The New York herald., 1873-07-20
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY TO- lS7s-11nPLE SHEET.
FEDERAL OFFICE AFFAIRS.

FEDERAL OFFICE AFFAIRS.
Highly ImPortant Manifesto 20 shippers
OF Goods 70 CsliHornia via the 18TH
mus-The Pacific Mail Steamship Conn
Pany Hauled Over the Coals-Postsl
Matters.
Not little annoyance Is caused to the Custom
House authorities by various lines OF railroads
and steamers In transporting merchandise under
other marks and numbers than contained In the
regular invoices. This practice the venerable As
sstant Collector, Mr.. Charles p. Clinch, says, may
be ascrbed to steamship lines In general and to the
Pacific Mail line In particular.
As far back as December, 1869, this same abuse
existed, when the Secretary OF the Treasury. sena
tor George S. Boutwell,, instructed Mr.. Grinnel
the following
CUsTox HOUSE, NEW YoRK,
CoLLEcroRs OrFicE, Dec. &. 1862
am instructed by the Honorable Secretary OF the
Of New Yorh 10 San 70 va he
isthmas Of fsnama. that in future invoices o. ali mer
tom must 8 fsIn,shsd 70 this once dupl,cats
mitted by overland mail to the Collector at san Fran
shippers and others engaged or Interested this trade
nce With 9s tss OF q s ana
In order that their shipments may not he treated as
fCrs,gn a%ab merchipdss S,T,ys At e port of
Matters for time ran on smoothly, but the
aforementioned steamship company, forming in
their own estimation Q higher power than the
United States government, thought ft to ignore
the marks and numbers on packages and cases,
duplicates OF which were deposited with the Gus
tom House authorities. and substitute their own.
The natural consequence OF all this was that the
government officers at the place OF consignment
were completely puzzled as to the proper owner.
snip OF the goods, and in many instances unable to
make the slightest comparisons with the marks
and numbers as transmitted by the shipper and
the custom House. Proper representations OF this
subject made by the Collectors OF New YORK and
San Francisco to the Secretary OF the Treasury,
elected tne following emphatic instructions. which
Will be strictly carried OUT
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, July TO- 1873
ceived reporting on the letter Of the Collector at San
to ns pr pT.scs a port the
Panama to san francisco which he alleges l. iraaght
the goods from beng established their his
appears that the steamship company owning the YES.
sells by which the merchandise is shipped act
through %anes Which are sGSss PRESENTED at Your 70 e o
ce before the clearance Of the vessel said company
Properly their and values, with certain marks
pers and which are aesisnsted IN the invoices made out
a%d that BY this
the goods francisco IN identiyns the packages,
and opportunity for fraud Is afforded during the transit
The Collector at San Francisco, obviae the difficult
oe
should addition 10 the company's marks and numbers
tain giving the packses wSeh
are speced IN the invoice in the manner indicated in
the form herewith & which the Coecor states s
The GolsciSr states that if this suggestion carried
will be done away with and that the interests OF the
The Department. consideration, adopts such sug-
geson and you are to require the
accordance with the said iorm and so long as
sss ss sns S 1
S OF e S fs aeSye @ ps aS9 o
San Francsco with Instruction that any goods arriving
$ by 20 @ be u
there are those embraced IN the manifest as shipped
You will please notify said company accordingly.
ou.'so VIM A. RICHARDSON Secretary.
Collector of Customs, New York.
POSTAL MATTERS
are quietly progressing business being on the in
crease every day. The new order of things con-
corning supplementary mails on the SAILING day of
steamers works well and promises to DecOme
profitable to the government. The receipts from
that source yesterday were two hundred dol
lars. On the lst INST. the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company issued an advertisement and notified the
department that train would hereafter leave Jer-
sey City at twenty-five minutes past three every
morning and carry the mails TO Philadelphia and
intermediate points This train was in lieu o. the
one formerly run at twelve O'Clock midnight. Yes
mails will not be taken this train, as shown by
the following letter. which explains ITSELF and will
be submitted to Postmaster General Creswell for
his actiOn:-
PENNsYvANIA RAILROAD, SUPERINrENpENrs OFFICE,
JERSEY CRY, N. j., July 10 1873 I
T. L. JAMES, Esq, Postmaster, New York.
DEAR SIR-After tomorrow, July 70, the half-past
three A. M. train from New York will be discontinued
The train leaving New York at twelve o'clock midnight
will, on and after Monday next the list inst be run
through to West Philadelphia heretofore (sundays
ceped Please have the mails sent by that train Yours,
4 truly +. WOLCOfT JACKSON,
General superintendent H. and r.