The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-04-28
WARRINGTON ITEMS.
AUSTRIAN TROOPS IN ROUTE FOR ME,

AUSTRIAN TROOPS IN hbtlE f'h MENi'o.
There are well-authcnticatcd rumors
here that Austrian troops are already on
the way to Vera Cruz, and that they will
arrive there in few days. You will re-
member the news from France tele-
praphcd you last week, to the effect that
for "cvcry soldier withdrawn ten others
stood ready to fill his place." and there is
not shadow of doubt (all ine-spun French
diplomatic notes to the contrary but what
this information is correct, and will he real
lied should the occasion or necessity offer.
Correspondence Ledger.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL GONE SOUTH.
Attorney General James Speed left the
city last night for Louisville, KY, and il is
expected that he will be absent a fort
night. During his absence the duties of
the office dcvolvcs upon J. IIublcy Ashton,
Assistant Attorney-Gcncral.-Star.
JUDGE sTANBERRY.
1t is within the knowledge of your cor
respondent that Mr.. Stanbcrry has resided
for the last seven or eight years in Camp.
bell county, Kentucky, about three miles
south of Newport, in that State. The
President was, Of course, aware that Mr..
Stanbcrry was resident of Kentucky
when the nomination was madc.-Ne'r
York. Times.
INCOMES OF LESS THAN ONE THOUSAND DOL
LARS EXEMPT.
One of the changes in the Internal Rev
cnuc law proposed by the Ways and Means
Committee is To make the income tax five
per cent. on the excess of one thousand
dollars, instead of six hundred dollars, as
heretofore.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE BILL.
On tobacco the committee decided to-
dav to reduce the tax on smoking from
thrtv-tivc to twenty-five cents per pound,
and on smoking made exclusively from
stems, from fifteen to five cents per pound.
The tax bill is the special order for Thurs
day of next week.
THE PRESIDENT AND vICE-PRESIDENT.
Acting Vicc-Prcsidcnt Foster has been
at the White House q good deal lately.
The Senator was not quite 50 friendly III
his attentions during the trying times OF
the veto. Taken III connection with the
troubles among the Republican members of
the Connecticut Legislature, and with the
fact that Senator Fosters term expires
next year, these frequent visits of the re-
coguizcd leader of the party III Comccti-
cut are suggestive.
POST-uFFICES IN VIRGINIA.
! Reopen the following Offices and make
appointments
| Virginia Dale, Rockbridgc county,
Daniel Swink, postmaster, vice Isabella
! McWilson, declined.
Cedar Bluff, Tazcwcll county, James
! Norton, postmaster, vice 7. NJ. Scott.
Wolf Trap, Halifax county, Moses X.
Chandler, postmaster, vice II. c. Moon, no
( bond.
/ Apponunrnt~.-H Y. Terry, poStma>-
/ ter, Middlcbrook, Augusta county, vice
+. lIogshcad, declined.
William II. Jenkins, postmaster, Oak
/ Forest. Cumberland county, vice Miss l..
/ \. Robinson, who cannot take the oath.
/ West Virginia. Spring, Green
brcr county, Joseph \. Rapp, postmaster,
vice W. \. Brown.
INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT.
/ The Internal revenue project, as now re-
/ ported, appears 10 he tavorably received.
1t reduces the aggregate amount of inter
nal revenue hv some sixty or seventy mil
/ HONS, OF ont-HllH. II tAtlhpl> lliail al IL
clcS of ordinary consumption from taxa
ton. IT will cheaper many necessary
I goods of domestic manufacture by relieving
! raw material, in many instances, from
taxes. The exemption of incomes below
thousand dollars from taxes is some rellci
10 Il large number Of people. The increase
of the tax on raw cotton is of doubtful eN-
pcdicncy, but ii is contcndcd by many that
Tor some wears at least the tax will chiefly
fall on the foreign consumer. Whisky and
cotton are, it is said, to pay the national
debt. The former article had something
to do with making the debt, though it has
been attributed mainly to the influence OF
the lattcr.-t Correspondence san.
4 PANIC.
Quite an excitement was created yes
terday among the residents of the section
of the city known as murder Bay" by
the sudden illness of seven contrabandS
from eating catfish, by which man and
woman died, and the rest made seriously
sick. The circumstance created Il panic,
ON the Suppo>ition that the disease was
cholera.
Trial of the Philadelphia Murderer