The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-04-05

he pockets Eve thousand dollars A. his share OF the
opsmton Occasionally one oi .nsse co. co.esp"n 1',a
he fhrnishes news for weeks ana months witboW
its having such effect on tho market ns 70 bring
him more than the merest fslbblets OF pFonts bnt
tile chances Of sss0Biething brant' has us tasci-
batIons, and the stock operators nave no dimcu1y
In inducing well informed people toturassh then a'
the news they get These men haunt every ionny
aud committee room 4 conference comnuttee
reaches conclusion on come important ?ues-
ton, affecting gold, or stocks, or WHISKY,
TO any other article of speculation. They imagine
u orofonnd secret, and are startled Gay OF TWO
aite!t7 AID 10 md that operator In New xofn
Rad IL within few hours after its adoption, and
mat utortbne had been male out OF the fnte!H
senee. The supreme Court makes decision; be
IRE II Is pronounced a'',iDgp In New YORK mas
operated OH It's effect, and made enough to set
every one connected with It up in the wosi.
bureau or the government resolves TO recommend
a tex on particular article; before the recon-
i.endatlon reaches EoDggo-s, certain parties ta
New York have bought 'p all Of The article they
can plssbiy get, and when tlia rise comes they
pocket the proceeds, ii seems utterly i.apos-iaie
~ pfeyent This. When news Of imporant battles
s coming In, GoveromeD has sometimes attempt
ed IT, but the effort was Idie as II was foo ish.
censor has been established at the telegraph office,
and he has wisely suppressed eeefy dispatch say
Ing word about the war. BGt servant gil comes
IN with hagrie, scfawl on torn sheet ot deli
cat:iy scented french paper, In iady's hand:
George H. Montgomery, Fifth Avenue i.osei
New York. Do come heme al once Mary cannot
LIVE twenty-four hours. longer. Laura Montgom-
efr.o
How can he stop. than? Flu, George Mont
gOnieTy Is a myth, and HaTy's Illness means Hook
er's defeat, and the hotel clerk has bern instructed
% send any such dispatch by .he 'spcediest means
to somebody's bank down town; and the frm makes
the m9ney, and she G6yersment eensOrs keeps
blinking like an owl over the dispatches and rigid
II stopping ''everything relating to the waF; and
Mr.. Stanton feiicita'ea himself over having made
newspaper pests send their accounts by mai!
rather than by telegraph ''How little sense II
tikes TO run Government,' sail some wise man.
Once, du,irg last summer, leading newspaper
editor got Gisgu-ted and determned that the gold
gamblers should not nonopolize all the early news.
30 he went into the cipher business too, bu; being
rather raw a; IL, his first effort was not quite so
2o2d as so5Ie subsequent ones. H. forwarded the
cipher to his leading Washington correspondents
Pretty soon tho operators Ia his city, who knew
hlGi solely devoted newspaper man, were as
iihlshed al receiving i0s biui this dispatch from
Washington:
lave sold for yon fifteen thousand bushels of
cofn Al So. Tic market looks sqaay.''
His paper announced, the next morning, tina, the
MAIN bOdy of Lees amy had crossed the Nary
Iant line, and was moving into pennsy ylvania: and
his ci,ei rival got very ID ana complained to the
war Departmen, thIt he was byibing the telegraph
company but II WIS whispered about among his
idaHs;s that SO and SO was negecting his business
and gnin. into very rash specula.ions, and -- he
changed his cipher!
MISCELLANEOUS.
Governor Bramlette, Of Kentucky and ex Sena
tor Dixon, OF the same state, are stil tn Washing
ton. Their business with the President is with
reference TO the draft Those who profess 70 be
well acquainted with tha subject, says telegram,
confidently say That difficulty is apprehendGd
10 execution Of ih.'dYait under the amendatory
enrolment act in that State. and that all proper
measures will te TAKEN by the GovereInmeEt TO
prevent military cxeesses Or any cunirivention OF
the rights o the citizens aud, noreoyer, they a.
| sc.t that Kentucky WV promptly furnish her full
quota under the drait
In the Wilkes Court Martial at Washington
Commander Sehufedt testified that le was Consu.
General Al Havana during Admiral Wilkess cruise.
and tnas the force OF the command was totally In
adequate 10 the duties required but that the efforts
# Wilkes TO catch ;Iie .ebe privateers were un-
eea.tns. Commander Ciary, o. the Tiosa, test-
ned 10 the uaiiness 0i lfs vesse, ter service,
and the untirng sfor;s OF the Admiral catch the
| rebel pirates
Postmaster General Blair Is pressing Gen Grant
| very nard 10 place Gen. ,;cCeIan in command of
| The deiences OF :ashiIyton. II Was his influence
that procured the canceiatian Of Frank Blair'S
| signattoI. aid hiS HeassiSnmenl 10 Major Gene
F., fal's command under McPherson.
The Committee or the Conduct Of the War will
la ~ IL yspoft ccmpl teiy exOueTdIe President lii
eoiE- from all responsibility or the defeat IL
; Florida. The EVIDENCE adjuced shows that he
neither ordered, Consulted was cGgniZRnt Of the
movement that di.astfousy eliminated at olus-
tee.
Over .yySnsy r.x and uous ui coal were SOLD
al auction In New York Monday. The descrip
Hons sold steamboat lump, crate, egg, stove,
AMI che-nut, all of which showed q coAsiderabie
advance over former prices.
Mr ncCssa, Yankee Missionary AT Beaufort, 8.
for converting the negroes, has bsen put IN jail
, for selling taen waiskey.
&ev Byron sunderland, the Chaplain OF the y. s.
Esnate, has been teudese1 the pastoral charge OF
the jme'can chapel In Paris, anu il is understood
; ih.' he has decided 10 se.spt the same.
In Lynchbarg, Va, 4atuIday beef fell frsm - to
% 50, aud Irsh potatoes ftcn S!S to $40 pc.
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