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Year: 1864

Aanndt Tdres tor 1864.
HUE attention of taxpayers is hereby called to
Il the provisions of the United States Excise Law
relative TO the assessment of the annual taxes
BY the sixth section of the act of July l. 1862 il
is made the duty of all persons partnerships firms
associations, corporations made liable to any an
nual duty, license, or tax ON or BEFORE THE FIRer
MoEDAY OF MAY IN kAoH YEAR to make a list
return to the Assistant Assessor of the District
where located of the amount of annual income the
articles or objects charged with special tax and
the business or occupation liable TO pay any license
Every person who shall fail to make fuch return
by the day specified will be liable to be assessed BY
the Assessor according TO the best information which
he can obtain; and in such the Assessor ia re-
quired to aid ify per centum TO the amount of the
items of such list.


Every person who shall deliver to an Assessor any
false or fraudulent list statement with intent TO
erade the valuation or enumeration required by law
10 subject TO q line of five hundred doars and in
such the list will be made out by the or
Assistant Assessor and from the valuation and emu
meration so made there can be no appeal.


Payment of the annual taxes. except those for IL
censes will not be demanded until the thtieth day
Of June.


The appropriate blanks which TO make return
and all csssary formation, win be furnished by
ths Assistant Assessors the several Divisions to
whom the returns should be delivered on or before
the first Monday of May next. Returns of Income
for 1858, may be made at once.


NATH'L. G. MARSHALL.


U. s. Assessor First District.
Portland, March 3, 1861. mchl1 eod4w& Will
Year: 1864

reasct that sound mind and body the most nsces
sary requisites to promote connubial happiness In
deed without these the journey through life becomes


weary pilgrimage; the prospect hourly darkens 70 the
view: the mind becomes shadowed with despair and


filled with the melancholy reflection that the happiness
of aunthar bacomcs blghted with our own.
Year: 1864

O'Ncil l. GARDENERS Minstrels will per
form in Rock Island this evening. Rock
Islanders may prepare themselves for
good time, as this troupe is one Of the best
now travelling in the West.
Year: 1864

SUSPENDED. Rock Island linton OF
Friday evening last, learns that work on the
Arsenal Building on the Island has been or
dercd to be suspended, az it is thought best
to have the proposed building erected near
the upper end of the Island, where water
mower can bc more readily obtained.


OF the truth Of this statement We know
nothing. but We should think it rather
strange that the War Department should go
50 far with the work and then make
change 1t would have been more sensible
to have adopted David Crochetts motto.
Year: 1864

WILL GoLD DROP SUDDENLY The qucS-
ton that now agitatcs the commercial mind
is: will gold drop suddenly il Lees army
is thoroughly defeated and Richmond tax
en- The mercantile portion Of community
is anxiously awaiting the solution Of this
question. Hundreds Of country merchants
are to-day setting down in Chicago, New
York, Philadelphia and Boston waiting for
something to turn up. They don't feel like
buying just as long as they think there is
prospect of hearing something drop in the
gold market. If gold goes suddenly down.
they wisely argue that they can get goods
much cheapcn and they prefer TO- have the
stocks cheaper on the hands Of jobbers ra-
tler than upon their own. Hence there is
a degree Of inactivity in the Chicago and
Eastern jobbing streets, hitherto unknown
at-this season of the year. Jobbcrs are
anxious to sell, and country merchants arc
afraid to buy.


Looking the subject over carefully, we arc
unable to come to the conclusion that there
will be any heavy or sudden fall of gold If
Richmond-or even the entire Southern
Confederacy, should cave in this week.
Wall street is an immense power, and in
this instance Wall street is not single hand
cd. 1t has the backing Of the entire job
bng trade Of the country, and it may be
added that the country trade also, to Ger
tain extent is interested in preventing any
sudden fall in the gold market. Every ef-
fort. we believe, will be made to let the gold
market down just as easily and just as grad
ually as possible, that the depreciation in
the value of stocks on hand may be equally
divided among the commerce Of the entire
country. Our IDEAS may be wrong on this
point but It so appears to us. In case the
country .rcgains peace footing right
away, years will clapse before We shall see
gold below twenty five or perhaps forty per
cent premium, and all necessary time would
be taken to ease it down to that point
Waiting for panic in prices, seems to US
to be an Improbable use of time, though it
is evident that all merchants should buy
spa,inyly for the present.
Year: 1864

Sent lIoNE.-Thc Adjutant General re-
ccivcd this morning by express the war
worn bannrr Of the brave Iowa Third In
fantry, which is to be placed among the ar
chivcs Of the State Historical Society. A
new banner has been ordered to replace the
old one
Year: 1864

REcRrIrISG- work goes on with
moderation. All recruiting commissions for
the hundred days service expire on tho
Goth inst, 1t is hardly probable that tn c
ten thousand men called for will be forth
coming, though it is likely that half Of that
number. or more will be raised.
Year: 1864

"SpIEs" AND TH1Nes.-The country pa
pers Of Copperhead procliyities are all much
vexed over the arrest Of JEFF. Davis friend
and coadiutor, c. L. Weller, the man who
undertook by inuendo and subdued bravado
to incite low mob in San Francisco to resist
the draft, and who told them the plain and
patent lie that the National Administration
Is about to control the ballot-box with Federal
bayonets. These papers are very indignant
because newspaper reported truthfully what
Weller said on that occasion. They vent
their spleen and baffled malace by calling this
honest reporter spy, .informer, sneak, and
so on, and profess great abhorrence at such
conduct. In so doing they exhibit very. poor
taste and worse tactics. They at once invite
a scrutiny into their own dirty vocation,
which requires only glance and thought
to be seen as that Of the meauest, most vii.
famous and cowardly Of the spy sort. Afraid
to assume the bold and fighting garb Of trea.
son, they skulk and crawl like the copperhead
reptiles, in dark corners behind the Union
armies, begging protection while they are
fixing to explode magazine for the destruc-
ton of the Government whose favor they
solicit. They are but a band Of spies, the
meanest and most dangerous, and the man
who, knowing Of their conspiracies, hesitates
to divulge what he knows, should be treated
as public enemy. y.-Stockton Independent.
Year: 1864

The progress of the present daft has
demonstrated that the enrolment lists of
this State are exceedingly erroneous.
Fully one half of the persons drafted
thus far. have been exempted on the
ground OF over age, alienage, minority or
non-residence. By the original addition
of these names to our lists. our quota was
correspondingly increased and the State
made liable for more men than would on
a correct enrolment lists, we would not
have been subjected TO the present draft.
In view of the probabilities of another
call for troops, the condition of these lists
becomes a matter of great importance to
the people of this State. There have
heretofore been several obstacles in the
way of correcting them. but am to-day
notified by Colonel Potter, Assistant Pro
vOst Marshal of the state, that under full
power delegated to him, he will issue in
stIuctions to his assistants and the Boards
of Enrollments to make all proper cor
rections during the next ten days, BY
striking from the rolls all names they may
find improperly there, and adding such
as they may find have been omitted.
Without aid from the people the labors
of these officers cannot be very effective.
therefore appeal to all citizens to give
their attention to this matter. Every
county and township is interested in it.
and each township should send one or two
men, thoroughly acquainted in such town
ships, to examine the rolls and aid in
their corrections, and see that names not
properly there are stricken of, and TO
add others if you know they should go
on. Also see that the names of men now
enlisted, or who have served two years in
the service, are taken from the rolls, and
in each ward, see that these lists are
made as perfect as practicable.


Ohio has no disposition to shrink from
her share of responsibility in this great
struggle, but our people have hitherto so
well performed their dnty that no impu-
tation can rest upon them for desiring to
equalize the burthens OF the war, by so
correcting her lists that only fair quota
of men viii be imposed upon her.


Very respectfully,


tSigned, JNO. BROUGH.
Year: 1864

A eonvictwas lately tracked into the
service. ola young married couple in En-
pretty lady's maid, and had been doing
all the dutIes of his role for three months
The horror of the young married lady,
and still more of the husband, may be
imagined when the police said, That
young woman is the man we want"
Year: 1864

A New Hampshire paper says That
man in the city of Manchester, in that
State, was recently warned to leave his
tenement in consequence of non-payment
of rent, but about the time when the
landlord was to expel him, he hung from
his window red flag, the sign 10 indicate
that there was smallpox on the premises.
No officer went near that house to exc
cute the writ of dispossession.
Year: 1864

There is an absurd rumor atioat thar
the Dowager Duchess Of Sutherland has
made conquest of Garabaldi, and may
possibly set aside her state, and consent
to become the wife of the hero of Aspro-
monte. The canard is going the rounds
of the papers, and is no club-tattle only.
Year: 1864

Colonel streight returned this morning frsm
a short visit TO Fortress Monroe. He left there
last evening. Before he left one OF Gen


eral Buffers scouts came In from up the
Peninsula with the report that Colonel Dahl
gron had reached our lines with about one
hundred men in safety. wewish VIC could feel
sure that this report is true, but up to the houl
OF going TO press there is some doubt about It
Year: 1864

yAfter three years Of war, and an :
other campaign upon us OF unsurpassed
and amazing vigor, We hnd, gold falling
and Government securities advancing


Could there be any better evidence of
the stability Of our Governmenti
Year: 1864

Eg- 0ne faci which is apparent to the
whole world, and which not even the un-
scrunulous Democratic press has tie
hardihood to deny, is enough to condemn
the Democratic party TO immortal infsmy
Ii is that the rebels who are carrying on
war for the destruction of the National
Union, look to the success OF the Demo-
cratic party in the election as securing
their success in the war. BY Confederate
Democratic victories at the polls, they
hope TO retrieve Confederate Democratic
defeats in the field This is nov all that
saves them from despair. Theg recognize
that the Democratic party Nor;h and
South is all Confederate. The party in
the North cannot deny it. Their organi-
cation furnishes aid and comfort to the
rebellion, and enables it to prolong the
slaughter, and continue the work Of de-
vastation. Every Democratic ballot is q
rebel bullet Pitts. Gazette.
Year: 1864


Continued desperate Fishting-Attack on
Advanced.


Correspondence Associated Press.l


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
June 3, p, m.-Fighting has been going on
nearly all day along the line, but principally
artillery, the casualties being quite large
When Barlow's division charged the enemy's
works early this morning, he succeeded in get
ting possession OF seventeen guns. besides the
prisoners he took, about $50; but not being sup
ported. and subjected to an enfllading fire, he
was compelled to evacuate the works he had
so gallantly taken and abandon the guns. His
loss was very severe, amounting to about eight
hundred.


Gen. Warren's corps on the right was at
tackled this afternoon by heavy force Of the
enemy, but the enemy were handsomely re-.
pulsed with sevese loss.


The 18th corps were engaged in skirmishing
most Of the day, and made charge on a por-
ton Of the line in their front, but were unable
to holdit. They fell back in good order to their
former position.
j. The 9Th corps, on the left of the 18th, have
been engaged more or less all day, and have
suffered good deal for the past two days. An
attack on the left of the I'd corps, supposed for
the purpose OF feeling our LETT, was made an
hour ago Is p. m.,) but the enemy was soon
driven OFF The loss is not known


captain Of cavalry was captured day or
two ago while trying to rally his men. He was
greatly excited and cursed his men at terrible
worthless, and it was no use trying to fight any
more.


Our losses for the last two DAYS at Coal Har-
Dor will number over five thousand in killed
and wounded, whilethe enemys will be nearly
the syme.


The change of position to. day has been very
little, our advance being about mile beyond
Coal Harbor.
Year: 1864

AT the regular weekly meeting Of the Union
League, at their rooms, last night, First Assist.
ant Postmaster General Alexander W. Ran
dali, made stirring and patriotic speech Of
an hour and half in duration. Owing to the
Illness of two of our reporters we regret to be
unable to give report of the speech of Nj.
Randall, which deserved a wide circulation,
Inc speaker answered with great force the
carpings Of oopperheads and the impatient ex
pressions of others who complain that moi
enough Is being done and results are not ac.
compiished with the rapIdity they desire. He
showed that the Government is making 81 cady
progress in crushing the rebellion and It's cause
and predicted the final triumph of freedom nnd
a great future of our country. Governor Ra n,
dalls address elected tho most enthusiastic
applause throughout.
Year: 1864

Mr.. Wiley, in the Senate, yesterday reported
bill so to amend the charter of the Washing
ton Gas Light Company as to reduce the price
Of gas 49, cents per hundred cubic feet after
the first of March next, with a deduction for
prompt payment of Hve per cent.
Year: 1864

This constitutional amendment Is the only


sure and legitimate way TO put general and
permanent end to slavery throughout the


whole republic. IL ought likewise to be sup.


ported by two great parties. The Republican
party is bound by the fact it would be the
final and perfect disposition of the anti
slavery policy, which, from the beginning,
has formed part of her strategy, 10 support
the same. The Democratic party ought to
accept il because all objections which she
raised against other methods, we're of a
constitutional nature, because slavery has'
justly forfeited all friendly support Of the
party, its treason committed upon the
country. and because il would be her certain
and positive ruin, to thrust hersslf between
the Institution and this measure. IL is q
mere illusion to shut tho eye to the facs
that the larger mass of the loyal population
are determined to put an end to slavery.
lhis amendment rises from tho strongest
motives which are apt to animate the huma an
heart. Its realization can rs little be OBJ
structed as the stream of tho Niagara.
Does the Democratic party possess in any
way wisdom, then she will take hold of the
opportunity OF leaving the institution, for
which she has suffered so dreadfully and
unsuccessfully, to its fate. We cherish tho
hope that both parties will agree to this
amendment, and that it will receive the
unanimous ratification Of all the loyal Staten,
and Of all loyal men in this State. But, If
it then be so ratified or not, it will certainly
go through, and the Republic will forever
be freed from curses which ever disturbed
hor peace, and threatened her existence
Year: 1864

In one week IN time Of war winch
strains the national credit, S265, 1898 worth
lust as we'll do without, and that the con
sumers could pay double the duty on with
out any hardship. In one week this amount
of geld is taken from our financial necess-
ties to pay for these superfuities This has
been going on all winter, and yet the Gov
crnmout has just awakened to the fact and
its consequences -'-A
Year: 1864

10 consent That proposals should now be
made by US to those who control the ge-
yernnent at Washington. Ypurown well
known devotion to the great cause Of llber-
y and Independence, to which we have all
committed whatever we have Of earthly
possessions, would induce you. to take the
lead IN repelling the bare thopght Of abiect
Submission TO the enemy Yet peace on
other terms is now impossible. 10 obtain
The sole terms to which YOU or could lis.
ten, this struggle must continue until the
enemy is beaten oct of his vain confidence
IN our subjugation. Then, and not till
then, will II be possible to treat Of peace.


I'LL then all tenGerof terms to the enemy
will be received a. proof that we are ready
Tor submission, and will encourage him in
the attfoclous warfare which he is waging.


fear much from the tenor pfthc news
receive from North Carolina, that an at
tempt will be made by some bad men to in
augurate movements which must be con-
sidered as equivalent to aid and comfort
to The enemy, and which all patriots should
combine 70 put down at any. cost. You
may count on ny aid in every effort to
spare your State tie scenes of civil war
fare, which will devastate its homes ii


the designs Of these traitors be suffered to


make head. know that you will place


yourself 10 your legitimate position in the
lead OF those who will not suffer the name


ul the oil North State to be .blackened BY


such a stain. Will you pardon me for


suggesting that my only soarce OF disqui-


eude on The subject arises from the fear


that you will delay TOO long the action


which now appears inevitable, and that By


an 0ver earnest desire TO reclaim by con


ciliation men whom you believe to be SOUND


at heart, but whose loyalty is more thar


suspected elsewhere. you will permit then


TO gather such strength as to require more
yiUent measures than are now needed


With you. influence and position the pro
moters Of the unfounded discontents nov


prevalent IN your State, would be put ,lowr
without the use Of physical force, if yal
would abandon policy Of Cancellation
and set them at defiance. In this course
frankly and firmly pursued, you woul,
rally around you all that is best and no
blest in your State, and your triumph wsull
be bloodless. Ii the contrary policy b.
adopted, ! much fear you will be driven I


the use Of inree to repress treason. II
either event, however, be assured that yot
vii. have nv cordial concurrence and as
sistance in maintaining with yon the honor
dignity aud fair name Of your State. and j
your efforts 10 crush treason, whether in
: cipient, as | believe il now 10 be, or NOR
: malured, as believe, if not firmly met, i
will in our future inevitably become.


have the honor 10 be,


!. Very respectfully, yours,


e JEFFERSON DAVIS.
! His Excelency. z. B. Vance,


1 Gosnnsr d North Carolina, Raleigh, n. G.
Year: 1864

New OrnRAroR Mr. Smith, the popular
telegraph operator at this place for the past
year or two, left yesterday for Davenport,
carrying with him the best wishes of all
who know him. m.-Nuscotiae Jouraol


Mr. Smith is welcome to and enterprsng
city, where we trust his stay will be agree
able. II Mr. Smith wishes to gain imperi-
shahlc fame he can do SO by putting this
line in such order that heavy dew viii not
cut oft the electric current.
Year: 1864

TIE FRosr-Therc was heavy frost


last night throughout this section of coun-


try which, it is feared, has resulted in doing
some, considerable damage to the fruit


We have conyersed with several farmers to-
day from different parts Of the country. and


the general impression is that considerable
damage has been done
Year: 1864

Tue GHosr-Loyers Of the drama and
the miraculous, will find choice evening S
entertainment at Metropolitan Theatre this
evening, on which occasion the "Ghost'
will De presented in the most artistic style.
Year: 1864

AcAiS VIC say: Plant shade and fruit
trees; also grapes and cvcrgrccns. Now is
the time to DO it. The investment will pay
Many Of our citizens are doing 50 and many
more are not The expenditure will pay
pay higher rate of interest than any other
we know Of Don't let this opportunity
pass uninproycd.
Year: 1864

The LUMBER TRApE-'rhc yards of our
lumber mills look very lank, owing to the
fact that the low stage of water has prevent
ed bringing down RATS this spring. The
water is rising gradually and in the course
of a week or two our lumber merchants ex-
pect to have a full supply, and we trust
they will not be disappointed The demand
for all kinds of lumber is very brisk, even
at the very high prices at which dealers are
obliged to sell it.
Year: 1864




Late advices from the Of the wreck OF tho
steamer City OF New York that the vessel bad
petely listed to her side settled down
considerably No further attempts would be made 10
Inc her and when much cargo possible had been
moved she would be handed TO her insurers.
later despatch hull OF the City nj
New York had parted In three and disappeared beneath
the water. strong southwest wind had previously pre-
vailed.
Year: 1864

A couple not one hundred miles from
Manchester, carried on their courtship
in rather novel manner. A young
man had fallen in love with the edaugh-
ter of his employer; but from certain
ideas of wealth, a match was opposed
by the father. Tho consequence was,
that the young man was. forbidden to
visit his employers house. The old
gentleman was in the habit of wearing
cloak and the young couple made
him the innocent bearer of their cor
respohdence. The lady pinned a let
ter inside the lining Of tho old mans
cloak every day, and when the father
went to his counting house and threw
off his cloak, the lover took out the
lady's epistle, read it, and sent the
reply baok in the same manner. Love
and ingenuity were finally successful.
Year: 1864

WHY THE Dying NEVER WEEP
The reason why the dying never weep
is because the manufactures of life
have stopped forever; the human sys-
tenn has run down forever every gland
of the system has ceased its functions,
In almost all diseases the liver is the
first manufactory that stop work; one
by one others follow, and all the foun-
tains Of life are at length dried up,
there is no secretion anywhere. So the
eye in death weeps not; not that all
affection is dead to the heart, but be-
cause there is not a tear-drop in it,
more than there is moisture on the lip
Year: 1864

on the other In England, whom the vigor Of
the saints during the Oromwellian republic.
and preceding it, laid the basis Of retaliation
which burned sayagsly In the fires of Smith
field in the days Of James and Mary. In
Germany. during tho bloody wars which
succeeded the Reformation. In our own
land to-day we can trace the cause OF
this fratricidal strife-the evil passions which
have made men even as tigers-maioly to the
clergymen of New England, to their public de-
ciamaton from the pspit upon questions
purely political, and the under current Of in
auence which they exercise in private.


Piety and politics have no affinity. Look at
the piety of JEFF. Davis and the piety Of Abra-
ham Lincoln; both Of whom call Almighty God
to witness that they are shedding the blood OF
their fellow creatures for His glory. II Is not
subject for boasting, but for sorrow and
shame, that SO many of the clergy are meddling
in politics, The safety of tho country never
can be secured until they are compelled to
remain in their proper sphere, which is TO take
care Of the eternal welfare Of their hocks and
to preach peace and good will to men.