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

rsE PAIL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT An
NoUNCENENT.

7 l. AN-
NoUNcENENT.
Ipresume violate no confidence when
I inform you that the ensuing fall elections
arc to be carried at all hazards for the Ad-
ministration party. There will be no Con-
necticut slip-ups, sm assured. The En-
ecutivc has been informed by those in fire.
quent converse with him that such fatal
errors must not be allowed to occur in any
State where they can be prevented ana
there is the best possible authority for as
sorting that he holds the same view. Ills
new position in cutting loose from those
whose "acts tended toperpetuate disuh'oh
and make disruption of the States ine'l-
table " is said to be fully realized by MN,
and he feels that he can now move torwaru
in the work Of restoration unfetterea ID!
anv fear of displeasing the people at large,
or any supposed Abandonment OF the
marty that elected him." His declaration,
rs EXPRESSED at the threshold OF the fali
campaign, is, Those who oppose me, VIII
oppose. "-Corespo.dence Ledger.
ALIBBY PRISON COUNTERFEIT.
During the confinement Of Colonel
Straight and his companions in Libby prl-
son. some Of them, though indliicrently
provided with drawing materials, SO wen
initiated United States notes as to ma
ready purchasers among the rebels IN cX-
change for provisions. One OF these
countcrfeits reached the United States
Treasurer to-day, the owner oft innocent
" supposing il would be redeemed by that
officer.
POLITICAL.
The chairman of the National Union
Executive Committee, in conformity with
a resolution adopted at a meeting of the
committee held at Philadelphia on tho
10th instant, has appointed the following
named members Of the committee to con-
stitutc subcommittee, with power TO
act in matters relating to the pending cam
paign: Colonel 2. Babcock, New Haven,
Conn; Hon. Robert II. Pruyn, Albany,
Y. V; General Samuel NJ. Seulick, Phila-
delphia, Pa; Hon. Thomas &. Pratt,
Baltimore; Hon. J. o. Norton, Chicago ;
Barton Able, St. Louis; Hon. W. l..
Sharkey, jackson, Miss; Joseph 7. Crow
ell, Railway, n. J.
PROVOST MARSIIALS ENErNT.
An order Of the Secretary Of War d.
rccting 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
by bookbinders, not being specially
named in the list Of exemptions, are re-
garded as taxable.
1t has been decided that manufacturer
of cnamelled cloth, who makes his own
cloth and consumes or uses the same by
making thcrefrom enamclled cloth, is liable
to tax of five per cent. al rd!Oren 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-
lacturcr, or the producer, in 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 IL,
1866, which provides that "packing boxes
made Of wood are exempt.