The Clerk read as follows: OFFIOI U.S. DIRECT Tax Connissmiiizns FO3 rnii SVulLnS:OoNr, Noni n Cancun. N. 0. April:5, 1866. Notice is hereby given to the owners of real estate in the county of Wilson that the direct tax laid upon all lands in the U.S. by an act 9f Congressof August 5. 1861, is now being collected in the State of North Enioli. in pursuance of an act approved June 7.1562.an of an amendment of said not approved February 6. 1? and of a further amendment of said notapprovedMarch 3 18135a;nd notice is further given that for the reception of said tax upon the real estate of Wilson county, our otTico in Wilsonhin said count. will be open on thp 23th day of a ml. instant, an for 60 daysfollowing at Wilson I otcl. As the laws of the U.S. excm t from taxation homesteads to the value of 500w on the owners actually resided thereon at the date of the fixing of the tax, such owners and occupants are notified to appear at our 01110i0n.Wilson. duringsaid 60 days and show such lHltclItreatAn.Ma. FRENCH POTTER. Mr. E ii. SEARS. U.S. Direct flue Gimmisnloners for NCarolina. "The above is simply the coolest piece of impu dence we have everseen. There can exist no longer a doubt in the minds of thesouthernpeoplethat they are expected to submit to taxation Without repro sen"tation. We are pledged to a support of the Constitution of the U.S and eaven forbid that we should ever countenance or counsel disobedience to properly constituted authority. but a sense of duty compelsus to declare that the southern people should never submit to this direct tax but at the po“int of the bayonet. the ta: collector may or may nothave the proper credentials. but in no case would we gay this tax 1:513. we had ascertainedthat it was right and proper also. “The Government of the U.S. forced us into a war from which we or nergederippled. in resources and prostratodfinancially. Men wearing the garb of U.S. soldiers outraged and mur erod our defenselesswomenand children. stplo our property. destroyed our very uonfder retenseof prosecutingwar for the restoration the man and the supremacyof the Constitution and now that Government, ths best the world ever saw, calls on us at the South to pay a direct tax on real estate.by an act of Congressof August 5. 1861 and in pursuanceof an act approved June 7, 1862 and of an amendment of said notapproved February 6, 1863 and of a further amendment of said not approved March 3. 1865. “The southernStates.have been unrepresentedin the Congresspf the U.S. since March 1861 and this tax is therefore illegally, umustly and unconstitutionally lcvmd." Pendin the readin, Mr. HALE said: rise to a questien of order. It isthat the article now being read by the Clerk has no pertinency to the subject under consideration by the committee.