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The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Europe. (search)
sideration a bill for the exemption, by the State, of Virginia's por of the Confederate War Tax. The of that tax having been the subject of inquiry, we have obtained the following statement embodied in a report made to the State yesterday by J. M. Bennett, Esq., Andiffor of Public Accounts, in response to a resolution adopted on the 3d instant. Mr. Bennett furnishes besides a considerable amount of information in detail, called for by the resolution, as to particular subjects of taxation and eMr. Bennett furnishes besides a considerable amount of information in detail, called for by the resolution, as to particular subjects of taxation and exemption therefrom; and while he does not claim that his estimates are strictly correct, they doubtless approximate as near to accuracy as any that can be obtained at the present time. After attending to the difficulties surrounding the subject, and their causes, the Auditor says: Presuming, however, that the tax would be the same as the State tax with the necessary allowance for the different rates, and for property taxed under Confederate laws, which is exempt from taxation under t
The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
thorizing the appointment of diplomatic representatives of the United States to Liberia and Hayti. Five transatlantic steamers are on the way to American ports. The steamship Northern Light has arrived at New York from the South Pacific. A plot to assassinate the President of San Salvador and Gen. Castilla was discovered in time to prevent its execution. An investigating committee of the Federal Congress is busily engaged in overhauling the Government contracts and contractors. Bennett says the most gigantic and amazing swindling operations have been developed. The immaculate Thurlow Weed figures conspicuously in the testimony thus far elicited. Thirty-five thousand Federal troops are at Cairo. Active preparations are going on to put in speedy operation the great Mississippi expedition. Twelve passenger trains are daily run between Washington and Baltimore. A great meeting was held last night at Fanniul Hall, Boston, to institute measures for the speedy r