Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-24

all efforts to secure a statement from him
on this subject.
Loose Law and LaEIess PerquisItes.
The corps Of special agents stationed
| along the Northern frontier have recently
discovered and reported to the Treasury
Department curious, anomalous practice
Of the Collectors of Customs on the North
ern, Northeastern and Northwestern from
tiers. These reports relate to the practice
Of selling blanks by the Collectors at these
ports. The law contains no provision re-
quiring these Collectors to account for
the moneys received from the sales
Of blanks thus authorized. These re-
ports show that the Collectors at these ports
consider the authority to sell blanks thus
granted a personal perquisite. This law
passed July II, 1862. Since that time the
Collectors at these ports have de-
rived a very large revenue from
this privilege. In most instances
these blanks are reported as sold for twenty
I've cents cash each, instead Of for ten
cents as provided by law. The amounts
are the largest at Chicago and Detroit. The
salary and ordinary fees, and the receipts
from thu sales Of blanks, as reported by
these special agents, amount in Chicago to
about $1,000, being $4,000 from the sales
Of blanks. In other places the aggregate
is something less, but it is so large that the
aggregate income of collector Of so small
place as Port Huron, amounts to the same
as the salary allowed by law to the cOllec-
toy OF the port OF New York, $4,000. The
collector Of the latter port is not allowed to
sell blanks. The Treasury Department has
not decided whether the law can be so con-
strued as to compel the collectors to make
returns to the Treasury Department from
the sales of blanks.
War with the Typos
The Daily Chronicle Of this city has lust
entered upon a contest with the Typograph-
ical Union, which is likely to be Of a very
serious character. Some days since, Har-
Ian sent an agent of the Chronicle to Chi
cagO 10 engage nOn-Union men. This
agent secured ten under a contract for six
months at forty-iye cents per thousand
ems. They are now on their way 10 this
city. The printers here Immediately
waited upon the Chronicle publishers in a
body and requested to know if this was a
fact. Receiving an affirmative answer, the
printers, in a body, Immediately left the
publishing Office. This leaves the paper in
a desperate extremity, as the fear Of the
Union here is so great that no printers will
venture 20 defy it. The Typographical
Union is in executive session tonight, and
expects to buy the Chicago printers on
their arrival here tomorrow morning.
Only four printers could be obtained for
the paper tonight. The police are station
ed at the Office.
South Carolina Ban dittI.
Special to the Chicago Times.
Stories come 10 this city of a terrible
series Of Outrages in the northern part of
South Carolina. This time it is not the
kind Of Outrages that the administration
journals will care to make much of. The
negroes have organized a regular band Of
plunderers, and they have murdered and |
robbed the farming people Of the section,
in a style that will equal any Of the first |
class efforts so elOquently dwelt upon by !
the Attorney Generals outrage department |
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