Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-31


The following letter from the Commissioner Of In
tcrna Revenue contains important information.
SIR: Yours Of the 18th instant recommending the
establishment Of bonded warehouses for the storage
of cotton shipped in bond from the late nsurrectOn
AIRY States. has been received.
In reply, | have to say that the cotton factors of
your city do not appear to fully comprehend the law
or the intent of the Treasury regulations of October
g allowing the removal OF cotton and other Southern
products in bonds.
By the terms of the excise law the Tax upon cotton
and other products &ccrues Smmedioteiy ap0n their
moDo' for salt consequently. producers were called
upon % pay and procure permits before they could
ship to Northern markets.
1t was strongly represented by trustworthy persons
in different parts OF the South, That such was the
impOv crished state Of the country and consequent
scarcity Of National currency with which to pay
the duties upon merchandise when removed that
some measure for the relief OF purchasers, against
the swarms Of spectators, tlat would enable them
10 realize the full value Of their products, by pay
ing the duties thereon upon their arrival at the
destined market, were inpcratlyey needed. In
order afford the relief ttus asked tor. the regu
lations Of October ., 1855. issued intended to
he temporary in their character, and which will
probably be withdrawn when the necessity which
caused their adoption ceases to exist through the
of prosperity to the Southern States, and the
resumption OF trade between the two sections of the
Union through the usual channels. These regula-
tiOns permitting these removals PROVIDE IN the first
paragraph, that the duties upon the merchandise
shall be paid upon lis arrival at the port OF desgna
ton, and it never the intent to allow parties to
hold these goods under bond for az indefinite time
or until they could be sold and the proceeds used to
iquidate the amount due the Government for the
tax.
From this exposition OF the object intended to be
effected by the regulations referred to. viii
would be entirely foreign to the purpose and not of
itself ati0ffirs relief 70 the parties for whose
peveIs Of cSe mpoyershed districts Of the South
These having heen allowed facilities for bringing
their PROD ductS to an open market without prepay
ment of the tax as reqGired IN other sections, have
no claim to ask urtherree not asked for OF extend
ed to taxpayers in other localities.
COLD BLooDED MuRDER.-One of the most cold
blOoded murders we ever knew of was committed
about six miles from here on Wednesday night last.
The particuIarswe learn from the murderer himself
negro named Daniel McCorry, who is now in jail
1t seems there had been Jealousy existing between
the latter determined to be rid of his rival Learning
that Jesse was coming down the eastern branch of
the Elizabeth with lighter of wood, he employed
Daniel to kill him, promising to pay him so for so
doing. Friday night the ligher came to NewsOm S
him his wife was very sick, persuaded him to come
on shore, and soon after leaving the boat, killed
him with load of buck-shot from 4 double bar
relied gun: SO soon as the affair was known:
intense excitement was caused among cur colored
population, and forming a company Of volunteers,
they started in pursuit of the murderer, and sue
ceeded in capturing him and Pope near Providence
Church on Saturday and carried them both to Jail.
Jesse says he was J." d d cause George
$40 Another negro, named ihomaS Wilson, has
been arrested as accessory to the murder.-Notok
Day Book.
A Coop SIGN FROM MlssIssIpPI:-Rey. Dr.'Lacy,
pioneer in the educational work of the South, is
taking great interest in the prosperity OF freedmen
schools at that place. He has organized and is teach
ing school of fifty scholars has succeeded IN haVlne
building erected for school purposes, and Is conn
dent of success.
He was at one time president of college IN Loul;
sana. and at the opening of the war was at tne heaQ
of institution for the education of young ladies a.
Okalona. Ills building destroyed during the
war, and his people scattered.
The Doctor says he j. eighty-three years old, anc
unable to do much yet is anxious to take part Ill tht
great movement that is being inaugurated for the
education of the freedmen Of the South that the
proper course for the Southern people to pursue Il
to assist the movement, and give it high mora
tone as possible He was for thirty years rector o
ct. Peters Church. Albany, n. Y.-MeHphis Post.
ARTIFICIAL SUBsTITUTEs-It is not generally
known that soldiers who have lost limbs in the ser
vice of the nlted States are entitled TO ari6cia
substitutes that can be procured upon the presenta-
t;on of evidence of honorable discharge and that th
yonnd causing the loss of limb was received in SER
ice They are fournis he'd free of charge and do no
atfect any pension bounty claim the soldier ma,
%ave AGAINST the Government.
AN exchange says, ''It is better to love {
nerson YOU cannot marry than to marry person yo,
cannot love-" This is short text for long sermon
which human experience will continue to preacl
ruptil the last syllable Of recorded time