The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-25

snIS'ee reform, or the tariff, or anything
eise. - - @fsshs u ~ 70 sgsSsS :
MIR. Scott argued that Ii would bee; an m.
sonsruity to attach Mr.. Summers, amend
nel. 70 the plt, and characterized the Vance
- a.'a,,l 81 MIR Morton ms barbed shaft
" ssslke single victim. He denied that
granting amnesty would make a,1y f,ne think
the rebellion was right 'E.1s = j - =. 4
| ...-sls. PefiR0ns. ~, /. i.4.1 t...,,t
The petition Of Mrs. General Lee was pre.
senteu ny Mr.. Johnston and not byi;M
Lewis, as we stated yesterday. -
On the same day Mr.. Lewis presented =
petition of citizens Of Virginia belonrinr 70
the German Reformed church Of Winches.
ter, Va, asking compensation for DAMAGES
inflicted Oh their church during the late re-
bcllion; which was referred to the Commits
tee on Claims. 80
He also presented the petitions Of Mann
Splitter, Of Page county, Va; of DR.. 4. M.
Newman, of Rockingham county, Va; of
Gilbert $. Nlccm, Of Mount Jackson, Shcnan-
doah valley. Va. Of Charles 4. Yancey, of
Rockingham county, Va; and of James FL.
Ballard, of Roanoke county, Va; praying
the removal OF their political disabilities;
which were referred to the Select Committee
on the Removal of Political Disabilities.
In the House: ..-...." III
by Mr. Harris, of Virginia: The petition
of 3. Il. Bolts and others, heirs of John
Minor Bolts. praying remuneration for pro-
perry used and destroyed by the United
States army during the late rebellion.
by Mr.. Plat: The petition of John II.
Bell and others, citizens Of Petersburg, Va.
for the passage Of a supplemental civil rights
bill.
Also, the petition of Reuben Ragland, ].
?. Williamson, and others, citizens of Pc
tcrSburg, Va, for immediate action on the
tobacco tax.
by Dir. Porter: The petition of James A.
Scott Il Co. and Others also, the petition OF
L. 4 5. Workman Il Co. and others and
James johnson and others, all citizens Of
Richmond, Va, praying that the tax on all
descriptions Of manufactured tobacco enter
ing the market for consumption be establish
ell at the rate Of sixteen cents per pound.
Also, the petition Of ]. y. Pace, tobacco
manufacturer, and 142 operatives, citizens Of
Richmond, Va, praying that the rate Of
tax on all descriptions of manufactured to-
bacco entering the market for consumption
be established ut the uniform rate of sixteen
cents per pound. .........
Horace T.. ssent's Claim.
The commissioners were occupied all of
| Tuesday with the case Of Horace l.. Kent, a
wealthy merchant Of Richmond, Va. who
has a claim Of $4,000 worth of timber cut
from his farms near that city by the Union
forces during the late war. The session was
chiefly spent in the hearing of testimony to
rcfute the evidence OF disloyalty found i'll
some violent expressions towards the Lincoln
Government, in two letters writtent to Austin
Dali & Co., of Baltimore, at the beginning Of
the war. .-a.
These letters, since the end of the rebc-
lion, have Gecn used in 4 business suit in the
Richmond courts between the parties, and the
commissioners, learning Of their existence,
applied for and obtained certified copies UNI
der seal of the court. MIR. Kent, on the testi-
monv of Senator Lewis, Beverly Bolts, and
other prominent loyalists Of Virginia, made
excellent proof Of his loyalty, apart from the
evidence of the letters. The proceedings took
on at times the character Of a post norton
inquiry into the political Status of the late
John Minor Bolts, and the truth of the we'll
known reports that he had entered into large
contracts with the rebel Government, and
had augrily denounced the emancipation
proclamation Of President Lincoln Wash
lngton Republican.
Postal Affairs.
At Harmony. Halifax county, Va, John j.
Lawson is appointed postmaster. The post
Office at White House. Mecklenburg county,
Va. is discontinued. A new post-oflice is
ordered at Wallacc's Switch, in Washington
county, Va, with John Z. Haly as postmas-
ter: at Buffalo Shoals, Wayne county, West
Virginia, with Rufus II. Luther; at Ri" Syca-
more, Clay county, West Virginia, with L.
.. Wheeler: and at Graham's Station, Mason
county West Virginia, with G. ". Hugely.