Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH especial TO THE DAILY UNION VEDETTE NEW NEWYORK YORK may soach the commercials letter from butlers army dated says an expedition of some magnitude is about starting inar but its destination is secret two or three days will determine it CHICAGO may tile the tax bill being bein under consideration consider a in tile the senate yesterday conness moved that in lieu of a tax of five per cent on gold and silver productions prod from quartz mills beds of rivers etc tile the following 0 should be inserted which was adopted on bullion in lump ingot bar or otherwise a duty of one half ha of one per cent ad va lorem to be paid by the assayer of the sanne who shall stamp the product of the assay as commissioner of internal revenue and under the direction of the secretary of the treasury shall decide thereon all sales transfers exchange transportation or exportation of gold or silver assayed at any mint of the united states or by any private assayer unless stamped as preset abed by general regulations as aforesaid is hereby declared unlawful and every person or corporation who shall sell or transfer transport exchange export or deal in such sub subject J act is liable to a penalty of one tl thousand I 1 0 usand dollars for each offence offense and to an imprisonment of from four monts months to two years no jeweller jewellen je weller or artificer in gold or silver shall use either cither of those metals except they shall have first been stamped as aforesaid and no person or corporation shall take transport or cause to be transported ted exported or taken from the united states any gold or silver in their n natural atu state or un assayed and lin unstamped stamped as aforesaid E every very vio violation of thi this 5 provision subjects the offended to the penalty above mentioned n ti NEW YORK yori may t yesterday afternoons commercial says it is rumored that a strong clique has en engaged aged to put up the price of gold to two hundred during the week the demand yesterday was al most exclusively exclusively speculative sales were made as high as 94 91 closing at 93 03 washington midnight may 30 the portion of gen butlers force at bermuda hundred not required for defensive operations have been transferred under command of gen smith to the army of tile the potomac and are supposed by this time to have made a junction dispatches from gen canby say lie he is actively actively y engaged in ih supplying re the troops brought back by gens steele and banks and organizing tile the forces of tile the west mississippi division which now includes the departments of mis arka arkansas n aas and lot louisiana illiana rosecrans steele and banks remain in command of their respective depart arents under orders from gen canby calby hia 11 is military relation to them bein 0 tile alie same as that formerly ind and now exercised by gen sherman over the departments of the ohio cumberland Cum beiland and tennessee signed STANTON martinsburg MART INSBURG ya va may A scout sent out by gen kelly returned being entirely successful in ill gaining brainin important information and capturing C a thirty six prisoners a num ber of horses and cattle the notorious tori thief triplet is reported among the prisoners washington may the star says banks is appointed military governor of louisiana with headquarters head quarters at new orleans NEW YORK yon may tribunes washington special says the house pacific railroad committee had a session on oil saturday without makin making 11 much progress they adhere to tile their own bill an and d do not give much comfort to the senate bill which isalio is also before them and will be reported on adversely NEW YORK may the richmond examiner odthe of the speaks of a gloomy placidity as prevailing in the city caused by tile the closing of all stores shops etc for the purpose of bringing brini Dg into service all arms bearing men the famil families iLs of tile the militia the poor 4 1 men 1 1 paper says continue to io mingle 1 their tears with their bori borrowed owed crusts extortionists in tile the markets continue to swell their profits and through tho the blessed wisdom of those in authority tile people have grown sick of tile wrongs inflicted upon them within tile tho brief space of a few weeks and they will treasure them up tip the times washington special L says the house committee on oil foreign affairs report an opinion that con congress ress lias has a ri right lit to indicate what policy our government should pursue in in regard to the french in mexico A scouting party sent out from alexandria alexanda Alex andt iia ia returned on saturday afternoon I 1 10 n having routed a party of guerrillas a number of prisoners an and destroying e tro ying a large quantity of supplies tile the california delegation in congress gr ess hope to secure a modification of the proposed taxation of mines the herald says it has information not proper to publish at this time 0 iving giving full details of highly important movements now dakill taking 9 place on the peninsula penin sula meantime e news of an important character may be expected any hour its bermuda hundred correspondent says say s a petersburg paper officially announces beaure Beau regards ardys loss in the fight with butler at thousand and forty wounded in hospital I 1 tile the killed are not counted also that tile the people of georgia are fleeing bei fore the advance of sherman and havo have great difficulty in procuring food and clothing clot liing the heralds correspondent of the says what forces beauregard has not sent to leo lee remain on our front strongly entrenched general 11 winder rinder who had char charge c of the richmond prisoners has shifted his quarters te s to goldsboro N 0 tile the union prisoners are all removed from tho libby prison |