Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-03-25

OFFIOERS AND TROOPS, DEPARTMENT OF
WAsHINsToN.-The distribution Of troops
serving in the Department of Washington on
the 1st of March, under Brevet Major General
w. H. Emory, was as follows: At Sedgwick
Barracks, BTevet Captain X. III. Montgomery
In command; field, staff, band, and detachment
5th u. s. cavalry. AT Russell Barracks, Bre-
vet Major w. J. L. Nicodemus in command;
companies A, ID, T., q, H, and /, 18th infintry.
At Reynolds Barracks, Brevet Major III. Gard
ner in command; 44th regiment u. s. infmtry;
At Lincoln Barracks, Brevet Brig General
George p. Buell. in command; companies A, b,
g, G, II, and /, 29th U. s. infantry. At Fort
McHenry, Md, Breyet Brig. Gen. II. BROOKS in
command; companies O, ID, f, and II, 4th artil-
lery. At FoIt Washington, Nd, Breyet Col.
John Mendenhall IN command; companies
A and NJ, 4th artillery. AT Fort Foote, Md,
Brevet Colonel Richard Lodor in command;
company i, 4th artillery. The garrison of
Washington is under Lieut.. Col. Geo. w. Wal
lace, 18th U. S. Infantry, and the following are
the staf officers of Gen. Emory: Brevet Col.
J. Ii. Taylor, A. A. G.; Brevet Brig. Gen. JOS
eph Roberts, A. A. /. G. and discharge officer;
Brevet Major Gen. Eugene A. Carr, Acting
Judge Advocate; Brevet Brig. Gen j. T.. Nc
Ferran, Chief z Quartermaster; Brevet Col. Geo.
Bell. Chief Commissary of Subsistence: Brevet
Col. l.. A. Edwards, Medical Director: Brevet
Mai. M. H. Stacey, Brevet Lieut. Col. c. b.
Atchinson. and Brevet Capt. r. H. Montgom-
cry, aides de camp.
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT FOR ALABAMA.
In the Senate to-day, Mr.. Stewart introduced
the State of Alabama, which was referred TO
the Committee on the Judiciary. 1t declares
the constitution framed at Montgomery the
fundamental Ia for provisional government
for the people of Alabama. SO far as the same is
not in conflict with the laws of the United
States, and the officers elected at said election
for SAID constitution shall on the 1st day of
May, 1865, qualify, as provided in the said
constitution and the ordinances of the Con yen-
ton, and shall Immediately thereafter enter up-
on the discharge Of the duties of their respective
Offices. Provision rs made for conyenfng the
Legislature, and the submission Of said con-
sttufIon TO the people OF the State for ratifica-
ton, and majority thereof being sufficien to
ratify the same, and upon its ratification,
IT shall be presented to Congress for
approval. The Legislature is also required
to ratfy the amendment to the CONSTITUTION of
the United States. Known as the 14th article.
The military Commander of the Distr{et shall
furnish all necessary aid for enforcing this
act and the act of March I'd, 1867.
THE INTERNAL TAX BILL.-In the House of
Representatives to-day, the Committee of Ways
and Means have considered the Senate amend
ments to the House bill exempting certain
manufactures from internal tax, read a report
recommending nOn- con currence in the first
and second amendments of tine Senate. and con-
currence IN the third, ith an amendment, as
follows: Strike out all after ..enacting" in the
first line of said Senate amendment. and insert
in lieu thereof That after the 1st day Of July,
1865, no allowance for drawb back on account of
udl ItAes pdlu Oh man u1dCtureS snail
made on the expectation of any articles of
domestic man nufacture which is relieved from
tax by the provisions of this act; but from that
date all such articles shall he held to have been
manu- featured after the st day of April. 1e6s
and no claim for such allowances on any such
article shall be paid, unless presented to the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue prior In
the lst day of August. 1868.
They recommend concurrence in the fourth
amendment of the Senate, with an amendment
as follows Strike out after the word sscorpo-
rsff IN linz of cafI ,I,.o
insert in lieu thereof the following: Whose
manufactures OF any kind or articles prod ced
by them, are exempt from taxation by the pro-
visions OF this act, and whose annual sales ex-
ceed $1,000, shall pay for every additional
3 600 in excess Of $1,000 Two dollars, and the
amount of sales within the year in excess of
$500 shall be assessed by the assessor and
paid monthly as other monthly taxes are as
sessed and paid. And the assessment for
April, 1865. shall be made on the excess of sales
above the rate Of 5000 per annum, and there
after the annual period for the assessment of
such tax shall commence on the 1st day of May
in each year.
new section was reported, that every per-
son who shall engage in or carry on the busi-
ness of a dlstiller with intent TO defraud the
United States of the tax the spirits distilled
by him, any part thereof, shall, on nyic-
ton thereof, be fined not less than $500 nor
more than $500, and be imprisoned not less
than six months, nor more than three years If
any distiller shall carry on such business in
any pace or locality for period of twenty
days, during which the market value in such
place or locality of the kind of spirits pro.
dnced by him is less by more than ten per
centum than the tax and the cost of producing
| said spirits, it shall be prima facie evidence
| that the business is being carried on with
intent to defraud the United States. And If it
shall at any time come to the knowledge of
the Commissioner Of Internal Revenue that
distilled spirits are being sold directly or
indirectly in any collection district at market
price less than the tax such spirits, he shall
| forthwith institute strict examination into
| the business and conduct of all the revenue Of
ficers, both in the district in which such sales
are being made, and in the district in which
| such spirits have been manufactured, and the
| selling below the amount of the tax shall be
held TO be pr1md fdcie evide nee that the collec.
tors and assessors of the districts in which said
| spirits Were produced and sold have seyeraIIy
| neglected their duties; and such collectors and
| assessors shall thereupon be suspended from
| office. They recommend concurrence in the
| fifth amendment OF the Senate.
| ORDERED TO DUTY.-Special orders No. 20.
| just issued by command of General Grant.
| directs Brevet Capt. Edward Field, list Lieut.
| 4th artillery; Brevet Capt. Arthur Morris, Is,
| Lieut.. 4th artillery: Ist Lieut.. Robert G. He.
ner, 10Th u. 5. infantry; I'd Lieut.. w. L. Has
kell 18th u. :. infantry, to report by letter to
| Major General Howard, Commissioner of the
| Freedmen's Bureau, for assignment to duty
| with the Bureau.
INTERNAL REvENUE.-The receipt from this
| source to-day were S319,876.46
ANOTHER SHOOTING AFFRAY IN RICH
| MONr-Yesterday morning about four O'Clock
] the police heard reports of pistols proceeding
| into the matter they ascertaTned that a Germa n
| named John Mayer had been shot by Mr. Vim