Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-19
WARRINGTON ITEMS.


week amounted to s., 3O6,375,
The governments loss by the failure
of the Merchants National Bank, at Washing
ton, is now said to be $547 goo.
The government is loser to the
amount of 100000 ~ the failure of the Mer-
chants National BanA. "a.
The banking house of Murray g. Co,
of Washington, has suspended, on account OF
being Involved with the Merchants National
which failed last week. ......
The Secretary of War has ordered
Gen. Terry to regard The President peace
proclamation as doing away with martial law
in Virginia. -.
Secretary McCullock has been on 6
trip to Fortress MOnroe, but for what purpose
is not known. lie had a brief interview with
JEFF. Davis. &
The New York Tribune says that the
President has prohibited General Howard
from giving information about outrages COM
mitted by Southern whites on the freedmen.
The government has decided to retain
possession of the gold captured by our army,
and which was claimed by the Richmond banks.
1t is proved to have belonged to the COnfed-
eracy. 4. r-r
Presid emit johnson has signed the
pardons of Harvey HAYS Of Louisiana. n con-
ton, South Carolina, formerly rebel agent IN
Europe. HrrE 1E1
The President has sent the Senate
the following names for confirmation to Offices
ia Wisconsin, Brig. Gen. Cassius Fairchild.
u. 5. Marshal: ,Mr, Gillet, Postmaster at
Fond ,lIt Lac, and Brig. II. s. Bragg, U. ),
District Attorney 5.. e. e.1fz g#
Gen. Sickles has notified both the
President and Seer etary of War that he did
not desire the mission 80 the Hague, and
should decline it. He preferred to remain in
military service, and retain his present COM
mand at Charleston, ). Q. .s.s.s ~t
The President has ordered warrants
of pardon to be issued to nine persOns--two
from Louisiana, four from Mississippi, one
from &c rgia one from Alabama aud one
from Tennessee-ali property owners TO the
amount of twenty thousand dollars.
1t is reported that several millions of
dollars, government money, Is on deposit in
national banks in Washington, To the credit of
paymasters and others, upon which the depos-
itors, and not the government. draw the IN
terest- - $50 - - f
The Postoffice Department has made
a contract for the conveyance of the mails
from New Orleans to Mobile and back daily in
suitable steamers; also to carry the mails from
New OrIe ans via Galveston to IndisnOla, and
ships.
The President has approved the
bill extending the time for the completion Of
the Union Pacific Railroad, eastern division,
until the 9th of June, 1866 The time for
completing each succeeding one hundred
miles is TO be reckoned from that date. This
bill extends for two years. the time for COM
mencing and completing the Northern Pacific
Railroad and all its several sections.
. .
The Commissioners of Internal Rev
enue, upon a recent decision of the Supreme
Court, write that when broker is engaged in
selling not only his own stocks, exchange, bull
hon, coined money, bank notes, &c, but also
in selling them for others, he is a broker, and
is liable to tax upon sales of his own stocks,
&c, included, and internal revenue officers
have been instructed to proceed at once to the
assessment and collection of such tax, and
upon the sales of brokers and of bankers
doing business as brokers, as still remain I'M
issued or due unpaid. = 3 ma
1.-The President has approved the joint
resolution declaring that 1t is the duty and
the privilege of Congress to express the graf
itude of the nation to the officers soldiers
and seamen of the United States by whose
valor and endurance on the land and on the
sea- the rebellion has been crushed and its
pride and power BUNDLED, and by whose fidel-
ito to the cause of freedom, the government
of the people has been preserved and main
tanned, and by whose orderly return from
the fire and blood of civil war 10 the peaceful
pursuits of private life, the lasting and emo
bling influences of free institutions upon
nation has been signally manifested to the
world.
q The Committee on Ways and Means
have added the following articles to the free
list OF the mendatory tax bill. candle wick
ing, deer skins, dressed or smoked, dayOrIug
ins extra is solely for cooking purposes, paint
ings ans statuary, productions of electrotypes,
cobalt, horse rakes, yarn and warp
used FOR braiding and manufacturing purpo- |
SEES, paper stAihefs' cOlors, caustic and alu- |
soda, Yeast powders, and railroad
IRON. The Committee have restored the tax |
On gold watches, and gold and silver plate,
and levied the tax ON express completes at |
three per cent. Brokers' sales aud contracts |
for MERCHANDISE and produce are exempted