Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-06-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
We copy the following from the Washing
ton correspondence Of the New York Herald :;
HOTEL. GOSSIP,

We copy the following from the Washing
ton correspondence OF the New York Herald ::
HOTEL GOSSIP.
W. w. BOyce, formerly member of Con-
gress from South Carolina, is here, and has
called upon the President. He is one of the
few in that State who has remained loyal. 1t
is he who, in 1861, addressed protest against
secession to the people of that State. The
following quotation from that address is worth
remembering:
South Carolina cannot become a nation
God makes nations, not man. You cannot
extemporiZe a nation out of South Carolina.
1t is simply impossible we have not the re-
sources. We could exist by tolerance, and
what that tolerance would be, when we con-
slider the present hostile spirit of the age to
the institution of slavery, of which we would
be looked upon as the peculiar exponent, all
may readily imagine. trust we may never
have TO look upon the painful and numiliating
spectacle. From the weakness OF our ma
tional government a feeling of insecurity
would arise, and capital would take the alarm
and leave us. But it may be said, let capital
20. To this reply that capital is the life
blood of a modern community, and in losing
it you lose the vitality of the State. Seces-
sion, separate nationality, with all its bur-
dens, is no remedy. 1t is no redress for the
past; it is no security for the future.
Davis, according to all accounts, is exc
Grated IN the South, and his possible fate eX-
cites no particular sympathy.
1t is believed here that the President Is
not in favor Of negro suffrage, except in some
modified form and under certain qualifca-
tions.
1t is also understood that the mission of
Gen. Sickles TO Bogota was for the purpose
Of obtaining grants of land for the purpose
of settling them with blacks from the Uni
ted States, and that the late President, who
authorized the mission, was willing to give
fifteen millions of dollars for adequate ter
ritory.
The United States Of Colombia, after this
year, will withdraw their diplomatic estab-
lishment from this country, in consequence
of the Congress having refused to make any
appropriations beyond the present year.
IRoN-cLADs TO BE LAID UP.
The iron-clads and monitors attached to
the West Gulf and Mississippi sq-adrons are
over. These will not be brought North, but
will be laid up at some convenient point on
the Mississippi river, or one of its tributa-
ries not yet decided upon.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND PRESTON KING.
The President is now occupying Represen.
tive HOoper's house, on the corner of Il and
Fifteents streets, and will remain there while
the White House is being retitted. Preston
King remains with him, and it is said they
are keeping bachelors hall. Although not
a member of the Cabinet, he is frequently in
attendance at their meetings, and listens to
their discussions, probably being initiated in
the mysteries aud duties appertaining to
Cabinet officers. The friendship between
the two is of long standing, aud, to all ap-
pearance, the most cordial and ardent with
both parties. That he will be assigned to an
important position in the Cabinet, when re-
organized, appears quite certain.
1t is rumored that Montgomery Blair
will be sent abroad as minister to some
foreign court.
RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.
Secretary McCulIooh, in conversation with
a prominent politician few days since,
stated that the government was now ready to
resume specie payment that its finances
we're in q condition TO enable it to adopt that
course. The only thing that prevented imme-
date adoption of that plan was the injury
that it would do to the business interests of
the country. The indications are that re-
turn to specie payments would be made be-
fore many months. The idea of the country
returning to a specie basis in less than one
year after the close of rebellion like that
which we have Just gone through seems a
wild and preposterous idea. But after what
we have done there is nothing impossible
Secretary McCulloch is not man who talks
at random, especially on financial questions,
and his statement is worthy OF attention.