The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-30
Washington News.

,sElSEv0S, Nov. 2S.-Representafive
Serpcrt. Of California, introduced bill at
thr last session repeating The act for the or
,.9,,iJation cf the Fortv-Sccond Congress on
Ngr,h 4th. That gentleman announces his
intention Of pressing the bill To vote at
an carly day i'll the coming session. The
nrc.fri officers Of the House. who are all
candidates for reelection. are, except
sneaker Blaine, who has not been heard
frolu. favorable TO an organization of the
nrN Congress in March, aud seem to feel
Great confidence that they will be able to
6r(rat any combination which the Demo-
,,rgf. and low-tariN Republicans may make
rn elect officers in the interest of revenue
reform.
rilirIal returns place the population Of
Wheeling, West Virginia, at 1922. being
an increase o. 5,249 over the census of 1860.
=. Q. Myers, Newton, Va; W. Nj.
Pierce. Burnt Ordinary, Va; George W.
sanford, Roadside, Va, (name changed
from Courad'S Store.
The President WAS engaged to-day in the
,.rSnayr,!ion of his annual message, and
1nE members Of the Cabinet, Gen. Sher-
man. and senator Williams, of Oregon,
secured interviews with him.
The President stated to-day that he had
10 intculion OF nominating successors to
tie vacancies in the Internal Revenue and
Patent Bureaus until after the assembling
oi Congress. lie does not expect that a
Minister 10 England will be appointed un-
Ill II least the middle of December, thereby
Giving the inference that no one had vet
lrrn rendered that position. Latest ru-
mur> connect the name Of Senator Viii
G,la-. Ct Oregon, with the English mission.
The annual reports Of the heads of bu-
rea,> vt ali the departments are now in
ugin;. and large number Of compositorS
were discharged to-day from the document
room ~ the Government printing office, in
consequence Of the consequent falling of in
the supply OF work.
Hon. George &. Pendleton arrived here
TN Monday on 4 private mission. He de-
vlincI to have anythingt to do with the Gin
is!N wing pests.
WuISKEY AND REVENUE CONSOLIDATION.
4 bill to put up the whiSkcy tax to dol
lara Gallon, and 10 abolish the income tax,
wi. Ic introduced in the House next week
Thu, far, under the work Of consolidating
revcnuc districts, four hundred and nine
teen assistant assessors have been dis
p,nscd with. Two hundred more are soon
- h~ dropped.-Zeta, IN Baltimore Sun.
There i great disappointment in Admin.
>tration circles WITH the reception B. +
Bu:lcg'> Boston speech has received by the
WIS read 10 Grant and some members Of his
Cabinet, who were in the secret, by B. +
r.. who came on here for the purpose, and
Wa~ approved ~ the great card Of the Ad-
!uinl>iratiuu. and il was hoped that the war
policy advocated by the confidential friend
and adviser OF the President would create
luror lat would ovcrshadow all other is
:ltrS. But it has fallen "cod, dead" and.
mIy he, with t >ickles'> hope of being
transferred 10 tho Court Of st. JaneS.-I.,
~ baltimore Gazette.
Tiir Commissioner OF Agriculture is sat
Lied that the condition Of the agricultural
interests Of the country i improving, but
in iti> report mentions that exhaustion and
irrational culture i everywhere predomi-
mani. Industrial colleges, under the land
@r;,Hi> of Congress OF 1862, have progressed
during he past year: but the land scrip has
been ISSUED TO most of the Southern States,
and Il potion Of it has been sold, but the
Commissioner has heard Of no action to-
ward tie organization OF colleges, and fears
1lir scrip has in some instances been frit-
tered away by sales at nominal prices, a.
has been the ease i'll many Of the Northern
ana Eastern States.
la reply to Il letter in relation to liability
O; Siate-rOoiers TO taxation as manuiactu.
rrr>. tile acting Commissioner Of lnterna
Revenue says that the trimming and fitting
ol slate Tor roofing purposes is regarded by
thr revenue Bureau as manutactuI ing in
tcrD>t, and under the appropriate section
"'t:Ic revenue laws Il party who thus manu-
lIctIirts >latc and whose sales exceed 81 Dot
Per quarter is liable to a tax Of - on ever,
81 ,0uU Of sales in excess Of that sum.