The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-04

they came, where practicable; about an ambu-
lance corps, and other measures to promote the
comfort of the soldiers; In word, upon all
questions arising out Of the war and its conduct,
both of small and great moment, there was q
thorough interchange of opinions, and the great
4 est harmony Of sentiment. 500
1 Some one having mentioned the recent infa-
nous leaders of the Herald, looking to militia
4 ~ usurpation, the Governors expressed them
selves very strongly, and the united voice of
the meeting was that any attempt at such usur-
patton, by any general or civilian whomsoever,
should be crushed before it had time to exist,
and that, in order to give no pretext to, or op-
portunity for, iligitimate proceedings, the Pre-
sident should be sustained in oil things done BY
him legt;mately in the exercise of his functions.
! The Collection OF the National Tax.
| The Colleetors appointed under the recent act
of Congress- to collect the national tax, are
making their arrangements, and will soon com.
mence operations. The Commissioner of Reve-
nue. at Washington has just issued the following
important regulations to the Collectors at Phil
adelphia, which apply equally to Collectors In
this locality. [r.,,...,-.-..
!. All mechanics, except those who merely do
repairs, must be registered as manufacturers, and
must take out license as such if the annual
| sales amount to 81 900. ~
2. But mechanics and other manufacturers who
sell their own manufactures at the place where
they are produced are not required to take out
| an additional license az traders. This does not
include recti6ers, who must pay both licenses.
8. If manufacturers have an Office, depot
storeroom, or agency, at place different from
the place where the goods are mado, or if they
sell the manufactures of others, in addition to
| their own, they must pay traders as we'll as q
| manufacturers license. Thus, tobacconist who
both makes cigars and keeps for sale goods in
| his line which he has purchased, must take out
| both licenses. So must a druggist, who also
makes patent articles, for medicines, &C., for
which he has private formula or receipt.
4. Persons keeping barrooms or saloous, for
| the sale of liquors, must take out liquor deal
ers' license. If they also furnish food, they
must, in addition, take out an eating house Ii
cense; and the sale of cigars, &C.. requires to.
lard tables require special license. and baga-.
telle tables are reckoned as billiards
8. Commission merchants who are also ship
or commercial brokers are required to take out
| two licenses. a.
g. Grocers selling -four by the barrel or salt
by the sack, or any other article in the original
package, are reckoned as wholesale dealers Il
T. Stamps must be attached to the papers re-
quiringthem at the time of their execution, and
must be obliterated by the person writing his
initials upon them. Telegraphic dispatches must
fbe stamped and effaced when delivered to be
Transmitted Butrailroad and telegraph compa.
MES are not required to stamp their own dis
patches over their own lines. aI
| g. Arrangements will be made with the collec-
tor of this district to supply stamps to parties
desiring to purchase $50 WORTH or over, at the
rates Of discount established by the Treasury
Department. s1s 20 ISL. sae 81
9. Notes and bills of exchange drawn for
certain sum, with interest, will be stamped sc-'
cording to the principal sum. Foreign cur
rency will be estimated according to the real
par of exchange; the pouad sterling, for in
stance. at the rate fixed for sovereigns, not at
the nominal rate of 81 49,, nor at the market
rates Of exchange, which is now something above
the real par.
10. On and after October lst the following
instruments must be stamped: All agreements,
appraisements, checks, sight drafts, promissory
notes. inland and foreign bills of exchange, bills
Of lading to foreign ports, packages, SC, per
express, bonds, certificates of stocks, or profit,
of deposit in banks, of damages, and all other
certificates, charter parties, brokers' menoran-
dums, conveyances, mortgages, leases, telegraph
dispatches, custom house entries and manifests,
policies of nsurance-lfe, marine, and fire, and
| renewals of the same-psssage tickets to for
| eign ports, powers of attorney, proxies probate
of Wills, protests, warehouse receipts and writs
or other original process of commencing suit -
Also, patent medicines, perfumers, and playing
cards. :.
In reference to public houses and liquor deal
ers exclusively, it is defined that in tavern or
public house where liquor is sold, licenses must
De taken for each business, the license for the
tavern to be according to the rental, and the Ii
cense for liquor in all cases of retail to be twenty
dollars. BY retail is understood any quantity
under three gallons. To sell above that quantity
is wholesale, and the license is one hundred dol
lars. Restaurants which furnish bedding, and
which keep liquors, are required to obtain three
licenses-6rst q tavern license, secondly Ii
cense for the liquor bar, of twenty dollars, and
thirdly license for the eating bar, costing ten
dollars, when the receipts amount to or exceed
one thousand dollars per year. Eating houses
are permitted to keep confectionery without an
additional license.
All dealers in liquor by retail are required to
pay license of twenty dollars per year. The
penalty for refusal or failure to take out license
is a fine of three timss the amount Of duty or
tax imposed by the law, one half of which goes
to the informer. These taxes are, of course, in
addition to the State and city licenses now i'm
, posed, and the accumulation Of expenses will
material affect the smaller dealers who abound in
every part of the city. The prosecution Of de-
iinquents is made imperative on the Collectors
who hold the names and residences of all deal
ers, 60 that escape from the penalty is next t,
impossible
NJ From the Gate City.
w Army Correspondence.
" IUKA, Miss, Sept. "a; 1862.
j. B. HOW'LL, Esq.-Dear Si-:-I supnos
you have seen of course, by telegraph, that ther
was battle fought in this vicinity on the l9t
. inst. between Gems. Price and Rosecrans. III
. fight commenced about an hour before Mich
q and continued till dark, and was one Of the mos
6ercely contested of the war. There were som
u ten or twelve Regiments of the Confederstes &C
tually engaged, consisting of Texas, Louisiana
i Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas troops, o.