Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-07-03

muss ~ pegiug rsph and saps the
81 BY q tS6owner Hpay taxes. The
g ces1 has ruiesd the income OF
th far1k.
Fake The single item ofcorn. 1t Was
At this time last year 500 in Chicago, II
IL now 20c. Last year the farmer living
under . mortgage of $4,000 could pay
the interest with 2eo lbushels Of corn ;
it now requires 72O bushels to meet the
same payment. The taxes OF the State
Of Illinois were last year s2, 700 900, or
5.4OO. 900 bushels corn. The sane
amount this year will require 100000
bushels to meet il. THIS is tue effect
OF . fall in prices which operates the
same upon mortgages and all other
debts, and when to this is to be added .
tax, the population Of that State being
10 per cent, Of the Northern population,
it must pay 10 per cent. Of the tax OF
$500, Co., 900 per annum, - the pro ra'a
share Of Illinois Of the war fund to Dc
raised. The burden will be somewhat
heavy, and this but tor one year OF tbe
var luxury. The taxes OF the Federal
Government, it will be borne in mlno'
are levied not 10 proportion to property
but to number.. Thus Massachusetts
would pay, as compared with Illinois,
as follows:
Formulation. Valuation. Tax
Mass. ,23l, 4s4 $597 ,s36,9s5 $4,000, ooo
Illinois. ,6s7 ,404 407,47,3os SO'ooo'ooo
Thus the Illinois tax would be 8 per
cent. of the valuation, and the Massa-
chusetts tax per cent, or one'haii the
rate. The burden of the war tax,
whether direct or indirect, will thus faii
upon the w estern States, while the war
destroys all sale for produce. "a,
These fearful and accommodating diiil-
culties are beginning to occupy puoilc
attention. Our New York merchants
and impoverished producers are already
FESTIVE.
Death Of Charlotte Bronte's Fa'"cf'
From the Evening Post
Charlotte Dronte's father is dead.
On the 18th of June he fell asleep IN the
wierd old parsonage Of Haworlh, clos
ing his eyes Oh the hearth. stone where
the three lovely women who made his
name glorious sat but little while ago,
dreaming inscrutably over the wonder
full world within, and whence they passed
one by one, their fragile shapes seeming
rather to fade slowly than die quick,
like the common lot. Eighty.four years
old. and but for that faithful son-in-law
Nichols, " no looks to US IN reading OF
him more like protraction OF Char
lotte's life than separate existence
but for him and the servants, all alone
We may believe or dIsbeieve the
stories Of his iron sternness, he may
have fired himself fl in plstol-cartridges
from the backdoor step, he may have
torn taffeta gowns, he may have been
gloomy companion for three mothelless
women and gifted, reckless, unbal-
anced son--we forget all that now--he
outived one of the rarest families that
were ever born to man. All that We
know OF him is known because he was
the father of Currer, Acton and Ellis
Bel, of Patrick the younger, dead N
his despairing youth, after lite OF wild,
brilliant misery, for which no philoso-
pier in the tangled organism OF morbid
nature could dream OF holding hlm ie-
sponsible.
The Rev. Patrick Bronle was born
IN the Saints day which gave him his
name, in the year l777. A brief but
unuttorably fascinating history, with an
end which saddens us, yet makes us
still more glad. 1t is impossible to feel
overt alancing regret at the death OF
the last Bronte. We rejoice that there
is none living to bear that name which
always means misery aud spiritual I'M
health, While it portended genius and
glory. 1t is as it we saw galaxy Of
glorious stars, and knew that while they
shone they were burning in bitter con-
scions pain.
We might sorrow for ourselves when
they dmmed and went out III white
ashes; but for their sakes they should
rejoice. 1t is benificent law OF nature
that no morbid growth, however splen
did, propagates itself through genera
lions of unhealth and agony. And we
would have no mere Of the Bronte's
left us than dwclls in their immortal
books.