The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-10-02

! The Boston Post correspondent says :
Mr.. Campbell, senator elect from South
Carolina, is here, and expresses his dissent
from the views expressed by Governor
Orr in his letter to General Sickles. He
contends that the Legislature of South
Carolina would have passed o stay law had
the people desired one, or had there been
the approximations of boodshed, Of which
! Governor Orr speaks. The explanation
seems to be that General Sickles and
Governor Orr had arranged to have them
selves elected United States senators,
which was supposed to be an easy thing,
as General Sickles could control the pop
ular vote, while Governor Orr secured the
Generals nomination with his own.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Gazette writes that some days
ago President Johnson called upon Gene
raj Grant at the War Department, and
told him in plain terms that he wished him
to write circular letter to the district
commanders urging delay in the elections
in the southern States. At first the Gene
raj, considering this in the light of an or
der, determined to write, and did write a
letter transmitting the Presidents views,
but upon reflection destroyed it, saying
that if Mr.. Johnson wanted that done it
must be accomplished by written order,
regularly transmitted through army head
quarters.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
says: The friends of Speaker Colfax here
assert that the report of his Worcester,
Ohio, speech, as it appears in the papers,
is incorrect. Mr. Colfax, they say, is not
in favor of impeachment. They cite his
course in Congress in proof Of this state
ment, and also to show that the remarks at
trbuted to him must be incorrect. Speaker
Colfax himself, however, has not been
heard from on the subject.
The Secretary of the Navy has caused
to be prepared legal opinion, showing
that in the recent conflict Of jurisdiction
in Pennsylvania between the State court
and the naval authorities the local court
has no authority to compel return to the
writ of hGJeas corpus issued on behalf of a
person who is in the naval service. The
| Supreme Court in several cases has deci-
ded that the State courts have no jurisdic-
ton IN habcas corpus over any one in the
military or naval service.
Philadelphia papers say that it has been
ascertained that the destruction to glass
alone in that city by the hail storm on the
25th ultimo amounts to the lSrge sum Of
s250,000. There was more glass broken
than could be replaced by all the stores
and factories in the city. The demand on
the day after the breakage ovcrran the
entire demand for the two preceding
years.
Having been refused artillery by STAN
ton and Grant, Governor Swami has pur-
chased six twelve-pounder Napoleon brass
guns, and distributed them among the
artillery companies in Baltimore city. 1t
is noticeable fact that the mon in COM
mand Of the organizations receiving these
guns have been in the rebel army.-BaHi-
more american, Radical.
A letter from Marshal Bazaine is pub
Iished in the Liberal papers of France. 1t
is confidential circular addressed to the
officers Of the French army, in which he
directs them to make 10 prisoners, but to
put to death all the captured Liberals. As
| the Government organs do not deny the
authenticity Of the document, it seems to
| be genuine.
A French scientific observer says that
the concentric zones in the trunks of trees
are elliptical in form, and the major axis
has an east and west direction. This he
attributes to the rotation Of the earth.
The alleged Mexican traitor Lopez has
written letter to the editor of the New
York Times denying that he betrayed
Macmillan at Querctaro.
Fanny Janauschek, celebrated Ger
man tragcdienne, arrived at New York by
the North German steamer on Saturday.
A writer who has just returned from
Switzerland, states that he came to Paris
on the train with General Mcclellan.
A single dealer in eggs in western New
York sent over half million of them to
market at New York in three weeks.
The Chinese claim to have discovered
America from the West thousand years
before Columbus.
EaMissouri has $500 Freemasons and 24t
lodges.
i Connecticut holds its town elections ne1'
Monday.