The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-11
Smuggling.

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On tho Belgian and Spanish frontiers the
professional smugglers employ dogs, which
are taken into Spain or Belgium aud while
there poorly fed and regularly beaten by
! confederates wearing the uniform Of the
| French douaniers. At the proper time
! the animals have packages of lace or silk
tied on their backs and arc turned loose,
when they at once ''striko for their homes, u
taking care to give any one who wears q
uniform the widest possible berth. Roche
fort used to smugglc his LuntcrWe from,
Brussels into France in great quantities, the
''dlamond edition" being packed in plaster
busts of Napoleon III. The Russian Nihi-
lists have introduced many tons Of scditi-
GUS literature into the Cars dominions in
well-soldered sardinc-b0Xes and fruit cans
Not long ago French aoudnier at Pagny
discovered very extensive smuggling as
sociation, whose operations were made
possible by the venality of Russian
tchtnopnik, who had stolen the seal of one
OF the lmperlal departments Cabinet
couriers of all European nations enjoy the
privilege of exemption, rs far as their per-
sons and luggage arc. concerned, from tho
Custom-house officers examinations. The
suspicious of the French dOuanier at
Der and dimensions of certain trunl<s, for
which the usual exemption was claimed by
II ''courier extraordinary" Of the Russian
Government, passing the Franco. German
frontier, on his route from st. Petersburg
to Paris. lie therefore took upon himself
the responsibility of opening and exum,n-
ing the suspected luggage, despite its pro-
prictor's lntiynanC protest. His courage
was rewarded by tho discovery of "a, 600
cigars, which the pretended cabinet courier
had intended to smuggle into France
Next day another Russian courier arrived
ut f'agny also accompanied by an inordi-
nate amount OF luggage under seal, which,
upon being inspected, was found to con.
tain $1,000 cigars. Bismarck tells lis very
plainly that tho Duke Of Morny, when
Ambassador to Russia, made large sums
by rcfurnishing the embassy repeatedly
ard selling the furniture, which had, of
course, been imported duty free. Ono of
the most remarkable smuggling move ncnts
OF the present day was that at Roubaix,
France, last Summer, when twice every
day the contr06andiers crossed the from.
tier into Belgium several thousand strong,
bring hack with them coffee, coaI-oil aud
tobacco, and dcfrauding The customs Of ut
lcas; 90, 900 francs Il day. The men had
been on u strike, and being resolved not to
sLarvc, organized smuggling army too
powerful for the authorities to cope with.
Some very extensive smuggling must have
been done ut Hamburg, apparently with
the cOnnivancc of the custom officials,
within the last few months, since We rcad
that miller. one Herr Wcgner, has been
fined nearly $4,000 for smuggling o, 800
tons OF wheat and ycint0 thu district with
out paying the comparatively small impost
on such grain. New York rcadcrs arc
made aware from time to time OF the
operations aud devices of smuggling at tins
port. The business tlourishos Dctwcon st.
Albans aud Rousc's point and Montreal,
where the operators can work both ways.
1t was once the practice for certain Mon-
treal tailors to employ New y ork cutters
aud send agents through New England and
Northern New York to take orders for
clothing to DC delivered in the United
States ut tho makers risk, and an cxtcn-
sive business was done in running over
whole carloads OF Duikler merchandise.
On the 3lst Of August last IL Montreal mil
liner who was abo IT to settle in New York,
was stopped at "Lhc lincs' with eighteen
trunks full of silks, velvots, laccs. silver.
ware, and WINGS, although she had ccrti-
tlcate from the American Consul General
that all these were nOn-dutiable immi-
grants effects. 1t is dc riguc,tr for silly
American women who 30 10 Montreal to
buy silks and similar goods and slnuggle
them home, practice that is gradually
going out of favor, now that our fair and
free trading c0untrywomcn have discover
cd that the guileless Canadian tradcslnan
usually furnishes them with m inferior
article purchased in New York or Boston
and sold at al advance price. Since our
Canadian neighbors have enjoyed the bche-
fits of protective tariff smuggling into
Canada has been very lively, jcwclry being
one OF the articles most extensively intro
duccd. Theic is perhaps only one country
in the world which is really smugglcr-
proof-I5oralong, in South Africa, which
is ruled by a bcnevolently dGspolic mon
arch, Moroko. When the King found his
councillors attending the palavcl furiously
incbriated and his SONS taking to brandy
drinking, he prohibited under penalty of
death the importation into his doninlons
OF intoxicating liquors OF any kind, and
when subject was caught cvading the
law the penalty was stcrnly inflicted. 'For
some years" there have been no attempts
at smuggling, and as consequence the in-
habitants OF Thaba Nchu, the capital, arc
a sober, wcll-ordcred, Industrious and
prosperous community"
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