and nine deaths were during that
period reported. In Brooklyn great difficulty
was experienced in obtaining correct returns
on Sunday owing to the alleged laxty or mis-
management Of the sanitary officials. Three
deaths Of previously reported cases had occur
red on Governors island. On the other is
lands no additional cases were mentioned.
DR.. Moreau Morris, Sanitary Inspector of the
Sixth district, forwarded complaint to the
Board Of Health incident to the disgusting
condition of the premises 223 East Forty
sixth street.
The President has ordered the appointment
of Andrew J. Faux, of PENNSYLVANIA, to be
Governor of Dakotah, vice Newton Edwards
A. P. German has been removed from the
position Of postmaster Of the United States
Senate; his dismissal to take effect on the lst
preximo. u.-
Secretary McCulloch, with his family, left
Washington this evening. He will be absent
about week OF ten days.
Postmaster General Randall will be in
Washington on Monday.
A gentleman in Washington has received
letter from very responsible source in the
City of Mexico, stating that there is no doubt
felt that Macmillan contemplates retiring by
November, and that the Empress has gone to
France to represent the hopeless financial con.
dition of the empire.
The Herald's correspondent, who was re-
Gently with General Steedman, in his investi-
CATION of the Freedmen Bureau in the South,
writes from New Orleans, giving further in
formation concerning the malpractices in that
portion of the country No records were
found to form an estimate upon, as they were
conveniently made away upon the arrival of
the inspectors. The charges of private use
of public money are fully proven, and the in-
famous sale of negroes by the Bureau officers,
spoken of in former letter, has been fully
corroborated. With Louisiana the investiga-
tons close and the full report will, doubtless,
be made public in few days.
The Corresponding Secretary ofthe National
Union Executive Committee at Washington,
informs all interested, that most of the rail-
roads have agreed to carry delegates to and
from the Philadelphia Convention Ter half
fare.
The New Orleans Picayune says:
R. F. Daunoy, one of the party arrested at
the Mechanics Hall, on icing released stated
to Gen. Kautz that fellow prisoner (Blanch-
ard), confined in the same cell had stated to
him that through the instigation ofDr. Doste,
it was arranged by the negroes of the Third
District that a general massacre of the whites
should take place at night in the event of the
Convention being interfered with. The force
was to be led by one Bertrin. The command
ing General at a late hour was thoroughly in
vestigating the matter.
A large force of the military was stationed
in Lafayette square during the night