The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-16
WARRINGTON ITEMS.
CONTRADICTION.

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intel in this city not long since about a
r.n,,,,r Of the United States aud his wife,
anJ g probable divorce on account of
IN. husbands iuhdelity, is untrue in whole
and Il. all its National Republican,
18Th.
IMPORTANT TO DIsTILLERs.
The following circular concerning the
connection of stills with receiving cistcrns
was isSucd on Saturday by the Acting
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue:
Treasury DEPARTMENT,
or ICE OF internal REVENUE,
WASHINGTON, October IL, 1866.
Inf; rmation has been received at this
Office hat officers Of internal revenue in
various parts Of the country are permitting
di>,ill'rs 10 continue, under the new law,
The al / practice of separating the low and
ligh wines by allowing them to run
into separate opsn tubs placed near the
oa,lct of the still or worm. II it understood
that the almost universal custom in grain
di>tiIlnrics has been to place near the ont
ht Of the worm two open tubs, into one
o. which the high wines are conveyed, and
into the other the low wincS-the former
connected by pipes with the the high-wine
ci>tcrn. and the latter with the still or
luuhlCr.
This arrangement is not consistent with
the terms of the act of July l3, 1866.
Section thirty-iour pu igraph l25) of
that act provides that all the spirits dis
titled during each day of twenty-four
hours shall be conveyed on that day into
one OF the receiving cisterns prepared for
that purpose, and that such cistern shall be
concerted with the outlet Of the still by
suitable pipes or other apparatus so con-
,t!nctcd as always to DC exposed to the
view # the Inspector.
This language clearly prohibits the use
of open tubs for separating low and high
wines. The outlet Of the still or worm
,,,,i>t ne connected with the cistern by
pipes or other apparatus exposed, to the
view ofthe inspector. Open tubs are not
"pipcS or other apparatus" contemplated
hv Law. The intention of the law, as is
well known, is to cut Off the opportunities
Tor the commission of fraud heretofore cX-
isying. To this end, the design was to keep
the spirits, as it were, under close guard
continuously, from the worm to the bond
cd warehouse, by the use of a pipe con-
urcting the worm with the cistcrn by hav-
ing the cistern in safe room, under the
lock and seal of the inspector, and by bav-
ing the spirits, under the immediate inspec-
ton Of that officer, drawn of into casks or
packages, which, after being duly guaged,
proved, and marked, he is to see removed
into the bonded warehouse, which, again,
is under his lock and key.
Now, to permit the spirits to be run from
The worm into open Tbs for the ostensible
purpose of separating the low from the high
wines would be to Illustrate the grand OBJ
iect of the law and render all other safe
guards provided by the law wholly nuga-
tory.
Consequently, distillcrS must in all cases
hc required TO CONNECT the still OF worm
with the receiving cistern by pipesor other
apparatus, which must be so constructed
rs to convey the spirits directly to the cis-
tern.
As il is necessary for the interest Of the
distller TO prevent the low wines fromrun-
ming into the high-wiue ciStern, and as the
use of the open tube for this purpose can
not be allowed, it becomes necessary to
adopt some arrangement by which this can
be- done.
/, is deemed entirely feasible to scpa-
rate the low from the high wines by the use
oI Il glass vessel, which shall be connected
with ant made 4 part of the pipes or APP
paratuS connecting the outlet OF the still
with the receiving cistern. The precise
form OF the apparatus for separating the
low and high wines is not now prescribed,
hut distillcrs must be Immediately notified
that some such arrangement must he
adopted and put in use by the 18th day of
November next. ANY diStillery which,
after that date, shall be found without
such apparatus must be closed up and pro-
cccded against according to law.
THOMAS HARLAN,
Acting Commissioner.
GOLD IN ABUNDANCE.
R.J. Miller, j. I. Cowan, II. W. Lush,
I. y. Cowan, and W. III. Lush were ar
rested yesterday, having in their posses
Sion SlOS,234 in gold and silver coin, be-
sides Il quantity OF gold nuggets, &c. The
party satisfied the officers that they be-
lougcd to Georgia, and that the money
was the proceeds of their mining opera
tuus in Montana Territory since 1859, and
that they had had it coined in Philadelphia
on their way through. There being nothing
to di>proye their statement, they were re-
leased.
PERSONAL.
General Beauregard called at General
Grants headquarters on Saturday, and
paid his respects to the General-in-Clnef.
The cX-rebel chieitain was courteously re-
ceiyed.-National Republican.
THE CURRENCY AND THE BANKS. -,
The Comptroller Of the Currency is
anxious that the national currency should
be kept whole and clean, and invites |
national banks 10 cooperate with him to
that end 10y retiring and returning all soiled
and dciaccd notes, without waiting for
them 10 become SO mutilated that they
will not circulate.
New and perfect notes will be promptly
furnished by this office, i'll sums not less
than five hundred dollars, or multiples Of
that sum. ii. Il. llULBURD,
Deputy aud Acting Comptroller.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Tie receipts from this source On Satur-
day were S5l3,56397. From the LIST July,
HE commencement Of the present fiscal
year, the income amounts to $751; 1917
0Ol.0i.