The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-11-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Internal Revenue Matters.
NAVAL REPORT.
DISB BURSEMENT OF TIE
TREASURY.
Appointments.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.
Inc commissioner of Internal Revenue has
called the attention of Revenue officers to the
rocC tlat inc law requiring monthly returns
rom brewers, since the use of stamps has been
introduced for the pay of the tax must be SO
administered that the stamp will be produc-
ton annually to those afforded by the old law.
and not merely substitute. He says, to this
enc monthly return should be insisted upon,
and the same care should be taken as under
the former law, to ascertain its correctness.-
The number OF stamps purchased by the brew
ef during any month should be ascertained
from the Collector, and if not sufficient for the
payment OF the tax upon the quantity brewed
and removed, an immediate investigation
should be had.
Commodore J vhn Rodgers has been appoint
ed to the command of the Boston Navv
Yard in place of Admiral Stringham, whose
term OF service has expired.
Commander G.. w. Cooper. commanding RI
8. steamer Winooski, reports under date Of
OCTOBER 3lst the arrival of his vessel at Matan-
zas, alter cruise in the vicinity of the BAHIA
mas. Commander Cooper sailed on the 18Th
ult., Ior tne purpose Of assisting what was re-
ported to be an American ship ashore near the
Memory Rocks, Little Bahama. The vessel
proved to be the English ship Lord Eloin. from
Pensacola for Liverpool. The officers and crew
had been taken off by vessel bound to Kev
West. AT Abaco an American bark had gone
ashore and all on board lost. On the Sod
Commander Cooper stopped at Nassau, where
at the request of our Consul five American
machlmsts were put aboard the Winooski for
passage to Matanzas, they having been wreck
ed IN the park Willis Pick, on the Bahamas
6y tne arrival OF schooner on the 9th ult..
from Inagua, at Nassau, accounts were receiv''
ed OF the entire destruction of Turks Island
settlement, and the wrecking of thirty foreign
vessels by the recent hurricane. Commander
cooper proposed tosail soon for Key West.
Disbursements of the Treasury during the
$5l4,942; Navy Department, $152697: Interior
Department. $295,378 Total 81, ,263.0O9. Ma
donal Bank circulation was issued during this
date, OF 1885, 6,086.64. Government holds securi-
1ss iEa as ,onows For circulating notes. $339s5s
Total, 1921, ,105 Fractional currency was
redeemed in the sum of $238,30O Received
from Printing Bureau, $56O,5OO shipped to
national banks and repositories 1886 535. The
amount of funds in the vaults Of the Treasnrv
is as follows: Legal tender notes. s451 316.
fractional currence, $657,6 gold, 316771: sil,
yer; $2,725; other coin, So $50.
The President to-day made the following an
Pointments; y j. Gardiner, Justice Of the
VIM. HI. H. Taylor, Deputy Postmaster at Gin,
clnnatl; VIM Q. Hersberger, Postmaster at
at Fort Madison, Iowa; A. Zibert. u st Mar
shal for the District of Oregon; James Went
worth of Missouri, u. S, Consul at Moscow: G.
a. l.. Russell OF Iowa, Receiver of Public
T15-noJo, az montgomery, Ala, N. Pr1ce OF
Kansas, Agent for Indians of the Kicapoo
Agency.
Maj. Gen. Fry, late Provost Marshal General
OF the United States, sailed from New York in
the steamer Arizona for California, to enter
upon his new and important field of duty as
Adjutant General of the military district OF
the Pacific, to which he has just been assigned
by the Secretary of War.
Inc National Convention of the grand Army
of the Republic will assemble at indianapolis
on Tuesday, the 10th, instead of the 25th, as er-
roneously announced.
The naval supply steamer Newbern, from
Pensacola, arrived to-day.