Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-21

Increase over crop Of ls67-6S-.--........ 63,699
Increase over crop Of lS8g-7 --....-..-.l,l626
The Assistant Treasurer, in reply to in
quiries made by the cashier of a bank at
baltimore, has written a letter in which
he states that the Department does not
desire the continuation in circulation of
mutilated notes, but, on the contrary,
that it has endeavOred by the extension
OF liberal facilities for their redemption,
to secure their withdrawal from circulA-
tiOn. 1t is the wish of the Government,
he says, to keep the circulation of the
country in as good condition as possible
at all times, as a means of protecting the
United States and the people of the
country nom fraud.
The records Of the Treasury Department
show that during the year ending June
80, 1870, the number Of emigrsnts landed
in this Eountry was SS7, O97 OF which
235,55I were males and Isl $40 females;
1900 came from Germany, $500 from
Great Britain. $1,000 from Ireland, q
14.OOO from China.
1t appears from official statistics that Of
the total imports into the United States
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1870,
$4I5, S47, 2l3 worth were dutisble, and 49,
sos, $50 free of duty; S26S, 4Sl IA worth
were entered for consumption, and $780,
ST4, $50 were entered for warehouse. For
4eign vessels carried nearly o. per cent. Of
b whole imports in 1859, and 81 per cent.
an 1870. OF the total exports, IS per cent.
IN 1863, and 62 per cent. In 1870, and Of the
whole, 81 psr cent. in 1853, and 641z per
cent. in 1870.
Acting Commissioner Douglass has been
informed that some tobacco dealers in the
various large cities are in the habit Of
selling to their customers small qusntl-
ties Of cavendish or plug tobacco, and,
having received pay therefor, cutting it
up with q hard cutting-machine without
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per pound, and that other parties
complain Of this practice as injurious
to their trade and damaging TO b reYe-
nue.. Several dealers have inquired OF the
Commissioner if it is allowable to cut
tobacco in this manner, after selling II,
without sfiXing the proper stamp. Com
missioner Douglass, in reply, says: That
under the law every kind Of manipu-
lstiSa of tobacco, Nhether OF b raw leaf
or manufactured or partially msnufac-
Ganed tobacco, of scraps, waste dripPings,
stems or deposits OF tobacco, resulting
from any process Of handling by which
the character and condition Of the tobae-
&C is changed, and the same prepared for
use or consumption, Is q process OF man
ufaeture, and the person who makes a
business OF doing this is declared to be q
manufacturer of tobacco. The manufac-
turer can sell in original stamped pack
ages only. he must sell the article Just as
il is packed, worked, branded, labeled,
and stamped, otherwise he commits q
fraud. A retail dealer is allowed
TO break wooden packages and re-
tail therefrom, but he is not allowed
20 change the character or condition
of the article by any process OF manipula-
tioB, but cutting, pressing, grinding,
crushing, rubbing, or otherwise preparing
IL, either before or after selling. He fur
Their says the dealer in manufactured
plug tobacco cannot be allowed 10 cut his
plug chewing tobacco into smoking to
b&eco, nor the leaf dealer reduce raw or
leaf tobacco, etc, into cut or granulAted
smoking tobacco, without becoming liable
as manufacturer. The purchaser or con-
sumner may use a cutting machine or
other instruments for reducing his plug
or other descriptions Of tobacco into a
condition 70 be consumed, but q dealer
cannot make q business of manufacturing
manufactured or unmanufactured tobac-
90, either before or after sale. without be-
coming liable.
The production of whisky in ths United
States has grown to enormous proportions
during the last ten years. A very consid-
cradle proportion Of this growth is due TO
the extreme duties levied upon foreign
spirits, the consumption Of which has
thereby been, to q great extent, supsrsS-
dei by native whisky. During the late
war, and for three or four years subse-
auently, there was an immense trsfte In