The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-23

The bill was discussed and then laid on the
table at the suggestion Of it's friends. s.
Tn motion, the House adjourned. AZ
Appeals to the President from Decisioas OF
the Depar,m
As applications are frequently made ID the
President of the United States by claimants
who consider themselves aggrieved by the de-
csions of the heads OF the Executive Depart
men,s, and who, therefore, appeal to him for a
reversal Of those decisions, the Washington
Constitution publishes the following letter
addressed by the President to highly respects
able banking firm, which sets forth his reasons
for declining to entertain such appeals:
WASHINGTON, Dec. i2 1859.
GENTLEMEN; 1 have received your letter of
the sth inst, con tanning a formal appeal TO me
from decision of the Secretary of the Treas
ury against you on two points LIST his refusal
TO permit you TO deposit San Francisco any
portion of the Government loan taken by Wi,
under the proposals of the Secretary of the
7th OF December, 1855; and, I'd his refusal TO re-
fer the question to the Attorney General
In answer have to inform you that an an.
peal does not lie to the President from the
decisions of the heads of the different Ex-
ecutive Departments. This has been settled
both by judicial decisions and by the practice
of the Government, including that of the
present Administration. Their acts and deci-
| sions are the acts and decisions of the Presi-
are his in fact in ali cases of difficulty and i'm
portance. 1t is for this, besides other reasons
| that Cabinet consultations are held twice
| in each week, where questions ofpublic inter-
est, as they arise, are canvassed and decided
| If the President We're bound to hear appeals
! from the heads of the different department Is in
| all cases where claimant Is consider themselves
agGrieyed, it would be impossible for him to
undergo the labor. In that case, every claim
ant dissatisfied with the decision of any de.
| partment, might appeal to him for redress,
and he would be obliged to re-examne the
documents and papers and re- hear the argu.
ments which had been submitted to such de.
partment, and either affirm, reverse or modify
| its decision. This would entirely change his
ultimate relations with his confiden tial ad-
visers, converting them into inferior courts
and himself into Il superior court of errors and
| appeals. Besides, there would be no equality
! between private parties and the government
When the decision of the head of depart
ment was in favor of the claimalat it would
be final; but if it were against the claimant.
| he would be entitled TO an appeal to the Presi
dent. The truth is, such an appellate juris.
diction would render it impossible for the
President to discharge his high duties to the
country, and would resolve his office into a
tribunal to hear and determine private claims
in the last resort.
Nor is there the least necessity for any such
jurisdiction. Congress, by the act of February
~, 1855, established Court of Claims for pre-
cisely such cases as you have represented To
that court or TO Congress beg leave respect
iuiiy 10 refer YOU JAMES BUCHANAN.
THE MEDICAL STUDENTs.--It is apparent
that the movement of the Southern medical
students created quite sensation in Philadel-
phia The papers of that city contain accounts
of their proceedings prior to their departure
thence, an abstract of which will be read with
interest:
The threatened stampede of the Sou thern
students from the medical colleges in this city
exeites quite sensation, as it practically car
ries out the Southern threat of noa-lnter-
course with the North. At the meeting held
by them Tuesday, which took place with closed
doors, nearly four hundred were present, and
DIR. Luckett, of Virginia, bat now a ply sician
at our aims house, read several dispatches
one from Gov. Wise, stating that the citizens of
Richmond would receive with open arms the
students who had determined on leaving the
colleges in this city for Virginia. ODe inform
ing the students that they would be received
at Richmond with military honors. Two dis
patches stating that two drafts for $500 each
| would be forwarded for the purpose OF defray-
| ing incidental expenses. Also, letters from the
| faculties of the colleges in Virginia, Tennessee
| North Carolina an, Georgia, setting forth that
| they would be welcomed to the colleges in
handsome manner. DIR. L. would not dissuade
| the students from what they considered duty
but hoped that their retirement would be made
| in diguiffed manner and without braYado of
any kind.
| Dr. Mcguire also addressed the assembled
| young men, exhorting them to observe perfect
! decorum in all their movements, to maintain
| their dignity as gentlemen from The South, and
advising them henceforth to cherish. in pre-
| ference TO all others. Southern Institutions.
| DR.. Gross, of jefferson College, made an ad-
| dress to the students in relation to this move
| ment, in which he sought to show them the
| fallacy of their course, and the disadvantages
that would result from its adoption. He spoke
OF the probable effects it would have upon the
politics and harmony of the Union, and felt
that they could be nothing but disastr trous.
= H.
from the fact that several of them were arrested
last week by the police on the charge of dis
turbing the abolition meeting at National
Hall. They allege there was no ground for
their arrest, they committed no offence
There are about twelve hundred students in
the several medical colleges of this city, about
one half OF whom are from the South.