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VOLUME xE YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1866. NUMBER 17.
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J&electeh jjattrj."
LIFE'S SUNSET.
Where are you going so fast, old man,
Where are you going so fast?
There's a ralley to cross, and a river to ford,
There's a clasp of the hand and a parting word,
And a tremulous sigh for the past, old man,
The beautiful vanished past.
The road has been rugged and rough, old man
To your feet IP's rugged and rough,
But you see a dear being with gentle eyes,
Has shared in your labor and sacrifice;
Ah! that has been sunshine enough, old man,
For you and me, sunshine enough.
How long since you've passed over the hill, old man,
Of life o'er the top of the hill ?
Were there beautiful valleys on t'other side?
Were there flowers and trees with their branches wide,
To shut out the heat of the sun, old man,
The heat of the fervid sun ?
And how do you cross the waves, old man,
Of sorrdw, the fearful waves :
Did you lay your dear treasures by, one by one,
With an aching heart and "God's will be done,"
Under the wayside dust, old man,
id Ult' graves neain ujc way>iuc u um
There is labor and sorrow for all, old man,
Alas! there Is sorrow for all,
And you, peradvenmre, hare had your share,
For eighty long winters have whitened yourhair,
Ana they've whitened your heart as well, old man,
Thank God, your heart as well.
You're now at the foot of the bill, old man,
At last at the foot of the hill;
The sun has gone down In a golden glow,
And the heavenly city lies just below ;
Go In through the pearly gate, old man,
The beautiful pearly gate.
fnimtal lekmtf.
THE NEW COTTON TAX.
THE PROVISIONS OP THE NEW INTERNAL
REVENUE LAW ON THE SUBJECT.
AS a matter 01 very geuerai iiuoicDb iu
oar readers, we present below the first eight
sections of the new Internal Revenue Law,
which embrace all the provisions of the
law which relate to the internal tax on
ootton:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That on
and after the first day of Aagust, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, in lieu of the taxes
on unmanufactured cotton, as provided in
((Ad aot to provide internal revenue to support
the Government, to pay interest on the
poblio debt, and for other purposes," ap
proved June thirteenth, eighteen hundred
aud sixty-four, as amended by the Act of
Maroh third, eighteen hundred and sixtyfive,
there shall be paid by the producer,
owner or holder, upon all cotton produced
within the United States, and upon which
no tax has been levied, paid or oolleoted, a
tax of three oents per pound, as hereinafter
provided; and the weight of soon ootton
shall ho oonortainod hw dfldnrttlDC four Der
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oentum for tare from the gross weight of
each bale or package; and such tax shall
be and remain a lien thereon, in the posses
sion of any person whomsoever from the
time when this law takes effect, or such
cotton is produced as aforesaid, until the
same shall have been paid; and no draw
back shall in any case be allowed on raw or
unmanufactured cotton of any tax paid
thereon when exported in the raw unmanufactured
condition. But no tax shall be
imposed upon any cotton imported from
other conntries, and on which an import
duty shall have been paid.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the aforesaid tax upon cotton shall be levied
by the assessor on the producer, owner, or
holder thereof. And said tax shall be paid
to the oolleotor of internal revenue within
and for the oolleotion district in which said
cotton shall have been produced, and before
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me same saan nave ueeu remuveu mere
from, except where otherwise provided in
this Act; and every collector to whom any
tax apon cotton shall be paid shall mark
the bales or other packages upon which the
tax shall have been paid, in such^manner
as may clearly indicate the payment thereof,
and shall give to the owner or other person
having charge of suob cotton a permit for
the removal of the same, stating therein
the amount and payment of the tax, the
time and place of payment, and the weight
and marks upon the bales and packages, so
that the same may be fully identified; and
it shall be the duty of every such colleotor
to keep clear and sufficient records of all
such cottou inspected or marked, and of all
marks and identifications thereof, and of
all permits for the removal of the same,
and of all his transactions relating thereto,
and he shall make fall returns thereof,
monthly, to the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is
hereby authorized to designate one or more
AnllAoliAn /liof?n/imKeim an
piaueo 1U CttUU UUHUVJUUU UCOII IVV nutig ou
assessor or an assistant assessor and a collector
or deputy collector shall be located, aod
where cotton may be brought for the purpose
of being weighed aod appropriately
marked: Provided, That it shall be the
daty of the assessor or assistant assessor
and the oollector or deputy collector to assess
and cause to be properly marked the
ootton, wherever it may be, in said district,
provided their necessary traveling expenses
to and from said designated place, for that
purpose, be paid by the owner thereof.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
all cotton having been weighed and marked
as herein provided, and for which permits
shall have been duly obtained of the assessor,
may be removed from the district in
which it has been produced to any one
other district, without pre-payment of the
tax due thereon, upon the execution of such
transportation bonds or other security, and
in accordance with such regulations as shall
bo prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, subject to the approval of
the Secretary of the Treasury. The said
ootton so lemoved shall oe delivered to the
collector of internal revenue or bis deputy
forthwith upon its arrival at its point of
destination, and shall remain subject to his
control until the taxes thereon, and any
necessary charges of custody thereof, shall
have been paid, but nothing herein contained
shall authorize any delay of the
payment of said taxes for more than ninety
days from tbe date of the permits; and
when ootton shall have beeo weighed and
I marked for whiob a permit shall have beeD
granted without prepayment of the tax, it
shall be the dnty of tbe assessor granting
such permit to give immediate notioe of
snob permit to the collector of internal revenue
for tbe district to which said cotton is
to be transported, and he shall also transmit
therewith a statement of the taxes due
thereon, and of the bonds or other seouri-fie*
for the payment thereof, and he shall
make full returns and* statements of the
same to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Sec 5 And be it further enacted, That
it shall be uulawfnl, from and after tbe first
day of September, eighteen hundred and
sixty six. for the owner, master, supercargo,
agent, or other person having oharge of
any vessel, or for any rail road company,
or other transportation company, or for any
common carrier, or other person, to oonvey,
or attempt to convey, or transport any cotton?the
growth or produce of the United
States?from any point in the district in
which it shall have been produced, unless
each bale or package thereof shall have attached
to or accompanying it the proper
marks or evidence of the payment of the
revenue tax and a permit of the collector
for such removal, or the permit of the assessor,
as herein-before provided, under
regulations of tbn Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, subjeot to the approval of the
Secretary of the Treasury, or to oonvey or
transport any ootton from any State in
which cotton is produced to any port or
place in the United States without a certificate
from the collector of internal reve
nue of the distriot from whioh it was
brought, and such other evidence as the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subjeot
to the approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury, may prescribe, that the tax has
been paid thereon, or the permit of the
Assessor as herein before provided, and
snch certificate and evidence as aforesaid,
shall be famished to the colleotor of the
district to whioh it is transported, and his
permit obtained before landing, discharging-,
or delivering snch cotton at the place
to whioh it is transported as aforesaid.
And any person or persons who shall violate
the provisions of this Aot in this respect,
or who shall convey or attempt to convey
from any State in which cotton is prodnoed
to any port or plaoe -without the United
States any cotton upon whioh the tax has
not been paid, shall be liable to a penalty
of one hundred dollars for eaoh bale of
cotton so conveyed or transported, or attempted
to be conveyed or transported, or
to imprisonment for not more than one year,
or both; and all vessels and vehioles em
ployed io such coaveyaoce or transportation
shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture, by
proceedings in any Court of tbe United
States having competent jurisdiction. And
all cotton so shipped or attempted to be
shipped or transported without payment of
the tax, or the execution of Buoh transportation
bonds or other security, as provided
in this Act. shall be forfeitod to tbe United
States, ana the proceeds thereof distributed
according to the statute in like casei
provided.
Sec 6 And be it further enacted, That
upon article* manufactured exclusively
from cotton, when exported, there shall be
allowed as a drawback an amount eqaal to
the internal tax which shall have been assessed
and paid upon such articles io their
finished condition, and in addition thereto
a drawbaok or allowance of as many cents
per pound upon the pound of cotton cloth,
worn throori np knit, fnhrina mnnr?fHrttnrpd
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exclusively from cotton and exported, as
shall have been assessed and paid in the
form of an internal tax upon the raw cotfon
eutering into the maoufacture of said cloth
or other article, the amount of such allowance
or drawback to be ascertained in suoh
manner as may be prescribed by the Com
misa'Tei of internal Revenue, under the
direction of the Secret&.y of the Treasury;
and so tuuoh of section one hundred and
seventy one of the Act of June thirty,
eighteen hundred and sixty four, "^o provide
internal revenue to support tie Government,
to pay interest on the public debt,
J and for other purposes," as now provides
i for a drawback on manufactured cotton, is
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i hereby repealed.
| SEC 7. And be it further enacted, That j
! it shall be the dutv of every person, firm, j
i or corporation, manufacturing cotton for any j
j purpose whatever, in any district where !
I cotton is produced, to return to the assessor, j
I or assissaGt asseesojrof the district in which j
j such manufacture is carried on, a true j
statement in writing, signed by him, and j
| verified by his oath or affirmation, on or j
. before the rentb day of each month; and j
I the first statement so rendered shall be on |
or befoie the tenth day of August, eighteen !
hundred and sixty six, and shall state the
r quaotityof cotton whiobsuch manufacturer
had on band and unmanufactured, or in
I process of manufacture, on the first day of;
said month; and each subsequent statement.
I shall show the whole quantity in pounds, j
j gross weight, of cotton purchased or ob- J
tamed, and tne wnoie quantity cuusumeu
| by him iD aDj business or process of manufacture
during the last preceding calendar I
' month, and the quantity and character of:
the goods manufactured therefrom; and
every such manufacturer or consumer shall
! keep a book, in whioh he shall enter the
quantity io pounds, of cotton which he has
, on hand on the first day of Augast, sigh- j
i teen hundred and sixty six, and each qoan- j
I tity or lot purchased or obtained by him
'thereafter; the time when and the party!
or parties from whom the same was obtain
ed ; rh<i quantity of said cotton, if any,
j which is the growth of the collection
district where the same - truuufictured;
the quantity, it any wh . .. .as nut been
weighed and marKed bv any officer herein
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authorized to weigh aud mark the same;
i the quantity, if any, upon which the tax
' bad not been paid, so far as can be asoer
tained, before the maDofaetiire thereof;
and also the quantities used or disposed of
by him from time to time in any process of
manufacture or otherwise, and the quantity
and cba'raoter of the produot thereof, which
book shall, at all times during business
hours, be open to the inspection of the assessor,
assistant assessor, collector or deputy
collectors of the district, inspectors, or of
revenue agents; and such manufacturer
shall pay monthly to the collector, within
the time prescribed by law, the tax herein
specified, subject to no deductions, on all
cotton so oonsumed by him in any manufacture,
and on whioh no excise tax has
previously been paid; and every such
manufacturer or person whose duty it is so
to do, who shall neglect or refuse to make
suob returns to the assessor, or to keep such
book, or who8hali make false or fraudulent
returns, or make false entries in suob book,
or procure the same to be so done, in addi
tion to the payment of the tax to be assessed
thereon, shall forfeit to the United
States all ootton and all products of cotton
in his possession, and shall be liable to a
penalty of not less than one thousand nor
more than five thousand dollars, to be recovered
with costs of suit, or to imprisonment
not exceeding two years, in the
discretion of the Court; and any person or
persons who shall make any false oath or
affirmation in relation to any matter or thing
herein required shall be guilty of perjury,
and shall be subjeot to the punishment
prescribed by existing statutes for that
offence: Provided, That nothing herein
oontaioed shall be construed in any manner
to affect the liability of any person for any
tax imposed by law on the goods manufactured
from snob ootteD
Sec 8. And be it further enacted, That
the provisions of the Act of June thirty,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as amen-,
ded by the Act of Maroh third, eighteen
hundred and sixty five, relating to the
assessment of taxes and enforcing the
collection of the same, and all proceedings
and remedies relating thereto, shall apply
to the assessments and collection of the tax,
fineB and penalties imposed by, and not
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lDCODBlHteui WItily LUC piuvioiuuo uk iuo
preceding seotions of this Act; and the
Commiv'ooer of Ioternal Revenue, subject
to the approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury, shall make all ueoessary rules and
regulations for ascertaining the weight of
all oottou to be assessed, and for appropri
ately marking the same, and generally for
carrying into effect the foregoing provisions
And the Seoretary of the Treasury is authorized
to appoint all necessary inspectors,
weighers and markers of cotton, whose
compensation shall be determined by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and
paid in the same manner as inspectors of
tobacco are paid.
Pkellaiws,
The Atlantic Cable.
Cyrus West Field, the author and finisher
uf the marvelous work which has now been
ronsummated in the laying of the Atlantic
Telegraph, is a native of Steckbridge, Mas
?... fro on/1 a in ninfK tioqv nf
aacuuocita, auu to iu vug iw??j utuiu jvai ui
his age At fifteen years of age he began
his career as a clerk, in New York city,
aDd in a few years after was at the head of
a heavy mercantile houee in that city, from
which he retired, partially, in 1853, with a
large fortune. He went, soon after, to
South America, and on his return, some
six months afterwards, became interested
in the great scheme of u telegraph across
the ocean His attention was specially directed
to the subject of being culled upon
to aid in completing a line commenced between
St Johns and Cape Ray, iD New
foundland. While looking into this soheme,
the idea was impressed upon him of stretch
ing a submarine lioe from Newfoundland
to Ireland.
In 1854 he procured a charter from the
Legislature of Newfoundland, granting an
exclusive right, for fifty years, to establish
a line from the Continent of Amerioa to
Newfoundland, and thence to Europe,
Peter. Cooper, Moses Taylor, and other
eminent citizens of New York being associated
with him, under the title of the
"New York, Newfoundland, and London
Telegraph Company," ror tne purpose or
carrying this stupendous enterprise into
effect. Thenceforth all his wonderful energies
and great busines capabilities were
devoted to the gigantio work he had taken
in band.
In the construction of the land line in
Newfoundland, and in the two attempts to
lay a line connecting that island with Cape
Breton, be was the leading spirit, visiting
England in 1854 and 1856 on the latter
business.
In 1856 he organized the "Atlantic Telegraph
Company," which was incorporated
by an "act of Parliament, session 1857,"
flanrr*a PoaKndv heintr one of the direntnrs
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and Mr Field being chosen a3 "General
Manager."
Oa the 5th of August, 1857, the eastern
end of the oable was drawn onshore from
the Niagara at Ballyoarby bay by American
sailors, his Ezoellenoy the Earl of Carlisle,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, coming down
from Dublin to encourage by his presence
the great patriotic international enterprise
On the 7th of August the squadron bore
away for the west, and on the 11th of that
month the cable parted, when 380 miles
from the coast of Ireland, and this ended
the first attempt.
The oompany, under the indefatigable
leadership of Mr. Field, went vigorously
forward, gathering wisdom from their unsuccessful
attempt, and in August, 1858, a
second trial was more successful. When
abuut a hundred miles of the oable bad
been laid, it parted in mid ocean. The
break, however, was repaired, and the oable
laid from the*ooast of Ireland to the coast
of America, so that signals actually passed
from shore to shore, from August 10 to
September 1, 129 messages having in that
period been seotfrom Valentia to Newfoundland,
and 271 in the other direction. Among
these messages was one of 99 words,
sent over the line in 67 minutes, from the
Queen to the President.
The current, however, weak from the
first, finally failed altogether. The ablest
electricians, with their most powerful batteries,
were employed, and, on the 25th of
October, an Imperfect message was reoeived
at Valentia, more than one thousand times
the power requisite in an ordinary we!) in
aulated conductors being employed on the
oocasion. Tliu impossibility of raising the
oable from deep water without breaking it
made an attempt of remedying the defect
hopeless Thus the enterprise, after immense
ovations on botb sides of the Atlan
tio at the supposed triumph, became anoth*
er failure. In 1860 portions of the oable
in Trinity bay were recovered. The cost
of the scheme up to December, 1858, was
81,834,500.
In 1861 the Dutch laid a cable in the
Mediterranean from Malta to Corfu, 400
miles long, at a cost of ?125,000, cable
like that of the Atlantio, which proved a
failure. The English, some years ago, attempted
a line through toe Red Sea, which
was also a failure, as was also the attempt
to connect Falmouth, in England, with
Gibraltar, the project having been aban
doned after the cable, at a cost of ?400,000,
bad been completed.
In 1862 Mr Field, still persistent in the
faoe of all these calamities, again visited
Fnalan^ ftnrl nnonnprtori in in mnnh infor.
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estiDg Messrs. Glass, Elliott & Co., manufactarers
of the most of the submarine
cable, as to engage them to embark in the
enterprise and make the cable for a new
attempt, the cable the; bad then reoently
laid from Franoe to Algiers?520 miles?
being in good working order at that time
under water as deep as any ia the Atlantic
line The work was immediately resuscitated,
and after three years of the most
thorough preparation, and with the utmost
confidence of sucoess, last year another trial
was made and another failure suooeeded,
the cable parting when 1,260 miles bad
been paid out. The preoise oause of this
failure has not, we believe, been determined.
The following, which we cut from the
London Times, we think, furnishes all,
with the announcements of the triumph
already made, that is necessary to complete
the great story:
The attempt last year is fresh in the
memory of all, although the real cause of
its failure, whether accidental or otherwise,
is still unknown. The present effort has
Dot neen made witnouc rormer cause or
failure having been so rrovided against as to
make it a source of additional security aud
success for all coming time Thus, the
first cables were too feeble.. Even that of
1858 weighed but 20 cwt per nautical mile,
while the present weighs 31 owt.* The
breaking strain of the cable of 1858 was
equal to 3 tons 5 owt.; that is, it would
support a little less thau five miles of its
own weight in water. The breakiog strain
of the present cable is 8 tons 2 owt., or
twelve miles of its own weight in water,
while the deepest water to be enoountered
is 2,400 fathoms In 1858 but 2,274 nautical
miles were shipped on two vessels.
In 1866, 2,630 miles are shipped on one
vessel.
The art of making, testing and laying
cables has made such progress since 1857
as to render the present undertaking quite
different in many respects An undetected
fuult in an iusulated wire has now become
iuinossible. And vet so improved are the
I signalling instruments that it is now easy to
| work, though a foot of irs copper be stripj
ped bare and laid at the bottom of tbe sea
j This has beeo aotually tested and acoom'
plished. It has even been proposed dow
that after tbe first cable is laid, and tbe
seoond, that of 1865, raised from the botJ
torn of the ocean and apliced, tbe old cable
of 1858 should be also joined afresh at
both ends, when it is supposed that
it oan now be used with the improved
signals.
Tbe Great Eastern has bad every foot of
her bottom cleaned for tbe present expedition,
which will improve her speed a mile
j an hour. Two feet thickness of barnacles
were token off from parts of her bottom.
| She will, however, only be allowed to make
six knots an hoar.
The eastern end of tbe cable was landed
at Valentia on the 27th of Jane, and the
Great Eastern completed ber work on tbe
I American ooast on the 28th of July, thirtytwo
days being employed in the great
achievement.
The Monitor in the Thames The
I London correspondent of the New York
i Times writes; "Hero lies the Yankee monI
itor in the Thames with the 15-inoh guns,
| visited by hundreds of Britains, who draw
i long breaths, wipe their sweaty brows and
devoutly thank heaven that the Amerioans
are so friendly; because it is perfeotly evicent
to every one that sees the Miantonoi
moh that the whole British navy could not
hinder her from Breaming up to London
bridge and tossing her big shells into the
done of St. Paul's, into the Bank of England,
into tbe House of Parliament, into
u?i.:?i j a,.
I JJUU&l UgliUUJ UUU ut. i/biuqo X uiquuoj auu
wherever she oared (o plant those pretty
seeds ot desolation."
Business Prospects op the Cable. ?
We learn that, notwithstanding the an
noauoement that the Atlantio oable was
open for business was only'made on Tuesday
afternoon, there were twenty messages
filed for Europe on that day, and the oasb
receipts therefrom at ibe New York offioe
] were 83,046 i ^old Nineteen messages
| were filed in ti.c Nrw York office on Wed
| nesday for transmission through the oable
j to Europe, on which tolls were paid to the
' amount of 82,157 in gold.?N. 7. Times.
The Black List.
The National Intelligencer gives as the
following summary of the blaok doings of
the radical Congress:
Congress has manifested an intention to
preoipitate civil war by the passage in the
House, under oiroumstanoes of violent impeachment
of the motives of the President,
a resolution providing for the distribution
of the Government arms among the States,
to the present ezolusion of the South.
Congress has transcended the jnst powers
of Government by the arbitary expulsion of
a United States Senator upon party behest,
against the best legal opinion in the Senate,
for the sole parpoee of depriving the Exeoative
of effective co operation in aid of the
veto power; also by the expulsion of leading
conservative .Union members of the
House for oo other probable reason than
that their experienced ability was a sore obstacle
to the consummation of misobievous
party machinations. We refer especially to
tbeaotion against Mr. Brooks and Mr. Voorbees.
Congress has done violenoe to the Constitution
by refusing an appropriation for
the salary of a ministerial official abroad,
whose position existed by positive law.?
Should this form of action bea applied at
will by partisans as a punishment for the
expression of opinions distasteful to them,
then the wheels of Government would be
stopped. It is replete with usurpation and
revolution.
Congress has acted in the fell purpose
of revolution by keeping loyal representative
from its flnor from other States than
Tennessee?-States just as for advanced as
that in legislation in behalf of colored men,
and upon those subjects in consistenoe with
the loyal requirements of the logio of events
and the necessity of the situation.
Congress has sought to impair the constitutional
rights of States by tbe admission
of communities in that oapacity of trifling
populations. Congress has exhibited a revolutionary
spirit by refusing to so modify tbe
test-oath at tbe suggestion of the Departments
as to insure the exeoution of tbe
lawB and Government transactions in the
South.
. Congress has passed by an overwhelming
party vote in one branch a prohibitory tariff
bill. From fear of results of the elections
in tbe West, this conspiouous measure of
despoilment of the people for the benefit of
class interests is postponed in the Senate to
the next session, when by aotsof corruption,
it will probably prevail.
Congress has destroyed the essenoe of
free Government as represented in parliamentary
bodies by the habitual and constant
UBe of the previous questioo, thus prevent
ing full, fair and free discussion?the very
life of Republican institutions.
Congress has brought disrepute upon the
Government by secret midnight conclaves
of its members, like Guy Fawkes, with lantern
in hand?devising methods to destroy
the prerogatives of the President in respect
to the removal of public officers, by vesting
in an already usurping Senate what would
prevent neoessary removals, and thereby
clothe the Senate with almoBt unlimited
power and influence.
Congress has postponed the enaotment of
a bankrupt bill, which is demanded by the
great business interests of the country.
Congress has assumed extraordinary powers
as to foreign affairs, of whioh it can
kaow little, and proposes seriously to change
our traditional policy and stable legislation
to get votes of a class whom Republican
politicians have been in the habit of denouncing
as less entitled to suffrage than
negroes.
Congress transcends the Constitution and
the rights of States in seeking to perpetuate
Freedaieo's Bureaus, Treasury ootton plundering
operations, and organizat'ors for
the pretended enforcement of civil rights in
States.
Congress has violated the spirit of that
provision of the Constitution which inhibits
Congressmen from receiving peouniary benefit
during their term from Acts passed by
by it. This is the effect of the Act increasing
their own salaries
Congress has been gnilty of the unexampled
wrong of battening the measure for
increasing their own salaries upon the soldiers'
bounty bill, making the latter measure
carry the dead oarcass of Congressional
profligacy and personal cupidity.
Congress, while greatly augmenting the
salaries of their personal favorites at the
Capitol for an average labor of less than
two-thirds of the year, have refused even
a petty increase of per oentage upon the
pay of department officials, whose daily labor
is severe, and lasts throughout the
year. Their present salaries are hardly
sufficient for the support of families at
I Dresent orioes.
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Outcasts on Account of Caste ?The
Boston correspondent of the Chicago (III.)
Tribune tell? the following story :
"Among the visitors whom the summer
has brought to Boston is a Liherian family
of wealth and position, proposing to travel
through Amerioa, and expecting certainly
to fine a hospitable welcome in Boston, if
nowhere else. They travel in luxurioas
style, accompanied by their servants, several
degrees blacker than themselves. They
stopped here at the Marlborough Hotel,
recommended to them as the most liberal
in the oity But after a stay of only one
day they were called on by the landlord
and informed that he could not permit them
to sit at his table on account of the prejudices
of his customers He generously
offered to send meals to their rooms; but
this exclusion the proud spirits of the Liberians
could net brook, and they left the
house. Not another plaae in the fanatical
city of Boston could be found to shelter
them, and they sought refuge in a boarding
house at Salem. Even here the spirit of
caste pursues them, and the pressure from
her other guests has compelled the landlady
to ask them to sit at a second and separate
table. They are both astonished and
grieved at tbia display of popular sentiment |
in what the; had expeoted to fiod a demo
orotic locality. Being told, and truly, that
a far worse treatment would meet them at
Niagara, the White Mountains, and other
resorts of fashion and conservatism, they
are contemplating, I believe, an immediate
return to their own country from a land
whioh offers them nothing but insult/'
All Should Insure Their Lives.
There is an unwarrantable prejudioe on
the part of some persons in respeot to Life
Insurance. The praotioal operation of all
good companies amounts to this : A thousand
or ten thousand persons, more or less?
the more the better?unite together, and
say that, as all our lives are uncertain, we
will each contribute annually a small sum
to a general fund, to be drawn upon by the
family of the first one taken away by death,
then by the next, and so on?in proportion
to what each has subscribed. The small
sums thus gathered, form a large fund,
which is constantly inoreased by being
placed securely on interest. By long extended
observation, it is known to a certainty
what will be the average length of life of
the whole oompany, and how much must be
annually contributed to seeure $1,000 more
or less, to every one of the oompany, at the
time of his death. A very small additional
sum furnish funds to pay a few officers or
managers, and to have a little surplus against
emergencies. So safe are the calculations,
and so well have such companies always
been managed, that they have been the
most substantial of all joint companies
formed in this or any other country. We
esteem it the duty of every man having a
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pecuniarily by his death, tc have at least a
small sum of ready rnooey sure to come to
them at his decease. He may be independent
to day, but riches often take to themselves
wiDgs and flyaway. Every month's
observation shows that the best establishedproperties
may become involved, if not by
the want of judicious care on the part of
the proprietor, at least through the rascality
of others. A millionaire of our acquaintance
went to bed last night assured of a
million and a half dollars, in good U. S.
securities, in bis strong safe box. To day,
we learn that the thief s band has spirited
them all away. The farmer has his land
nearly paid for. He dies, and the confu
sion of his affairs, or the want of good man
agement on the part of his family, or sue
cesaors, may involve the loss of the^rhole ;
while a few hundred or a few thousand dollars
of ready money at bis death, may save
a homestead for them, free of incumbrance.
And so of every other calling. That a man
ia atrnncr nnd hplnnrca tn ? lnmf.licpd fumilv.
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gives him no certain tenure to life. The
weak and sickly are likely to take the beat
care of themselves, and thns prolong life.
We always think of the operations of death,
aa those of an enemy who stands at a distance,
and shoots a poisoned arrow at random
into a large crowd It is as likely to
strike the young as the old, the strong as
the weak. It is well, therefore for every
one to be ready for the fatal shaft, both as
respects this world and the next. We believe
a life Policy really tends to insure
and prolong life. Thns: a man is sick,
and the aqxiety of mind, as to how he will
leave his family, aggravates his die
ease, and often does shorten a life, which
conld have been saved could the man have
rested easy in the feeling that his insurance
nolicv would Dlace his worldlv affairs in a
r v r ?r
safe position in the event of his death. So,
we say, let every 'man devote a small sum
annually to securing a convenient safe-guard
to his family or others, id the event of his
death.?American Agriculturist
[Any of the readers of the Enquirer
who may desire particular information on
the subjeot of Life Insuranoe, can obtain
it from Capt Thos. S. Jepferys, of Yorkville,
who is the agent for several responsi*
ble companies.]
Hindman on Foote.
Foote having abused Hindman in his recent
book, is polished off by the exiled Confederate.
We give the concluding paragraph
:
This is my first vindication of military
transactions through the press It is made
reluctantly, because silence becomes a champion
of a fallen cause. Perhaps, also, it is
necessary, as fair minded men must, in good
time, arise to write the history of our great
and mournful struggle. Still, it may be
well to pot facts like the foregoing within
their reach, and thi? is the moth a that ac
tuates me As fur the book before men
tioned, it osd do do hart where the authoris
known. Repndiator, Bond Payer, Whig,
Democrat, Know Nothing, Unionist. Seces- ,
siooibt?everything by tarns, and nothing
long; a political mendicant in half of the
[ States, and a refugee from every party, betrayed
and despised by all; plaoarded as a
"constitutional liar," years ago, by the great
captive whom he now at one moment slanders,
and at the next insults with a spurious
sympathy; thrust forth from Mississippi
with the formal declaration ot her House of
Representatives impugning bis veracity;
branded on his forehead with such antecedents
up to 1861, aDd with the blaok reoord
painted by himself, of time-servers faotion
lot, irauur uuu o^uupuauL uuriug auu oiuuo
the war; howling against the North when
Southern fortunes were at his feet; embarrassing
our counsels when the tide began to
ebb; ignominiously deserting to the enemy
when great disasters befell us, and fawning
upon that enemy when our country's subjugation
had been wrought?how is it possible
for him to.win credence from the publio, or
to pass his base lies for truth ? Relish his
acts as they may, his present masters must
loathe him, and even our former slaves must
turn from him in disgust. I heard, a little
while back, that he was dead, and was surprised
that a sentiment charitable towards
him sprang up in my mind?>it was that he
might turn out to have had at least as much
graoe &a Iscariot, and have hanged himself
in atonement for three-score yean of eontinnons
lying and treaobery. He most be
aware that hie oareer oan fitly have bat thif
termination. Hia own are the only handa
vile enoogh to end hia existence, and the
maw of the oarrion crow is hia natond plane
of aepolture. ^
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A Fanny Dog Storr. r ?
When the vu in Italy oommenoed, .the
Zouaves embarked for Gtenoa ; bat as they
were going on board the ship, they ?W t
"formal order forbidding the entrance of all
dogs upon the vessel. As they were much
attached to. their dogs, they were sttioken
with grief. .It. was not easy to daosive the
sharp lookout kept by the intendant, for every
soldier advanced along the narrow gangway,
one by one as tfleir names wen called.
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drummers uusorewed their drums, and die
best dogs of the regiment were oonoealed
iu the drums, which were screwed up again.
When regiments embark, no music is pitjed
but on this oooasiou the Colonel determined
there should be music. He ordered the
trumpets and drums to take the head of the
oolumn, and to plaj a lively tune. The
faces of the drummers, every one of whom
had a dog Id his drum, may be ooooeived.
The trumpets sounded; the drams wen all
silent. The.Colonel got angry, and bawled
to know why the drums did not beat Then
was but one thing to do, and that was to
beat. The moment the drams began to
beat, innumerable doga began to howl, and
to bay, to the astonishment of everybody
bat the Zouaves. Everybody looked-jright,
left, forward, baokward?no sign of a dog
anvwhere : and vet the more the drnmmera
beat, the more the dogs howled. At hut a
spaniel fell oot of a dram, rolled over tod
over on the ground, got np and took to Me
heels, howling loader than ever. Boats of
laughter greeted the explanation of (he
mysterious bowls. The intendanta ordered
the drum mere to advance on board one by
one, and roll the dram as he oame. If a
barking was heard, the dram was unscrewed,
and the dog pat ashore. Only one dog
got on board; this was Tootou, who kept
qaiet through all the rolling. It need net
be said the 3d Zouaves adore Toutoo. He
made his entry into Paris, at their head, a
few days since.?Pari* Letter.
The Wipe.?Only let a woman be snre
that she is precious to her husband?not
asefal, not valuable, not convening, simply,
bat lovely and beloved; let her he the
reoipient of his polite, hearty attentions;
let her feel that her oare and lftve are noticed,
appreciated and returned; let her
opinion be asked, her approval sought, and
her iademuntresneoted in matters of whieh
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she is oognizaot; in short, let her only be
loved, honored and cherished, in fulfillment
of the marriage vow<and she will be-to her
husband, her children and sooiety, a wellspring
of pleasure. She will bear pain,
and toil, and anxiety, for ber-basbumfc love
is, to her, a tower and fortress. Shielded
and sheltered tberein, adversity will
have lost its sting. She may suffer, but
sympathy will dull the edge of sorrow.
A bouse with love in it?and by love I
mean love expressed in words, and'looks,
and deeds, for I have not one spark of faith
in love that never crops out?is to a house
without love as a peraon to a machine; one
is life, the other is meohanlsm- The unloved
woman may have bread just as light,
a house just as tidy as the other; but the
latter has a spring of beauty about her, a
joyouaness, aod aggressive and penetrating
and pervading brightness, to which the
former is a stranger. The deep happiness
in her heart shines oat in her faoe. She is
a ray of sunlight in the house. She gleams
over it. It is airy, aod gay, aod graceful,
and warm, and welcoming with her pres.
enoe; she is full of devices and plots, and
sweet surprises for husband and family;\ she
has never done with the romance of life;
she, herself, is a lyrio poem, setting herself
to all pure and graoious melodies. Humble
house hold ways and duties have for her a
goldeo significance. The prize makes the
oalling high, and the end sanetifies the
means- "Love is heaven, and heaven is
love."
A Youth Who Nevek Saw a Woman.
Meadow's history of the Chinese, lately
published in London, in a chapter on love,
has the following story :
"A Chinese who bad been disappointed
in marriage, and had gri*voasly suffered
through women in many other ways, retired
with his infant son to the peaks of a moan*
tain range in Kweiohoo, to a spot quite inaccessible
to little footed Chinese women.
He trained his boy to worship the Hods and
stand in awe and abhorrence of the devils;
bathe never mentioned woman to him,*],
ways descending the mountains alone to buy
food At length, however, the infirmities of
age compelled him to let the boy carry the
heavy bag of rice. As they were leaving the
market town together, the son suddenly stop,
ped short, and pointing to three approsehing
objects, oried, "Father, what are these
things ? Look! look! what are they V?
The father instantly answejed with a peremptory
order, "Tarn away yonr head; they
are devils 1" The son, in some alarm tamed
away, notioing that the evil things were
gazing at him from behind their fans. He
walked to the monntain in silence, ate no
supper, ana irom tnat day lost nis appease
and was afflicted with melancholy. For some
time his troubled and anxious parent oould
get no satisfactory answer to his inquiries,
but at length the young man bunt out,
crying with inexplicable pain, "Oh, father,
that tallest devil 1 that tallest devil,
father 1"
UaT A sixty years old Methodist shepherd
has beeo arrested in Philadelphia for an indecent
assault on a young ward, u girl of
fourteen years. The mother charges that be
bad some years sinoe perpetrated the same
offence against the girl's sister.