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Show TCaslitugton Advices. Washington, 3. The comptroller of currency has called for a report showing the condition of the national hanks at the close of business on Friday, December 28th, 1877. The internal revenue receipts for December fell off $448,000. The cause is thought to be the agitation in congress to reduce the taxes on whiskey and tobacco. The commissioner of internal revenue rev-enue intends increasing his force of deputy collectors in North and South Carolina and Georgia, so that they will be able to enforce tbe internal revenue laws in that region and prevent pre-vent a recurrence ol defying the Government officers as was the cae at Spartanburg, 8. 0., last week. |