The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-16
rBR NyssoreI QUESTION


The President has arrived at no definite
conclusion regarding the Missouri question.
lie has, however, decided that nerea1te All
contracts and appointments ior the western
Department shall he made in W Washington. An
the regular way, and throngh the ordinary
channels. Drig. Gen. W. h. Stron. will.
also bs authorized TO make such changes ia
Missouri, az Chief of the St,n, AS he shall
deem best. / repeat that IT has at no time
been decided either to arrest OF remove Gen.
Fremont, aud il is authoritatiVely reiterated
to-day that nothing but The imperative de-
manos Of public interest shall induce the
Government 10 supersede him.
Mem bers OF Congress ana others lamiilar
with the state OF affairsIn MI. suuii are here,
Ill daily Intercourse with tho President anG
they assert the positive necessity OF taxing
itnmediate and decisive action. Iney con
urm the statement made IN recent lettGrs from
prominent citizens of the Northwest, that
unless something is speedily done for Mis-
souri, ali will be- lost there. The Attorney
General is unreserSed III his expression ui
opinion concerning General Fremont, and
does not hesita to 10 pronounce his reten ZION a
public crime. Mr.. Bates is in receipt daily OF
letters from important sources IN Missouri,
indicating dung, fols condition OF affairs
IN that state. His tenn per ana his fears are
greatly exercised by The 20 dispatches. A fun
consultation on the whole suvec. Will b.
held 10 -morrow in a Cabinet meeting.
THE VIOLATION OF TnB SAVANNAH BLOCKADE.
The publicity given to tho violation of the
Savannah blockade 5y the British steamer
Bermuda, is said 10 have proceeded from Lord
Lyons's dinner table, Information, strange
10 say, from the village OF Thompson, Con-
uscticut, gives me reason to believe that part
OF the freight Of this big vessel was seventy
tons of guBpoWder, seven thousand Enfield
rifles, ten ritied cannon, sixty thousand pairs
shoes q large quantity OF blankets and cloth
ing, and an extraordinary amount of ouinine
and morphine. Remous trances against her
sailing, and, indeed, against her completing
haAr h1- II.
Adams in London, but the Foreign Offices
did not feel ~ liberty, or would not see its OBJ
legation, TO arrest the unlawful voyage. The
circumstances under which the bermuda eff
fected an en- trance into Savannah, will prUba-
oily be made the subject of q court-marriaI.-
One thing is certain-the Bermnda will never
go out again, except for condemnation and
sale.
THE PATRIOTISM oPOsIo.
Ohio has sixty regiments in the field, and
forty more are organizing. Twenty ragi
ments of this great army are cavalry and
three artillery.
COMMANDS ASSIGNED.
General Hointzeiman is assigned 10 the
command az q division in Virginia, connpris-
ing the brigades of Generals Sedgwick, K!cn-
arGson, and Buttcrfield. Gen. Joha Newton
Is assigned tn a brigade under Gen. Frank
lin. Col. Sir John De Courcy, di.tlng uik nel
in the Crimean war, has been commissioned
by Governor pennis0n Colonel of the Sixty
ninth OHIO regiment, and will Lave NOR
row to take command. Capts. John Mason
and Crook, Of the regular army, are also to
have Ohio Colonelcie5.
Postal DEFICITS OF TIE sRCBnEp -ThTBs.
The following statement exhibits the tinau
cial relation Of post offices in seeded States
and parts of Sta ties to the Post Office Depart
ment on October l, io6i
D1.
Balance 10 hands OF PostJuas ters
April /, 1851. ...........-...,....s 2.- ,iol -
Stamps and envelopes sent subse-
queutl. ............. III ,5,A IS