The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-28
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WASHINGTON, July q, 1870.
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customs Offices, etc, and the Secretary Will
appoint commission to select proper
lock, to be adopted and placed in practical
use by October LIST, the time fixed for the
new tax and tariff laws to 90 into effect.
Revenue Receipts.
The receipts from internal revenue from
the 1st to the 9th of the present month,
inclusive, are S1S, $50, 1853.
The Receipts and Expenditures OF
the Government.
Secretary Boutwell, has had prepared an
elaborate statement Of the receipts and ex-
penditures of the Government for the years
ending June, 1860, up to and including
June 80, 1870. The receipts were $3,0S7,-
155, 1880, and the expenditures, S. $685.
70O,S11.23, showing an expenditure Of
s., 2I6 ,545, 1858 in excess of receipts. In
1860 the Government was in debt S100, 000,-
600, and is now in debt $2,216, 545, 1886 .93.
The full receipts for the year ending June
Goth, 1870, were $4OS, 1881 ,372.42. ~. 80
Illness of Admiral Farragut.
Secretary Robson to-day received tele-
gram from New York announcing the seri.
Gus illness ofAdmiral Farragut that he was
lying at the point Of death. ... .
The Indians.
Commissioner Parker has returned from
New York, having made all necessary pur.
chases for the Indians. General Parker TO-
day received information of council Of six
tribes of Indians at the Nasho agency, in
which four of the tribes advocated schools
and all improvements that tend to better
their condition. The Shawnees and Sc
nacas. however, have determined to follow
the customs Of their fathers. All agree to
oppose the sale of their lands to railroads
or other parties.
The Case of Lieutenant Colonel James
Totten.
The court-martial In the case of Lieu
tenant Colonel James Totten, charged with
INSTRUMENTATION, neglect of duties, and con-
duct unbecoming IN officer, have returned
verdict of guilty, and sentence Of dis
missal from the service. The sentence has
been approved by General Sherman, aud
the papers have been forwarded to the
President.
Colonel Totten is a resident Of Pennsylva-
MIA, entered the service in III, was at West
Point with Sherman, Grant, and other pro-
minent men in the service, served in the
Mexican war as second lieutenant in the
Second artillery, was subsequently trans
fcrred to the nspector-GeneraPs depart
mcnt, where he has since done service, and
was considered an efficient officer until
within the last few years. 1t was trying
duty fer General Sherman to approve the
sentence, us Colonel TOtten and he were in
innate friends at school, and the most
friendly relations have existed ever since.
This is particularly the case with the Presi-
dent, who has been warm friend to Colo
mel Totten from boyhood.
Miscellaneous.
A circular Of instruction has been issued
by the War Department for the guidance Of
affairs of the army under the 'act making
appropriations for the support of the army
and for other purposes" according to gen
eral orders No. 81.
Senator Sumner leaves here tonight to
recreate for a few weeks at Nahant, Massa-
chusetts.
Pat. Woods, who was taken to Richmond
to give testimony in q murder case, was re.
turned here to-day to serve out the balance
of his term of imprisonment for assaulting
Representative Porter, of Virginia.
The fee OF one dollar per diem heretofore
allowed officers detailed on court-martial,
or summoned, or attending as witnesses,
has been abolished, but the mileage of ten
cents per mile is still allowed.
-. WALLACE.
Associated Press kilograms, ..,.l
The New Model Package for Putting
Up Chewing Tobacco.
WASHINGTON, July 27.-The Commits
soner of Internal Revenue has approved q
model or sample package, which has been
submitted to the Department for putting up
chewing tobacco, as provided by section %
Of tho act of July 14th, 1870, authorizing the
use Of metallic packages. This model pack
age is made partly OF wood and partly of
tin, firmly nailed to wooden heads, with
corrugations passing around the sides near
the centre of the box for receiving proper
internal revenue stamps. The use of this
box is authorized for the present and here
after. unless experience shows that its use
affords facilities for fraud beyond what may
be practiced with packages entirely OF
wood. In using this package the manufac-
turer is required to print or mark his name,
place of manufacture, number OF his factory,
the gross weight, and the tare and net
weight of the tobacco in each package, and
also afliX the label or caution notice on
the heads of the package as required Of all
other packages. This description will not
be used second time. @#"
Various Items.
WASHINGTON, July N.-The revenue re-
ceipts to-day were $685., 900. e.
In reply to the question whether cigar
manufacturer who manufactures by con-
tract for another cigar manufacturer can
use the brand, caution label, &C., Of the
last-named manufacturer, the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue decides that the actual
manufacturer must use his own brands and
labels, and cannot use those Of another
manufacturer. tsfs
! Lieutenant-C Colonel James Totten, Assis-
tant inspectors General United States Army,
recently on trial by court-nartial at Louis
vile, Ry., has been convicted Of disobedi-
ence OF orders, neglect of duty, and con-
duct unbecoming an officer, and sentenced
to be dismissed the service The Pre-
sident has approved the finding.
Attorney General Alderman has app6int-
ed Walter S. .Hin, or Georgia, md u, Rs.
French, Of North Carolina, TO cierkahips
a.