Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-29
regulations for Drawback on Shipments
10 the British, Esrnhincn.

DhfhORABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN TEXAS
Regulations for Drawback on Shipment,
10 the British Provinces.
Inc following circular has just been promulgated
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, |
~ WASHINGTON, December 26, 1865 (
| Sgr: The amended drawback regulations relatipe
| letter of December 49, are hereby approved Yor
| VIII please cause them TO be issued with the usua
aufhenucatlon, and will insert such date Tor then
enforcement as you may deem proper.
Respectfully yours,
H. secretary Of the Treasury
Commissioner Internal Revenue
INTERNATIONAL REVENUE BUREAU, I
December % 1865
In goods are to be shipped from port of trans
p9rIation through frontier port to any of the Brit
lsh PROVINCES, the following regulations will be OBJ
served where the drawback claimed on any one shin
ment does not exceed the sum of $50 The exporter
wll hle his entry form in triplicae at the Custom
house, at the port of expectation in the same form
and manner prescribed for shipments made TO other
foreign ports IN the amended circular instructions
1855, of which entries will be transmitted fo The
collector or other officer of the customs at the from
ter post through which the goods are to pass and he
VIM carefully examine the packages to ascertain il
they agree IN all respects with those described in the
e9tly. II the packages are found to agree the officer
oi the customs will permit them to be sent forward
without detention to their place of destination and
Will execute on the back of said entry certificate in
INC lOltoWlHB: District oil -, port of
hereby certify that the packages of merchandise de-
scrlbed IN the within entry for eyportat To =
20 canada or other British provinces have been duly
inspected at this port and delivered for expectation as
aforesaid. -, Collector. The above certificate
having been obtained the exporter will proceed in
with the above mentioned circular instructions
changing each Of said forms to suit the altered cir
eumstances Of the case. The bond form, +, will be
Cancelled If the exporter shall produce within ninety
days from the date thereof, a certificate under The
hand and seal of Collector other chief revenue Off
form following Certificate of Chief Revenue Officer
OF Canadian or other Provincial port province Of
,nd aJ neTs9y certify certify that the goods
ported into this province from -, by wav Of
-, were landed at the port of - and %Td duly G
entered at the Custom-house here on the
day of -, IS and that the duties imposed by
the laws in force in this province upon said goods
sert description of the goods In Witness whereof @
have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this
nue. Gse4 Ghor 9TH chief
with benefit of drawback, under the internal Reye,
nue. Law, may be forwarded through those frontier
exported consistently with law and regulation and
no other. lfmerchandise be shipped direct by sea
from port OF expectation, or fshipped direct from
frontier port to port in the British Provinces the
regulations prescribed in the amended circular in
structions, dated May |, 1865 will be observed. But
the bond form, T. will be cancelled on the exnorter
or exporters producing the same evidence that is re-
qulred on shipments made through foreign port rs
described above. Where the drawback claimed on
certificate will be required in addition to the certi
cate OF the ship revenue officers for the cancellation
Oh Ihe ponds IN NJ cases. These regulations will be
ent3rced on and after the lst day of January 1866
lolgneU 4. A. ROLLINS
Commissioner Internal Revenue
DEPL0RABLE CONDITION or AFFAIRS IN TEXAS,
+, Brgadier General William L. Strong, Inspector
General on the staff of General Howard, of the
Freedmen Bureau, returned to-day from a three
months visit to the Southwest and will soon submit
report of his official action and observation 4
large portion of his time while absent was spent in
Texas. and accounts of the condition of affairs in
found impossible to keep troops enough in Texas TO
do mere than keep up the sembance of government
and almost the entire population is represented as
States authorities 10 Federal roops % % have e1Eeq eTep
penetrated the interior, and rOwdyism secessi0nism
and crime, run rampant.
The General visited some of the DrincipaI towns of
the State. was obliged to travel hundreds of miles
with mounted escort through country sparsely
settled and fearuy destitute of thcnecessaries of life
and found blacks and whites ignorant lawlesg and
starving everywhere. The freedmen are mostly con-
gregaed on the rivers towards thecOast though large
numbers in the aggregate arc scattered throughout
other portions OF It's territory In the central and
eastern parts Of the State the whites scarcely knew
the war was ended and the negroes still supposed
themselves the lawful property nt their Iogmer mas
ters. In other places though nomnaly free he found
them in all stages of suffering and desitution and
unable to procure sufficient remuneration for labor to
The planters who hare corn and other provisions
are unwilling to part with it. and white families i'm
portuned MN often tor some order compelling the
rich to sell their at one dollar in silver per
'Fhel 20 saeh a. were destitute and starving. The
negnes prOtessed willingness to work but c0mpara-
4IVIV few persons were in condition to employ them.
The former also complained universally of bad treat
ment and violations of such contracts as had been
entered INTO. The labor question will ultimately
regulate ITSELF but thousands of poor both white and
black will perish this winter from starvation unless
the Government interposes for their protection.
As evidence ofthe feeling of the people General
Strong states that when Mr.. William johnson was
wounded in the arm by the accidental discharge of
his own q number apniiad tp
or PROFESSIONAL services, and every not only re-
fused but based his refusal the specific ground of
johnson being brother of the President He was
oblged to send nearly one hundred miles for Fed
eral surgeon and died solely from the consequences
much sOrrowful information, but being neither n
radical nor politician, his testimony is entitled to
great weight.
FINANCIAL MATTERS
Tho report that the national banks had rendered
secretary blcCglloGh loan of one hundred millions
of dollars is wholly untrue No such offer has been
cause no necessity for it exists The Secretarys re-
port shows probable deficit in the fiscal year. for
long time bonds Should the estimates for expendie
lures prove too large-as they will for the War De-
Partment we remain at peace, the receipts from
internal revenue exceed the estimat ates as they arc
almost certain to do-the appreheuded deficit will be
partly if not wholly, met without sesorting to tenn
porary loans OF the sale of bonds. As Mr. McCuloch
visit TO New forll may have furnished grounds for
some such suspicious it is proper to state that he
made the trip for no such purpose but to look after
some minor matters OF detail
Hon Freeman Clark proposition to add two or
three millions to the national bank circulation meets
favorable consideration at the hands of Congress
men who have been sounded on the question. Not
one has been heard to express himself adversely to
it. Congress Will probably legislate on the subject
early In the session. If corresponding amount of
legal tendernotes be retired from circulation it will
be move towards contraction.
EXAMINATIONS FOR HONORARY ADVANCEMENT
The Secretary of War has just promulgated the
following order, viz
WAR DEPT, ADJ'r GEN'Ls OFFICE
WAsHINGToN. Dec. 70, 1865. j
General Orders. No. l72 The following regulation
meritorious non-commissioned officers of the regular
army for appointment to the grade of breyet of second
Lieutenant, in connection with those promulgated in
General Orders, No. l., Adjutant Generals Office, of
October 4, 1884, issued in accordance with the pro-
visions of the act of August 4. 1851 No application
to be examined will hereafter be considered from n
candidate for promotion under this act who has not
served at least two years in the regular army.
By order of the Secretary of War,
+. D. TOWNSEND, Asst Adjt Gen.
MAIL LETTINGS.
The Post-ofice Department to-day awarded con-
tracts for service forty routesin Virginia and West
Virginia. These routes, for which offers have been
made since the regular bidding two months ago, will
nearly the whole of these States then award
ed with immediate postal facilities Mail service in
North Carolina is in greatly increased demand. Nu-
merous offers are being made, and to-day upwards Of
thirty routes were let All tho service will go into
operation Newly ears day. Contracts for service in
South Carolina Georgia, and other Southern States
also being freely disposed of In the appointment
office corresponding efforts progressing for reopen
ing pOst-otces in every southern and southwestern
State. The number of decisions on the subject of ap-
pointments may be set down at two hundred per
week. Yesterday, Virginia, Louisiana, Texas Ken
lucky and Tennessee shared largely.
BURGLARIRs.
Burglaries are becoming most audacously and As
tOnishingiy frequent in the capital which seems to
have become the common rendezvous of all the eX-
pert craftsmen in the country. The city police sys-
tem at present organized, imposes no check what
ever upon the operations of burglars and they very
rarely detected and made to disgorge their
plunder. The city postmaster, Bowen. last night
robbed of five hundred dollars and quantity of val
uables. which were abstracted from his sleeping
apartment.
No clue has yet been obtained to the man who got
of from Jay Cooke Il Co.'S Bank few DAYS since
with the fifteen thousand dollars just drawn by an
army paymaster,
INFORMATION WANTED.
Information is desired by the War Department of
the names and residences of the twenty-seven SOL
dlers belonging to what known among the rebels
the Foreign Battalion, and who escaped about
order of the rebel Gen. Mercer. before or at Savan
nah, in December, 1864. Such of these soldiers as
may be reached by this paragraph are requested to
communicate to the Judge Advocate General at
Washington, their names and residences, together
with such information they may possess in regard
to the above referred to execution.
HOTEL GOSSIP.
The presence OF Clarence A. Seward in the city re-
wives the rumor In circulation time since that
Congressional inquiry will probably be made con-
cerning the alleged fact of his being interested in
ing Secretary of State, and supposed to be privy to
the Intentions of