The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-08

going south. Complaints are constantly hainp
lorWorueo 10 the Postmaster General that
mar matter fails TO reach its destination revu
iarly ortundamaged. Newspapers especially
are not looked after with roper attention i'm
their transmission. Several IF the newspaper
establishments of this city have referred the
complaints OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., in the above
regard, TO the Post Office Department. and one
especially, which to-day lost one hundred
names from its subscription book, of parties
living In Petersburg, Va, has preferred charges
OF gross neglect upon many of the Southern
mail-carriers. The Postmaster. General has
become so impressed with the belief that the
carrier system is not working properly and re-
hahly that he has ordered Il thorough investi-
CATION 10 be made.and Will promptly discharge
all officers or agents who may bc found 10 slight
or neglect the business of their respective
routes.
WHITE HOUSE
There was n large crowd in attendance at
the White House to-day, composed principally.
however, pardon applicants, aud other indi-
yiduals on private business.
The Indian delegation of the Sac, Fox and
other Indian tribes, which has been in the city
for some time, was presented TO the President
to-day 10y the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Judge Cooley.
Three parVOns were granted to-day TO citi-
Gems OF New Mexico, under the thirteenth
exception clause of the amnesty proclamation
A few Alahamians of the same class were par
York, sentenced 10 the penitentiary for three
years for abstracting letter from the mail.
UNEMPLOYED GENERALS.
The order mastering out unemployed gene
rails will be promulgated about January 18th.
THE COST OF THE VOTE oS NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Judge Cartier yesterday dismissed the COM
plant against the City Council for spending
money upon an Illegal election. The Radicals,
therefore, had the costs 10 pay, yet they intend
10 try 1t again.
TIE E-uUSpRED-poLLAR coUSTERFEIT TREA-
sURY NOTES.
The detectives who have been 50 long engaged
in ferreting out the origin of the one hundred
dollar counterfeit Treasury notes have made
startling report to Secretary McCullOCh. The
Secretary has given the parties implicated by
this report few days 10 prepare rebntttng evil
deucc.
THE CoLoRED POPULATION or THIS DISTRICT.
The agents directed 10y General Howard to
take the census Of the Colored population in
this district report that there are fourteen
thousand four hundred and sixty colored per
sons west of Sixth street and Georgetown.
coSFIsCATED PROPERTY.
The records of the Treasury Department
show that, during the last two years, the Co
vcrnment has realized from the sales Of con
fscatcd and abandoned cotton, sugar etc, in
theStatc Of Mississippi, over six million dol
lars.
LIGHTHOUSES.
The Light house Board is engaged In re- eS-
tabliShing light houses on the southern coast
destroyed during the rebellion During the
last six months some twenty have been put III
operation.
CANADIAN HORSES, &c.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has suspended
for the present so much of the regulation
promulgated on the Esd ultimo rs prevents the
importation OF Canadian horses mules and
asses.
ONE OF THE ALEXANDRIA RIOTERS ARRESTED.
The Department of Washington is informed
that Oscar Mankin, who murdered Il colored
man at Alexandria on the occasion of the re
cent riot at that place, has been apprehended
near Warrenton, Virginia.
sAaBo PROMOTED.
Pursuant TO orders from the War Depart
ter Of this Department. has discharged mos Of
the civilian employees, excepting clerks, under
his supervision General Augur has ordered
the senior officers Of ColoTcd troops in his com
mand TO report twenty-five men from each
regiment for the purpose Of filling III" vdc&H-
clcs thus created.
GpEEgNAEST SALE.
There will bc Il great sale Of ordnance and
stores, under the auspices Of the Ordnance
Department, at PittsburE, Pennsy iVauia, Oh
the 18th instant.
HORACE GREELEY
is now in this city. II is reported that he has
bad an interview with the President.
TWO NEGROES ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.
Namely, by the caying in of gravel bank
corner Of Sixteenth and n streets.