The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-05
Political Points.

Blanton Duncan figures out ], 900, 900 votes
for Peter Cooper, and he talks as ii he was
going to cast them all himself.
The Adams movement among the Massa-
chusetts Democrats is said to preSagc re-
making OF parties.
Wanted, an honcSt' man to run on the
Radical State ticket Columbia Is. c. Re-
gtSter.
Vermont's regular Republican majority
runs from 10000 to $4,000. In 1872 the State
cast total vote of $1,000, and gave $4,000 OF
it majority for Grant.
Baron Munchausen has been employed to
get up news items for the Radical papers of
the North, and he is doing his duty with
his accustomed yigor and sprightliness Of
invention. Norfotk Landmark.
The man who was at his post in the day
of battle knows that the war is over, but
the man who sat in Congress and voted for
the subsidies thinks it is still raging.-Ao-
bile Register.
George w. Curtis is writing upon the
subject OF "Shyster Statesmen" and there
was meeting of the Cabinet last week to
trv and find out which OF them he al
| luded to.
| The last year OF Governor DiX's admins
| tration in New York the taxes Of Columbia
county were S15S.547.76. The second year
under Governor Tilden they are reduced to
SS2,435.73, thus saving $7G,112.03.
Erie county, New York. paid State tax
| of S407, 545G5 in the last year of Republican
administration. Governor Tilden has re-
duced it to S213, 44.3G-thus saving to the
people OF that county alone the sum of $780,
| 101.29. ... -.. 50.
| Accounts OF fresh troubles come from
Louisiana, the disturbances being evidently
the work OF Radical bulldoZers," who are
| melting the negroes to attack the white
| people Tor political purposes.-H. Louis
| Times.
In 1874, when New York had 4 Republic
can administration, Duchess county paid 4
tax OF 1924, 4O4.2S. This year, under Til
| den and reform, it amounts to but S124,-
154.O2-a difference in favor of Democratic
administration OF $110, 291.26.
Troops arc needed at Oklahoma, Miss, to
| prevent the intimidation Of negroes. a
| leading Radical negro shot another who
| wouldn't Join the Hayes and Wheeler club.
| Why don't Grant hurry up his troops and
prevent such outrageS ?-Rateigh IN. c.
| Sentinel.
The New York Herald won't be surprised
! to find 90 Blaine's disease" rather more CON-
mon than Bright's, next session, when the
| investigating committees get to work again,
and thinks q there won't be church steps
| enough in Washington to accommodate the
patriots who desire to be STRICKEN down
with it,"
A South Carolina man thoughtlessly set
some spring-guns III his poultry-yard, and
the next morning in the rising sun he rub
bed his spectacles and stared in speechless
Arrangement at eighteen candidates for Gov
ernor sitting on the front fence picking
bird-shot out OF their thirty-six legs.
The Vicksburg Daily Tribune prints dis.
patch from Monroe, La, containing the fol-
lowing: "On Saturday last Mr.. Sizemore,
a prominent Radical from Caldwell parish,
was in this city, and while here said to Mr..
Solomon w. Downs in confidence: Il have
no desire to see you hurt, and advise you
not to say much about politics. The pro-
grammc has been made out, and there Will
be hell to pay"
The army regulations as now prepared
take the ground that heads of staff corps
should report to and be under the exclusive
control of the General of the Army. This
reverses the present order by which the
President, rs commander-in-chief, commu-
nicates with the army through the Secretary
OF War, and goes us far as 1t Is possible to
60 under our system in making the army
independent OF the civil branch. This new
regulation has been submitted to several of
the heads OF the staff corps for their CON.
sideratiOn, md some Of them have called
attention in pointed terms to its conflict
with existing laws. The controversy must
now remain undecided until Congress acts.