Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1870, Page 1

TILE EVENING STAR. BLISHED DAILY, Sunday excepted, At The Star Buildings, EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY. WBE Gr FORTY FOUR CENTS PER MONTH. @t the counter, Two Cxxts. Pree Bix Months, $3.00: ze wot from the THE WEEKLY STA—publishe Bormne— ee 50 « year. Cerner Pennsylvania ay. and Lith st. WH STAR Is derved by carriers to their aude | ec riders in the City and District st Tes Oxxts imi ‘Maitixe :—Three Months, 91.30; j= SS NUSEMENTS. NAposaL (ONAL THEATRE. SECOND *ND LAST WEEK a5 the Fewster Os ee wi mY sn avEsine peril tis Hetioe | Be reduces rit otire novel stace Ioan" Gsty wittiams MaATi¢NE SATUBPAY A 2. POLOCK, LD Ty rehearsal. the Trish Drama of “Oonpie Soogah.” 7 OPERA HOUSE. RE SEARON OF COMIC g ux ee AND SATURDAS : Matinee. rt fancina : ee ‘OATES shake COMIC OPEBA AND. Bt ap2s Iy* srLempipe in WoNDEBPUL O&RA icon and # Rowt of som Parguctte Reserved Orehessa (hoitm, ai: Sire aS tee CASH. B4sov 5s GALLERY or Jum recetred some ‘wrenue, bet !2th and I8th «te. NSURANCE. conte ©IL PAINTINGS FOR SALB. Loss by Fire. and a*T OF CUSTUMEA ond “Prots + TAR BOST A No. 486 ) ? iS Sheiea Pretare Frome. Peace remeber Name and Number. 7 TNSUBE AG\INST IT. with 4. 8, PRAT® & SON, mold-tr 3, ¥.M. 0. &. BULLDING, (fice: Boom No. 1, over the Bank of Washington, CHARTEKED BY CONGKSSS 1937, CAPITAL AND SUBPLUS, $270,000, Anenres all descriptions of propert; Ap hg ~ of Celambia. No charge for stamps or Kea Pukocth, L. Johnson, W. ¥. Howard, AU Th, Parker, = Wilson, fe OW, id. C1 ark, wi oe of Washingtun. JAMES ADAMS, President. __ oet-ma ww Len HE NATIONAL ™ ErROPOLIT: FIRE & —— COMPANY DISTRICT ‘OF yf COLT MBIA. ORGANIZED AUGUST 26, IS vient. ¢ pease CAPITAL. ce Office in ShepLerd’s Bui Vania svenGe. = = Pres WM © Top. “hice Presideot. SAMUEL CBOSS, Secretary. paeerinvet 3, B. Blake, ST Wm B. Toad, a Sas. we & zerott, Jona T Leaman, Geo. F. Gatick, Bowe Kelly A.B Shepherd. nee Fire: : pene INSUBANCE BOOMS or 1.M. HANSON AND B LEWIS BLACKFORD, $19 SEVENTH STBEET, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, WHO REFER TO THEIR 4.000 POLICY HOLUBHS LN THIS DISTRICT, AND WHO INSURE PROPERTY IN TER i BEST COMPANIES AT LOWEST BATES. THE MUTUAL LIFE COMPANY OF NEW ¥: j = ASSETS STATES. AND THE WORLD, HAVE Es L N OFFICE ATT BANCE BOOMS Vv: isa ySu- 1. M. HANSON ANDB. LEWIS BLACKFORD 619 SEVENTU STREBT. ‘The dividends for this year et. to 39 per te a the Sith swocNTs es ste ACCEPTED. NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE Co., MILWAUKEE, wis. H. VANDYKE, President, ITH, V. Pres. AUG. GAYLOBD, se ASSETS, $5,000,000. POLICY HOLDERS, 35,000. ‘The location of this Vom es it great advan tagre over the large majority of companion. the istiow ing figui od an LE 18 0.8 by to = end seats monn 1 Cee The Joan: ‘money on ~ REAL EST! E. = ¥28¢s, BEAL ESTATE AMD INSUBANCE BROKE $11 SEVENTH STREBT. OrrositE Post Ovrier, WASHINGTON, D. ©. wed _ HO" TELS. $i TROUrE, Fait; Operati cated NE WITH a ELON DE si us ABRAG Peas RE Drees Cirele, 9 cents: Family Circh fue FICTUMES. 1238 Pena $100,000 g_ No. 90% Penusy! pele Ph g LOSSES HAVS Ti TED ee 910,000,000 THE OLDEST. Company 0 in kone tO op One of ‘moet lmagortant—is (a the Salee and Evchanees of Real Estate effected, Lane negotiated. Houses for remt, and rent col. Doss —$—$——. vw open for the rer MS. angle aud ea suite, ety, during the pact om of guests, with “. B6—N&. 5,525. SPECIAL NOTICES. es UTS DEMAND LMMEDIATE CON | ey eceeners Fos ‘THIRTY YEAGs Bas that well- knw standard aud popular renedy, RB, Serer, poln hae never Soon eqnesed, earned larity b merit. No curative Te acter has had #0 wido-<pread sale sal satisfaction. Tl GETTING ESSAYS FOR YOUNG on Social Evils, snd the cu heiagth or 2 an ot ie Marcied mavinonel ir adaren, WOW ladelphia. Pa. LECTURES. Iss LILLIAN S. EDGARTON, THE GIFTED AND BEAUTIFUL ORATOR, ‘Will deliver the Sixth Leeture in the GBAND MY COUBSB, AT LINCOLN HALL, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2s. Subject: “ WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING?” Dd on at 7 e’clock; Lecture to commence at 8. A vn Tickets, 50 cents; Reserved Seats, 75 cen: ‘The latter cam, be procarad at the besarte Sent fi envel ABD ASSOCIATION Box P sel6-cotm O. Parker. on 7th st. PAS be WISTER 1 RYENINGS, ih de ssociations, x Churches. G*80, £0 COURSE or LEsrene en under OALVANY BAPTIST CHURUA, a, HALL, January 18, STEPHEN MASSETT. Subs =o Bisty 7 ty bat with China and = ae JOH! k 2 Sie * abineeockey TT Tet bore 7 AXE March 4 ‘McCARTHY. Tiirouce of Baye KATE FIELD. iis OBACE GREELEY, April 2 ee TALLIAN 8. | EDOARTON. val t—Gossip. its ( ses and Cure. April... ‘GE: WEEN: Lait Gustico of Peese. ibyec' He tickets, 50 fickets. $3; Sea- Bingle tickets, $4 coats: ‘Beasoa 33 Q aig Store, ue, and reserved ithont extra charge, on = Barr's, 910 Fst. oo 31-¥ seats for the course after Novenl Leok! Leok! Look! AT THESE PRICES’ OVERCOATS. DOMESTIC MELTON ccc oc cece csonn 35 WHITNEY BEAVER. $10 CHINCHILLA. CASTOR BEAVER... ESQUIMAUX. $15 and $16 50. ENGLISH MELTON. 917 MOSCOW $18 and $20 CAPES AND TALMAS IN GREAT VARIETY. WINTER SUITS. FINE ALL WOOL SUI «910 DERBY SUITS. ....... WALBING SUITS... DEKBY SUITS... HEAVY CABSIMERE. DEBBY SUITS... SILK MIXED. ENGLISH MELTON.......... SUPERFINE BLAOK SUITS $16 and gis $20. 928 and $30, AN EABLY CALL 18 SOLICITED, aT A. STRAUS’ POPULAR CLOTHING 1011 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, BETWEEN 1074 AND lite STREETS, HOUSE, Roeser ‘Three doors east of Ith. F. Cc, REICH ENBACH'S Plane stere No. 423 Vth Street, above Penna. Avenue, ——- vER 20 Years.) Pere hy ey pe and Wm See he rom ; Organ Tuning and Bepair apielys Gjz=4t Bamcains m DRY GOODS. SMONBY Can Fa Se ro PUBOHASLE@ «mORY BAXTER’s, asso FRUMSYLVARIA AVENUE. EADIES" Li BEMSTITCAED 100 aanbags proof AND ALL OTHER KIND OF JEWELBY, Bt €1.00 per wet, at 5. SELLERS, oc) tm Market spece, WASHINGTON. D. C.. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 28, 1870. _EVENING STAR. _|""" Washington News and Gossip. INTERNAL Revenve,—The receipts from thie wource to-day were $504,455.32. dion. A. M. CLarr, the Congressional Prin- ter, has gone to New York, and will uot return here til} Thursday morni SECRETARY Roszson is busily engaged at his residence on f street, in preparing his annual report. Gp. 0. O. Howaarp bas gone to Boston in the ipterests of the Congregational Olrurch of this ¢ity, and will remain there a week or two. He -pokein Dr. Wysthrop’s Church in Charles- town. Mass., yesterday afternoon, and in Dr. Weub’s in the evening, T'q® Work ov Consorrparine the internal Fevenué assessors districts throughout the coun- try. and reducing the number of assistant as sesedrs, which has been in progress since the Ist of Uctober, thus far has resulted in dispensing With 419 assistant assessors, and it is believed thatiat least 200 more will be dismissed by the Clos¢ of the year. FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF TRE ( wENf NEXT MONTH.—Secretary Boutwe'l has diretied the Astisiant Treasnrer at New York, to sql one million of gold each Wednesday, and t» pprebase one million of bonds each Thursday during the month of December. The aggregate goldso'd will be four millions, and of bonds purdhased five millions. Mp. T. B. Conyery, who has been for a = rot years the capable Washington cor- mdent of the New York Herald, has been called to New York to assume the important position of managing editor of that paper. He has Served in various capacities on the Hera and has been so successful in ail that his promo- toms well deserved. Berver Buic. Genera. F.T. Dent, A. D. to General Sherman. and on duty at the Presi- dent's House, has heen assigned to a regiment, with his rank of Lieutenant Colonel. General Dent bas held the position of Lienteuant Colo- nel for three years, and is now assigned to a regiment im order that he may not be on the unaf@igned list on the Ist of January next, whes all officers on that list at that time wilt be mustered out. He has not been promoted, as erropeousiy stated, and does not expect any pro: ‘for some time, as there are a number of officers shead of him on the jist who will be promoted first. VRE ENTERTAINMENT t Roegsle & Son, proprietors of “ The Arling- ton,” Saturday nizht, was an exceedingly pleas- anteiair. Most of the represeniativesof the press. Of the couniry, national and local, now in Washington, were present, and. as usual, when the prers gang get together, the good things said were in a concatenation with the good things tasted. The aifair has been fully Cescribed already in the papers, and we need only add that it served io demonsirate the abiliiy of the Messrs. Koessle, not only to “keep a hotel,” but several. he Arlington” hos been handsomely renevated fur the season, and is, altogether, a hotel that the city may be Proud of. je Press by Messrs. STILL SHIREING.—Despite the official no: cation by the Paving Commission (Secreta Deano, Mayor Emery and Gen. Mgchler) to the railioad company, that “ the pavement now in Progress of construction by the company is not satisfactory to the Commission, and they require that in ali respecte it should rea. souably conform to that which has been adopted for the residue of the avonne,’ the company ‘s to-day continuing to relay the cobblestone on their iracks between 2d and 3d sire ree men, with pipes im their mouths, are sjuatted at the work, while a fourth (also with pipe in mouth) wheels the familiar cobble- stoné; the whole operation presenting a fir emblem and portraiture of the niggaridly,ol- fogyish, bebind-ihe-time :pirit that anim: -*s the company in refasmg to do their past of the work of improv-men These gertlemen are making princely fortunes out of their franchise and can afford to pay their president an annual salary of $10.0) with a superb suite of rooms at Willard’s and otber incidentals; but when the great thorongh- fare is to be payed upon which they hold this valuable franchise, imstead of co-operating with the heavily taxed citizens to make the improvement uniform, they quibble avout the law, shirk their part, and set three men at work With & wheelbarrow relaying the abominable cobble-stone 9s their contribution to the work of progress now going on in Washington ! Well. if they choose to lay the cobbie-s £0 be it; but it mi tone, Arxy Onpgre.—Capt. Charles B. Phillips, Engineer Corps, has been relieved trom duty upon the staff of the commanding general De- ariment of M nd ordered to report to imore, Md. let Lient bi relieved from duty under Maj. Comstock, and ordered to Fort Leavenworth Kansas, to report to the comman- ding general Departinent of Mis-ouri. Capt Henry De B. Clay, tst. Lieuts. John A. Boda- mer aud Denis Caro!) ve been honorabiy discharged the se r the new atmy bill. NAVAL Orpers To-pay —Lieut. Com P. F. Hariington ordered to the Califoruia Passed Assistant Paymaster J. (. Barton or- dered to the Nipsic. Commander Rar! English Pay a from the command of sy Delaware laced on waiting orders. Lieut. Com- at re, Francis Morris, Kh. ). Evans, C. M. Shoemaker, 0. A. Batchellor, Henry B. Kobe son and C. F. Schmitz, Lieut. IB. Brad- ford. Sur es R laccoun. Passed — Svrgeon Pitkin, Assistart Sur; Adara ‘Traw, Chaplain E. ©. Bittinger, Chior Engiveer Stephen D. Hibbert, First’ Assistant Engibeer K. H. Gunnell, Second Assistant Engineers J. F. Bin; end W. H. Har. is, Bostawain John MeUattery, Gunner George Sivian, Carpenter Joseph E. Cox, and Sailmaker D. C. Brayton, detached from *he Delaware and placed on waiting orders. Paymaster A. H. Gilman, detached from the ware and ordered to settle his accounts. Commander Francis A. foe, detached from duty as on of staff of the Asiatic fleet anid on rs. Passed re : detached from the Ni ‘dered to settle his account: Capt. litz, detached from the New York navy to command the dered California, Tiheut Commander John MeFur- land, detached from the receiving-ship Poio- mac Paige ig ee California. i Lieat. Com- mander E. M. She! tached from the Mich- and the Ge California. Lieut. k. B. and dobn 8. Kitehen, detached from the Board of , Slo gamed Surgeons and ordered to the Uali- fornia. +200. “Wicked Ben.” {Charleston (3. C.) News.] L. F.Whitemore, otherwise known as “Wicked Ben,” or the Cadetsbip Peddler, has taken his seat ip the State Legisiatare as Senator trom Dariingior. Two Gevernons tm ALATAMA.—GovernT Smith, of Alabama, on Saturday obtained an injunction restraiping the presiding officer of the State ‘Senate from, counting the vote at tic recent election for Governor and Treasur:r. ir. Moren, Democrat, was by the ats officer, and the Senate’ conan elec Tenant Governor, and injunetion he counted the ballots for tie other officers, and Mr. Lindsay was 80 aszer- tained to have a majority tor Gove. nor and Mc. Graut « tog, oe Bao ‘reasurer, both bei ig v \zes Smith ‘aid the House of Delegates Lindesy, #0 that at pro ent the State bax two Governors. The aif.ir caused great excitement at Montgomery. &7 In Maine they cure rheumatism | with red hesting salve, OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INTERRAL REVENUE. A GOOD SHOWING. Year Ee- for ‘The report of Commissioner Delano made October 3t, 1870, presents in snecinct form the Tesults of the operations of the Kevenne Bureau from its organization up to the present time. ‘The estimate submitted in bis annual report for 1869, of the probable receipts from interna’ revenue sources, exclusive of the direct tax upon landsand the duty upon tee e!rentation and deposits of national banks, for the fiscal year 15/0, bas been more than realized. That pore: age was $175,C90,000, and the azore zate re- , under the then existing laws, are shown §145,735,86.57, an excess of $10,235, 867.97 pode the estimate. This aggrogate includes the sams refunded for taxes illegally assevsod and collected, amounting to $190,599.81, as well as the amount of commissions of “collectors. The total receipts for the sees six months of 110 384,408,2 And for the were. 69,184,725.13 Being an increase of 2 or total imerease of.. 15,233,583.44 $100,767,579.40 The total receipts for the last six mouths of 1810 are. And for the like were. Being an increate of 1! per cent., Or total merease of. A live statement is sub. mitted from which it appears that the total receipts for the fiscal year 18i@ are....., $185,235, The total receipts for the tiscal year 109 were... - 10,009, 344.29 * homing a net gain for the present x 96,523.66 A general increase of the revenue at the rate of 157-10 per cent. on the receipts of last year from all articles aud sources. From tables presented in the report, it ap- pears that there bas been @ continuous increase in the receipts from the excise tax trom June 30, 1869, te June 30, 1870, the sum Of $25, 196,593.08, and aver ing for each moath 00,710.00. ‘The term “sources not elsewhere enumerated” embraces, among other things, the restduum of taxes um under pre- vious laws which had been repealed. For the jast year this class has been greatly reduced Ivy the inore thorongh action ot collectors. The exhibitions of the foregoing table, and the deductions therefrom, with the genera) knowledge which experience in ‘ing the internal revenue laws has furnished, show that there ix no insurmountable difficulty in enforcing our excise laws, and that a proper regard to the qualifications’ of revenue Of vers for ability and integrity is what is most essen- tial to secure the prompt and certain collection of internal taxes. The employment of spiex and informers, and the policy of paying moie- ties. if they were ever nsefii!, are, in the Com- Missioner’s opinion, wo longer necessary. Hc thinks the revenue service would be umprowed by Mscontinning such aids. ‘The oteass ternacd + creer overs be cont vervice under the: tion of vitots. The number of distillerioe’ sother than fr registered during the last tisca! year Surber oF fruit disti istered The retnrms to this office for the last fiscal year show a total prod: on in taxable gallons, trom mal than Trait, of. i From trnit From trust not yer retnrncd, bul esti yearly production... 8 no reason for believing that there ibe any m: falling off in the produe- tion of spirits during the current fiscal year. ‘The plan ot surveying distilleries on the basis of a forty-e'ght hour termenting period, tor sweet mash, tu which attention was called in wy | annual report, bas been fully carried ss Tesults are highly catisfactory and cous to the Government. Af® « general rule those engaged in the 2 ness of distilling seem dispo: to obey the law. ‘The experience ot the past year lias served to strengthen the Commissioner's previous opinions as to the impoticy of changing the law taxing spirits, and induces him to re; 2at the recom- mentation in his last annual report that the rate of tax and the manner of its collection be left as they are now provided for. e receipts trom this source for 158i) are Set Kw.Is, alteady within four and a lval/ millions of his e~timate, shall nave been br fete execs tion with such amendments as time ard expe rievee may demoustrate te be necessar: fect the system.” Anticipation is ized without time: and experienc deciare it to be unwise and inexpedient to change the law in any essential feature TOBACCO. The receipts from tobacco continue to b: highly satisfactory. The receipts for the last fises} year, from this source, are. For tlie preceding year they were. wems to Showing an increase of..... 000 ‘Tis Increase of nearly $8,000,000 has not been spasmodic, but is a regalar monthly increase averaging over $600,000 per month. It is to be Corerved, also, that the late crop of tobacco was au interior one, owing to a genera! drougat in many of the tobacco-growing disiricts. The present law taxing tobacco imposes two rates Of tax on all manufactured tobacco—one of 16 cents and the other of 52 cents per pound It seems io have been the intention to apply the fortmuer rate ovly in exceptional cases, while the general rate was to be double the amount. But im practice it is found that what was to hare been but occasional and only exceptional has come to be too nearly the general and prevail- ing fate on all tobacco manufactrred and sold as smoking tobacco,while much that is intended Long tor chewing is sold also under the les- *erhere is but one remedy for the frauds per- petrated nnder this head, and that ix to make the tax on all descriptions of tobacco wnform. Less of imequality would then exist ander a tax — cents per pound than under the present rates, There seems to be no good reason why there should be two different rates of taxation on ar- ticles of equal price and value, simply because one is used for smoking and the other for chew- ing. Why not reverse the rule and i place the Jarger tax upon smoking tobacco and the lesser upen chewing? ith a tax of 52 cents per pound on all manufactured tobacco, the revenue can be collected with much, greater facility than at —. Manufacturers would be at liberty to be avy modes of manipulating the raw ma- terial, or any process of manufacturing 1¢ they deemed sity without beis questioned fre practical operations of the tax ee ne of of conaamere, while the hay of the Treas- ould be inereaced, ing the last fiscal ete tt the tobaceo 1 hone: trade are generall fe tavor of @ uniform rate ptions and rate, ‘whether ior 32 cents per pound, bahay the tax is uniform. ® thorou collected, and the msnafeeterer left tree to manipulate his product as he pleases, EXPORT BONDED WAREHOUARS. ‘To correct evils in the bonded warehonse sys- tem, it is recommended that the law be eo amended a8 to allow no goods entered for ex- port in bonded warehouses to be withdrawn tas, until twelve montht frou the tine they ACT OF JULY.14, 1870, ‘The attention of Congress is called to certain defects, ambiguities, and contradictions, which, in the hurry of legistation incident to the ouing J, labors of « soatton, cariie td Feta giv ecce In some in seas, the logal eat Ja gla jo w be to impose tioned to August 1, 1870, and no and col of all interest or evidences of gon the voy Ar dents, whether citizens or aliens. ; yew the five Ternit should make prov Of all the lands which have beep acquired and are now owned by the United States, wader the direct-tax laws, at an early day. the direct taxes in the lute n States, adifierent system irom that provided revenue laws. erty eeized ehould be exte: $500, and the e: should be provi praisement and sale. the section is nearly uselecs. Eainate of the annuat receipts in each State and itis all sources of stamps, July 1 i Fie iy ia, a ne a longer. Section 15 provides ‘that there shall be levied for aud during the ahalf per centum on coupons paid, or bonds or other dedt issued and able in one or company, company, turn- pike Company. — company, and Stackwater coat wheter | a Spare the fame shall vabic, abd to whatesevor per- be ee ine ling non-res.- it 1s believed to bave been the intention to per cent. tax until August 1, and to substitute a tax of two a halt per » therefor on and after that date. But, owing to the peculiar language of the statute, ‘no tax can be withbeld from coupons ialling dne during iact five calendar months of 1-70. feed on to a recent decision of the Circuit State of Pennsylvania, in the case or the Phitadelphis and Reading Railroad Com- pany vs. Barnes, collector, no tax can be with- t id trom dividends, coupons, or interest, pay- able during the tirst seven months of 1870; and it is further maintained that corporations can- Pred Tequired to pay apy taxes upon the divi- able during the remaing five months. Tenieny te withhold a tax from the salaries of persons in the civil, military, or naval ser- vice of the United States during the first seven months of Js70, turms also upon the points in- volved in the case above named. ‘The amount vi tax indirectiy :mvoived in thix nestion +* very little less than siz miltions of lars. It is of such importance that the Com- missioner has not felt at liberty to acquiesce in the decision of the circuit court until it shall bave been affitmed by the court of last resort. Steps have been taken, theretore, to have the opinion of the Supreme o ene of the United States pronounced a questions in issue. As early as January 4, 1570, he called the atten- tion of Congress, through its appropriate com- mittee, to the ambiguities of the law then in force, and the difficulties likely to arise in the collection of these taxes. and asked for legisla- tion upon the subject. ‘The legislation was finally enacted July “ith. but has declared by the circuit court of Pennsylvania to have been too late to serve the purpose desired. It is provided in section 15, that “ when any divideud is made or interest is paid, which in cludes any part of the cage ot or eontimgent fund of any corporation which bas been as- sessed andthe tax paid thereon, or whieh in- eludes any part of the dividends, interest, or coupons received from other corporations whose officers are authorized by law to withhold a centum on the game, the amount of faz 80 paid ou that portion of the surplus or contingent fund, and the amount of tar which bas been withheld and paid on dividends, interest, or coupens so received, may be from the tax on such dividend or interest.” Owing to a change in the rate xation from five per gent. to two and one-half percent., taxes properly paid upon surplus prior to Angus! Lo omay new be oe ee Ltn de- Anel: in however, and a part Of it, are $15,611.03, taken from a fund trom whieh prior to August | there was paid, as then rewired by law, a tax of five per cent. me-hall per cent. upon the entire the taxol ive per eent. paid lus is $i62/5. The law allows the tax Paid upon the surplus to be deducted from the tax assessed upon the dividend. In the ex- ample. the —— exceeds the latter, and cov- ce August 1, to — axation entirely. Id have resulted ditterently it the law nai vided tor a deduction of taxed surplus from dividend> instead of a deduction of tax from tax Public resolution No. 75, approved July 13, 1S, Tevieved insurance companies from cer- but an act passed the next day re- siored t in language so plain as, in my judg: ment, to operate a» & repeal of the resolution. ‘The repeal of ti includes. practical repeal of the tax upon demand and sight draits, bank checks, tc. A person who las money on deposit, instead of drawing by check receives the money and gives his recerpt Vebapocs ig retained by the bark asa voucher. ‘Ibis practice is increasing, and seem= likely to become general. While itis an eva- sion of taxes it is one for which the present law Provides no remedy. ‘The repeal of the —s sax apon apotheca- ries takes effect May 1, Is:!. After that time they must either al: Dest the dispensing and sale of wines and spirits officinal upon phy sician’s prescriptions or otherwise, or pay special taxes as liquor dealers, unless there shall be ad- ditional legislation on the subject. So far ax they are concerned the act of July 1, i870, in- creases the taxes. ‘The detects mentioned are bat a part of thore ready discovered, and are provably but small part of those which will eventual! found toexist. Some of them this office tempted to reconcile and avoid by construct) How far this construction will be sanctioned by the courts remains to be seen. UNITED STATES DIRECT TAX. By act of Congress approved Augu a direct tax of $20,000,000 per antium was app tioned to all of the then existing Stat es, and the Disirict of Columbia. this +02, remains unsettled in the insurrectionary States. In Virginia, South Carolina. #lori@a, Arkan- dividen and sas and ‘i ennessee, lands were sold tor the nou- payment of taxes charged against (hem. it may be deemed important that Congress ion for the final disposition And al-o, that in the adjustment of the nncollected portion of insurrectionary in the act of June 7, 162, should be devised. SEIZURES. ‘The seizures of property for frauds for the year ending Jane 30, 1S'0, amounted to the value of $5 “71, It is recommended that eection 63 of the act of July 13, 1866, be eo amended as to make its a SS — property forfeited under an; Hepcceitd The limit in value of the from to mses of seizure and custody a for as wel! as those of ap- As the law now stands from internal tavation after ihe act oY hort shall be im full force. unt. ——— A aha Total ....$111,418,000 pectin wih e's Be ES of internal reven: ino. Bue oat otal of this raise a Saal Tepe yearty in proportion to the pee a call g pcos nag weg ang bees 2 ly not to NOEL 'r cent. this estimate the Si en of ‘New York, spe ase pyle Kentucky, ‘the | TELEGRAMS 70 1 TO THE STAR. THIS AFTERNOON'S DISPATCHES 4SSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS, THE WAR IN EUROPE. MIGULY LYPORT.ANT. THE BLACK SEA DIFFICULTY. A comparative statement of the receipts from the general sources of revenue from September | 1, 1867, to February 28, 1908, and from March 1, | vie | Hae Ane 31, 1870, Russia Acrees toa Conference \ Pome See ae THE CONFERENCE TO MEET IN JANUARY i IMPORTANT FROM FRANCE. BATTLEONTHE LOIN Victeriaen om Metaraey da, Tee aston Fest Mr. 7 Routed. he bas the Vatiefantion of kuowing that it faire are left in 2 most excellent condition. IMPORTANT MILITARY ORDER. Retired. rmy The following important army order has been issued from the War Department : By direction of the President, and under the provisions of section 5 of the act of Con; 1870, the following-named oficers are hereby Sear active service, ‘Un their own application. servis, iw conformity. with w® ction ws, TSatoncls George A. Pelegraphed Baciusively to The Evening Mar. AGREES TO A CONFRRENCK PRILADELruia, Nov. 283—A dispatch to the ? agreed to a conference aypeoved July 15, vk TO ASSEMBLE NUARY. —{By cable from priv this morning coutarns ~ Petersburg dispaiches of a more pacific to | and notes a partial retarn of commercial 4 m between Russia and tin. It bas been detinit sources.}—The a sates Loven i" Pherds Yth infantry Joh Lieutenant Coloueis Augnains A. idem, en - Be: ‘Will, oth artillery; George W. | settied that a meer ving of the foreign | ef the Powcre interested im the tre c in England in Janaary. rep iat oltees | tivity. ‘Ne coli 7 incapacity, resultin from wounds or ted. orfrom exposure ii duty, in conformity with sectton 36 and I of Jonop! from long and faith Injury received. from t FRENCH VICTORIES ALONG THE LOIKE. Dispatches from ‘ours announce that ol: Lieut. Colom Int artillery; Maurice Mado Side, unareicved French victories along the Loire are c 1 is reported that the Germans Lave been routed and are retreating. ENGLAND CALMING DOWN. 2—(Cable to Associated | Press.}—The fesling im financial circles to-day is much more healthy. The fear of a rapture in the relations between Great Britain and Kawtia, of the Binat Boa ditcalty. in i Ong atl classes o! ing omong all clases of p on the quest fhe Times this ‘mornii Gortschakot, which goes forward to St. Peters- burg to-day, will be firm and conciliatory. A PROTEST PROM ITALY. A protest from the Italian gorermment war rept to St. Petersburg on Saturday last. BISMARCK SURPRISED AT GORTSCHA KOFF. wi my Spoansivned. Wim. Burns, Teh infantry d Joe: . 78. Une d, Ch asety tre not Dolan. ones ard (Da Botae eh i: John i ntry. Michael.J. Hogerty thse Unas-igned, Jas. i ‘0: - eipoent. 2 ard J. Whiting. unassigned ed: Aseictant et Win. the commend held by contermits with scctions the fot cone 3 aie fares ® Odo Russell dined vesterday with King Wil liam, at Versaities. Me was well received. Me subseyuently had an interview with Bismarck. ‘The latter anid: While adhering to a conference ‘no concert with Russia, he was eur- the action of Gortschaketl. i however, declined to interfere in the matter. WAR ITEMS FROM LONDON, Loxpox, Nov. 2, Lia. m.—News from France to-day is meagre aud unimportant. The Paris Figaro implores the French gov- ent to conclude peace, the delense « Paris being imposible. ‘The Tonrs Journals of Saturday speak of © y activity of the War Depa IMPORTANT! (NCH DEFEATED YESTERDAY p. m.—The following ieportant dispatel bas jast been received here ‘Tours, Nov. 25, forenoon.—A battle oc yesterday between Villiers and Salew in the department ef Somm: The French maintained © ~past four in the after Niers was abandoned be "J the *uperior fure.s aud artillery of the Prus ra. 35th ior iofantry ales ae mene rick. umacsi, ri Firet SSSR w. ibe full raak of Lien ieevup tee fal rank of of horn Teeicueds Willies J 43 Dewee: ua win C. suapagnes: BS Siew, C I ioe! abo ‘named ler toes leted to thelr reepactive respective: to be retired will be upon. a8 Foon as decid: ——-s0e- The weekly statement of the New York asso- ciated banks is, strictly speaking, unfavorable, ae the changes are in reality only trifling The feature of importance is a decrease of shot @ quarter of 4 million in the legal reserve, to a further loss in greenbacks, wi ted for by the Treasury week, which gave the street & million ef poy and took out of it a million of currency, the later operation of buying bonds not appearing in the week’s —— The Markew To-Day. anne Exclusively o The eening Star. when the town of \i The French were subsequently Banes, a tew wiles west of Vriliers, but at Dury maintained their positions uatil y thonsand Germans were engaged in the conflict at the latter place. THE PARISIAN FIT L —Vorts D* say, Vauves, Mont a ge, Bicetun, and D'lvty, om the soaihe » main'ained a continuo: on furious fire on the Prussian lines Saturday nigkt. The Prussians ¢a- another sortie, bat at last accounts ali (— betel cfd iar tee ite. @1.70a8 a —_ to choice reat m1 8: sii 4 sie est yellow 83, apork 40. 18: no shout gt Fh THE wan WITH RUSSIA. W. 5, via Berlia and | . The peed of the Bi qustion may be hoped for on the basis of a con- ference and the withdrawal of the Russian note. After Constantinople and St. Petersburg bad fm alxes, old. 49; bid. ed: Jo. 1565, OY Bid: Gig wxked: do. Ss London was agreed upon. Mussia i« entirely’ peaceable. EAT OF THE Loxpox, Nov. 22 GARIBALDIANS. . M.—The following ails of an engagement between the Pras! under Werder, and the French under Gari » the department ef Vosge~ ecetved here, dated Dijon, y The Galdians, w trom Paeques, late Saturday 7 upon the outposts ef the Pr: h they sttacked with great imper sians were at firs: « b at reiwntorcements oon J ‘citer of the Weet asa Decoy for ker Hiss Colonel Whitley » Chief - the Secret Service ithe in 1 pear Pasques a fro Spee field, 1N., Applegate, Lanigan, capturing at that otorious, counterfeiter and one place the most of the most desperate Peter McCartney, nion, a Frenchman, th e of his confederates. in don of McCartney was foand one bun- thirty-one thousand doilarsin counter and denominat'ons. MeCartucy has creates! almost as great a sensa- tion in the West on crimes as the Lotoris , soldiers throwing away their ars a knapsacks in the tight. ‘The rext day (Sunday) Werder took a cir-nit around Plombieres, and, im this way. overt the French rear guard. Another cngagement 2 ant of bis namerou: Joun A. Murrell. the did many years ago. arrested over and over again, 1 has broken jail at leust six times—onee in Springtield, 11'., ‘and once in Cineinnati, where he was by Chief of Police, nied and the Preeies iy is said that Menotti Garabald: bad under his command in Er vitulation of La Fere ron of ail sorts fell into the hands of the Bs “dim” Ruffin, of Cincin- counterfeit plate detectives came pear him a short time since. He just eluded them by the merest chance. They however, captured his wife, who is @ ioet bea tiful woman and very respectably whom he is passionate’ and it is owing to his endeavors to commu: cate with her that he was finally yy ed ie powerfal, well built man, with ght, deeply set, & massive fe Wine asa ie u his Possession. VED OUT SAFE. 28.—The French steamer J.a oagetse, 1 irom New York for Havre, arrived at thts port safely yesterday morning. MURE ABOUT THE FIGHTING ON Sav- UBDAY. *, Nov. 28.—im reconnoitering near yesterday.the 16th Prussian corps en 20th French corps, of Gen. De pd od wera pro- Orleans and wears = the moat handsome | countered the Palladine’s army. An tele 3 prod eggs is the Indian cure for dye Sree, a the fe sheet | | & | ; [ ? 7 F | lf kc i f i i ry uy £ i i i é ? ' i i | i 5 : i et FA D i i i i 4 ? ii i | | z FE : H § if aF & i i is i :