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(fhroniclr & Sentinel. 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.