The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-23
WAsnINGroN, May 10, 1866.


A delegation from the Republican Union
Central Committee Of Virginia have to-da!
been calling upon many of the promihen'
members of Congress, heads OF depart
ments. and political leaders here, laying PC
fore them the difficulties which the party
have to surmount, and the perpicX!y win
which this element is surrounded oy the
appointment to Office of q class OF mix
and water men, who, though attachea 10
the interests Of the loyal Union men pre-
yious TO going into office, Immediately on
entering upon their public duties desert
the cause, associating with that antago-
nistic class which chooses TO denominate
itself loyal because Of loud-mouthed pro-
fcssions of respect for President Johnson.
They represent that, choosing to curry
favor with the first families, subordinates
arc selected whose only recommendation
is having been in the rebel army; and
while Union men were the first to suffer
BY the depression of business, they receive
no emoluments nor Office, and are being
forced, many of them, to subsist upon
charity.
| Their exhibitions of facts and figures
very conclusivcly show that, should the
| Government strictly adhere to the policy
OF selecting staunch loyal men for Union
Offices, the Republican Union party in Viz
ginia would be enabled in the next politl-
cal canvass to roll up a heavy count for the
cause of truth and justice.
Their call upon Chief Justice Chase and
Judge Underwood solicited the fact that
| the Virginia State Court will meet at Rich
mond on the 5th of June but unless mar
tial law shall have been removed, Jcf.
Davis will continue to enjoy his quarters at
| Fortress Monroe until the next sitting OF
the court, in December.
The expressions of encouragement and
appreciation of the esteemed Chief Justice
very much chcercd the delegation. Three
of them were members of the grand jury
\ that indicted jeff, and they were enabled
| to show some very characteristic letters
sent by anonymous writer's, threaten
ing personal violence unless they should
! leave the State. Judge Underwood showed
letter received from Lynchburg, also
signed with fictitious name; but one OF
the party, thinking he recognized the
handwriting, is of the impression that a
member of the legal profession in that city
wrote it. In the course of the days visits
the fact was developed that the stories
about the failing health of jeff. Davis are
greatly exaggerated. He is furnished every
| luxury the market affords, and every mo-
dern Improvement for comfort and ease
has been placed in his room-thirty-f by
twenty two. His wife and children are
allowed unrestricted association with him,
and with the balmy breeZes OF Old Point.
Jcff.'s situation is not 50 disastrous and
hazardous as some would have the public
| believe.
Their interviews with Senator Sumner
and General Butler were long and inte-
resting. The graphic accounts of affairs
in Virginia were listened to with every
kindness, and the advice rendered in re-
Spouse was cheering and consoling to men
who were passing through the fiery FUR
mace of rebel triumph. Though the plat
form adopted by the party was not thought
broad enough, still they considered 1t the
pioneer of popular organized expressions,
and they proflered every assistance neces-
sary to complete and carry out their pur-
poses. A mass ratification meeting Will
| be held in Alexandria the first of the week,
when the first talent of the country will be
present, and the ball of true loyal reform
be put in motion.
Mr.. B. Wardwcll, OF Richmond, chalr-
main of the committee, will remain III
Washington for few days, collecting ma
tcrial to secure the careful canvass OF the
State preparatory to forming county organ
izations throughout the State.
The Postmaster-General has taken no
action with regard to the late iracas i'll
Richmond between the post-otiice clerks
there and grieving rebels, who were deter
mined to force the closing of that cstab-
lishment in honor of the cOmmemoration
services over the death of Stoncwall Jack
son on the 10th instant. In anticipation of
similar disturbances on the goth, when APP
propriate services are to be held i'll Holly
wood Cemetery, Richmond, over the graves
of Confederate soldiers, General Grant has
decided to increase the military force, and
Major General Turner, commandant ofthat
district, who was ordered to be mustered
out, has been directed to remain at his post
for the present.