The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-04-15
T~ELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
NEWS FROnTHE CAPITAL.

NEWS FROM THE ri
THE NOMINATION OF COLONEL wIsEwELL
DISPOSED OF. 2
Special telegram TO the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-The Senate
has, in executive session, finally disposed
of the nomination of Colonel Wisewell as
Collector of Internal Revenue by refusing
to reconsider the rejectionsof his nomina-
ton. 49, " 81
LOGAN, STEVENS, AND WILLIAMS, WANT TO
MAKE SPEECHES ON IMPEACHMENT.
A further effort is to be made to get the
Senate to consent to argument upon i'm
parchment by so many of the Managers
and counsel of defendant as may desire to
make speeches. Mr.. Logan is said to have
prepared q speech on which he has be-
slowed much time and the labor of two
amanuensis, which he insists on giving ut
terance to. Mr.. Stevens has an argument
on his article of impeachment, and Mr..
Williams, of Pennsylvania, wants to be
heard.
LIVELY CONTEST FOR q sE%CRETARYsHIP
OF H TREASURY UNDER The WADE DY-
NASTY.
There appears to be a lively contest for
the position of Secretary of the Treasury
under the problematical dynasty of Wade.
Governor -Geary, of Pennsylvania, and
others of that State, have recommended
Stanton, and yet it appears that Butler
has assurance that he will be the success
sor of Mr.. McCulloch. So say the friends
of Butler others claim to have assurances
from Wade. Possibly, none of the ex-
p~ectants may realize their hopes. Stan
ton has written a letter declining all pub
lie preferment; he wants to retire to pri-
vate life.
TIE sTAGNATION OF OFFICIAL OPERATIONS
HAS NEVER BEEN so GREAT AS AT PRE-
SENT.
The heads Of Departments represent
that at no time in the history of the ma
ton has there been such a stagnation OF
official operations as at the present time.
All the business now transacted in the
Departments is of the merest routine cha
racter.
SERGEANT BATES N HIS FLAG-HE IS RE.
CEIvE BY q PREsIDENT-MRs. PATTER.
son PRESENTS HIM A BoUQUET-HE IS RE.
BUILDING.
Sergeant Bates, Of Wisconsin, who has
made a pilgrimage, bearing the old flag
hardly surpassed by a crusaders devotion
from Vicksburg, Miss, through the go
called rebel States to the Federal capital
on foot, and, like the apostles of old, with
out scrip wherewith to pay his way, ar
rived to-day in Washington. BE was vel
coined at the northern end of. Long
bridge by thousands of the citizens o
the District, and by them escorted tt
the Executive Mansion, where the
| President met him in the rain and
crowd outside Of the door, and invited him
into the parlors of the Presidential Man.
sion. Coming to the east room, he was
cordially welcomed by the President, who
was only able to say, with deep emotion
Welcome to you and your flag" Mrs
Patterson then appeared, and in acknow
ledgment of the patriotic chivalry of the
hero, presented him with a handsome
bouquet. After interchange of remark
between Sergeant Bates and the Presi
dent, he left the Executive Mansion, anG
proceeded to the Capitol, where, alas
for the patriotic impulse of the chivalrou'
| Sergeant, he and his emblematic banner
which had passed unscathed the so-callet
| disloyal clements of the South, was fatty
and finally denied admittance to the build
ing without reason, and with insult to the
flag of the Union. From this it appear
that the old flag, welcomed with public
ovations throughout the South, borne b.
one of it's tried defenders and faithful
soldiers, and received with devotion
and almost fearful appreciation b.
the Chief Magistrate of the Nation, hat
only to be carried to the Halls of Con
gress to meet with insult and be refused
welcome after a half-hour's waiting at tn
Capitol and during this time being re
fused admission, Sergeant Bates proceed
ed to the monument, halfway completed
to the memory of the Father of his Coun
try, and there unfurled to the breeze tn
the old flag, breathing, no doubt, a prsye
for the Union which it emblematizes.
WALLACE.