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VOL. IV. THE WAR TAX,. o • O A.V Atr T j . .• f, !’ - r T. r f,. r /A*>V r J I 9 • o O o o o > O o p e • lie is h>_ ® ► • * * t;; the r* biic ik • ® t ; . - • . :y o ‘ N # *of six • Mftkl I u * 8 bh onlil payable; but tbe m ° sue, outstuiulinz at ouc time, including the amount ft * “ * dollars; the s -in pay nt d*‘4. i.. * • . s duty on . tnent . • j . -f Sales of r; .v ’ i. ri, ••, ■ ! • • - , • • t • proeg ’ ‘ * • 9 9 Secretary of the i’tvTsury, with the assent of the j Prelid .... I # * * *, mure than t •,* •. . . * • rate of int < .;•*:• centum per amyim. . # ° :. > *4 * * in the whole, * .* * Bonds u .M :yf : * ® feat ion -d t!i i . ’aority ie the J thirty mill ions. 1 i • ’ i *i: l in - nunnthan one hunujrcd • ! liars, nor in fractional pa t: < S • * * • r , , * . , . . , •!„ i 1 is less than one hundred hilt-irs, the - ltd bonds may be issued in sums of fifty dollars.. They may be sold h . military or naval Stores, or for the ; proceeds of raw Dro luce an 1 manufactured art ;- in t lie ■ ■ ;a . i- ■ o • Act ft ■ * fL i. l g been, or sh ill be made,* pay • . 8 „ * • * to exteftd the timtf -t: .ii Mi'di *d ire after the raising of the blockade, as lie shall see tit to indi cate. „ • * • Sec. 3. The hold ‘cs of the sai l Treasury Votes 0 * rate States, according to such j regulations as It e * surf-- ° : tty ; ■rtiiin of Treasury > tes. then the privilege of funding * to - 8 # un! there shall >■ ■, . • • in # specie on pr%- i gestation. • • : -.That,! *■ ° ‘ . :ti< i; .i t • t',. i •!> !it. and t supporting the tiovi in . nt. a War Tax shall be as sessed and ! .; Int -i t_\ ceiTts noun cieh’one *iuirfc. ilred dollars i:i v* t * i: iy ip the <. nil’ di t ? * ii i • *ot t kind-. JSinv * , < > Kali; a l and oi* ei’ < ■ a'■ . S invested t>y livida i's i:i (he purchase of bills, I tioti's and other * * * tlie ! bonds of tit A itii.i cash on L a id, • a in ‘ ■ . or i! - -v.-lmne ; e ■ 1 . w i * , sure • * t •• • O taxable]”. . . :a ‘ vo <• :i *l. <>t tr; v * * ° t ajftl I ’i . • ■■ “ X • • >'l nil tier tuis;:!.. , is* t\ of e.b.. „ giou.s f : ’ v -g ■ ns. whore creat ‘d, *shall be c, * ‘.V t X I 1 tt i* Hits ;\A ; and p * • ty io. * . from taxation. * , • , • * Bes. !. 1 • ’ j , * • *■ 5 thereof, an! t ■ ; n ehat geab*’ v i.U the tax earn*.- * ax ‘ •*'. •'• f w *t shall !• • i licet ir, who si;.ill be i . • chat ged t • state t conv #iet it *t >•. • to the n * pf • try • ( The sill • • i til':; dent*, ami - • -nd r - ceive a sal.i y ->t S_* ■*. i!o -; : l £\* •* boiitl withs •’ g sneh mm Its as natty be p? Secret rv of tpe Ia ; • ‘y • dist-h i • • . • ft shall, with the a- pi • n “t tlie Svivtary of the ; Tr?a-■ * ► a timi di* s!*all b ■ to cause an as- I • • _ 9 SOS> o # • • . • ° triet, include 1 in each of the ahove mentioned class- j es of pr sons then owniuw or in i fosses-’ i ;.,;ii ! ,r there:.i, the sa 1 Tax i ift .; rs may appoint Assessors, ,who sjiah ; ,J 4 • 4 , o\ i II - - triets. i er sontvitig the care :ind tjana.: ; ‘ y • .• t ‘tet ;x a for.*- ■ “said, t • lists u * In- made • • . y be required, by* the ■ a as practicable, conform- 1 ” o able ; o ;. e „ t c -, . rmrp -c , ti - • s : u and the said A- . >r- are aiitb". l/.ed to enter into • and upon 11 ... :r tnc tretul* s for the pur •* • * *8 son stfall not exhibit a ? # to discj . .• * pwnedorp,-- - rat,!,’ hi- care and „•, • ‘ r*i nytixe the .•• ■• !. _- di-iii u'y rea l and oonsentod to, • person. 0 •Sec. i t i■A. it arty Tiers, n s',; ill*d iv*r or dis *close so any 1 dor or Assessor in pur * shanc# of this Aefand requiring % list as aforesaid, i ( anv Alse or®frau iulent list, with intent to dffeat or : evade the \w MionheAby intended to be m i le. ■ tell p -n so o:, ni n -n;ill4ae fined in a- • * * ■* p recovered in any t'ourt of competent jurisdiction. . gee. 8. Any person * ■ - 4 to deliver to and Assessor a list of his taxable pro perty. at ahe time prescribed by him? shall he liable to a double tax upon |llhis taxable pfoperty; ttfe same to be by *li# Collector or Assessor :yid to be • 1 igt’Ui.; same manner and by the i same process as is herein pforided as to the single a tax. . * . * * 0 oSec. 9. The li't < shall be made iif reference to the value and sitilhtiioi of the property, on the Ist ft ay of October next, nod shall be comple ted. an 1 into the hands of o:\eh of tlft Tax Collectors on the’ 1-t day of December next; and ’tjw.n the r e t’.-'r- f. *Tax Collector may. Cor twenty-one ‘lay * noxt ensuing the said December*lT • I appeals from the said asse-stiim -. as well sis it t licati< ft- tor the re * , .x. wlyto • tax I been incurred t * a single tax, which determinatio# shall be final. ° “ 0 See. ?•’. The several Tax Collectors shall, on or ■ before the feat day of FebiC;arvVi%uing. furnish to the Chief Collector of the State in which his Dis trict, and of the taxtg be paid by such persons speci , * l t’*e • ftetor stall e dlsftt'the same in prop-* er form and forward the Bollated-Kst to the Secreta ry oft the TreasWry.* • * , See. 11- The said several Collectors* shall, on tie fifrt day of May nett, proeee£ to collect from eve ry.r.e.r?o3 or !^‘e t;lx - the amounts seve rally due and otring, and he* shall pn * notioe for twenty dayw in one newspaper, if'a'nv be* published in* • • by notification in at least four public plates in,each township, ward or (| B R V A. BK > i: A r , ) 4 Proprietor*. *) a • o e. • i0 and plabe and) •h ;*■ willjreeeive the said tah: and. on failure • of the C tor, within fcwwnty after the first day af *,*- •: ft by himself or ;.i- • , , * 8 listress and of (Tie . g • ttels or effects of the persons dclinqu * of- ich and jtress, shall be left with the > owner or possessor of sui • _ Is, o T*or u ! : - or her dwelling, with a noteft>f tlie sum de- and,the time and place of sale; and the said • • r -I, ..i ; rthwi: noliheati ui to be ‘ i tritely advertised or posted up at two public pla-I ces nearest to the residence of the <pe> • - • pi ipejty shall be distrained, oral the court house* . , not more than ten mile# dis • shall specify the articles distrain ed, and the time and place proposed for the sale :h. re if. which time shallenot be less than ten d*ys from the date of sneh notification,-and tiA place fro •#.- : sale noteaore than fire miles disttVnh * ti-. i th>* p >c of ftaklng guch di-tiv-.-: pr-.. i7, * tny*case of Ifetress, for the paylnent of*the • i di t> w 0 * 1. <lia}l*t id,may restore ito the ovv-uer or if, prior to the sale thftreof, payment , tender *thereoff s*i;ill be made to the propeV j officer cbargeA with rile collection of tln?,*tull at demanded, levying, and such sum for the tfbeessary and j reasonable expense of removing end Jxscping the diig ted, as inay ‘a allowed in like cases by the laws or practice of the >; lie v. tie- listress shall have® been made; * t*n ;ase of non-payment or tender as aforesaid, : ii. “-ail Snii *< - hall proceed to-.-ll the said goods, ! chattels or effects, at public aucyoii, and shall ayd may retain from the proceeds of such the at:: Mint demand able for the use of the Confederate St tic-. Vith the necessary and reasonably and sftle, an 1 a commission of ti\*s per een'utfi tl for his ow,e us. rendering the over plus. if any there be, to the person,whose goods, 1 chattels or effects, shall have been distrained ; Pr - i ./. that it shall not be lawful to make distress ftf the tools or implements of a trade or opiTifessiou. ; beasts of tlie plow mid®farming utensils •necessary for the cultivation of improved lands, arms or such ; lmu-eliol.l furniture or appfirel as may necessary for a*fatnily. , , tsec. 12. That if the tax asses.-ed on any rcab es |,tate shall remain unpaid on the •tir-t day ot June ilex’, the t:ix coll etor of the hfistiict wherein the samb is situated shall, on the First Monday imJuly •thereafter, proceed to sell the same, or a sufficiency’ thereof, at public outcry, to tlie highest, Ifidder, to gether with twenty ptr centum on the stfiounf of w 1 taxes ant#costs of sale—saiS sale to the i ■ut Hiiit.-e door of theCouuty or Faiisle wherein, sai l real estate more tb m one t'yiinty or Farish in, a District lie -aid tax Collector is autlnrized to appoint deputies 1 to giake such sales in his name as lie cannot attend te hi: - If, ami for all lands sordid hv said e . 1 • - lu re: natter provalcd for slaill I- • execu ted l*v - : 1 i ‘Hector, ttjtd such sales so made shall h ; valid, wh •: her The vptl estate so sold shall be as *---■ lin tlie twine of the tan# owner® or not.— Hut in all e.i*es wi,ere tlie property shall mot be di | visible so as t i en ible theollector, by,a Sale of part eftf,®to r lift ■;• whql •am mnt of the tax. with j charges an! commisJhions, the whole of I -h pr i;>? ; v -'mil be sold, ar*l the surplus df the pr •’ i Is of the sale, ifi’tur satisfy itig the tax, costs, ■- and commgtsious, shail !i ■ paid t the own- ] ,i- . : i.* pr ; rrt\ or hi- f il r• i esenftitives, or if or tb j cannot be foftnd, ftr re.fuae to feceive tbe •f : ’•►in t?,o 4 * • ~ tld t ii-e • f th” ®er <*• iiis lc-n! repro wda-tives : until he or they shall make application therefor to j rtie ~ .-r . r, v of the T*e i. ury, who, upon such np- I j• I; ation, si ‘ warrant on the I'fteasury, cause tin? ‘-anie to be paid to the apjfti ant. An lif the * pro; ‘ft v i.tfercf for sailc a ft fort so il, cannot be sold for tiie amount of the thereon, with the said addition:?! ; ver.ty,per centum thorite, the collector snail pm * ihe same in helm?! ot the Conleder- . ate j at * for tlie amount aforesaid p Provided, That t! ewner or superintendent ot the property * aforesaid, acfovi the same shall been actually - ■ld, slall be allowed to p?y the amount yf the tax ti.etci.ti witftt an addition bf tenpcr centnnf ot*the * ■j . • uient of which,the sale of said •a a i m>; lake places .Provided, also, !■..:* : . i-. in, ir exm-uters i>r administrators, or any : perstfti in their behalf, shrfflltave liberty to redeem i jn. Is*:.:: 1 < :.;cr r- .1 ] a perty sold as iflorcsaid within twtftyea ae time of sale, upon pay-. ... nt (o the pwllbctor for the use of tbe purchasgr„ * ? .°i -. i assignees, of the amount paid by such : : hast r, iuterest for ;!•-.’ same at the rate of j twenty per ceutunwpb% annum ; and # no deed,shall j i t,.’ given in pursuance of.such £wle until the time es ’ redcuipti'Ui shall have cxjiircd; Provided, further,! n the owner of any land or other rpal pro tv *d t.lor taxes under tiie provisions of jhis act shall he in t®c s-rvige of the ft.tit “debate State- b.- f u-e in 1 at the ii * ■ s lid • iltg shall have been mu te, I the swIM owner shall have the privilege of redeem ing the said property at any time within two years : ! at'ter iae close ol his term ot service. And the col ’! I,cl. r shall render a listinct account of the charges incurred in otfering and# advertising for syle such •pi pertv, and shall'pav into the ‘Treasury jhe s*r- Tplus, it any there be, oi the aforesaid addition of t ut v per centum, per centum, :fs thewase miy*be, after defraying charges. And in eftcry case ‘•> the sale of real estate, which shall be made un ler the auilyvity of this act for the assessment 1 and collection ofiltrect taxes by the or marshals respectively, or their lawful deputies res j etivcly. or by any other person or the •i,- ; a- for the estate so sold shall be prepared, made, rex cuffed, and approved or acknowledged, at the ‘it. 1 times Prescribedin this act by the collec t ,rs respectively vrtthin whose collection district ? ssTch real estate shall be situated, or in case of their death orwemoval from office by their sqpcessors, on® payment of the purchase money, or producing a re- ther%for i& already* paid, in*such form of law as shall be authorised and required by..the la*#s of •the Confederate or by the law of tlie* State in .which siyc[t tqnl est.-tic lies, lor making, executing * profting and acktiowledgin*g* deeds at bargain and sale, or other conveyances, for the transfer and con- j veyanee of real estate : and tor eift-ry*.feed #o pre- , pared, made, execated, provea and acknowledged, the porchaqpr or grantee shall pay fto j the su#i of five d.iilars Tor file use of the collector marshal.*or Other person effecting the sale *of,the real estate thereby* conWfyed. Ihe commissions hereinafter allowed to eabh collector shall be in full sal aof all cervices tendered by them. The *--es- irs undtw shall Te entitled to three dol lars foi*every day employed in making lists and a ses?m # ents under this # act. the number of days being certified by the approved by the chief | • : the State; and alsp five dollars for eve fv huqjlred taxable persons contained in the hstseis ; completed by hwn, and deßvered to the collector.— ; PrT>vi<ipd, That when the od-m-r of any eeal estate is unknown,* oar is a non -redden t of th*- o? tax wherein tßte same situated, and has no ; agent resiJing in s*tid distvict, the assess irshall “himself make.out a list of such real esfate*for sessment. 1 *. Sec. 13. Separate accouuts Aallftie kept it the Treasury. C ail moneys received from each of the respective States, the Chief citro froiS Tax Collector such details as to the and shah classify tie same in such manner a- # the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, and so as to proaide full ipfSrmatioff as to each subject of 8 eixation. Sec. 14. Each (ii3llector # shall be charged with an interest of five per centum per month for all moneys retained injiift posqpssion beyond tlie ti#ie at which he is required to p.v over same bylaw, or by the regulaaions established by the Secretary of the Treasurv. . * Sec. to. Each collector, before Entering the duties of his office, shall give bond in such sum as shall lw prescribed by.tbfe Secretary of the Taeasu* j a THOMASYItLE,’GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY-, OCTOBER 30, 1861. 9 9 :•> ies, and take an oath e • *Of ° he will support and the Constitution ft the , Confederate States.* Se . Upon feceiving the tax due bp each per- ; *?on. the 1 ollect >r sh ill g . tw > receipts in dupli e ssh ill le* d< to the person paying the sapie, a%d th* ortier shalt.be forwarded to the Chief Collector Os that .State, The money Collected tut it _■ < t.-ii l; nth. • r during any shorter e . may I 6 designated by tne Secretary of , the li'ii'.ry. si, .'! he jj’so immediately *fofwarde'.l ts .id fi?i. ; <h,lh ; r. and liy him be uis] >sed ‘of according to the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury : and the sftid Chief Collector shall report j the same immediately to the Secretary of the Treas- ( ury. and ♦ - l:;m with a spcefiyittg the names and amounts < f*each *on the receipts wh * s!:*.!1 have been fi rv- .rde>l ihi :i as aforesaid, bv th?’ District Collectors. •. • See. 17. The taxes assessed on each person ebalfr j be a statutory lien for ofte y%a.t upon all tlie.projfer- ; ty of that person, in preference to any other lien: the sai l lien to (like date frgiu the first and ty of her. to which the ■aaluatien | la#deand other propert, O o 1 mild fiy s-atut'-ry lon for five years. p,, r all money receive Iby him for :axt s: the date ot inch dien to 8 tiny his receiving the money. See. IS. The cuiiipeiis.-uioif a Tax Collectors u • H ceived, and J.'. per cent on a?l sun* ; bey ond that amount until t,i? c oO:i'm , -a S s, t< 1 : hey. nd which no farther compensation shall be paid. Sec. y.b The Secretary of jlf? Treasury is autho rized to establish r gulatior.s suitald • and proper to I carry this*aet into elfect; wtfich regulutiofts sl::sll be binding on all officers®; the said Secretary may also j frame instructions as to all detailso which shulld'c obligatory upon alf parties embraced within tlie pro- , visions of this act. Me any also correct all errors in assessments, valuations and tax lists, or in the 1 collection thereof, in stish form an<iup< a such evo •donee a • the said * -rotary may approve, o Sec. 20. Corporations are intended to be embrac i eif under jhe word ‘'persons,” used in act ; and whenever the capital stock of an* corporation is re turned by the*corporation itself and the tax paid 1 ? the stock i the hands oOindivi lu.uls shall be exempt from tax, and also all th*> real'estate owned’ by the corporation amlt.sed for carrying on its business, • *.J the capital stock ot all corporations shall !>e re turned a?id the tax paid by the colorations them selves, any not hyghc individual stockholders. Ihe term merchandize is <le # gned to embracw all goods wares and*inerchan iize lu.dd.for sale, except the ng- jiroductsgjf the country. Money, is iu i temp'd t? include the* principal sutfl of all onioney belonging jo aup persoft other than a bank, upon which interest is paid or t<o I<e by the debtor, fls the same stands on tjje first day ot October. The term cattle, horses and mules, is intended t? include all such animals as are raised for sale atnf uof such j as are raised merely !*>r food and work on the plan tation or farm where they The term real estate, ♦ intended to.includg all lands and estates therein, and all iujoreSt gn oin;* thereout, including j ; ferries, bridges, mines, and the like, anti Sn all ea : ses the actual marketable value of is to be VissessetT. See. 21. fT any person shall at any time during :°tlie*existenc* of the present war. between the Con federate States and t!?e United Seales, or within one year the ratification of a treaty of peace be- them, falsely make, Sforge, or counterfeit, or i cause, or procure to be f.dsely made, lbrgod or coun terfeited, dr willingly aid or as ist in falsely making forging, or counterfeiting any note*in imitation of, l or pu:-i fling to lx- a Tr-a e note of the Confede* rate States: or shall fitlf ly i • • s, or pro cure to be falsely altered, or willingly aid or a .♦ist 1 in falsely altering any Treasury Note of the Confed-J or*shall, utter or publish, or attempt I to pass utter. pr publish, as true, any false, forged ; or counterfeited note purporting to lie a. Treasury note of the Confederate States, knowing the same | i to be falsely forged or counterfeited : or shall pass, j or att(*npt*to jus?, utter or publish, as true, .any j falsely altered Treasury Note of’ the Confederate! States, knowing the same to he falsely altered or | shall con-pit*’ or attenfyt to con. pire with another to pass, utter or publish, <ir attempt to pass, njte* or publish, as true, any Talsely forgeuor counterfeited, or any falselyoalißred Tn*isury Note of the C?nfed : erate States, knowing the same to be falsely forged | or counterfeited, or falsely altered; every such per son shall Be deemed and guilty of felony, and being thereof convicted by due course of law, 1 shall suffer deaji. * . See. 22. If any person shall, at anytime, falsely ! make, forge or counterfeit, ®>r cause, or procure to be i'al?cty made, forged or counterfeited, or willing ly aider assist in falsely making, forging or coun- I terfeitingsany Bond or Coupon of the Confederate States ; or iiall falsely alter, or cause or procure to be falsely altered, or willingly aid or assist in falsely alterftig any Bond or Coupon of the Confed erate States; oi*slialhpass, utter or publish, i>r at tempt to pass, utter or publish, •ns* true, any false forged or counterfeited Bond, purporting to be a ! Bond or T?oup< nos the Confederate States, knowing thiysante to be falsely forged or*counterfeited ;or shall p iss, utter <?r pubfish, or attempt to pass utter or publish, any.falsely altei I lor Cos ipon of the Confederate States, knowißgHfe samp to be false- j h altered ; oP shall conspire, or attempt to conspire with another to pass, utter, or publish or attempt to , pa-• utter, or publish as ti?ie,®nny false, forg’ and or , • counya B-iteil lf?nd or Coufxn, purporting to be a Bond of the Confederate States,.or anv falsely al tered B nd or Cot:; • ti of t • • onlederaWJ States, .knowing the same to be la'Sely *forged or *cot*nter feited or i'.tl- 4y altered : °> ,*ry stnji pcason si.all be deemed ams adjudged guilty of # felony, and being thereof convicted by due course ?d law, ?<hall be sentenced to b?Jimprisonod :ftid kept at hard labor tor a yerm not 1— than 1 1 ■ yeai *. n< r more thatß tei^ , years, and be fined in a sum not exceeding five thou-. sand declare. o • Sec. 2t® If an jP person shall make or ®cngr*vc. or cause or procure t be made or engraved, or shall have in his custody ob possession any. mi talic ] lati 0 engraved after th stnfilitnde of an*y pltfte from which I a?v notesP'r bonds issued as aforesaid shall have been printed, width indent to use such fdate, or cause or suffer the*s line ty be used iu forging or counter feiting any of the note# or bomft issued as afore said ;or shall have bis custody or possession any blank iuye or notes, li*nds. engraveifor printed at .ter of an> noteyr* bonds issued as i gfpre-aid. with intent to use or cause*; or yutfer the same to be used in forging *or counter feiting any of the notes or bonds issued as afojiftaid or shall have it? his eustydv possession any paper ’ adapted to the making of notgs or beads, apd similar to the paper which arty such°notes of shall have been issutel, with intent to use such pa- oe cause or suffer the®same to be used isi forcing ®r counterfeiting any of the notes or bonds issued i as aforesaid: wpery such pers in, bein'? thereof law-, fully convicted by due course of law, shall be •Sentenced to be imprisoned and kept at hard labor* for a term not less than five nos mor? than ten yc&rs and*fined in j,sum not exceeding five thousand ters. * ° Sec. 24. If anv State shall, on or before the Ist day of April nex* pay in the Treasury notes of the Confederttte States .r in .spta ie. si.• taxes fi-sesseif isttl?e citizena of such State, less ten per cen tum thereon, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of . the Treasury to notify the same to the •several Tax Collators ot'such State, and thereupon their author ity undef this act ceajft. * ° ?>ec. 25. If person shall, at any tioic, after one year from tee ratification of a treaty of ]?:ace between th® Confederate States and t?ie Unfted S ates,commiyisy of the acts described irfthe 21st sectiop of this Act, such.oerson shall be deenuM.ind adjudged guilty of felony, and being thereof con- ‘ vi me courge of law, Shall be sentenced t # o be*impri9oned and kept at hard labor, for a peri of not le- tlSui fiv? nor*morc than ten years and be 1 fineTl sum not exceeding five thousand dollar-. *_ • - •* . o Oil- a Hospital* • o • • BY JANE TYLER. • • 9 • •• You well coiiit; again, lady f” * • • , ow'd you really lik°c i'or me to come I” I sail, as L bent over the low.beJ. , 0 ‘•I will die if \*ou K ave me now.” • ‘‘Then I shad come; but now it is time to rift nrn —a night’s rest vjill do you a workl of I gyod. • * I wlfi.-h you would not go*” 8 • The so fall ol entreaty, so full ol* an unknown I paused. • “•\ou are’very nmoh°b?:tter, sir—surely you do not fear.” “‘•She will come to night,’ - he answered, lay ,o ‘ 7 t ‘ ; ing his band fm mine, and gazing ypon*.ine with his dark, sifltken, but burning eyes, “and 1 cannot meek her here alone. ’ l Jolt Ris pulse—th#re was no fever, no. de lirium iu its quiet beat. I rose to go, but an ufiknet n power°rLstrutfitfti me. Throwing aside my wftq : ings, 1 sat ot th* foot of the bed. o • •‘An houiq more than an hour?” he.uyirmur-” cd?o “Have 1 changed much?” “Yetßt much,” 1 angered, sadly. “But she will know me—km*w me any where.” o o “You are so much better,” I replied,smooth ing the white pillbw ; “in a few days you will | be aide £o return homo.” “When Madeline collies, ’’he murmured “she ! will take me with lier.” I “shaded the light from the sufferer's face; still his hand c-lasped.mine, and his searching glance rested u*>on the closed door. • A night in it hospital! To sit surrounded by the dying and suffering; to feel the clasp of a fevered hand, as i£ it was sending its jnol ten lava through your being —life and death, earth and immortality. • 1 was startled ftpm my reveYie by tlie sudden J movement of my patient, and the glad c*y that rung from his s lips. “Shi had come!” The door sprung noiselessly back on its hinges ; a tall, magnificently formid woman, black vesments swayed to and Ito, and over whose | shoulders hung a wealtu of raven hair, Stood within the open portals. The large, passitfnat# eyes J'rom bed to .bed ; then she glided forward, nearer and nearer, Until it scemed*to me an unseen shad cmv around hRr. I looked uponjny patient, his arms were extend ed, a smile .lighted up his whole face . the wo man knelt by the low °bl, her arms wound i around that dying man, and bee lips pressed passionately to his. A glory not of earth fell over white face ; tlie limbs relaxed ; I bent® eagerly forward, suppressing the.c-ry that. roee # *to my lips. lifthc dim, iliint lighftpiy pbtient was alone.® # I <gazed eagerly around. Surely, I die? not dream. 1 brought the light to bear ftpon my features. He was dead. — throwing the sheats oveft the still for*n, I has i tened to the watcherAdcpartment.* ‘J’hcy bore him <j!'.;<*lly int.v on other ctiiambev.. lli.-* hands were clasped tightly over his chest; within , them a closed case containing .two minia tures., i unfastened it. The one side contain ed a picture of the unknown deaif; tlie other —and there burst*upt*ii my view th# mirrored self of that beautiful woman—This was Made line. Jt was handed me to retain until called o o for. . . . * There were no mourners, but I gathered white Also# and flung them over the new grave, and went back to life’s duty a sadder, and,L trust, 4*i better woman. “It said the attending surgeon to me, ass stood one day® glancing ove the sieftv list, “that tly: wife.of the gcfitletuan you nursed that night should have died at the same ° hour, only ®teift minutes before him. lam told sho'was suddenly indisposed as she rose Trout the supper table, and®about twelve, almost with out a struggle., she died, calling passionately , upon her husband.” He passed on to at*te*nd toliis duticS, not no* ticing the deathly palloy that gathered over my face. 1 went home with a terrible* fear rack ing my whole system. 1 rawing the sacred rel ic from its hiding place, I wept as if some part of my life had been drawn into a vast void — wept, as if'the fa to of those two had been blend ed with, my own. 0 Never without a shudder do I recall that one night*in a hospital. ° o * • * Lincoln Tyranny in Ivey West. : 8 The Tampa Peninsula chronicles, the arrival of numerous citizens of Key West at that place, and adds : The reigfi of terror in Key Yfest is rapidly Us.mmifigAhe must formidable aspect, and tjie inhaoitanfs are now reduced to the last degree of humiliation and disgrace which even .Lin* eofti’sft tyrarflcal Goyernmant c-uuld* devise.— < l®hey are allowed untfl the sth Os (Jctobctf to lake tDp oath of allegiance to 5, Government which has become t*ie abhorrence’of the wofld, and to him who refuses to spal h’is own eternal disgrace. FcTrt Lafayette opens its husky.por tal-,®atid another turn *s l;iveti to the thumb-vice khut.crushes the spirit which prdfers a dungeon,, with a clear conscience, to a liberty whose price is horro?. . # • * But tlie most surprising, disgusting and fa • natical meastlre has yet been adopted, is the compelling of free negroes* to “take the oath. They tear even the very ones for whom this war is waged, and endeavor to secure to tjiemselves, by tjiis means, the countenance®of those wftcfce affections years of find vil lainy have failed to win. When a Govern ment scrflplftg not to resort to such ‘expedients to sustain its tottering power, humanity Ims • reason to smile at the di.-s<Jution B of the foulest blot on this fair creation. . . , . -*■ l|rcrintiii|; in Trrland for tl*p Federal Army. The Dublin Evening Post of the 17th ulti mo asserts<hat tliere are at present in tfiat country, agents from Ameriwa, who arc en deavoring*to enlist men for the FedenJ sevicc, \nd adds : “How far this maw be in conson;mce with international Jaw we shall not now under take to ‘h-termine; but it®is certafli that tliere are many persons belonging to the* disbanded Tpsh nSiiitia regiments, not at present employ ed, who, we believe, would not object to any tempting offers that might be made them # in order*to secure their B assistance for the govern ment of the Union in the deadly straggle which it is now waging .T_ r uinsi the Southern AJonfede -000 o ( racy. The Diinyrr ot Itehi liion iu the ><:*!i— S'tie Ti.'ii-. I)rnum'('n Akotitiou M Trileou :m<i l>*tuaud: the Arrest of the Traitors. The symptoms of a mutinous ands iitious sj irit against the Government at?- daily and hourly developing tijeipselves at the North, In the radical wing of the Republican* t nd among tbe Abolitionists tnc t\■* uc >:r;pe. Both boon - ; arated by only the j breadth of a hair, or the difference, between* : tweedle-dura and tweedlft-dee, are now cordial- | ly united in opposition t<? t\je Prcsi letH, wlmsc manly letter to Fremont is the occasion for tlie .opening of a general fire upon him, from the big sixty-four pounders down to the popguns. Even.the telegraph 8t St. J.oTtis i.- used t > spread mutiny through Jthe North. Under* these circußistancss it is the duty of t*!:c con sej-vative ehftnents to come forward and sustain Mr. Lincoln and denounce the Abolitfon trait ors, who are the prime cafese ofrfhe present i)iisfyrti'.nqa®uf the gauntry,•am! are doing their* worst to rentier* permanent the mischief they have wrought. The Government it-elt, cftti , .suiting own safeUg ought* seize ants in carcerate the leaders, who afe a thousand tin-s more dangerous than tnt? “editors of Northern O © papers sympathizing with the Southern rebcll ’ion, and opposing the war for tlie union. 8 The secession heresy never had any strength at tike Nprtli, and it is now completely squelched lit re by tlie* vigorous action of the Government; but a more formidable and a (Ur more exton-ivt® disun ion element openly defies the Dissident, spits 1 upon and execrates the Constitution, which is the ; bond of the Union, and threatens to subvert our whole political system, it either in to a consolidated military despotism or into a Mexican, anarchy, in which numerous petty chieftains will each play tut independent paid. When the Southern Secessionists were form-j ing their plans against the Federal Govcrn mentftwe warned Mr. Buchanan of the danger 7 9 # O t and called*on him to act with energy. AVe told him his foes were of his own housebbld; that® leading members of (he Democratic party med itated the destruction of tlie Government. — Our admonitions were unheeded, and tliccojise quoncejs a®bloody civil war. Y T § now .warn ! iMr® Lincoln that there if a disaffection to his j Government in his o\jn party at tlie Ncg'th: that it is every day gainitfg strength, and that uuless he speedily crushes it, it o is very likely soon to crush him and betray tlie cause of the Union into the hands of its® Southern* foes. — Thift i* now the real danger of tlie country, ! atuf it should be promptly met by the power-* ful arm of the Governnußtt, before it consoli dates its*strengtii ami matures its plans. . 1/ the policy of thft red revojution lfepubli eans prevailed, and the Government were weak enough to succuTnii to it and endorse such pro clamations as Fremont’s, oft issue otliers to the same effect, the .North would be as easy to find ‘ a white eroy.as a Union man beyond the Dela ware and fcho Ohio. When the war comttienc ,.cd, no sane, well informod.man .hope* li.ii* l4ie i success of our arm*, ifnless u®.ou tiie basis of a Union element in the Sontliern States which would be B de'*cloped as our armies .idvanccd. — The malignity of abolitionism seeks to clystroy 1 that element a*id convert it into hostility, and 1 if it is only successful, the men of the*<pn .sent ‘ generation will not live to see the end of the war; and from its vast, Extensive nature, cov- 8 ering an area of two-thirds of the* soil. of the ! United States, it willl soon exhaust and ruin ! | tijfe country. . • • . Already great evil has beef) done by the pro- ; •cljmation'pJ.’ General Fremont in Missouri.— \Ve have the testimony of Uev. Mr. Olmstgad, pastor of tli® Baptist Church at Booneville, ju a letter in a Chicago Republican journal, that I “tlie whole country in Northwestern Missouri i® up and flockntg by hutjdreds to Prico’s camp, their arms lidlng of every description ; that the. whole force oi’ the rebels marching from vari ,ous points ngSinst the 1 nion army will aidount from 100,000 V> 150,000;” and his opinion is j that she only hope is U> fall hack, concentrate, I entri nch, and act on the defensive ! Such are ! the first fruits in Missouri of the false ?-tep of Fremont towards making tike war one of otiian | ciptftion, instead of a war to restore the status j quo ante Letum-~- the same condition as existed j before hostilities broke put. The ■litmnjsts and rdtlical Republicans do not want the Union I restored unless negro slavery is cut ouj of it by • thesword; they do not want the Union restored uni ss the essentytl princijdts of tlie Constitu tion are vyitheut which the Union never could have been formed. A • Union without the Constitution is anew oues i tiort, which neither thy President nor Congress nor Generals have any right to*.solve. • That remains fov the decision of the people in ccnl- I vention assembled, and any attempt to decide it in any other way would be an act of usurpa tion atfU rebellion, equalling'in criminality the course of the Southern rebels. • • Tl?e President has been* denounced radical organs because lie uid nvt override the act of Congress relating* to the confiscation ol’ slaves and other property. Tliese reckless rev okitionists thus Ball on the*President tojKrjurc himself. llc*is sworn t*> maintain the Constitu tion and®executS tlie laws. It was upon tbfs ground that the Herald and the conservative press of tbe country ca Jed. on President Bu chanan, and after Rirryon president Lincoln, to put down the # rebellion in conformity with the | oath £>f qfticc. Unlike the.* monarchs of* Eu rope, in our Government, ft Js not the Chief the Natitmal Legishttore, that is she war making power, and therefore controls and defines file object of war. When tlie pre- broke* oufcfand laefore (’ongress had j assembled, tbe President had a discretion, sup j ,’ct to tjie revision of but .a* soon , as that body °met and passed an act* o limiting • tlm cfiscretion of the President on jhe ver f ; point raised by® Fremofet’s proclamati n, the President, who is sworn to c*arry out the *laws of was bound to conform to that policy himself, and to cause all in authority ttn abdlfyion journals cxpectipg him to do the eon trarv is an adßJsshm of their inlamoffs designs 1 —that when they voted *for him *a*s President I him to use*his ptfvvej as Presi dent so abolish shfverv, and when they sup ported the war in the commencement thew al.-o they discover the contmry, atyl that he is not willing to play the pa# of usurper, they arc • filled fi’ith all the ragejaf disajipointment. s TEBVIS, TWO DOM. tltS, ( In ttilviyicf.* f J lio ] -J i! o 11 i •. i oi tno J > rot>idcnt has solar baffled* tlu ir sc! ernes, and ho ought to ho warm* ;i • sis. i*v whoUmcountry, without Tre <J ir Ito party politic'!. Hut, meantime, jt.will be only an act of*p*udent precaution on tho part of Mr. Liweyln’s Government to arrest the leaders oDa conspiracy c-.j in atrocity that of Cataliue and 4iis Confederates in an*. | cion? Home. —A. )’• Times. . ■ C:u>( B>cfence. , • . ° * The whole ouhffdc of tin* Mast Flolddian, of* the 2nd imT., is fiile.j with a very interesting 1 article on the subject of con-4 defences, front a, historical point of view, showing what have* been the*ivsiilts of “maritime invasions at vari ous times and in various countries; and the defences oU la? I forts against the invading” fleets. We can ali'aml rs mi only for a ijiimma* ry. notice: • • , • # . i * In lT'.i'.t, the English and French made a do- I scent upon Holland, with fourteen snips of the line and ten U .rates, carry ii:£ i* ’ y 1 ’ guns and a land force of 66,9 *0 men. The Dutch naval forces.were soon overwhelmed? Ihe defensive army uevi’r reached above 28,000 Inen. Iho allies l'aihel to get posst -.-ion of .• single stnjng ■ place and the expedition was totally {defeated. l*i Isol*•Nelson, with,three ships oi the line two frigate*, and thirty live smaller vessels, ; made an attempt upon the French harbor oi | Boulogne, but was repulsed. The Mo dish V 4 al iieivn Expedition of 180 W waseone of'.tlie taken during the French war. It was intended to seize upon Flushing and Antwerp, and the defence oi the river Scheldt. •The attacking force consisted of 5)7 ships of the line,*23 frigates, 83 sloops of war, 28 guns, mortar, and bomb vessels, 36 smaller vessels, 82 gunWats, innumerable transports, and 40,000 men. Antwerp* was badly fyrtified, and. had but a few hundred men j for garrison The English landed on the Is* land of Walchcren, and laid seige to Flusfiing. The •defence of Fdusliing lasted eighteen days, -ftid jyurt oftho fleet succeeded in getting past on their way to Antwerp, but the delay enabled •the Dutch to jbrtify Antwerp and gather tie* fenders there, :nd after a month’s fruitless op* orations on the river, Hus English were.finally < forced to rctirP and quit the*coast. . r fhc following is given as a sunnyary of the trials of strength which. have takeif place with* j iii° the last fifty yeftrs between shijis and forts. In a. conshleraCle Frewlf squadron at ! tacked Cagliari, whose fortifications werc*so di lapidated and weak as ly To deserve the name of defence. After a bombardment, of three thrys, the licet abandoned the attempt, and withdrew. •j n 1791 two British ships*, a seveuty-fouraud a, thirty.-two, •mall town in Corsica* , defended by one gua in barbette, only thir* ! ty men, ahd weft; compelled to head off, much I damaged,eind wifchJoss of life. The garrison *did not lose a man. * In 1097, Nelson, with eight vessels and four. hundrcd?guns,’attacked Some weak batteries at Sapta Cruz, Island of Ternwiile, and was beaten | back with a loss of two hundfed and silty men. In 1798, a French flotilla of o 2 brigs'and gunboat*, man*ned wjtli seven tlioß and men, i was beaten off from the Island of Marcou by , an English redoubt with*te guns and two hun dred anil fifty men, linking seven French gun boats, with the English loss q£ only** one man kill and ;.i 1 tliTee woun’Jc 1. In 1801, three French frigates with s"x thou sand men, were, after a seige of five months, beaten oil front Porjm Lcrvaro, in Corsica, by’ fifteen hundred men, in badly constructed forts. In tjic same year, a French battCry ol‘ twelve guns*at Algebras, be: f off a t English floating florae of one hundred and niiviy-sijfguns. In 1803, an English* gawi,son at ’ Itock, near Fort Royal* Cay. with fifteen gyns undone hundred men, repelled a French squad rcyi of twfi 7*Fs* a frigate and a brig, a-sisted fby a*land attack by two hilndred men. The i English did not lose a mat?, the French lost fif ty. The piacd was afterwards -.ubdueef by fam | iue. • * • In 1806 a French battery <*k Cape Lieosa, ; with twenty-hue men and twe *guns, one of wlflch was useless after tU? first fire, drotc off a .British eighty gun sbip.and *two frigates. — The French lost not a man, the attacking squa dron lost thirty-sev'en killed and wounded. In lfioß a French laed battery, near Fort Trinidad, drove off*an English scventy-lbur 1 gun slyp aided by a bomb vessel. Tn 18 i 3 Leghorn, with slight defences and*a wc*ak garrison, drove oil pii English squadron .of six ships and fhree hundred guns, with an ; aiding land forge of a thousand men. In 18 14 *the French attempted, with an eigh-. tv gun ship, to fiislhdge the English from a small.work, with only two guns, on thß Scheldt. Only one gun, a hujvi.tzcr rs could be brought in* to aclion.by the English. After alive hours uninterrupted .bombardment by the .Trench ship, she was duw*n off with forty-gne killed and wounded, ihe .English gun was not dis mounted. and only one’maa was killed and two wounded. *• .. * These ar® the leadiug examples duving'tho last century, of*re.-ulfs ®f floating attacks up(?p i coast defence. They seem almost ft those who have nofclookcd into the principles’ dedifeed by military science and experience, from the nature of the opposing forces■—/V. O. I’icuyunc. 0 * /* . *. # JlrClftlnn not to be liitfriTi-fri With. • Tboo correspondent of tlie Phila delphia Press,*vritifig on the 10th, says:* “An extraordinary Cabipet meeting was held last evening, from 7| till 10 o’clock, at *\thich Generals McCleUan and 3lcDowell were pres ent. General 3lcGlellan stated his plans in* detail, and he has, by consent of ajl parties, as "anmed, not only nominally, .but* actually, the ’entire uontrpl of ihe Potomap. He will con-* suit and listen the .opinions ifntl ad\ice of General Scott, and othTr authorities, but ho must be henceforth left entirely*, to - his own, judgment decision, Napoleon like, be nears the opinions of others, but forms lift own con clusions, and acts upon. them. .Uc. asks this, and it i ceded cordially to him.* do Jum, therefore, must hence be credited success, or charged the de]at of ouV arms. ° ... . *-•- • A qmynt old writer defines egotism to bo “suffering jhe qrivatc /to be too much in t o I public eye ” * * • • ‘ • ISO. 30..