The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-05
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Special kilograms TO the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, August 4, 1870.
The Tax on Department Clerks for
Political PUrDOScS.

The Union Congressional Committee
having discovered that considerable obiec-
ton is being raised by employees of Depart
ments here to the assessment Of one per
cent. on their annual salaries for political
purposes, have decided to reduce the ASSESS
mcnt to three dollars on twelve and four
Observation-Disclosures clerks, four dollars on
Observation-Disclosures clerks, and five dol
lars on clerks having higher salaries. 1t is
estimated that even at these figures the re-
ceipts from clerks in this city will amount
to about thirty thousand dollars.
Appointment Of a COIOret7 Man as
Special Agent OF the Post Office De-
parfnlcnt.
Rev. J. Sella Martin (colorc d) has been
appointed special agent of the Post Office
Department in place of H. Ray Myers, re-
signed, and will be assigned to duty in the
South. His appointment was recommended
by Senator Harris, of Louisiana, and other
southern politicians.
The United States Army.
General Sherman says the actual force of
the rank and file of the army to-day is thirty
four thousand five hundred and ninety
three. The number will be gradually re-
duced to thirty thousand.
The Alaska Commercial Company.
The contract between the Government
and the Alaska Commercial Company was
signed to-day by Judge Richardson, acting
Secretary of the Treasury, and General
John +. Miller, president of the company
The contract is for twenty years, and the
company gives a bond Of five hundred thou
sand dollars for its strict observance.
Mr.. Hayward Hutchinson, a member OF
the company, will leave here OH Wedncs-
day next for San Francisco to supcrintend
the purchase of supplies for the natives OF
the island, and will send them at once to
Alaska in one of the company's vessels, and
will himself visit the island during the sea.
SON.
Snuff.
Deputy Commissioner Douglass has dc.
cidcd that snuff may be retailcd from blad.
ders or jars packed and stamped according
to law. He denies that the Commissioner
has said that snuff can be sold i'll paper
packages. WALLACE.
Associated Press kilograms.
ARRAY in Wash inGtOn.
WASHINGTON, August 4-lIon. Joseph
Scgar, of Virginia. assaulted Hon. William
s. Lincoln. of New York. this morning at
the depot Of the Baltimore and Ohio rail.
road with Il cane for certain calumniOus
statements made about him by the latter i'll
reference to the rc-chartcr of the Fredc.
ricksbuFy and Alexandria railroad Com
pany addressed to Il gentleman i'll Washing
| ton. Mr.. Scgar charges that these state-
menls were basclv false, and felt ii his duty
| to chastsc the circulator of them. Mr.
Scgar was baled in s., 600 to answer.
Various Items.
WASHINGTON. August 1.-THE revenue
receipts to-day We're 81 100000. and the
customs receipts for the week ending Satur'
day were $500, 900.
The PoStmastcr-Gcneral will employ na.
val vessels for the transportation of the
| mails rather than pay higher rates for the
ocean service.
Acknowledgement Alderman declines adj
dressing the Southern Republican Club
| here because he would have to allude to
| the Georgia c;lSc, which comes before him
soon in his capacity rs attorney. 1t is I'M
derstood that Mr.. Akcrman will favor an
election in Georgia this fall.
Patents for 1j,Si5 acres, situated i'll the
Mobile land district for surplus lands, have
been transmitted to the Governor of Al;l-
bama from the Land Office here.
The President arrives tomorrow on the
.orIy trui,