The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-11-20
WASHINGTON,

CUSIOMS RECEIPTS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-Receipts of Gus
toms at principal ports, from Nov. 9th to 18th,
were as follows :-BOstoD, $137 414; New
York, 81, 781 1888; Philadelphia, $19S, SO7; Bal
timOre. SLY $40; New Orleans, Oct. 18th to
23d, 1918; San Francisco, Oct. Goth to Nov.
18th, $218, 214; total ~, 924, 243
ILLICIT STILLS IN VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE.
Advces received by the Commissioners of
Internal Revenue, show that the squad of cav
airy which has been aiding the revenue Off
Gals in breaking up the illicit distilleries in Va.
is doing good service.
A large number of stills, some of them in
the mountains, remote from roads, have been
seized, operators have been arrested and large
quantities of whiskey, brandy. Sc, confiscat-
ed. A similar report comes from the first and
second districts of Tennessee, and deputy mar
shall EdmundsOn, who was left in charge of
and overpowered by crowd of men and the
property taken away from him.
LOSS OF INDIAN PROPERTY BY FIRE.
A dispatch received at the Indian office,
from Capt George Randall, commanding at
Fort Sully, under date of 18th inst, states
that the annuity goods and clothes for Indians
at the Cheyenne agency, were destroyed by fire
on that morning at o'clock.
THE TAX ON DIsTILLERIEs.
Hon. Leonard Myers, of Pennsylvania, in
tends at an e-rly day during the next session
OF Congress to introduce a bill changing the
present system of collecting tax on distilled
spirits and leavying it entirely on the capacity
of the distillery. He contends that not only
will it increase the revenue from this source,
but will remove ths temptation to fraud pre-
sented by the law as it now stands, abolish
many regulations of the department ON the
subject, do away with stamps and meters, and
reduce the fore now employed to carry out the
law.
A NEW CABLE.
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the President on the subject of his franchise
from Netherlands government for cable from
New York to the Hague, the object being to
give our government an opportunity, if it de-
sires, to unite in the establishment of line on
the basis OF strict reciprocity.
THE FARRAGUr-PoRTER CASE.
In the matter of the Farragut and Porter
prize and bounty cases, II. M. Carmine, special
counsel tor the government, filed this morning
demurrer which raises the question of the
right of the navy to claim any prize or bounty
for captures made at New Orleans, and also
the question whether the Court can entertain
jurisdiction in these cases so far as the gov
eminent is concerned. They will come up for
argument next week.
INDIAN oUTRAGEs.
Official information is received of a raid of
Sioux Indians in the vicinity of Fort File
man on the night of the 2Sth ult A hunting
party, consisting of three men belonging to
company X, I'd U. S. Cavalry, named McKen-
ma, McAllister and Wentworth, were tracked
about 10 miles from Fort Filleman by party
of about sixty Sioux of Red Clouds band, and
McKenna and McAllister were instantly kill
ed Wentworth, who was an old hunter and
accustomed to deal with Indians, escaped and
came to the fort The next morning force
was sent in pursuit, but did not find the MUIR
derers. They did not scalp their victims nor
take their guns and ammunition. One Rich
ards, quarter-breed, formerly an Indian trad
er, was the cause of the raid. He had been
stirring up the anger of the Indians by false
hoods