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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
THE INCOME TAX-LETTER FROM COMMISSION.
ER LEWIS,
An Assessor in Buffalo has received
the following letter from the Commission
ef of Internal Revenue, whose rulings
are applicable to all sections
OhCC Va 4hbCA AdA AGCfChuCg
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8


TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Office of Internal Revenue,
WASHINGTON. Mar. 8.
SIR Complaints have been made to
this office as to the manner in which in
come returns have been made in many
Collection Districts in the United States,
and concerning yours among others. 1t
is in the power of the Assessor, and it is
also his duty, to require all persons who
have filed affdavits that they were not in
possession of 5000 income for 1862 and
1868, where he supposes the statement to
be fraudulent, to appear before him and
explain or rectify their returns or afhda-
Wits.
1t Is reasonable that persons whose
family expenses were over S2 ,OOO per year
must have a taxable income, and yet 1t Is
known that persons who have lived at a
rate requiring an expenditure of from
81 900 to So, 900, have made afidavits that
their incomes did not amount to 5000 per
year in the years referred to-
All such returns are presumptively erro-
neous, and in many instances are probably
fraudulent.
Other persons engaged in trade of var
ious kinds, have assumed their income
to have been some certain sum, without
taking an inventory. Others have made
greater deQuCGOnS Cudu are dlIOWGU ny
law, such as expenses of labor and machi-
merry, and new buildings Where such
returns are made under circumstances
which show that there was j deliberate
intent to mislead the assessor or evade
the payment of this proper tax, they
ought to be re-assessed by the ASSESSOR
For though mere mistaken return,
after it has been examined any fraudulent
return may be inquired into at any time.
No man can benefit by his own wrong,
and no time can cure what is void or
voidable by reason of fraud.
Where a taxpayer comes forward and
makes voluntary amendment of his for
mer return, with the statement that he
made an improper return under an honest
misapprehension of the law. and you are
satisfied that he was not melted to this
course by fear of detection, you can re-
ceive his return if you are fully satisfied
of its correctness, without the addition of
any penalty. But when, upon investiga-
ton, you find person clearly guilty of
having purposely made short returns, you
should, if the return was made since Ju-
ly, 1864, assess the one hundred per cent.
penalty for fraud, and in addition report
the case to the Collector for such action
as he deems it.
Very respectfully,
JOSEPH LEWIS, Commissioner.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07

The Southern Confederacy, like Dioge-
mes, seeks a man. Time was, when its
chief anxiety was to levy taxes; TO con
script men to stamp paper into money for
its treasury; to fabricate powder and ball,
guns, sabres and bayonets; to gather food
and forage from it's vast corrals in Florida
and Texas, and its granaries in Georgia
and the Shenandoah. These were the or
dinary and natural means and appliances
of war, and to these accordingly the rebel
lion bent its attention. But now its shafts
have all been sunk, and it's mines explored
and exhausted. Stripped of resources,
beggared of material and supplies, with
its interior communications all cut, impov-
erished in men, money, ships, guns, and in
food itself, girdled about by daily con
tracing circle of fire, the Contederacy
shrieks for a man, to evolve safety cut of
its imminent peril.-N T. TlibWRe.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
THELoWER GLASSES.

Who are they? The toiling millions,
the laboring man and woman, the farmer,
the mechanic, the inventor, the producer ?
They are natures nobility No matter if
they are high or low in station, rich or
poor in pelf, conspicuous or humble in
position, they are surely upper circles in
the order of nature whatever the distinc-
tions of society, fashionable or unfashiona-
bic, decress. It is not Iow-it is the high
est duty, privilege and pleasure, for the
great and high-souled men and women to
earn what they possess, to work their way
through life, to be the architects of their
own fortunes. Some may rank the classes
we have alluded to as only relatively low,
and in fact the middle classes. we insist
they are the very highest If there be a
class of human beings on earth who may
properly be denominated low, it is that
class who spend without earning, who con-
sumo without producing, who dissipate on
the earnings of their fathers or relatives.
without being anything in and of them
selves
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
EVILS OF GOSSIP,

| have known a country society which
withered away all to nothing under the
dry rot of gossip only. Friendships once
as firm as granite dissolved to jelley, and
then run away to water, only because of
this; love, that promised future as en-
during as heaven and as stable as truth,
evaporated into morning mist that turned
to a days long tears, only because of this;
a father and a son were set foot to foot
with the fiery breath of an anger that
would never cool again between them, on
ly because of this and husband and his
young wife, each straining at the hated
leash which in the beginning had been the
golden bondage of God-blessed love, sat
mournfully by the side of their grave,
where all their love and all their joy lay
buried, and only because of this. I have
seen faith transformed to mean doubt,
hope give place to grim despair, and chari
ty take on itself the features of black
malevolence, all because of the spell words
of scandal and the magic mutterings OF
gossip. Great crimes work great wrong
and the deeper tragedies of human life
spring from its larger passions but woful
and most melancholy are uncatalogued
tragedies that issue from gossip and de-
traction; most mournful the shipwreck
often made of noble natures and lovely
lives by the bitter winds and dead salt
waters of slander. So easy to say. vet Sc
hard to disprove-throwing on the limo.
cent all the burden and the strain of dem.
onstrating their innocence, and punishinC
them as guilty if unable to pluck out the
stipgs they never see, and to silence words
they never hear-gossip and slander are
the deadliest and the cruelest weapons
man has forged for his brothers hurt
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
VOL XLVII.
THOUGHTs on THE SAND,

Pleasant it is to wander back,
Ger Memory's fairy land,
To days when I, a barefoot boy,
Made footprints in the sand!
To days when chiIdhood's guerdon wreatl
By pleasures gale was fann'd;
To days when /, with mimic plow,
Made burrows in the sand.
To days when I and Lilly met,
Upon the sea-girt strand,
And we vOw'd love, beneath the stars,
And ''wrote our names in sand!'
But oh, the change Ito me how sad
When Time lifts up his hand,
To see him turn his hour-glass DER,
And sift the fatal sand!
For such I know my fate must be-
That death will burst the band,
And I, too, soon, be call'd to count
My life's last grain of sand.
Then may I study well the text,
To meet the stern command;
And read with less distrust and fear,
The language of the sand.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
REAL ESTATE.
Farm for Sale.

A n improved farm of 122 acres, situated about
IN miles north of the village of Redwood, in Union
County Ohio which thriving village there is Ge
not of the S c. W, R. Il. It is also situated on the
state road leading from Redwood to Kenton Ohio.
There is frame barn, log house, orchard, and
about 10 acres cleared land, balance well tmbered
soil excellent; title perfect Price $40 dollars per
acre, il sold soon.
Enquire of the undersigned, living 4 of mile west
of Redwood aforesaid.
March 81, '65-6tt. HENRY I. MAKKlOII-
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07

nlHE subscriber wishes sell his farm, containing
i 100 acres situated onithe road from Delaware 70
Centreburg, about mile east of Eden-about so acres
under improvement all seeded down in grass 20 acres
OF timber land, comfortable frame houses and good
barn premises. There is apple orchard OF as or
80 trees; also small peach orchard. For further
particulars call at the farm.
Mar. ST. W. J. VAN SICKLE.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07

The Herald's London correspondent
states that within a couple of years the
Prince Imperial of France is to make a
Royal visit to the United States and take
a tour in the country. He is to be attend
ed by a splendid feet and two or three
ministers of state, and move about with a
brilliancy which will completely, tits said,
eclipse the Prince of Wales.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07

A recent letter from rebel officer to
the Richmond Wing discloses the fact
that at the battle of Gettysburg, out of
one brigade, consisting of ,2S7 men, 946,
wounded. This indicates the terrible
slaughter of the rebels at that battle.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
For Only $500 i!

FNNE Of the best BUILDING LOTS in the promising
~ town of Delaware. Four by eleven rods, alley in
the rear. TERMS CASH.
Inquire at the, Law Office OF Reid h Eaton.
AIarch "a, 1965-tf H J. EATON.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
Wharton Farm
at Auction "on Time :"
Near DeIaa0are.

AT Auction "on Time :"
ON Saturday, April, 9Th, A. D. 1865, at o.
" clock p at tie door OF the oCurt Room in Del
aware, Delaware County, Ohio, I, as Administrators
Of the estate of Henry Wharton deceased and by or
Probate Court of said County, will offer at
public vendue, tract OF land N Delaware township
in said County in Range 19 Township 4, Section g. U.
8 NJ. land. Being all Of lot one, except ten acres in
south west corner thereof conveyed to l. j. Richard
SON. Oct 1857, containing nnety-rour acres, more or
less; known as the tWhartOn Farm and more par
ticularly described the petition in this file
in said Court,) free of dover.
TERMS SALE-One-third of the purchase money on
dav of sale, and the residue in and two years
thereafter with interest from the day OF SALE and
cured by mortgage on the premiss.
Appraised at S4700.
SARAH WHARTON,
Administrative OF Henry Wharton, deceased.
By REID EATON, her Att'ys.
Mar lots 90
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
Guardians Sale of Real
Estate.

IN pursuance of an order from the Probate Court of
4 Delaware county Ohio shall offer for sale on the
premises, at public vendue, on
Saturday, April 18th, 1865.
at one O'Clock D. M the undivided fifth part Of the
following premises: Situate in Troy township, IN
said county of Delaware, in range 49, tp g. and sec
OF Henry Wiley Of section line, south and west
by lands OF John Wallace containing 245s acres, more
or less Also tract in the township, section 4,
and part of No 5, bounded the south by lands
of B. Ely the west by section 9, aud on the north
and east by the land of Henry Cline, containing II
acres, more or less-the whole being the premises on
which Joseph Lynn resided in his lifetime
TERMS OF SALE:-0ne-third purchase money in hand
on day of sale one-hrd in one, and one-third in two
years from day sale with interest," to be secured
5y mortgrge on property sold. JOSEPH C. COLE,
Guardian OF John R. Maynard L Joseph Lynn
CARPER & VAN DEsAN, Atty's for Guard'n.
Mar. 1T-4t $50.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
Mill for Sale.

" WILL offer for sale the onehalr oEahs STONE MILL
situated the Olentangy Rvecy one ana hali
miles north OF the town OF Delaware The Mill Is in
good running order. / will sell reasonable terms.
FOR further particulars apply at the Delaware NILS:
Delaware, Aug. % If. THOMAS SLoOdh
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
Desirable Property for Sale.

FYHE HOUSE and LOT, containing so acres, 49,
il known as the residence of r. A. Lamb, in isiia
East Delaware For terms, inquire of H. Lamb, LII
at J. HyRtt's Store. Feb. 17-Sm.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
HEROES OF FORT SUMTER.

The names of the heroes of Fort Sum
ter, who on the 18th of April, 1861, were
compelled to surrender to Beauregard.
were as follows:
Major r. Anderson, 1st Artillery.
). w. Crawford, Assistant Surgeon
Captain A. Doubleday, 1st Artillery.
i; Seymour, . $
1st Lieut.. /. Talbot,
35 3dt 9 ! 3eff1 f z; Hd}i 9}ipvis' {"
Captain j. G. Foster, Engineers.
LIST Lieut.. @. w. Snyder,
I'd r. K. Meade,
There were ten officers, ffty-fve artil-
lerlsts and fifteen musicians.
Major Anderson is now Major General
Anderson; Surgeon Crawford is Major
General Crawford, in command of corps
under Gen. Grant, Capt Doubleday is
now General Doubleday, President of the
Court Martial now sitting in Philadelphia;
Capt. Seymour is now General Seymour;
1st 1t. JEFF G. Davis is now General Da-
Wis; Capt Foster is now Major General
Foster; I'd Lit. Hall is now First Lieuten-
ant. We believe all these officers are
living.
1t is to mark the restoration of the
port of Charleston, its harbor and its
forts to the complete control of the Gov
ernment, that the President has directed
Major General Robert Anderson to raise
the Stars and Stripes on the battlements
of Fort Sumter, on the 18th of April,
1865, the anniversary of the day he con-
sented to evacuate it, after protracted
and gallant resistance, when his ammuni-
ton and provisions were exhausted
There is classic propriety in this cele-
bration. Where the first shot was fired
at the Republic-where the most pestilent
traitors were gathered to witness the deed
of shame--almost in sight of the grave
of John G. Calhoun-it is meet that the
cannon should roar, the drums beat, the
trumpets clang, and the Army and Navy
shout from land and water, our conquer
ing flag is replaced on Sumter, never again
to be removed by the hand of man. Well
may the thousands who will enjoy the
sublime spectacle on the 18th of April,
1865, repeat the glowing words Of Drake
"Forever float that standard sheet,
Where breathes the foe but falls before
With Freedoms soil beneath feet
Aud Freed om's Banner waving oef US I"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
Town Lots by the Acre.

A $3.50 per acre Only $500 down. p In-Lots and
~ Out-Los making 62z exclusive of stree Is
and alleys, for which charge.) Situated south of
william Street. between the two Railroads, town OF
Delaware, Ohio, 81. J. EATON,
May 8, 1894. At Law Office of Reid & Eaton.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07

The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail says that
the depression which is laying hold of the
country, is sapping the vitals of its power
both at home and in the army.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
PROPOSALS.
Notice to Bridge Builders
AUDITORS OFFICE,

AUDITORS OFFICE,
DELAWARE, ONO. March II, 1865 !
CNEAf,ED PROPOSALS will bo received the Audit
- or's ONCE, in this county, until clock p
MONDAY, April 18th, 1865, for building tho stone
work and superstructure Of new bridge across Big
Walnut Creek, half mile south OF Gaena separate
bids 20 be made for the stone and wood work. Plans
aud specifications for the work will be shown by th
Auditor after the hrzt day Of April next
By order of the Commissioners.
Mar, A-3t C.NEIL, Auditor
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
Guardians Sale of Real
Estate.
INnt1lrdov. ADriT 8th, 1865,

IN pursuance OF an order granted by the Probate
III Court of Delaware county, Ohio, |, Rollin B. Car
penter, Guardian OF Madora and Orlando Carpenter,
will otter at public auction, on
Saturday, April 8th, 1865,
at one O'Clock p m :, on the premises, the whole OF
nv said wards interest in the following descri bed
real estate being the undivided twofths interest in
the following tract of land, to-wit: One hunGred
acres of land being the east end of lot No. 49, sec
ton g. township 4 in range II, Berkshire township
delaware county Ohio, subject to the dover of Sarah
Carpenter widow of Hiram Carpenter, deceased, be-
ing assigned TO her D acres in corner and
M acres in southwest corner said land survey
ed and assigned to her for dover, being the same
land of which Hiram Carpenter died seized, and be-
ing the whole of lot 10 except 25 acres sold of the
west end to George B. Carpenter
TERMS OF SALR:-One-third in hand on day OF sale
one-tbird in one year, and one-third in two years
from day of sale, TO be secured by mortage on the
premises. ROLLtN 3. CAhFEN G3 LEM
Mar. 17-4t 81 so.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07
IMPORTANT REVELATIONS,

An occasional correspondent of the New
York Tribune, writing from Washington,
on the 23d inst, says:
Information has been placed in my
hands touching several points of great
importance in regard to the rebellion, its
military strength, its condition, the opin-
ion, and hopes Of its political and militia
ry leaders, and the judgment of one of it's
most prominent men upon the possibili-
ties and terms of peace. For every fact
| am about to state there is unimpeacha-
BILE authority, and that these statements
bear in themselves evidence of their
authenticity and credibility.
On the 4th of February, 1865. the en-
was $4,000 men. They were distributed
as follows:
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-04-07

The following correspondence, giving
an interesting view of the character of
the country in South Carolina, and the
condition of the people, is from the Ohio
Gfofo Toa,,,uT.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-09-27
8attsn,an's 5ouraat.
CLEARFIELD, PA, SEPT. 27, 1865.
Captain Wirz Defended by the Oopperhead
Candidate for Auditor General.

The Doylstown Democrat owned and ed
tied by General Davis, the Democratic can
didate for Auditor General, prints an edlto-
rial in defence of the infamous Captain
Wirz, who starved and murdered our prls-
oners at Andersonsyiile. Itasserts that the
military commission, before which Wirz is
on trial, is a usurpation of power and that
the prisoner has not been fairly dealt with.
Gen. w. w. H. Davis makes this assertion
when he knows that the testimony against
the monster, Wirz, comes from Union sol
diers who suffered at Andersonville, who saw
Wirz shoot in cold blood, Union prisoners
who could not stand on their feet from the
effects of starvation; fem the rebel Sur
geons who saw Wirz trample to death Union
soldiers who were too weak to crawl on the
ground. And yet W w H. Davis, through
the columns of his own journal, defends the
mhuman acts of Wirz, asserting that his tn
al is unfair and that his being held to trial Is
a military usurpation. What soldier. in
Pennsylvania can vote for candidate advo-
eating such sentiments? and may not we fur
ther ask, is their soldier in the land who
would fail to scorn any officer who thus de-
Tended the most brutal deyelopmentof there
bellion. Telegraph.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-09-27

Soldiersl does it not disgust you to under
go the fawnings the copperheads are now
lavishing upon you? They denounced you
when you enlisted to fight for the flag as
'sLincoln HirelingS,' they refused to con-
tribute to aid you when sick and wounded,
and lauded the men in Congress who ''nev-
er voted man or dollar TO reinforce and
pay you; and they desired to disfranchise
you by voting against the constitutional
Amendments giving you right to vote IN
the field; but now seeing that through your
has been put down, they hope by patting
you on the shoulders, and with fulsome fat
terry, that you will forget their treachery to
you and that you viii give them your votes,
for they well understand that without this
they can never get into power.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-09-27
NEW STORE AND NEW GOODS.

The undersigned having removed his store to
his New Building on Pine Street. Glen Hone Oh
posite the Union House. is now opening and of
ferlng 10 the public the largest and best selected
stock OF seasonahle goods ever offered in this
place and neighborhood, and will be sold at pri-
ces to suit the times.
His Stock embraces Dry-6oods, Notions Hard
Ready made clothing, Paints, Oils Glass. Nails.
Bacon. Fish, Flour, Salt; Willow, Stone and Ear
then-ware, and Stoves.
OF DRY-G00DS, he has Cloths Cassimers Sat-
unetts, Tweeds, Nestings, Fiannels Shirtings,
Prints, Coburg cloth, Alpacas. De Laines. Cling
hams Chintz, Eerchief Nubias Sontags Nan
kin, Lawns, Linen, Lace Edgings, Collars, Trim
mings, Braids. Walls, etc
OF HARDWARE, he has axes, saws, chisels.
knives and forks, locks, hinges, screws, augers
hammers, nails, spikes Stoves of various patterns
and sizes hat irons, etc
OF GROCERIES. he has coffee, sugar, molas-
ses, teas, rice, pepper, cinnamon. cloves, Flour,
hams sides. shcgl ssh, etc.
-6F QUEENS MARE, he has tea sets. cups and
saucerss cream jugs tea and coffee pots pitchers
bowls, plates, Dishes etc.
OF CLOTHING, he has coats. pants vests un-
dershirts shirts, drawers. neck-ties gloves socks
hats, caps, boots, shoes. etc.
All the above. and mum erous other articles for
sale cheap for cash, or exchanged for all kinds of
lumber and country produce
Remember. that1 am receiving goods weekly
from Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and
Pittsburg, and that any goods can be furnished
on very short notice.
Call and examine the goods and prices and sat-
isfy yourselves of the utility of buying ct
Glan Hope, December es, 1868
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-09-27

The following is an old obituary notice
of JACOB JoHNsON-the father of Presi-
dent JoHNsoN-taken from an old file of the
Raleigh (N c. Star, dated january 10th,
1912, Died, in this city, on Tatuiday last,
JACOB JOHNSON, who had for years occu-
pied humble but useful station in society.
He was city constable, SEXTON, and porter to
the state Bank In his last illness he was
visited by the principal inhabitants of the
city, by all of whom he was esteemed tor his
honesty, idustry and humane and friendly dis
position. Among all to whom he was known
en- and esteemed, none lamented him more
Except perhaps, his relatives) than the pub
fisher of this paper; for he owes his. life, on
a particular occasion, to the boldness and
humanity of JOHNSON.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-09-27

Engineers engaged in surveying route
for railroad to connect Franklin, Pennsyl-
vania, with the Philadelphia and Erie
Road, have arrived at Franklin, having sur
veyed a route of one hundred and thirty-one
and a half miles in length, with maximum
grade cut of forty feet per mile, and max
imum curves of six degrees. For forty miles
they were on continuous coal bed, the num-
Der of workable seams from three to FIVE
and varying frolA twenty-eight inches to
eleven feet in thickness. Salt springs also
abound in the region, and iron ere IS found
in abundance.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1865-09-27
HAUPT CO.. at Milesburg, Pa, continue

HAUPT CO., at Milesburg, Pa, continue
Il Il TO furnish castings of every description at
short notice. They have the best assortment of
patterns in the country for steam and water- mills
of every description. Ell kinds of machine and
p1ow castings furnished. NewWorld and Hatha-
way cook>stoves always on hand. They ma Ike 4
horse sweep and 2-hoTse tFead-power threshipg
machincs-pTice at shop, Sl50-with shaker and
90 feet of strap. Warranted TO give satisfaction
in thresting, and kept good to thresh one crop,
free of charge. June 2S. IS65-y
ISAAC HAUPT, at Bellefonte. continues to take
risks for insurance in anv good stock company in
the State. Also in New York: the ROYAL and Ell
ma at Hartford; and the Liverpool and London
capital So, 600, 600.