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The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
at all told for 1861 will not be $1,250,000. But the alleged tax of $16 a head on her 402,000 slaves would produce $6,432,000 on one species of property; which proves the monstrous character of the allegation. The real fact is, that her tax on slaves is one dollar twenty-six cents a head. The expenses of South Carolina will not reach $1,250,000 under all the charges of secession and war; and that, we repeat, does not require a rate of taxation equal to the rate paid in Virginia. The county of Halifax, in our State, with 26,000 people, white and black, pays $51,600 into the State Treasury; at which rate South Carolina, with her 70,000 inhabitants, white and black, would pay $1,400,000; which is more than she actually pays in this year of her heavy war outlays; and one hundred and thirty per cent, more than in ordinary times. The expenses of secession in all the other seceding States, payable from their State Treasuries, will not reach $500,000 for the year; and this will not pr
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Purging the service. (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Remarkable balloon Ascenston. R. and D. Railroad, April 13, 1861. Mr. Wells, the Æronaut, made an ascension with his ballon, at Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday evening, the 11th inst., at 6 o'clock. He remained over the city about four hours, in consequence of the calmness of the atmosphere, after which the balloon moved off, and kept in the direction of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, until arriving near Ridgeway, N. C., where he got in a different current, which took him over the town of Clarksville, Va., about five o'clock in the morning. He landed near Clover Depot, Halifax county, Va., on the morning of the 12th inst., about 6 o'clock. Clover.