The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-03-09

meanwhile The friends Of reduction from
Virginia, North Carolina. Kentucky, and
other tobacco States, are working with zeal
and prudence to relieve tobaccoof The bur.
dens Of the present internal-revenue system.
By the way, your correspondent finds that
MIR. Sherman said, in the debate on increas-
ing the tax from twenty to twenty.four
cents, that to do this was to do great
wrong to the men who grow tobacco, to
the men who manufacture tobacco, and to
the men who deal In tobacco.
s. 81. AEssRs. LEWIS. AND RALsroN.
b Iasked leading Republican tonight why
neither OF these gentlemen would be ap-
pointed marshal, and he replied: Colonel
Ralston will not because he has been a
Democrat, and because he has not been
resident OF the District long enough. I
could give you others, said he, but these
arc enough. Ex-senator Lewis will not be
because his brother is United States dis
trict attorney and his sonan assistant United
States district attorney, and large num-
Der of his kin and connections hold and
have held Federal Offices. Then, he comes
from Harrisonburg, and District Attorney
Lurty lives there, and so does the present
marshal and other Federal appointees, and
it will not do to let one locality have all the
Federal offices. Who then, asked, will
be the man. That is hard to tell. Yost
could be, he added, but he is postmaster at
Staunton. .,.gsg,,-
e&tE THE EASTERN MARsHALsHIP. y
That Mir. RamsdelPs confirmation will be
opposed / repeat with confidence. and one
of the Virginia senators told me to-day that
he received letters from three persons this
morning, each Of whom, in the event Mr..
Ramsdell is beaten, wants to be marshal.
OF course there are a host Of others who in
such a contingency will not be slow to put
in their claims. .--.r-s.sn.s@
s...s NC r.. PERSONAL ITEMS.
Governor John L. MarYe is here, attend
ing to an important law case.
Messrs. William T.. Sutherlin, OF Dan
vile; Wv. Southall and James D. Jones,
OF Charlottesville; and Hon. T. W. Duke,
Of Albemarle, are also in the city.
,,t Senators Blaine, Jones Of Florida. Here
ford, Johnston, and Others, were ON the
floor OF the House to-day. -;l-.r5,i'g ii. i Il
4 re. ANOTHER TEXAs-PACIFIC.
Parties were before the House Committee
on Pacific Roads to-day in advocacy of a
proposition that the United States Govern
ment make survey Of the route Of a pro-
posed railroad from Austin, Texas, to To-
poloyampo, on the Gulf of California They
say that all five members of the committee
present favored the proposition, and that
they are sure Of Il favorable report.
BRIEF ITEMS. ~"
Mr.. Sherman in Cabinet to-day said the
Wood tariff bill will reduce the revenue
S15,0O0.OO0. -
The leading appropriation bills will be
ready to be reported to the House before
the 1st of April.
New York jewellers here to-day wanted
the duty on iewelry reduced.
The House to-day discussed the bill to pay
mail contractors in the South to the 31st Of
May, 1861. There was much bitter feeling
in it.
Mr.. Stephens, chairman of the Coinage
Committee, wants the trade dollar, the sill
yer tive-cent piece, and the nickel three
cent abolished, and Congress will agree to
it.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
Associated Press reports by telegraph to the Dis
patch.1
..... VARIOUS ITEMS.
The State and Interior Departments were
REPRESENTED at the Cabinet meeting to-day
by Assistant Secretary Seward, Mr.. Evarts
being absent i'm New York. ALI the other
members were present. The tariff bill now
being considered by the Committee Of Ways
and Means was topic OF discussion. From
estimates and tables submitted by Secretary
Sherman it appeared that under the opera
ton of the bill the revenues would fall oil
annually from fourteen to fifteen millions
of dollars. and to meet the actual expendi-
lures of the Government it would become
necessary to make up the deficiency by q
tariff on articles now on the free list.
Collector Cooper telegrapbssf from Knox
Vile, Tenn, that his raiders captured five
distilleries and arrested several persons In
johnson county.
The action Of the Pacific Railroad COM
mittee of the House to-day is important in
a geographical, if no other, sense. The bill
directs the Secretary Of War to make the
survey and report, and appropriates twenty
thousand dollars for that purpose. The
survey Will disclose the existence OF Topo-
lovampo, a harbor eighteen miles long By
one to six broad, containing fifty-four
square miles OF water-surface, twelve Of
which are from three and half to twelve
fathoms deep, with twenty-one feet Of wa
ter over the bar at low tide. This harbor is
said to be second to none in convenience,
&C., on the Pacific coast, and lies seven
hundred miles west of the present railroad
terminus in Texas. Topolovampo would
save New Orleans eighteen hundred and
sixty-seyen miles in the journey by rail to
the Pacific, and to Mobile sixteen hundred
and eighty-two miles; and oranges and ba-
nanas grow on its banks IN December.
Postmaster General Key refused to allow
the Acknowledgement to question the right
Of members OF Congress to become bonds
men for mail contractors, and has definitely
awarded the contract for Fort Worth and
the Numa route to Colonel Chidester.
XLVTH CONGRESS--Second Session
WASHINGTON, March s, 1878.
SENATE.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
| No business Of Importance was transacted
| in the House, the time being consumed IN
Committee Of the Whole in discussion OF
the bill for the payment OF the claims OF
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