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The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1865., [Electronic resource]

The little village of Ashland has been favored with frequent calls from the enemy during the war. Not less than eight times has it enjoyed the exhilarating excitement of a raid, varied occasionally by skirmishes and battles.--Ashland was, of course, not forgotten during the recent visitation of General Custar. Some of its citizens had to pay a higher price than usual for a fine equestrian spectacle, which hitherto they have enjoyed free of expense. Corn and fodder, knives and forks, and coffee-pots, were laid involuntarily upon the altar of the glorious Union. It is due to the officers to say that they endeavored to prevent these robberies, and gave orders that no private house should be entered. It is believed that they desired to enforce those orders, but found it impossible in every case to lay hold of the offenders.

The little village of Ashland has been favored with frequent calls from the enemy during the war. Not less than eight times has it enjoyed the exhilarating excitement of a raid, varied occasionally by skirmishes and battles.--Ashland was, of course, not forgotten during the recent visitation of General Custar. Some of its citizens had to pay a higher price than usual for a fine equestrian spectacle, which hitherto they have enjoyed free of expense. Corn and fodder, knives and forks, anAshland was, of course, not forgotten during the recent visitation of General Custar. Some of its citizens had to pay a higher price than usual for a fine equestrian spectacle, which hitherto they have enjoyed free of expense. Corn and fodder, knives and forks, and coffee-pots, were laid involuntarily upon the altar of the glorious Union. It is due to the officers to say that they endeavored to prevent these robberies, and gave orders that no private house should be entered. It is believed that they desired to enforce those orders, but found it impossible in every case to lay hold of the offenders.

These are shocking sentiments, of course, and no one can be expected to indorse such heresies. But it is a singular coincidence, that events should seem to sustain the minister's prediction. --Before the introduction of that excellent card, universal suffrage, the American population was as orderly and contented a population as could be found under the sun. Judges were independent, defaulting sheriffs a rarity, and abolitionism impotent for mischief, But, from the moment that the inestimable gift of universal suffrage was bestowed upon the people, things took a downward turn, and the popular madness ended at last, not in a "farce, " but in such a tragedy as the world has rarely seen. What the future has in store for the people of this continent it is difficult to determine. It will take more than one violent convulsion, we fear, to enable Americans to realize that men are not so infallible in wisdom and immaculate in virtue as to be safely endowed with universal suffrage.

It was the opinion of Mr. Sam Slick that "nothin' on this side of the water makes so big a fool of a man as goin' to the legislature (or Congress) without bein' fit for it. If mankind only knew what fools they were, and how they helped folks themselves to fool them, there would be some hope of them, for they would have larn't the first lesson of wisdom." Mr. Sam Slick had been to the "legislature" himself. He fancied he had a great "card," as he called it, in "universal suffrage," Mr. Sam Slick had been to the "legislature" himself. He fancied he had a great "card," as he called it, in "universal suffrage," which he proposed to introduce in a State where there existed a freehold qualification. He broke down in his first speech, but he consoled himself by declaring to his friends that, though he had made himself ridiculous, "universal suffrage" was, nevertheless, "a great card. " "I am ashamed to death of myself," said he to a sensible old man, the minister of Slickville,--"but it was a great card I had though, if I had only played it right; a very great card indeed. In fact, it was more than a ca

hen so regarded, I must dissent from those who advise a general levy and arming the slaves for the duty of soldiers." It is manifest that the President, in November last, did not consider that the contingency had then arisen which would justify a resort to the extraordinary policy of arming our slaves. Indeed, no other infemaster-General, the section alluded to was stricken out. The subject of class exemptions was called to the attention of Congress by the Executive message of November last. It was carefully considered, and an act was passed expressive of the views of the Legislative Department of the Government. The message under consideratiad advertised that he would pay for supplies the price fixed by local appraisement; which is, in fact, the market price. The President, in his Annual Message of November last, did not call the attention of Congress to any difficulties attendant on the execution of the impressment laws. The present message, for the first time dur

othing is more desirable than concord and cordial co-operation between all departments of Government. Hence your committee regret that the Executive deemed it necessary to transmit to Congress a message so well calculated to excite discord and dissension. But for the fact that the success of the great struggle in which the country is engaged depends as much on the confidence of the people in the Legislative as in the Executive Department of the Government, the message would have been received without comment. Your committee would have preferred silence. It has been induced to an opposite course, because they believe Congress would be derelict in its duty to permit its legitimate and constitutional influence to be destroyed by Executive admonitions, such as those contained in the message under consideration, without some public exposition of its conduct. Respectfully submitted. James L. Oer, Chairman, Thomas J. Semmes, W. A. Graham, A. T. Caperton, John W. C. Watson.

exchanged for tithe certificates. As soon as the enormous increase in the arrears of debt was discovered, as above mentioned, all idea of reducing the currency was abandoned as impracticable. For these reasons, the committee of conference having charge of the currency bill agreed to abandon it as a useless pledge of future resources without corresponding present advantage. Indeed, if the bill had been passed the first day of the session it would have expired from inanition on the 9th of January, 1865, the day on which the Secretary of the Treasury reported to Congress the deficit of four hundred millions, and recommended an increase of taxation to meet it. The tax bill is regarded by the President as liberal, though inadequate. No nation on earth ever conducted a protracted war by resources derived from taxation alone. The message intimates a regret that the recommendation by the Secretary of the Treasury of a tax on agricultural income equal to the augmented tax on other i

nadequate. No nation on earth ever conducted a protracted war by resources derived from taxation alone. The message intimates a regret that the recommendation by the Secretary of the Treasury of a tax on agricultural income equal to the augmented tax on other income, payable in treasury notes, was rejected by Congress. This is evidently a mistake, as it assumes there has been an increase of taxes on other than agricultural incomes. The present income taxes are those laid by the act of April, 1863, as amended and re-enacted on the 17th of February, 1864. To require the agriculturist to pay a tax on the income derived from his farm in addition to the one tenth of his gross productions, and the property tax of nine per cent. ad valerous, would be manifestly unjust and oppressive. After the delivery of his tithe, to tax the income of the agriculturist derived from the property producing the tithe, would leave little for family subsistence, for the purchase of supplies necessary for c

Report of the Senate committee on President Davis's late message. The following is the report of the Senate Committee on the recent message of President Davis. It was read and adopted in secret session, and the seal of secrecy removed on the 16th instant: The select committee to whom was referred so much of the President's message of the 13th instant as relates to the action of Congress during the present session having duly considered the same, respectfully submit the following report: The attention of Congress is called by the President to the fact that, for carrying on the war successfully, there is urgent need of men and supplies for the army. The measures passed by Congress during the present session for recruiting the army are considered by the President inefficient; and it is said that the results of the law authorizing the employment of slaves as, soldiers will be less than anticipated, in consequence of the dilatory action of Congress in adopting the meas

Report of the Senate committee on President Davis's late message. The following is the report of the Senate Committee on the recent message of President Davis. It was read and adopted in secret session, and the seal of secrecy removed on the 16th instant: The select committee to whom was referred so much of the President's message of the 13th instant as relates to the action of Congress during the present session having duly considered the same, respectfully submit the following report: The attention of Congress is called by the President to the fact that, for carrying on the war successfully, there is urgent need of men and supplies for the army. The measures passed by Congress during the present session for recruiting the army are considered by the President inefficient; and it is said that the results of the law authorizing the employment of slaves as, soldiers will be less than anticipated, in consequence of the dilatory action of Congress in adopting the meas