Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-11-30

Court until relievedsby the Chief Justice
In February. The Marshal of the Court,
Col. Parsons, who has been several months |
In Europe, viii probably arrive here this !
week. --s.
Greenbacks for Customs.
1t is learned that early in the session of |
congress, prominent Western Senator
viii ltroduce bill allowing the import
duties and taxes arising from customs to |
be paid in United States currency, instead |
OF gold, as is at present required.
still HarPing on Domingo. II
II is positively asserted that the San
Domingo treaty will be somewhat modi- |
fled and sent into the Senate again this |
winter. -..-.--,. Cd, b
Considering that less than week will !
elspse before the assembling of Congress, |
there are fewer Senators and Representa- |
tiVes in the city than is usual at this
time.
Promising. i
The measures for the consolidation of |
{ the Internal Revenue Department now |
going on, will relieve the country of the
services of about one hundred and sixty |
assessors and collectors, besides many |
minor officers Since October l, The |
number of assistant assessors dispensed |
with are 419, and by the first of January |
will reach 600. The expense of collect- /
ing revenue, which has reached eight |
million dollars per anuum will, by this |
means, probably be reduced to six million |
per annum.
The English mtssiOn-The Coming |
Man.
The subject of the Alabama claims and |
who viii be Motley's successor as Ameh-
can Minister to England, are regarded as |
the principal points of interest 10 connec- |
ton with the foreign policy, which the |
administration will recommend 10 Con- |
gress, at the commencement of the /
present session. After the Senate re
assemblies the President will nominate a |
new Minister TO England, and he will be |
man who will faithfully reflect the |
sentiments of the administration upon |
that question. 1t is believed that the |
position which the President assumes on
the great point at issue between the |
United States and Great Britain is quite
in accordance with the universal senti-
ment of the people of thisi country that
ample PREPARATION will be required for the
injury inflicted on our commerce during
the rebellion.
The Vacancies.
The President states that he had DO in
tention of nominating successors to the
vacancies in the Internal Revenue and 1
Patent Bureaus until after the assembling
of Congress. He does not expect that a
Minister to England will be appointed
until at least the middle of December,
thereby giving the inference that no one
had yet been rendered that position. Lat
est rumors connect thS name of Senator
Williams, of Oregon, with the English
mission.
The FrankIng Privilege.
The forthcoming report of the Post
office Department will contain an earnest
appeal, sustained by formidable array
of facts and fgues, to Congress for re-
peal of the law for the abolition of the
Thanking privilege. With its abolition,
the Department is of opinion that the
postal service can be made self-support-
ing For the last fiscal year the expendi-
lures have exceeded their receipts by over
seven millions of dollars.
Sometime since the Postoffice Depart
ment made q proposition to the British /
Post Department for postal money or
der system between the two countries |
similar to that made between this country /
and Switzerland, which has been found |
~ work admirably, and which was sub
sequently adopted between Switzerland |
and Great Britain and Great Britain and |
Bremen The English department has /
signifed its hearty concurrence in the plan,
and few days ago the draft of conven-
ton and detailed regulations were sent out |
for its approval
Prussia i'm the West Indies.
II is positively asserted here that the |
rumor telegrsphed several days ago is |
true, that negotiations are in progress in |
Berlin for the establishment of a coaling |
station on the Island of San Domingo. !
The Prussian Minister here says he knows |
&C no such arrangement, and is inclined |
to doubt it. Parties interested in the San |
Domingo annexation scheme says that it |
Is nevertheless true. This gives both |
sides of the story.
wines Manufactured from Wild |
Grapes.
Acting Commissioner Douglas has de- |
cided that parties who manufacture wines |
from wild grapes are not liable to any
tax therefor. This is question of con-
siderable interest to persons in many
parts of the country, especially in the
South, where the wild grapes grow
abundantly, and where large quantities |
of wine have been made from them here
tofore.
Foreign LabOrers for the south.
Mr. Edward Young, Chief of the Blu
reau of Statistics, who attended the I'm
migration Convention at Indianapolis, has
returned here highly elated with the pros
pect of carrying out a better system of
distributin the new laborers in Southern
States. In this connection it may be
stated that the Swiss government has al
ready designated special consul for the
South, whose Office will probably be at
Nashville, Tenn, and whose duty it viii
be to see that the large number of Swiss
Immigrants now locating in Southern
States are not imposed upon in their bus
mess transactions.
"Reminiscences of the slave Trade
The Wanderers Cargo.
A peculiar case, concerning the restO-
ration of recaptured Africans to their ma
tive country, is soon to be brought before
the United States Government for action.
Many persons will remember the excite
ment caused through the country in 1859,
during the administration of President
Buchanan, by the capture of the SLAYER
Wanderer, and the kidnapping of the re-
captives on board, at Savannah, Ga. The
Wanderer had been overhauled and cap
tured by United vessel of war cruising
off Cuba. When boarded the Africans
were found to be in such condition that
IL was necessary to run the vessel into the
first port that could be made. Though
fearful of the result, the commander of
the cruiser put into Savannah. President
buchanan was anxious to have ths vessel
brought at once to some Northern port
Before this could be effected, lawless
gang boarded the SLAYER at night, brought
out the negroes, and run them of TO-
wards the Gulf, distributing them In
the country, so that future efforts TO
recover them proved unavailing. About
two years since Rev. A. d. Phillips, a
missionary of the Southern Baptist Con-
YentiOn, in Yoruba, in Central Africa,