The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-23

GAPk1GAOh Aae aO~t Nhv 80 AA0
report of n thirty-two. FOUNDER gun,) which
fairly shook the earth In the vicinity, creating
the impression that 1t was an earthquake.
The explosion was found TO have occurred in
a lateral branch of the Sixth street sewer, and
was causedy no doubt, by the generation of
gases, which accumulated In the stencil traps,
and being without egress, burst through the
brick and iron work, scattering the fragments
in every direction. The traps at the corners
of L, /, and Ct streets seem to have exploded
simultaneously the irons at L and T streets
being blown entirely off, and the brick work
considerably damaged. The explosion at q
street was not so great, the top of the trap
being only loosened. 1t is a great wonder tina
no one was injured, as at ( street the bricks
were thrown some distance. From the traps
there arose at once a thick cloud of smoke,
with considerable heat, and a disagreeable
odor, and this morning, ut Z street, vapor was
still being emitted. Star.
SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT.
II has been the general opinion that the bill
granting universal suffrage in this District,
which was passed in the House by n union of
the Democrats and Radicals, would never be
acted upon by the Senate. But this morning,
Senator Morrill,, chairman OF the District Com
mittee, reported it without amendment, and it
is understood that the committee will urge its
immediate passage. With the known views of
the President upon the measure, this action
seems directly intended to force another veto.
Star.
me IABlNET.
1t is now definitely ascertained that Messrs.
Harlan, Stanton, and Speed opposed the Presi-
dents veto message; while Messrs. McCulloch,
Welles, and Seward have been in favor oft all
along, and Mr.. Dennison gave in his adhesion
to the measure but n few days since. No resig-
nations of members of the Cabinet have been
sent in yet, nor is there any immediate proba-
bility of any.-Phtladelphid Inquirer.
1t is now certain that a remodelliing of the
Cabinet Is near at hand. Secretaries Stanton,
Harlan, and Speed, are satisfied there is no use
in attempting to act in harmony with the
President, and he is equally willing they
should go.-GrreSpondence Philadelphia Ledger.
MANUFACTURING PUBLIC OPINION.
We are Informed that the Radical Senators
and Representatives have telegraphed to their
friends in those States the Legislatures of
which are in session urging demonstration
sustaining Congress and opposing the Presi-
dent, The first response has been received
from ohio, and others are expected to follow.
CLet the Legislatures which sustain the Pre-
sident pass resolutions approving the yeto.l
THE MASS MEETING.
To-day ut noon, at Growers Theatre, will
collect the most important assembly of the
people ever held in the District of Columbia.
This is no call to the crowd by demagogues
for the ordinary exaggerations OF desplcable
party clap-trap, or the manufacture of Vul-
gar enthusiasm in support of nominees for
office. The present occasion cannot be exag-
gerated. Upon the action of the people now
depends the terrible contingency of reyolu-
ton. The movement this day inaugurated In
different parts of the country is to save the
Union. That Union is sought to be subverted
by q desperate and unconsciOnable few who
have never sympathiZed with any great party,
and who now, about to be detached from the
clutch of power, desperately resolve to pro
tract the tumult and distress of war months
after the last sword has been sheathed and
the last wound healed.
This great meeting is to be here at the po-
litical centre of the Republic, in the midst
of it's statesmen, its gathered visitors from
every State, and the masses of that people
who are American to the core, from the
Aroostook to the Rio Grande. But, above
all, the declarations which 1t will proclaim
to the world will be heard by the preserver,
protector, and defender of the imperilled
Constitution and before the sun goes down,
by his response, the President will strike
hands with the people, and the covenant will
be on its way to every fireside in the land for
the sovereign OF The people
National HteAigencer.
GENERAL GRANT AND THE PRESIDENT.
We take pleasure in contradicting, as We
feel warranted in doing, the representations
which are extensively published that some
alienation of feeling between the President
and the Northumberland was involved as
a consequence of The matter of the suppress
sion and revival of n Richmond newspaper.
If it be considered by the public that the reVo-
cation of the ORDER, authorized in the first
instance by General Grant for certain reasons,
was accompanied by the pubilcauoh OF an
order, founded upon those reasons, OF general
application in the several military depart
ments of the country, 1t will be seen that the
substance of General Grants action was
affirmed by the President IN a way when pro
perly involved a rescission of the particular
order which had been thus superseded. These
circumstances, therefore,, do not afford that
occasion for the uneasiness which certain
parties are so DESTROYS 10 promote, which n
difference of opinion could III any case supply.
National Lnteltigencer (GIFcidt)
THE PRESIDENT WON'T SEE FORNEY.
1t seems too plain for argument that this
officer Secretary Of the Senatel should enjoy
the personal esteem of the President, or, TO
reduce the question to its owes issue, that
his violent, unseemly, and slanderous ami
madyerSion upon the latter, personally and
officially, through public lournals-his w
property-as well as in unreserved converse
ton, should not be q matter of vulgar noto-
~riety.-NationaI Enteltigencer (c0icidt.)
[Forney, as Secretary, carries messages to
the President. Hence the official announce
ment that he is odious.l
NEGRO SUFFRAGE BILL.
TIL President will no doubt veto the bill.
Whether it can be then passed over his head
is uncertain.-NationaI AateHigencer OFFICIALLY
THE RIcHMoND EXAMINER.
We understand that Mr.. Pollard refuses to
resume under the conditions set forth in this
order. He is now in the city, and announces
to his friends that he will obtain the PreSt-
DENTS sanction TO publish his paper pith0ut any
restrictions u~hdteUer, General Grants order to
the contrary Notwithstanding. - Washington
Chronicle Of yesterday.
Zone of Forney's mistakes. The Examiner
having resumed publication yesterday, of
course 1t was under the order.]
MISPLACED CONFIDENCE.
The confidence of Speaker Colfax that the
President would sign the Freedmen's bill has
been so implicit that he wagered 4 box of
cigars with a prominent member from Con
necticut, asserting ut the time that he had
conversed with the President, and had been
made aware Of his views. This morning the
cigars were found on the desk of the member,
endorsed " From a victim of misplaced conf
dence. "-Corre$pondence IF Neto York Tribune.
TIE PRESIDENT AND THE LOUISIANA FREEDMEN.
1t has now come TO light that the instruc-
tions under which the Freedmen's Bureau in
Louisiana was so completely disrupted in No
yember, it's three hundred schools brought TO
a close soon afterward, the freedmen and dis
charged colored soldiers arrested as Migrants
in the streets of New Orleans, without trial
or process of law, and the orphans OF freed
men returned TO former Shareholders as ap-
prentices, were impaired by the President him