The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1864-01-27
, NEWS OF THE WEEK.


NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
The Conseription Law, as it passed
the Senate, provides that $500 COM
mutation until every other man in his
district is drafted, when the exempt is
again liable.
1t is thought that the tax on all
manufactured articles will be doubled
before the close Of the present session
of Congress. The people are to he
ground to the earth with taxation. i
General Stoneman, late Of the Po-
tomac cavalry service, has come West
to report to Gen. Grant. aea
Itis thought with the changes in
the Internal Revenue Law, $3.50, ,0OO,-
900 viii be realized from it this year.
Henry Ward Beecher is now recci-
wing salary Of S12, 500 per year.
The Raleigh IN. c. Progress, it is
said, has editorials to the effect that
peace only can prevent starvation.
The losses by fire in New York on
Saturday night, the 23d, were $775,-
900. ....i.g
FIFTY millions Of the new FIVE per
cent. est-bearing Treasury notes
were issued on the 18th.
The Committee on Ways and Means
in the House propose to tax Tobacco
heavily. Manufactured tobacco thirty
cents pound, and inferior cigars four
dollars a thousand.
Nearly s15,O0o,o0o of $40 bonds
have been sold in Philadelphia the
past week. ts,# a.
The Pacific Railroad from San
francisco to San Jose, distance fifty
miles, has been completed.
Charles A. Dana, late one Of the
editors of the New York Tribune,
has been appointed Assistant Secre-
tary of War.
The Arkansas dispatches tell US that
that State will come into the Union in
few months as free State.
Another move on Richmond is to be
made in the Spring.
Congress will undoubtedly give the
notice required in the Canadian Re
ciprocity Treaty Of its future abrogas
ton.
The Richmond Wing thinks the fu-
ture of the South depends upon next
springs campaign in North Georgia.
The Archduke Maximilian has ac-
cepted the Mexican throne, and will
reach Mexico. with reinforcements,
before the end of March.
The Hostein question still threat
ems the peace Of Europe. The Dan,
ish troops have evacuated the country.
The resolution to expel Senator
Davis, of Kentucky, has been refer
red to the Judiciary Committee in the
Senate. 5 r.
The dispatch about the asscmb!age
Of men in Canada to release the John,
son Island prisoners pronounced un-
true. r,
tt is reported that the rebels have
hung Samuel Jones. Of the Fifth Ohio
Regiment, in retaliation for David
Bright, hung by order Of General
Wild. "a
The Southern news is to the effect
that the rebels are conscripting all the
men who have heretofore furnished
substitutes. a sf
The siege Of Charleston has been
temporarily suspended, except by the
fire Of our guns from Morris Island.
The Treasurer's office in Brown
County, Indiana, was broken into by
thieves, on the night Of the 10th, and
robbed sf $4,000. ''geas
An expedition from New England,
by land and sea, is being organized by
General Burnside, Of which the old
Ninth Army Corps Is to form the nu-
cleus. Their destination is CONTRA
band. +
Secretary Seward instraets Minis
ter Adams that the United States viii
hold the British Governments respon-
sible for the damages done peaceful
Iaw-abiding citizens by the Alabama,
which was built and fitted out in Bri-