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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-26
DEspgRATE MEASURES.

A summary Of three acts passed By the Rebel
Congress IN secret session viii be found in other
columns. They are as good an evidence Of the
condition of the Rebellion as was supplied by
the Address which we printed yesterday. A
Confederacy which is forced to summon into
the field every man between u and 80, to lay a
tax on capital equal, and in many cases supe.
rior to, its probable income, and TO repudiate
a currency Of which S7OO,O00,OOO are in the
hands of the people, is about as near the bottom
as it can be before the final crash comes.
We state the provisions of these acts gene
rally in single sentence, but there really is not
much qualification to be made by more exact
summary. The Conscripton bill with It's few
exemptions from universal levy las been in
substance understood before, though the Rebel
papers have not, until lately, been permitted to
print it. Nobody is exempted nnless in the
Judgment of the Rebel leaders he can do better
service elsewhere than in the field. All the
men whom the South can put into the field, or
whom her present masters can force into the
ranks of their armies, will be there this Spring
There is no doubt whstever that the coming
campaign, if disastrous TO them, will be the last
they can attempt TO carry on in considerable
force.
The Tax bill puts five per cent on all property
in addition To- the heavy taxes previously imposed.
On many descriptions of personal estate the tax
is much heavier. Gold, silver and exchange
paw taxes on their market value in Confederate
paper-tlot il, every four or five dollars Of
specie is taxed as 500. The iscome tax is ten
per cent; additional, ike the rest; and all
taxes are payable on or before June ].
The Currency bill is modification OF Mem
mnger's scheme. Treasury notes are TO be
funded in tweuty-year four per cent bonds
within six weeks, or must lie thereafter Surren-
dered for new issues, at the rate OF three of the
old for two of the new. The 500 notes, II not
funded will be taxed 50 per cent, and ten per
cent month subsequently, an notes out
standing at the end of The year are taxed 100
per cent-shich il a very neat method indeed
of repudiation, and shows how far Mr.. Jefferson
Dayis's genius has developed since the days
when he swindled the creditors of Mississippi.
New six per cent bonds at thirty years
are to be issued ~ the amount Of $500, COO,
interest on which is secured by pledge of the
customs receipts--a security which, considering
the present condition Of the blockade, will
scarcely be very tempting to capitalists. Yet
this Is the financial basis on which the leaders
of the Rebel Confederacy would persuade their
subjects that they mean to carry on a war for
independence till the resources of the United
States are exhausted. Who does not see the
inevitable and near result
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Terms Of THE Tribune.
DaIIY URIRlk
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE WAR.

On Tuesday morning a party OF guerrillas
made a dash on the residence Of Mr. Walter GtheS
ham. about two miles from Springfield, Va. They cap
tured Mr. Gilngham and his two brothers-inlaw. and
arrested James Gorau. Mr.. Gillngham succeeded in
making bis escape. scouting party of the LIST Michi'
gan Cavalry under Sergt. Mayhem went out TO recon
hotter on Tuesday They proceeded as far as the oc
eoqaan but discovered no enemy.
Gov. Curtin has issued a proclamation rela-
tive to enlistments in Pennsylvania for other States
enforcing upon all magistrates &C. such vigilance III
enforcing the laws Of the Commonwealth against per-
sons who shall attempt within the State to recruit VOL
unteers for Other States and appealing to veterans "
enlist from Pennsylvania
1t is said that out of $4,000 veterans OF oif
Army of the Potomac whose terms Of service wi expire
within the next nine months at least 25O have already
regnsted. with fair prospect that nearly all the rest
viii do So OF tie COCO Of this same army VINO
have of late been home on farlOugh $500 have ahsa
returned 10 duty.
Further dispatches from the West say thai
the report Of the cepture OF Selma Ala, by some
sbermaus forces Ia generally believed The story i
said to have been brought to Yioksburg by eouIie
direct from Gen. Sherman.
Moseby had o narrow escape the Other night
We took rs OF his men and horses and two officers
He escaped by the window Of the house in which on
force surrounded him. ard crossed the rircf on the Ice
The Department of the South has been di
yided into two distrots-Gen. Terry commanding II
the Charleston district and Gen. Seymour in Florida
The Provost Marshal announces that it Is hii
intention to begin the draft on Thursday tae 10th
March.
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re f-tbc~ ,narnc the vote t'h>D, and The repor
Of ,ho Committee on Credentials was unanmousl,
adontod The Tammany Delegates then withdrew
from ths Hall The Convention now ganzed by elect
mo Jndre Amasa j. Parker to preside. On taking tn
chair be made a brief but very coppery speech Tho
o,, resolution adoptcd by the Convention WA one IN
srnctipe the Delegates 10 the National Convention to
o,a az upt H. accordance with the will OF The major
~, Of the national body. and forbdding any delegate
from accepting the appointment as delegate rom an!
other organization. The last business was tbe selec
ton Of delegates TO the Chicago Contention there beg
two from each Congressional District and the following
four Of laree Horatio Seymour of 0nedai Dean Rch-
mond of Cenesee Isaac Butts of Monroe; August Bel
mont Of New.Yoik.
A mass meeting Of Union men OF Last Iennes-
sec was held at Memphis the 22d and brilliant an'
dionoe listened TO strong Emancipation speech 10y Col
Bland The question OF recognizing the State was u
be discussed on the 23d.
Five large ice houses at Fresh Pond, Cam
bridge. Mass, we're destroyed by ncendiary Ere on
Wednesday evening. They were owned by Russell
Hethnger Co., and contained 100 600 tuns Of ice, most
of which win be lost.
The Treasurer of the Brooklyn aud Long
Island Sanitary Fair had in hand last evening SllooOo
To this there remained TO be added the receipts lrou
Knickerbocker Hall for the day, and from the sale o.
tickets in the evening.
In the smart enga cement at Tunnel Hill, Ca,
on Wednesday, troops under Gen. Palmer captured
800 Rebels all OF whom have been sent in Our loss wa
about 70 in oil.
Two tenement houses were burned yesterday
morning in Forty sixth street in this city. The lost
wss rot very heavy.
Gold is steady at 1894 1881, and has not varied
materially during the day Uppn the street stocks were tre
ular and little diipoon shown to move vigorously IN any
direction Government stocks strong, with good de
msnd Oh European account Stocks have been irregular an
uns oil day with moderate business. Government sc
ouet fr aud the long loans In greet demand One hund
red thousand Of ApT 7aOs sod at the Stock Eusns
III. In Railway Mortgages here little done this de
scip invcuent being very lscsrcs end strongly held
At tho Second Bosrdhe market down severely eyera
shares Money continues abundant at cent and ct i
"a, more IS Offered than stock houses Long loan
have bccl made at lower Ietes.
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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY FEBRUARY g. lssa

sell himself lbOmnaby cheap for such . service,
even at such price, although paid in advance,
az il would certainly be il ever paid at all. ItiS
worth a great deal of money to be used for a
time and thon flung away Ike squeezed lemon,
never more to be used in the brewing Of any
political punch. Our elective battle-6eld5 are
already strewn with these bloOdess and broken
boDed corpses. A long and ghostly train of
Presidential aspirants, who have been tho can
didates of newspapers but never the candidates
of conventions outside small counties, shadow a
solemn warning to all Generals, whether Of the
Major or Brigadier Species; and from the Col
gotha of caucus-murdered men comes up des-
pairing cry" He Chat seeks shall not Gnd!'
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-26
GENERAL NEWS.

The New-York State Democratic Contention.
which met at Albany on Wednesday, was somewhat
disturbed BY the wrangng Of the delegates from New
York City. John McKeon, Thomas C. Fields. John
Clancy and John T. Deylin had snarley discussion in
which the charge Of falsehood was liberaly passed
around. The Committee on Credentials narnlexed =,
the rival claims Of Tammany Mozart and MoKeon
delegations, reported in favor Of giving each six votes
This reused the Tsmmany faction, who protested
loudly that she was the genuine original Jacobs the
rampant War Democrat going her length for the suu
port Of tho Government (fTsD and the Const.nton
lsecond and protesting against being reduced 10 the
measure of MoKeons yestpocket party NcReon was
charged BY Fields with being a Peace man, and he
owned the fact Fields then threatened that II the
report Of the Credentials Committee was adopted his
crowd Crammany) would withdraw. Gideon j. Tucker,
on behalf Of Mozart, acqucsced In the reports Nj.
NcKeon did the same FOR hes branch OF the Democ-
raoy; he charged Tammany With selling ont cand
dates for State offices in 1861. Mr. Clancy re-
torted "tbat Is false" Mr.. NcKeon then
lighted up John L. Deylin saying that IL was charged
that 10 Devln) paid certain gentleman for his nomi
patton. mfr. Deyhn retorted That is false" which
Mr. MeKeOn pat ap with very pleasantly. After lit
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-26

We print this morning q very plain account
Of very dishonest business in worthless
watches and jewelry, extensively carried on al
the expense mainly, we believe, of the soldiers
The investigation, as the article shows, wa
thoroughly made, and the demonstration Is com
plete We solicit for the statement the atten
ton of She Legislature, within whose power il
is to break up the business, and Of Provost Mar
shais and other ofiicoro or the army, whose duty
it is to stop in a summary way the imposition
that IL practced on the soldiers.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-26
NEWS FROM EUROPE.

BY the arrival of the HbeInian at Portland,
We have news nom Europe TO February 70, one day
later than that received by the City Of London.
Be- the evacuation Of the strOngly-fortified POI
sition at Ddppel tie Danes have abandoned the only
place In sehlesgg where they could possibly make
another attempt to resist the progress Of tie Austrian
aud Prussian troops. 1t IS generally understood In Eu
rope that the Duchy Of Schleswig Is lost for the Danes
and that II it Is TO be recovered at oil, it must be by
Diplomatic action, not by wGr. The Engllsh Govern.
ernInent has proposed armftice 10 the begerents
on the basis Of the evacuation Of Schcswg with the
exception Of the Island OF Alsen by the Danes Ills
suggestion is supported by France Russia and Sweden
In the English House of Lords Earl Derby
insisted that the Laird rams bad been seized under
American menaces and moved that the papers on the
subject be produced Eall Russell declined to produce
the paper pepdlng legal inquiries
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-26

The House listened yesterday to pretty
sharp debate on Naval affairs, in the course Of
which Winter Davis of Maryland explained
that the first attack on Charleston was made in
opposition to Admiral On Points judgment, YET
that he was held responsible for it, failure. The
Navy Department, said Mr.. Davis, had removed
the most brilliant officer since Decatur because
his advice was not taken, and because it wa.
thought the irOn-clad interest might be hurt by
having the truth tod.
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CONGRESS-,

sESATE Feb. 25.-Afer the presentation OF vsrious
petitions and memorials on motion of Mr. Fessenden,
the Senate reoonsidsred the vote adopting the Confer
Committees report on the Revenue bill, and
appointed new Committee 10 confer with that ap-
pointed by the House The bill relating to Assistant
Paymaster IN the Navy called up and after amend
mont passed. The bill 10 regulate the pay Of Pay
masters clerks was rejected. The bill relating to
appointments in the naval service passed, ofter
amendment. The bin equalizing thepey Of soldiers
was called up. and debate ensued the pending amend
ment to exclude all persons enlisted undor the call OF
October 1862 from the provision for bounty except In
insurrectonary districts This ives amended so that
all persons whose papers show that they wore enlisted
under the act OF 1861 shall receive tho pay and bounty
promised under this statute Mr.. Wilson proposed e
extend the pay and bounty al free persons enlisted
ssproVided. Without vote on this amendment ths
bill was laid over The Military Committee were
instructed to inquire Into the expedieney Of extending
the bounties now being paid 10 April next The bill
consolidating the Suryeyor-Ge GENERALS districts was
passed After executive session tho Senate adjourned
H0UsE.-A bill was referred granting IvnsivHs ~
soldiers Of 1912. The bill for q Freedmens Oficcrs'
Buresu was taken NJ. Mr.. Davis defended the validity
of the late Maryland elections and spoke OF the progress
Of Emancipation there. He advocated an amendment
OF the Constitution declaring a condition precedent
Of Teadmsson into the Union, that Slavery be forever
abolished in the Southern States. lie spoke aganthe
colonization of the freedmen incompatible with true
policy and humanity. Mr.. Washburne Qu) procured
the appointment of Committee OF Conference on the
dissgreeing amendment TO the Lieutenant General bin
Mr.. Stevens from the Committee Of Ways and Means
reported bin providing that Of the 5000 100000 loan
authorized by tie act Of March g. 1861 in tenfortles
5000 900 be put in tie market redsemsble in no. less
was postponed until the biz could be printed. The
Deficiency bill for 1894 reported: it appToPretes
about 500 100000. The Naval Appropriation bill was
discussed in Committee oftte Whole. and long discus
sion on the merits and dement's Of the navy followed
The BID finally passed The bill to extend the time
for tie withdrawal Of bonded goods to Sept. l. Yves
nnssed. AliOnrnrd
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ABE THEY LOYAL

/ Gen. Edward ". CAN'T, elected in 1860 as a
Democrat from Arkansas to the last House OF
Representatives, failed to take his seat therein,
because, before it assembled, he had become a
rebel and o traitor. He joined instead the
Confederate army after having done his utmost
to drag his State into Secession; fought two
years in that service and rose to the rank OF
Brigadier- General; when he became satisfied
that the Rebel cause could not and should not
win: SO he renowned it. Being pardoned un-
condtionally by the President he is now doing
his utmost u restore Arkansas to the Union as
Free and therefore loyal State. lie was a
STAKEHOLDER, and kROws that Slavery made him q
Rebel: being now a Unior man, he wants
Slavery killed so that the Union may be re-
stored aud stay so. HcreupOn, every Copper
head press in the loyal states-The albany
argus nCicuously among thcm-is publsh-
ing what Immediately follows;
GRS. CAN'T n l6(0.-m 1860 Tie AiaHta Southern
CoRted,rdcy published speech of Gen. CAN'T then IN
the Rebel service One Of the passages in the speech
was shisi
Il can tell you how We did a whining Yankee ont In
Arkansas few days ago. He got "a making too Zee
of ncendary Language Our boys took him la hand.
They carried hiA whore CONVENIENT and friendly limb
profudcd from the holy o' sturdy oak. They fast
ened one end Of the rope 70 the Limb and the other
around his neck ana eltcdted Him.
"Tbii Gen. CAN'T" says TIE L0gisriH> Journal,
"haying abandoned the Rebel army, Is now making
Abolition speeches in the North. We are not at al
surprised 4 miscreuut. Who exalted In hofrd murder
while the Rebel side - naturally enough m Abo
itonist while protesting to be on the Union SIDE
:. When was child" says st. Paul, 81
spake as a child, i understood as a child, |
thought as a child; but when became man,
put away childish things Gen. CAN'T was a
Rebcl-he says so frankly-and was just ike
most other Rebcls-neither better nor worse
This hanging or shooting men without trial for
using incendiary language"-that is, for being
UnioniSts--was common all over the South
We presume at least twenty thousand of the
noblcst and best men in the Rebel States were
thus bulchcred for loving and standing by their
whole country-perhaps &c fourth of them in
Texas alone Some we're burned TO death
others slowly tortured out of earthly existence
in various ways. This hatchery was a terrible
necessity Of the Rebellion; for, had the expires
sion Of Union sentiment been tolerated, the
Rebels would soon have gone under.
W have been printing accounts Of those
horrors from time to time; but they have, for
the most part, been kept out of the Opposition
journals. 1t was only after Gen. CAN'T became
Unionist that they raked up this old speech
Of biz (misdatcd. doubuess bat 40 presume
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-26

GEoRGg THOMPSON will be welcomed by on
citizens, at Cooper Institute On Monday even.
ing. Gen. Jons G. FREMONT has consented "a
preside. The receipts are TO be wholly pre-.
sented TO Mr.. Thompson, who has devoted his
eminent abilities absorbingly, unselGslly TO the
promotion of Justice Liberty and Progress, and
Of ccurse is not wealthy. We need say no more
on this head.
There ere prejudices against Mr.. Thompson
among our people, growing out Of the fact that
he was among us thirty years ago, when Liberty
and Union were not zone and inscperablc:
ana he stood stcrnly for Liberty. He had
uone the same in Europe and in India, and
lie could not adapt his principles to every
variation cflongtude. The sentiment, "Wbere
Liberty dwells, there is my country" was in.
woven with every fiber of his being. The
Union being shibboleth of oppression. he re.
pudisted the giant wrong and all It's biding-
places. But, from the hovs when Slayery
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-26

For the last year or eighteen months, the
Copperhead papers have published garbled
extract from a poem which appeared some years
since in TIE TRIBUNE, continuing among them
that those verses should be almost continuously
before the public. When the country Press
occasionally lapsed into forgetiulness Of this
great duty to the Copperhead party, certain of
our city neighbors have reminded them Of their
derelctioD, by reproducing the lines in their
own columns, with certain suitably savage edi-
torial comments. How far they have excited
sny public interest in this pOem-Which GER
tainly, If reiteraton could do it, must by this
time be the most celebrated literary work yet
produced in this country-we do not know.
But they have succeeded at last in arousing our
own, and We, therefore, this morning publish
the whole Of it, with certain others written
about the same time, by the same author, with
narration of the circumstances which prompted
them. Perhaps it may enhance the interest of
the article if we add that these stirring poems
were written by Tammany-Hall Democrat in
full war-paint
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otherwise aulhentic). and published it. DID
they do this TO help the Union caasef


otherwise aGthentic). and Published it. DID
they do this TO help The Union cause
Take another example:
The greatest peril 10 the Union cause ia ana
has been that of financial collapse. The Re-
be!lion can and viii he put down if the mean.
Of the Government do not give out. n;sn;,
peru that makes Us 50 anxious for full ranks
energetic campaigns, and early successes. III,
this which makes us deprecate even a month";.
naction as a calamity.
Now whatever tends TO discourage nyast
ments in the National Debt--whateyer tends >.
diminish public confidence in the punctual nav.
ment OF that Debt, principal and .nterest-tend.
to paralyze the arm of the Government and "a
lyive the fainting hopes Of the Rebels. We,.
our Finances as dilapidated as theirs are. ON,
cause would be hopeless The most dead,,
blow that can to-day be struck at the War for
the Union is one aimed at the credit of the Gov.
eminent through its means of borrowing NOR.
money
Now, the Secretary of The Treasury publishes.
from time to time, full exhibits of tia
Public Debt. That last issued makes chat
Debt to-day little under Fifteen Hundred
Millions OF Dollars. Of course, il Is not pre-
tended that there are no unsettled accounts
no unpaid bilis-but this is the full amount Of
/ the Public Debt, as known TO, aud recorded al.
the Treasury. And all that is owing on out.
standing accounts must be but fraction of this
amount.
Now The albany Argrs and other journals Of
its stamp instead of this fair and full exhibit Of
what the Government has actually borrowed,
parades list OF the loans authorized by Congress
that is, Of the sums which the Secretary has
authority to borrow whenever he shall want
them-thsreby swelling the Public Debt to Tho
neighborhood of Three Thousand Millions! In.
this list are loans OF hundreds Of millions where
of not one cent has yet been borrowed or offered
to takers-loans which may be put on the mar
kel six months or year hence or may not; but
which, up to this hour, have no existence. An
act of Congress says the Secretary Of the Treas.
ury mau borrow such and such sums in such
and such ways should he need them and SEQ
81: but, thus far, he has neither needed nor Of
cred them. They are no more portions Of the
Public Debt than the hOuse.rent and market.
/ bills which any one may possibly incur next
year are part Of his present debts.
Are they who resort to such frauds 10
PROSTATE the Public Credit loyal' If they woro
sworn subjects and paid seryitors of the Rebel.
lion, what could they-being here among US
do more and worse than thisl
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-26

A bill wao yesterday reported in tie House,
from the Ways and Means Committee, providing
that two hundred millions of the six hundred
millions authorized by the act OF March 3, 1868,
in ten.fortics, be put into the market as five
forties; and that ten millions additional Of the
fve-twenty loan be issued Mr. Stevens made
an effort to have the bill passed at once, bpt ii
was laid over in order to he printed
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-26

A telegraphic dispatch from Washington,
which was published in two or three Of the
morning papers yesterday, in relation to i'm
pending changes in the New-York Custom
House, may or may not be true; we have neither
inquired nor been advised on that point, and
are, therefore, no wiser than our neighbors.
Bvt we do know, and think it proper 10 state in
justice to Mr.. Postmaster Wakeman, that he is
not now, and never has been in Washington in
relation to any such business, but il at home
attending to tie duties of his own Office.
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ballot, IL hc viii; so that tao vote seems OK
tremely mcager. We presume there are az
many Kentucky Rebels now held as prisoners
of war. Breckenridge was in the last House,
but is run out; Humphrey Marshall, who
was out, comes in. Unless this vote DO largely
swelled by further returns, Mr.. Linco'n'S one
tenth will loom quite large beside it.
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sought the life of our country, be has been that
country's untiring and most efficient champion
He did not wait till the country should strike
back he knew instinctively that to this COM
plexion it must come at last Hence, Thousands
who once execrated now welcome him as our
countries champion.