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BY SINCLAIR A MUMSOX.
' RATES OF SUESCBIPTJO?.
. SI 2le copieViO cents;. Six month TWEX
TT-P1VK DOLL A KS. Tnrea ffloths, FIF-,TKK-
DOLLARS. One nth FlVB DOL
iX.ARS. -Te Soldiers, ifomrDol!ftr pwmontli.
; " f SM$ TOK wmKCLT J :' '. .
The Wmxlt CAftousrAirill -'be
ppU4 U bicribtr t- Tkj? -T)oJIp-a ftr
Jiiic Months; and Fiif Ji Pollaes Qr tliret
xavntLd, JtricUj in advance. ' - -
't 'fmtl&t' tw. ' ' ' -( "
square. i l
. Adrertisemants
be Inserted onee
will
' and charged Daily pricei
lathe Wetklr. . .
1 ii...:... v.tiMi. Obitoariei
and Fnncrai,
otice and Religious llfotices.-THaEj DOi
Aas. Announcements ;f deaths,, when net
exceeding four lines, published free.
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v" r :-J AN-ACT- v- Jh 1 '
To lay suidilional Taxes for the common
defence and support of Government. :y
. Sec. .1. The Congresi of the Confeder
ate States of America do enact, That in
addition to the taxes levied by. the act "to
lay taxes fer the common defence and te
carry on the Government of the Confeder
ate States,'' approved 24th of April-1868,
there shall be levied, from, the passage of
this action the subjects of taxation hereaf
ter mentioaed, and collected from'every
per8on,-copartnership, assoei"ation er cor
poratioa4, liable thereto, taxis as follows,
to-wit; ! 4 " V lJ . .'
- J. Upon the value of property, real,
' personal and mixed, of every kind and
description, not hereinafter -exempted or
taxed at a different rate6 per cent:' Pro vided,
That from this tax on the value of
property employed in agriculture shall he
, deducted tho value of the tax in kind
delivered theronv 'as assessed under ,
.the Jaw imposing it, and delivered i to ihe
Government: rovidedj That no ; credit
shall be allowed beyond 6 per cent. -
IIX)ttthe ratoe V of gold , and aUvejf
watches. 10 per cent
III. The vaiue of property; taxed un-
der-this section shall be assessed' on the
basis of the market value of tho same, or
similar property in the neighborhood
where assessed in. the year 1 860, except
' in cases Wliere land, slaves, cotton or to-r
f bacco have been purchased simce the 1st
' day of-January 1 8 62 in which case the
said land, slayos, cotton and tobacco se
purchased, shall be assessed at the price
actually paid for the same Vy .the r owner.
Sec :2s On the value of all shares or
interests held in any bank, banking com
pany or association, ; canal, navigation,
importing, exporting, insurnce, manu
facturiag, telegraph, express, railroads
and dry-dock companies, and all other
joint, stock V companies p( every kind,
. whether incorporated or not, 6 per cent.
' ' tThe value of property taxed under
this section shall be assessed upon the
basis of the market value of such proper
ty in the neighborhood - where assessed,
in such currency as may be in general
; -use there, in the purchase and sale of such
property, at tiio time of atsessment.
- Sec. Zi Upott the amouat of all gold
and siUer coin,; gold dust, gold of silver
bullion, whether ".held, by the kinks or
other corporataions or individuals, 15. per
cent;'anl upon all moneys held abroad
or upon the amoumt of the bill ofexi
v .change, drawn therefore on foreign conn-
i tries, taxis ; per cent.; auh taxlupon
money broai to bo assessjed and collect
1 aecordiniar to the value thereof at -the
place wlwre the tax is paid.
II, Upon the amount of all solvent
credits, and of all bank bills and all other
j papers issued as ' currency, " exclusive of
non-interest bearing Confederate treasury
Ixotes, ; tud not employed ina registered
business,; the income derived from which
is taxed, 6 per cent. . f
- See Upon profits -oade.-in trade
tind business as follows:
. .--X On all profits . made by buying and.
selling spiritupns liqmors, flour, , wheat,
corn, rice, sugar, sorghym syrup, salt,.
bacon, pork, hogs, beef or beet cattle,
sheep, oats, hay, fodder, raw hides, leath
r horses, mules, boots, shoes, cottoa
yarns, wool, woolen, cotton or mixed
cloths, hats, wagons,' harness, coal, iron,
steel or nails, at any time between the 1st1
of January, 1863, and tho 1st J annary,
1865, 10 per cent., in addition to tme tax
on snck profiU as iacome, under the act
to lay taxes for tho common defenee, aid
'carry oi. the Qtrernnient of the Confedtx
ftteStaUa." annroTed Aoril 24. 1863.
?fforth
ree o charge, in' the Daily
for their puDiicauuu
II. On all profits made by buying
aclliiij 'mney, gold, silvar, foreign ex
change, stocks, notes, debts credits. r j
blfgatioos of any kind, and any iaier I
cbondiza,: property or flects j of any j
kind, ndt enameratcS ip tbe, jirecidmg 1
parajrapbH between " th :tlmltnaxhedj
tberem; 1 0 er ttat., ia addition.' to tht j
tax. n tucn prots aa incotut, undr the )
, act aforesaid. . , h .
III. On the amount f profits exceed-1
ihg 5 per cent i made during" either of !
the years 1853 and ISbV by any- bank
or banking company; insurance, canal,
or not 2 pr cent on such excels.
Sec. 6. The following exemptions froi
taxation under this act -shall be allowed,
to-wit : : r .i;
L Property of, each head of a family
to the value of $500 ; and for each minor
child of the. family to the further value of
$100; and for each son actually! engaged
in the army or navy, or who has died or j
been killed in the military or naval ser
vice, and who was a member of j the fam
ily when he entered the service, to the
farther value of $500. v .
II. Propertyof the widow of any offi
cer, soldier, sailor or marine, who msy
hare died or been killed in the military or
natal service, or where there is no wid
ow, then of the family, being minor chil
dren, to the value of $1009. j
III. Property of every pfficer, soldier,
sailor.'or marine, actually engaged, in the
"military or haval service, or of such (as
have been disabled in such service, to the
value of $1000 ; provided, that the above
exemptions shall not apply to any persen
whose property, exclusive of household
furniture, shall be asssessedat a value ex
cedirig$lG00i IV. That where property has been
injured or destroyed by the enemy, or the
owner therof has been temporarily depri
.; ved of the use : or occupancy thereof, or
the means of cultivating the " same, by
reason of the presence or of the proxim
ity of Uie enemy , reduced in proportion
to the itamage sustained by1 the owner,
or the tax assftssed thereon may be, re-.
duced in the same ratio by ihe district
I collector, on satisfactpry evidence submit,
(Sec. o. mat me taxes on (property
laid for the yeai 1864, shall be assessed
as on the day of the passage of this act,
aud be due and collected on the 1st fay
0f June pext, or as soon after as practi
cable, allowing an extension of. 90 days
West of the Mississippi river.' The addi
tional taxes on .incomes or profits - for the
year 1863 , levied by this act, shall be as
sessed and collected forthwith ; and the
taxes on incomes or profits for the year
1864, shall be aissessedand collected ac
cording to ho provisions of the tax and
assessment acts of 1863.
Sec. 7. So much of the tax act of the
24th day of April, 1863, as levies a tax
on incomes derived from property or ef
fects on toe amount or value of i which a
tax is levied ey tnis act, ana aiso tne
1st section of said act, are suspended for
the year 1 864, and no estimated rent,
hire or interest on property or credits
herein taxed ffd valorem, shall be assess
ed or taxed as incomes under the tax act
of 1863. I j; -; v " !: . ' '
Sec 8. That the tax imposed by this
act. on" bonds of the Confederate States
heretofore issued, shall1 not exceed the
interest on the same, and ; uch bonds,
when held by .or for minors or lunatics,
shall be exempt from tax Jin all cases
where the interest on the same shall not
exceed $1000. - V!
Fablk in Real Life. Sherman, since
he began to figure in this war,' has been,
says tho Augusta Register, a j " pent up
Utica. Ho has longed to do something
that j savored of eclat. . The Honors won
in tho beaten i track of civilized warfare
have all along been too tame to sit com
fortably on his brow. His brain has long
labored to disgorge itself of a grand plan
which it had conceived. He has it now
on foot. It reminds us of one of JEsofa
fables : ; - s
The mountaini were said to be in la
bor, and uttered most dreadful groantJ
Men flocked from far and near to see
what birth would be produced. After
they had waited a considerable time in
expectation, out crept a mousel" V
Mr. Shertaan's , plans , will prove as
harmless as a mouse, and when the truth
leaks out, if it aver does, it will bo proves
that Hood's movements had a good deal
to do with hastening: the travail, and
Bragg, we are pure, will make the birth
entirely premature. - 1
The population of the British North
American Provinces that are uniting is
but little short of 3,000,000. The. Cath
olic religion is held by considerably mere
than two-nJtbs tha number.
uusv army. We notice in the paptrs
an estimate that since the war began
142,000 soldiers in connection with tht
'Confederate army have been eonTerttd.
drv dock, or other loin
k .. XlnrrurvTt
tionable authority , for staling, that the
nrmy of Gen. Hood, in high spirits and
larsrelv increased in numbers, left Flor
ence, Akbains, on Meifdnj la3tr and bv i
tills time is no doubt tj jfnto the haW I
of Middle 1 ennessee-rf e may,- there
fore, reasonably look for somejitovjffwwk
in 'that auarter during tho pWMolt ieTci
If Gen. Hood shall prore successful in
the enterprise he hasvnertaken, we
. sr. all be greatly the gainers, even if
Sherman is equally successful, in .his
movement. , Tbr ' has-been no time
when we wouldrtiot liav'. -'jtrilUnzly ex
the nec!amationNof Tennessee and th
transfer of. the seat of war from the heart
to the borders of the Confederacy.
Even the reclamation of the defenses
afforded by the Cumberland mountains
and the Tennessee river will be worth to
us an army of at least 50,000 men, and,
once reclaimed, they Will hot bo again
readily surrendered. Aside from, the ad.
vantages of the .country thus regained
in 1 a merely defensive point of view, we 1
will recover our vast iron, coal and cop
per mines, as well as the nitre caves or
East Tennessee, all of which, at this
time; are of immense vahie to the Con
federate States., All the injury which
Sherman may do the country over which
he marches, and all the advantages which
he may gain by a position oil the sea
coast, will be vastly more than compen
sated for' by, the reclamation of these,
great interests. And besides, we may
reasonably hope that the ranks of Gen.
Hood will be greatly swoollen by acces
sions from Tennessee and Kentucky,
which will make his army not only for
midable but invincible by any Federal
force now confronting cr opposing it.
Gen. Hood is accompanied in his ad
vance by the indomitable Forres.t, which
of itself is an augury of success. With
his bravo Tennessee and Kentucky cav
aliers and supported by the heavy in
fantry force of the General-in-Chief, he
will.be very apt to go where he pleases,,
and we shall be somewhat disappointed
if we' do HOt hear of hiin ere long driving
"the enemy from i the city of Nashville,
and this place ence more in the possess
ion 'of our troops, they will Inot atraia
be driyen froua it bytUe ftiar of jrunboats.
ran soldiers, who nave shown their abili
ty to cope with the oneury as well on
the water as on land. Mont. 4-ppecCl. .
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The Way Negroes are Treated bt
Yankebs. -We learn that a salt maker
captured by the Yankees ia their late raid
on this place, and. paroled at Penaacola,
states that after the enemy had -got some
distance from here they tied the'negroes
together, and that some of them getting
tired of their treatment wcro shot in at-
tempting.to escape. At Pensacola they
sent the negro men into the army and
told the women, who wero encasoped on
the beach, that the" men were sent to
Vermont to provido homes fbr them. It is
thus, with their lying propensities, that
they induce our negrpes to leave their
comfortable homos. Wo presume that
ere this, the nrro women have been sent
to New Orleans on the Yankee Louisiana
plantations, or sold in Cuba.
Miridnnd News.
,Tlie "Indefatigable" Acton of the Ar-
my News Agency tells a good stery about
Forrest. The other day the Wizzard was
with the army of Tennessee, and while
there the cynosure of all eyes. I A group
of barefooted veterans collected aruund
tho hero, when he thus accosted them
"Come and go along with me boys -I'll
have you all well shod if I have to take
you to Illinois to get the shoes." One
elongated specimen ef a veteran, whose
barefoot left a track in the. mud. as long
as the hull of the Great Eastern' .1 ooked
firsjt, at the General .and Jli en at his com
panions, and whispered aside to his com
panions:.. x..V .. ' '
f I say, boys, he'd git us the shoes but
he'd fight us likeh 1. I reckon we
bettef stay here."
Charlsstox- Tho exchange i of pris
onora has been transferred from Savan
nah to Charleston; Pending 1 4ho ! ex
change, hostilities in the harbor will
cease. This arrangement was; entered
into on Monday, but somehow it was
not known at Fort - Sumter, at which
place eono Of our sharpshooters fired at
and wiaged a Yankee at Battery Gregg.
Thereupon the enemy opened oa the fort.
Subsequently the matter was explained,
and the firiag ceased. i
The Louden Index says that the new
Confederate war steamer Shenandoah
supposed to be the Sea King had gone
out on service, fully armed and moaned,
and in excellent trim, to . replace tho
Florida.
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The net receipts- et produce.collocteVi
under the tithe law in Alabama, for the
year ondinir August 31 , 1S64, were $17r
110,820.: Average cost of collection 4i
percent. -
- FROM TRANS-MI SSISS1PPI.
The Mobile Advertiser gives ns-the an
ncxed late news from the Trarrs-Missls-sippi
Departmeut :
, There-as no reasonable doubt that by.
this timelFort Smith is in our nossession.
leaving in. the far western portion of thu J
Department, no yankee f6rces except !
aueut iquo men at Fort Gibson, in the
Cherokeo country,, which" can be easily
overpowered, if necessary, but does not
interfere!: witkrur movement. Stand
TV atie rule
3,iuut couorTTDaTiD? cautu-
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red nutn
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Seminolek have upwards of 7,000 men in
arms, and are firmly united hf the South
ern cause. About 2,000 Cherokeos and
Creeks went off to the Yankees ' with
Ross, bu it is tke opinion of Stand Wat
tie tha.t "not more than 400 or 590 of
them are! left. '
Mr. Boudinot confirms the report of
Col. Brooks' capture of a train of 50 or
60 wagons between Fajettevillo and the
Missouri) line, jut previous to . the cap
ture of Fayctteville.
The Yankees still hold Little Rocg on
sufferance. Magruder could capture the
place, but it would not pay.
At the latest news from Gen. Price,
previous! to the capture , of Fayetteville,
he was st Cane Hill with 33,000 men, a
portion of whom are in. need of arms,
He had great trouble in getting out of
Missouri, wftli his ;immense spoils, being
hard pressed by the enemy, but sustained
no disasfer exceot. the capture of, Marm.i
duke and Cabell on which, occasion he
lost about three hundred men. All tho
other Yankee stories of their success over
him are liaise. At latent accounts ; his
train, numbering 1,280 to 1,300 wagons,
was crossing the. Arkansas between
Fort Smth and Fort Gibson.
AH the western people, especially, the
M;ssourans, are well satisfied with the
results, and pen. Parsous says Tell my
Missouri friends that the Missouri expe
dition has been a complete success.' '
The object of the return of the expedi
tion was, as has been declared by o high
authority in those matters, to secure the
spoils oi the campaign, and place arms in
tne nanqs or tne numerous recruits.
i Anotoer Gallant Affair.. We hear
of quite, a gallant achievement of our cav-'
airy in front of Osterhaus? corps, Sunday
last. A marauding party of Yankees, two
hundred stroug, who had , been robbing
every bpdy within their reach and were
returning loadecKwith plunder, wore at
tacked by four hundred of our cavalry,
under (olonel Prather, and after a severe
engagetneRt cempIetelrouted. A por
tion of the party were in buggies and carf
nages hichthey had stolen, all ef whom
amounting to thirty," were captured. - A
considnible number were killed and
wounded The yankees were pursued
by eui men-and driven up to Osterhaus'
camp, Jwhere they took refuge. OsteT
haus sent but a jegiment of infantry to
repulse Prather; but the latter, after a
brief engagement, captured the whole of
them. 1 He was about making away with
his prisoners and rescued booty, when ho
wasat tacked by the whole corps, and
compelled to abandon his captured- men
in order to. save his own. The thirty,
first taken, were safely brought into ; our
lines, i ' ' ' -
Our; loss in the two affairs was two kil-yf
lea ani seven wounded, several of the lat
ter mortally. , . ;
Savannah Eepubhcn.
S.;fJ. TkoofsI The Governor of South
Carolina, in his annual Message to tho
Legislature, states that South Carolina
ha furnished to the Confederate service
at least 65,000 troops. The voting popu
latonf of tho State is put down at 47.Q0O
The Governor also states that he has not
claimed as State officers, exempt from
conscription, ' magistrates,' deputy clerks,
militia officers, and other officers, between
the ages of 18 and 4. '-Indeed," says
the-Governor, "f ho whole number claimed
by jthe State, and :not exempted by Con
federal authority, will not exceed eighty'
rid with the exception of tho Soldiers'
Boirps of 'Belief, between 45 and 50, and
these I have claimed only until tho meet
ing of the Legislature. i
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General Beaubegatid and tie Deaf
iluTES. -We quote from the tyeaf Mute
CasKit: "Qen. Beauregard paid a short
visits to this City (Raleigh) several weeks,
ago, and while here our deaf-mute pupils
expressed a great desire to see him They
accordingly repaired to the depot at the
hour 'of his departure. Although when he
arrived it was quite late, and ho had but
a few minutes to spare before the depart
ure of the train, ho gave each of them a
cordial shake .of the hand, and remarked
while doing so that ho fe!t sure he would
riot bo called on for a speech" from the
crowd."'
erousrains ginbTiisi .bii? hai
Enolaxd and mi MisirrRT. The
Lord Palmerstoo of to-day W not his lor .
mer self. Doubtless capacity' eves the
most vigorous must begin to decline whori
life hasf overstepped its ordinary limit of
forcscoro years But it is ratfier in the
indirect than the direct effects of advan
ciiig age that we attribute tho peculiar
difference which the veteran premier ore
eti(s to the Palmerston Jof former days.
A natural but daugeroug a riibition prompts
him to keen in office to the lasL Were
he to fall h could uot lnok forward to sib-
voLnar
a I
other., premiership. His has bert the
greatest reputonff Eagfish: atateal
w wa uier j.t& liceti eAtausiaim v
for Palmerston. such ai tiiere was not for
Peel. But ' that enthusiasm is waning.
The cabinet has become wholly di&credi -ted:
Blunder after blunder, -failure after
failure, has marked his career In foreign
affairs its power is paralized bv disunion.
At the critical juncture, a line of policy
which has bi'en followed for months is
suddenly abandoned in . consequsnco of a
split in the cabinet. Kagcr to remain in
power to the last. Lord Palmerston gives '.
way to threats of a seces sion which would
endanger his ministry. Rather than re
sign he becomes a rbi faineant. - But tho
interest of the country, suffer from. such a
course. The moral influence1 frEngiand
is temporarily annihilated; eur "threats of
hosilities are disregarded and contemned,
and our promises of material assistance
are given only to be brokerr. At present,
England has not a single ally, and her
name has become a laughipg stock among
the Great Powers. . She is a terror to no
one, and a dan$r only to those wo trust
iri her. Blackwood.
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; Saltxess of tue SifA. Surprise has
Veen expressed that vessels going to Se
bastopol take a smaller cargo than if they
wero sbing to Constantinople, . or that
they diminish their cargo in the latter
port before entering tho Black sea. -
The reason is hwthe density of the
water in differet seas is more or less con
siderable, and theyessels sailing in them
sink more or les, according to their den
sity. The density arises from the quan
tity of salt contained in the water ; and
consequently the falter the sea is, the
less a vessel sinks in it. As, oo, tho
iniwtr,arctt
penetrates the water, it loUows that tho
mere salt the water, the greater the quan
tity of sail that can be carried; "'';
Now, as the Black sea is sixteen times
less salt than the Mediterranean, a ves
sel which goes to Toulon or Marseilles for
Sebastopoi must take I a smaller cargo
than one that only goes to Constantino
ple, and still a smaller one if it is to en
ter the sea of Azoff, which is sign teen
times less salt than the Mediterranean.
The Mediterranean is twice-as salt as
the Atlantic, once more than the Adriato, ,
five times more than the Caspian eea,
twelve times more than the Indian seasj
and seventeen times more than tho Sea
of Marmora.- - . .'
ThflDftfldspa. rnit'taina mnro than
kny other sea. It - is asserted on good
.atithority tliat two tons of its water yield
qo? pounus oi sait ana magnesia. . -iv
Resistance .to Lincoln's Conscrip
tion Acii :Aviolent altercation took
place in thfe village of Cherry ville, Hunt
erdon county, N. J., on Saturday week,
caused by the attempted arrest of a de
serter named Sam Ruple, a hotel Keeper
in the village. Ruple was drafted in May
last, and shortly after! left the country
for Canada,rjut returned about the last
of September. The lovost ; Marshal
then sent Deputy J. M. Morris and S.
Slater, of Elizabeth, to 1 arrest him. ne
refused to go, and said that an organiza
tion eiistfd- there which! was jsufiiciently
numerous and powerful to prevent aft at-
tempt to arrest any of their number, and
that tue officers woum 1
days more to make such
"came would be up"
have but a few
arrests, as their
after McClellan
was elected. Ihe deputy thereupon
drew a revolver, and said" that he should
be compelled to take him dead or alive.
Thereupon Ruple made a sudden spriag
at the. oflBcer, grasping tbe revolver and
wrenching it trora him. j His bar keeper
at the same time assayed the "officer,
knocking, him down with a slung shot,
and cauaicfij insensibility. He soon re
covered, however, and turned upon the
bar keeper, when a' third assailant ap
peared and struck Morris with a heavy
stone, after which all escaped, taking
with them Morris revolver and other
weapons. The officers pursued, but wero
threatened with being shot in ease of fur
ther . movements and were finally com
polled to stop from weakness caused by
their injuries. A rewarcj of one hundred
dollars has been offered for the arrest and
delivery of Ruple at the headquarters bj
the Provost MarshaLAr(Ar Ttper.
Sad CASuiurrRob't E. Love, Esq
a respectable and widely) known lawyer
of Salisbury was nxa over and tolled by
a taain of cars in that town on tne otn.
TTa was . walking on the
track readmr a
paper and a strong wind
was blowings
He Itav ea fir children. Lflry. OUerttn
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