Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-03
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Internal Revenue DecIston
no Ohio Statesmen.

FROM WASHINGTON
Internal Revenue Decision.
WAsHINGToN, Sept. 1.-The following Internal
Revenue decision has been made: person who dis
tils brandy from grape juice wine. from pure
apple cider, is to be taxed the in all respects
as though he distilled it directly from grapes or ap
pie.
The provision allowing manufacturers to deduct
freight fro' ~" "''ce of manufacture to the place
OF delivery Is repsa act July 18th, 1866
No such ...,inetion should be made. Manufacs
turers who sell ,-... .eIs on time without in
terest should be allowed to return their sales at the
present worth of the sum for which they sell.
Assistant Secretary Chandler.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Chandler has
returned to this city and was at the Department
Saturday morning, but not engaged in the perform
ance of any official duties.
Clerks Reappointed.
-Four clerks Of the higher grades in the Internal
Revenue office who were discharged to-day have
been reappointed first class clerks. 1t is contem-
plated to make further changes of the game charac
ter in the Treasury Department..
Government Employees Discharged.
number of employees of the Treasury Depart
ment, male and female scattered through almost
all the bureaus of the Department, have received
notice that their services will no longer be re-
quired after the first proximo. In ne ry every ca
the persons to vacate those who have within the
past twelve months absented themselves withcu
leave. commencing with those who lost the most
time without good and sufficient excuse.
General Sickles' Violation OF Law.
The Times special says: In a nut shell, General
Sickles' violation of the laws this: He issued
order which was in effect stay law and postpor-
ed the collection of debts by action of the State
courts in this district for certain time. This order
was evaded very generally by of the transfer
of these debts from citizens of North and South
Carolina to the citizens Of other States. thus throw
ing their of action into the jurisdiction of the
United States courts, which were open. General
Sckles' order No. 10 forbade the execution judg
ments thus obtained. --- ~ a
Clerks Ordered Ischarged.
Gen. Grant has ordered the discharge of one half
of the clercical force employed in the Paymaster
Generals office, the order to take effect this week
The number thus thrown out Of employment is
twenty.
Mortality in the U. s. Service.
Nine Surgeons in the U. s. service died during
the past month in the. cholera and yellow fever
localities of the west and southwest.
Died.
c. z. Cutting, assistant examiner at Patent office.
died this morning of Typhoid fever. The deceased
was brother-in-law of Senator Doolittle.
The Indian TrOubl.s.
Some facts compiled from official documents are
published which throw additional light upon our
Indian troubles. Letters from Gen. Grant. Han
cock and others, written some time ago, make it ap
pear that the savages were bent upon war and had
no honest intention of keeping at peace with the
settlers. They sent numerous throats and ordered
the military not to cut wood. and wound up by send
ing in message requiring the removal of soldiers
or they would help them to leave the country. The
Indians also expressed their decided determination
not to permit the construction of railroads through
their grounds,
EUpon Gen. Hancock moving his force among
them, the impression prevailed that he had come
to murder them and destroy their villages The
compilation above with an account of numerous
murders and depredations committed by the red
skins.
General Hancock. in his testimony before the In
dian Commissioner, is very decided in his opinion
that serious exists and even declares his be-
lief that if the troops were withdrawn not white
man would remain in Colorad ;, and the great high
ways to the Pacific would be closed.
The Indians, he says, are andy provided with
the best modern weapons even making use of field
glasses. The expense of the General Department
have thus far been substantially those of peace
enlistment. He placed the number of hostile In
dians engaged between Arkansas and the Platte at
1900 or 1000.
Internal Revenue Returns.
The Worlds special says: Returns from Internal
Revenue to the department show falling off
of fifteen million dollars in revenue for two months
past. compared with the returns for the CORES
ponding period last year.
General Grant.
Notwithstanding the chronic reticence of Genera
Grant. officer who has daily Intercourse with
him has informed me that he has expressed himself
privately against unqualified negro suffrage. This
fact is coroborated by leading Radicals who declare
they will not take him for President, unless he
comes out square on the question.
A warrant has been issued from the Treasury De-
partment for a. 3I O65 90 in coin in payment of the
interest due on the 1O4O's up to the first inst. The
Secretary of the Treasury has received dispatch
from special agent Bell at Galveston stating that
the yellow fever there fatal beyond precedent.
OF the twenty-six officers connected with the
Custom House only three fit for duty. The re-
mainder either sick dead. The department
has issued instructions for the removal of the
tom house to point further down the island, out
side of the city limits said to be free from the cpl
demic.
The Forthco mtng Amnesty Procla-
nation.
The Berald's Washington special says in relation
to the reported forthcoming amnesty proclamation.
that those who are supposed to know something of
the Presidents intentions say pardons will be grant,
ed to all classes of exrebels except those guilty Of
piracy and cruel treatment to nion soldiers. This
amnesty will restore parties coHcerned to all civil
rights except those taken away by act of Congress