The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-04-06
PETERSBURG, April 4, 1868.

PETERSBURG, April 4, $685.
r pod;cal party has been in travail
ihe last two or three days, and the fol-
i 70. nominations for Office are the fruit
Of their labor:
r., OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Burch. Bond
.-.;,h security to the amount Of $4,000 Is re-
,'nire5 hy a city ordinance.
<S-c,onf- Franklin Wood. Bond ana secu-
-;tv according to law not less than $4,000,
and may be increased to 100000:
Tar CoRector--Wpeb Lefraro. Bond and Sc
cprity In the sum of $4,000.
Ctts Commissioner Of the RECOMMENDATION Nc
Laughiin.
Sntf Commissioner Of the Receraue-P. II. Kee-
nan. with bonds TO the amount of 5000. The
l.gal term of this office does not expire Tall
$50, and General Scho6eld's order does not
therefore apply.
sired Commissioner Dittman. Bonds in
Superintendent Of Voter Works-Wiliiam Gal.
lachcr. Bonds, IS, 900.
Keeper If Bldndford Cen,etery--AndreW Gen-
try. Bond, IL, 600.
Citu G1uoer-John West.
C7erk Of old Market-Armistead Southall.
Bonds in 81, 600.
Keeper of Hay Scnlss-R. Jones.
Keeper Of Poscier MdgGzine-Pey Alfriend,
the present incumbent, who is allowed to re-
main.
{SufUfS-h. y. uOnndn ana JOnn >. eekS.
, The first mentioned of these nominees,
Mr.. Burch, is respectable man, and can
doubtless give the requisite security.
Though ofnorthern birth he has been living
here q number of years, and has acquired
a handsome property. The baiiiffs are
either native-born or long residents of the
city but all the others on the list are new.
corners, being northern adventurers, all
out of employment, and for some time past
eagerly fishing for Office. They are mer
without property, and it is doubtful
whether one half of them could get credit
for FIVE dollars. AS to their ability to give
the required security, the thing is prepos
ferrous; but they had laid a trap to accom-
plish it, which was to get General Soho
field to appoint majority Of negroes in tn
City Council, who, it was thought, would b.
easy with them. A list of negro names a
long as ones arm could be readily obtain
ed, which packed Council would not re
fuse to accept. But this scheme has beer
nipped in the bud, for General Scho6elC
has given the Radicals to understand tina
he would make no appointments Of blacl
men to Office. These immaculate patriots
will therefore probably be compelled to re-
linquish the places in expectancy to others
which will be sad disappointment after
having them, as it were, in their grasp.
The character of the majority OF the
nominations may be readily inferred from
the composition of the nominating COM
mittee. 1t consists of forty eight men,
bers, five of whom are old citizens, men of
character and substance. Eight are new
men, or northern adventurers, come here
since the war; and the remainder all ne
groes, with the exception of two officers
of the Freedmen's Bureau-namely, Ma
ior Stone and Lieutenant Ayres-who are
very active in all the meetings Of the party
and intensely Radical. Being officers Of
the army, they exercise controlling in
huence. 1t will thus be seen that the
conservative element of the party is ex
ceedingly small, and when the name o.
either one of them was offered to the meet
ing, it was voted down almost without a di
vision.
1t may be regarded as morally impossi
BILE that General Schofield will place in re
sponsible positions such men as form TIT
great majority on this list-the whole, in
deed, with very few exceptions. But thel
the number of conservative Republican
% 81 lCW uOV SooiO W ioohS
to fill the Offices. 1t is said that nomina
tions for the Common Council will b.
made tonight or Monday night, when TIT
whole batch will be speedily submitted t.
the commanding General.
There is one conspicuous member of tn
Radicals whose name has not yet beel
brought forward for any office-namely
Colonel Burke, who commanded regi
ment of negroes in the Federal army
When your correspondent expressed SOM
surprise at this, he was informed that MI
Burke had his eye on o seat in Congress
Outsiders have all along supposed that tn
accepted individual for that place Woul'
be no other than the distinguished Captain
Platte; and even himself may be sur
prised to learn that such skilful wire
puller as the ex-Colonel is at work to un
dermine him. OF all the Radicals, he il
said to be by far the most adroit in dealing
the political cards and unless the Cap
tain bestirs himself he will be pushed t.
the wall before he is aware of the danger
The cotton market has been in state o
excitement for several days, with an ad
vance of fully two cents since my repor
of prices on Wednesday last. Choice Sc
lections are to- day worth Csc.
The receipts of cotton for this weel
show some improvement, being 4s7 bale
against 297 last week. SNowDEN.