Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-12-22
Revenue Frauds.

In the House of Representatives, yesterday,
the Committee on Rerenchment submitted 4
report concerning the ''whiskey frauds"
throughout the country, and other matters
connected with the revenue, The report opens
with the statement that many frauds yet exist
In the revenue department, In kind as hereto
fore, but not to the same extent; and that
what is most needed to secure the proper en-
forcement of the laws is honest officials. 1t
then proceeds to arraign President johnson,
charging him not only with criminal neglect in
the premises but with retaining in Office and
befriebdiug those who are known to be de-
frauding the Government; with removing
Others whose only offence was diSagreeing with
him on political questions, and with SuSpending
prosecutions against indicted Criminals. The
frauds practiseG by gaugers stOre-keepers and
distillers, and also compoundlng houses, are
explained with some minuteneSS, and the de-
fects of the law In relation 10 these particular
matters pointed out. The frauds by settlement
compromises, ETC., are also referred to, and
better and palmer legislation IN this respect Is
recommended. Considerable space is given in
the report to the evidence OF Mr. Commissioner
Rollins, as explaining many important matters
connected. with the collection OF the revenue
lie states, substantially, that previous to the
Philadelphia Convention the Commissioner
subordinate officers of the Bureau, but that
since the Convention the sole power of appoint
ment was with the Secretary of the Treasury
and the clerks in his Office, so that now the
Commissioner has no more power with refer
ence to the appointment Of officers OF the reve-
nue. service than if he were clerk in the de-
partment-his only prerogative 10 the premises
being the right conferred by lew to recommend
persons for the office OF Supervisor
WASHINGTON ITEMS On Sunday afternoon
young man named Preston Fowler, nephew
of NJ. Thompson, esq.,, who is lying at his uu
cle's house sick of typhoid fever, in fit of
temporary insanity growing out of bis condition,
sprang from his bed and leaped through the
third story window of the house, falling some
very severe injuries, so much so as to preclude
hope of his recovery. His mother resides in
Texas.
Henry Mcpherson, Of Georgetown, was ar
rested yesterday for assault with intent to kill
Isaac Cory, and held in $500 bail to appear at
court for trial.
Judge Underwood has been in the city for
some days to look after the investigation or
dered by the Senate into his judicial conduct.
1t is not probable however, that the commit
tee will do much during the recess.
Last night young lady passing on + street,
near the Ebbitt House, in attempting to avoid
the mud, stepped upon some lumber in front of
Hooe's large iron front building, and was pre-
cipitated some fifteen feet into the cellar, aud
seriously Injured.
In Georgetown, on Sunday, an oyster dealer
exhibited at the Station house an oyster and
mouse, with the mouse securely held by the
oyster, the bivalye having caught the mouse
by the tail.
The main walls of the new Freedmen's Hos
pita, near the grounds of the Howard Uni
versity, owing to the action of rain, followed by
freezing, gave way yesterday. The workmen
who were at the time engaged in roofing the
structure fell with the masonry, to the ground,
distance probably Of fifty feet. All were in
jured several seriously, if not fatally.
Several delegations of Indians, representing
the Miamis, Greeks, Cherokees and other
tribes, are expected to visit Washington during
this winter for the purpose of securing addi-
tions to existing treaties relative to the ces-
sions of lands and the improvement of their
domestic condition generally.
Yesterday morning the New York train
which left at s o'clock, struck boy who was
in the act of crossing the track just this side of
Badensburg, and he was killed instantly. The
deceased was named Wilkins.
On Saturday night, about eleven clock,
Charles II. King went into the liquor store of
Roche & Co., on Pennsylvania avenue near
Four and-a-half street, where he took drink,
ana, sitting down, Immediately expired.
Mr.. Could rejected by the Senate at the
July session of Congress, has been renomina-
ted by the President for the position of pay