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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-29

GRAIN WORCESTERSHIRE stock Of corn in
New York, compared with previous seasons,
is very light-the quantity is placed ut 205,-
900 bushels. against $780, 400 bushels cor
responding date i'll 1869, 1900, $40 in 1868,
2,U73,S $50 in 1867. The stock OF wheat COM
pares flvorably with previous seasons. Oats
are in fair stock, but prospective receipts
are not large; the quantity IN store is
placed ut 2 ,O65, 900 bushels, against 1910
in 1867. The stock of barley is placed at
443, 500 bushels, against $1,000 bushels in
1869, 1902, 700 in 1868, 363, 500 in 1867.
We have frequently referred to the ship
ment to Europe Of flour and wheat by way
Of the st. Lawrence river. The shipments
for the week ending 18th instant arc 100,-
900 bushels greater than those of any pre-
rious week this season.
There was also shipped to the maritime
provinces 7, 200 barrels OF flour, making the
aggregate shipments for the week 2S,o0O
barrels of flour; of wheat, Dot, 900 bush
els-only 200 bushels less than the exports
from New York for the same week. The
quantity of grain afloat on the canals, rs re-
norted in the Oswego Commercial Adrer-
tislr, of Monday, not including malt, is
about $500, 900 bushels, which is much
larger than any previous days report. The
quantity Of wheat was 2,313, 900 bushels !;
barley, 767 800 bushels oats, 49,, 700 bush
els corn, los, 200 bushels rye, 22,7Co. The
grain receipts at the principal western ports
continue on a large scale, notwithstanding
the cessation of shipments by lake. During
the week ending the 10Th instant the re-
ceipts were 1,777,6 800 bushels; the week
previous they were 1,T24,500 bushels, ana
during the week ending 18th November,
1869, they were 1,61l,O0 bushels.-Atodn9
4rUuS.
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NAnnowIdAuaz RAILROADS. TX CALrroR.
;FIA.-The San Francisco MornsnG CAL says:
"The subject OF constructing railroads OF
narrow gauge-say two and O half or three
feet-for the transportation Of grain from
the interior to the coast, or other shipping
point, has attracted considerable interest
md been tolerably widely discussed IN Cal
ifornia of late. It seems to be generally
conceded that these narroW-gauge roads
are peculiarly adapted to the physical
characteristics Of the State, and would, by
their cheapness, come into general use If
once introduced. It 10 said that they
cost only from one-haIf to three-ffths
as much as ordinary railways, and
that the pewly-devised Fairlle engines
give at once great tractile power, a good
rate Of speed, and a perfect evenness of
movement. The Monterey Republican is
urging the construction of such a road to
Salinas Valley, whose grain products would
keep the line In active and profitable en-
ployment, and the building of which
would prove Of inestimabIe benefit to the
section of country whose resources it
would develope. We have but little doubt
that in the course Of q few years we shall
have a number OF these narrow-gauge rail-
roads penetrating various agricultural and
mining sections, in which the building of
ordinary roads would be highly difficult
and expensive"
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EUROPEAN NEWS.
SUMMARY OF FOREIGN NEWS,

New YORK, Nov. 2S.--With the object o:
preventing a further outbreak In the pre-
sent war, Gortychakof has had an inter.
view with King William and Bismarck.
Two or three propositions were presented.
The Prussians captured Villers and after
wards beat the French at Boves, q ewmiles
west of that town. ..,-
A meeting of the ministers of the, Great
Powers occurs in Paris in January on the
Russian question.
A dispatch from Tours says TINT French
victories are claimed along the Loire.
The feeling in financial circles In London
Is healthier, and the fear of rupture be.
tween England and Russia is abating. The
Times hopes that the answer which goes to
Gortschakof to-day will be firm, but con-
Odo Russell was denied an interview
with King William, but afterwards had one
with Bismarck, who said he was surprised
at the action Of Gortschakof, but declined
any interference In the matter.
The Paris Figaro implores the French
Government to make peace, the defence Of
Paris being impossible.
Forts Issy and Varons opened fire on Sat-
urday night, and a sortie is expected.
The repulse of the Prussians at MELVILLE
is confirmed, and 8 French movement from
LIE Mans has compelled them to retire.
E SUCCESSES.
Heavy skirmishlng has been In pro-
gress for several days past at several
points along the French front. On
Saturday the French were victorious in
q severe engagement near Yendome, where
the Germans attempted to turn their left
flank, making repeated attacks until 8
o'clock at night, and being repulsed with
heavy loss and forced to retreat. Their re-
treat, however,. was toward Chateau Dun,
near the French centre. An engagement
had occurred IN Friday on the French
right flank, near Montagis, and it was ne
cessary for Paladines, in sustaining his
ground, to uncover Chateau Dun, and the
latter place, it is thought, has consequently
been captured. The repulse of the Ger
mans on both TANKS was complete. A gen.
eral engagement is thought to be impend-
ing.
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How Mr.. Yorker. CAME TO BE ELECTED
TO CoSGREss.-This is the way it was done:
At one poll in the district, early in the day,
a squad of negroes, arrayed in red shirts
and fantastic head-gear, marched to the
polls and voted in a body. The display
made so disguised the Radicals that there
was u revolution Of sentiment ut once.
Most of them commenced to canvass for the
Democratic ticket, while others abandoned
their work altogether. 1t is said, upon
good authority, that less than half a dozen
Radical votes were cast at that poll after
the African parade. That was the kind OF
thing That elected Mr.. Forker in really the
most uncertain district in New jersey
Net1 York Democrat.
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Il Tr--~-S~-sS
COMMERCIAL.
Co1N AID FLoyR ExcgAuax
aICEncryy. va, Nov. g, ls7u.

AlNE[aSVsOs ASs NOVs %. lf1u.
Msak-Whits, 1870 bushels. Red, 1850 bush.
c5rn.-whtts. SOC bushels. yellow, % bushels
Mixed. zoe bushels. 81 ,}
Odts.- ass bushels. z
Rye.-16 bushels.
Screenings.-5 81 bushels.
4.sS 5Jtf sALE6. "
Waeat-Whlte, IS bushels inferior at 81. 30 10
bushels prime on private terms; go bushels goodor
private terms; 90 baehels fair N spr1Eat ate terms
40 bushels at al 40 /: 2s4 bushels very good at 81. ga
"a bushels ut 81 S. % bu. heis inferior at sl.25 %
l0s bushels foul at SI-totaI, ], oss bushels
Whent-Red,s bushels prime at sLso: 1se bushels
very good at sl4s; 2ss baahe,sa % sl:4es;. go bush
els NJ u 4fS 20 bushels good at S1.S5; 58 ooshels
at Lisa; 500 bushels air at 81 30; 10 bushels COM
mon at sI.e5 Log bushels weAytl-eaten at SL2o u
BUSHELS inferior 1t g. is ssz bushels daniagea At
damaged At o. 30 bushels damaged st 02ic.; II
bushels damsgsd at ssSc.; o bushels damaged at
ssc;-t,tal; 2 sss bufhels:
% b.she.s neg nc Soc total, 10 bushels. Yellow,
70 bushels a. "a. Mixed. 50 bushels old at Soc;
4e bushels nsA. $&7sc.-,o:al, 2sl bushels.
4sc.: $50 bushels az &c. total, 900 bushels. :
Screenings 10 bushels al. s5c. 4
R~E-ExHBITkp.
WHSGf,.Red, 7lg bushels ts
Gorn-Whlte. q bushels. Mixed, so bushels.
A
The ofsrings or Wheat on Change to-day were
!, 1873 bushels white and Ao5o bushels red, against
2 .7ss bushels white and !, sss bushels red on the cor
responding day Of last year. Prices on that day
were:
Wheat-Wbite. very good, SI.47i; red, very good,
8 l.4ei. Corn-White, prime new, soc. Oats-Very
good, 56c- Rye-Fair, SL.os, (
Thu market for Wheat continues steady but lit
done In Corn or Oats to-day. The Corn msrke
has improved SC. since Monday last.
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When Congress sits again the people of
Kansas, Wyoming, and ONE of the other
Territories are to send in petitions to have
q law enacted that shall stop the wholesale
slaughter of buffaloes that has been going
on ever since the completion of the Pacific
railroad.
John Armstrong and Charles jolly, the
butchers OF the Lapine family, near Potosi.
in Missouri, q few days ago, were captured
on Wednesday, and are now in Jail.
A number of conductors on the 7th ave-
nue. street cars in New York were arrested
on Saturday evening, charged with embez-
element.
The latest thing In funeral professions in
the West is q wagon to precede the hearse,
bearing q bell, which is tolled en- route to
the grave.
Apples are so plenty in some parts OF
Nelson county, KY, that farmers are COM
PEELED to let bushels of the fruit rot on the
trees.
An old man in >Saybrook, Conn.,, lives on
a farm that never was bought or sold, it
having come down to him from his ances-
tors, who obtained it from the Indians.
The Boston papers Of all parties are after
General Butler with O sharp stick for his
recent warlike speech in that city.
Out of the 1876 inmates of the New Haven
(Conn.) almshouse there are only nine who
have not been convicted of crime.
The residence of the late Mayor Hensley,
at San Francisco, was burned Sunday. Loss,
100000.
Five dwellings on Centre street, in Ash
land, Pa, were burned Sunday. Loss,
$4,000; partly insured.
Ayoung lady of Boston counted among
her wedding presents recently eleven. pie
knives.
The protracted drought on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland was ended last week by
fine rains.
Over fifty persons were killed recently by
an explosion of gun-cotton at Alexandria,
Egypt.
Ninety-one bears have been slain in Maine
the past year, and bounties paid for them.
Snow fell to the depth of a foot in Glas-
cow, KY, last Wednesday night.
They have a girls base ball club at Lancas-
ter, Ohio.
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THE LEE MEMORIAL FUND.-It was sug-
gested in the circular from Richmond some
time since that Sunday, the 9th Of Novem-
Der, be the day on which to make an effort
by collections in the various churches here,
as elsewhere, to aid the Lee Memorial AS
ISOLATION in the erection of q monument at
Richmond to perpetuate the memory OF the
late General L. Z. Lee. There seemed to
be a general desire on the part of indiyid-
uals Of the different congregations in Baltl-
more to contribute towards the fund, but
to do it in a private manner, and not
through the agency of q public collection,
consequently the subject was mentioned
from the pulpit in. bat q few churches
Baltimore Sun.
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HE FEDERAL ELECTION LAW DECIDED IN
EAAr UNCONSTITUTIONAL Judge Cadwala-
GCt, OF Philadelphia, in the United States
District Court, was on Friday engaged with
The trial of Patrick McFadden, charged
NIL Illegal voting at the last election, in
violation Of the act Of Congress of May
zist, $50. The Philadelphia North Ame17-
can says
The facts is proved by the Government
were, that at the last election 4 membe OF
congress was voted for at the twelfth divl-
son OF the Second Ward, and that in that
o!'!slon The prisoner voted under the name
oil Frederick Ramsden. There was no
PROOF, however. that he did or did not vote
loT Congressman, and upon this point arose
d very warm argument.
HE section OF the act under which this
c4sc was tried says that where q member Of
Iohgfess is TO be voted for and a man votes
at mat election, the fact Of his having voted
aI all shall be p'1nG facie evidence that he
'oWa for Congressman. This, of course
lhfoWs upon The accused the burden Of
proving The neSat!ye-that he did not vote
iof That ClDcc-before any evidence has
1ten offered by the prosecution TO prove
VIC alhFmattre-that he did so vote.
counsel for the prisoner argued that this
was an Invasion Of the tights Of the citizen,
ana against the maxim Of the law that says
Il man shall be presumed to be innocent OF
crime until that presumption Is rebutted
bv evidence, and that therefore this section
"as unconstitutional.
BIZ. Valentine argued against the posi-.
ton, and in favor OF the constitutiorality
OF The Law.
Judge Cadwaiader held the section 70 be
unconstitutional, and said before conviction
could he sustained the jury would have to
say that the prisoner had been proved to
have voted for Congressman.
There. are several other points In the las
equally unconstitutional"
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PORT OF RICHMOND, Nov. IS. ls7c.


ARRIVED,
Steamer State Of Maryland, Travers, Baltimore,
merchandise and passengers, W. Z. Brett:
S Gamer SAVIOR, Herring, Phila., merchandise
and passengers, WI p. Porter & Co.
steamer albcmarle, Blackwaod, New. York,
merchandise and passengers, w. H.. HVatt..
phis, coal, Writ r berts.
Schooner Lizzie Florence, I.ippincott. Pough-
keessie, iron ore, Tredegar Company.
Schooner II title Coombs, Jameson, Rockland,
lime, a. 5. Lee.
Schooner Exchange, Jackson, Havre de Grace,
coal, .. p. lat irOp.
AT City Point. British brigantine Constance,
Browse, Liverpool, salt Lee, sc1don " 20.
SAILEp,
Steamer John Sylvester, Clifford, Norfolk, mer-
chapdise and passengers, l.. d. Tatum.
Steamer state OF Maryland, Trayers. Baltimore,
merchandise aud passengers, W.P. Brett
Steamer Savior. Herring. philadelphia, MGR
chandise and passengers, ". z. Porter.
s~Ea0RAEDA.
WEST POINT, Nov. 27.-ArriTed. steamer Admi.
raj, keybold, Baltimore, merchandise and paSsen.
gers, Y ork River Railroad Company, and sailed
2Stl, on return.
AQUA CREEK, Nov. 27-Arrived. steamer Geor'
peaDna, Freeman, merchandise and passengers
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac RAILROAD
Company, and sailed 2Sth, on return.
[BY TELEGRAPH
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 9.-Cleared, bark Thames
Read, Tor RICHMOND.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-Cleared, schooner, Or
yella, Bodlne, for Richmond.
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An Ugly Precedent. afsd How The ne.
nsocracy Can Get Over II.
from the New York Sum

The elections Of this year for the next
Congress show that the Republicans have
chosen one hundred and twenty.three MEM
bers, and the Democrats ninety-four.
Twenty-siX members are still to be chosen |.
and we think il a fair estimate to say that
the Republicans will elect fourteen of them,
and the Democrats twelve. This would
give the Republicans one hundred and
thirty-sevcn members, and the Democrats
one hundred and fix. l."
This places the Republicans In a majority
Of thirty-onc : and ignoring all side issues
about revenue REFORM. which do not yet
amount to anything substantial, aud throw
ing aside AL questions about contested seats,
in which the Democrats will certainly not
gain anything, it seems impossible that the
Republicans proper can have less than thirty
majority in the text House.
Now it SO turns out that the political
party which. from the time of John Quincy
Adams, has secured n working majority,
however small, in the House of Represent
atives chosen In the middle of q PresidenA
tial term, has invariably elected the Presi-
dent two years afterward. ~
This precedent, which has stood unbro-
ven for the past forty-four years, is, In view
Of the political complexion of the next
House, worthy Of grave consideration when
estimating the chances Of a Democratic vic
tory i'll the Presidential contest of1S72. In
a political epoch so peculiar as the present,
it doubtless will not do tor the Republi-
cans to trust too much to this precedent.
The recent elections demonstrate that their
party is SO torn by Internal q~uarrels that its
lines are easily broken. The inspiring is
sue on which it was organized and through
which it has won its great rriumphs, have
passed into history. The Republicans them
selves cannot so revive those issues as to
make them of any avail in the Presidential
campaign just now opening. 1t is only the
Democrats who can do this by persistently,
toollshly thrusting them into the arena Of
controversy.
On a superficial view, however, the pre-
cedcnt to which we have referred throws a
cloud over the prospects Of the Democracy,
teaching them that the only sure mode by
which they can dissipate its force is to con
duct their Presidential campaign in an I'M
precedented manner. They must rely solely
upon their own strength, nor attempt to
win the battle according to the tactics
which ruled the party in the days Of Bu-
chanan-an epoch which, measured by the
events that have since revolutionized the
country, is g century old.
In a word, il the Democracy would sue
coed in 1872 they must divide their oppo-
ncnts, keep step with the times, and thus
turn the flank of the Congressional prcce-
dent Of the past forty-tour years. And the
way to do this has just been shown them
in the State election in Missouri.
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The block known az Mitchelps Building,

The block known as MitchelPs Building,
in St. Louis, was burned Friday. Loss On
building, $25, 900; insured. Loss ofSt. Louis
Printing Company, $4,000. John S. Thomp-
son and other occupants OF the building
lose about $15, 900. The sum of $4,000,
denosited in an open safe, belonging to q
private party, was also destroyed.
On Friday morning a coal-bin belonging
to Daniel Carter, of Plymouth, Conn, was
burned, and on searching the ruins the re-
mains of Frank Garfield, aged %, n Ev-
erett Curtiss, aged SO, were found. 1t IS
supposed that they had been drinking on
Thanksgiving and entered the bin ut night
to sleep.
Mcclellan 6 Stearns's planing-mill, Chi
caco. was burned Friday night. Loss,
$40, 900; insurance, $2S,00O.. Also, Tobias
& BunnelPs cutlery establishment; loss,
Sc. 900: no insurance; and Western Star
Metal Company's factory; loss, $1,000; In
sured.
The ~coroner's jury in the case Of Mrs.
Hessing, who was killed in Cincinnati by
falling into a well, which cayed in under her
feet. q few DAYS ago, attribute her death to
the criminal neglect of Edw'd Lopp, owner
of the well.
It is said that Fanny Fern has made
$50, 900 by her writing s. For an author
whose writings lack about a dollar and q
half of being Worth a cent, that, we should
say is doing remarkably well.-Loutsu'He
Courier.
The "board of directors" in Iowa, or
dered a lady teacher to vacate a school. She
refused, and they went in a body to put
her out. War was declared, and the plucky
school ma'am whipped them all, slngly and
collectively.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samson. Of Chicago, hled
cross-bills for divorce. He testified that she
poured a painful of boiling water over bis
head and then scraped the hair off with the
pan, he submitting "to see how far she
would 60"
The aggregate valuation of real estate In
Cincinnati, exclusive of recently-annexed
territory, Is S137, T62, 99S. The real prop.
erty held by churches is nearly four mil.
lions, and the valuation Of parks and Gem
eteries is over two millions and q halt.
Southern papers say that EN-. Yerger,
who killed Colonel Crane in jackson, Mis-:
sissippi, several years ago, had q second
trial recently, was found guilty, and sen.
fenced to imprisonment for, life.
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THOSE so-called Democratic penny.trunl-
pets who make a merit of absurdly baWling
* treason" in the fuce of every effort to di-
vide the Radical and reinforce The Conserva-
tive elements of the country, represent a
class which, had it possessed any power or
influence, would have kept Tennessee to
this day fast in the clutches OF Brownlow.
and prevented the late substantial triumph
of free ideas in Missouri. They call their
wretched and ridiculous bluster "princi-
pie" It is one-half can't and the other half
ignorance, which, when thoroughly mixed,
is what we call Northumberland
Courier,
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FROM Observation-Disclosures General
Dent, in charge Of the ante-room at the
White House, has been promoted to be
Iieutenant-coionel in the I'd cavalry regl-
ment in order that he may not come under
he operations Of the new law mastering
out ali army officers who are unassigned on
Tie Isl of January.
Tie Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
decides that parties who manufacture wines
rom wild grapes are not liable to any tax
therefor. This decision covers an'interest
# over S400, eco in the South, where large
Quantities of these wines are made.
Tie Secretary ofthe Treasury has directed
the assistant Treasurer at New York TO sell
ru" million Of gold each Wednesday, and TO
purchase one million of bonds each Thurs
day during the month Of December. The
aggregate Of gold sold will be four millions,
and Of bonds purchased five millions. The
Secretary OF the Treasury has also directed
Tie assistant Treasurer at New York to
g,|e notice that from and after the 3lst OF
December next no interest will be paid
upon the 3 per cent. certificates OF the de-
Nomination Of 5000, between TIE numbers
! and "a, inclusive, and OF the denomina-
uon Of $4,000, between numbers l and
lv2, inclusive, nor will such certificates be
available after hat time us a portion OF the
lawful money reserves in possession OF any
national banking association. These GER
~l!lea,e>, in the aggregate, amount TO
s2,WU, 900.
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Hoe CRop.-The hog crop of East Ten
nessee will be larger this season than it has
been since the war. The farmers have been
blessed with an unusually large corn crop,
q favorable season, and no interference from
the ravages of the cholera. In addition q
great Improvement in the stock has added
considerably to the crop. East Tennessee
is undoubtedly one of the finest locationsin
America tor proftably raising hogs and all
kinds of stock.-KnorUiAe Wing.
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=, TAX ON REor1r1Ep L1oUoRs.-A Washing.

TAX ON RECr1FIED LIoUoRs.-A Washing.
ton dispatch to the Tribune says:
Mr.. j.. w. Douglass, Acting Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, has given an
Interpretation of the law touching the tax
on rectified liquors, which will incre ase the
amount of revenue derived from this source
from 90 to 100 per cent. The questions
asked were: First. in what kind Of vessels
are rectifers required to put up liquors
rectified by them? and, second, what lax
are they required to pay thereon? The
Commissioner replies, after defining a rec
titer rs Ii who rectites, purities, or refnes
distilled spirits or wines by any process
other han in original distillation, or who
mixes distilled spirits, wines, or other
liquors with any material, so rs to manu-
tacture "a spurious imitation Or compound
liquor, for sale under any name whatever,
classities the products of rectitication
rs distilled spirits; genuine wines and
other liquors, when the result Of the
rectiiication, is the production Of dis
titled spirits. They must be put up
in casks or packages, cach of which
must contain FIVE or more gallons. The rec
tItier cannot, therefore, put up his spirits
in bottles and enclose them in separate
castings. The law makes no provision as to
the manner in which original, or genuine
wines are to he put up, nor are such wines,
when purified, subject to any tax. Native
wines or liquors made from grapes, cur
rants, rhubarb. or berries, produced i'll the
United States, are, under the law, exempt
from tax. but the Acting Commissioner
now decides that all compounds of these
must he taxed. The Importance of this de-
cision will be appreciated when it is known
that rcctificrs AVE been in the habit OF pay
ing Il tax of only fifty cents a barrel on the
products OF rectitication, while the liquors
have been put up AMI sold in bottles and
other small packages. Now they must put
up their liquors in packages containing not
less than tive gallons, or else pay q tax OF
fifty cents a quart. Dealers have also pro-
duced mixtures Of native wines without
paying any tax. Now only the pure, un-
mixed wines will be exempt from tax.
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ANOTHER DODGE OF h WHISKY RING.

ANOTHER DUDGE OF THE HIshEf hIN''
A western paper gives currency to a report
that the "whiskey ring" will combine this
winter TO induce Congress to raise the tax
from fifty cents to one dollar per gallon.
The stills have been kept running con-
stantly for months, and there is an immense
stock on hand, on which the profit would
be enormous if the tax was increased.