Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-23
WASHINGTON.
The Political Refugees from
Uruguay.
All About the Farragut Prize
Money.
How Eight Million Dollars were
4" AbsOrbed" in Distributing
Sixteen Millions.
A Bark Without . Cou1irr

Bark Without q Country.
WASHINGTON, June q. The Acting
Secretary Of the Treasury has to-day tele-
graphed 70 the Collector Of Customs al
Charleston TO allow the political exiles who
arrived on the bark Ping from Uruguay to
land, no good reason being shown why they
should be excluded from this country. II
appears that though the vessel sailed under
an Oriental flag, she carried no papers Of
any kind. There is some trouble in regard
to her legal status in the United States, ard
it is supposed that she has injured severe
penalties by her arrival as aforesaid.
Fag End OF the FRrragut Prize Honey.
The Secretary Of the Navy has made a
requisitiOn for $4,000 on the Secretary OF
TIE Treasury to pay the remainder of the
Farragut prize awards. This snm will be
distributed among $500 persons heretofore
attached to the thirty-five or forty vessels
of FaUagut's feet which made captures
from the Confederates. The aggregate
amount derived from all such naval cap
lures during the late war was about S3s-
100000, Of which S14,00oO00 were TUNED
over TO the navy pension fund. Sixteen
millions were distributed to the captors,
and the remainder was absorbed in ex-
penses, etc. The Farragut cases are the
last to beladjusted.
The Sunkep Saranac.
The United States steamer Benicia will
start tomorrow morning for Vittoria to
bring down the officers and crew Of the
wrecked Saranac.
The Old District Ring still In the As
cendanf.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
Complaints are growing stronger every
day at the manner in which business is
transacted by the District Board of Audit.
II appears that in the matter of claims for
damages to property resulting from the i'm
prOvements made by the late Board of
Public Works, extraordinary large sums
are allowed TO a certain class of people
usually those belonging TO the old District
Ring. Damages are allowed and certifi-
Gates issued without any previous examina-
ton o. the property, it being only necesSa-
~ that the attorney presenting the claim
shall be in the good graces of the officers.
Appearances warrant the belief that the
people Of tie District, and the whole coun-
try, who will have to pay these damages,
are being again grossly swindled by the
same old ring who have heretofore fattened
at the public expense.
Congressional Speculation i'm Public
Documents.
Special TO the Cincinnati Enquirer
A prominent citizen of Cincinnati, in a
letter to high Government official, says:
My object in now writing this letter to
you personally is TO call your attention tOa
singular fact, viz: that the Statistical Atlas
I understand, at the expense
If the United States Governments for
"a e at the prominent book stores of some
If our larger towns, Cincinnati among
)thers. The Public Library of this
;ity purchased a copy the other day,
md the book is now for sale at
Robert Clarke Il Co.'s. The price asked |
or it is thirty-five dollars a volume. Now, !
seems to me rather strange that public |
Institutions are obliged 10 pay for public |
documents. In New York the book sells |
or fifty dollars, showing that the average |
Congressman in that locality asks higher /
rice than his Western c0nfreTe, for l sup |
,Ose that the leak is a Congressional one. |
hope that you viii pardon me, an OBJ |
cure citizen, for thus intguding on your /
aluable time; but l have faith in your /
honesty and justice, and trust that you /
will have the matter investigated and the |
buse remedied. Some eighteen months
ince l was obliged 10 pay fifty dollars for
copy of tie Medical History Of the 4
Var Of the Rebellion and understand at
he time I purchased the work that the
Few York book market bought all the ir
Opies from Congressman"
More Points on the whisky Ring.
Special TO the Cincinnati Gazette.
A new method of penetrating whisky
'audS has been discovered in the course Of
be examination which all returns in that
fice relating TO whisky transactions are
1t was asCeTtainsd, while eX-
mining Milwaukee cases, that great dis
existed between entire sales
lade on distillery books and returns Of ag-
regate amount sales on form 45, which
istillers are obliged to use. Gaugers
$50 make return of amount gagged pre-
OUs 10 sale on form known as form 50.
hese forms were called in about two weeks
20 from all parts Of the country, and at
Re same time transcripts have been CD
lined through local revenue officers from
stilleT's books, and these have been foot
up and compared with the aggregate re-
IRIS and with the gaugers' returns. Very
1pOrtant evidence has been secured in
lis way, and the evidence against houses
vOlved is complete, as the disagreeing re-
,rds of the books and Of the returns are in
e handwriting Of their own boOkkeepers,
Id can not be disputed.