Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-26

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WASHINGTON.
President to Return Sept 1.
Eg-7e Hi -C1- EraL u
Our Model Maritime Policy
More Law in North Carolina
Isu -.- g1a sFr
WHSeWard in San Francisco
Prospect of Peace for Cuba
- 01
NegOtiatiOnSwith theCilinese
NegOtlatIOnSWith theChineSe
WASHINGTON.
Mutations in the Navy.

WASHINGTON, Aug 25-Secretary Robe
son telegraphs that he will be here to NOR
row morning. It is understood that soon
after his arrival Vice Admiral Porter will
be promoted TO Admiral, Rear Admiral
Goldsborouoh TO Vice Admiral, and Com
uodore jenkins to Rear Admiral.
Vice Admiral Porter has been appoin ted
Admiral Received his commission dated
20th inst.
Customs, COunterfeits and COnsci.
ence Money. --... r
The custom receipts for last week were
81, 54S, ,799. t
New counterfeits of 20's on the Shoe and
Leather National Bank, Of New York, have
reached the Treasury Department.
1t is said Treasurer Spinner received
to-day from st Louis draft on New York
for 1926 As, conscience money.
Our Rowing President
1t is understood here the President returns
to this city after Sept for day or two,
when cabinet meeting will be held. The
President will visit West Point Saturday
next, remaining few days
Secretary Robeson has returned.
Ordered 60 the Mediterranean.
The United States steamers Shenandoah,
Guerre and Brooklyn are all under orders
for the Mediterranean squadron, and are
expected to leave in a week or ten days.
The SAN Domingo Treaty-Opposi.
ti0n TO Annexation.
News from San Domingo received here
states that the enemies of the annexation
treaty under Baez are apprehensive that
heavy and stimulated attempts are being
20 fhr,r,rxh or,Okhae Al
are actively engaged in creating opposition
throughout the island. 1t is stated that
large number Of documents have been re-
ceiyed in this city by the agent of the op-
position party. and by others, which will
be employed in contesting any fresh at
tempt at annexation.
of Foreign Vessels.
Under the act to regulate the foreign and
coasting trade Of the northern, eastern and
northwestern frontiers of the United States,
which went into effect July 1, 1870, dis
elimination is made in the entrance and
clearance fees in favor of foreign vessels
Under the old law the fees were the same
for foreign as for American vessels, but the
new act explicitly enumerates the fees that
shall be collected from masters of vessels
enrolled or licensed in the lake trade, but
does not provide that the increase made
shall apply to foreign vessels also. Hence
American vessels of fifty tons or under, en-
tering from or clearing for foreign port,
are required to pay fee of one dollar and
fifty cents, while foreign vessels of this ton
mage are permitted to enter and clear for
fifty cents. Our vessels of over fifty tons,
on entering from or clearing for a foreign
port, have to pay fee of two dollars and
fifty cents, and foreign vessels are taxed
only one dollar. When the bill was
under consideration, the attention
of Senator Chandler, Chairman of
the Committee on Commerce, was called
TO the discrimination made, and he prom
ised that it should be corrected. The bill,
however, passed as it stood when the in
justice of its provisions was pointed out.
Perhaps no place has felt the effects more
seriously than Detroit, and it was the sub
ject of communication from the United
States Consul at Sarnia to the State Depart
ment. At one or two ports, it appears that
Collectors have exacted the same fees from
foreign as from our own vessels, and now
the Solicitor of the Treasury is appealed to
for his views on the legality of the acts of
these Collectors Whatever may have
been the intention of Congress in passing
the law, it is evident that the Commissioner
Of Customs was fully aware of its discrim-
mating provisions before it passed, and,
while it stands on tho statute books as it
is. he does not dispute the right of foreign
vessels to enter and clear on the payment
of the fees provided for in the act of 1866.
Democratic Congressional Commit
tee.
The Democratic Congressional Commit
tee is issuing its campaign documents rap
idly. Thus far fifteen have been printed,
and quantities of each are made daily. The
principal subjects treated of are the tariff,
railroad land grants, expenditures of the
Government, condition of the debt, the
naturalization laws, and Congressional in
vestigations.
Printing Grecnbacks Delayed.
The printing of the greenback and postal
currency will be delayed several weeks by
the burning of the bank nete establishment
in New York as one face of all the notes
were printed there and the finishing done
here. A large number of persons will be
thrown out of employment at the Treasury
on this account.
Pensions to Soldiers in Asylums.
Oous DuIaoE uaS ulhue hpIhlCdLlOu 70 Inc
Pension Office for all pensions due SOL
diers in the national asylumS. He claims
that under the law, he, as President of the
Board of Directors of these asylums, is en-
titled to receive all sucE moneys. The
Commissioner, however, refused to remit
to Butler on the ground that the law for
bids the payment of pensions to any sec
ond parties whatever. The Comptroller
sustains the Commissioner, and has re-
ferred the question to the Attorney Gen
eral
The Collection of the Revenue.
The Treasury Department has just COM
pleted statement which shows the steady
increase in the collection of the internal
revenue during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1870, over the preceding fiscal year. The
table for the principal articles is as follows: