The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-24

~, ,III ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AN
NoUNCEMENT.

TNH YtLL ECTIOSS-lhfOhiASi AS
NoUNCEMENT.
Inresume I violate no confidence wher
7 inform YOU that the ensuing fall elections
arc to be carried at all hazards for the al
ministration party. There will be no Con
necticut slip-ups, l am assured. The IN
ccutivc has been informed by those IN ire,
oucnt converse with him that such iata
errors must not be allowed to occur In an!
! State where they can be prevented; ana
there is the best possible authority Tor as
sorting that he holds the same view. lie
new position in cutting loose from liose
whose "acts tended toperpetuatc diSu''oi'
and make disruption of the STATES incs''
table " is said TO be fully realized oy h'ni,
/. and he feels that he can now move 'ol
in the work of restoration nhie''elIu W
any fear of displeasing the people a. iaige'
or any supposed abandonment OF the
marty that elected him." HIS declaration,
as cynrcssed at the threshold OF the fali
campaign. is, "Thosc who oppose me, VIII
oppose. "-Colrespondence Ledgr.
LIBBY PRISON COUNTERFEIT.
! During the confinement of Coloncl
Straight and his companions in Libby prl-
son, some Of them, though indiiereh''H
provided with drawing materials, so wen
! initiated United States notes as to ma
ready purchasers among the rebels IN cN-
! change for provisions. One OF 1heSe
couutcrfei,s reached the United States
Treasurer to-day, the owner Off innocent =
| " surprising it would he redeemed by that
| officer.
POLITICAL.
The chairman of the National Union
Executive Committee, in conformity with
a resolution adopted at meeting of the
committee held at Philadelphia on tho
10th instant, has appointed the following
named members Of the committee to con-
stitutc a subcommittee, with power to
act in matters relating to the pending cam
uaicn: Colonel =. Babcock, New Haven,
Conn; Hon. Robert ii. Pruyn, Albany,
n.y.; General Samuel NJ. Seulick, Phila-
dclphia, Pa: Hon. Thomas q. Pratt,
Baltimore Hon. J. 0. Norton, Chicago
Barton Able, St. Louis; Hon. W. l..
Sharkey, jackson, Miss; Joseph 7. Crow
ell, Railway, n. J.
PROVOST MARSIIALS EAEtNT.
An order Of the Secretary of War di-
recting the Provost Marshal General to
turn over the affairs OF his Bureau to the
Adiutant- General on the 2Sth instant was
promulgated to-day.
GENERAL HowARD'S SUCCESSOR.
An official dispatch was sent from the
War Department to-day to General Till
son, now in Saco, Maine, instructing him
not TO return TO his command in Georgia,
but to come to Washington.
internal REVENUE DECISIONS.
The Acting Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has decided that tar boards used
bv bookbinders, not being specially
named in the list of exemptions, are re-
gardcd rs taxable.
1t has been decided that a manufacturer
of cnamelcd cloth, who makes his own
cloth and consumes or uses the same by
making theretrom enamclled cloth, is liable
to a tax of five per cent. al rd!orem there
on, as if the same had been sold by him.
Cigar boxes are not exempt from tax, as
they are not used for the purpose of en-
closing goods, wares, or merchandise which
have been sold by the dealer, the manu-
| tacturcr, or the producer, i'll order to Sc
cure safe transportation from the place
of sale to that OF delivery, but simply as
boxes into which cigars are placed in order
that they may be in a salcablc condition ;
therefore they are not regarded as coming
under the provisions Of the act OF July Is,
1906, which provides that "packing- boxes
made of wood " are exempt.