Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-13
County Convention.

week, requesting the New state County
Committee to recommend that delegates
be chosen from each precinct of the county
during this week to meet in Convention at
the Court House next Saturday, week the
26th inst. at 10 "A. NJ. for the purpose of
sending delegates to Parkersburg, and to
attend to such other business connected
with the approaching canvass, as may be
thought desirable and proper.
10 accordance With the resolution refer
red to, the Chairman of the County Com
mittee requests US to announce that it is
recommended by the Committee that three
delegates be chosen from each country
precinct next Saturday and from each city
precinct next Saturday night, the 18th
inst.
ITisreported that the rebels have secur-
ed fifteen millions on "cotton' loan in
Europe. But the rebel organization owns
no cotton, and destroys all that lies within
possible reach of our armies and navy
and whatever remains undestroyed is pretty
sure in the end to fall into the hands of the
United States government. The security
of the Europeau creditors does not, there
fore, appear to DO of the hest.
What are the prospects of repayment
from the other resources of the'rebels, the
unhappy creditors can judge from the fol-
lowing, which is taken from an article in
the Richmond Wing, discussing the rebel
tax bill, by which one hundred and fifty
million dollars are to be raised this year
from the southern people.
"The taxes to be imposed by the bill
will have to be paid by portion only of
ten States. The narrow strip of country
between the mountains and the head of
Underwater, stretching from the Rappahan-
mock to the Mississippi, will have the chief
burden to bear. Louisiana and Arkansas
can pay but liltle-and Texas not much
more. Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri
cannot be expected to contribute anything;
and this fact should suggest to the repre-
seuratives from those States the propriety
of abstaining from vote on a question in
which their constituents are not affected.
This leaves only seven of the Atlantic
and Cuff States to bear the brout. And
they are subject to curtailment. Large
portions of their territory, mountain and
tide water, have been overrun by the enc
my and desOlated. Those. districts, OF
course, can pay nothing. Thus leaving the
narrow belt FIRST adYerted to to nav all:
and "t.the same time to feed the army
win Major Rufin's or tho War Depart
ments scale of prices of agricultural pro.
ducts, this thing will be simply impossible
except at suoh sacrifice of property tc
farmers for the benefit of speculators aud
eXtorlioners, as will be intolerable.
The Confessional tax bill, besides spe.
cial taxes, imposes a tax of two per cent
on eVery hundred dollars worth of prop
srty, personal aud real. In addition, tn,
State levIes tax of one per cent.-aAt
each county's tax will be as much more
thus making at least four per cent. Thil
levied on an assessment in Deprecated
currency, and paid by the sale of products
at the commissary's prices, will bring ruiz
on-the farming interest of the country"
No doubt Mr.. Davis would like to chang
the title to the whole cotton crop, as .
meausOf getting it out and making it use
full to bis purposes-or failing in that, still
to eVade the confcation act. He and bill
allies abrond have been for long Will,
deVising plans by which to secure thes,
prudential objects, But their attempts to
sprinkle salt on the tail of the American
eagle have hitherto come 10 nothing; and
We doubt even if that venerable bird can
be caught by such means at all.