The New York herald., 1869-10-11
besides much that has never been reported at ALL az
it greatly retards the prosperity OF the country.
The Financial Question

it greatly retards tile prosperity OF the country.
The Financial Question
does NOT iook very promising. Tha legislative doc
tors are at work dIssecting t very closely put they
don't seem 70 be agreed TO the mode OF using the
KNIFE. They still have as many theories ana plans
as before the adjournment OF the last session, and
Heaven alone knows where The remarkable diversity
will 1nally carry our national Soons However.
one agreeable result OF the oogitations OF the Sen.
ators and members during their summer recreations
Is found In tue unanimity with which they regard
fsyorably the PROJECT for modifying or abolishing
the odious income tax. There really seems to he q
probability that this Onerous burden viii be
removed from the backs OF the people, and that a
measure Will be devised whereby the revenue
hitherto derived from that source may be gathered
In some other way not 80 distastefu TO the private
citizen.
Talking About National Affairs.
Though still nearly two months before the meet
ing Of Congress, people here are beginning to talk
about what will be done next session regarding the
principal subjects now occupying the public mind.
These are the Cuban, reconstruction tariff and
financial questions, all or which must come up for
discussion next session. and be settled way or
other. for the country Is thoroughly sick OF waiting
FOR their solution and demands that further delay
take place in disposing OF them, II not finally, at
least for respectable period. From Senators and
private or public business, it Is not easy gather
what course VIII be taken.
Another Great Earthgmalse in Sc. Thomas.
letter has been received in this city stating that
on the nth OF September the Island OF st. Thomas
was visited by an earthquake which occurred at ten
minutes before three O'Clock +. M, which shook the
city OF st. Thomas to lts foundations. The shocks
were so severe as TO materially injure many Of the
buildings, shatterng the walls OF the Spanish and
Union hotels and other large structure. which caused
general panic among the Inhabitants and the entire
suspension OF business. The day had been exces
sively hot. without the slightest breeze the ,ther
mOmeter indicating ninety-two degress, the barome-
ter thirty degrees, indicating fair weather. In the
interval between the first shock and eleven O'Clock
r. M. nine distinct shocks occurred producing wide
spread terror and dismay. The writer concludes by
sayng:-"l had experienced many severe shocks,
but nothing to compare with those Of yesterday.
There been nothing like it since the great earth
quake OF 1861"
The Whislkey Seizures at San Francisco.
The Commissioner OF Internal Revenue received
yesterday number OF gentlemen representing the
commercial and shipping interests Of New York and
san Francisco who waited upon him for the pur-
pose Of protesting against the recent ndiscrmnate
seizures OF whiskey at San Francisco by the local
internal revenue officers at that place. Mr.. DeanO,
appIeciatlng the importance Of the subject pre-
sented to him as Affecting the commercial interests
OF the two great markets OF the Pacific and Atlantic
seaDoard, unhesitatingy assented TO full nvestga
ton the part of himself and the solicitor Of the
bureau as the solicitor, W. II. Smith, shall
return from Ohio. The owners of the whlskey now
under seizure at San Francisco seem to
be confident OF their ability to prove that
they have complied with all the require
ments OF law. and attribute its seizure to q
misapprehension Of the recent instructions OF the
Commissioner by the internal revenue oflcer at that
place. The officers at San Francisco in their recent
reports claim to have established by analysis the
presence OF sugar and cooring matter in the whskeY
seized and therefore 1t is not the pure Bourbon pro-
duction OF Kentucky as represented, but Is fraud
whiskey and liable to forfeiture. II such opinion
is sustained the gentlemen who called upon the Com
missioner yesterday claim thot whiskey in any
warehouse in the country is exempt from seizure,
and that, therefore not little excitement may be
produced among the revenue officers and whiskey
men In the principal markets like Philadelphia,
New York. Cincinnati and Boston. AS the seizures
already made OF San Francisco aggregate value OF
about 81 600 600, and may continue TO the pre- ven-
ton OF oil shipments to tht port the subject assumes
a commercial importance to the country.