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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-05-16

inferior rank. In the Office of the Adjutant
General are filed and registered all records
relating to the personnel of the army, and
through that Office is administered all busi-
ness and judicial functions touching the per-
sonnel of the service. The Adjutant-Gen-
eral of the United States usually held, We
believe, the commission of Colonel
The Quartermaster's Department provides
transportation for the army, and all animals
and vehicles requisite for that branch of the
service. 1t provides, also, clothing, quar-
ters, tents, blankets, cooking utensils, and
the like necessaries for the troops, and horses
for the Cavalry, Artillery and Staff The
head of this Department Of the Federal SER
vice usually held the commission of Briga-
der General.
The Commissaries furnish food in all its
forms for the army. The head of this Bu-
reau at Washington is usually the Colonel.
The Ordnance Department has charge of
the whole subject of arms and ammunition
The Engineer Corps of the United States
is divided into Typographical Engineers and
Engineers, each in charge Of an appropriate
Bureau at the scat of Government. The
Engineers have charge of the whole subject
of Topography and Fortifcations; of the
construction of permanent forts, of survey
ing and mapping the country, selecting
sites for camps, throwing up earthworks.
accommodating the face of the country with
reference to the movements of the army or
the enemy, and the like duties This SER
vice generally embraces the most accomp-
lished and scientific officers belonging to the
service.
The Corps ofSurgeons, of course, have in
charge the whole subject of health and sur
gerry.
The War Department is a grand Office
general located at the seat of Government,
at which all the heads of these different
Bureaus of the Staff are in constant atten-
dance, and in immediate conference with
the Secretary of War: receiving reports from
their subordinate officers all over the coun-
try, and issuing orders approved by the Se-
cretary. The Secretary Of War is the ad-
wiser and right hand of the President in all
matters touching the military service, acting
for him and in his name and stead. He
issues orders for the line either to the Gen
eral-in- Chief or directly to officers of lower
grade, at his option. His orders to the Line
are issued through the Adjutant General;
those to the other departments of the Staff
J
From this general outline of the organi-
zation of the army of the United States, it
will be seen that the system is a most perfect
and complete piece of machinery, such as
cannot fail to prove. if administered by able
men, very effective in operation. OF all
departments of the Federal Government at
Washington, we suppose that of War is far
the most perfect in its organization Mr..
Calhoun achieved distinction in devising
it, during the early period of his public
career, commensurate with the great ability
he Displayed in the subsequent years of his
conspicuous public life.-Rich. Dispatch.
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MISSES MERlNO UNDERSKlRrS also,
1Vl Worstcd Wrappings and Hoods, for Misses
oaud children, just received by
S & W. MEYENBERG
Alexandria oct q:
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-05-16

Lieut. Col. and Acting Or. M. G.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-07-24
Paying Taxes.

Are you grumbling about your tax bill,
sir? Or, do you growl because the rumors
are thickening in the air that we are to have
direct taxes levied on uss Just let US sit
down moment or two, and quietly look the
matter over.
There is list Of taxes that you and
pay, sir, Of which no note is taken, and we
presume to take none. For example, wnat
do YOU pay every year to your Pride p
You laugh. Never, mind; the matter will
bear looking at first, and laughing at after
ward. Your neighbor Soand-so has just
bought him new carriage. You look at
that same vehicle, all glitter and glory, with
an eye ofenvy. Up to d4te. you rested in
the satisfactory belief that YOU had yourself
ridden in the better carriage of the two. and
that was quite sufficient to keep YOU quiet
but suddenly you find that your ambitious
neighbor has beaten yon. What will you
do nopf Go and get one that will outshine
his! is your reply; and you do what you
threaten. And this is the heavy tax yor
pay to your Pride, and to just nothing else
Or, again, what do you pay by way Of ia,
to Appetites Please to reckon up your bi.
each year for tobacco. so soon spit away o.
whitfield out in air. Or count up your ex
penses for what goes by the generic name Q
s'rum; !" how much f,r yourself and how
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much more to save and keep up appcaran-
ces with those who know your habits and
presume upon your own indulgence to sell
fishly enlarge their own. What amount do
you pay for games Of chance for iadplSsn-
ces purely and ruinously sensual! What
for mere show, in which there is neither
sentiment nor sense? Now is is not to be
denied that all these things cost, and cost
'roundly; and this very cost is what we call
Taxes. They are direct taxes, too, for they
cat up the individuals self Few give them
any attention, as they incur and so on pay
,ing them, but they are paid none the less
Little know we what the impercepta5le cost
Of life is; the ostensible part, about which
we talk 50 mich and grumble so much, is the
smallest and most easily paid Banner of
LiOht -
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From the n. Y. Tribune.
The Finances.

Secretary Chase estimates the National
Expenditures for the fiscal year. commen-
cling with the present month at nearly Three
Hundred and Twenty Millions of Dollars,
whereof he proposes to raise Eighty Millions
by taxation. leaving Two hundred and For
ty Millions to b. borrowed. or this sum he
proposes to borrow One Hundred Millions
upon Treasury Notes. or Exchequer, bills, Of
$50, 800, $500, 81 600 and $4,000. at an
interest Oft 3-1oths per cent per annum, so
that the interest on every $50, shall be Just
one cent per day This loan is to be offered
in all the cities and chief towns of the 10y
al States, so that those who can take but
$40, 800, or 5000, shall stand or the same
footing with the greatest banker or capital
list, and every one NAV compute his own in
terest, and realize that he wakes each morn
ing richer bv the amount Of the interest than
hewas the day before. The Government is
to reserve the privilege of redeemins these
notes after three years from date.
This plan is sadmirable, and will command
the hearty concurrence of the people. Who
ever has even $50 laid aside, should resolve
and prepare to invest it in this patriotic loan.
The rate of interest is higher than that paid
by any solvent Government; and, unlike
most investments, the security will be at all
times convertible into coin, 1t may posi-
bly, be depressed below par for few months
but, it win be worth premium on its face
the moment the war is ended. Let the pa
triot Presses but do its duty in explaining
and commencing this loan, and it will be
eagerly taken to at least the amount propos
ed. The Notes will become favorite cur
rencv; and. as the specie obtained therefore
by the Government will be Immediately paid
out and thrown again into circulation, while
our present Tariff obstructs any out flow to
Europe, we see not why any amount that
may not be obtained on these notes. Who
would not prefer them to almost any other
securities bearing like interest? Why may
they not become favorite medium Of do
mestic exchange, being paid out for Produce
N the West and received again for Goods at
the East2 We believe their issue will
strongly tend to revive our internal trade
and secure to our artisans ampler markets
and to our farmers better prices for their pro
duce. Give us the notes
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this that has taken away more than half the
value of life with US during the last six
months. The curse on store and workshop,
on street and levee, on river and field and
sky, and on society md the soul Of man, is
no blight of Heaven, no stroke of God : it is
disloyalty.
We have had the best Government on
earth. Under 1t we have bad peace, order
and liberty, and security of property, person
and pursuit. It has done us purely good
and no evil; and, while it has fostered and
protected us, has no more oppressed us than
the air and light so kindly and gentle has
been its rule BY it we have gotten pleasant
homes and. riches and golden prosperity
But we have not bad sense enough either to
appreciate the gift or to be grateful for it.
But, in stupidity and wantonness, have lift
ed our bapded bands against it. We have
ruthlessly assailed the benign and beautiful
order it has established; and therefore we
are cursed Our prosperity is blighted, our
peace is poisoned, our property is ruined,
our pleasant homes are filled with trouble or
taken away from us, aad the evils we now
feel are but the first installment Of the curse
that awaits our consummate folly-the fore
shadowings of sin and shame and wretched-
ness that shall darken ages.
The land is perishing Of its disloyalty.--
Let this be changed and the whole scene will
change at once. Prosperity viii return to
the land. and to our smitten city also in a
golden stream past former knowing. Let us
turn again in truth and honor to the glorious
Government bequeathed US by our Fathers.
Let us cease canting about mere secondary
and occasional causes, and go back to the
primary fontal one and staunch it. Let us
cease tpe driyel about coercion and SUBJ
jugation," and address ourselves as men to
striking down conspiracy whose clutch is
on the throats of us all. Let us glory in a
submission" Of loyalty, honor and reason,
to constitutional authority and civil order,
and fee as from eternal curse and shame, all
completely with a crime beyond example in
the history of the world-the destruction Of
the best Government ever given of God to
man-the murder of a great and free nation.
VERAx.
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Judge OF Toledo, Ohio, has little
four year old boy, who. one day, when com.
pany was present, wished seat at the table,
but was sent away with the remark that his
whiskers were not long enough to sit there.
The little chap took a seat by stand, where
the servant gave him his dinner. Yhi,o
eating il, the,house cat came purring around
him, when he said "Oh goof your whis-
kers are big enough to eat at the other table
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fortunes as Pat tried to build his chimney
They begin at tho top and build down: i
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From the Chicago journal
BLUE BELLS.

BY T. HULDERT UNDERWOOD.
The "Bells" are abroad, all over the lawn,
The pink-bells as well as the blue;
There, In the cool Of the early dawn,
They are gossipping over the dew.
Gay az the tints on a summer cloud
Purple and yellow--so rare;
White as the hoss on an infants shroud,
And as pink as the darling pinks are.
Lucidly blue as the evening sky
When seen through the Furnished riffs
of golden clouds, and blue a. the eye
Ofab abe-heaven's bluest gifts.
, Blue-bells or pink bells, purple or white
Twin sisters of beauty are they
shying away from the ardent light ri YSy
Too modestly stunning the day. & +"
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What is the principal difference between
apic-n ME and the national debt Of England
One is fua asiee, and the other is JaTdest.
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Z An Irish editor, in speaking Of the miscries
Of ireland, says :''lier cup OF misery has
been fora oyerfowing, and is not vet fair
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Dean Swift said, with much truth. "lt is
useless for Us to attempt to reason q man
out Of thing. bic has meyer been reasoned
into" sss 49,,
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Let MS then. at this time of evil, under
stand what hurtsts. Let US recognize our
real enemy, and now unite and concentrate
our energies to resist and iiscomfit and de-
stroy him Let us reserve other questions
within the circle Of life to other and happier
days: : till we have grappled with this Apol-
lyon and passed through this Valley of the
Shadow Of Death. Our immediate mortal
Zoe is Secession. This is the Plague of which
the whole land seems dying in paralysis or
convulsions by which our beautiful city has
been smitten through oil its interests, CON-
~merciat financial. manufactnral, educational
and social, as with q deadly poison. II is
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-08-15
Brfgadfer CEN. Lyon, O. sA.

The telegraph has announced the death
of Brigadier General Lyon, leader of the
Government forces in Missouri.s In the
prime of life he has heen cut off, and ma
ton mourns the loss of one of its cherished
sons and gallant officers. Without fear, he
discharged faithfully the duties Of the high
position to which he was suddenly called,
and the people have looked upon him as
one of the leaders, under whom, the re-
.beIlion was to be crushed. But he met his
fate, and with all the heroism of a true SOL
der. At the head of his columns, while
waving his men on to victory, he was shot
from his horse; dying amid the shouts
of his brave men, pursuing the retreating
foe. The American people win remember
him. In the long list of grievances, and
wrongs and outrages for which the South
must answer, the loss of this gallant officer
will not be forgotten. The following facts
in relation to his life, coliated from differ
emf. sources, will be found interesting:
General Nathaniel Lyon was the son of
substantial farmer of Ashford, Connecti-
cut, and is the descendant, paternally and
materially, Of families who were distin-
guished for intellect and integrity of char
aeter. His mother was of the Know1ton
family, which produced two of the distin-
| guished officers of the Revolution-one the
| famous Colonel Knowlton who, as Major.
commanded the Connecticut boys at the
| Old Rail Fence, on the left wing of the
American army, at Bunker's Hill, and was
afterward killed at the battle of Harlem
flights, New York. r-s ~
General Lyon was educated at the Uni
ted States Military Academy at West Point,
where he graduated with distinction, in
1871, and has remained in the army ever
since, having risen to the rank of Captain
in the Second Infantry and by the recent
choice OF the Missouri volunteers, was made
their Brigadier General. AT the time OF
his death he was in the prime of life, being
only forty-two years of age.
His service has been principally upon the
frontiers the Florida, Texas, California,
Oregon, Kansas, and other Indian and Dor
der wars. He was with General SCOTS di-
vision during the Mexican campaign, and
was breveted August 90, 1s47, /" for gallant
and meritorious conduct in the battle OF
Contreras and Ghurubusco; and was
wounded at the Belen Gate of the City Of
Mexico, September ID. 1a47.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-08-15
Latest from Cairo.

We learn that a cavalry company sent
out from Cairo, night or two since, met
beyond Charleston. Mo, q large body of
cavalry and infantry Our boys cut their
way through the rebels with only four kill
ed aud two missing.
Ills said that Pillow is within thirty
miles of Birds Point with $4,000 troops
The gun boats are all ready for action, and
were to leave in day or two for down the
river. Our informant says that Charleston,
Missouri, if full OF the retiels, and their
scouting parties are all over The woods Il
was reported in Cairo, yesterday, that Pill
lows foFee had advanced Is miles North OF
New Madrid
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-08-15

THE GALLANT ELEvENTH.-Ye sterday
morning, after the news of the battle of
Springfield reached Indianapolis, Col. Lew.
Wallace, issued the following bulletin to the
Indiana Zouaves 1t has the Napoleonic
ring:
A battle has been fought near Springfield
Missouri. GEN.lLY0Nl is SLAIN. Our
army is in full retreat General Fremont
has telegraphed for all the available forces
of Indiana. Now or never, zouaVes Re-
turn to camp. will give you back your
old rifles, your old officers, and the ever
glorious flags. The Eleventh waits you
your country calls you louder than ever.
Give her once more. your experience and
strong arms. Let US make new renown
on the banks of the Mississippi. Fill up
the Camp, Zouaves, and | will march you
tomorrow. LEWIS WALLACE,
y Col. 18th Regiment Ind. Volunteers.
August IA, 1861.
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Houses anal Lots
Fob Sac"

The undersigned offers the following bargains in
Real Estates:
Lot No 226, Donation Enlargement Of Evans
vlle corner Sycamore and Fifth Streets, for 81 $50
in cash. q
Also the South East quarter Of Lot No 1853, Do
nation Enlargement, with frame tenement house
thereon and brick out houses attached thereto for
$1,000 in cash or comfy or city orders Orders
taken at par)
Also the middle quarter Of tho same Lot, upon
which Is situated frame tenement house contain
ing six rooms including kitchen, with brick out
houses as above, for SS0O-payment as above. The
above buildings are renting for 1925 per annum.
Also, Lot No. 2ll and the Northwest quarter
of No. 30, Donation Enlargement, for 81, $50 in
cash. county orders at par. This portion Of
ground measures II215 feet fronting Fourth
Street, and extending back 10 the Alley and Canal
in the thereof.
Also, $50 Lots in Lamasco, at prices and on time
to suit purchasers.
Also, I60 acres of Land-the North East quart er
dissection 20, Township Z, South Range III West,
in Union Township, near the bank Of the Ohio
Riyer--on easy terms.
Also, l, 500 OF Land In the Counties of Van
derbnrgh, Gibson, and Pike, for which, as well as
the lots in Lamasco, the undersigned will accept in
payment cash, City County orders at par, or any
kind Of merchantable country produce.
VIM. II. WALKER, Real Estate Agent,
july 2G-lmdd3mw
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Special Election.
STATE OF INDIANA, Ice
Kanderburgh county. ~

STATE TsPds Gar aSP eaaHfa IS
WEI2ZEREs4S, Il TszC.@-N-Cz- HI s
~ occurred in the ofiee of Justice of the
Peace, in and for Perry Township, in the county
aforesaid, by the refusal of b. @ Newman, Esq ,
to ousIify-and whereas, another vacancy has oc-
CURED IN the Office of Jnstice Of the Peace in and
for German Township, in said county, by the re-
signation OF Il. w. Elmendorf, Esq. Therefore, in
conformity with the statutes in such case made and
provided L, Louis Richter, Clerk Of the Wander
burgh Circuit Court, do hereby order an election.
to fill such vacancies, to be held at the usual
places of holding Elections in said Townships, on
MONDAY, the 9th day of September 1861, and
the Sheriff of Vanderburgh county is hereby di-
rected to give legal notice of such Election.
In attestation whereof have hereunto subscrfb-
ed my and affixed the seal of said Court this
I4th day o. August, 1861.
LOUIS RICHTER, Clerk V G. c.
1, JOHN, s. GAYITT, fheIia Of Vauderburgh
county, certify that the above and foregoing no.
tee is true and complete copy OF the original on
file in my Office, Aug. II, 1861.
JOHN s. GAVprT,
aug15-1td6 w3w Sheriff V. G..
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elHeE we HOTEL.
THE AMERICAN HOUSE


WILL BE OPENED AUGUST LIST, 1861.
The Undersigned having leased the above House
for term OF years, and having had the same fitted
up with great care aud expense, would respectfully
announce to tho citizens Of Evansville and vicini
t., and the travelling public generally, that said
House is now in a most excellent condition in
cry respect and in every department.
1t is onr intention to keep said house as a first
class HOTEL and in such a manner will give gen
era satisfaction to all who may favor us with their
patronage. In fact, such house as Evansville has
for many years stood greatly in need of, and We
respectfully solicit the patrons Of all in our un
taking.
The American House is situated on the bank Of
the river at the corner af Water aud Sycamore
Streets, opposite and convenient to the Steamboat
Landing. The guests Of the house are favored with
Ohio and also with a continual cool and refreshing
breeze from IT, river during the summer months.
These considerations render il by far the mo st
pleasant and desirable location for Hotel in the
city.
street watch viii be kept day and night for
pa ssengers arriving departing by boats, and an
ON nibus will run to and from the American to all
passenger trains On the Z. & c. z. r.
Our rooms will at all times be kept clean and in
excellent order, and furnished with good and clean
beds
Our table will at all times be furnished with the
best the market affords, aud plenty of it, and we
shall use every exerton In our power 10 render the
AMERICAN HOUSE home to all who may favor
with call.
We hope, by strict attention to business and to
the wants of the public, to obtain lsrge portion
OF the public patronage, OF which we shall eDdea-
vor to render ourselves worthy.
W. H. BOIOOURT, formerly of City Hotel.
}. J. PiLLSBURY, formerly of steamer Masonic
Gem. juy30-tf
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STAMPED ENVELOPES.
PosT OFFICE, 4
Evansville, August IA. 1861.

PosT OFFICE,
Evansville, August a. 1861.
The Postofice Department has issued a
new style of stamped envelopes, and a sup
ply of the following kinds has been receiv-
ed here. Note size, three-cent, ruled ard
unruled letter size, three-cent, ruled and
unruled letter size, ten-cent, unruled
official size, six-cent, unruled.
am instructed to exchange these envel-
opes with the public for the old STYLE in
equivalent amounts, for sir days from this
date. After this time expires. envelopes of
the old issue will not be received in pay
ment of postage on letters sent from this
Office.
| am required to satisfy myself that old
style envelopes taken in exchange for new
! ones have not before been used, nor brought
from disloyal States.
The new envelopes will be exchanged
with smaller Postoffces, for old style ones,
during one month, from this date.
No new stamps have been received, and
/ the Department has purposely allowed the
! old sock to run low in all Postofices.-
Stamps, therefore, are scarce here. The in
dications show that the Department intends
TO encourage the use of stamped envelopes,
as 1t is getting out new styles for greater
convenience in correspondence. The envel-
opes issued by the Department are furnish
ed as near cost as ii, is possible to make
change, and the public cannot do better
than to use these envelopes The envel.
opes mot counting the stamp, letter size
are furnished unruled at 81 80 per 900
and ruled at 81 per l, 600, and for less num-
bers as near in proportion as possible
This is cheap enough for good envelopes.
Persons are requested to use stamped en-
velopes; in fact, stamps cannot be furnish
ed to any considerable amount till a new
supply is received from the Department.
JAMES Fl. MONEELY, P. NJ.
augI4-d6t&wlt