The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-12
FROM WASHING TON.
The Treasurv Denartmcnt.

wAsH1NGToN, oct 1.-THE Internal Revenue
Bureau has just issued regulations and instructions
concerning the tax distilled spirits, supplemental
to those of August last,
No distiller's bonds be approved until his dis
tillery warehouse has been provided and estab
lshed under the act of July, 1865 and distllery
is permitted to start until a storekeeper has been
assigned to such warehouse by the Commissioners.
No deduction can be made upon the capacity tax
on suspension of work until the required notice is
given TO the assistant assessor. Any-mashing or
distilling done at night, at any time when the
storekeeper is not present, is prohibited.
From and after Noyember LIST, proXimo, stamps
for distilled spirits will be required to be used in all
cases as provided by law.
These stamps are engraved and bound in book
form, the books of tax-paid stamps containing three
hundred stamps each, and the others four hundred
each. The value of the books, other than that of
tax-paid stamps, is 800 each, and the value of
books of tax-paid stamps ranges from $3.50 to
500, $50, according to the number of gallons repre-
sented The instructions are specific both as TO the
duties of distillers and government officers The
Commissioner says: "The abolition of the ONCE of
revenue agents and revenue inspectors throws an
the several districts, and it depends mainly upon
their action whether or not the provisions of the
new law be enforced and Illicit distllation sup
pressed, and they will be held to a strict accounta-
bihty for the enforcement of the law in their seye-
raj districts.
More about the Earthquakes.
The State Department has published a letter,
dated September g. from A. W. Clarke, United
States Consul at Valparaiso, of which the follow
ing is abstract:
The earthquake on the 18th of August extended
from the Chincha Islands on the north, to LOta on
stroying Arequipa city of twenty thousand in
habtants. No damage was done to Valparaiso, but
several towns to the south of this have been totally
swept away. Forty thousand dollars was subscribed
at Valparaiso for the sufferers, besides large
tributions in clothing. Congress, then in session
there, appropriated $4,000 for the same object.
Business is entirely suspended except the efforts to
relieve the unfortunate. Business houses having
branches at ports destroyed suffer largely. Many
merchant vessels have been lost. Nearly all the
towns on the coast north supplied with fresh
water from the interior by disillation, and as all of
he an tngf for digti1 1Dfi fiOnh hnG
at all the ports, great suffering must have been
perienced before aid could reach them.
The enclosed circular letter has been issued by
our Vice Consul General at Havana, a copy of
which has just been received here:
[Circular No. G.1
CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, HAVANA, Sept. u, 1SGS.-Notice is
hereby given to all citizens OF the United States who
NAV visit the island of Cuba that, in compliance
with recent decree of the Captain General and
Superior Civil Governor thereof passports duly and
properly Endorsed by the cOnsuls of Spain, will in
permitted to land, and in default thereof the cap
tains of the vessels on which they arrive will be
compelled to carry them back to the ports whence
Notice is likewise given that no passports other
than such as emanate from the Secretary of State
at Washington, or from ministers and consuls of
the United States, will be held to be valid in law by
The consus of the United States for other ports
of this island will comply with the foregoing in
structiOns. IL. r. DE LA REINTREE,
Vice Consul General.
WOmen's Rights.
The advocates of female suffrage in the District
of Columbia will hold National Convention here
on December Z. Lucy Stone, Susan b. Anthony,
Lucretia Mott, Mrs Stanton, Mrs. Griffng Profess
sor Wilcox and other advocates of the movement,
it is expected Will participate in the proceedings.
Arrest of an Alleged Defaulter.
G. H. Moore, candidate for Supervisor, and for
merly deputy collector Of Revenue in North Caro-
lna was arrested here to-day for alleged defalca-
tion Collector Woollen of the Third North Caro-
lima district, charges Moore with having made COL
lections to the amount of $4,000, unknown to him.
With this money he has been defraying his eXpen-
ses while lobbying for an appointment rs Super
visor.