The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-06
FOURTH EDITION
FROM WAsHlMuTOM THIS AFTERNOON
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO EVENING TELEGRAPH. ]
WASHINGTON, February 6.
Radicals AZ the ReoeptiOn,

LhREDlAL DE5PATCHBB TO EVENlhd Thhh0hAthsl
WASHINGTON, February 6.
Radicals at the Reception.
General and Mrs. Banks. OalSes Ames and
lady, and Congressman Clarke, Buclland, Alli-
son, Cullum, and Cook, the latter i've radicals
attended the Presidential state dinner last
night
General Sickes was summoned TO New York
last night by telegram, announcing that Mrs
SiclSles was dying.
North CRrOiIna on the New Plan.
A telegram just from Raleigh, N, O., says the
Legislature is disposed to ratify the new plan Of
reconstruction.
Pushing League Island Forward.
About one hundred citizens Of Philadelphia
arrived here last night, and to-day will demand
of Congress TO pass the League Island Navy
Yard bill.
The Committee on Retrenchment and Re-
form are preparing a bill to abolish all the
naval offices in the United States attached TO
Custom Houses.
The Wool Interest.
In the Globe report of the closing debate on
the tariff, in which Senator Sherman is made
to do injustice TO Mr.. H. N Slater. OF w Worcester,
Massachusetts,, who was alluded to. Mr.. Sher-
man was quoted as saying that Mr.. Slater
wanted to get his wool duty free, and that he
eXtOlled in the highest terms the tariff of 1851.
which admitted wool free OF all duty, regarding
that as the most admirable system that could be
devised, because 1t enabled him to buy his arti-
cles without any tariff duty. This. so far as Mr..
Slater is concerned, was mistake, as that gem
tleman has simply expressed his belief that the
present tariff, with the higher duties imposed
last summer on low-priced wools is the best
adjustment that can be made between the
manufacturers and the wool-growers.
lens proposed by the bill now before the House.
by adding some thirty TO forty millions of dol
fllct o serious injury upon the manufacturing
interest, and would consequently injure the
proposed would be evaded, and thus the revenue
would do us no benefit. while the manufactu-
rer and the wool-grower would be virtually
deprived Of protection.
Appointments.
President Johnson has appointed Nathaniel
Gilbert, of New Bedford, Collector of Internal
Revenue, in place OF General Il. w. Peirce,
rejected by the Senate.
Dangerous COunterfeit.
The Detective Bureau OF the Treasury Depart
ment is on sharp lookout for the orlginators
OF most dangerous counterfeit upon the ten
dollar notes of the Flour City National Bank of
Rochester. New York 1t is the best counterfeit
of national bank currency that has as yet
The Bankrupt Bill.
The friends of the Bankrupt bill will not have
IL called up until Senator Nye returns.
New Appropriation.
A new Fortifcation bill viii be reported in tn the
session are doubtful.
Reconstruction.
The Committee on Reconstruction will report
to-day new bill for the Government of the
| Southern States by the Federal authorities.
| Convention of Tobacco Dealers.
The tobacco dealers of the country are holdins
I Convention here to-day for the purpose of OBJ
| tanning a reduction of the tax upon their busi
ness, which they allege is ruinously high
1 Delegates are present from all sections Of tn
country, except the South, and it is supposed
| that Southern delegates have been detained BY
| the interruption of communication by tn
| flood
| The House Ways and Means Committee las
| night agreed to recommend a reduction of th
| tax upon some grades ofmanufaclured of tobacc,
| and cigars, and to change the tax upon high
| priced cigars from ad valorem to specific.
Ex-Governor Aiken IN Washington.
| Eek Governor Aiken, of South Carolina, ar
| rived here this morning. Owing TO the inter
| ruption of travel by the flood, every hotel in
| Washington is full.
The DefaIcatiOn of A. w. Lee.
1t is thought that the amount OF bonds ab
| stracted from the Treasury Department by the
abSconding clerk, A. w. Lee. will amount tC
| 500 1000 or $4,000. He was employed as clerk in
the loan branch of the Treasury, and his duties
| were to receipt for 7'30 bonds sent by parties
| through Adams Express for conversion into5-2C
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