Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-11-25
Hurricane IN Ncw Jersey.
WASHINGTON.
Demand For Semi Tropical Fruits
in the South.

in the South.
. WAsHINGToN, Nov. 1S.-The Com
+ missioner of Agriculture says the de-
mand for semi-tropical fruits for eX-
/ pertinent in the Southern States is
very great, and far beyond the ability
Of the department to supply. The
/ Chinese tea plant is especially in de-
mand and many thousands of young
/ plants have been distributed during
the past year.
Report of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-The re-
| port of the Commissioner of Internal
Bevenue shows that the total produc-
ton of manufactured tobacco, during
the fiscal year, was lis, ,54S, ,6lS pounds.
! The collection of tax on tobacco was
S33, ,242, ,S75. The total quantity mani
ufactured during year was 10, ,S37, ,S27
pounds. The actual production of
manufactured tobacco exceeded that of
| the previous year by over two million
pounds, and the foreign expectation
exceeded that of the previous year by
near three-quarters of million
pounds. The Commissioner urges the
continuation of the leaf tobacco
clauses, in the act of June 9th, 1872
without amendment or alteration.
! The results of this great trade, so far
as its relations to the Government
are concerned, have been exceedingly
satisfactory. During the last fiscaly ear,
| 2,SSO fruit distilleries were registered
and 2,S4l operated, 700 distilleries, 9TH
er than fruit were registered, and 665
| operated, and there has been an in
creased activity in all operations res
lating to bonded distilled spirits. The
quantity produced during the year
1874, as compared with that produced
/ during the year 1873, is relatively
greater than the quantity withdrawn
for all purposes during 1874, as com.
| pared with the quantity withdrawn
for all purposes during 1873, leaving a
balance of 5,Sl7, 700 gallons in ware
! houses on June 80, 1874, which is D
9OO,24 gallons more than was in ware
| house June 80, 1873. The quantity in
warehouse at that time beiHg l2,947,- :
462 gallons.
During the first quarter of the pre-
sent year the demand for distilled sPir-
its has been active, and the quantity
withdrawn from the warehouse upon
payment of tax has exceeded the
quantity deposited so that the bal
ancc remaining in the warehouse Sep
tember 30th, 1874, has been reduced TO
1857 ,O96 gallons, or q decrease of g, :
2iO, ,6l3 gallons, as compared with the
quantity remaining in warehouseJune
30th, 1874. The whole number of cases
compromised during the past fiscal
year was 3Sl, and the total amount re-
ceived by compromises S626.79. Du-
ring the year 500 suits have been
commenced; 2,22S have been settled
in favor of the u. S. Government.
527 against ,655 suits were settled or
dismissed, and there were pending on
the lst of July, 1874, 1916 The lar
gest amount collected in any one
quarter from tobacco was collected
during the first quarter of the current
fiscal year, which reaches the sum OF
$40, 1872, ,954. Should corresponding
relative collections continue 10 be
made for the remaining three quarters
the receipts for the current fiscal yeaI
will aggregate S36,OOO,0O0.
Attorney General Williams on AR.
kansas Matters.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2l.-Represen.
tative Wiltshire, of Arkansas, had an
interview to-day with Attorney Gen.
eral Williams with reference to affairs
in that State, and says it was of a sat
isfactoTy character. Wiltshire is salts
fled that if any action at all be taken
in the matter it will be by Congress
and not by the Executive Department.
The Attorney General informed him
that in his dispatch to Judge Poland at
Salt Lake, he did not suggest or indi-
cate that representative Ward. of your
special committee remain there, but
merely requested Poland TO come to
Washington on his way home, as he,
the Attorney General, desired infor,
nation relative to Arkansas affairs
Judge Poland, among other things
said to him, there was no disturbance
or excitement, whatever, in Arkansas,
and that the State was unusually
quiet;
1t is the purpose of Representative
Wiltshire and Governor Low to pre-.
pare this week, and file with the At
torney General, statement, refutinp
the charges and allegations of Smith
and those who represent his interests,
The general feeling in Washington
is opposed to Federal interference.
The Secretary of State to-day pur'
chased about two hundred thousand
dollars worth of United States bonds
from the First National bank of New
York, for the investment of the inter.
est on the Geneva Award Fund which
accrued for three months up to the
first instant.
Harrington was allowed to speak
/ hnnTl N npin N
the first part he spoke of Harrington
in the third person, but finally shed
tears in the first person, saying: Sc
help me God" &c. He acknowledged
to the conspiracy against Columbus
and Alexander, and denounced the de
J partment of justice and also the secre