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Newspaper Page Text®ljr Wcrfdii Atlanta Wtrlluwrf. VOLUME XIX. llkfkli) lutdlignicrr. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Wednesday, March 20, 1866. of the Malli I” : -aid on \ -i.lav that * »■ A S' 11 General of any district to delegate V with which lie would be entrusted to the acting Governors of the respective States within his command. Such was the telegraphic report To-day we have to advise them that this small measure ol confidence has been withdrawn, and that the district General is not clothed with any such power. On the contrary, the bill reported by the House Judiciary Committee, and which passed that body by a vote of 117 to 27, expressly denies it to him. What is, therefore, to be the status of the Governors of the respective South ern Slates, the future can only determine. It may be that this delegation of powers refers only to the registration of votersand the calling of a Convention, measures over which they shall have no control, and not to the ordinary discharge of their executive duties. If this be so, well. The financial and other interests of Georgia impera tively demand that they should be supervised by her present Executive until the new era comes, or the Radical reconstruction measure is accomplish ed. She has bonds held by Northern men, and her credit must be protected. She has otherwise important interests to protect, not connected with political questions, which it is absolutely necessary that one thoroughly versed therein should direct, otherwise serious disasters must ensue. Whether this will be permitted we have no data upon which to base an opinion. We incline to think that it will, and hope so tor the financial and other interests of our good old commonwealth. And so it is “of the night” under existing ad vices. The political “situation” admonishes us of a power over which the Southern people have no control, and cannot, save in compliance w ith its behests, influence. Under all the surround ings, surely they cannot help know ing that it is their duty to bear with manly fortitude what they cannot avert. In doing so, they neither humiliate nor degrade themselves. The con piered have ever been subject to the conqueror. True, in this enlightened age the conquered have a right to expect from the conqueror, justice and magnanimity—justice tempered with mercy, ami a magnanimity exceeding that of the Roman Scipio of whom we read in history. But if this be denied us, we have only to bear the denial as becomes men in an age in which it is esteemed no crime to have been overpowered by superior force, and no degradation in submitting thereto ! Rejecting Negro Testimony. A somewhat novel case has occurred at Nor folk, Virginia—the trial liefore the United States Commissioner ot five Magistrates of the Corpo ration Court lor rejecting negro testimony, and which resulted in their being bound to appear at the next term of the District Court. The fol lowing is the concluding portion of the decision of the Commissioner: 1 am compelled to the conclusion that an of fense lias been committed, and that the parties chargable with it arc before me. 1 have but one course. This is by no means au aggravated case, ami the injury done the beneficiaries of the Civil Rights bill is remote and indirect; a case of fewer circumstances indicative of evil, full incli nation to violate its provisions, or Where lies disposition to distinguish oppressively against .colored persons was manifested, which should yet be within the purview of the bill, can hardly tie imagined, if 1 err in what I have decided to ■do, I am consoled to know that my action is but introductory to that of another tribunal, w here the questions that have arisen may receive more thorough and deliberate consideration. Ordered, that. William W. Lamb, John E. Doyle, Samuel Marsh, and Conway Whistle each enter into a recognizance himself in the sum of SSOO, for their appearance at the next term of the District Court, to answer the indict ments then and there to be preferred against them; failing in this, to stand committed. The magistrates were then bound over to ap pear at the District Court in May, they giving bonds in $1,500, that is, SSOO on their own re cognizance, ami SSOO each in two securities. Fraudulent U«e of Brands or Platea. We invite attention to the following extract from tile Internal Revenue law, which inflicts severe penalties for the use of inspector's brands or plates: “That any person who shall knowingly pur chase or sell, w ilh inspection marks thereon, any cask or package, after the same has been ust d tor distilled spirits, or who shall fraudulently omit to erase or obliterate the inspection marks upon any such package oi cask at the time of emptying of the same, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars for every cask so purchased or used, or on which the marks are not. so obliterated. And any person who shall, with fraudulent intent, use any inspector's brands or plates upon any cask or package containing or pm purling to contain distilled spirits, or w ho shall knowingly mark or use any eounleiTeit or spurious brand or plate upon any cask or pack age oi distilled spirits, as aforesaid, shall lie deemed guilty of a felony, and, on convivium thereof, shall pay a fine ot one thousand dollars and la- imprisoned tor not less than t w o nor more Ilian five years, and such cask or package, with its contents, shall te’ forfeited to the I nited States. Svmnfk's Oath. —The New York I’imes has the follow ing notice of Sumner's new iron clad : Mr. Sumner's new patent not only looks to the guaranteeing ot Republican institutions in the South, but prvscrite-s a form of oath for the late rebels to sustain a Republican Government, flic oath, we suppose, is ot the kind known as the "iron clad,’ or Duudcrte’rg oath —au oath winch no shot can pierce, w inch no enemy can destroy, which no tempest can overwhelm, ami which, at the same time, can crush every argument that ever was devised by the human beam. Il must possess some such character,else why have it': It should l»e taken, 100, al least onee a Week, by every soul in the South, so as to harden te>th it and its victims, and keep the love ot loyalty firm m the tele I heart. For the sake of Mr. Sumner’: c mscivuce we should opjK»--e the administration ot the o.uit al the Norm, and especially to mem lais <>t Co igre-s, tor tear it might be a brake on the rouse of legislation, an I interfere witbsonn fdglilv promising schemes of reeonst Faction. fiti' Jtoti't vrv Committee. —The new Jitdi c. ov C« •mini: tee. which has charge ot the subject ol impeachment, consists oi seven radicals ami two d<m r its—a gam of one for the Is ter ovel lite co ..m.,l of the l ist Uongn'ss. The com anitec ins . iilmriu to si. during the s. won and recess of Con ,n>', Ito send tor persons am: ps|ters. Ihe dcm.c ratie members of the House don't win io have any tears that the investiga lion will result in impeachment. Negro SuH'rage in Virginia. We referred not long since to the municipal election held in Alexandria, Virginia, at which the freedmen in that city demanded the privilege of voting, w hich privilege not being conceded to them by the Commissioners of Election, they poll ed their votes separately from the whites, at other than the established precinct or precincts. On the day of the election it is stated that the Radicals held a mass meeting, which was addressed by the candidate for Mayor, and others, and at IjftWfrar.'U'u were in-triu-tcd l<l u mined in \ ivini i, and w hal .s ” ' State, is surely applicable to any State. It seems that previous to the Alexander election, and immediately after the passage of the “ Sherman-Military Bill,” that Mr. Latham, the Democratic candidate for Mayor at that election, proceeded to M asldngtonk*md wailed upon President Johnson in order to confer with him, ami inquire whether the freedmen of that city were entitled to vote at the election for municipal officers so soon to conie oil in Alex andria. The President referred that gentleman to the United States Attorney General, who, it is stated,declined to give ids opinion until he had had time tor considering the whole provisions of the bill, though, it is said, he was inclined to think they had not, until the Slate, that, is, A irginia, had passed into the hands of the military. 1 his is just, what we have all along believed—not only in regard to the negro suffrage question, but every other political one— to-wit: that the mili tary commanders of the respective States will determine them as they please. 1 liese officers are invested with absolute power by the “Sher man bill,” and save where restrictions may be made by the supplemental enactments of the present Congress, they can, and doubtless will, proclaim the freedman’s right to vote, and pro tect him in it, so soon as they assume command upon the occurrence of any corporate oi State election within their.respective districts or com mands. For this infliction our people must pre pare. The old homely proverb, “w hat can’t be cured, must be endured,” we commend to their gravest consideration, and this is the only conso lation we can offer to them. The Savannah News & Herald, commenting upon the same subject—the Alexandria munici pal election, says: “Yet notwithstanding this majority of the aggregate v'>»e in.fiv. i ..f thy successful candidate, Mr. Wilson has introduced a bill in the United States Senate to declare the municipal offices of Alexandria vacant. It, is as follows Whereas, The persons holding .the municpal offices of Alexandria, Virginia, refused to obey and execute the laws of the I nited Slates, there fore, Be it resolved, <fr., That the municipal offices of Alexandria, Virginia, are hereby declared ya cated, and the persons exercising the authority of said offices are forbidden to exercise the an thority of the same, ami any person who shall attempt to hold any of said offices, or to exercise the authority of the same, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned not less than one year and pay a fine of not less than SI,OOO. Continuing its comments the same journal re marks : “ It is to be hoped that this case will re sult in bringing the Sherman bill and Mr. W il sou's resolution, if it passes, before the Supreme Court, when their constitutionality may be fairly and impartially determined by the proper au thority.” We trust that the, hope of our respect ed Savannah cotemporary may be realized. II e too have “hoped,” but “hope deferred it is said, “ maketh the heart sick,’ and we see no ground for “ hope.' The stern realities by which we are surrounded, admonish us th it it were better for our people now to prepare to meet them, than to indulge longer in that which the poet so felicitously d, dares “ springs eler naf in the human breast," though if the w< re tine, there would be no despair. (communicated.) Another Good Hau Gone. Rev. D. P. Jones,so long ami favorably known by the (>eople ol this Slate, died at his residence, near Palmetto, Georgia. March S, lSt>7, in the 7Glh year ol his age. He has labored in the cause of Christ for over filly years, being a very acceptable minister of the M. E. Clinch, -i!w:i; s ready to do his Master's will; has also, torm.i \ years oi his life, been an earnest and faithful exponent ot Hie great temperance movements. — Many times his voice has been heard in warn ings to ths inebriate, portraying the dreadful in fluence of intoxicating drinks. I |sm the w hole, i tew men ever labored more Z 'alously in the cause ot humanity, temperance, and religion. But Uncle Dabney is gone. No more shall we hear his warning voice. No more will his eloquent appeals be heard addressing a throne of grace in behalf of fallen man. He is gone “where the wicked cease from troublii'g,.>ud the | weary are at rest," to live w ith Christ “in that i land ot mire delight, where Saints immortal I reign." i Our prayer should be, that his mantle mi ? tail ' iqron some of our young men, who may as ably I and as faithfully labor in the viney ttd of the I Lord. Fkiend Important from WaKbiufitou. i The Montgomery /f.iiy i contains the following paragraph . “Gov Patton ; received an important dispatch yesterday from a I prominent and influential member of the United States Senate. The dispatch states that 9 sup plemental and explanatory trill w ill be passed providing lor cat vying the recent bill to the point ol a definite and conclusive settlement. The new bill will in no way change the principles or 11 features of the existing act; and will readily commend itself to the favor of a’d friends ot ’ prompt reconstruction, >o says the dispatch from a veritable, not a so called’ Senator." Americ an Bible Society —At the last meet ing of the B»'ard ot Managers fourteen new aux ' iliaries were recognized, of which two are in ! North Carolina, two in Alaliama. two in Texas ami one each in Mississippi, Arkansas, "Wiscon sin. lowa, Michigan. New York, Connecticut and one in Santi Fetor the Territory of New Mexico EBooks Jor the domestic work wen - granted to the amount of 6,096 volumes. Inside: t to th-* value of SI,OOO more. Appropriation- I ; were m ule for foreign work for the year amount • in? to $4(5,005 10, Usides s:c\o for purchase o ' books for Hwgary I'o be Reopened.—The extensive loeomo five and car factory in Alexandria. Va . whicl lias l>een clis-i-d ter m'iik lime, i-to Ik ?pn. \ re-oj'em'xl L will give employment to a largi number oi uuchanics and laborers. ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”— Jefferson The Kingdom of Canada-—A New Danger, d The confederation of the British North Anieri h can Provinces and their formation into a power e fill monarchy, to be called the Kingdom o: o Canada, is beginning to excite the meddlesome I- spirit of our Northern brethren, and the indica r tions are that so soon ns Congress gets through e with the agreeable work of crushing the ten re s hellions States and grinding their people to im e palpable powder, it will turn its attention to mat t ters in the higher latitudes. Having aided to r drive Maximilian out ot Mexico, and to place i the people of that unhappy country again at the - mercy of ils robber chieftains; having disfran- and bound hand and foot the wfliites of destroyed their governments, it is li" 1 ' din--:-d "■ : L; consequences. We copy fromckhe New York 9111: The Earl of Carnavon on the of Canada. —The late Colonial Seci’etaty of tW* Derby government delivered a most hfiportaut speech in the House of Lords on the 19th ultimo, previous to his retirement from oftice, ou tliit proposed Canadian Confederation or Kingdom which it is intended to plant upon our |S : m%herft frontier. We have already laid before voders the main features of the plan, the orgSniz.itiou of the new government, ami the name by wlm6lj it is to be known. The nnimus of the project, however, is fully illustrated in the speech of the Earl ot Carnavon. The Kingdom of Canada is to be established as an’otfstl to this republic on the North American continent. It is prophesied for it by the last Colonial Secretary that in time it will become a nation more powerful than the mother country, England, and as great in territory as Russia. With regard to its permanency and compactness, these are to be assured by ignoring the right of secession on the part of any of the Provinces —a principle which the British Gov ernment so heartily recognized in our Southern rebellions States. Its military pow’er will be carefully nursed until the new kingdom can defy, it Hot dictate to, its republican neighbor, white a line of fortifications, already being ad vanced, is designed to stand as a perpetual menace to this country along our lakes, rivers and geographical boundary lines, from the Atlantic coast North of Maine to the Pacific at Vancouver’s Island. While these schemes were being dissected in the House of Lords a great many soft words flattering to the United States fell from the ips of the noble debaters. Earl Russell and Lord Monck saw nothing in the proposed kingdom but benefit to this country, and Lord Norinanby deplored in advance the miseries of a war with the United States. But it does not popi-ar that this feeling of security, and the growth ot many blessings from the es tablishment of a powerlnl monarchy at our gates, is shared by the loyal State of Maine, which sent from its cold and apparently inhospitable regions thousands of patriot soldiers lor the defense ot this country against Southern rebellion ; lor a protest against, this creation of a kingdom from which it is only divided by an imaginary line is under consideration in the Legislature of that State. This action on the part of Maine may be regarded as only the precursor of similar mea sures to emanate from the other States which border on Canada —New York, N< w Hampshire, Vermont, Michigan and Ohio. By these and other expressions of public sen timent on this question the General Government may be compelled to take cognizani e of the change in progress in the British Provinces.— When by European interference an empire was sought to be established on the ruins of a repub lic in Mexico we did not interfere, because our hands were full with our domestic troubles; but circumstances are altered now, and the govern ments ot Europe, who looked aghast at the out pouring of our people in 18(51, when the flag xvas insulted, may see a train more destructive tired it this Canadian project is persisted in. That’s the way to talk it I Those are the words with the bark on. Britannia eball not rule the land, Nor shall she rule the water ! They've sung that song full long enough, Much longer than they onghter I > We trust Congress will find leisure from other i pressing duties to act promptly. This danger, though now no bigger than a man's hand, if not speedily arrested, will roll on, gathering as it rolls, until it shall overwhelm the whole laud, kn ick Radicalism into the middle of the next century, and possibly culminate in the re-enfran- ! ehisement of the whites ot the ten rebellious ter ritories We repeat. Congress should not hesi tate to act, a moment longer than is necessary, . and meanwhile should keep a close watch on both the front and the rear of the British Queen. The Next Presidency. A writer at Washington, who knows whereof ' he speaks, sends the following Presidential para ’ grapli to the New York Hrprem. The specula tions are quite plausible, and worth reading: Nominal ions for the next Presidency will be , in ide during the existence of the present Con , gress, and the men who compose it, will have a great dial to do in selecting the caudidatis.— Already the Radical leaders have begun to talk ' | the matter over, and each House contains at h int > | one prominent aspirant lor that high position. In > I addition to these, there is Chief Justice Chase, I of the Supreme Court, who would resign b>- I morrow to run tor the Presidency. A certain ’ ■ clique of the Radical org.mizntion favor Grant, t , but as that officer is not generally believed to be I | sound on the Radical party platform, I appre- ■ hen 1 that he will be permitted to remain indefi nitely at the head of the army. Ben. Wade and 1 Mr. Speaker Colfax are know nto have an eye on the White House. There is a little evening . paper in this city, which will, in due lime, hoist ■ the name of Colfax for the Presidential sitcces- ■ siou in 18G8, and ail 'he one-horse sheets in the I West are expected to re-echo the nomination. : This aspiration on the ’part of the worthy ' | B;>eaker of the House, is not new, bv any means 1 j It Lincoln had lived he would probably him i i advised bis nomination, at least it is so claimei > ibv some of Colfax’s friends. Nothing will lu I done toward- admitting the Southern States to i representation mild after the approaching Presi ! > deulial election, and this is now pretty weil tin t I derstood all over the country, "l ite Booth mat e ■; accept the terms proposed by the Sherman bill i and may re-organize her Slate Governments it 1 j perfect good laith, but she will be kept out ol V j Congress and out ot the electoral college unti •f i alter the 4tfi of March, IS'iii. n The election ot a lia -.cal candidate for tlu Presidency would not Ik- an easy job, with th i electoral vote of the South to overcome, and i therefore, it is quite a m uter of course that tin ' I party will Lake care to exclude that vote, n -■ ‘ matter how obedient and subm:?rive the South n | ern States may be for the next two years. | Interesting to Aliens—Mr. Beekett, thi ! present proprietor of I’oiut Biee~e, Bordentown ' N. J., the residence oi Joseph Bonaparte whei ' in this emmtry. having paid the tax on I. - prop ‘ erty under proust, carried thei-. : c th ' Supreme Court of New Jersey, which has de cideil that the property .-f an alien Knot exemp I- from taxation. It i< proha’de that an sppe-t ~- will be at once mad ■ to the United States pivme Court. This -a list ia~e. uii ot;-e ..hens will await with interest Li uue.i dcci>ior A beaUTTFvt. tunnel was discovered, not lon since, under a river in the interior of Peru, th ? . work ot the old Inca Indians, and a lasting proc i ot their civilization. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2(1,1867. r. Tito Bankrupt Bill. i- From all accounts that reach us, the Bankntpi r- bill is a popular measure North, South, East, and if West. Its enactment has been hulled with great e gratification by the people t.s well as of the im t- poverished South, as of the prosperous North, lu ll deed, the indications are plain that, as a measure > of rebel to the debtor classes, and especially as . i- a permanent system, it has vastly more friends L- in the North than in the South, though it has 1 o many in the latter. What the practical opera- ( e tions of the enactment may result in—whether c to the advantage or disadvantage of industrial - pursuits, Ihe commerce ami manufacturing inter >f tercsts of the country—time alone can tell. A s cotemporary wisely says: “I t this country, where 1 commercial revolutions have been, and are likely ( - to be, periodical, and when there exist ns many i e el (Shing laws relative to debtors and creditors as ! and each law inoperative beyond ‘ sy-ti'ii: is particularly re- ] "'"'fed 1: 11 ■; ailli SSLA■ i K> ' ■ -I tp: '-g>. v . this period and Gun- tense and pamfql < \.-ni ah unposiNftte iii.s live in theii 'e.icWdt.to twt>.ioni*>'.rs«lare the total sequences as have passed before . hl< lb v<- :■!•:'( Hjsoa tor y* S ,a L I|CIJ >- Almighty , has upfield us. vJ4finder'’tUls act ; provnied, h ‘ f ' iW'Ulipifd ; 11<' (' 11 ‘l 11 .4 , .. , ' acknowledgments are courtesy and forbearance mani- „ tested towards me in the*'’perfortnaimp of such duties as have been.deyt'lved upon me.’ Occa- .j . sional errors and mistakes, in the imperfection. 0 ; of our nature, are probably inevitable; no doubt C( , 1 have committed my fell share. My’boijest n . purpose has been to act fairly and impartially 0 J towards all. I have wronged no- one intention , ally, and if at any time it lias seemed otherwise, I sincerely regret it. ; In casting my eyes over the body, I recognize “ but four members who were here when 1 first entered the Senate. Sim: that lime eighteen ot .air immbw ;.arc be?:: ’’--esi "a.-.d by Jeatb. These changes are admonitory, and must impress the 31 mind with a sense oi the fleeting and transitory . character of this stage of our being. a I Though the greatest statesmen, the wisest Sen- , ators, speedily pass away, as all men must, iiisti- 11 , tutions founded on principles of right, and truth, and justice may remain till time shall be no j longer. .May our government rest on these sure foundations! May the Senate ever retain its n early renow n for courtesy, decorum, dignity, and , all the proprieties and immunities which adorn ■' the Senatorial character! May you be called to ’ do much to establish, and may you see establish ed, harmonious and amicable relations between all portions of our country ! May all causes of !* alienation and estrangement speedily be eflectu- 11 ally removed, and a spirit of concord and fra- P . ternal love be everywhere ditlnsed, and ever ll abide in the hearts of all our people. May God " r preserve our Republic and make it aglory among c I the nations! 11 Senators, with feelings ot the utmost respect a and kindness towaids you personally, I bid you li , farewell. "* j ] I The address was most appropriate in the fact j ; that it was calculated to remind the body to j, which it was addressed, of the past fame ot the “Senate,” and what it should be now. But v twelve years, Mr. Foster tells the body over which he had presided for tw o years, had passed v since he first entered it, and yet but few remained r of the members who sat in it, at the time he en- 11 tered it! The change has indeed been great — s I great in more respects than one. The country t notices it, not only as a change in individuals a , but as a change in measures, and the statesman t ship and intellect which have originated and ■ consummated those measures. All these changes c - are indeed admonitory, and w hite, to use the - words of the address, (hey “must impress the mind w ith a sense of (be fleeting and transitory 6 i character of this stage in our being," they will i. also, we trust, impress the minds of each indi- J vidual Senator of the present Congress, with the "fleeting and transitory character” oi political ' power, that he may not laud it too proudly in his high position, nor tear himself ignobly in the t hour of his triumph. We apprehend, however I that the present Senate is a rather irrepressible L ' I body, and that its late President’s admonotions a will have but little effect upon it, save as'the - change may be “from bail to worse.” I Virgluia. II The bill calling for a convention to reorganize J ’’ | under the Military bill, which passed the Vir- ] tl I ginia Senate, received a vote of 18 to B—seven ; < l, i Senators being absent. Il provides that the elec- I < e i tiou of delegates shall be held on the first Tues- .’ i day in May, and the convention shall meet in [ , j ' Richmond on the 'bird Monday in May “to form i e | a constitution ot government in conformity with “ : said act of Congress.” All persons are to vole 1 I tor delegates who are qualified to vote by the act . e! of Congress. Governor Pierpont is empowered < ■ to appoint three persons in each county, who >' ' shall select commissioners to conduct the voting. ' i The number of delegates to be the same as is al ii i lowed to the present House of Delegates. District Headquarters. j. i A Washington dispatch of the 13tb, which j J- 1 should have reached us on Wednesday night,! - states that the District 'Headquarters are as fol- I *’ I >w«- Schofield al Richmond, Sickles at Cohiin- ■ >t ' bia, South Carolina, Thomas at Montgomery, d Ord at Vicksburg, and Sheridan at New Orleans. All the pow ers of the Departments are delegated ' ‘ .to the ateave named District commanders. Gen. 1 d. Pope's headquarters are at Louisville.; he com- ' |C mands Western A’irginia, Tennessee and Keu- lucky. The Fixe District Commanders. —The' le Wellington correspondent ot the New York ~ 1U telegraphs that paper on the Bth :It seems ~ lo b understood that the President this day as- ! signed Generals Sheridan, Thomas, Sickles, ie Schofield, and Ord. to the command of the five e- military districts in the South, required by the pt new reconstruction law. "■ Safi tv of the Bridoes on the South Car- 1 p ‘ olin a Railroad.—White so many bridges have Lt en w:.-hed away on the Georgia Railroad, it is n . T • a matter of congratulation that the bridges on , ” the South Carolina Railroad remain intact.— lle Some anxiety was fell at one time for the safety of the long bridge over the Congaree, but it is now considered safe.—_!/l - ?’■-y. The New Tax law, ARTICLBS PLACED ON THE FREE LIST, AND CHANCES FROM THE OLD I,AW —THE TAX ON INCOMES. The following is a correct transcript of the act “to amend existing laws relating to Internal Revenue,” signed by the President on the 4th instant. It shows all the additional articles placed on the free list, and all the changes from the old law. The most important variations will be found in the cotton tax, cigar tax and free list. All reductions provided by the bill go into effect on March 1, 1867. Tlie following is an alphabetical list of the subjects, and the new tax on the same: Apothecaries, butchers, confectioners, plumb ers, and gas-fitters, whose annual sates exceed $25,000 (in. addition to special tax now required) a tax for every thousand in addition to $25,000 of one dollar. Boots and shoes made wholly or in part of India rubber, 2 per cent. Bonnets, 2 per cent. Butter or cheese, (no special tax required). Cigars, cigarettes, and cheroots of all descrip tions, made of tobacco or any substitute there- thousand, $5. nd valore.m tax on cigars is whollj’ :l uniform rate established as raw, pedfc^L 2ici u ‘ B ' , tubeM> >. r cent >f &c.-, ner gallon, $2. r of) 2| ce “‘- , I [by is ' is same as K 1 '“'l * aw > ’ V) authorized to clla’aC the s, London, March thout limit of time. —P I6 i- at 91. to April 1.1867.) - n ter, canister powder, per pound, 5 Li., “ very fiiwd-;:r for sporting purposes, in kegs, 1 tender. ■k3f.wder foi blasting, per pound, 1| cent. MMbt ‘lanufac'i;: fs of, 3 per cent. KeK !•'from, per gallon, sl. -"i f all descriptions, 2 per ./ 'i vriu-j engines, <5 per cent. -J. , and goat and deer, F 'nd dog skins, tanned or finished L. in the rough, 24 per cent. produced from and not or impbee, per pound, 1 cent. (■•lined, not including syrup or molas wood 5 per cent. ? Bec.W manufacture of, where wool is chief t Qo~ ! L' ut - 21 P cr cent - I < yji; be imposed upon the dyeing or Meal, reprinting of clothes or other arti -1 ’e process of their manufacture. Oheese.-Hai- 1 < New York S, THE STAMP TAX. Crackers.— * s but l‘ tl ' e changed Uy this r Clears.— ’impv • No stamp either for probate of 3 M. diiuu .. testamentary, or guardian bond is Uheront""- 1 tlle value of the estate and effects ’ Candy,—E-i onal does not exceed one thousand t \ Stick yno stamp tax is re(;uired upon any pa jj c W“I e, ssary to be used for the collection from ot claims'by soldiers or their le gal representatives of the United States, for pen sions, back pay, bounty, or for property lost in the service. The fifty cent stamp on writs of other original documents by which any suit is commenced in court and on confessions of judg ment, as well as stamp tax of twenty-five cents on warrants of distress are abolished. THE FREE LIST. The following list of additional articles have been relieved from further taxation : Apple-paring machines. Advertisements in newspapers. Alcoholic and etherial vegetable extracts when sriiivl ,nid used solely tor medicinal purposes Bale rope, seines and netting for seines, twine, and lines of all kinds. Bai-, rod, hoop, band, sheet, and plate iron, and iron prepared for manufacture of steel. Brush-blocks. Bee hives. Canned and preserved meats, including shell fish. Carbolic acid and carbolate of lime, used solely for disinfectants. Carpet bag and caba frames. Canned and preserved vegetables and fruits. ('asks, churns, barrels, wooden brushes, and broom handles, tanks and kitts made of wood, including cooperage of all kinds, bungs and plugs, packing boxes, nest boxes, and match boxes, whether made of wood or other materials; wooden hames, plough beams, split bottom chairs and turned materials for the same, un manufactured, and saddle trees made of wood, and match boxes heretofore made on which a tax has not been paid. Castings of iron, copper, or brass made for machinery, cars, or scales, and castings made to form a part of any article upon which, in a fin ished state, a tax is assessed and paid. Cast-iron hollow ware, and cast-iron hollow ware turned, enamelled, japanned, or galvanized Clock trimmings, namely : Clock work, clock pillars, sash fastenings forelocks, winding key, verges and pendulum rods. Clothing or articles of dress not specially enu merated made by sewing for the wear of men, women, or children from cloths or fabrics on which a tax or duty has been paid. Copper bottoms ibr articles used for domestic and culinary purposes. Doors, window sash, blinds, frames, and sills, of whatever material. Drain, gas, and water-pipe made of wood or cement. Falirics, the produce of hand-looms. Frames and handles foi saws and buck-saws. Glee and gelatine, of all descriptions, in the solid slate. .Glue and cement made wholly or in part of glue incite liquid state. Horse-rakes, horse-powers, tenders, hames, scythes, seatbs, hay-forks, hoes, and portable grinding mills. II use Blankets, made from cloth on which a tax or duty has been paid. Legs of piano-fortes. Liquorice and liquorice paste. Magnesium lamps. Manufacturers ot jute. Molasses, concentrated molasses. Meiado or sugar cane juice, and cistern bot toms. Oil naphtha, benzine, benzole or gasoline, marking more than seventy degrees Baume’s hydrometer, the product of the distillation or r<-distillation or refining of crude petroleum, or [ ot crude oil produced by a single distillation of | coal, shale, peal, asphaltum, or other bituminous substances. Palm-leaf and straw bleached, split, prepared I or adorned by being braided or woven, but not made up into hats, i»onnels or hoods. Potato hooks, potato diggers, pitchforks, ma nure and spading forks. Pottery-ware of all descriptions, including stone, earthen, brown and yellow earthen, and common or gray stone ware. Pumps, garden engines, and hydraulic rams. Rock and root diggers or excavators. Root beer and other small beer. Salt. School-room seats and desks, blackboards, and globes of all kinds. Sleds, wheelbarrows, and hand-carts, and fence 1 made of wood. Soap, common brown, in bars, sold for less j than .-even cents per pound. . Saws (buck.) Saws for cotton gins, when used by the maker | in the manufacture of gins. Solesand heeltaps made of India rubber, or i of India rubber and other materials. Shell fish of all kinds. ' Shirt fronts or bosoms, wristbands or cuffs for ! shirts, except those made of paper. Spiral springs used in the manufacture of fur ! niture. Stove polish or other manufacture exclusively ! of plumbago. ! Stump machines. ■heel of all descriptions, whether made from muck bar blooms, slabs, loops, or otherwise. Straw, or binders’ boards and binders’ cloth. Tags of merchandise and direction, made of cloth, paper or metal, whether blank or printed. i Thimble skeines or pipe boxes made of iron. Tinware for domestic or culinary purposes. Ultramarine blue. Varnish. Wagons, carts and drays, made to be used for farming or lumber purposes. Washing, mangling and clothes wringing ma ' chines, zinc washboards, spinning and flax wheels, hand reels, hand looms, wooden knobs. ■ L Wire cloth. It is provided that the exemption aforesaid 1 shall, in all cases, be confined exclusively to said . articles in the state and condition specified in the loregoing enumeration, and shall not extend to articles in any other form, nor to mannfac ’ tures from said articles. i INCOME TAX. The following is the new income tax, which is ■ | fixed ata uniform rate, and goes into effect ! March 1, 1867. The tax on incomes tor 1866 is to be levied the day this act goes into effect. Income from gains, profits Horn property, rent, interest, dividends, or salaries from any profes sion, trade, or any employment, a tax on the amount so derived over one thousand dollars of 5 per cent. And in addition to one thousand dollars ex empt from income tax, all national, State, county, and municipal taxes paid within the year shall be deducted from the gains, profits, or income of the person who has actually paid thy same, whether such person be owner, tenantfor mort gagor; losses actually sustained during the year arising from fires, shipwreck,or incurred in trade, and debts ascertained to be worthless, but ex cluding all estimated depreciation of values and losses within the year on sites of real estate pur chased two years previous to the year for which income is estimated; the amount actually paid for labor or interest, by any person who rents lands or hires labor to cultivate land, or who conducts any other business from which income is actually derived : the amount actually paid by any person for the rent, of the Louse or pretms s occupied as a residence for himself or his family; the amount paid out for usual or ordinary re pairs : Provided, That no deduction shall be made for any amount paid out for new buildin per manent improvements or betterments, made to increase the value of any property or estate/ And provided, further, That only one deduction of one thousand dollars shall be made from the aggregate income of all the members of any family, composed of one or both parents or one • pr more, minor children, or husband and wife; tte'J guardians shall be allowed to make such deduction ia favor of each and every ward, ex cept thu! in case where two or more wards are compriseu in one family, and have joint property it.'ercsl, only one deduction shall be made in their favor: And provided, further, That in cases where the salary or other compensaltcn paid to any person in the employ ment. or service of the United States shall not exceed the rate of one thousand dollars per an num, or shall be by fees or uncertain or irregular in the amount, or in the time during which the same shall have accrued or been earned, such salary or other compensation shall be included in estimating the annual gains, profits, or in come of the person to whom t'ae same shall have been paid. In estimating the gains, profits and income of any person, there shall be in cluded all income derived from interest upon notes, bonds and other securities of the United States; profits realized within the year from sales of real estate purchased within the year or within two years previous to the year for which income is estimated; interest received or ac crued upon all notes, bonds and mortgages, or other forms of indebtedness bearing interest, whether paid or no' if good and collectable, less the interest which nas become due from said person during the year ; the amount of all pre mium on gold and coupons ; tint amount of sates of live stock, sugar, wool, butter, cheese, pork, beet, mutton, or other meats, bay and grain, or other vegetable or other productions, being the growth or produce of the estate of such person, not including any part thereof consumed direct ly by the family ; all other gains, profits and in come derived from any source whatever; except the rental value of any homestead used or oc cupied by any person or by his family in his own right otrin the right of his wife; and the share of any person of the gains and profits of all companies, whether incorporated or partnership, who would be entitled to the same if divided, w hetlier divided or otherwise, exceps the amount of income received from institutions or corpora tions whose officers, as required by law, with hold a>premium ot the dividends made by such .iti?!i“, -in i pay the same to officers’author ized to receive the same ; and except Unit, por tion of the salary or pay received ibr services in the civil, military, naval or other service of the United States, including Senators, Representa tives, and delegates in Congress, from which the tax has been deducted. A Radical Estimate of the Opinions and Political Views of the United States General Olilcers. The Washington correspondent of the Wor cester Spy, publishes a series of sketches of the pfominent General Officers of the United States Army, which will be of peculiar interest in the South, at. the present time: In view of the power which, by the bill, is to be intrusted to the officers ol the army, it may be worth while inquiring what their opinions will be likely to be. Os course, the General and Lieutenant-General are not to be considered.— The one cannot be sent from here, and the other has other important duties assigned him. Grant was formerly a Democrat, is not a man of warm political feelings, and may now be set down as a Conservative Republican. Sherman is organically wrong. He is a race hater, and oligarchic by instinct. Though his brain may accept the issue of the war, his tem perament will fight against their logical conclu sions. He. was a thorough Unionist, but intense ly Pro-slavery. He is ot the same stripe still. I speak from some personal knowledge ot his former opinions. Os the Major-Generals, Halleck, we all know; I cannot better describe him than by narrating a comment made yesterday by some gentlemen who were looking at Ritchie’s painting of Mr. Lincoln’s death-lied. One of them remarked of General Halleck’s figure and expression (he is one of the group about the bed,) that “it was the first time that he had ever seen Halleck either personally or in a portrait look pleased.” “Yes,’ "said another, “he is doubtless thinking that there is some chance for him to become President.” “If not that,” responded a third, “he is cer tainly thinking that he would be President, if the people only could realize what an able man he was.” He is on the Pacific, and out of the ring, for which we all have reason to be thankful. Meade has been a Johnson man. He is, I be lieve, a War Democrat in politics and an aristo crat by instincts. Sheridan never bad any politics before the war. He used occasionally to declare in the early part of the war, when serving as chief quartermaster with the late General Samuel R. Curtis, that the Abolitionists and Secessionists ought to be hung together. Since then he has traveled far. Sheri dan may be considered a Radical. Thomas—“Old Steady”—is to my mind the .finest soldier and citizen the regular army has given us. He is an eminently national man, is just, able, unbending, and endowed with great administrative abilities. In many respects he more resembles the historic George Washington than any public man now on the stage. But he will not be selected, as his present command gives him control over several of the Stales. Hancock is a Johnson man, or, I should rather say, was. He is considered a lair and just man. Os the brigadier-generals, there is Pope, a moderate Republican and au excellent adminis trator. Schofield, now commanding in Virginia, was a Conservative Republican when the war broke out. He did not grow any more radical until his recent experiences commanding in Virginia. He is a sale man. Terry is as we all know, a Rsidical. He will hardly be selected, having been honorably ban ished to Dakotab for tliat offense. Philip St. George Cooke is out on the plains. He is a Conservative, perhaps worse. His pre sent place is just suited to him, as bis life has been chiefly spent on the frontier. Fosecratis is out of the country, and is most emphatically “played out.” He is priest-ridden, as well as" being a soured and disappointed egotist. He may be considered a Republican. • is a good Republican, as is also McDowell. The latter is on the Pacific, and the former is available. Ord is a Marylander, a conservative, but Union men from Arkansas says he is a just man, and true to the country. IHe is in command there. Canby is the last f ! brigadier, and commands at this point. He is a | Conservative, but under Stanton's influence. Howard is at the Lead of the Freedmen's Bu reau. | The choice must in all probability be ILtoker, | Pope, Ord, Schofield and Canby—the five briga r ' diers available, should the major-generals retain : their departmental commands, as is most proba . I ble. -k c ! According to the di-patch of the 13th, the ■ correspondent of the >/<</ is wrong in n - -peea I i lotions as to the parties to be placed in com -1 : mand of the Military Districts, but the article is i j none the less interesting on that account. NUMBER 12. The New Emigration Scheme—The May Islands, We had hoped that the notion of'emigration which prevailed to so great an extent at the close of the war, as a remedy for pri m nt, evils, had about exploded. But it seems tlie adoption of the Southern Military Bills.; and the unfavorable indications from the direction of Washington, are likely to revive the spirit of discontent among a portion of Our people and give rise to new schemes and plans by which they may hope to better their condition. We re gret to see this. Wc believe that now, more than ever before, every sou of the South should cling to his native soil—the roof-tree of his fathers— the home of his childhood, and the graves of his sires; that he should remain where he is, and bear up nobly against whatever ills the future may haye in store, instead of abandoning his neighbors and kindred in the midst of their ca lamities, and flying to other lands, where p< r haps nothing but disappointment and discontent await him. The papers are frequently filled with glowing descriptions of Brazil, Central America, and other regions, which are represented to offer great inducements to emigration—to excite hopes which will never be realized. These accounts are generally er parte, dwelling entirely on the advantages, without a single allusion to the other side, where the disadvantages, all considered, perhaps preponderate. Our attention has been called to the subject nt this time by noticing a letter in the Savannah Aattcs and Herald, dating from Jacksonville, Florida, in reference to a new fleld for emigration, in which the picture is vety temptingly drawn. We copy a portion of it be low, witli the remark that parties should not per mit themselves to be hastily drawn into such en terprises, and that men with families should think twice and calculate ail the mischances be fore embarking in them. The writer says: For a time Brazil and Mexico were looked io by our Southern people as a refuge from what they felt to lie cruel and despotic exactions of the Federal Government. Quite recently the Bay Islands have assumed a far deeper interest as a refuge from the centralizing powerbf the United Slates. This group of islands, live in number, of which Ruitau is the largest, as well as the seat of its government, has ever been celebrated for its fine salubrious climate and rich produc tions. The State of Honduras extends a nomi nal jurisdiction over them, but it is merely nomi nal, for the inhabitants feel quite independent of the main land, and would set up a government for themselves if Honduras intermeddled with the municipal government of the islands. Rui tan lies about forty miles from the main land, and nearly in the same latitude as Jamaica. It is thirty miles long, with an average width of nine miles. Rising eight hundred feet above the level of the sea, and clothed in perpetual verdure, it has been fitly called the emerald gem of the Caribbean sea. Here the ever constant trade winds impart their delicious coolness and elas ticity to the atmosphere, so that one rarely feels the heat oppressive even at midday.— The nights are always cool and refreshing. A striking evidence of the salubrity of this Island is the tact that Britsh war ships frequently ren dezvous at Coxen Hole, the deep and spacious harbor on the northern end of Ruitan, for sani tary'purposes. Crews suffering wim fever and other diseases incident to a tropical climate, here speedily regain their health and vigor. The productions of these Islands in variety, and magnificence, as much surpass those of the Antilles as the vegetation ot California exceeds mat oi tlih Eastern SlaUt,. ling., -esuc gmw to the cnormours height ol twenty-two feet, and requires but a single planting in a period of ten or twelve years. Before the war New Orleans had a large trade with Ruitan, mostly in tropical fruits. All the Islands abound in dye woods, mahogany, rosewood, lignumvitre, besides val uable minerals. Tin has been found on Bonacca. The adjacent waters?are filled with delicious fish, and here the hawk-bill turtle, furnishing the tortoise-shell of taken in vast numbers. In a word, nature, with a lavish hand has piled her varied treasures on these Islands. An enterprising colony of Southerners would speedily transform them into gardens ot luxury and comlort. At one time the Pacific Mail Steamship Company contemplated estab lishing a coaling depot on one of these Islands. Being on the line of the route from New York to Aspiuwal.it may yet be done™ Another Horrible Murder in Florida. Another one of those horrible murders, which • are becoming of fearfully frequent occurrence, has been committed in Florida. Il is proper to remark that, while the Radical papers conic to us filled in many instances with falselmd fictitious accounts oi outrages upon freedmen, our South ern exchanges arc almost daily called upon to record crimes like the following, and others of a more revolting and diabolical character. Wc copy from the Florida Union : This community has been shocked by the startling intelligence that was received here a few days ago, ot a most diabolical murder that was committed on Mrs. R. R. Rushing, wife of Rev. R. R. Rushing, citizens at one time, for a series of years, of this city. Mrs. Rttshing was a lady held in the highest esteem for her charac ter and social virtues, in every community in which she has lived, and up to the hour of her sudden and awful death, was a useful and exem plary member of society, and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This sad event occurred at Waldo, on the Florida Railroad, on the 28u1t., while sleeping by the side of her husband. From Mr. Rushing we have the following statement as to the filets in the case, upon which it is supposed to be founded. A colored woman who had formerly been a slave, and was reared by t hem, had mar ried a colored man known as Jordan Green. The woman, devotedly attached to her former master and mistress, was persistent in be; re fusal to leave them, who had reared her as one of their family, themselves being childless, when the man Green, assuming that her refusing to leave them and follow him was attributable to the influence of Mrs. Rushing, soughtan oppor tunity of wreaking his diabolical vengeance upon her, by first stealing from the house under the protective security of night, a gun belonging to Mr. Rushing, and through a window adjacent to the bed on which she and her husband were reposing, in the darkness of night, fired Upon and almost instantly killed his victim, he being in the employ of Mr. Rushing, and familiar with his house and habits. The thrilling tragedy has spread with electric shock throughout the communities where the deceased was known, and a large number oftlie people of East Florida have, and others will receive the sad intelligence with hearts overflowing with sympathy for her awful fate, and for her bereft and heart-stricken companion, and relatives. Through a note received from Mr. Rushing, we learn that the man Green “is about thirty years old, black complexion, nose sharp and inclined downward, right ear cropped off, and an ‘S,’ supposed to be between his shoulders.” We trust the officers of the law everywhere will be vigilant to bring this fiend lo the adjudication of the tribunals of justice. Redemption of Fkactional Curiiency.— The Treasurer of the United States is daily in receipt of a large number ol letters from persons in the Southern States inquiring whether the ' Treasury redeems fractional currency ol the old | issues, commonly known as “short currency.” | It appears that some persons, with a view to ; buying it up at a discount, have spread the re i port that this species of currency is repudiated Iby the Secretary of the Treasury. The Treasu ' rer, therefore, desires to have the fact made pub lic that all fractional currency that has been issued by the Treasury Department is redeemed, j at [rar by the same, except in cases where notes are multi tied, when an amount proportionate to : the size of the note is given for it.— Wash. Cor. A’ c \ork Herald. The Sumter.—lt is announced that the fa mous Sumter has foundered off the English coast. Since the end of the rebellion the Sumter, iiikl' T the name of the Gibraltar, has been cm pfoved as a tra ting steamer by a Hull firm, ami was on a voyage from Helsingfors to Hull when she sprung a-leak under her boilers and sank gradually in smooth water. The crew made I their escape. j

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Atlanta intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1865-18??, March 20, 1867, Image 1