The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-06-29
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
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W AsHINGrON. June %. 1877

Cdptulc vi Onc Ol Lie thieves VINO recently
stole twenty thousand dollars from the
treasury. Six thousand four hundred dol
| lars were found upon his person.
Ex-senator Hendricks, late candidate for
the Presidency before the Convention, is in
the city.
General Sherman says he simply carried
| out the directions ofthe President in supply
| ing troops to aid the civil authorities in Elr-
ginia, in the fulflment of orders, during
! the recent troubles at Hampton, Va.
Five of the cadets at large appointed last
year by the President to enter West Point
July 1st have been set aside for incompe-
tency by the board of examiners.
There is on hand in the Treasury to-day
Sill, 1927 ,946.
There are in the United States 1857 stills
for the distillation of brandy from fruits;
Virginia has 9G2, New York 80, PennSylva-
mia 90, Massachusetts So, New Jersey 1872,
Ohio 50, and the remainder are in the other
States and Territories. ..
The report that white and colored troops
are to be mustered together is untrue. The
Ninth and Tenth cavalry are colored troops,
and number $50 and 1,05S respectively,
and the Twenty-fourth and TWenty-ffth
infantry number 446 and 495 respectively.
No white recruits will be sent to these re-
giments.
Application is to be made to provide for
the payment of the bills for the funerals of
Secretaries Stanton and Rawlins, the Second
Comptroller having rejected, for want Of
appropriation, the bills paid by the dis
bursting officers Of the -dopars.neut. Inc
bill for the burial OF general RaWlns 81 Is
Some of the charges are enormous, even for
Washington the carriages for mOurners
are charged at s. each; the collins are
charged at $500 each and the number of
white gloves charged is very large.
Hon. George II. PendletOn arrived in this
city Yesterday morning from Cambridge,
where he was present at the graduation of
his son. Mr.. Pendeton left here this morn
ing to deliver an Grafton at the Virginia
University.
In August last q seizure was made of
twenty-eight hundred barrels of distilled
spirits in San Francisco, which it was alleged
had been compounded with view to de-
frauding the Government of tax. The mat
ter has been undergoing examination by
| the officials, and the Secretary of the Trea-
sury to-day directed that a portion of the
spirits seized should be released, and the
balance-about one-haf-be held for further
Investigation.
A great struggle was made to-day in the
House by the Massachusetts, delegation, led
by Mr.. Dawes, to defeat the bill regulating
the fur-seal business in Alaska. The Secre-
tary of the Treasury desired to get control Of
this business and run it as Government
adventure, and General Butler wanted to
get it into such shape as would enable GER
tain of his clients in Massachusetts to get
control of the business, but the majority in
the House differed with these gentlemen,
and by very large vote passed the bill,
which provides a royalty for each seal
killed, and leaves the business open for
competition.
The time for the ratification of the San
Domingo treaty expires on Thursday night,
and in view of that fact an executive session
of the Senate was held this afternoon, but
the discussion disclosed the fact that sena-
tors did not regard the treaty as Of sufficient
Importance to push aside other legislation
pending OIL its account, and by a vote Of 81
to % decided to resume open session.
The majority of the committee in the San
Domingo investigation wrote letter to the
President yesterday inquiring if he had
authorized that part of the protocol which
pledges the private influence of General
Grant to be used upon members of Con-
gress to secure the ratification of the treaty.
The President replies by letter to-day that
he gave General Babcock authority to make
the pledge, and he General Grant, is re-
sponsible for all the stipulations in the pro-
tocol. WALLACE.
Associated Press kilograms.
Congressional.
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-HouSe.-A me-
mortal and resolutions of mass meeting in
New York for the protection of laborers
and mechanics against Chinese labor was
presented.
The bill giving priority in the United
States courts to cases wherein States are
nd RI 40
lent.
The bill providing penalties for offences
AGAINST the national currency law was pass
e.. It applies to presidents, directors,
Gathers, tellers, and clerks of national
banks.
! The House then went into Committee OF
! the Whole on the appropriation bill. An
amendment paying Il southern loyalist, aged
seyeaty-tive years, from whom $500 worth
| Of p>perty was taken, was rejected.
An1ng the amendments to the appro-
priatitu bill was one for $15, 900 additional
| for IN equestrian statue of General VIM
| field Scptt. The South gets nothing go far.
| A bill for preventing the eXtermlnatlon OF
fur bearing animals in Alaska waters was
passed.
A bill allowing imported articles, except
wine, distilled spirits, perishable and ex-
plosive article, to be shipped in bond from
and to New York, Boston, Baltimore, Port
Huron, New Orleans, Portland, Buffalo,
| Chicago, Cincinnati, st. Louis, Evansville,
and Milwaukee, was passed.
The currency ill was considered without
action.
| Adjourned.
Senate.-The tLrty-fifth parallel Pacific
railroad was considered, making the fourth
Pacific railroad so ar considered.
| amendment tothe 35th parallel Pacific
road, excluding Land grants from Indian
territory, was adoptsd-26 to 20.
The SD parallel road bill was amended so
| as to allow its branches to use not over co.
| 900 tons of imported rails. This action is
| intended to cover the Fremont and other
contracts already made for foreign iron.
The tax bill was Resumed. The tariff on
sugar was stricken out, thus leaving it as at
present. The vote Was z to rs. The same
aetion-namely, leaving the tariff as at
present-Was taken regarding spices, wines,
and liquors. Withou, ), final vote the
Senate adjourned.
The Taylor Farm Case-aistory Of the
S4uatters' Troubles.
| WASHINGTON, June 28.-The New York
Tribune of yesterday announces that Gene
raj Sherman had Of his own acaon attempted
forcibly to eject negroes from estates which
General Butler had assigned them during
the war on land in Virginia. There is not
a word Of truth in this. On March
3Oth, 1870, Governor Walker, Of Virginia,
enclosed to the President Itint resolution
the Virginia Legislature asking the assist
ance Of the United States ttoops in tho