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DRUGS
Yo ioretlantguo.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AND HIS
BRIDE.
A profane Republican, who ,wit
nessed the matrimonial prccession
of the Prince of Wales through the
streets of London, writes :—Postil
ions in liveries spangled with gold,
and footmen whose calves were of
wonderful development, rode the
blooded horses and clung to the foot
boards. The trumpet blew, the peo
ple shouted like the rising of many
waters, and all the handkerchiefs
went up. I looked upon Royalty un
veiled ! The brothers and sisters of
the Princess came first. The Prin
cess Dagomar, a tidy little girl, with
tine bright eyes, dressed all in white,
was mistaken for Alexandra, and
she made responses to the cheers by
waving her little kid-gloved hand, and
blushing nicely. But the Simon pure
or legitimate Princess came behind,
in another carriage, drawn by sever
al horses and emblazoned with the
Royal arms. Picture within said
carriage, two women sitting on the
back seat, and two males facing
them.
The furthest female is Alexindra's
mothei, a small-faced German woman,
about forty-five years of age. She
has dark eyes, and doesn't seem be
conscious of her rank, and, in fact,
is considerably frightened ; but she
is dressed in rich silk velvet, with a
necklace of diamonds falling upon
her bosom ; and it is evident, from
her furtive glances at her daughter,
that she is anxious, if not doubtful,
to see her offspring make a good im
pression. Prince Christian, the fath
er, all in soldier-clothes, looked
martial, like a veteran who would
have liked to fight battles, but hadn't
fought them. I tiled a resem
blance to Hamlet, sr., in his grizzled
'beard. The third of these illustri
ous persons was the bride, or the
affianced. She was pretty, and her
pictures don't look like her for they
represent a creature with a long
neck and consumptive face, who
would be going into a decline in the
course of a few moons. On the con
trary, she was the picture of health,
animation and hope.
Her eyes look to be hazel, but
they sparkled ever so sensitively,
and her cheeks were blooming, as if
she had cot (ono- been the habitant
of this humid island. She was not
composed, but shy as a fawn, and as
supply knit. Her mouth was run
ning over with kisses, and she had a
fine, broad forehead, which gave her
an intellectual shade—a sort of com
bination of the Grace and the God
dess. To set the portrait clearer be
fore you, take a dear young woman
from the greenest of your valleys—
Chester, or the Cumberland, or the
Brandywine—clothe her superbly,
make her the cynosure of two mil
lion e)es ; let her feel timid and
abashed at her sudden elevation, and,
therefore, more winning in her bash
fulness than ever,
and you have the
maiden of Jutland—the rose of Den
mark, they call her—who pis to be
Queen of England, if the Fates smile
upon the nuptials. A cold, sneering
foreigner as I. was, with no love for
these sea-dogs, Dane or Briton, I
melted before so much youth, mod
esty and loveliness, and hoped that
her heart was as good as her face.
But now for her royal partner,
whom you know already. He had
grown coarse, dull-eyed and sensual
of face ; his brow was not fine ; his
his stature not imposing. Some san
dy hairs sprinkled his cheeks and
chin, and, as he passed through the
crowd, and ill-humored expression
pouted his long mouth. He carried
a cane, and sat opposite his lady,
who waved her hand as she rode,
and the hoarse salutations shook the
fog.
SHORT PRAYER.
The Rev. Mr. Derwell, a pious and
curious old Methodist minister went
from Tennessee to 'Kentucky, in 1812
to visit his relative,.the Hon. Wm.
Bolton. The man was not a relig
ious man, but was a gentleman, and
invited the minister to have family
worship every evening. While he was
visiting thcre,Judge Cone and his wife .
from Nashville, arrived there to pass
the night, and Mr. Bolton, being a lit
tle embarrassed, said to the: old min
ister, as he brought out the Bible,
that he had better be short, as the
Judge was probably not accustomed
to such things.
"Very well, very well," said he,
and reading a single verse, he knelt
down and prayed :
"Oh Lord, we are very poor and
needy creatures, -and wo know that
thou art able tct supply all our wants;
but Cousin William says that Judge
Cone an his wife, grom Nashville,
are herd, nd are not used to family
worship, anti however needy we are,
there is no time to spare to tell our
wants. Amen."
The Judge was taken all aback,
and so was Cousin William. They
both pressed the old gentlea2ap to
conduct the service in his own way,
whisk ha did 'to their great edifica
tion.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1863.
ANECDOTE OF GENERAL SUMNER.
The Springfield Republican gives
the following amusing account of the
turning point in General Sumner's
early life : "General Sumner, when
a young man, was a stage driver
among the Berkshire hills, and this
is how ha happened to get into the
army. At a time in winter when
the roads were dangerous, going
down a steep bill, the stage slewed
and turned over, but the horses
went on. One of the passengers
pushed out of the door on the upper
&de ofthe coach and climbed upon
the box and attempted to take the
reins from Sumner's hands. 'You
let the reins alone or Fit throw you
off !' said the driver with determi
nation. The passenger wisely aban
doned his attempt at interference,
and Sumner guided the team firmly
till it was safe to stop them, drag
ging the overturned coach along,
and so ghved passengers and.team.
The passenger who attempted to
take the reins was General Worth.—
He was so impressed with young
Sumner's sterling qualities that he
cultivated his acquaintance and in
duced him to join the army, and the
cool and determined driver made an
intrepid commander."
A story is told of the veteran Sum
ner at the battle of Antietam. his
son, young Capt. Sumner, a youth
of twenty-one, was on his staff. The
old man calmly stood -amidst a
storm of shot and shells, and turned
to send him through a double raging
fire upon a mission of duty. lie
Apt.
might never see his boy again ; but
his country claimed his life ; and as
he looked upon his young brow he
grasped his hand, encircled him in
his arms and fondly- kissed him.—
"Good-bye, Sammy ;" "Good-b3e,
fatherand the youth, mounting
his horse, rode gaily on with his
message. lie returned unharmed.
and again his hand was grasped
with a cordial "llowd' ye do, Sam
my ?"' answered by a grasp of equal
affection. The scene was touching
to those around.
THE DYING WORDS 01' A HERO.
"Get the ship by, boys', and they
may have my other leg I" These
were the words of a dying hero,
Lieutenant-Commander Cummings,
of Philadelphia, and they should be
placed among the dying words of
the great heroes in history. In the
hour of mortal injury the selfish rniln
thinks of nothing but his own fate ;
he bold man may only resign him
self, with becoming dignity, to the
fatal dart ; but the patriot and the
hero is so filled with the single idea
of his duty to his country that he
gas no othez self ; his life is but a
slight gift to him, and duty makes
him cry with Wolfe, "I die happy."
Bent•upon the great piirpose of run
ning his ship past the enemy's bat
teries, prodigal . of his life, the young
Commander flies hither and thither,
directing, cheering and encouraging
his men, hoping, urging, now doubt
ful, now sanguine, when, in a mo
ment when he is - all a glow with a
noble ardor, when, in the words of
Bosquet, "the light of battle shines
upon his countenance," his leg is
torn off by a shot, and he falls stun
ned and pouring out his blood at ev
ery artery. lie recovers his senses;
what is his first emotion, as he looks.
upon his mangled body ? Wailing
and lamentation ? No ! "Get the
ship by, boys, and they may have
my other leg !" Brave soul! Thou
haat not perished ; thy words, thy
noble example, shall fall, like the
prophet's mantle, on other heroes,
and incite to valiant deeds 11E1 long
as we call ourselves Americans. .
HIGH PRICES AT JACKSON, MISS.
The Jackson Mississippian of the
11th ultimo, says that the following
prices prevail in that city :—Board
ing $6 per day • lard, per pound, $1;
butter, $1 50; dried peaches, $1 per
pound ; flour, $BO (it has been $100,)
per barrel; coffee, $6, per pound; a
pair of boots, sto to have a pair
footed requires $4O. Says the wri
ter, "To cap the climax, if a man
gets a little sick, and feels as if a
'horn' would do him good, (nobody
ever takes a drink in Jackson except
as a medicine,) he must pay a dollar
for the inestimable panacea, or $l2
for a wine bottle of whisky, holding
about a pint and a half.' While it
is true that one cause of these high
prices is the inflation of their curren
cy, yet the main cause is the scarci
ty of the articles. Famine is se
iinowledged to be brooding over the
land, and earnest appeals are made
to have corn planted that the Con
federacy may not starve. From
several articles in the paper, we
learn that Southern soldier has
infinitely worse fare than ever
the Union soldier is called on
to experience. A private, writing
from Vicksburg, describes the sol
dier's breakfast as consisting of
"corn bread, molasses: rice and beef."
The bread is made of meal as coarse
as grits. Whole grains of corn are
picked out of it and laid aside to
pareh. The beef is blue. The sol
diers wonder if old buck Jaad fiat
enough in him to grease a pair of
shoes? The editor says that the
soldiers are actually mitering for
food at Blackwater.
SMALL EATERS.
The Bedouins (says Ritson) are a
most alert and military- race, and
yet it is an uvdoubted fact that the
quantity of food usually consumed
by the greater part of them does not
exceed six ounces a day. Six or sev
en dates soaked in melted butter
serve a man a whole day. and be es
teems himself happy when he can
add a small quantity of coarse flour
or a little ball of rice.
In 1779 an Englishman describes
the Russian grenadiers as follows :
—"They are the finest body of men
I ever saw. Not a . man is under six
feet high. Their allowance consists
of eight pounds of black bread, four
pounds of oil, and one pound of salt
per man for eight days. In 1854,
when the Russians surprised the
world by standing against the at
tack of the "Allies," on the bloody
battle-field of Alma, were found dead
Russians with their provisions in
their lin:Lpsacks, and these provis
ions xere "black bread crumbs in
oil."
Dr. Hamlin, who has resided more
than twenty years in Constantino
ple, says, the Turkish porters in that
city cat bread from Hour scar.:ely
bkilted, fruits, curdled milk, of which
they are very fond, rice cooked with
some other vegitable, and about
twice a week a little meat at dinner,
which they eat soon after sunset,
They never drink any sort of dis
tilled or fermented liquor. Onions
and garlic aro largely consumed by
the Turks.
GOLD.
There aro good reasons for believ
ing that gold was the first metal
with which man became acquainted.
Its peculiar properties render it the
best for the purpose of being worked
by a primitive people. Gold is the
only metal which is found in a me
tallic slate, such as we SCQ it used in
the arts and manufactuYes. The pro
cess of extracting all the other met
als from their metrix or ore is so te
dious and difficult, that without gold
it is probable our forefathers would
have had no metals at all to use.
We who live at this period of the
world's history, can well believe
how little advan&ement could he
made in civilization without a metal
of some kind. As -an assurance to
us thitt the supply of gold shall be
adequate to our wants, this metal
has been found in The ratio of the in
crease of the human family. It is
diffused over the whole earth, and
has acted as a stimulus to man to
visit regions previously uncultivated.
The wilds ofAustralia and Califor
nia have thus 'been peopled in our
day in the same that the Spaniards
peopled South America years ago.
Septimus Piesee.
A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.
Major Rodman and Miss Budding
ton were married at Fernandina,
Florida, on the 25th ult., after an
acquaintance of only three weeks.—
The bride is the daughter of Capt.
Buddington, of Groton, Conn., who
brought the ship Resolute from the
Artie regions some years ago, while
the groom is the Major of tne 7th
Connecticut volunteers. Miss Bud
dington was in the South when the
rebellion broke out, and remained
with the rebels until four or five
weeks ago, when she was forwarded
under a flag of truce from their lines
to Fernandina, for the purpose of re
turning to her friends at home. Ma
jor Rodman at once became enamor
ed of her; he proposed the lady was
not, slow in manifesting her Union
proclivities ; and the result was a
speedy wedding.
FLOUR FROM SORGHUM.
Mr. James Newton, of Bowling'
Green, Wood county, sends to the
Perrysburgh Independent the result
of an experiment made in that place
during last fall. He says : "I plant
ed sixty-two rods of ground in rows
forty inches :spar t, from which Mr.
H. Fay manufactured eighty-one
gallons of good thick syrup. As the
seed was all ripo, I saved thirtden
bushels, apart of which, after being
thoroughly dried in an old house,
was taken to the Bowling Green
Mills, and there, by an ingenious al
teration in the machinery used in
grinding buckwheat, Mr. Perry
Thomas succeeded in making a very
good article of flour. Several of our
citizens have tried the sorghum flour
in bread, and all pronounces it super
ior to buckwheat flour."
iThe Richmond papers ftre
croaking fearfully over the want of
food under which the rebel armies
are now suffering. All the contitt7
around the localities where these
armies are situated is completely
stripped of provisions, and the only
resource lies in tho railroads, which
are said to be giving out for want of
laborers to keep them in order. The
Nyood work is rotting and the ma
chinery getting out of repair. Ihe
Examiner says that "If they are al
lowed to fall through from any caus
es, government and people may pre
pare for a retreat of our armies, and.
the surrender of much valuable coun
try now tin our poseseilon." -
FOR WHAT CHILDREN ARE MOST
GRATEFUL.
Parents spend a life of toil in or
der to leave their children wealth.
to secure them social position or oth
er worldly advantages. Ido not un
der-rate the worth of these things.—
Had they not been valuable, there
would n2t have been so many provi
dential arrangements impelling men
to seek them. 1 would not only
show that there is something of in
finitely greater value, not only to
the parent, but to be transmitted to
the child. What does the child most
to remember? I never beard a
child express any gratification or
pride that a parent had. been too
fond ofib accumulating money, though
the child at that rawent was en
joying that accumulation. But I
have heard children, though their
inheritance had been crippled and
cut down by it, say, with a glow of
satisfaction on their features; that a
parent had been too kind hearted,
too hospitable, too liberal and public
spirited to be a very prosperous man.
A parent who leaves nothing but
wealth or similar social advantages,
to his children, is apt to be srbedily
forgotten.
However it ought to be, parent
are not particularly held in honor
by children because of the worldly
advantages they leave them. There
is comparatively little gratitude for
this. The heir of an empire hardly
thanks him who bequeathed it. He
more often endeavors before his
time to thrust him from his throne:
But let a child bo able to say, my
father was a just man, he wti,4 affec
tionate in his home, he was tender
hearted, be was useful to the com
munity and loved to do good in so
ciety, he was a hoiper of the young,
the poor, the unfortunate; he was a
man of principle, liberal, upright, de
vout---and the child's memory cleaves
to that parent. Ile honors him,
reveres him, treasures his name and
his memory, thinks himseif blest in
having had such a parent, and the
older he grows, instead of forgetting,
only reveres and honors and remem
bers him the more. lien.; is exper
ience and affection sitting in judg
ment on human 'attainments. It
shows what is most worth, the.seek
iiig.--Ephraim Peabody.
Sunday Observance.
An hour after the fight, Major-Gen
eral Crittenden dropped into the
General's marquee. Incidental allu
sion being made touching Sunday,
(en. Crittenden remarked, "I will
obey all orders. General.; but I can't
help but feel that the Great Master
takes care of those who regard his
laws.- I never feel right w hen I vio
late the Sabbath day. Ours is a sa
cred cause and a sacred war." Gen
eral Rosecrans replied—"l have just
telegraphed General Halleck that
we should be quiet to morrow. I
will not fight to-morrow unless we
are attacked." You may rely un
less compelled to violate this princi
ple, by inexorable necessity, Major
General Rosecrans will not violate
the Sabbath day.—Letter from Iffur
fteesborough.
WESTERN PORK TRADE.
The Chicago Times gives a review
of the packing operations of that
city for the season just closed. The
packing of beef shows a decli Re, but in
pork Chicago is distancing all bercom
petiters, and shows an increase over
last, season almost equal to the -vhole
of the business transacted in Cincin
nati a year ago. The comparison
for two years is as follows
1861-2 18144 Advance.
514,110 970,261 450,144
474,467 598.457 128,990
Chicign •
Cincinnati
The total number of hogs packed
last season in the entire West includ
ing Tennessee, 2,872,666. This num
ber will probably be increased to
nearly four millions for the season
just now passed.
The Eighth (lenses.
The eig,th census of the United
States is rapidly approaching com
pletion. The preliminary report
which has been printed will be fol
lowed by volumes on population, ag
riculture, manufactures, mortality,
&o. They are nearly ready for the
press. By the resolutions of the two
Houses, the publication is placed an,
der the direction of the Superintend
ent of the Census, who hopes to have
the most important portions of the
work ready for distribution before
the nest regular session of Congress.
For the Good of the Cause.
In the examination of a paymas
ter's account in the office of the Sec.
and Comptrollers of the Treasury,
the following declaration was set op:
posits the name of James Kennedy,
Farrier, company 8., Parnell Legion,
Maryland Volunteers, on the pay roll
as received at the office: 'Will not
receive his pay for his services, hav
ing joined for the good of tho cause
and not for pay." Against which
declaration the paymaster had noted
"never pald."
Loss of Generals.
It is stated that during the pres
ent war the Union army has lost 19
and the Confederate 21 major gen
erals and brigadier generals.
ggritulturat.
A WORD TO FARMERS.
It is known to our farmers gen
erally that the extraordinary dry
weather of last year prevented farm
ers from putting in the usual amount
cf wheat—indeed but very little,
comparatively, was sown—and the
prospect for this season looks at the
.present very discouraging. The
Oats crop of Isst year amounted to
nothing, and the crop of corn was
short, and it may be set down as
pretty certain that there will be no
surplus grain crop to pass over to
meet deficiencies next year, should
there be any. Farmers ought to
make early preparation to put in a
large crop of corn and oats, and if
the practcaibility of growing spring
wheat has not been fully tested, it
would be well to experiment with it
this season, as the wheat yield, even
under the most favorable circum
stances for that in the ground, will
fall far short of an average crop.—
Grain of all ki. ds commands high
prices, and there are extra induce
ments for farmers to put in larger
crops thto usual—it will pay them
better. Many of the young men
who have heretofore been employed
in farming, have gone into the army,
and hired help will be more difficult
to procure. It will, therefore, be in
cumbent upon farmers to be diligent
and persevering themselves and by
commencing early t o d o their
ploughing, they will be sure to ac
complish more, and they may rest
assured that they will be well re
warded. We therefore feel like urg
ing our agricultural friends to put
in all the ground this spring that it
is possible for them to work. Corn
at 50 and 60 cents a bushel, and oats
:;0 and 40 cents, certainly afford
large nrc2fita to to the grower, and
margin enough to admit of hiring
farming hands at even bigger wages
than have hitherto been paid for
such labor. Get your plows, and
harrows, and harness, and cattle and
horses ready for the work, so that
no time may be lost in doing this
when the ground becomes ready for
curtivt tion.—anesville Times.
TO RAISE POTATOES,
As I have been a potato raiser
for several successive years, I con
sider myself pretty well experienced
in that art, and as I (Ivo found the
best and sorest plan for raising that
profitable crop, I consider it my
duty to make it known to the pub
lic by having it published in your ex
tensive and well-known paper, so
that a:l farmers may have ah Oppor
tunity for raising large crops of
them in lieu of scanty ones. I tried
several plans. At firs; I plowed up
a piece of ground in the corner of
my cornfield, and harrowed it until
it was very mellow; then I drew
furrows three feet apart, planted the
potatoes in the furrows, and then
spread a sufficient quantity of ma
nure over them, covering the whole
with earth about four inches deep;
but that would not answer; when 1
came to dig them, very few potatoes
were to be found. I tried several
other experiments—planting them
in timothy and clover sod, with com
mon barn-yard manure and also with
several substitutes, such as guano,
phosphate of lime, bonedust, and
several other compounds, but was
never favored with a large crop. I
almost became disheartened .at my
poor success, when 1 thought of
another plan, and that "plan proved
successful, although some persons
may doubt it. 1 broke up a part of
my clover field and planted them,
planting in the • first furrow and
every third one afterwards, and
using for manure but dry cornstalks
and straw, and, believe me or not,
my potato crop 'was two-thirds
larger in
_proportion to the ground
I had planted than any of the pre
ceeding years. Try it, and satisfy
yourselves.. Plant, thorn whore the
ground is rather low, that being_ine
ferred to high ground.—Dollar News
paper.-
HINTS TO FOOR FARMERS.
It is bad management to keep
more stock than you can keep well,
and to cultivate more land than you
can keep in fertile condition. A
field of corn that will produce but 20
or 25 bushels peracre, will cost quite
as much to till as it would if it pro
duced 50 bushels. So it is with all
other crops, and 'also with live stock.
Mr. John Johnston, whose reputation
is widely popular as *sound practical
farmer, in a letter to the Secretary of
the New York State Agricultural So
ciety, says:---"You will see the think
ing farmer making fq„ur year-old
steers worth from sixty to eighty dol
lars, and his neighbor's, at the same
age, not worth over twenty-five to
forty dollars." The reason why the
latter produces poor cattle is because
he attempts to raise more than his
farm will sustain ; and the consequene
is, that his stock is stinted in growth,
and greatly depreciated in value.
In reward to exhausted land, it is
best . to irk
tilougli no mcira thaa is in
good heart; if or nOodett,paii be prop
erly', rn(inairod. Whft airy . soll fails
to give paying ittatif Jabot` ta-
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stowed upon it, through exhaustion,
seed it down to clover and grass, and.
let it rest a few years, when it wilt be
in good condition to produce crops
again.
THE TONNAGE TAX.
THE VOTES ON THE SEVERAL PROP
OSITIONS BEFORE THE LEGISLA
TURE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Wednesday, Feb. 25,1'433.
The journal of yesterday was read
and approved.
REBTORATIAN OF TILE. TO‘:NAGE TAX
Mr. HOPK I NS, (War,hington.) I
move that the House prodeed to the
consideration of: - House bill No 195,
entitled An Act to restore the ton
nage tax required to be paid by the
charter of the Pennsylvania railroad
coin pany.
Adopted, Yeas 49; Nays 47.
So the motion to proceed to the
consideration of the hill %as agreed
to.
On motion of Mr. Homitss, (Wash
ington,) the House dispensed with
going into committee of the whole.
The bill was read as follows:
Be it enacted, etc., That the act en
tited Au Act for the commutation of
tonnage duties, approved the 7th
day of March, A. u. be and the
same is hereby repealed.
Mr HOPKINS, (Washington.) I
move to amend the bill by striking
out all after the enacting_ clause, and
inserting the following section and
by prefixing thereto the. accompany
ing preamble :
Whereas, An act was passed at the
session of the Legislature of 1861,
purporting to be "An Act for the
commutation of tonnage duties," by
means whereof the sum of seven
hundred and fifty-two thousand three
hundred and eight dollars and forty
one cents, or thereabouts, besides in
terest then owing to the State by
the Pennsylvania railroad company,
and in contemplation of law in the
Treasury of the State, together with
a large annual revenue stipulated to
be paid by the said company as the ,
price of its charter and by way of
compensation for the dt:teooration.
in value of the main line of the pub
lic works, apprehended and actually
inflicted, by the construction and
operation of said road, which rev
enue had already . reached the sum
of three hundred thousand dollars and
upward, and would ..have amount
ed at this time to a greatly larger
sum, with the prOspeet of indefinite
increase, were wrongfully withdrawn
from the sinking fund provided by
the Constitution and laws of this
State for the payment of the public
debt 'thereof, and made sacred and in--
violable.for that purpose, upon sug6
gestion and consideration, . which.
were either in conflict with the Con
stiution, or utterly illusory and
worthless in themselves, a . mounting
in effect, under cover of . a pretended
contract or commutation, to a gra
tuitous donation of all the said mon
eys and revenue to a private.corr
ration, without any substantial equiv
alent whatever, thereby violating
the plighted faith of the State and
increasing the burthens of the peo
ple, at a time when the necessities of
the country pre-eminently required
the most rigid economy, and the
strictest husbandin g of their resour
ces: therefore,
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Penn Sylvania, in
General Assembly met, and it is hereby
enacted by the authority of the game,
That the said recited act of Asiem
bly of the seventh 'day of March, An;
no Domino one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-one, be and the same
is hereby repealed, and the said ton
age tax or duties imposed by the act
incorporating the said Pennsylvania
railroad company, and the supple:
ment thereto, is hereby restored,
and imposed and made payable to
the Commonwealth in the same man
ner and upon the same terms and
conditions as though the said repeal
ing act had never been passed.
SEc. 2. That it shall be the duty
of the Attorney General to proceed
forthwith to sue for, rfterer end col
lect by trustees or otherwise, - the
arrears of the said tonnage tywhich
were due and' owing at the 'flute of
the passage of the said recited act,
which is hereby repealed, together
with such additional tax • or duties
as would have accrued upon the ton
nage of the said comlaty until the
date of the present MO; and for the
proper ascertainment of the amount
of the said additional tai, it shall be
the duty of the said company to file
forthwith in the office of the Auditor
General a statement, duly authenti
cated by the oath of the president
and treasurer of said compa. ny,• of
the amount of their - ,business so
made taxable for the iquith•e ening pe
riod, and also to farnisK tck. the At
torney General, Srain ~tiskie to time,
such other and ifickitional state
ments, and such aneess%o their books
as he may judge 'necessary for the
purposes of the 'said Isttit orether
proceeding hereby 'authorized ; Pro
vided, however,. .2. l tuit. theAtotioys paid
by the said company en z.ilkecotukof
the • said. ItireiteritNe at on,
ever asd bsyond.tika. •
El