New-York tribune., 1868-12-26
WASHINGTON.

pISrIILER CONYICIED-BONDED WARE
HOUSES ROBBED-A UNITED STATES Dis
TeICT- ATTORNEY IN THE "RINGn-GEN.
GRANT AND THE REPUBLICANs-THE LOST
CAUSE IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
WASHINGTON. Friday. Dec. 25 1865.
A gentleman who has just arrived in this city from
New Orleans and who, during his visit at that city,
took particular pains to inquire into matters IN con-
necon with the collection of the revenue, reports
t,e most appalling corruptions in all branches of
that service. He SAYS that with but two or three
exceptions, thieves and plunderers have. from the
first been in office in louisiana and that their sub
ordinates have been sufficiently in cOluslon with
them TO enable them to carry out their schemes and
robbery that officers of different districts have been
eagued together in perpetrating and covering up
the immense cotton frauds amounting to millions.
lie SAYS that there over forty licensed dlst-
leries running in New Orleans during the last fiscal
YEAR and that the Government did not collect
far enough TO pay the salaries Of he StOre-keep0s.
No distiler has ever yet been prosecuted III Louis
ma. to final conviction. Bonded warehouses for
I0uors have been robbed of thousands of barrels
Warehouses were burned down where the liquors
had been previously stolen Bonds of Collectors
have been wholly worthless, the securities when ac
cepted being nOtoriously insolvent. warehouse
bonds have been largely of the same character lie
reports that the Judge of an important court IS
openly denounced as unfathfu to his trust and that
the L. S. District Attorney is charged with oehg IN
the "ringD and that the defendants in certain WINE
lawsuits soon to be tried in that city have openly
boastcd that they have so fixed" things that the
Government can never obtain verdict in the L. ;.
Cont The Secretary of the Treasury has been ad-
yised by merchants of high standing IN New
Orleans that gross frauds were committed
last Winter and Spring IN the Gus
tom House. and that Custom House officers
and Internal Revenue officers have colluded together
in the fraudulent shipments of whisky that men
holding small salaTied offices have suddenly become
reh some buying plantations and valuable stock
others valuable city property some spending tens OF
thousands upon fast women, and others losing stili
larger sums at the gaming-table and horse-raees.
while vet another as rumOr has IT, is enabled to pay
$4,000 to get elected to high Congressional post
filing certain New-OTeanS offices from top to bottom
with the negro legislators, and paying them s.
a day for doing nothing The gentleman who
is here and gives this iDfonation say that all these
matters have been reported over and over again TO
the Secretary of the Treasury and the other author
tiles concerned, but that nothing has been done 10
stem the tide of corruption that is sweeping over the
whole of that country. except to send down mere
boy from the Treasury Department who writes back
TO Washington telling of the vast amounts of money
that he could get if he would only join teams with
the revenue officers. This gentleman further says
the only remedy that possible IL to send
Congressional committee of Investigation 10 New
Orleans with power TO examine fully into The
alleged frauds and cOrruptiOns
Democrats here seem determined 90 ropest the
story that Gen. Grant is at variance Vji prominent
Republicans until it receives credit. Few state
ments more sensatiOnally false have been sent to te
country in long time. The very reverse OF all these
stories is true. Those Republicans who are in posi-
ton TO converse freely with the President elect avow
oaffe a1 wifi
thoroughly convinced that rigid economy VIII
mark his administration and that complete reform
viii be Immediately instituted in the civil service
Hehas expressed himself to friends believing that
il is best for the interests of the country that each
new Congress should meet and organize on the day on
which the preceding one expires lie is therefore op-
posed TO repeating present law regulating tlc assem-
bling Congress-.
The leading colored men here actively prepaT-
inc for the National Convention, to be held on the
18th Of January here, which called by Border
State Colored Convention held ia Baltimore last
August
Tie advocates of suffrage viii hold "a
national convention here. JAN I9 in which 1T is
expected that Mrs. Stanton. Lucy Stone. aud other
leading advocates will participate.
Senator Sumner is preparing speech on the
finances and is said TO favor speedy resumption Of
specie payments. Gen. Bntler is also preparing
speech the same subject and holds that iesump-
ton OF specie payments is impossible.
The Government has abandoned the claims against
Peru i'm the Georgiana and Lizzie Thompson
A convention was made with Peru for the submission
of the case TO the decision Of the King Of Belgium
That monarch in January 1864 declined to act as
umpire intimatiDg an opinion that if he did so he
would be Obliged decide against the claims. The
principles which this Government asserted and ad
heIed TO during the late Rebellion in respect to its
rghiul power to close ports IN the possession of IN
surgeuts TO foreign commerce would naturally lead
MS 10 expect rejection of these claims. Their fur
tber prosecution has therefore been indefinitely sus-
pended
Tue disposition Of the PEOPLE of Maryland tohonor
1.-The lost cause is continually showing itself. They
seem TO lave hope that when the new Goyern9r
takes his seat IN January, men who did all IN tne
power TO overthrow the Govsmmept will get places
Of honor, trust: and plo1t, Tie last demonstration
Of this soYt is the recommendation of Tie Marlboro
Go.eie aud other papers in the State, of one Major
Coutee for the position OF Adjutant-General on Gov
Bowie's staff The papers referred to urge Contee's
claim on The ground that he served faithfully during
the war as Adjntant-Gener on the staff OF the
Rebel Gen. Elsie.
Christmas has been fully observed IN Washington
All public business has been suspended and services
were held in many of the churches Among the
most interesting exercises Of the day were those con
neeted with giving presents in some of the colored
schools under the charge Of the authorities of the
District The pupils of entire school received
each a suit Of clothes last night and appeared with
them i'm the church this morning where the exercises
above mentioned occurred.