Smyrna times., 1871-08-16

AN EXPLANATION Prom the published
statement Of the Secretary Of the Treasury,
showing the balances due the Government
from Internal Revenue Collectors who were
out of office on the Both OF June last, there
appears balance of $87. .6l629 against C. II.
b. Day, formerly Collector for Delaware. Mr..
Day makes the following explanation to the
Deiaacdredn.
The balance against me of $87, ,6l6.29, that
appears by that report includes all uncollecta-
BILE, erroneous, unabated taxes and all taxes
in suit on the Both day of June, 1870. There
IS In what IS known as the two coal oil cases
slxty-One thousand dollars, in which cases |
was enJolned from collecting by injunctions is
sued out of the District Court of the United
States Tor the district of Delaware, in the
month OF October, 1868, restraining me from
collecting the amount assessed and the iniunc-
tlons have not yet been dissolved to my
knowledge There are also other cases in
which suit has been brought to recover the
amount due the government for unpaid taxes,
all OF which stand as a charge against me and
are included III the Secretary's report There
mas been several thousand dollars abated as
qhcolectable and erroneous, since the Both of
June, 1870, the time to which the report of
the Secretary refers, and there are still taxes
before the department for abatement which
VIII be allowed as erroneous and uncollectable.
Since the 3Oth Of June, 1870, have received,
On account OF internal revenue about fourteen
thousand dollars, and have paid the same over
to the department.
MI Day also says " If the paper that
hrSt published the statement had published
the whole statement of the Secretary Of the
treasury, no explanation from me or any one
else would have been necessary"
Miss HENRIETTA |. BEDFORD, the only
surviving child OF Cunning Bedford, of Revo-
luton lame, died at her residence in Whining
ton on Sunday, The Daily Commercial says
OF her:
Miss Bedford grew up to girlhood in this
beautiful and attractive home, and preserved
to her latest hour the lively and vivacious
character to which she had been trained. Had
she hVed until the Sth Of December next. she
would have been SO years OF age, yet her fac
uities We're little IT any impaired, her mind
strong, her wit brilliant, and her activity 50
great, thar within year, (says an old ac1uain-
tance,j she entertained u company in his par
ior by dancing to a lively air, accompanying
her movements on the guitar. Her education,
OF course, had been carefully attended to- She
was mistress ot French, and, as an amateur.
very conver3ant with music, playing finely on
a NUMBER OF Instruments. Since the death of
her mother, sister and brother, Miss Bedford
has hyed somewhat retired, yet she has often
been the leading figure of an evening party,
entertaining everybody in the room by her
bright and lively manner down to recent pe
Rod She leaves u comfortable estate amount.
ing to some S25,0O0, or $50 900 1t is under
stood that she makes number of private and
charitable bequests. Among them, are $500
to the Home TOR Aged Women; $500 to the
1 Home tor Friendless Children; $500 to the
W imington institute $1,000 to the lst Pres
byterlan Church, (of which she was a mem
ber' for the purposes of enclosing its burial
ground. The residue of her estate goes to
I17 ngr relatives OF various collateral degrees"
We may add that, at her sspecial request, she
was buried in close metallic coffin. and the
remains excluded from the gaze of the curious,