The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-12
~ GENERAL.

The recent marked advance in the market
value of whisky has stimulated distilleT5 to
unusual efforts to remove the effects of pre-
vious violation of the internal revenue laws.
The commissioner is daily in receipt of pro-
positions and inquiries from distiIlers whose
liquor has been seized, and who are anxious to
find some way by which they can recover pos
session, while Others who gave bonds for ex-
port of their whisky, now want to know if
they can not have the privilege of paying the
tax on whisky and selling it in New York.
This request the acting commissioner declines
to grant, although, since the bonds were
given, whisky has advanced fifteen per cent.
Western men state that it is not matter
of surprise that hostile Indians are found, as
they have been recently supplied with the best
pattern of improved firearms. They state
that it ID the regular practice of traders at all
the military posts on the upper Missouri river
to sell rifles and ammunition to the Indians
under all circumstances and at a large profit.
They state that it can be proved beyond a
doubt that directly after the terrible massacre
in Dakota, two years ago, the Indians came
into the trading station it'll the blood on their
hands and clothes fresh from the murder of
women and children, and obtained from the
government agents large supplies of rifles and
ammunition.
A Washington dispatch says it is proposed
that a committee be constituted in New York,
to which officers of foreign governments shall
be accredited without Judicial powers, which
shall continue as a permanent committee of
inquiry into all cases of abuses on board emi-
grant ships, whose reports shall be a sufficient
warrant for the district courts of the United
States to proceed against all offenders.
There are counterfeits of the $500 legal
tender so good that it is said the whole issue
of a85, 600, 600 Will have to be called in and
new series issued.
"A Washington dispatch says the treasury
department has under consideration the ques-
ton of tie means whereby banks, now be-
Teved to be aiding gold conspirators can be
detected and punished. The comptroller Of
currency has made an examination of two sus-
pected banks in New York without any tangible
result. 1t is suggested that sudden count
ing Of the assets by department experts,
might throw more light upon the actual con-
dition of these banks.
Col. Garrick Mallory is the name Of the
man who attends to the weather while Genl
Myer is in Europe
Information has been received at the navy
department via Copenhagen. that the steamer
Juniata arrived at Holstenberg, Greenland,
on the 18th of July, having touched at Fisler-
nails and Sukkertappen, where no dogs could
be found Commander Braine, through Gov
Harssen, at Holsternberg, having procured
eighteen dogs and an abundance of seal skins
for the officers and men of the Tigress, she
sailed on the 18th for Disco, thence to Upper
Novik. Commander Braine has news from
Disco as late as the 10th of July, but there
was no tidings of the POlaris. Ice was re-
ported very heavy in OmeTakroid and above
the Upper Navik. The health Of the officers
and crew of the Juniata is excellent