Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-22
VOL. XV--NOIe 40.
TELEGRAP'H HIC.,i
The Capture Of Fort Pillow.
Negro Soldiers Murdered by the
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WASHINGTON. April Is.

WASHINGTON, April Is.
The tax bill provides that coal illuminating
oil shall be taxed zoe per gallon ground
coffee and it's substitute 1c per pound; mo-
lasses, &c 5 per cent. ad valorum sugar l
and &c per pound paper Of all descriptions,
duty per cent. ad v5lorum !; salt &c p.r 100
pounds; pig iron 81 per ton; blooms, slabs
or loops 81 30 per ton; stoves and hollow
ware, SO per ton leather Of all descriptions,
5 per cent ad valorum grape wines SC per
gallon; all other wines or liquors, 25c per
gallon; ready made clothing, boots, shoes,
&C., 5 per cent. ad valorum; manufactured
cotton, silk, wool and worsted, per cent. ad
valorum /; cavendsh, plug, twist and stemmed
tobacco, 25c; smoking tobacco made exclus-
lively of stems, shorts and refuse, l0c; snuff
and snuff -four, 35c; cigars valued at $40
per 1000, S. per 1000; valued at $40 to
$40 per 1000, 81 valued at $40 to $40 per
l. 900, $12; valued at $40 to $75 per 900,
$25; valued at over $75 per 1000, $40;
first proof spirits sold or removed for con-
sumption prior to July 1st, 60c per gallon
after July and prior to January, 1865, 81:
after January 1st, 2Oc. Distilled spirits and
coal oil may be exported without excise duty.
rA CAIRO, April Is.
No boats are allowed to leave here for
points below Columbus since the first news
of the Fort Pillow affair.
The attack on Paducah yesterday proved to
be mere raid for plunder, made by couple
of hundred men, who were shelled out by
the fort and gunboats after occupying por-
ton of the city in sqauds about an hour.
They left, taking away number of horses
and considerable plunder, leaving behind half
dozen killed and wounded No one hurt
on our side. +|n ,s. ~
Several Of the guns captured by Forrest at
Fort Pillow were spiked before falling into
his hands. Others were turned upon gum
boat No. 7, which, from exhaustion, having
fired some 800 rounds, was compelled to
withdraw. .rL 's- g .--7~
Although only tin clad, she received but
slight injury ....-...... a...
Gen. Lee arrived and assumed command at
the beginning of the battle, previous to
which Chalmers directed the movements.
Forrest, with his main force, retired after
the fight to Brownsville, taking with him the
captured guns.
While the steamer Platte Valley lay under
a flag Of truce taking on the wounded, rebel
officers, among them Chalmers, went on board
and some of our officers showed them great
Difference, drinking with them and showing
them other marks of courtesy. Prominent
among them is said to have been Capt. Wood.
ruff, 11Sth Illinois infantry. as.a
ST. LOUIS, April Is.
A correspondent of the Union, who was
on board the steamer Platte Valley at Fort
at Fort Pillow, gives even a more appalling
6as rfrfi nf fh, Row. IsoIS ,or IL.
than our Cairo dispatch. Many of our
wounded were shot in the hospital and the
remainder driven out and the hospital burn
ed. The morning after the battle the rebela
went oyer the field and shot the negroes who
had not died from previous wounds. Many
of those who escaped from the works and
hospitals, and desired to be treated as pris-
oners of war, as the rebels said, were ordered
to fall into line, when they were inhumanly
shot down. Of $50 colored troops not more
than Sc escaped massacre, and not QUE officer
Of that commend survives. Only four Off
GERS OF the 18th Tennessee escaped death.
Loss. of the 18th Tennessee, 85 killed: re-
mainder wounded and captured
Gen. Chalmers told this correspondent that
although it was against the policy of his gov
ernment to spare negro soldiers and their Of
ticers, he had done all in his power to stop
the carnage. At the same time he said he
believed it was right.
Another officer said our white troops would
have been protected had they not been found
on duty with negroes. e.. .u
While the rebels endeavored to conceal
their loss it was evident that they suffered
severely. 81
The Col. commanding the Tennessee cav
airy was mortally wounded. t.-- r..
Three well filed hospitals were a short
distance in the country.
WASHINGTON, April Is.
The new internal revenue bill is complete
and retains the same machinery, with such
improvements as experience has rendered
necessary. 1t contains 173 sections, ~ of
which are devoted to general provisions.
There is one provision which exempts from
distraint the tools or implements of trade or
profession, one COW, provisions, household
furniture kept for use, and the apparel neces-
sary for family. Among the prominent
features of the bill are the following:
In addition to duties payable for licenses
there is to be paid on all spirits distilled to be
sold or removed for sale, if first proof, prior
to the first of January next, duty of 60c
per gallon on and after that date to the 1st
of January, 1865, 81 on and after January
1st, 1865, 1925; provided the duty on all
spirits shall become taxed at no lower rate
than the basis of first proof, and shall be in
creased in proportion for any greater strength
than first proof. All distilled spirits and re-
fined coal oil upon which an excise duty is
imposed by law, may be removed without
payment Of duty, provided those yet to be
removed shall be transferred directly from
the distillery or refinery to bonded ware.
house. All beer, lager beer, ale, porter and
other similar fermented liquors, by whatever
name called, are to pay duty of 81 per Dbl
of not more than 81 gallons
All bankers are taxed as follows, using and
capital not exceeding $4,000,
800; for each license when using or en-
ploying capital exceeding $4,000, for every
additional thousand in excess Of $50 600 90