The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-07-30

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MAIL Alsaa i Mi1s;t1s Tho ,NorthorD
mail opens at s, 90 p. M. p; closes 4. il
A. H." Charleston day mail opens 400
PM; closes 600 4. NJ. Charleston
night mail opens $50 A. M.; closes G. 90
z. IL. Greenville mail opens Gas P.
NJ; o.oses 600 A. Nj. Western mail
opens g. 900A. M.; closes 1S0 P. M. On
Sunday Office open from to 4 P. NJ.
SERENADE. Hon. R. B. Carpenter ar
rived in Columbia on Friday last, and
occupied quarters at the Columbia Hotel.
lie has been waited npon BY number
OF our principal citizens, and last night
wac complimented by serenade by the
Firemen's Band. After repeated calls.
Judge 9. made his appearance, and was
cordially greeted. He delivered short
and pithy address, which was warmly re-
oeived by his numerous hearers. After
giving an outline OF his evidence before
the Ku Klux Committee in Washington.
he gave the substance Of q conversation
between himself and Gen. Grants fac
totum, Senator Morton-the latter pen-
tieman having informed the Judge that
he had been ''read out" OF the Republi-
can party, because lie ran against '.the
party" in South Carolina. "WelI." said
the Judge. ''if running on m honest
ticket is contrary to Republican princi-
pies, I am perfectly willing not only to
be read out. but to remain OUT
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REBATE ON CorroN. Tho following
letter of Commissioners Pleasanton is the
foundation for the claims for refundinR
over. paid taxes on cotton:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE.
WASHINGTON, Jnly II, 1871.
SIR: Replying to your letter of the
10th inst, have to inform you that this
Office holds that under the Act of June
30, 1864, as amended by the Act of March
.. 1865, the taxes imposed Hereunder.
on unmannfactnred cotton. do not in
olude rope and bagging; and where taxes
have been assessed and paid on the gross
weight OF cotton, without any allowance
or deduction having been made for tare.
| an amount equal to four per cent. of the
gross weight of each bale, has been al
lowed and paid, with the approval of the
honorable the Secretary of the Treasury,
to claimants who have presented their
claims regularly sworn to and certified on
Form 4G, and on full proof that,no snch
allowance was made for tare at the time
OF assessment and payment of the tax.
All claims for fefunding must. however,
under the regulations of the Secretary of
the Treasury. be presented to this Office
before the 4th day of August next. or
within two years from the date of the
payment of the tax complained of. or
! they will not be considered.
A. PLEASONTON,
Commissioner.
Editor Journal Of Commerce, No. 76
Beaver street, New York.
The printed Form 46 above referred
to may be obtained in blank Of any AS.
SCISSOR or Collector Of Internal Revenue.
and has ouly to be filled with the names
and particulars. It has on the back of
it the blanks for the proper certificates,
and is, therefore, easily adopted by the
claimants.
TIE SOUTHERN CLAIMS CoMM1ss1oN.
The Southern Claims Commissioners
have 80 changed the rule concerning the
taking OF testimony us to provide that
in any case, not over So, 600 in amount,
claimants may apply to any OF the spe-
DIAL commissioners appointed in the
Southern States to take the testimony in
their cases for the use of the commits
sioners ut Washington, and that appli-
cation need no longer be made to the
commissioners themselves. The applioa-
ton must be a written one, and contain
certain information. best expressed in a
form prepared by the commissioners of
which specimen copies will bo ready for
those concerned in few days.
RELIcIous SERVICES THIS DAY.-Tri-
nifty Church Rev. P. J. Shand, D. D..
Rector, 1016 A. NJ. and s P. M.
| st. Peters Church-Rev. Francis ia
qnemet, 1st Mass 7 a. NJ; I'd Mass.