Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-23
WASHINGTON MATTERS.
GIANT

of the indOrsers of the Circuit Judges
recently confirmed. All are satisfied.
INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS.
Judge James is busy codifying the
Internal Revenue laws. He will re-
port after the holidays. 1t is expected
that with slight notifications Con-
gress will endorse his labOrs.
COLLECTION OF REVENUE.
Orders have been given to mount
and arm the Assistant Assessors of
the Internal Revenue throughout the
South whenever it is necessary to use
force in carrying out the revenue laws.
RATES on NICKEL.
The Ways and Means Committee
have agreed to rates on nickel, fixing
forty cents per pound, alloy thirty
cents per pound, matte twenty cents,
ores Of nickel ten per cent, manufac-
tured nickel forty per cent.
sICKLEs.
A movement is on foot to force
Grant to recall Sickles. Such leading
Republican organs as the New York
EceniRg Post demand his removal
from the employ Of the United States,
and characterize him as the disgrace
and scandal Of the Government.
FOWLER VS.. BROwNLOw.
Senator Fowler, Of Tennessee, is
preparing an answer to the recent
speech of Mr.. Brownlow, in which he
attacks the Ex-Governor bitterly,
charging him with being an enemy to
the Republican party, and the chief
cause Of the recent defeat in that
State.
POSTAL DECISION.
The POstoffice Department has de-
cided that ali domestic letters which
are not prepaid one full rate By the
sender, must be treated as wholly un-
paid, and accordingly held for postage
or returned to the one sending; if
paid one full rate they should be dis
patched to the destination and charged
with postage due at prepaid rates.
VIRGINIA
Will be attended to the first thing
after the holidays. The Radicals in
both Houses are only divided as to
the phraseology of the preamble,
which, as Beast Buler advised the
Conservative Delegation from the
mother of States, will be made as
much Of a humiliation for the people |
of Virginia as words can express.
FEES OF PENSION AGENTS.
The introduction of Judge Law
rence's bill to abolish certain fees Of
pension agents, has called out figures |
showing that the extra fees paid
agents by pensioners amount to $780,
600 per annum. 1t now costs the
100000 per annum to
make the payments to pensioners.
The Commissioner of Pensions thinks
the machinery Of agencies can be
largely reduced in expenses.
THE PROPOSED REVENUE DEPART
MENT.
1t is more than limited at that in the
and debate upon Grants
elevation Of the Revenue
Bureau to a Department, the New
England and Western members will
come in contact and divide. Such a
contingency is feared, and to be avoid
ed by the Radicals, if they would
maintain their ascendancy over the
Western people, whom they have so
far succeeded in hoodwinking and
using in their schemes Of tariff and
SECTIONAL aggrandizement.
STANTON AND HOAR.
The first named has been con-
irmed and will take his seat on the
Supreme bench the day Justice Grier
first of February. The
Radicals all voted for him. Opposi-
ion was confined to the eleven Dem
ocratic Senators, including Fowler, of
Tennessee, and Ross. The Supreme
Court is thus reconstructed. Hoar
will not go through as readily as
Senators cannot forget nor
orgive his opposition to the appoint
nent Of their favorites to office. Yet
( is confidently asserted he will be
confirmed.
TENNESSEE.
The memorial presented by Stokes
Co. sets forth that the recent elec-
ion in this State was carried by fraud
md violence; that the REGISTRARS ap-
pointed by Gov. Senter issued certif-
.ates to every DISTINGUISHED rebel,
and to thousands of boys who are not
wenty-One years Of age; and after
detailing the history of the election,
JetitiOn Congress TO give them q Re
publican form Of government, and
.Ompel the execution of the present
avs of the State. They deny the le-
,ality Of the present Tennessee Legis-
ature, and the election of Mr.. Cooper
o the United States Senate.
,HE GENERAL THOMAS PORTRAIT.
Dave Mum has written a letter to
General Thomas, as a salve for the
Id soldiers wounded vanity. The
ollowing is a copy. 1t ought to be
cad to be remembered by the people
f West Tennessee especially:
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 20.
fdi. Geo. II. IhOHUS San Francisco, CAL:
DEAR GENERAL: I have heard, with |
Xtreme regret, OF your offer to purchase
rom the State Of Tennessee your portrait,
7hich was painted by authority Of the
oval Legislature Of hat State in 1866 and I
iso 10 return TO the body now styling
themselves the legislature Of the State. ,
be medal presented to you in 1857, as a
memorial Of your services to the loyal
eople in defending them against the as :
aulJs and outrages Of armed traitors. 1
egret that any circumstance cOulG have
risen which would give to this same
lass the opportunity of attempting 10
he proposition which could emanate
My from the brain OF a whipped and un- {
'entant but unpublished enemy Of his \
ountry. l had the honor TO be in the {
legislature which aU hOrized the prOduc- Z
ION OF the portrait and the presentation '
4 the medal, and when I voted for the q
appropriation my action, like that Of those 1
DO voted with me, was endorsed by {
very loyal man in Tennessee. beg YOU, [
Ieneral, TO remember that the STATE Gov {
rnment Of Tennessee has passed into the {
lands Of those who fought against you :
Turing the war, aud who received at your {
lands IonS-to- be-remem bered defeat, {
Ipon the soil of that State, at Nashville. :
he memory Of their defeat still fingers a
with them, and, haunted by a base and /
Owardly spirit Of revenge, they would e
kUlk behind the petty privileges Of (it is a
o be hoped brief authority, and insult I
ne who is not only prevented from I
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