The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-23
BY TELEGRAPH.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WARRINGTON, June 22-Act1ng secretary
of the Treasury Conant has referred to the
Secretary of State for his opinion of the tele-
gram from the collector of Charleston, asking
be allowed to land. The Treasury Depart
ment will await the opinion of the Secretary
Of State before answering the telegram.
WASHINGTON, June 22-The Commissioner
Of the Land Office is taking measures to dis
pose of the great number Of land patents in
his Office which have been accommodating
since the days of President Monroe, and
now number more than three hundred thou
sand. They will be properly classified and
sent to the different land offices throughout
the country for delivery to those for whom
they are intended.
New South Wales has voted e5OOO for it's
representation at the Centennial.
Supervisor Perry reports from Raleigh q
raid against illicit distillers in Yadkin county
Twenty illicit distillers have been arrested
and many barrels of whisky captured.
A dispatch received by Surgeon General
Beale, of the navy, from Key West, this morn
ing, reports q case of yellow fever in that
place. It was first noticed yesterday
morning.
WASHINGTON, June 22.-No orders have yet
been issued by the Secretary of the Navy de-
failing any vessel to follow the Plymouth to
the mouth of the Rio Grande. As there is a
sand bar at the mouth of that river, with but
four feet of water on it, it will be impossible
for any vessel in the navy to ascend the river.
river, and were it possible for vessel to enter
the mouth, it would be dangerous to make
the ascent
Four or five launches, however, can be car
ried to the mouth of the river on each vessel
ordered there, and they, with competent
crews, can be sent up the river to cooperate
with the army in the suppression Of Mexican
raids.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has
to-day telegraphed to the Collector of Gus.
toms at Charleston to allow the political
exiles who arrived on the bark Perig, from
Uruguay, to land, no good reason being
shown why they should be excluded from
this country.
It appears that though the vessel on which
they were brought sailed under the Oriental
flag, che carried no papers of any kind.
There is some trouble in regard to her legal
duty in the United States, and it is supposed
that she has incurred severe penalties by heI
arrival as aforesaid. The matter is now under
consideration in the Treasury Department
WASHINGTON, June 22.-Sir Edward Thorn.
ton has awarded in the Las Paz prisoner case
amounts ranging from $1,000 to $1,000 to
thirty three persons.
10 A committee appeared before the Commits
sioners of Internal Revenue to-day to argue
the advantages to the government of o new
design by which cigars shall all bear stamp
in lieu of the general stamp now in use, to
protect the national interest.
The idea is to have the cigar bear upon
itself the evidence that the tax has been paid
by having q coupon from the bank stamp
attached to the cigar.
The Commissioner considers that there is
now no effectual check to the unlawful sale o.
cigars, but before adopting or reconsiderine
any new method, OF particularly the method
suggested by the advocates of the new
stamps, he prefers to take the preliminary
owe of conferring with Collectors in thu
districts where the tobacco interests are ex
tensive, and learning from them the views o.
manufacturers upon the subject. The in
ventor and advocates of the new design fol-
stamping cigars claim that with but trivia
expense to manufacturers, the Government
will be secured in its collection of interna
revenue tax and that smuggling of cigars wi
be utterly impossible.