New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-25
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spotted Tail and the Indian POIicy-The
President Gone AgRin-A Veteran Clerk
Dead-WOrsted Goods Allowed Benefit
of Reduction of Duty-Thanks for SER
vices Rendered-New Distilled Spirits
RegulatiOn-NewF French NIinister-Ap-
pOintments by the President-Internnl
Revenue Supervisors Retained.
WASHINGTON, July 24.-SpOtted Tail
| with his braves interviewed the President
| to-day. The usual friendly overtures were
made on both sides. Spotted Tail ex-
pressed his desire for the Presidents re-
| election, to which the latter responded:
Whatever may be the result of the cleo
| ton, l hope there will be no change in the
Indian policy"
The President, General Porter and Secre-
| tary Fish left Washington tonight. Bout
well goes later in the week.
Several agents for Indian tribes we're re-
! moved and others appointed in their places
! to-day.
John Potts, for thirty-six years clerk and
for over thirteen years chief clerk of the
War Department, died this morning. The
Secretary announces the death in general
| orders, and pays the deceased a high
| tribute for uprightness and integrity. He
was well known throughout the entire
| country.
A treasury circular says that the question
has been presented to the Treasury Depart
ment, whether under the second section of
the act approved June 6, 1872, which pro-
vides for ten per cent reduction of the duty
on all manufactures of wool or hair, if al,
| paca, and other like wOrsted goods are to be.
entitled to this reduction. The department
decision is to consider, for the purpose of
this act wOrsted goods as manufactures of
wool, to allow wOrsted goods the benefit of
said reduction. This infOrmatiOn is officially
communicated to collectors of customs in
,ft Iyy kl,,
benefit of the numerous importers who Lave
applied.tO the department tor its decision in
regard thereto.
Minister Thornton has sent to the Secre-
tarY of State, at the request of the Cover
nor General of Canada, a letter conveying
the thanks of the government of the dOmn-
ion for the valuable and friendly assistance
rendered by the United States revenue cut
ter NansemOnd to the British ship Wimble-
ton, which was stranded on a sand-bar in
Dobay harbor., The Wimbledon was pro
ceeding to sea from Savannah when she be-
came stranded, and laid for some time in a
critical condition.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
signed the new regulations in relation to
the manufacture, sale and expectation of
distilled spirits to-day. Distilled spirits in
bonded warehouses, August !, may be
withdrawn on payment of tax of fifty
cents a gallon, the barrel and per diem
taxes accruing before that date to be paid
as usual. Distilled spirits may be with
drawn from bonded warehouses for export
on giving transportation bond to the inter
nal revenue collector of the district in
which the distillery is situated for trans
pOrtatiOn to the port from whence it is to
be shipped, and on executing export bond
to the collector of the port, both
bonds to be Cancelled only on the
production of landing certificate, and tax
1, i l.,
the quantity entered in warehouse and the
quantity exported. Distilled spirits, on
which tax has been paid, may be exported
for drawback on giving bonds to the col
lector of customs, to be Cancelled only on
the production Oflanding certificate. Liquor
dealers and rectitiers are to keep the same
books and make the same returns as before.
Stand casks to be allowed, with the usual
restrictions. Imitation champagne, not
made directly from grapes not grown in the
United States, is subjected to a tax of twenty
cents a quart; if made by infusng
carbOnic acid gas into wine made from
grapes grown in the Uuted States is not
exempt. Compound liquors sold as wine
or a substitute therefor, to pay twenty
cents quart; this does not include black
berry brandy, cOrdials etc. The tax on
distilled spirits destroyed by unavoidable
accident when in warehouse since January
/, 1868, will be remitted or refunded.
Brandy distilled from fruit is subject to the
same regulations as. heretofore, and fruit
dstilleTs are liable to no other charge
than the tax of seventy cents gallon. All
locks for distilleries are to be supplied from
the Internal Revenue office at the expense
of the United States. The regulations also
contain explicit directions for making sur
veys OF dlstilleries under the new act, and
for calculating deficiency in assessments.
The new French Minister, NJ. de Mailles,
presented his credentials to the President
to-day The usual diplomatic speeches
were made.
The President made large number of
appointments to-day, among them Jack
PrOudft, of Wisconsin, Surveyor General OF
New Mexico; D. Wilson, postmaster at 20
lumbus, Texas; William L. Scruggs, assessor
of internal revenue for the fourth Georgia
district, and John Tyler, Jr., for Florida:
Richard Beardsley has been appointed
Consul General at Alexandria, Egypt, vice
Butler. suspended; Samuel W. DabRey,
consul at FayaI: James White, of Illinois,
Minister Resident, Argentine Confederation.
Under the new law, by which the num-
Der of internal revenue supervisors is re-
duced from twenty-five to ten, the follow
ing are retained: Alexander ?. Fulton, for
Pennsylvania, New jersey, Delaware,
Maryland and the District Of Columbia; r.
w. Perry, tor Virginia, West Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida; G. w Emery, for Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana;
X. r. Cobb, for Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas
and Texas.
The Marquis De Noailles was to day in
troduced to the President by the Secretary
OF State, and delivered his credentials as
Minister Plenipotentiary OF the French
republic. The following IS a translation of
the remarks which be Zaade on the Occa-
sion
Mr.. President present myself to your
excelIency as minister of France. have
deep sense of the honor which | have re
ceived in being called to represent the
French republic near that of the United
States of America, and itshall be my aim
to prove myself not unworthy of this mis-
sion, 1 shall, however, only have to pur'