Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-09
TELEG RAPHIC.
WASHIN GTON.
French Republic Recognized
Grant at Home for a Day
Catastrophe at Long Branch
WASHINGTON.

had instructed Secretary Fish TO issue 6
proclamation rec OgniZing the Republic OF
France, is without foundation; not only
was it not the case but such action would
be unnecessary and irregular.
The French Minister has received
q dispatch from Jules Favre, announc-
ing the establishment of Republic in
France, and requesting NJ. Bertheny to
present the fact to the United States Gov
ernment. Instructions have been sent
TO our Minister in Paris to recognize the
new government when it shall have been
definitely ascertained that Republic ex-
lists.
Intelligence has been received here of
the acceptance by nearly all the towns
and cities of France of the new state of
affairs and it is now quite certain that
within a week the republic of France will
be established by almost unanimous con
sent of the French people. 1t is ascer-
tanned that the present French Embassy
will shortly be replaced, but as yet no ap-
pointments have been made.
Great regret is expressed here at the
fact, if it be such, that England should
have been allowed to recognize che new
government of France before the United
States.
A wonderful change in public senti-
ment has taken place, and many of those
who were opposed to Napoleon now
strongly sympathize with France.
The New French Government RecoR.
nized.
WASHINGTON, Sept. S-Under instruc-
tiOns from the Government of the United
States, Minister Washburne yesterday
recognized the new government in France
and rendered the congratulations of the
President at the establishment of a Re-
public.
Address of Democratic COngressiOn.
al Committee.
II is understood here that the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee will soon
issue an address to he Democrats of the
country regarding the situation of France.
1t is to set forth that the Republican party
have been opposed to France, and all coed
Democrats and lovers of liberty should
hail with delight the manifestation of free
principles by the people of France, and
aid in their projects in other countries.
Fruit StiIers.
Deputy Commissioner Given, of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, is preparing a
circular giving additional instructions for
estimating the capacity of fruit stillers,
which is based on experiments made with
in few weeks past. Much latitude has
been allowed this class of distillers on ac-
count of the imperfect knowledge of the
methods of distillation, and the instruc-
lions being prepared are desIgued to re-
strict the officers within certain rules
Hard Times with Treasury Clerks.
It seems that the duns have become a
nuisance around the Office of the Third
Auditor of the Treasury. The clerks who
run up bills they can't pay, and are pes
tered by their creditors, have recently
been bothered more than ever, at home
and abroad, at their dinner tables and at
their desks in the bureau of Gen. Allan
Rutherford. The latter, finding his sub
Ordinates giving rather more of their time
TO the discussion of money matters with
their creditors than compOIts with Uncle
Sans I'M lerests, has issued an order for
bidding future invasion by the army of
duns, and directing his subordinates to at
tend to all such little matters outside the
department.
Sales of Bitters and Nc dicaI Pre-
paraIiOns.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that bitters put Up as medi-
cines, or medicinal preparations, and
stamped according TO retail price or value,
as provided in schedule G, may be sold
under a dealers or apothecary's special
tax receipts, and that for these sales it is
unnecessary to obtain liquor dealers re-
ceipt. Applications for reimbursement of
sums paid heretofore, under different
rulings, cannot be entertained by the bu-
reau.
A MuddIe About UnexPended Bal
ances.
Assistant Comptroller Tolbert has given
a decision which will allow all work on
public buildings, for which appropriations
have been made, to go on, notwithstand-
ing the law concerning uneXpended bal
ances. He holds that appropriations for
such work are specific in their character,
and do not expire with the fiscal year.
This decision relieves the Lighthouse
Board and the Supervising Architect of
the Treasury from all embarrassment |
which had arisen from the previous con-
structiOn of the law relating TO balances |
given by the COmpuollers, and work late
" suspended in various sections of the |
country will be resumed.
First Comptroller Taylor has made a
direct issue with Acting Attorney General |
Tolhcrt in relation 10 the disposal of un-
expected balances of appropriations. |
Comptroller Taylor announces, in letter
to the acting Secretary of the Treasury,
that he will not regard the opinion of Mr..
Tolbert, but will cOnstrue the law as ap-
plying to balances for specific appropria-
tions as well as to those of general char
acter. He says that the opinion of Mr.
TOlbert is in direct conflict with the plain
and positive provisions of the lsw-pro-
visions so pain and positive that the
Comptroller permitting their evasion
would be grossly dereliCt in duty; that Mr.. |
Tolbert assumes to act as Attorney Gen
eral without the authority of law, ard |
that under the provisions of the act crea-
ting the Department of Justice Mr.. Tol- |
bert's opinion is void until approved by
Attorney General Alderman, which will, he
thinks, hardly be done, as it reverses his
own opinion addressed TO the Secretary of |
War on the same subject. AS the grants
cannot be paid unless countersigned by
the Comptroller, of course it would be
useless to continue any york and expect |
it TO be paid for out Of the uneXpended |
balances. One effect of the law govern |
ing unexpended balances, as defined by |
Attorney General Akerman, is reported |
by the engineer in charge of the light
House at st. CLAIR flats, in Lake Michigan,
at NoTth-end cut. Work had to be stopped |
at the most advantageous time and the |
structure left in unfinished condition,
while the amount of the appropriation |
was ample to have carried on the work
some time. Il is this class of appropria-
tons that were specially referred to by
the acting Attorney General in his recent
opinion, which he considers Congress new |
er intended to embarrass by its enactment.
Our EPhemeraI Prcsident-ProsPect
of IA Cabinet Meeting.
Acting Secretary of the Treasury Rich
ardsOn is now acting as Attorney General.
The President is here There will be a |
Cabinet rneptiDU N oftnr which |