The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-19
WASHINGTON, August II, 1868.

| WASHINGTON, August IL; 1ooo.
The return Of the Commissioner OF IN
ternal Revenue to Washington is an event
tina. interests a good many people, inasmuch
AS IL is now believed that the important aP-
3 pointments of supervisors under the new
revenue law will be made. Rollins does not
'intend resirning his Office, as, indeed, mis-
nolit;cal friends have all along asserted.
Il ia Thought that by day after Tomorrow
tbese snnervisors will be appointed and as
the onnlications are from all over the coun-
try the publication Of the lucky indl-
v;1nals viii be read with much interest.
Campaign matters are becoming more
lively, and it is very evident, from reports
received here by letter and otherwise, that
che Democracy are on the advance IN the
western Radical strongholds. Politicians
are beginning to count up the figures, and
many predict favorable results from Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois-three States in which
the Radicals are mastering their forces on
the defensive. The stunning effect of the
recent election in Kentucky is bound to tell
in those States. In Kentucky there has
been change Of 10000 men, who two years
ago were either Radical or third-party advo-
Gates, more in sympathy with extreme
Radiealism than with Democracy; ana IL
cannot be doubted that this change extends
across the Ohio river into the States have
mentioned. The indications of that extern
sion of change in political sentiment are
already cast, and have produced the NY ~,
liest excitement among the RADICALS. INC
opponents to that creed are Wlae a"ahe
and since Kentucky voted, there nave oeeh
more sanyuinc hopes expressed OF the It.
demption OF the great West to the cause OF
constitutional liberty than for long time
previous. - - ::
II is n question of some considerable in
terest to know what official steps will be
taken towards guarding against recur-
renee of the outrage which resulted last week
from the parade of negro troops through the
streets of the capital with muskets loaded
and bayoncts fixed. 1t was directly against
the express orders of the President and OF
General Grant. No one doubts but that
ON every similar occasion, should these pa
rodes he allowed to continue, we shall have
more or less riotous conduct.
There is now very little heard about the
resssembling of Congress next month,
though the southern Radicals and some OF
those in the North are making strenuous
efforts for that purpose. When Congress
adjourned it was conceded that the only OBJ
;cct of September session would be for the
purpose of impeaching again the President
Of the United States but SO far there has
nothing arisen which will give these latter
day impeachers any opportunity to play
their game, unless the announcement that
the President will support Seymour and
Blair is accepted rs sufficient reason. The
members of Congress from the South would
have it believed that without some action
bv Congress the Radical cause is hopeless
in the States they claim to represent. AS
a general thing, however, the most proml-
nent northern Radicals are just now rather
too busy in attending to the campaign IN
their own States TO give much heed to the
cause in the South.
J. w. Jones has been appointed store
keeper under the new revenue law, and
will probably be assigned to duty III the
Fourth Virginia District.
Under the new internal revenue regula-
tious and instructions concerning the tax
ON distilled spirits, under the act OF July
10th, there is an important provision TO
those southern localities where brandy Is
distilled from fruit, which decides that
distillers of brandy from apples, peaches,
or grapes, exclusively, are subject to the
same taxes and rates of tax rs other dlstll-
lcrs. They must register their stills, give
the notice and file The bond required OF
other distillers, but are exempted from the
additional requirements imposed upon
other distllers, who are not the owners Of
the fec of the distillery premises, and
will not be required to furnish the plan
required by section g.. The survey
must be made as required by sec
ton 10. They viii be held subject to
all the requirements of the law as to the
assessment, collection, or ascertalnment OF
the tax due, and providing for the keeping
of books, and for returns, except that in
stead of making returns tri-monthly they
will make return on form Is on the first
day of each and every month, or within
five days thereafter, and the tax on the
spirits distilled by them during the period
embraced in their returns must be paid at
the time OF making their RETURN When
stamps shall be provided, they must be
affixed, rs provided in other cases, and the
tax-paid stamp must be affixed by the
gauger before the spirits are removed from
the distillery and until stamps are fur
nished the spirits must be inspected ana
branded OF marked, AS in other cases, before
the same are removed from the distlllery.
"They will not be required to provide
bonded warehouse, nor to remove the spirits
produced by them from the distillery to
bonded warehouse, nor to erect receiving
cisterns in the distillery. They will be
exempt from any penalty for nop-compil-
ance with any of the provisions Of section
seventeen; and also the provisions OF sec
ton twenty-five, in relation to isuspendlng
work nor will they be subject to the per
diem capacity tax imposed by section thir-
teen, after the distillery is, closed for the
season." eE.s. 3'.r7a~.. -
Secretary Schofeld is expected to return
to Washington Tomorrow from West Point,
where he went to attend the bedside of his
son, who has, as has already been reported,
since died. 1t is thought that upon his re-
appearance in Cabinet meeting the subject
of the violation of the order prohibiting
parades of armed military in this District
will be brought up for consideration, when
some additional order will be promulgated.
1t is not yet known when the President
will be able to take his much-needed sum-
mer recreation, as the demand upon his
time seems now to be as formidable as ever,
and every day the ante-rooms Of the White
House are crowded by applicants, agents,
and petitioners, begging audience with him.
Certainly no citizen who knows anything OF
thetrials and endurances of President John
sen, or who has any idea whatever of how
completely he has given himself up to the
demands OF the public, and to the .arduous
duties OF the executive office, would grudge
him one single hour of q vacation, where,
in pleasant tour to the mountains, or ride
I IN fhe prai tries or even n cruise on the