The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-11
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WASHINGTON, December 10, 1869.

WASHINGTON, December 10, 1869.
COUNTERFEIT REVENUE STAMPS.
Commissioner Delano has received forty
pound tobacco stamp, photographed from
the original, and found by revenue officers
on tobacco box in an auctioneer's store in
Cincinnati. a lot Of tobacco was seized
and the matter Of counterfeit stamps Is in
! tho hands of detectives. The stamp is
worth on its face $780, and is declared bv
experts to excel anything yet presented.
THE wHisKEY TAX.
Commissioner Delano rules that distillers
and brewers can sell at the place of manu-
facturc so long as they sell In original casks
or packages to which stamps are affixed
without payment of tax as liquor-dealers 4;
but there Is no other provision allowing
such exemption. 1t would seem, therefore,
that rectitier of his distilled products cam
not sell without paying tax AS liquor
dealer at any place.
NAVAL.
The Secretary Of the Navy telegraphed
Pear Admiral Poor, at Key West, to send
vessels to Savannah river to escort the IRON
clad Dictator to Key West, the vessel having
put in there on account of gale, and kept
from sailing by prevailing low tides.
HEAVY CLAIM AGAINST MEXICO.
A claim for $685., 907 $3.50 against Mexico
has been filed for collection by the Tehuan-
tepec Ship Canal Company and the Mexico
and Pacific Railroad Company. Of which
S1oG 1d1 enc GE "oo5bo,1ca honda
said to be the main resource OF the Republic
during its struggle with Macmillan. This
is supposed to be the largest claim ever pre-
scnted by an individual or corporate parties
against Government.
THE LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION FROM VIRGINIA.
The members of the Virginia Legislative
delegation scattered to-day: some have
gone to Baltimore. All will be on hand to-
morrow to meet the Reconstruction Com
mittee. No new phase in Virginia matters.
THE CUBAN CAUSE.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs
have been approached by agents Of the
Cuban cause to see If Congress intended to
take any action to keep Spanish gunboats
from getting to sea. When Judge Pierre
point was here early in the week he told
some who called upon him that unless Con-
! greSs took some action he did not see how
| guuboats could be detained, as there was
| no evidence III his possession to hold them.
The Cubans find that members Of the
committee are not disposed to interfere.
| They are not in favor of taking any action
which would embarrass the Administration
or lead to q policy different from that indi-
Gated in the Presidents message.
| THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ARE N
FAVOR OF REPORTING A BILL TO REPEAL
THE TEHURE-oF-oFF1CE ACT.
The Judiciary Committee Of the House
has instructed its chairman to report favora-
| bly, on General Buffers bin to repeal the
| tenure-of-ottice act.
Should the committee be called next
week the bill will be reported, and, it Is
thought, passed without opposition. In
the Senate it will give rise to debate, and
may, and probably will, be defeated, as ii
was last session.
GEORGIA.
The Senate Judiciary Committee had an
other session to-day on Georgia business.
| \ bill was agreed upon for carrying out
suggestions in the Presidents message.
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, was before
the committee, and made statements rela-
tive to the condition of affairs in that State,
which he represented TO be little better
than it was during the war; that is, so far
as Union men are concerned. The bill will
be reported next week. The case Of the
| Virginia senator's was not reached.
JAPANESE IN OUR COLLEGES.
Zum Zou Matsmulla and Isc Latario, sub
jccts Of the Empire Of Japan, have been
admitted rs students in the Naval Academy
at Annapolis. They deposited the necessary
sum of money required b. regulations
There are yet eight candidates for admis
sion from the same country. Admiral Por'
ter says no doubt they will pass.
RESIGNATION OF JUDGE GREER.
Judge G1ier, of the United States Su'
prcmc Court, has rendered to the President
his resignation Of his seat On the Supreme
bench, TO take effect on the first of February
next. This is done under recent act o.
Congress, which provides for retiring mem
bcrs of the Court with salary when they are
over seventy years of age. WALLACE.
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