Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-11
Sunday Nights Report.
A Singular Phenomenon.


and the darkness was so great as to make 1t
Impossible to see across the street. Church
spires and buildings were for an instant
rendered plainly visible in the glare. 1t
was followed by heavy shock OF thunder,
which seemingly made the earth rock as
in an earthquake. A similar phenomenon
occurred on Saturday night week.
A Town Destroyed by FIre-IIinIsteT
Campbell Leaving Home.
New ORLEANS, Feb. l0-A town on the
Balize, at southwest pass mouth, was de-
stroyed by fire this morning. Loss 100000.
A number of families are rendered house,
less.
Hon. D. d. Campbell, Minister to Mexi-
co, left this evening tor a short visit to his
family in Ohio. This city being his tenn
porary residence, he expects to return In a
few days and await instructions.
MiSce= ancOus Items.
New YORK, Feb 10.-The steamer Ocean
Queen, with San Francisco dates to the
18th, has arrived. Henry II. Van Dasm,
clerk of the Ladies Charitable Fair, has
been arrested Oh a charge of violation of
the law against lotteries. The original
contractors for the introduction of the fire
alarm telegraph have quarreled as to the
proceeds of the invention, and an injunc-
ton upon its use is to be sued out by one of
the parties.
A fire at No. 2 Liberty street last night
destroyed property valued at 100000. IL.
Hernstin 81 Son, musical instrument deal
ers, lost $4,000, and Haggarty Brothers,
dealers in drugs, $4,000.
A German girl, who killed her brother
the other day in quarrel, was admitted to
bail in the sum of $1,000.
A descent was made upon faro banks
last night, and eleven gamblers arrested.
The implements were seized.
Scene Burnham, who was once convicted
of swindling, sent to the State prison, and
pardoned in manner that raised much in
dignation, was arrested again on the charge
OF swindling.
The Times special says prominent Radi-
cal Senators express the opinion that the
veto OF the Colorado admission bill will be
sustained.
Destructive Fire.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. lO.-The brewery of
G.. Pittmyer, corner of Seventeenth and
Hamilton streets, burned this morning. A
large quantity of beer and malt was de-
| stroyed. The loss is estimated at $4,000;
insured for $4,000.
Ice Broken UP.
The ice in the Delaware river has broken
up and blown to the Jersey shore.
Vessels Expected to Arrive.
Eighty vessels, anchored at New Castle,
will be up tomorrow.
Internal Tax Bill.
WAsHINGToN, Feb. 10.-The committee
of Ways;and Means will probably to-mOr-
row report amendatory to the Internal Tax
bill, based on the theory of getting rid of
the tax on manufacturing, at the earliest
possible moment. But the wants of the
Government this year will not permit it to
be done at once, hence the principle is to be
gradual in its operation. To partially car
| ry out this object, the committee propose to
exempt from tax all articles which enter
largely into the cost of living, for in
stance, salt, leather, tin, earthcrn,
pottery and hOllow-ware are exempted,
as are also hoes, rakes and scales. All
steam and horse engines, all drain, gas OF
water pipes of iron, wood or other mate
rial, all clothing made from article:
| subject to tax. drawers and shirts, and
other such articles, woven or knit are not
however, exempt from tax in case where q
tax has hot been paid on the raw material
| Advertisements to be relieved from tax
Many manufactures which are now taxed
per cent, to be free from tax, among
these are all glue and varnish, and al
wagons, drays and trucks costing less than
two dollars, used for freighting purposes
Butter and cheese to be free from tax.
A section is added to arrest the duplica-
ton of tax; so where there is tax on the
raw material there shall not be another on
the manufactured article in its various
forms. The tax is to be either on the raw
or manufactured article. A large number
of art cles are to be exempt from tax be-
cause the expense of collection is moi
| equivalent to receipts theretrom. Tax
is to be removed from match.
boxes, but a stamp is to be attached
| for matches, boxes or other packages OF
bottles are also exempted where their con.
tents are taxed. The committee propose
in addition to dry casks and barrels, to eX-
empt all other casks, barrels or other COOP
erage, including oil, liquor, meat and fish
| barrels and casks. The tax remains the
same on liquors or distilled spirits, but the
license for distilling is increased from 500
to $500. Relating to distillation from
grape, apple and peach, remain unchang-
ed, but brandy made from grapes is
to be taxed SOC gallon. The income tax is
to be on the amount in excess of 1000, and
at uniform rate OF per cent. The rent
taxes, insurance and repairs OF all kinds &C.,
to be taken out on incomes, so in effect in
comes is to be exempt to an average amount
of $l,500. In addition there is new pro-
vision for collection of the tax on spirits of
an ironclad character. Where the present
law says fine or Imprisonment, the bill
visits both on the convicted offenders, and
where it says the imprisonment shall not
exceed two or three years the bill provides
that the Imprisonment shall not be less
than two or three years, nor more than
four.
Other sections have been added tn pre-
vent fraud-such as the following: Where
an article is offered for sale at less than the
amount of tax, this fact is to be regarded
as prin,d fdcie evidence that it has not paid
tax, and is, therefore, subject to seizure.
The Patent Office is the only self-sustain-
ing branch of the Government. The fund
now on hand for paying the entire expense
of the offices is $2S,000, all paid by in
ventors.
1t has been ascertained that Nebraska has
about 100000 inhabitants, and this number
Is increasing rapidly.