Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-02

The fact that but few ballots were cast q
the municipal election in Paris, 10 attributed
to the continuance Of the state of siege.
Counterfeit twenties on the United States
National Bank, Of Washington, were put in
circulation in New York Monday evening.
1t is stated that most of the prominent
merchants of New York, including several
democrats, have signed cali for an anti
Tammany demonstration.
Two of the commissioners under the Treaty
of Washington have been appointed-Mr.
Quincy, Recorder of the city Of London, by
the British Government, and Judge Frazer
of Indiana, by our Government. The third
commissioner is to be appointed by the United
States and Her Majesty conformity. The
commissioners are to meet at the earliest
convenient period after they have been re-
spectively named, to exame and decide all
such claims as shall be laid before them on
the part of the governments of the United
States and Great Britain. None Of the arbi-
traitors to meet at Geneva have yet been
named.
A terrible thunder shower passed over
Haverhill Monday afternoon. As near as
can be ascet tained, no less than four houses
were struck by lightning, and several per-
sons have been severely injured. The house
of Mr.. T. Huse in Cottage street seems to
have been struck first and set on fire in the
attic. This was soon put out. The barn of
Mr. J. N, Kimball on Pecker's Hill was
struck about the same time, and two valuable
horses and large lot of hay destroyed. One
house on Essex street, owned by W. s.
Batchelder, was struck, and Mrs. Bathelder
was somewhat injured. The lightning struck
several houses at Ayers Village, and one in
Methuen.
Mr.. John Porteous, freight agent at Port
land of the Grand Trunk Railroad, and gen.
eral receiving and shipping agent for provin-
cial goods by vessels and steamers in con-
nection with the Grand Trunk, received
Monday the following decision from Secre-
tary Boutwell, relative to the duties on salmon
ana codnsh under the recent treaty -
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON, July 81, 1871.
SIR:-Mr. John Porteous has appealed
from your decision assessing duty at the rate
of three dollars per barrel on certain salmon,
at the rate Of thirty per centum ad valorem
on certain pressed salmon, and at the rate of
half cent per pound on certain Goldfish,
imported by him into your port from Halifax,
Canada, and claims that such fish are entitled
to free entry as the products of the fisheries
of the Dominion Of Canada under the provi-
sions of the treaty between the United States
and Great Britain, concluded at Washington,
May 8, 1871, and since ratified by the two
countries. Upon an examination of the said
treaty, it appears that the provisions thereof,
article 81, which allow the importation into
the United States, free of duty. Of fish-oil and
fish of all kinds, except fish of the inland
lakes and OF the rivers falling into them, and
except fish preserved in oil, being the produce
of the fisheries of the Dominion of Canada or
of the Prince Edward Island, do not by the
tenor of article 80 thereof take effect until the
laws required to carry them into operation
have been duly enacted by the Congress of
the United States. Such laws have not yet
been enacted and the provisions of the treaty
referred to are consequently not in force.
Your decision, therefore, in assessing duties
on the said fish is hereby affirmed.
lam, very respectfully,
(Signed) GEORGE s. BOUTWELL,, Secy.
Hon. I. Washburne, Jr., Collector of Gus
toms, Portland.