Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Consular officers at London and Liverpool have been ordered by Secretary Folger to appoint sanitary inspectors to examine all vessels leaving for the United States and cable information of the discovery of any disease on board The Secretary of the Treasury received a draft for $4,400 drawn by the Exchange National Bank of Atchison, Kan., on the First National Bank of Cticago, with the following request: “Please place the amount of the inclosed draft to the credit of the United States for the benefit of the same.— Unknown Debtor. ” It was credited to the conscience fund M. A. Dauphin, of the Louisiana Lottery Company, has entered suit in the District of Columbia courts, through his attorneys, against Walter Q. Gresham, Postmaster General, for SIOO,OOO damages, sustained by his order forbidding the use of the mails to them. The distillers who have not been able to escape the payment of tax by the exportation of distilled spirits are understood to be making another formidable combination to endeavor to induce the next Congress to enact a law extending the bonded period The receipts from internal revenue for the fiscal year just closed were #144,553,366. The customs duties aggregated $214,401,142 Secretary Folger has called in the remainder of the per-cent, bonds, the amount being about #31,000,000. Interest will cease Nov. 1 next. Commissioner Evans has given Secretary Folger his estimates of the effect of recent national legislation on the internal revenue of the country. He believes that the total receipts of the year ending Julie 30 next will show that Congress made changes which cut down the internal income of the administration $43,000,000. The Treasury Department has received a remonstrance from the British authorities against the return to England of three alleged pauper emigrants who were going to friends in this country who had promised to take care of them, and which emigrants had shown letters to that effect on their arrival in the United States. The matter is being inquired into.