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AUGUSTA, GA :
WEDNESDAY, MO It MAO, JULY 18, 1806.
The Philadelphia Convention in Georgia.
We are pleased to see that District Con
ventions have been called to meet at At
lanta for the 7th District, audio Anierieus
for the 2nd District on Saturday-the 28th
inst, for the purpose of appointing dele
gates to the Philadelphia Convention.
There seems to he some objections to the
Governor appointing delegates, and up
on the whole we think it best that they
should be selected by the people them
selves. There is plenty of time for the
holding of District Conventions, and each
of these Conventions can suggest four good
men to-represent the State at large. We
are confident that by prudent management
unanimity may lx; secured in those district
recommendations for delegates at large,
lift the press sjxiak out upon this subject.
The Philadelphia Convention.
The proposed Convention is daily grow
ing more in favor of the Southern people.
Several of the presses which were at first dis
posed to doubt the propriety of the South
lx-ing represented, are now in favor of a
full representation. Among the ablest is
the Mobile Register & Advertiser. In a
late issue, that paper says :
“The proposition for a general Conven
tion of the representatives of all the States
and Territories in favor of a restoration of
the Federal Union, to meet at Philadelphia
next month, was one to challenge the at
tention of thoughtful men, and not to be
accepted or rejected without careful delib
eration. Somewhat -doubtful of its ulte
rior results, and a little suspicious of its
origin, we did not on its first presentation
give it a cordial support. We have not
failed, however, to give the subject the care
ful and anxious reflection its great impor
tance demands, and we have arrived at the
conviction that duty to ourselves '{speak
ing of the ostracised Southern States) and
to the future common weal of all the
States commands us to encourage a full
representation of the former in that
body. This Convention has not for its
objects the nomination of party men for
office, or the construction of mere party
platforms. We take it to have its origin
in a patriotic desire to unite all the friends
of constitutional freedom in opposition to
the designs of a factious minority now in
possession of the Government, and to
rescue I lie heritage of liberty left us by
our fathers from the hands of men who
are intent on its destruction. It is not
only at the South that good men are
alarmed for the safety of institutions un
der which, until within the last five years
of Radical rule, the people have been free
and happy and the country has marched
on in a career of unparalleled prosperity.
The baleful effects of this brief rule of New
England ideas in Government, are too pal
pable to the living mind to need words of
ours to deepen its odiousness. A , terrible
war, that moderation and wisdom instead
of hate and a had ambition in the public
councils, would have averted ; a national
debt verging to national bankruptcy; taxes
as onerous as those which five hundred
years of peace and war have imposed upon
the people of Great Britain, and a total ob
literationofthegreat landmarks of a mixed
Government which our ancestors had so
studiously and patriotically erected, abroken
Union and estranged and embittered sec
tions are the present results of Puritan
administration. Can these thirty millions
of American people afford any longer to
sit quietly down while this work of ruin
goes on, and the men who have wrought it
still hold the high places of trust and pow
er in the National authority? For, not
content with the mischief already done,
they are insanely bent on perpetuating and
deepening the policy of discord and disin
tegration which they inaugurated to bring
the country to its present unhappy and
disgraceful pass. The thought that in
spired this Convention cries “no’’ to the
question, and it contemplates an appeal to
the reason and the justice and the patriot
ism of all the people of all the States to
make common cause against the common
enemies of the Republic. It is eminently
proper that our Southern voices should be
heard in an assembly that proposes these
objects, and being started, no reasonable
measures should be neglected to make the
Convention a grand success.
We think that it will not Juhnit of dis
pute that it the South is represented in
the body, it should he by men who truly
represent its present feelings and prin
ciples. There is little difficulty in ascer
taining what these are. He who deserted
her in her sore tribulation, and has now an
iron-clod stomach capable of swallowing and
digesting the iron-clad oath, and he who,
now that the war is over, is too passionate
and unreasonable to appreciate the public
exigencies, and to accept the logic of events,
are equally unfit to represent this people.
Her true exemplars are those who were
faithful to her in her fiery trials of strug
gle, and have the wisdom to see that, now
that they have ended in defeat, her policy
and duty in the discretion of an enlight
ened and enlarged statesmanship, point her
to the earliest restoration of her political
relations with her former confederates of
the Constitutional Union.
Any representative who will till this
measure of qualification, and who are be
sides intelligent. firm and discreet.can safely
be trusted to speak for her in the first as
sembly since the war, of delegates from all
the States. As there are no party dif
ferences among ourselves, as to National
affairs, and as we all have a common ob
ject of restoration on the general basis of
President Johnston's programme, it would
seem hardly necessary to resort to the
trouble, expense and formality in Alabama,
at least, of a State Convention to nominate
delegates. We would, therefore, respect
fully recommend that it be agreed by gen
eral consent, that His Excellency the Gov
ernor appoint the requisite number of
delegates, taking them from the dif
ferent parts of the State, when an al
ternate to each, in case the principle
should be unable to attend. At all events,
this plan would stive delay, greatly sim
plify the mode, and yet attain the end de
sired by all. of a suitable representation at
Philadelphia.
We venture with all respect to suggest
this plan to our brethren of the press, and
ask them to give their views on it. and if
they are favorable, to give it their concur
rence and support and thus establish the
necessary general public assefit. Will our
brothers of the profession favor us with an
early expression of opinion,
Negro Equality at the North.
There was a grand parade and blow-out
at Philadelphia on the gahrious fourth, in
which the soldiers of the late war figured
very conspicuously. Among other tilings,
there was a presentation to the State au
thorities of the banners and battle-flags
lxirne by the Pennsylvania troops during
the conflict which ended so disastrously for
the South. Everybody, as a matter of
course, was in high glee, and there was any
amount of vapid nonsense, and arrogant
twaddle let off by the numerous speakers.
The main subject for special glorification
was the emaneipation of the blacks, and
the forced acknowledgment by our people
of their rights as equals under the common
government. This was all very fine, and
mast have been highly gratifying to
the pride of Pennsylvania darkies, espe
cially as the latter were refused admittance
in the procession, and even driven from the
streets during tin■ display of the grand pa
geant. It is reported that many alterca
tions occurred" between the whites and the
blacks, arid the latter were finally driven
by force from the side-walks and public
square, and compelled to seek safety in
flight and concealment.
This occurred in Philadelphia. In Au
gusta the blacks took possession of the streets
and thoroughfares of the city, to the en
tire exclusion of the whites. Jfere, accord
ing to Radical rule, the black is the supe
rior race ; there the whites will not even
tolerate the mere presence of the blacks at
their public demonstrations of joy, for the
annual return of independence. If any at
tempt had been made in any city of the
South, to prevent the participation of the
blacks in the celebration of the glorious
fourth, there would have been raised a yell
of indignation and horror at the North and
in this same city of PhUkdelphia , which,
no doubt, would have asserted its power
and intensity in the appointment of a spe
cial committee of Congress to examine into
the rebel outrage , upon private rights, and
civil equality. The nigger is a nigger still
at the North —in the South he is whiter
and better than the white man.
Toung Drunkards.
How melancholy are the thoughts sug
gested by the word “drunkard!” What
associations docs it bring up of degrada
tion and crime. Emaciated women, ragged
children, comfortless and desolate homes—
ignorance,'brutality, filth and terror; an
gry words, inflamed passions, cruel treat
ment, heartless neglect; a brain on fire,
hands red with murderer’s blood —weeping,
wailing and shedding of tears —all these and
much else that is terrible to contemplate,
crowd around the mind at the mention of
the term “Drunkard.” An old drunkard
is a loathsome object—a young drunkard is
a most pitiable one. And yet this latter
belongs to 'a class prodigious in numbers,
and increasing with fearful rapidity—in
cipient drunkards, just learning the toad
that leads to ruin. Towns, cities and vil
lages abound in them, aud even tlie rural
population is infected with the madness of
“drinking.” What a change has come
over the people within a very few years.
Lawyers, doctors, merchants, farmers and
preachers have all, more or less, turned
tipplers. Even among women may be
found delicate maidens, and stately mat
rons who, in ball-rooms, at private enter
tainments and in the sacred retirement ot
home, are not averse to sipping the fer
mentation from the grape, and the distil
lation from the rye plant, while the children
of the household eagerly consume the su
gar left from the 1 ‘toddy. ” We are not at
all puritanical, and have nothing to say
against the temperate use of wine amftng
all classes of people; but the abjise of it,
and especially the intemperate use of the
fire-water of the distillery, is becoming a
monstrous evil. Among our young men
particularly is this curse of humanity be
coming alarmingly prevalent. It is from
thisclass that recruits for the army of drunk
ards are chiefly obtained, and it is with the
hope of “saving some” that we send this
warding among them. We urge the young
man to stop and consider that he is laying
a foundation on which to build a fabric
composed of disappointed hopes, blasted
expectations, ruined health, criminal de
gradation, a poverty stricken family, and a
lost soul. He is forming an appetite which
will haunt him to the grave. Let him go
a little further in dissipation, (perhaps he
has gone far enough already,) and Kb will
have acquired a taste for liquor which will
become a part of his nature. His desire
for the exhilerating effect upon the brain
will be hard to resist. Even should he re
form and abstain for years from all alco
holic stimulants, yet in mature and declin
ing life, the appetite will revive with
stronger power than in youthful days, and
he will have less strength to oppose it.
There are few greater risks which a lady
can incur than to marry a “reformed
drunkard,” so-called.
We have known but two instances in which
men who were drunkards, became sober
and staid so, and these are still living, and
still not safe. The least departure from the
strictest abstinence might involve them, as
thousands of others, in the drunkard’s
ruin. Put down that glass young, man —
there is woe in it; very soon you will be a
young drunkard and then—but we drop
the curtain over your dismal future.
Convention «• uujai southerners.
A meeting of Southern loyalists was
held at Washington City on the lltli, at
which a call was issued and signed by some
twenty-five persons from different South
ern States, calling a Convention of the loy
al Unionists of the South to meet at Phil
adelphia on the .'id of September. The ob
ject of the Convention is “ to recommend
measures for the establishment of such
government in the South as accords with
and protects the rights of all citizens." The
names of G. W. Washburn, and H. G.
Cole, from Georgia, are among the signers
to the call. Who Mr. Washburn is, we
have no idea. Mr. Cole is. we believe, a
resident of Marietta, and was arrested and
imprisoned by the Confederate authorities
under the charge of adhering to the Union,
and conveying information through our
lines to the Federal authorities. This Con
vention is on the line of what is known in
Tennessee as Brownlow loyalty, and pro
poses to organize a party in the South of
the ultra radical .tyne.
The Philadelphia Convention-—Third
Congressional Distriet.
The LaGrange Reporter, which, by the
by. is one of the very best papers published
in the State, suggests the holding of a Con
vention in LaGrange on the Ist day of
August, to appoint Delegates to the Phila
delphia Convention to represent the Third
Congressional District Our friends in that
District will •’take due notice thereof and
govern themselves accordingly.' ’
EDITORIAL COBRESPONfIENCE.
A Week iu Middle Georgia—Commence
ment at Mercer University—lnteresting
Exercises— Inauguration of the new
President—Speeches of the Hon. .T. D.
Matthews and Gen. H. R. Jackson—
Conferring of Degrees on Gen. Uee.
Peculiar interest attaches to anything
connected with this well known University,
from the fact that it is tile only institution
of the kind in Georgians nd almost the only
one in the Southern States, that did not sus
pend its exercises during the war. At the
opening of the war nearly all its students
of suitable age left its classic hails for the
field of bloody strife; many of them, alas!
to perish in the conflict. Hut their places
were soon supplied V>v others, too young to
be soldiers; and during the latter part of
the war the classes were filled with those
whose wounds had disqualified them for
military service. During a considerable
period nearly half the .students in College
appeared in their lecture rooms on crutches,
or u-ith an empty .sleeve. But if this was a
touching sight, it is almost amusing now
to see many a College Junior or Sopho
more saluted by his Professor as well as by
his fellow-students with the title of Lieu
tenant, Captain or Colonel.
The University having survived the
shock of war, has entered upon its career
of peace with renewed strength and with
most encouraging prospects of increased
popularity and usefulness. The acceptance
of the Presidency by the Rev. Dr. H. H.
Tucker, endeared to tens of thousands bv
his apostolic labors in connection with the
Georgia Relief and Hospital Association,
and prominent as the leader of several
great public enterprises of vast importance
during the war, which made him as con
spicuous for energy and practical sagacity
as he was before for shining talents, ele
gant culture and literary attainments, as
well as ids sound judgment,has inspired the
friends of the University with new enthu
siasm, and the public with increased confi
dence in the success of an institution pre
sided over by a man who never failed in
anything he ever undertook.
But to the Commencement, The anni
versary sermon was preached in the College
Chapel on Sunday, July Bth, by Rev. W.
T. Brantly, D. D., and, while instructive
and profitable and mellow with the spirit
of piety, fully sustained the reputation of
the distinguished orator for clearness of
thought, elegance of diction and surpassing
grace of delivery.
On Monday, the Sophomores, some of
them scarred with the honorable marks of
battle, appeared on the rostrum in gener
ous contest for the prizes awarded to elo
quence. There was a manliness, and ab
sence of the appearance of mere drill in the
speaking, not common on occasions of the
kind, while, at the same time, itcamefully
up to the ordinary standard of grace and
propriety in delivery. The first prize for
excellence in declamation was awarded to
Henry C. Ethei ’idge, of Eatonton, Ga., and
the second to George W. A. Brantly, of
Macon, Ga. The follow ing is the order of
exercises:
MUSIC.
PRAY K R. *
MUSIC.
Mark Antony at Cfesar’s Funeral Sliakspeare.
Charles K. Henderson, 0. S., Harris County,rfia.
Osceola Anonymous.
.lames Callaway. J\ 1). S., Macon, Ga.
Iloratius at the Bridge Macauley.
John T. Dupree, C. S., Wilkinson County, Ga.
MUSIC.
Irish Aliens and English Victories Sheil.
Stephen D. Bowdre, I*. D. 8., Washington, Ga.
Tim Lady of Provence fc . Mrs. Hemans.
William H. Foute.C. 8., Memphis, Tenn.
Speech on being found Guilty of High Treason Emmet,
William T. O’Neal, I*. D. 8., Thomson, Ga.
MUSIC.
The Soldier from Bingen Mrs. Norton.
George W. Sparks, l\ D. 8., Washington t 0., Ga.
Rienzi to the Romans Miss Mitionl.
Andrew" J. Orr, 0. S., Mitchell County, Ga.
Parrhasius, painting Prometheus, tortures "a Captive to
catch his Dying Expression N. P. Willis.
James W. Rhodes, C. 8., Crawfordville, Ga.
MUSIC.
The Judgement Pollok.
Charles C. Sharp, I’. D. S„ Forsyth, Ga.
Eloquence of John Adams .. .Webster.
John B. Wartlien, C. 8., Washington co., Ga,
Virginia Macauley.
George W. A. Brantly, P. I). 8., Macon, Ga.
MUSIC.
Spartacus to the Roman Envoys Kellogg.
Clifford R. Sanders, C. S., Penfield, Ga.
Washington Phillips.
Calvin P. Fitzpatrick, C. 8., Morgan eo., Ga.
Spartacus to the Gladiators : Kellogg.
James A. Harley, P. D. S., Sparta, Ga.
MUSIC.
Execution of Montrose Avtonn.
James A. Carswell, I*. D. DurKe county, ua.
The Maniac: Lewis?
Henry C. Etheridge, C. 8., Eatonton, Ga.
MUSIC,
Benediction.
FINALE.
On Tuesday, members of the Junior
class delivered original speeches, the most
striking feature of which, taken as a whole,
was a certain gravity and soberness of
thought, and the absence of the very com
mon swelling efforts at oratorical display.
Clear, methodical, manly, and earnest, the
speeches exhibited greater maturity of
thought and directness of purpose, than
are usually exhibited at College Com
mencements. The following was the or
der of exercises:
MUSIC.
PRAYER.
MUSIC.
College Societies Henry A, Wise, C. S—Penfield, Ga.
Constitutional Liberty —Chas. M. Sanders, C. S. “
MUSIC.
“Rome w;ts not built in a day”. .Clias. V. Sanford, C. S. “
One Idcaism Thos. J. Beck, C. S—Warren Cos., Ga.
MUSIC.
Literary Characteristics of the Age... .Colin R. Wise, C. S.
Penfield, Ga,
“Stonewall Jackson”. .Otis S. Jones, C, S.—
Merriwether Cos., Ga.
MUSIC.
The Sorrows Incident, to the Pursuit of Learning —
Thomas A. Hamilton, P. I). S—Athens, Ga.
“ 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
James Iv. P. Keaton, C, S—Albany, Ga
MUSIC.
Distribution of Prizes to the Sophomore Declaimers.
MUSIC.
BENEDICTION.
FINALE.
Then came the delivery of the prizes to
the Sophomore orators, accompanied by an
address from Hon. J. I>. Mathews, mem
ber elect to Congress from the District.—
The Colonel had been known as a success
ful lawyer and as a leading member of the
Legislature, and his constituents feel that
they would be ably represented by him in
the Congress of the United States. But it
was not known till now, that he was capa
ble of so graceful, tasteful and elegant an
address on a literary occasion, as he deliv
ered at the commencement of his Alma
Mater. The University may well be proud
of her son.
At the close of the exercises, Hon. D. E.
Butler, President of the Board of Trustees,
came forward, and in a brief and graceful
manner announced that the Board had re
inforced the present corps of Professors by
the election of the Rev. John J. Brantly, of
South Carolina, to the Chair of Belles Let
tres, and that other officers would be add
ed, as demanded, for the further develope
ment of the educational facilities of the
University. Then, suiting that it gave him
great satisfaction to announce that the Uni
versity was now supplied with an official
head, in the acceptance of the office of Pres
ident by one well known to the people of
Georgia and in the Republic of Letters, he
introduced to the audience the Rev. Dr.
Henry Holcombe Tucker as President of
Mercer University. This gratifying an
nouncement was received with rounds of
applause from the large concourse of
auditors. Dr. Tucker arose, and briefly
addressing himself to the Trustees, Fac
ulty, Students, and citizens, with an
eloquence all his own, delivered himself
of a few electrifying sentences iu his ini
mitable style and impressiveness of man
ner. In the course of his remarks, he
made a felieitious allusion to Gen. Lee,
now President of Washington College Va.,
and said that he felt it “no small honor to
be made the peer—the official peer, of that
personally peerless man ; no small thing
to wear the same honors and bear the same
responsibilities and discharge the same
duties and occupy an official chair side by
side with the great chieftain, whose name
is dear to millions, and whose glory is
commensurate with the civilization of the
globe." At therlose of his address, lie was
conducted with grea* grace and dignity to
the vacant chair of office, by Hon. D. E.
Butler President of the Board of Trustees.
On taking his seat the vast audience
shook the walls with rounds of applause,
in endorsement of the happy selection by
the Board of Trustees, and in admiration
of the read}' eloquence of the new Presi
dent.
When the applause had subsided and
the stirring, notes of the brass, band had
died away, President Tucker came forward
and said that he was most happy to state
that the first act ’of his official life was
one, which he should ever remember with
pride, and which would ever reflect honor
upon the University over which lie presid
ed, and by authority of the Faculty and
of the Board of Trustees he conferred the
degree of Doctor of Laws, on Robert E.
Lee. of Virginia.
The degree of Master of Arts was con
ferred in course upon Allen D. Candler,
Rev. Asa M. Marshall, Redmond V. For
rester, Adrian S. Morgan and John M.
Proctor, former graduates of the Univer
sity.
At four o'clock P. M. the annual oration
before the Literary Societies was delivered
by the Hon. Henry R. Jackson, of Savan
nah. Only a week before lie had delivered
an address on a similar occasion at the
commencement at Athens. The two ad
dresses are said, by those who heard them
both, to have been entirely different in
their subject matter as well as in style and
conception. The speech at Athens was
more practical—that at Peniiekl more ab
stract and theoretical. The latter was full
of thought and learning, replete with clas
sical allusion, and though purely extem
porane#us iu language, was as elegant in
its rounded sentences as if every line had
been studied and every word fitted into its
place. Its delivery remarkable for ease—
gracefulness and power, only confirmed
the previous verdict, that its author held
the first place in his native State as a fin
ished and accomplished orator. The ad
dress, I learn, will be published.
At the close of the address the audience
dispersed, and we who were visitors, bade
a reluctant adieu to those whose liberal
hospitalities we had enjoyed.
Crop Items.
A Florida planter estimates liis cotton
yield as high as eight bales to a hand. This
is considered very good.
The farmers of Coweta county complain
that freedmen have been entering their
fields and carrying off their wheat.
A telegram from Indianapolis says the
wheat harvest now in progress is yielding
better than was anticipated, and that the
quality is superior to the crop of last year.
A gentleman who has been traveling in
West Tennessee, gives encouraging ac
counts in regard to the crops of all kinds.
They are a little backward.
The Bainbridge Georgian says :
The corn crop is suffering from rain.
The cotton is growing finely, but the
ground is almost too hard to plough it.
In the county of Pulaski (and the same
might be said of Houston, Dooly and Wil
cox) the corn and cotton crops will not ex
ceed one-third of that made in 1801.
The Greenville New Era has the follow
ing paragraph: The farmers, with one
voice say, that they never saw a better yield
of wheat in their lives. The ear is full,
and grain very large, and although much
of the wheat was frozen out, yet there will
be about a two-third crop.
A correspondent of the Herald , writing
from Thomasville, says :
The corn crops through this section are
remarkably poor, with but few exceptions.
In my opinion there will not be more than
half as much made as there was in 1860,
and of years prior. The cotton crops arc
generally sorry.
A correspondent of the Savannah Herald,
writing from Camden county, says :
This count}* before the late war, pro
duced about one thousand bags sea islaud
cotton, and about two hundred thousand
bushels rice annually. This year, one hun
dred bags of cotton and thirty or forty
thousand bushels of rice will be about the
quantity produced. We are suffering Very
much for the want of rain. ‘
The Journal of Commerce ’says the heavy
croaking about the destruction of the
wheat crop, which has burdened the Wes
tern newspapers for several months past,
proves to have been only the repetition of
an old trick. The accounts now received
of the incoming harvest nearly all con
tain the old phrase, “better than was antic
ipated,” which must be received either as
an apology for past misstatements or an
acknowledgment of error.
The Milledgeville Recorder saj ? s: The
crop prospects throughout the State, we
learn, from various sources —are by no
means promising. Greater want, will we
predict, he felt another year than at
present, though now, worse than ever here
tofore. It is unnecessary to recapitulate
the causes. The fact exists. All that can
now be done for the balance of the year in
making and saving provisions, should by
all means be done, and everything husband
ed—nothing whatever wasted.
The Tallahassee Floridian of the sth
says :
The corn* crop in this portion of Florida
has been suffering greatly of late for want
of rain. When it is remembered that
much less than the usual crop was planted,
that what was planted has been poorly cul
tivated, and, having in its early growth
been greatly damaged by excessive rains,
it is now suffering no less from drought—
it will be apparent that the prospect for a
Florida corn crop is eminently discourag
ing.
Fur and Grain in the North-west.—
The St. Paul (Minn.) Press reports’the
arrival of a messenger from the Bed River
Settlement, (some five hundred miles north
of St. Paul,) who brings the news that a»
cattle train of a thousand carts, with furs
worth more than a hundred thousand dol
lars, is on its way to the lakes. The same
gentleman asserts, as an answer to the
skepticism of the Agricultural Department
at Washington, which discredits the state
ment of a yield of foray-eight bushels to
the acre in Minnesota, that sixty bushels
of spring wheat is but an ordinary yield at
lied River Settlement, and on the Mac
kenzie river the yield of barley exceeds any
other section of country in the world.
JEFFEKSDX DAVIS.
He is visited by One of His Counsel and
His ex-Privatc Secretary-- \ T o Hopes of
a Parole or of Being Admitted to Bail-
State of His Health, etc.
Fortress Monroe, July 7, 1806.
George W. Brown, of Baltimore, one’ of
Mr. Davis, counsel, and Burton N. Har
rison, the latter s private Secretary during
the war, arrived this morning, and have
spent the day with Mr. Davis. They re
turned North this evening. M r . Brown’s
visit was a professional one solely, and
that of young Harrison strictly and simply
of a social character. Through this visit I
learn positively that all hope and expecta
tion ot the parole of Mr. Davis or his re
lease on bail has been given up, and that
no farther attempt will be made to accom
plish this result by his counsel or friends,
unless some unexpected and alarming
change in his health compel a renewal of
the application. It is greatly feared, how
ever, that such contingency will arise.
Mr. Harrison says he finds Mr. Davis in a
much lower state of health than at his re
cent visit. His voice is much weaker, his
step far less assured, his conversation less
cheerful, and very little of the buoyancy
and animation he then evinced. Regard
ing his approaching trial Mr. Davis has
no apprehension, but each day only grows
more anxious for the trial to begin. No
fault is found with his present treat
ment. He has everything he could wish
for or expect but his freedom.
•James Hamilton Couper, an old and
well-know citizen, died recently at his resi
dence in Glyn, county.
INTERNAL REVENUE
The Tax on Haw Cotton—Xo Change In
Amount Exempted from Income Tax-
Articles on the free Inst—An Inde x of
Taxation Alphabetically Arranged.
Special Dispatch to the New York World—
Washington, July c.—The Internal
Revenue bill has finally passed both Ileuses
and been sent to the President for his ap
proval. As this is an amemdatorv act,
the changes herewith noticed —except the
administrative sections—will show the dif
ference between the old and new law. Iu
arjy other respects the old law remains un
changed. as is the ease, for instance, with
the stamp tax and the duty on distilled
spirits, it is estimated that the bill re
duces the internal revenue seventy-five
millions per year. The following are the
new rates of taxation :
Architects, license, $lO
Auctioneers, license, 10 and 20
Apothecaries, lieeuse, 10
Billiard tables kept lor nse, 10
Provided, That billiard tables kept for
hire, and upon which a special tax has
been imposed, shall not be required to pay
the tax on billiard tables kept for use, as
aforesaid.
Bone, manufacturers of, not other
wise provided for, 5 per ct.
Bowling alleys, for each alley, $lO
Bootmakers, making articles to or
der, as custom work, and not for
sale generally, shall, to the amount
of SI,OOO, be exempt from duty,
and for any excess beyond the
amount of SI,OOO shall pay a duty
(material not included) of 2 per ct.
Brass, manufacturers of, when not
otherwise specified, 5 per ct.
Brass nails, 5 per ct.
Beer, of thirty-five gallons per bar
rel, , . $1
Brewers, under which term is inclu-
Bded every person who manufac
tures fermented liquors of any
name or description, tor sale, from
malt or any substitute therefor,
wholly or in part for license, 100
rowers, who manufacture less than
five hundred barrels per year, li
cense, 50
Bristles, manufacture of, not other
wise provided for, 5 per ct.
Bank deposits, per month, 1-2 of 1 perct,
Bauks, chartered or organized under
a general law, with a capital not
exceeding $50,000 license, SIOO
Banks exceeding capital of $50,000,
for every additional thousand in
excess, . . 2
Banks, savings, deposits are exempt
from tax.
Brooms, . ' 3 per ct.
Brokers, stock, etc,, license, SSO
Brokers, land warrant, license, 25
Brokers, cattle, license, 10
Brokers, produce, license. 10
Brokers, commercial, license, 20
Brokers, custom-house, license, 10
Brokers, sales of merchandise, pro
duce, or other goods, I ofl perct.
Dq. for every SIOO, Sets.
Brokers, sales and contracts for the
sale of stocks, bonds, foreign ex
change, gold and silver bullion and
coin, uncurrent money, promisory
notes, or other securities, 1-20 to
1-10 of 1 per ct.
Do. for every SIQO, 2 cts.
Brokers, sales and contracts for sale
negotiated and made by any per
son, firm, or company not taxed as
a broker or banker, of any gold or
silver bullion, coin, uncurrent mo
ney, promisory notes, stocks,
bonds, or other securities not his
or her property, liability of 50 per
centum in addition.
Do. lor every SIOO, 5 cts.
Builders and contractors, $lO
Building stone of all kinds, including
slate, marble, freestone and soap
stone, 36-10 perct.
Bullion, in lump, ingot, bar or oth
erwise, to be paid by the assay-.
er, } of 1 per ct.
Butchers’ license, $lO
Cigars and cigarettes valued at not
over eight dollars per thousand —
tax per 1,000, $2
Cigars, cigarettes, and cheroots, val
ued at over eight dollars per thou
sand and not over twelve dollars
per thousand —tax per 1,000, $4
Cigars and cheroots valued at over
twelve dollars per thousand —20
per cent, ad valoremm value above
twelve dollars and per 1,000, $4
Clock movements, not cased, 5 per ct.
Cloth, and all textile or knitted or
felted fabrics of cotton, wool, or
other materials, before the same .
has been dyed, printed, bleached,
and on all cloth painted, . enamel
led, shirred, tarred, varnished, or
oiled, 5 per ct.
Cloth, or fabrics made of thread,
yarn, or warps, upon which a du
ty shall have been assessed and
paid, shall be assessed and paid a
duty on the increase value only.
Clothing, manufactured by weav
ing, knitting, or felting, and on
hats, bonnets, and hoop skirts,
and on articles sold as constituent
parts of clothing, and articles of
wearing apparel manufactured
from India rubber,* gutta percha,
paper, or fur, 5 per ct.
Clothing, manufactured, SI,OOO per
annum of work exempted, exclu
sive of material, 2 per ct.
Cocoa, prepared, per pound, 1J cents.
Claim agents, license, $lO
Conveyancers, license, $lO
Confectioners, license, . $lO
Candles, of whatever material made 5 per ct.
Cards, playing, per pack of fifty-two
cards, 5 cents
Carriage, phaeton,, carryall, rock
away, or other like carriage, and
any coach, hackney coach, omni
bus, or four-wheeled carriage, the
body of which rests upon springs
of any description, which may be
kept for use exclusively in hus
bandry or for the transportation of
merchandise, valued at exceeding
S3OO and not above SSOO each,
including harness used therewith, $6
Carriages of like description, valued
above SSOO each, $lO.
Chemical productions uncompound
ed, not otherwise provided lor, 5 per ct.
Chocolate, prepared, per pound . 2 cent.
Circuses —under which term is in
cluded every building, tent, space,
or area where feats of horseman
shing are exhibited: provided
that no special tax paid in one State
shall exempt exhibitors from tax
in any other State, and but' one
special tax shall be imposed in
anyone State —4icen.se, SIOO
Clocks and time-pieces, . 5 per ct.
Coffee—All preparations of which
coffee forms a part, and all ground
or unground substitutes for coffee,
pe'r pound, 1 cen t*
Coffee—All packages exceeding one
pound in weight, each pound in ex
cess of one pound, . 1 cent.
Copper tubes, brass nails, and sheet
lead, 5 per ct.
Copper nails, ' • 5 per ct.
Copper, manufacturers of, not oth
erwise provided for, ad valorem, 5 per ct.
Cotton, raw per pound, 3 cents.
Cotton, manufacturers of, wholly,
or in part, not otherwise provided
for, ? P er <*■
Diamonds, . . 3 cents.
Distillers, under which term is in
cluded every person, firm, or cor
poration, who distils or manufac
tures spirits—license, *' "
Distillers of apples, grapes, and
peaches, distilling less than fifty
barrels,' . . §SO
Distillers of coal oil —license, s®o
Eating-houses—license, 1
Emeralds, . ® P er ct *
Express agents, including every per
son, firm, or company, engaged in
the carrying or delivery of money,
valuable papers, or any articles for
pay, or doing an express business,
whose gross receipts therefrom ex
ceed the sum of six hundred dol
lars per annum —license, . $lO
Do. on gross amounts of all receipts
exceeding one thousand dollars, 5 per ct.
Flax, manufacturer of, not other
wise provided for. 5 per ct.
Furniture, made of wood, sold un-
finished, 5 per ct. .
Fences, gates, railings of iron, 5 per ct.
Furniture on which a duty has been
paid when sold finished, on in
creased value, 5 per ct. *
Gas. illuminating, made of coal,
when the product shall be not
above 200,000 cubic ft. per month,
per. 1,000 cubic feet, r 10 cents.
Do. do. when the product‘shall lie
above 200,000 and not exceeding
500,000 cubic feet per month, per
1,000 cubic feet, 15 cents.
Do. do", when the product shall be •
above 500,000 and not exceeding
5,000,000 of cubic feet per month,
per 1,000 cubic feet, 20 cents.
Do. do. when the producf shall be
above, 5,000,000, per 1.000 cubic
n feet, n -n • • 25 cente *
Uas, all luununatmg, same as coal
BCgas.
Gas companies can charge conftim-
ers the tax till April 20, 1867,
Glass, manufactures of, not other-
wise specified 5 per ct,
tilue and gelatine of all descriptions,
m a sond state, per pound, l cent.
Glue and cement, made wholly or in
part of glue, in a liquid form, per
gallon, 40 cents.
Gold, manufactures of. other than
jewely. when not otherwise speci
i * 5 perct,
Gitt enterprises, license, $l5O
Grinders of coffee and spices, license, SIOO
Gun cotton, 5 per ct .
Gunpowder, 5 per ct .
Gutta pcrclia, manufactures of, not
otherwise provided for. 5 per ct.
Hem f, manufactures oft when not
otherwise specified, 5 per ct.
Horn manufactures of, not otherwise »
provided for 5 per ct.
Hotels, inns, or taverns, when the
receipts are less than SI,OOO, Exempt.
Horse dealers, license, $lO
Hotel-keepers, license, $lO and $25
Income, annual, of every person,
whether citizens residing in or out
of the United States, when ex
ceeding S6OO aud not exceeding
$5,000 on the excess over S6O0 —5
per cent. —5 per cent, on all over
S6OO.
Income over $5,000, lOfper ct.
All duties on incomes to cease after the
year 1870. ■
India rubber, manufactures of, not other
wise specified, . 5 ■ per ct.
Insurance agents, embracing every
person who shall act as agent of
any fire, life, mutual, or
other insurance companies, whose
receipts shall not exceed SIOO,
shall pay, $5
Insurance agents of foreign compa
nies, license, . SSO
Iron, manufactures of, not other
wise provided for, 5 per ct.
Do., railroad, per ton, $3
Do., advanced beyond slabs, blooms,
or loops, and not advanced beyond
bars, per ton, $3
Do., band hoop, and sheet not thin
ner than No. 18 wire-gauge, per
ton, . $3
Do., plate, not les%than one-eighth
of an inch in thickness, per ton, $3
Do., band, hoop, or sheet thinner
than No. 18 wire-gauge, per ton, $5
Do., plate, less than one-eighth of an
inch in thickness, per ton, $5
Do., nails, cut and spikes (not in
cluding nails, tacks, brads, or
•finishing nails, unusually put up
and sold in papers, whether in
■ papers or otherwise, for horse
shoe nails wrought by machine
ry, ) per ton, $5
Do., steam engines, including loco
motive and marine engines, 5 per ct.
Iron, tubes of wrought iron, per ton $5
Ivory, manufactures of, not other
wise provided for, 5 per ct
Jugglers, licedse, S2O
.lute, manufactures of, not other
wise provided for. 5 per ct.
Lawyers, license, $lO
Lead, manufactures of, if not other
wise specified, 5 per ct.
Lead) pipes, 5 per ct.
Leather, manufacturers of, when
not otherwise specified, 5 per ct.
Livery stables keepers, license, $lO
Lottery ticket dealeris license, SIOO
Manufacturers, license, $lO
Miners, license, $lO
Molasses produced from sugar cane
and not from sorghum or imphee,
per gallon, 3 cts.
Molasses —Syrup of, or sugar-cane
juice, when removed from the
plantation ; concentrated molasses ‘
or melado, or cistern bottoms qf.
sugar produced from the sugar-*
cane, and not made from sorghum
orjimphee, fc. per lb.
Nails, of brass, copper, and zinc, 5 perct.
Oils, essential, sperct.
Oil, illuminating, lubricating or oth
er mineral oils, marking not more
than fifty-nine degrees, the exclu
sive product of the refining or *•
crude oil produced by a single dis
tillation of coal, " shale,'asphaltum,
peat, or other bitumimous sub
stances, per gallon,
Owners of jacks and stallions, li
cense, $lO
Pumps, . * 5 per ct.
Photographers, license, $lO
Photographs, ambrotypoSf etc., no
stamp, 5 per ct.
Patent-right dealers, license, $25
Pedlars, license, $lO, sls, $25, and SSO
Physicians and surgeons, license, $lO
Pawnbrokers, license, . SSO
Plummers and gas-fitters, license, $lO
Paper, manufacturers of, not other
wise provided for, . 5 per ct.
Pepper, ground, and all imitations
• of, per pound, . 2 cts.
Pepper, all packages not fcplceding
in weight one-half pound; 1 cent,
and one cent for each half pound
in excess.
Pins, solid head or other, 5 per ct.
Pipes, of sheet lead and lead, . 5 per ct.
Potteryware, not otherwise provided
for, 5 per ct.
Productions or stereotypes, lithogra
phers, and engravers, 5 per ct.
Precious stones and all imitations, 5 per ct.
Railroads, steamboats, ship barge,
canal boat engaged in transport
ing passengers for hire, shall pay
on gross receipts, per ct.
Railroads (horse and steam) may add
tax to fares until April 30, 1867,
Real estate agents, under which
term is included every person
whose business it is to sell or offer
for sale real estate for others, or
to rent houses, stores, or other
buildings or real estate, or to col
lect rent for others, for license, $lO
Retail dealers, of all kinds, license, $lO
Retail liquor dealers, license, • $25
Rectifiers, license, $25
Salt, per hundred pounds, 3 cents.
Scales, 3 per ct.
Screws, called wood screws, 10 perct.
Shoe-strings, . 2 per ct.
Silk, manufactures of, not otherwise
provided for, 5 per ct,
Silver, manufactures of, other than
jewelry, when not otherwise speci
fied. 5 per ct.
Skins, calf, tanned, 5 per ct.
Skins, calf, patent, .5 per ct.
Skins, goat, tanned or dressed in
the rough, _ 5 per ct.
Skins, kid, tanned or dressed in the
rough, 5 per ct.
Skins, goat, curried, manufactured
or finished, 5 per ct.
Skins, kid, curried, manufactured
or finished, 5 per ct.
Skins, sheep, tanned or dressed in
the rough, . . 5 per ct.
Skins, dog, tanned or dressed in the
rough, 5 per ct.
Skins, sheep, tanned, curried or
finished, 5 per ct.
Skins, deer, dressed and smoked, 5 per ct.
Skins, hog, tanned and dressed, 5 per ct.
Skins —all goats, calf, kid, sheep,
horse, dog, and hog skins, pre
viously assessed in the rough, and
upon which duties have been ac
tually paid, shall be assessed, the
increased value only when curried
or finished,
Skins, upon which a duty has been
previously assessed and paid,
when manufactured into gloves,
mittens, or moccasins, the duty
shall only be assessed upon the in
creased value thereof when man
ufactured.
| Skius of all descriptions, 5 per ct.
! Soaps valued at not above three
cents per pound, 2i mills.
I Soaps—all soaps valued above three
cents per pound, not perfumed,
including salt-water soap made of
cocoanut oil, } per ct.
All other p'erftimed soaps, 3 per ct.
.Steel, manufactures of, when not
•otherwise specified, . 5 per ct.
Sugar refiners, under which term is
included every person whose busi
ness it is to advance the quality
add value of sugar upon which a
duty has been assessed and paid,
by melting and crystalization, or
bv liquoring, claying, or any other
washing process, or by any other
chemical or mechanical means, or
who shall advance the quality or
value of molasses, concentrated
molasses, melado or concentrated
melado by boiling or other pro
cess, on the gross amount of the
sales of all the products of their
manufactories, _ 21 per ct.
Sugar, not above No. 12, D. 8. . in
polor, produced directly from the
sugar-cane, and not from sorghum
or imphee, other than that pro
duced by the refiner, per pound, 1 ct.
Sugar, above No. 12, and not above
No. IS, D. S., produced directly
from the sugar-cane and not from
sorghum or imphee, per pound, 1£ cts.
Sugar, above No. 18, per pound, 21 cts.
Sugar candy, made wholly or in part
of sugar valued at twenty cents
per pound or less, per pound (in
cluding the tax) 2 cts.
Sugar candy, valued at exceeding
• twenty cents, and not exceeding
forty cents per pound (including
the tax) ' 4 cts.
Sugar candy, valued at exceeding
forty cents per pound, or when
sold otherwise than by the pound,
ad valorem, 10 per ct.
Sugar made from other articles than
the sugar-cane is not considered a
manufacture.
Telegraph companies, 011 gross re
ceipts, ’ * 5 per ct.
Thread and twine, 3 per ct,
Theatres, museums, etc., license, $lO
Tin, manufactures of, when not
otherwise specified, 5 per ct.
Tinware, .of all descriptions, not
otherwise provided for, 5 per ct.
Tobacco, smoking, of all kinds, and
imitations thereof, not otherwise
provided for, per pound, 15 cts.
Tobacco, fine-cut chewing, whether
manufactured withstemsin ornot,
or however sold, whether loose, in
bulk, or in rolls, packages, boxes,
etc., per pound, 40 cts.
Tobacco, smoking, sweetened, stem
med, or butted, per pound, • 40 cts.
Tobacconists, license, $ 10
Tubers, wrought iron, per ton, $lO
Turpentine, spirits of, per gallon, 10. cts.
Umbrellas and parasols, and umbrel
la sticks, exempt.
Tarnish or Japan, made wholly or
in part of gum copal or other gums
of substances, 5 per ct.
Wholesale dealers, license, sso'
Wholesale dealers, for every addi
tional thousand over fifty thou
sand dollars, $1
Wholesale liquor dealers, license, SIOO
Wine made of grapes, per gallon, 5 cts.
Wines, or liquors denominated as
wines, not made from currants,
rhubard, or berries, produced by
being rectified or mixed with oth
er spirits, or with which any mat
ter whatever may be infused, to
he sold as wine, or by any other
name, and not otherwise provided
for, per gallon, 50 cts.
Woodj manufacturers of, ifnototli
. erwise provided for, 5 per ct.
Wool, manufacturers of, not other
wise provided for, 5 per ct.
Worsteds, manufacturers of, not
otherwise specified, 5 per ct.
Yarn and warp I'or wearing purpo
ses exclusively, exempt.
Zinc, manufacturers ’of, when not
otherwise specified, . ." 5 perct,
Zinc nails, 5 per ct.
Tlie J<’ree lost.
The following articles heretofore subject
to internal taxation are hereby declared by
the new law (just passed) to be exempt
from such internal duty, provided that the
exemptions shall, in all cases, be confined
exclusively to said articles in the state and
condition specified in the enumeration, and
shall not extend to articles in any other
'form, nor*to manufacture from said arti
cles:
Alum, aluminum, aluminous cake, pat
ent alum, sulphate of alumina, find cobalt;
Analino and analine colors;
Animal charcoal, or carbon;
Anvils;
Articles manufactured in institutions for
the blind, in institutions for the deaf and
dumb, which are sold to aid in their sup
port, or the support of the pupils;
Barrels and casks other than those used
for the reception of fluids; packing boxes
made of wood; and boxes of wood or paper
for friction matches, cigar lights, and wax
tapers;
Beeswax, crude or unrefined;
Bi-chromate and prussiate of potash;
Bleaching powders;
Blue vitriol;
Borax, and boracic acid;
Brass not more advanced than rods or
sheets;
Brick, fire-brick, draining tiles, cement,
drains, and sewer pipes, and earthen stone
water-pipes, retorts and tiles made of clay.
Bristles;
Brooms made from corn, brush, or palm
leaf;
Building stone of all kinds, including
slate, marble, freestone, and soapstone,
and rock, ground and calcined gypsum ;
Bunting and flags of the United States,
and,banners made of buntting of domestic
manufacture;
Burrstones, millstones, and grindstones,
rough or wrought;
Candle wicking ;
Coffins and burial cases;
Copperas ;
Copper, lead, and tin, in ingots, pigs or
bars; 1
Copper and yellow sheeting metal, not
more advanced than rods or sheets, and
stamped copper bottoms;
Crates, and grain or farm baskets made
of splints;
Crucibles of all kinds;
Crutches and artificial limbs, eyes, and
teeth;
Deer skins, smoked or not oil dressed ;
Feather beds, matressep, pallasses, leis
ters, and pillows;
Fertilizers of all kinds ;
Flasks and patterns used by founders ‘
Flavoring extracts, solely for cooking
purposes;
German silver in bars and sheets*;
Gold leaf and gold foil;
Hemp or,iute prepared for texile or felt
ing purposes;
Hulls of ships and other vessels ;
Illuminating gas manufactured by educa
tional institutions for their own use exclu
sively ;
India rubbea springs used exclusively for
railroad cars;
Iron bridges and castings for the same:
Iron drain and sewer pipes;
Keys, actions and strings for musical in
struments ;
Litharge ami orange mineral;
Machines driven by horse power and
used exclusively for cutting fire-wood,
staves, and .shingle-bolts, and handsaws ;
Magnesium, calcined magnesia', and car
bonate of magnesia;
Malleable iron castings, unfinished;
Manganese;
Masts, spars, ship and vessel blocks, and
tree-dail wedges and deck-plugs, cordage,
ropes, and cables made of vegetable fibre;
Medicinal and mineral waters, of all
kinds, sold in bottles or from fountains and
meed ;
Mineral coal of all kinds, and peat;
Monuments of stone of all kinds, not ex
ceeding in value the sum of one hundred
dollars: Provided, That monuments ex-
ceeding the value aforesaid, erected by
public or private contributions to com
memorate the services of Union soldiers
who have fallen in battle, shall be exempt
from taxation;
Mouldings for looking-glasses and pic
ture frames;
Muriatic, nitric, and acetic acids;
Nickel, quicksilver, aud sodium ;
Nitrate of lead;
Oakum ;
Original paintings, statues, and groups
of stationary and easts thereof by the artist
from the original designs ;
Oxide of zinc;
Paints, painters', and paper stationers’
colors; •
Printing paper of all descriptions, and
tarred paper for roofing and other pur
poses ; books, maps, charts, and all printed
matter, and bookbinding ; paraffine; par
affine oil, not exceeding in specific gravity
36 degrees Baume’s hydrometer, a resi
duum of distillation or the products there
of; lubricating oil made from crude pe
troleum, coal or shale,, not exceeding in
specific gravity 36 degrees Bifume’s hydro
meter ; Provided, That such oil shall be
subject to the same inspection as illuminat
ing oil; crude petroleum and crude oil, the
product of the first and single distillation
of cdal, shale, asphaltum, peat, or other
bituminous substances ;
Photographs or any other sun picture,
being copies of engravings or works of art,
when the same are sold by the producer at
wholesale at a price not exceeding fifteen
cents each, or used for the illustration of
books;
Pickles when sold, by the gallon, and not
contained in glass packages;
Pig-iron ; muck bar; blooms) slabs, and
loops;
. Ploughs, cultivators, borrows, straw and
hay cutters; planters, seed-drills, horse
rakes, hand-rakes, cotton gins, grain
cradles, and winnowing mills;
Pot and pearl ashes;
Productions of stereotypers, lithograph
ers, engravers, and electrotypers;
Putty; •
Quinine, morphine, and other vegeta
ble alkaloids, and phosphorus :
Railroad iron, and railroad iron re-roll
ed ;
Railroad chairs and fish plates ; rail
road. boat and ship spikes ; axe polls ;
iron axel ; s ; shoes for horses, mules, and
oxen; rivits, horse-shoe nails, nuts washers,
and bolts ; vises, iron chains and anchors;
when such articles are made of wrought,
iron which has previously paid the tax or
duty assessed thereon ;
Reapers, mowers, threshing machines,
and separators, corn-shellers, and wooden
ware;
Repairs of articles of all kinds ;
Roman and water cements, and lime;
Roofing, slate, ,slabs, and tiles;
Saleratus, sal-soda, caustic soda, crude
soda, aluminosilicate of soda ; alumniateof
soda; bi-carbonate of soda ; and siliciate of
soda;
Sails, tents, awnings, and bags made by
sewing front fabrics or other articles upon
which a duty or tax has been paid ; and
bags made of paper ;
Sulpet.ro ;
Salts of tin :
Silex Used in the manufacture of glass ;
Soap, valued at not above three cents
per pound;
Spelter ; .
Spindles and castings of all descriptions
•made specially for locks, safes, looms, spin
ning machines, pumps, steam engines, hot
air and hot water furnaces, and. sewing
machines, and not sold or used for auy
other purposes, and upon which a tax is
assessed and paid on the article of which
the casting is a part:
Spokes, hubs, bows, and felloes ; poles
shafts, and arms for carriages or wagons ;
wooden handles for ploughs, and for other
agriculturnal, household, and mechanical
tools and implements ; and pail and tub
ears and handles ; and wooden tanks, and
cisterns for crude mineral oil;
Starch ;
Steel, in ingots, bar, rail, made and filled
for railroads, sheet, plate, coil or wire,
hoop skirt wire, covered or uncovered, car
wheels, thimble skeins, and pipe boxes,
and springs, tire and axles made of steel,
used exclusively for vehicles, cars or loco
motives ; and clock springs, faces, and
hands;
Stoves, composed in part ot east iron
and in part of sheet iron, or soapstone or
freestone, with or without east iron or
sheet iron : Provided, That the cast and
sheet iron shall have paid the tax or duty
previously assessed thereon ;
Sugar, molasses, or syrup made from
beets, corn, sugar maple, or from sorghum
or imphee ;
Sulpher ; flours of sulphcr and sulpher
flour ;
Tar and crude turpentine ;
The cans used for preserved meats, fish,
shell-fish, fruits, vegetables, jams, jellies ;
oils, and spice ;
Umbrellas and parasols, and sticks and
frames for the same;
Value,of bullion used in the manufacture
of wares, watches, and watch-cases, and
bullion prepared for the use of platers and
watchmakers;
Vegetable, animal, and fish oils of all
descriptions, not otherwise provided for,
including red oil, oleic acid, and admixtures
of the same with paraffine oil, not exceed
ing in specific gravity thirty-six degrees
Baumre s hydrometer;
ILprdigris;
vinegar;
White and red led ;
Whiting; Paris white;
Window glass of all kinds ;
Wine made of grapes, currants or other
fruits, and rhubarb;
Wire made from wire less than number
twenty wire-gauge, upon which a tax has
been assessed and paid as wire ;
Yarn and warp for weaving, braiding,
or manufacturing purposes exclusively ;
Yeast powders,
Zinc in ingots or sheets.
The administration of this act which
changes the existing law relating to distil
led spirits and fermented liquors, is to take
effect from and after the first day •of Sep
tember, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Radical Ranting.
The Detroit Post , a leading Radical
sheet, is sorely perplexed about the pro
posed Philadelphia Convention. That pa
per can see nothing in it but treason and
copper-head stratagems. The most ob
jectionable feature to him, in the whole
programme, is the fact that the Democratic
members of Congress approve the move
ment, The editor gives the names of the
Democrats, which are appended to the ad
dress recommending the co-operation of the
Democratic party, and says :
“ The signatures are more instructive
than the address. Read the Congressional
> Globe; search the records of Congress for
the most virulent opposers of every patri
otic measure during the war, for the most
insidious advocates of every proposition
preparing the way for the repudiation ol
the national debt, for the most malicious
revilers of the colored defenders ol the
country, for the deadliest enemies of eman
cipation, for the most insidious maligners
of our departed martyr President, and you
* find them here in fraternal embrace with
Andrew Johnson. These are the men who
now are the head and front of the Johnson
movement, and the Randalls, the Doolit
tle the Dixons , and the. Cowans arc sub
missively marching in their ranks.
The alliance is concluded, and the firm
is plainly announced on the sign-board :
Andrew Johnson, Garrett Davis, Jack
PnwrsA- Cos But there is one man whose
name is missing, and our Southern breth
ren have a right to be indignant at the
strange oversight. Had his signature been
solicited, it would have been cheerfully
given and added character to the ticket.—
We allude to the distinguished State Pris
oner at Fortress Monroe.”
Anew address from Gen. Sweeney is
out, dated St. Albans, Vt., July 4th. It
contains the. customary exhortations about
organizing circles. The money must come
for another campaign.