The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-21
CUSTOM HOUSE NOTES.


were: Customs (gold), s376s %: internal reve
nue., $4,000 SO: Postofflce Department, $4,000
checks to pay duties. 1886: rate IA per cent
The collections for customs dues on yesterda.
amounted to some $4,000, and about $1,000 was
gathered in for tonnage Dues
| Collector Marks did q very poor business IL
the sale Of internal revenue stamps. only s739 g.
worth having been disposed of during the day
the majority of stamps being intended for ugs
on tobacco and cigars.
| The number Of vessels entered Yesterday a
the office of the deputy surveyor amounted tc
six, as foil Ws: The ship Adorna from Liver.
pool. CONSIGNED to A. <. Miller & Co and hav.
pts, from Cardiff; bark Domenico Lanata
from Rio de Ja9eiro; America, from St
| cargo of salt and the American shin John 4
Berry. from Havrs. All the vessels named were
| in ballast. except where mention is made to the
The clearances were the George Peabody, for
| Pascagoula; Gussie, for Indianola. Texas
! steamship Commander, cleared by Ocean &,
| Co., for LfverpOOl, with cargo of 44446 bush
els of corn, 2ls5 bales Of cotton and % bags of
cotton seed-total value, $4,000; steamship
! bulk and 272l bales of cotton-value. s127 900
steamship ~ Riversdal1ee, for Reyel, Russia.
cleared by Hanger d Fatman, with a cargo OF
! $500 bales Of cotton-value, $500, 49,
On yesterdays morning train a local inspec-
tor OF steam vessels departed for Morgan City
to make an inspection of three steamboats,
News has been received from the ass iBtant in
spectors who left about twelve days ago for the
inspected one boat already, and anticipated ex-
amining two others yesterday There still re-
vap b f be dea to do Red
Der. and in the meantime the inspectors will re-
turn to the city.
The attention Of clippers is called to the fact
that printed form has been. prepared. by
which authorized parties holding a power Of
attorney tor shippers can subscribe to and at
test by oath the genuinen ess of O. vessels mani
ance with section 1900 of Revised Statutes, and
shippers will be pplied with them on applica-
tion at the office of the acting deputy collector
OF the port
All the complaints and Indignation mani
tested by the merchants and citizens generally
have. UP to this day failed to effect any reform
continue to arrive when least expected and
most at variance with schedule time.
1t is but repeating a standing item to tell an
Jackson mail was several hours behind time ne
while tho Mobile mail had not put in an ap-
understood that neither Of the above men lem
toned railroad companies is responsible for
these Irregularities. as they all occur on con-
new timetable to go into Immediate effect, and
this may prove the harbinger Of regular mails |
IN tha future, but IN what manner it is difficult |
to say.
Ex-Gov. Mad, Wells friends. who have been in |
with him lately, assert the |
news papers are trying to XIII off the great sub |
tractor before his legitimate time to shuttle off
this mortal coil. by reporting him as being very
low with fever. 1t Is said Wells is not so bad as
ne might be, physically not mentally. and may
be expected to appear upon the stage of Gus
TOM House events in day or two.
Ii any smugglers do exist in this virtuous
country OF ours they may have forgotten the
.act hat two United States revenue cutters-;he
Dix and the Seward-are still in existence, al
hough DOrar1lv stationed at Pensacola on
account of the former prevalency of the fever
lere. AS to the precise time of the Dix's arri-
7al at her station In The Mississippi Sound
nothing Is known. but the Seward may be- ex-
oected here shortly, as Capt. Dean. the com
nander. is IN town, making arrangement to
put her on the docks while thu old boiler is re-
moved to make way for new one
A representative Of large wholesale firm
iealing in spirits. wines. etc. In St. Louis. on
allied upon the Collector Of the Port
o consult with him as to the facilities offered
or the shipment Of goods from this port to
till shipping vast quantities Of spirits to Mex
Sd by way of New York and The East The
ime. trouble and ieXDense incidental to such @
method Of shipment has at last
nd4ced them to investigate. advantages offered
" NEW Orleans as point Of export.
esire to promote the commerce Of this city in
Ve,y possible way, and assured him every |
AGILITY would be afforded him to dspatch his
Gods. # st. Lo1is liquids can be advantage
usly shipped from h re. why cannot grain and I
reduce of all kinds be similarly handled? {