Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-12-05

Il una, inc person assessor may DC tAauIiuco vi
oath, a I'd any stock or bonds he may possess
be sold at public auction. A refusal to testify
is punishable by Imprisonment until the tax is
paid.
The Confederate Congress is still in SEES
sion at Richmond, Va. A message from Prcsi-
dent Davis was sent in on Tuesday last, having
reference to the secession of Missouri. Ga
Wednesday the Congress passed a law admit
ting Missouri into the Confcderacy.
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CROPS AND PRODUCE ON THE COAST TO BE
DEsTRoYED.-1he New Orleans Crescent adj
produce. wherever the Federal forces make a
landing and adds:
If the cotton or other property falls into the
hands of the Federals, the planters lose, while
the Federals are corresponding advantaged
but if the planters burn their cotton their loss
will be the same, and the abolitionists will not
be benefited. Neither horses, cattle, hogs,
sheep. corn nor cotton should be permitted to
pass into their possession. All should be re-
moved as far as practicable, and the remainder
destroyed the moment the fact becomes appa-
rent that the enemy cannot be successfully re-
pulled. By adopting such course as this the
common foe will be compelled to draw all his
supplies from points some thousands of miles
distant, through a costly and hazardous process.
The case is a hard one all round; but to our
mind, as tie Yankees are lowering about our
coasts, it is best to inconvenience them as much
as possible by destroying all things they are
bound to capture, rather than let them take,
appropriate and enjoy effects thus villainousIy
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twelve or fourteen millions Of coin in tho. vaults
of the banks of New Olreans. Suppose, for
the sake of argument, that New Orleans was
bound to succumb before the overwhelming
forces of the enemy. Would it not be the part
of wisdom, policy and patriotism to sink this
twelve or fourteen millions of coin to the bot
tom Of the Mississippi rather than to allow it to
90 into the Golfers of the Government at Wash
ington?
The New BOUNDARIES OF VIRG1NIA-The
Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune says:
Map making was never so beautiful an art as
when it displayed the reformed boundaries of
Virg na Maryland and Delaware, to be preser,-
ted to Congress in Mr.. Ca,neron's report. 1.-THE
security of Washington the capital, being the
object-the agreement Of the thee States being
the means-surrender CT the three-Glth black
representation b,i1g tie condition precedent, as
far as Maryland is concerned-Virginia hereaf-
ter is bounded north by Pennsylvania and east
by the Blue Ridge. Maryland is bounded west
by the Blue Ridge, south by North Carolina,
AID east by the Chesapeake; and Delaware,
bounded on the east by the Atlantic and Oh the
west by the Chesapeake, takes instant rank as
a big State This beautiful map-making is
finished off by the retrocession to the Federal
Government Of that portion Of the DISTRICT of
Columbia abandoned to slavery by slayish
Congress. Richmond becomes Maryland vii
lage; Accomac, the home of Wise, Delaware
county.
THE ARMY SUTLERs.-It is stated that Sena-
tor Wilson has determined to introduce bill
Immediately on the opening of Congress, to
abolish the office Of sutler in the army He has
been impelled to this by reason of the extortions
and abuses practiced upon the soldiers. In
spite of the legal restriction against selling t.
soldiers to an amount exceeding 49, 81
f thslz PAX tFs safat aa fbe
half thus taken is too common to excite remark
The prices, too, are exorbitant, the profits often
being from 2 to 800 per cent. and the quality
of the articles furnished as bad as will be tole-
rated. Liquor, too, is often clandestinely ftlrn-
ished The pastry and other articles of food
furnished have been found to cause Sickness
1t is known that in very many cases the colo
nels of regiments are partners of the suffers, the
profits being so large that men are often unable
to get the appointment upon any other terms
The profits of sutler for a full regiment are
from Sc, 900 to $4,000 year.
UNIFORMS MANUFACTURED ABRoAD-The
American Government has made, Paris cor
respondent says, at the great military establish
ment of Alexis Godillot, in that city, ten thou
sand uniforms, with tents and camp equipages
complete, even to the tent sticks and frying
pans. The uniforms are all of the model of the
"CAasseavs-a-P ied' of the French army, the
smartest, easiest and most jaunty dress in the
French service.
THE REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME SHARPLY
CRITICISED.
Colonel Charles S. Biddle, who is now in COM
mand of one of the Pennsylvania regiments,
has declared his intention to surrender his COM
mission and assume the seat in Congress to
which he has been recently elected by the vo-
tiers of the Second Congressional district of
Pennsylvania. In writing to ''several distin-
guished citizens" who have rendered him the
compliment of public dinner, he declares him
self Democrat, but no partisan, and contrasts
as follows the policy of the Democratic party
with that which has been since inaugurated by
the Republicans:
This, at least we may say for the Democratic
party-it rated at their true value the fantastic
theories, the WITNESSES, the ''isms," the questions
of mere phraseology, that men, calling them
selves statesmen, have preferred to peace, tc
uuon to the gradual progress and development
of each section, and all races in due relation tc
natural causes. This, too, we may say for the
Democratic party-while it maintained its sway
secession" was little, baff1ed clique; as the
Republican party rose, Secession became ear
army with banner
Nor was the foresight of the Republican lea
Jor, xyidor than their patriOtiSm Tho 20 1cf