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The following are the provis ions of the Tax Bill passel by the recent session of the Legislature of this State Upon the following articles there shall be an ad ralorein tax paid, as property according to its asssessed value, viz: On all real estate, 30 cents on every S100, ex eept such lands as may be in p)oss ossion of the Freedmen's Bureau in January next ; on the capital stock of all gaslight companies, 50 cents on every $100; on articles. manufactured for sale. barter or exchange, between the first dlay of January, 1S66, and January. 18G7. $1 on every 8100, to be paid by the mranufacturers; on all gross amount of all spirituous lliquors, (except on liquors mnan ufact ured in the State from fruits in their 5eason.) sold from Jianuary 1st t o D~ecember 31st, 18637, 10 per cent, to be quarterly to the tax collec tors of the Several D)istricts;: on buggies, carriages. gold and silver plate, watches, jewelry and pianos, on hand January 1st, 18S67, except those held by dlealers for sale, $1 on every $100. Upon all gross incomes dlerived from the following sou rces, there shall be paid a tax of the per cent herein specified on the aggregate amount received between the 1st day of Janiuary, 1866, and the first day of january, 1867: From em loyments, faculties and profess ions, including the profession of dentistry, (whether in the pro fession of the law of the profits de rived from the costs of suit, fees, or other sources of professional in come,) excepting clergymen $2 on every $100 ; onl 'onunifssionls re e,eivedl by brokers. vendlue masters. factors, commission merchants, dealers in exchang~e, (foreign or domnestic,) or in mortgages, bonds aind other negotiable pape'r, $5 on every $100 ; on the gross amount of premiumns received by insurance companies incorporaltedl wit hin t his State, $2 on every 8100; on the gross amounit of premiurns recivedl by agencies of insurance compa nies5 and underwriters incorpora ted without the limits of this State. $3 on every 8100; oni the gross amount of the reeipts of expres companies. $10 on every $100, to be paid to the Treasurer of th receipts of telegrapn, companies, $5 on every $100; on the gross amount of receipts from the sale of pictorial newspapers or maga zines, $25 on every $100; on the gross receipts of newspapers pub lished in this State, 82 on every $100; on the amount of sales of goods, wares, merehandizo, embra cing all the articles of trade for sale, barter or exchange, (spiritu ous liquors and the products of this State, and the unmanufac tured products of any of the Uni ted States, or Territories thereof excepted') which any person shall have made from the 1st day of January, of the present year, to the 1st day of January, A. D., 1867, 60 cents on every $100; for same articles, a tax of 50 cents for the ensuing year, on the gross profits of national banks, $10 on every 100; on the incomes derived from the arts of photographing and daguerreotyping, $1 on every $100; on all incomes amounting to more than $500 per annum, derived from salaries, rents, dividends and money at interest, in excess of $500, $1 on every $100 ; on the in comes derived from saw, flour and grist mills, and also from cotton ginned on toll, $2 on every $100; on the gross incomes of all rail roads. (not exempt by law.) $1 on every $100, but that when a part of a railroad only is within the limits of this State, the return of its income shall bear the same ratio to its whole income that the length of road in this State bears to its whole length. The following persons are to pay a tax on every $100 of gross in come; hotel keepers, 82 restau rants or eating houses. $2; livery stables, $2; ',tchers and huck sters, $2; billiard tables, $5 ; bowl ing alleys, $5; bar-rooms, whether connected with a hotel, or other wise, $10; ferries, $1; toll-gates, $1. Upon taking out a charter, ex cept for religious, charitable and eucational purposes, $20; each renewal of charter, under this Act, $10. The keepers of public race cour ses shall pay a tax of $100; each public hack, stage coach, dray and baggage wagon be taxed $10, and each omnibus. $25. All persons representing public ly, for' gain or reward, any plays. comedy, tragedy. 01r other empI loy ments of the stage, or exhibiting wax-works or other shows, of any kind whatsoever. to be paid into the hands of the Clerks of the Courts respecCtively, (who shall be bound1( to collect - - pay the same into the Treasury, excepting in cases where the same is now re uired(yI awt be paidl to corpo rat ions or otherwise,)S$10 per day; ircus m:hibitions, $50 per day ; logs shall be taxed 81, but for each plantation and inhabited lot in a town or village, there shall be Ione dog exemfptedl from taxation. A capitation tax of $1 per head on ever male between the ages of twenty-one andl fifty, resident in the State, on the first day of Feb ruarv, 1867, except they be inea pable of earning a support.-Every employer shall make returns of the names of all persons that are em ployed by him, and pay the tax of such person or persons, in which case the tax receipt shall be a good Iand valid set off in any action for waes by such employee against such1 employer. All taxes levied oni property, as prsrbd in this Aet, shall be pid( to the taz collector for the District or Parish in which said property is loae,ecpt that the tax levied on railroads, express an( telegraph companies, he paidl into the Treasury of the State. The lots and houses on Sullivan's Island shall be returned to the tax collector of' the tax (district in which they are situated, in the same manner as; other town lots and houses, and shall be liable to t he same rae of taxation. The taxes herein levied shall be United States Treasury notes, or notes of national banks, or the bills receivable of this State, and also pay certificates of jurors and constables for attendance on the courts. The tax collectors of the several collection districts shall be allowed, on all sums o_ money paid into their hands for taxation, a commission, as follows: Fo' St. Philip's and St. Michael's ---per cent, for Anderson, Abbeville, Chester, Kershaw, Richland, Clarendon, Darlington, Laurens. Marioi, Newberry, Orangeburg, Spartanburg, Sumter, Edgefield, Union, York and Barnwell, four per cent. for Chesterfield, Green ville, Lancaster, Lexington, Marl boro, Pickens, Fairfield, St. Mat thew's, Prince George WMinaw, St. Bartholomew't and Williamsburg, six per cent.; for Iorry, St. Helena, St. Stephen's Christ Church, Prince William's, All Saints, St. George's. Dorchester, St. Jame's Santee and Goose Creek, St. John's Berkley and Colleton, and St. Peter, eight per cent. ; for St. Andrew's and St. Thomas and St. Dennis, ten per cent.:-Provided, That in all districts where the taxes amount to more than $30,000, the commis sion shall be two per cent. on the excess. Tax collectors to make returns to the Treasury in Colum bia, on or before July, 1867. No tax collector or assessor shall receive his commissions till their returns have been received at the Treasurer's office, and been approved by him. The assessors of the several districts are required to return to the tax collector lists of all persons in their district, subject to the capitation tax, with such particu lars of residence, etc., as may serve to identify the persons. The tax collector is required to pay to the State Treasurer the quarterly re turns within thirty days. Each tax collector shall attend at the court house, or some other public place, daily, for one week previous to making his final return. All taxes on incomes shall refer to those i .ceived between January, 1, 1866, and 1867, except special designations. Before the collection of the taxes herein levied, an assessment shall be madle of the actual value of the property taxed ; andl for that pur pose the tax collectors of the sever:dl Dist riets anid Parishes. ex cept the Parishes of St. Philiip and( St. IMlichael. are hereby constituited assessr<. Each tax (collector, be fore entering upon his dluties as assessor, shall take andI subscribe, before the Clerk of the Court of the District, the following oath, which shall be end(orsedI on his commission, viz: "I ,A. 13., do prmise and swear that I will, to the best of my ability, execute the duties of assessor for my collection district, andl will without favor or partiality, ascertian and assess the actual value of property, real and pesnl upon which an ad razl orem tax is laid before, and for the purpose of laying such tax. Advice to the South. Stand firm. Yield obedience to the laws now in force) but have no hand in making others till eve ry State in the Union is represen ted on the floor of Congress. Force cannot keep you fronm a represen tation thereL i)fyo want it and sendl men of your choice, duly elecd by the people. Adopt no us5oeall ed" Conusti tutional Amen ents, fori if you are in no fit condition to have representat ion in Congress you are not fit to adlopt any amend ment s. The Constistution con templates no division of allegi ane You fought bravely-You yield ed honorably. iDo not imperil yourselves, ourselves, the country andl its future by rash acts, now. Stand( firm-wait in the dlignitv of brave intelligence. Giive not an inch from the right and thle Constitution. If yon are our peo pie - 1 1101( the same rights as we have, and those rights will soon be yours. If wronged, res pectfully protest. If insulted, bear it a while longer like men. If anx ious for peace so in dignity com port yourselves as to strengthen us in the North who are battling not for you alone but ft r the right ! If you stand in dignified firm ness all will be well, and we will find men to stand between the op pressor and the oppressed. We do not ask you to take up arms against the radical troubles impo sed upon the country. It is more our fight in the North. If you adopt the required Con stitutional Amendments, other penalties, and humiliations will be yours to adopt forever, for rad icalism never will be satisfied ex eept with your blood and proper ty. If you grow weak now that you are strong in your injuries we are all lost together and our gov ernment and country goes down forever. Send your representatives, as you have a right to do if legally elected. If they are not admit ted, then comes a revolution North and the avenging hosts of liberty will destroy either radicalism, or the country North, till yours will be the government to maintain. Do not leave the country-stay at home, hide the ruins-refurnish your homes, God and Democracy will do the rest ! We have battled with Radicalsm this fall long and earnestly-that party in the North is over seventy thousand weaker than two months since. We are working for the Constitution-for the-laws for Equality of States-for equal tax ation-tor peace, Union, domestic tranquility and the government our fbrefiatlhers gave us, and which, by the livirv (od, shall not be stolen from the people till after a trial at arms for which not only the editor of this paper but two million Democrats in the North are ready, whenever the Radical party of thieves,eowards,bon)dhold es. fanantics, vandals, Puritans, hypocrites and greed loving vul tures of abolitionism are prepared to (lie in the strife they dare not commenee. The question now at issue con erns us in th)e North equally with ou of the South, and it is for this reason-for our love for our suf fein country-that we write as we do.-L~a Crosse ( Wi..) D(mocrat. Lynching of' Three llesperadoes.. A terrible scene]1 occurred recenit lv at Lebanon, Ky. Central Ken tucky has, since the war, beeni the scene of the most atrocious crimes. Robberies and( murders have be come so frequent, that at last the incensed cornmnunity organised a band for the extermination of these dlsperadloes, and commenced on three young men confined in jail. The committee, armed with guns, marched into the town about 11.45 p. in., picketed the streets, and arrested all inq1uisitive citizens. The front door of the jail was b)roken open. The jailor ran up stairs and hid himself. Not being able to find the jailor, the mob at tempted to break in the iron door of the jail with sledge-hammners. Failing in this, they found the jailor, and forced him to deliver up the keys. In the meantime, the prisoners, eight in number, were awakenedI by the h ammering at the door. Fully understanding the danger that menaccd them, hey shrieked andl yelled fo help, and armed themselves with billets of wood. fully dletermninedl to sell their lives as dear as possible. When the mob came to the door of the dungeon they unlocked it, anl after some parley, part of them entered the cell without resistance. The leadler of the m9b then called for Clem. Crowduis, W. Goode and Tom. Stevens. who immediately answered to their names. As they delivered themselves up, the leader said: for you for a long time." Crowdus answered: "I know you have, Mr. ," calling the man by name. Forming in procession, the mob immediately started for a hill about one and a half miles distant, giving one triumphant shout as they passed through the town. What took place at the hill, prior to the hanging, no one but the members of the mob know. In the morning the bodies of the three men were found hanging to a tree. Crowdus' heels nearly touched a root of the tree, and he had evidently suffered the horrors of suffocation. with his toes upon the ground. The rope upon Goode's neck slipped so much that he stood upon his feet, so his legs were doubled up and his feet tied to his hauds. Stephens swung clear, his neck being dislocated. A company of tuited States troops were drawn up in line in the court-house yard, but the commanding officer refused to in terfere unless requested to do so by the civil authorities, but al though the marshal was present, the troops were not called upon to defend the jail. *406 Lost by not taking a Country Paper. Generally speaking but little importance is attached to the taking of a country newspaper. This neglect and indifference had its practical reward the other day. Some time ago a gentleman in this town was appointed auditor to distribute the funds in the hands of an admiiiistrr tor amongst the creditors. Notice of the auditor was published in two ofthe county papers. It so happened that a few credi tors residing in a certain portion of the county who had collectively claims to the amount of seven or eight hundred dollars, from the neglect of taking a county paper never heard of the audit until after the report of the auditor had been confirmed by the court. They then came into town to Onquire about the likelihood of securing their claims ; called upon an attor ney, who examined into the mat ter and informed them that they had f'orever lost their money, and we presume charged thoem five dol lars for the information. All this resulted in being too penurious or too careless to sub scribe for' a country paper. These geutlemen have learned a lesson that wxill last them the balance of their lives. and( serve as a warn ing to others who, from the same mfotive, fail to take their district There is scarcely a man in the community who will not be caught up some (lay on a legal notice, that dIoes not take a paper, unless he clandestinely reads his. neighbor's (a practice very extensively in dulged. in by close-fisted penurious inividuals) and every gentleman should be above literary pilfering like this. AN ACT to provide Artificial Legs for all Citizens of the State who have lost their Legs during the recent war. SEConon 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re{presentatives, now' met andl sitti.ng inl General As sembly, and by the authority of the same, That the Governor be, and he is hereb)y authorized to furnish all citizens of this State, who have lost their logs during the recent war, in the service of the country, wit h artifi('ial logs; and the sum of t wenty thousand( dollairs, if so much is necessary to pay for the same, is hereby a.ppropr'iated( for that purpose, and all other pur poses necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. SEc. 2. That all railroad comn paisin this State be requeste'd Ito transport to and from Columbia or anyv other p)lac'e that may be desinaftted by the Governor, free of charge, all citizens of this State entitled to artificial legs under the lregoing section of this Act. Rarti' 'ecember 21). Read Aloud. Reading aloud is one of those t exercises that combine mental and p muscular effort, and hence has a I double advantage. To read aloud c well, a person should not only un- is derstand the subject, but should c hear his own voice and feel within g him that every syllable was dis- t tinctly enunciated, while there is b an instinct presiding which modu- c lates the voice to the number and s distance of the hearers. Every I public speaker ought to be able to a tell whether he is distinctly heard I by the furthest listener in the Ili room ; if he is not able to do so, it t is for want of proper judgment v and observation. a Reading aloud helps to develop the lungs just as singing does. if a properly performed. The effect s is to induce the drawing of a long c breath once in a while, oftener and 1 deeper than that of reading with- t out enunciating. These deep in- a halatious never fail to develop the i capacity of the lungs in direct pro- g portion to their practice. il Common consumption begins ' uniformly with imperfect, insuffi- e cient breathing; it is the charac- f teristic of the disease that the a breath becomes shorter and short- d er through weary months, down to the close of life, and whatever t counteracts the short breathing, t whatever promotes deeper inspi- t rations is curative to that extent, t inevitable and under all circum- a stances. Let any person make 1 the experiment by reading this page aloud, and in less than three r minutes the instinct of a long breath will show itself. This read- t ing aloud develops a weak voice and makes it sonorous. It has a great efficiency, also in making the tones clear, freeing them from < that annoying hoarseness which the unaccustomed reader exhibits t before he is gone over half a page, I when he has to stop and clear away, to the confusion of himself as that of the subject. t t This loud reading, when proper ly done, has a great agency in in dacing vocal power, on the same principle that muscles are strength ened by exercise-those of voice making organs being no exception to the general rule. Hence in many cases, absolute silence di minishes the vocal power, just as the protracted non-use of the arm of the Hlindoo devotee at lengthr paralyzes it forever. The general plan in appropriate caCss is to I read aloud ini a conversational tone, thrice a day, for a minute or two, a or three at a time, increasing a minute every day, which is to be i continued until the desired object 1 is accomplished. Managed thus, there is safety and efficiency as a uniform result-. As a means, then, of health, of averting consumption, of being vo al andl entertaining in any com pany, as a means of showing the quality of the mind, let reading1 aloud be considered an accom plishment far more indispensable than that of smattering French, or lipsing Italian, or dancing cotil lions, gallopades, polkas and quad rills.-Halls Journal. Boys UsING ToBAoo.-It is said there are no boys now, but the following strong, sensible, sharp, good saying is designed for that portion of the genus homo, known as "Young America," who t use tobacco : "it has utterly spoiled and ut terly ruined thousand of boys. It ted(s to softening and weakening of the bones. andI it great ly in jures the brain, the spinal marrow and the whole nervous fluid. A ov who smokes early and fre quently, or in any wa uses large quantities of tobacco, is nevere known to make a man of much i energy, andl generally lacks muns cular and physical, as well as men tal power. We would p)articular ly warn boys, who want to be any thing in the world, to shunii to bac-h .N) as mO3 1manC'ful no)ison.' n IMM1GRATION.-It is stated that hree hundred thousand iminis rants arrived in the United States n 1866, being a considerable in rease over the year previous. It i believed that the disaffection in= ident to the changes in the overnment of the States of Cen ral Europe, and the Feniaii tiou= lee in Ireland, will induce an in: reased flow of population to Our hores during the next year. The russian conscription is severe and ifensive, and every steamer froi Iamburg to Bremen, has, among ,er passengers large numbers of he sturdy young men of Germany; ho are coming to America io void going into the army. Can nothing be done to induce port'on of these iiumigranta to ettle in the genial and fertild tates of the South? We fear our cople arc culpably indifferent to his golden opportunity to secure ccessions to our population. The ifluences which meet these immi rants on their arrival naturilly Scline them to the West. That ras, perhaps, while slavery exist d at the South, a more inviting old for free labor. Their friends ,nd countrymen who have preee= .ed them to America have gone Vest and prospered. In addition o these influences, misrepresenta ions of the South, of every charae or, are pressed upon. their attenj ion by the land and railroad .gents of the West, and they fol ow the old beaten tract to the faf Vest-where the hardships of pie leer life and the rigors of a cbld limate await them. We belieir hat if proper representations of he price and character of South ;rn lands, the advantages of our un and soil, and healthfulness of ur climate, were made, that thbu ands and tens of thousands of hese people could be added to our )opulation. Our landholders should form so -etics or clubs and send agents to he North or to Europe td ineet hese people and prcssiit the ad rantages of our section in their rue light .-Augusta Press. THE FUTURE OF THE SoUT. Ye utter but a trite sentiment vhen we say that the fuiture of he South is in the hanids of its ~oung men. How many of them e qualifying themselves to man ge its faetories, control its rail ads, mine its ore, work its acine shops; ahid eultivate its lantations? Profes.sional men it tas in abundance--able lawyers, .compished p)hysicians; eloquent peakers. These have their uses, >ut the growth of' a Stto~ depends ess on them than on ths character f the inen who inana.ge its in-a ustrial enterprises. What is uost needed in the South to-day s, that the young blood which ought for it so gallantly should ork it as dleterminedly. On the plantation, in the shop, n the factory, there the 80uth is o effect its true restoration. The oung men who dug trenches and ed on hominy and pork, who vent clad in home:spun gray and lept in cold, or rain, otr shine, tnder the canopy of the heavens o further the fortunes, as they elievd, of their native land, can LW do noble service by laying Lld of its plow handles, turning s lathes;. guiding its spindles, tandling its locomotives. But here is want of capital. No mat er, they have youth, health, hope, mbition ; and good abilities. They have every incentive for hich to work. Begin with a vill. and snecess will crown their ifort s.-National hatelligencer. The negroes had a military display yes ar(day, conmmemnorative of the anniversary f the Emancipation Proclamation. Two omanies of Zouaves dressed in red and lue, proceeded y about eighteen freed. ien in full cavalry uniform ,marched through ie streets knee-deep in mud. The officers -re dressed in gay uniforms, with epau attes and swords. In the afternoon some I the party got drunk, and a squad of po ce took abont twelve freedmen, muskets, words, epaulettes and all to the guard os, where they were locked up for tle ight.-Augusta Press,