, 1862-05-08
FROM WASHINGTON,
nBOSTON PLAN" REPORTED RY
i MINORITY,
4 New Commander for Kansas.
Surprise Of Foreign Ministers at
the Rebel SkedaddleS.

Surprise Of Foreign Ministers at
the Rebel Skedaddles.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tkibune.1
NAsuNGToE, May Z, 1852.
The Rebels In Fredericksburg saY JEFF
Davis's Capital has been Temporarily moved
to Danri]le, N. c., and they predict the defeat
Of Banks aud Mcdowell.
JEFF. Dayis's coachman has been taken as
body servant by Gen. Mcdowell He is
as black as midnight, but reads and writes
and bears the cross examination from Generals
and correspondents Withouta flaw in his testi-
mony, which is entirely credited.
The tax bill, as reported by the Finance
Committee Of the Senate, contains few im-
portant changes additional to those already
te1egraphed you. Distilled liquors mannfac-
tured after the passage Of this bill, stand twen-
t. cents gallon malt liquors at one dollar q
barrel; licenses to rectifers, twenty-five dol
lars for each FIVE hundred barrels. Each Of
the.eections taxing horse dealers, cattle brokers
and manufacturers, has been stricken out
Coal oil distillers are to pay fifty instead OF
twenty dollars. Candles three per cent.
Ground coffee one cent instead of three mills.
Confectionery one cent instead Of two cents.
Tobacco, including Snuff and prepared smok-
ing, twenty cents pound; cigars from ten to
thirty-dye cents, The taxes on corn brooms,
wooden pails, DC, straw, felt, silk, and wool
en- hats or bonnets, hoop skirts, ready
made clothing, paper, blacking, patent
or enamel}ed cloth, buck aud doeskins,
machine belfing, wine made Of grapes, fure,
and raw cotton, arc all stricken out. Wood
screws are taxed one and halt cent. Salt
six cents. Railroad iron re-rolled seventy-fve
cents. Harness leather seven mills. Oil
dressed and deer skins two cents. Lime and
Roman cement are added to exempted articles.
Carriages, watches, musical instruments,
gold or silver plate, and private billiard tables
IRE exempted. The tax Of dollar on dogs,
and Of $50 on billiard tables for hire, is re-
tained. Horned cattle oyer eighteen months
are taxed 50 cents; calves 5 cents 4 head; all
sheep cents. Passenger travel on rail cars,
steamboats,. horse cars, and steam ferries is
taxed 5 per cent. on the gross receipts; pas
senger and freight transit over tolled
bridges is taxed the ean1e; insurance
taxed three dollars. Stamps for patent medi~
cines and penumery when purchased III guam
titles under five hundred dollars, are five per
cent; over thatamount ten per cent Bills Of
exchange, promisBory notes, aud bank checks,
over ten and under twenty dollars, are taxed
one per cent. each; letters Of credit fifty cents.
| Bills Of 1adfng to domestic ports are ex-
e1npted. Express packages, where the car
riagc is twenty-five cents, are taxed one
cent; over twenty-five cents and under dol
| lar, two cents; over one dollar cents Tele-
| graphic messages one cent where the first ten
| words cost twenty cents, three cents where
| the COSTS greater. Insurance policies all ten
| cents. Leases, manifests, passage tickets and
appeals ut law are exempted. Playing cards
from one to five cents q pack. The final
elauze Of the bill repeals the twenty million
direct tux act after this year. These are all
the changes In the tax.
The Confscat1on Committee of the Senate
are Mess1s, Clark, Collamcr, Harlan, Cowan
Sherman, Wiley, Henderson, Harris, anl
Wilson. 11r. TrumbulI, Of Illinois, was orig
ina1ly appointed, but declined, aud Mr. Har
| Ian substituted.
| It is known here that General Lowell with
| the whole New Orleans army has reinforced
Beauregard.
| Gen Mcdowell is organizing fugitive black
into companies under officers of tho SAINT
color, and has established regular line O.
promotion among them, paying from 25 cent:
and one ration to full day laborerB wages
| White soldiers are henceforth to handle tn.
muRket only.
| Col. Jennison Of Kansas is here, and feel:
sure Of his ability to prove the charge Of Sc
cession procliyities Oh Gen. sturgis.
| Gen. James Craig, the ex-Missouri Con
greesman, is to be pnt in command of the de,
partment Of Kansas.
! Count Mercier and other foreign ministers
are tAunder-struck at the evacuation Of York
town. &c (Mercier} had written as sobel
truth boasts heard at Richmond, and expected
4 rebel victory on the Peninsula He says hi
don't know what to think now.
The President and Secretary Stanton, who
left for Fort Monroe night before last, are ex
pected back tomorrow.
WAsu1EaToS, April THE Senate vil
without unnecessary delay proceed to con
slider the tax bills which have been presented
and it is thought the report Of the Commit
tee on Finance will be adopted without mate
rial change. The Tux Of twenty cents pc
gallon on whisky and twenty cents per pount
on tobacco, it is estimated will yield so 900,
GOO. Should the views OF the minority Of th
Committee prevail, it is supposed the reye
nue. from this service would be considcrabl,
increased.
NEW York, May f.-The Hsralds Washing
ton correspondent says the report Of the Fl
nance Committee in the Senate upon the ia.
| bill is accompanied by an amendment Offered
By Senator McDougall, one Of the Commit
tee, as substitute for the whole bill.
| The bill proposes to raise . revenue from
! the following sources: first, capital, actiy
and circulating, to be reached bya tax on gale
and transfers on receipts of some classes Q
business, as hotels, &c, s11o, ,0o0, 900; second
capital, fixed and realized, income duties o.
interests from interest paying bonds and Sc
curities, $40, 600 600 third, excuses on spirits
malt liquor, and manufactured tobacco, $40,
000, COO; fourth, duties on legacie5 and inherj
tances granted, from one to eight per cent
The system Of the payment .by ad valorer
!: stamps is adopted Throughout. The official
emr1oyed 10 be, first, a Commissioner OF II
ternal Revenues at Washington to superFis
all; second, inspectors In the several district
I with deputies to be appointed By them; third
| stamp agent in each district, or more tha
| one, Il necessary, for the disposal Of stamps
| TllEoutI6 EtIL01EA al Ao1hLo"A Nu2fNA1
| freely repecting the var, except they refuse t
| give information Of the strength Of Gen. Johl
Z | ton's army. Capt. Lee, one of their number
! declares that the South will continue to figh
to the last; that their rcrerses have not dis
| heartened them. They expect to be drive
| out Of Virginia and all the border States, an
from their seaport towns, but when we mee
them In the interior, man for man, they vi
| show os that they are unconquerable.
TIE Tribune learns that David Forbes,
prominent citizen OF Falmouth, WIS Yesterda
| arrested as q spy. Tie evidence is said to b
very strong against him.
The New York 1inaes's Washington iispatc
eays: You were informed last night that .
| Napoleon Teruan, an Austrian, lately on Ger
t ernl Frcmont's staff, had been confirmed b
the Senate as Brigadier General, Til
fact has astounded the knowing ones
Washington, and especially the foreig
Diplomatic corps. Count Mercier ayers til;
when he Was with the French Embassy
| Madrid, he knew German as IN ndventurer an
i1uposter at that Court
5 The New York ITiJ7tne's Washington CO
respondent says It is known here that secrt
3 organization exists st Dubuque, Iowa, to r
: sist the taxation Of Federal taxes. The riul
! leaders in this movement are known to tt
Government and its eye is upon them
The Flag Hoisted at Fredericksburg
q Virginia.
f FREDER1cKsBURG, Va, May 6.-This nor
/ ing Major Davis, of the harris Light CavaIr,
> established his headquarters in the Farmer
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