The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-11-08

AoN. w. ID. ALLISON, NJ. u. OF TINS Con
gressional district, favors this office with
valuable documents Of various kinds. Be-
fore Us this week is The Internal Revenue
Act Of June 80, 1864 as announced March
8, 1885, a volume of 1870 eag,s. By this
valuable work . man can tell exactly how
much he must pay for every motion of his
lite and every throb Of his business, to
secure tax.exemption to the Bond Artistic.
cracy Of the country.
Another work from the same source is
the Cotton stealing Investigating Commit
tee by Hon. E. B. Wa.hburne. This work
is of 222 pages, mostly testimony against,
government contractors, officers, civil and
military, who professed loyalty" in one
breath and cried "copperhead" in the next.
50 as to hide the villainy they we're prac-
ticins toward bleeding, confiding people.
The Report is rough on commissioned
thieves. See as follows:
1t is the judgment Of your committee
that the ira ie which has been carried on
with the insurrectionary States since the
breaking out Of the rebellion, nppare' tly
under the sanction Of law, has been of no
real benefit to our government but on the
other hand, has Inflicted very great injury
upon the public service 1t has induced a
spirit of speculation and plumber among
the people, who have entered into dis
graceful scsmhle for wealth during time
Of war, waged 10 save the life Of the nation,
and has fed that greed Of gain which
must wound the public morals. 1t has
tended to the decentralization and corrup
ton Of the srmy and navy by the exbibi
ton Of the vast rewards which have &C
crued from this trade and from the temp
tstion and bribery with which they have
been constantly assailed. 1t is believed 20
10 have led to the prolongation of the war,
and to have cost the country Thousands Of
Ives and milli,ns upon millions Of treas
NTe. -a -s .-.--as. a-.,.-.
The object Of the existing laws has been
almost entirely evaded. The testimony
before the committee discloses the shame
less and Reasonable character of the trade
which has been carried on within the rebel
lines with rebel agents, and for the use vi
rebel armies :, The amount Of supplies ne
cessary for the support of rebel armies
which, under the cover Of this trade, has
been sent through the rebel lines at New
Orleans, Memphis, Norfolk. and other
places, surpssses belief. Nsgotiations have
been entered into, and correspondence car.
ried on, by citizens Of the United States
with rebel agents to deliver for the rebel
government, provisions and other necessary
al in ho bal ;nr
turn for cotton. a p. -.. ..
The judgment to which your committee
has arrived is sustained by the opinion Of
ali the military men which have come with
in their knowledge Your committee know
the opinions of Lieutenant General Gran
and Major General Sherman upon this s4h
jsct. Major General Candy. who has been
IN command at New Orleans, aud who has
had the largest opportunity for observation.
/ states in u communication to the Secretary
OF War, that il this trade be carried on in
the manner and to the extent claimed by
the SPECTATORS who nov control it, its in
cvitablc result, in his judgment, would be
to add strength and effs:''-ncy to the rebel
army east and west Of the Mississippi,
qlvalent to an addition Of fifty thousand
men, and would stimulate into .ctivc op-
position to the successful prosecution of
our operations, At least ten thousand men
within our own lines; that cotton specula.
tors IN the Mississippi valley have pros.
pec.ive and hope t. have an actual interest
in every bale Of cotton within the rebel
lines They know that expeditions in the
rensmy's country are followed with the cap
lure Of cotton, or its destruction by the
rebels to prevent it's falling into our hands;
hence, it Is to their interest to give infor.
nation to the rebels of every con,e,n plated
movement He states. further, that he
has never sent an expedition into the enc
my's lines without finding agents of this
character in communication with the rebels,
giving them information regarding our
movements, and that nearly every expedi
ton has been folled to some extent in SOM
of it's objects, by information so communs.
Gated.
When democrats charged this rascality
on the loyal cotton brokers the shoddy
money, and silly power of the country,
cried ''copperheads ~