The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-19
FIFTH EDITIU N
THE LATEST NEWS.
Turkey and the United States.
Report of the Mixed Commission.
The Floods in the South.
Gloomy Prospects for Crops.
Gloomy Prospects for Crops.
FROM WASHINGTON.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. |

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Exclusively to The Evening Telegraph.
WASHINGTON, June 10.
subscriptions to the New Loan
to-day $104, 4,0oO
1t is expected at the Treasury Department
that the amount of tax due from the
New York Central Railroad,
under the recent decision of Commissioner
Pleasanton, will be paid without unnecessary
delay.
Turkish Sanitary Dues.
The Secretary of State has transmitted to the
Secretary of the Treasury letter from Baltazzi
Effendi, Charge d'Affaires of the Sublime Porte,
enclosing the report of the Mixed Commission
charged, more than two years ago, with the re-
vision of the tariff of sanitary dues in the Turk
ish empire. The new regulations went into
operation the 18th instant. Every vessel from
whatever country arriving at an Ottoman port
shall pay duty calculated on its tonnage, ac-
eording to the following rules
From one to five hundred tons, inclusive, %
paras, and from 500 tons upwards, 10 paras per
ton. In other words, every vessel pays % paras
for the first 500 tons and IL paras for the tons
in excess of 500. The following are exempted
from all sanitary dues except the pay ofguards;-
1. Vessels of war. g Vessels which have been
forced to put into port, provided they engage
in no commercial operations in the ports which
they have entered. 3. Fishing vessels.
The Southern Floods.
An official letter received at the Treasury De-
partment from Monroe, La, June 13, says:-
Excessive rains have fallen throughout North
Louisiana since the 18th day of April. Large
portions of the parishes bordering on the rivers
Mississippi Ouachita, Red and Black are under
water. Bridges and ferry-boats have been car
ried away. The plail routes have been sban-
doned, or if the mail-bags are carried through,
they are first opened and relieved of all official
packages. These are left in some stable or out
house to rot. Advices from Shreveport state
that nothing has been received from this Office
since May ID.
The prospect for
Cotton Crop
is exceedingly discouraging. Planters in the
swamps have been compelled to replant many
times. In many cases, the last planting having
failed, they have abandoned the enterprise. In
more favorable localities the stem is so indif-
ferent that
No More than Half a Crop
can be had. The prospect for corn is equally
unfavorable. The condition of the ground
has prevented the planter from working.
Weeds and grass have become deeply rooted,
and threaten the little corn standing The
general prospect ID gloomy.
Political Agitation
continues. The bitter feeling entertained by the
largest portions of the whites towards the blacks
and officers of the State government has become
intensified in this immediate vicinity by the
result of recent local election. At any time
within the last ten days conflict seemed un-
avoidable. Threats have been freely INDUCED.
Both parties are well supplied with arms and ap-
pear eager for the conflict. Bands of armed men
are reported to be ready and only waiting for
summons to begin the work of bloodshed. Law
yers DOCTORS merchants, planters, and officials
attend to their various occupations with re-
volvers lying within easy reach. Notwithstand-
ing all this trust the crisis is passed, but should
not be surprised if the difficulty eliminated in
bloodshed at any time.