Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 17 August 1861 — Page 2

shall be proclaimed by the stars and stripes on every sea of earth, as the American Union, one and indivisible upon the great thoroughfares wherever steam drives and engines throb and shriek, its greatness and perpetuity shall be hailed with gladness. It shall be lisped in the earliest words, and ring in the merry voice of childhood, and swell to Heaven upon the songs of maidens. It shall live in the stern resolve of manhood, and rise to the mercy seat upon woman's gentle availing prayer. Holy men shall invoke its perpetuity at the altar of religion, and it shall be whispered in the last accents of expiring age. Thns shall survive and be perpetuated the American Union, and when it shall be proclaimed that time shall be no more, and the curtain shall fall, and the pood shall be gathered to a more perfect Union still, may the destiny of our dear laud realize the conception that

"I'crfumos as of Eden flowed nwootly nlone.

The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Enquirer writes I telegraphed to you last night that Lord Lyons had laid before the President a written statement of the number and names of the vessels that had passed the blockade of the Southern ports, with the declaration that England could not regard as effectual a blockade conducted in such a manner. I now learn that the French Minister joined with Lord Lyons in the communication and that it was, indeed, a joint protest, on the part of the reprcsentrtives of France and England, against such an ineffectual attempt to blockade the Southern ports. It cannot be denied, that this matter has now assumed a very grave aspect. The presence on our coast of a powerful English and French fleet, •hows that these nations are in earnest in the matter and is in itself an insult that we wonld not submit to in ordinary times. It is idle to doubt any longer the hostile intentions of these two powers. Englaud sees in the present distracted condition of the country, the opportunity she lias long waited for, to humble our national pride and the French Emperor will join hands with her in the attempt, for the reasons indicated in a former letter.

The facts contained in the communication of the English Minister cannot be denied. The bloekadc has been notoriousl} ineffective, and therefore no blockade at all. In my letters of July 3d and 5th, I stated what I had then learned to be the designs of the English and French Governments in the premises and the event shows that those statements were correct., But you arc aware that within a few days past, new life and energy has been infused into the Navy Department by the promoion of Capt. Fox to be Assistant Secretary of tho Navy. I am informed to-day that its liis intention to make the blockade effective, if he has to charter a thousand vessels to do it with.

BEBEIi OIITRAI3 KM IIV lOIJTHRRItl KKNTITCKl'.

A party of six young men, between the ages of fifteen and twenty, arrived in this city on Saturday evening from flic vicinity of Columbus, Kentucky. Four of the number are named Busby, and the other two are named JIarp. These young men give a distressing account of the state of affairs in the vicinity of Columbus. On Sunday last an officer from the Southern camp at Union City visited the neighborhood of Columbus and warned ten families to leave within two hours. There was some hesitation on the part of the Union «.inci), and they wore called upon again before the time expired, and warned that they could choose the alternative between changing and leaving. Mr. Busby, the father of two of the young men who arrived here, is an aged man, nearly blind. $and has a family of six young children.

In addition to that embarrassment lie had a largo crop ungathcrcd, and a vast, amount of business unsettled. lie was forced, however, to gather together hastily whatever ho could, and with his family was driven away from his home. There is no accusatiou whatever against the individuals thus driven from their homes, save that they entertain Union sentiments. The young men alluded to, who arrived here ou Saturday evening, had a sad experience on their travels to this city. Their feet were blistered, their clothes torn, and their flesh lacerated. They were forced to travel by night, and lie by 'during the day, in order to avoid scouting parties of secessionists, many of whom they encountered on their way. The party left "this city yesterday for Shelby county, where they have relatives.—Louisville Journal, Monday.

From tho Knoxville (Tcnn.) WhiK. THR SPIRIT OF SKCK8SION.

Bryant Brecdon, an old man, some sixty years of age, and a very respcctablc citi•en of Sevier county, recently had a daughter to die in Illinois, leaving behind, in a helpless and unprotected condition, several helpless children. Mr. B. determined to go after his grand-childrcn, and took Memphis in his route. There he fell into the hands of the secessionists, whose great concern for the safety of the SouMi and her rights, led them to arrest him. Upon learning that he hailed from the odious Union county of Sevier, they gathered a rope and led him round, threatening every moment to hang him. He had, therefore, to abandon his trip, and leaving his poor little orphan grand-childrcn to tho mercy of strangers, in Illinois. He was a quiet man, while in Memphis, as he is at home— disturbed no one but acknowledged himself to be a Union man from East Tennessee, and for this and no other offence, was he thus treated. This is the spirit which everywhere actuates the self-constituted Secession Committees of Safety, and the leaders of that intolerant and odious organisation. No wonder that freemen of East Tennessee, by thousands, have resolved not to go into this Southern Confcderacy! No wonder that the Union men of the thirty counties of East Tennessee should desire to be cut loose from the rest of the State, and allowed to form a separate State! To live in such a spirit, is literally to live in hell!

TOUCHING.—When Captain Meagher, of the Sixty-ninth, on his return from Bull Run, called upon the young widow of Lieutenant Colonel Haggerty, who was killed early in the engagement, her only son, just old enough to dimly remember his fkther, in uniform, seeing an officer entering the bouse, ran to his mother, joyfully exclaiming. Papa has come home again"

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From ever}* indication it is painfully ap parent that wc arc in for a long, tedious and bloody war. The suppression of the great rebellion, it is now admitted, can only be accomplished by the united action of the people of the Northern States. To form that Union, partisan strife must cease and party platforms be abandoned. The Administration which is now directing the affairs of government, and in whose hand is placed the helm of the ship in this fearful tempest of revolution, must assure the union mcn'of the South that no constitutional rights of theirs shall ever be infringed upon—that slaves are property, made so by the constitution, and so decided by our highest tribunals—that the owner of that spccics of property has the same right to enter the territories of the United States and hold that property with the same security of law, that the citizen of the North has with his horse or his ox—that sectional parties hereafter shall be discountenanced .as destructive of the ends for which this Republic was founded. Let this be done in good faith and sincerity, and the rainbow of pcace will ere long brighten the southern horizon. Let the olive branch preccdc the sword, and our southern brethren be assured that all that is demanded of them is obedience to the laws of the general government. If that is refused, then let them suffer the just consequcnce of their crimc and folly.—

The government has the power to crush into atoms this rebellion, so long as it carries with it the attributes of justice and mercy but if vengeance and cruelty are to mark its steps, it will assuredly fail.— With the administration, now rests the power to create, if it chooses, a united sentiment in the North, and with that a speedy return of peace, the "calm health of nations."

O.H IT* (.AST I.EIiW.

The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Itailroad is about on it.-i last legs. One train a day is the extent of tho business of the road, and wo should not be surprised if the road cirascd operations entirely. Its employees, we understand, have notbeen paid for the last five months, which, together with the huge debts of tho bond holders hanging over it, must speedily wind up its affairs. We shall welcnmc back again the good old days of the stage coach.

Wc are sorry to hear men still pra­

ting about party, when ruin, destitution and every calamity that atteiuls a great civil war is staring them in the face. The time for feasting and dancing has passed. The government, society, and the individual happiness and peace of ever}1 man is in the direst peril. Crimination and recrimination must cease. What shall be done now to avert the impending calamitics that arc hanging over us Shall wc all unite in one superhuman and united struggle to save ourselves Reason and common sense would respond in the affirmative.

No is THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE.—Persons wishing the Recietc can be furnished with the samo by payiug either in wood or corn. One load of wood or seven bushels of corn will pay for the paper for one year.

GODEY FOR SEPTEMBER.- -This exccllcut magazine for the coming month has been received. Notwithstanding the revolution that is upheaving the country, Godey has not failed to give his elegant periodical its usual attractive interest that has made it for years so popular with the ladies,

THE STUDENT AND SCHOOL MATE.- -This favorite magazine of the boys and girls has been received for the present month Every parent should introduce it into his fannl)

PVBLIC 8PEAKING.

Col. M. D. Manson and Major Watson, of Lafayette, will address the citizens of Montgomery county, at the Court House Square, on next Saturday evening the 24th, at 7i o'clock. Let everybody turn out and hear them.

AN IRISH REGIMENT.—Gov. Morton has authorized the raising of a Irish regiment for the war, to be called the Indiana Irish Zouaves, and to be officered, it is said, by such officers as the men themselves may designate. It is expected that New Albany, Lafayette, Indianapoliis. Fort Wayne, Tcrre Haute, Evansville, and other large towns will form the companies comprising this regiment. Rev. Father Kilroy, of Lafayette, is taking an active part in filling up the regiment, having just started on a recruiting tour to the towns in the Northern part of the State.

DEATH OF COL. FARNHAN. Col. Noah L. Farnham, of the Fire Zouaves, died in Washington yesterday of his wounds received in the late battle!

EXPULSIOH OF JUDGE CATROX mo* TENNESSEE. The Louisville Journal states that the Hon. John Catron, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, was waited upon a few days ago by a Vigilance Committee at Nashville, and informed that he must resign his seat upon the Supreme Bench of the United States, or leave the State of Tennessee within twenty-four hours. Judge Catron left, and was in Louisville a few days ago. The venerable Judge was a bosom friend of Jackson, by whom he was appointed to the Supreme Bench. He was compelled to leave his aged wife behind him, in very delicate health. The miserable mobocrats of Tennessee have no respect for age or past services. But we believe the people of that State will ere long burst the fetters which now encircle their limbs.

A BEAUTIFUL BOY DEAD ON THE BATTLE FIELD.—A letter received in New York from Atlanta, Georgia, gives this incident of the battle at Bull Run

A staff officer from Charleston engaged in the battle on the 21st of July, says I rode out one day after the battle to view the ground, and passed piles of dead in various positions. Under a large tree saw a body lying, very handsomely dressed, with a fancy sword and a handkerchief over the face. It attracted my curiosity. I stopped, removed the handrchief, and saw one of the handsomest faces I ever met with, of a boy of not mora than twelve or fourteen years old. His appcarancc a.d dress indicated high social position probably he was a temporary aid to some general officer. To ascertain who he was I examined his pockcts, and found a testament, in which was written

James Simmons, New York. From his loving mother. My son, remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth."

I wished very much to take the body away, but I was six miles from quarters, on horseback, and it was impossible:

A BROAD TARGET WITH ITS 'CENTRE' DRIVEN.—A correspondent of the Terre Haute Express relates the following incident of a skirmish at Rich Mountain

It appears that one "sesher' thinking himself at a safe distance and holding the marksmanship of the Hoosiers in extreme contempt, turned his back, stooped over and offered a glaring insult to our men. This act had the effect of making a Hoosier tearing mad. Considering himself highly insulted, and having grc.it faith in his own powers and that of his Enfield rifle, he sent his compliments in the shape of an ounce bullet, making a "centre" shot, the ball travelling the whole length of "sesher" and coining out at the throat. Curiosity induced me to examine the body, and I can vouch for the fact.

MIME BALL WOUNDS.—A correspondent, writing from Manassas to a Memphis paper says

I also learn from one of our surgeons that the wounded prisoners taken by our army are not by i'ar so dangerously hurt as the majority of our own men. Most of our wounds are from Minic ball.*., which have made great ghastly openings and frequently gone entirely through the body— while those upon the enemy arc with round balls, whose effects have been less fatal.

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VICTORY.

From late Southern papers wc make up the following list of field and regimental officers killed at the battle of Bull's Run, from which it will be understood why Jeff. Davis pronounced it a "dearly bought victory."

CONFEDERATE OFFICERS KILLED. Gen. Bernard E. Bee, South Carolina._ Col. D. K. Mi-Rac, North Carolina. Col. Charles F. Fisher, North Carolina. Brig. Gen. E. K. Smith, Regular Army. Gen. Francis A. Bartow, Georgia. Col. Lamar, Georgia. Col. Nelson, Second Virginia Regiment. Col. Mason, of General Johnson's Staff. Col. Francis J. Thomas, of Baltimore. Lieut.-Col. Benj. J. Johnson, Hampton Legion.

CONFEDERATE OFFICERS WOUNDED. Capt. P. T. Moore, First Virginia Volunteers.

Maj. Robt. Wheat, Louisiana Battalion. Col. Gardiner. Col. Wade Hampton, Ilcmpton Legion. Col. L. J. Gartell, Seventh Virginia Regiment.

Col. Jones, Fourth Alabama Regiment. Col. C. II. Stevens, of Gen. Bee's Staff. Maj. Scott, Fourth Alabama Regiment. Maj. Stevens, Aid to Gen. Smith. Major Wheat was previously reported dead, but there are now prospects of his recovery entertained.

The Federal forces lost no field or staff officers. The following is a complete list of the regimental officers killed and wounded:

NATIONAL'OFFICERS KILLED. Col. Cameron, Seventy-ninth New York. Col. John S. Slocum, Second Rhode Island.

Lieut.-Col. John A. Creigcr, Fire Zouaves. Lieut.-Col. Robt. S. McK. Elliot, Scv-enty-ninth New York Militia.

Col. Farnham, Fire Zouaves. Col. Hcintzleman, Seventeenth U. S. Infantry.

Col. Hunter, U. S. A. Col. W. G. B. Tompkins, Second New York.

Col. A. W. Wood, Fourteenth New York. Col. Corcoran, prisoner, slightly hurt.

MULES.—About two hundred mules are brought in trains to Washington twice or three times in a week. They are driven up from the depot and through the streets like so many sheep, and are taken to the training fields, near the Observatory. They arc purchased in Kentucky and Ohio. When they are brought la Baltimore, en route, they arc pastured in droves of twelve hundred to fifteen hundred, at three cents a head, per day, and brought on here as cars and railroad facilities offer. They make powerful draught animals, are easily kept, and answer admirably for the heavy government wagons, four to a team.

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[From Browillow's Whig, Saturday, Aug. 10.]

In the First Congressional District, Mr. Nelson has been re-elected to Congress by a majority of five or six thousand votes.— In the Second District, Mr. Maynard has been elected by a majority of about six thousand votes. And in the Third District, Mr. Bridges has been elected by a majority of from one to two thousand votes. Messrs. Bridges and Maynard, it is said, have both crossed the mountains into Kentucky, and have gone to Washington. No matter what may be said, as to the propriety of these gentlemen going to Washington to take their seats, it is due to them to say they became candidates for the Congress of the United States, and were elected to go there, their constituents desiring to be represented in the Federal Congress, and not in the Congress of the Southern Confederacy. They were so an nounced in this paper, as candidates, before the people. Their competitors so stated to the people, and no one was deceived in their running the race for Congress.

Mr. Nelson, who announced himself a candidate for the United States Congress, wa3 elected by an overwhelming vote, and by a constituency who desired to be represented at Washington. In crossing from Rogersville to Kentucky, on Saturday last, he was arres". din the corner of Lee co., Va., by an armed military force of thirty men, and taken as a prisoner to Abington, from which point it is said he will be taken to Richmond, to be incarcerated until ho can be tried for treason against the Southern Confederacy by Secession Jud ges, before Secession Jurors, and upon the testimony of Secession witnesses. That he will bo convicted, no sensible man can doubt for a moment. His son David, and some two or three other gentlemen, were with him, and all were arrested, and the presumption is they are all together in Richmond as prisoners. The exploit was one of a daring and grand military character—thirty armed mounted men, taking four or five civilians prisoners, who were armed with pocket pistols! Those who led in the charge ought to be promoted in the Confederate army!

The treason of Mr. Nelson consists in his having advocated the cause of the Union, and the Stars and Stripes of his country, in opposition to the heresy of Secession. To this grievous offense, he has added the unpardonable sin of permitting his fellow-citizens to elect him to Congress. To be consistent, and to carry out their principles, they ought now to arrest, and send on to Richmond, every man in the district who voted for Nelson.

Wc have but little to say, now, respecting this arrest, and the hot haste with which the gallant and patriotic Nelson has been hurried off to Richmond. Wc shall await the action of the authorities there, with some degree of interest, as will the thousands of Union men in East Tcnncs-

Before dismissing the subject, how-

ever, we will take occasion to congratulat the people of Richmond in this, that when they cast into their filthy city prison, Thos. A. R. Nelson, they will have more brains, patriotism, honor and chivalry, in their prison, than can be found in the Rump Congress!

Col. Baxter, of this city, has gone to Richmond, or such other point as tlicy may choose to stop and try Nelson, to act as his friend and counsel. He goes as a volunteer, having no intercourse with Nelson since his arrest. We doubt whether he will bo allowed a showing.

For weeks past, with our large list of subscribers, our weekly expenses have exceeded our income, and hence our paper has been carried on at a pecuniary sacrifice. Our exchange papers arc kept back and not allowed to come to Knoxvillc.— Our letters arc broken open and robbed, in all directions and our newspaper packages, arc laid aside or destroyed, so as to keep them out of the hands of our subscribers. At Cumberland Gap, or the office near there, we are informed upon reliable authority, there is a large pile of letters, to say nothing of papers addressed to us, which Secessionists will not allow to come forward. These letters no doubt, mostly from Kentucky, contain several hundred dollars for subscriptions. At Bristol, wc are informed, our paper is thrown aside, and not allowed to go further East. One contemptible puppy, who fills the dignified position of Route Agent, on the Railroad, boasted in this city, that he intended to destroy the papers sent out by him, because they were incendiary sheets. Similar acts of perfidy, are committed all over the country, by a set of unprincipled villains, who handle mail matter, and whose only title to public favor and confidence is, that they have the honor to wear around their necks, a collar, having upon it this inscription: I AM JEFF DAVIS' DOG—WHOSE DOG ARE YOU?

In addition to all this, the fact has come to our knowledge, and from different reliable sources, that the Confederate authorities at Richmond, have ordered that our Knoxville Whig must no longer be published, or transmitted through the mails to subscribers. The order has not yet been given, but wc are in daily expectation of It, unless it be rescinded, and it of course closes us out in business. We presume that those who are destroying our mails, and our packages sent off, are acting under this order. Is this the boasted freedom of the press, of speech, and of conscience, we bear of in the new Southern Confederacy? And does this freedom, guaranteed by the Constitution of Tennessee, unrepealed as yet, enter into this war for Souhcrn Rights and Independence? If so, may God deliver us, and our Union countrymen from such freedom, and from the enjoyment of such rights!

The Usurper and Tyrant Lincoln, so much abused for invading the soil, and personal rights of others, tolerates the publication of journals in Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Connecticut and New Hampshire, which oppose him in all his measures, and advocate this Southern rebellion. But the only Union paper in the entire Southern Confederacy, having any circulation among the honest people, must be crushed out by the liberty-loving, and tyrant-hating authorities of the Southern Confederacy at Richmond! We have been told that the Confederacy, conscious of uprightness of purpose, and knowing that her cause is just, feared no discussion, but threw open wide her doors and invited the light of heaven to Bhine in upon her men and measures! We supposed that with

her hundreds of journals, nble.and strong, stretching from the District of Columbia to tho Western frontiers of Texas, she could eotnbat the errors of one Union paper among the mountains of East Tennes*' see. But no, this boasted Confederacy finds it necessary to frown down investigation, to check the progress of free inquiry, and for what? Why, forsooth, lest her deeds should be reproved.

It is an old proverb, but as true now, as centuries ago, "that none ever feared that the truth should be heard, but those that the truth would indict"—none ever feared to come to the light but those whose deeds are evil. And when we find men loving darkness, and wishing to keep others in darkness, either in regard to their Government, or other transactions, we have reason to believe all is not right.

Leading men of the Union party, of unblemished character, must be rudely seized by an armed band of men, to gratify the malice of leading Secessionists in Knoxvillc, torn from their families, and rushed off upon the cars to Richmond, and there thrown into a loathsome prison! The only press they have must be muzzled, its batteries silenccd, and its readers and friends required to take the false statements of Secession papers for the news of the day! Large bodies of armed men must be thrown into our country, and put in possession of all tha principal towns and thoroughfares of the country, but no wrongs are to be inflicted upon the people of East Tennessee, nor are they to be deprived of any of their rights.

Can all this mean anything less than a declaration of war against East Tennessee? Is it not opening the ball, and inviting bloodshed in East Tennessee? What the effect of all this will be, we are wholly unable to say. It will either depress the Union forces of this end of the State, and cause them to cower like dogs, or it will make them frantic in defense of their gallant leaders, down-trodden because of their principles, and arouse a thirst for vengcance and brave deeds! What Union leader, after all this, can any longer meet his friends, and urge them to peace, and moderation, as we kuow they have been doing?

So far as wc are conccrned, we can suspend our publication, in obedience to the dictates of tyranny and intolerance—we will yield to the demands of an armed mob—turn over to them our office and what little property we have—deprive ourselves and a helpless family of small children of the necessary means of support— and beg our bread from door to door among Union men who are able to give—but we shall refuse, most obstinately refuse, to the day of our death to think or speak favorably of such a Confederacy as this, or to agree that honor, patriotism, or love of country, have influenced the men at its head, who have plunged the country into this revolution! And whether our humble voice is hushed in death—whether our press is muzzled by the spirit of intolerance at Richmond, making this our last issue of a journal we have edited for almost a quarter of a century, we beg all who may come after us and our paper, to crcdit no Secession falsehood that may represent us as having changed our principles from those of an exalted devotion to the old AMERICAN UNION, and of undying hostility to those who would perpetrate its dissolution! W. G. BROWNLOW.

Editor of the Knoxvillc Whig.

AUGUST 10, 1861.

TI1K TAX*:*.

We have already given a very full synopsis of the new tariff, and the changes proposed in that portion of the tax bill are coining to be well understood. As part of a revenue system these high duties will prove a comparative failure but there is a radical objection to the measure, over and above the burdens thus imposed upon commerce. The Committee of Conference, at the last moment, tacked Simmons' proposition to destroy the warehousing system, to section 5th of the bill, and it thus provides that the duties upon all goods hereafter imported and intended for home consumption, must be paid within three months—instead of three years, the time heretofore allowed. The dircct. tax bill was made part of the same act as the tariff bill, and this hasty jumbling together of the seperatc documents, without revision, introduces a variety of confusing mistakes, some of which it is to be hoped will be corrected before the statute is published by authority. The excise sections of the tax bill, and all relating to carriages and watches, were stricken out before its passage but the remaining sections were not all recast to suit the change and thus the a.lusions to the excised portions are retained, and the sections referred to by numbers are all misquoted.

The direct tax to be levied upon real estate, according to its value on the first of April, amounts to $20,000,000 but this is apportioned among thirty-four States and eight Territories, so as to make a moderate burden upon each. A complicated system of assessors and collectors is provided for, but the privilege is reserved to the States of assessing and collecting their quota of the apportionment, with an allowance of fifteen per cent- for such collection upon all sums paid er before the last day of June, and of ten per cent, on remaining sums paid before the last day of September. It is probable that most, if not all, of the States still loyal to the Union will assume this part of the work, and the tax be paid in through the ordinary channels of collection. Those Stitcs which have borrowed money to fit out troops, etc., may have no occasion to collect anything in the way of direct tax for the first year or two, as they are allowed to make an offset of these claims to their full amount, and still receive the same deduction as if the same were paid in money.

After these two (the tariff and direct tax) comes the income tax, levied upon the "annual ineome of every person residing in the United States, whether such income is derived from any kind of property, or from any profession employment or vocation," if such annual income exceeds $800 per annum. This tax is tD be three per per cent, upon all such excess of income above $800 per annum, with the following exceptions: income from U. S. securities will be taxed only 2^ per cent. income of non-resident citizens is

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be taxed 5 per

cent., "except it is from investment in U. S. securities," when it will pay 1-J- per cent. and incomes from property otherwise taxed, will bo allowed & deduction from the rates named, of the full amount of all such local taxes, which will give income from all taxable property nearly or quite a full exemption. The income tax

is therefore to be levied almost exclusively tipon income from later, instead of ioeome from jiroperty and as erenin this department the^exemption of all below 9800 will exclude nearly all employed outside of our large towns and cities, the* burden is chiefly left upon salaried and business men earning an income by their awn talents and industry. In this connection there is one feature which will bear with great severity upon those who are likely to suffer from the depression in business. The assessment is laid upon past income, and it is easy to see that such past, income, especially if only a salary, may provide no present means for paying the tax proposed. Thus, the Act provides that-there shall be due and payable during the next year prior to the thirteenth day of June, a tax upon the salary or income of the year 1861. It is easy to see that a man with a family having $2,800 income this year, might not havo the $60 which would be required of him next year. His income may have totally ceased he may have broken down in business he may have been a clcrk and lost his place through the failure of his employer he may have been a teacher, or in any similar situation, and earned a good living in 1861, but be broken down in health and have neither income nor means in June, 1862 but either case the law is inexorable. If he earned so much in 1861 he must pay the tax on it six months thereafter. If he has not the means, his personal effects arc to be seized and sold and hardest of all, if he have no means or effects, the collectors shall "arrest such person and commit him. to prison, to be held in custody until the same shall be paid, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent, per annum from the time when the same was payable as aforesaid, and all fees and charges of such commitment and custody." We think it is not too much to say that there will be hundreds of persons in our largo citics who have had liberal incomes during the fi rst half of the current year, but who will find it inconvenient—in many cases impossible—to pay three per cent, on that income at any time during the year 1862. Some provision will have to be made for such persons, as it will hardly do to imprison all who may thus be compelled to make default. In the bill as originally prepared, there was a section which prescribed the method of assessing the income tax, and directed that "each and every person, company, corporation," &c., should cause a s' .tement to bo prepared and verified by oath, exhibiting the amount of profits, gains and incomes for the year preceding, and lodge the same with the collector. In tho bill as now published, this section is entirely omitted, and tho tho whole method of levying and collecting the income tax is now left solely with a single officer of the Government. "The said tax to be assessed and collected under such regulations as the Secretary of tho Treasury may prescribe," is all wc can find relating to this branch of the subject.

It may not be uninteresting to remark that as a further wide departure from the sub-treasury system, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to "scleci and appoint one or more depositories in each State for the depositc and safe keeping of the monies arisi.ig from the tax," and also to make such officer or depository a general disbursing agent for the Government. Those taxes are, of course, apportioned among the seceded States, the same as among all others and the act authorizes their full collection in all such States with interest, "as soon as the authority of the United States is therein re-established." Some further explanation of the details of the act will be interesting to many readers, and will bo given as soon as a certified copy is published.—iV". Y. Journal of Commerce.

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Killed mid Wounded, TwoTliotiwnnriROLLA, Mo., Aug. 13.

The following additional account of the battle near Springfield, is furnished by au eye witness who left Springfield Sunday morning, and came through to this place on horseback

Our army inarched out of Springfield, on Friday evening, only fifty-five hundred strong, the Homo Guards remaining in Springfield.

Our forces slept on the prairie a portion of the night, and at about sunrise on Saturday morning drove in the outposts of the enemy, and soon after tho engagement became general.

The attack was made in two columns, by Lyons and Sturgis, General Sigcl leading a flanking force of about a thousand men and four guns, on the south of the enemy's camp. The fight raged from sunrise in the morning until 1 or 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

The rebels, in overwhelming force, charged upon Capt-. Tottcn's battery three several times, but was repulsed, with great slaughter.

General Lyon fell early in the day. He had been previously wounded in the leg, and had a horse shot down under him.

The Colonel of one of the Kansas regiments having became disabled, the boys cried out: "General, you come and lead us." lie did so, immediately putting himself in front, and while cheering the men on tD charge, received a bullet in his left breast, and fell from his horse. He was asked if lie was hurt, and replied, "No, not much," but in a few minutes expired without a struggle.

General Sigcl had a very severe struggle, and lost three of his four guns. His artillery, horses were shot in their harness, and the pieces disabled. He endeavored to haul them off, with a number of prisoners he had taken, but was finally compelled to abandon them, first, however, spiking the guns and disabling the carriages. About 1 o'clock in the day, the enemy seemd to be in great disorder and retreating. They set fire to their train of baggage waggons.

Our forces were too much fatigued and cut up to pursue, and the battle may be considered a drawn one.

The following is a partial list of the killed and wounded on our side Cant. Gratz of the First Missouri was killed. Gen. Sweeney was wounded in the leg Col. Mitchell of the Kansas volunteers was] seriously wounded. Major Shepherd of the General's staff was slightly wounded.

Capt. Plummer, of the regulars, wounded Capt. Miller of tho Missouri First, seriously wounded.

Capt. Cavender was wounded in the shoulder, but rode back on a horse from the battle field to Springfield.

Capt. Burke was slightly wounded. Col Ditzler was wounded in tho left

leer, the ball passing through. Capt. "Nfc^ Garland, of the First Kansas, pftoiMed, supposed mortally 'his stall friotiuMi.

Thp following Liealenantt belongjEa* to the First regiment, were nQed Lieut. fJ. Angel, of Company Krlftettt. L.D.Jones,of Capt. Walker's company Lieut. Duer and, Lieut McGonogan,. of Capt. McCood's company Second Lieut. R. A. Barker was shot in the left hand.

The first Kansas, First Missouri arid* First Iowa Regiments suffered the worst. General Price was not lolled. There were rumors on the field that MeColloogb was killed, but the rebels denied it.

On Saturday night, Dr. Mencher and others of our army went back with ambolances to the battle fi?ld, from Springfield, to see about the killed, and wounded. They found the enemy on the field and were considerately treated.

Gen. Lyons' body had been treated with great respect, and was brought backwith some of the wounded to Springfield.

Major Sturgis took command on the battle field, after the death of Gen. Lyon. General Sigel took command after tho battle.

Our loss is variously estimated at from 150 to 300 killed, and several hundred wounded. The enemy's loss is placed at 2'000 killed and wounded. Our boys captured about 100 horses.

One of the enemy's regiments carried^ two flags—the Confederate and the Stars and Stripes. Gen. Sigel marched back to Springfield in good order. After perfecting the arrangements, gathering' up the baggage, blowing up what powder he could not carry, and destroying other property which he did not wish to fall into tho hands of the enemy, he left Springfield, and on Sunday night encamped thirty miles this side of that plaoe, the enemy not pursuing.

The only hostility observed during tho day, was a firing of muskets from a distance, at the rear guard. Gen. Sigel is confident he could have held Springfield against the force they had engaged, bttt he was fearful of reinforcements to tho enemy, from the South-west, and that his line of communication tD Rolla would bo cut off.

Gen. Lyon began the attack upon the receipt of intelligence that the enemy wero expecting rc-enforcemcnts from Hardee's column, which was approaching from the Southeast. A portion of the artillery of tho enemy was admirably served.

Their infantry fire was also very sovcro. The Springfield Home Guards were not in the fight, they, with large numbers of tho citizens of Springfield, are in Sigcl,s camp.

It was thought that Sigcl would fall back no farther than Lebanon, whero reenforcements would meet him.

NAPOLEON ON TRAINKD TROOPS.

The advocates of the "Forward to Richmond" policy have been in the habit of?? quoting Napoleon the First as saying that three months training for soldiers was as good as three years. Such nonsense put in the mouth of tho great conqueror might well make him "turn in his coffin." Aliison, in his history of Napoleon, cites hi9 language in discussing the question of how much time is required to make a reliable soldier. In a conversation.Tcspecting the naval conscription, Turget obsorved:

Much longer time is required to form a. sailor than a soldier. The latter inay bo trained in all his duties in six mouths.

Napoleon replied: There never was so great a imstakc. Nothing can be more dangerous than to pa at pi on If a up they would speedily lead to the dissolution of the army. At Jcmappc, there wero 50,000 French against 9,000 Austrian:*. During the first four years of the war, all the hostile operations were conducted iu the most ridiculous manner. It was neiter the volunteers nor the recruits who saved the republic it was the 180,000 old troops of the monarchy, and the discharged veterans whom the revolution impelled to the frontier. Part of the recruits deserted, part died a small portion only remained who, iu the process of time, formed good soldiers. Why have the Romans done such great things? Because six years' instruction was, with them, required to make a soldier. A legion composed of three thousand such men was worth thirty thousand ordinary troops. With fiftccu thousand such men as the Guards, I would everywhere beat forty thousand. You will not find me engaged soon in war with an army of recruits.

For tho Reviovr.

UNION BASKET 1HEETINO.

At a meeting of the citizens of Union and Scott townships, in the grovo of Mr. J. Berry, on the 16th inst., for the purpose of making arrangements for holding a large Union Basket Meeting, to be held in the grove on Mr. David Noggle's farm, 6 miles south of Crawfordsville, on Saturday, August 31st, 1861, John Friar was called to the chair, and W. R. Kclsey appointed secretary.

The object of the meeting was explained by W. R. White. On motion, a committee of four was chosen whose duty it shall be to superintend the publication of said meeting, and also to solicit suitable persons to addrcsB tho meeting on the 31st inst. J. Friar, W. R. Kelscy. Rev. J. White, and H. Branch, were chosen said committee.

On motion, a committee of fifteen wero appointed to make all necessary preparations for holding said meeting and superintend the business of the day. Whereupon, D. Nogglc, W. C. Wray, C. Crawford, J. Berry, J. Kelsey, J.White, B. Demerett, J. Fips, J. Wilkenson, D. Earhart, W. K. White, W. Britton, M. Harlen, J. Britton, and W. Laforce, Keje cho* sen.

On motion, the meeting gave a general invitation to the masses, with all the officers and soldiers just returned from war, all Home Guard companies, their officers and musicians, also all Brass Bands, drummers and fifers. Let all come. In the language of our Governor, "tho interests involved in the present contest, rises aa far above party considerations as the heavens are above the earth." Then come along, men of all parties, and we will have one grand and glorious demonstration of friends, of liberty, in defence of freedom, in the maintenance of tho glorious old at^rs and stripes.

The friends are requested to bring provisions with them, that wo may baYe a ay old time" feasting on tho good thing* the land. f||

JOHN FRIAR, President

W KELSEY,

Seototary