The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-23
CUsTOM-EsOUsE NOTES

The sale OF internal revenue stamps on yes
terday amounted to $13A1 so.
The collections of customs duties reached
the large sum Of $4,000, and as the collec..
tions, for the most part, were made up OF
small amounts, the clerks in the cashiers de-
partment were more busily engaged than on
any day during the season.
At the Sub-Treasury the deposits were:
Customs-Coin, S4,077 81; currency, S556 80;
sale of checks to pay duties rate 1000 $780,
gnbscriptions to per cent cOnsols, $500, Post
Office Office Department $4,000; Internal Revenue,
S174o SO. Total, Sl3,447 81.
The entrances at the office Of the Deputy
Surveyor OF the Port On yesterday were the
John 2 Best from Cardiff and the Bayard
from New York, both in ballast.
The clearances comprised Frederick j.
Collins for Havana, with cargo Of flour, value
$25. 900, cleared by Joseph Kelly; Austrian
bark Limo for Havre cargo OF wheat in bulk,
British bark Airyt for Liverpool, cargo OF
cotton, value S225,816, cOnsignors II. Il B.
Beer; steamer E. B. Ward. Jr., for Belize, via
Truxilo and Bay Islands, assorted cargo, con-
sgnors Oteri d Bros
In accordance with the requirements Of the
| law, the captain OF the steamer Frank hranZ
| has made report of the circumstance at
! tending the sinking Of his boat, and has h1ed
| It in the office Of the local inspector OF
steam vessels. The report states that on the
morning Of the twenty first instant. the BOAT,
| then being at q distance Of forty miles below
the city, started on her return trip to the city
Whilst making d stoppage at Salvant's land,
ing, the boat struck an unseen and unknown
obstruction, and Immediately she Degan
making water freely on her port DOW. Bi&nh,
cts. quilts and two tarpaulins were procured
and thrown over the bow, and the engineer
was ordered to put on his syphon pump; an6
it being considered safe. the boat proceeded
on her way, ,.A.,4o
had flowed in in such quantities as to necessl
tate the steamers running for the shore
} Scarcely had all the passengers been landed
the furniture and fixtures safely put ashore
when the unfortunate steamer began to SIM
and soon disappeared entirely. The vessel vii
probably prove total loss, and 1t is SAID III
insurance existed on her. The passenger
, and crew were brought to the city yesterday
all a little frightened but none hur1' ,o
The Kranz was brought down mere las
spring, and was put in the Grand Isle traos
! George L. Norton, the supervising inspee
| tor of steam vessels for the DlsyrlcI ot Ns'
:, , Orleans, expects to leave for Galveston a
, , soon as quarantine restrictions are ralsee
= The object Of the visit Is to inspect the Worb
ings Of the local department. at dalVesIol
and to settle any matters that may requlI
y days and afterward the Inspector will retur
to the city and proceed to Mobile and to Az
T alachicoa to make similar inspection.
+ Commissioner Lane was engaged yesterda
= in irving the cases of Edward Bennett an
Charles Dempster, charged by j: B; HaV
kins, master of the ship Adorna, vii tn havln
+ embezzled part Of the stores and cargo
y y said vessel while within the admiralty an an
= : maritime jurisdiction of the United oraIe
u The prisoners, who are seamen on tt
= Adorna are accused of com mitting the ro'
u berry on the seventeenth instant. Comml
Is sioner Lane decided to release Bennett ana
remand Dempster for trial before the C1rcu
> Court.