The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-03
custom House Receipts and Bank
Dues.

L
Dues.
1be receipts from customs at the four
nr;ncipal ports of the United States, from the
1etb to the 23d of June, were as follows:
N York. 50, 10s, 7S7, 80 Baltimore. $69, 451,ss
poston,... 29l,7S4,42 ---- -
Philadelphia 34,sf9,OO Total ...$2, 6O4, 1881
circular has been issued by Gen. Spin
,or limited States Treasurer, embodying the
nn;nion of Solicitor of the Treasurer Jordan,
from which the former says:
II will be seen that no authority is vested
N the Treasurer's Office or in the Department
tn refund to any National bank the amount
;,f 1ntv claimed to have been enormously
Sracted from it either by direct return Of
the amount paid or by allowing it as credit
10 tbe bank on the payment in July next
The on v remedy then left, to the banks af-
fected by this opinion Of the Solicitor, is in
the provision by Congress for repayment OF
the amounts claimed. In the endeavor to
procure such action by Congre $, will cheer
fully cooperate by a representation of the
facts and in any other proper way. Circular
No. Al ,966 issued under date of February
TO- 1866, in which it was proposed to refund
by ao ing to be applied as payment on the
July return any amount which q bank should
show to be- iue to it by reason of the moditi-
ed regulation respecting surplus cannot,
therefore, under the construction given by the
Solicitor of the Treasury to the powers and
duties Of this office, be carried out
Poverty SrRIcKEN.-A good looking,
but very disheartened and detected colored
man called in our Office yesterday morning,
asking aims He said his family were all
sick, and he himself had just got up out of
sick bed, that he needed some money to get
some medicines, and could not get it, &c,
&c. We asked why he did not apply to the
Freedmen's Bureau He said he had applied
until he was out of heart, that he was con-
vinced that if he never got assistance until
he got it from that source, he would never
get it; he had been furnished by the surgeon
in charge with some salts aud oils, but that
did his children harm rather than good, and
he feared they would all die. We gave him
the amount of money asked for, and then
subjected him to sound, moral lecture, tell
ing him that so many of his race were lying
around town idle and stealing for living,
that benevolent people who were inclined to
help the needy were afraid to do anything
for fear of bestowing charities upon unwor-
thy persons He said he was apprised of
that, and that fact made it very embarrass
ing to him to ask any one to help kim. lie
then proceeded to give us short sketch Of
his late history, which is as follows: lie
lived in Tennessee, and when the ~ ankees'
came through there, they took him with them,
and he staid with them until they got to
Raleigh, in this State, and there they turned
him out to "root hog or die" He subse-
quently came to Newbern, where he has been
for the last year He is making a small crop
over the river with a hoe, having no horse
and no means oi getting one. He said he
was working under great disadvantages, but
had his family not got sick, he would have
made something to live on, but now he was
really alarmed lest they might actually
starve. He seemed to regret that he could
not get back to his friends in Tennessee.
We have particuarized on this case be-
cause it is one of at least hundred thousand
scattered all over the South, and there is
not more, perhaps, than one in every hun
dred thus reduced, who will not resort to steal
ing in order to live; hence our delightful state
of society .-[Newbern Times.
COTTON IN ILLINoIs.-The Charleston
(lllinois) Courier learns from gentleman
who has been travelling extensively in the
southern part Ct that State that wide
breadth of cotton has been planted which
looks splendidly, Notwithstanding the back
wardness of the season. One planter alone
has between two hundred and fifty and three
hundred acres in cultivation There are
also a number of gins ready to be put in sue
cessful operation as soon AZ fine eron is rine
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