The true northerner., 1871-09-08
Washington.

THE Secretary of the Treasury recon-
mends, in a letter to the Secretary of State,
based upon official dispatches to Minister
| Low, that there be no intervention by the
! United States as to repairing light houses
| on the China coast, he being of the opinion
| that the Chinese Government will, in time,
| fulfil its obligations in this respect.....T The
Secretary of the Treasury says that S20,O00,
900 Of the $54 900 900 additional currency
authorized for National Banks in the West
and South have been taken up. OF this sum
the West has taken nearly four tifths......T The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue has de-
cided not to allow the claim made by the
Bank of Kentucky for the refunding of taxes
paid. The claim for the refunding was on
the ground that the State owned q large
amount of stock in the bank.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
decides that the revenue law will not reach
the case of cigar dealers who use imitation
imported stamps upon boxes of domestic
| cigars. He says that unless importers re-
| ceive protection from the codrts nothing can
Ue done without additional legislation by
Congress-. The Poundmaster of Washing
! ton, on the 25 ult., captured three horses
roaming in an adj accent street to the Execu-
tive Mansion, and, after they were driven to
the pound, it was discovered that they be-
longed to President Grant. An application
| for their release was made Immediately, but
| the Poundmaster declined TO do so until the
| legal fees 50 for each horse, should be paid.
| The money was produced, and the animals
turned over to the hostler, who returned
! them to the White House lOt.....It has been
the opinion of Treasury officials for some
! time past that the rapid and continued in
crease of claimants on the pension lists after
the war had so long terminated was some
what irregular. Investigations have been
made from time to time, but these have only
! developed isolated cases OF fraud, in most of
| which the offenders have been brought to
! justice. Detectives in the service of the
| Treasury Department now profess to have
! got on the track of information which, when
thoroughly sifted will open up wide field
Of fraud in this branch of the public service.
1t is asserted that combinations exist, ex-
tending throughout the large cities, espe
cially in the Southern States, which have
made a regular business of working up
fraudulent claiGs of colored claimants who
never had an existence except in the imag
nations of the swindlers.
THE War Department has no advices of the
death of Gen. Crook by Indians, in Arizona,
and places no faith in the rumor.."An ex-
animation of the population tables of the
census, just issued, shows that there are Chi
nese residents in twentyfour States, and
seven out of eight organized Territories. The
entire Chinese population is about $4,000, of
| whom all but about 600 are found in the
Pacific States and mining Territories......
Preparations for an early issue of the bien-
nial register of the government, or blue
! book" are now being made at the Interior
Department, and already the various gov
| ernment Off cials have been directed to for
ward the necessary information for it.
THE State Department at Washington has
received dispatches from Captain Hall, of
the Arctic exploring expedition, announcing
his safe arrival in Greenland. His ship, the
Polaris, proves admirably adapted to the
purposes in which she is engaged and both
! captain and crew are confident of the ulti-
mate success of their expedition The
| State Department at Washington reports
that there has been greater demand for
| passports on the part of Americans desiring
to go abroad than ever before in the history
of the government.."..Th Postoffce Depart
ment has issued pamphlet inviting pro-
posals for carrying the mails on a large num-
| Der of routes in the South on which the ac-
cepted bidders have failed to execute the
contracts or perform the service, and which
are now to be relet at the expense of said
! failing bidders or contractors ..... The sub
scriptions of the national banks to the gov
ernment new loan are stated at over $780,
| 600 900. The whole loan is therefore taken
here and in Europe. Par in gold is bid for
the bonds here, and there are none Offering
Foreign.