The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-19
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON.
Special telegram Ia the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July Is.
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Never In the history OF the country has
Congress separated with so little of credit to
itself or with so little work completed.
The result Of nearly m eight months Scs-
sion is q patrhcd-up fragment OF atarift blll
a funding bill that wont run OF its own
strrnyth--that must be forced to be avalla-
bic tor any purpose /; IN imperfect currency
measure, having tendency rather 20 en-
pnd than contract irredeemable issues; an
enforcement bill, to meet parCy purposes
in The South, odious IN its features n new
naturalization law, intended to Brighten
uaturalizrd citizens and obstruct freedom
of elections; tie continuance of an inqui>i-
torIai income GAN tardy law to halfway
admit Gcor, sia the assumption CT police
court juri- ,diction; IN outrageous invasion of
the pcEs' NAL liberties Of Il citizen and his ar-
rest AMI incarceration without the Scmllance
oi law. These and much of crude and COR
rurt legislation Of il minor character are
che work of this Congress. The list OF
measures they failed to perfect forms an ar-
raignmcnt Of this Radical body which can
be used with telling effect against its repre-
Srntatiyes in the fall elections. This is con.
rcdcd hy the rejecting members of the
party, and they do not hesitate to admit
that the result of these elections will be to
send to the Forty-Second Congress ut least
one hundred Democratic or Conservative
members. The Democrats believe they will
have majority in the House.
Collections from Manufactured
Tobacco I'm Virginia.
From Supervisor Presbrey it Is learned
that the collections from manufactured TO-
bacco in the State Of Virginia for the fiscal
year ending June 3Oth, 1870, amounted to
81 4G,017.65, being an excess or gain OF
= ,Gt3, 1851 over the corresponding period
last year, or nearly $50 per cent. The total
from the same source for sixteen months
from March LIST, 1869. amounted to So, Ill.,
E2l.IS, while the collections for the years
1S6G-'6I, and IS, and eight months OF 1900,
amounted to SI,4i0, POOL, showing 1884,
1927 more collected in the last sixteen
months than was collected in the previous
forty-four months.
In addition to the taxes collected for to-
bacco in the various districts III the State
during sixteen months there were shipped
ln'bond for export and for withdrawal for
consumption 23,159,935 pounds, the tax
npon which, If credited to Virginia, would
show a contribution during the period
above named to the national treasury Of
over eight millions.
The prospect OF the new tobacco crop
and the general condition of the trade indi-
cate hopeful future both to the planters
and manufacturers, and warrant the cX-
pectation of q still larger revenue to the
Government during the present fiscal year.
France and Prussia.
The feeling here with reference to the
European bclligcrcnts il about evenly d-
vidcd between Franco and Prussia,
though the friends Of France are gaining
very rapidly as the cause of quarrel be-
tween those nations becomes better
known. AT first the opinion was that Prus-
sla was clearly IN the right, but now the
tendency is TO the belief that she is the az
eressor that she had intended war from
'he peS"iiiiS' that she evaded the prompt
reply which GRANGE was entitled to in order
10 gam h.ne for preparations for the con-
test' an. that the whole thing was scheme
ior russian ACKNOWLEDGMENT and to cheat
AID ensnare France.
The Question for an Extra Session of
Congress
is mooted, and the President submitted to
the Acknowledgement the question whether,
IN case an extra session shall be deemed
necessary, particular length of time is re-
quired to be named before the con-
yening of Congress. The Attorney
General has examined the subject,
aud finds no law or direction what no.
tice shall be given for converting Congress
in extra session, and he finds that the Pre-