Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-09
FROM WASHINGTON.

Frauds i'm the whisky Revenue.
New York, Sept. 1.-THE Herald's Wash
ington special says: The Internal Reve-
nue. Department has received information
of grave importance regarding certain al
legged heavy frauds in the whisky reve-
nue. in New York and Brooklyn, which
duplicates among others five Internal Rev
enue collectors. The, Metropolitan Board,
after investigating the matter, has request
ed the Department to Interfere judicially,
which suggestion will probably insure the
early arrest and trial of the suspected Of
ficials. s--.
General GrifGin's Headquarters at
Galveston.
General Griffin, now in command of the
Fifth Military District, has asked and re-
ceived permission to fix the headquarters
of the district temporarily at Galveston,
owing to the fact that he has but one staff
officer fit for duty, that the surgeons are all
sick, that his only child is at the point OF
death, and that to proceed to New Orleans
under these circumstances would seem all
most like deserting his post in the face OF
the enemy.
Fred. Douglass.
The friends of Fred. Douglass, whose
name has been mentioned in connection
with Commissioner of the Freedman's Bus
reau, assert that he would not under any
circumstances accept that Office at the
hands of Mr.. johnson. Douglass is anxious
for the retention of Gen. Howard.
the President.
The Times special says: The result of
the California election has produced much
good feeling with the President and his
Immediate friends of the political firm of
Blair, Black s. Co. Mr.. johnson looks
upon it surely as an Endorsement of his
position and as marking the ebb-tide of the
hQ RI
him to persevere in his present course.
The Contemplated Amnesty Procla-
- : nation.
WARRINGTON, Sept. THE Intelligencer
says: During the deliberations of the
Cabinet yesterday, it is understood to have
become evident that, in the opinion of every
member present, the legal effect of the con-
templated amnesty proclamation would be
to relieve all persons included within its
terms from all disqualitications as well as
all penalties incurred by completely in the
late rebellion, and of course so far as the
action of the General Government is con-
cerned, from all disability as to the right of
suffrage.
Another Statement of the Public
Debt. -.s..
In consequence of clerical error in the
public debt statement referred to in dis
patches published this morning, the Secre-
| tary of the Treasury has decided to make
out new and correct statement, TO which
| it will be found he has added a report OF
the condition of the public debt on the 1st
of September, 1865, which, compared with
the statement of the 1st of September, 1857,
will show reduction in the debt of S264,
906, ,206.3S.
New Bonded Warebo bouse Regulations.
Under the new bonded warehouse regu-
lations just adopted by the Treasury De-
partment. the restriction heretofore impos-
ed upon transfer of spirits in bond from
warehouse, class B, is done away with, and
all bonded goods allowed to move from one
district to another on consignment from
one collector to another. These regulations
go into immediate effect.
The Recent Proclamation.
There is authority for stating that it has
been determined to furnish every official
civil and military, of the United States, a
copy or rc6crU- proclamation oi civil
supremacy, with suitable injunctions OF
loyalty and obedience to the laws. A cir
cular will shortly be issued to heads of de-
partments, with appropriate instructions
from the President, charging them respect
lively with the duty of ofdistributing the proc
lamation.
The Commissioner General of the Land
Office has received returns from the Sur
veyor General at St. Paul, showing COM
pletion of the survey in Pope and Lac
qui Porte counties, Minnesota, embracing
an area OF over $4,000.