The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-23
fr1rE CREDENTIALS OF Av1RorN1A snNA-


It is rather notifying to the people |
of Virginia to find that Mr.. Joseph Sc
gar, their representative to the United
States Senate, has been denied seat in
that august body by very decisive vote
taken upon his credentials" The re-
lection appears to be based upon the
fact that Virginia is ga State in armed
rebellion "a little circumstance that
probably Mr.. Segar, in his hurry to take
the boat for Washington, had overlooked.
Mr.. Charles Sumner, citizen of Massa-
chusetts, who is more fortunate than Mr..
Segar in occupying seat in the Federal
Senate, took very sensible view of the
matter. He could not see-what nobody
else can see-the propriety of a Virginia
representative in Yankee Senate. lie
said go. t. .s "a
1t will be the duty of the committee
to consider. in the first place, whether
State in armed rebellion, like Virginia,
can have Senators on this floor. That is
a great Observation-Disclosures, political
and practical. 1t will be their duty,
then, in the second place, to inquire
whether the gentleman whose credentials
hare been presented has been chosen le'
cally. under the Constitution of the
United States, by any State. l do not
intend to PREJUDICE either of these ques-
tons. l simply offer them for the con-
sideration of theSenate; but l do insist
that a measure of this Importance shall
not be acted on without due considera-
ton or in absolute indifference to those
facts which now stare us in the face,
, glaring upon us every day in every news
paper that we read. You cannot be i'm
sensible to facts.
, 1t is in vain that Senators say that
, Virginia, now at war against the Union,
: is entitled to representation on this floor,
r when you have before you the mex
orable fact that the. greater part Of the
State is at this moment in the possession
Of an armed rebe!lion-when you have
f before YOU the other fact, filing almost
Y all the newspapers in the land, that the
body of men who have undertaken to
: send a Senator to Congress are a little
G more than the Common Council OF Alex
: andria. And you have that question
= distinctly presented to you whether 8
!, representative of the Common Council
4 of Alexandria is to enter this chamber
0 and share the same powers and privileges
f with my honorable friends, the Senators
0 from New York and Pennsylvania.
! merely open these points without now
r undertaking to decide, and simply as al
unanswerablc argument in favor OF tn
: reference to the committee.
z THE TRADE CARRIED ON WITH THE CON
n FEDERACY BY AUTHORITY OF TIl
I YANKEE GOVERNMENT.
s In answer to the resolution of the Fe
# deral Senate calling for information a
: to special permits for getting out cotton
ETC., from the rebel States, the following
Y list has been furnished as having bee
authorized by II. A. Rislcy, Specia
: Agent, etc. All have been granted bt
>. tween November l, 1864, and Januar
81, 1865. The Confederate reader Wi
; be astonishcd to see the immense cor
C traband trade which the enemy hav
v continued to carry on in country wher
2 the theory, at least, is, that the Yanke
,r is our mortal foe:
D. d. Cromelicn & Co., on application {
the Hon. 7. Corwin, 2,10O cases of to
m bacco, from Northumberland county
Virginia B. F. Camp, j. Maddox an
s, D. p. Barr, 1900 boxes tobacco, frol
'g Virginia and North Carroll Ia; Le'
d, Brooks & Camp, 1000 bales cotton, "a
l. barrels turpentine, 400 barrels rosil
nc from Mississippi and Louisiana; Davi
O. P. Laws, 10000 bales cotton, Virgini
and North Carolina; Augustus
cs Wright, 500 bales, Rome, Georgia; 4
IS, w. Harvey, 10000 bales, Florida; |
I'd r. Martin, 5000 bales, Florida; T.
Durant, 1000 bales, Florida; D.
Grant, 10000 bales, Florida F. B. Fa
sett, 10000 bales, Louisiana, Arkanss
and Mississippi; r. w. Daniels, 1000
of bales, Florida and North Carolina;
" w. Dyer, 1000 barrels turpentine, AL
bama; George W. Gage, 10000 ball
cotton, Mississippi and Louisiana; Moor
he Conalty & Co., 5000 bales, Mississippi
N. Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas NJ.
-, Twiss, 5000 bales, Tennessee and Lo
RAJ isiana; Mary P. Ceiceil, 5000 bale
by North Carolina; Henry Thompson, Loo
re bales, North Carolina J. o. P. Burr
side, recommended by Colonel Jeffri
- and others, 5000 barrels rosin, 5,O(
-, barrels tar and $4,000 pounds Tobacco