Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-28
The Purchase Ofstamps is Not q Pay

The Purchase OF Stamps II Not q Pay
ment Of the Tax OnsTObRccO.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-The Internal
Revenue Office has ruled that the mere
act Of purchasing stamps is not payment
Of the tax upon a given lot of tobacco,
though the purchase Of such stamps may
have been with special references 10 such
payment. The tax cannot be said tOhave
been paid On a given lot Of tobacco, till
suitable stamps have been affixed TO the
packages containing it-and the stamps can
celled, so that the stamps shall have be-
come part and parcel Of the package, and
have no Value in themselves, apart from
the package to which they are affixed.
Postal RObberies by Hexicans on the
Texas Border.
Postmaster General Jewell has received
a telegram from CoFpus Christi, Texas,
stating that the postofice at Neuees was
robbed and burned yesterday; that the San
AntOnia mail carrier was robbed and taken
prisoner, but the mail was saved, and that
no mail will be sent ont to-day. 1t is sup
posed at the Department that these out
RACES were committed by band Of armed
Mexicans reported near Corpus Christi.
A copy Of the dispatch will be furnished
to the State Department for suitable in
vestigation.
Cashier OF the Treasury.
Treasurer Spinner has nominated Col.
Frank Jones to be Cashier of the Treasury,
vice Wylan, appointed Assistant Secretary.
Col. Jones is chief Of the redemption di-
vision Of the Treasurer's office. Secretary
BristOW has not yet determined who he
will appoint to the vacant position.
-
Gel. Fred. d. Grant and wife will leave
here Monday or Tuesday for Chicago,
where the Colonel will resume his duties
on the staff Of Gen. Sheridan. The Presi-
dent and Mrs. Grant viii accompany them
as far as New York.
New Regulations for Currency Re
demPtiOn.
The Treasurer Of the United States viii
soon issue a circular amending the regula-
tiOn governing the redemption of United
States currency, so that in cases OF mutila-
tiOn the destruction will be made in pro
portion to the part missing. In the case Of
legal tender notes. if less than One-tenth of
the original note is missing, the mutilatiOn
will be disregarded; if One-tenth Of the note
is missing, One-tenth of its face value will
be deducted; ifmOre than One-tenth and less
than One-fifth is missing, One-fifth of its face
value viii be deducted, and so on, reckon
ing by tenths, but no note Of which less
than One-half Of the original is presented
will be redeemed, without evidence that
the missing portion is totally destroyed.
The same rule will be applied 10 mutilated
fractional currency, with the substitution
of one fifth for one tenth. The amended
regulations will take effect the first of May
next.
The Case Of FIfz John Porter.
All the papers submitted with the ap-
plicatiOn for a rehearing of the case of Gen. /
Fitz John Porter, were referred to-day to
the Attorney General, who will prepare an
opinion, in conjunction with Judge AdvO-
cate Gen. Holt.
Republican Leaders on the Political
Future.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
An interviewer, who has talked with |
Vice-President Wilson, Blaine and Nor !
ton, says: "blr. Wilson opposes pensiOning |
so many eX-COngressmen: does not believe |
ii making Government offices an asylum |
for defeated politicians; thinks the Repub- |
lican party would be better if One-thiTd of |
the ozice-hOlders were changed, and is con-
fident his Springfield letter is helping to |
cure the generalization. Mir. Wilson |
does no. conceal the fact that he is can
didate for the Presidency. Blaine is hope !
full, but not over confident Of Republican /
success in 1876; saws, as to the attacks of /
Republican papers upon himself for his |
conservative attitude last session, thai the /
Republican party is not IN a condition /
which makes it wise or eXpedient to expel /
those who helped to found the party. Mr.. |
Morton is gloomy. His private utterances
re in harmony with his public speeches. |
He fOrebOdes trOuble-honestly fears that |
the SOutherners mean to inaugUrate a new |
rebellion, and does not know whether the |
North would be willing to assume another |
debt to save the Union
Decisions on the New Civil RIghtsN
Law.
Several prominent lawyers at the United |
States Supreme Court to-day reviewed the |
various decisions that have been made by |
United States Judges and United States |
Commissioners upon the new Civil Rights |
bill. Their unanimous judgment was that |
with the exception of the jury clause, if |
the decisions already rendered should be |
sustained on appeal, there is nothing left |
in the bill. The jury clause, pending the |
debate in Congress, was conceded to be in /
a legal sense the weakest feature in the |
bill. The decisions thus far rendered de |
clare that the law cannot affect the rights |
Of States to control inns, theaters, common |
carriers, billiard halls, eating saloons, and |
barber shops.