The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-18
BY TEL EG RAP h.
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WASHING TON.
WASHINGTON, Sept. l5.
The Soya Scotia Wrecks.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10,
The Soya Scotia Wrecks.
The Secretary o. the Treasury order
ed the return of the cutter Levy Wood
bury from boston to the coast OF Nova
Scotia, to assist in saving the men oi
the vessels wrecked in the recent great
gale off that coast Captain Frank
Barr, commanding the cutter, In his
report to the Secretary says:
81 found % schooners ashore inside
Of La Bar Hsrbor and 6 on the beach
outside. Not being able to get into
the harbor l examined those outside.
Two were total wrecks. These vessels
had all been carried up above high
water and could only be relieved by
placing ways under them and launch
ing them. Finding myself unable to do
anything ior the vessel l turned my al
tentiop to the men, but found none left
on the Island, except those employed
IN wreckIpg. On the 9th inst, l arriv-
ed off Port Hastings. Cape Betron, and
received on board eighteen men. | then
PROCEEDED to Hawkersburgb. receiving
there fifteen men; thence to Port Mul>
grave, y. s, where | took on five more /;
thence proceeded to Gloucester where
landed fifteen OF the fishermen and
afterwards distributed the balance at
their homes
The California Elections.
Interested politicians here continue
to figure up the compile xion Of the new
California Legislature, with reference to
the selection OF United States Senator.
The general conclusion is that it will be
impossible to draw party linea with any
degree Of strictnes5 between Booth and
Casserly. 1t cannot as yet be said who
has the best show.
Governor Kellogg or Louisiana
Is now North with several OF his asso-
c;ate9 in the State government. Oae Of
the principal objects OF bis visit is said
to be to secure the aid of Hon. Thomas
Scott in certain large railroad eaterpri-
ses designed 70 promote the prosperity
and develop the resources OF Louisiana.
Revenue Decis.on.
A Georgia planter writing to the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue in
regard to his liability to pay q special
tax as q dealer in manu'sctured
tobacco, and for furnishing. with other
supplies manulactared tobacco to
hands empInyel By him in making q
crop on shares, tie Commissioner
replies that the Law does not impose this
tax upon every person who sells or
offers for sale, es in the case OF LIQUOR
dealers, but upon every person whose
business il is to sell or offer for saIe
man uiactured tobacco &c. That be
does not think that furnishing hands
with tobacco in tie manner and
under the circumstances named
By the writer, constitutes such a busl-
ness as the law contemplates in the inl-
position Of this tax, aud tEa: lie hes
70 hesitation in so cOnstrnIng the law
as to exempt from ereCial tax the
farmers or planters who furnish tobac-
co to their hands whom they employ to
make q crop on the shares as they
furnish them corn, bacon, shoes, or
other supplies, charging them with the
same on account, to he settled for at
the close OF the season and paid for ont
Of the crop proudced, but who never
sell for cash or sell 10 any other per-
son than to their own employees eugsgs
ed in making crop as Aforesaid. and
who never offer manufactured tobacco
Tor sale or advertise or hold themselves
out to the public, in any manner, as
dealers in or having manufactured to-
bscco for sa.e.
yhe PaWncS.
A dispatch Of this date from the
senior commanding officer ct Key West,
to the Navy Department, reports that
all the cases on board the Pawpee,
some half dozen, are doing well and re-
covering, only ore other death tran
that of Lieut.. Commanding Mitchell
having taken place. Thst OF the Pay
master and Clerk Of the Pawnec, who
died on shore, were cases OF fever.
The Commissioner OF Internal Reye-
nue. writes to q collector calling his
attention to the provisions OF Section 3,
Act OF December 24.h, 1872, which re-
qures every person engaged in any
business made liable to q special tax,
except tobacco, TO place andskeep con-
spicuously m his establishment or
place OF business, stamp denoting the
payment of said special tax, and i'm
posing penalty OF not less than ten
dollars with the costs OF prosecution
upon any person who, through
negligence, fails 10 so place
and keep said stamps, and directs
him to require ell persons selling
tobacco or cigars upon railroad
trains running through his district, to
have their special tax framed and hung
up in a CONSPICUOUS place in the car
where such sale is authorized.
Army Order.
The following was issued from the
War Department to-day: ,'
Officers o. the army distant from
stations in a section of country infected
by epidemic disease or from stations
that cannot be reached without transit
through the infected locality, are, after
their leave Of absence shall have ez.