The Washington union., 1857-09-16
DEPARTMENT NEWS.
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ATTORNEY GENERALS oFrcE.
Case Of Robert Hul6et.--The Attorney General has,
through the Solicitor of the Treasury issued instructions
TO United States district attorney for the eastern dis
tct of Louisiana TO investigate the case Of Robert Hal
bert, American seaman, who it is alleged was ille-
galy discharged by u Moore, the master Of the ship
Ashland, OF New Orleans IT, ON examination that Off.
Ger finds II necessary he Is to institute those proceedings
which will be proper in the premises Habert. while
performing duty on board the Ashland was attacked
with cutaneoua eruption, and found himself unable,
from the violence Of his suerings TO attend to his du-
ties While In this state the master of the ship sent him
to the hospital of st. Elizabeth at Antwerp Ho com
plains and has taken oath to that effect before A. d.
Gall esq, United States consul for Antwerp that Moore
left him at the hospital without means of subsistence dest
tute of clothes and without paying the three months
extra wages, directed by law The United States laws
very stringent In this respect They make 1t obliga
tory upon the masters and commanders OF vessels to give
TO every seaman whether discharged OF not who leaves
their ship ree months pay and above the wages
which may be due" to him. If the allegations against
Master Moore w investigation be sustained by the
facts his violation of the statute law has been too rarnr
to admit Of any palliation whatever.
DEpARrasEST
Rirer Ellie "A correspondent at Frankfort writes that
there has been recently inspection of the Notifications
at stade and along the Hanoyeran frontier by the mill
tary officers Of Hanover. The scheme of establishing
great fortified place at Nienburg or Luneberg was
formerly recommended but its execution has been post
poned.
commission of States lying on the Ebe will meet at
carly day in order to concert to be taken for
facilitating the navigation and trade on the Elbe
The commission sitting at Nuremburg for the framing
OF common code of commerce has completed the first
discussion of part of the work. and has adjourned to
The 18th OF September.
Owing to the favorable prospects of the crops the prices
Of grain are declining.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The 7ariG ~ Decisions. The collector of customs for
the port of New York assessed duty of twenty-four
per cent an article of the texture and mate
rial of the ordinary white woollcn flannel of commerce
but coorcd plaid fabric" The Secretary of the
Treasury, appeal overrued the decision saying that
it is entitled to entry at the rate of nineteen per
That 1t is composed of WOOL coloed printed does
not change its character known in the trade nor ten
it from the schedule in which ''fannels are pro-
vded for specially.
The Secretary of the Treasury has also overrued the
decision Of the collector that checked annels must
pay duty of twenty four instead of nineteen per cent
question submitted by the collector for the port
of Boston, appeal from his decision assessing duty
twenty five bales of wool imported claimed to be entitled
to free entry under schedule of the tariff of 1857 as of
the value of twenty cents less per pound at the og
nal place of expectation The collector, comparing
the aggregate cost of the wool with the quantity appear
ing the invoice after making the proper reduction of
the foreign weight to own found that the WOOL as
shown by the invoice cost 20 351O0 per pound and
scsed duty of "a per cent under the classification in
schedule Of the tariff of 1887 of ''woo unmanufac
tured, not otherwise provided for
The Secretary OF the Treasury has confirmed this dec
sion, saying I'm estimating the foreign value of WOOL
with reference TO its exemption from liability to duty
the appraisers determine such value independently of
the invoice, by prices current and other reliable means
of information OF the value of the article in foreign
kets, such they employ in ascertaning the foreign
values of other staple articles of import"
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
appointment IN The Pension OFce.Rev. Jno B Meek, Of
Pennsylvania has been appointed by the Secretary of the