The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-27

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Xsoc paper is said to Be SIC, ea9.
, The time to which, the collection of the direct
tax in the Southern States was delayed expires on
January l, but Secretary Mccullough, in anawer
to appeals from the South to protect them from
taxation, has, it is said, responded that he does
not intend to collect it unless forced to do so by
Congress, and that he will appoint no collectors
for that purpose.
Colonel William Y. Leader, Chairman Of the
Committee on Lectures OF the Constitutional Union
Association Of Philadelphia, has received a letter
from Alexander Il. Stevens, Of Georgia, accepting
an invitation to deliver an address on the condition
OF affairs in the Southern States, in Philadelphia,
and saying that he will be in that city in o few
days.
"A New York correspondent states that the Fe-
mans are following up the suggestion that a day
of mourning be observed by the friends of Ireland
throughout the United States, in respect to the
memory of the men recently executed at Manches-
Ter. An address calling upon the various circles
to take the matter into consideration is in course
OF preparation.
1t has been found in Massachusetts, that the
mania for collecting cancelled stamps is a cloak for
fraud, and one person was arrested there who had
made this a great business, and in whose posses
sion we're found acids, which, he asserted, were
used simply to wash tho stamps in order to make
them clean. He was discharged from arrest upon
condition that he should, for q certain length Of
time, subject his correspondence to inspection.
The Senate Committee on Naval Affairs has
instructed it's chairman to report ~favorably on the
bill authorizing the President to appoint naval
officers on the retired list, not below the rank OF
commander, to consular positions under the gov
eminent. It is estimated that these appointments
will save hundreds of thousands of dollars annual
ly to the government, as the naval officers are
only to have their ''sbore way" while serving as
consuls, which they would have under any circum-
stances and the pay of those now filing positions
as consuls will be saved to the government.
Governor Fenton, of New York, has written a
letter advocating the burial of the rebel dead also
in the Antietam Cemetery. He says: ga strong
local and individual feeling, in the neighborhood
OF Antietam and other parts of Maryland, naturally
engendered by the invasion, may have created
come indifference in regard to the Confederate
dead, and an indlsposition to see them buried side
by side with those who died in defence of our
nationality. But it is confidently believed that no
such feeIng pervades the breasts of the American
people, or the surviving officers and soldiers of
tie Union armies"
The New Orleans Times gives an alarming re-
port Of the condition OF the negroes in Louisiana,
and particularly in the parishes oyerlowed by the
breach in The levee at Point Coupe. Thirteen par
ishes have become totally unproductive by the
breach, and all classes of the population are in a
state of severe p~rivation. Poverty is scarcely the
-.- r. IL Ioo1o~oh1a condition Of IN.
these Districts. But bad as is the condition
among the planters and white inhabitants, that OF
the negroes Is still worse. Upward OF 10000 of
this class are at the point Of starvation, and al.
most entirely destitute OF the recessaries of life,
Unless some speedy relief comes, the lamentable
consequences will be scarcely c,lculable.
The Florence journals state that the Italian
government has contracted for the supply Of 500, OoC
Chassepot muskets, to be delivered at the rate OF
10000 a year. If this be true, we are not quite