Year: 1864

by the recession OF the Senate from It's
amendments to the House bill The
bin as passed imposes a tax of sixty
cents per gallon on all domestic
spirits manufactured up to the first
Of July next, but no tax is levied on
stocks on hand On foreign liquors, an
additional duty Of 40 cents per gallon
is imposed, including the stocks on
hand This result was arrived at, as
an experiment, with the understanding
that subsequent legislation would be
required to fix the tax after lst July.


The result Of the recent election in
Louisiana has been the cause of much
rejoicing among loyal men here. The
vote appears to equal three-tenths of
the Presidential vote of 1860, and the
result proves that the loyal men of that
State are sick Of slavery and its baneful
consequences, and desire to rid them
selves of the incubus upon assuming
once more their appropriate position in
the family of loyal States 1t is conf
IDENTITY expected that the same result
will soon be reached in Arkansas, where
the loyal people seem 70 be up and do
ing, and then it viii only remain to
afford relief to the loyal men of Texas
in order to extinguish forever the in
stitution of slavery in our trio of vast
and fertile slave States west of the
Mississippi And as other States see
the crippled and dying condition Of an
old enemy, they viii murder it to re-
lieve it of its misery.


There are some indications in the
armament which render it not alto
gether improbable that another Lamb
may ere long be slaughtered for the
Army of the Potomac Gen. Meade Is
being vigorously assailed' by some
who think he has not enough of what
the Richmond Sentinel calls "the blum
dering audacity of Gen Grant" and
the Committee on the Conduct of the
War appear to have developed the fact
that on the evening of the first days
I fight at Gettysburg he issued an order
for retreat, the execution Of which
was prevented by one of his corps be-
coming so engaged that a retreat was
rendered impracticable if not impossi-
bic, thus making it appear that the day
was finally won in spite Of the COM
manding General A despatch to the
New York Tribune says that this fact
was made the opportunity for demand
upon the President, by an eminent
Senator, for the removal Of General
Meade, and that the War Committee
have renewed the demand


The General arrived in this city yes
terday, and is stopping at Wilards
where he received the compliment Of a
serenade last night


The Importance attached here to
military movements going on in Florida,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennes-
see and Virginia, has detraeted some
what from the interest manifested,
about the period of last writing, in the
approaching Presidential election. The
German Radicals of the Northwest ap-
pear to be coming out in favor Of Gen.
Fremont. The New York Tribune re-
mains cautious, vsrg and the friends of
Mr.. Chase are apparently less energetic.
The tide Of popular opinion in favor of
Mr.. Lincoln seems to augment, and gain
strength with age Nearly all the State
! legislatures now in session have de
clared for him, and his friends here are
confident of his denomination by ac-
clamation


The Legislatures of some Of the
States and Territories have also declared
in favor of Gov johnson Of Tennessee,
| for Vice-President, and the friends Of
the administration here, 50 far as have
heard an expression of opinion among
them, are almost unanimous in his favor.
Whether he will allow his name to go
before the Convention or not, L know
not, but Judging from the gentleman's
antecedents l have. no doubt he would
greatly prefer to serve his immediate
constituency in a different capacity
until things shall have assumed a diff
ferent shape in Tennessee.


The Great National Sanitary Fair in
augurated at the Patent Office on the
22d of February, continues to attract
immense concourses Of people every
afternoon and evening, and IS voted by
all an immense success in conception
and arrangement and doubt not viii
prove a great financial success.


The Baltimore Annual NJ E. Confer
ence is now in session here, and shows
a healthy change in sentiment since its
last sitting, when resolutions endorsing
the policy Of the President were voted
down. Resolutions strongly endorsing
the policy Of the Administration are
now before the body, and the TACT that
straight out anti-slavery delegates have
/ been elected to the General Conference
by overwhelming majorities, leaves no
doubt Of their adoption. The vote for
/ delegates is regarded as a test vote
TENNESSEE.