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Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14
The New Tariff BiIl.

The new tariff BILL the product of the Joint
Committee of Conference appointed on the part
of each of the two Houses of Congress, passed,
on Friday, by large majority. The House Bill
was taken as. the basis of the Compromise, but
some very important changes were made i'm few
words. Sugar was reduced halt a cent, and the
duty now stands at two cents per pound. In the
report of the Senate proceedings, the new duty is
errOneOuslv stated as three and a half cents a
private telegram from Hon. NJ f. 0dell, to whom
we are indebted for other interesting particulars,
fixes the duty at four cents. The duty
cOa is three cents per pound F; on crude chicOry
root one cent, and on ground chicOry it is re
duced from four to two cents. On brandy the
duty is fixed at one dollar and twenty-five cents
per gallon on other spirits, fifty cents per gal
Ion on wines fifty per cent. ad valOrem and OH
tea fifteen cents per pound. Silks raised to
forty per cent. ad valorem, which is great ad-
vance from the present rates. This heavy ad
vance on French produce, (silks and wines,) is
not without very grave political significance, and
the reasons for it will be developed in due time
The most important part of the bill is not given
in the telegraphic reports, but private telegrams
to the Editors of this paper enable US to supply
the omission. Mr.. Simmons bill, it will be re-
collected, made no provision for goods on the
way to our ports, with the exception of coffee
from beyond the Cape of Good Hope) and thus
all goods arriving at the date his bill should take
effect would pay the new duty. The bill, as
passed, excepts from its operation all goods in
bond and actually on ship-board bound to the
United States and all such goods will be sub
ject the current before the passage of the
act. 1t is to take effect, as understand, "from
its passage :" but it will be sometime before any
thing not low afiOat arrive and be entered /;
and, if we are not much mistaken, it will be a
very distant day before any considerable reve-
nue. will be derived from its extraordinary pro
visions.
Many of our readers who have kept watch over
the various amendments to the two bills, origina-
ting in the House and Senate respectively, will be
puzzled to understand the singular discussion in
relation to the direct tax in such n connection.
The explanation of this seeming mystery will be
found in the fact that the tax bill, which started
as an independent measure, hung upon amend
ments between the two Houses, and was finally
referred to the Conference Committee having the
tariff bill in charge. After spirited discussion,
and much difficulty in coming to any agreement,
it was finally tackled on the tariff bill a make
weight, and thus both were thrown into the scale
together. This tax bill, however, is now an emas
cuated affair; and although retaining its more
odious features is shorn of its more sensible and
benefcent provisions. 1t retains the income cru
city, but otherwise touches lightly upon property,
and will prove lasting disgrace W Its promoters
and defenders.-NeIo York Journal Of Commerce
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14

An annual direct taxation of $40, 900 600, BY
an act of Congress, has been levied upon the
United States and the amount apportioned to In
diana is S9O4,S75 This is one Of the results of
Republican legislation. The New York Herald
thus remarks upon the law:
The necessities of great war have forced upon
us a measure which we had hoped TO avoid The
interest of the immense loans that have been
thorized by Congress has to be provided for, and
our revenue from imports can no longer be re
lied upOn and the public lands will, in all prOba-
bility, be all absorbed by the grants made to the
officers and soldiers of our army no option is left
US but to resort to it. The sum proposed to be
raised in this way is twenty miliOns-the same
amount as was levied under Sir Robert Peel's bill.
The per centage of taxation is, however, cOnsid-
erably less, being only three per cent. on all in
comes, whether enjoyed by individuals or corpora
tons. NOn-residents, deriving their incomes from
property in this country, will pay five per cent.
for their absenteeism-a Just and equitable pro
vision. The duty on carriages is TO be from
to fifty dollars, according to the description of We
hicle; on gold watches, one dollar; silver, fifty
cents; ON spirituous liquors, five cents a gal
lon, and on fermented ditto, sixty cents a
barrel, or two cents a gallon. These Imposts
will considerably affect all classes, but more par
ticuarly those in the enioymentof large incomes,
whose property has hitherto never been ade
uuately assessed. MilliOnaires, like Mr.. W. Il.
Astor, Commodore Vanderbilt, Mr. LenOx, the
Lorilards and others, will henceforth contribute
a fair proportion of their wealth to the direct sup
port OF the National Government. 1t has been
long contended that if we had heavy national
debt the pressure of a taxation would arouse our
leading citizens to sense of their responsibilities,
and induce them to take the elections out Of the
hands of the low politicians who now control
them. Such result would not be dearly paid
by the burthens imposed BY the war.
The twenty millions of taxes TO be raised by
this bill are allotted In fixed proportions among
the thirty four States and eight organized Terri
tories of the Union. 1t is calculated that by the
LIST of April next when It goes into operation, all
the rebel States will have been brought back TO
their LOYALTY Should this anticipation not be
fulfilled, the North will have to provide for the
deficiency, either by an increase of the income
tax, or by adding other articles to the schedule OF
internal duties The mode of collection will be
through the same machinery by which the Federal
taxes are raised by each State. The only addi-
ton made to it will be a bureau in the Treasury
Department, consisting of commissioner, with
a salary Of three thousand dollars, and clerks
whose aggregate salaries are not to exceed six
ouSand
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14
correspondence Of the Journ'
War Items.

Washington, Thursday, August ].
The falling off in the business of the Patent
Office, is strong commentary upon the general
depression of business pursuits, produced by the
war. Twenty-six of the Clerks and examiners
we're dismissed Yesterday, for want of employment
large number had been discharged before It
is said that not more than five Examiners will be
retained. Four clerks were till lately employed
i'm recording assignments, and now there is hardly
business for one. At the present rate of declen-
sion the Office will of necessity be closed in six
months. The reason ofthe entire and sudden fail
ure of the concern is that the Patentees and their
products have not the Southern market; while,
at the same time, the market has fallen off or
ceased in the free States, in like manner with
other business.
The Government is availing itself of present
means to procure and bring to this point an i'm
mense supply of ordnance and ordnance stores.
Artillery is not to be rejected hereafter. The
Confederates acting on the defensive, intend to
make battle with artillery and cavalry-which,
on our side, was heretofore repudated.
The Government has evidently determined, as
matter of choice as well as of necessity, to car
nv the war into the heart of Eastern Virginia. 1t
they cannot conquer there. they cannot anywhere
because the tide water region ofVirginia is easi
ly reached by land and sea. Ii this Government
cannot carry on military operations there with
success they cannot anywhere An entire failure
in Virginia for the next six months, will go far to
terminate tie war, or rather to impair the means
of this Government for continuing the war
1t is feared that the disastrous defeat at Bull
Run will be the means of sacrificing the cause
of the Union men in Eastern Tennessee. Arms
and munitions of war have been forwarded west
ward to be conveyed to East Tennessee for the
Union Volunteers. But it is now feared that they
will never reach their destination, unless accom-
panied by large army.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14
From the Shoe and Leather Reporter.
English shoes for the south.

We mentioned some weeks since that Edward
DAILY, of Charleston South Carolina, left for Liv-
erpool in the steamer from Quebec, intending to
buy shoes for the Southern army and the people
at large. A gentleman who went over in the
same steamer informs US that Mr.. DAILY has con-
tract to furnish so 900 pairs of shoes for the South
ern troops, 81 25 per pair, and that he has placed
it in England at rates which insure him profit of
about so cents per pair. Our informant states
that business there is receiving an impetus, from
the large orders for dry goods, boots and shoes,
trunks, &c, &C., which are being given by South
ern merchants, several of whom are in England
purchasing goods for cash. Mr. DAILY buys men s
russell brogans for IS cents, mems Congress boots,
oak leather and sewed, at 81, ladies' Congress
boots at 80 cents TO 81 12 and other goods in this
line in proportion. They paid for by drafts
on Fraziet, Trenham & Co., of Liverpool. TIE
prices it will be seen, are remarkably low, espe-
cially for good sewed russet brogans, but the
gentleman from whom we get our information,
says he was present. and in several instances saw
the goods purchased. A line of steamers, intend
ed to run between Liverpool and Charleston, S. c..
is nearly ready the first vessel is advertised in
the Liverpool papers to leave August 18th (the
time has since been extended, we believe, to Sep
tember 18th, and when our informant left, it was
actually loading with these goods. How they are
elude the blockade not stated but it is proba-
ble that the Southerners who have been unspar-
ing in their promises of direct trade and have de
picted its advantages to EngIishmen in glowing
coors, expect aid from thence to insure the safe
carriage and delivery of their purchases. Wheth-
er these anticpations are well grounded or not,
they correspond with the very sanguine expecta-
tons of Southern men in other respects. AT any
rate, goods to the amount of a million and half
of dollars have been purchased there by Southern
merchants for cash. and portion of them are
loading in swift sailing steamers, by which means
they may perhaps expect to run the blockade, II
the privilege Of going in under British guns is de-
MED them.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. WEDNESDAY,, AUGUST IA, 1861.

ity. While we lament the fratrcidal contest we
desire neither to interfere nor adudcs.ted on the
justice ofa quarrel of brethren speaking The same
language and inhabiting the same continent
[Prom Cores (LiverpOoD Advertiser, lStb.l
A COMMERCIAL VIEw.-Presdent Lincoln and
his advisers were passionless themselves when
they issued the spirit-stiuing appeal for troops
that vas responded to with an alacrity truly as
tOnshing, and with an ardor as intensified as is if
months previously the coming event had not cast
its ominous shadow before it.
Why should they now recede, almost before
blow has been struckl Why should they so
stultify themselves in the eyes of the world to
drop the sword like braggart cravens before it
has been wrenched from their grasp, or at least
before the result of one campaign has made il ap-
parent that the further prosecution of the war
would not be worth its cost in blood and treasure
Perhaps no geat battle may be fought; but
the war will not be less disastrous on that ac
count and the continuous blockade of the South
ern ports will inflict blow on the commerce of
the world, the effects of which may be felt for
many years to come. The main question which
presses for our immediate consideration is: How
long can that blockade be entOrcedI This, 10 us
in Lancashire, is most mOmentous question.
and it would afford not little satisfaction if
we saw our way clear to say that the blockade
could not possibly be enforced beyond the close of
the present year.
Since the commencement of this American
difficulty our editorial trumpet has given no I'M
certain sound. Our sources of information have
supplied US with early and reliable intelligence of
what was prssng on the other side of the Allan
tic, and we therefore fiatter ourselves that our
words will have some little weight with the COM
mercial community, and especially with those
who are most deeply interested in the prosperity
of the cotton trade, when we warn them that a
dearth of cotton, such as was never experienced
in this country in any previous period of its his
tory, may Overtake us in the course OF the next
six months, unless our government awaken to a
sense of the awful consequences which would
flow from such an event; and institute more &C
tiUe measures than any rhich II has hitherto en-
piOyed to induce the Uuifed States Government to
yield TO fate and acknowledge The independence of
the Confederate States. 1t must come at last to
this. We can sle no other solution of the diff
Guilty. The Northern States have the power to
proong the war indefinitely. The Southern, if
defeated in the Geld. cannot be finally subdued.
The folly nf.ihe contest thus waged in conse-
queniiy apparent to US in England, the folly
"a that contest which we waged with our Ameri-
can brethren towards the close of the last Gen.
tury, was to some of our then wisest statesmen.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14
Nn"rriirn.
The Bridal vail.
By ALICE CARY.

By ALICE CARY.
We're married, they say and you think you have won
Well take this white vail from my head, and look
me;
Here's matter vex you, and matter to greve you,
Here's doubt mstrust you, and faith believe you
am all as you see, common earth, common dew
Be wary, and mould me to roses, not rue!
All, shake out the flmy thing, fold after fold,
And see il you have me TO keep and TO hold
Look close my heartsee the worst Of its shining
II is not yours to-day for the yesterdays winning
The past is not mine-I too proud to borrow
You must grow TO nights if love you tomorrow.
We're married, I'm plighted hold up your praises
the turf at your does handful of daisies;
That way lies my hOnOr-my pathway Of pride,
But, marx you, il greener grass grows either side
1 shall know il, and keeping in body with you,
Shall walk in my spirit with feet on the dew.
We're married. Oh pray that our love do not fall
have wings hattened down and hid under my vail
They as subtle as light-yOu never undo them,
And swift is their tiight-yOu pursue them,
And spite Of all casping, and spite Of all bands,
l can slip like a shadow, dream from your hands
Nay call me not cruel, and fear not 10 take me,
am yours for a lifetime be what you would make
To my white vail for sign, a cover,
As you shall be proven my lord or my lover,
A cover for peace that is deod a token
OF bliss that can never be written or spoken
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14
gtlcttr0 stllsttllanp.
Xafue of Corn.

We make the following extracts from long
and interesting article in the New York Tribune,
under the caption of ''The Curiosities of Corn:
This undoubted native of the American con-
tinent Yields to h1man industry the greatest and
most valuable of crops. In fact, the two next
greatest in the Union, wheat and hay, do not
equal it in money value, while beside it the boast
ed cotton crop is mere fraction. Its Importance
is universal, as there is no product which is com
mon to all the States that has ever been so ex-
tensively cultivated. The first settlers found the
Indians in possession of it, and hence its common
name. Although much has been written on the
Eastern origin OF this grain, yet it did not grow
in Asia, nor has it ever been mentioned by any
ancient author. 1t has never been found in any
ancient tumulus, sarcophagus, pyramid nor
has it ever been represented in any ancient paint
ing, sculpture, or work of art, except on America.
But, in this country, according to the earliest
Peruvian historians, the palace gardens OF the
Incas were ornamented with maize, in gold and
silver, with all the grains, spikes, stalks and
leaves; and in one instance, there was an entire
cornfed of considerable size, representing the
maize in its exact and natural shape-a proof no
less of the wealth of the Incas than of their
veneratiOn for this important grain. In further
proof of the American origin of this plant, it may
be stated that it is still found growing in wild
state from the Rocky Mountains to the humid
forests OF faraSuay, Wnere, lnsteau OF having
each grain naked, as is always the case after
long cultivation, it is completely covered with
glumes or husks. Columbus found the natives
of Hispaniola cultivatng it in extensive fields,
and those of other places first visited by him
were also in possession of it. The first English
men by whom it was cultivated were they who
settled in Virginia, in l6Oe.
1t already equals the wheat crop of the whole
world. The latter can be proftably cultivated
only within certain localities, but grows lux
uriantly in all. The border tropics refuse to yield
wheat. Louisiana and Florida produce but 500
bushels annually, but nearly l4.0OO 600 bushels
of corn. Our slaves consume more wheat
than did the aborigiDes-corn is their sole food
and it may be safely asserted that if the crop
of this country were TO be annihilated, slavery
would be on the high road to starvation. The vi
taiity of that institution is due much TO the low
cost of corn as to the high price of cotton.
The annual average wheat crop of the world is
900 900 900 bushels. of which near 2OO, 100000
my be credited to the United States. In-l650
our crop Of corn was over 0000, 900 bushels,
and in 1869 it was considered full 100000 900,
tins equalling the wheat crop of the whole earth.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14

CHANGED HASDs.-The Indiana State Sentinel
has changed hands, ane is now under the control
of ELDER & HARKSEss, formerly of the State
Guard, and j. j. BINGHAM, one of the former
Sentinel proprietors. Mr. BrSGHAM will still con-
tinue as chief editor. The Guard patrons will
be supplied with the weekly Sentinel till their
time expires. Under this new firm the Sentinel
will occupy commanding position as Demo
cratic journal for the incoming partners are both
of true Democratic metal, and fearless in their
advocacy of truth. Loud thunder in long peals
may be looked for from that quarter--let it come.
1t is the duty Of the Democracy to give their
State organ liberal support, and we hope club
Of fifty subscribers will be Immediately made
here. With Mr. DoueHrY, the retiring partner,
we have long had an acquaintance and wish him
abundant success in whatever new enterprise he
may engags-Ciay Co. Democrat.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14
a Chnnre nf Nnme.

We understand that il is in contemplation by
the managers to change the name OF the Admin
istration party from Republican TO american.
There are two objects in this: one to please the
Union men Of Kentucky, who want to act, in all
things, with the Republican party in support of
the Administration, but cannot do SO efficiently
under the name of Republican, to which great
prejudice attaches in that State the other to com
prehend in its fullness the idea of the Admnistra
ton that State lines no more than county lines
and that there are no Ohioans, no kentuckians,
bit all Americans. as enunciated by Cameron be
fore the st. Andrews Society, at Washington re-
cently.-CiR. Eng.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14
Pass the traitors round.

BES MoCULLorGH.-This distinguished seces-
sion leader now operating against Gen. Lyon in
Missouri, is a cousin of Mr.. j. NJ. Tilford, the
President of the indianapolis Journal Company.
This fact may help the public somewhat in ac-
counting for the singular secession procIivites of
that sheet.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14

cFg- The Indianapolis Journal, apaper which
onlya few months ago put forth the most infamous
secession sentiments, is now engaged in the dirty
business of crying secession against Democrats,
whose record is a thousand times more loyal than
its own. The Indianapolis State Sentinel is draw
inc ON the concern its black record and Grams its
secession articles down its throat every week. and
makes the thing swallow its own venomous saliva,
and certainly no buzzard in all the land caws over
a fouler dish-Cannelfon Reporter.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14

GY- Ii is said that Charles Sumner, the Sena-
tor from this State, wrote letter the District
Attorney here few days before the defeat of the
Federal forces at Bull Run, in which he stated that
he had seen the President, and after great exer-
ton, had obtained from him a promise that he
(the President) would give positive orders to
Lieut. General Scott to make an immediate at
tack upon the position of the rebel forces. is
this true?-Bosfon Post.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14
English Views of the Presidents Mes-
sage.

Prom the London Times OF July Iy.l
President Lincoln's second Message altogether
confirms the impression produced by his first. 1t
is an unpretending and business like Justification
of his past policy, and invites Congress. without
circumlocution, to provide "the legal means for
mixing this contest short and decisive one. {"
HJmely in language, and somewhat apologetic in
tone, il shows the same clear though not very
comprehensive appreciation of the point at issue,
and the same tenacity of purpose which has char
actefized Mr.. LincolB's manifestoes In
short, we must assume that the North is prepared
to make any sacrifices to secure the objects Of a
war which promises to be interminable.
What are those objects after all that transcend
the paramount importance of preserving peace be-
tween neighbors and brethren? This is a point
on which the Presidents Message, with all its
elaborate refntation of secession theories, throws
very little light One thing is clear, and that Is
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14

While the Republican press is SO lavish and
careless in its bestowal of the epthet of trator"
would it not be well to inquire into its applica-
bility to the GREELEYs, the BLAIRs, and the Mem
bers of Congress, and the fifteen Senator's who
created the political necessity for the battle of
Manassas, in which troops were preciptated
upon masked batteries and slaughtered, and by
means of which, according to Mr.. WEEDS letter.
they "haue added another year TO the ,oar, an
Hundred Millions Of Dollars TO It's cost, and
opened graOes for fifteen or tioenty thousand more
soLdiers?''
The New York Herald processes to have as
certained the names of the fifteen Senators who,
in Republican caucus, urged the passage of the
resolution calling upon the President to give the
order Forward to Richmond" and names them
as follows:
Nossrs. SUMNER, of Massachusetts,; HALE
and CLARK, of New Hampshire; TRUMBULL
of Illinois; CHANDLER, of Michigan; WADE,
of Ohio; SIMMONS. of Rhode Island; DOC
LITTLE, of Wisconsin GRIMES. of Iowa;
WILKINSON, of Minnesota; MORRILL, and
FESSENDEN. of Maine; FOOT. of Vermont;
FOSTER, of Connecticut, and KING, of New
York.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14

~ Information has been received that Sena-
tor Wilson and Ben Wade went to Manassas in a
carriage, each with a rife. 10 be shoudered in
case of rapid retreat of the enemy, and without
personal danger. But owing to unexpected cir
cumstances, the rifles were neglected and lost in
the hurried fight of their owners. Macte rirfute,
o Standardization Post. f'r
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-14

PRoMorED. = The Clark County Democrat
states that John s Simonson has been promoted
TO the rank of Colonel in the regular army Col
Simonscn has gone to Decatur, Illinois, 70 mus
ter two regiments Of volunteers into tne service
after which he is instructed 70 report himself 70
Gen Fremont.