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The Exemptions under .the late Tax
in Kind Law —Valuation of Tithes —
Assessment of ungathered crops.
Ori'icE District Post Q. M., >
Albany, Ga., Sept. 13, 186 i. J
Mr. Clisby : Allow me.to inform those
of your readers who have not seen it, that
the new tithing act of 17th February, 1861,
repealed the act of Congress of 24th April,
1863, ns to exemptions, and under the
former there is now no exemptions to those
planters who make over the following
amount of-grain, etc., viz: 200 bushels
corn, 20 bushels peas aDd beans, 50 bush
els Irish potatoes, 10 pounds wool, 15
pounds ginned cotton to each member of
his family —white and black, 250 pounds
net pork, 30 gallons molasses —sorghun) or
•cane. As to wheat, oats, rye, buckwheat,
rice, sugar, and tobacco and ground peas,
no exemptions exist; the producer pays
one-tenth of all produced. Fodder and
hay are exempt when the corn is exempt.
Under the reservation of five bushels of
corn allowed for each 100 pounds net pork
the planter can claim an exemption of its
equivalent in other grain, as per schedule
of commissioners prices for the mouth; but
this right must be exercised at the time of
making the assessment, afterwards it will
ho too late. If a producer makes over the
exempted amount of any article tithed, he
pays tithes of all—for instance, if his crop
is 205 bushels of corn and 11 pounds of
wool, his tithe is 201 bushels of corn and
1-10 pounds of wool. When the Quar
termaster advertises his readiness to receive
tithed", and notifies the planters to deliver
their produce, if not complied with in thir
ty days, the five-fold forfeiture can be
promptly enforced by summary process of
distress and sale through the county col
lector.
Numerous complaints are made that the
assessors arc over-valuing injured grain,
damp wheat, &c. lam sorry this has oc
curred, but the Government, not the plan
ters, suffer thereby. The higher the tithes
are valued, the greater amount of tho 5 por
centum tax will be paid by them. Similar
complaints are made as to a change in the
valuation of thegraiu. This is an evil our
Department cannot correct, we follow the
State Commissioners: They assess wheat
at SB,OO in May; $8,50 in August; we
must do the same. It certainly was long
since obvious, that a price should be fixed
once in a season lor the whole crop, theu
those who withhold their supplies to the
last will no longer get in July twice what
his patriotic neighbor received for a prompt
sale to his needy Government in November,
when the crop first comes into market.
The invitation to speculation and withhold
ing crops offered by an ever advancing
sehedule needs no comment. It is to be
hoped then that gentlemen to whom this
important matter is committed will if pos
sible correct this evil. Outsiders, howev
er, cannot realize the difficulties of their
arduous positions, and the almost impossi
bility of adjusting the balance weights be
tween the consumer and the producer these
unsettled times.
The last source of trouble I notice, is
the ungathered crops fed to stock, hogs,
hay, wheat, rye, oats, ground peas, field
peas, how shall they be appraised ? It oc
eures to me the matter is easier of adjust
ment than many correspondents seem to
think: A planter with ten hands will make
say, 8,000 to 10,000 pounds pork; his al
lowance of corn to feed them is 400 to
500 bushels. Now if he has, as allowed,
other grain to remain ip the field ungather
ed and feed it to his hogs, he can claim this
crop as an equivalent valuation laid down
by the State Commissioners, led in place of
corn. Ungathered crops will have to bo
allowed at an average per acre, agreed upon
between the planter aud assessor.
Hoping this will bo accepted as as answer
to many letters on this subject to this office,
I am your obedient servant,
11. K. llines, Capt. & A. Q. M.
The Yankees are so puzzled as to the
whereabouts ot the Tallahassee that they
uo doubt tbiuk she is a sea gull.
BLAKELY, GEO., SEPTEMBER 28, 1864.
The Kilkenny Cats.
I have often wondered why none of your
correspondents who are,natives of Kilken
ny have not given you the real version of
thctalcof the Kilkenuy Cats. I have seen
the subject frequently noticed, but I have
never seen the following accurate version
of the occurrence which led to the gener
ally received and erroneous story of the
Kilkenny Cats:
During the rebellion which occurred in
Ireland in 1798, (or perhaps in 1803,) Kil-,
kenny was garrisoned by a regiment of Hes
sian soldiers, whose custom it was to tie to
gether in one of their barrack rooms two
cats by their respective tails, and then to
throw them face to face across a line gen
erally used for drying clothes. The cats
naturally became infuriated, and scratched
each other in the abdomen until death en
sued to one or both of them, and termina
ted their sufferings.
The officers of the troops were ultimately
made acquainted with these barbarous acts
of cruelty, and determined (o put an end to
them and punish the offenders. Iu order
to effect this purpose, an officer was or
dered to inspect his barrack-room daily,
and to report to the commanding officer in
what state he found the room. The cruel
soldiers determined not to loose the daily
torture pf the wretched cats, generally em
ployed one of their comrades to watch the
approach of the officer, in order that the'
cats might be liberated and take refuge in
flight before the visit of the officer to the
scene of their torture. On one occasion
the “ lookout man ” neglected his duty,
and the officer of the day was heard asceud
ing Ihe stairs while the cats were undergo
ing their customary torture.
One of the troopers immediately seized a
sword from the arm rack and with a sin
gle blow divided the tails of the two cats.
The cats, of course, escaped through the
open windows of the room, and immediate
ly afterwards tbc officer entered, who in
quired what was the cause of the two bleed
ing cat’s tails being suspended on the clothes
line, aud was told in reply that “ two cats
had bced fighting in the room, that it was ,
found impassible to separate them, and that
they fought so desperately they ha'd devour
ed oach other up with the exception of their
two tails,” which may have satisfied Capt.
Schummclkettel, but would not. have de
luded any person but a berry Prussian.
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“ We don’t want your negroes, or your
horses, or your houses, or your lands, or any
thing you have, but we do want and will
have a just obedience to tho laws of tbo
United .States.” — Sherman's Letter to May
or Calhoun. • * •
Was ever such 000 l impudence couchod
in so few words? And this, top, from a
Major-General in th'e United States, fight
ing under a Government whose open and
avowed object is the abolition of slavery 1
A General whose peculiar mode of warfare
is the stealing of negroes and horses, and
the appropriation and devastation of hous
es, cities, towns and villages! At one time
he sends forth a band of raiders with or
ders to “seize and possess” all the negroes
and horses' in the land, and coolly tells you,
“ we don’t want your negroes or your hor
ses.” A conqueror, he enters your chief
city, and his first act is - to drive from their
homes old men, women aud children, and
all non-combatants, appropriating the en
tire city for the uso of himself and soldiery,
a thing never heard of in the annals of war
before, and quietly turns around and gra
ciously informs the Mayor of the city, “we
don’t want your negroes, or your horses, or
your houses, or your lands, or anything
you have.”
And such is the fate of Atlanta, and
such, oh, Macon, and Columbus, and Sa
vannah, and Augusta, will be your fate
should you allow‘this boastful conqueror to
enter your proud streets. Shall it be so ?
Better let every man perish, and every hab
itation be levelled with the ground,
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We learn that the herb known as Queen’s
Delight (Stillingid) is a sure preventive of
chills and fever. It should be taken just
before or just as the chill is coming on, and
it will soon put the patient in a profuse
perspiration. The manner of preparing it
is to make a strong tea of the root either in
a green or dry state. Take doses of a wine
glass full until it produces perspiration.
It is said to have cured many in Wakulla
county, Fla.
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It is said to be Sherman’s plan, after al
lowing his troops a little rest, to push for
ward three separate columns—-one against
Macon, one against Augusta and one against
Montgomery : at least this is the plan which
some of his minor officers understood would
be carried out.
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Dark Hours.
These are dark hours; but, remarks the
Milledgeville Union, we have all seen dark
er hours during the progress of ihe Revo
lution. Have we yet had as much cause of
despondency as the Yaukees have ? Let
the history of the past eight months speak.
Have our enemies bad one bright hour in
. all this time? Until the small success at
Mobile and the greater success at Atlanta,
what but reverses hove the Yankees expe
rienced ? Grant's mighty army has been
. bca ( ten until but a remnant of the 200,000
lie commenced the spring campain with re
main. West of the Mississippi, out cause
was never more hopeful than it is to-day.
Even in Kentucky, which was considered
lost to us, is far more cheering than it has
been any time since our troops left its soil.
‘Western Tennessee is almost as free from
the tread of a hostile soldier as it was when
the war began. Only in Georgia is there
a cloud over our cause. Only in Georgia
have the enemy gained any decided suc
cess since the opening of the spring cam
paign, and, to gain this advantage, large por
tions of our territory, which the enemy has
held for years, have been relinquished.
By concentrating in Georgia all his avail
able forces, the enemy has been able to take
Atlanta. If our authorities will concen
trate in Georgia an army at all equal in
numbers to Sherjnan’s, Georgia will be
saved to the Confederacy. Wc have not
yet despaired a change of policy on the
part of' the military head of the Confeder
acy, which will bring order out of confu
sion and chaos, and save tbc Empire State
of the South from subjugation. There are
two great military minds iu tbc Confeder
ate armies who can organize, discipline and
lead to victory the gallant remnautof Hood’s
army. Either of these men will restore
confidence to the army and the country, it
pat at the head of the Army of Tennessee.
They are so well known, and their names
so freely spoken of, to mention them would
be superfluous. Let the President put
.either of them iu command of the Army of
Tennessee and give them troops, aud the
bow of promise will span the darkened sky.
Lovejoy’s Station, Sept. 15th, 1804.
To Coventor llrown :
Will you please instruct t]io furloughed
Militia to colllect absentees and deserters*
in their respective districts and turn them
over to Provost Marshals, to be sent to the
army. J. B. llood, Gen.
Executive Department, |
MIEEEDGEVILIiE, Sept. 16th, 1864. j
Gen. J. B. Hood,
Commanding Army of Tennessee:
I will comply with ycur request with
pleasure, and will publish this correspon
dence as my order to the furloughed Mili
tia to arrest and send forward to your army
all deserters and stragglers in their respec
tive neighborhoods.
Joseph E. Brown.
Wc beg leave to tender our apology to
Gov. Brown for our inability to get all his
letters and proclamations in this journal,
soon after he writes them. We set out
with a determination to lay boforc our read
ers everything from the Governor’s prolific
pen, as fast as he composed it. But in
spite of our most faithful efforts, we have
been unable to d 6 so. As soon as the war
is over, we intend to issue an extra, exclu
sively devoted to the Governor’s produc
tions, aud will try to get him to write an
essay, specially for our paper, on the mys
teries of bank book-keeping, wherein he
will explain the habit those moneyed in
stitutions have of keeping their accounts
balanced, “ even to a quarter of a cent.”
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A Wheeling paper tells the following sto
ry of “fiend” Hunter, lie got such a scare
during his expedition in the Valley that it
will be no wonder if he trembles at tho
sound of a cannon during the remainder of
his vile life : When the General was mov
ing from Parkersburg to Cumberland via
Clarksburg, it was decided by the military
authorities of the latter place to fire a sa
lute upon the arrival of the trains. The
guns were brought out, and when the whis
tle was heard the firing commenced. In
stantly the lights were put out and every
man upon the train dropped fiat upon the
floor of the cars, supposing the train was
being fired upon by the rebels.
In France the waste steam from the lo
comotives is made to heat the cars in trains
behind. It is conducted from the escape
pjp.es throqgh tubes, which inside of the
• cars arc copper, but oqtsi4 c are of vulcan
ized India rubber, with couplings which
can be readily paused.
The Oetmais Abroad.
The Dutch, high and low, arc investing
heavily in Federal boD&. These are ship
ped over to Germany and Holland by tho
bale, and aro purchased in. Amsterdam,
Bremen and Hamburg by the package.
The price at first was sixty cents ia. tho
dollar ; but it has fallen, with the tall of
greenbacks, to about forty cents. Tho
Germans arc said to welcome each fait a?
a God-scnd. Far from renining at th e-fact
of having paid sixty for what is worth-on
ly forty, they take enough at the lower rate
to reduce the average price of the whole
forty-five or fifty cents ; agd rejoice in tho
expectation of receiving au interest of 12
or 14 per cent, of their capital, and a
turn in twenty years ofa hundred for fifty,
or two snug little German fortunes foroue.
In fact the Yankees arc in a fairway of
shifting their w*r off upon the- shoulders
of the Dutch ; these docile and credulous
people being willing to supply funds to
their treasury and recruits to their armies.
Germany is the most efficient ally of Lin
coln in financo; and except Cis Atlantic
Africa the most prolific of recruits. With -
out the negroes and the Dutch, Grant anti
Sherman would he in a bad way. The ir
resistible United States, with their twenty
millions of population, are unequal to tho
subjugation of the rebellion, except by
loans from the Dutch and recruits by the
buudred thousand from the German ;uid
African races. —Richmond Examiner.
A Bet Withdrawn.
Lorenzo Dow, the itinerant preacher, fa
mous in his life for his eccentricity, com
menced his sermon on one occasion by
quoting from St. Haul, “ I can do 'all
things.” The preacher p;mised, took oil
his spectacles, laid them on the open Bible,
and said: “ No, i’aul, you are mistaken for
once; I’ll hot you five dollars you can’t,
and stake tho mqncy,” at the same time
pitting his hand ip his pocket, he took out a
five dollar bill, laid it qn the Bible, took up
his spectacles aguiu and read—“through
Jesus Christ our Lord.” “ Ah, Paul,” ex
' claimed tho preacher,'Snatching up tho (Ivy
dollar hill ajul returning it to his pocket,
“ that’s a different matter; the bet’s with
drawn.”
A Tew mornings since, while the train
from Richmond tor Petersburg was running
up to Rice’s station, a box car, which had
been switched off on a side track, and which,
was but a few inchcij removed from the
main track, came in contact with a series
of elbows projected by unwary passengers
from the windows of’ one of the coaches,
dislocating several, and severely injuring
others. Here is a lesson every traveler
ought to profit by without waiting to be
taugh by his own oxperiencc. Rutting el
bows and heads out of windows at any timo
is dangerous, although not always attend
ed with disagreeable result*. The ordina
ry risks of traveling in the Confederacy
now-a-days are great enough without ad
ding to them by one’s own imprudence.
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u Our people are committing a great fol
ly to be buying property of all kinds at ton
times what it'will bring when the war is
over, while foreigners are buying their 0,
7 and 8 per cent bonds and carrying them
abroad. These bonds will bring more in
specie wheu peace comes than they aro
bringing now in currency, and we will have
to pay these strangers in full whether wo
. wish or not; whereas, if wc kept the bonds
at home, we would get back all the taxes
collected to pay tho interest.”—Extract
from a letter of Secretary Trenliolm.
A machine for spading fields for grain,
instead of ploughing, has been invented in
Michigan. It is worked by four hor
ses—takes a width of three feet, and per
forms three times as much as a plow, cut
ting up the earth deeper, pulverizing it
completely, and leaving it in a condition
for planting. The expense, too, is less by
one-half than the cost of ploughing.
Dr. Brown, of Liberty, Maine, wak found
guilty, by the United States District Court
at Bangor, recently, of the practice of ap
plying poison to drafted men in such away
that they were exempted for piles and oth
er diseases. His ciiargc was one hundred
dollars a man.
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Have you got ope to sell?
I WISH to purchase a good, second-hand,
one-horse Wagon and a No.l marc Mule,
For such I will exchange a good Horse and
Bujjirv, or pay for the same in new issue./
E. 11. GROUBy
Sept. 7, 1861. 46-1 m /
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