Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-25
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CAPTURE OF BEAUFORT, NC.
DESTRUCTION OF FIT. MACON
Steamer Nashville Burned.
G o ~ O. X T. - SION AL.
SEirmish near Jefferson City.
FROM ISLAND NO. 10.
WENDELL PHILLIPS M0BBED
w ASHIN GTON NEWS
MODIFICATION Or THE TAX BILL.
The Winchester Battle.
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FROM ISLAND NO. 10.
WENDELL PHILLIPS M0BBED
w WASHINGTON NEWS
NJ OBLIGATION Or THE TAX BILL.
The Winchester Battle.
From washington.


patch says:
The Commission on State Prisons will to NOR
row take up the case OF the celebrated Mrs
Greenough who will probably be transferred from
State prison to a unatc asylum.
Gen. Montgomery has been transferred from
his post Military Governor at Alexandria and
placed in like command at Annapolis.
Painful rumors have been afioat for two DAYS
affecting prominent officer in a Civil Depart
denouement this week.
1t is not true that the steamer Vanderbilt has
been purchased by the Government TO be altered
to an iron clad vessel She is merely chartered
for short time as a transport.
The commanding officer at Fort Craig writes
to the Government that he has not doubt of
being able To hold the post
The T'ribune's special says:
1t is rumored that Green Clay will be trans
ferred from the secre;aryship of Legation at St
Petersburg 10 that of Berne; the present incum-
bent Mr.. Fry, having declined on account of i'll
health
Dr. John Evans, of Chicago, has been nomi-
mated and confirmed as Governor of Colorado
Territory vice Gov. Gilpin.
Stephen ) Harding, of Indiana, was on Friday
nominated Governor of Utah, vice Gov. Dawson
rejected.
Small squads of rebel horsemen are securing
the country within five miles of Manassas i'm
pressing all the able bodied men lett, robbing the
farmers and destroying what they can't carry
away.
The Saturdays work of the Ways and Means
Committee, on demand of delegations for modi-
fcations of the tax bill, was to put three per
cent. ad valorem charge upon paper of every de
scription, to adopt the schedule on leather sub
stantially as they were presented to the commit
tee by Mr.. Alley, a tanner and member of the
House; to fix the rate on hoop shirts, umbrellas,
and parasols at five per cent. ad valorem; on
ready made clothing at six per cent. ad valorem;
TO leave salt as the bill, and after long discus
sion to leave the tax as first reported on tobacco
and all its manufactures, stand unaltered. The
tax on billiard tables was reduced half, to ten
dollars year; rock oil, petroleum and coal
oils, the only change was of praseology-that gas,
tar and the products from rehabilitation shall not
be changed For brokers the committee took off
the tenth of one per cent. on their stock sales,
thinking that through their use of powers of at
tOrney transfers, stamps and other assessable in
cdents of their business, they would get taxed
enough. Flour was not disposed of The desire
to tax it of course justly exists
The only difficulty in fixing the rate has been
presented by the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty
The belief has now obtained in the committee
that flour can be taxed by branding the barrels
and taxing the sales without violating the stipu-
lations of that treaty.
The charge on the gross receipts of horse rail
roads was reduced one-half.
1t was decided not to tax coal at all, because it
enters into the business and domestic life of near
ly the whole nation.
During the discussions on this bill the work on
the tariff progresses. Reference is continually
had to it, and when an article is taxed for internal
revenue at the same time equivalent custom
duty is placed on the tax list. This principle will
be adhered to throughout.
The Heralds dispatch says:
The party which left here on Tuesday to look
for the remains of Colonel Slocum, Major Bal
lou and Captain Tower, of the % Rhode Island
regiment, killed at Bull Run, returned this morn
ing bringing their remains.
The party was composed of Governor Sprague,
Colonel Arnold, Walter Coleman, Tristram Bur
CESS, Lieutenant Colonel Sayles Capt. Dennison,
and Surgeon Greedy, of the Rhode Island caval-
nv, accompanied by two of the Rhode Island vol
unteers who had been taken prisoners at Bull
Run and had noted the place where the officers
were buried.
The party arrived at Sudly's church on last
Friday.
Col. Slocum and Major Ballou were buried in
! the yard OF building near by. which was used
as a hospital on the day of the battle
This building had been destroyed by the rebels
but the graves were found.
After they commenced to dig negro girl in
quired if they were digging for the body of Col
Socum, and stated that about six weeks after
the battle some soldiers of Georgia regiment
had dug it up, cut off the head, and burned the
body at the side of the run close by, and taken
the coffin away to bury dead negro.
Her story was corroborated by white boy
and also bv white man who lived in the neigh
borhood.
On repairing to the spot indicated, there was
found a pile of ashes and bones which were pro-
nounced by the surgeon to be human.
Col Slocum had been buried in box, and
Major Ballou in coffin
Upon opening the graves, the box was recog
nized by Mr. Richardson, who was present at
the interment and the remains in it were identi-
fed as Col Slocums.
Upon opening the other grave II was found 10
be empty, showing that the body had been dug
up and burned by the Georgia barbarians, and
was that OF Major Ballou, only these two had
been inferred in that yard.
Col. Segur, Representative elect from the Ac
comac district, arrived here tins morning. con-
firmng the intelligence about the burning of the
prvateer Nashville and Fort Macon, by the
rebels
From Baltim0re.