The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-01-14
INTERNAL REVENUE MATTERS.

sThe President has signed the Warehouse bil!n
This wss the purport OF the information conveyed BY
official telegram 70 headquarters In Cedar street
yesterday. Tho telegram itself is as follows
WASHINGTON d. c., Jan. Is, 1885,
Hon. THOMAS HARIANp Deputy Commissioner 80 Cedar
0The President the Warehouse bill Saturday night
GEORGE PARSELI. Deputy Commissioner
soon the reception Of the above Colecto. Shook
received . corroborativs despatch In the following
TERMS
SHERIDAN Shook. Collector rhrtysecond District New
Withdrawal Of spirits from any warehouse before pay
msnt o. tax rs prob bited BY act Of January H.
Il. A. ROLLINS, Commissioner Internal Revenue
No sooner had Deputy Com missioner Harand re-
ccved his despatch than he issued immediate orders to
tho bond clerks to receive bonds from dealers
or manufacturers for the removal OF whiskey from
bonded warehouses; either for transportation rectidca
ton rehabilitation, change OF package or for any pur
pose whatever unless tho of Sc per gallon has been
paid OF deal OF excitement was created among
the whiskey men, number OF whom we're In waiting,
DESTROYS OF having their bonds approved by the Deputy
Commissioner that removal Of their goods might he
effected before Official information as TO the bill having
bcen signed received Ia tue Metropolitan Board
rooms TIVE announcement that despatch containing
that Information bad arrived aud tile subsequent pro
mitigation OF its contents among tne ANXIOUS crowd e
liko a wet blanket on them Most OF those In waiting
beook themselves to the oce OF Collector shook hop
ing that he Da not yet been notified aad would therefore
sign bonds usual Tor the removal OF goods from
warehouses IN this district Here, however, they were
doomed 70 disappointment 70 all entroatie5 and re-
Quests on their part SIR SnOok inerposed hts despatch
from Commissioner Rollins received a short time
befo ., anu stcadsstly met every argument on their
nsrI viii tne snnounsemeut that no could only bs
governed by the orders or his superior officer the Com
miss Finding all efforts ,rutos5 the applicants,
alter another, turned suieniy and gloomily away
somo of them muitoring anathamts on Congress, the
President, the Commissioner aud tue Revenue Depart
incnt III general o. course these WHO have large stocks
OF pad Nhiskey hand have 40 reason to join in
ths general discomfort Tor the signing 81 the bill has
put money Ia thor pockets NhSkny went up sixty
I've cents IA price yesterday, and wiz doubtless keep
advancing danng the week From 81 50 aud 81 70, The
ruiug prices Ell ais may expect TO sac IL verge
closely on 81 before saturday next
Mr. Harand was, about noon, engaged ia conversation
with friend, having hs desk a number Of removal
bonds awaiting signaturehe had signed several others
but few minutes Defore-when a messenger boy
tered with teegraphc despatch he opened ana read
VI, and proved 70 be tue telegram above given whom
he forthwith announced his inability 10 alx his sigma.
ture 10 the Documents, and eptreatcs could move
HIM from bis purpose. He had nos received official
notification that the Warehouse bill was law, aud he
had no resource except TO abide by ia provisions AZ
may well be supposed the appll CAMS whose bonds
ansigned elongated their couutenances TO fearful o.
tent and looked decidedly Sank. few minutes dtlay
in opening the fatal e.egram would have saved them;
but now the Lat had goas forthtax 70 be paid or 10
removal
Al tho Dstfisrs Convention which reconvenes In
Washington on wednesday the now Jaw will form q
prominent topic OF elaboration.
inspectors ctiner and MCHsnry yesterday seized an
ilc still located 10 cellar corner Of HARRISON avenue
and Bartlett street, Brooklyn, f. d. The officers having
received information that this sl was in operation,
forced their way ia and found IRE nader H. They found
also two hogsheads Of mnsd The atlil and. FER.
mentng csterns wore destroyed and tue testing instru.
ments brought 10 headQuarsrs
Mechanics distiery, Nos. POS and 20y Water street,
Brooklyn was seized under direction OF Colonel Pinck-
ney, charge Of no returns Of product having been
made. Forty barrels OF sprts were found In an adj.
Joining stable and when the seizure made liquor
was II Ia alleged, being drawn from the cisern room
Inspector Harvey seized yesterday cass OF eight
thousand cigars a. NO. Old sliD. Tho cgsrs OF
domestic manufscture, packed apparently in old boxes
with the domestic stamp on them. They had sso an
imported stamp placed over the domestic aud an in
spector' e name which IA supposed 10 be forged
The receipts from the West during the week were
light 30i barrels reached this market oy the Camden
and Am0oy and 32s barrels BY The Ers rossse3e In all