Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-04-10
paatrbman Y stair ouu,nal.
BY E.P. WALTON.
MONTPELIER. APRIL 10. 1863.
FROM WASHINGTON.
FRIDAY, April 3, 1868.

FkOM w AN1lNO lON.
FRIDAY, April 3, 1868.
Tertnoat Oarairy.
Yesterday Colonel Sawyer received tole-
graphic despatch, stating that detachment
of the Vermont cavalry had made an attack
on Mosby and his rebel crew, on the preced
ing day april ~ and we're repulsed with
the loss Of Capt Flint, killed, and five other
officers and twenty three privates to be &C
counted for as killed, wounded, prisoners, or
missing The story was that our men found
Mosby's men out Of their saddles, and made
charge upon them, expecting to capture
them, as the rebels captured Woodward and
part Of his men under like circumstances
but it was a trick Of the rebels, who we're
safely hidden behind a stone-wal, and pour
ed in a murderous fire upon our men as they
came up hope the whole thing is an
April fool; but it may not be. can
hardly imagine anybody in the regiment i'm
pudent enough to play off such trick upon
its Colonel. There is one circumstance, how
ever, that makes me suspect hard joke
Mosby's men are in fact mounted infantry, or
carbneers. Our officers understood that fact,
and that Mosby fights on foot. II seems to
me therefore unreasonable to believe that any
officer of our cavalry would be caught in the
manner described.
Slarery IN Maryland
The Star Of last evening publishes letter
Of Postmaster General Blair, in favor Of meet
ing the slavery question point blank at the
the next election in Maryland and there
upon the Star strongl, advocates this course.
1t says, Industrially, it (slavery) always
was positive hindrance to the general pro-
gress OF Maryland its value being only the
profits Of negro breeding with the former
steady increase in the value of negroes in the
extreme South profits aocruing altogether to
a class who certainly did no more for the States
general prosperity than any other class Of
Mary as much as most others
Though. numerically, that class was small,
we struggled to ward off the anu-slavery re-
suit Of secession from them upon conserva-
tive principles up to the hour at which it be-
came obvious to us that the great danger to
the complete and speedy assurance of Mary
land to the Union existed only in the intrigues
of those who assumed to be the guardians Of
the rights and interests of slavery in that
State. On realizing that they had uncondi-
tionally elected union with tho oligarchy Of
Jefferson Davis, and we're willing to risk the
lives and fortunes Of all Others in the State in
the vain effort to tie Maryland, hand and
foot, and to cast her helpless into poor Vir-
ginia's present condition, we rejoiced that the
line between the nominal interests Of slavery
in the State and those Of its people at large in
the preservation Of the Union at the point of
the bayonet is being rapidly drawn in the
minds Of the Maryland public.
d" The issue was started by John C. Cal
houn. His peculiar followers have pushed
it to this hour, with the avowal Of the pur-
pose of destroying the United States Govern
ment and erecting a slaveholding oligarchic
despotism in its stead. From Spratt, down
to Pryor, every one of the conspirators who
have put themselves op the record ayow the
ultimate purpose Of their rebellion to be the
obIi,eration of the civil rights of the labor
ing white man. The friends Of the Union
and civil liberty in Maryland and all the 9TH
er Border States. now know precisely where
and how to meet them. And what are to be
the grand results Of the contest? The sup
preston of the rebellion on the one hand,
with the speedy end of slavery in the border
States. On the other hand if the Union
cause fails, civil liberty will instantly be ex-
tinct in all the border States to rem4in so
until other generations may in the Providence
of God beat down the oligarchy by such
means as those with which the latter now
seek to destroy civil liberty throughout the
entire South"
1t will be observed that the rebellion has
converted the Star from pro-slayery to anti
slavery When the newspaper ayows such
conversion, you may be sure that there has
been like change among its patrons. Mary
ryland will in due time be free.
Rules of The Treasury on 7arss Improperly
y
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Decision No. 81 is revoked, and hereafter
all taxes must be collected as returned by the
Assessors Claims for taxes improperly paid
under the Excise law must be made to the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, through
the Collectors of the respective districts, sup
ported by the afhdavits of the claimants and
the certificates of the Assessor under whose
direction the taxes we're assessed. First, the
claimant must state in the affidavit the mate
rial facts Of the case on which be makes his
claim. Second, the Assessor and Assistant
Assessor must certify that the statements
made in the affidavit are true so far as each
has knowledge Of the facts. Third, the Col |
lector must append his certificate that the tax
has been paid to him as stated in the affidavit.
When an affidavit is made by an agent, the
principal of the agent must swear that the |
person making the affidavit is his agent, and |
that the statements are true according TO his |