The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-12-16
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SATURDAY..... DECEMBER le, 1858
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LATEST FROM WASHINGTON By NAIL
Owing to some unknown cause, tho Balti
more papers Of yesterday morning have no
come 10 hand at the present writing. We are
consequently deprived Of the foating items OF
news and interesting rumors with which tho
>,a, and American usually furnish u.s. From
the Washington Chronicle and National L,teHi-
2eacer we clip the following:
! SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION.
There are current reports of party under
standings to the effect that the existing Con
! gressional arrangements Qn a Joint committee
TOT the cases or persons returned rs Senators
or Representatives from the late Confederate
! or rebelStates. is to prOcrastinatc such eases
by the various expedents known to partisan
chicane until representatives and people alike
, of the South shall lose all heart and hope.
The House adopted yesterday resolution
supplementary to what is known the '' cal-
Gus reconstruction resolution" which will in :
sure the reference of all papers relative to the
so-called Confederate States to the joint com
mittee Of fifteen. Mr.. Raymond and n few
other Union Representatives voted against the
resolution.
| Mr.. Forney writes:
''While there is a fixed determination not
| 10 admit any man in Congress whose hands
Were imbued with the blood of our fellow
cOuntrymen, and who cannot take the oath
that was taken by all the members of the Fast
Congress, with one or two exceptions, and by
, all the new members and Senators Of the pre-
sent Congress, tried and true men from the
South, who came here fairly elected, will not
! be compelled to wait long. The temper of the
House is decidedly against the repeal of this
same test oath, and it would seem that it will
require 4 long time before certain Of the South
ern communities can SO mould their action 10
the lnevitabilties as TO render 1t safe to do So
GENERAL GRANT.
1t Is stated that Lieutenant General Grant
contemplates making 4 tour to the Rio Grande
ria New Orleans.
A swINDLE.
II is stated that General Baker, chief of the
War Depar tment detectives, has just dis
covered that 4 mOnStrOus fraud has been per-
petrated by two claim agents in this city upon
soldiers who have been hOnOrably mustered
ont of the United States volunteer service. 1t
appears that some time since, i circular was
prepared and promulgated extensively among
our defenders, in which the agents certified
! that for compensa ton of twenty five dollars
they would procure for each soldier warrant
emitting the holder to sixty acres of the pub
lie domain, along the route of the Pacific rail-
road. In consequence of this proposal, many
unsnspecting soldiers were defrauded out Of
! their remittances. Competent judges estimate
that the unscrupulOus agents received over
twenty thousand dollars, and that the scheme
for further speculation was frustra ted through
the agency of many who We're dnped. Just
soon General Baker was informed of the
transaction, his superior detective force was
put on the alert, but not in time to arrest the
, perpetrators Of this illegitimate business.
wINDER AND WIRZ AGAIN.
Captain Weest, United States Army, has
been cashiered for that he did, a the Old Cap
itol prison, take from their rooms in which
l1>-0 nfi,,nI iaHn
and Henry Wirz, prisoners OF State, and did
convey them, in violation of all rules of the
said prison, to the room of Brigadier General
Briscoe. United States volunteers, also a pri-
soner confined in said prison, and did permit
them TO remain in said room from nine +. M.
until four A. NJ, on October Is, 1868.
VIRGINIA TREASURY LAND WARRANTS.
Inquiries are frequently made in regard 10
what are known as Virginia Land Office
Treasury Warrants.
1t is understood that warrants of that class
can only be satisfied by location upon vacant
unappropriated lands belonging tn ITginih.
The only class of Virginia warrants, the
satisfaction Of which is assumed by the Gene
raj Government (lnd with which such Vir-
ginia treasury warrants are often confoundedl,
are those granted for services rendered in the
war of the observation-disclosures
We would advise purchasers to g look well
to titles " before they bny these Virginia trea-
sury land warrants. They are very valuable
If you can find the land. The State merely
confers the right of locating these warrants
upon any lands belonging to the State not
otherwise appropriated; which is about the
same thing as giving the purchaser the privi-
lege of filling his pockets with any money
found lying around loose.''
INTERESTING TO UNITED STATES SOLDIERS NOT
TIRED OF WAR.
BY a decision just made soldiers re -enisting
in the regular army within thirty days after
their discharge from the volunteer service
will be entitled to The additional pay of two
dollars per month {as provided by act of Con-
gress approved August 4th, 1861 when the
term OF their new enlistment in the regular
army shall, in connection with the term they
have continuously served in the volunteer
Immediately previous TO enlistment in the
regular army, amount in the aggregate to
five years service.
so DRINKING POLICEMEN ALLOWED IN WASHING
TON.
At the regular meeting of the Board of
Metropolitan Police Commissioners, held yes
terday afternoon, the following order was
unanimously adopted, viz
"Oydered That hereafter no person shall
be appointed on the force who fails to produce
satisfactory evidence to the Board of his hav-
ing abstained totally from the use of ardent
spirits rs a beverage for at least three months
prior to his application, and that indulgence
in any intoxicating liquor as q beverage shall
be considered just cause for removal.
" Further, That this order be one of the
standing rules OF the Board until altered or
repealed
NEGRO SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT.
A bill from the Board Of Common Council,
1 authorizing a special election to ascertain the
opinions of the people of Washington on the
| question Of negro suffrage in the District was
taken up by the other Board and unanimously
passed. There We're no two opinions as to
what the Washington whites desired on the
subject. Members pronounced the statements
of the negroes petition to Congress, relative to
their numbers, wealth, and the taxes they had
paid, to be downright falsehOods.
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