Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-11-24
Smuggling.

CliipiON uOIS, WHICH
are taken into Spain or Belgium, and while
there poorly fed and regularly beaten by
confederates wearing the uniform of the
French dOudniers. At the proper time
the animals have packages of lace or silk
tied on their backs and are turned loose,
when they at once ''strike for their homes, y
taking care to give any one who wears 8
uniform the widest possible berth. Roche.
fort used to smuggle his Lonterne from
Brussels into France in great quantities, the
diamond edition. being packed in plaster
busts of Napoleon LII. The Russian Nih;.
lists have introduced many tons of sediti.
GUS Literature into the Cars dominions in
well-soldered sardine-boxes and fruit-cans.
Not long ago French douanier at Pagny
discovered very extensive smuggling as.
sociation, whose operations were made
possible by the venality of a Russian
tchinOrnik, who had stolen the seal of one
OF the imperial departments. Cabinet
couriers of all European nations enjoy the
privilege of exemption, as far as their per-
sons and luggage are concerned, from the
Custom-house officers examinations. The
suspicious of the French dOuanier at
Pagny were aroused by the unusual num-
Der and dimensions of certain trunks, for
which the usual exemption was claimed by
a 'courier extraordinary" Of the Russian
Government, passing the Franco-German
frontier, on his route from ct. Petersburg
to Paris. He therefore took upon himself
the responsibility of opening and examln-
ing the suspected luggage, despite its pro-
prietor's indignant protest. His courage
was rewarded by the discovery Of "a, 600
cigars, which the pretended cabinet-courIer
had intended to smuggle into France
Next day another Russian courier arrived
at Pagny, also accompanied by an inordi-
nate amount of luggage under seal, which,
upon being inspected, was found to con-
tain q, 900 cigars. Bismarck tells us very
plainly that the Duke of Morny, when
Ambassador to Russia, made large sums
by refurnishing the embassy repeatedly
and selling the furniture, which had, of
course, been imported duty free. One of
the most remarkable smuggling movements
of the present day was that a: Roubalx,
France, last Summer, when twice every
day the contrd6dndiers crossed the from
tier into Belgium several thousand strong,
bring back with them coffee, coal-oi and
/ tobacco, and defrauding the customs of at
leas; SO, 900 francs a day. The men had
been on strike, and being resolved not to
starve, organized a smuggling army too
powerful for the authorities 10 cupe with.
Some very extensive smuggling mast have
been done at Hamburg, apparently with
| the cOnnlvancc of the custom officials,
within The last few months, since We read
that a miller one Herr Wegner, has been
fined nearly 500. ZOO for smuggling G, 800
tons OF wheat and ryeinto the district with
out paying the comparatively small impost
On such grain. New York readers are
made aware from time TO time Of the
operations and devices of smuggling at this
port. The business tiourishes between st.
Adams and Rouse's point and Montreal,
where the operators can work both ways.
Ii was once the practice for certain Moa-
treal iailors to employ New York cutters
and send agents through New England and
Northern New YORK to take orders for
clothing to be delivered in the United
States at the makers risk, and an exten-
sive business was dore in running over
whole carloads of buikier merchandise.
On the 3lst of August last Montreal mil
liner who was about to settle in New York,
was stopped at ''the lines" with eighteen
trunks full of silks, velvets, lsces. silver
ware, and wines, although she had certi-
ficate from the American Consul-General
that all these were non-dutiable immi-
grants effects. II is dc rigietT for silly
American women who go TO Montreal TO
buy silks and similar goods and smuggle
them home, practice that is gradually
going out of favor, low that our fair and
free trading countrywomen have discover
ed that the guileless Canadian tradesman
usually furnishes them with an inferior
article purchased in New York or Boston
and sold at an advance price. Since our
Canadian neighbors have enjoyed the beLe-
fits Of protective tariff smuggling into
Canada has been very lively, jewelry being
one OF the articles most extensively intro
duced. There is perhaps only one country
in the world which is really smuggler-
proof-Boralong, in South Africa, which
is ruled by a benevolently despotic mon.
arch, Moroko. When the King found his
councillors attending the palavei furiously
inebriaed and his sons taking to brandy.
drinking, he prohibited under penalty OF
death the importation into his Dominion;
of intoxicating liquors of any kind, ant
when subject was caught evading tn:
law the penalty was sterniy inflicted. ''Fol
some years, there have been no attempts
at smuggling, and as a consequence the in
habitants of Thaba Nchu, the capital, ar
a sober, weli-ordered, industrious and
prosperous community"