The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-15

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tanooga Rebel, of the 9Th Of July:
Cfycatlar-Io Farmers and Qasarteynasters.
DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE, Of
flee of Chief Quartermaster, Knoxville,
June n, 1S63.-The following Circular, is
sued by Lieutenant Colonel Larkin Smith,
Assistant Quartermaster General in charge,
Is republished in this department for the
dement, and observance of all concerned.
JAS. GLOVER.
Major and Chief Quartermaster.
Asst QUARTERMAsTER GENERALS OF
IlCE, RICHMOND, Va, June 13, l863.-The
following is the system adopted for the col
lection OF the tax in kind:
An officer of the Quartermaster Generals
department is assigned to the special charge
OF the subject. A controlling Quartermas-
ter, with the rank of Major, is assigned to
each State, and a Post Quartermaster, with
the rank OF Captain, to each Congressional
District, where 1T is practicable to collect
Each Congressional District will be SUBJ
divided by. the Post Quartermaster in
charge of it into sections, for the convent
ent delivery by the taxpayer Of his quota
of produce, and agents will be appointed
by that officer to take charge ofsthe depots
to be established in each section.
Before the depots can be established, or
the assessments required under the law be
made, the crops of small grain, hay, and
the clip of wool for the present year will
have been secured.
To relieve farmers from the risk and in
convenience of storing the government
portion, as well as to obtain immediate
supplies for the use of the army, the De-
partment authorizes and requests farmers
residing near posts where quartermasters
are now stationed to deliver the Govern
ments tenth, or any part of it, to that Quar-
termaster.
Under the law farmers are required to
deliver their tenths at depots not more
than eight miles from the place of produce
ton. If they will deliver under this re-
quest, the Government will pay for the
transportation in excess of eight miles,
The quartermaster receiving produce un-
der this rule will give receipts to the pro-
Queer as evidence that so much of his tax
has been paid. And as the Post Quarter
master Of the Congressional District is re-
sponsible for the tenth, after the assessor
has established and made it known to
him, the Quartermaster to whom it is de-
livered will also recpipt for it to the Post
Quartermaster of the District who will en-.
dorse copy of the receipt upon the asses
sOr's estimate before transferring it to the
agents at the receiving depot ,,u,,
Asst. Quartermaster Gen. in charge.
NOTE-Further information upon this
subject can be had by reference to the pro-
visions of the act entitled "An act to lay
taxes for the common defense, and carry
on the Government of the Confederate
States" approved April "a 1868; and par
ticularly to section IL, II, and ID thereof.
Capt. w. ID. Tape, Assistant Quarter
master, Chattanooga, is authorized to re-
ceive from citizens of Hamilton County the
tax Sin kind alluded to in this circular.
JAS. GLOVER, Major and Chief Q. M.
FRAUDULENT observation-disclosures
PECIsIoN.-When the draft, now near at
hAnd, actually arrives, many of our citi-
Zens will be on the look out for substitutes
from the fact that the procuration of an ac-
ceptable substitute entities the man drafted
to exemption for three years, while by
paying $500 Communication he is liable on
second draft. Parties interested must,
however, take great care lest they be de-
ceived. In Philadelphia the substitute
agents have been inducing soldiers to de-
sert and sell themselves as substitutes
Some of these rascals have been arrested,
and will be severely punished, the soldiers
for deserving, and the brokers for inducing
them to do so. This, however, does not
help their victims much, as will be seen by
the following ruling Of Judge Advocate
Holt:
In case Of q substitute aCho prdves to be a de-
SeTter from military serctce, or a man a.
ready IN that service.
| OPINION.--A man who is under obllga-
ton to perform military duty on his own
account cannot certainly be received as a
substitute for another. To be acceptable
in the sense of the law, he must possess all
| the legal qualifications for the service; but
| an enlisted man has disqualified and abso-
lutely disabled himself from performing
| the duties of substitute by engagements
entered into with the Government. If the
| Board of Enrolment has been imposed up
on, and has granted q certificate of exemp-
ton because of substitute furnished who
proves to he deserter, or one already IN
the military service, the Board should, af-
ter notice to the party, proceed to reconsid-
er it's action, and should set aside its form
er Judgment, and annul the certificate OF
exemption granted. It's right to do so on
proper showing is undeniable, the act OF
determining upon the acceptability OF the
substitute being judicial in it's character,
and subject to revision and reversal. The
certificate of exemption having been thus
vacated, the party's original liability under
the draft remains. 'a, 3 eIg sef2
IMPoRTANT TO ARMY SURGEoNs.-An
Assistant Surgeon, who was on duty a
Gettysburg, writes to the Baltimore Amer
ica7a as follows:
"Will you allow me, as one alienation of
the horrors of the battlefield, to call your
attention to the use of coal oil in suppura-
ting wounds. AS volunteer assistant, re-
ceived permission Of the surgeons of the
First Division of the Fifth Corps, Gettys-
burg, to use it in the most offensive cases.
By its manifest utility, and the solicita-
tons of the wounded, was induced to en-
large its use, until became satisfied that
what cold water is toa wound, in its in
famed state, coal oil is to it in its suppura-
ting state, dispelling flies, expelling yer
min, sweetening the wound, and promo.
ting healthy granulations. 1t can be used
by any assistant of ordinary Judgment,
with perfect safety, and to the great COM
fort of the patient. l have seen TWO pa,
tients, whose wounds have been dressed
with it, asleep before was through Win
the third. Please give it a fair trial ana
judge for yourselves"
CIvET WaNTED.-The rebels on MOTIFS
Island complain that they had TO fght col
ored soldiers. These whippers OF women
and breeders of babies for market, who
cali Themselves gentlemen, think them
selvas dishonored by fighting honest men
who Their own yng and S MhG o DO not
,a'a,,t nr the United States will not hesi-
toto 70 recall all its colored soldiers
OF course it is strictly unconstitutional to
shoot rebels with rifles held by any other
than lilly-white hands. OF course Con