The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-07
WASHINGTON
westneid z Disasrer.

| WASHINGTON, August 6.-The inves
! tigation into the West6eld disaster, now
in progress in New York. is creating
great discussion here. The Treasury
Department feels much interest in the
matter, and will undoubtedly bring the
steam boat inspector to punishment il
any blame attaches to him. One In
spector who has been in the service 10,
thirty years writes to the department
that he does not believe that the hydro.
static test is one that is at all conducive
to safety. .-... ...
The Edria Mining Company.
1t turns out that the new Edria
Mining Company, which has been the
opponent of McGarrahan in his claim
before Congress, cannot perfect their
title to the mining claim on which they
have squatted, because foreigners. the
Messrs. Barrons, Englishmen, are the
principal stockholders in the company.
These Barrons have q controlling inter
est in the great Pacific coast monied
monopoly the Bank Of California, so
that virtually foreigners control the
whole monied interest Of the entire
Pacific coast The new territorial gov
ernment will probably now arrange for
the loan OF 81 100000 about which no
questions OF law can be raised. and
then turn the popular vote as to increas.
ing the Indebtedness. The granting OF
the injunction against the negotiation
OF the 100000 loan meets with no
popular favor, and it is evident that a
popular vote would allow an increase OF
the loan
Commissioners PicasantOn.
The statement that the President
had asked for General Pleasanton's
resignation when he was here on Tues
day, is pronounced, on the best author
ity, as simply ridiculous, and the words
nut in the mouth Of Gener Babcock
by the Saratoga correspondent Of New
York paper are emphatically denied.
Treasury Balances.
The following were the Treasury bal
ances at the close Of business to-day
Currency, SC, 800, 900; coin, $50, $4,000,
of which sl960l 900 were in coin GER
tiicates.
Smoking Tobacco Seized.
The Internal Revenue Bureau has
discovered that large quantities of
smoking tobacco manufactured in and
around Durham, in North Carolina, is
evading the tax by being tamped in
the sixteen cent class, when they really
belong in the thirty-two cent class.
Orders have been issued in accordance,
and it is understood that large quaint.
ties hava been seized.
Secretary Robeson has goae out Of
town, and will remain away until
Wednesday.
Judge Wylie has decided that parties
sueiug for an injunction against the
loan of four million dollars to the Dis
trict OF Columbia, must give bonds to
meet any damages consequent upon
granting the injunction. The amount
Of the bond to be given Is vet to be
named, but will be probably a mIllioo
dollars.
Steamboat Boiler Explosions.
A record Of the steamboat boiler ex-
plosions, kept in the office OF the Board
Of Supervising Inspectors, in the Treas
ury Department, shows that there were
more lives lost by the Westfield disaster
than by all the steamboat explosions
which have occurred in either OF two
past years. In 1869 there were fifty
seven lives lost by explosions on steam
ers of all characters, including river,
lake and ocean craft, and in 1870 the
number was but ffty-four, Of which
thirty-three were passengers and twenty
one crew.
Important Question.
A question has arisen whether for
eign goods can be landed in the United
States, on the northern frontier, at
places where there is no custom house
officer to make inspection. 1t is thought
that this would be contrary to law and
render the goods liable to seizure. The
Secretary Of the Treasury will decide
the question to-day.