The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-10-11
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Thanksgiving Day---A Proclamation
by the President

WASHINGTON NEWS.
Thanksgiving Day---A Proclamation
by the President.
The year which is drawing to close has
been free from pcstilencc health has pre-
vailed throughout the land abundant crops
reward the labors Of the husbandman: COM
mcrcc and manufactures have successfully
prosecuted their peaceful paths: the mines
and forests have yielded literally; the nj
ton has increased in wealth and in strength
peace has prevailed, and its blessings have
advanced every interest of the people in
every part of the Union; harmony and fra
tcrnal intercourse restored are obliterating
the marks Of past conflict and estrangement
burdens have been lightened; means have
been increased; civil and religious liberty
arc secured to every inhabitant of the land
whose soil is trod 10y none but frcemen.
II becomes people thus favored to make
acknowledgment TO the Supreme Author,
from whom such blessings flow, of their
gratitude and their dependence, to render
praise and Thanksgiving for the same, and
dcyoutly TO implore continuance Of Gods
mcrCeS.
Therefore /, Ulysses S. Grant, President
of the United States, do recommend that
Thursday the 18th day of November next
be observed as Il day of THANKSGIVING and
Creator and the Ruler of the Universe.
And ! do further recommend to all the
people OF the United States to assemble on
that day in their accustomed places of pub
lie worship, and to unite in the homage and
praise due TO the bountiful Father of all
mcrclcS, and in fervcnt prayer for the con-
tinuancc of the manifold blessings lie has
YouchSlcd TO us rs a people.
In testimony whereof | hcrcunto set my
hand, and have caused the seal of the United
STATES to be affixed. this fifth day Of October
\. -. one thousand eight hundred and
SiNty-ninc, and Of the independence of the
United States of America the ninety-fourth.
BY the President: Z. S. GRANT.
Hamilton Fash, Secretary Of State.
OPTICAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF Ex-PREsIDEsr
FIERCE's DEATH.-- Washington, October s,
1S9.-Thc painful duty dcYolves upon the
President of announcing to the people of
the United States the death Of one of his
honorcd predecessors, Franklin Pierce.
which occurred nj Concord carlvthis morn
ing. Eminent in the public councils and
universally beloved i'll private life, his death
will be mourncd with sorrow befitting the
loss which his country sustains in his de-
cease.
AS mark Of respect to his memory it is
ordered that the Executive Mansion and the
several departments ut Washington he
drapcd III mourning, and i'll business sus-
pended on the day of the funeral. 1t is
further ordered that the War and Navy De-
partmcutS cause suitable military and naval
honorS to be paid on this occasion to the
memory Of the illustrious citizen who has
passed from among us. L. S. GRANT.
DIsTILLERs OF FRUIT.-The interests of
the service and Of fruit distillers both de-
handing it, the Secretary of the Treasury
and Commissioner of Internal Revenue, on
consideration, have directed the issuing of
n supplement to rcgulatiOns-SerieS 5, No.
T-eXcmpting distll!erS of apples, peaches,
and grapes, from the provisions OF section
%. act Of July 20, 1868, which requires dis
tillcr> 10 put up their spirits in packages of
not less than twenty gallons. These distil-
lcrs from fruit will hereafter be permitted
10 put M their spirits in packages of not
less than ten gallons. InaSmuch as no tax
paid stamp has heretofore been used for
packages Of less than twenty gallons, IL new
stamp l. being prepared for ten-gallon pack
ages, with coupons attached, 50 rs To he
adapted 10 a package Of any amount be-
tween ten and twenty gallons. All pack
ages of twenty or more gallons will be
stamped with the taX-paid stamp heretofore
IL use.
In the Supreme Court OF the United
Samuel Is. Paul against the Commonwealth
OF Virginia. This case grows out OF Il pre-
sentiment i'll the circuit court Of Petersburg
against Paul, charging him with acting ~
agent for IN insurance company OF New
York without license. The accused volun-
tacily pleaded guilty, and the result OF the
trial was conviction. The case was then
taken before the Court of Appeals OF Nir-
gnia, where the conviction was affirmed.
and is now brought there.
Postmaster-Gcncral Crcswcll has opened
negotiations with the British POst-Otiice
Department for further reduction of post
age Of the latter between the United states
and Great Britain. He wants it put al six
cents.
An investigation is in progress at the
Treasury Department about 4 package OF
mutilatcd currency which was sent there
some time ago hy 4 bank for redemption.
The package contained thousand dollars,
and the facts show that the package was
regularly rcceiptcd for by the messenger OF
the department, who delivered it to the
Currency Bureau. What became Of II after
that is not known.
POSTAL AFFAIRS IN NIRGISIA.-A new
office is established at Hicks " hart, MAJ
thcw> county, and Samuel Clark appointed
postmaster, directly on steamboat route
from Norfolk 10 Mathews Courthouse. AT
Mitchelrs station, Culpepcr county, Mrs.
Laura Il. Lawrence is appointed postmls-
tresS rec Isaac Winston, resigned. AT
Moort'S Store, Shenandoah county, Daniel
CARRIER is appointed postmaster rice John
Showaiter, resigned. At FarnWcl. Lou
doun county. Joseph Arundel Is appointed
postmaster ricc Morris Kelm. removed.
Malcolm VI. Green is appointed railway
postal clerk between Washington, ID. c.,
and Weldon. y. c., at $1,000 per annum,
rice Uurlbut, transferred, and Albert W.
SayleS to Il similar position between Chicago
and Quincy, Ill.
THE DUEL.-A rumor is prevalent hereto
night that the much-talkcd-of duel between
Colonel Mosby and Colonel Boyd, military
sheriff of Fauquicr county. Va, took place
to-day, and that both were slightly wounded.
Data, in Baltimore sun Of 9th.
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TICE-PREsIDENT CoLFAX IN UTA H-tREE
SprrcH AGAINST PoLYGAMY IN SALT LAKE
CIrY.-St. LouiS. October S.--Advices from
salt Lake state that Tuesday night was one
OF the most marked occasions ever witnessed
in that city. Nicc-presidcnt ColiaX was
sercnaded. and, in response TO repeated
calls. addressed an immense crowd III front
of the Townsend House, IN the course OF
which he gave his views at length Oh the
subject of polvgamy. lie quoted from the
books Of the MormUnS, and proved, at least
TO the satisfaction of his Gentle auditors,
that the whole thing was unwise, Illegal,
and ou"ht To bc abolished. He was followed